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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ...in an old cellar in the back of a cabin that Adams had a key to. I think this was on Thursday evening, and we intended to use the powder on Saturday night. A good while before this, Johnnie Neville and myself had planned to go out on a camping and hunting trip, and as his saloon had not paid him since the strike, he said he would close it up, and I said to him that he had better burn it up. So he got the saloon insured after this, and we took out some of the liquor and buried it in a dump. So when I went to Cripple Creek to get Steve Adams to go after Governor Peabody, we set the saloon on fire. I took five bottles of the Grecian fire and poured it round in the upper rooms of the saloon, and shut the doors and went away. I got these bottles in the dump by Easterly's cabin. He told me where they were when I saw him in Denver. The saloon was all in flames a short time later, and no one could get near it, and it burned up completely. Now, after Adams and I had fixed up everything to blow up the depot, I thought it would be a good plan to go off with Johnnie Neville on this camping trip. I figured it would be a good thing for me to go away from there in the daytime with him, and then come back at night on horseback and do the job; and as Neville had a good reputation and was well thought of, I took advantage of the saloon fire and thought he dare not go back on me. Neville wanted to go with me, and we looked around for a team and wagon, as we intended to drive through the country. We bought a team and wagon from Joe Adams, Steve's brother. We got all ready and intended to leave on Saturday, and I intended to come back on horseback Saturday night and blow up the depot and ride back to where we camped. But Friday evening Billy Easterly came to...

When the ex-governor of Idaho was murdered in 1905, Harry Orchard was arrested and charged with his murder. Orchard later confessed not only to the assassination of ex-governor Frank Steunenberg, but to a series of murders, assassinations and terrorist acts at the orders and payment of the leaders of the Western Federation of MIners, known as the most radical and violent of the early unions. Although the officers of the WFM escaped prison, the evidence shows that for years the leaders of that organization served not the workers of their union, but their own political and social interests, and - with the help of men like Orchard - rained violence on labor relations for many, many years. Orchard's confession and story is not only compelling reading, but a lesson in abuse of power that should not be forgotten.

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