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Show WHAT THE W000 TBI " IL COST THE 1AXPAYER3 Eneemeus Sum gsptndtd In the Trla 1 f Labor Leader for Complicity In Murder of e Oeverner Sttun-enbtrg Sttun-enbtrg Hoist, Idsli" -- The llolse Btatesmnn pi went some Intereatlug statlallcj trcardlng the tlayfrood trial, which ha caiiMd !llVst World wide Intereal. tteeaiiee of the nntvliy t the orlBie eharged add tha p.-mnlnenee In laltee circle, at lal, M the man on ttlsl tor compllcHy Irt the murder of ex (Jovernof Uleti'tenlnrg of Idaho 11 la erellngly dimcttlt to yet even eetlmate :or.c! what the eene ot the great trll will have been when all Is ekl"l , 1'P in date It I known thti I. ha coat L'snyim county a trine vr llooou lis share, which does no Include more than al -mi' "to-llflh "to-llflh of the emit to the prnaerit'loii. The expene to the defense has lieen a greet deal more than to the slate II has been state.! by those win hav been clne to the defense that so fat the defense ha pent very close to tlt0.000 In defending William I) I lay wood On June I! a settlement was had between be-tween Canyon county and Ada tiiuuty lor the amount spent h) the tatter county on aeenuiit el the lis) wood trial and Cunyim eouuty Issueil warrant war-rant to Ad county totnllntf II7.' SK 17, the amount spent to that date. Till Included all per diem wllue tee and mileage onl) from tfi line The mileage oultl.li the atntn and other itul-flf itU wllneaa expe -e to the state lln were paid from state appropriations ap-propriations Prom the aame fund at-tome) at-tome) fees Acre paid also the pay of certain tleputl", detective fees, ele, all of which amounted up to aomi thing over fsS.bOO It la Interesting to note that muo'i of tbe expense ha been on nccim.it of the Jury All Jurors aummonsd, while on duty and mitll exciisei! were allowed $1 per day That amount hav meant that twelve men for 76 days, of the trial, received 3 r elar and that In all Jl persons siimmiml aa Jurors each received $1 ier dny for daya running from one up to nn average of alx dava each All or the lime alnce May ( five bailiff have each received S per day and there have len u mimlier of special depu ties drawing each 11 per day Several of these have lieeu paid directly by Canyon county, but mot ot them have drawn (heir pay In state warrants from the appropriation fund All of the lime alnee the trial the Jurors hav been housed In a dwelling hotiae especially fitted up for them The house has cost Canyon cAunty In rent 17 M) per day since Ma) y "'o feed the Juror up to June t, It ha taken groceries to the omouut of 1177 M That Included tho , purchase ot some tableware and cotVti)g utensil. uten-sil. Tbe meal bill up to (hat lime amounted to MIJl.Thoro were other household expense) a man, (p looK alter the house. woman In keep Itu housework up, u.rimk and scrvnnld. Tho trial nt William 1) Haywood tlnrted on May 9 t There were altogether 2IS veniremen venire-men summoned of whom thirty nine were excused for statutory excuses nnd of whom twenlydhree were llnally excused without being examined, having hav-ing been left over after the Jury wna Of the Jurors no In the box, two have been serving a Juror since tho first day of the lilt! They are Bam-uel Bam-uel P Itussell nnd Hauiuel I) (Minion These two were called to the Jury box on May 9 They are (he only Jurors lefl of the original anel whtcti reported re-ported May 9. ' On Ma II there reported lor tint) the tint special paiel of veniremen 100 In alt There are serving on the Jury six men selected from that panel, they being Levi Hiiillh, Lee Hcbrlv-ener. Hcbrlv-ener. Thomas II (), (leorge Powell Daniel Clark and A I' Hums On Ma) !f the secopd special venire of sixty talesmen reported Prom that whole panel hut one Juror waa select ed That one who serving Is Pin ley Mclleaii II t on .May 31 that the Anal ptnel of tlxl)-onn reporttd and tho Remaining Jurors were select ed from" that pa nil They are J A llnbertson, O V Ssbern and II P Messecar The Jury waa float)) completed nnd accepted br both lde on Juno 21 The following day tho defence he gan It Introduction of evidence final ly resting on Ju)v 13 The slate began It rebuttal the same day doting on July 17 In all eighty .nine w Unease wero placet) on the stand by tho state and eighty seven by Hit- defense |