Show NORTHERN IDAHO ASSASSINS GOVERNOR TALKS OP RECENT I ATTEMPT TO KILL The Firing on Superintendent MacDonald Mac-Donald Was Not Unexpected Others Idnrlied for Assassination Gov Frank Steunenberg of Idaho came down from Boise yesterday afternoon after-noon on a business trip and returns j this rnorninj In a talk with him at the Kenyou last evening he said The I recent attempt at assassination of Su perlntendent Joe MacDonald of the HelenaFrisco mine in Shoshone county was part of the plan of the toughs In the Miners union lio for so many years terrorized the country We knew that it was coming though just when we could not of course exactly say else the rascals would have been arrested before tutu shooting We know that there are other men also marked for assassination by the tough element but It would not be wise for me to ghv their names now MarDunakl WItS coming out of his ollUe at the I mine down in the canyon when three I men tired at him from tho u top uf time chills Their aim being downward down-ward they I did not get the range and the bullets struck at his feet llitv not heard yet whether the soldiers captured cap-tured the wouldbe murderers or not The result Js that the military status will I I continue I indefinitely I and the policy of fhf Slate administration has received re-ceived another vindication t What will I Lent and Sulser say I when they hear this was naked Oh they will claim that Brown or the Standard Oil company hi rod these men In make that attempt and accuse Brown ind the State administration t making a grandstand play It will be poohhoohcd down and very likely afresh a-fresh demand made for the removal of the troops The troops will not be removed re-moved Coy Steunenberg when questioned as to ito war feeling in Idaho remarked re-marked that enough old volunteers had desired through him to tender their I services to the Government to form juke a respectable battalion Put at th same time I he would not say anything any-thing to the War department until the President had outlined bis policy on tho Chinese situation |