The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-07-18
COURT ANNOUNCES
WILL CONCLUDE
CASE WITHIN WEEK
At Last Moment State Decides Not
to Call Mine Owners or the
Pinkertons.
(By the Associated Press }

(By the Associated Press.
BOISE, Idaho, July 17.--An an
nouncement by the court today was
determination to conclude the case
| within the next week. Judge Wood
stated he would hold three two-hour
| sessions daily during the arguments.
e. F. Richardson protested against
| this but he met with no encourage
ment.
Judge Wood stated that by put
ting counsel on notice as to the main
points of which he would instruct
| the jury, he hopes to considerably
shorten the arguments.
J. H. Hawley will open the argu-
| mCnt for the state and e. F. Richard
son for the defense. Clarence Dar-
| row will close in behalf of Haywood
| and the final argument will come
| from Senator Borah.
The last day of the states innings
| in the Haywood trial opened with the
statement by Mr.. Richardson that he
| desired the court to order d. c. Scott,
VIM. Dewey and J. c.. Rutan, wit
nesses who have testified in rebuttal
| for the state, to remain within the
! jurisdiction of the court. This was
afterward explained on the ground
that counsel for the defense was con-
sidering the advisability of issueing
certain warrants charging states
witnesses with perjury. Nothing was
done during the day, however, and
late tonight, Clarence Darrow said it
| was doubtful if any such steps would
be taken.
The state called but two witnesses
| in rebuttal today Notwithstanding
Mr.. Hawley's statement that eight
or ten witnesses remained. At the
last moment the prosecution decided
not to call mine owners or Pinker-
| ton detectives believing this would
strengthen their case before the jury.
AS a result of this decision number
of interesting witnesses will not be
heard. Bulkeley Wells, formerly ad-
jutant general of Colorado and re-
Gently elected a railroad commission
er in that state, left Boise yesterday.
| He was in command of the militia
called out during the labor troubles
| in 1908 and 1904, and was the man
who dug up the bomb found where
| Orchard said he placed it, at Judge
| Goddard's gate. Captain James Nc
Parland, the superintendent of the
western division of the Pinkerton
agency, was not called. Captain Nc
Parland has had charge of the case
since the arrest of Orchard.
The witnesses examined today
were from Colorado and gave vivid
accounts of the conditions existing
around the mines. o. M. Sackett,
employed at the Smuggler Union
mine at Telluride mine owned
chiefly by Boston people, and of which
Bulkeley Wells is the manager, had
an intimate knowledge of conditions
resulting from the struggle between
the members of the Western Feder-
alton of Miners and the owners of
the mines. No amount of severity on
the part of E. F. Richardson changed
Sackett's positive assertion that the
mob of the Citizens Alliance of the
Cripple Creek district took the law
into their own hands as last resort,
and that this organization was made
up of good citizens of the district.
He justified the deportations on
the ground that they were necessary
and because the citizens had reached
the conclusion that men who. refused
to work themselves or permit OLHeI
people to work should be sent away
He admitted that some of the de-
ported were innocent of wrong do
ing, but stated positively that they
were allowed to come back when the
in Justice was discovered. Sackett
said of his own knowledge and on
information, he knew of number
of murders and outrages committed
by the union miners, and the calling
out of the militia and declaration OF
martial law was necessary to the
preservation of life and property.
The last witness of the day and
the last witness for the state was
VIM. Stuart, 'Scotchman, red-beard-
ed and retaining the burr of his ma
; tive language on his tongue. He was
miner in the Cripple Creek district
during the troubles and told ter
rible story of maltreatment at the
hands of the miners, who had warned
, him that he would have to take the
consequences if he went to work as g
) "scab" With native stubbornness
Stuart went to work, however. and
| today he told of the consequences.
Mr.. Richardson dismissed the wit
: ness with the words, "That's all.
Stuart wheeled out of the witness