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Suspected Work of
Skilled Fixer.
IN HAYWOOD MURDER TRIAL
Known to Have Gone From
Chicago to Boise.
HAS HAD GOOD CHANCES
Impaneling of Jury Begins and the
Talesmen Are Examined on Every
Possible Topic Laughable In
cidents Mark Proceedings.
BOISB. Idaho, May 9. (Special.) There
Is gome suspicion over the apparent will
ingness of some of the talesmen to get
themselves on the Haywood jury. This
panel, from which the men were drawn
today, was summoned at the beginning of
this term of court to try other cases
prior to the beginning of the great mur
der trial. After those cases were dis
posed of In April, a recess of the court
was taken to admit of the holding of a
term in another county of the district.
The talesmen have been known to every
body and, in view of some other develop
ments, suspicion Is aroused. Several were
so certain they were qualified and acted in
such a manner that It attracted atten
tion. Expert Jury-Fixer on Hand.
This apprehension Is based partly upon
knowledge of the fact that an expert
Jury-fixer from Chicago Is here. He is
traveling under an assumed name, but
Is well known to the detectives. It Is said
some of the most expert Jobs done in
Chicago in recent years have been traced
close to his door. Another man known to
have been engaged in the same business
elsewhere is also here. The fact of the
presence of these men here for some time
past adds to the suspicion. Newspaper
men old in attending famous trials were
astonished at the apparent determination
of some men to keep their places In the
box.
Weeding Out the Panel.
The state today weeded out seven men
called and the defense three, but three
were passed by both sides for cause,
though the defense is not yet through
with its examination. When the panel
was exhausted, it was necessary to stop,
as the Idaho law provides that the box
must be kept filled. Nearly all those ex
cused went off because of having formed
opinions, but one dropped out because he
was opposed to capital punishment.
The three passed by both sides for cause
are A. L. Ewlng. a carpenter, an old man
and a veteran of the Civil War; William
Van Orsdale, a small grocer of Boise, and
S. D. Gllman. a farmer of Star.
The 11 Jurymen were installed in the
house prepared for them, where they will
be cared for. They have their own cook
and every possible provision has been
made for their comfort. The house is
Just across State street from the court
house block.
SIFTING OUT PANEL OF JURY
Many Talesmen Deny Prejudice or
Knowledge of Case.
BOISE, Idaho, May 9. William IX
Haywood, first of the alleged partici
pants in the avenging conspiracy by
which It Is averred the assassination of
Frank Steunenberg was plotted and ex
ecuted, was placed upon trial for his
life today. Counsel for state and pris
oner entered at once, in business-like
way, upon the examination of prospec
tive Jurors, and kept steadily at the
task for five hours. No Juror was Anal
ly accepted, but substantial progress
was made, and the Indications at the
close of the session were that a Jury
could be obtained by the end of next
week.
The opening day of the trial went
through to its conclusion in quiet har
mony, unmarked by unusual incident.
It was earnest and business-like.
Its striking feature was the entire
absence of crowds or demonstration in
any form. At no time, morning or af
ternoon, was the courtroom more than
half filled, and the streets forming the
Courthouse square contained not a sin
gle lo'tterer. The . case was halted
shortly before 5 o'clock by the exhaus
tion of the Jury panel, and an adjourn
ment was taken until Monday morning.
Meantime, the Sheriff will summon a
special venire of 100 men. The 11 men
under examination but not yet finally
accepted or rejected, were locked up
and will be closely guarded.
Haywood Takes It Calmly.
Haywood was brought to the Court
house sharp at 10 In the morning. He
found his family in a line of chairs to
the right of his seat, and In front were
all of his counsel. He devoted more
attention to his youngest daughter than
to anyone else, and throughout the day
took practically no part in the selec
tion of Jurors. Many men In similar
jeopardy, as a rule, make close study
of their prospective jurors, and fre
quently express their personal prefer
ences; but Haywood seems content to
leave the matter entirely In the hands
of his lawyers.
