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About The times. (Portland, Or.) 191?-19?? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 20, 1912)
T H E TIMES Vol. I. No. 14 PORTLAND, OREGON, JANUARY 20, 1912 WEEK S NEWS DOINGS FLASHED FROM ALL POINTS OF THE COMPASS EAST, WEST, NORTH AND SOUTH Terrible Loss Involved by War Dear Ones a i Home Suffer Mo/I January 11. From 200 to 250 acres will be set WASHINGTON, D. C„— Polit out near Independencee. Oregon. ical wiseacres state that presiden PASADENA. Cal.— Pasadena tial contest has narrowed down in hotel burns, causing a loss in Republican party to two men— ¡property and baggage of wealthy Taft and Roosevelt—the LaPoll- Easterners at about $250.000. No ette boom having collapsed, that lives lost. ft ft ft ft of Cummins never launched and MADRID, Spain.— The Spanish that of Beveridge they take mere Cabinet and Jose Canalejas. Pre ly as a joke. mier, resigns. Rom an B y the WASHINGTON, D. C.— Post TACOMA, Wash.,—Rumor re Cath olic Car M ost Rev. ports that Mayor W. W. Seymour master-General Hitchcock decides d in a l o f JAM ES will resign, the alleged reason be to recommend to Congress the re ing illness, but the popular, belief quisition of the telegraph lines of B altim ore G IB B O N S, is that he is tired of the office, on the United States by the Govern @ Underwood & Underwood account of “ knocks” because he ment and their operation as a part ET us cherish the hope that the day is not far otf when the cannot give everyone who asks of the postal service. January 15. for it a political job. REIGN OF TH E PRINCE OF PEACE will be firmly NEW YORK.—Violet Buehler, TEHERAN, Persia.— W. Mor established on the earth; when the spirit of the gospel will gan Shuster. American Treasurer missing Chicago heiress, is dis so far sway the minds and hearts of rulers that standing covered in New York acting as a General of Persia, vacating his nurse for a sick woman. armies will yield to PE R M A N EN T COURTS OF A R B IT R A office, leaves for Europe. NEW YORK.—300,000 Catho TION ; that contests will be carried on in the council chambers instead INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.,— Judge Anderson, of the Federal Court, lics of New York and surrounding j of on the battlefield and decided by the pen instead of the sword. in dismissing the kidnapping in country plan a rousing reception | IF W E DO N O T I N S I S T T H A T B E F O R E M EN GO T O W A R dictments against Detective for Cardinal Farley, on his return | T H E Y S H A L L DO ’ E V E R Y T H I N G IN T H E I R P O W E R T O S E T T L E William .T. Burns in .the McNam from Rome, January 17. WASHINGTON, D. C.— United j T H E I R D I S P U T E B Y A R B I T R A T I O N . T H E N M I G H T B E C O M E S R I G H T . ara eases, commended the great sleuth and said that he had “ ren States Supreme Court upholds The truth is that the most frightful sufferings of war are borne by dered a great service to his coun constitutionality of employers’ li the W IVES A N D CHILDREN of those who fight in the field. The try,” adding that “ if I or this ability law passed by Congress in 1006, of all cases embodying the bitter agony of their waiting and anxiety is far worse than the mere court had had anything to do with the arrest of Mr. Burns in principle before the court. Also physical hardships and sufferings of the armed men. A wound to the the first instance, I should cer decides state courts may enforce loved one in battle strikes MORE CRUELLY those who have to tainly now tender him an apol the act when local laws are appro priate. wait at home. ogy.” P H Y S I C A L S U F F E R I N G U S U A L L Y D I S S I P A T E S T H E F E A R OF PEKIN. — Reported massacre January 12. by rebels of 10,000 Manchus is D E A T H . M E N C A N S U F F E R A N D D I E B R A V E L Y IN T H E E X C I T E WASHINGTON, D. C „—Taft, confirmed, occurring in the Shen M E N T O F W A R . B U T H A R D E R . M U C H H A R D E R . T O B E A R IS T H E in view of the non-committal at Si district. Kan Su imperial army M O R A L A G O N Y O F T H O S E W H O M U S T W A I T . W I T H O U T P O W E R T O titude of Colonel Roosevelt in re is within 60 miles of Sian Fu. H E L P T H E I R D E A R O N E S IN D A N G g P gard to 1 he Republican presiden AD JAN. 15 Men will not fight if they have time to grow cool. Nations will not tial nominal ion. is stirred to an PEKIN. China.