Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-06-28
MINERS OFFICERS
gOUNS[L[D PEACE
W. H. Easterly Testifies in Be
half of Haywood in Miners
Trial at Boise
ADVISED AGAINST VIOLENCE
Witne.. Mceee, Under Cross Exam
ina.ion, ,substantiates Portion OF
Orchards Story Relative to Peabody
1omb-court Rules in Favor OF
State.

Boise, June 2s.--When court opene
this morning in the Haywood case
DR.. MCGEE was recalled by the stat
Tor cross examination.
MCGEE had testified that he saw Or
chard in the Occur IL Alenes in 1904. O
this occasion he observed Orchard II
company with man named Cunning
ham Orchard claims to have givel
the Peabody bomb to a man of thi
name witness said he had seen tn
man but twice. and then they almos
came to blows over a political discus
sion.
Following McGee. W. B. Easterl!
was called to. continue his testimon.
begun yesterday. Easterly denied pos.
itively that he had ever talked witt
orchard as to the Independence depo
explosion. Easterly asserted that dur
Ing the Cripple Creek strike days there
never was any talk of violence at tht
meetings of the union except by Wis.
iting brothers. The visitors proved
afterwards to be secret service mer
in the employ of the mine owners. The
labor leaders always counselied peace
saying that any disorders which might
occur would be attributed to the union
Easterly went over much Of the ground
covered yesterday in the testimony OF
w. F. Davis. He told of the meeting
addressed by Moyer and Haywood, at
which the two accused men urged the
miners to maintain peace and order.
did you ever hear Meyer and Hay
wood te1l orchard iii Denver. in your
presence, that he could not go too aerce
at Cripple Creek to suit them?"
.'I did not"
Easterly said he was arrested at
Cripple Creek, "as n matter of mill
tary necessity" and was thrown into
the bull pen" for violence. Easterly
said he was at home in bed when the
independence depot was destroyed. He
did not know what happened until the
next morning, He then heard the SOL
diers were coming. and went to Grip
Greek, where. along with many others,
she went to Victor There he went to
the union hail. where several hundred
members of the Western Federation OF
Miners were gathered. The streets
were filled with all sorts Of people,
soldiers, detectives. mine owners and
officials. Easterly declared that the
soldiers in passing the federation men
would say: There's one that ought
to be hanged or have his head shot
OF" In the afternoon C. C. Hamlin,
secretary of the mine owners associa-
tion, made q speech in the streets, in
depot explosion, and said fifty or more
leaders ought to be hanged and the
rest driven out of the district. Then a
shot was fired and. as Easterly put it,
"the fireworks began"
When the firing was over" said
Easterly. Il went up Third avenue and
stayed there until saw the militia
maneuvering around. and apparently
surrounding the union hall. Then
they began shooting"
Shooting at Hall, L went on uphill
toward home. On my way stopped
at Steve Adams house and told him
what had heard and seen. When 1
got home armed myself with a Win
chester repeating shot gun and then
went to Goldfield. where there was to
be meeting Of union men met sew
eral boys on the way and they were
also armed. We were going to the
meeting prepared to protect ourselves
While we were at Gold field we saw the
militia and citizens and all classes of
people and their sgmpathizers, all
armed, going about taking into custody
all union miners they could find
Easterly said that In Colorado he
once heard Orchard declare he had lost
his interest in valuable mine thru
Steunenberg and would get him.
4 Senator Borah here took up the cross
examination of witness and strongly
attacked Easterly for remaining silent
after he knew Orchard, as Thomas
Hogan, had killed Steunenberg, and
not speaking until Orchard made
confession duplicating the Western
Federation Of Miners.
State Secures Important Ruling.
Boise, Idaho, June 2s-A ruling made
yesterday afternoon by Judge Wood
while Edward Boyce, for years the
leader of the Western Federation of
Miners, and nowia wealthy mine own
er Of Occur d'A1enes. was testifying
In behalf of William d Haywood may
materially limit the showing of the de-
fense as to the existence OF coun-
ferconspiracy against Haywood and |
his associates which Is alleged TO ex
ist
Attorney Hawley for the state OBJ |
jected to general question as to the |
policy and practice of mine owners |
turnout the west in blacklisting union |
miners. and In the argument that fol- |
lowed, Clarence Darrow for the de-
tense. claimed the same privilege In
rForing counterspiracy that the state
5oyed in showing a conspiracy. NJ. |
HaWley coutended that The state had |
directly shown the existence Of con- |
spiracy hy Harry Orchard, and by 80