The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-02

has brought a citizen before him for contempt on the charge that he tried to influence the mind of a prospective Juror by saying that the state admin istration was trying to railroad us. on the appearance of this man in court, the judge told the states attor ney that he should have this obscure farmer indicted for felony because he tried to influence the mind of a pros pective Juror. The president knows how much greater weight will be given to his words than those of an obscure citizen.
 IT we are about to be tried in court. every law abiding citizen, however great or humble should do everything In ms power to cool the passions of a man rather than add fuel to the Ilaines, IT we are to be thrown to the mob, the officers should at least open our prison doors and give us some chance to defend ourseives'
 Barring the pa1lor inseparable from confinement, Haywood, Mover and Pet tipone snow no mark of long confine ment, nor apparent trepridation at inc close approach of the trial. They were iaugning at story told by one of their counsel when they received a corras pendent of the Associated Press thIs afternoon and the laughter went n, until the discussion of the old battle os capital and labor graced the men,s consideration ien ,
 Pettibone, whom they used to call
 Happy Hooligan" down in Denver ia the run maker of the trio. He has marked native wit and droll, quaint manner or expressing himself and even today when he made sport of his own explanation, it was impossible to re- frain from laughing at him. Petite bone has taken up typography since his incarceration and following the in troductions they showed samples of his handfcraft He has gone to the comic supplements for many of his models ana with rare fidelity has reproduced Happy Hooligan." Maud" and .'The Goat"
 MT. Darrow tells me they will be worth lot more after I'm hung he said, but I'm not saving any of them"
 To the question: How have you been treated here?" the three answer ed: All right M
 treated better under likS circumstan- ces," said Mover.
 "The sheriff and his men have all been very fine to us. We have ab- solutely no complaint"
 This day cell of ours is really the home Of the Western. Federation of Miners" said Pettibone a little latter for it was in here back in 1892, after the trouble in the Couer d'Alene that the Federation was first proposed and adopted. We will remember that they arrested lot of men in 1892 and held them until the Supreme Court decided in 1893 that we were illegally in cus- tody. While we lay here in this cell, we planned the federation
 Martial law will not be declared in Boise unless disturbances should oc- cur and make such a step necessary" said Governor Gooding today to the Associated Press when shown state ment that 1t was his intention to place Ada county under martial law at the commencement of the trial of William D. Haywood. charged with participat- ing in the murder of former Governor Frank Stenuneberg.
 q do not expect any such breach of the peace on the part of the people of our state. and I should deeply re- gret the necessity for declaration of martial law" the governor went on.
 Any statement that martial law has ever been under consideration Is abso- lutely without foundation"