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VOL. 44.
SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO, WEDNESDAY JULY 10, 1907.
NO. 127.
DEFENDS
FELLOW PRISONER
Accused Union Of
ficial Goes on Wit
ness Stand
DEIS ORCHARD'S STORY
President Western Federa
tion Gives Strong Testi
mony For Haywood.
. 'Boise, July 10. Charles P. Moyer,
president of the Western Federation
of Miners, and a fellow defendant of
W. D. Haywood, was sworn as a
witness today. He was called to the
stand at 10:15 o'clock and was es
corted into court by a deputy sheriff.
He seemed quite self possessed and
as he walked to the witness stand
looked around the court room, appar
ently seeking a glimpse of his wife,
who occupied an inconspicuous chair
behind the press table.
" Moyer displayed some .nervousness,
as his examination began but -within
a few minutes he was steadily de
tailing his connections with the West
cm Federation of Miners. During his
review of the Couer d'Alene strike in
1899, the 'witness said he was in sym
pathy with the strikers in their strug
' gle but he never had any personal
hostility to ex-Governor Steunenberg.
Shortly before noon the witness en
tered upon a lengthy examination as
to the Cripple reek strike in 1903-4.
With the utmost deliberation he de
nied that he ever discussed the ex
plosion of the Vindicator mino as
detailed by Harry Orchard. Moyer
said he was iu Joplin, Missouri, at
the time of the explosion in Decem
ber, 1903, and said that he never met
Orchard until January, of the next
year when Orchard came to Denver
to attend a labor convention. Moyer
denied ever giving Orchard money
at any time or that he had knowledge
of Orchard ever having been given
money by any officer of the Western
Federation.
" He admitted delaying Ids trip to
Ouray with Orchard in 1904. . He said
Orchard was going there and that he
Moyer, suggested 'that they travel to
gether. This was for self protection
because of the attacks on members of
the organization. He described their
arrangements for carrying revolvers
and "sawed off shot-guns" which he
said were secured by Pettibone, Or
chard, Moyer, said, bought his own
ticket but. Moyer paid their expenses
at the hotel.
Finish Reading Depositions.
When the Ha wood triyal opened
this morning Senator Borah for
the state read the examination
in deposition of W. A. Abornathy
a contractor and former miner in' the
Coeur d'Alene district who declared
that he heard Orchard say he would
"get Steunenberg some time." This
was the last of the depositions which
had occupied the court since Monday.
When reading of the depositions
was concluded, John T. Tierny, a news
paper correspondent of Denver, was
called by the defense. He testified re
garding ine political situation in uo
lorado in 1904 and 1905, when it was
alleged attempts were made on the
lives of Governor Peabody and Su
preme Court Justices Goddard and
Gabbert. Tierny was asked what the
public feeling in the city of Denver
was as against Peabody and the su
preme court In 1904-5. There was an
objection and a long argument. .'
(Darrow declared It was the purpose
of the defense to show there were
others whose feelings and not motives
were stronger than any that could be
charged against the Western ..Federa
tion of Miners. Judge Wood in
quired if he intended to show that
. somebody other than Orchard com
mitted the 'crimes.
'No, your "honor," replied Darrow,
"we will presume Orchard did these
things but we propose to show he was
acting as an agent for those who
must have had a stronger feeling than
the Western Federation. We propose
to show that these defendants had ab-
, solutely nothing to do with Orchard
in connection with these incidents. We
want to show a motive pure and sim
ple. We want to show that a great
class of people in the city of Denver
had a feeling infinitely stronger than
. 'has been charged against the Fed
eration as a result of the eight hour
law decision.".
Newspaper Correspondent, Testifies.
Darrow here said he desired to go
into the matter in detail and state
the facts expected to be proved by
the witness. ' This was. granted and
Tierny went at length into the mat
ter of the Peabody-Adams guberna
torial contest and the attempt to un
seat the Democratic members of the
legislature. The judges of the Supreme
Court elected as- Populists and Demo-
nHAita ullail titlf V 1)amK1(yiAna fhn
1 viHta amcu nihil liic ncuuiivauaf
declared, and the feeling grew so
strong that flags were displayed at
ANOTHER NEW
TOWN SPRINGING UP
La Lande on Eastern Railway of New
Mexico in Roosevelt County At
tracting Homeseekers.
