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THE OBSERVER CENTRAL CITY, - - COLORADO. a ■ — ■ ■ Standardizing Education. Administrative officers of the Car negie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and of the General Educa tion Board are entrusted with the handling of enormous funds, the inter est on which is to be applied, in the one case to pensioning college profes sors, and in the other to helping needy colleges. The task of the officers of both these institutions has been, and is, complicated by varying educational standards and the lack of an estab lished criterion. One of the earliest works of both institutions, therefore, is likely to be a sort of standardizing of education in America. The question, "What is a college?” would be an swered to-day in different ways by dif ferent men. There is a vast difference between the institutions that bear the name, in the requirements for admis sion and in the courses of study which must be taken to entitle the student to a degree. Something, indeed, to ward the establishment of a college educational standard was accom plished about 25 years ago, when the requirements for admission were made the subject of much discussion, and finally of substantial agreement among a number of college faculties, says Youth’s Companion. Modifications have been made since then in the re quirements, and there have been ad ditions and deductions, but a general agreement still exists. What is needed now is a test which goes deeper and reaches farther —which will take ac count of the purposes and ideals of colleges, and measure both the attain ments of the professors and the suc cess with which they do their work. If either the Carnegie Foundation or the General Education Board, or both .together, can do this, they will there |by benefit the cause of education al-; (most as much as by their gifts of (money. To Grow Their Own Ties. I Allusion has been made to the steps [taken in some directions to counteract ‘the effects of deforestation which has been going on so recklessly in this country. One result of indiscriminate itree destruction has been to curtail 'seriously the supply of railroad ties. As no satisfactory substitute for wood en ties has been found, the situation has become such as to give the rail road companies great concern. Sev eral months ago it was intimated that the Pennsylvania railroad might un dertake the experiment of producing its own ties, or at least a considerable proportion of them. It is now stated that the company is actually to in augurate such a policy. Agents are at work, and they will set out 2,250,000 trees on land in Pennsylvania conveni ently located for the purpose. The company uses 5,000,000 ties annually, which means great consumption of timber and a heavy outlay, and the outlay becomes larger as prices in crease owing to scarcity. The idea is to care for the trees in accordance with the most advanced ideas of for estry. It may be possible, says Troy 'Times, that the company will thus solve an economic problem of its own, and also set the country an effective example of what can be done by wise care of trees with a view to the con servation of important natural re .sources. Big Warship Building. The announcement that Great Bri tain is to build two more battleships of the famous Dreadnought class is coupled with the statement that no less than four such vessels have been contracted for at British navy yards, ostensibly in the name of certain for eign governments but really, it is be lieved, as a speculative measure, the projectors entertaining the notion that it will be easy at any time to dispose of such ships at a big profit. But this may be a speculation that will fall. U'he number of governments that are likely to invest in such costly play things is small, though it is conceiva ble that emergencies might arise which woulld make It very desirable to have sucli means of defense. But the grimmer suggestion, says Troy Times, in connection with all this is that Great Britain really Intendß to Retain all these big fighters herself, us a safeguard against attack, and with something in the nature of a squint toward Germany. Not much in the way of disarmament in that. But It Is making lilg armaments very cost ly, and perhaps the time is nearer at band than many think when it will be found that it does not puy to fight. Gen. John M. Wilson, formerly chief of the Engineer Corps of tho Army and now’ president of the Wash ington board of trade, has been per sonally acquainted with 14 presidents. He was born and brought up in Wash ington, and his personal acquaintance with chief magistrates of the nation began with Zachary Taylor in 1849. He was a page in the senate In the days of