The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-27

wis was one of the leaders of the party
 which went to blow up. the mine. After
 the Occur D'Alene trouble Davis went to
 California and later to Bisbee, Ariz.,
 where he secured work for while but
 was discharged when the mine owners
 discovered his name was Davis and that
 he was a member of the Western Fedora
 tion He had assumed the name of w. F.
 Jones to get work
 From Arizona Davis went to Cripple
 Creek. He took out a card in the Altman
 Union No. 19 and became president of the
 local in March, 1902. Davis was president
 a little more than two years. Bill East
 erly and Steve Adams were also members.
 General Denial Entered.
 Davis said he first met Harry Orchard
 in May, 1902, in Altman, at the miners
 union office. Orchard asked for admit
 tance to the union. saying he belonged
 in Burke, Idaho. The man had no with
 drawal card and when a transfer was
 sent for none came.
 When the strike came in 1908, in Cripple
 Creek, Davis said that he and Sherman
 Parl<er( since dead) were on the strike
 committee. The militia came into the dls-
 trict when absolute quiet prevailed. Davis
 declared that up to this time there had
 been no disorders. Davis said he knew
 absolutely nothing about tbe attempt to
 wreck train on the Florence and Cripple
 Creek railroad. He denied that he had
 ever offered Orchard $20O or any other
 sum to set off a carload of powder m
 the Vindicator mine. Orchard had testi-
 fled that Davis had made such a proposi- tion. Davis said he read Orchards tes- timony in the present trial in a Golddeld
 paper, and he immediately sent a telc-
 gram to the attorneys for tNs defssses-
 saying he was ready and willing to como
 and testify whenever desired. Davis said he was arrested for alleged , complicity in the railroad wreck and the Vindicator mine, but was discharged by
 the judge after the evidence was all in.
 The witness fatly denied that he ever of-
 fered Orchard money to wreck a train or
 place bomb in the Vindicator mine.
 The witness said Orchard was not close acquaintance, and was not a man of any independence in the union. Davis was in Denver at the time of the Inde- pendence explosion. Davis attended the miners convention in Denver in 1904 Ie
 had known Haywood and Pettibone for about a year before this. At the time If the deportation of the union miners from Cripple Creek, Davis started out to seek work elsewhere. He went first to Cheyenne, where he stayed three days. He met Orchard in Pat Morans saloon.
 Leaving Cripple Creek. Davis again took
 the name of Jones. and landed in Gold field in January, 1905, and has resided there since. While at Alton, Davis said he had a conversation with Orchard as to the reason for his leaving the Couer D'A1ene Parker and Easterly were pres ent. Orchard said if he had not been driven out of the Couer A. .Alene he would have been a rich man. Senator Borah then cross-ex examined the witness. An Objectionable Order. Davis said that he did not know that there was any excitement in Gem as the train which miners had captured came through on the day the Bunker Hill mili was blown up. He did not know that the men were armed.
 "You knew precisely what they were going to do?' demanded Senator Borah. NO sir, I did not I did not thing it
 was any of my business"
 "Three hundred masked men passing through on a train which afterwards backed up to a powder magazine and took on supplies created no excitement at Gem and aroused no suspicion or curiority in your mind?'
 "No sir"
 Davis could not say whether or not the engine was guarded by armed men. The witness later heard the mill at Wardner had been blown up.
 The next May he left Gem and went to Wallace. He went into the Hercules mine. He was not hiding, but was keeping out of the way of the troops. Davis was at the Hercules mine for two weeks. From Wallace he went to Butte. He again took | the name of Jones' Butte was federal | tion camp, and it was not necessary for a union man to change his name to get work Davis said one reason for the change was that he did not care about Having up in the bull pen" You did not want anybody to know where w F. Davis was, did you?'' "They knew where I was" ''Who did?'
 "Everybody I saw"
 Senator Borah next took the witness 10 Cripple Creek, where Davis said he and Orchard talked some about Steunenberg, but Orchard did not say at first anything about his experience in the Couer | D'Alene. He spoke of Governor Peabody as a man who promised to he second Steunenberg Orchard seemed very re- | sentful toward Steunenberg. When Orch- | ard finally said he was going to get Steu- nenberg, neither the witness nor Parker 1 nor Easterly made any particular com ment on the matter.
 ! At this point adjournment was taken until 9:3O tomorrow morning. Two of Them.