The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1906-02-22
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Rsquisition Papers Demanded 70
Prominent Union oslieiais by
Idsho's Govsrnor,

Denver. Feb. Equalization was
made here of the complaints on which
Governor Cooling OF Idaho asked
acquisitions for Charles II. Meyer. pres
ident. and william ID. Haywood. secrej
sary-treasurer or the Western Fedora
tion OF Miners. and NJ. A. Pettibone. a
former member OF the executive com-
mittee OF that labor organization
From this Il appears the men who
were secretly arrested here Saturday
night and hurriediy removed to Ida
no were charged directly with the
murder OF former Governor Frank steui
nenburg OF Idaho. and not merely with
being accessories TO the crime. The
complaints and acquisitions In the
three cases are identical and charge
the accused men with having dis
charged the bomb by means Of which
Steunenburg was killed At Caldwell.
Idaho. December 20. 1906. :
Are Hold 30 Principals.
The specific charge OF murder was
made. u IL explained. In order to fore-
stall habeas corpus proceedings on be-
half OF the accused men, but no at
tempt will be made TO show that they
were In Idaho Mt the time OF the CON-
mission OF the crime. IL Is alleged.
however. that they conspired with 9TH
ers to murder Steunenburg and furn-
ished funds To carry out the plot. the
ntrocious murders committed during
labor troubles Ia the Cripple Creek
and Telluride districts In this state.
which have been shrouded In mys-
terry, the earlier Cour dAlene muir
ders and the more recent Steunen-
burg assassination. form a chain OF
crimes with which efforts are being
made TO connect the officers or the
Western Federation through the con-
fession said To have been made by
Harry Orchard. who IL charged with
the steunenburg murder.
This confession. 10 IL asserted. dis.
closed plot TO kill former Governos
James II. Peabody. OF Colorado. Will
liam II. Gabbert. chief justice OF the
Colorado supreme court, and John
Campbell, associate justice. Orchard IL
said to have confessed that wholesals
assassinations were planned at the
headquarters or the Western Fedora
tion OF Miners in Denver. chiefly by
refugees from the camps ut Cripple
Creek and Telluride. IL In also said
that Orchards confession gives his
tory OF the explosion Mt the Independ-
ence station near Cripple Creek on
June 6. 1904. which killed fourteen men
and injured many others.
Governor Saw Confession.
Governor Mcdonald, who issued the
necessary papers for the extradition OF
the federation officers TO Idaho said
today that he had read copy OF Or
chard's confession. but was not at lib-
erty TO dlvulge It's contents,
IL developed that Orchards confess
sion, according To best authority, stated
that bombs had been placed In the
gateways OF the residences OF the two
members OF the Colorado supreme court
and that more than a dozen attempts
had been made To assassinate former
Governor James II. Peabody. An In
vestiga ton since the alleged confession
WAS made disclosed the presence OF
bombs I'm exactly the spots Indicated.
The man who unearthed the bombs. u
prominent member OF the Colorado Ma
iional guard, IL In Idaho. having accom-
panied the party that returned with
Meyer. Haywood and Pettibone. He
will appear as IA witness In the Orchard
trial, II Is said tn prove the truth OF
the alleged confession.
Information reaches here tonight
from Cripple Greek that Edward Green.
"A federation man. had been arrested
on "A warrant forwarded by the Idaho
authorities charging him with connec-
ton In the Steunenberg assassination.
Two other warrants are In the hands
OF Cripple Greek officers for service.