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Orchard Confession Ties Miner War to Idaho Governor Death
Harry Orchard testifies in Boise that he carried out orders to shoot, bomb, and murder enemies of the Western Federation of Miners. He describes the Wardner mine attack and plots leading to Governor Frank Steunenberg's 1905 assassination, tying Haywood and others to the violence in the Coeur d’Alenes.
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Harry Orchard
Idaho
William D. Haywood
Frank Steunenberg
Boise
Orchard
United
Supreme Court of the United States
Roosevelt
American Federation of Miners
Wallace
Pinkerton
Western Federation of Miners
Haywood
Denver
Stellenbergs
Haywod
Miners’ Union
Penitentiary
Steunenberg
Alfred Horsley
Northumberland
County
Canada
United States
Spokane
Burke
Federation Board
Orby
Wardner
Sullivan
Bunker Hill
Northern Pacific
W. F. Davis
Comand
Montana
Butte
Salt Lake City
California
Arizona
Cripple Creek
Vindicator
Hawley
Federation
Charles H. Moyer
Davis
Schultz
Owney Barnes
D. CC. Scott
Railroad Company
Peabody
Telluride
Pettibone
Colorado
Steve Adams
Adams
Steve
Cody
Wyo
Independence Depot
San Francisco
Haywood, Moyer and Pettibone
Bradley