Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1892 — WAR IN THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

WAR IN THE WEST.

*N IDAHO COUNTY UNDER MARTIAL LAW. Che Union Mon Threaten to Blow Up tho Mines When the Troops Arrive—Bloody Conflict Probable in the Talley—Rushing In Holdlers. They Know No Law. A Boise City (Idaho) dispatch says: Gov. Willey has issued a proclamation placing Shoshone County under martial aw. Word has been received that shree companies of Federal troops from Missoula have arrived at Mullan. The other troops have not been heard from. Adjt. Gen. Curtis, who is in command (or the State and who went to Coeur i'Alene in advance of the outbreak, has not been heard from and it is feared that he has fallen into the hands of the strikers. A dispatch to the Governor trom Judge Heyburn at Spokane says that union men drove 132 non-union miners out, firing on them -and killing LWO. At Portland, Ore., the Union Pacifto Company has received word from Coeur d’Alene that the Northern Pacific railroad bridge, together with several hundred feet of track, was blown up by B?rikers west of Mullan. The company is preparing to take all non-union mea out of the mines to Tekoa. The union men assert that the moment troops appear on the scene they will blpw up Bunker Hill, Sullivan, Sierra Nevada and Gem mines. The burning of the bridge near Mullan will hold troops there, unless they march on foot to Wallace and Wardner, a distance of about ten miles. It is now reported that the union men have taken Van B. Belashnutt of Portland, William Sweeny and other mine owners and will hold them as hostages until the trouble is Settled. It is reported that the telegraph Vrires to Wardner have been cut. Superintendent Dickinson of the Northern Pacific telegraphed the Governor from Tacoma that their tracks and bridges have been destroyed in the vicinity of Mullan and Wallace, and that wires have been cut. They will hold the county responsible. Another message to the Governor says that several non-union men have been blown up and that the union men propose to fight the troops to the death. A special train over the Union Pacific left Portland, bearing 200 troops of the Fourteenth Infantry from Van Couver, Washington, for Caur d’Alene mines. A special train over the Union Pacific arrived at Pendleton, bearing troops from Idaho. Two companies have left Fort Sherman for the scene of the trouble. In all about 700 United States troops and militia are on their way to the mines. Gen. Schofield has ordered as additional troops to the Coeur d’Alene district four companies of infantry from Fort Spokane, Washington, a troop ol cavalry and six companies of infantry from Vancouver barracks, Washington. These troops, with those previously ordered from Fort Sherman and Fort Missoula, will give Col. Cartin an active force of nearly 800 men.