Dr. L. P. Strayhorn, of La Lande,
Roosevelt County, a new town on the
line of the Eastern Railway of New
Mexico, is spending the week in the
city. He was an applicant for a li
cense to practice medicine before the
Territorial Board of Health which was
granted. The doctor is a graduate of
the Memphis, Tennessee, College,
La Lande is a new town on the Belen
cut off and contains now about 250
people. It Is two and a half miles
north of Old Fort Sumner on the
Pecos 'River. The country about La
Lande is settling up very rapidly and
many homestead entries have been
made there during the past several
months and 'homestead settlers are
still coming. Water is obtained by
drilling at from 50 to 100 feet depth.
The water is good.
The settlers who broke land during
the winter and seeded it will have
good crops without irrigation. Crops
so far are principally corn, milo
maize, kafflr corn, sorghum, and vege
tables. There has been a sufficient
amount of rainfall so far. The settlers
have come mostly from Oklahoma and
Texas and are pretty well to do and
are bringing livestock, farming ma
chinery and household goods. Many
settlers south of the railroad have
put up substantial Improvements and
fences.
The big steel bridge across the
Pecos River is completed and has been
standing for some time. It is one of
the longest bridges on the Santa Fe
Railway system. Up to date local rail
way trains have been running to the
Pecos River but, by the first of August
it is understood that local train ser
vice will be extended to Vaughan, a
station where the Eastern Railway of
Xew Mexico crosses the El Paso &
Southwestern Railway, 72 miles west
of La Lande.
(Dr. Strayhorn says that the experi
ments in planting cotton dn the vicin
ity of La Lande so far are turning
out well. He- was raised on a cotton
plantation and although he fears that
the nights in western Roosevelt Coun
ty are too cold, nevertheless It looks
as if cotton will be raised success
fully from present indications. The
altitude for cotton raising may prove
too high, however.
TWO CENT FARES
I Bill
Inaugurates Low
Rate Regardless of
State Laws
EFFECTIVE III TEN DAYS
Action of This Big System
Will Force Other Lines
to Follow Suit.
Omaha, July 10. Assistant General
Passenger Agent Buckingham, of the
Burlington Railroad today announced
that within ten day the Burlington
would put in operation the two-cent
passenger fare schedule between all
points on that system regardless of
whether" or not the different states
have passed the two-cent law.
The Burlington traverses Wyoming,
Montana, Colorado, Nebraska, Kan
sas, Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Wiscon
sin, Minnesota and South Dakota.
Clerks are now working upon the
new schedule and the rate will be
placed in operation just as quickly as
the new tariff is completed.
The action of the Burlington will
undoubtedly cause other roads in the
same territory to follow suit.
OKLAHOMA CONSTITUTIONAL
CONVENTION RECONVENES.
Guthrie, Okla., July 10. The con
stitutional convention that early this
year drafted the constitution for the
proposed new state of Oklahoma re
convened here today after ' a 1 two
months' recess. The convention will
set a new date for a vote by the
people upon the ratification or rejec
tion of the constitution. A final ad
journment is expected within ten
days. , '. - v
half mast and noses hung in windows
for the supreme court. The court sus
tained the objection to this testimony
and Tierny left the stand.
Charles P. Moyer, was then called
to the stand. He said he had been
a miner since 1883 and that he joined
the Western Federation of Miners in
1897 and was first elected president
of the Federation In June, 1902, hav
ing been re-elected annually ever
since. The witness was closely ques
tioned about his duties as head of the
organization.
WORD TELLS A FAIRY
TALE ABOUT PRISON FUNDS
BUILDING COLLAPSES
KILLING WORKMEN
Large Concrete Structure in Philadel
phia Crumbles Victims Crushed
in Ruins.
Statement to Penitentiary Commission
ers Based Upon Hot Air and Imag
inary Balances and Resourses
FORMER SUPERINTENDENT JUGGLES FACTS LrZ'HES
To Controvert Acting Governor RoynoloY Communica
tion Concerning Unsatisfactory Condition of
Prison Financies.
Under the heading "Was Acting
Governor Raynolds ignorant or jug
gling With Truth?" and three other
sensational, misleading and cooked up
heads, fake reformer Danny Macpher
son in the Albuquerque Morning Co
yote Journal of yesterday published
a letter nearly four columns In length
purporting to be an official communi
cation to the 'board of penitentiary
commissioners from Arthur Trelford,
the removed superintendent of the
Territorial 'penitentiary, dealing with
the facts and figures contained in an
official communication addressed by
Acting Governor James W. Raynolds.
to the board of penitentiary commis
sioners in which it is set forth that the
financial affairs of the Territorial peni
tentiary were in very unsatisfactory
condition and that the property of the
Territorial prison was in a bad state,
in great need of repair and substitu
tion of new machinery.
