Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1906-02-24
MOREARRESTS MADE
IDAHO OFFICERS THINK THEY
RAVE STEUNEKBERG ASSASSIN.
Idaho Officials Arrest Vincent st.
John, President OF Burke Union
Orchard Tells, 'Tis Sald-Special
Train Bears as Prisoners President
Meyer and Secretary Haywood.

By sudden and almost secret arrests
OF leaders of the Western Federation
of Miners, the state authorities of Ioa-
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
Sutherland of Shoshone county, Idaho,
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 II. 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
Grafton inner circles. 1t is now al
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-
vict all the prisoners of murder and
conspiracy.
The governor Of Idaho believes as
sassins of Steunenberg are in custody.
Later.
Denver, Feb. adjudication has
been made here of the complaints on
which Governor Gooding of Idaho
based acquisitions for Charles II. Meyer,
president, and William d. Haywood,
secretary treasurer of the Western Fed
Grafton of Miners, and G. A. Petit
bone, former member of the execu-
tive committee of that labor organiza-
ton.
From these it appears that the men,
who we're arrested here and hurriedly
removed to Idaho, were charged direct.
ly with the murder of former Governor
Frank Steunenberg of Idaho, and re-
quisitions in the three cases are identi
cal and charge the accused men will
having discharged the bomb by mean
of which Steunenberg was killed a
Caldwell, Idaho, December 80, 1905
! The specific hrage of murder was mad,
it is supposed, in order to forestal
habeas corpus proceedings ON behalf o
the accused men, but no attempt viii
be made TO prove that they were il
Idaho at the time of the commission U
the crime. 1t is alleged, however, tina
they conspiIed with others to murde
Steunenberg and furnished funds II
carry out the plot.
The atrocious murders committed
during labor troubles in the Crippl
Greek and Telluride districts in thi
4 state, which have been shrouded il
< mystery, the earlier Occur d Allen
t murders and the more recent Stuenen
+ berg assassination form a chain o
= crimes with which efforts are bein
/ made to connect the officers of tn
: Western Federation of Miners on Co
n fession said to have been made by Har
+ ry Orchard, who is charged with tn
t Steunenberg murder.
r This confession, it is asserted, dis
It closed plot to kill former Governo
r James b. Peabody of Colorado, Wi
liam H. Gabbert, chief justice of th
y Colorado supreme court, and job
Il Campbell, former justice. Orchard
said to have confessed that wholesal
e assassinations were planned at tn
II headquarters of the Western Federatio
l. of Miners in Denver, chiefly by refI
e gees form the camps at Cipple Cree
e and Telluride.
'e 1t is also said that Orchards confe
sion gives history of the explosion
E. the Independence depot, near Cripp
" Creek, on June 6, 1904, which killt
e fourteen men and injured many other
ot Governor Mcdonald, who issued Il
~ necessary papers for the extradition
lie the federation Officials OF Idaho, sa
that he had read copy of Orchard
rs confession, but was not at liberty
re divuge its contents.
lg James MCFARLAND, head of a dete
at tive agency which was employed |
DR. the Idaho authorities in the Steune
s berg case, declares that the eviden
against the men who have so far be,
It. arrested is very strong and more a
ed rests are yet to be made He won
c. not state the nature of his eyidenc
of nor how it was obtained. He sa
X Haywood, Meyer and Pettibone VI
never see Colorado again.