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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 334, 22 June 1911, Page 6

] Very few persons who now rush to a railway station and' purchase a ticket a few seconds before their train leaves have any idea of what a serious undertaking procuring a ticket was in liygone years, for in the early railway era booking foil a journey was a very elaborate affair. The intending passengers arrived at tho station,- generally ac companied by a number of his relatives, about a full hour before the advertised time of departure of the train, and then had to wait patiently until it was his tuin to be interviewed by the booking . To the latter was imparted the intending passengers name and address nnd other particulars which he wrote on a printed form about as large a,s a census paper, and afterwards carefully copied into a -hook of the dimensions and appearance of a bank ledger. The passenger then paid tho charge demanded, received his official passport, and took Ins departure amidst tearful farewells. A telegram from Boise City, Idaho reports a pathetic echo of the celebrated Idaho mining murder trial, which ended three years ago with the eonviotion and sentence of Harry Orchard a miner, for the murder of Mr Frank Steuneberg, Governor of Idaho. Mrs , Steuneberg, widow of the murdered man, called at tho State Penitentiarv ' to convey to Orchard, who is serving a life sentence, her forgiveness for the I enme. The murder was committed just over five years ago, and with the subsequent trial of the .principals made a tremendous sensation. Governor Steuneberg was killed by the explosion or a dynamite bomb, thrown bv Harry Orchard, who was a union miner, dm--mg some Labor troubles. Orchard confessed, and declared that he had been instigated by William Hcywood, secretary of the Western Federation of Miners, and other union officials. The scene was pathetic, and murderer and prison officials were greatly affected. The widow declared that God had di- I rected hor to go to the prison and forgive Orchard, and she felt that peace was impossible for lier until she had communicated her forgiveness with her own lips.