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;-,r :a:;|H^ -.? - '. ' " .V.'; , " I A CHAMPION LIAR ' ,V Is Harry Orchard, Says Attorney for Haywood. OTHER SIDE OF THE CASE * v, t( Defense Begins Task of Breaking y Down Evidence of Prosecution in tj Court at Soi3e?Dar.-ow rj is Sarcastic. ^ r< In an address that occupied two .j sessions of the district court at Boise, o' ^ Idaho, Monday, Clarence Darrow of aj Chicago outlined to the jury the defensc of Wiliiam D. Haywood to the C( charges that he murdered Former Governor .Steunenberg. In broad description it is to be a _ denial of every material count in the f testimony of Orchard with a showing ^ that Orchard killed Steunenberg be- ,j cause of a private grudge borne of -p the loss of a rich 3hare in the great ^ Hercules mine, and explanations of p the independent circumstances that S( tend to connect three co-defendants with Orchard s life and operations. S( Haywood will take the stand to B t make personal denial of Orchard's ac- ^ cusations. Moyer may be called to tes- s] tify solely to events and circumstances* ^ affecting ftie Western Federation of .5 / Miners but Pettibone will not be a <T ? xi witness in this case. Mr. Darrow exAt plained that Moyer and Pettibone ; mus; stand trial for this same crime, j. and declared that every lawyer knew ^ the danger, whatever the circuni3tanc- j es. of exposing men awaiting trial un- ^ der like circumstances. s ^ Mr. Darrow denied tie existence of sthe great conspiracy to murder alleg- w ?d by the state with Orchard's tes- s] timony as a basi3; denied that the e] federation was anything except an f( earnest fighting labor organization. ^ "Harry Orchard," said Mr. Darrow, ''was a cheap soldier of fortune, a e, .shoe-string gambler who had not ever [t dpne a day's work in his life. a -"'We don't think that Orchard was at the Bunker Hill and Sullivans mills. s\ We will show tljat he was not there u ^ and'we will show that he was en- ^ .gaged in his favorite work of gamb- y, lina with the easiest mark he could ir And. We will show that he did not aj participate in most of the crimes of o which he has here boassed. I don't w like to take any of the bloom off a f< peach like that, but while we will show j, he is not the murderer he boasts him self, we will compensate him by proving him to be the most monumental liar that ever existed. d, "Before our first witness leaves the 0] I ^stand, gentlemen, we will convince & .you; we will convince Mr. Hawiey n himself that this man Orchard has s< lied out most of the essential points of his story. We will have from iwen- tf ty-flve to thirty witnesses who will Si take the stand and contradict this man ^ absolutely. Some of these will be ti miners, but others will be eminently na respectable people who have never o] .done a day's work in their lives." & : Here, as at other points in his .speech,. Mr. Darrow's sarcasm caused 01 wave after wave of laughter. Some- c< times the bailiffs had to rap for or- p: f > ?der. \ e< Mr. Darrow briefly sketched the oi wanderings of Orchard as related by tt the wintess. Orchard remained in the ir Couer D'Alenes, he said, trying to re- 3j ^ain possession of his one-sixteenth ?i interest in the Hercules mine until he was driven out by fear of. arrest, and confinement in the "bull pen." "Then he wandered from place to y place, seldom working," said Mr. Darrow. "He was a sort of gentlemanly miner who mined the miners. In 1892 J*]f * lie/turned up in Cripple Creek^ But ^ from 1899 to 1903 this important per- 0 sonage in American history, is all except lost to view. Pretty certain, .g however, that during that tkne he ^ could have been found in the back al room of some saloon, gambling. . "If Orchard today held his one-sixtenth intertst in the Hercules mine, lie would be worth half a million dollars: but I think he'd rather have ' T % what he's got because it is more valuable to the newspapers. "That story about the^radley house was another of Orchard's pipe dreams tr p thrown in to make him the greatest criminal of the age. We have a depi cl osition from Mr. Bradley in which he v says the house was wrecked by gas; 1E that he smelled the gas and that when tl he lighted his cigar the explosion oc- f* curred. Orchard never, blew up the Bradley house, and I tell you this without having any special intention i o! defending Harry Orchard." i FIRST BALE RECORD BROKEN. P