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TIIE MORXIXG OREGOXIAX. SATURDAY. DECEMBER 16, 1911 5 ADDED EXPLOSION DETAILS LEARNED Indianapolis Federal Officials Find New Evidence at Two Sources. WOMEN AIDING IN INQUIRY Acting Secretary of Bridge Workers Association In Consultation With Prosecutor In Charge of Work. TvniivpfiIJ3. Dec 15. Govern merit officials who re co-operating with United 6tate District -M.n.r It. conducting the Investigation of the dynamite conspiracy before the Federal grand Jury learned from two sources today, the details or exp''" In which It is said others than the vA'imiru were Implicated. tv R r.rlffin. chief of police of Kan sas City. Mo, who had knowledge of five explosions In Kansas City, was questioned about certain facts, wmcn, if i had not heretofore been re. vealed. These explosions, all directed ...lnt structures erected by rirms era niiulnr non-union men. occurred from 10I to 1910. As not more than two of them were confessedly the work or Ortle McManliral. Chief Griffins in formation was sifted to ascertain who else might have destroyed the prop erty. Records Prove Importaat. Much important testimony bearing on the records taken from the headquar ters of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Ironworkers was obtained from Miss Mary Dye. Until several years ago. Miss Dye was confidential secretary of the Iron workers headquarters, and as such had much to do with the correspondence of J. J. McXamara. the secretary-treasurer Mrs. Andrew J. Hull, former book keeper In the McXamaraa- office, also visited the Federal bunainn. Many hotel clerks from various parts of the country have been subpenaed to te!l what thry know of the movements of McManlRal when he was on his ex ploding expeditions. The hotel men are expected to corroborate aicianigai rnnrlon. wherein he described cer tain visits to towns with a suitcase filled with dynamite or nitroglycerine. laloa Officials Mot Opposing. It was Intimated that the Ironwork ers Association officials were not op posing the Governments efforts to ex pose all Implicated In the dynamiting, the fact being pointed out that H. 8. Hiwkln. acting secretary of the asso ciation, again conferred with United Slates District Attorney Miller. It was while Ilockln was absent thst several wagon loads of papers recently mere taken from the headquarters. Ilockln refused to say they were there with his consent. About 1000 pa pers are to be digested for the benefit of the grand Jury. Private detectives had advised the Government authorities that some of the letters Indicated that men In var ious states had written to McXamara, asking htm what the cost of a "Job" would be. McXamara would reply, ac cording to this Information, that the 'fee would be l.oo ana me expenses $".0. to be forwarded to him. Dynamite "Clearlaa'-Moaae" Alleged. All through the confession of Ortle McMsnigal run statements setting out that he was paid after each "Job." not In the city where the explosion oc curred, but by a messenger from Mc Xamara, To show that plans were laid for dynamiting by many others than McXamara, and that he conducte: a "clearing house" for them, was the task set for the investigators. An Instance cited Is that on March 17. 10. when the new Boston Grand Opera House was damaged by an ex plosion. An employer of non-unton Ironworkers had a part of the contract. Four nights later a viaduct being built by an "open-shop" - Iron concern at Iloboken. X. J., was blown up. In McManlgal's statement submitted to the) grand Jury, he says a man whose name Is withheld by the authorities. Instructed him to go to Boston and Iloboken and "do the Jobs. that he was successful, and that the man paid him. The persons alleged to have met lie Mnnlgal on his tours, to point out the Jobs to be done, will be exposed, ac cording to the Xational Erectora As sociation officials, who have been ac tive In gathering evidence. Ot R INDICTMENTS KJPECTED Western jid of Inquiry to Be Con cluded Neat AVeek. I.OS ANGELES. Dec. 15. A little package of Indictments. numbering perhaps four, probably will be re turned here next Tuesday or Wednes day against men living In California and suspected of complicity In Nation wide ilynamlte plots. This will end the "Western section of the Government's Investigation and will transfer the scene of all activities to Indianapolis. A r.invas and leather case, ten Inches square and as tall as a small Ice-cream freeser. was shown the Jury today. This ease and others like It are said to have been need in carrying about the country dynamite needed for various "Jobs." It was such a case that Ortle