The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-07-01
Witnesses Say He Did Not Blow
Up Idaho Mill as Alleged.
PLAYED POKER ON THAT DAY
Proprietor OF Store and Man Who Sat
In Game FIatiy Contradict States
Star Observation-Disclosures Former
Stenographer on the Stand.


and that union miners were whipped
and driven from Cripple Creek.
= Dominick Flynn, who conducted a
Cigar store in Mullen, Ida, in 1899,
swore that Orchard was in his store
playing poker the day that the Bunker
Hill and Sullivan mill was blown up
and Pat McHale, who gave the occu.
patton of barkeeper and said he gam
bled whenever he got chance, swore
that he sat In the game with Orchard.
Frank Hough, who testified to con.
ditions in the Idaho "bullpen" and the
treatment Of Jack Simpkins, swore
that Orchard told him at Wallace in
the fall Of 1905 that he had just come
from Alaska, the first mentioned case
of the defense of the supposed visit
of Orchard to Alaska. Morris Fried
man, a former employee of the Pinker.
ton detective agency, testified as to
the methods of the PinkertOn agency
in connection with the strikes in Colo.
RADIO.
The trial proceedings began with
the introduction of Qominick Flynn of
Mullen, Ida, who testified that he was
a merchant. Flynn declared that
Harry Orchard, on April 20, 1899, the
day of the explosion at the Bunker
Hill and Sullivan mill, was playing
poker In his place. This was the sec.
ond witness to- testify that Orchard
,1nv l.
he says he helped light the fuses
under the mill at Wardner, eight miles
distant. The poker game lasted from
noon until 4 p. M, Flynn said.
Never Belonged to a Union.
!Cross-examined by Senator Borah
Flynn declared he had never been
member of the Western Federation of
Miners or any other labor organiza-
ton. He had known Orchard a year
and half and the man often played
poker at his place. The witness gave
the names of several persons who
were In the game the day of the ex.
plOsion. He never saw Orchard after
that day. One of the men who played
with Orchard was named Patrick Nc
Hale Flynn said he had spoken to
McHale about the matter since Or,
chard's arrest
49,, MoI4ale,~ who is a bartender in Null
len, followed Flynn on the stand He
said he played poker with Orchard in
Flynn's cigar store on April 20, 1899,
and had never seen the man since.
Frank Hough, amember of the West
ern Federation of Miners from Wal
lace, Ida., was in the "bullpen" in 1899
and was called to testify as to the
conditions in the military prison.
Hough said from 300 to 400 miners
were crowded in the "bullpen" during
the hot months of the summer of
1899. One-quarter Of the men were i'll
most Of the time. The prison was
guarded by colored troops of the reg
ular army.
Hough said he was now painter
and paperhanger. Sometimes he tends
bar. He met Orchard at Wallace,
Ida, in 1905. Orchard said he had
just come from Alaska. He also said
that If 1t had not been for Steunen-
berg he would have been a rich man.
Witnesses Rapidly Disposed Of.
Disposing Of it's witnesses in rapid
succession the defense next called
James A. Baker Of slooum, B. c., a
miner and prospeotor. Baker has
been a member of the Western Fed
GRAFTON of Miners since 1899 and from
1901 to 1905 was member Of the ex-
ecutive board for British Columbia.
He was in Denver during large part
of the Cripple Creek strike and as.
sisted in running the affairs of the
organization while Meyer and Hay
wood were In jail. -st
Baker said he went to Cripple Creek
in December, 1903, to establish un-
ion store. He was arrested. by the
militia and taken before the COM
handing officer. When he told-what
his mission was the officer said they
did not want any union stores in the
district and advised him to take the
first train out Of town.
Something of sensation was
caused by the calling of the next wit
ness-.Morris Friedman, who has writ
ten a book which he claims is an ex-
pose of Pinkerton detective methods.
Friedman said he is now a newspa-
per correspondent. He worked as a
stenographer In the Pinkerton Office
in Denver during the Cripple Creek
strike, doing particularly the work Of
James MCFARLAND, who has worked
up the case against the Western Fed
Grafton Of Miners in the present case.
Friedman said he became thoroughly
familiar with the office work and
methods.
, Asked as to the placing of Pinker-
ton operatives in unions Friedman
said man named Crane became sec.
Iretary of the Smeltermen's union at
Colorado City and was also chairman
pf the strike committee Other op.
eratives who were connected with un,
ions in Colorado were Joseph F.. Cad,
don, Charles H. Rhymer, George w,
lRiddell, P. B. Bailey and Cummings
Lutlow.
UNREST IN ARMENIA.
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