The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-06-07
twelve MEN SWORN
TO TRY Haywood
JURY COMPLETED AND STATE
READY TO OPEN THE CASE
AT BOISE.
Summary of the charse-Harry Or
chard, Who Confessed, to Be an
Important Witness Prosecution
Pleased with the Jurors.

Boise, Idaho, June AFTER weeks
of tiresome questioning, the jury In
the trial of William D. Haywood, the
secretary and treasurer of the West
ern Federation of Miners, charged
with the murder of former Gov.
Steunenberg, was completed at 1880
Monday with the acceptance of 0. V.
Sebern, a farmer.
The Haywood jury, complete, is as
follows:
Thomas B. Cess, real estate; Fin
ley Mclean, rancher; Samuel d. Gill
man, farmer; Daniel Clark, farmer;
George Powell, rancher; o. V. Sebern,
farmer; H. F. Messecar, farmer; Lee
Scrivener, farmer; ]. A. Robertson,
farmer; Levi Smith, carpenter; A. P.
Burns, retired rancher, and Samuel F.
Russell, farmer.
Tuesday morning at $3.50 o'clock
James H. Hawley for the state will
address the court with the states
opening statement He has prepared
no manuscript, and said that he would
be very brief.
What the State Will Charge.
Broadly speaking, the state will
charge that Haywood, conspiring with
Meyer Pettibone and Simpkins and
others of the alleged inner circle" of
the Western Federation of Miners,
plotted campaign of terrorism that
had for it's purpose the removal by
ccin Of
organization, and the retention and in
crease of control and power within
the organization. 1t will allege that
the explosion at the Vindicator mine,
the blowing up of the independence
depot, the murder Of Light Gregory, a
detective of Denver, the murder of
Arthur Collins, of Telluride, the al
legged blowing up of Fred Bradley, of
San Francisco, and the alleged at
tempts on the lives of former Gov
Peabody and Judges Gabbert and God
dard, of Colorado, were all acts in a
single great conspiracy to which the
murder of Gov. Steunenberg was Incl
dental 1t will be charged that Hay
wood was the genius of and the
strength behind the great plot, and
that Steunenberg was added to the list
because of his part during the labor
troubles in north Idaho.
1t will be alleged that Haywood and
his associates, standing and working
in the background, planned the long
list of crimes and sent Harry Orchard
and Steve Adams as hired eXecu-
TONERS.
Orchard to Testify.
The states testimony will begin
with a rehearsal of the Caldwell
tragedy in which Frank Steunenberg
was blown to death by bomb on the
night of December 80, 1905, and then
the presence at Caldwell of Harry
Orchard and John L. Simpkins, a
member of the executive board of the
Western Federation of Miners, will be
shown. After that Harry Orchard, who
actually murdered Steunenberg, will
be connected with the scene and
crime, and then Orchard will be called
to the stand to retell the confession
which it is alleged he made to Detec-
tive MCFARLAND. After that will come
the states effort to corroborate the
Orchard story and to clinch by other
testimony the general part of the
Western Federation of Miners and the
particular part of William D. Hay
wood alleged in connection with the
murder of Frank Steunenberg.
Attorneys for the prosecution ex-
press satisfaction with the jury, but
counsel for Haywood, while believing
the jurors honest of purpose, call at
tention to the fact that none of them
has any natural kinship to labor or
CARNATIONS.