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THE TIMES Vol. I. No. 21 PORTLAND, OREGON, MARCH 9, 1912 JURY TO TRY BERT HICKS HARD TO GET -MAY USE UP TWO WEEKS MORE TRIAL MAY TAKE A FORTNIGHT On Friday last, at noon, William To give the attorneys an oppor Kennedy was passed as the 12th tunity to recover from the exer venireman in the jury under se tions of their strenuous talkfest, lection in the Wortman murder Judge Gatens suspended the trial case. The task of selecting these Saturday until Monday morning. tentative jurymen began Febru On Monday little progress was ary 20th, and they were raked, made. One talesman was chal as it were, with a fine-tooth comb, lenged and another passed for in the effort to secure an able cause. William Eckles, previous jury to consider the fate of Bert ly passed for cause, fell under the Hicks. Before the final man was fire of a peremptory challenge by passed, T. Tascher, R. Campbell, the defense— its first exercise of H. C. Snyder, B. G. Wallace and the privilege— and was weeded O. I. Neal were excused, after a out. 0. M. Barber, a carpenter, rigid examination. In all 42 men and contractor, was passed for were called for jurymen as to cause. It turned out that Eckles their qualifications as jurors, and was challenged because he is a member of the Carpenters’ Union thirty excused. The complete panel, as it stood and identified with the Socialist with the selection of Kennedy, was party. Charles Danford admitted that as follow s: he was formerly a union man and John Farrell, retired blacksmith. this let him out as a juryman. Frank Capelle, collector. Frank Wallace had his try-out. B. A. Schaar, lathing contrac It developed that he was affiliated tor. with some society that was objec E. S. Park, street ear conductor. tionable to the attorneys and was F. A. Jacobs, grocery salesman. prejudiced against capital, so he William Palmer, salesman. was dropped. Hugh O ’Brien was George O ’Brien, artist. another not measuring up to the E. R. Hall, salesman. requirements, and he was excused. William Eckles, carpenter. At the close of the afternoon George Gamrnie, bank teller. session Monday attorneys intimat E. Belgeman, carpenter. ed that it would take fully two William Kennedy, retired res weeks before a stable jury was taurant proprietor. found, and that at least another The foregoing constituted the two weeks would be consumed in line-up. subject to the peremptory the trial. challenges of the prosecution and E. A. Lamberson was under ex defense. The first man to be amination touching his qualifica boloed with a peremptory chal tions as a juror when the court lenge by the defense was Bruno adjourned Monday afternoon. A. Schaar, leaving eleven men to Mr. Lamberson was excused be come into the fierce limelight of cause he was formerly a member the inquisition. To fill the va of the Barbers’ Union, and was cancy thus created five or six prejudiced thereby. prospective jurors were placed on At Tuesday’s session W. K. Hall, the firing line. They revealed chief clerk in the dining ear sup weak spots in their armor of ply department of the O.-W. R. & availability as jurors and being N. Co., was passed for cause by disqualified, “ went down and both sides. George Gamrnie was out” . excused on the first peremptory When P. J. Conovan and Ray challenge o f the state. At the E. Hall were examined, they re close of the session. E. Ilallingsby, vealed conscientious scruples employed by the Portland Gas & against capital punishment, and Coke Co., was being tested as a they were retired. juror. R. L. Lamb, a member of the Judge Gatens administered a Carpenters’ Union, and C. B. Ra- rebuke to Special Prosecutor stall, of the Painters’ Union, then Davis, who objected to the inter came to bat. They both made a rogatories made by Dan Malarkey foul. They themselves doubted for the defense. The court over that they could give the accused ruled Mr. Davis’ objection, which a fair trial, and they were right, caused the latter to address the so it was farewell to them. court in a manner considered dis C. ' C. Cannuto knows consider respectful by the court, bringing Judge Gatens able about operating gasoline sharp rebuke. launches, but his early education ruled that hereafter attorneys will regarding the practices in Amer-| be given less latitude in the ex ican courts was sadly neglected, | amination of veniremen in the so he wouldn’t do at all. a minimum wage scale o f 50 cents per hour. We trust that you may find space in your paper to print this fetter, as we believe the public should be informed of the facts. UNITED METAL TRADES PORTLAND, Or., Feb. 2!).