K. McManliral carried, when, accord ing to his own statement, he came Vest to blow up the Llewellyn Iron Vorks, and McManlgal was so accus tomed to Its presence that he gave It to a porter, giving him also a dollar to take care of It. Miss Tillie McCarthy, of Fan Fran cisco, a stenographer for the Asiatic Kxcluslon League. of which Otaf Tveltmoe Is president, appeared before the grand Jury, remaining about 16 minutes. She was preceded by Thomas Mills, of San Francisco, a chauffeur, whose presence recalled the story that after James B. McXamara had dyna mited the Ias Angeles Times building, he scurried north to San Francisco and with companions "went automobile rid ing, apparently having plenty of money." Mrs. Maud B. King, assistant house keeper of a San Francisco hotel, ap peared before the grand Jury a sec ond time, being the only witness recalled. MRS. E. L SMITH BURIED Hood River Woman Pioneer to Coast, Coming- West In IStl. " HOOD RIVUR. Or, Dec li (Spe cial.) After funeral cervices conducted from tie residence on State street Tues day by Rev. M, A. MacDonald. pastor of the Unitarian Church of this city, and Dr. T. L. Eliot, of Portland, tha former a lifelong friend of the family, the body of Mrs, E. L. Btnith was burled at tha private family cemetery, near Frank ton. Georglanna e locum Smith was born at Troy. N. Y, May 2S. 1842. Her student days were passed at Lombard Univer sity at Galesburg. 111., where for three years she was a college classmate of Exra L. Smith. 8he married Mr. Ijmlth on March . 1SS1, and at once went to California. For six years Mr. and Mrs. Smith re sided In California They then lived at Olympla. Wash, for nine years. In UTS Mrs. Smith came with her husband and her family to Hood River. For three years Mr. Smith was Register of the United States Land Office at The Dalles. In addition to her husband, Mrs. Smith Is survived by fonr daugh. ters Mrs. J. E. Rand, of Portland; Mrs. O. J. Nelson, of Goldendale, and Mrs. William Stewart and Mrs. J. F. 'Watt, of this city. VACANT LOTS GARDENS MIVXEAPOLIS MAX TELLS HOW CITY CLEAXED HOUSE. Blooming Waste Places Make for Better Community, Assert Lroy J. Broughner. WASHINGTON. Dec. 13. Civic eco nomic and social benefits were derived by Minneapolis from the "garden club campaign" carried on there during the past season for the purpose of having all the city's vacant lots turned Into flower and vegetable beds, according to Leroy J. Boughner. of Minneapolis, who told the American Civic Association, In convention here today, of the "vacant lot garden" work In his home city. It was a matter of civic pride, not an economic motive, which early last Spring started the garden idea, Bough ner explained. A civic celebration was to be held early In July, he said, "so we decided to have gardens to beautify the city for its hundred thousand vis itors." The fact that there were 6000 acres of vacant lots In the city, "suffi cient to supply the entire state with vegetables," was not enough appeal to get the cltlxena of Minneapolis Inter ested; but the appeal to their civic pride caused them to plant 2,000.000 square feet to vegetables and I60.0O to flowers, said the speaker. Boughner held Mineapolls up as a model for other cities, pointing out In detail how the vacant lots there had been transformed Into bowers of flower and vegetable beauty, and called atten tlon to some of the mistakes which had been made. So successful was this year's garden club campaign, however, that it will bo contlued with renewed vigor during the coming year. He said the use of vacant lots bad satisfied the farm craze, and had taught more than TOO men and women whether they real ly desired to go back to the land. Boughner declared "so many vegeta bles were grown on the vacant lots of Minneapolis that tomatoes were plenti ful at 75 cents a bushel, whereas a year ago they were scarce and sold for SI. SO a bushel. A third benefit he found In this, that "most of those who had gardens be longed to the office class, whose op portunities for getting out In the fresh air are small." Traveling about, he said, he saw hundreds of "glowing fsces" as a result of "hoeing and weeding and murdering cut-worms." CRIME APOLOGIST IS LABOR'S MENACE Roosevelt Says Plea That Ma Namaras Were "Victims" Is Monstrously Wicked. DEBS INCITES TO MURDER LOBIMEB TO COME LAST SENATOR WILIj TESTIFY AFTER CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. Ulnee, Millionaire Supporter, Pre bents Belligerent Front at Committee Hearing. WASHINGTON, Dec. IS Senator Lorlmer will not testify In his defense until after the Christmas holidays. It had been arranged to have him be a witness next Monday, but It was de cided today to finish with all other witnesses before the Congress ad journed for the holidays. E. H. Nockels. a labor leader, whose name was mentioned recently In the trial of the McNamara dynamiters, waa witness today and testified to con versations at Springfield. Edward Hlnes, the millionaire Chi cago lumberman, who Is said to have helped "put Senator Lorlmer over" at Springfield, again was a witness today. being recalled for further questioning as to what happened In a private room of the Union League Club In Chicago. March 27. 