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About The times. (Portland, Or.) 191?-19?? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 30, 1911)
G eo II Himes, City Hall THE TIMES Vol. I. No. 11 SUMMARY OF THE WEEK S MOST INTERESTING NEWS HAPPENINGS FROM A LL OVER THE WIDE WORLD PORTLAND, OREGON, DECEMBER 30, 1911 Price 5 Cents New Seating Plan of the House A nd Its Two Principal Figures SEATTLE WITNESSES IN DYNAMITE CONSPIRACY CONNECT M NAMARA WITH THE LYONS EXPLOSION December 22. tributor, his donations exceeding W A S H IN G T O N , I). C.— Re $40,000,000. His total gifts to publican National Committeeman the public thus far have reached Ralph E. Williams from Oregon $221,000,000. John I). Rockefel predicts the renomination and re- ler gave away $3,000,000, Fred election o f President Taft. Con rick C. Hewitt $4,000,000, Joseph siders LaF ollette’s chances as Pulitzer $3,000,000, Mrs. Russell gone a-glimmering. Says New Sage $300,000 and Mrs. E. II. Y ork’s 72 votes will be cast sol Harriman $000,000. idly for T a ft and that Oregon T E H E R A N , Persia. — W hole will stand in the T a ft column. sale butchery o f women and chil W A S H I N O T O N , U. C.— dren by Russian Cossacks re United States Senate confirms ported. the appointment o f nine Oregon N E W Y O R K . —- The oldest postmasters, at Seaside, Klamath Falls, McMinnville, Grants Pass, twins in the United States, Sam Prairie City, Estacada, Drain uel and W illiam Muncy, celebrate Independence and Myrtle Point. the 93d anniversary o f their LO S A N G E L E S .—The Los birth. Angeles Gas & Electric Corpora SAN FR A N C IS C O . — One tion distribute turkeys among the hundred thousand people join in families o f the 1100 employes o f a hymn on the public streets in the corporation. celebration o f the Christian SAN FR A N C IS C O . — Dr. Christmas. Jan Kubelik tuned John Grant Lyman, get-rich- his mighty violin and David quick promoter, is sentenced to Bispham, the great baritone, ad 18 months in the Federal peniten ded his melodious voice to the tiary on McNeil’s Island by celebration. Judge Van Fleet in the United C H IC A G O .— The Daily Calu States District Court. Charles met is destroyed by dynamite M. Courtwright, who abetted the presumably thrown by blackhand escape o f Lvman from Provi agents. dence Hospital, received six December 25. • months in the Alameda county T E H E R A N . Persia.— The dis jail. N EW Y O R K . — Shelton B. missal o f W. Morgan Shuster, the Burr, Eugene II. Burr, Charles American Treasurer-General o f II. Tobey and Edwin Wesley Persia, has aroused the masses. Preston, officers o f stock-swind P IT T S V IL L E .. Pa.— A trolley ling firm o f Burr Bros., are each car running between Schuylkill sentenced to a year’s imprison Haven and Pottsville, with 10 ment on Blackwell’s Island. The passengers, topples off a bridge, profits o f the firm in two years fatally injuring half o f them. amounted to millions o f dollars. FO SSIL. Ore. — Charles La W A S H IN G T O N , D. C.— Rus May and Fred Reames, house P h o t o s c o p y r ig h t b y A m e r ic a n P r e s s A s s o c ia t io n , 1911. sian ultimatum demanding dis breakers, are taken to the state HAT promises to be one of the most interesting sessions of congress missal o f W. Morgan Shuster. penitentiary. within recent years was opened on Dec. 4. With the Democrats in American Treasurer - General o f L()S A N G ELES. — $1,000,000 control of the house of representatives attention will be principally Persia, is acceded to by Persia. o f the John W right Hunt estate focused upon that branch of the national legislature, of whose new ST, P E T E R S B U R G .