Trelford's epiBtle may have brought
the Albuquerque Morning Coyote some
$50 for insertion and that it Is an estab
lished fact that that sheet will publish
any untruth, any lie, any .misstate
ment, any libel, any slander, for
boodle, the publication is not to , be
wondered at and will not astonish any
one at all acquainted with the career
of "greed, graft and venom," of the
Coyote.
"Inquiry into the situation at ihe
Territorial penitentiary, -toother .wits
an ability to add 2 and 2, soon proves
conclusively tliat ex-Superintendent
Trelford's defense of his financial
management of that institution is
puffed up and ipadded with the same
quality of mathematical "hot air"
made popular in certain quarters
about a year ago by one McMahon
the would-be financial expert from Co
lorado Springs. When contrasted
with actual facts, however, the state
ments of Trelford are sufficiently bald
faced to make poor old Ananias turn
over in his grave, while McMahon
will blush with envy at having shown
himself to be such a veritable tyro
in juggling with figures.
Seven Thousand Dollars Worth of Coal
. on Hand!
With coal costing about four dol
lars per ton this means nearly two
thousand tons of coal, and as the
average car holds twenty tons it
means only 200 cars of coal or ten
train loads of twenty cars to the train.
Shade of Ananias hang your head
with shame! But where, Oh, where,
are all of these train loads of coal?
There may be as much as 300 tons
stored in the coal house and less than
that amount in an open pile in the
yard. The remainder of this big lot
of coal "on hand" remains to be
bought and paid for by Superintendent
Littrell, and the amount of coal neces
sary to run the institution for the re
maining five months of the present
fiscal year will cost between $G,000
and $7,000.
The removed superintendent then
states that Mr. Bursum left him a
deficiency of $12,000, but, carefully
neglects to make any reference to the
fact that Mr. Bursum also turned over
to him about $12,000 worth 6f material
and supplies on hand, $5,000 worth of
good bills receivable which Trelford
collected, and that Superintendent
Bursum turned in 'besides this amount
$4,190 upon claims made by McMa
hon, or a total of more than $20,000
all of which Trelford lost no time
In spending.
Again, Trelford forgets to mention
the fact that in reporting upon per
manent improvements made by him
he charged "the taxpayers for brick
laid in the wall at the rate of $17
per thousand. As the brick and lime
are made by the convicts and laid In
the wall by the convicts they are
worth in that condition not to ex
ceed $5 per thousand. So the "ex
pert superintendent" and ex-offlcio ac
countant only pads this item in the
sum of $1.2 peT thousand, or at the
rate of 250 per cent of hot air. But
most beautifully does the ex-superintendent
tangle his feet in trying to
show that a sum of $47,900 will he
"available . during the next, five
months for proper maintenance of the
Institution." , Of this amount he
properly cites a balance in the main
tenance fund amounting to $6,566.25,
then goes on guilelessly to include
$5,490 in El Camlno Real fund, $3,469
in the current expense fund, together
with small sums in the penitentiary
board fund, income fund and perma
nent improvement fund. Possibly
this skilled accountant will be so good
as to explain to the public how the
i balance in these other funds are to
bo used for "maintenance?"
Where is the Money to Come From?
But the greater portion of this
hypothetical $47,000 is to come from
$11,000 worth of bills receivable and
$20,000 worth of supposed convicts'
earnings during the next five months.
These bills receivable may be col
lectible, and again they may not be.
The rate at which the amount of bills
receivable has been increasing during
Trelford's administration does not
promise very well for the possibility
of collecting these outstanding ac
counts. Again, if he had left the
brick kilns In good condition and the
brick machinery in serviceable condi
tion, it might be possible to earn
his imaginary $20,000 during the next
five months. It is just as likely, how
ever, that his careless management
of the brick making plant will make
it necessary to close down for two
or thiee months in order to make ex
tensive repairs in that department,
and in the meantime there is left ac
tually available for maintenance of the
institution only the $C,500, now on
f harid In the maintenance fund.
itZ.? other portions of this lengthy
exposition upon the financial condi
tion of the Institution are made up of
lie same sort of twaddle mixed In
with half-hearted admissions of the
truth of the statement as to the finan
cial history of this institution during
the past year as furnished to the
board of penitentiary commissioners
by the Acting Governor. The various
items which have been discussed
have given a very fair sample of the
value of the whole production and
serve to indicate clearly and finally
the fact that ex-Superintendent Trel
ford had about as much ability to
manage the financial affairs of this in
stitution as he had expert knowledge
of the methods of treating prisoners
and the maintenance of proper discipline.
