Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-03
THE SOLDIERS
HAVE ARRIVED
AT Wardner and Quiet Pre-
walls at Present.
MORE MEN WILL BE NEEDED
Threats Said to Have Been Made to
Wipe Out the Little Band
of C0l0red Soldiers.
MORE MEN WILL BE NEEDED

Wardner, Idaho, May 2.-The presence
of the soldiers has eased the situation re-
markedly, and tonight the people are
gradually %regaining slight confidence,
but it is felt that peace can not be as
sured until 500 troops are quartered here. !
Captain Bachelor and his gallant IS
soldiers. assisted by 100 townsmen. who
are under arms, would give such resist
ance as would annihilate any ordinary |
force. but should the 1900 men up Cam
yon creek arrive fully armed the little
guard now here could hardly hope to
cope with them.
The old militia guns, to the number of
about 20, have all been distributed among I
the men here. and what state ammuni-
ton remained has also been distributed.
About 1000 rounds of cartridges belong
ing to the old militia force and stored in
the vaults at the Bunker Hill office We're
lost in the wreck of that property. Be-
sides the state u all the private arms
III town have been put to use. One group
Of 20 men is on guard at the camp of
Captain Bachelors soldiers. Besides
half as many men are watching the sta
ton. Up at the Bunker Hill mill is an
other group of armed men. Tonight they
came down to offer their defense of the
town, but later decided that it would be
better for them to return to the prop
erty. This morning a little bunch of
Bunker Hill men guarding the tramway
We're overtaken- by some of Sheriff
Young's deputies and their guns taken
from them. Later on the command of
Auditor Sinclair. the sheriff consented
to the return of the rifles to their
owners, and they are now continuing
htheir watch.
State Auditor Sinclair Is working night
and day to bring about the arrest of the
criminals and is vigorously assisted by
Coroner France Twelve complaints
have been made out against the con-
SpiratOrs, but the work is delayed by the
slowness of Prosecuting Attorney Sam
uels. Francis Turner has been arrested.
The officials say that he has positively
been identified as one of the masked riot
ers who blew UP the Bunker Hill mill.
| He was released on 4 1000 bonds.
Thu inquest tomorrow will be a double
one. The body Of James Cheyne, the
Bunker Hill mill man, shot by the riot
ers, who died this afternoon in Spokane,
where he was taken for hospital treat
ment, will be brought back here tomor-
row. The inquest will take place at ?
o'clock in the afternoon at Wardner
Junction. Attorney General Hayes is
now on the oad here to conduct the pros
ecution.
Tonight on the fiat by the railway
station little camp fires are tlickering and
the faint call of a bugle is sounding
taps for the night, There Captain
Bachelor and his dusky fighters are
stationed. Near them is a little force of
armed men from the nearby town ready
for any ergen
Wardner. Idaho, May 2.-Shortly after
- .:-- at 49,, -, rs INoo, n.,
NJ, Twenty-fourth infantry, Captain
Bachelor commanding, a report spread
among the inhabitants of this place
that the union miners from Canyon
| Creek had started down to Wardner for
the purpose of wiping out the company
Of colored troops before reinforcements
could arrive. Sixty n%on-union men, arm
ed with rifles, Immediately rushed down
the road from Wardner to the railroad
station, one and a half miles, for the pur-
, pose Of stopping the union men. The re-
port is not credited here and was prob
| ably occasioned by the suspension of tele-
| graphic communication between Ward
ner and Wallace. Quite a number of
! union men left today in trains, going in
both directions. But two arrests ave
been made and these are both out on bail.
| Martial law has not yet been declared,
but it is expected that it be tomorrow.
Coroner France will the in
quest on Jack Smith, the union man killed
last Saturday, as soon as witnesses can
be s~ubpoenaed.
James Cheyne, shot in the hip by the
mob on Saturday, died today in Spokane,
whittier he had been taken for treat
ment. He was a knight of Pythias and
it is expected his brother Knights will
make efforts to bring his murderers to
justice. His body will be returned to this
place tomorrow for investigation and in
terInent.
Other troops will arrive tomorrow.
State Auditor Sinclair is still here secur-
| ing evidence.