Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1899 — MERRIAM MAKES REPORT. [ARTICLE]

MERRIAM MAKES REPORT.

The Prisoners May Have Lacked Fuel and Bedding. Brigadier General H. C. Merriam, commander of the department of Colorado, U. S. A., has made a detailed report of the miners* riots in Idaho. Gen. Merrianj admits that suffering occurred among the men Imprisoned for lack of fuel and bedding, but claims they had enough to eat, The report shifts the responsibility for all that was done upon the Governor. According to Gen. Merriam about 700 arrests were made, but only 528 were detained after the first investigation. Of these three died, two of disease and one suicide.