Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-03-10

a dollar a month to keep up the Colo.
RADIO fight.
a farcical arrest for the dissertation
| Of the American flag was the nearest
the Mine Owners association ever came
/ to catching up with Mr.. Haywood. Init
/ tation paper flags with inhammatory
/ sentiments printed upon them were
! scattered broadcast through the Cripple
Creek district as dodgers For this
/ Secretary Haywood langulshed for a
| brief spell in the Denver jail. and once,
| when President Meyer yentured into
! the military camp at Telluride, he was
! promptly arrested and held for incit-
| ing lawlessness.
When Haywood and Meyer escaped
they devoted their efforts to politl-
cal combination that promised to wipe
the national guard out OF existence.
with the support fund from eastern
unions and the prospect of federation
votes Secretary Haywood stood should
er to shoulder with the Democratic
leaders for the defeat Of Gov. Peabody
for reelection. At the September labor
day parade In Denver, Secretary Hay
wood was given the place OF honor ana
by clever arrangement rode up the
business streets at the head OF the pro-
cession to receive the plaudits OF the
multitude, countermarching down
again, facing the marching unions ana
graclously acknowledging the statutes
NJ the men passing under his review.
II il doubtful II Colorado indlct-
ment could have been brought against
HAYWOOD and Meyer. but when Gov
GoodIng Of Idaho showed determine.
ton To ayenge the murder OF his prede-
cessor. Gov Steunenberg. and sent re-
nuisitIon papers and information to
hack them up to Gov. Mcdonald, the
peabodv compromise for Colorado, II
took less than an hour for the Colorado
authorities 70 hand over to the ldaho
custodians, President Meyer who was
already on Pullman on his way TO
Doadwcod, Secretary Haywood and q.
A. Pettibone, former member or the
executive board Of the federation
After thirteen years, a professional
dynamter of the federation had been
trapped into giving It's plots away
Thirteen appears to be mOmehtous
number for the federation. An execu-
tive board of thirteen with Secretary
Uavwood at its head decided all I'M
nortant moves Of the federation and an
inner circle" OF Ave carried them out
Warrants have been issued for all the
members OF this board. but II Is doubt
ful II many moro of them Will be found
now that the president and secretary
of the federation have been incarcer-
ated.
THE KILLING or EX-GoV. STEuN-
ENBERG.
Ex-Gov. Frank steunenberg, who was
destroyed by dynamite bomb as he
was entering the gate TO his yard IN
Caldwell, Idaho, on the night of Decem-
her 3d. was one of the picturesque per-
sonaiitles Of the western country. Sew
en- feet I'm height. broad In proportion
and straight as an Indian, he lowered
above other men In stature as he did
IN strength Of character. Wall street
still remembers him az rugged giant
who wore u bearskin coat Mapping
over a collarless shirt on one OF his
business excursions east.
Seven years ago, Gov. Steunenberg
wiped the notorious Occur d Alene
crowd off the map OF Idaho, The lead
ers were sent to the penltentiary, ana
they swore that on their liberation they
would be avenged. Their terms had
all expired, or nearly 40. Their friends
on the outside helped them to celebrate
the occasion. and Mt the same time
20 make good their VOWS. Two bombs
were fastened, one to each side OF Gov.
Steunenberg' gate, and the perpetra-
tors, as usual got safely away Inc
ex-governor was blown to atoms as ne
entered his front yard.
Harry Orchard, alias Harry Hogan.
Western Federation man. was arrested
and on being put through the thirty
third degree" confessed that the Fed
Grafton elmer circle had paid out
thousands OF dollars to him and men
like him for the numerous murders In
the mining country. many OF which the
general public never heard Of. II was
Orchard who laid the wires and shot
off the gun that exploded the dynamite
under the Independence station In
Colorado, The Cripple Creek authori-
ties were sure OF this at the time. and
they traced their man all through Mex
leo, California. and Canada to lose
sight OF him in Idaho.
Vincent 81. John is also mentioned In
the dispatches as having been arrested
under the Orchard confession. For
four years Colorado has been looking
for St John, young, smooth faced
Dick Deadeye type of rufiian. once pres
ident OF the Telluride local Of Hay
woods Western Federation. 1t appears
that ST. John had only stepped over
into Burke, Idaho, to become president
OF the local there. Haywood and 9TH
ers high in federation affairs. It Ia said,
knew where he was all the time, as did
also the local union he was presiding
over. Mr.. Orchard casually mentioned