Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-07-04
Denies story Told by Orchard.

Denies Story Told by Orchard.
Boise, Idaho, June 2S.-William F.
Davis of Goldfield, New, one of the
most important witnesses for the de-
tense of William D. Haywood, accused
of the murder of Frank Steunenberg,
was called to the stand at noon yester-
day, and his roSS-eXaminatiOn had
not been completed when court ad-
journed Harry Orchard testified that
Davis led and commanded the mob
that destroyed the Bunker Hill and
Sullivan mill in 1885, inspired, as the
agent of Haywood and Meyer, the Vim
Dictator explosion and the train wreck
ing plot at Cripple Creek, and was an
accomplice in the independence sta
ton crime
Denies Orchards Story.
On direct examination by Clarence
barrow he went over the story of his
working life, including the pathetic
story of the death of his wife and
babe at Cripple Creek, at which he
wept, and made positive denial of
every statement of Orchard that in
volved him or his associates in any
form of crime. He denied that he
was even a member of the union
when the Bunker Hill and Sullivan
mine was blown up, and at the con
clusion of his general story swore
that at Cripple Creek, during the
strike, Orchard told him of the Her
cules mine affair and threatened
To Kill steunenberg.
Mrs. Lottie Day of Denver testified
that in 1904 Orchard told her about
the loss of the Hercules interest, and
that he said he would kill Steunen-
berg for the wrong done him, and
John D. Elliott swore that Orchard
told him in Idaho in 1905 that he was
in the employ Of the mine owners,
and that there was a plot against the
federation and it's leaders.
Judge Wood Rules Against Haywood.
Boise, June 49, = A ruling made
yesterday by Judge Wood while Ed
ward Boyce, for years the leader of
the Western Federation of Miners
and now a wealthy mine owner of the
Occur d'Alenes, was testifying in be-
half of William D. Haywood, may ma
terially limit the showing Of the de-
tense as to the existence of the coun-
ter conspiracy against Haywood and
his associates which it alleges.
Claims Same Latitude as State.
James H. Hawley, for the state, OBJ
jected to a general question as to the
policy and practice of mine owners
throughout the West in blacklisting
union miners, and in the argument
that followed Clarence barrow, for the
defense, claimed the same latitude in
proving counter conspiracy that the
state enjoyed in showing a conspiracy.
Mr.. Hawley contended that the state
had directly shown ne existence of
conspiracy by Harry Orchard, and by
so doing had laid the foundation for
and made the connection of all the
evidence subsequently offered on the
subject. He said the defense was try
ing to show a counter-conspiracy by
proving various isolated instances and
certain general conditions, none of
which was connected with the case
and for none of which a proper foun-
dation had been laid.
Court Sides With State.
In ruling the court accepted in part
the contention of the prosecution, and
limited the proof of the defense along
these lines to events in Colorado and
the Occur d'Alenes connected with the
case as now established
Ed Boyce was the principal witness
Of the day, and his testimony was
chiefly devoted to the history, pur-
poses and work of the Western fedora
ton. He denied the existence of an
inner circle or that there had ever
been a conspiracy in the organization
or an Illegal act.
Still Try to Discredit Orchards Story.