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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, NOVE3IBER 10, 1913. Come Early PENSION LIS! IS More Fun, Men- COOTESSED DYNAMITER WHO IMPLICATES BRIDGEWORK: ERS" OFFICIALS IN TESTIMONY GIVEN ON STAND. TO DUE INCREASE Nearly Half Million New Appli cations Are Filed Under Service Act. INDIAN ROLL DIMINISHES Oregon Residents KccelvliiK Pen sions Now Number 818 7; Those Washington 10,752 and of Idaho 2373. OREGOXIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. Nov. 8. On June 30 last there were 81S7 residents of Oregon on the Federal pension roll, and the total amount paid them In pensions during the fiscal year which ended that date mounted to 11.346.558. Washington had 10.752 pensioners, who drew 11.817. 748 last year, while the 2375 pensioners In Idaho drew pensions amounting to $447,103. These Tacts are brought out In the annual report 'of the Commis sioner of Pensions, made public today. The report does not show, by states, the amount paid out to Indian war vet erans, but the significant fact is em phasized that the Indian war pension ers, both soldiers and wtaows, are pass ing away, and the Indian war roll will shortly become a thing of the past. In 1912 there were only 1210 Indian war veterans on the pension roll In tne entire United States, as against 1387 the year previous. The widows of In dian war veterans, drawing pensions, decreased from 2629 in 1841. to 2439 in the fiscal year 1912. Namber of Pemslomcrs Deereaalag. The report of the Pension Commis sioner contains Interesting facts. The total number of pensioners has greatly diminished since 1902, when tne pen sion roll reached its maximum as to numbers of pensioners, though not the maximum of aggregate pensions paid. In 1903 there were 999.446 pensioners on the roll, but since that year several acts have been passed Increasing the pension allowance, and, therefore, the aggregate amount paid out that year, 8137.504.267. Is lower than it has been In any year succeeding. The high tide in pension business, measured Dy dol lars and cents, was reached in 1909, when the total amount paid out in pen sions reached the enormous total of $161,973,703. Since then there has been a gradual decline until. In the year ended June 30. 1912. the total amount of pensions paid had dropped to 3152, 986.433. and the number of pensioners had dropped off to 860.294. The total amount paid out by the United States Government in pensions from 1866 to 1912, inclusive, reached 14.286.922.719. -Next Report W ill Show Increase. It is probable that the next annual report of the Pension Bureau will show an increase over 1912. both In the num ber of pensioners and the amount of pensions paid, for under the service pension act of May 11, 1912, about 450.000 applications have been filed, slther for new pensions, or for in creases allowed under that act, and tliese claims are being settled at the rate of 2000 a day. Between the pas sage of that act and the close of the fiscal year on June 30 last, 13.404 claims had been allowed under the service pension act out of 406,048 claims filed up to that- time. One claim was filed the day the President signed the bill; 325 were filed the second day, and on the 11th day, after the act became operative. 36,362 claims were filed at the Pension Bureau. Since then the daily filings have fallen off rapidly, and by the end of June they were coming in at the rate of about 1000 a day. It Is expected that most of the claims under the service pension law have now been filed, but at the unusual rate at which they are being handled It will take more than six months to clear up the present accumulation. A special force of 80 expert clerks are working on these claims in order that the old soldiers may get their pen sions or increased allowances, but in each case the allowance dates from the time the claim was received by the Pension Bureau.-and not from the date of allowance, so that those who wait aill lose nothing in the long run. GENERAL BIXBY IS GUEST Conditions ot Portland Shipping Ex plained to Chief Kngineer. General W. H. Bixby, chief of the United States Corps -of Engineers, was entertained informally by the officers and heads of committees of the Port land Chamber of Commerce at a lunch eon at the Commercial Club yesterday. In short informal talks the conditions of the port and shipping here were ex plained to him in general, although no definite requests or recommendations were made by the representatives of the Chamber. General Bixby went to Oregon City to inspect the locks- after luncheon, and at night was entertained