The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930, June 13, 1907, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextVOLUME Will, NO 133. ASTORIA, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1907. PRICE FIYE CENTS BOISE TRIAL PROGRESSES Defense Attempts To Show : Uncertainty ORCHARD IN POVERTY Plot to Kidnap Paulson Children tor Ransom Subject of ; Inquiry. , ERA OF CRIME AND POVERTY Orchard Compelled To Llvt By Borrow ing and Stealing During August, 1905 If Also Lived For Tina At Petti bona' House. BOISE, June It The defenaa today carried tie woes-examination of Harry On-hard down to the actual crime chargt-d agalust Haywood, the murder of (iuvvriuir Steunenberg and a it progr-ed uwllril Orchard' testimony and tha theory o( the Ul rertlng up on it. The Hteunenberg crime wee reached at mldiley and counsel tor the Jcfene directed their efTort to an at- tempt to cloud the earlier purpose and movement of On-hard with uncertainty and lndeflniteni-M, then they nibai-d the abandonment of all effort to kill, after Orchard tlrt tracked Steunenlierg to lkl and with a sk.-l.-Um key bad gained ece to the very room In which the Governor wet living, lli-re they delayed (or a moment to prove that Or chard twice wrote and once telephoned to 1JIII Eatcrly. at Silver City, to urge him to coma and join in the crime and the direct Implication wa that Orchard wa endeavoring to Inveigle another r'eder atlun man Into the crime, which would bring dishonor and discredit to that or gnnlaation. Then the Meunenberg crime was temporarily thrust aside and the witneea carried over bl long diverting Journey Into Northern Idaho and hla crimea there, including tba dark plot to ateal and hold foe rnnin, the Paulson children, were forcefully emphasised. Orchard swore that Iava Coatea, forr mer Lieutenant-Governor of Idaho and Jhen publisher at Wallace, Idaho, first suggested the kidnapping to l'ettlbone and himself at Denver. Paulson, 01 ire a poor miner, had made a fortune In the Herculea Mine in which Owherd bold an intereat when the property wa valueless, and it waa believed that if Ma children were stolen he would "come through", with 150,000 or $110,000 In ransom. Orchard said, when he went to North Idaho he go Jack Klmpkins to come in on the plot and together they went to Conies to renew the achema. Coatea who wa in court wa asked to Ktand up for Identification and facing him Orchard aid he wa the man." Or chard wa then asked If he had not himself proponed the crime to Coatea who Immediately whuffed him, and if .Tack Rlmpkin had not warned Paulson , the mlnuta be heard of the plot, Or chard denied ,the suggestions and re iterating hla first story, Insisted that Conte hed consented to May In the plot and handle the money they hoped to get out of Paulton. Then the defence slfowe the wltneaa In the commission of a series of mean crlmei and reduced to poverty in which ha had to retort to the pawnshop, bor rowing and theft to live for a long period. First he pawned some jewelry and guns, , Thia brought $23 or $30, Then with a man named Cunningham, whom be ald Vincent St. John had recommended to him as safe and tried, he discussed the project to give Cun ningham the old Peabody bomb which he etlll had in his trunk, for nee by Cunningham against some of the non union men at the Tiger and Poormnn mines, then he accepted the hospitality of the aPulson home at the very time he wai plotting to steal Pnulson'i chil- 14 1 diii ' vva vun Ti a a vvn imjrtnn he broke into the 0. R. & N. depot. They were after a trunk full of jewelry Samples, but instead got a trunk full of shoes, Next he tapped a cash register at Burke for $30 or $40, It was a long era of crime and poverty and hard luck and lu ummlng It up the defense want' ed to know why, if he wai in Idaho a mission of murder for Haywood, ' ee and Pettlbona and with f .iS ra,llt :frm I hum li .11,1 r A" them for money Instead ,lng and atenllng. Orcba'' r that be did aend a leltar to " '.. Butt and got $100, but, ha did m,', aend for more bacaua be wa temporarily off the Steunenbertf . murder ami away from from where MteunenUcrg lived and he did not want to send for mora money until ha could show that be wa back at work, Lastly, there cam tha show log that On-hard hed borrowed (.100 from Paulson, whose children ha had gone north to ateal on tba strength of a fraudulent story that ha was going to Loa Angelea. to sell mining stock for Coat and that this waa tha money that actually paid bl expenses whn he went back to Caldwell on the final mission of murder. y i ' Swiftly reviewing hla meeting with hla old partners, who bad In tba mean' time become rich, the defense asked tha wltneaa if, disappointed and aagwd at hla own hard luck In selling out the 1 ren-utei mine, when SUunenberg aent the troops Into North Idaho, ha had not suddenly decided to borrow money enough from Paulson to take him to Caldwell, where he eould murder the man, whom be blamed for hie misfor tune. Orchard atreuoualy denied that this waa hi motive. Tha earllrr part of tha day waa consumed wit a review from the etan.lpolnt of the defense of the alleged ph'ts gelnt Governor Peabody, Judge (iablM-rt, Juuge Goddard