The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-11
No EXCITEMENT
IN CITY OF BOISE
Feeling Is Now That Trial Od
Haywood and Others Will Be
Peacefully Conducted.
QUESTION OF HOW MUCH
ORCHARD WILL REVEAL
Court Expects to Waste No
Time; May Reach Verdict
in Few Weeks.

BOISE, Idaho, May lO-Thcre is no.
ticcablc evidence Of relaxation in the
atmosphere of Boise today. Notwith-
standing an outward appearance OF
apathy and lack Of interest in the case,
there has existed for some time in
Boise an extremely tense condition. Re-
ports as to what might happen either
before the trial opened or during its
progress have tended to create a decid /
cd feeling of uneasiness. The presence
in the city of number of private de-
tectlves employed by both sides and
the outspoken attacks by the radical
element Of the Socialists, necessarily |
brought out many rumors and reports
purporting 90 come from authentic
sources Of probable trouble, such as an
attack on the jail or an attempt to |
spirit away some of the chief witnesses
for the prosecution, The proceedings
IN the courtroom yesterday did much
to dissipate this. There was d spirit |
OF give and take. a joke from one or
another of counsel or a laugh caused |
by the answer of talesman acted IS
safety valves, and before the day was
over the strain was relieved and every
one breathed easier.
Confident of Fairness.
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leading counsel, said today:
''We expect the sheriff Will select
his vonlre with fairness and with care,
so as TO enable us TO secure an impair
tial jury. If the right class OF men
is selected. we will not take a long
time to secure jury.
While the number of witnesses TO be
called on both sides looks formidable,
there is good reason TO believe that a
large number of these witnesses will
not be IN attendance 4 considerable
proportion of the witnesses for the pros
ecutlon live in Colorado OF in other
nelgdboJing States. This is also true
of the defense, as the home of the pris
oucrs is IN Colorado, and it is not pos
sible TO bring them to Idaho against
their will. Lawyers of Boise not con
nccted in any way with the case, but
VINO know as much as is known Of what
both sides expect to do. say that after
the jury is secured the trial of the
case ought TO be over in two weeks,
Judge Fremont Wood expects 10 waste
no time and another Adjournment is not
looked for after Monday. The court
viii sit from IL a. m. to noon and from
:, p. IN. 10 . p. m, and sometimes until
o clock, with one long session on Sat
urdays.
Orchard Center of Interest,
Several members of the Western Fed.
Grafton of Miners, who are now In Boise
watching the progress of the case, do
not ioin in the belief existant in some
quarters that Orchard will refuse to
testify. They believe that he Will make
his statement upon the stand. On all
sides there Is A question as to how
far Orchard Will be allowed TO go in
his statement which, it is alleged. will
implicate Haywood, Moyer and Petit
bone 1t is around this evidence that
the whole case undoubtedly will move.
A statement printed by the Chicago
Journal, charging that one Charles
Moyer was in 1856 sentenced to one
year In Joliet penitentiary, was printed
here this afternoon and created much
discussion That c. II, Meyer, the
prisoner now in the Jail here, charged
with the murder of former Governor
is the same man, is denied
by the prisoner and his counsel. Moy
yer. when seen today on the subject,
said he was working in the mines in
the Black hills country Of South Dako-
ia at the time, which is given between
February 4, 1856, and January (, 1887.
lie states that IL would be easy TO
verify this by the records of the Cas-
tie Creek Gold Mining company. at
Rookie s. D. where he says he was
working at the time, Meyer also said
that the postmaster at Rockford Wilt
be able to testify as 10 his receiving
mail at rhe time, and that the officials
of the county aud State will verify
his denial OF the story that. he was an
of the Joliet pcnltentiary at
that time.