The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-11-06
Found GuiIty Of Conspiracy and Stopping
the Mail.
They VIII be Brought into Court
To-Day and Receive Their Sem
tence-The Defense Will Carry
the Case to the Circuit Court Of
Appeals-A Half Million Dollar
Fire at Kansas City, Mo.

MOSCOW Idaho), Nov. 5.-The jury
to-day returned a verdict of guilty in
the case of ten and not guilty in the
case of three Occur d'Alene miners
who have been on trial here in the
United States Court on a charge OF
conspiracy and of stopping a United
States mail train at Wallace on April
29th last, the day on which the Bunker
Hill and Sullivan mill was blown up at
Wardner. The convicted men are:
Dennis O'Rouke, Arthur Wallace, Hem
ry Maroni, John Lucinetti, c. R. Burres,
Francis Butler, Ed. Abinola, P. F..
O'Donnell, Mike Malvey and Louis
Salla. Those acquitted are: F. w. Car
rett, Fred Shaw and W. v. Bundron.
Tomorrow at o'clock the convicted
men will be brought into court and will
receive their sentence.
Under the statutes the penalty for
conspiracy against the United States
and a delay of the mails is a fine OF
not less than 1000 nor more than
$4,000, or not to exceed two years
imprisonment, or both fine and i'm
prisonment.
Garrett, Shaw and Bundron were re-
leased from custody to-day. The con-
victed men are all single with the ex-
ception of Salla, an Italian, while all
those acquitted are married men. The
defense will carry the case to the Cir
cult Court of Appeals.
The labor troubles in the Occur
d'Alene mining district are of long
standing, and have been the subject of
much discussion in labor organizations
h oh ho INIT
In July, 1892, the Frisco Mill was
blown up with dynamite by a mob and
five men killed. For several days d
reign of terror existed throughout the
Occur d'Alene district, but United
States troops were ordered to the scene,
and for many months martial law pre-
vailed. An attempt was made to con-
yict the guilty ones, but every trial re-
suited in acquittal. After the United
States troops were withdrawn lawless
acts became frequent, and many citi-
zens were terrorized, and in several in
stances men were assassinated. All the
mines except the Bunker Hill and Sui
Ivan employed union labor, and the
miners union demanded that the COM
pany discharge all non-union men and
employ union men. This the Bunker
Hill and Sullivan Company refused
to do.
On April 29th of this year mob of
LOCO men took possession of a railroad
train at Wallace and went to Ward
ner, where they blew up the mill of
the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Company
with dynamite, destroying a quarter of
million dollars worth of property and
killing two men.
United States troops were ordered to
the scene under command of Brigadier
General Merriam. Martial law was de-
clared, and about 100 men We're ar
rested.
All were released except about thirty
of the leaders, who are still confined
in the stockade at Wardner. The State
District Court took up the case, and
Paul Corcoran, one Of the leaders, was
convicted of murder and sentenced to
seventeen years in the penitentiary. Six
others who were to have been tried in
September last escaped from the stock
ade at Wardner and are still at large.
The men. convicted to-day in the Unit
ed States Court were charged with con-
spiracy and stopping a United States
mail train.