Haywood gave no sign of any feeling
or emotion, but sat quietly throughout
the day. Mrs. Haywood and the older
daughter stood the ordeal of appear
ance in court very well, but the young
er child cried after the examination of
talesmen began. Mrs. Haywood and
her children did not attend the after
noon session.
Wide Range of Questions.
The questioning of the defense took
a much wider range than that of the
state, and its most striking feature
dealt with the possible effect upon the
minds and attitudes of jurors of the
letter of President Roosevelt In calling
Haywood and his associates "undesir
able citizens," the speeches in Idaho of
Secretary Taft, the message of Gov
ernor Gooding to the Legislature of
Idaho, the speech In Boise of Senator
Heyburn, and the action of the Idaho
Legislature In passing a resolution and
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Clarence B. Jmrrmv, Attorney for
Haywood.
appropriating money for the prosecu
tion of the three prisoners.
Mr. Richardson, who conducted the
examination of the talesmen, was also
particular to ascertain their attitude
toward Socialists and members of labor
organizations, and whether they could
give such men a fair trial. He was
also anxious to know if they had any
professional, personal, fraternal, relig
ious or political affiliations with any of
the counsel for the state, any connec
tion with detective agencies, any ex
perience in the pursuit or prosecution
of criminals, or whether . they were
members of the Mineowners" Associa
tion. Mr. Richardson also asked if they
had contributed to any fund for the
prosecution of the prisoners, if they
were members of the Citizens' Alliance,
If they remembered the oiJ labor
troubles In Idaho, and If they had taken
sides in the labor troubles at any time.
Not Influenced by Roosevelt.
A remarkable feature of this exam
ination was that all of the talesmen
questioned by the defense swore that
they had not been Influenced by the
letter of President Roosevelt, or the
speeches of other officials of the Na
tional or State Governments, and a ma
jority of them said they were Republi
cans. The chief concern of the counsel for
the state In the examination of tales
men as Indicated by their questions,
was their attitude toward circum
stantial evidence, the absence of the
accused from the state when 'the crime
was committed, the effect of the man
ner in which the prisoner and his com
panions were brought from Colorado,
view of the talesmen as to the death
penalty for murder in the first degree,
uid union labor. They also questioned
each talesman as to his acquaintance
with the murdered Governor with a
view to disclosing friendship or en
mity. Their examination brought out
the fact that certain labor and so
cialistic papers are being distributed
free of charge In parts of Ada County.
The custom of the Idaho courts In
selecting Juries for criminal cases Is
to call 12 talesmen to the Jury box and
to keep the box full by immediately
filling any vacancies that occur. The
state first conducts a complete examin
ation, that continues until 12 men have
been passed, when the body of tales
men pass to the defense for examin
ation. The state passed IX men early
this afternoon and the general exam
ination Is in the hands of the defense.
Three Temporarily Accepted.
Of the 11 men remaining in the box
at the close of today's session, only
three have . been passed by both sides.
They have not been finally accepted and
sworn, and are still subject to per
emptory challenge. They are A. I
Ewlng, a carpenter and veteran of the
Civil War; William Vanorsdale, a
grocer of Boise; and Samuel X. Gll
man, a farmer, who lives In the coun
ty 10 miles from Boise. Mr. Gllman
served In the Philippines with the
Idaho volunteers. Under the law as
recently amendedeach side has 10 per
emptory challenges.
Judge Wood announced that he in
tended to give both sides a wide lati
tude in the examination of talesmen.
He also showed a willingness to grant
challenges where there seemed any
reasonable objection to the attitude of
the talesman, and In the one contest of
the day he ruled with the defense,
which had challenged the talesman
and was resisted by the state.
More W itnesses Summoned.
