Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1899-05-03
BUNKER HILL MILL BLOWN UP
ONE UNION MINER KILLED
At Wardner, Idaho, Union Miners Came
Used Two Tons OF Dynamite-Mill a
Total wreck-Several Persons Injured
Governor Asks Aid of the President.

Wardner, Idaho, April 30. - Armed,
masked and desperate, 1000 miners from
Canyon creek poured into the town at
noon yesterday on stolen Northern Pa
cific train. Three hours later they had
left with their mission accomplished. The
great Bunker Hill mill, costing 100000,
had been blown into million pieces by the
aid Of ton and half of dynamite, which
the rioters brought with them. Although
the mob from Canyon Creek met with not
the slightest resistance, yet they left here
with two of the Bunker Hill men shot
from behind, while with them they took
the dead body of fellow rioter, whom
they themselves had accidentally shot.
The dead comprises:
Jack Smith, miner at the Tiger
at Burke, shot with a rifle ball through
the chest.
The injured are
James Cheyne, vanner man at the
Bunker Hill mine; shot through the mir.
r. r. Rogers, stenographer at the
Bunker Hill mine office; shot through the
lip, slight.
The Bunker Hill mine is closel. When
it will be re-opened is thing that no liv-
ing man can say. With the mi | wrecked
it is impossible to handle the ore produced
at the mine workings. The Last Chance
is likewise closed down. 1t has been get.
ting power from the Bunker Hill mil, and
the destruction of those works will abso
lutely prevent the Last Chance from work
ing for the next three months, or unit
its own compressor is complete. Mean
while the total working force OF the towI
is laid off.
The wrecking of the mill plant involve
the livelihood of 600 men. The Bunker
Hill mine up to the strike had be wo- k
ing 800 men and the mill 90, while thu
Last Chance altogether employed Isl
people.
Demand for Troops.
AT $3.50 last evening the governor SEM
to President Mckinley formal demand
for 500 regular soldiers, asking that they
be dispatched at once to the scene. MIR
tial law has not been declared, the ordi
nary legal formalities not having beer
gone through with, and it SEEMS doubtfu
if any such procedure can be had, owing
to the affiliations of so many of the off
Gals in Shoshone county who must co
operate.
valuable Papers Destroyed.
1t has been learned that a quantity
of valuable documents in the suit nov
pending between the Bunker Hill & Sui
Ivan and the Last Chance had been place
in the Bunker Hill Office, and were com
pletely destroyed when that building was
fired. Among these documents wert
maps, drawings of the mines and data
of the greatest imports lance to the Bunker
Hi people. 1t is not known what effesl
OIL the suit the destruction OF these pa
pers will have. The more valuable of the
office papers, together with what cash wa
on hand, were placed in the safe some time
before the building was fired, and probably
will be found to be uninjured when thu
safe is recovered from the ru ms.
The Bunker Hill & Sullivan Minine
Company, now at war with the unior
miners of the Occur d'Alenes, has its Of
fees in San Francisco. 1t is owne1 by d
syndicate of California and Standard Oil
capitalists. 1t is capitalized for $1,000,
900, in 100000 shares, OF the par valTt
of $40 each, and has paid to date $GS4,O0t
in dividends.