Webster, Clay, Calboun and Benton. Gen. Wilson la still active and thoroughly in love with life, though 70 years old. SHIRE DENIES HIS GUILT. Says He Confessed to Murdering Caplan While Mentally Unbalanced. Denver. —Repudiating his two con fessions of murdering Maurice Caplan February 16, 3906, Zachary Shire de clares he is now perfectly sane and is anxious to have a judicial inquiry into his mental condition. At the county hospital . Shire charged that the written confession was secured by District Attorney Stid ger by suggestion when Shire was in an unsound state of mind. He said that he was visited in his cell in the county jail by Stidger, who was ac companied by his deputy, Harry Sil verstein, and Deputy Sheriffs Leonard De Lue and Charles Burkhardt. ‘‘These officers,” he said, ‘‘one morning came to my cell. Burkhardt had a tablet and a pencil in his hand. They asked me to tell the story of the murder, but I couldn’t; everything seemed middled. “First StTllger would ask me a ques tion, and when 1 told him I couldn’t remember he would suggest the an swer and naturally I would agree. Then Burkhardt would write down the question and answer stated by Stid ger. They kept this up until they seemed to have heard all they wanted and then Stidger asked me to sign the paper. “I had no idea at the time what was on the paper; my brain seemed in a whirl and I seemed to know I was go ing crazy. He urged me to sign, so I took the pen and wrote my name. What is on the paper I didn't know and don’t know to this day.” Declaring that he is innocent of the murder of Caplan, Shire stated: “My confession to the awful deed which I made in Butte was sweated out of me while I was in a demented condition and frightened by the accusations and questions hurled at me by the Butte police.” Asked concerning the truth of Shire’s statement to the effect that he. Mr. Stidger, had secured a con fession of some crime through mental suggestion, District Attorney Stidger declined to discuss the case. He would niether affirm nor deny Shire’s statement. “I have not said that I ever got a confession from Shire,” he said. ‘Neither have I said such a confession was not gotten. I am going to try this case in the courts. , Just as I do all other cases. I shall • not talk about it in any way for publi cation.” Ouray Bank Closes. Ouray, Colo. —Unable to weather a run which it was feared would come following the rendering of a judgment of $17,900 against the institution, the Bank of Ouray failed to open. Its lia bilities are approximately SIIB,OOO, while the assets, according to the offi cers, will more than offset this. The bank was operated by the firm of Hurlburt, Stevens & McClure, George R. Hurlburt being president. Judge Theron Stevens, pioneer jurist and statesman, is a member of the firm. “If our assets are handled properly,” said President Hurlburt, “the deposit ors will get dollar for dollar. The court judgment was the only reason for our closig. We are not in shape to stand a run and deemed it inadvisable to to attempt to continue business. I do not think that we will reopen.” The verdict of $17,900 was rendered in the case of the city of Ouray vs. the Bank of Ouray for the collection of a note of $5,000 with interest at eight een per cent. In February, 1905, the First National Bank of Ouray traded the note to th ? city of Ouray in exchange for deposit certificates held by the city on thft bank. A judgment was taken at that time against the Milwaukee Mining Company, the makers of the note, but collection could not be made from this company and the bank and its succes sors became liable as indorsers on the note. The case has been taken to the Supreme Court twice on demurrers and objections in points of law and decis ions have been rendered by the Su preme Couit which'brought the case to trial before the District Court at this time. Wealthy Pioneer Dead. Eoulder, Colo. —A. J. Macky died at nis home in this city June 11th, aged seventy-three years. At the time of his death and ever since 1893 he was pres ident of the First National bank of Boulder and was regarded as the richest citizen of Boulder county. He had held many offices, having been postmaster in the early days, clerk of the District Court, county treasurer, city treasurer, and holding various other positions of trust. He was born in Herkimer county, New’ York, November 11, 3834, was a carpenter by trade, and came to Boul der in 1859 by an ox team. Macky was one of the original Steamboat Springs company, being its treasurer and its largest stockholder until its sale two or three years ago. It was to hiA ar dent sympathy for an Elks’ home in this city that the splendid edifice is due. It is to his confidence in Boulder that the