The state today filed a supplementary
list of 151 witnesses who are to be
called to testify against Haywood,
Moyer and Pettibone, and Mr. Hawley
announced that additional names would
be filed later. The list Includes ex
Governor Peabody. of Colorado, and
his daughter. Miss Cora Peabody;
Charles Sweney, mineowner, of Spo
kane, Detective James McPharland,
Steve Adams Mrs. Steve Adams, Bulke
ley Wells, Adjutant-General . of Colo
rado, E. A. Carlton, president, and C
C. Hamlin, secretary of the Mlne-
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SOLIDIFY FORCES
TO CHOOSE- TUFT
Ohio Victory First Step
in Campaign.
WILL INVADE OTHER STATES
Favorite Sons Spring Up on All
Hands to Harass.
SOUTH STILL UNDECIDED
Regarded as Fairbanks' and For
aker's Fighting Ground, but
Must Be Won for Taft Would
Shout for the .President.
WASHINGTON, May 9. (Special.)
Secretary Taft's bloodless victory In
Ohio has Immensely clarified the Repub
lican political situation in the country -as
a whole. It violates no confidence to say
that the victory achieved by the Taft
forces,' practically assuring the indorse
ment of the Secretary of War for Presi
dent and rendering Certain a delegation
to the National convention pledged to the
Taft standard, has been welcomed with
great glee by the Administration.
Now thtt the primary battle has been
won, attention will be directed to the
fight that is to be carried on in other
sections of the country. Thirteen months
are to elapse before the delegates assem
ble In National convention to name the
ticket and promulgate the platform on
which the Republican party is to go be
fore the country for the campaign of
1908. As matters now stand, Taft Is the
logical leader of the progressive element.
Solidify Sentiment for Taft,
With this understanding, the Roosevelt
influences will be directed to the effort
of solidifying sentiment In various states.
North and South, to the end that other
delegations may be brought Into Tme for
Taft's nomination. In giving force to
this effort Important action will take
place In the Immediate future. Action, In
fact, began today.
In the North, according to the Wash
ington view, the line of battle now will
be clearly drawn between Mr. Taft and
the reactionary element. . Immediate de
velopments are likely to be especially In
teresting in New York, Pennsylvania,
Massachusetts and Illinois. In some, if
not all, of these states, favorite sons are
likely to attract more or less attention.
There are Hughes In New York, Knox In
Pennsylvania, Crane In Massachusetts
and Cannon In Illinois. Without making
Invidious distinction, it may be said that
in some cases the favorKe son .movements
are regarded ae cloaking the designs of
politicians to throw whole delegations to
Mr. Fairbanks or some other representa
tive of the so-called reactionary faction.
. To circumvent the plans of the reac-
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tlonaries in those states where they have
the machinery with which to work and
to prevent fruitless diffusion of progress
slve effort in other Btates where the
leaders are united and sincere in their
desire to perpetuate the Roosevelt poli
cies are Che problems that confront
the managers having their present
headquarters in Washington. It is
believed the developments of the
last 24 hours in Ohio will have a ten
dency to drive the Taft boom over the
country with marked effect, wherever
the Roosevelt sentiment has been await
ing something tangible to which to at
tach itself. There is a whole lot of fine
work, however, to be done in places
where the real public sentiment must be
measured in connection with the power
of political leaders.
South Must Be Fought For.
- Down South, whence come nearly or
quite one-third of the delegates to the
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Senator W. B. Borah, of Idaho, Who
Conduct Prosecution of Haywood.
National convention, there is a situa
tion demanding careful consideration.
The South would be for Roosevelt, horse,
foot and dragoon, if Roosevelt were a
candidate. With him eliminated, the
Fairbanks and day before yesterday the
Foraker people had the South to fight
for between themselves. But it must
be remembered that the convention Is
more than a year distant.
Charles Taft Says No Compromise.
