The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-02

Miners said Pcttibone little later,
for it was in here, back in 1892, after
Inc trouble up in the Occur 'Alenes.
that the federation was first proposed
md discussed You will remember that
they arrested lot of our men Ill 1892
and held us until the Supreme Court
decided in 1898 that we were illegally
In custody.
"While we lay in here in this cell
we planned the Federation. This is
indeed historic place for the old
fedcration.'' -
"You men who have not been in the
Couer 'Alenes and underground there
know nothing Of the frightful condi-
tions that prevailed went on Petit
bone. ''Wo were wrctchedly housed
and miserably fed. A company store
supplied everything al outrageous
prices; n company doctor was supposed
to look after lis, and we were paid in
scrip if there was ever anything com
ing to us when the company got
through. We known n company
dying miner. Now what are men to
dos Is there anything too mean to do
10 men who grind down their laborers
under such circumstances
"Down in Colorado said Meyer.
lit was the company store for every
thing, an enforced assessment for Il
company doctor, IN whose choice we had
no voice, aud pay in scrip"
Son Of the Revolution.
Pettibone produced a copy of his
reply to a letter from a San Francisco
woman, which discussed the question of
the extent 10 which the foreign elc-
ment in labor had created dissension,
in which he said: GAS to this Ques-
70 hat
descendant of John Pettibone who
settled in New England in 1862, have
Revolutionary ancestor buried at
White Plains -
Haywood is of old Revolutionary
stock, has an ancestor buried at Mount
Vernon and one of his forefathers
signed the Declaration of Independ-
cnce. Meyer comes from Pennsylvania
Dutch, and the Pennsylvania Dutch
have been Americans for some time
Asa county courthouse, brick and
fenced square Of beautifully green
lawn. tree lined at the sidewalks,
Haywood, Meyer and Pettibone are
Gagged IN steel at night but their davs
are spent IN large room, steel barred |
door and windows. For two hours each !
day they exercise on the lawn under |
guard and this has probably been the !
N N. edleine of their good health. A sher. !
lf who might have been tho model of !
the Vrginian'' and three or four
deputies, tall, 1.-THE, clear-eyed chaps.
men of the west, are the alternating
guards. In the group on the lawn it is !
often difficult to distinguish prisoners
from officials. Pettlbone tells with plee
ot the horror of farmer who mistnok
one OF his guards for him and discanted
N his ferocity and depravity. "They
IRE good prisoners said the sheriff.
The hotels OF Boise arc gradually fill
ne up in anticipation of the trial.
The. town itself, however, shows abso-
utely no sign of unusual conditions 9TH
r than the presence OF many strangers
The people of the place seem to be al.
most apathethlc and are not discuss
ng the matter Notwithstanding
llarmist reports there does not appear
o be the slightest reason to anticipate
disturbance, in fact the citizens ridi-
ule the suggestion,
Martial law will not be declared in
Boise unless disturbances should oc.
ur and make such a step necessary
aid Governor Gooding today to the
Associated Press when shown state
nent that it was his intention to place
Ada County under martial law at the
commencement of the trial of William
Y Haywood, charged with participation
n the murder OF former Governor
'teunenberg.
80 do not expect any such breach :
+ the peace on the part Of the people
I our State, and I should very deeply
egrct the necessity for a declaration 8
T martial law went on the Gov.
rnor. Any statement that martial law
as ever been under consideration is
bsolutely without foundation. - r