at an Informal dinner at the Arlington L'lub by Senator Bourne. Those who attended the luncheon at the Commercial Club given by the Chamber of Commerce were: General Bixby; F. C Knapp. president of the Chamber of Commerce; A. 1L Averill, vice-president; F. W. Mulkey, chair man of the Public Docks Commiission; S. M. Mears, president of the Port of Portland; H. A. Pennell. chairman of rivers and harbors committee of the Chamber of Commerce; E. C. Giltner, secretary of the Chamber; M. Moses tohn. assistant secretary; Senator G. E. Chamberlain; J. N. Teal, attorney for the transportation committee of the Chamber; O. M. Clark, chairman of the Oriental trade committee of the Cham ber: G. M. Cornwall, of the Public Dock Commission; v. G. McPherson, of the transportation committee of the Cham ber: Captain Roberts, of the United States Engineers; Major Mclndoe, of the United States Engineers, and G. B. Itegardt. engineer of the Public Docks 'Commission. VIOLINIST HAS OVATION I.ouis Persinger Warmly Welcomed at Debut Recital in New Tort. NEW YORK. Nov. 9. (Special.) I.0UI3 Perslnger. the American violinist, living at Berlin, made a deep Impres sion at his American debut recital at Aeolian Hall tonight. lie received a great ovation after playing the. Brucb Concerto, and at the end of the concert was recalled 11 times and compelled to give six en cores. The audience Included many musical celebrities and social leaders, among th latter being Mesdames W. K. Yan derbilt. W. K. Jewett. Paul Dana, l'ouglas Robertson, Theodore Roose velt, Edward A. Alexander Belmont. Rafael Josseffl. Myrtle Elvyn and Charles Stein w ay. ( : ' 4 - ' - " I : ; i X- x i 'h-Y I ( - j: HV'F' - I -J J ORTIE E. M'MAXIGAL. i : WORK IS DESCRIBED Confessed Dynamiter Impli cates Union Officers. HOCKIN BLAMED FOR START Young and Webb Declared to Have Pointed Out "Jobs" Souvenir Sent to Wife From Each Scene of Operation. (Continued From Ftrnt Tare. had been no explosion at Holyoke, as the watchman bad discovered the bomb. He said the Ironworkers' executive board would not allow me the regular fee for that, but he handed me 3100 for expenses. Work Limited to International. . "About this time I met Cooney, union- business agent. In Chicago. He intro duced me to Ryan. Ryan wanted to know whether I had seen Hockln about the Holyoke job, and I told him I had. Cooney paid me some money for a re volver he had borrowed from me. "In February, 1909, I met Cooney again, while both of us were working at Lockport, 111., on work for the Chi cago sanitary district. Cooney asked me about blowing up Jobs for the Chi cago union. I told him I was not per mitted to work for anybody but the international union. lie replied: -'Well, then, all right; I'll get that gang of safeblowera I had before.' "While I was at Lockport, Hockln came down and informed me he had two more Jobs for me to do one at Boston and another at Hoboken, N, J. I went to Joliet and there bought 60 pounds of dynamite. Hockin said I was first to go to Boston and get In touch with Mike Young, and then I was to go to New York and' get in touch with Webb. He said I should tell them that Ping had sent me there, and they would understand what I came for. After the Jobs were blown up I was to send a telegram to L. A. Noel, 208 Ver mont avenue. Detroit, saying stock had been sold in Boston and Hoboken, and signifying the dates of the explosions, and signing Ping. Deadly Sultcane Placed in Hall. "At Boston I checked the dynamite at the station, went to Labor Hall and met Young. He took me out and showed me where they were erecting a new opera-house, and said: 'Put a shot in there that'll raise hell.' "At night on March 27 I put the suit case containing 25 pounds of dynamite In a stair hall in the southeast side of the building and lighting a 50-foot fuse, went to the station, but finding I had missed my train, I went to a hotel for the night, after sending a souvenir spoon to my wife. The next day I went to cw York and called at a labor hall in Forty second street. From a man there I learned that Webb lived In One Hun dred and Twenty-third street. I saw Webb at his house and said: 'Ping sent me here." He replied: "Yes, I thought you were the man.' "Webb and I the next day went to Jersey City. There was a Job there he said he would rather have me blow up than the Hoboken Job, but I told him Hockin's orders were for Hoboken and I could do nothing else. Webb said the boys there had 35000 In the treasury thes- would like to use up. We re turned to New York and the next day we went to Brooklyn to look over some work there. Then we went to Hoboken. On the ferry over Webb handed me $50. saying it was a present from Mike Young. 