CINCINNATI, May 9. That last
night's announcement by George B. Cox,
former Republican leader, in favor of
Secretary Taft for President, was not a
part of any compromise or deal was de
clared In a statement today by Charles
W. Taft, brother of the Secretary of
War. After reviewing 'the settlement of
the recent trouble In the political situa
tion In Ohio, the statement concluded:
"The actloL. v xt wxek will remove the
Presidential question from local politics
this Fall.
"This situation has been brought about
without any compromise or deaL of any
nature whatever. The people have led
the party leaders and have secured this
result."
Opposition AH Withdrawn.
COLUMBUS, O., May 9. Chairman
Arthur Vorys, the manager of the Taft
forces In Ohio, said today:
"The purpose of Taft's friends in agi
tating the question of the choice of Ohio
Republicans for the Presidency was to
dispel the notion that he would not get
the united support of Ohio. The events
of the past few weeks seem to have cul
minated today In the voluntary with
drawal, without stipulation, of all opposi
tion and In the complete demonstration
that the Republicans of Ohio are solidly
for Taft for President and the move
ment will go forward now with every
prospect of his nomination."
BIFF !
RAILROADS WILL
ft
Great .Effort to Catch
Up With Traffic.
BUILD 350,000 FREIGHT CARS
Every Railroad Equipment
Shop Is on Double Shift.
OVER 6000 LOCOMOTIVES
Steel Trust's Output of t Ralls Al
ready Sold All Car-Building
Works Enlarging and Canada
and Mexico Will Help."
RAILROAD EXPENSES IK 1907
Expenditures for railroad equip
ment, power, steel rails and track,
during 1907:
Frelfrht cars ,...$400,000,000
Locomotives llO.OOO.eoo
Passenger coaches 70.000,000
Steel ralli 93.000.000
New road 250.000,000
' Total
983,000,000
CHICAGO, May 9. (Special.) American
railways will spend during the present
year nearly $1,000,000,000 In an extraordi
nary effort to secure sufficient equipment
in which to transport the traffic of the
country, sufficient power to keep that
equipment moving and sufficient rails for
both the equipment and the power to run
on.
It is estimated that. If the manufac
turers are equal to the test, between
340,000 and 350,000 freight cars will be
added to the total equipment of. the rail
ways of the United States, fully 5000 pas
senger coaches will be built and over
6000 locomotives will be added to the
steam power which Is now available to
the railroads. These figures mean that
every shop and every plant where tfn3e
utensils of commerce are' "manufaoJiired
must run day and night In the lilted
States, in Canada and In Mexico, and
that some of the steel mills in other
lands will get a substantial reflex of
American prosperity.
Will Surpass Banner Year.
It is expected that the banner year
1905, when more freight and passenger
cars were built and more locomotives
turned out than during any other year
in railroad history, will be surpassed.
The capacity of the car shops has
increased since then, and it Is known
that on January 1 a total of 170,000 freight
car orders had been placed. This means
that the shops of the country would have
been busy until September 1, even
though not another car had been ordered.
Since that time, it is estimated, fully
100,000 freight car orders have been placed
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and, Judging from the first three months
of the year, the orders will reach 350.000.
The record of 1905 was 341,315 freight cars.
Last year the railroads purchased 310,000
freight cars, 3400 passenger cars and 5650
locomotives.
Expense for Xew Rails. -It
is estimated that the railroads will
pay fully $92,000,000 for steel rails during
the present year. If this proves true, the
steel mills will have to turn out about
3,300.000 tons of rails. The output last
year was about 3,250,000 tons. It Is said
the Western roads this year will use
fully 1.600,000 tons of rails and that near
ly 1.000.000 tons will be rolled in the East
ern mills: ' The United States Steel Cor
poration has recently opened Its books
for 1908 and thus - far the orders have
been disappointing.
Unless the prosperity of the country
has another phenomenal Jump during
1908, the orders for equipment and power
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O. M. Vandnyn, ' Proeecuting Attor
ney of Canyon County, Idaho, Of
ficially In Charge of Miners' Fed
eration Cases.
will place the railroads in position to take
care of the traffic offered better than
they have ever been In the past.
