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Chiefs of the Western Federation of
Miners , Accused of i-he MurdeJ. , of
Former Governor Stuenenberg of
Idaho , Soon to Face a Jury---State
1s Divided on Question of Their'
Guilt lnnocence---lmlnense Fund
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I ises to Be Long and Bitter.
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Daise , Jdaho.-No ono Hvlng In the
Roclty mountnln regions cnn hl1ve an
unprejUltced ! ollinion reganllng the
Stoullonl > err ; mll1' er trial. ' 1'hls Is
the 1II0st Important event that has
occurred In western America In 1'0-
cent 'ears , and William D. Hl1ywood ,
nocretar - of the Western Federation
, ot Miners , charged with the murder of
Idnho'fI 'governor , hl1s hnlf the pOIlU-
I latlon oC the ontlre western countr '
WIUl him and half against him. 'rhla
I is the cuhnlnallon of a 'Iong line oC I
bloodflhed In the mining camps , beginning -
ning In the Coeur d'Alcne's mlnefl 1 ( ;
yo rs ( lgo , nnd culminating in the
bloody l111nhig riots In Colorado. The
prosecullcln nhns to show thnt all the
crimes In the mining Call11lS whleh
I aVlJOared at the time to have their I
motive In the existing bad feeling between -
tween the mlno owners and the 'Vest-
rn Fe eratlon of , MlnOl's were
I planned by the "Innor Clrclo" of the
t deratlon. or this the three ofilcl111s
indicted Cor the mur < 1er of Gov.
Sleunellberg were members , and the
j I c ll1e committed were sUPPofled to
I , bb canled out Imder their directions.
I The , defell e Is confldont of Its ability
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S the charges made In Orchl1rd's
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t "conClu310u , " described [ urthOl' on In
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i ! At the tlmo of the Warduor riots
I ' in the C eur d'Alones , Gov. Steunen-
I 'rl borg , In. . the I1b9cJlce of the Idaho
t' ) militia In tll Phlllppincs , I1sked for
, federal n.ld , and Geu. Merriam estab-
I f I IIshed such stringent military rule
! that Gov. Steuuenberg gl1lned the on-
f r I mily oC the entlro Western l"cderatlon
I ; f Miners. 'fwo ycars later StclIIon. }
! I bcrg retired from office and returned
! ' I. to his home In Cllhlwoll. l"our years
f later , returning homo from his omco
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II t bor , 30 , 1 pOri , ho w\mg opcn his gl1r-
don ate , and a mine that hl1d been
) ' Bet for him oxplo ClI uud toro hl
1 body to. pieces , HIs hnad was found
11 , j a 'block a wa ' . "
. : ' . Two "ConfessIons" Made.
I' 1 Investigation Imtlllcnted Harry Or-
cbard and Stephen Adams In the mur-
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'm ' 'lng thnt It WIIS obtained from him
I > ' coercion and undue Influcnco.
All ldnho la torn between the prose- , .
cutlon nud defellso In thla trial. Although -
though broken by grel1t ranges of. .
mountalus aud divided Into separate I
sections b ' Inck of through ralh'oad
connectlous , Idaho Is a uult and Its
progl'esllvo ! : citizens are well acquainted -
ed In nil pl1rts of the state , The population -
lation Is sl1Iall , but enlightened. Rich
mlneu nnd Il'rlgnted Carms have produced -
ducod a , rel1t del11 of wealth , and the
resultant culture hus not wealconed
the moral fibel' of ils citizens. 'fho
llCoplo of Idnho are a vor ' high class
of Amerlcl1ua.
, Trial Made Labor Issue.
The prosecutIon of Meyer , Hay-
wood I1nd Petti bono has been made a
labor ISllue throughout the United
Stl1tes. For a year and moro meetIngs -
Ings havc been held , ondlng wilh a
sensational aeries In all the Inrgo
cltlea a few weelts ago , In which the
prosocutlon was decll1red a persecution -
tion , and the qllesl10n was aslted :
"Shall our brolhers bo murdered 1"
' 1'ho purpose of these meetings was to
obtain money with , , ; hlch to conduct
the defense , and over a quartoI' of a
mHilon < 1oUnt'S has been raised.
'rhero Is tremendous Interest In the
trial all through the west , oven In
llOrl1ons where there are no mines or
miners. It In most talked of In labor
circleR. 'fhero the spirit regardlnr ;
the trial Is good. Al1 the labor unions
ask Is a fall' l1ud speedy trial. They
have resOl'ved tholr Judgment and are
w1111ng to stnnd by the jUdgment of
any 12 good men.
