The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-06-05

sassinations. poisonings and dynamit-
ings happened daily. Mcfarland
might well fancy he was living over
again the lawless days of his Penn
sylvania experience. Mine owners,
managers, superintendent, lived in
constant fear of death by violence and
the police We're powerless to protect
them. The militia was called out, but
it succeeded no better in laying bare
the ringleaders.
To be briefly incidental, a cage fill
ed with miners dropped by 'acci-
dent" down the Independence station.
Cripple Creek. IA miners were blown
to atoms by dynamite. On December
80, 1906 Ex-Governor Frank Steunen
berg of Idaho was blown to pieces by
| dynamite as he was stepping into his
yard in Caldwell, Idaho. The country
was aroused by these acts of whole
sale murder but the police and the
soldiery both had failed to disclose
the perpetrators, and the assassins
pursued their inhuman course of
saughtering by individuals and by
hundreds unterrified. They reckoned
themselves safe by mere organization
and force of numbers.
This was the occasion that old
sleuth had waited for. He appeared
old no longer, and once again he went
mining as he had gone in his younger
days. Not as James Mcfarland, but
as a bluff and cordial miner in SYM
pathy with the schemes Of the Fedora
ton, he went among them and ran to
earth the famous Inner circle He
found out who had done each job and
traced no fewer than 26 murders to
their principals,
A document exists, the confession
of Harry Orchard, which for cold hor-
ror and the depths that humanity can
descend in crime is quite unrlValled
In this confession the simple art of
James Mcfarland is made plain. 1t
was to him that orchard confessed.
How He Got Orchards Confession.
When MCFARLAND first met orchard
the task of getting from this harden
ed criminal the clues which were to
lead to arrests and punishments SEEM
ed hopeless. 1t did not prove so to
the old actor. He lived with orchard,
made a friend of him, tried to probe
his nature for something other than
crime At last he found what he
wanted. Orchard had been taught by
his mother in Detroit to believe in the
Bible, to fear future punishment, and
the base of him was fear On this
MCFARLAND worked, and he soon learn
ed all he needed to know. 1t impli-
Gated the members of that inner cir
cle," William d. Haywood, secretary
of the organization; Charles H. Moy-
err, president of the Western Fedora
ton, and G. A. Pettibone, a popular
leader
To bolster the confession Mcfarland
collected bombs and Internal machines
where Orchard told him they had been
prepared by the miners and secreted'
gang his evidence was without flaw
Orchards confession had been check
ed up until there was no doubt of its
truth. OF the rights of these GRIMM
ais the detective took great care
bringing against them nothing he
could not substantiate. Justice cold
calm and impartial was the creed OF
this jovial, storytelling actor. this
Irish Javert.
The elmer circle" of the Western
Federation was organized in May
1899, following the dynamiting of the
Bunker Hill & Sullivan quartz mill at
Wardner in April of that year. at the
time of the annual convention Of the
Federation in Salt Lake City. Ed
Boyce was then president Of the Fed
Grafton, an INSCRIPTIONS but shrewd
man who would not permit this secret
organization of assassins to gain
control of the main body. With his
retirement they did gain control.
Crime Wave Wiped Out.
| le COHltSSlOll VI VI u, Ia cdNA
ton to telling of the danger that sur
rounded high governmental and judi
cial officials of Colorado and the ad-
joining states and particularizing on
the crimes which have been mention
ed told of many others held in solu-
ton or attempted, that carry the mind
back to the days of the Borgias when
no man or woman was safe. The bar
barity of the minds in the elmer cir
Gle" that could plan these crimes pass
ed belief at the time they were first
disclosed and grow more unbelievable
as time passes. But Orchards con-
fesson-the man himself at "A receiv-
ed a merciful extenuation of his pun
ishment for making it-stands uncon-
troverted and the wave Of crime that
threatened the vast west was stopped,
not merely turned back, but dried up
at it's source. And it was our actor,
our Javert, our Sherlock Holmes who
dried it up.
The remaining days of the detective
were spent quietly at his home in
Denver. So completely had he done
his work in the two great instances
At