New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-04
staff Correspondencel

CHICAGO, April 3.-"Rcd" Doan
who wears full set of glowing
whskcrs and whose home is anywhere
west of the Mississippi, tucked his plug
of twist tobacco back into the hind
pocket of his blue denim overalls and
spat accurately into ncwgrcen por-
celain cuspidor. When his l13 co de
PENDENT members of the |. W. W. had
performed similar rites. each using his
individual cuspidor, the selection of a
jury for their TRIAL before United States
District Judge Kencsaw Mountain
Lands got under way.
Court opened o-day with an unusual
announcement from the bench. Judge
Lands rose, ran an impatient hand
through his shock Of hair and said:
81 want cuspidors brought into the
court for every one of the defendants.
These men have the right to chew to-
bacco and should not be deprived Of
that comfort" Whereupon the Judge
pointed his aquilnc features toward
his own cuspidor and proved himself
no less accurate than Red" nolan
Court attendants scurrcd through
the building in search Of the vessels,
and, though they stripped the other
oi1ces, it was necessary to purchase
sixty more to comply with the judges
order.
Men Craved a Chew
The trial had been postponed Mon
day and again on Tuesday because of
the illness of several of the prison
crs. United States District Attorney
Charles I. Clync had expressed a de
termination to provide sufficient doc
tors to keep all the men in good physi-
cal condition, but one of the prisoners
SAID that they didn't require medicine
but simply craved the privilege Of
using tobacco in the manner to which
they were accustomed. He said the
deprivation had made them exceeding
~ nervous and that some Of the men,
fearing to spit on the floor, had swa-
lowed the juice and so became i'll.
1t was this state of affairs that
Judge Lands corrected to-day in an
order quite as unprecedented as was
his S2900O,000 fine imposed on the
Standard Oil Company
Two Jurors Accepted
When court adjourned this afternoon
two jurors had been tentatively accept
cd by both sides and the government
had used two of its six peremptory
challenges. One Of those rejected by
the government was Thomas w. Ali
son, a Chicago settlement worker and
the father OF Brent Allison, who was
recalled from diplomatic post in
Switzerland after The New York Trib-
unc had exposed his pacitist sentiments
and activities. Young Allison is now
classcd at Camp Grant Rockford, H..
as a dcscrter. Instead of reporting
there with the rest Of his draft quota
he went to Washington to appcal to
the President for exemption from mill
tary service.
The two tentatively accepted jurors
are William Mallow, a journeyman
plumber, Of Chicago, and A. j. Mckee,
of Morrison, ILL.,. tradesman The de-
fence challenged two vcniremen for
cause and still has the right to ten per
cmptory challenges. 1t is believed the
entire week will be consumed in the
selection of d jury.
When the first twelve veniremcn
walked into the jury box this morning
the unshaven, flannel shirted prisoners
scowled at their white collars, neatly
BACKED shoes and shavcn faces. "Not
a regular workingman in the bunch"
growled one of the defendants out of
the side of his mouth a trick of speak
ing picked up, no doubt, in the Cook