The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-01-01

rom BOISE the SON0InOE Scl1l OtdlC
Auditor Barrett Sinclair to act as the
personal representative of the execu-
| tive, and to work, on his behalf, with
/ the military.
The "BuiI Pen" Established.
Several lives had been lost in the
destruction Of the Bunker Hill & Sui
Ivan mill, and the first duty OF the
authorities was to fix the responsible
| ity. After an investigation Paul Cor
| coran, secretary Of the Miners union
| at Burke, Ida, was indicted for muir
| der, as were others.
Meanwhile the famous "bull pen"
was established. Men suspected of
| completely in the riots, or those who
! gave vent to expressions of sympathy
with mob violence and disorder, were
| unceremoniously thrust into this pen,
which was a huge stockade, and held
there at the pleasure of the military
authorities. While nothing but sym
| pathv for the acts Of the mob could be
/ proven against most OF them, they
were held there in order to keep peace
| IN the community and as an example
to others. Scores of agitators, rather
| than do service in the bull pen." fed
! the country.
Rigorous measures were taken. A
| paper at Mullan, Ida. which went be-
| yond the line of prudence In condemn
| ing the authorities, was suppressed
and it's editor incarcerated in the
| bull pen" At one time or another
| LOO people were imprisoned there.
General Merriam caused the arrest of
| practically the entire male population
of Burke, the town from whence came
| the rioters who blew up the Bunker
| Hill & Sullivan mine. Protests were
without avail, and the courts refused
| to grant writs of habeaS corpus, hold
| ing that, owing to the existence Of
martial law, the writ of habeas cor
pus had been suspended.
The Permit System.
But it was by the permit system"
that the power of the union was
broken, and its leading members ban
/ ished from the Occur dAlenes. Gen
eraI Merriam and Auditor Sinclair, the
latter acting for the governor, promul-
gated a regulation that no miner
should be employed in any mine in the
Occur d'Alene district without getting
a permit" Coroner Hugh France of
! Shoshone county, who had supplanted
the plant sheriff, was placed in charge
Of the permit Office
| Before securing a permit" the appli-
cant had to swear that he was not a
member of the Miners union or in
sympathy with it; or, if he was MEM
ber he was required to abjure it, and
| promise to have nothing more to do
with it. These and other strict regu-
| lations made uniOnism a thing of the
past The permit officer exercised
arbitrary powers, reserving the right
to reject any applicant whose record
was bad, however vehement might be
| his protestations of reform. Large
numbers of non-union miners were
| imported from Joplin, Mo.
Paul corcoran Convicted.
T1-.1 $780,, NO. oIoood ~ +r;oI
for murder in the first degree before
Judge George H. Stewart of Boise, who
was sent into the Couer dA1enes by
Governor Steunenberg to sit in place
of the regular judge Of the district,
who had no desire to sit in the trial
of the case.
In addition to the prosecuting attor-
ney of ShoshOne county, Corcoran was
prosecuted by w. E. Borah, prominent
as a leader of the Republican party
in Idaho and now the leading Repub-
lican candidate for the United States
senate from that state; James H.
HawIey, a prominent Democratic lead
er. and, until last year. mayor of
Boise, and Colonel J. w. FOrney of
Moscow, who was United States dis
trict attorney for Idaho in CleVeland's
second term. He was defended by
Colonel Patrick Reddy, noted GRIM
inaI lawyer of San Francisco, and by
T. c. Robertson. a well-known GRIM
inaI lawyer Of Spokane.
A vast amount of conflicting testi-
mony concerning Corcoran's presence
at the scene of the Bunker Hill and
Sullivan riot was introduced, but the
| jury found him guilty of murder in
the second degree, and he was SEN
| fenced to seventeen years in the peni-
| tertiary. When he had served less
| than two years he was pardoned by
the state board of pardons. presided
/ over by Governor Frank W. Hunt, who
succeeded Governor Steunenberg. Sew
eraI members of the union were con-
victed of minor offenses and served
| terms.
Congress investigates.
The Occur d'AIene troubles hap
| pened on the eve of the second Nc
/ Kinley campaign. Through the insti-
| cation of union labor leaders, the
house committee on military affairs
was instructed to investigate the con-
duct of the president in sending the
| troops into the Occur d'AIenes, and of
the doings of General Merriam and his
| Officers after they got there
! Although himself a pronounced Bry-
i an Democrat, Governor Steunenberg
was one of the chief witnesses in de-
Tense Of the action of President Nc
Kinley. and 1t was largely through his
testimony, coupled with his personal
efforts, that the Democratic national
convention, which met "| Kansas City
in 1900, was restrained from putting a
plank In it's platform denouncing the
action of the military in the Occur
! d'Alenes.
The investigation at Washington oc-
| cupied several weeks, and a large num-
Der of witnesses were examined. At
the end the majority of the committee
reported fully indicating the action Of
| the governor and of the military The
report, which was signed by men, a
majority of whom belonged to an on
posing political party to the governor,
! said Of him:
Praise for Steunenbera.
THE governor of Idaho. in his eff
forts to establish order and enforce the
laws Of the state, is TO be commended
for his courage and feariessness. The