The trl111 will cost the state of Idl1ho
over $200,000. The defense expects to
sllend oven moro. It has $1,000,000
belonging to the Western Foderal1on
of Minors , besldos the $2,000 ( ; raised
In public moetlngs. James H. Iaw -
la ' , formorl ' a wen.known California
Il1wyor , now of Boise , I < 1aho , and Senator -
ator 'V. E. Borah of Idaho , are leading -
ing counsel for the prosecution ,
Clarence Darrow of Chicago beads the
deCense. Ills principal assistants are
ex.Gov. John T. Morrison and John F.
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dol' , and both confessed , In tholr cant -
t sslons they stated that they were
the tools of the "Inner Clrclo" ot the
Western Fedoral1on of Miners , and
Implicated the officials of the federation -
tion In n long list at murders and at-
I tempted murders , Charles II. Meyer ,
prosldenti William D , Haywood , sec-
rctnr ) ' , and George A , Pottlbono , com.
mltteeman , aU mom Jors at the "In-
ner Circle. " were "kid nailed" In Colorado -
. . rado on , hurried o'tradltlon : ( proceod-
tngs and r sh d to Idaho on a SilO-
. .cIa ! train. Orchard has slnco become
greatly weakened mentally and
fIAd : aQU , 111U1 l'otracted his confesslon. "
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Nugont of 1I1l1ho , the firm of RIchard
son , Pattol'son 8 : Uawklns of Denver
and lawyers from every town In tlH
west 111 which the Western Fe < 1era
tlon ot 1\IInors 'has 11ad trouble.
Will Bo Hard Fought Battlo.
The trial w111 be long and hard fought
In the Orst Ilaco , It wIU bo dlfilcult t (
6eCU1'O a jury In a state where ovorJ
ono talees a vital Interest In the trIal
' 1'ho prosecution w111 exert every possl
blo effort to secure the conviction 0 :
Haywood , I\S the hope of fastening tIu
long IIno of Colorado murders on 'tht
officials or the Woster ! ! FcderaUon .0 :
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IMlnrr1 ; UC'lH n < 1 on the \'c.lldltr oC the
"conCI'3Ion" oC Jlarrr Orchard I1nd Its
pow { ' ; to con"'ct ' ,
' 1'h { ' cOIl1Ilnlnt ) tlat : two terms oC
ollrt hag pn.lwd : hl'Core the Cl1f1 ( ! were
hl'J\I \ ht to trial WUI ! mudo the banls of
11 lIIolion to hl1'e the Ct1.IJO < 1ll1mlased n.
few \"eole3 no. 'i'he motion was overruled -
ruled , Senator Borah I1rgulng that the
trial cOllld not pre\'loukly have beell
legally held undm' the 111WH of Idaho ,
liS habeu ! ! COl'PIIS llroceedlngs were
PO:1I1I1I1. ; In the 8uIH'emo court ,
'rho dcfonHo then peUtiodod for
change of venue from Cl1ldwell to
Uolse. ' 1'hls wns granted by Judge
Wood , the dcCenno agreeing not to
bring UI ) the quostlon of change of
venue l1raln. .Judge Wood then set the
h'il11 of Ha 'wood for : May 9 In Boise.
About this trial centers the greatest
Intere3t , I1S the tl1to of Haywood will
decldo the fate of the olhers , sin co all
three oC the Indlctcd men wcrl' cquall '
Implicated by'lIarr ' Orchard.
Could Not Have Trial 'Earlier.
' 1'ho prosecution hl1s been generally
crltlclse < 1 tor allowing a whole yel1r to
pass without bringing these men to
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Western J , ' < , dcmtlon of Minors.
Orchard's Remarkable Story ,
According to his own confosslon , Orchard -
chard wns the Ilrlnclpl\l nssaosln In the
1111) ' of the Wester'n Federation of
1\Ilners , hired to get rid of objection-
I1blo personA , A remarlmblo sldo to
hln 8tor - Is his care not to Injure per-
lens ; not enomleA of the Federation.
Ho planned 11111ny tlu1es , ho confessed ,
to assasslllIlto Gov. 'Peabody of Colorado -
orado , but , 118 he sa's In his "confes-
IIlon" : "I could have got Gov. Peabody
tlmo and tlmo ugl1ln , If I had not been
I1Crald of blowing up those Peabody
girls. "
Ho tolls In another place how ho de-
IIberatoly foiled a dotermlnatlon on the
part of the Fedoratlon to destroy a
whole trl1lnload of Innocent peoplo.
