Rocky Ford enterprise., 1906-02-23
RUSHED TO IDAHO
WESTERN FEDERATION OFFICERS
ARRESTED At DENVER.
FOR Completely IN CRIME
President Meyer. Secretary Haywood
and 6. A. Pettibone Charged With
Being Concerned In AssAsslnation
Of Governor stsunenbsru-Alisoss
Plot to Murder Colorado ofsleIais.

0etn0 Concerneo IN Aee1eoinaVon
Of Governor neutrality-suspicious.
Plot to Murder Colorado offleIais.
Denver.-The News Monday morn
ing says: Three Idaho peace officers,
Adjutant General Bulkeiey Wells o.
the National Guard OF Colorado and
Two Of his miiiiiamen. having In Gus
tody Charles II. Meyer. president Of
the Western Federation Of Miners:
William u. Haywood. secretary.treas'
urer Of the federation. and q. A. Petit
bone. one time member Of the .cxecu'
live committee Of the federation. left
Denver yesterday morning at o'clock
on special train provided
by the Union Pacific company.
en- route To Boise. Idaho. The
piicity In the assassination OF former
Governor Steuncnbcrg OF Idaho about
two months ago.
Meyer. Haywood and Pettibone were
arrested after rcquisition papers from
Governor Gooding OF Idaho had been
presented to Governor McDonald and
honorcd by the latter. who issued. pa
peers authorizing the cxtradition Of the
three men. every EFFORT was made TO
keep thI proceedings secret. and each
Of the defendants was kept In ignor-
ancc OF impending arrest, having no
opportunity 10 nght eatradition. Al.
ter the arrests were made the men
were refused the privilege of notify
INK families. friends or attorneys.
Attorney T. r. Richardson left 10.
Idaho last night. and will make hkht
In behalf Of the men. askin. their re-
lease ON the ground that the proceed
insx were irregular In every respect.
Without an inklin. of the impending
arrest. President Meyer was taken Into
custody by Sheriff Alexander Nisbst
and u deputy. who served the var.
rants, and was Immediately taken TO
tho county jail. Secretary Haywood
Was not found until several hours later.
when IL. too. was taken To the jail and
confined In the west wing. bankers
row. where lmbodcn and Hin were
placed.
Charles II. Meyer was taken from =
berth In u Pullman car on the O'Clock
darlington trnin for Dcadwood. South
Dakota. He wns ON his way 10 South
Dakota on business trip. Secretary
Haywood was arrested as he was lcav.
Ing the oficcs Of the Western Fedora.
ton Of Miners. In the Pioneer build.
about II o'clock.
prisoners were not allowed to com.
municatc with either their attorneys
or their families. Mrs. Haywood and
Mrs. Meyer did not know Of the arrests
until yesterday morning. The two
prisoncrcs were held incommunlcado
until @ o'clock yesterday morning.
when they werc hurried out Of the city.
q. A. Pettibonc was arrested at his
home. 1925 Evans street. by Glen DUFF.
field, warden Of the county jail. He.
like the others. wns not allowed to
send any word to friends. obtain coun.
sci or notify his wife.
The three men. charged with being
accessories to the assassination Of cx-
Governor Frank Stcuncnbcrg OF Idaho.
were kept In the county jail for little
over Six hours.
The Republican says: The arrests
were due TO the confession Of Harry
Orchard. held to answer to the higher
court for the murder of Steunenbcrg.
he being accused directly OF setting the
explosive.
But the single confession Of this man
Orchard Is not relied on. Corrobora-
tive proof of what he confessed regard
ing the operations OF the Dynamitard
club. was found In Denver. He con.
tossed to plots that were on foot In this
state TO do murder and he told where
the explosives that were to be Nsed
could yet be found. This confession
was transcribed and n copy submitted
to the authorities In Denver. They
went to the spots designated by Or.
chard and found the bombs. These in.
struments of death were to have been
used against public officers In this
state who had taken part In the over
fhrnw of the wpstern- Epderatio of
Miners and the officers marked for as.
sassination included the chief justice
nf the Supreme Court. one or two men,
bers of the court, the former governor
Of this state, his adjutant general and
perhaps one OF two others, including
lawyers who had taken an active part
in the work of the vigilantes commit
tee at Cripple Creek.
a bulky confession containing over
10000 words from Orchard sets forth
that the Western Federation of Min
crs were privy to the deeds and the
aims of the men who had been paid
large sums from the treasury OF the
Western Federation OF Miners.
In his confession Orchard tells the
history OF the blowing up of the Inde.
pendence mine on June G. 1904. when
forty people were marked for death
and thirteen fell victims: he gives
facts of the murder of Martin Glen.
son. n mine superintendent. who was
brutally slugged and his lifeless body
later thrown into shaft to give the
crime the appearance of accidental
death; he recites the facts of the
blowing up of the Vindicator shaft
when Shift Boss Beck and Foreman
Mccormick went to their doom.