The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-28

overhead crossing 1 said / didn't think
sley could throw me there because, you
me u / knew of any other good place to
wreck a train along there. l said it might
De zone at the second left-hand curve east
OF the overhead crossing Scott repeated
the location after me- on the 1i.55 trip
TO Bull Hill that night Scott got on the
traln and told me TO stop near the second
dropped off the rear of the train. One
was tail and the other short"
Detectives Were There.
rs Scott tail man and K, c. Sterling
of the Mine Owners association a short
man?' interrupted Mr.. barrow.
yes, sir. 1t was early on the morn
4ng of the 18th of November when the
Scott and Sterling were there. They told
me they've done it / said what. and
Scott said: They have removed rail at
the identical point you thought they
would. Scott and Sterling said they saw
the men at work.
when we struck the curve we got out
and walked ahead to where nine or ten
spikes had been taken from a rail. 1t
was still in place, however"
would there have been any difficulty
in taking, your train across in safety?"
Il wanted to do it, but the conductor
thought we had better put the spikes
And that's ali there was TO the train
Wrecking?
Yes, sir"
On cross-examination the witness said
the point where the spikes were pulled
was unquestionably the most dangerous
on the road and the most likely place
to be selected by train wreckers.
Ed soyce Witness for Defense.
Ed Boyce, who was the first president
of the Western Federation of Miners, and
who was witness for the state, was
called by the defense after Rush retired.
Boyce is one of the principal owners of
the Hercules mine in the Occur d'Alenes.
Orchard once held one-sixteenth inter
est in the property and the defense claims
that ii was the loss of this which en-
gendered hatred of Steunenberg in the
heart of the confessed murderer of the
dead governor.
Boyce, questioned by barrow, said ore
was first struck in the Hercules in 1901.
Prospecting had gone on for fourteen
years prior to that time.
Boyce was then questioned as to his
early life in the Occur d'Alenes. He said
he was arrested and brought TO Boise IN
1892 along with thirteen others, for a
technical violation of a United States
court injunction against trespassing. The
next time he came to Boise he was
member of the state legislature. The
United States court declared the arrest
of Boyce and the others illegal, but Boyce
said he had been released by this time.
Boyce said that James II. Hawley, now
leading counsel for the state, was attor-
ney for the miners.
And it was he who got you all out?'
asked DarTow.
Mr. Hawley did splendid work for us"
replied the witness.
Advice of Mr.. HaWIey.
At the time of his arrest in 1902, Boyce
said the only unions the miners had were
locals. While in Jail an amalgamatiOn
was discussed. The witness talked to Mr.
Hawley about it afcer the lawyer return
ed from trip to Butte. Mr.. HaWley said
that unless the miners got together in one
4Tnfx i'm do.
other conferences with Mr.. Hawley and
Attorney Patrick Reddy. of California
the Western Federation of Miners was
organized. It's objects, Mr.. Boyce stated
were to prevent a reduction of wages to
abolish the company stores, bunk houses
and hospitals, to secure shorter hours and
TO REQUIRE mere safety appliances in the
different mines. The union also sought to
elect members of the legislature who
would seek to better the ends generally
I always advised taking an active part
in politics" declared Boyce, but l re-
gret to say my advice was not always
needed in the way l would have liked to
have seen it
Good Work of the Union.
The Western Federation of Miners. the
witness said, always looked out for suf-
fering members, their widows and chill
dren. The Butte union alone up to five
years ago, paid out a million and a quar-
ter dollars in sick benefits and charity
No member of the union has gone to the
pOOTnOuSe since TIE organization was
formed.
BOyce said that prior TO the Organiza-
ton of the Western Federation of Miners
miners and smeltermen were required to
work ten and twelve hourS = day. He de
scribed graphically the IIardships of the
smeltermen, saying ne had suffered him
self from many ills and physical disabili-
ties growing out of such work
The federation has frequently employed
lawyers TO fight for eight-hour laws and
all such laws as applied to mining that
have been passed in the west since the or
ganiZation of the federation; the organi-
zatiOn has also done much to secure in
crease of wages of miners, the doing
away with the system OF paying off in
scrip, redeemable at the company stores
the adoption of many safety appliances
etc.
Killing of Men Common.
Boyce went at some length into the
dangers of mining, saying the mine own
ers seldom, If ever, voluntarily adopted
means of preventing accidents. The kill
ing OF men, he declared, was so common
in his own experience as to be almost
unnoticeable.
Boyce was still under direct examina-
ton when the luncheon recess until 100 ..
m. was taken.