Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1899 — TROOPS ARREST RIOTERS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TROOPS ARREST RIOTERS.

Desperate Miner* Who Defied the Law Put Under Onard by Soldier*. The armed strikers in Idaho who were going to wipe the regulars off the face of the earth as soon as they should appear seem to have changed their minds. The telegram which reports the arrest of nearly four hundred of the strikers says: “A few of them made a show of resist-

ance, but the bayonets of the soldiers soon brought them into line.” The arrests were made by troops A and G of the Fourth cavalry, dismounted. Arrests began as soon as the troops arrived at Burke. A squad was detailed as guard, the balance of the men starting out on foot. As fast as men were found they were brought in by the guard and herded in the streets. Three hundred and fifty miners accused of participating in the riot are confined under guard of troops and 500 troops are in the Coeur d’Alene district. The charges against the prisoners will be rioting, destroying property and stopping United, States mails. It is unlikely that all the prisoners will be tried, but they will be held until evidence is collected against the leaders. A dispatch from Wallace says that the mountains are full of fleeing men. With the railroads all guarded the only safe way out of the country is over the old

Glidden road to Thompson Falls, Mont. That route is lined with them. Some take the road direct from' Burke, while others go by way of Murray. Indications are most leaders of mob escaped, going east and west into Montana and Washington, others hiding in the mountains. Sheriff at Thompson Falls, Mont., reports many arriving on foot over mountain trails. Governors of Idaho and Montana corresponding for arrests in Montana.

BIKD’s-ETE VIEW OP WABDNEIt, IDAHO. The Bunker Hill and Sullivan mines are in the side hill at right upper hand of the picture and the Bunker Hill mill, which was blown up. Is the one from which the smoke Is rising.

SCENE or IDAHO TROUBLES.