Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1907-05-09
Just Before
the Battle
Family Reunion in Ada County Jail
Everything Ready for Trial
Statesman" Gets Rabid


throughout the country by many spec
ial men, artists, photographers, eet.
Many of these writers and news men
have already applied and secured
quarters for the time they will be in
Boise. Besides these there will be
quite an army of stenographers and
typewriter experts. The attorneys
for the state and for the defense have
p.suned TO have enough stenogaphers
on the ground so that within a short
time after the end of each days pro-
ceedings in court they will be fur
nished with a verbatim copy of the
testimony taken.
To handle the vast amount Of spec
ial matter to be sent to thousands of
papers throughout the country the
local office of the Western Union Tel
egraph company ia being fitted up
with instruments and paraphernalia
calculated to accommodate all the
business that may be brought into il
with quickness and dispatch. The
company has leased four wires from
Boise TO Nampa Of the two telephone
companies. These wires will be con
nected with the local telegraph office
aud two Of them will be available all
the time. while the other two will be
released for telegraph work each
night. At Nampa the direct wires of
the company will be quaded each way
This will lie in addition TO the direct
wire now used as duplex TO Salt Lake
which will be equipped for quad SER
vice during the trials. This, Manager
IIackctt states, will give the local
office service of 10 more circuits
than nov or IA circuits altogether.
The service will be ready by the midd-
le Of this week and as soon as ready
for work Chief Operator Mcdonnell
of Seattle will come and thoroughly
test the system TO see that everything
is in perfect working order.
The best operators, dispatchers, to
be found In the west. are to be sent
to Boise for this special work.
Gooding's Organ Rabid.
The Statesman continues 60 pub
lish its inflamatory articles every day.
Its latest spasm has been a shrek at
the campaign Of the reds" II re-
fers in lurid terms to the "red flag
of anarchy the desperateness of
the policy of the reds" denounces the
socialist organs, and says that social
ism is an enemy to unionism.
Wives of the Prisoners.
Mrs. Haywood arrived in Boise Sun
day night. She was accompanied by
her two daughters, Verna, aged 10,
and Henrietta, aged 10, also by a
trained nurse. She stood the trip re.
markably well. She is helpless in
valid that cannot use her hands or
feet, and has to be cared for like a
baby, and wheeled everywhere. Aside
from her helplessness, she seems fairly
strong and well, and talks most enter.
tainingly and hopefully.
Monday morning we went over to
see how she had stood the trip. We
found her in the best Of spirits, and
the whole family just getting ready
to go over TO the Jail They had not
seen the husband and father for four
teen months. Verna, the older girl,
is tall fne-looking young person, that
much resembles her father. She is in
high school, has considerable skill as
musician, and possesses great vi
vacity and force of character. She
shrinks a little from the publicity in
which the family have been placed
through the capitalistic fire that has
been turned upon her father.
Henrietta, the younger, has one OF
those wonderful peachblow complex
ions that so often 60 with deep au-
burn tresses. She is child of great
sweetness of nature, and very attrac-
tive.
Comrade Easterly, one Of the Cripple
Creek deportees, and Comrade shoaf
wheeled the invalid's chair out to the
pavement; and then in warm, sunshiny
glory Of the spring morning we all
walked over TO the jail, where the
three martyrs of labor and liberty are
held as life hostages for the subserv-
ience and submission Of the working
class. Haywood was outside in the
green court yard, taking the fresh air.
The meeting of the long disunited fam