The Ketchikan miner., 1907-05-18
MOYER-HAYWOOD-PETTIBONE
 CASE.

 lar revenues at the disposal of the prosecuting officers have been met by contributions from every source. The general opinion among labor men is that Mover, Haywood and Petit bone are victims of persecution. Ther have been scores of murders, dozens of dynamite outrages occurring in the Rocky Mountains coincidental with labor troubles. The Mine Owners association and the Western Federation of Miners accuse each other of instigating them, the former to create favorable sentiment, the latter to do by force what they had not the power to do by other means.
 Some one placed the dynamite that killed B miners at Independence, Col, on the backbone of the conti- nent. Some one killed Frank Steuen- berg, governor of Idaho, during the Couer d'Alene troubles. All the other long list of crimes were not upheavals of nature. The state of Idaho believes it will prove that the present defendants were responsi- ble for at least one murder.
 Steunenberg was blown up by dyna mite as he entered the gate to his home at Caldwell, Idaho, Dec. 30, 1905. His body was blown 20 feet, a portion of the fence was wrecked and his house damaged. Gov. Gooding at once charged the crime to officials of the Western Federation of Miners. In the February following Harry Orchard, in the Idaho penitentiary, made long confession, so it is charged, to Detective Jas. Mozart land of Denver. As a result of this confession and upon other evidence, said to be held by the police, steps were taken to remove Mover, Hay wood and Pettibone into the juris- diction of Idaho from Colorado.
 Warrants were sworn out by Gov. Gooding formally charging Mover, Haywood and Pettibone with the murder of Setunenberg. The gover- nor of Colorado secretly honored the extradition papers, the men were secretly arrested and in the darkness of early morning were placed aboard special train, heavily guarded, and carried to Idaho. To prevent inter- ference along the route changes of engines were made at remote sidlngs instead of at stations.
 A protest against this proceeding, made by the prisoners, was carried to the United States supreme court, which decided against them and cleared the way for the state to pro- has personal charge of the prosecu- tion, but J. H. Hawley is field mar shal for the state. His leading associate is United States Senator Borah, one of the greatest criminal lawyers in the west. Borah's friends charge that it is because of his associ- ation with the prosecution of this case that charges against him in connection with the land investiga- tions have been made.
 Atty. J. H. Nugent has charge of the active preparation of the case for the defense. He established offices in Boise soon after the arrest of the prisoners and has practically lived there continuously. Clarence Darrow, of Chicago a leading lawyer of radi- cal opinions, identified with ex Mayor Dunne's advocacy of municipal owner ship, is one of the most prominent among the counsel for the defense.
 Frank Steunenberg was governor of Idaho during the Couer d'Alene labor troubles. He made the appli- cation that brought United States troops into the district to restore order. Several years elapsed after he left the executive chair before he was killed The miners say he had passed from their minds and that they harbored no feelings of revenge.
 The long delay in getting the case to final adjudication has been favor able to the defense in that they have secured as witness Steve Adams. chief of those intended by the state to corroborate Orchards alleged confess sion. Adams recanted his alleged confession, was immeditely rearrested upon the charge of killing Fred Tyler, sheepman in the mountains, and given a speedy trial. While these facts may be introduced by the state as discrediting his testimony, he is lost forever as witness to sup port the prosecution.
 The prosecution claims to have found in Orchards trunks instructions in cipher from Mover, Haywood and Pettibone.