Philadelphia, July 10. Six work
men are believed to have been killed
by the collapse of Brldgeman Brothers
building on Washington Avenue, be
low Fifteenth Street, this afternoon.
One body, that of John Marshall, has
been taken out and at least five oth
ers are in the ruins. At the time of
the collapse about twenty-five men
were at work.
The building was of reinforced con
crete and when the east wail began
to crumble many workmen Jumped
and escaped. A number of others
were carried down and if not instantly
killed it is believed they cannot sur
vive. Scores of men are working to
reach the unfortunate, victims, but the
work Is slow because of the immense
weight of the debris to be moved.
SANTA FE INDICTED
FOR REBATING
Chicago Grand Jury Charges This
Road With Giving Sugar Beet
Company $12,000.
Chicago, July 10, An indictment
charging the Atchison, Topeka, & San
ta Fe Railway with granting rebates
amounting to $12,000 to the United
States Sugar Beet Company, of Gar
den City, Kansas, was returned today
by the federal grand jury. The indict
ments contains sixty-five counts, each
relating to the alleged infringment of
the law and the company, If convicted,
is subject to a maximum fine of $300,
000 or a minimum fine of $65,000.
GETTING READY FOR
OPENING BALL GAME.
The Santa Fe Centrals are practic
ing every evening for the baseball
game Sunday, July 21, when they will
cross bats with the Albuquerque Mc
intosh Browns, at the opening of the
new park in Santa Fe. It Is expect
ed that the grandstand will be finished
by next Tuesday or Wednesday. The
grounds when completed will be the
finest for baseball purposes in New
Mexico. An excursion will be run
from Albuquerque on the day of the
opening game.
CIVIL SERVICE EXAM
FOR MESSENGER BOY
A civil service examination was
held this morning by the local exam
ining board for the position of mes
senger in the U. :S. Weather Bureau.
There were three applicants who took
the examination, namely: Vernon
Small, . Charles Gooch, and Julius
Loomls. The salary of the position
ranges from $30 to $60 per month.
Vernon Small is being temporarily
employed as messenger.
BRINGS SUIT AGAINST
8ANTA CRUZ FIRM.
The Puritan Manufacturing Com
pany of Iowa City, Iowa, through At
torney E. C. Abbott, of this city filed
a suit today in tiie district court of
Santa Fe County against the firm of
Morris & Clark of Santa Cruz. The
action is to recover $200 with in
terest, the principal being alleged to
be due on a bill of merchandise.
CHICAGO MAN PRESIDENT
EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION
Los Angeles, July 10, E. E. CooleY,
superintendent of the Chicago public
schools, was nominated for president
of the National Educational Associa
tion today by a unanimous vote by
the nomination committee. No other
name was presented and this means
his unanimous election this afternoon.
ARIZONA DELEGATES TO
AMERICAN MINING CONGRESS.
Phoenix, Arizona, July 10. Gover
nor Kibbey has named the delegates
from Arizona to the next session of
the American Alining Congress which
will be held in September at Joplin,
Missouri. The delegates are: Walter
Douglas, L.'W. Powell, Bisbee, James
Colquehon, J. W. Bennie, Clifton;
Charles K. Mills, Morenci; W. L.
Clark, Jerome; W. F. Staunton, Tomb
stone; F. M. Murphy, Prescott; Frank
Powers, Harshaw; R. N. Hegardt,
Globe.
I
on
Government Files
Suit in U. S.
Court
SEEKS TO DISSOLVE MERGER
American, Imperial, United
Cigar Company and 56
Others Made Defendants.
New York, July 10. The govern
ment filed today in the United States
Circuit Court of this city, a petition
against the American Tobacco Com
pany, the Imperial Tobacco Company,
the British American Tobacco Com
pany, the American Snuff Company,
the American Cigar Company, the
United Cigar Stores Company, the
American Stogie Company, McAn
drews and Forbes Company, Conley
Foil Company, and fifty-six other cor
porations and twenty-nine individuals
connected with the companies named.
Sesks to Dissolve Trust.
These organizations and Individuals
constitute the "Tobacco Trust" and
the petition directed against them
sets forth the purpose of the govern
ment to dissolve this trust by break
ing up the agreements under which
the consolidated concerns are work
ing. The petition, in showing the growth
of the trust since its organization in
1S90, reaches the conclusion that at
an early date, unless prevented, it
would completely monopolize the en
tire tobacco industry.
