The statements made in the confession are of a startling nature, but so many of them are known to be true that the public is disposed to accept the entire story as true in detail. The writer hereof has seen and read the original of the letters written to Dunning by H. B. Ijams, and they confirm the statements given in the confession in regard to them. The blush of shame will come to any honest man who reads the hellish plot, as laid before Dunning, especially when he reflects that a crazy, wicked attempt was made to execute the very plans as detailed. Of course, there is a good deal of superfluous verbiage used in the confession, but this is to be expected in an article prepared by an uneducated man: CONFESSION OF GEORGE DUNNING About the 1st of March, 1892, I was on my way from the 79 mine near Silver City, Owyhee County, Idaho, to Boise City, Idaho, which is a distance of about 60 miles. I had heard there was about to be a sale made of the 79 mine and group of mining claims; I and four other parties have a lease on the 79 mine and group of mining claims. I was going to Boise City to see W. B. Knott, the owner of the 79 mine. I wanted to see him about getting my pay for what work I had done about the 79 mine. According to our contract with W. B. Knott we took a three years’ lease on the 79 mine and group of mining claims with the understanding that if the property was sold before the expiration of our lease that each of the leasers should be paid $4 a day and all expenses for what time he worked, and each leaser was to receive $1,000 besides. When I left the mine I walked to Snake River the first day, a distance of about 30 miles, and stayed all night with a man by the name of Cox. The next morning I left Cox’s place to go to the Hot Springs. As I was passing Mr. Bernard’s place Mr. Bernard asked me if I had received a letter from Mr. Stearns of Nampa. I told him I had not. Mr. Bernard said Mr. Stearns would like to see me. I asked Mr. Bernard if he knew what Mr. Stearns would like to see me about. Mr. Bernard said that Mr. Stearns would like to employ the right kind of a man to run a cow outfit in Johnson County, Wyoming, for a friend of his and that they would pay me big wages. I told Mr. Bernard that I and some other parties had a three years’ lease on the 79 mine and it had always, for the last 12 or 13 years been considered one of the best mines in the state, and that while we were running the south drift that the ledge had lately widened out and showed higher grade rock than any other place in the mine. I told Mr. Bernard that I heard that the mine was about to be sold, and if the sale came off I would have money enough to go into something for myself, and if the sale did not come off that I should go back to the mine and get out rock so that as soon as the roads got good I could get the rock milled and get my money for it. Mr. Bernard said he heard we had a good layout on the mine, but that the