Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1914-09-04
GUARD BUTTE MINES
GOVERNOR ORDERS OUT STATE
TROOPS TO GO TO BUTTE
TO QUIET MINERS.
ANACONDA OFFICE BLOWN UP
Company Offers $4,000 Reward for
Arrest of Dynamiters or Information
Miners Defiant-Troops' Move
ments Kept Secret.

ment office of the Anaconda company
was blown up at 1870 O'Clock this
morning with a blast of dynamite that
Jared all the buildings in Butte and
rocked residences OIL the outskirts OF
the city.
The&structure was of brick and two
stories high. One side was complete
ly blown out and a hole torn through
the top large enough to admit a street
car.
The Anaconda company had in
stalled the rustling card system
whereby miners, before they were per-
mitted to apply for work had to pos
sess a "rustling'' card and to central
ize the system, the office issuing these
cards for the mines of the Anaconda
company was established at the Par
rot mine. The system aroused oppo-
sition among the miners.
The mine company has offered $1O,-
600 reward for the arrest of the dyna-
miters, or for information which will
lead to their apprehension.
Mines Under Guard.
Mines of the Anaconda Copper Mi
ming company and the other large
companies operating in this district
tonight are under armed guard.
News of Governor Samuel V. Stew
arts order mobilizing the state troops
for duty has been withheld from the
local public for fear the miners will
attempt reprisals. The miners have
heard rumors that the troops are com
ing, but do not credit the report. They
believe that Governor Stewart will
not dare to send a small force as 600
militiamen against the miners, who
number, according to the roster of the
Butte Mine Workers union, 5000. Be
sides the miners, it is said, that u
side gunner" in4 Butte constitute a
small army.
The troops are expected to arrive
late tomorrow, but in the meantime
there Is reported to be in the city a
, large number of officers from nearby
. cities and the guards at the stores
, have been strongly reinforced since
this mornings dynamiting.
Governor Issues Order.
Helena, Mont, Aug. S0.-Governor
Stewart today issued an order for the
mobilization in Helena of the entire
state militia consisting of 10 compa-
MES, as a result of the situation in
Butte. Troops began arriving here to-
night.
The governor today telegraphed Sen
ators Walsh and Evans asking that
q federal troops from Vancouver bar
racks be brought into the state and
O held in readiness in the event the mi.
litia is not able to cope with the sit
@ uation.
The Montana senators are in com
munication with President Wilson.
c Miners Threaten Town.
a Butte, Mont, Aug. 31.-Miners are
openly making threats tonight thai
y they will lay the town in ashes il
troops attempt to enter, regardless OF
whether the soldiers are state or fed
eral.
Radical speeches were made at to
nights meeting of the Butte mine
workers, n speaker declaring tha
E the miners should not fight the militia
as "a match was more powerful thai
r standing up and shooting at soldiers
with rifles and being shot"
Others declared that if the troops
t. come the city will be fired in TO-
ID places and the ashes left for the mill
ID tia.
t. Several miners said that for SOM
10 -. Al ---- LII hA4wn 1nt0nuin n
lie ~troglycerin out of the dynamite beinI
used in the mines.
De Up to today the bunk of the miner
h did not credit the reports that tn
IL militia was being modified, as the IL
It, cal were Withholding tn
n news on request of business men. 1
he Helena newspaper editor, however
this morning brought an automobil
load of newspapers to Butte for sal
and newsboys soon began crying new
regarding the mobilization.
Ten Companies at Helena.
i'll Helena, Aug. 31.-Ten companies
ly the Montana National Guard have a
lis rived in Helena and are now mobi
lied ready for any call for service tn
OIL governor may make as a result {
le- conditions in Butte.
'e Soldiers in Control.
10 Butte, Mont, Sept. Butte is I'll
10 der martial law tonight. A proclam'
by ton issued by Governor Samuel y
ISL Stewart proclaims that the militia
re in control of Solver Bow county, an
Oh he calls upon all citizens to observ
oo the law.
by The city is patrolled by the Montar
National Guard of 600 men, with tW
machine gun platoons, whose equi
ment consists of four gatlings and tw
Maxims.
lite Thus far there has been no evident
ell of any intention of the miners to carr
de- out their threats of wholesale firir
ks of the city upon the entry of the m
itia. Apparently the presence of Il
soldiers a had a quieting effect.