Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1914-06-19
R|OTOCCURSATBUTTE.
MINERS UNION DAY cELE6RA-
TloN ENDED IN TURMOIL AND
BLOOD SHED.
MEMBERS OBJECT TO ASSESSMENTS
Union Headquarters Completely De-
Misunderstanding Mayor Thrown
Out of Window-Officers of Law
Helpless Against Rioters.

Helpless Against Rioters.
Butte, Mont-Butte Saturday night
was practically under martial law,
with it's saloons, that have not been
closed in years except on election
days, locked tight, and with every
hardware store cleared of all its arms
and ammunition by the police, as the
result of the series of riots during the
day-miners' union day-the 34th an
niversary of the establishment of the
union in this camp.
10000 Men implicated.
The miners union, with upward of
5000 members, is divided against it.
self. More than 1000 men have re-
fused to recognize the union further.
Acting Mayor Frank Curran was
pitched from a second story window
of the federation building when he at
tempted to address the crowd counsel
ing peace. His condition is serious. A
wrist and leg are broken and it is
feared he has suffered internal injur-
les.
Union Parade Busted UP.
Under the leadership of a number
of the Industrial Workers of the World
the seceders from the big organization
during the morning hours attacked the
,t,,o onnnnnoad nj
more than half the labor bodies of the
city. President Bert Riley of the un-
ion and Parade Marshal Mike Con-
way were knocked from their horses
by a volley of stones from the rioters.
Other officers of the union were chas-
ed from the line Of march and took ref
uge in the sheriffs office at the court
house. The parade was broken up,
and the speaking exercises in the the
alter were abandoned because of the
stormy street scenes.
The crowd moved on the union hall
in the center of the city. Every piece
of furniture in the building was de-
molished and thrown into the street
A piano was thrown down stairway
the books, records and two safes OF
the union were thrown out. The bal
lot boxes, containing the $500 votes
cast at the recent election of union
officers, which had not yet been
counted. were destroyed and their con
tents emptied into the street.
Mayor Thrown Out of Window.
Alderman Frank Curran, acting
mayor of the city, a socialist, went tC
the union hall to appeal t othe mer
to dispense and was thrown from {
second-story window to the pavement
: He was taken to the hospital severed.
injured The mob did not cease iti
work of destruction until even the car
pets in the big assembly hall of the
union had been torn from the flool
and thrown into the street.
A crowd of 10000 persons witnessed
the demonstration Police and sher
ifs officers were powerless.
The Cause.
The trouble had it's origin over tn,
dissatisfaction of the miners with thu
heavy special assessments levie'
against them by the officers of thu
Western Federation of Miners and tn
local officials as benefits for tn
Michigan copper mine strikers.
Sunday Report.
More disorder marked Sunday II
Butte, though several hundred miner
have returned to work Early in tn
afternoon a crowd took two prisoner
out of the city Jail and later took pos
session of an aerial fire truck, whicl
attempted to go through the crowd OF
false alarm.
Delegations went to two fire station
and told the firemen not TO take ma
chimes from the buildings until the.
were certain there was a fire.
Police Chief Worried.
Threats were made to lynch Specia
Deputy Sheriffs Owen Cribben ant
Martin Harkins, but the officers wer
rescued by the police. Two men wer
arrested in connection with the threa
on a charge of melting riot.
The police squad with revolver
drawn, backed down an alley witt
their prisoners and the two specia
; deputies succeeded in getting safely L
the Jail, but the crowd became so men
acing that Chief of Police Murphy OF
dered the release of the two who ha'
been arrested. The crowd carried then
away on their shoulders.
A delegation visited the three news
paper offices and demanded that NJ
further mention be made derogatory t
the I. w. W., and that the word
mob" and rioters" not appear in an
newspaper story.
The managers Of the Spectator an
Blackjack mines have agreed that tn
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