The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-01
BREAD AND WATER DIET
Compelled to Stand Immovable
in the Hot Sun.
NO VISITORS ALLOWED
Constant Appeals for Aid Are Being
Made to Peter sreen by the Pris-
oners in the Wardner
Bull Pen.

Constant appeals are being made to
Peter Breen, attorney for the impris-
oned miners in the Occur d'Alenes, in
behalf of those who are being held for
trial in the Wardner bull pen." Alex
Mackel, Mr.. Breen's law partner, yes
terday received letter from Wallace
bearing out Mr.. Breen's statement over
the telephone few days ago. The let
ter reads:
Dear Sir: I am reliably informed
that all the prisoners in the bull pen
have been put on bread and water
diet, to-day being the eighth day that
they have been compelled to submit to
this outrage; they are also compelled
to stand in the hot sun for seven hours
each day and not permitted to move.
James White of Burke and Frank
Hough Of Gem We're given their liberty
last night, after subsisting on bread
and water seven days, without any
charge being made against them
Hough is terribly emaciated and broken
down in health; he says that all the
victims of the bull pen are looking
broken down and emaciated, and are
gradually assuming the appearance of
maniacs. J. Simkins and = McIlenany
have been brought up from the bull
pen and placed in the county Jail and
also have been compelled to subsist on
bread and water, and no one is per-
mitted to see them; nor is any one per-
mitted to visit any of the men in the
bull PEN"
The party requests that his name be
not made public. as it would be the
price of his liberty.
The Tribune of Sept II, after calling
attention to the fact that these men
have been imprisoned for five months
without charge or trial, while two ses-
sions of the district court of Shoshone
| county have been held, says:
"They are entitled to wholesome food,
comfortable beds and decent treatment
and can in no sense be rightfully treat
ed as felons until Judgment has been
passed upon them by the courts of the
country. But it appears that the au-
thorities have no regard for law and
| decency, and when the prisoners re-
fused to work at manual labor at the
command of Captain Edwards and
| without remunera ton they We're placed
on a bread and water diet. All the
straw was taken from their hunks and
they are compelled to sleep on the hard
boards. Refreshments of every kind
are denied them. Those addicted to the
use of tobacco are refused it, They are
compelled to stand up in line in the
DOlllnS sun seven hours per udy anu ue-
MED the right to take a step or move a
limb under pain of death. Such cruelty
Lis without a parallel in this age of
|sChristian civilization. o.
Reliable information states that
many of the men are becoming raving
maniacs and many others are reduced
| to skeletons and broken down in health.
| These revolving outrages are arousing
| the people to condition of desperation.
| This attempt to set@up a., Spanish i1-
QUESTION on the free soil of America for
| the torture and persecution of men
against whom no criminal charges have
ever been made and against men whom
| the courts have refused to try is intol-
cradle in the sight of all Christian peo-
pie ~. .--s+-r TX ~ II ~
President Edward Boyce. of the West
ern Federation of Miners is endeavor-
| ing to get into communication with
Senator Carter in the hope Of inducing
him to intercede with the war depart
ment in behalf of the imprisoned min
ers, but thus far has not been able 10
1 do So
|