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r; ii 1 1 , V " icisizni Orcgonllccpilal for Imam Ullimalehi ' ; i v i f i i t i i i i r i i ' ' : i a Eiaiii, a i i a iiiUltUUilULUl lit YEffl BY KEIS Emil Schmidt Testifies in Bert Hicks Trial That He Has Been Threatened v Seven . Times by Union Men. r Testifying that he had been hounded by machinist . union pickets day and nlBht for a year and a half, and that h-i himself had threatened to shoot W. A. WorUhan and had to keep him at bay with a loaded revolver, Emil Schmidt, machinist at the Phoenix Jron Works, was tha chief witness for the defense this morning in the trial of Burt Hicks charged' with the murder of A. YVortman, November 2, 1911. ' ' ' Schmidt was on the stand for an hour and a half this momlnj and told of seven- different instances in which lie had been threatened with bodily in jury at the hands df union pickets. Kciiriiidt, who is 22 years old, and a native of Germany, related in broken English a straightforward tory of persecution by the striking machinists bfcausa he would not Join the1 union, ite told of liaving been twice arrested ai me instance or rickets, tor carry ing a revolver for purposes of protec tion. The first time, he said, he was released under suspended sentence, and the second time, when th union men swore to a warrant charging him with - assault with a deadly v- weapon and threatening to kill, he was Monnrat.fi by the grand Jury, which was Investi gating the case, Had Qrndge Against Hin. - In the course of his. direct' examina tion Sciimldt said; "The pickets seemed to bear a particular grudge towards me. They asked me to Join the union and I refused to do so and told cheat It was because I had been treated un fairly by the union when I belonged In .Chicago, and that I thought I was bet ter ; off '-' without being a member. Union men told me they wanted me to Join them as they wanted strong young . men for pickets. They promised to pay me well. ; They made It bo unpleasant for m that I had to change my board ing hOUSe. ' ''?('. ,", :.... ,.. "I saw Wortman among the pickets quite, often. Once h and two others tried to prevent me from going Into the shop. As I reached for my. keys they thought I -was going . to get a - rua -and-oey-feli- back -Wortman cursed; meand.sald they would get n: f!ne..oUr "me, Another time as I lert the shop and had gone about a half block on Hawthorne avenue, Wort man and other pickets came toward me and Wortman said: .'We want to talk to you.' I said: 'All right, come on. .They all started to come and I pulled my gun and said 'Come, one at a They started to close In on me and I told them that I would shoot the first one that got within two feet or me. Wortman said, "I'm used to aung mtie children, like you've got Thrf, Vt0 vmy " Cftllbr solver. They fell back, anyway, and two doIIcs- men soon came and I got away. Knocks Man Out. . 'In January, 1J11, pickets followed me one night, and when they started to close In on me I hit one of them on the head with a seven-eighths Inch bolt, which I carried for $ protection, and knocked him put .The man . was ar rested and fined $5. He was defended by John Jeffrey (a special prosecutor in inn i-unim Ms ami T . . falling me 'Black Jack Schmidt j ''Another time they followed me to a dance at Beaverton, when. I was witlj a companion and two women friends. They sat behind us and used Insulting language. I went to the back plat form, and they followed me. I told them that I was armed and that I would protect myself to the limit If they bothered me any more. They let me alone that night. "They followed me into, a barber shop one night and told the barber there he ought to cut my throat, because I was ar- scab. Tha barber didn't do lO and the proprietor of the shop warned me that the pickets" were wait ing for me and that I had better stay around awhile or they might hurt me. I stayed in the barber shop 15, or 2) minutes and then sneaked out . "The pickets haven't bothered me since Wortman was killed." August Hedlund, who runs a drill press at the Willamette' Steel & Iron . Works, was the only other witness put on the stand by the defense this morn ing;. Hedlund said the pickets had threatened to publish his picture and advertise him as a scab.; Witness did net remember having heard pickets -make any threats, and said he had not heard the workmen In the shops threat en the pickets. Cross-examination of Schmidt was begun at the opening of the afternoon session. . ' . "I couldn't afford to "go out on strike. I have a wife and three children to sup port There was a mortgage on my home. The pickets. 'gc-t me' once. They knocked me down made my nose bleed, cut my face up and knocked out three teeth, v I couldn't rworlc Xor four davs. - ben&iiRa nv mnnti. :. ' - .uw s. si. - wB Oil sore I couldn't eat." Arthur Havill, wlt Dess for tha defense in the Hicks case. ; Clothed in greasy overalls, 4a shabby coat and dirty work shirt Arthur Havill sat In the witness chair In Judge Catena court yesterday afternoon and told a story of 111 treatment at the hands of Mnnhlnt) ..