The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-05-12
RIOT IN IDAH0|
LaWleSS Acts Of a Great Mob of
Excited Miners.
SOLD USE OF DYNAMITE
Property to the Value Of 100000
Observation-Disclosures Law Oeclar-
ed - Arrests Made.

BOISE, Idaho, May 3.-Governor
Stuenenberg tonight issued procla
nation declaring Shoshone county in
a state of insurrection. This will re-
suit in placing the government of the
county, in so far as it may be necessa-
ry, under military rule
WARDNER, Idaho, May 3.-All day
long the work of arresting the men
believed to have been connected with
the Bunker Hill outrages has been in
progress. Tonight 104 prisoners are
under guard in the barn that has been
turned into Jail for their detention.
Among them are many ringleaders in
the organization. More of the chief
dynamiters, however, have escaped,
and are now getting out of the country
as best they may. Their arrest is
matter of time. They will not escape.
The State will go bankrupt, if neces-
sary, in order to secure their c0hvic-
ton.
BY 10 o'clock this morning the work
of drawing the formal complaints
against the more notorious strikers had
been completed. The document was
lengthy one and in it were set down
the names Of about fifty suspects. Then
i the work Of making the arrests COM
menced AS martial law had not at
that time been declared, the local con-
stables were deputed to serve the war
rants; but they were not alone in the
work. Capt Bachelor of Company NJ,
| Twenty-fourth United States Infantry,
put a squad of his colored fighters at
the command of the constables and be-
gan the hunt.
Up to the head of the gulch marched
the pursuers, and then turning back,
they commenced a search of every
point where the rioters might be in
concealment Their coming in caused
panic among the strikers. There was
a wild scramble among them up the
sides of the canyon, but they were not
to escape in that way. AS they lodged
through the brush on the mountain
side the consta bles and their deputies
started in pursuit, and in most cases
the chase was a short one. The sight
of the dusky soldiers glis- ening rifles
was generally sufficient to make them
meekly surrender.
Lined up two abreast and closely
guarded by the soldiers, the captives
were marched back down to the camp
at the station in little punches Of twen
ty or thirty There they were turned
into a vacant lot and kept under guard
until about 3 o'clock, when they were
transferred into the loft of a nearby
barn.
A company of the Fourth Cavalry
from WaIla Walla arrived here at
noon.
The inquest on the dead men has
been commenced.
WARDNER, Idaho, April 29.-Arm
ed, masked and desperate, 1000 miners
from Canyon Creek poured into the
town at noon today on stolen North
ern Pacific train. Three hours later
they had left with their mission ac-
complished. The great Bunker Hill
mill, costing $500 600, had been blown
into million pieces by the aid of
ton and a half Of dynamite, which the
rioters brought with them. Although
the mob from Canyon Creek met not
the slightest resistance, yet they left
here after shooting two of the Bunker
Hill men from behind, while with them
they took the body Of a fellow rioter