Farmer in Hidalgo County, Texas, is Candidate for the Blue Ribbon. p Cleveland & Sons, at Houston, Tex- a 1* as., received the first bale of the new a] ( crop of cotton Thursday night by ex- q< press from E. M. Ruthven, of Run, oi Hidalgo county. Last year the first a bale arrived July 6, and the earliest j< bale heretofore was June 22, 1301. S H ^ t# . % -" ' - - V V UD6E LOVING ON TRIAL Ian Who Avenged Dishonor of Hi3 Daughter Arraigned in Virginia Court on Murder Charge. The trial of former Judge W. C. Lovlg for the murder of young Theodore Istes, the sequel of a buggy ride rhich Estes took with Loving's daughir, moved rapidly at Hous:cn, Va., londay, and when court adjourned in le afternoon the prosecution had 2sted and the defense had begun its ase. The progress of the trial was smarkable. Before adjournment of le morning session, a jury had been ^cured, mostly middie-aged men and 11 but three of them married; eleven f them being farmers, the lone exeption being a merchant. The taking f testimony began upon the recoaening of court, and late in the afteroon the commonwealth rested its ase, and Judge Loving, whose demse is the unwritetn law, had taken le witness stanch in hi6 own behalf, he widespread interest in the case ra3 manifest. A large crowd was resent, but perfect order was obsrved. The trial eclipses in interest and ensation the McCue and the Strotherywaters case in Culpeper. Judge Lov lg, armed with a double-barreled lotgun, instantly killed young Estes, hile he was unloading a car of ferlzer in Oakridge, on April 22, followlg a buggy ride on the evening bejre of Estes and Miss Elizabeth Lovig, the nineteen-year-old daughter of udge Loving. The girl, when brought ome, had been drinking, and it is al'ged that her escort had maltreated er. Acting under the impulse that his aughter had been drugged and aslulted, Judge Loving immediately 'ent in search of Estes. After the looting he said:."I shot to kill. Evry drop of blocd in mv body called >r vengeance. I would have gene a undred miles to kill him." The trial is one of the most intersung in the annals of criminology 1 Virginia. Judge Loving, a politician, man of wide prominence, a former irist, had the unique distinction o! 'Itniltnnr at tl?a hai> Art trial fnr Vl Ic ^aiiUlUg Gfcls bUV VCM V* V* AM* mmmmm fe in the same court over which he imself presided for a number of ears, when an indictment of murder i the first degree .was returned gainst him-la3t month at Lovingston. n that occasion a change 6f venue as granted on account of the bitter ieling existing in Nelson county, adge William H. Barksdale of Hali* ix county, who had been designated jr Governor Swanson to try the case t the place of Judge Bennett T. Goron, who declined to sit on account f personal feelings existing between imself and Judge Loving, transfer3d the case to Houston, the county sat of Halifax. The history of thfe case itself is in* 'resting because of the obscurity that irrounds the main points at issue? hether or not Judge Loving was ju3fled in taking the life of the young tan whom he believed to be guilty t a grave crime against his young aughter. On this point, as on the ultimate utcome of the trial itself, Nelson aunty is split in twain. The social rominence of the two families involv* i conduces greatly to the scrain upa the feelings of the rival factions, le political aspects or tne case Denatg the minds of the populace as one de or the other gains the ascendacy. TEXAS BARS CONSUMPTIVES. t fill Quarantine Persons Suffering Acute Stage of Disease. All persons suffering from tubercu>sis in an advanced stage are to be abarred from entering Texas. Dr. rumby, state health officer, has stati that within a few days he would sue a proclamation establishing a gid quarantine against all persons fflicted with the disease in an acute agree. RUSS SOLDIERS ON STRIKE. rouble Breaks Out Among Czdr's Troops tSationed at Kaluga. Trouble has broken out among the oops stationed at Kaluga, Russia, eneral Orloff left St. Petersburg urriedlv Wednesday night to take large of the garrison at Kaluga. No tformation is available as to the na* ire of the trouble, a strict censorlip on press dispatches having been LStituted since the dissolution of the ima. AGREEMENT FALLS THROUGH. ressmen Repudiate Compact Entered Into With United Typothetae. The International Association of rinting Prss3men at its convention t