and General Bell. It developed that" dur- August of 1905, when with a shotgun and buckshot he wa stalking Bell, Or chard went to live at the home of Pet tilione, and the explanation of this re lationship offered by the defense In it a questions waa that Orchard had coma there to keep Pettlbone company while Mrs. Pettilmne w absent on an east ern trip. The-revlew of the Staunenberg plot brought from Orchard tha additional declaration that when Haywood waa proposing the crime lie aaid Ed itoyce, a former president of the Western red erathin of Miner end now one of the ownera of the Hercules mine bad alway desired the removal of Steunenberg for hi part In the North Idaho labor trouble. , : When seen after Orchard left - the land Coatea said Rlmpkin never talk ed to him on the subject of the kidnap ping of Paulson' children) that Orchard did not speak to him about it In Denver, but did coma to him in Wallace and out lined the plot. Orchard said he wanted r kidnap Paulson's children and get a bunch of mney. - Coatea aay he told him he was a fool and if be attempted to do ao, Coate would denounce him publicly and that he would be run out of Wallace. Coatee pronounce the stcrry a absolutely untrue. Coate served a term as Lieutenant-Governor of Colorado, having been elected on the Populist ticket. After leaving Colorado ha went to Wallace and until a few week ago was tha proprietor of a newspaper there. He recently sold out his inter est there. A Steve Adams Many Crimes Par allel His Pals. TESTIMONY IS VALUABLE Steve Adama Will Prove No Less An Interesting Witness Than Harry Or chard If He Can Be Made To Talk. 1K)1SK, June 12, Steve Adam forms a factor in the trbil of William D. Hay wood for the murder of former Govern nor Steunenbcrg hardly less interesting than Harry Orchard, the main witness for the prosecution. This man made a confession last year fully a horrible as that made by Orchard, end the state is known to rely greatly on 'it. . Where his statement bore on the same crimes as those related by Or chard they run parallel.- Where they dealt with other crimes, the detail were of a nature to cause men to shudder and sicken In the same manner as when they listened to Orchard's accounts of murder in which Adntns played no part. But since that confession was .mnde many changes have been rung on the situation. Siirc ear BURNING DAY Rucf Practically Called Him a Perjurer. TRIAL TO JURY TODAY Arguments Will be Made Today and Case Will Probably Go to Jury. PROSECUTION IS SUSTAINED Tohnton Makes Ooanine- Addreaa For Prosecution and Greatly Intereat Schmit -Barrett For Detente Hake Lengthy Argument. V SAN FRANCISCO, June 1 1 This was an ear burning day for Mayor Schmiti. Seated at the counsel table, he heard Huef, hi former political friend, phil osopher and guide, practically call him a perjurer. And with that mime burning he listened to a acatbing denunciation of himself by Prosecutor Johnaon. If thera wa a balm for hi ecouraged feeling In the apeech. tbrat closed the day, the speech of bis own attorney, Mr. Barrett, he took no 0en heed. In deed, during mot of the two hour ami twenty-five minute that Barrett wa spanking the Mayor waa either glancing over the newspaper or wa buried deep in tha typewritten pages of the testi mony. But no word of the prosecutor address escarped hia sensitive eare. Ruef was, of course, the sensation of the day. Hia appearance on the stand a a witnesa in rebuttal for the prose cution Is now credited to the tactical error of the defense in letting the Mayor testify, for it wa to refute the Mayor's denial under oath that ha had not par ticipated in Ruefa "fee" that the pris oner ex-bos waa called. Ruef told the jury that ba went to Schmltt former residence and there handed to tha May or at stated inteyala one-half of the "fee" of the $5000 and $3000 paid to hlrn by the French restaurant keepers. This waa after the defense had exhaust ed ita best effort to shut both the question and the answer out on the ground that the fonner was not prop erly rebuttal became In his direct ex animation no auoh matter had been broached to the Mayor. Judge Dunne ruled that the pertinency of the ques tion could not be doubted.- The opening address for the prosecu tion by Hiram W. Johnson, aon of for mer Congressman Grova L.., Johnaon. and one of the foremost criminal law yers in the atate, occupied one hour and fifteen minutes. It was a masterly argument and In his effort Johnson avoided anything like an attempted re sume of the evidence in all it volumin ous detail." He selected rather, the main peaks and ateering by them,- endeavored ' to pilot the jury over a short course to conviction. " " 1 ' Johnson wa followed by J. J. Banett, who spoke for nearly two hour and a half in behalf of the defense, making much of the testimony argument, that hud the court permitted Ruef to tell Some time after the confeseion wa made Adams' uncle came to Boise from his Oregon home and got into communi cation with him. He employed counsel to secure a writ of habeas corpus for the release of his nephew. Investiga tion showed that at the solicitation of hla uncle Adams had concluded to re pudiate big confession. As no charge