 Once he gave assurances, he was allowed to get on a horse and leave the district.p.22 In July 1894, a group of about 20 to 40 armed men came to the Gem mine in the Coeur D’Alene district in Idaho, searching for men who had been ordered by union miners to leave the country.They found one, John Kneebone, and shot and killed him.They then forced the mine superintendent and some other mine officials to walk to the Montana state line, and made them promise never to return.