The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1906-02-23
MORE ARRESTS MADE
IDAHO OFFICERS Think they
RAVE STEUEENBERG ASSASSIN.
Idaho Officials Arrest Vincent st.
John, President of Burke UnioE-
Orchard Tells, 'Tis Said-Special
Train Bears as Prisoners President
Meyer and Secretary Haywood.

Meyer and Secretary Haywood.
By sudden and almost secret arrests
of leaders of the Western Federation
of Miners, the state authorities of loa-
no believe they have the ringleaders
of the band that plotted and carried
into execution the assassination OF
former Governor Frank Steunenberg
at Caldwell, Idaho. Saturday Sheriff
arrested Vincent ST. John, alias John
w. Vincent, president of the Burke
Miners union and lodged him in Jail
at Wallace. At the same time this
arrest was made special train was
speeding west from Denver bearing as
prisoners President Charles H. Meyer
and William D. Haywood of the West
ern Federation of Miners, also G. A.
PettibOne, at one time on the eXecu-
tive board. Twelve armed deputies
guard the men. st. John was also at
one time prominent in Western Fed
legged that the plot to assassinate
Frank Steunenberg was concocted at a
point on the upper waters of the ST..
Joe river, Idaho, where Simpkins
(badly wanted by the police) and
Orchard, who is now in the peniten-
tiary at Boise awaiting trial, were os-
tensibly hunting and fishing. The
descent of the officers of the law was
secretly made because of fear that
their quarry would lake flight.
Another sensation comes from Den
yer, where detectives tell that Harry
Orchard has confessed the circum-
stances leading up to and surrounding
the Caldwe.. assassination, also the
murders in Cripple Creek, including
the Independence horror. Boise Of
ficers will not say Orchard has con-
fessed anything, but declare they have
all the evidence they desire to con-
Wet all the prisoners of murder and
conspiracy.
The governor of Idaho believes as
sassins of Steunenberg are in custody
1dICCs
Denver, Feb. Capitalization has
been made here Of the complaints on
which Governor Gooding of Idaho
based acquisitions for Charles 81. Meyer,
president, and William D. Haywood,
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES of the Western Fed.
GRAFTON of Miners, and G.. A. Petit
bone, a former member of the execu.
tive committee of that labor organiza.
ton.
From these it appears that the men,
who were arrested here and hurriedly
removed to Idaho, were charged direct
~ with the murder of former Governor
Frank Steunenberg Of Idaho, and re-
QUESTIONS in the three cases are identi:. .
cal and charge the accused men with
having discharged the bomb by means
of which Steunenberg was killed at
Caldwell, Idaho, December 80, 1905.
The specific hrage of murder was made
it is supposed, in order to forestsll
habeas corpus proceedings on behalf Of
the accused men. but no attempt will
be made to prove that they were in
Idaho at the time of the commission Of
the crime. It is alleged, however, that
they conspi1ed with others to murder
Steunenberg and furnished funds to
carry out the plot.
The atrocjous murders committed
during labor troubles in the Cripple
Greek and Telluride districts in this
state. which have been shrouded in
mystery, the earlier Occur d. Alene
murders and the more recent Stuenen.
berg assassination form q chain of
crimes with which efforts are being
made to connect the officers of the
Western Federation of Miners on q con
fession said to have been made by Har-
~ Orchard, who is charged with the
Steunenberg murder.
This confession, it is asserted, dis.
closed plot to kill former Governor
James 3. Peabody of Colorado, Will
liam 81. Gabbert, chief justice of the
Colorado supreme court, and John
Campbell, former justice. Orchard is
said to have confessed that wholesale
assassinations were planned at the
headquarters of the Western Federation
of Miners in Denver, chiefly by refu-
gees form the camps at Cipple Greek
and Telluride.
It is also said that Orchards confess
sion gives history of the explosion at
the Independence depot, near Cripple
Creek, on June 6, 1904, which killed
fourteen men and injured many others.
Governor McDonald who issued the
necessary papers for the extradition of
the federation Officials OF Idaho, said
that he had read copy of Orchards
confession, but was not at liberty to
divuge it's contents.
James MCFARLAND, bead of detec.
tive agency which was employed by
the Idaho authorities in the Steunen.
berg case, declares that the evidence
against the men who have so far been
arrested is very strong and more ar
rests are yet to be made. He would
not state the nature of his evidence.
nor how it was obtained. He says
Haywood, Meyer and Pettibone will