The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-07-04

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Pinkerton detective agency, VIVID
one Mcfarland at it's head.
"We will show you that this agency
has been busy sleuthing, following
and living TO get these men. We VIII
show that they have hired detectives
and placed them in positions OF re-
sponsibility as secretaries and presi
dents of local unions; that THESE
hired men constantly advised the
miners to strike and that when a
strike was on they counseled Vlo-
lence, dynamite and murder. They
did 1t at Telluride; they did II al
Cripple Creek and at many other
places.
"We will show that the Pinkerton
detective agency has been the CHER
factor in this case from the very be-
ginning. They have organized theT'
selves into band to spread calumny
against the Western Federation OF
Miners. We will show that In one
case, when a cage fell because OF de-
fective machinery and sixteen men
were killed. it was laid to the West
ern Federation of Miners.
"The burning Of Moscow univer-
sity was laid to the leader OF the
Western Federation OF Miners. Every
illegitimate child born west OF the
Mississippi has been wrapped In Its
swaddling clothes, hurried to Denver
and laid on the step OF the Western
Federation of Miners.
Mr.. barrow turned his attention
to the Miners Magazine. He said
that probably many foolish and In
temperate things crept into 1t, but
the editors had no college education
and Meyer and Pettibone paid little
attention to 1t.
ave will read to you natter from
the Miuers'g Magazine now intro
duced by the state. We will show
that they did not advise violence and
that they counseled wise admins.
tration and discussed the economic
conditions temporarily"
Continuing, Mr.. barrow said:
"This brings US to 1899 and the
troubles 10 the Occur d'Alenes, when
Steunenberg was governor. The
Western Federation of Miners was
getting along all right. Then some.
thing happened. An irresponsible
mob of 1000 persons, made up OF
miners and merchants, preachers and
hangers-on, and any one who wanted
, ride, vent down and the Bunker
Hill & Sullivan mines we're blown
, up. The powder was furnished by
+, a rival company. At that time
Harry Orchard, who In this case haC
> been there for month carrying o
, union card, and Jack Simpkins were
!, in the Occur d'Alenes.
!, "Then came the call for troops
! Rightly or wrongly, Steunenberl
called for troops. Jack Simpkins wa'
arrested and thrown into the bull
. pen.' lie was maltreated. He wa
n stood up at a post by a colored soldie
= and bayonet was driven into hi
breast
=, Harry Orchard was in the Coeu
= d'Alenes. Harry Orchard was
cheap soldier of fortune; a shoe
= string gambler who had never done
days work In his life. He owned
= sixteenth share OF the Hercules mine
but sold 1t because of his needs, an,
!. continued his gambling. The min
didn't yield until 1901. But Or
4 chard, hoping On, stayed around It
N get share Of the mine.
"We don't think that Orchard va
at the Bunker Hill Il Sullivan mill
20 We will show he was not there, an
we will show that he was engaged Il
his favorite work of gambling wit
% the easiest mark he could find. W
> will show that he did not participant
!, In many OF the crimes he has her
q boosted. don't like to take any O
- the bloom OF peach like that, bu
=, while We will show that he Is not tn
), murderer he boasts himself. we wi
compensate him by proving him t
;. be the most monumental liar tina
N ever existed.
, Before our first witness leaves tn
10 stand, gentlemen OF the jury, we wi
4, convince even Mr.. Hawley himsel
:. that this man Orchard has lie
r about most of the essential points {
20 his story. We will have from twent,
.. one to thirty witnesses who will tax
the stand and contradict the ma
NJ absolutely. Some OF them will /
n. miners, but the Others will be EN-
:, nently respectable people. who ha,
:, never done days work in the
:, lives.
cv Orchard remained In the Coel
n. d'AleneS, he said, trying TO regal
10 possession of his one.sixteenth /,
no terest IN the Hercules mines unit
he was driven out by fear OF are
~. and confinement in the 'bull pen. -
NO Then he wandered from place
10 place, seldom WORKING said NJ
A. barrow, "tle was a sort OF geutl
y manly miner, who mined the miner
But from 1899 TO Ia02 this importal
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