Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-06-30

good humOr, Amole told how, after
he was first driven from the district
! he sneaked back to get his furniture
only to be rounded up by the militia
! The soldiers released him. but as he
| left the office Of the Citizens Alliance
! he was set upon by party of armed,
/ masked men. He testified that they
took him six miles outside the tow
and there cruelty whipped him witt
| revolver butts and blacksnake whips
Judge Theron stevens, now Of Cold
| field, New. but once of the district
court at Telluride, traced the history
of the relations between the courts
and the soldiery in the troublesome
days of the strike. He testified tina
when the deportees tried to use the
injunction to get back To their homes
the governor returned the district tC
the control of martial law, and that
the writ of habeas corpus and the
subsequent order for arrest for, its
disobedience against the military au-
thorities in the case of Charles II
Moyer, We're both disregarded by
General sherman Bell and Captain
Buckley Wells. The judge thought
things had been very quiet in the
Telluride district, but under cross
examination said that some men had
been killed in an attack on the Snug
gler-Union mine and that subsequent
lv Arthur Collins, manager Of the
mine, was murdered There was also
a showing that Detective Lyte Greg
ory had beaten up officers of the
United Mine Workers, and the de
Tense explained that this was offered
as the foundation for the claim that
somebody else besides the federation
might have desired his death.
M, la,
wood trial was Domnick Flynn, q
merchant of Mullen. idaho. who de-
clared that Harry Orchard, on the
29th OF April, 1899. the day of the
explosion at the Bunker Hin and sui
Ivan mines, was playing poker in his
place
Flynn is The second witness to tes-
tify that Orchard was in Mullen on
the day he said he helped light the
fuses under the mill at Wardner
eighteen miles distant
on cross examination Flynn said he
never saw Orchard after that day. He
gave the names of several persons
who were in the game at the time Of
the explosion.
Patrick McHale. a bartender at
Mullen testified that he played po-
ker with Orchard in Flynn's cigar
store on the 29th of April. 1899, and
had never seen the man since.
He was uositiVe orchard was at
Mullen the day of the explosion.
The poker party was made up Of
Forest Clark, retired mining man
Colonel Moore electric light and wa
ter man; Dominick Flynn, Orchard
and himself.
Frank Hough, Of Wallace, Idaho,
who was in the bull PEN in 1893,
testified as 10 the conditions In that
place.
He said Jack simpkins, accused of
completely in the Steuneuberg mur-
der. was a fellow prisoner.
The prosecution objected to testi-
mony as to the 'bul pen" but it was
admitted upon a statement by Attor-
ney DarrOW that 1t was intended TO
show the motive of Simpllins for act
ing with Orchard, both men, II being
alleged. having a grudge against Gov
ernor Steupenberg.
ifough SAID aa0 to tt1 lnIuet- were
crowded in the "hull pen during the
hot months Of 1889. \ quarter Of
the men We're in most Of the time.
The prison was guarded by the col
ored troops Of the regular army.
Hough told of an incident on hot
daV i'm July when Simpkins was made
out water. Every time he attempted
to sit down the soldiers trained bayo-
nets on him The witness did not see
them lab him with the bayonets
Hough sWore that orchard told
him at Wallace in the fall of 1905,
that he had just come from Alaska,
the first mention i'm the case or the
defense of the supposed visit of Or
chard 20 Alaska.
Did he tell you that he had given
the title of his property to a man
named Cordova more than a year be
fore this tm62" asked senator Borah
on cross-eNaminatiou.
mo. sir; / didn't ask him about
The title I turned the proposition
down cold"
William Amole, Of Denver,
watchman at the Portland mine in
Cripulc Greek up TO the time the
union miners were dep0rted. following
thp mdependcnce depot affair gave
his experiences during the deporta-
tton period. lie said he was arrested
several times and finally floggcd oy
Two masked men.
James II. Ramey former stage
driver and ranchcr in Coeur dAlenes,
testified that he met Orchard on The
road between Gem and Wallace, IN
May 2, 1899, three days after the
bunker hin ana sullivan explosion.
and Orchard offered TO sell him "a
sixteenth interest in the Hercules
mine for $4O0.
A sensation was aroused by the
calling of the next witness, Morris
who has written a book,
which he claims is an expose of the