The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-06-27
TROOPS MADE TROUBLE
Mining Regions Peaceful Until the
Troops Arrived on the Scene.-A
Wreck on Railroad That Occurred
at the Best Place to Have Wreck
Testimony of Other Witnesses.

BOISE, IQdnO, June Z.-Wnon W.
F. Davis was recalled to the stand
at the opening of court this morning,
Senator Borah took him over the Pc
riod spent in hiding in the Hercules
mine after the Bunker Hill explosion.
He said that Paulson and another
man were there. He could not identify
| the other man. He remembered two
men calling at the mine while he was
there. They were union men getting
out of the country. Orchard had said
ne was at the Hercules mine at this
time Davis was unable to recall Or
chard as one of these two men.
Bringing the witness down to the
Cripple Creek strike days, Borah
wanted to know when the witness
first met Steve Adams. He could not
recall Davis said he was at home the
night of the explosion in the Vindica-
tor mine Earlier in the evening ne
had attended with Sherman Parker a
union meeting at Victor. Davis denied
that he called at Orchards house and
took him to the meeting. He could
not remember whether Orchard at
tended the meeting There were 800
to 1000 men there. He could not re-
call when he first saw Orchard after
the meeting
Davis testified yesterday that the
Cripple Creek district was entirely
quiet and peaceful up to the time the
troops were sent in. Today Borah cit
ed several cases of shooting, but the
witness declared that most of them
occurred after the troops were called.
He maintained that the district was
quiet, although he admitted that he
knew of non-u1lion men being beaten
before the troops arrived. Borah
wanted to know if the strike commit
tee did not have to spend most of its
time preventing the men going back
to work. Davis replied that it requir-
ed some work to keep the men in
line, for the mine owners had secret
agents at work all the time and were
trying to misrepresent things to the
miners Davis said he believed the
men killed in the Vindicator mine
and the Independence depot were
non-union men.
Davis denied that he told F. ].
Campbell, of the Vindicator mine, if
he opened up something would hap
pen. He declared that 40 unusual con-
ditions existed in the miners conven-
ton at Denver at the time of the
Vindicator explosion. Orchard had tes
titled that Haywood said ne was hav
ing some difficulty in keeping the men
together AID thought something
ought to be pulled off,
Darrow took up the redirect ex-
animation of Davis by referring to
the troubles at Cripple Creek before !
and after the troops were sent. Davis
said that aside from an assault on
Old Man Stewart, the beating up of
a justice of the peace and the killing |
of a woman, there was no extraordi- |
nary disturbance. After the troops |
came, however, there was much trou-
Bile, because, he said, "the Governor |
of Colorado turned a lot of thugs out |
of the penitentiary and sent them in !
to the district
w. w. Rush, formerly an engineer
of the Florence and Cripple Creek |
railroad was on the train when the |
Western Federation claims an at
tempt was made to wreck the same !
in order to put the blame on the I'M |
ion. He said that D. c. Ccont, chief /
of detectives, told him to be very |
careful in running the train on the /
night of Nov. IA, 1908, as there would /
be an attempt to wreck tne train be
tween the Economic mine and Vic
tor Rush told Scott he didn't think /
the train could be wrecked there, and
Scott asked him where would be a
good place to wreck a train Rush
told him on the second left aand
curve east of the ovehead crossing.
Scott took the train with Rusn that
night, and told him to stop near the
locality mentioned. He did 50. and
then saw a tall and a short man drop
on the rear of the train In answer
bo Darrow's questions he said that K
c. Sterling is short and Scott Is tall.
The next morning Scott and Sterling