1909. Hlnes was belligerent, and when he did not like a question, demanded it be stricken from the record. Hlnes Is al leged to have met other men at the club to help ralse-a supposed 1100,000 fund to Insure lorlmer s election. 'Manny' Abrahams, the "bellwether of the Lee O'Xeil-Browne Democrats In the Legislature at Springfield, also was recalled and put through a lively cross-examination by the committee at torneys. He admitted that he made up his mind to vote for Lorlmer when he learned that Browne and other Demo crates were to do the same. BLOW AIMED AT SHYLOCKS Kansas City Deprives "Loan Sharks" of $18,000 Interest. KANSAS CITT. Jlo, Dec. 15. Kansas City's municipal loan agency, conducted by the Board of Public Welfare, made loans aggregating l37.064.2S during the year Just ended, according to a state ment Issued by Manager O. o. Carman. Eighteen thousand dollars In Inter est, which would otherwise have gone nto the coffers of the loan sharks, was saved to the people of Kansas City dur- ng the year. Carman said today. Ml HOGAR. This Is the finest Havana cigar. Ton cannot please a smoker better than with a box of these luxuries. Sixes Regalia Faclflcos 100 In box. $11.00 Regalia PaclAcoa 60 in box. 6 SO Senators 25 In box. 3.00 Invincible Chlco SO in box. 00 Invlncisle Chlco 25 In box. I 00 Slchel'h Special SO in box. (.00 Capltanoa SO in box. 6.00 Amores so in box. oo Krlna Flna so In box, 1.60 Senorltas SO In box. 1.75 Oraer a box today at one or our three stores. 92 Third. Third at Washington and Sixth at Washington. Bend Saloon IJeense Reduced. BEND. Or, Dec '15. (Special.) The :y Council has voted to reduce the loon license In Bend to $S00 for the six months of isiz. tois is a cut ,a.i . y. i 1 f vMe frnm tha ount prescribed by ordinance. There ten saloons aero. CI sa first of am axe Mover's Denunciation of Confession Rather Than of Slaughter of In nocents Significant Class Consciousness All Wrong. NEW iTORK. Dec 15. Theodore Roosevelt has an editorial article in the current issue of the Outlook, relat ing to the McXamara case, entitled "Murder Is Murder." The article says: "Not only laboring men. but business men and capitalists, have at times shown the worst form of class con sclousness that of sinister and brutal class seltUiliness In standing by crim lnals simply because they were of their own class. This has been done by cap italists in the case of capitalists who have been guilty of brazen corruption, and by laborers In the case of labor leaders who have been guilty or mnr derous violence. The two offenses stand on a par from the standpoint of dam age to the community. "In San Francisco, in one municipal contest, the capitalist who desired to be free from all check and corruption and the labor leaders who desired to be free from all check on lawless violence. struck hands and elected their ticket; and this proved In she end to be a last ing misfortune to San Francisco, te the cause of honest business, and to the cause of honest labor. Plea of Apologists Monstrous. "Since the startling outcome of the McNamara trial certain apologists of these men have made themselves con1 splcuous by asserting that these de praved criminals, who have on their seared souls the murder of so many in nocent persons all of them laboring people, by the way. are 'victims or at worst fanatics, who should receive sympathy because they were acting In what they regard as a 'war on behalf of their class. "The plea Is monstrous In Its folly and Its wickedness. "The murders committed by men like the McXamaras, although nominally In the Interest of organized labor, differ not one whit In moral culpability from those committed by the Black Hand or by any band of cutthroats, and are fraught with an Infinitely heavier men ace to society. Yet. great though the menace Is to the community, the menace to the cause of honest organized labor Is still greater; and no duty Is more Imperatively laid on the leaders of la bor than the duty of affirmatively free ing themselves and their followers from the taint of