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Evening Capital News
Boise, Ada County, Idaho
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Telegraphic orders from the Department of Justice instruct the US Attorney to intern Chris Sheppard and William Denke, German natives charged with criminal syndicalism and linked to IWW activities in Idaho lumber camps, for the war's duration. First such order in Idaho; locations presumed American Lake or Fort Douglas.
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Telegraphic instructions have been received at the office of the United States attorney from the department of justice to intern Chris Sheppard and William Denke for the period of the war. The two men are held on charges of criminal syndicalism. The former is in jail at St. Maries and the latter at Sandpoint. Both are natives of Germany. When Denke was asked where he was born he replied, "Nowhere and I have lived there ever since." Correspondence found among his personal effects showed that he had been writing to James Rowan, Spokane secretary of the I. W. W., and that he was one of the men engaged in stirring up strife in the lumber camps of north Idaho.
The order to intern Denke and Sheppard is the first to be received in Idaho. It has not been ascertained where the men will be taken, but it is presumed that it will be either American Lake or Fort Douglas.
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Telegraphic instructions received at the office of the United States attorney from the department of justice to intern Chris Sheppard and William Denke for the period of the war. The two men are held on charges of criminal syndicalism. The former is in jail at St. Maries and the latter at Sandpoint. Both are natives of Germany. Correspondence found among Denke's personal effects showed that he had been writing to James Rowan, Spokane secretary of the I. W. W., and that he was one of the men engaged in stirring up strife in the lumber camps of north Idaho. The order to intern Denke and Sheppard is the first to be received in Idaho. It has not been ascertained where the men will be taken, but it is presumed that it will be either American Lake or Fort Douglas.