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FRENCH STRIKE CALLED CRIMINAL Employes Destroy Tracks and Wreck Trains. ir Thfo' agin '»••»O Telegraph Wires Cut and Air Brakes Disabled— Food Supply for Paris By Water. GALE H IT S G U L F . West Key West, Oct. 15— A t 6 o’clock to night the wireless station here report ed a West Indian hurricane centered west o f Havana and moving with great intensity toward Progresso, Yucatan. The storm will extend from Florida to Mexico. All wireless stations^with the exception o f the local government station are disabled. There is an un confirmed rumor that a liner ia ashore near Key West. The weather bureau station at Sand Key was awash and the men there sought refuge at the lighthouse. The United wireless station was temporar ily disabled and the operator secured the instruments and abandoned his quarters when heavy seas began to come in. The government wireless alone was in operation. Paris, Oct. 13.— The strike o f the railroad men, which threatens to spread throughout France, was de nounced today by Premier Briand as “ an insurrection, purely, built upon English Coast Feels Storm. criminal foundations.” London— The English coast is strewn The premier declared that the strike was called while negotiations were go with wreckage as the result o f a storm ing on for an adjustment o f grievances that has continued for two days. The and he promised that the instigators of casualty list is a long one. Bodies of five seamen from the coasting steamer the strike would be prosecuted. The river Seine, which in January Cranford were picked up off Hartle threatened to destroy Paris, looms up pool. It is believed the vessel, which in the role o f saviour. The govern carried a crew o f 20, foundered, and ment has made arrangements to rush that the men were attempting to reach food supplies to Paris from the sea, shore in a small boat when they were Elgin Watches are Unsurpassed requisitioning all boats to meet the lost. Some of the wreckage coming ashore in Accuracy & Quality Features crisis and ease the food market, which indicates that a sailing ship met a like is already hard hit. Lifeboats from many points The employes o f the Eastern and the fate. Sold by Paris, Lyons & Mediterranean rail were out and in some instances effect roads have not to any appreciable ex ed rescues. In other cases they were tent responded to the strike call and unable to reach distressed craft. the government’s weapon o f mobiliza tion has induced some o f those employ Steamer Cannot Make Port. ed on the Northern road to return to Tampa, Fla.— A^message from the their posts. Nevertheless, the North wireless station at Key Westat 7:20 p. ern and Western railroads are prostra m. reported the steamship Olivet just ted. The call to the colors has been outside the bar unable to make port on ignored by the large majority and at account o f heavy seas. The wind is mass meetings today the strikers re blowing 50 to 60 miles an hour. The iterated their determination not to steamship Comus, spoken 40 miles respond to the call. west o f Tortugas, is proceeding. In J. A. Brown, Prop. Much destruction has been wrought dications are that the storm is swerv on the Western system, on which the ing eastward and will strike the Flor strikers and their supporters have held ida coast in the vicinity o f Tampa, up and derailed trains, blocked tracks, slightly to the northwest. The barom destroyed signals, ripped up rails and eter is reading 29.94. cut telephone and telegraph wirea. Spscial Conveyances Over the The government has ordered the arrest G A LLER IES M AY BE INVADED o f a score o f strike leaders and in Wilson River Route structions have been issued to the to Tillamook troops to use severe measures wher Wealthy Art Patrons May Have to Turn Over Treasures. ever occasion requires. Thousands o f person living in the New York— An anonymous note sent suburbs and employed in Paris massed to William Loeb Jr., collector o f the Horses Bought, Sold this evening around the depots. These port o f New York, precipitated a sen they found closed and silent, with mil sational raid on the Fifth avenue es and Exchanged itary campa in front. Then, with true tablishment o f Duveen Brothers’ art Parisian gaiety, they laughingly set galleries and the arrest o f two mem out to walk home, perhaps a distance bers o f the firm, Benjamin J. and Ind. 744 Phones Pac. 33 o f five or ten miles, or stormed the Henry J. Duveen, cLarged with con tramways, cabs automobiles and other spiracy to defraud the government of Forest Grove, Ore. conveyances. more than $1,000,000 by