, 1907-06-27
LEADING MEMBER OF WESTERN
FEDERATION IN HANDS OF
BORAH FOR CROSS
EXAMINATION.
C~orroborates Some of Orchards State
ments and Says Aside From Kill
ing of Women, Assaulting Old
Man Stewart and Beating Up JUS
tice of Peace, Things Were Quiet
in District Before Troops Sent In.

Boise, Idaho, June 27.-When w. e
Davis was recalled to the stand on the
opening Of court this morning, Senator
Borah took him over the period spent
in hiding in the Hercules mine after
the Bunker Hill explosion.
Paulson Was Present.
He said that Paulson and another
man were there. He could not iden'
tify the other man. He remembered
two men calling at the mine while he
was there. They were union men get
ting out of the country.
Could Not Recall Orchard.
Orchard said he was at the Hercules
mine at this time. Davis was unable
to recall Orchard as one of these men
At Home Night of Explosion.
Bringing the witness down to Cripple
Creek days, Mr.. Borah wanted to know
when the witness first met Steve
Adams. He could not recall. Davis
said he was at home the night of the
explosion in the indicator mine,
Earlier in the evening he had attended
with Sherman Parker a union meeting
at Victor.
Did Not Take Orchard.
Davis denied hat he called at Or
chard's house and took him to the
meeting. He could not remember
whether Orchard attended the meet
ing. There were 800 or 1000 men
there. He could not recall when he
first saw Orchard after the meeting.
Said District Was Quiet.
Davis testified yesterday that the
Cripple Creek district was entirely
quiet and peaceful up to the time the
troops were sent in. Today Borah
cited several cases of shooting, but the
witness declared thai most of them
occurred after the troops had been
called.
Non-Union Met Beaten.
He maintained that the district was
quiet, although he admitted that he
knew of non-union men being beaten
before the troops arrived. Borah
wanted to know if the strike commit
tee did not have to spend most of its
time preventing men from going back
to work.
Worked to Keep Men in Line.
Davis said it required some work to
keep the men in line, for the mine
owners had secret agents at work all
the time and were trying to misrepre'
sent things to the miners. Davis said
he believed the men killed in the Vim
dictator mine and at the independence
depot were non-union men.
Denied the Campbell Talk.
Davis denied that he told F. },
Campbell of the indicator mine that
if he opened up something would hap
pen to the property. He declared that
no unusual conditions existed in the
miners convention at Denver at the
time of the Vindicator explosion.
Haywood Wanted Things Done.
Orchard had testified that Haywood
said he was having some difficulty in
keeping the mel together and thought
something ought to be pulled off"
Some Small Matters.
barrow took up the direct examina,
ton of Davis by referring to the trou'
bles at Cripple Creek before and after
the troops were sent in. Davis said
that, aside from the assault on old
man Stewart, the beating up of a JUS
tice of the peace and the killing OF
women, there was no extraordinary
disturbance.
Called Soldiers Thugs.
After the troops came, however,
there was much trouble because, he
said, the governor of Colorado turned
a lot of thugs out of the penitentiary
and sent them into the district"
Rush on the Stand.
W. w. Rush, formerly an engineer
on the Florence and Cripple Creek
railroad, was on the train when the
Western Federation claims an attempt
was made to wreck it in order to put
the blame on the union. He said D.
C. Scott, chief Of detectives, told him
to be careful in running the train on
the night of November IA, 1903, as
there would be an attempt to wreck
the train between Economic mill and
Victor.
Good Place for Wreck.
Rush told Scott he didn't think the
train could be wrecked there, and
Scott asked him where would be a
good place to wreck the train. Rush
told him on the second left-hand curve
east of the Overhead crossing. Scott
took the train with Rush that night,
and told him to stop near the locality
mentioned. TIe did so, and then saw a
tall and short man drop off the rear OF
the train.
The Long and Short Men.
In answer to barrow, he said that
X. C. Sterling is short and Scott is
tall. The next morning Scott and