Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-03-30
PROVES HIS STATEMENTS.
Four Bottles Of Explosives Found at
Pocatello-- Were Buried There
by Steve Adams, Who Put
the Officers Next.


der Of Ex-Governor Stunenberg,
was taken to Pocatello Tuesday
under strong guard, for the purpose
of loctaing the place where, late in
the summer of 1908 he buried five
bottles of terrible explosive which
he calls "Helltire" or "Pettibone
DOPE" In his confession recently
made, Adams among other things,
confessed that he had been sent to
Pocatello by orders of officials of
the inner circle of the Western
Federation of Miners for the pur-
pose Of intercepting train on which
was car filled with noD-union
miners being taken from the Occur
d'Alene district to Cripple Creek,
Colo where a strike was on.
Adams mission, according to the
confession, was to wait there with
these bottles filled with this terrible
fluid and when the car arrived to
throw the bottles through the win
dows.
The terrible nature Of the contents
of the bottles would be to at once
set the interior of the car in flames
and there would haye been little or
no chance of any of the occupants
escaping with their lives.
Providentlally it was impossible,
on account of tle-up on the Oregon
Short Line, to get the train through
that way and the car of miners
went on to Colorado by another
route.
After arriving in Pocatello Adams
was not long In locating the old
building in which he had buried the
explosives. The building, which
was then a deserted mill, has since
been remodeled and converted into
a stable. This made it diff
! ticult for Adams to locate the spot
in which he had buried the bottles.
Finally, however, there was un-
earthened a glass stopper, which
Apams claims was exactly like
. those used in the bottles buried by
him and a tin can containing q
burned or charred substance in the
bottom.
On Wednesday the search was
continued, with the result that four
bottles of the death dealing stuff
were unearthed.
A Pocatello special of March 2sth
to the Statesman gives the follow
ing account of the find:
"Four of the bottles that Steve
Adams buried IN the old mill were
found shortly after 6 o'clock this
evening as result of Investigations
started by Chief of Police &. F.
Smith of Pocatello. When the chief
learned of the object of the visit Of
M'Parland and others he remem.
| bered some circumstances which he
deemed 1t wise to investigate. He
tipped off the suspicious and the IN
vestigations turned out entirely sue
. cessful. The bottles were found
under pile of cinders not far from
G the mill. II develops that little
0 over year ago a man by the name
Of George M'Conkey, engaged in
t taking out timbers at the mill, dis
I covered the tin which contained the
d bottles in the exact location point
s ed out yesterday by Adams. liz
Q took the stopper ost of one of the
e bottles and the fire burned his hand,
It and clothes severely. He threw The
o bottle out of the mill as far as pos
n slble and buried the rest under 9
d cinder pile where they were tonight
r located. A few days after this hap
pened Thomas M'Conkey, a brother
n who was working in the storehoust
= of the Scowcroft wholesale company
near the mill, saw blue smoke com
. ing from rubbish pile where the
It first bottle had been thrown. He ani
L man named Con Regan wentovel
and began stamping out th'
smotbered fire with their feet. TIL,
liquid got on their shoes and burned