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VOL. XLVL SO. 14,506.
PORTLAND.. OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1907.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
ORCHARD
TELLS HIS
-JRIIS
Agent of Vengeance
for Miners' Feder
ation for Years.
SAYS HAYWOOD HIRED KIM
Blew Up Bunker Hill and Sulli
van Mill in Summer
of 1899.
ALSO INDEPENDENCE DEPOT
Lay In Wait to Kill Peabody for
Weeks.
BLEW UP THE VINDICATOR
' wrangled Bradley With Bomb and
Shot Gregory Dead Haywood,
Mover and Pettibone Proposed
and Approved the Crimes.
ORCHARD'S CONFESSED CRIMES.
April 29. 1890 Blow up Bunk.r
Rill Sullivan mill. In the Coeur
d'Alenea, killing ..JLwo. .merv.,
November, 1903 Blew up Vindi
cator mine. Cripple Creek. CoL. klll
tnr Superintendent McConnlck and
Foreman Beck.
ecember. 3903 Mad. bombs tor
nee of another man tn blowing" up
soldiers.
Spring of 1804 Lay In wait to kill
Governor Peabody. of Colorado, for
three weeks, but blundered and
abandoned attempt.
Spring of 1904 Shot Deputy Sher
iff Lyte Gregory dead at Denver.
July 4. 1904 Blew up Independ
ence depot. In Colorado, killing 14
non-union mlnere and wounding
many others.
November, 1904 Attempted to kill
Fred Bradley In San Francisco with
poison; finally blew htm up with
bomb, horribly mangling, but not
killing him.
December 80, 1905 Blew up ex
Governor Frank Steunenberg, of Ida
ho, at Caldwell, with bomb.
Orchard' e recital of his Crimea In
hie testimony has only been carried
to the blowing up of Bradley. To
day he le expected to continue. It
closing with the Steunenberg mur
der. Murders ao far confessed by Or
chard Bunker Kill Sullivan mill.
3; Vindicator mine, 2; Lyte Gregory,
1; Independence depot, 14; ex-Governor
Steunenberg, 1; total, 20.
BOlSEi Idaho, June 5. Alfred Horsley,
alias Harry Orchard, the actual assassin
of Frank Steunenberg, went on the stand
today a a witness against William D.
Haywood and made public confession of
a long chain of brutal, revolting crimes,
done, he said, at the Inspiration and for
the pay of the leaders of hb Western
Federation of Miners.
An undertaking by the special prose
cutors for the state that they would by
later proof and connection legitimize his
testimony opened the way like a floodgate
to the whole diabolical story and through
out the entire day Orchard went on from
crime recital to crime recital, each suc
ceeding one seemingly more revolting
than thoee that had come before.
Catalogue of His Crimes.
Horsley confessed that, as member of
the mob that wrecked the Bunker Hill &
Sullivan mill In the Coeur d'Alenes, he
lighted one of the fuses that carried fire
to the giant explosion; confessed that he
it the deathtrap in the Vindicator mine
at Cripple Creek that blew out the lives
of Superintendent McCormick and Fore
man Bek; confessed that, because he
had not been paid for his first attempt
at violence in the Vindicator mine, he
had been treacherous to his associates
by warning the managers of the Florence
& Cripple Creek railway that there was
a plot to blow up their trains; confessed
that he cruelly fired charges of buckshot
Into the body of Detective Lyte Gregory,
of Denver, killing htm instantly; con
fessed that for days he stalked Governor
Peabody about Denver, waiting a chance
to kill him; confessed that he and Steve
Adams set and discharged the mine under
the depot at Independence that Instantly
killed 14 men. and confessed that, falling
In an attempt to poison Fred Bradley,
of San Francisco, he blew Bradley and
his house up with a bomb of gelatin.
And he has more brutal crimes to
tell about that will bring his bloody
career down to Its end at Caldwell,
where with a great bomb he killed ex
Governor Steunenberg. These will
foais omorrgw, lor, he la to resume
the stand when the district court
sits again.