— A bomb is fight if they have time to think. The penalties and degradations of active campaign, and hy hi* de thrown at Premier Yuan Shi termination to stay in the game, war are too great, the agonies o f the weak and helpless, the aged and (Continued on page 4.) shows himself to be a good fighter other noncombatants are too horrible, the waste of wealth, the de TACOMA. Wash., — British struction of industry and commerce, are too V AST to be endured steamer Stratabyn and American when there is a W A Y TO PEACE. Hawaiian liner Virginian, collide in Puget Sound, halfway between Tacoma and Seattle. LONDON.— Italian war vessels in Red Sea overtake and sink seven Turkish gunboats. SALEM. Ore.— State taxes for 1012 will equal $3,063,815—a to The work of securing a jury in tal exceeding the combined the Wilde case still drags wearily amounts for the vears 1906, 1007 along. Perhaps some day “ twelve and 1908. men. good and true.” may finally SAN FRANCISCO.— Mark A. fill the jury box and then the Wilkins is hanged at San Quentin case may go on to a final conclu GEORGE B C O R T E L Y O U , F o r m e r l y penitentiary for the murder of sion. S e c r e t a r y o f th e T r e a s u r y Mrs. Vernie Carmen, committed Surprising features have devel in 1007. Wilkins protested his in oped in this case. Among them are TIATEVER may be the reason, law nocence to the last. the statements of two prospective SANTA BARBARA. Cal — jurors who have declared that with us is not held in as high regard John Rech. Italian rancher, is sen they were approached by some as it should be. I do not mean sim tenced to life imprisonment for man. name unknown, whom they ply law in its narrow sense, as the the murder of his own child, com believed to he working in the in terest o f the defense, who attempt punishment of petty offenses or the mere rou mitted November 2. 1011. ed to sound them on their views in tine administration of justice, essential as both January 13. ASTORIA. Ore.— Four-masted the case. Back of all this were the long are, but 1 mean law in the B R O A D SENSE schooner Admiral, propelleed by @ CUnedlnst o f general and willing conformity to the well terrific wind drives through south delays before the defendant would come here from California. settled teachings of our experience as embodied in those rules which jetty of the Columbians turned Then, again, there was the mys have been established for the regulation of our social and industrial bottom up, and lies a complete wreck on the sands off Peacock terious breaking into District At relations. torney Cameron’s office one night, Spit. Entire crew are saved. It must be admitted that the somewhat lax attitude of our people WASHINGTON. D. C —The and into that of Special Prosecu tor Clark, and the abstraction of toward law in certain o f its aspects is NOT WHOLLY W ITH OU T chances of Governor Woodrow Wilson of New York for Demo certain valuable papers in the CAUSE, and. though this cannot be excused, it can at least be par ease. cratic presidential nomination More recently still th en was tially explained by the way in which many of our laws are made. seem to be weakening. Reasons ♦he murderous attack upon Spec Along with obedience to law must go wisdom and moderation in the assigned are numerous. Principal among these are a former letter ial Prosecutor Clarke, at Salem, making of law. signed by Wilson placing Bryan by an unknown man with a revol But it too often happens that laws are PASSED IN A H ASTY in the political nuisance class; ver. and the wounding o f Mr. Clark. AN D SLOVENLY M AN NER, with no proper study or considera Grover Cleveland’s denunciation There are still more ramifica tion and with little or no thought for their effect on the general wel of Wilson and his utterances in a baccalaureate address charging tions in this case. Down in San fare. labor unions with giving em Diego, Cal., the Labor Council, E V E R Y Y E A R 3 E E 8 T H O U S A N D S O F N E W L A W S P U T ON O U R ployers as little as possible for having its interest in this case, sought to secure the aid of the S T A T U T E BO OK S , M A N Y O F T H E M I N S P I R E D BY P A R T I S A N OR their nmnev. ROSEBT'RG. Ore — C. F. Mc Central Labor Council of Portland P R I V A T E M O T I V E S . U N T I L T H E C I T I Z E N IS B E W I L D E R E D A N D Mullen receives word that he has in the matter. It desired the Port D I S C O U R A G E D BY T H E I R V E R Y M U L T I P L I C I T Y A N D BY T H E I R land body to use its influence to P E R P L E X I N G A N D O F T E N C O N T R A D I C T O R Y P R OV IS IONS . inherited money and property to prevent any nonunion man being 1 he value of ¡tsJOOO.nOO. When this process has gone on for a considerable time RESPECT placed on the Wilde jury. The WASHINGTON. D. C.