Enlarging car jvactones.
Extended improvements have been
made . by the American Car & Foundry
Company at St. Louis, the Pullman Com
pany, the Western Steel Car & Foundry
Company, at Hegewlsch. and the Stand
ard Steel Car Company, at Hammond,
which Indicate that the total car-bulld-ing
capacity of the shops of the entire
country this year will be about 260,000
cars. The rest of the year's supply will
have to come from the shops of the rail
roads themselves and from the shops of
Canada and Mexico.
HARRIMAX LINES FINANCES
Earnings Still on Increase Pre
ferred Stock to Meet Debt,
NEW YORK, May 9. Directors of the
Union Padflo and Southern Pacific
Companies today voted to place the stocks
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CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature 63
degrees; minimum, 48.
TODAY'S Rain, high southerly wlnde.
Miners' Federation TrlnU,
Expert jury-flxer from Chicago In Boise.
Page L
Examination of Jurors In Haywood case
begins. Page 1.
Charles Sweeny subpenaed and may tell
how miners made him prisoner. Page 4.
Foreign.
Stromboli and Etna in eruption, cduse ter
ror on all sides. Pass 5.
Horrible atrocities by government of Guate
mala. Page 5- '
Russian Socialists to hold convention In
London. Page 8.
Death, list by. Poitou wreck is 48. Page 5.
National.
Drug trust surrenders absolutely to Govern
ment. Page 8.
Politics.
Taft campaign now to be carried Into every
state. P$ge 1.
Piatt sorry he forced Vice-Presidency on
Roosevelt. Page 4.
ouiestlo.
Hank In on monuments to great Americans.
Page 6.
Omaha business men to tour Pacific North
, west.. Page 4.
Portland leads United States In new build-
ins. Page 5.
Railroads to upend a billion dollars In 1907
on new cars and track. Page 1.
Harrlman predicts increased earnings on
his roads and proposes more stock
Page 1.
New York longshoremen win over another
steamship company. Page 6..
Carrington testifies against Scrughani on
Insurance frauds. Page S.
Sport.
Portland loses game in the ninth Inning.
Page 12.
Burns-O'Brien fight declared by principals
to be a fake. Page 12.
Pacific Coast.
Portland excursionists back again within
state's boundaries. Page 7.
Insanely jealous man In logging camp
slashes wife with butcher knife. Page 7.
"Woman at Olympla can't tell who she is.
Page 5.
Goverrfor's pardon recalls murder In "Wash
ington County 27 years ago. Page 7.
Non-union men run cars at San Francisco
and women shower flowers on them. No
t ign of peace yet. Page 1.
Portland and Vicinity.
Republicans lay plan for vigorous campaign.
Official count of primary election com
pleted. Page 10.
Carpenters Demand and will get $450 a
day and Saturday half-holiday. Page lL
Union Labor party will place ticket In the
Held. Page 10.
Police Court holds that saloon piano-players
are vagrants. Page 16.
Many small league baseball games sched
' uled for today, tomorrow and Sunday.
Page 13.
' Commercial and Marine.
Storage operations in butter market. Page
.17.
Eastern wheat market advances on cold
weather reports. Pa ge 17.
Union Pacific announcement upseta stock
market. Page 1.
Towicg business on. River is slack. Page 16.
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New Kind of Missiles
Aimed at Cars.
SAN FRANCISCO MOB COOLER
Liberal With Curses, but Hurls
Less Bricks.
