The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-03-16


.essOu niuiuoivt "a eA-NiO, ernOi Stvun-
eiIDcls met HIS Late. cNlueuuy resON ca
~ ine,lNv ,n aulenus pUsslDie Mlulni
,ne confines Oh PRISON M,,us Ior a orIll-
iai.l career wan a narUIy u pdIs,llel IA
1ne history Oh inns cOunury Orcraru >
confession SNOW ca tnau ne was = tOOi
u tue VIiicers "a the " esIern euela-
caly W. L. Meyer, presIuenI ". -.
LAY " OOu, secretary, ana Geo. a ret-
uUOne, member Oh the eAecutlVe cOmc
mltlee. These three were arrested IN
DenNer, headquarters Ol the teuera-
uOn, ana brought to BOISE Tor tIIal.
lie concession OF Orchard, the arrest
OI the decoration OIucers and the trIai
OF haywood attracted national ana
even Worldwide attention. There was
an array OF eminent counsel on botn
SIDES, the state being represented 10y
senator W. h. Borah and eX-GoVernor
james ii. Hawley, While Tor the de-
Tense appeared ex-senator john l..
Nugent and Clarence Darrow, che not
ed criminal lawyer OF Chicago. Almost
every leading newspaper in the United
States was represented by special cor
respondent Haywood, the arch CON
splratOr, was finally acquitted, as was
also Pettibone, while Meyer was never
brought to trial. Haywood at once
became the hero of all radical ele-
ments. finally becoming leader of the
l. w. w. and chief promoter OF the
criminal activities of that orsaniza-
ton. He was arrested for seditiOn
during the war, tried, convicted and
sentenced to a long term in Leaven-
worth prison. He was liberated under |
$4,000 bonds pending appeal. The |
supreme court finally affirmed his SEN
tence, but in the meantime Haywood |
had gone to join the bolshevists in
Russia and he is still there. Pettibone
died a few years ago. Meyer still lives
but appears to be no longer a factor of
consequence for good or evil OF the
principals involved in the tragic death
of Governor Steunenberg. Harry Or
chard, the instrument through which
the shocking crime was committed, in
his prison stripes stands out as an
admirable cvharacter compared with
those who used him and escaped pun
ishment for their crimes.
Orchard in Prison.
The Boise Statesman of February 10
contains an interesting account of
Harry Orchards remarkable record in
prison by William b. Pratt. Before
entering upon his criminal career Or
chard was employed by the Markwell
dairy a mile and a half west of this
city and afterward lived in Burke. He
owned a small interest in the Hercules
enough to have brought him great
wealth if he had retained it, but which
he sold to the late Damian Gardener
the proceeds of which, according to re-
ports of that day, he soon lost in gam
bling, his besetting weakness. Mr.
Pratt's story follows:
Convict Captain of Industry.
In a little shop out at the Idaho state
where Warm Springs av-
enue appears to end under an arch of
gray stone, a group of u or Is men
are working day in and day out amid s
the clatter and hum of machinery.
Each has a particular job to do One s
man is expert on one machine, another t
does fine handwork and still another I
brings supplies for the others to work {
with. \
These workers are not ike the mil
lions of others in the country who t
work all day-but for profit. These
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and yet they are forced to work. They Il
10 it because they want to keep busy a
Keep their minds as well as their hands +
employed.
Who are these workers and what are r
hey doing? They are Harry Orchards s
title group of shoemakers and they q
ire making shoes for the inmates of
he penitentiary as well as for 1900 II
,ther persons under the care of the y
tate of Idaho in the several state in q
titutions o.
Of Slow Growth. Il
The little shop with it's group of a.
workers. did not come into existence Of
vernight, nor was it established on Il
nyones preconceived idea of manu- e
SHOES. lulS infant luuuSlIy C
f the state penitentiary has developed d.
developed from a time when just one g
r two men working with crude tools
nd their hands made the toughest Il
ind of shoes for the inmates Of the al
One of these men was W
larry Orchard principal in the Steun- CT
nberg murder case, who started in al
he old penitentiary shoe shop II or 1S ea
ears ago. helping another man by the m
anne of Charles Atwater to make sc
hoes. es
In those days there were no cleo
really driven sewing machines; in
act, the shoes that these two men al
lade were so constructed that only bl
NO short seams were necessary to sew al
he uppers together All the work on is
he shoes was nailed by hand. er