The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1918-03-19

A meeting, attended by over 1OO
citizens, was held at the court
house Sunday afternoon for the
purpose of organizing a protect
i've association, along the lines of
those organized in other counties
of the state. j. C. Hunt was
chosen as chairman of the assO-
citation and E. N. LaVeine was
elected secretary. An executive
committee of five members was
elected as follows: C. w. Leaf, E..
W.. Trueman, C. w. Craney,
George O'Dwyer and o. E. HALEY.
II was decided to form a COM
pany of home guards which will
drill and be prepared to serve in
case of any emergency or such a
situation as arose last Friday.
Captain George A. PATTERSON, who
is in the city on a furlOugh Of
fered to drill the company but ex-
planned he could not take charge
of it and John P. Goodwin was
unanimously elected as captain.
A membership roll of those de-
string to join this company was
presented and signed by 80 men.
Steps will be taken to organize
and equip this organization as a.
company of state militia and a
request will be made to the COVER
nor that he authorize the creation
of such a company, which will be
in 1all respects similar to the
Spany from Standpoint which
is now on duty in this city.
j. G.. Fralick addressed the
meeting in favor of an organiza-
tion for maintaining and uphold
ing law and order. He stated that
there are two classes in this COM
munity, one the loyal, patriotic
citizens who are behind the gov
ernment in every respect, and the
other the l. wv and their sup
perters. He-stated the citizens
here must be prepared to meet
the situation after the troops
leave and must be in a position
to meet any situation which
might arise with prompt and de-
cisive action.
The fact that most of the
trouble which arises is caused by
agitators who are foreigners and
who have no intention of becOm-
ing American citizens was dis
cussed and a committee composed
OF f. f. Lukens, E. N. LaVeine
and Clarence Sweeney was ap-
pointed to take up the question
OF deporting these foreigners
with Idaho's congressional dele
CATION. This committee will also
attempt to have legislation en-
acted to prevent the literature OF
the l. w. w. from going through
the mails.
The city of Spokane was
severely scored for permitting
the l. w. w. to maintain head
qparters there and the towns OF
-t6orth Idaho will be asked to de-
clare a boycott on Spokane until
surh time as that city takes
steps to clear out the agitators
and break up the organization
which is causing so much trouble
in north Idaho. The Spokane
papers were also severely scored
for mis-statements which they
have published regarding the
trouble here and a committee
composed of T. B. Hay, J. G. Fra
lick and E. N. LaVeine was ap-
pointed to wait on the business
management of the papers re-
questing that they rectify the
mistakes. If all the cities ot
northern Idaho will join in de-
clariRg a boycott on Spokane, i
is behtayed that the business mel
of that liy will force the admin
istsStsc r-take active steps TO-
wards &.ging the city of the
w. w. headquarters, from whicl
the agitation in this state is di
rected.
An advisory committee OF tn
protective association will be ap
pointed to work with the count