their legitimate business and on that account were lenient in their treatment of many of the men. Although an agreement was made between the mine owners that none of the rioters should be reemployed, still it was found that the Tiger and Poorman management at Burke, which was considered the most dangerous camp in the district, and where the Unions were strongest, were evading the agreement, and their mines were re

and all mining work therein will cease after 12 o'clock midnight, Saturday Aug. 20th, 1892, until further orders.

II. The "Tiger Mine" will "shut down" and all mining work therein will cease after 12 o'clock midnight Saturday, Aug. 20th 1892, until further orders. By order Col. J. F. Curtis. T. J. Cable, Lt. I. N. G., Asst. Adj. Genl. Under this order these mines were kept closed until September 1st, when they were allowed to reopen, new men having been introduced to replace those objec

country; that the prisoners were proIvided with good water and wholesome food in abundance, and were in no manner ill treated.

Whereupon General Curtis requested General Carlin to convene a board of officers to investigate and report upon the rumors and inquiries concerning the treatment of prisoners in the jail at Wallace. The board, consisting of Captain W. H. Bisbee, Fourth Infantry, Captain John Murphy, Fourteenth Infantry, Captain J. H. McCallie, I.N.G., Company K, Moscow, and Second Lieutenant Hermann Hall, Fourth Infantry, met August 20. After taking testimony and making a personal examination of the prison, it rendered an opinion that under the general

WARDNER, IDAHO.

rule of confined prisoners, subject to prison restraint, no ill or mal-treatment had been exhibited; that all prisoners were treated fairly alike; and that prisoner Breen was not an exception, being in one of the new cells. This finding was approved by General Carlin, and a true copy furnished the commanding officer of the I. N. G.

August 22nd, Company K, I. N. G., the last company of State troops, was relieved from duty. It and all the other companies that had served in the district received a letter of thanks from Governor Willey for their services, personal sacrifices, and the military spirit shown in the discharge of trying duties. to which they were all unaccustomed.

A plan of legal procedure was arranged for the prisoners remaining in custody. They were taken before U. S. Commissioner Hoffman, - at Wallace, who issued warrants of arrest as the individual cases were brought to the bar. Those bound over were delivered to the custody of the U. S. Marshal, and no further paroles were given. Many who could furnish the requisite bonds were admitted to bail. The prisoners were allowed to exercise daily in the prison yard and could see from there the guard mount of the troops each morning. One of their number, John Tobin, who was extremely popular among them and had been in the English service, organized a drill and guard mount. The prisoners made themselves wooden guns, and decorated their clothing with stripes, chevrons, and shoulder-straps, of flannel. Tobin himself

resplendent, having ingeniously fashioned a holster from an old piece of leather, which was worn on the right hip and a curved knob of wood shaped like the butt of a revolver protruded therefrom, imitating excellently an army officer's appearance in the field. Late every pleasant afternoon, he would put his men through a drill ending with a guard mount, giving all the commands prescribed for an adjutant in a distinct voice except those designating the noncommissioned officers when assigned to their posts, since, as these commands were always given in a tone only audible a few feet away, he had not been able to hear and memorize them as he had the others, this was the only flaw in his burlesque. As a rule, his men drilled exceedingly well, but sometimes when depressed and out of sorts, they would not respond quickly to his commands. Then he would convulse the crowd that habitually made an afternoon pilgrimage to witness this performance by exclaiming, "I am disgusted with yees, ye don't drill any better than the Idaho militia." This sally of Irish wit never failed to evoke applause and merriment.

September 3, U. S. Commissioner Hoffman held thirty prisoners for trial before the U. S. District Court at Coeur d'Aléne City, on bench warrants issued out of court after indictment for conspiracy by the Grand Jury, which held its sessions in Coeur d'Aléne City. A military escort guarded the prisoners to that place. The remainder of the prisoners, numbering about two hundred, were released on their own recognizance. The duty of guarding prisoners having ceased, and tranquillity having been restored in a great measure throughout the district, the saloons were allowed to reopen under greatly modified restrictions, and the necessity existing no longer for so large a force of Federal troops, the battalion of

five companies of the Fourteenth Infantry returned to Vancouver Barracks September 14.

Judge Beatty opened a session of the U. S. District Court, September 2, at Coeur d'Aléne City, where the court was ordered, to save expense and for convenience in securing witnesses. C. W. Bushnell, the Miners' Union Attorney, Geo. A. Pettibone, John Norton, W. H. Frazer, Barney Reilley, Mike L. Devine, C. Sinclair, John Murphey, Daniel Caddigan, F. M. Grey, Jack W. Wallace, familiarly know as Shell Game Wallace,

Joseph Trainer, J. W. Glass, Frank Hyatt, and Joseph Gillis, were tried for conspiracy in disobeying the order of the court in the injunction issued in the cases against the Miners' Union of Wardner.

The trial was completed September 28. Four were found guilty and sentenced. The remainder were found not guilty and discharged. Those convicted were taken to Detroit, where they served several months. All were subsequently released on an appeal taken to the U. S. Supreme Court on account of a defect in the indictment. Peter Breen and Webb Leasure were tried for murder the following winter, the cases being moved to Kootenai County, before Judge Holleman of the District Court of Idaho. After a protracted trial they were both acquitted. On September 22, affairs continuing tranquil, three more companies of Federal troops were withdrawn from the district, leaving but four companies, all of the Fourth Infantry, in the field.

Although in the gold camp about Murray there was no rioting, the citizens of that town, during the insurrection, evinced their loyalty to good government by the application of Commander Ingalls of Canby Post No. 11, G. A. R., for thirty stands of arms and accouterments, and tendering their services to the State.

The reputable business men of Wal