There WI1S a mllltar ' ban at Victor ,
Colo" Nov. H , 1903. In the midst of the
mining trouble In this district. The
mllltl1ry WI1S In control , and the
miners objected to the martial law. A
train on the Plorenco & Crlpplo Creek
railroad toole over to Victor from Crlp-
plo Creek 218 persons. Knowing that
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made to account for It. The Idaho
laws provldo that a man cannot e con-
vlctod or a crlmo on the uncorroborated -
atod confosslon of an accomplice. Ills
stated that the prosecution has delayed
because It was unable to obtain corroboration -
roboration of Hl1rry Orchard's c nfes-
slon. The district attorney yields no
InCormatlon on this point. But slnco
the Ilrosecution Is now taking up the
case , It Is presumed that It has stronger
ovldenco ag tnfit 1\Ioyer , Haywood , I1nd
Petti bono than the "confessions" of
Harry Orchard and Stephen Adams.
The fact that Adams has retracted his
confession practically destroys It as
evldenco , and Orchard Is understood
to bo In so weakened a state of mind
that ho will not be able to talm the
stand , and the prosecution w111 bo
forced to seele to ha\'o his sworn testimony -
mony , on which the Indictments were
brought , admitted as evidence In the
form or affidavits.
' 1'he confessions f Hl1rry Orchard
and Sto\'o Adams for the murder of ex-
GoSteunenberg were obtained by
, James McPartll1nd of the Plnlwrton
dotectlvo sorvlce , who brolt ! ! up the
Molllo Mngulro gang In Ponnsylvanla.
in the soventles , and ecured the con-
\'Ictlon and execution oC 17 membors.
Murder of Steunenberg.
When ox.Gov. Stounenberg was murdered -
dered , Dec , 30 ( 1905 , the nl1turo ot the
death trap sot for him and seomlngly '
the probl1blo ' motlvo Cor the act pointed
susplclon'toward the Western Fedorl1'
tlon OC Minors. James McPartll1nd , su-
porlntondent of the western branch of
the , Pinkerton servlco , with his office
In Denver ; to k up t o case. Three
days after tbo murder 1\IcPartlnnd arrested -
rested Harry Orchard , In whoso room
In ' 0. betel in CnldweU w'as found a sus-
Illolous whlto powder and somoIQttors.
In bls trunk In the railroad stl1t1on , It
Is claimed , woto : tound materials for
making bombs. a cipher cede , and letters -
tors from several Fedoratloll offiolals ,
containing Instructions and advlco.
How "Confession" Was Got.
McPartland sot about obtaining n. .
, confession from Orchard. Ho worleed
I on his nerves b ) ' placing him In solitary -
tary confinement with silent attond-
auts , At the end of a week McPart.
land appeared , sowed the seed of distrust -
trust In Orchard's mind , and leCt him
. to rumlnato over w11o.t . ho bolloved to
bo the treason or his Instigators , Mc-
Partland did not come back for days ,
, By that tlmo Orchard was ready to
. taUt , It toolt five da's' steady writing
to talte down his "confession , " It
talecs seven hours' rapid reading to get
through with tbls document , which purports -
ports to gl..o the ontlre blstory ot the
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this train was to return at two o'clock
in Ute morning , Orchard , according to'
his "confession , " was ordered by Secretary -
retary Haywood of the Federation to
wreclt the train on a vel' ) ' dangerous
curve. The attempt to wreck the train
WI1S mnde ; splltes were puUed from II.
rail on a curve of a 300.foot embank-
ment. "When I was ordered to wreclt
that train , " sa's Orchard In his "con-
fession , " "I said I would not do It. And
I was the man who pa.ssed the word to
the conductor , warning him to look
out. " The conductor toolt wl1rnlng and
the wl'ecle WtlS aVCI'l d.
Tells of Another Crime.
In the long story ot his "confession"
Orchard teUs of ml1ny tblngs. He confessed -
fessed to the blowing up of the Independence -
pondenco railroad station. The Find-
II1Y mine , at Independence , Colo. , employed -
ployed nonunion men. The plan , Orchard -
chard says , was to k11l off two shifts
at once by blowing up the railroad station -
tion I1S ono shift was golng to worlt
I1nd another leaving. Two o'clock In
the mornIng wna the hour selected.