The story was told to a tense-nerved
rigid crowd that watched with star
ing eyes for every move and word of
the confessing witness, a crowd that
was sickened and weary of its dis
gusting details long before James H.
Hawley, pleading illness of himself at
3 o'clock in the afternoon, secured ad
journment for the day.
Orchard retained control of himself
almost from the moment he took the
stand, and if he suffered much, he
did not show It. His eyes were bloodr
shot and his face mottled In cotor
when he came Into the room to con
front the man whose life he Jeop
ardizes. He was plainly very nervous.
He seemed at first to lose a little of his
physical control, for he walked un
steadily as he neared the stand and
reached in an indefinite way for the
arm of the chair. He had trouble in
finding voice for a few minutes, but
only for a few moments. He quickly
steadied himself and was soon talk
ing In the soft, easy tones that char
acterize his speech His manner was
easy and his gaze steady in any direc
tion that a question claimed his at-
V. I). Haywood, Accused by
Orchard of Hiring- HI in to
Commit Crimes and Approving;
Illi Deeds.
tention. His eyes blinked a little
when he told how he trailed and mur
dered Lyte Gregory, but his voice
altered none in tone. " His eyes "met
those of Haywood several times, and
the two gazed fixedly at one another
in tests, with honors even.
Dramatic Scene at Entrance.
Orchard's entry to the courtroom,
after a dramatic pause, was itself in
tensely dramatic: Five witnesses who
traced Horsley and Jack Slmpklns at
various times prior to the Steunenberg
murder at Caldwell, Nampa and Silver
City .and further fixed their move
ments by identifying hotel registers
where they had signed their names,
consumed the first hour of the morn
ing session, and then Senator Borah,
looking toward the bench, said In a
quiet tone:
"It will be a few moments before
the next witness arrives."
The crowd knew Orchard was to
come and in keen expectancy watched
the two doors of the room. It was to
be a realization at last. The prisoner
witness, long 'sequestered at the pen
itentiary, "was to be produced.
Haywood's mother, Mrs. Carruthers,
of Salt' Lake, and. her daughter sat
beside -the prisoner and his wife, they
having arrived here yesterday from
Salt Lake. Mrs. Carrutners is a hand
some woman of middle age and her
daughter is a pretty girl of ' 20. ' The
prisoner's two daughters were absent.
Haywood held a notebook and at in
tervals took notes of the proceedings.
"None of the Haywood group could see
either door without turning in their
seats and, while they steadily faoed
front, they : showed their' expectancy
for the appearance of the man whose
testimony may mean so much to them.
Horsley had spent the night and morn
ing at the office of James H. Hawley and
was brought to the courthouse In a car
riage with three armed guards. . In the
chambers of - the Judge he - was turned
over to Deputy Sheriff Has Beamer, who
is to be his special guard at -the trial.
Strangers entering the courtroom during
the morning were searched for weapons
and, when Orchard reached the building,
the doors of the trial room were locked
and extra deputies posted outside the rail.
Sheriff Shad Hodgln cleared . an aisle
back of the seats of the Haywood party
and, when he got a signal from the
judge's chambers that all' was ready,
nodded his head to Mr. Hawley.
"Call Harry Orchard,'; said the state's
leading counsel In & loud tone.
Haywood Gazes Intently.
The chambers door swung open and out
marched Horsley, led by Ras - Beamer
and followed by two penitentiary guards
and two detectives, all armed. They
walked him on the march around the rail
and then faced the crowd, while he
climbed to the witness chair. Far back
in the room a man stood up to get a
better view and a deputy shouted: "Sit
down." The other deputies instantly
started forward and. If the man had not
taken his seat quickly, they would have
Jumped for him. A woman Inside the
rail dropped her parasol. Its clatter drew
all the attention of the nervous crowd and
the gun-fighting men who were there to
shield Horsley until they understood what
was happening.