Brighton Beach, N. Y., by a vote of 02 to 93, repudiated the five-year freemen t with the United Typothetae f America, which was entered into a January 18 last. Thi3 agreement ffected 19,000 pressmen in book and >b offices throughout the United tates. . . ... y ; ' STATE CLOSES CASE Defense in Haywood Trial Will Now Have Inning. ORCHARD CORROBORATED i Prosecution's Closing Day Brought Out An^inef Uau. OUlli; o.i uny r wnika nyainaii i ihjwood?Negro Was One of the Witnesses. When the state closed its case at Boise, Idaho, Friday, against Haywood, charged with the murder Frank Steunenberg, the defense made an unsuccessful attempt to secure from the court an order directing the jury to acquit the prisoner. Judge Woods' ruling, which requires the defense to meet with evidence the case that the state has presented, was made at 5:15 o'clock, and it was then arranged that Haywood's counsel should make their opening statement and present their first testimony on Monday. When the trial opened Friday morning, it was stipulated that the record should show that the date of the draft sent by Haywood to Jack Simpkins late in 1905 was December 21, and after that the prosecution proceed to show by a handwriting expert that George Pettibone, using the names of "J. Wolff" and "P. Bone," made two remittances of money to Harry Orchard at San Francisco, through the Pacific Postal Telegraph company, in the fail of 1904. The state next called Jim Seahorn, a colored horse-trader, who swore that he sold a horse and buggy to Orchard in Denver in 1905, and identified Haywood as one of the men who rode with Orchard. So far, many statements made by Orchard on the stand have been cor roborated. He told of the houses he | visited and the rooms he occupied ia San Francisco; he tcld of expertment3 with the peculiar bomb which, he says, was invented by Pettibone; he told of receiving money from "Pat Bone/' who, he said, was Pettibone; he told of the poisoned milk; he described his plans to vblow Bradley and possibly his whole family to their death with a bcmb loaded with dynamite; he gave his hotel address and each statement has been cororborated by witnesses whose testimony has not been successfully assailed in their cross-examination. The state has contented itself with bringing before the jury the story of the blowing up of the concentrator at Wardner, where Orchard lighted one of the fuses that caused the death of two men. The state commenced its strong corroboration of his story from the time of his connection with the Miners' Union in Colorado and the outbreak of the great strike at Cripple Creek. The Vindicator mine netted the murderer two men. He told how tho powder was stored and where, and how it was fired by a pistol exploded by the lifting of a guard rail to which a wire was attached. The explosion of the Independence depot, confessed to by Orchard, as having been planned and executed by him, resulted in the death of fourteen nonunion miners. Orchard said he hunted Governor Peabody by bomb and gun and both the former governor of Colorado and his daughter have testified to incidents described by Orchard. The attacks on Peabody were failures, but the man who made one of the bombs described by Qrchard has been found and the bomb itself has been traced to the place where Orchard said it would be found. Orchard told of planting a bomb at the gate of Judge Goddard in Denver. This associate justice of the supreme court of Colorado has testified himself to the finding of the bomb after Orchard made his confession exactly where Orchard said he placed it. Orchard said he planted a bomb to kill Judge Gabbert, another justice of the supreme court of Colorado. Judge Gabbert escaped, but the bomb exploded and killed a passer-by whom Orchard described as "an innocent 1 man." Orchard has heen traced Thrnno-h Colorado, Montana, Washington and ' Idaho up to the gate of Governor Steunenberg's residence, where, on DecemI ber 30, 1905, his last fearful crime was committe and Frank Steunenberg 1 was killed. MATTER OF KEEPING FAITH. Alabama Solon Says Bankhead Should . Be Elected by Legislature. President Pro Tem Thomas of the Alabama senate, has stated in an in- , terview that the legislature would j have to elect Bankhead to the senate j to keen faith in any sort of way with < the people. He intimated that any ] move to defeat the wishes of the pri- ( mary would be met