Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-27

made no special inquiry into this matter
Davis admitted talking with F. j. Camp
bell representative of the Vin1icator
mine, with regard to the proposed resump-
ton of work there with non-union men.
Didn't you tell Campbell that If he in
sisted on opening up something would hap
pen to the property" Gsked Senator Borah.
No sir" replied the witness.
Davis declared that no unusual conditions
existed In the miners convention at Dem
yer at the time of the Vindicator explo-
sion Orchard had testified that Haywood
said he was having some difficulty In keep
ing the men together and thought some
thing ought to be pulled off,"
Called the Troops Thugs.
After the Denver convention Davis did
not go back to Cripple Creek, but changed
his name, went to Cheyenne and even
tually to Goldfeld. New, where he resumed
his right name.
One reason Davis said he changed his
name was In order to get work. He had
also seen In the papers that the authori-
ties were looking for him and many others
He had been arrested many times.
This ended the cross-examination and
Mr.. barrow took up the redirect. He took
up the troubles at Cripple Creek before
and after til troops were sent in. Davis
said that aside from the assault on Old
Man Stewart, the beating up of justice
of the peace and the killing of the woman
there was extraordinary disturbances.
After the troops came in, however, there
was much trouble because. he said, 1.-The
governor of Colorado turned a lot of thugs
out of the penitentiary and sent. them Into
the district"
Yesterdays Proceedings.
The defense yesterday afternoon called to
the stand John NJ. O'Neill. editor Of the
Miners Magazine. O'Neill said he had been
q miner for twenty eight years. You were
once a member of the legislature?' asked
Mr.. barrow.
II regret to say so; yes. sir. in 1897" re-
piled O'Neill
The witness declared Meyer and Hay
wood had nothing to do with the magazine,
although they occasionally wrote signed ar
ticles. The magazine is the official organ Of
the Western Federation of Miners.
What is the purpose of the magazine?"
ITO educate the members and unite them
politically"
Mr. ONeill said he sometimes consulted
Meyer and Haywood or some members of
the executive board as to what to say In
the magazine Usually he consulted no one,
but published the editorials as he wrote
them.
The witness said he had known Orchard
in Denver In his office one day Orchard
asked him where Gov. Peabody and Gen.
Sherman Bell lived, and said they ought to
be bumped off," Just at this time the
witness wife and daughter came in. Or
chard made no further reference to the
matter.
ONein was cross-examined by Senator
Borah. He said the magazine was sup
posed to reflect the official views of the
Western Federation of Miners. which in
convention adopted the views of socialism
The magazine is paid for by the Western
Federation of Miners and all money has to
be paid out upon the order Of Haywood as
secretary-treaSurer.
The magazine could not run twenty-four
hours without the approval of Haywood,
could it," asked Senator Borah.
The magazine has been adopted by the
organization. and the organization is more
powerful than any one officer. If Mr. Hey
wood should decline to pay out the neces-
sary money the executive board would
probably tell him what his duties were
And the executive board" commented
the interrogation. would get back to Meyer.
Haywood. Jack Simpkins and Marion
Moore and the othersT' go.
Yes. SIR
O'Neill said he did not know of any con-
fiict Of opinion in the executive board as to
the magazine and had never been told the
magazine was unsuccessful.
Via the Bomb Route.
At this point Senator corah began to
quote from several issues of the M zine
early in 1906 following the death of Gov
Steunenberg. One of these contained the ex-
preston:
1.-The press dispatches report the dissolu-
tion of Steunenberg via the bomb route
O'Neill said he wrote the sentence
Wasn't 1t a fact?' queried the witness
of the lawyer.
yes, / suppose it is" said Senator Borah.
The lawyer next read an extract from an
other paper which was reprinted in the
Miners Magazine. 1t read:
"A chap by the name of Steunenberg was
blown up the other day at Caldwell He
came into fame the inventor of that
revered institution known the bull pen
1t seems bomb was carlessly left at his
gate presumably by some Russian revolu-
ZIONIST. Such carelessness should e frown-
ed down The gate cOmDlptelv Wracke6
ONeill said he selected the clipping and
had il published.
Did you write this editorial?' Senator
Borah read an editorial appearing In the
Miners Magazine of January. 1905, Degin-
ming with the statement that Steunenberg
had been ISSUED into eternity and thus had
closed the career of a man who showed no
mercy Continuing, the editorial, in most
inflammatory terms. detailed outrages in
the bull pen" In 1899. attributing to Steun-
enberg the responsibility for the calling in
of black brutes of soldiers who outraged
the wives and sisters of minuers. and re-
fused the request of miner who, with the
dew of death upon his brow, asked for a
minister and was told that he could make
his confession In hell"
Called 1t a Step Forward.
The editorial went on to say that t-e
death of Steunenberg was a step for--ard,
but that the murder of one man did not de-
stroy the system adopted by the capitalistic
the sudden determination of Steunenberg
was not of great moment, because Steun-
enbergs would continue to rise"
Did you write that edtorial?" repeated
Senator Borah.
Yes, sir
And you expressed the views Of the or
ganization?"
Il think l did
You are sure of it, aren't you?
Yes, sir. l am
O'Neill declared that Orchard had never
come TO headquarters in Denver to ask for
money.
w. +. Davis, a leading member of the
Western Federation of Miners, was called
TO the stand. Davis said he was now a resi-
dent of Goldfeld. New. mining and pros
pecting. He began mining seventeen years
ago in the Occur d Alene district in Idaho
He joined the miners union in 1899. He
went to work at the Bunker Hill and Sui
Ivan mine in 1891. In 1898 Davis said he
went to Alaska to prospect some claims.
He came back to Idaho thirteen months
later. The Bunker Hill mill explosion oc-
CURED April -. 1899. Davis said he Joined
the Western Federation of Miners Septem-
Der. 1893; before this he belonged TO the
Western Labor Union.
Davis said he knew Fred Bradley of the
Bunker HUI and Sullivan mine, but never
had any trouble with him.
did Won have ANYTHING 70 do with he