undervalua The losses to commerce already are tion o f imports. tremendous. Scores o f trains have In the event o f fines being imposed been stalled along the roads, many o f or duties recovered from the firm or its these carrying food supplies, which members, the informant will be in line have become unfit fo r use. The pas for the reward offered by the govern sengers on the steamship Oceanic, who ment for evidence resulting in such took the train at Cherbourg for Paris, conviction. are blocked at Mante-Sur-Seine, about I f the alleged frauds prove as exten 36 miles from Paris. sive as customs officials have stated, Many Americans have been com this reward will probably be between pelled to remain in this city or pay $100,000 and $500,000. fabulous sums to reach the coast, so The United States government has that they might embark for England. warrants out for the remaining mem M. Jaure, leader o f the Socialists in bers o f the firm, who have art gal the chamber o f deputies, today an leries in the leading capitala o f Eu swered Premier Briand, charging that rope. the railroads o f the government were Millions o f dollars’ worth o f paint responsible for the present crisis. He ings and art work have been sold to declared that the scheme o f militariza millionaire art patrons in this country, tion was dangerous, as it was certain and it was suggested that the customs to weaken military discipline and in officials may invade these art collec crease anti-militarism. tions and temporarily hold the master The Southwest express ftad a narrow pieces pending an adjudication o f the escape from being wrecked on its ar alleged frauds. rival here today. The brakes failed District Attorney W ise said he be to work and subsequent investigation lieved that fraudulent valutions have showed that the \ air pipes had been been carried on systematically for cut. The train dashed into the Auster- years. litz station at a speed o f 60 miles an Hurricane Rages in Cuoa. hour. It was stopped just before reaching the Dorsant terminus. Havana— The provinces o f Havana, Bois Colombes the strikers held Matanzaa and Pinar del Rio have been That’s the verdict of those up At a freight train and, smashing in the in the grip o f the aeverest storm of who patronize doors o f the cars., freed a cargo o f recent years aince Thursday. The cattle. Heavy consignments o f fruit highest velocity of wind was 80 miles and vegetables destined for Belgium an hour. The rain probably was un and Northern France are stalled and precedented, and has wrought great O ur Stock Is Complete ruined. Prices o f fish, eggs, butter damage to sugar cane and tobacco O ur Clerks A r e C ou rteou s and milk have jumped 25 per cent. Exit from and entrance to the port O u r Prices A r e L ow The merchants are arranging for the have been closed. Dredges and barges transportation o f vegetables from the working about the battleship Maine A ll suburbs by automobiles. were compelled to seek refuge, The but one dredge got away safely, crew o f the dredge was rescued. Search for Gold Ended. Loa Angeles— Two associates, Fuller Ind. Phone 701 Main Street and Steward, hardly less known in the Makes Call in Aeroplane Pac. States 2 6 Forest Grove world o f adventure than himself, Washington— Claude Graham White, reached this city with the personal the English aviator, stopped at the effects o f Dr. Charles P. Holt, of White House door in hia aeroplane, Santa Ana. the distinguished journal after a flight o f about six miles. He ist, scientist and explorer, who died of landed where the slightest deviation fever, alone in a far-off port of Colom from the course would have impaled bia, South America, with wealth with him on the spikes o f an iron fence at in hia grasp. The lure o f gold had hia right, or smashed him against Letter Heads, Envelopes, drawn Dr. Holt to every part o f the granite walla at hia left. Admiral globe where the precious metal is Dewey was on the spot to extend con Business Cards, Calling found. He was among the first that gratulations. An hour later White invaded Alaska. Cards, Statements, Bill ascended from the spot where he had landed and returned to his starting Heads, Circulars, and Argentina Heads Sworn. point, the Bennings race track. Buenos Ayres— Señor Roque Senas Anything else that can be pro- Pena and Dr. Victorino de la Plaza |Two Fall Into Boiling Dye. duced with ink and paper, Let were Inaugurated respectively as pres Provo, Utah— Two employes o f the us have your next order. We ident and vice president o f the Argen tine Republic. 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