city lias its splendid gas plant. Several other enterprises felt the stimulus of his sympathy and sup port. Mr. Macky leaves an estate esti mated to be worth half a million dol lars. Cheap Water in Larimer County. Fort Collins, Colo. —The cheapest water ever discovered in Larimer county Ih now the property of the Mountain Supply Ditch Company. The procuring of 400,000,000 cubic feet of water that will put under Irrigation about 30,000 acres of dry land in the Poudre valley will be the direct result of the recent trip to the Bristol ranch by the stockholders of this company. They have filed on the stream of water running through Hargood canon, which carries about six cubic feet per sec ond. The stream flows over a gravel botoni for some distunce and then dis appears In the sand. It has been esti mated that by bullying a pipe line from a point above where the w’ater disappears and extending It for a dis tance of 14,000 feet, the water can be turned into Box Elder creek and taken out at the present ditch system. This company will also extend the Michi gan ditch one mile to a tributary of the Michigan river and secrue about 150,000,000 cubic feet of water. THIRTEEN MARKED FOR DEATH. Black Hand Casts Shadow Over Many Prominent Homes in Trinidad. Trinidad, Colo.—Threatening death to thirteen prominent men, a communi cation signed by John Nicolini, Tomaso Pachetti and Dion Picolini, whffch wa3 received by the editor of a local paper, has stricken terror into the hearts of Trinidad people. The senders they nay are members of the Black Hand and that they mean business. They claim to have committed numerous murders. The letter follows: "Please publish this for the benefit of society. My name is Nicolini. lam an Italian. I murdered Mr. Wilson of Cedarhurst, a mining town twenty miles north of here. I got only S7O. This will be the seventeenth man I have killed since I left Italy. I am well acquainted with Andy Shine, who disappeared. You know he showed a roll of $1,600. I was standing there when he showed it. Well, I have the now in my possession. You will please find his body. There are several men here whom I have determined to mur dei before I leave the country. I will give their names as follows: Judge Mahln, Jesse G. Northcutt, O. L. Davis, Jeffreys of the bank, Mayor Nichols, Louis Kreiger, the sheriff; C. H. Rich ter, the saloon man; Mr. Qulltch, the buggy and harness man; Joe Mulberry of the Advertiser; Senators Frank Woods and Casimero Barela, Walter Dearden, the druggist. These men are all on our blacklist and it is only a matte? of time until we will get them. We live east of here, we are six strong and are determined to rid the city of Miese men. “Signed by the committee of death. “JOHN NICOLINI, “TOMASO PACHETTI, “DION PICOLINI.” The dead body of Wilson was found at Cedarhurst a week ago. Shine and his family have completely disappeared and all efforts of the authorities to find them have failed, but information to day is to the effect that they have lo cated at Cheyenne. Senator Morgan Passes Away. Washington.—United States Senator John Tyler Morgan of Alabama, died here at 11:15 p. m., June 11th. Senator Morgan had been in bad health for a number of years, but had more or less regularly attended the sessions of Congress. He suffered from angina pectoris, which was the cause of his death. At his deathbed were his daughters, Miss Mary Mor gan. and Miss Cornelia Morgan, both of this city, and his secretary, J. O. Jones. Mr. Morgan’s home in Alabama was at Selma. John Tyler Morgan was one of the most distinguished members of the United States Senate, and was so rec ognized by all parties. He was born June 20, 1 §24. He went to Alabama when nine years of age., receiving his education there. He was admitted to the bar in 1845, and began the prac tice of his profession. He rapidly gained a high reputation as a lawyer and a speaker. He was presidential elector in 1860, voting for Bfecken ridge, and in in 1861 was a delegate to the Alabama convention which de clared for secession. He enlisted in the Confederate army as a private in 1861. In 1862 he raised a regiment, of which he was made colonel, and in 1863 he w’as commissioned brigadier general and commanded a division un der General Johnston. After the war *he resumed the practice of law at Salem. He w’as presidential elector on the Democratic ticket in 1876 and in 1877 was elected to the United States Senate. He was five times re-elected, in 1882. 1888. 