ONLY ONE SHOT IS FIRED
Women Recognize Pluck of Unarmed
Strikebreakers, More Perilous
Trip Todaj- Conciliation Com
mittees Make Xo Progress.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 9. Roses on
carnations. Instead of brickbats and cob
blestones, featured today's run of two
cars of the United Railroads, manned by
20 strikebreakers, from the carbarns at
Oak and Broderick streets for a distance
of three or four miles through the busi
ness and residence streets of the Western
Addition. Stirred to admiration by the
courage of unarmed strikebreakers in op
erating the two cars in the mob-crowded
thoroughfares, women all along the route
stood on doorsteps or leaned from win
dows and waved handkerchiefs, clapped
their hands, cheered and threw kisses to
the nonunlonlsts, as the police-protected
cars ran slowly by. a .
On the return trip, on Sacramento
street, near Presidio avenue, a young
girl ran out from a florist shop and
tossed a handful of bright red, long
stemmed carnations to the platform of
one of the cars. Lifting their caps and
smiling, several of the men leaned far
out and caught the posies. The cars were
halted then, while young women brought
clusters of carnations and roses from the
shop and offered them to the men. Soon
every strikebreaker had a flower on his ,
coat. The extra ones they tossed to I
Assistant President Mullally, Superin- ('
tendent Chapman, Chief Surgeon Coffey,
Assistant Purchasing Agent Flnlgan and '
other officials of the company, who were
keeping pace in an automobile with the
cars.
From a bakery shop In the neighbor
hood a stout woman came hurrying
breathlessly, her hands full of small
cakes, hot from the oven. They were de
voured in a twinkling by the uniformed
recipients, and she ran back to her shop
and brought more.
Curses and Occasional Missiles.
But the afternoon's trip was not all
cakes and flowers. A taunting, jeering,
howling crowd of more than 1000 strikers
and strike sympathizers jog-trotted for
blocks along the sidewalks, reviling the
carmen, yelling frenzied threats to 'get .
them yet," crying "murderers," "cow
ards" and "scabs."
Now and then an unseen arm was
drawn back in the outskirts of the mob
and a missile came hurling through the
air, to crash against a car. At such
times a mounted policeman would whirl
his horse about and dash onto the crowd
ed sidewalk in the direction from which
the attack came, but the guilty man or
boy, hidden in the recesses of the mob,
escaped detection invariably. Once a
brick, hurled from the sidewalk, cleared
the top of a car and struck a union man
in the chest.
One Shot Fired by Striker.
Though no shooting wts witnessed by
the police,, the . company officials or the
newspaper men who accompanied the
cars on their run, one motorman de
clared after the return to the barn that
a shot was fired from the sidewalk on
Devisadero street, between Golden Gate
avenue and McAllister. In proof of his
statement he pointed to a clean-cut hole
in one of the ventilator windows of his
car.
The start was made from Oak and
Broderick streets shortly before 2 o'clock,
after the police had taken possession of
a wagonload of rocks that a union sym
pathizer was about to dump on the tracks
in front of the carhouse.
After the run had been completed one
of the employes of the United Railroads,
in a report to the company, stated that
in performing his secret service work
during the afternoon he scraped ac
quaintance with five carpenters at work
on a scaffolding at the southeast corner
of Devisadero and McAllister streets, and
that at the time of the passage of the
cars each of these workmen was armed
with a pistol.
The programme for tomorrow is to run
two cars through a more dangerous sec
tion of the city than the Western Addi
tion. In this event more serious trouble is
anticipated.
President Calhoun stated today that he
has the corroborative evidence of
reputable citizens claiming to have
been eye-witnesses. that the first
shots flred in Tuesday's tragic bat
tle were not from the cars, but from
the crowd. One of the strikebreakers who
manned the cars that day declared that
the first shots were fired by a bartender,
who ran out of a place on Turk street sev
eral blocks beyond the carbarns, and that
the fellow shot five times, emptying his
revolver at the foremost of the two cars.
The carman says he knows where to find
this man and can Identify him.
Telegrams were received today by Mr.
Calhoun from Boston, Chicago and several
other Eastern cities expressing encour
agement and approbation. Mr. Calhoun
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FLOWERS
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