responsibility for such criminals and such crimes. Leaders Do Heal Harm to Labor. "The labor leaders who, by their loud championship of the McXamaraa as previously of Moyer and Haywood have succeeded In Identifying them with the cause of labor In the eyes of the public, have rendered an evil service to that cause. "Mr. Debs and the extremists of his type among the so-called political So cialists I say 'so-called' because Debs and his followers of the Emma Goldman kind are not Socialists at all In any true sense of the word, but mere In citers to murder and preachers of ap plied anarchy and the labor leaders affiliated with them have always boasted of the part they played In the trial of Moyer and Haywood, and In t'lls case they repeated their familar tactics and held mass meetings and scattered broadcast papers and ad dresses In which they furiously de nounced the effort to bring wrongdoers to Justice, and sought to arouse every evident class Instinct against all who upheld the cause of law or sought to put a stop to assassination or murder ous violence. Mover's Coarse significant. "It Is worth noting that since Mc Namara confessed his guilt, Mr. Moyer, the head of what purports to be a labor organization, is reported In the press as commenting upon it, not by de nouncing McNamara for having com mitted the murder, but by denouncing him for having confessed it. Such de nunciation is significant. "Murder is murder, and the foolish sentimentalists or sinister wrongdoers who try to apologize for it as an inci dent of labor warfare, are not only morally culpable, but are enemies of the American people and, above all, are enemies of American wage-earners. In honorable contrast to these mea stand the various labor leaders who have never asked for more than a fair trial for the McXamaras, whose purpose has only been to get Justice, and who now sternly demand that murder shall be punished when committed In the nom inal Interest of labor, precisely as un der any other circumstances. T believe with all my heart In the American workingman; I believe with all my heart In organized labor, for labor must be organized to protect and secure Its rights; therefore, with all my strength. I urge my fellow citi zens, the American men and women who earn their livelihood as wage workers, to see that their leaders stand for honesty and obedience to the law. and to set their faces like flint against effort to Identify the cause of organ ized labor, directly or Indirectly, with any movement which. In any shape or wsy, benefits by the commission of crimes of lawless or murderous vio lence." HIGHER WAGES ARE URGED Charles W. Eliot Re-elected Presi dent of Civil Service League. PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 16. That Gov ernment employes should receive ade quate compensation, so as to enable them to contribute to an old age retire ment fund, was the principal sugges tion In the report of the special com mittee on superannuation made this year to the annual meeting of the Na tional Civil Service Reform League. In session here. Charles "iV. Eliot, president emeritus of Harvard University, was re-elected president of the League. All the other officers were also re-elected. The report of the committee on civil service in dependencies criticised the civil service system In Porto Hlco and the Philippines, and suggested the passage of a civil service reform legis lation and the making of appointments on a merit basis. Who I am 1. I am born of Mother Earth my heart is of steel my eyes are of glass my limbs are of iron my fingers are of brass. 2. I do brain work, but have no brain I work.fast, early and late and am too stupid to make ablunder. 3. You find me in every country, my voice rings out around the world. 4. I speak every language, tell the truth, and nothing but the truth. 5. When I speak, millions listen: (1) The Caucasians, (2) the Mongolians, (3) the Ethiopians, (4) the Malayans, (5) the Indians. 6. I need no food, but live as long as metal endures. 7. I handle all kinds of money, (1) Gold, (2) Silver. (3) Nickel, (4) Copper, (5) Paper in all currencies. 8. I make unchangeable records of all I do. 9. I remove temptation, shorten the hours of labor and keep people correct. 10. 1 protect the weak and strengthen the strong. 11. 1 give hope to the weary and make the world better. 12. 1 give (1) Publicity, (2) Protection, (3) Prosperity, (4) Profits, and (5) Peace of mind. 13. 