-I A,t ... . . . ......... - aimMiA and unaffected narrative of which bor dered on the dramatic Havill is boyish In looks and stature, lie seemed to enjoy the novelty of his experience on the stand, and he smiled throughout his examination as though even the quiszlng of the Insistent attor - - i i si- I The pictures show the great rally for ; the cornerstone laying yesterday afternoon, and the governor mak ing his address. , , . CHOLERA SCARE Much anxiety has been felt lately over the danger of Introducing the dreaded Asiatic Cholera Into this coun try, because of the-Jmmlgratlon from the plague districts of Europe. '.... Jt saps the strength of the haAv an .fast that death often follows In a few i ets) start anything soma of them may ney were a happy relief front the rou tine of his dally shop work. ' . . In answer to questions propounded by Dan J. Malarkey, chief of counsel for the defense, Havill said: "I live at Mllwaukle, Or. I am 29 years old and have a wife and three children. I couldn't afford to go on strike because there was a mortgage on my home. It took me three years to build the place. "I was working at the , Willamette Steel & Iron works When the strike be gan. I used to belong to the union, but the year I was building my house 1 dropped out, and I didn't get reinstated. I saw him (referring to a photograph of W. A. Wortman) among the pickets at the shop. He was there often. They used to point me out and say, 'Look at that "" ' ...' " he's a pro fessional scab.' One of them said to me once, 'We'll get you yet. If I have to do It myself.' "Did they ever get youT" asked Ma larkey, - - v ' - . "Yes, they got me once,' -answered Havill. "I was going. One afternoon Just-before quitting time I looked out of a window at the shop and saw eight or 14 pickets etandlng on the corner. I decided to go out the back way, so as to avoid them. As I went out one of them saw me and pointed me out, and the three of them followed me. One of them told me h would give ma until the following day to make up my mind whether to go out on strike or not I told him that I. had already made up my mind, and that I was going to con tinue at work, wnen i got aoout bww feet from the shop, walking with my hands In any pockets, one of them came up. behind me, struck me In the face and knocked me down, i was uncon ncinua. . Thav must have beaten me while I was down, because when I came to I was badly cut up. My face was cut my se was bleeding, teeth were knocked out and I was sore all over Some man, not one of the pickets, was standing near me, and told me to go tc the shop and wash the blood -off my face and go home. I did so. I Mon't know which one of the picketa struck me. They had all gone when I woke up. 1 couldn't go to work for four days be cause my mouth was so sore and swollen I couldn't eat" ; ' v . - v" - Cross-examination by tha state failed to shake HavlU's story. He said that the union had never assisted him in getting work In tha six or seven years he belonged. ' , "if the strikers were to get what they are striking for. would you be ready to take advantage of the concessions?" asked Bpecial Prosecutor Davis. " "Certainly I would," answered Ha- VllL , .... .... . ... .. .. .... .-.,7 ' Threo other witnesses testified to the obnoxious conduct, of the pickets at dif ferent shops during the strike. C. E. Mack, foreman of machinists at the Astoria Iron works and foreman of the Willamette Steel & Iron works at the time the strike was called, said that Wortman was a -regular picket Mack tola of two pickets carrying cameras at one time for the purpose, they said, of taking pictures of the "scabs", and pub lishing them in union Journals. Witness said he also . borrowed a camera and made a "bluff" at taking pictures of tha pickets. Witness told of having an argument with O. B. Itaser, captain of pickets, when Raser tried to persuade an apprentice from going to work. Mack said he carried a gun during the strike, because he believed It necessary for his own protection. He was never assaulted and never heard-the pickets make any threats, . - Knocked Unconscious. , Charles Bale told of the time when he and '"BlUy". HUgers were, followed from work by pickets, one of whom, he said, ran up behind Hilgers and hit him In the head with such force as to knock him unconscious; On cross-examination, Bale said he couldn't swear whether.at was. one. of tbe Jboilermaker strikers, who were out at the same time, who struck Hilgers, or one of the ma chinist strikers., - , . v ? Witness carried gun after attack on Hilgers. . V r'- Leonard EIck, " machinist apprentice, told i the Jury of three different occa sions on which he was followed by pick ets. Said that he always aimed to go to and from work, with another, and that he would wait at the shop until the pickets had gone or would go home In a roundabout way in order to .avoid them. . .