Haywood leaned down between his coun
sel, so that he might get a clear, unob
structed view of the witneswtand and
for fully five minutes he gazed steadily
at Horsley. The latter was, however, giv
ing bis attention to the state's counsel on
the other side of the room and It was not
until the first interruption came from
the defense that the two saw each other.
There were a few preliminaries as to
Horsley's birth-place and real name and
his first days In the North Idaho country.
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ALL DEPENDS ON .
BACKING UP STORY
Opinion on Confession
of Orchard.
FAILURE WOULD BRING ODIUM
State Secures Witnesses Who
Will Corroborate.
BRADLEY WILL NOT'APPEAR
Blames "Explosion on Gas Company.
False Alarm of Bomb In Court.
Orchard Is Indifferent
to Death Penalty.
BOISH, Idaho, June 6. (Special.) A
most Interesting opinion was expressed
by one of the visitors here today after
listening to the story told by Albert E.
Horsley, alias Harry Orchard, as a wit
ness in the Haywood" case. It was to
the effect that no set of men would dare
put a man on the stand to tell such a
horrible tale unless they were prepared
to verify It so fully that all the world
would recognize Its truth.
This visitor added that those who
would recklessly Introduce a witness to
give such testimony without being able
to support it would, under the circum
stances of this case, incur the odium of
the entire country. To his mind he said
that thought was a powerful factor In
leading him to the belief that the state
was fully prepared to establish the cor
rectness of the fearful narrative.
More "Witnesses Coming Forward.
Persons who listened to the narration
experienced etrange sensations. It
seemed impossible that a human befhg
could have been guilty of such crimes or
that others could have employed him to
commit' them. Tet there sat the wit
ness, calm of demeanor, resolute of pur
pose and apparently bent upon unbosom
ing himself frankly and fully, and ob
servers felt they had been -carried back
into the atmosphere and amid the scenes
of the Mlddje Ages.
The prosecution was well pleased today
with the manner in which Orchard bore
himself. It is going to have a good ef
fect in opening the mouths of some oth
ers who have hesitated to come here to
testify. In fact, the state feels pleased
with the extent to which hesitation bad
already given place to a determination to
come. From many sections witnesses
are here or are on the way whom it was
not hoped to get.
"They are coming up splendidly," said
one of thoee connected with the prosecu
tion this evening, "and we are going to
be able to make even stronger showing
than we anticipated."
The impossibility of getting Fred G.
BUT IS MR.
KZWS ITEM THE
-eV-.
Bradley here as a witness is one of the
disappointments of the case. Mr. Brad
ley and his company, the Bunker Hill &
Sullivan Mining Company, have been
benefited much by the state in times past,
and it would seem as though he were
under peculiar obligations to come here
at this time. Today Orchard told of the
effort to kill him because of the fact that
he had Incurred the enmity of the inner
circle through Jjis policy in running the
great mine, the affairs of which he di
rects, but he Is on record as denying the
correctness of Orchard's statement.
The owner of the building where the
explosion occurred ; in San .- Francisco
brought . suit . and secured .. judgment
against the gas company for damages.
When Orchard made his confession, ' the
company saved a copy of that portion re
lating to the attempt on Mr. - Bradley's
life for the purpose of getting the case
reopened. Mr. Bradley made a deposition
denying the story and the defense here
has a copy of that deposition. It is said
he also has a suit against the gas com
pany for damages, so Mr. Bradley cannot
-testify here, though - he is. under such
great obligations to the state. Moreover,
It is known he told close friends at the
time there was an explosion on the out-
if iv Jf J
Harry' Orchard, Whose True
Name Is Alfred Horsley, and
Who Confessed a Less Series
of Crimea In the Haywood
Trial.
side which blew the front of the building
in upon him, and that another inside, prob
ably caused by gas escaping from a
broken pipe, threw him out Into the
street and saved his life. He kept it to
himself because he did not want his wife
to know: ...
Attempts to Poison Bradley.
