Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-11-06

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derstood some questions put ID hin,
n ind wished to advise that he had never
Violated any liquor laws or been en-
gaged IN the LIQUOR business; that he
owned q drug store and that liquor wa
handled there. bus not in violation ~
the law. He was asked by Mr.. Bis
SELL II It were not true that in 1907
he was indicted for violating the liz
/ uor. laws and operating q bavdy house
and that the case was dismissed when
Il came to district court upon his rep
resenting that he had discontinued the
uniawful business. The witness ad.
mitted being indicted, but denied the
latter part In connection with the dis
missal stating 1t was political move
ment If you run for office up in
that country and they can't beat you,
they will put you in JAIL" he declared.
He also volunteered the statement that
he was never engaged in the whole-
sale liquor business, having also mis-
understood that question when put to
him Wednesday.
M'KAio TAKES STAND.
Ray McKaig. plaintiff in the $4,000
libel suit against former Governor
Gooding and the Statesman Printing
company, took the stand yesterday
afternoon at $40 and for more than
/ an hour testified in his own behalf.
| The witnesses recorded brief his
tory of his life. testified that his IA
Their was a Civil war veteran, Of his
being a Methodist minister, relinquish-
ing his pulpit because of his health
and taking UP a homestead in North
Dakota. where he became interested
in the Nom Partisan League. He tes-
titled he was a Republican until COM
ing to Idaho, then he interested him.
self in both Democrats and Republic
cans for the reason that the Nom
Partisan League had Endorsed both.
Asked by his counsel concerning his
stand on socialism, Mckaig replied
that he was against socialism because
he felt it was un-American and that
as a preacher he had preached against
socialism and cited an incident where
he had declined an invitation of Rus
sci c. Massey to go to Lake Lowell to
hear Kate Richard O'Hare, because he
did not have much time for that kind
of bunk"
RECITES WAR ACTIVITIES.
Asked by his counsel concerning his
war activities, Mckaig testified he
had always urged in his addresses that
farmers stand behind the government
in war activities, urged them to plant
more wheat and had at meetings taken
up collections for the Red Cross and
especially citing one instance where
he did SO, at Midvale, Idaho. Queried
concerning the ]. w. w. McKaig tes-
| titled that he was not in sympathy
with them, never saw a farmer who
was an ]. w. W. or farmer who
wanted one Of them on his place.
He testified that he was field sec
rotary for the Nom Partisan league, Of
his coming to Idaho upon invitation of
Rev. w. w. Deal and later w. G.
Scholtz and Of his work for the league
inthis state. Under Scholtz and the
former manager of the league.
GREETED KATE O'HARE.
Concerning his visit to the court
room, where Kate Richard O'Hare was
on trial for disloyal utterances, Nc
kaig told of how after the close of the
Grange meeting. he was reading and
talking about the notorious Kate Rich
ard O'Hare and at the suggestion of
someone, he did not know who, they
went to the courtroom to hear the
case while waiting for the train. He
told of their arrival at the courtroom.
OF 1t being filled, but knowing the
United States marshal, secured admit
lance, of the wrangle among the at
torneys, of his getting up to go out
when suddenly he happened to re-
member that Mr.. Massey had said to
give her his regards" and turning he
went inside Of the railing, where the
woman stood alone. He told of calling
her name, of her turning around and
looking at him blankly, of his self in |
PRODUCTION and of telling her, III Rus
sell Massey knew 1 were here he would |
send his regards" He testified, to
having told her that "he hoped she |
would prove herself innocent" of the |
n 60 yNu 90 1Ar - l.
substance, that she did not think she |
could as she did not have her stenog-
rapher with her when she made the |
speech, although she had made It rs |
times before and never got in trouble, |
once having made the same address In |
the Boise valley. McKaig spoke as
though he felt that the woman's arrest ,
at Bowman, N. D., might have prompt
ed his wish that she prove herself in
nocent. he declaring 1t was a town |
where the people were divided, one
half hating the other half, and he
mentioned that he nearly got in trou-
BILE there himself.
HOTEL PROPRIETOR TEsTIFIEs.
f. G. Patterson, owner of three ho-
tells in Bismarck, N D., testified to
having known McKaig for several
years, that he always stopped at his
hotel as far as he knew when in Bis
marck and produced the hotel register
to show that McKaig had registered 1
at the hotel from Dec. 8 to and that |
Mrs. OHare had been at the hotel |
from Dec. to IA. The witness was a 1
long time in finding when McKaig reg
istered in and checked out and on /
cross examination was shown by the
registerer, where McKaig had regis
tered there on Dec. 2. He stated II Il
did not necessarily follow that he had
checked out, but that he might have
changed his room
Asked If he had been in the saloon
business on REORGANIZATION. the
witness testified, that II had never
been proven on him. Asked II he had
been arrested for being In the liquor