with disaster to , the man who leads it. * WOMEN WERE TARGETS In Gory Conflict Over Wine Question Between the Troops and Populace in the South of France. Owing to the fact that the censorship is in operation in the south of France, only brier items of news from the scenes of the wine-growers' demonstrations had reached Paris up to early Thursday afternoon. .These, however, showed that the conflic:s which have taken fclace between the troops and mobs were more sanguinary than at first supposed. At Narbonne three persons were killed and fully a hundred soldiers -and civilians, including a score of women, are said to have been wounded, several of them sustaining fatal injuries. The troops, who were to fire in the air, shot straight at the mob. A whole army cqrps has been put in motion to deal with the rebellious wine-growers, but the government claifns that the forces now are so distributed as to isolate different sections and render it practicably impossible to effect a general mobilization of the dissatisfied people. It was announced that the state banquet, which was to have been given in Paris Thursday evening in honor the king of Siam, had been countermanded, owing to the bloodshed in the south of France. The president's decision created some excitement, as it emphasized the ? - c xT gravity ul me aw-uaui/ii. The newspapers report an attempt J to burn the subprefecture at Narbonne. A mob piled straw at the gates and set fire to it. Gendarmes fired from the upper stories and the attackers fled. It is also announced that there has been further shooting in the streets of Narbonne and many persons have been wounded. Narbonne is described as presenting a remarkable spectacle after the night's battle. The paving stones used in the assault on the troops encumber the streets, the walls are marked with bullets, windows are broken and the cafes are wrecked, the furniture having been used for building baricades. Broken bottles, used as clubs, litter the strets everywhere. Many of the wounded are suffering from shot wounds, and saber gashes or from fractured skulls or limbs. There are no signs of danger abating, but the overpowering military keeps the people from assembling in large numbers. UTontr Tirino-oTTVMirQrc" Knntinno nfliir Jw?u; nmv g*wnv*w wwmvmmv vw r- ?into Narbonne from, the country districts, and threaten to set fire to the hotels occupied by the army officers. In the chamber of deputies Thursday morning, after a tumultuous scene during which Premier Clemenceau was addressed in insulting terms, an interpellation of the government on its repressive measures towards the wine-growers was postponed until Friday, when the fate of the cabinet may be decided. JAP' AMBASSADOR'S BREAK. Aoki Angers Roosevelt by Demanding Indemnity for 'Frisco Affair. I A dispatch to the Record-Herald, Chicago, from Washington, says: 1 Viscount Aoki, the Japanese ambassador, has incurred President Roosevelt's strong displeasure because of hie iaf?u- nf <i*>Hnar.v And discretion in conducting the negotia;ions relating to the San Francisco attacks on Japanese. Aoki's recall is due to three things: Being out of favor with President Roosevelt. Marrying a German woman (which made him 'unpopular in his own country) and not getting full social recognition from the members of the diplomatic corps in Washington. Before the president left for Oyster Bay the Japanese ambassador talked with him about the attacks on Japanese in California and about the destruction of their property. Aoki diplomatically hinted that the United States should pay indemnity to Japan for the San Francisco mob outrages. President Roosevelt remained silent, and mistaking this silence for acquiescence in the suggestion, the ambassador made a definite proposition that the United States pay an indemnity. There was no mistaking the president's attitude then. He forcibly exnrassftrt disannroval of the DroDositioa and dismissed the ambassador witb advice to conduct his negotiations iD future with the state department. Secretary Root was informed of the incident and immediately changed his demeanor toward the Japanese ambassador. WINE WAR PETERS OUT. Situation in South of France Hopeful. Mutinous Troops Repent. The situation resulting from the (vine-growers' movement in southern France which was followed by the resignations, as marks of sympathy, of the offices of many municipalities and oy