1 told him I needed Just that much. Hoboken Viaduct Pointed Oot. "In Hoboken Webb pointed out a via duct he wanted me to blow up. I took a good look at it and returned to New York to get some dynamite I had there and then returned to Hoboken. I put the bomb at the best place I could find and took the train West. At Pittsburg I sent a telegram to Noel: Sold stock Boston 27. Hoboken 31." "When Hockin was again in Chicago he handed me S350 for the Jobs. He said he would take out 850 Young had given me. for the executive board had charged it up. I told him I thought Young had made me a present of that. Then I Informed him what Webb had said about my doing work for the New York union, as they had money they wanted to spend. Hockin said that was not to be thought of, as I was working for the executive board of the Interna tional Union and for no local union. "In June, 1908. while I was working at Kvanston, 111.. Hockin appeared, say ing he had a new invention. He said hereafter they were going to use nitro glycerine with an alarm clock and bat tery attachment so you could set a bomb 11 hours ahead and be hundreds of miles away when the explosion came and thus prove an alibi. "He wanted me to put nitroglycerin I A f in the concrete foundation of a Job I then was working on. so that if later a non-union firm did the steel con struction we might easily blow It up. I refused. Hockin said they had tried out the new invention at Steubenville, O.. where they caused five explosions, and at Cincinnati and at Indianapolis. t was a great success, he said, and there would be no more monkey busi ness with dynamite and fuses. "In response to a telegram In De cember of that year, I went to In dianapolis and then to Muncie. Ind. Hockln introduced me to J. B. Bryce, who afterward told me he was J. B. McXamara, brother of the man I had mot in Tnriinnnnnlls. We rented a va cant house In Muncie and proceeded to fix It ud as a place to hide niiro glycerine. Hockin. J: B. McNamara and t Hrnve to Albany. Ind., where we bought 120 quarts of nitroglycerine, telling the man it was to be used to blow up ditches. Meeting: with "Bryre" Described. "When we returned to Indianapolis I had a talk with J. B.ilcNamara. He tnlil me he had done the ureen jay, Wis., Job. Later in April I met him in Chicago. He said he was on his way to blow up the Utah Hotel, then under construction in Salt Lake City. On his way back from Salt Lake City he showed me a newspaper account of the explosion there on April 18. 1910, and giving a picture of the destroyed part of the structure. He said the union had a lot of trouble out there and he had made a good Job of It. "About this time they were arrang lng for me to blow up a Job at Mount Vernon. 111., with nitroglycerine, but I said I did not know anything about nitroglycerine and I was afraid or it. A man had told me the least frictic.n, sometimes even the twisting of the cork in the can, would r.et it off. "Anyway, J. -J. McNamara had me come to the Ironworkeis' headquarters in Indianapolis, whera he brought out two four-quart cans from a cupboard and began to explain how oasy it was with the new clock invention, i went to Mount Vernon .and did the Job April 19." "I had been a member of the Iron WoTkers' Union since 1903," said Mc Manlgal in his early testimony. "In June, 1907. Hockin came to me while I was working on the Ford building in Detroit and said the execu tive board or the union had decided to clean out the open shop concerns and that I was the man to do it. " 'You used to work In a stone quarry and you know how to use explosives,' he said. 'You'll be paid by the union.' "I protested, but he "told me that if I didn't do as the executive board said he'd see that I was boycotted against getting a Job, so I finally consented. "I went to the stone quarry of my uncle, William Behm, at Bloomville, O., June 22, and brought back to Detroit, in a suit case, 35 pounds of dynamite, some fuses and caps. "I told Hockln I had the dynamite In my room. He said, 'All right. You've gone this far and you had better pull off the job between 1 and 2 in the morning.' "In my room I prepared the three bombs, each with 50 feet of fuse. I then went back to the Ford building and waited in an alley to see if there were any police about. Seeing none. I put one bomb in the fire box of the boiler in the building under construc tion, another in un air compressor and a third near the cylinder. "Joining the ends of the fuses at one point, I lit all of them. They were fixed to go off at about 1 