The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-05-13
EFFORT MAY BE
MADE TO KILL
HARRY ORCHARD
Man Whose Testimony is Intended
to Convict Miners Officials
Being Closely Watched.
Two Jurors Chosen

BOISE. Idaho. May l2.-The sum
monng of the special venirc of tales
men in the Haywood case will he final
ly completed tomorrow morning ant
the 100 men who have been called by
sheriff "Shad' Odgin will present
themselves in Judge Moods court
when at > o'clock tomorrow afternoon
the case will be resumed. General eX-
pectation is that no more than two OF
the regular Venirc already examined
will he retained in the jury box and
that the bulk of the jury will comt
from the quota now being called by tn,
sheriff
The eleven men confined since Thurs
day last in the jury house will be very
glad To see the case resumed tomorrow
majority of them know that they are
not to serve on the jury and while
they have been comfortably housed
and well fed, they have grown rest
less under confinement. -
Interest In the trial continues to cen
ter in the personality and testimony of
Harry Orchard. who killed Governor
Stcuncnbcrg and upon whose alleged
confession William Haywood and his
associates In the directorate of the
Western Federation of Miners, were in
dictcd Its elimination will couH when
he is brought into court to relate his
story.
Speculation as to the time of his ap-
pearance Is idle until the jury Is
formed but 1t Is believed that he will
be called after the death OF Stennen-
berg has been proven and that his tes-
timony win he the main foundation up
on which the prosecution will be built.
Meantime Orchard is "a closely guard
cd prisoner in the state penitentiary. a
castle like structure. built and walled
with stone that stands in the eastern
suburb of the city, Various reports as
to attempts to kill orchard are in cir
culation. the last being a tale from
Lewiston OF a plot alleged To have been
formed months ago to shoot Orchard
from the hills back of the prison
These stories lack confirmation, but
they serve TO heighten the vigilence of
Warden Whitney and his deputies, lie
ports from the prison say that Or
chard is In good health and condition
and that he continues his reading
along religious lines that he will un-
questionably repeat his confession in
court and that he is ready for the fate
made certain by his confession.
Boise. calm in ordinary circumstan-
cea sleeps today under a new Sunday
rest law, operative for the first time
Baseball one of the few exceptions OF
the new moral close season, attracted
many OF the participants in the case
Haywood received his family under the
trees on the court house lawn and for
an hour watched his youngest child
play with litter of Spitz puppies,
Pettibone looked on from barred
window and In the group on the Lawn
sheriff Hodsin strolled with a few of
his deputies. Attorneys Richardson and
barrow came later and talked for a
time with their client. Tonight clar-
ence barrow, of counsel for the de-
fense. lectured at the Unitarian church
his theme being walt Whitman. poet"
II required Imagination to construct
and realize the great tragedy that
moves forward here tomorrow the
grass -carpeted prison yard. the streets,
the scenes. the people, in the sunday
calm would contradict the idea, but the
coming and going Of counsel. witnesses.
deputies and detectives at the offices
of the attorneys for the prosecution
and defense proves the activity of
those Interested on either side.
Governor Gooding. who spent the Last
lew days on his extensive sheep ranch
near Shoshone returned to Boise this
morning.