serious rioting and a mutiny of troops, appears to have improved considerably. -i ' '/' " ' '- - BOYWASMURDERED Kidnapers in New Orleans Commit Fearful Crime. . v "* " ** FIVE ARE LANDED IN JAIL Failing to Secure Ransom for Stolen Youth, They Became Frightened and Strangled Him to Death. Excitement Runs High. A New Orleans special says:'Two miles in the interior of a big swamp near the city the headies3 body ot Walter Lamana, an Italian child between seven and eight years old, who was kidnaped and held for $6,000 ransom two weeks ago, wa3 found by police and vigilants just before daybreak Sunday. He had been strangled to death, according to the confession of one of several Italians held by the police. The boy's neck is supposed to have been broken when he was strangled,* causing the head to become separated from the body when decomposition set in. The head was found a short distance froni the body. Five Italians, two of them women, are under arrest^ charged as accomplices to the murder, and ex:ra details of police and deputies are maintaining order in the excited Italian quarter of the city. All day long small crowds were dispersed promptly by the police, despite whose precautions a report has gotten out summoning a mass meeting a; Elk place. Seventy armed deputies have been placed on guard at the Orleans pa/ish prison, the strongest in the state, where three of the prisoners are held, and some apprehension has been felt over the safety of two other prisoners who have been taken to an adjoining par ISO. Seldom since the mafia lynchings, sixteen years ago, has New* Orleans been so stirred with threats of violence as now, and some of these threats are made by those who participated in disorders at that time. The law and order element* is much stronger than it has been hereotfore. The murdered boy was found near St. Rose, about twenty miles from New Orleans, jn a territory which has been well searched with bloodhounds in the past few days. When the dogs failed to locate the boy a "third degree' sweating process wrung a confession from one of the suspects, who was taken from hi3 home in St. Rose about midnight Saturday night, and carried into the woods by a combined force of'the officials and vigilants, who have had the search in: charge. This man, Ignazio Campigciano, was kept in the wcodr an hour, j when he confessed, charging four Italians with the murder, fle said that about the ti^pe of a mass meeting in New Orleans more than^a week ago, held for the purpose of prosecuting a search for the boy, these men, who were in a vacant house in St. Rose, became frightened and consulted about what to do with the child. The boy was crying, begging to be taken home to his parents, said Campigciano, and one of the quartet of kidnap CT3 gruuueu tut; tunu auu onaugicu him to death to stop his noise. Later, two of the kidnapers came to him carrying the boy in a blanket, and after threa:ening him with death, if he told, took the body into the swamp. Campigciano, after relating this story, led the police by moonlight through two miles cf swamp, where the searchers sometimes waded in . water nearly waist deep, and at others crawled under tangles of -riars. In a shallow pool at the end cf this search, the body was found in a blanket in a ciump of wild cane. ROAD REPORTED SOLD. Rumor That the B. & 0. Has Taken Over Central of Georgia. There was a well defined report in Atlanta Monday that the stock of the Central of Georgia Railway company, up to this time controlled through a holding committee, representing the Southern railway, has been acquired by the Baltimore aad Ohio railroad, the reason for the transfer being the desire to ?eep from violating the Georgia law on the subject, the transfer giving the 3tock to a non-competing line. 'FRISCO TELEGRAPHIC STRIKE. Trouble is Only Local and Will Not Effect Eastern Offices. The Western Union and Postal operators in San Francisco struck Friday afternoon. The order to strike was issued after the Western Union official's refused to arbitrate the grievances complained of. The s.rike is purely local and will not affect eastern offices. 1X-.'i'aT; fi 'STIRS RACE PREJUDICE. I i Address of Senator Foraker at Con* >J mencement Exercises of Negro . ;|| University i3 Deeply Resonted. % *v-j4B :M A Washington special say3: From a M republican standpoint, a bald political !'