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Show Action Is Taken Upon Requests of the I. W. W., American Federation Federa-tion of Labor and Other Oth-er Organizations and Individuals. EKENGREN SAYS HE IS GRATIFIED Has Not Intercededj With the Chief Execu-i tive Since the Adveroe Action of the State Board of Pardons, but He Is Still Hopeful. i ! Special to The Tribune. I WASHINGTON. Nov. 17. The ap peal made today by President Wilson to Governor Spry in behalf of Joseph Hill-strom Hill-strom was in compliance with requests to intercede sent him from branches of the I. W. WM a resolution adopted by the American Federation of Labor asking clemency for Hillstrom, and requests re-quests front many individuals and organizations, or-ganizations, some connected with labor i interests and others representing anti 1 capital punishment and various reform j societies. None of these letters or re-j re-j quests, it was stated' at the White house, was of a threatening character. The legal status of the case, it is believed, be-lieved, was not taken into account by the president In making a final appeal to the governor, for, so far as can be learned, the legal phase of the case has not been presented at any time to him excepting fn the most general way. Critchlow Makes Report. After the Utah board of pardons at its meettlng a month ago declined to grant clemency to Hillstrom the Swedish minister, min-ister, Mr. Ekengren, engaged the services of Attorney E. B- Critchlow to look carefully care-fully over the entire court record for the purpose of ascertaining if any legal loophole loop-hole existed by which a new trial could be obtained, or sftay of proceedings be granted, through an appeal to the United States supreme court. Mr. Critchlow made the examination and reported a few days ago to Mr. Ekengren that he believed the case could not be reopened or appealed with any hope of success. Mr. Critchlow's report was submitted to the counsellor of the Swedish diplomatic service, who is now in Philadelphia, and he still has it under j consideration. That he coincides with I Mr. Critchlow's views is indicated by the fact that he has not advised Mr. Ekengren ! to attempt further legal proceedings in j the case. j Today's action by the president was not taken upon any recent request made to him by the Swedish minister, who has not communicated with the president concerning con-cerning the case for about a month. Ekengren Gratified. Following the adverse action of the board of pardons. Mr. Ekengren a month ago asked the president to intercede for Hillstrom, but the president responded in a friendly, but firm, letter that the matter was wholly In the hands of the Utah authorities and he would be unable to comply with -the request. Since that time Mr. Ekengren has had no communication with the president on the subject and was not aware until he read the news in a local afternoon newspaper news-paper that the president had today telegraphed tele-graphed to Governor Spry urging a reconsideration re-consideration of the case. Mr. Ekengren said this evening that the action of the president was very gratifying to him and lie now hopes that the death penalty will not he inflicted. In his efforts in behalf of his countryman, country-man, Mr. TOkengren has followed the Instructions In-structions given him by his government! and he has not been affiliated at any time ' with the I. AA'. YV. or other labor or- i gani.atlons in their efforts to save Hillstrom. I BODIES OF SIX ARE TAKEN FROM MINE SEATTLE, Nov. 17. Workers delving today in the debris in the third level of the Northwestern Improvement company's cual mine at Ravensdale recovered the bodies of six victims of the explosion yesterday, yes-terday, which killed thirty -one men and injured three others. Three bodies were taken oifc soon after the disaster occurred. oc-curred. Three men taken out unconscious uncon-scious last night were revived . i In Message to Governoi Spry It Is Urged Tha .1 "Thorough Reconsid eration" Be Given; Re ply Will Be Made t the Request Today. MATTER UNDER CONSIDERATIOIS No Hint of the Probable Action by the State Executive or the Boarc of Pardons Has So Fai , Been Given to the Public. j t j Governor Spry yesterday receives j from President Wilson a telegram org j ing a "thorough reconsideration" o: the case of Joseph Hillstrom, sentence! 