—To ASSOCIATION. the Editor of The Journal— In F. C. Porter. Sec. The Daily Journal of the 27th there appeared an article from Los Angeles stating that an agreement had been reached between the moulders, blacksmiths, machinists and patternmakers unions, and the Founders & Employers asso ciation, whereby 15CK) men who are on strike will return to work SAN FRANCISCO — Nearly 600 as soon as industrial conditions men belonging to the seven local unions of the Pacific Maritime permit. This article would lead the pub Federation were locked out here lic in general to believe that the March 1, by an open shop ultima strikers in Los Angeles had se tum of the Union Iron Works and the Moore & Seott Iron Works. cured their demands. We have a telegram from the The lockout is the result of the Founders & Employers associa action of the unions in the Mari tion. the members of which com time Federation in refusing to prise practically all the metal take the places of striking union manufacturing establishments of ship calkers. Los Angeles and the immediate vi The terms of the corporations cinity, stating that they have include demands for the open shop made no agreement with anybody, on all “ old” and new work on and that they will continue the steel vessels. The men declare the nine-hour day as they always have intention of the employers is to in the past, and will stand for the discontinue the eight-hour day. “ open shop” the same as they al The corporations also refuse to ways have. Conditions are to re pay the union scale of $5 a day main just as they have been dur for calking or repairing, which is known as “ o ld ” work. The men ing and prior to the strike. The unions have won absolutely declare they are willing to work nothing and on the contrary have for any employer who will pay lost everything they struck for union wages and grant union which was an eight-hour day and hours. Winifred Stoner, Pittsburgh Prodigy, Is Nine Years Old Price 5 Cents ALL CONSPIRATORS IN DYNAMITE CASES SAYS JUDGE SANBORN MUST BE TRIED AT INDIANAPOLIS MILWAUKEE, Wis. — William E. Reddin and German G. Seiffert, officials of the Milwaukee Iron Workers’ Union, will be removed to Indiana for trial in the alleged dynamiting conspiracy, Federal Judge Sanborn, of Madison, today having overruled their contention that if they had committed an offense it was committed in Wis consin, not in Indiana. Judge Sanborn held that every shipment of nitroglycerine by Or- tie McManigal or the McNamaras was chargeable also to all the other persons in the alleged con spiracy. “ So the offense, if any,” he said, “ was committed in Indiana, although it also may have been in other states. The most convenient place for trials, from the stand point of all the defendants, is in the District of Indiana. There fore, these defendants should stand trial there, with the others, unless they have the right, under the constitution, to he discharged from arrest here. Reddin and Seiffert challenged the sufficiency of the indictment, in that it was not explicit enough in presenting proofs of guilt. The court held, however, that in a case where secrecy is of prime impor tance a grand jury is justified in not incorporating too specific statements in the indictment. Judge Sanborn’s ruling prob ably will affect the efforts of other defendants, two of them in New York, to prevent extradition to Indianapolis for trial. W RIT IS DENIED. NEW YORK.—Judge Hand in the United States District Court denied a writ of habeas corpus in the case of Patrick F. Farrell, in dicted with other labor leaders for the alleged dynamite con spiracy and ordered his removal to Indianapolis for arraignment. Frank ('. Webb, the other labor leader arrested in this district, did not seek a writ of habeas corpus. COWARDLY STRIKEBREAKERS ARE ROUTED BY GUILTY FOREMAN AT ALBINA RAILROAD SHOPS As an example of the extreme ends of cussedness, ini' " and sim ple, to which the strikers at the O.-W. R. & N. Albina shops will O the list of precocious prodigies which includes William James Sldls and N'orbert Wiener, both sous of Harvard ofcaaors, must now be descend, in prosecuting their lost added Winifred Sackvllle Rtoiifet, a nine-year-old girl o f Pittsburgh. cause, an instance, occurring Her mother gays that the child is proficient in a number of languages, Wednesday amply suffices. A me talks intelligently on mythology, history, literature, geography and art and lee occurred, in which several has published three books. Yet, according to the same authority, she Is “ouly minor injuries are reported, and a simple child who loves her playmates and dolls as well as her books." The child's phenomenal progress in the acquisition of knowledge is snid to have that a murder did not happen or been made through the