The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-05-04

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This DAY cell OF ours is really the
home of the Western Federation OF
Miners" said Fettibone q little later
''for 1t was il here, back in 1892
after the trouble up in the Occur
d'Alenes that the Federation was
first PROPOSE and discussed. You
will remember that they arrested a
lot Of our men In 1892 and held us
until the supreme court decided in
1898 that we were illegally in Gus
tody
While We lay IN here in this cell
we planned the Federation This is
indeed a historic place for the old
Federation
You men who have not been in
the Occur d'Alenes and underground
there know nothing OF the frightful
conditions that prevailed went on
! Pettibone We We're wretehedly
housed and miserably fed COM
pany store supplied everything at
outrageous prices. a company doctor
was supposed 10 look after us, and
We We're paid in script, if there was
ever anything coming to us when the
company got through. I've seen Il
company surgeon refuse TO go TO the
home of a dying miner. Now, what
are men 10 dor Is there anything
too mean 10 do to men who grind
down their laborers under such cir
cllmstances?'
Down in Colorado. said Meyer,
lit was the company store for every
! thing. an enforced assessment for II
/ company doctor in whose choice we
had no voice, and pay in script
Pettibone produced Il copy OF his
reply to letter from San Francis
20 woman, which discussed the ques-
ton of the extent TO which the for
aign element in labor had created the
dlssension, in which he said:
las to this question, I'd like TO say
that am a descendent of John Petit
bone who settled in New England in
1852. have a revolutionary ances-
tor buried at White Plains
Haywood is OF old revolutionary
stock has an ancestor buried at
Mount Vernon and one of his fore
fathers signed The Declaration of In
dependence. Mover comes from
PENNSYLVANIA Dutch and the Penn
sylvania Dutch have been Americans
for some time.
Where Trial viii BE Held.
Ada county court house, brick
and conventional in type, stands or
an unfenced square OF beautifully
green lawn. tree lined at the side
walks. Haywood, Meyer and Petit
bone are Gagged IN steel at night but
their days arc spent in a large room
steel barred door ard windows. For
two hours each DAY they exercise on
the lawn under gard and this has
been the medicine OF their good
health. A sheriff Who might have
been the model Of The Virginian'
and three or lcuF equities, tall, 1.-THE
clear-eyed chaps men of the west.
are the alternating guards. In the
group on the lawn it is often diff
cult to distin guish prisoners from Of
details. Pettbone tells with glee Of
farmer who mistook one of his
guards for him end discanted on his
ferocity and dopravity. They are
sood prisoner" said the sheriff.
The hotels Of Boise are gradually
flling up In anticipation OF the trial.
The town, Itself however, shows abb
solufely no sign OF unusual condi-
ions other than the presence Of
many strangers The people of the
place seem to be almost apathetle
and are not discussing the matter.
Notwithstanding alarmist reports
there does rot appear TO be the
slightest reason to anticipate dis
turbance; in fact, the citizens ridi-
Guile the suggestion.
Martial Law viii not be declared
in Boise unless Disturbances should
occur and make such a step neces-
sary," said Governor Gooding today
to the Associated Press when shown
statement that it was his intention
to place kda county under martial
j law al the commencement of the
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