The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-05-19
TRIAL DOESN'T WORRY BOISE.
SERENE IN SPITE or STEUNEN-
BERG MURDER CASES.

desert was considerably SURF riSed this
week to hear that a certain news gathering
association had sent out a despatch from
which the casunl reader would infer that
the community felt like those who live
above a Numbering volcano and that the
principal a~vocation Of the townspeoplc was
dodging bombs.
The despatch had 1t that there existed
here a feeling OF the greatest unaasinoss
and that nobody In the place would BREATHE
freely again until the Steunenberg murder
trials were all things ~ the past. 1t VIVA
also declared TINT many persons believed
that Harry Orchard, thu States principal
witness against Haywood, Meyer and
Pettihone. would never leave tho witness
chair alive. II over he had the temerity to
enter it.
The fact is that the citizens Of Hoise arc
exhibiting an equipoisc and serenity as
c~reHitarle rs they are unexpected. A
stranger uniformed as TO the history of
the Steunenherg case would never know
that the trial was going on.
Everybody Is attending 10 business quite
as usual. There are no crowds in the
streets or around the court house. Even
when the trial opened on Thursday the
| court TOOIu was u " HlOlOI bhoh WV SH@
Allied, though everybody who sought adj
mittanoe got in without question.
Nor is the trial the sole topic Of CONVEX
sation whenever the townspeople meet.
Nobody objects to discussing it, but no
abnormal curiosity is exhibited,
In fact the town takes Gov. Gooding's
view OF the case. It's just a murder trial
that's oil.
N IL Tt InI&. ,,-taa1 ~ uuItal,
there are several, nave refused to get
excited about it. Not once has any of
them publicly discussed the case or Issued
any manifesto about II, except publicly
to disown any connection with the Boise
Daily Unionist. a paper started a week ago
by the interests that are defending Meyer.
Haywood and Pettibone with the avowed
object Of furnishing the defence with a
local organ.
This is not saying that there will certainly
be no trouble before these cases are de-
cided. But it is reasonably sure hat there
will be no organized trouble.
The labor interests in general, and the
Western Federation Of Miners In particular,
realize perfectly that they are on trial, az
well as the nominal defendants, and that
any overt acts OF violence would be certain
to react upon them TO a lamentable extent.
For this reason there will be no trouble il
the labor leaders can prevent 1t.
1t IL always possible that SOM anarchist
OF fanatic may seize such an occasion for
the purpose OF physically declaring his senti-
ments toward organized civilization, but
that is an outside chance only and exists
no more here than elsewhere.
All this exceedingly depresses the cor
respondents OF the Eastern and Western
yellows. There is a goo6 sized group OF
them here and they came to look for what
they call red hot stuff. 1t is reasonably
sure that they are going to get 1t, too.
The ~yellowest Of the San Francisco papers,
for example. the other day printed a scare
head story about President Roosevelt's
having ordered more troops TO Fort Boise
to @overawe the elemehts OF disorder now at
Boise Investigation disclosed the fact
that no such order had been issued, but
that when in the course Of a year or 30 the
improvements now In progress at Fort
Boise are completed the fort garrison will
be increased from two troops to four troops
OF cavalry.
A group Of reporters were sitting in the
spring sunshine yesterday in front OF the
towns principal hotel. Court had adj
journed the day before until Monday and
there wasn't anything to do or TO send
dispatches about. Several OF these re-
porters represent papers that like that
hot stuff
While they sat there old Jim Mcfarland,
the detective to whom Harry Orchard
made his confession. came out OF the hotel,
toddled up Main street and disappeared
around the corner. In a few moments
a man in a dirty blue uniform with a bell
punch hung about his neck came around
the same corner and walked past the hotel.
mcfarland disguised as a street railway
conductor, . said one OF the reporters.
The conductor had no sooner disappeared
than along came q Chinaman. wrapping
his hands in the tail Of his shirt and flip
Tapping over the pavement in his heelless
slippers: .u.ol ch,u,
marked another reporter, whose last big
lob was q~uelling the revolution in Cuba.
1t wasn't long after that before an empty
hearse came bowling long the street.
mcfarland on his way to bury some
evidence observed a reporter, who saw
the bloody sacrifices at Port Arthur.
The yellow experts seized upon this
notion like starving terriers upon a meaty
One OF them dashed into the hotel
to get his camera and after that no human
being whose makeup was in the least I'M
usual got by without being snapped.
While this was going on another reporter
was upstairs in his hotel room writing q
thrilling story about the perils that beset
the path Of the unterrifed Mcfarland
and the hourly stratagems and DISCUSSES
the old detective is forced to resort TO in
order to save his life from the dynamiters
and thugs who hourly pursue him. When
the pen pusher got downstairs with his
story the snapshotter greeted him gayly:
II got some peaches, Bill he said.
Caught a sheep herder or his pony just
In from his ranch: a town bum, whiskers
TO the eyebrows; Grand Army veteran in
blue and brass buttons. hobbling on his
stick; Niger bootblack leaning against a
post; old clothes man with his pushcart
and three or four more. I'll hustle of
and nave EN- developed, and we'll catch
the night mail with that story
He loped gayly of In the direction Of
the photographers.
Mcfarland is frequently attended by a
Pinkerton known here as Lloyd. Lloyd
Ia a sleuth to delight the soul of Theodore
He Ia a spare, wiry little man.
swapping black eyes, a catlike tread.
furtive manners and a keen realization OF
What lie expected Of him. He exhales an
atmosphere OF mystery. II he could, he
would veil the universe with secrecy.
"How many Plnkertons are there in
That's a secret"
rs MIR, Mcfarland in the hotel at PRESENT.
That's a secret
sIs the Hotel ldan-ha OF Main street,
That's a secret, too"
is II a fine day.
'Ah, that's a secret"
As a matter Of fact. there is a good sized
SQUAD Of PinkertOns in town. Almost
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