Orchard says that this crime was
"Cramod up" In Haywood's room In
Denver. HaywoOlI ma < 1o his "get-
I1way" by Inducing 11 saloonlteeper
nl1med Nov11le to burn down his sa.-
loon , get the Insurance money , and
then to tra\'el north through the moun-
tains. On the first night out , Orchl1rd
. pretended to ha\'o forgotten his gun ,
Ilnd rode baclt In the night with the
ostensible purpose of getting It. At
that tlmo ho says he laid the mine
which toro 13 mon 11mb from 11mb and
crippled six more for lIfo.
JUdge Goddard's Escape.
The "confession" contained accounts
of efforts made to "got" two judges.
In ono Instance Orchard says he had
planted a bomb just outsldo the gl1te
before .Judgo Goddard's house , burled
six Inches below the surfl1co , on tbe
outside of the gate Iloat. covered with
a pleco or sacking , and attached to a
fine wlro connected with 0. smaU bottle
of acid , which lay above a eap or
potash and sugar , deftly placed over
the explosive. 'fhe lIttle wire from the
bomb came just above the surtaco and
II. fishhoolt was fastened to the end of
It. A screw O 'O was driven Into the
gate and a pleco of Irqn wlro was at-
tl1ched to It. When the two Wires were
connected the slightest opening of the
gate \yould explode the bomb. 13ut
Judge Goddard , said Orchard , constantly -
ly rl1l1ed to como when he was expected -
ed , and Ule "job" was forced to walt :
until Or.chard IIhould finish Some other
work ho had on hand , The time novel'
came when Orch rd waa Ilble to set
the mine ,
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INDIANA PEOPLE IN WESTERN
CANADA.
What Shall Wo Do-I'vc Get to Sulhl
Granarlel.
A letter written to a. Canadian GOT-
ernment agent from Tipton , Indlanll ,
Is but one ot many similar that arc In
the bands of the Canadian government
agents whose privilege It Is to offer
ono hundred and sixty acres of land
free. and low rllllwa - faros. But hero
Is a copy of the letter :
"Tl ton , Ind. , Nov. 28 , 1906.
"At your oarncst soUcltation n party
of us tram Tipton lett. : May 16 tor
Western Canada , Our intervIews with
IOU and n c reful study of your liter-
' 1turo led us to expect great things of
lour oluntry when we should arrive
there , I1nd we were not disappoInted.
Wo wont prepared to make a careful
oxamlnation or the countr ' and its re-
80urces. and wo did BO. At early dl1.wn
the second mornlnr ; out of Tipton we
. \Volco in a. new world , An far as the
eye could rench was an apparently
ilmltless oxpl1nso of new sown wheat
And pralrlo grasses. The vivid green
of the wheat just begInning to stool
out , and the in1ey blaclcness df the
11011 contrasted In a way beautiful to
Beo. An hour or two later wo steamed
Into Winnipeg. Here we found a number -
ber ot surpriscs. A hunl1red thousand
; ouls well houscd , wIth every con-
venlenco that gocs to make a modern
up-to.dato clty-banlts , hotels , news-
paperst stores , electric light , street
railways , sewerage , waterworlcs , an-
phalt pavements , e\'erythlng. With
eyes and ears open wo traveled for
two thousand miles through Manitoba ,
Saslmtchewan and Alberta , goIng out
' ) ver the Canadian Pacific railway , via
algary to Edmonton , and returning
.0 Winnipeg over the Canl1dlan Northern -
ern railway. In the meantlmo w'o
made Goveral side trips and stopped
ort at a number of poInts where wo
made drives into the surrounding
country , On every haJld were evI-
10nces or prosperIty. The growing
wheat , oats , ' rye , flax , barley. not little -
tle patches , but great Oelds. many of
them a square mile in extent , the
three , Ovo und sometimes seven-horse
teams laying over an In1ey blaclt ribbon -
bon of yellow stubble , generally in furrows -
rows straight as gun barrels and at
rIght angles from the roads stretching
Into the distance , contrasted strangely
with our IIttlo fields at home. The
tQwns both large and small were doubly -
bly conspicuous , made so , Orst by
their newness and second by the towering -
ering el vators necessary to hold tbe
Immense crops of wheat grown In the
Immedlato nelgbborhood.
