The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-02

cutiOn it was impossible to refrain from
| laughing with him. Pettibone has ta-
ken up typography since his incarcera-
| ton and following the introductions he
| showed several samples of his handi-
craft He has gone to the comic sup
plements for many of his models and
with rare fidelity has reproduced
| Happy Hooligan.'' Maud" and the
goat.
Mr.. barrow tells me these will be
worth a lot more after I'm hung" he
| said, but I'm not saving~ any of
them.'
| To the query, How have you been
treated here?" the three answered:
we have absolutely no complaint, -
said Haywood.
mo men were ever treated better I'M
der like circumstances, said Meyer.
THE sheriff and his men have all been
very fine with us. We have absolutely
no complaint"
At this point Mrs. Haywood was
wheeled into the yard in an invalids
chair and Haywood was taken out to
see her. She has long been an invalid
and has not walked for years. Her
youngest daughter. bright child, about
ten. accompanied her.
This day cell of ours is really the
home of the Western Federation of Min
ers," said PettibOne a little later. for
it was in here back in 1892, after the
trouble up in the Occur D'Alenes that
the federation was first proposed ard
discussed. YOU will remember that
they arrested a lot of our men in 1892
and held us until the supreme court
decided in 1898 that we W ere illegally in
custody.
while we lay in here in the cell we
planned the federation. This is indeed
historic place for the old federation.
You men who have not been in the
Occur D'Alepes and underground there
know nothing of the frightful condition
that prevailed" went ON Pettibone.
N1I@1 ,frOv-
ably fed. A company store supplied ev-
erything at outrageous prices, COM
pany doctor was supposed to look after
US. and we were id in script if there
was anything coming to US when the
company got through.
I've seen a company surgeon refuse
to go to the home of a dying miner
Now what are men to do? Is there any
thing roo mean to do to men who grind
down their laborers under such circum-
stances"
Down in Colorado" said Meyer, cit
was the company store for everything,
an enforced assessment for company
doctor in whose choice we had no voice,
pay in scrip
Pettibone produced copy of his re-
ply to a letter from a San Francisco
women which discussed the question of
the extent to which the foreign element
IN labor had created dissension in which
he said:
LAS to this question I'd like to say
that am descendant of John Petit
bone who settled in New England in
1852 1 have a revolutionary ancestor
buried at White Plains.
Haywood is of old revolutionary stock.
has ancestors buried at Mount Vernon
and one of his forefathers signed the
declaration of Independence Meyer
comes from Pennsylvania Dutch
and the Pennsylvania Dutch have been
Americans fer some time
Ada county court house, brick and
conventional in type, stands on an un-
fenced square of beautifully green
lawn, tree lined at the sidewalk.
Haywood, Meyer and Pettibone are
Gagged in steel at night but the days
are spent in a large room with steel
barred doors and windows. For two
hours each day they exercise on the
lawn under guard and this has prob |
ably been the medicine of their good
health. A sheriff who might have
been the model of THE Virginian'
clear-eyed chaps, men of the west, |
are the alternating guards. In the !
group on the lawn it is often difficult
to distinguish prisoner from officials.
Pettibone tells with glee of a farmer |
who mistook one of his guards for
him and discanted on his depravity.
''They are good prisoners" said the
sheriff.
filling up in anticipation of the trial.
The town. itself, however. shows
absolutely no sign of unusual condi- |
tfons other than the presence of many
strangers. The people of the place
seem to be almost apathetic and are
not discussing the matter. Notwith-
standing alarmist reports, there does
not appear to be the slightest reason /
to anticipate disturbance. in fact, the |
citizens ridicule the suggestion.
Martial law will not be declared in |
Boise unless disturbances should occur
and make such a step necessary" said
Governor Gooding to the Associated |
Press when shown a statement that it |
was his intention to place Ada county |
under martial law at the commence |
ment of the trial of William A. Hay /
wood, charged with participation in /
the murder of former Governor Frank !
Steunenberg.
II do not expect any such breach of |
the peace on the part of the people of !
our state. and I should very deeply re-
gret the necessity for a declaration of
martial law" went on the governor. I
ANY statement that martial law has
ever been under consideration is abb |
solutely without foundation
sENav Down East to London.
New York. May 2.-William A.
Brady is planning to invade London
with two of his theatrical companies. /