The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-12

should have been tried in Colorado and not in Idaho.
 The points were uniformly decided in favor of the State, and the prisoners were decided to be legally in the cus- tody of the Idaho authorities, but the litigation resulted in the enforced post ponement of the trials of the accused men for many months.
 Among the men against whom war rants were issued at this time, and an indictment returned by the grand jury at Caldwell later on, were Charles H. Mover, President of the Western Fed eration of Miners; William D. Haywood, its Secretary. and George A. Pettibone, a member of the Executive Committee, all of whom were arrested in Denver, on Saturday night and taken to Boise on a special train leaving Denver the next morning. requisition by Govern or Gooding of Idaho on Governor Me Donald of Colorado having been hon. ored Saturday.
 A warrant was also issued for l.. J. Simpkins, generally known as Jack" Simpkins, member of the Executive Committee of the Federation, but he was never apprehended, and is today a fugitive from justice on the charge of murdering Governor Steunenberg. He has since, however, and while a fugi- tive, been reelected as member of the Executive CommllIee of the Federation, at the same time that Mover, Haywood and Pettibone were reelected to their positions ~hile in jail in Idaho.
 Another warrant was issued for the arrest of Steve Adams, another alleged member of the gang. who was captured in Oregon. He was taken to Boise and there, later on. added his confession to that of Orchard. The two covered diff ferent features of the operations of the inner circle" but dove tailed in many respects.
 Like the confession of Orchard. the admissions of Adams were subjected to the closest scrutiny by the detectives, though. as in the Orchard case. but lit- tie of the confession in its details has ever leaked to the public. One inci- dent in the process of corroborating the Adams confession, which was given to the press at the time. will bear repeti- ton:
 Adams. in the course of his confess sion, told, it was stated, of having buried some explosive some eighteen months before in an old barn in the out skirts of Pocatello. Idaho Detective Mcfarland. in charge of the investiga- tions, and perhaps smarting under the by no means gentle criticism of the friends of the accused men, invited two or three papers that lad been taking an active interest in the case. including the one upon WHICH l was eHSdReQ, 10 send representatives along with the prisoner. the detective. officers to guard the prisoner and one or two others. to find the barn, and see if the explosive were buried at 1t was said to be.
 The start was made on an early morning train. and Pocatello was reach ed by II o'clock by the party. which in- cluded a fellow worker of the writer. Adams located the old barn in the out skirts of the city without difficulty and with proper caution, members of the party began digging. N, explosive was found in the corner of the barn where Adams said it was buried. The re- mainder of the dirt floor of the barn was dug up, in vain effort to find it.
 But late in the afternoon. after Me Parland had given up, and after one of the visiting newspapermen had left for his home, a respected citizen of the