Destroying Competition.
The American Tobacco Company in
1901, the petition states, secretly ac
quired control of the United Cigar
Stores Company (for a long time there
after denied) and through it retail
tobacco stores are established in large
cities which by reason of the power
ful support and Influence of the com
bination have quickly secured a dom
inating position in trade and are de
stroying competition.
Criminal Prosecution Likely.
James C. McReynolds, special as
sistant attorney general, who filed a
complaint in the tobacco cases said
today that criminal prosecution of
some of the defendants named In the
case was highly probable, as the Sher
man law under which the action Is
'brought makes a conspiracy in re
straint of trade' a criminal offense.
JAPANESE ADMIRAL
GALLS US COWARDS
He Promptly Re
tracts Interview,
However
111 REGRETS BLUNDER
Washington Denies Sensa
tional Report Sent From
Hague- Aoki May Resign.
Tokio. July 10. The Hechi pub
lished a sensational interview with Ad
miral Sakamoto yesterday in wh'ch
the admiral was quoted as saying that
the officers of the American navy were
incompetent and that the sailors
would rather retreat than meet the
Japanese on the high seas. Realizing
that Admiral Sakamoto had made a
serious blunder, the government took
prompt steps to retract the inter
view. In consequence the Hechi will to
morrow withdraw its interview with
Admiral Sakamoto who was quoted as
saying that American naval officers
were brilliant social figures, but defi
cient in professional training and
practice and that the crews of Amer
ican ships would retreat rather than
fight Japan. '
Simultaneously the Hechi will pub
lish an anonymous Interview with a
Japanese' naval expert, highly eulogis
tic of the efficiency of the present
American navy and the high standard
of its gunnery.
The report that Ambassador Aoki
will return home is officially denied
here1.
Prompt Denials at Washington.
Washington, July 10. From the
State Department and from the Jap
anese embassy here came swift and
conclusive denials today of the accur
acy of the statement cabled from The
Hague to the London Daily Telegraph
and re-printed in this country to the
effect that Japan has made categor
ical demands upon the United States
government Cor satisfaction in connec
tion with the treatment of Japanese
in San Francisco and has served no
tice of her intention to deal with the
Californians herself If the national
government fails to do so.
At the State Department it is raid
that the American public is fully
aware of the nature of the exchanges
that have taken place on this subject.
That there has bene no correspond
ence of recent date and that there are
no negotiations now in progress be
tween the two governments is well
known.
This statement is fully confirmed
at the Japanese embassy where more
over it is positively stated that Am
bassador Aoki is not going to Japan
next fall as reported in the Japanese
newspapers.
Hope Aoki Will Resign.
Xew York, July 10. The Herald's
Tokio correspondent in a dispatch to
day, states it is generally believed In
Tokio that the dispatching of Director
Ishl of the foreign office to the Uni
ted States on a secret mission was
necessitated by the unsatisfactory and
meagerness of Ambassador Aoki's re
ports from Washington oh the present
complications between Japan and the
United States.
Viscount Aoki's long services and
honors make it difficult for the pres
ent government to remove him as am
bassador at the American Capital, but
many express the 'hope that he will
take the hint given in Ishi's mission
and resign. .
AUTOISTS START ON
1,600 MILE TOUR
.ft
Eighty-One Cars Enter Contest for
Valuable Glldden Trophy of 1907
Left Cleveland Today.
Cleveland, Ohio, July 10. Through
a tunnel of closely packed and cheer
ing spectators three hundred men and
women iff fancy auto garb glided
away from Cleveland this morning In
cars entered for the Gliddea trophy
of 1907. From 7 o'clock, when the
first car went away, until the last one
was speeding westward there was
Imminent pressing danger that some
body would be killed.
The crowd which was intensely in
terested, overlapped the radiators
and steps of the autos. In all 81 cars
started. The tourists will cover
1.G00 miles on the trip, the first stop
being Toledo, Chicago, Columbus,
Pittsburg, Philadelphia, and New
York, all to be visited in the order
named, No racing will be allowed
the pace being limited to not more .
than twenty miles per hour.
JUDGE RODEY EN ROUTE
TO NEW MEXICO HOME
Washington, July 10. Judge B. S.
Rodey, of Porto Rico, will leave hero
tomorrow for Albuquerque, New Mex
ico, where he will spend his vacation
visiting bis family. A