The newncss , the tllrift , the qustle ,
the sound ot saw and hammer , the
tents housing owners of buildings In
various stages ot oompletlon , Ul0 piles
of household effects and agricultural
Implements at the railway stations
waiting to bo hauled out to the
"Claims , " the occaslonnJ steam plow
urnlng Its twenty or t111rty acres a
day , the sod house , the unpainted
house of wood , the up.to.date modem
resldenco with largo red barn by. all
Utese were seen everywhere we went ,
an earnest of prosperity and wealth to
be. Wo talked with men and 'visited
their places that four years ago was
unbrolcen prairie. Their bouses ,
bl1rns , imp1ements and IIvo stock were
the equal of anythIng In TIpton County -
ty , and why not , when they were raisIng -
Ing five , ten and twenty , yes , In one
Instance , forty thousand bushels of
wheat a year. The fact that such
large yields of wheat are raised so
oaslly and so surely Impressed us
very favorably. And when we saw
men who four or five yenrs ago commenced -
menced there with two or three thousand -
sand dollars , and wore now as welI
fixed and malting money much casler
and many Urnes faster than lots of
our acquaintances on Indiana farms
Otly years cleared and valued at fonr
times as much , wo decided to Invest.
So wo bought in partnership a little
over two thousand acres , some of it
Improved and In wheat.
Before leaving Indiana wo agreed
Utat If the opportunities were as great
as they were represented to be , that
Wo would buy. and own , in partnership -
ship a body of land , and leave one of
our number to loolt after and operate
It. This we accordingly did.
Just before tlmo to thresh I received -
ceived 11. letter from him. "Wbat shalI
wo do ? " said he ; "I'vo got to build
granaries. Thero's so much wheat
that the railways I1.re just swamped.
'Vo can't get cars and the elovatora
are all tul1 , I never saw anything
Ulco It. " In rep1y we wrote , "Good tor
YOU. Go ahead and build : your story
sounds better than the letters wo used
to get from our friends In Kansas
when Ul y bewnned t"e fact that the
hard wheat had been destroyed by the
chinch bugs and the corn by hot
winds , and that they must selI tbe
stacIe tor means to lIve on. Yes , bund
by all means , " And 11e did , Ilnd our
wheat put In by a renter made twen-
ty-seven bushels per acre ,
Very truly yours ,
( Sd ) A , G. BURIUIART.
( Sd ) J. TRELOAR-TRESIDDER.
( Sd ) WALTER W , MOUNT.
In Northeast AUltralla ,
Northeast Australia develops TOry
slowl ) ' . Fanners grow matze in tbo
old-fashioned way , 'rho malzo crop In
Queensland th s year is a record ono.
Cannlug plnealJples is becoming an
important Industry in Queensland.
Opal mining Is growing steadily ,
By fol1owlng tbo directions. which
are plainly prInted on each package of
Defiance Starch. Men's' CoUars and
Cuffs can be made just as stiff as desired -
sired , with either glOBS or domestic
finish _ Try It , 16 oz. for 10c. sold by
al1 good Jroccrs.
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The Small Buyer of Paint
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who takes care that the Dutch
Doy trade mark , shown below ,
appears on every kcg of white
lead he buys , is perfectly protected -
tected ; as perfectly as if he
were a railroad official buying
hundreds of tons , and with a
corps of chemists at his back
to see that no adulterant is
palmed off on him.
Pure White Lead and Pure
Lnsecd ( Oil are absolutely necessary -
essary to good
painting.
SEND FOR
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" .A. Tillie on Paint , "
IIV08 'Valuable Information -
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suhjoot. 8"nt troD AU ' .at packed in
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Knew It by Heart.
"Do you tblnk you could learn to
love mo ? " the young man inquired.
"Learn to love you'1" exclaImed Cia
rapturous maid. "Harold. I could glvo
lessons at it. "
Instead of experimenting with drugs and
strong cathartics-which are clearly harm-
ful-take Knture's mild laxative , Garfield
Tell ! It is made wholly of Herbs. For
constipation , liver and kidney dernnge-
lUents , siel-headache , biliousness nd in-
dhestlon.
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Anyway , the romng stone doesn't
get into th mossback class.
Smokers appreciate the quality mlue of
Lewis' Single Binder ci ar. Your denIer
or Lewis' l aetory , Peoria , Ill. . . _
The veloclpedo was invented b7
Drais In 1817.
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The important points
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edy tor Dn1nOS3 ! , Nausea.
Dromstness , Dnd Tnste
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Tongue , I > a1n In the Bldo.
TORPID LIVER. Theil
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SMALL PilL SMALL DOSE. SMALL PRICE. .
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