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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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D o May
Of Their Burdens, May Suffer
Be Eased, May
D o ing All Humanity
Practice Love, Kindness
and Charity, May 1912
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