had been filed against him, he might have walked out the door of the peniten" tiary a free man had not the authori ties decided to prosecute him for the murder of Frey Tyler, a claim-jumper, on the St. Joe River, in Shoshone Coun ty, of which he had told in the confes sion. The prisoner was then taken to Wal lace, the county seat of Shoshone Coun ty, and tried for this murder. The jury disagreed, ' and he wen remanded into the custody of Shoviff Bailey, to awivit a second trial. the whole story, he would have testified that tba restaurant keepers came to Ruef and besought hla services u an attorney and no threat wa made or held over them that they would losr their license If they did not pay him money, and Jluef contention would have been the( he) did not exercise any control over the ll(ne board. Barrett told tha jury that under the testimony adduced, the most tint might be proved wa that the money wa extored by Ruef from the French restaurant men by a threat to close the bedroom on their upper floors. "The indictment," commented the Mayor1 attorney, "Charge this defend. ant with extorting this money by threat to take away their license to sell li quir, Vou cannot, gentlemen, accuse the defendant of one crime and convict him of another, Remember that.' When Barrett concluded, the court ad journed for the day. The argument to follow will lie made tomorrow and the case probably reach 'the Jury before night. ' JAPS Hf HONOLULU. Immigration Official Given Orders To Handle Situation Carefully, HOXOLUIX', June l2.Commihioner of Immigration Sargent has instructed tha local Immigration officials to eon tinue the careful inspection of Japanese immigrant but to discontinue photo, graphing them and to handle diplomati cally, all question that may arie. The local federal officers gre alleged to have discovered member of the Japanese navy here that have been communicated with direct by their home government and not through the Japanese consul REVOLUTION IH SALVADOR. Nicaragua Behind Latest Uprising In "V Banana Republic. PAN SALVADOR. June 12.-Although no confirmation had been made public her up to last night, of the reported capture of Acajutla, Salvador, by the Nicaragua n forces, it is . positively known that President Zelaya embarked troop and war munition at Corinto, on the war vessel Momotorabo, under the order of General Riva and destin ed to raise a revolution In Salvador. SUICIDE AND MURDER. Han Kill Wife and Blow Top of Hia Own Bead Off. LOS ANGELES, June 12. Frank T. Edson, a lodging house keeper, today shot hia wife through the head and in stantly killed her and then blew off the top of hla own head. The couple had frequently quarreled over financial mat ters. FATHER'S BRUTAL CRIME. INDIANAPOLIS, June 12.-Robert Jolly killed his daughter Gladys, aged 9 year, here today by forcing carbolic acid down her throat. He had been drinking end when arrested later talk ed inchorrenCly. It la believed that his mind is affected. ILLFAT ED LAUNCH Search Instituted by Naval Aulh ior ties Develops Nothing. CEREMONIES CARRIED OUT Naw Officers " Decline Invitations To Participate In Future Festivities- Search For Bodies of Eleven Victims Pursued After Dark. NORFOLK, June 12. All day long and until late tonight The search and dredging instituted by the naval au thorities for any signs of the Minne sota's ill-fated launch and its eleven occupant has progressed, but the bodies of the victims have not been found. While Virginia Day wag participated in, in order not to break the program ar ranged in advance, the navy officers have , declined all new invitation to partici pate in festivities. METCALF SAFE. NEWPORT NEWS, June 12.-A dis patch received here late tonight from the naval officer at Hampton Roads stating that Secretary Metoalf i safe. The telograin further said the Secretary is on board the Dolphin, PAPERS MAKE TROUBLE Print Pictures of Frisco Incidents USED STRONG WORDS The Hochi Says the 'Stage for the Negotiation Has Passed. TIME FOR ACTION REACHED Paper Say Situation Call For Prompt Action By Both Government Do Not Advocate war But Commercial Re taliation. TOKJO, June 13. Several papers thi morning priut photographs of the wreck age caused by the attacks on the Jap anese restaurant in, San Francisco. Thi appeal to the eye; coupled with strong word ascribing the suffering of their compatriots ha further inflamed popular indignation. Ntchi Mehi com menting on the photograph Bays; . ''The situation is doubtless grave, and calls for prompt measure on the part of both governments." Hochi say: "The stage for negotiation has passed and time for action has been reached.1 The paper says however, that H does not mean to advocate war, but commer cial retaliation. JAPAN WILL CAUSE SENSATION. Will Introduce Measurea Which Are Op posed by Russia and U. S. t NEW YORK, June 12.