The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-24
they did it at Cripple Creek and at
many other places.
Goes After Pinkertons.

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| 1--WE will show that the Pinkerton
| detective agency has been a chief
| factor in this case from the very be-
| ginning. They have organized them
| selves in a band to spread calumny
against the Western Federation Of
| Miners. We will show that in one
| case, where a cage fell, because of de-
fective machinery and 16 men were
killed. it was laid to the Western
| Federation of Miners.
THE burning of the Moscow uni
| versity was laid to the leader of the
| Western Federation of Miners. Every
| illegitimate child born west of the
| Mississippi has been wrapped in it's
swaddling clothes, hurried to Denver
| and laid on the doorstep of the West
| ern Federation of Miners"
Mr.. Darrow turned his attention to
| the miners magazine. He said prob
ably many foolish and Incorporate
| things crept in, but the editors had no
college education and Mr.. Pettibone
| paid little attention to it,
1--WE will read to you matter from
| the Miners magazine not introduced
| by the state. We will show that they
| did not advise violence and that they
counselled a wise administration and
| discussed the ecof. omic conditions
| temperately
Continuing Mr.. Darrow said:
| The CeOur D'Alsnes Trouble
| This brings us to 1899 and the
| troubles in the Ceour D'Alenes when
|
ern Federation of Miners was getting
| along all right. Then something hap
pened. A irresponsible mob of 1000
people, made up of miners and mer-
chants. preachers and hangers-on and
every one who wanted a ride went
down and the Bunker Hill and Sulli-
van mines were blown up.
1.-The powder was furnished by a
rival company. At that time Harry
! Orchard, who testified in this case
| had been there for a month carrying
a union card. Jack Simpkins was in
| the Occur d'Alenes. Then came the
call for troops. Rightly or wrongly,
! Steunenberg called for troops. Jack
Simpkirs was arrested and thrown
into the '.bull pen.' He was mall
| treated. He was stood up at a post
by colored soldier and a bayonet
vas driven into his breast. Harry
Orchard was in the Coeur d'Alenes.
Harry Orchard was cheap soldier of
fortune, a shoestring gambler, who
had never done a days work in his
life. He owned a sixteenth share of
the Hercules mine but sold it because
of his needs and continued his gam
bling The mine did not yield until
1901. But Orchard hoping on stayed
around TO get share of the mine.
We don't think that Orchard was at
the Bunker Hill and Sullivan mine.
We will show he was not there. and
we will show that he was engaged in
his faNorite work of gambling with
the easiest mark he could ind We
will show that he did not narticipa te
in most of the crimes which he has
here boasted. 1 don't like to take any
of the bloom off peach like that but
while we will show that he is not the
murderer he boasts himself, we will
compensate him by proving him to be
the most monumental liar that ever
existed
Will Prove Oss-bard a Liar.
Before our firstNwftness leaves the
stand, gentlemen, we will convince
you; we will even convince Mr.. Hawley
himself that this man Orchard has lied
out most of the essential points of his
story. We will have from 25 to 80
witnesses, who will take the stand and
contradict this man absolutely Some
of these witnesses will be miners but
others will be eminently respectable
people who have never done a days
work in their lives.''
Here as at other points in his speech
Mr.. Darrow's sarcasm caused wave af-.
ter wave of laughter in the court room.
Sometimes the bailiffs had to rap for
order.
Mr.. Darrow briefly sketched the wan
witness. Orchard remained in the
Couer D'Alenes, he said, trying to re-
gain possession of his one-sixteenth in
terest in the Hercules mine until he
was driven out by fear of arrest and
confinement in the bull PEN
Then he wandered from place to
place, seldom working" said Mr.. Dar-
row. He was a sort of gentlemanly
miner who mined the miners. In 1902
he turned up in Cripple Creek. But
from 1889 to 1902 this important per-
sonage in American history is all but
ever, that during all that time he could
be found in the back room of some sa-
lest to view. 1t is pretty certain how
loon gambling.
"If Orchard today held his one-six-
teenth interest in the Hercules mine
he would be worth half a million dol
lars; but think he'd rather have what
he's got because 1t is more valuable
to the newspapers"
Haywood Common Miner.
Mr.. Darrow said that when Orchard
left the Coeur DAlenes after the blow
ing up of the Bunker Hill and Sulli-
van mill Haywood was but a plain
ordinary working miner at Silver City,
Idaho, where he lived a greater part
of his working life in the snow cap
ped mountains. which can be seen
from the Boise court room. 1t was
not until 1901 that Haywood become
secretary and treasurer of the Western
Federation of Miners.
THAT is a job said Mr.. Darrow,
(which everybody believes there is
money in except the man who holds it.
1t IS like being mayor or senator"
obscure as Haywood's, declared the
miners lawyer and as for Pettibone he
was not even miner at that time.
He ran a little store down in Dem
ver," continued Mr.. Darrow, selling
clothes wringers, lace curtains, rugs,
stallment plan Pettibone had been
miner in 1892, in the Coeur d'Alenes.
He was arrested there and put in Jail
and my friend, Mr.. Hawley, got him
out He then decided to quit mining"
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