The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-19
WESTERN MINERS
CHIEFS ARRESTED.
Meyer and Haywood Of the Fed,
GRAFTON Accused Of Share
in Plots.
Assassination of Judges, Governor
and Militia Leaders Was
Planned.
Journal Special Service.

Journal Special Service.
Denver, Col, Feb. 19.-With the ar
rest of Charles H.. Meyer and William
the Western Federation a of Miners here
and their. swift removal from the state
of Colorado, it is believed that one OF :
the most fendish murder plots ever
Matched in this country has been effec-
tually thwarted.
Meyer and Haywood were arrested
on charges of completely in the assas-
sination Of former Governor Steunen-
berg of Idaho last December.
A. confession made by Harry Orchard,
now in Jail in Boise, was the basis OF
the charges on which they were ar
been found that it was Orchard who
actually threw the bomb that killed
Steunenberg. He declares that the plot
was engineered by Meyer and Hay
| wood.
The murder of steunenberg. who was
slain for his energy in the prosecution tna
miters when he was governor of Idaho
in 1899, was, it is now believed, only
the first of a long series of assasslna-
lions planned by the desperate organl-
zation Of socialists and dynamlters
Of which, according to Orchard. Meyer
In his confession Orchard has charged
that the "inner ring of the Western
| Federation of Miners is purely and
simply club of dynamiters..
According to revelations which have
been disclosed since the arrest OF
of this gang were on the point OF car
rying out plans for the assassination
Eof every member of the state supreme
court Of Colorado who had delivered
opinions hostile to Meyer and Hay.
Miners Nine I'm in the the trials resulting from the
disorders at. Cripple Creek which cul-
minated in the outrage at Independ-
ence station when dozen miners were
killed.
i Former Governor Peabody. and Adiu-
tant General Bell, according to the
story, were on the list of those whose
lives were sought.
y AS a result Of the confessions made
by men now under arrest In Idaho,
bombs secretly brought to this city for
the purpose of achieving the aims OF
the conspirators were discovered here
According to the confessions, all
that prevented the carrying out of the
plans was the fact that the rlngleaders
were 10th to put them into effect until
the memory, of the Steunenberg assassi-
nation had become less acute.
Such in substance is the cause and
effect of the arrest of Meyer and Hay
wood The story of the arrests and
the subsequent hurried. removal of the
men from Colorado to thwart appeal
to habeas proceedings, is scarcely less
sensational.
Prisoners in Idaho.
Boise, idaho, Feb. 19.-Charles E.
Meyer, president of the Western FEEDER.
alton of Miners; William D. Haywood,
secretary of the same organization, and
G. A. Pettibone, former member of
the executive board of the federation
y who were arrested in Denver Saturday
J. night charged with completely in the
:. assassination Of Frank Steunenberg
!. former governor of Idaho, arrived at
i Boise, Idaho, this morning in custody
q Of strong guard of Idaho and Colo
: RADIO officers. The officers in charge OF
y the prisoner were Adjutant General
= Buckley Wells of Colorado, Colonel D
:, W. Strickland of the governor S staff
J three operatives of a detective agency
! and James Mills, deputy warden of the
y = Idaho penitentiary.
u The prisoners were taken directly tt
Il the Idaho penitentiary. No interview
L L with any Of the party was permitted
i Vincent St. John, president of the
. miners union at Burke. Idaho, WIFI
@ was arrested yesterday, probably viii
y be brought here today or tomorrow.