The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-27

He was then placed Tn the Soiuiers Home
 / On redirect examination Elliott said he had not been assisted in any way in stating his testimony and had re- ceived but g witness fee. and 75 cents in mileage.
 Miners Magazine.
 The defense here es-ned to the stand. John M O'Neill. editor of the Miners Magazine. O'Neill said he had been a miner for twenty eight yeafs. The witness declared Mover and Haywood had nothing to do with the magazine although theX occasionally wrote sign ed articles.
 What Is the purpose of the maga- zineg'
 ITO educate the miners and unite them politically"
 The witness said he had known Or chard in Denver.
 In his office one day Orchard asked him where Gov. Peabody and Gen. sherman Bell lived and said they ought to be bumped off"
 Just at this. point in the converse ton the witness wife afH daughter came in and Orchard made no fur ther reference to the matter.
 ONeill was cross examined by Sem ator Borah. He said the magazine was supposed to reflect the official views of. the Western Federation of Miners. which in convention adopted the views of socialism The magazine Is paid for by the Western Federation of Miners and all monc., has to be paid out on the order f Haywood, as secretary treasurer. --
 The magazine could not run twen- ty four hours without the approval of Haywood, could it?' asked Senator Borah. @
 The magazine has been adopted by the organization and the organizat tion Is more powerful tha. any one officer.
 If Mir. Haywood should decide to pay out the necessary money the exec utive board would probably tell him what his duties were"
 And the executive board" comment ed the interrogator, would get back to Mover, Haywood, Jack Simpkins and Marion Moore and the others?'
 "Yes, sir"
 O'Neill said he did not know of any conflict of opinion in the executive board as to the magazine and had never been told the magazine was un- successful. At this point Senator Bor- ah began to quote from several issues ing the death of Governor Steunenberg. One of these contained the expression, The press dispatches report the dis solution of Steunenberg via the bomb route"
 O'NeilI said the wrote the sentence. , Wasn't it a fact" Queried the wit. ness.
 "Yes, I suppose it is," said Senator Borah.
 The lawyer next read an extract from another paper which was reprinted in The Miners Magazine. It read: "A chap by the name of ,Steunenberg was blown up the other day at Caldwell. He came into fame as the inventor of that reverend institution known as the bull pen.' It seems a bomb was care lessly left at his gate presumably by some Russian revo1utionist. Such care lessness should be drowned down. The gate was completely wrecked"
 CfNeill said he selected the clipping and had it published.
 Unframed Editorial.
 Did you write this editorial?" Sem ator Borah read an editorial appearing in The Miners Magazine of January, 1905, beginning with the statement that Steunenberg had been issued into eternity and thus had closed the career of a man who showed no mercy
 Continuing, the editorial in most in- flammatory terms, detailed outrages in the "bun pen" in 1899. attributing to Steunenberg the responsibility for the calling of "black brutes of soldiers who outraged the wives and sisters of min CTS and refused the request of miner who with the dew of death upon his brow, asked for minister and was told that he could make his confession in he'll"
 The editorial went on to say that the death of Steunenberg was a step forward but that the murder of one man did not destroy this system adop- ted by the capitalistic class. In con cIusion the editorial said that the sud- den extermination of Steunenberg was not of great moment because Steunen- berg would know the result"
 Did you write that editorial?' re- peated Senator Borah. .-
 "Yes sir ."
 And you expressed the views of the organization?'
 T think I did,"
 You are sure of 1t. aren't you?"
 "Yes sir. I am."
 O'Neill declared that Orchard had never come to headquarters in Denver to ask for money.
 w. F. Davis. leading member of the Western Federation, was called to the stand as the luncheon adjournment was taken.
 After recess Davis said he was TOW a resident of Goldheld, Nev. He be- gan mining seventeen years ago in the Couer d'Alene district. He joined the miners union in 1899. He went to work at the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mine in 1891. In 1898 Davis said he went to Alaska. He came back to Ida ho thirteen months later. The Bun ker Hill explosion occurred April 29, 1899. Davis said he joined the West ern Federation in September, 1899. be- fore this he belonged to the Western Labor Union. Davis said he knew Fred Bradley of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mine. but never had any trou- ble with them.
 Did you have anything to do with the blowing up of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mine?" asked Darrow.
 Did you lead a body of 1000 men to blow it up?''
 NO sir"
 Did you know Harry orchard"
 "No sir"
 Were you member Of the union at that time?"
 No sir"
 Orchard declared on the stand that Davis was one of the leaders of the party which went 10 blow up the mili. After the Couer d'Alene trouble Davis went to California and later to Bis bee, Ariz. where he secured work for a while but was discharged when the mine owners discovered that his name was Davis and that he was a member of the western Federation. He had assumed the name of w. F. Jones to get work From Arizona Davis went 10 Cripple Creek He took out card in the Altman union No. 9 and be- came president of the local in March, 1902. Davis was president a little more