1894, 1900 and 1906. In 1900 there w*as no opposing candidate and he received the unanimous vote of the Alabama Senate and House. He was for many years recognized as one of the ablest leaders of the Democrats in the Senate. He was for a number of years a member of the Senate committee on foreign relations and for some years its chairman. Recently he was chairman of the committee on interoceanic canals and favored the Nicaragua canal route in stead of the Panama, making one of ihe most memorable fights in the Sen ate in favor of his contention. In No vember. 3903, he was removed from the chairmanship of that committee. Colorado Boy Among the Drowned. Washington.—Six bright young mid shipmen, fresh from the academy at Annapolis, all attached to the big bat tleship Minnesota, have been drowned. The list of dead contains the name of Philip H. Field of Denver, appointed from Colorado on the recommendation of Senator Patterson, and who was graduated from the academy last year. The conclusion was reached at the Navy Department that either on ac count of the lateness of the hour of the return trip the Minnesota’s launch in her haste had been driven hard Into the hevy sea that prevailed in Hamp ton Roads last night, or that the little boat has been rua down by some giant tramp steamers that make use roads as refuge in time of storm. While the launch carried a good sized party, no one has been found who can say exactly how many occupants the launch contained. The men in the launch appeared to be in high spirits after an evening of dancing. How- the launch, buoyed up by so many air-tight compartments, could have been lost Is yet n matter of speculation. One theory is that It was run into and cut In two by a passenger vesesl, which nmy have pussed com pletely over the unfortunate launch. Swear Orchard Did Not Buy Powder. Boise, Iduho.—Depositions from the Judson Powder Company of San Fran cisco will ko far toward shattering the testimony of Harry Orchard given by him on the witness stand. The witness for the prosecution stated that he purchased ten pounds of dynamite with which to blow up the Bradley home from the San Fran cisco store of the Judßon company. The depositions secured by the de fense and taken from the records of the powder company show that no ten pound lot of dynamite was sold any where near the date fixed by Orchard as the time he boughs the powder. COLORADO NEWS ITEMS Denver now boasts of a population of over 200,000. Dr. B. Beshoar of Trinidad has taken unto himself a wife. Normal diplomas were awarded to 202 graduates at Greeley. Colorado Springs turned out forty nine high school graduates. Arvada Commercial Club is still after a 5 cent street car rate to Denver. Ex-Governor Peabody and daughter are witnesses in the famous Haywood murder trial at Boise. Mr. and Mrs. Henry T. West recent ly celebrated their 62nd w’edding an niversary at Greeley. Every teacher employed in the Boulder graded schools has been reap pointed for next term. Cripple Creek will celebate the na tional holiday with a two-day jollifi cation July 4th and sth. Denver and Greeley are to he con nected by an electric line. Articles of importance have been filed. A shaft is being sunk on the Rock wall coal vein in the vicinity of Flor ence by an independent company. J. B. Bailey, a coal miner at Flor ence, fell dead the other night. He had been complaining of not feeling well for several days. A horse( w’hich ran away on one of the main streets of Grand Junction the other day, was badly injured by run ning into a bunch of tree stumps. Mrs. Cynthia M. Marshall, wife of the money order clerk at the post office in Colorado Springs, died at the family residence, 412 East Huerfano street. A car containing bottled beer was broken into at Eaton and 170 bottles stolen. Today Sheriff Florence recov ered all but thirty bottles. Tramps are suspected. Major Otis Remick, a pioneer of Col orado Springs of the West, died at St. Francis hospital. He had been ill for several months, suffering from a general decline. Gov. Buchtel has received the resig nation of Senator M. E. Lewis of Fre mont county. He has just been ap pointed postmaster of Florence and resigned before the expiration of his term. John Come, probation officer of Weld county for the last five years, resigned and P. Tisdel, known as Father Tisdel, who devotes his life to looking after the unfortunate in Weld county, was appointed to the va cancy. Lucile Murtis, one of the most prom inent graduates of the Trinidad High school this year, was thrown from a buggy and fatally injured at Berint ville, la. She was prominent in the young society set and the sad news is received with great regret. Instead of draining a slough on his land, as is usual, G. S. Allsebrook near Fort Lupton, will use the seepage, flood and waste waters, which fill the slough, for irrigation, by building a dam and erecting a pumping plant by which the water will be taken to 80 acres adjoining. The plant will cost $1,200. State Dairy Commissioner Bishopp is testing the herd of 20 cows at the State Home for Dependent and Neg lected Children for tuberculosis. The dairy cattle at each state institution are being put through a test of this kind, and the one at the Buena Vista state reformatory will come in next for inspection and examination. Mrs. Zoa Gillespie, sixteen-year-old bride of John Gillespie, at Grand Junc tion, was committed by a jury in the Juvenile Court. Mrs. Rosetta Johnson alleged that one of her dresses had been taken by the girl when she went to Delta to get married. The girl said she merely meant to borrow the gar ment to be married in and then to re turn it. Miss Flossie Moore, valedictorian of the 1907 class of the Florence high high school, graduates with a perfect record. She stands highest in scolar ship and during the entire four years course has never been absent or tardy. She is eighteen years old and is the daughter of former State Senator Frank Moore. She was born and reared in that section. Mrs. David T. Kimmel, about 65 years old, of Florence, broke her right arm while shoveling dirt. Her foot slipped from the shovel, throwing her to the ground, breaking a small bone In the right wrist. Her husband, aged 74, fell from a scaffold a month ago and broke his right leg. They have been married nearly 40 years and these are the first misfortunes that have overtaken them. Two irrigation cases were settled at Fort Collins in Judge Garrigues* Court, in which Coun ty No. 2 ditch is given the right to lake water from the Poudre river through what is known as the old city ditch, and the Arthur ditch is allowed to change its point of diversion of the river water. These cases have been pending in the courts here for sixteen years. Marro Gallina, an eight-year-old Italian boy, was instantly killed at the Huerfano mine in Remy canon, near Trinidad. The boy was taking a short cut to his home and while on a small brideg was caught by a string of mine cars and frightfully mangled. A six year-old girl was the only witness to the accident. The trip rider in charge of the cars knew nothing of the acci dent until told by the little girl. He took the body to the home of the boy’s parents. In appears from investigation that much of the fruit • thought to have been killed by the early May storms Is alive and flourishing, and reports from around Grand Junction lndlcute thut a large amount of apples and pears will be harvested this year, though the crop will not full one. Peaches seem to have suffered the most from the freeze, and berries, grapes, plums and other small fruits, will produce only a fair crop. Late cherries are an exception to the latter group, and it Is anticipated that this crop will show up well at the end of the season. The growers are not at all discouraged over the prospect and are keeping their trees in good shape by spraying, whether they will bear this year or not. BOY DENIES ORCHARD’S STORY. Young Neville Will Swear His Father Did Not Help Blow Up Inde pendence Mine. Cripple Creek, Colo.—lf Charles Ne ville, the sixteen-year-old boy, and *he main support of a family, testifies to what he has told his mother, the state ments of Harry Orchard on the wit ness stand will again be branded as falsehoods. “He goes to Boise to tell the truth, to vindicate his dead father of having anything to do with the blowing up of the Independence depot and tell all he knows,” said Mrs. J. J. Neville, wife of the late Jack Nexville, in referring to her son, Charles, who has been sum moned as a witness for the state in the Haywood trial. Mrs. Neville said she did not desire to have her son go as a witness in the trial, but he has been called, and be fore leaving for Boise remarked: “Mother, you would not think as much of me if I did not go and let them know that father slept with me all night and did not have anything to do with the Independence depot.” She said that when she left her son before he took the train for Idaho she kissed him good-by and told him he had nothing to fear and to tell the truth. Mrs. Neville then remarked that to a great extent, she believed Harry Orchard in submitting evidence was deliverately lying. She said that on Sunday, June 5, 1904. the day before the Independence depot explosion, her husband, son and Harry Orchard left with a camping outfit for a prospecting trip to Wyoming and that the three de parted from Independence just after dinner and exactly 12:45 p. in. Accord ing to the statement of her boy, she says the party en route to Wyoming camped out just before darq at Le Roy, a small to.vnsite below Clyde. She further says that the boy, who slept next to Ms father in the wagon box, knows that the elder (Jack Ne ville, did not