Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-05-23
The Moyer-Haywood Case
An Awful Tale of Assassination
and Intimidation
C.. p. cONNOLLY-Colliers.

milk-wagon between Wallace and
Burke, two Of the larger towns of the
Occur d'Alenes He also worked in
one Of the mines at Burke. He had
gone to Idaho from Butte, where he
mad located when he first came west,
and where first as a miner, and later
as q professional gambler, he went
under the name Of Thomas Williams.
He was born March Is, 1867, in sub
urb Of Detroit, Michigan, and was
educated in the public schools. lie
has represented himself to be a me /
Der Of the Masonic order. He is said
to have had an early religious train
ing. He was married in 1903, and has
wife and two small stepchildren
At one time he OWend a sixteenth in
tereSt in the Hercules" mine in -he
Occur d'AIenes, which he sold for
$500 and which is now worth $780,
900 (That mine has made Edward
BOyce, the president Of the Western
Federation Of Miners who preceded
Charles H. Mover, wealthy Orchard
appears to have been thWarted in his
ambitions, and was a disappointed
man He was one Of the eight hun
drad men who went TO Wardner On
April 90, 1899, and witnessed the de
struction of the Bunker Hill and Sui
Ivan mill Whether he took an ac-
tive part at that time is not known.
He made his escape from Wallace the
night before the troops under General
Merriam arrived, and returned to
Montana. He was in Colorado juI-
ing part, or perhaps most, Of the
troubles there and escaped from In
dependence during the early morning
hours of June 6, 1904, when fourteen
men were killed and many others in
jur9d by the blowing up of the depot
at that place. A man named Neville
accompanied Orchard in his fight at
that time Neville was afterward
poisoned, and is said that Orchard
had a hand in his removal" Neville
knew too much" Orchards history
in Colorado will undoubtedly be made
a part Of the record of the trials. 1t
may be passed for the present.
In the early part of December. 1905,
Orchard appeared in CALDWELL quiet
country town of three thousand
people, situated in a farming section,
ard resembling much town Of the
same size in ohio or Kansas. 1t is In
the extreme southwestern part of
Idaho twenty-nine miles from Boise,
the capital, and close to both the Ore
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FRANK SLeuhehDerS was A years
OH tie was born III heOkuk' Iowa,
III August lS6E and went West shortly
after ms marriage. He had earned
the money which paid Ills way through
Inc k'neS lIoWa) agricultural college.
Tie hVed with his wife and three chill
drens TWO boys and girl, on the out
SKIRTS or caldwell, about fifteen min
utes' walk from the main part of the
toNn When he first came to Idaho,
StenhenDerg worked IN a pT1nting-ot-
nee ana was during all MS mature
me- member OF the typographical
union. Ills brother, A. X. Steunen-
berg, had preceded him to Idaho, and
when Frank Steunenberg was assassi-
hated his father three brothers, and a
married sister were living in Caldwell,
He vas of German extraction of the
poGr type, slow to act, but of un-
tlinuhing courage when his mind was
made up-a man in whom there was