-;\ I prediction has been made upon Sear i ator Foraker's recent commencement ' M 1 address at Wiibsrforce university, -M i Ohio's' leading colored educational inj ctitution, in which he severely arraign; ed the president and Secr?tary Tat V}M i for their course in the Brownsville,- -. Texas, incident, and urged the negroea M all over the country to stand up H squarely for their rights and array p|j themselves determinedly against the M grandfather clause incorporated in ',>|S several southern states' constitutions. M It has been stated by a man who spoke v;|j authoritatively that a member of the cabinet, after reading Fo raker's &? speech, ventured this prediction: "If Foraker makes many more such | speeches there will be only one political M party in the north and the n^me of.. >'% it will be the white man's party." % From another source, it wa3 learn-*, >:M ed that Secretary Taft is greatly cha- $ grined at Senator Foraker for the $$ ''manner and the tone in which he din- J| cussed the action of the president id. discharging three negro companies of the twenty-fifth infantry, and it da only by the strongest persuasion of close personal friends that he is restrained from answering the fiery For- jM aker without delay. In fact, Secretary v|S Taft may yet decide to reply to Fo?akef while the latter's Wilberforce ^ speech is still fresh in the public v-i|| inind and before his own overwrought ?aj| feelings are calmed by lapse of tim& ,|| | Not only does Secretary Taft feel that 'he i3 called upon to make a personal defense, but as a member of theadministration, which has been. unpro- ^ vokedly attacked he owe3 at least earnest efTort at resistance. "LET TH^ HEATHEN RA^E." >||i Move of Steamship Companies to Tfr? boo South Not Feared. The statement' that the principal - J?? European steamship lines engaged .in -|Sj carrying immigrants had decided to ia?, boo the south was shown to John A, /'Mjk Betjeman, chairman of the executive committee 'of the Georgia Immigrationg Association, vand he was asked for his *j|fl opinion on their action. In response Mr. Betjeman stated that the action of these two lines was not ^ likely to cause any serious concern to either New Orleans, Galveston or'Sa-^/JJ vannah, as it was definitely understood ; that a line as strong and aggressive ^ was arranging to take care of both 1^3 the freight and immigrant busines?-?'3jja into these ports. . , WHO WANTS A RAILROAD? Efforts Being Made to Dispose of the ;S| Central of Qeorgia Holdings. 'J^| The undoubted purpose of the state ^-Ja of Georgia to regulate and control the wrflot raUmQ/l /?nmnr!?Hf?na thrftnffh ' && ^ 1 VUO iUUtVUU "IJJ legislative enactments and executive ?fi administration, accounts for negotia-. \3|| tions now under way in New York forvvt|j| the sale of the Central* of Georgia railroad, and its auxiliary ocean steamship line3. There has developed an :<1| undisputed willingness on the part of certain Interests to dispose of at least \/jm a part of their Central of Georgia : holdings. . S/Jj| BOGUS BOOZE IN BARROQMS. M Seizures of Almost Poisonous Concoc- vfl tions Made at Augusta, Ga. Acting under the pure food , and -|| drugs act,t the revenue authorities are making an investigation of goods of- r-|i fered for sale in the barrooms of Au- ^ gusta, Ga., arid bave developed the V.^ fact that a large percentage of the SM stuff is heavily adulterated, some of " it being grad-id as almost poisonous, 't4m Seizures have been made and the goods turned over to the United States /M authorities. ' -US MITCHELL NAILS FAKE, President Used No "Cut Out'' Renwrkf' y: on Georgia Day. "If the president told any speaker Vj to 'cut it out' at Jamestown on Geor- -fii gia day, I did not hear him do so," ^ says W. N. Mitchell of Atlanta, president of the exposition commission of- ' Georgia. , "I am certani that such words J were not used by the president at the reviewing stand. I presented the pres- } ident, taking just two minutes and forty seconds to do so. The president then followed'with his address." DEADLY CRASH OF TRAINS. I Seven People Reported Killed and Eight Hurt on New York Central. Four persons are known to have " r| been killed, three more are thought to be dead, and eight were badly in jured in a wreck about 11 o'clock atv \ night about a mile east of Pittsford, N\ Y., on the Auburn branch of the New York Central. The train was No. 230, going eas:. It met a freight ' v head-on. . . , . ^gj