1 cost but little and do so much. I am the cash register. MAINE TO BE DISSECTED CCTTIXG OF WARSHIP INTO RELICS PROPOSED. I'rgcnt Deficiency Bill Sanctions Gifts to Patriotic Societies and Republic of Cuba. THE NEW EUPHONA $475. IS-note player, fully warranted. What Is your old plsno worth? We will take It. Sherman. Clay A Co, Morrison at Sixth, Opes evenings. WASHINGTON. Dec IB. Portions of the wreck of the battleship Maine, now being cleared of mud and debris In Havana Harbor, are to be donated to cities, patrlotlo societies and the sur vivors or heirs of survivors of the Maine, under plan presented to the House today in the urgent uenciency bill. The bill carries 12.270.000. It au thorizes an additional appropriation of (250,000 for raising the Maine, making total appropriation of 1900,000 lor that purpose. The bill would also au thorize the Secretary of War to "give some portion oi the wrecK" to tne re public of Cuba, for Incorporation in a publlo monument to be erected in Havana. The work of raising the wreck Is nearlng completion. The urgent deficiency bill will be rifEhed through the House tomorrow. It 1j expected, and passed In the Senate early next week. The money now on hand will be used up by the War De partment on December 20, at the pres ent rate of work, and department offi cials have advised the appropriation committee that If tha wreck is to be towed to the United States an addi tional expense will be necessary. The bill Includes 150,000 for further work In the census bureau, a cut of GO per cent from the estimate; $350,000 to complete two revenue cutters now building at Newport News for which $160,000 was appropriated last year, $16,000 mileage for members of the House. 147,000 mileage for Senators. $66,816 for public buildings and $427. S32 for the bureau of engraving and printing because of the unexpected demand for new small bills. FINGER PRINTS BETRAY Thief Confesses When Bertillon Ex pert Produces Evidence. GRASS VALLEY. Cal.. Dec. 15. Con fronted with overwhelming evidence of his guilt finger prints left on the window of the dryroom at the Central mine here J. E. Gardner confessed to day to having robbed the clothes of fellow employes of the mine of $260. He took the money, Gardner said, to provide medicine for his sick wife and food for his numerous children. The children hsving returned most of the money, Gardner may not be prosecuted. Several men suspected of the rob bery had not been arrested. It had been virtually established that the thief was the who had left finger marks on the window of the dryroom. from which the money was taken. A Ber tillon expert was brought here to clear up the point and he speedily showed that Gardner was the guilty man. Boston Pupils Largely Abnormal. BOSTON. Dec 15. Only abont 3 per cent of Boston's school children are physically normal, according to a report br Dr. William Galllven, pf . the board of health. Of the 101.000 children in the publlo schools, physi cians during the last three months have made careful examinations of 43,000. It was found that 28,000 of these were "defective." BUILDING BILL UNLIKELY Underwood Declares Pension Meas ure Is All Party Can Stand. WASHINGTON, Dec 15. Democratlo Leader Underwood predicted today that the caucus of the House Democrats would not authorize an omnibus publlo building bill at this session of Con gress, notwithstanding the public build ings committee's recommendation for one. "With the pension bill already passed," he said, "considerable has been granted the Democratic constituency. and we should hesitate before making further drains upon the Treasury. The Treasury Is now about three and one- half years behind in its work on publlo buildings. Even if a bill were passed It would be Impossible for the depart ment to do anything with It tor the next three or four years." Mr. Underwood said that to give everyone a fair show an appropriation of from $25,000,000 to $30,000,000 would be necessary, and the Democratlo leaders did not want such a bill to clash with their economy programme. ter in what direction from town one may take a - drive, smoldering fires, burning out stumps, will be seen. Got lieb Salzer, who lives on the north fork of the Newaukum, has let a con tract to Ed Waunch to clear 50 acres or more of land before June. Waunch will use a donkey engine. Oregon Supplies Tree Market AURORA. Or, Deo. 15. (Special.) Another carload of Christmas trees was shipped from here today for South ern California points. This makes 15.000 Christmas trees shipped from this seotlon by W. H. Balr, of Canby. The trees retail in California at from 75 cents to $2.60 each. Big Acreage Being Cleared. CHEHAXJS, Wash.. Dec 16. (Spe cial.) More land clearing Is now un der way In Lewis County than ever before. 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