There will be a number of witnesses
here, though, , to testify about the at
tempt on Mr. Bradley's life, notwith
standing the attitude of the Intended
victim of the bomb. One of these is
a chemist who analyzed the milk that
Orchard poisoned. The cook detected
something wrong with the milk and
tasted It, finding it bitter. Mr. Brad
ley became suspicious that It was an
effort made by his old enemies to make
away with him and had it analyzed,
finding it heavy with strychnine. Or
chard could not tell of this feature of
the poison Incident In his testimony.
Another subject ' on which Orchard
was cut off was the Archie Stevenson
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HARRIMAN IN CONDITION
GOVERNMENT WHX IYSTITCTE LEGAL PROCEEDINGS TO KEQTTKK MR, HARRIMABf TO
AN8WKR CERTAIN QUESTIONS AS TO KATLROAD MANIPULATION.
HENEY TAKES UP
SGHMITZ TRIAL
Makes OpeningSpeech
. .Before Jury.
SHOWS MAYO jJ'S CIVIC LIFE
Partner With Ruef in Black
: mailing Operations.
REAGAN GOES ON STAND
Ex-Com mlssloner Says He Was in
Consultation With Executive With
Reference to Refusing French
Restaurants Liquor License.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 5. The open
ing address for the prosecution by Dis
trict Attorney Heney, the partial ex
amination of ' ex-Police Commis
sioner Thomas Beagan. the introduc
tion as evidence of a mass of data from
the mlnuto books of the police commis
sion for the years 1904-05, and the
questioning in relation thereto of the
secretary of the commission,. Officer
Charles F. Skully, were the incidents
that made up the first day's actual
trial of Mayor Eugene E. Schmltz for
extortion.
Officer Skully will resume the wit
ness stand at the opening of court to
morrow morning to further identify
and corroborate Police Commission
records. He will be followed by Mr.
Reagan, who will complete his test!
mony, and then b turned over to the
defense for cross-examination-May
Last Over Two Weeks.
No night sessions of the Schmltz
trial will be held. It Is expected that
the trial will take up not less, and
probably more, than two weeks.
The auditorium of the Jewish Syna
gogue on Bush street was crowded to
day, when the hour arrived for the be
ginnlug of the trial.
By request of Mr. Heney the Court
instructed all witnesses to retire, and
all of them except ex-Police Com
missioners Sutton, Reagan and Pohelm
were excused until tomorrow morning.
This was taken as notice that these,
and not Ruef, will be the first wit
nesses called.
At 10:20 o'clock Mr. Heney began his
opening statement to the Jury. At
great length and with extreme minute
ness he laid before the Jury the plot
as alleged by the prosecution on the
part of the Mayor and Ruef to "carry
on a systematic scheme of blackmail,"
through the instrumentality of the Po
lice Commission.
Preliminarily, Mr. Heney outlined
TO TALK?
the Mayor's entrance Into politics and
traced the political friendship and asso
ciation of Schmltz and Ruef from the
time of its inception throughout the
Mayor's first two terms of office. He
recited with much circumstance the
facts as alleged in the Indictment and
their, surrounding Incidents. Mr.
Heney spoke for an hour, and at the
conclusion of his address called to the
stand ex-Police Commissioner Thomas
Reagan.
Mr. Heney recited at great length the
alleged methods used by the Mayor and
Ruef to intimidate the French restau
ranteurs and to show them that Ruef
was the only - man who could secure
their licenses and that money was the
onIything that would obtain his in
fluence. " .
"To show the bad Intention of the
Mayor," said Heney, "we shall show
that the fight against Commissioner
Sutton, which ended in his removal by
the Mayor, was made because Sutton
was trying to close up disreputable In
stitutions." Says French Cafes Are Bad.
In his testimony ex-Commissioner
Reagan said that it was in the
Summer of 1904 in the Mayor's offico
I - -Jl y , f
I r. "i
Geora-e Pettibone, "Who la Said
by Orchard to Have Supplied
Him Wltb Money to Commit
Crime and Escape Justice.
