Show Vir loner boise idaho july 7 calvin luke a prisoner pr ioner in the colorado penitentiary has written a letterio letter to governor mcconnell 11 ell giving an important statement concerning berning the murderers of ten chinese ill miners iners on salmon river idaho several years ago until me time the officers hd had n idea who committed the deed the government at the request of the chinese consul at san francisco spent thousands of dollars trying to apprehend the murderers luke says the colorado convict implicated in the murders is ill james brooks allas alias jack c another man implicated is erastus alias ras lewis alias slat mat warren who is now awaiting trial for murder at vernal utah tom kid and billy mccarthy brother bandidos now at large are arc claimed by luke to be the other murderers from the ten chinese thousands ot of dollars korthof of gold just dust was taken |