VOLUME 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.