The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-02-22
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ARE TO FOLLOW
jReguisision Papers Demanded for
Prominent Union Officials by
idaho's Governor.

~ a1sEN-
Denver, Feb. 21.--Publication was
made here of the complaints on which
Governor Gooding of Idaho asked
acquisitions for Charles II. Meyer, pres
ident, and William D. Haywood, secre-
ta~ry-treasurer of the Western Fedora
ton of Miners, and M. A. P%ettibone, a
former member of the executive COM
mittee of that labor organization.
From this it appears the men who
were secretly arrested here Saturday
night and hurriedly removed to IdaI
no were charged directly with the
murder of former Governor Frank Steu-
nenburg of idaho, and not merely with
being accessories to the crime. n
complaints and acquisitions in the
three cases are identical and Charge
the accused men with having dis,
charged the bomb by e of which
| ~Steunenburg was killed at Caldwell.
Idaho, December 80, 1905.
Are Held as Principals.
HI specific charge of murder was
made, it is 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 at the time of the COM
mission Of the crime. 1t is alleged,
however, that they %conspired with 9TH
ers to murder Steunenburg and turn-
ished funds to carry out the plot. Inc
]atrocious murders committed during
labor troubles in the Cripple Creek
Rnd Telluride districts in this state,
which nave been shrouded in mys-
terry, the earlier Cour dAlene muir
ders and the more recent Steunen-
burg assassination, form q chain OF
crimes with which efforts are being
z-l- thn nfinnrS nf thG
Western Federation through the con
fession aid to lave been made o.
Harry Orchard, who is charged with
the S~teunenburg murder.
This confession, 1t Is asserted, dis,
closed a plot to kill former Governor
James H. Peabody, Of Colorado, WI
liam II. Gabbert, chief justice or the
Colorado supreme court, and John
Campbell, associate justice. Orchard is
said to have confessed that wholesale
a~ssassinations were planned at the
headquarters of the Western Fedora
ton Of Miners in Denver, chiefly BY
refugees from the camps at Cripple
Creek and Telluride. 1t is also sale
that Orchards confession gives a his
tory of the explosion at the lndepend
ence station near Cripple Creek OF
June 6, 1904, which killed fourteen mel
and injured many others.
Governor Saw Confession.
Governor Mcdonald, who issued INT
necessary papers for the extradition o
the federation officers to Idaho salt
today that he had read a copy OF Or
chard's confession, but was not at lib
erty to divulge its contents.
It developed that orchards confes
sion, according to best authority, statet
that bombs had been placed in tn
gateways of the residences of the TIVE
members of the Colorado supreme cour
and that more than a dozen attempt
had been made to assassinate forme
Governor James H. Peabody. An in
vestigation since the alleged confession
was made disclosed the presence o
bombs in exactly the spots indicated
The man who unearthed the bombs,
prominent member of the Colorado Ma
tional guard, is in Idaho, having accom-
panied the party that returned wit
Meyer, Haywood and Pettibone. H
will appear as a witness in the Orchar
trial. it is said, to prove the truth @
the alleged confession.
Information reaches here tonigh
from Cripple Creek that Edward Greer
l a federation man, had been arreste
on a warrant forwarded by the Idah
authorities charging him with connec
!, tion in the Steunenberg assassinatio
I Two other warrants are In the hand
; of Cripple Creek officers for service.