In the new City Hall that he had hl3
first talk with the Mayor on the sub
ject of French restaurants. The Mayor
said they were all bad places and
should be closed.
Reagan said he made personal in
vestigation and then proceeded to obey
the Mayor's instructions to withhold
licenses from the French restaurants.
There were in existence at that time
2078 liquor licenses, and most of the
French restaurants sold liquor under
that form of law. In compliance with
the Mayor's instructions, Reagan as
sisted in holding up of licenses.
SCORNS ALLURING OFFERS
Becker Will Not Desert Mayoralty
lor Vaudeville Stage.
MILWAUKEE, June 5. Mayor Sher
burn Becker, of this city, has decided to
decline the offer of 21300 per week to go
on the stage. He will continue his duties
as Mayor of Milwaukee until the end of
his term, he says.
CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER
' The Weather.
YESTERDAY S Maximum temperature, 69
degrees; minimum. 04 degreei.
TODAY'S Showers; . westerly winds,
, Paelflo Coaet.
Heney opens trial of Schmltz for extor
tion. , Page L.
Orchard confesses many crimes for which
Miners Federation paid him. Page 1.
Prosecution secures many unexpected wit
nesses against Haywood. Page 1.
i Foreign.
Turkish smuggler blows up ship to avoid
capture, killing crew and 80 would-be
captors. . Page 4.
Mutiny among Czar's guard . suppressed.
Page 2.
Guatemala sentences 12 co aspirators to
, death. Page 2-
Natlonal.
Japan may sue San Francisco for damages
suffered by subjects. Page 8.
Roosevelt will decide course on Harriman
case Friday. Page S.
Domestic.
Four' persons drowned In Nebraska on
fishing excursion. Page 2.
Tucker of Uncle Sato Oil Company sen
tenced for contempt In assailing court's
Integrity. Page 4.
Oralnralsers decide to corner wheat sup
ply. Page 4.
Portland fiancee and St. Iouls wife of
wicked jeweler mingle teacs. Page 2.
Oregon girls give Chicago farewell fling.
Page 2.
I M- Sullivan arrested In civil en it by
Investor In mining stock. Page 4,
Sport.
Crokers Orby wins English derby. Page 7.
One Jockey wins all six races at Louis
ville. Page 7-
Ban Francisco beats Portland, 5 to L Page
7-
Columbia University defeats Portland
Academy, 5 to 4. Page 7.
Portland basebal tossers again defeated by
Saa Francisco; score 5 to L Page 7.
Mayor Lane believes all bond Issues voted
Illegal; asks City Attorney for opinion.
Page 6.
Portland and Vicinity.
Federal grand Jury closes session by in
dicting 182 members of alleged furniture
trust and counterfeiting gang. Page 10.
Civil Service Commission resolves to de
mand adequate financial support from
City Council. Page 11.
A- W. Lafferty, Portland lawyer, goes to
Washington to interest hlgb officials In
breaking up of railroad land monopoly.
Page 11.
Council plans to build new city Jail on
market block. Page 5.
E. E- Lytle to be elected president of
United Railways. Page 14.
Commercial and Marine.
Need of local exchange to fix dairy pro
duce prices. Page 15.
Chicago wheat market shows little change.
Page 15-
Stock market sentiment unsettled. Page 15.
Heppner wool sales a success. Page 15.
Gasoline launch Dolly burns in the Wil
lamette. Page 14. , ..
TEXTBOOKS FOR
CHANGED
Only Four Now in Use
Are Retained.
TWO SUBJECTS ARE DROPPED
Elementary Agriculture Is Add
ed to Course.
BOOKS MAY BE EXCHANGED
Cost of Xew Set, Excepting Nature.
Study, Less Than Old Contracts
Are Distributed Among Many
Firms Choice Unanimous.
