Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1907-07-11

+. c. Clifford, an insurance man, tes-
tilted that he had desk room in Petit.
bones store, and that Pettibone fire.
quently cashed checks for Orchard.
J. C. Barnes Of Montrose, Colorado,
proved witness that delighted the
audience and perplexed the counsel for
the state. Barnes is one of the stall
warts who has figured prominently
through the troublesome times in Tel
luride. He had little more than his
share of the bull-pen, pursuit by mill
tia, escape through the military lines
in a barrel and other escapadss cal
culated to increase ones belief in the
liberty and democracy Of our country.
All of those who have waged the war
of determination against the Western
Federation know Barnes. All the gun
men know him. He is one Of the in
domitables-one of those who never
quit. The personal friend of Floaten
and st. Johnnie and men like him are
those that are making the real revolu-
ton. Barnes wit is of the slippery
eel varity. 1t slides along as smooth
! and soft as velvet, and all at once you
are brought up with a sharp strangling
jerk as though bucket of icy slush
had been thrown in your face.
When he slouched down in chair
and told Borah about "when he came
out from Kansas and got a job clean
ing tin cans out of the alley" the So
cialst reporters were convulsed, the
Western Federation people broke into
guffaw. The language of the young
man, who had really left position
on the faculty in the university Of
Kansas, did not have particularly a
"tin can" sound to Borah; and as he
scanned the faces of some he feels
satisfied are posted on the "inerdness
of this thing, he dropped Barnes like
a hot potato and refused to bite
Borah has come to see that he is NJ
against a game that he doesn't under.
stand.
Barnes testimony had largely to dc
with the exposure of the Pinkerton
deviltries in the Telluride district
Ridell, the PinkertUn spy whom Fried
man exposed in his book, operated in
this district and was the bosom friend
of Barnes and his brother. He even
formed a plot to take Barnes life
on one occasion, and Barnes evidence
on this point was a valuable substan
tiation of the claim of the defense con
cerning the mine owners plot to break
up the Federation.
Riddell was closeted with Orchard
when the latter went to Telluride as
a body guard for Meyer. Proof has
been presented at every point to show
that Orchard has been in the employ
of the Pinkertons all time.
Riddel was the loudest against call
ing OFF the strike, and in the declara
tion that "they were all anarchists
there"
There was CONSERVATION and whis
pered conversation among the Pinker
tons as proof after proof of their vile
dealings was made known. And as an
evidence Of the utter depravity Of this
vitiated mainstay Of the capitalist sys
TEN, as Bob Meldrum passed Barnes
the next day he hissed, "I1l get you
Joey, after this trial is over.'
That simply means that he said he
would kill him. These thugs employed
by the mine owners, and clothed with
the badge of authority have no more
regard for human ufe than they have
for sticking a pig. Murder is their
trade. If complaint is made to the
authorities of their threats they will
be informed; and probably get n crowd
together, pick a quarrel somewhere
and kill the man they're after out OF
pure malice. Their friends would
swear that the murdered man was the
offender.
Capitalism props its whole power and
"respectability" with forces such as
these. In this mornings Statesman
are pictures Of seringo, Kelly the
Bum, Orchards bodyguard, man
with a score Of murders to his name,
and Bob Meldrum, ex.convict and Or
chard's bodypuard, and underneath the