-' .-" ID. S. Glase. a patrolman on duty at the Hicks, shop during part of the strike, refuted tha testimony ox Patrol man Burstow, who testified for the state that he heard Hicks say, if they (plck- V .;. - " j . ' . , " ? , . ' ' , ' j M.XJ-1 ; in '. ' , . y.i.i H t ,, . ...... X J .mm I ' t t -i . v : ' ' I 1 , Sffl'SlfnEii;! GAE3T BE DUVr.lED Ohio Senator Declares Wis consin Solon's Money fJot Used in Open Fight. (United Fret LeaMd Wire.) Washington, March 27. Hinting that the 1107,000 alleged to have been spent by Senator Isaac Stephenson of Wiscon sin in purchasing his seat in the United States senate during the senatorial pri maries In that state never left the l.ar. of h!s eamj-n'cri rrnr.aj-fr. fe-i-tor romerens of Ohio (iecUreJ In t. i senate today that he will vote to allow the Wisconsin senator to keep his reat "The failure of some Cf the men who received Stpphenpon's money properly to account for its disbursement," Tom erene said, "is referable rather to the fact that they did not disburse it at all than to the fact that it was disbursed illegally." CHILDREN FORM CLUBS TO BREAK POTATO FAMINE (fnlt4 PrM Vtwn& Wlre.7 " Los Angeles, March 17. To break the potato famine that has swept southern California children In a score of city schools organized potato clubs today to grow the valuable tuber. Back yards and school grounds jUt be used for gardens. Eacy-eUwlU be given the result of his labor. -- ' CI.--, f- w. , I , . ... ... , ... U 1 U kL.i,J . .. p n v " T f f- "" " Lain. o ri.5 1 l . (Spwlsl to Tl j ;r-. : --Bakersfieid, -CaL.- Man :i jr. v After wearing whlkor t t the day of William J. r.ryaVs first defeat in 1SS6, J.vn's C Walte, a farmer here, is s'sa-vdix 4 today, having broken his vow 4 not to molest his beard until Bryan sat in the White House. 4 For years he had worn Ms facial appendage wound about a 4 reel anchored pn his breast be- 4 neath his coat to avoid stepping on it 4 . Watte made his vow of hirsute chastity while a ribbon clerk in a St Louis department store. t Photos by courtesy of Major Lee Mo Orhousa and 0. a Allen, Pendleton. Or.. March 7.-"Thik ht Institution of Its kind In the. United Hours. . Ail forms of diarrhea dysentery are very weakenlngt i f A Valdoeta, Ga., woman, Mrs. C. H. King, tells how she regained ,' her strength. , She says . "An attack of dysentery left, me so weak and ex hausted that it seemed Impossible to regain my .strength. . But since using one bottle of Vino! I am perfectly well again. Vlnol will do wonders for anyona who needs new strength and jmore flesh." There la no doubt at air that this dellcidus cod liver and iron remedy with out oil possesses wonderful power to renew, flagging strength and vitality. nrid build up the body. If you are not s strong as you ought to be you need Vlnor, and we guarantee that. It will build you up and make you strong. Woodard, Clarke & Co., Druggists, Port land, Or. and j never- get home. Glase said that he near a uurstow remam one evening; n the pickets are going to start anything, they will probably do It tonight" but he did hot hear Hicks reply as Burstow testified. ' The defense is making good progress with its case, but It will probably bo a week or 10 days before all of its evi dence is taken. DEMOCRATS AGAIN PUT WOOL MEASURE V.-- BEFORE CONGRESS (Continued From. Page One.) this hill -approach -very closely at least to the best revenue-producing v points, and these rates should, If enacted Into States." (SNthe wav all th mint off Inlalu who participated in the ceremonies at tending the laying of the cornerstone of the Eastern Oregon State hospital yes terday, characterized the asylum-to-be. Governor Oswald West Secretary of oiaia uen w. Olcott, Treasurer T. B, Kay, Architect W. C. Knighton and Su perintendent R. E. L. steiner, one and all, in their addresses before the thou-, sands of people who saw the big stone EuJ,.fn Place, declarei the group of buildings when completed would be in ferior to none in the United States in attractiveness, safety, sanitation and otner modern conveniences and f aclll lu 'l " 1o nade the announcement wmie uie present plans provide for only two wards, within a few years four more wards will be constructed, making i T. ,UB"l""on as large as. the one at Salem and much better. law, permit such Imports as will ef fectively regulate domestlo prices. Such competition woulcTbe an important serv ice to the peopleas it would encourage increased consumption and production 5f,,Inekln? n"o nearly normal the con ditions of supply and demand. The're ports of the tariff board, so far as it admits of conclusions, show that the rates which meet the consumers' needs aUwaufficiently satisfy those of the producer. . . . 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