Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1907-10-31
Rathdrum, Ida, Oct, /:

The special venire of so jurors ap-
peared in Judge Woods court at Ratn-
drum, Ida, this morning at ten clock.
Another great trial in the long list
Of legal efforts to crush the Western
Federation Of Miners has commenced,
Steve Adams is on trial for his life
on the charge of killing Fred Tyler, an
alleged timber claim jumper in the
Marble Creek country.
Adams was tried IN this charge last
February in Wallace, Ida, the jury
disagreeing. The prosecution demand
ed change of venue on the ground
that there were so many members of
the Western Federation around Wallace
that it was impossible to get a fair
trial.
The Pettibone trial has been post
poned till the 18th of November, and
the attorneys for the state and the de-
fense have signed a stipulation that if
the Adams trial is not concluded by
the date named, there will be a fur
ther continuance. Thirty three jurors
had been previously examined with
eleven in the box when the case was
opened this morning.
But few reporters are here yet, and
the Montana News, and the papers
which its correspondent will represent,
are the only labor and socialist papers
that have representative on the scene
of the historic incident in the great
American class struggle.
The Rathdrum High school has in
auguratcd a feature of the utmost val
ne as an educational factor Two pu.
pills are there each half session in seats
reserved for them, with their note
books, whose duty it is TO give to the
/ school faithful report of the trial.
The insight into actual conditions a
great labor trial like this will give
TO young mind is incalculable.
The attorneys present for the prose
cution are IL. z. knight, prosecuting
attorney for Shoshone county, Walter
IL. Hansen and James f. Gyde of sho-
shone county, c. II. Potts and Robt. E.
Mcfarland of Kootenai copnty, where
the case is being tried.
The attorneys for the defense pres
ent are c. l.. Heitman, Edwin MeBee,
Fred. Miller, f. w. Waurms, aud l..
Crane. Clarence Darrow came in Just
at the beginning of the afternoon ses-
sion, having made a quick trip from
the coast. He is looking better than
when at Boise, and his voice is full and
strong.
Scene Of the Trial.
Rathdrum is a beautiful quiet coun.
try town, with the high rim of the
mountains rising at its edge. The
courthouse is an old shackly wooden
building, ana the courtroom shabby
little affair whose utmost capacity is
probably $50 people. Reporters, law
yers, jurors, and court officials stumble
over each other as they go about their
duties. As the day grows dark and
the lights are turned on they are so
faint and murky as simply to make the
gloom more visible. But in way there
is kind and tolerant air prevailing
in this dingy chamber. The spectators
are kind, plain farmer people, and the
jurors seem TO have largely these char.
aeteristics. Everything seems quiet
with no special prejudice around, Judge
Woods is a little pleasant hammered
man whose habits of jurispru lence
seem to have been more restricted than
those Of Judge Wood of Boise.
The antiquated custom prevails here
of all hands rising when the judge
enters and remaining standing till be
is seated. What feudal nonsensei
| Adams Looking Well.
Adams looks well, self-contained and
at ease. His long confinement shows
what is called the "prison color" Hi:
face is pale and his hands very white
He has peculiar hands, with long, thin