Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-14
PROGRESS SLOW At BOISE
Ono Juror for Haywood Ts1el Ten'ativeC
Iassed Monday Afternoon.
TwENTY.FOUR % V.NIEE ARE exc JsEp
Country People who VIII Be Caued
a. TaIesmen Remarkably Free
from Prejudice Agnu 1t
Labor.

BOISE Idaho, May 1:l-c My a fragment
Of today was given 6voy to actual work
in the Haywood tlal and the one stop
forward was the qpaU cation OF a single
talesman who seer A marked for peremp-
toy challenge later The rest OF the time
went to the tales ben Of the special venire
and the reasons that made IL Impossible
for them to s. I'VE the state at this time.
Judge Wood called the case at o'clock
and at once rave attention to the 100 men
summoned IS Sheriff Hodgln in the special
venire ISIS "a on Thursday last. The court
asked Z Ass who had special excuses to
ofer t. come forward, and up surged a
little 6lob Of thirty-fve. They swarmed
arour q the clerks desk and cholted- up
the err approach to the bench,
s zen OF them were sick and five Of them
" S.e husbands Of sick wives. Some. pre-
fnted crisp looking certificates from doc
TORS, Others offered their quaking bodies
as visible evidence. the rest pleaded earn
estly. with tact and patience Judge Wood
heard them through and the thirty-hve
tales wek4 not all told until $40 by the
clock. Twenty-four OF the pleaders we're
excused and the other eleven returned to
nently, leaving the total at seventy-six.
states Examination Brief.
In the hour devoted to counsers examina-
ton Of talesmen, Ellsworth Lister, a young
farmer WHO had valniy striven to be ex-
cused, went down before an objection from
the prosecution for implied bias and gave
way to Walter Shaw, q yearse old a
brother sof a present member OF the Idaho
legislature, now a farmer. and formerly a
meat cutter Of Seattle and Everett. Wash.
Shaw qualified after an extended examina-
ton that filled the time down to adjourn
ment but he was indefinite in many of his
answers and seemed uniformed upon
many matters essential in the standard OF
jurors. Shaw is generally labeled for a
peremptory challenge.
The examination by James H. Hawley,
leading counsel for the state was again
brief, that Of E. F. Richardson again long
and searching. Hawley chiefly directed
himself to the question OF attitude toward
6ircumstantial evidence, capital punish
meht and the absence OF the prisoner from
Idaho when the crime was committed. He
also sought for possible feeling as to
former Governor steunenberg personally
and carefully questioned the talesmen as
TO formed and expressed opinions and the
possibility OF their removal BIZ competent
evidence.
Hawley's direct challenge Of Lister ir
which the defense acquiesced, made Shaw
the only taiesman examined by Richard.
son. Once again he asked as to the effect
of the letter of President Roosevelt desig
mating Haywood and his associates as "un
desirable citizens," the speeches Of Secre
terry Taft and the acts OF Governor Good
in gand the Idaho legislature. He agar
carefully sought for prejudice against so
cialists and members OF the Western Fed
GRAFTON Of Miners, possible bias agains
rlembsrs-of labor unions generally. He ais
covered the line In sympathy with or in
terest In the organization OF mine owner
and citizens alliance, and possible local al
hanees In the church, the lodge and tn
political party.
,'H Court warns TaleEmen.
1raiesman Shaw said that after he ha,
been summoned on Saturday last he talke,
the fact over with the members Of hi
family, and this led Judge Wood to point
edly admonIsh the other talesmen to re
frain from discussing the case with any
one under any circumstances He asket
them TO report TO him the name or name
after warning, b talk TO them about tn
case -
To the court this afternoon came Juiiai
stounenberg. ROn of the murdered governor
tall, sturdy youth strikingly like hi
father in face and figure, For two hour
he sat with the members Of. the Boise bar
ten feet from the chair of the prisoner
Williarp Haywood. He spoke to no on
and remained quiet, unobstruslye spect
tor, He Is here. under subpoena as a wit
ness, and It IL expected will be among tn
FIRST called
There are no wrtwelve men occupying tn
jury, bog, and jury house. OF the numbe
four have been examined and temporaril
passed by both sides. eight remain to b
questioned by the defense. In future tn
court is to sit from 10 to IL in the mornln
and, from 2 TO $50 In the afternoon unit
otherwise ordered by Judge Wood.
no Feeling Against Unions.
Another significant feature OF the exam
nation Of talesmen was the fact that IN
attorneys for the defense were unable I
unearth here any feeling among the eour
try folk against any particular labor unto
or against trades unionism IN general. Mol
Of the farmers visited by the sheriff In sun