Coeur d'Alene miners' dispute

• On July 11, 1892 miners in Coeur D'Alene, Idaho commandeered trains, fired on scabs, and threatened to blow up nonunion equipment. The governor of Idaho sent National Guardsmen and federal troops to confine 600 miners in bullpens without any hearings or formal charges. One of the leaders, George Pettibone, was convicted of contempt of court and criminal conspiracy.
• On April 29, 1899 members of the Western Federation of Miners dynamited the $250,000 mill of the Bunker Hill Company at Wardner, Idaho. President William McKinley sent black soldiers from Brownsville, Texas, veterans of the Spanish-American war, to roundup 1,000 men into bullpens.

References

New Politics, vol. 7, no. 1 (new series), whole no. 25, Summer 1998 by Steve Early [1]