The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-30
Conditions in the "Bull Pen.''

guarded by troops of the regular army.
''What sort of troops?' asked Oar
row,
"Colored troops
''Was IL the same regiment that aft-
erward went TO Brownsvilleln
Brownsville - repeated the wit
ness somewhat puzzled; CT can't say
as TO that.
"We are not going to investigate
that affair, are wc?' questioned Judge
Wood of the attorneys.
'Well. I guess not drawled Oar
row, after pause.
elf you do we will send for For
aker,' declared Senator Borah.
Hough told of an incident which oc-
CURED on a hot day in July when Jack
Simpkins was taken outdoors and
made to stand IN the sun for six hours
without water.
"What was his condition7' asked
Darrow.
"Ho seemed to be suffering consid-
erably. Every time he tried to sit
down the soldiers trained their hayo-
"Did you see them jsb him with
their bayonetsY'
"No. sir. -
Hough said he was now painter
and paperhanger. Sometimes he
tended bar He met Orchard at Wal
lace, Idaho, In 1905. Orchard said he
had just come from Alaska. He also
said that il 1t had not been for Steu-
nenberg be would have been rich
man.
Cross-examined by Senator Borah.
Hough said he was in Gem the day
the miners went through on train
bound for the Bunker Hill and Sull-
van mine at Wardner. Hough declared
the men were not all masked He did
not see any arms, either.
"Do you know where that train was
bound forf' demanded Senator Bo-
rah
'E1 did after the train pulled out, -
Mr.. Darrow objected TO this as not
cross examination on any matter in
quired into on direct testimony.
State Scores a Point.
Senator Borah said he wanted TO
show why the witness was sent to the
''bull pen and on this statement was
allowed to proceed,
Asked to give the names of some Of
the men he saw on the train, Hough
said:
"Mike Divine"
"Where is he7"
dead.
"Who else?'
"Jay Gould. -
"He's dead, too" said Attorney
Darrow.
Asked to give the names of some
one not dead or out OF the country,
Hough replied
"Horacc Mahoney, Joe Riley aud
lots of others, 1t is long time to re
member names.
"Who arrested you when you were
taken TO the bull pen7'
90 6anutU tbev cullal naofb on fhe
Trail. }"
"Any other name?n
"That's the only name / knew
Hough said he was arrested in the
general roundup. When ne saw Orchard
in Wallace in 1905 ne also saw Simp-
kins there, but had no talk with him,
James II. Ramey, former stage
driver and rancher in the Occur
d 'Alenes, was the next witness. He
on the road between Gem and Wal
lace on May 9, 1899, three days after
the Bunker Hill and Sullivan explo-
sion.
"He told me ! was the man he
wanted to see,' said Raney. "'He
said he wanted to sell his one-sixteenth
interest in the Hercules mine and get
out Of the country before the soldiers
came in. He wanted $400 for his IN
terest, saying the Hercules would make
D mine some day
Under cross examination Ramey said
Orchard was riding horseback when he
saw him.
"Did he tell you be had given ii
tie to his property TO man named
Cordova more than a year before this
5ime?' asked Senator Borah.
"No, sir; | didn u ask him about
she title. | turned the proposition
lown cold.''
Asked how he happened to remcm-
Der the conversation Ramey said:
Good Reason to Remember
"'When they struck it rich in the
had turned down.
Disposing Of It's witnesses in rapid
the defense next called
James A. Baker Of SLOGAN, B. c.,
miner and prospector Baker has been
a member of the Western Federation
of Miners since 1899, and from 1901 to
1905 was a member of the executive
board for British Columbia. He was
in Denver during a large part of the
Cripple Creek strike, and assisted in
the affairs Of the organization
while Meyer and Haywood were in
Jail,
in December, 1903. to establish
union store. He was arrested by the
militia and taken before the command
ing officer When he told what his
mission was the officer said they didn't
want any union stores in the district,
and advised him TO take the first train
out of town.
What did you do!'' asked Darrow.
81 took it, said Baker.
There was no cross examination.
William Amole Of Denver, who was
a watchman at the Portland mine,
Cripple Creek, up to the time the union
miners were deported, following the
Independent depot. affair, was called to
give his experience during the deporta.
tion period. He said he was arrested
and released several times, and finally
was flogged by two masked men. He
was cross examined very briefly
Witness Furnishes Sensation.
Something of sensation was caused
by the calling OF the next witness,
Morris Friedman, who has written
a book, which he claims is an expose
of Pinkerton detective methods.
Friedman saws he is now q news