medium of play. “ Every child,” says Mrs. Stoner, a serious injury take place, is no “has a talent. It is the duty of parents to discover this talent and nourish it fault of the misguided union men. so that It will bear good fruit. With concentration and observation implauted Patrolman Goltz, stationed at early la any child's mind I believe that child will succeed in some line." this point to prevent friction be tween union and non-union work ers, was called away to hunt up a little girl that was lost. Tak ing advantage of his absence, like the wretched and contemptible I cowards that they arc, a hunch ,o f pickets laid low to await the coining of some independent T Bust of Admiral Peary For Museum of Natural History workmen as they left the yards at the end of the d ay’s work. Some of the latter made their way through the gates only to he met. by a shower of rocks. Gallantly several of the independent work men advanced, and W. C. Lukcn- bill, who is an old offender, and a virulently active and contempt ible picket, got a number of wal lops. .1. P. Krentz and John Cyphers (cypher means nothing), both of the ornery picket class, got a few cracks, which they un doubtedly deserved. Then it was that W. C. Howard, hacked by a revolver, who is a foreman, in terested in the preservation of law and order, compelled the mis erable unionist picketers to sneak behind the stockade. As usual, the pickets showed their utter cowardice. NON-UNION MINER NON-UNIONISTS ASSULTED BY ARE GENEROUS UNIONSTRIKERS TO UNION MEN CIIEHALIS, Wash. — Because the owners of the Superior coal mines will not recognize the union, the miners have gone on a strike. Charles Dunn, secretary o f the union, warned non-union men from going to work, hut in spile of the warning the mines resumed operations. OPEN SHOP AND NINE HOURS WIN AT LOS ANGELES IRON WORKERS LOCKED OUT AT SAN FRANCISCO Frank Hterrasniek, a non-union man, was assaulted by Joe Lako- viteh and Joe Starr, two strikers, yesterday, and severely beaten. The men are being held at the Auhin was convicted on a Lewis County jail. Further trou charge of disorderly conduct, in hie is anticipated by Sheriff I’r connection with a recent clash be quhart. tween the strikers and Southern Pacific employees and was later fined in the sum of $17. lie in formed the court that he was ii striker and had a wife and six small children dependent upon him for support, lie further ad mitted that he was practically VANCOUVER, B C Five men penniless and would lie compelled arrested by the police at the time to pass the alternative of eight o f the frcc-speech disturbance days in the city jail. on the Powell-street. grounds, .lim Aiibin’s circumstances were dis itary 2rt, were sentenced to three covered by the non-union men. months’ imprisonment by Judge and they immediately protested Melnnes today. against his confinement in jail, The free-speech war was ended and offered to liquidate the fine. two weeks ago, when a comprom The attitude displayed by these ise was reached under which the workmen in the ease at issue has speakers can talk in the public caused much favorable comment squares if they refrain from in Rosehurg, where the factions preaching sedition. Speaking in have been at war since the strike the streets, however, is prohibited. was called. KIBOSH PUT ON STREET RANTERS AT VANCOUVER MARHI..E bust of Hear Admiral Hubert E. I'eary will goon he placed In the American Museum of Natural History In New York. It is til* work of William Couiier, to whom the explorer gave sittings soon after his return from the discovery of the north pole. It represents the ad miral clad In furs, a garb more fitting than that of bia rank In the navy. It Is fitting also that tbe buat should have a place In tbe museum, for Peary's ex plorations were rendered possible largely through the money contributed by the institution and those connected with' it. It will be remembered that the esmp pitched by Peary at the pole was caUed Camp Morris K. Jesup after the principal pat ran ef the Mneeum of Netursl History. Tbe commission for the bust was given by t wealthy rtsldent of New York who Is deeply interested in science, hot prefers that his name shall not be made public. Other niches In the hall In which it will be placed ceataln the busta of such aciaatista as Audubon, Faraday and Franklin. A ROSEBURG, Or. — Evidencing an attitude o f kindness toward the striking Southern Pacific shop men, a number of non-union work men recently appeared at the city recorder’s office and informed the police judge that they would glad ly pay the fine of if' 17, imposed hv the court following the conviction of Alex Auhin, a striker, in the event the money would be ac cepted.