1 to be shot tomorrow as a murderer. No action on the request of the presi' 1 dent was taken yesterday. The gov1 j: ernor will send a reply to his message this morning. At a conference witl members of the board of pardons thi: .! morning, Governor Spry will at onct. i j answer the president and decide whethei : or not Hillstrom dies tomorrow. j Neither Governor Spry nor those wht ji conferred with him about the case yes jjj terdav would give a hint as to wha-1 y the decision this morning would be f Neither would the governor nor his ad; f -visers make any comments upon this the second, request of President Wilsoi ' for a respite for the condemned mur . J derer. ! ( Will Reply Today. "There will be no reply to President !: Wilson tonight," said Governor Spry las- i evening. "There is nothing else to bt said about the case ait this time, excepi ; that tomorrow morning I wil send ar answer to Washington." y The governor was asked if there woulc I j be a meeting of the board of pardons . i proper this morning. i. "That," he replied, "remains to be seen '' I shall advise with members of the boarc , as individuals and It will be determinec whether we shall hen resolve into a spe- i clal meeting of the board of pardons." President's Telegram. President AVilson's message was re- ceived at the governor's office shortly be- fore noon.. It was as follows: f With unaffected hesitation, but with a very earnest conviction of the importance im-portance of the case, 1 again venture to urge upon youi- excellency the Jus- : tice and advisability of a thorough reconsideration of the case of Joseph Hillstrom. ' (Signed) WOOD ROW WILSON. f The governor at once took the tele- 1 gram under advisement. After luncheon, 1 the three justices of the supreme court Judge J. E. Frick, Judge W. M. Mc- j Carty and Judge D. N. Straup who are I also members of the board of pardons, went to the governor s ofllce at the capl- j I tol and held a consultation with him which lasted all the afternoon. j, Meets With Attorney General. ; During the day, also, the governor con- f erred with Attorney General A. R. , Barnes, who is also a member of the board of pardons, and with other of II- ' cials. From 'these conferences no announcements an-nouncements came except that nothing would be done until today. The messago from President Wilson 1 was the only one from an official source received by the governor yesterday. It I was reported that the Swedish government, govern-ment, through itB minister in Washington, Washing-ton, had supplemented the president's telegram, but no word from the Swedish minister was received. President Wires Gompers. Telegraphic dispatches yesterday stated that President Wilson had wired to Samuel Sam-uel Gompers. president of the American Federation of Labor, now in session at San Francisco, as follows: "I have telegraphed Governor Spry of Utah urging justice, and a thorough reconsideration re-consideration of the case of Joseph Hillstrom." Hill-strom." On the preceding day the convention of the American Federation of Labor had adopted resolutions declaring that Hillstrom Hill-strom did not have a fair trial, asking Governor Spry to extend clemency, and appealing to tlie president of the United States to use his Iniluence in the matter. It was reported In the telegraphic dispatches dis-patches from San Francisco that 1"). A. Camomile, one of the Salt Lake delegates dele-gates to the labor convention, had pro- (Contlnued on Page Two.) i WILSON SEEKS FURTHER STAY ; FOR-HILLSTHOM t , President of the United ' States Intervenes in Be-! Be-! half of Condemned J Murderer. - J (Continued from Page One.) i , 1 xsed that Lie :'ed ration take action in in priori to save HUlstrom. i Mr. Camomile returned from the con-( con-( - fin ion yesterday and promptly denied i ha t he had proponed the action to the "hration, or that he had made a speech 6 n tavor of it. He left fan FYauclPco. 1 ie s.-iid, before the resolutions were 1"a?.-eil by the convention. j' Taken by Surprise. t The moment he rcarhd Salt Lake. Mr. '-"amomile was taken to task 'by his fel- ow trades unionists and iy citizens gen-. gen-. -rally, who do not concur in the agita-tion agita-tion against Hillstrom's eecutlon and : (A"ho believe that he had a fair trial and 'i hat justice merely is being' served. .Mr. j'Jamomile was ai a loss to account for , : ;ritK-isms launched at him until he was pi: own copies of tan Francisco newspa- ers and news dispatches from that city, . L.-roditinc him with speeches acainst liio execution of Jlillstroni and uring tiie 1 . , a bor convention to protest, against it. Mr. "-'aniomlle was moved to make a public -taiement last nihi. He said: ", i I was one of the Salt Lake dt.-le:ites ;) at the convention, but 1 was otliwvl to come home before the roin-lusinn ot t i he meeting on some urseut private ,; business. I left San Francisco Tjcs-! Tjcs-! c day and did not know then that 1 had t be e n crec ! t e I with the movement to ( ret the forte; a lion behind llillsirom. t Another Denial Entered. : I did riot pronose the resolutions j f That were adopted. They were drafted ! 1 and adopted after I had left Lor home. ! , I did not make any speeches in favor j ot them. I knew nothing of the leyal '! merits of Hilistrom's case, because 1 ' '. nave not followed it. I do not. sympa- : ; ttiizt with t lie aci'ation acainst his ! execution and I did not beheve that j ( c members of Salt Lake unions sympa -' ( ttrzed with it. c I do not know how my name came t to be used as having delivered a ; speech for Hillstrom. 