leave camp during the night, as when he awoke at daybreak his arm was resting over his father's shoulders. She says that Charles found Orchurd in the same position in the wagon when he (young Neville) arose on the morning of June Cth, the day of the explosion, ab when the three campers had retired the night before. The woman says that her son is of the opinion that Orchard could not have gotten away during the night, blown up the Independence depot and returned to camp before the boy awoke. Mrs. Neville lives with her four children at Independence. Charles, the oldest child, is employed at the Isabella assay office. She is running a boarding house and cares for her three girls, ranging in age from eight to thirteen years. Is Orchard Really Repentant? Boise, Idaho. —After the horror ol Orchard’s recital of the murders he committeed has measurably subsided the really painful feature of his testi mony is his assumption of religion. This is not done in a boastful, os tentations way, but by indirection, yet so clearly does he seek to convey the belief that he has had a change oi heart and is now an humble follower of the lowly Nazarcne that nobody is in doubt as to his meaning. For example, when the correspon dents were admitted to an inter view with him about ten days before the trial commenced —Orchard having been prepared for the visit in dress and behavior —he made it clear that he was no longer reading trifling, trashy novels or the lighter literature with which the uneducated usually while away their weary hours; but that the lives of Christian martyrs and of men who had achieved greatness in Christian works constituted his mental pabuium. Again he maintained that about the only thing McParland said in their frequent conferences w’as to buoy him up with religious exhortations and appeals, for the sake of his future to continue telling only the truth. The press now recognizes that Orchard has assumed the role of the penitent sinner. This feature of Orchard’s bearing has diagreeably affected many church members in Boise. It has become the subject of considerable unfavorable comment. Church members would, of course, desire repentance from crimi nals, however hardened; but when such a monster as Orchard professes a change of heart through the efficacy of the Word, they naturally look for some vidence of genuine contrition from the person making the profes sions. Next to Orchard’s recital of his murders the shocking indifference he displays in telling of them, and his sodden, passionless replies when the scores of other people he might have murdered had not his plans miscarried are suggested, has attracted the at tention of the thoughtful who attend the trial. Witness Shows Decided Emotion. Boise, Idaho. —For the first time since his cross-examination began Harry Orchard has showed decided emotion. It was when Attorney Rich ardson put the witness on the rack for his neglect to hlB two deserted wives. Orchard insisted that Hay wood and Pettlbone promised to care for the wife at Cripple Creek, but had failed to do so. When he admit ted that he knew his first wife had worked at cheese making for n living, Orchard’s lower lip quivered, he swal lowed hard on a lump in his throat; his answers were Bhort and his voice very husky. Richardson continued this grilling for fifteen mlntiteß, but failed to break the witness down. When Orchard resumed the stand Attorney Rlchardßon continued to question the witness about the at tempts he made upon the life of Fred Bradley in San Francisco. Orchard said that he roomed near the Bradley home, being able to overlook It from his bedroom window. The confessing witness declared that he had bought somq dynamite for a bomb before the attempt to poison Bradley with strychnine in the milk failed. Orchard thought It was the Judson Powder Company that he bought the explosive from. Asked the appearance of the clerk who waited un him, Orchard said It was a young ish looking man. HE STOLE SHEEP HARRY ORCHARD HAB ADDED AN OTHER CLAIM TO HIS LIST. MAN-KILLING CONTRACTOR Saya Woman Wat Taken Along as a Blind When Murderers Were Prowling Around Judge God dard’a Home. Boise, Idaho.