-A Vienna dis patch to the Herald quotes a delegate to the Hague conference said to be the representative of a great power as de claring that Japan is to hurl a bomb into the conference by bringing forward the question of right of a conqueror to annex territory subjugated with all that Is upon it. This will be warmly denied by both Russia and the United States, the Her ald's informant is quoted as saying. The Russians have large private properties in Manchuria and the United States considerable mining and other interests in Corea. In such interests Japan pro poses to deprive them.' At all events that is to be the object of her proposi tion. "The United States proposes to bring a motion diametrically opposed to that of Japan and this, in view of the pres ent existing controversy between Japan and America it is said to. see has all the makings of a first-class interna tional row." ' v ' , ' ; . CUERO-STOCKDALE LINE. New Line In Texas Opens Fertile Lands To Colonists. . . ' I CHICAGO, June 12. How the railroad revolutionizes socially and physically the country through which it passes was never better shown than in tbp changes wrought by a 50-mile stretch' of track from Stockdule to Cuero, Texas. This line traversing open prairie coun try, closed the gap on the Victoria di vision of the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway between San An tonio and Cuero, and with the line from Cuero to Port Lavaca gives San Antonio a direct line to the Gulf. It also opens up an additional line between San An tonio and Houston by way of Stockdale, providing an additional incentive to the development of the entire coast coun try, which in the past decade baa made wonderful progress. But the change that has come over the country tra versed by the Stockdale Cuero extension is the most interesting feature of this sociological exhihit, The road opened for settlement a wonderful ly fertile and productive section of the state, including portions of four coun ties. Until very recently the entire' sec tion traversed by the Victoria division of the G, H. and 8. A-, controlled by the Southern Pacific, wa ' dominated absolutely by the cattla kings. The cheap fertile land made accessible by the railroad, however, have proved too strong "n incentive to be resisted ba the homeseeker, and in place of the ev en town that the latent map show be tween Cuero and San Antonio, score of prosperous eommunitie are now es tablished, many of them rapidly achiev ing modest distinction in trade. t t j Melon and vegetable , culture and Jeneral crop growing are rapidly in ereaaing, and toward tha Gulf end of the tin the ugar cane industry I aiak (ng marked progre-a. Immediately foi lowing the recent opening of the Cuero Stoekdale line one-tenth of the coun try bordering upon it waa thrown into cultivation, chiefly eottorir This agricul tural "development is alowly out surely displacing the cattle' Industry and ;ak frig 50 home grow where one existed in the. day when vest cattle rancher occupied, the-, country.. .,t 4 ; $ METAL TRADES TO WAIT. SAX FRAXCISCO, June 12,-Tbe metal trades' association at its meeting yesterday agreed to postpone definite action on the refusal of the machinists' union to accept the term of settlement of the iron worker' strike until that union hag been given a chinos to re consider ita position. The machinist meet tonight and the iron master have postponed action until their attention session when they will meet again. Meantime, the association of employ era is determined not to start work in the shops until every union baa accepted the terms of the proffered settlement. FISHERMEN RESCUED. ' . SEATTLE, June 12. A. Poulson and F. Davis, two of the fishermen reported drowned off Possession Bay were rescu ed late Tuesday night clinging to their upturned boat The men are in a ser ious condition. FURNITURE KEN PLEAD GUILTY. PORTLAND, June 12. Twenty mora furniture men pleaded guilty to the indictment in the Federal district court charging them with restaint of inter state commerce, today. They were sen tenced to pay fines ranging from $10 to $25. ', FREE MEC HANI THE SAP IT. NEW YORK, June 12. The first free institute for mechanitberapiy in America will be opened for public inspection this afternoon at the German Hospital and dispensary. The purpose ia to. exercise back into a normal condition a joint or muscle that has become stiffened ar atropied through accident or disease. YESTERDAY'S BASEBALL SCORES. Coast League. At San " Francisco San Francisco 2, Oakland 0. . . Northwest League. At Butte Butte O. Taooma . CLEVELAND , RIOT Jewish District Incensed an Kos J her Meat Shops." ALL SHOPS WERE PICKETED Jews Boycotted Kosher Meat Shops Be cause of Advance In Price and Severe ly Handle-Several Persons Who At tempt To Buy Meat. : - CLEVELAND, June 12. A riot oc curred in the Jewish district here, to day, as the result of a ban placed upon the Kosher meat shops. The Jews an gered over the recent raise of 4 cent a pound for meat, refused to buy and urged other not to buy. All Kosher shops were picketed todav by women and children of the neighborhood. De livery wagons were stopped, the meat was soaked with' coal oil and tha shop closed. When Jacob Rockevitch emerg ed from a shop with some meat he waa surrounded by women. In attempting to escape he ran over a baby. A crowd of 500 quickly gathered and Rockevitch was being roughly handled when rescu ed. One woman who was buying meat was severely injured and had her cloth ing nearly torn off by the crowd. Sev eral shops were raided.