Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-03-19
Master Mechanic of the Tiger and
Poorman Mine Tells Of Goeur
I q Alene Riots.
Principal Disturb rbance in Burke
Was Z That Made BY Soldiers
The1nselve 81
Advent of Military Defeated Ends.
Of J Justic ind of Affida
wits Wanted.

q WASHINGTON, March 19. The Occur
d''Alene inyestig cation was continued be-
fore the house committee on militia
affairs. The cross examinat tion of Mr..
Forney which was in progress when the
committee adjourned was not resumed,
on account of the illness Of the witness.
Allen B. 5Gille Of Spokane, Wash, a
mechanical engineer, was placed on the
stand by Mr.. Lentz. He held various
positions in Spokane, and was master
mechanic for the Oregon Railway and
company before he became:
master echanic Of the Tiger and Poor
man Mining company Of Burke. In
that position, among other duties, he
was charged with the emplo loyment and
discharge Of men in the mine.
- He testified that he was at Burke,
April %, 1898, the day the Burker Hill.
mine was blown up. The town was.
unusually quiet. April so, all the men
were at work except four. They con
tinned at work until the Sd or 4th Of
May when numbers Of them, including
himself were arrested by: the military.
He testified that he had attempted to
continue at work. He had explained to
the officer in charge Of the troops that
the manager of the mine was absent,
and that great property interests de-
pended on him. 5sss .s. " ~; .g5
No Need of Martial Law.
The officer, Major Morten, replied
that martial law had been declared and
that he would have to go to Wardner.
He testified that he had heard Major
Morten order some Of his troops to break
into his tGille'sl house. The soldiers
broke in the door. He noticed other
instances of similar character, He
testified to general rude and harsh
treatment suffered by the arrested
miners mir at the hands Of the troops. Later
in the day he was released and went
back to the mine with eight miners and
worked all night with them to get the
water which had accumulated out of
the mine. The only disturbance made
IN Burke that day was the disturbance
created by the soldiery There was no
necessity for the soldiers, he said, as.
civil processes could have been served.
In his opinion the advent Of the military
defeated the ends Of Justice. The guilty.
parties escaped into Montana. Had the
military not been there many Of these
would have returned and could have
been arrested. ss5s 45.
iS Mr. tsille testified that he had been
Informed that no releases from the, bull
pen would be made except on the order
of Bartlett Sinclair.
Only One Kind of AnidaYits wanted.
s5# He had had an interview with Sin.
clair m and had presented affidayits re-.
garding men who had been at work at
Burke when the mine at Wardner was
blown up, but he (Sinclair) refused tc5
release them, saying that he took No
stock in afidavits. Sinclair had in-
formed him that it was the duty Of re.
pntable citizens to bring affidavits ia
convict and not to acquit. The witness
described conditions in the ssbull pen. z q
His testimony was similar SO that Of
other witnesses. He testified that the
deputies had had some trouble with the
firemens under his control and the former
had informed Lieutenant Lyons that
the fremen had applied opprobrious ep-
ithets to them. Lieutenant Lyons had
complained Of this to him (Gillep and
had said that il such epithets had
been applied to him, he Lyons would
have shot the offender. Lieutenant
Lyons threatened I'd send the firemen to I
the ssbull pen unless the fremen apol.
ogized The dignity Of the state officers,
Lieutenant Lyons said must be upheld.
B Later the firemen apoligized and the
trouble was anieably settled,
Mr.. Gille said that the men III the
Occur d Alene district were law abid-
ing They were not rs a class inferior
to those in any other mining ,commu-
nifty There were some bad men among
them, but as q class they were excep-
tionally good men. These bad men were
not permanent residents of the district.
So far as the Tiger Poorman mine was
concerned, the relations between the /
miners and Mr.. Culberson, the aetive
manager, were not very cordial
Ksane May Decline the Position.
DUBUQUE, Ia. March 49, The conn.
oil Of the Catholic archdiocese has Sc.
lacted Archbishop Keane Of Washing
ton, Bishop Gosgrove of Davenport and
Bishop Lnehan of Cheyenne, Wy, as
candidates to succeed the late Arch,
bishop Hennessy Of Dubuque, It is mn
derstood that preference exists In
favor Of Archbishop Keane, but he il