The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-18

New York June ia Washington dis
patch to a morning paper says: a news
paper here viii publish. tomorrow, an
exposure of a plot which had for its OBJ
iect the destruction of the capitol and per-
hapS other government buildings, which
has been slowly developing for several
weeks.
The secret service and police authorities.
however have been kept informed of the
movements of the plotterS, and would
have been able to thwaTt them had their
Vaccinations approached actual violence.
only once, says the newspaper, about
three weeks ago when the channel of in
formation was Unexpectedly interrupted,
were the federal and district authorities
really alarmed. They did not know at
what moment an attempt might be made
To explode bombs in the capitol, the treas
ury building, the White House and the
war ana navy building.
But as the days passed and nothing was
done. the authorities who had redoubled
their vigilance restored the line of COM
nunieation with those next to the anar-
cflsts, and were able again to shadow
every conSpiratOr ard to keep fully in
formed of anarchistic moves both here
and elsewhere.
According TO the story. the plot was
formed at the time the CoXeyite army
was marching to the capitol. and tips of
Omaha, Chicago and Pittsburg among
them.
The Prime Mover.
The prime mover in the anarchistic plot
that is the Washington end Of twas
Honore Jackson. He came from Chicago.
and is still in the city. He is a profess
sional Indian. In Chicago he has been a.
disturber for years. At the time of the
liaymarket riot he narrowly escaped be-
ing arrested as a principal conspirator,
and was Swallowed by detectives for a
long time Jackson is a haif-breed OF IN
known tribal origin, He was one of Louis
Reils lieutenants in the Canadian rebel
lion some years ago
The informant in the case was kept in
touch with the conspirators, and has given
the police the names of those engaged in
the Plot, together with other facts. These
have been communicated to the officers
OF other. cities and they will probably act
on the information.
The fact that anarchists have committed
no act in Washington upon which they
could be convicted have prevented their
arrests Their meetings have been small
and secret
Their experiments with chemicals have
been such that they hardly inteded TO re-
sort to extreme measures They have
written no letters. In fact, all along they
have waited for something to happen,
something which would give them an op-
portunity TO carry out their scheme of
violence.
Jackson's headquarters were at the resi-
dence OF a Frenchm6n, named SaVant
The conspirators met there and, at other
places, and about three weeks ago the
meetings became so frequent and so
many strange men came and went that
the officers felt they were losing their
grasp Of the situation. There was dan
ger the climax Y1ight come at any time,
and great alarm was felt. The Capitol
officers, including the speaker of the
House, and the treasury people, including
Secretary Carlisle, felt very uneasy.
The Formula Discovered.
The discovery of the formula for maxi
ing the explosive which the consprd tors
propose to use, says the article in con
clusion, is probably the best piece of
work done by the detectives. Several
chemicals are used and the proportions
make a high explosive of new and
most dangerous kind As soon as the po-
lice obtained this formula, they took it
TO a well-known chemist and asked him
to make up sample. He did so in his
laboratory and placed on a window sill in
the sun. In a few moments there was an
explosion. A great deal of noise did not
accompany the explosion, but there was
a terrific conclusion and most nauseat-
ing and binding smoke, although the
quantity of the chemical experimental
with was very small. 4 cat which was
in the room died in a few seconds from
the effects of the Vapor.
An occasion for the use of the eX-
plosives, the anarchists hope. it is said.
will be furnished by the arrival of that
part OF FFye's industrial army now re-
ported in the Cumberland valley.
Under cover Of a disturbance produced
by them, the plot against the Capitol is
IN he carried out.