<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><span>Wallace, Idaho (1892)</span><br><img src="cid:EFBBBDE9-F376-491D-BE5C-68B1B3882145" id="EFBBBDE9-F376-491D-BE5C-68B1B3882145" width="700" height="551"></div><div><span></span><br><span></span><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3">“On the Rocks” by Linda </span><span class="s3">Beeman</span></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">By 1955 only weathered screeds</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3">painted</span><span class="s3"> on the odd boulder</span></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3">denouncing</span><span class="s3"> </span><span class="s3">Wobblies</span><span class="s3"> survived</span></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3">hinting</span><span class="s3"> at savage battles –</span></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3">union</span><span class="s3"> versus mine owner</span></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3">1892 saw miners striking</span><span class="s3"> to protest</span></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">hourly pay cuts to 30 cents</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3">dynamiting</span><span class="s3"> mills taking scabs hostage seizing mines</span></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3">federal</span><span class="s3"> troops rounded up 600 men</span></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3">bull-penned</span><span class="s3"> them for 60 days without charge</span></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Bunker Hill’s concentrator was the next target</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3">blown</span><span class="s3"> to hell in 1899</span></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3">black</span><span class="s3"> federal troops arrived arrested</span></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3">every</span><span class="s3"> man in Burke loaded them</span></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3">into</span><span class="s3"> boxcars for the ride to their corral</span></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Idaho’s governor gifted with a bomb</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">for his contribution to preserving that peace</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3">died</span><span class="s3"> mangled within the hour</span></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3">his</span><span class="s3"> assassin confessed that</span></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3">union</span><span class="s3"> bosses gave the order</span></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3">we</span><span class="s3"> didn’t learn this in our history classes</span></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3">no</span><span class="s3"> martial law no Pinkerton spies ---</span></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3">no</span><span class="s3"> desperate arrests only graffiti messages</span></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3">painted on rocks daring us to find out why</span><span class="s3"></span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">-------------------------------------</span></p><span></span><br><span>Seeya round town, Moscow, because . . .</span><br><span></span><br><span>"Moscow Cares"</span><br><span><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>Tom Hansen</span><br><span>Moscow, Idaho</span><br><span></span></div></div><div><span> </span></div></body></html>