1 certainly had nothing to do with it. I did not raise t, a n v objer-Uon when t he resolutions . : were proposed and the rjuestiun re- I ferred to the committee on ways and i, :neans- I did not regard the Ufstion t nestable until the coiiimittee had re- ported. Unfortunately, I was called t home before the report was made. t This is what happened at the time rhe resolutions were proposed: A man : . named Mooney. who claimed to be 1 from Salt Lake, obtained the privilege of the floor. I do not know Mooney ' and am not prepared to say whether i he is a Salt Lake man, or not. Mooney delivered a speech asking the con- vention to protest aeamst the ex ecu - lion of Hillstrom and A. If. Keinp- ion of Halt I-ake. a deiesate from trie ! ! rtah Federation of Labor, moved , liiat the question be referred to the ways and means committee. This ac-1 ac-1 j lion was taken. 1 lam rop i(ierably annoyed at the . report that I ured the federation to 1 take Cms matter up. I do nol think i tii1 federation siionld have taken any f part in the Milistrom a e ita tioti.i- : -Statement of Critchlow. v.. R. Critchlow, the Fait Lake atror-' atror-' ney, wiio was specia 11 v retai ned by t : -Swedish government, through W. A. F- ".'Ckenzren. the .Swedish minister, in ' Washington, to make an lm s titration of 'tiie Hillstrom case, said yesterday that ' 'ie had reported his tmdines to the 1 Swedish minister, nd t hat he was tak- ' nc no further activity in the -ase. He -'added: " Tt ha- b'n reported t'cat I have , , hi-f-n intf-rvitwin Oovei rior Spry in ': h silst rom's li-r.alf. That is i.ot Iru1. , f havf not n the govrnor, nor j anyone connected with his ofli''. for a ; Ions tinif. In no snse ii;ive 1 bw-n a r i ph i mat if az-nT for l hr- S v. h '- covernmcnt In this ra.e. I have not . 1 B-en anvrne In J riltstrom's behalf. I ' was r-ommissioned to rn.-i k" an in-? in-? v--f igy t ion of the ial pliaes of I hllsnom'H pas'-. That T did , a nd I tH'-irraprfd mv report to Mr. Kken-1 Kken-1 stren at. "VV'ash.nion Sutnni.iv. I am not at liberty to divuL' th re- j port maI to my rlir-nt. I The KOV'T-nor's offh yrtr-rdflv was dehid with Jptrers and UbMrains about tlie Hillstrom case from all over the country. More than Hi" were received, many of thm appeals to save Hillstrom's life, some of them t h ro a t s and some of them demanding tha t Hillstrom be shot dead for t h e m u rd e r ot .1 . i i . a n d J . A . Morrison. The message marking the second sec-ond intervention' in the rase by the president presi-dent of the Lnited States served merely as a climax to all the other messages received. There is no intimation that (he governor gover-nor and the board of pardons will accede to the wishes of the president, but whatever what-ever hope Hillstrom may have of escapg ing the death penalty for his crime to morrow lies in the conference which begins be-gins a the governor's office at H o'clock this morning. This, it would seem, is to be the final judgment of the ease. Lnless out of the conference this morning morn-ing there should come a n order staying the execution, the "death watch"' will he pi. iced upon the prisoner some time today to-day and remain with him until he Is led to the prison yard to be shot, as lie elected, instead of being hanged. Tie is spntenced to he shot d-ad sometime between be-tween sunrise and sunset tomorrow. In Penver yesterday, O- X- Hilton, prominent among the aJ-r)K'ys of the de-tense, de-tense, said : "I tills from is doomed. No powtr on earth can save hini." In his cell at the state prison, Joseph Hillstrom said nothing. Denied Use of Hall. Denial of the us of Unity hall for holding a protest meeting against the execution of Joseph Hillstrom by the Liberal Lib-eral and Verdandi clubs and failure of the promoters of the meetinu to obtain any other hall resulted last niht in the giving giv-ing up of the attempt to hold the meeting. meet-ing. However, a group of those assembled assem-bled to attend the meeting congregated in the st t-.-et in front of Unity hall, authorized au-thorized Mrs. I'hnma Bianco, seej-etary of the LI hern 1 club, to draft resohit ions of protest to the governor and the pisident against the carry ins: out of the execution. execu-tion. Dr. Isaac H u r w 1 1 7. of New York, who was epeetd to be presort as the principal princi-pal speaker at the meeting to have been held last night, did mt arrive in the city, hut is expected today. Speakers Denounce City. Many of those who had hien disappointed disap-pointed through the calling off of ihe meeting of tin- clubs hc;iusp -if lark of hall accommodations gathered in the crowd that listened to the I. V. YV. speakers who held forth at .e nnd South and Commercial sireeis. last nnrht. Salt Lake City w;is denounced by the speakers as being a plaee where fr'-e speech eoutd itM he had because of the failure of the protest meeting. Some of the club women joined with tii I. W. in singing a sunu, eriUt'.ed "Jo-- Hill in Jail." One spewk-r asserted ronfid''-m!y t at TiilNtrom w-uld nut be ew- nied. j The croud was orderly. j |