A. M. It was then 10 P. M. "X again looked about the alley. I noticed a kitchen door at the rear of a restaurant opened on the alley opposite where the bombs were and, thinking some people might run out at the first explosion and be injured by the second or third, I shut,.the door and jammed a barrel of garbage against It. Then I went to my room and waited to hear the noise. Bo;n Heard Crying, "Extra !" "It camo about 1 o'clock. Later I heard the newsboys calling 'Extra.' "It reminded me I still had some ex plosives In my room. What should I do with them? I didn't dare to go out with a package. That would excite suspicion. So I took what dynamite 1 had left to the bathroom and cutting it Into small pieces, flushed it out." "Did you Fee Hockln the next day?" asked District Attorney Miller. "Yes. he paid me 120 for expenses to Bloomville. He said I would be fully compensated for my work as the execu tive board had set aside a certain amount for each job, but he said I must keep at it. He said I would receive $125 for a Job at first and I was to send a newspaper account of each ex plosion so he could get. the money from the union. The clipping was a kind of a certificate that the explosion had oc curred. "Thinking the police were watching me as It was my first explosion," con tinued McManlgaJ, "I decided to leave Detroit. I wanted to work and for them to let me atone. But Hockin kept after me saying, 'We've got the goods on you now and you have to keep at it, for we are going to clean out the Na tional Erectors' Association.' "I went to Chicago and worked there. The next February Hockin came to my house, in South Sangamon street, and said he had a Job for me at Clinton, Iowa. "I went to Clinton. It was a double track railroad bridge across the Mis sissippi River. 1 pulled off the Job pretty much in the same way as the Special in the Ladies' Shop Coats for Little Women and Misses $12.85 Your choice of any of our regular $18 and $15 plain-tailored coats for little women and misses at this most attractive price. They are the season's late styles in man-tailored cheviots, tweeds and fancy weaves in handsome blues, browns, graj-s and charming color-blendings. - NO CHARGE FOR ALTERATIONS Footballs and Roller Skates freewith all boys' suits and overcoats at $5 or over. Boys' Shop, Second Floor NOTE: The word "value "has no place in the advertisements of this store BEN other one, placing 30 sticks of dyna mite at various places. One lot of dy namite failed to go off on account of being; frozen. When I saw Hockin apaln he looked greatly worried, as they had found the frozen dynamite and arrested a man. Ha thought it wan I and was afraid I would tell. He said he would see I was paid for my work. Later 1 was told to go to a union headquarters in Chicago. When I got there, Richard Houlihan, finan cial secretary of a local union, handed me an envelope containing 1165, adding a friend had left it for me. "Hockin said he was going to keep me pretty busy after that and he was going to Buffalo, N. T., to look over a Job and when I got a telegram signed 'Ping' or 'Clark' I was to come. A few days later I got a telegram saying: Meet me in Buffalo and make it heavy,' meaning making the charge heavy. The explosion occurred in Bui falo July 1." McManigal testified he met Frank M. Ryan, president of the union, be fore dynamite was talked about. Chester Krum, St Louis; for the de fense, objected to McManlgal's testi mony on the ground that his record as a defendant who had confessed made him incompetent. The objection was overruled. VANCOUVER TOT FOR TAFT Two Boll Moose Playmates Locked Vp Until They Change IVews. VANCOUVER, Wash., Nov. 9. (Spe cial.) A little girl about 7 years old locked up two of her playmates in a bathroom for nearly two hours, or until thev promised that they were in favor of Taft, on Tuesday, election day. Little Babe Blaker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Blaker, was much Interested in politics, as she heahr it being discussed so much. Her father was a candidate for re-election to the office of County Commissioner. Babe took everything seriously, and when she and her play mates began to discuss the National issues, Babe said she was for Taft, while her little chums were "Bull Moosers" and were going to "vote ior Teddy. She schemed around until she got them into the bathroom then closed the door and locked it, and every little while she would call through the door. Vote for Taft and I'll let you out." This had the desired effect after two hours, and she released her prisoners. 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