BOISE, Idaho (AP) The Idaho House resoundingly passed a bill that would repeal the state's primary law banning private militias on Wednesday. The bill, sponsored by Republican Rep. Joe Palmer of Meridian, arose as part of the Idaho Military Division's efforts to comply with Idaho Gov.
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BOISE (AP) The Idaho House resoundingly passed a bill that would repeal the state’s primary law banning private militias on Wednesday. The bill, sponsored by Republican Rep. Joe Palmer of Meridian, arose as part of the Idaho Military Division’s efforts to comply with Idaho Gov. Brad Little’s “Red Tape Reduction Act,” which instructs state […]
Louis Adamic's excellent history of the trial and acquittal of three leaders of the Western Federation of Miners, Charles Moyer, Bill Haywood and George Pettibone, for the murder of ex-Idaho state governor Frank Steunenberg in 1906.
On Nov. 15, 1919, an itinerant laborer visited a Vancouver pool hall at Fourth and Washington streets and ordered a cider, the code word for liquor. Clark County was dry, but that didn’t stop the flow of spirits. Nor did the police care. How many “ciders” Mike Hennessy downed is unclear. The barroom banter turned to the International Workers of the World, or Wobblies, who were blamed for Centralia’s Armistice Day Riot four days earlier. Amidst the banter, Hennessy flashed his red IWW card and declared he was a proud member.