The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-07-11

ever assisted Orchard or Adams I.
steal powder from the Union Pacih,
powderhouse OF anywhere else.
Ibid you ever have any converse
tion with Orchard about blowing al
a hotel?"
Yes, sir; Orchard came to me on,
day and asked IL l could tell hin
how the hotel was situated. l haC
worked there two months and tolt
him what knew lie then asked
me II didn't want to come aions
and help him blow 1t up. l told him,
no, sir, | would not stick my fingers
In IL, as l never intended to xii
anyone.
Mehlet said he never talked with
Orchard about killing Steuneabers OF
anyone else.
Mehlet said he once travelled with
Steve ADAMS for several weeks. He
had but one talk with Orchard re-
garding the blowing up of the hotel.
Orchard said 1t was the only way to
get rid of the ''scabs."
On cross-examination, Mehlet said
he believed Orchard was In earnest
and he told Max Malich about IL.
Malich told him not to get mixed up
In anything like that, for he could
live without doing anything like
that. The witness said he was not
at Globeyille at the time OF the
Malich fire.
The next witness for the defense
aroused unusual interest. lie was
Edward Mcfarland, brother OF Pink
eIton Detective James Mcfarland,
who has been in charge OF securing
evidence for the state. The witness
said he was not member OF the
Western Federation OF Miners, but a
shoemaker by trade. He was at
work in his shop In Victor the day
OF the riot there following the indie.
pendence depot explosion. After the
shooting started Mcfarland said five
.f>o w iiso hooP-
lie was marched between lines of
soldiers TO the train and taken to
Colorado Springs, where he and sew.
eral miners were transferred to the
Santa Fe road and taken within a
few yards OF the Kansas line. The
engineer refused to take them over
the state line.
"After we left the train three VOL
leys were fired over our heads and
we were told never TO come back.
We were in the fields some time when
along came train, which slowed
Gown. The engineer asked us IL we
were the deported. He then told US
to get aboard, and took us into Holly,
Colo, where we remained.
William Altman, OF Wonder,
Nevada, implicated by Harry Or.
chard In the lacing OF bomb In the
Vindicator mine at Cripple Creek,
was the first witness called after lun.
che0n. Altman, who has been
member OF the Western Federation
of Miners since 1893, absolutely de-
MED that he had helped Orchard
place any bombs anywhere. He de-
clared he knew nothing of the VIM
dicator explosion until after II &C.
Cured.
Altman was in the Cripple Creek
bullpen for ten days or two weeks.
He said he only worked for short
time in the Vindicator mine. Fol-
lowing his release from the bullpen,
Altman said he was held In the
county jail Tor three months. He
was never tried for anything.
Thomas G. Foster, of Bisbee, Ariz.,
was the next witness. He said he
was bartender, but had been
miner at Butte and Cripple Creek,
and was member OF the Western
Federation OF Miners. Foster said
he was arrested Cripple Greek by
the. soldiers and taken TO the bullpen,
where be was ket eighteen days.
No charge was against him.
Subsequently he heard he was
wanted on a charge Of attemting TO
wreck train on the Florence &
Cripple Creek railroad Cavalry sur
rounded this house, and he was told
that he could either give himself up
to the authorities or leave the coun.
try. lie surrendered to the civil au-
thorities and remained under bail
from November, 1904, to the follow
ing February. One day he was taken
to a building where he met ID. G.
Scott, chief detective OF the railroad,
and X. G. Sterling, detective OF the
The detectives told
him to confess to the train wrecking
and 1t would be made easy for him.
II told them / had nothing to con
fess, so they put me 10 solitary con-
6nement for seventeen days. was
finally tried with A. G. Mckinney,
and We were both acquitted, said
Foster.
On cross-examipaticn Foster said
this defense In the train wrecking
case was an abb, 1t being shown
that he was drunk and a long dis
lance from the scene Of the crime.
Senator Borah wanted to know par.
ticnlarly II Biil Eastprly WAS one of