The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-25


been given the grace of "A trial. As soon
as the Western Federation Of LINERS was
born the mine owners set about to destroy
IT and as the chief means or destruction
they hired the Pinkerton detective agen-
cys with one Mcfarland at its head We
will show you that this agency has been
busy sfeuthing, following, working and
lying to get these men. We will show
that they have hired detectives and placed
them in positions of responsibility as sec
retares and presidents of local unions;
that these hired men constantly advised
the miners to strike and that when a
strike was on they cOunselled violence.
dynamite and murder. They did it at Tel
luride they did it at Cripple Creek, and
at many other places.
Federation Always Blamed.
we viii show that the Pinkerton De
tettve agency has been the chief factor
in this case from the very beginning. They
have organized themselves into band
10 spread caTlmny against the Western
Federatio2 o. Miners We viii show that
i'm one cas- where cage fell, because
of defective machinery. and sixteen men
Were killed, 81 was laid to the Western
Federation of Miners
The burning of the Moscow university
was laid to the leader of the Western
Federation OF Miners. Every illegitimate
child born west Of the Mississippi has been
Wra pped in swaddling clothes, hurried 10
Denver and laid on the doorstep of the
Western Federation of Miners.
Mt. DarrOW turned his attention to the
Miners Magazine. He said that probably
many foolish and Incorporate things crept
into ii. but the editors had no college edu-
cation and Meyer and Pettibone paid lit
tie attention 10 it.
we will read to you matter from the
Miners Magazine not introduced by the
state. We Will snow. that they did not
advise violence and that they cOunselled
q wise administration and discussed the
economic conditions temperately.
Occur d'Aiene Troubles.
Continuing. Mr. barrow said;
n his brings US to 1899 and the troubles
in the Occur d'Alenes. when Steunenberg
was governor. The Western Federation
of Miners was getting along all right
Then something happened. An lrreSpOnSl-
BILE mob of 1000 people made up of miners
and merchants. preachers and hangers
on and everyone who wanted ride, went
mines were blown up. The powder Was
furnished BY a rival company At that
time Harry Orchard. who Is IN this case
had been there for month carrying
union card. Jack SImpklns was IN the
Then came the call for troops. Right
~ or wrongly. Steunenberg called Tor
troops. Jack Simpkins was arrested ana
thrown into the bull pen. He was mai
treated. He was stood up at post by
a colored soldier and bayoHet was drlV-
en- into his breast.
Orchard Not at Bunker Hill.
Harry Orchard was in the Occur
d Alenes Harry Orchard was cheap
soldier of fortune a shOestrlng gambler
who had never done day work IN MS
life. He owned sixteenth share OF the
Hercules mine, but sold it because OF
his needs and continued his gambllnS
The mine didn't yield until 1901. But
Orchard, hoping on, stayed around TO get
a share of the mine
we don't think that Orchard was at
the Bunker Hill * Sullivan mill We
will show he was not there, and we VIII
show that he was engaged in his IaVo-
rite work of gambling with the easiest
mark he could find. We will show that
he did not participate in most of the
crimes of which he has boasted- l don't
like to take any of the bloom off
peach like that, but, while We VIII show
that he is no the murderer ne boasts
himself we will compensate him by prov
ing him to be the most monumental lier
that ever existed.
Agrees to Convince Hawley.
Before our first witness leaves the
stand. gentlemen of the jury, we will
convince you; we will even convince Mr..
HaWley himself that this man Orchard
has lied about most of the essential
points of his story. We will have from
twenty-five to thirty witnesses who will
take the stand and contradict this man
absolutely. Some of these witnesses VIII
be miners, but others will be emnently
respecta BILE people who have never done
a days work in their lives
Here. as at other points in his speech,
Mr.. DarTow's sarcasm caused wave after
wave of laughter in the courtroom. Some
times the baliffs had to rap for order.
Mr. Darrow briefly Sketched the wan
behring's of Orchard as related by that
witness himself. Orchard remained in the
Occur d'Alenes, he said. trying to re-
gain possess ion of his One-siXteenth in
terest in the Hercules mine. until he
was driven out by fear of arrest and
confinement in the bull pen
Orchards Lost Fortune.
Then he wandered from place to place.
seldom working said Mr.. Darrow. He
was sort of gentlemanly miner who
mined the miners. In 1902 he turned up in
Cripple Creek But from 1899 to 1892 this
important parsonage in American history
IS all but lost TO view. 1t is pretty GER
tain. however. that during all that time
ne could be found in the back room of
some saloon gambling.
"If Orchard today held his one-six-
teenth interest n the Hercules mine he
would be worth half a million dollars;
but ] think he'd rather have what he's
got because il is more valuable to the
newspaI ers.'
The Three Defendants.
Mr. barrow said that when Orchard
left the Occur d'Aienes after the blowing
up of the Bunker Hill & Sullivan mill