HISTORY MOMENTS The Idaho State Historical Society reports that during this week in history: The Idaho State Historical Society reports that during this week in history: On July 6, 1892—during the national commotion over the fight between the Pinkertons and the steel workers near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania—the Coeur d'Alene miners discovered that the secretary of their union was a Pinkerton agent employed by the mine owners. The agent managed to escape, but during the excitement the Gem mill was blown up and the non-union crew of an adjacent mill were captured. The ensuing conflict between union and non-union workers led to the formation of the Western Federation of Miners the next year in a convention at Butte, Montana. Louis Pasteur successfully tested his anti-rabies vaccine on July 6, 1885. The child used in the test later became the director of the Pasteur Institute. On July 7, 1861, A.J. Cain, Indian Agent for Washington Territory, wrote concerning the settlement of Lewiston, "Notice is hereby given that the settlement made at the junction of the Snake and Clearwater rivers is in violation of United States law and cannot be permitted under any circumstances. The lives of many of our citizens and the immediate prosperity of the country is being greatly endangered by the disregard for Indian rights secured by law." Colonel John Nixon gave the first public reading of the U.S. Declaration of Independence on July 8, 1776, to a crowd at Independence Square in Philadelphia. William Judson Boone who founded the College of Idaho in Caldwell in 1891, died on July 8, 1936. He served as president of Idaho's earliest college for over forty years, specializing in botany and maintaining a long-term study of botanical changes that came with expansion of reclamation and stock-raising after Idaho became a state. At the time of Boone's death, he had developed the College of Idaho into one of the top private liberal arts colleges in nation with special strength in the biological sciences. The engagement of Britian's Princess Elizabeth to Lt. Philip Mountbatten was announced on July 9, 1947.