The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-06
QUIET AFT TER THE STORM
Has Subsided in the
Occur d Alenes.
STILL MAKING ARRESTS
None Overlooked in the Round-Up-In.
nocent Men hmm ediately Released.
Business in State of
Utter Collapse.

Special Dispatch to the Standard
Wallace, Idaho. May "a casual
visitor at Wallace would not suspect
the existence here of a labor war
There is absolutely no excitement or
disturbance. The people about town
are orderly and attend to their busi-
ness as usual. The same is true of the
other towns in this district with the
exception of Wardner, where the pres
ence of the troops. the progress of the
coroner's inquest and the fact that
there are about 300 prisoners under
military guard there. make the condi-
tions somewhat unusual. At Mullan
and at Burke, there are camps of
troops, but they are simply resting and
awaiting orders. The companies of the
oath infantry at Mullan have made
camp on vacant ground near the town
and the men at Burke have established
| barracks in Miners Union hall. there
not being room enough in the natural
CANON for a camp.
Since the arrests last night at Burke,
| there have been no sensational Incl
dents in connection with the establish
225 men arrested by the troops there
last night. Nobody was overlooked,
miners, business men, mill men, NlSl-
tors and all being taken in the general
roundup. Three travelling men who
| happened to be in Burke had much diff
ficultv in establishing their identity.
| The federal officers Immediately after
| the arrests, upon the representations of
| the managements of the mines. released
| the pumpmen engineers and others,
| whose presence at the mines was neceS-
sary. About % We're released last night
| and Is to-day. All of the men speak of
| the army officers as being very reason
| able and the only complaint that they
| have made has been that they did not
| get enough to eat. Those who were re-
| leased this afternoon have developed
/ remarkable appetites.
/ 4s Seven or eight men were brought
down from Mullan this morning under
| arrest and there have been a few ar
rested in Wallace to-day by the deputy
| marshals. The Wallace arrests were of
men who had left Wardner. Outgoing
and incoming trains are inspected and
the exodus by way of the railways has
| been practically checked. but it is said
that there are still some men getting
| out of the country by crossing the
| range and getting over the mountains by
the way of Thompson Falls. 1t is eX-
pected that this avenue of escape Will
also be closed Immediately, If it has
not already been done.
There have been no wholesale arrests
| made at either Gem or Mullan and
there is no indication of any movement
| in that direction. The mines and mills
al hhese places have been in opera
| ton to-day as usual, though some or
the properties at Gem are rather short
handed by reason Of the departure of
| so many of their men. Al Burke there
is no work being done at the mines or
mills except that pumps are running
all the time. There are very few men
| left in the camp, as the soldiers over
| looked nobody. All houses We're
| searched and there was no escape from
| the exponents of martial law. Men who
hid under beds were routed out from
| their places of concealment and plac-
ed on board the train. There was con-
| siderab BILE difference between the prog
ress of this train and the one that came
| down from Burke Saturday. Each was
loaded with miners and each went to
Wardner. but the train of last night
| proceeded very quietly and there was
no disturbance at Wardner when it
reached there.
General Merriam is very busy with
his plans for the government of the
county, but he does not divulge any
of his intentions. He came up from
headquarters at Wardner this after
noon on a special train and visited the
camp at Mulan. but did not stop in
| Wallace 1t is expected that by Sun
day more will be known of what is to
be done here in the future. Occur
dAlene mine owners will meet in Spo-
kane Saturday night. when they will
be Informed of the intentions of the
military movements as regards them
selves. 1t is supposed that a plan will
be outlined by which the operation of
the property here will be continued un-
der certain conditions which will be
imposed by the officers who are charg-
ed with the enforcement of the law in
| Shoshone county. Business men all
| through the county complain of a col
lapse in business resulting from the
blowing up of the Wardner mill and
its ensuing excitement. Most of them
feel. however, that a confidence in the
county will soon be restored and that
business affairs will resume their nor
NAL conditions The whole region is
unusually quiet. There has been no
drinking or disturbance among any of
the miners or their friends. What lit
tie discussion there is Of the situation
is quiet and in private.