Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-08
TO PROSECUTE
THE MINERS
All Under Arrest Will Have tC
Stand Trial
THE MINES WILL RESUME
But no Union Men Will b. Employed
.-Advice of Attorney General
Hayes and Gen. Merriam
THE MINES WILL RESUME

"~SAA' NAoy - 40 u oAio-
shone county, Idaho. that propose to OPP
crate during the reign of martial law
may do SO only on condition that they
do not employ members of the Occur
d'Alene Miners union. This is the mar
tial law as laid down by General Mer-
riam n Attorney General Hayes of
Idaho. At a meeting of the mine owners
i'll this city this morning Mr.. Hayes pre-
scented this mandate. The owners cheer
fully promised to obey.
wv are going to clean up the Occur
d'Alenes," said Attorney General Hayes,
prior to his departure for Boise. Il have
seen some of the mine owners today and
they have been informed by the proper
authorities that they cannot employ any
ore connected with a criminal %organiza-
ton in the county. The Miners union
in Shoshone county contains many des-
p%eradoes and criminals, who have, under
the protection of unions, perpetratel
crimes and outrages. Twice has it been
necessary because of these men and their
organization to put the country under
martial law. We want to put a stop to
that sort Of thing. The owners living in
Spokane allow the union to run things,
and when property is threatened or riots
occur as a result they wire to the gov
ornor of Idaho to sen troops to protect
thear property. Some of these owners
know who the men were who left their
mines to so up to Wardner for the pur-
pose of blowing up the Bunker Hill and
Sullivan mill. They allowed the men to
go out Of the mines and destroy the
property of another and to return to
work.
have undertaken as large a lob
or criminal prosecution as was ever COM
menced in the history Of the country.
Trying between 100 and 800 men is a task
of enormous magnitude. We propose to
push the prosecution vigorously. how
ever. I am obliged to go back to Boise
for a few days on official business, but
will be back in abou a week and ex-
rect to spend the entire summer in the
Occur d'Alenes. Prisoners will be tried
IN both the state and federal courts.
Murder n arson are some of the
charges the state will bring against these
men, and we hope to inf1ict the extreme
penalties. The state and federal author
tiles are working amicably together in
the matter and we will aid each other
all through. Something was done in this
strike that was never lone before in the
history OF the United States. A single
company was sent into a district to cope
with 1,G30 rioters. l refer to the company
Of the Twenty-fourth infantry from Spo-
kane, commanded by Captain Bachelor.
1T was necessary to entrust this one COM
pany with the duty, for others could not
be got there quick enough.
1T does not seem to be generally un-
derstood that Governor Steunenberg
called upon the government for troops
before he knew of the destruction of the
mill. He had heard a report that the mill
was to be blown up, but had received no
confirmation of the report when he called
on the president at 6 p. m. Saturday for
troops
Today's meeting of the Occur d'Alene
owners was held at the offices OF Finch
& Campbell. 1t was called at the re-
quest of Attorney General Hayes, who
desired to lay before the owners the
,andate of the state and federal author
tiles that union miners could moi be en-
ployed in the region.
Mr.. Hayes laid before US the ruling
that union men must not be employed -
said Mr.. Finch, after the meeting. "He
said further that the state authorities
would expect our cooperation, and we
told him they would have it. OF course
we CART get men right away, and we do
not propose to go out and look for them.
we are going to wait and see if they come
to us. There are certainly a great many
good union men in the unions. but as
MIR. Hayes said. when we told him this,
if they are good men they can disavow
their allegiance to the union and go to
work. Until men sufficient to operate
the mines come in the mines will have to
remain closed down."