— In re will be used to build and main seating arrangement the accompanying photograph gives a good idea. The venge for the abrogation o f the tain an orphan asylum to be desks of individual members have all been removed, and each row of chairs has Treaty o f 18112, the Russian Du known as the John W right Hunt in front of it a continuous shelf, on which books and papers can be placed. The change has been made in order to accommodate the increased membership in ma proposes tariff reprisals upon Memorial. less space, the acoustic qualities of the old chamber having been so poor as the United States and proposes LONDON, England. — Harry to make it advisable to reduce its size. Under Champ Clark (whose portrait ap to double duties on goods ex ported from the United States. Lauder narrowly escapes drown pears at the right) as speaker and with the leadership on the floor of Oscar W. Underwood (at left), the house will, it is expected, deal with such important P A R IS .— Mme. Lucie Lantel- ing while trying to cross in a questions as the amendment of the Sherman anti trust law, tariff reduction, rowboat between Gourock and me’s tomb in the cemetery o f currency reform and the arbitration treaties with France and Great Britain. Pere la Chaise is broken into, Lauderdale House, Dunoon. S H A N G H A I. China. — *Dr. and the body o f the dead actress is despoiled o f more than $80,000 Sun Yat Sen, one o f the revolu tion promoters, arrives in Shang- in valuable jewels. (Continued on page 4.) December 23. W IG A N , Eng.—The bursting o f a huge reservoir in the Cross Tetley mine endangers the lives o f 75 miners, who almost mirac ulously escape. SAN F R A N C IS C O .— H . A. Moss, a retired broker, whose business was closed several weeks ago on the ground o f violation Detectives Mallett and Maloney o f the anti-bucket shop ordinance, arrested W illiam A. Stamm has brought action against the Wednesday night at Second and San Francisco Call for libel, on Burnside streets as he was about account o f an editorial appear to take passage on a streetcar for ing in the paper reflecting upon his home. lie is wantel in Chi his business and methods. He cago on the charge o f having de sues for $100,000. faulted with $0500 o f the funds SA LE M .— Chick W right and of the Chicago Bricklayers’ Dick Garrett, two paroled con Union in September. 1909. A fter victs, failing to make good, are his arrest, he admitted what he returned to penitentiary and was wanted for in Chicago, and their paroles revoked. said that he was glad the end B O IS E . Idaho.— The Southern had come. For three years he Idaho Light, Power & Heat has worked in various cities o f Company has incorporated. It j the country at his trade. A num- represent-, an aggregation o f la>r o f times, he says, he was on New Y ork and Pittsburg capital the point o f surrendering himself ists. It is capitalized for $20,- into custody, but his courage 000.000 and is back o f a plan to failed when the moment o f test develop electric jxtwer with Boise came. Stamm will be held pend as the center. ing the arrival o f Chicago officers December 24. who have boon notified. D A W SO N .— A new gold field Stamm's bond has been fixed a: at the head o f Sixty-Mile River. 130 miles from Dawson: is dis-1 $5000. which he cannot furnish. | covered, and a rush is on. tin- j His extravagant habits led him equalled since the days o f the to take the money, and on the famous Klondike strike 14 years eve o f its discovery he loft Chi cago. IIo fools sorry for his wife, ago. B O STO N , Mass— The Boston but she declares she will loyally Photos by American Press Association Mola es Company’s plant burns, stand by him. HE New York navy yard now has the largest drydook on the Atlantic destroying 1.000.000 gallons o f i A surety company was called coast and will soon be able to receive In It war vessels of the Dread syrup and entailing a loss o f be upon to pay $2500. the amount nought class. The cost of the big basin of masonry was about a mil o f his bond. tween $250,000 und $300,000. lion dollars, and It was eight years In building The floating caisson, N E W Y O R K .— Public bene- j This case if a repetition o f which will serve as a gate when the vessels under repair are docked. Is the factions during 1911 in New many instances shown, where in largest ever constructed. The battleship Utah, of 21,823 tons displacement, York reach $150,000,000. Andrew experienced and untried men: and her sister ship, the Florida, are the largest vessel« that ars likely to be docked there for some years to come. Carnegie was the largest con-) have fallen. W ARREST STAMM STOLE $6500 UNION MONEY New York’s $1,000,000 Drydock A nd the Utah, a Future Occupant T LO S A N G E L E S .