— Post Portland Council, it is said wisely FOR ALL LAW IS IN D A N G E R OF BEING WEAKENED. So, master-General Hitchcock, the bat helor nnonber of Preside*1* declined to mix in the matter. while we appeal for a FULLER AND MORE THOROUGH OBE However, some subtle influence Taft's cabinet, receives a propos DIENCE TO L A W , we must couple with it an appeal for more al of marriage from a Texas wo has been at work with thp result sane and conservative and patriotic methods in the making of laws, for that during the week Louis H v rt- man. who exercises her leap-year lin, a non-union moulder,employed MORE SIM PLIC ITY in their construction, for a material reduction rights. bv the Independent Iron Foun in their number and for the highest standard of ability and integrity January 14. dry. was eliminated from the pan SALEM. Ore.— Eastern brew el. In legal parlancp, Haertliii,. in our judiciary. ers. seeing necessity to strengthen gotten rid of by the defense, al their position on Pacific Coast ap though passed for cause previous Appearances go to show that union proclivities is desired by propriate $500.000 and plan the ly by both the prosecution and de __ 1 , 1 . . . „ . .. ¡that side of this somewhat eele- planting of 1000 acres of hops in fense, was released under a pre orgamzed labor is friendly to the hrftt(l(1 P|we_ California and Oregon this year. etnptory challenge. defense and that no man o f non- c an anyone tell whyT DON’T WANT NON UNION JURORS IN WILDE CASE Laws A re So Numerous ThatWeBecome Bewildered Price 5 Cents MASSACHUSETTS MILITIA PUT TO ROUT HOWLING MOB OF TEXILE OPERATIVES WHO ARE ON STRIKE LAWRENCE, Mass.. Disor ders before the gates of the great textile mills o f Lawrence became so frequent and menacing Jan uary 15th, that seven companies of militia were ealled from tin- armory to assist the police in con trolling the turbulent foreign op eratives. The uproar at the mill gates was so great that seven o f the big plants were shut down. Sever al shots into the air were tired hy the police and some arrests were made. The militia charge I with the bayonet and a battery of ar tillery was ordered out. A dozen or more operatives were injured, hut none seriously. The trouble began with an at tempt hy the strikers to rush the doors at the Wood Worsted Mills and the Prospeett Woolen Mills. The attempts at both places were repulsed by the police, who used | their clubs and made several ar rests. | The strikers raided a train of coal cars and bombarded the win dows o f one mill with chunks of coal, injuring six operatives. The police then charged the mob and fired into the air, hut the shots did not scare tlie strikers and or ders were given to turn on the water in the mill hose. At this time two companies of militia un der Captain Randlett were order ed out. Captain Randlett’s orders to the crowd to disperse were not obeyed immediately, and he ord ered the militiamen to charge with lmyonetts set. In the charge many o f the lmyonetts were pross- ede against the crowd, hut the militiamen were careful not to in flict wounds. Two rioters were hurt, hut not seriously. Battery C. Light Artillery, was ordered, whereupon the crowd dispersed. Additional police were requested from Boston, Lowell, Salem and elsewhere. Vincenzo Lamarest. who. the police say, was one of tin1 most violent in 1 ho crowd, was arrest ed charged with assault. He car ried a revolver and 92 cartridges, a large dirk and a st i 1 let to About, 30 other arrests were made. It is estimated that nearly 30,- 000 hands are idle, half of whom are actually on strike, ami the others were forced out by tin1 stopping o f tin1 machinery. 