SALEM, Or.. June 6. (Special.) All but
four books now in use In the common
schools of Oregon have, been changed by
the State Text-Book Commission and
new text-books will be substituted at the
beginning of the new school year. The
fourth and fifth Cyr readers, the Thomas
elementary history and the Reed speller
are the books retained.
Civil government has been dropped en
tirely as a separate subject and will here
after be taught in connection with his
tory. The mental arithmetic has also
been dropped and the mental exercises'
will be given with the aid of the books
on written arithmetic. In the place of
the two subjects dropped, an Important
one has been added, that of elementary
agriculture. This addition has been made
In response to a very general demand.
The principal changes are the substitu
tion of Wheeler's readers up to the third
book for the Cyr readers; the adoption of
Smith's arithmetics In the place of Wer.t
worth's; the adoption of Buehler's gram
mars in the place of Reed & Keliogg's;
the adoption of the Natural geographies
In the place of Frye's, and Doub's United
States history in the place of Thomas'
advanced history.
Cost of Books' Compared.
The total cost of the books used in
the schools under the list in force up to
the. present time was 9.80, this list not
including the book on nature study. The
prices of those newly adopted, not in
cluding the nature study, aggregate 19.14,
or a reduction of 66 cents. If nature
study be included the new list will cost
$9.89, or an Increase of 9 cents in the
cost of all the books a child must use in
his eight years of schooling.
Since the new work on nature study is
a practical treatise on elementary agri
culture, it Is probable that the book will
come Into common use. In which event the
eight-year course will require 25 books,
whereas 27 books are now In use. With
out the nature study, the entire list will
Include 24 books, of which number seven
are copy books for penmanship.
To exchange an entire set of old books
for an entire set of new ones on the same
subjects will require the payment of 14.51.
On an average the exchange price Is
about one-half of the retail price. The
book companies take in exchange almost
any book that has leaves, although badly
worn.
Contracts AVidely Scattered.
The new adoption distributes the books
among a larger number of publishers, the
so-called small houses getting a number
of contracts. Ginn & Company have lost
three of the readers and the geograpies
but gained the nature study and the
music. The W. H. Wheeler Company gels
the contract for the primer and first
three readers; the American Book Com
pany publishes the newly adopted geog
raphies; Ginn & Company, the arithme
tics; Heath & Company, the elementary
history; Doub & Company, the advanced
history; Kewsome & Company, the gram
mars; D. Appleton, the physiology; O. P.
Barnes, the writing-books; Maynard
Merrlll Company, the speller, and the
Prang Company, the drawing-books.
Ginn & Company received the award for
arithmetics again, though there Is a
change of authors.
While this feature of the distribution
may not have been considered by the
commission, it is at once apparent that
the scattering of the text-book business
practically prevents the building up of ,
an educational machine backed by a publishing-house.
The American Book Com
pany, which once had a monopoly of the
business in this state, gets one contract
under the new selection.
The books adopted today, with. the ex
change prices and retail prices, are as fol
lows: List of Books Selected.
Keader.
Exchange Retail
Price. Price.
Wheeler's Graded Primer .10 $ .25
Wheeler's Graded Piret Reader. . .10 ,2ft
Wheeler's Graded Second Reader .15 .35
Wheeler's Graded Third Reader.. .20 .45
Cyr'e Fourth Reader 25 .50
Cyr's Fifth Reader .30 .80
Geographies
Natural Introductory Geography.. .27 .64
Natural School Geography .57 1.13
Arithmetics
Bmlth'e Primary Arithmetic... -IS .S5
Smith's Practical Arithmetic... .33 .65
Mental Arithmetic
No separate book adopted; will use written
arithmetics.
History
Thomas Elementary History ... .60 .SO
History of V. a., by Doub .70 . 1.00
Grammar
Buehler i Hotchklea' Modern
English Leeeone SO .40
Buehler ft Hotohklss English
Grammar 30 M
Civil Government
No separate book adopted history to be
used.
Physiologjr
First Boole In Hygiene (Krohn).. .13 M
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