— Coincident Wagner was the manager for re with the appearance o f II. \V. pairs. Pohlinan, buiness agent o f the Another witness who has given Seattle Ironworkers’ Union, as a the grand jurors important tes witness before the Federal grand timony was William Brown, of jury, which resumed its investiga Los Angeles, who has been an tion into the alleged National employee o f the Los Angeles dynamite conspiracy Wednesday, Times for 12 years. He testified it became known that another that the morning before the resident o f Seattle, Dr. G. 1). Times building was destroyed, W agner bad appeared before the October 1, 1910, he met James B. inquisitors and had given impor McNamara in the basement o f tant testimony. Dr. Wagner, who the structure near the spot where no longer practices medicine, the actual explosion occurred. but who devotes himself According to Brown, McNamara to managing an electrical supply declared he was looking for work company, was said to have told as a newspaper mailer, where the grand jury o f a meeting he upon Brown told him he was in bad with James B. McNamara in ■ the wrong part o f the building Seattle in the latter part o f Au I and directed him to the manager gust, last year. o f the mailing department. Dr. Wagner’s place o f business Identity K ept Secret. was near the intersection o f It also developed that Brown James street and Third avenue, Seattle, almost directly across was one o f the witnesses whose the street from the Lyons build identity was kept secret by the ing, which was damaged by dy District Attorney, and who quiet namite to the extent o f $5000 A u ly crept into the courtroom where James B. Mcainara’s trial gust 30, 1910. The Lyons building explosion was in progress to identify him. Ten subpenas, it is understood, was credited to James B. M c Namara, who at. that time was were scut north last week, and ^ said to have made his first dyna carefully were they guarded that miting expedition to the Pacific it did not become known until Coast. Veording to the testi today, when Pohlinan reported. mony, it was asserted that Dr. Haley was not served, owing to Wagner described to the grand the fact that he is at present in jury, a man whom he afterward Canada. It is asserted that six identified through newspaper o f the ten subpenas sent to the pictures as James B. McNamara Seattle Federal officials for serv took a part o f one o f his de ice were for members o f Jay structive machines to the electri F ox’ colony o f Utopians at Lake cal supply company o f which Dr. Bay. HE WOULD FIRE HAYWOOD FROM SOCIALIST PARTY D E N V E R .— W . II. Leonard, a Socialist leader o f Denver, today said that at a meeting o f the Second W ard branch o f the S o cialist. party, resolutions will be introduced calling for the ex pulsion o f William D. Haywood, who, in a recent speech is re ported to have advocated ‘ direct action’ in securing labor organ izations in their rights. Mr. Leonard added that if the ward organization fails to act, a o city-wide meeting will be called for Wednesday night to act on a proposition to submit, the matter o f expulsion to a referendum o f the party throughout the country. A. II. Eloaten, secretary o f the Socialist, party in Colorado, said that lie favored a cote o f cen sure for Haywood if the remarks attributed to him were correct, but lie said he doubted if any man could be expelled legally from the party becasue o f bis ut terances. Haywood was denounced for bis alleged utterances ill speeches at the meeting o f the Denver Trades and Labor Assembly to day. D o T o Every Friend D o T o Every Enemy T o All the World D o D o We Extend “ A Happy D o New Year” Greeting D o the Wearily Laden Be Eased D o May Of Their Burdens, May Suffer Be Eased, May D o ing All Humanity Practice Love, Kindness and Charity, May 1912 D o Be a Year of Joy to All O D D O D o Q o D o D o 0 o D o D o J