'I’ ll • trouble, which began last Friday, when a mob stormed several of the mills and injured employes and property, is due to a general reduction in wages necessitated, the manufacturers say, by a cut in the working time from 56 hours to 54 hours a week, and by a new state law governing establish ments where women and children are employed. The mills closed are the Wood, Ayer an I Washington, controlled hy the American Woolen Com pany, and employing 15,000 per sons; the cotton mills o f the Ar lington, Everett Pemberton Cor poration and the mills of the Law rence Ducy Company, employing 8000 more. Other woolen and cot ton mills, the employees of which aggregate 9500 are running on a small scale. It was believed that, practically every mill in Law rence would he forced to close. W.C.LUGKENHILL EX-PIGKETER GETS 10-0AY STRETCH dumped him into the “ pen” lie realized that monkeying with the courts o f law isn’t an easy game. He will now have an opportunity to feel flu1 fangs of remorse, un less his hide is too thick. One time W. ( ’. Lukenhill had n job. even if it wasn’t n very re spectable or manly sort of a job— that of a pieketer at the Albina earshops in Portland. Even the Lukenhill and laid him off. But there was the force of habit hang ing over him. and he simply couldn’t resist to iiievliiiation to loiter around that vicinity and become a general nuisance. In fact he has so much in evidence that lie lias been a source o f much annoyance to policemen, which culminated on Tuesday at Kus- sel avenue and Delay street, when he showed no regard or respect for constituted legal authority as per sonified in the blue coat and brass buttons of Sergeant Harms. He belched forth words that were not nice, and the Sergeant took him in tow. CLASH BETWEEN THE MILITIA AND THE STRIKERS A night’s sleep in the city ’s palatial quarters at. Second and Oak streets didn’t improve Luk- enbill’s disposition. In due course lie was yanked into Judge Taz- well’s court. Though the ease was clearly proven against Luk- cnbill. showing him to he a chron ic trouble-breeder and the court imposed a fine of $10, the Judge, desiring to show a lenient spirit, suspended the sentence. Being of shallow calibre, Luk- cnbill didn’t have sense enough to appreciate a good thing lie yelled: “ Don’t suspend sentence on my account. You might as well put me in jail while you are about it.” This was a little too much for the judicial dignity to hear. Still. Judge Tazwcll in a spirit of fair ness to the swaggering Lllkkcn- hill, told him that he could pay his fine. It was very weak and foolish for Lukenhill. after the manner o f his class to defiantly hurl out, “ Go ahead, put me in jail.” The only thing Judge Tazwcll could do was to order his incar ceration for ten days in the has- tile. After Bailiff Butler had LAWRENCE, Mass., — Three thousand striking textile workers and in i I i t i a in ei i clashed Wednes day when the former refused to change the line of march of a pa rade and attempted to force the soldiers’ line. The militiamen belabored their assailants with clubs, hut no one was seriously hurt, although many were badly bruised and several women and children were tramp led on. At the central power plant of the I’m itic mills 1 <MI strikers made an attempt to disable the machin ery hy throwing junk through the windows, hut were unsuccess ful. The militia responded to a call for help and the strikers fled. The authorities at Washington have instructed Immigration In spector F. Gordon, of Haver hill. to come to Lawrence and de termine whether the alien con tract labor law Inis been violated hy mill corporations. Many of the strikers claim they were in duced to come here from •a i rope hy certain corporations. Increased numbers of opera tives went to work in the security thought to lie guaranteed by the continued presence of the mill dis trict o f eight companies of (In state militia. There were slight disturbances early at two small mills, hut no actual clashes between the troops ami the strikers then. Progress toward bringing to gether representatives of the 15,- 000 strikers ami the mill owners came to a halt, the latter refusing to delegate representatives to meet the strikers. The mill own ers maintain they have nothing to discuss. Arrangements were made for a parade o f all the strik ers Thursday.