—Harry Orchard has added one more crime to his long list. He confessed during the tedious cross examination that he was a “sheep stealer,” and the tension in the court room was relieved by a hearty laugh from the spectators and attorneys, and even Judge Wood’s face relaxed a trifle. “If Orchard were on trial In Ireland we would surely hang him for that crime, which in the old days was classed as a capital offense in the little green isle,” said Attorney Peter Breen, one of Haywood’s defenders, and him self an Irishman. The admission concerning the sheep stealing episode came during the after noon while Orchard was narrating the incidents connected with Ills life in Denver during 1904-5. He had found i refuge in the home of Steve Adams. The resources of the Adams family, it developed, w’ere slender, but they were freely shared with Orchard. They moved from place to place, ami finally went to live in a little shack in Globe ville, according to Orchard. One night Orchard and Adams went to the stock yards and stole a sheep and slaugh tered It, and thus kept themselves in fresh meat for some time. The defense laid much stress on this point in an endeavor to prove that Or chard was not kept in funds by Hay wood and the others. “If the leaders of the federation were prepared to give you money at. any time, why did you find it neces sary to steal sheep in order to avoid starving?" asked Richardson. And to support his position the attor ney for Haywood pointed out that. Or chard was the recipient of relief funds at Cripple Creek during the time he swears he was drawing large stuns from the federation treasury as pay for his diabolical crimes. Orchaard’s reply came quickly. -Hay wood and the other leaders, he said, had cautioned him to simulate pov erty in order to avoid suspicion. The name of Max Malich. the so called king of Globeville,” was dragged into the case again. Orchard said Malich had asked him to dynamite a boarding houst? which sheltered 150 nonunion men and th'* members of their families. The wit ness declared that lie readily accepted the contract and. with Adams and a Globeville man, stole 600 pounds of powder from a i>owder house with which to do the “job.” Haywood. h-> siad, prevented the tragedy by call ing off the conspirators. Richardson sought to force the wit ness to admit that he had suggested the crime to Malich and that t*ie latter had refused to consider It, but Orchard was positive in his statements He in sisted he was merely a man-killing con tractor looking for employment and that Malich had offered him a “job.” This cold-blooded treatment of th'* most heinous crime known to mankind chilled the blood of the roomful of spectators. Orchard drew an indignant, sneer from Mrs. Annie Adams, wife of Steve Adams, when he testified that he and Adams had taken her with them when they were stalking Judge Goddard. “She was taken along ns a blind while we w’ere prowling around God dard's house,’’ said the witness. Orchard continues to prove ltims* If a wonderful witness, and the attorneys for the state are loud in their praises of his “staying” powers. He has tena ciously adhered to the essential details of his confession, but he has bee.i forced to make admissions which in the opinion of the attorneys for the de fense will eventually destroy the entire value of his testimony. Richardson has endeavored to force ihe witness to give names and date 3. and, despite Orchard’s skillful parrying he has been made to part with some of the desired information. It is said the defense is prepared to contradict Or chard’s most important statements with the evidence of members of the federation whom he has named. In many instances the men he alleges were his “pals” are dead, but some of them are still alive and the defense is said to have induced many of them to come to Boise. Haywood, Moyer and Pettibono will probably all go on the stand, aud their testimony should not boa whit less interesting than that of Orchard. They will swoar they advised the striking miners not to resort to violence and that their efforts in the interest of peace were seriously hampered by the Plukertona and other detectives, who had Joined the miners’ unious at tho suggestion of the Mine Owners’ Asso ciation, and who w’ere constantly mak ing inflammatory appeals to the rank end file. In this connection It is understood that Captain McParland’s record will be put before the Jury, if the conqueror of the Molly Maguires Is put on tho stand by the prosecution. The captain has been in the employ of tho Pinker tons for more than a quurter of a cen tury and the defense claims to have se cured much damaging information con cerning him. The attorneys for the state are ap parently not at. all disturbed by the confident clainiß of the defense. They sa; the cuse is not based entirely on *.he evidence of Harry Orchard. Fatal Mobile Wreck. Indianapolis, Ind. —Two women were killed and three other persons were seriously hurt In an uutomobllc acci dent In the northern part of the city when a Broad Ripple traction car struck and wrecked the automobile of J. F. Himes at Thirty eighth street and College avenue. The dead: Mrs. Thomas W. Love, uged flfty elght years. Mrs. Emma Gordon, an aged woman, both of Indianapolis. Seriously injured: J. F. Himes of Broad Ripple.