| Show ST EU N EN B RO ACCUSES BOYCE I Says He TIe Was Implicated in rin ina rina a Conspiracy I PL VOTED TO BLOW UP BUNKED B HILL ME E Eo 4 o Idaho Governor Makes Malies Sensa Sensational Sensational Charges Tells TelI How Union Men Iden Made Ar Arrangement Arrangement to Secure Arms Anns and Ammunition Wanted to Hear the of o Armed Men Ulen in the Banks of Labor Lb orEe He Tells Tens Where H JI He Got All An IDs His Information tion Uon 4 V April 2 The chief In tor tr t in hi Governor St tes testimony testimony before the Coeur dAlene hives today wa was In hi continuance of Jr If th tJ recital r begun at the last of Ie f tr tie disturbed conditions prior to the ing of April last He had been i t by Representative Dick why he her hetO r fi d l to disband the militia of o the dAlene d Aleo district dl dJ in iii 1897 as had nd ted by the county commis commissi si 8 n fl r He said that at that time theof the i rr of the Western Ve tern Federation of r w vre re the arming of or the and he e had an address addre by one If e the hf t these f I officiate stating that every should have bave a n rifle club and th that it in iTh two years we can hear the In Ini i inn music oC 01 0 armed men In Inthe Inthe the ranks of or labor G v r said Mid that fol following following lowing this there were we evidences in the our eUr dAlene dAle district dl that the advice v ival a hemp being ing followed A body of armed on an I masked men he said appeared at Jit and compelled the delivery of ofa i a i ar tm arr supply of arm arms and aDd ammunition owned by the state Mate of Idaho and store tt lh r ro pending the tho organization of a 11 I i I a company He began and inquiry and could get no noir n ir tr of the arms or those who took them When ho he applied to the thc local the latter answered in effect to mind nind your own business bun busi Threats of Union Men iden MenThe MenThe The governor said kl that about the same time he received a letter from froni the G A R H commander at Murray stating that a number of rifles and ammunition were in danger of being stolen Threats had been made to sIze seize th them m and a n notification had been served that they would be taken The GAR G A R It asked to be relieved of or further responsibility and nd the governor says saya sa s she he h had the arms ann boxed and av away ay Governor Govermor said id he sent Adjutant General French to Coeur i dAlene who reported rf that a move movement movement I ment a oi O foot for the disbanding dI of ot the militia so II that miners minera could coult eme me to War Wa Warther er r and anI dynamite dY the Hill Hm mill There Th eo were repeated threats the governor said MId that the thc officials of th mine would be b murdered if ff thy they y did not escape before the Can Cnn Canon j yon on Cr mIners miner came down i He said eaid he was wall shocked to learn t tra at I Fre t B 13 Whitney superintendent of the Frisco mine had been taken taker L from fram his hia hi room at night by b sixteen I i armed and marked m t el men down treek tk and nIu shot dying in a day or ci o 1 to tio A stir was wa cau ed in the committee committe ro when Governor Govnor in inan ii 1 an Jn verin a question as to what h Ii he e i knew of a conspiracy In ir connection a ea T with ith the blowing up of the Bunker Hi Hil Hill 1 null mill saId Accuses Ed Boyce I learned learn that tha t Ed Boyce nt t of the Western Federation of Miners v lv a is in m the country ten days before the the thel th thi l e lotion of the Bunker Hill S Sulli i ian in 1 n mill and at that time he ui U or perfected this conspiracy by bych r ch eh hoft t ing ng n twenty men from the differ different ent elit lIt organizations in that country and am I amt Sv earing them These twenty men mei t hu ho h one each eath and swore him and am I forty each chose a a man and swore Jinn him im and nd the eighty each chose a mon man mani allol i i swore him In that way IlY there vere ere at least men in this conspiracy to t rl rIo ijo this thins thing sworn om to secrecy Hay Va V questioned tr tI v error vernor sharply as aa to his sources of cf int The Tho governor hesitated and a n t vi said saidI I 1 arned these the eo facts from James R H vr Hlin n through a mutual friend v tun h tit i n Mr lr Hay wanted the name of or orth ti th n t r ml rid there was sonic some question as ast t mm the th name but the governor ri tIl i ie tn it a aut as A B Campbell Campbelli M i I r lIty asked if Mr Campbell was wasI I in i l lie he i committee room and the answer an er um lint that he was WH Mr Sovereign was wasa a trent present tnt The Th governor said he had Imd not been ail abi to get et further evidence as an people h lived Hwd in iu the country were afraid th t hv would wu Id be M a If they v t known to have bae given gien any an Infer n rion The committee then took a ar ark r rk so until 2 Completes His Hig Testimony V f I 1 h hI i afternoon semion Mr r Hay moved t 1 irk irke out all of Governor 1 r rs testimony tf of rents venta prior to the 1 I motion was defeated r f t i Mi iMi 11 Dick concluded d the redirect exam i p ii n and in the absence of Mr Lentz Lenta Mr fr private counsel for tor those i the charges charKes renewed the cross I 1 of the governor It covered i y x U I h explanatory detail on the events pre pro nisi lIly J I testified te to He said Mid he did not tree irge r e the death of oC Superintendent Whit i to the miner miners unions union ate latt in the day Governor GOmor was ted after he had 1 i n Ti on the stand twelve das days dars s and he was wag wasI I used II f i General W p Carlin arlin U S SI A retired was as the next witness lie He Ie Hi that he was in command of the 1 V fd ed States troops wlm In the Coeur ll district ne during durin the trouble in I I 1 gave h a recital rt ital of the disturbed con I i t li n U there r i leral fral Carlin will continue when the 1 i is resumed tomorrow |
