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CURRENT EVENTS
OF THE WEEK
PINCHOT STORM BREAKS.
MORE BOMBS DISCOVERED.
Plot to
Attacks Upon Him Cheered
ing Congress.
Wreck Home of Editor-In-
Chief Found in Time.
by M n-
f
LOS ANGELES
TIMES BLOWN UP
Loe Angeles — The long expected
Ixis Angeles Following the cxplos
ion and firs which destroyed the Times
storm against Pinehot and his policy of
building, with the almost certain loss
conservation broke in full force at the
of 19 livea and injury to more than al
American
Mining congress here.
score of others, the finding of a dyne
"Socialist," "Proamer,” "Honest
mite bomb under the residence of F. J.
Zecbandelaar, secretary of the Mer
but Impractical," were some of the
chants A Manufacturers' association,
terms burled at the head of the de
and another late in the day under the
General Resume of Important Eventi window of the residence of General Psrty of About OO^Jolly Tsrs Return posed forester.
Five Known Dead and at Least 20
The lone defender of Pinehot, S. C.
Harrison Gray Olis, editor-ln-chlef of I
Presented In Condensed Form
ing From Shore Leave Meet
M ssmg
Property Loss
Graham, a local oil operator, delivered
the Times, kept thia city in a ferment
Disaster.
About 9600.000.
for Our Busy Readers.
of excitement and made the day one of
hia defense In absolute silence and
senaational end tragic events.
when he finished with a fervid burst of
Within a minute after the explosion
oratory
there was not a round of ap
New
York
-Over
a
score
of
sailors
Los Angeles. Cal. The building oc
An explosion of gas in the Palu coal in the Times office the instantaneous
cupied by the Loa Angeles Times was
mine in Mexico killed 72 men.
ignition of gas from the pipes through from the battleship New Hampshire plause.
Ed. F. Browne, of Aspen, Colo., set on fire by an explosion just before
Cuba Is msking every possible effort the building caused flames to dart are believed to have lest their lives by started the exprouion of disfavor to 1 o’clock Saturday morning.
There
from a hundred windows and leap far drowning when the tender, loaded with
t<> have a clean and orderly election.
Pinehot by presenting a resolution de probably will be found a heavy death
above the roof. Its force was great-
Strahorn aays Tacoma may be made oat in the heart of the building direct HO or 90 men,, whose shore leave had claring that the withdrawal of all coal list from the fire and explosion.
The interior of the building waa en
one of the Coast terminals of the North ly under the composing room.
The expired, was swamped or upset in the lands from entry in the Western states
Coast line.
men working there Were thrown to the Hudson river about 250 feet from the and "an Ill-considered law attempting veloped in flames immediately following
to segregate the coal beneath from the the explosion, which it ia thought look
Since his visit to Washington the ground and the linotype machine's tum West HHth street dock.
surface rights," would destroy the place in the basement, and it ia report
Sultan of Sulu is more loyal than ever bled over like a house of cards.
Midshipman Godfrey de Chevalier, groat mining interests of the country ed that a number of men were seen to
There were 115 employes in the
to Uncle Sam.
Esti
building at the time, half a hundred who had charge of the tender, was and the pro|msltion to lease the min fall dead through the windows.
Five bodies have been recovered others having left within a half hour taken from the water unconscious and eral lands "is rank Socialism adopted mates now place the number cf dead
from the wreck of the Los Angeles before with the winding up of the work ia in the ship's hospital. It is report from the laws of New Zealand and as high as 50.
Jimes building.
The fire was preceded by an explos
of the first edition. The scenes that ed that he saved 15 sailors before ex Australia, and thia man who advocates
ion
and immediately the building waa
the
action
is
a
Socialist."
followed
were
indescribable.
Man
cut
A Lake Huron passenger boat foun
haustion overcame him.
Representative Smith, of Bakers enveloped in flames.
This explosion
dered, liut all on board were saved by off from ordinary exits by flames dart
When the deeply laden tender set field, fiercely attacked "over-lordism occurred on the second floor of an ad
ing from every side, rushed hither and
a passing steamer.
government as to dition of the old building.
The old
thither looking for means of rscai« out from the shore, towed by a launch, by the Federal
Donations are coming in for the and were forced finally to jump from
natural resources." He was cheered part is of three floors.
there
was
a
strong
wind
blowing
across
families of those killed in the destruc second and third story windows.
to the echo.
Within a few seconds from the time
I the river and kicking up choppy waves.
tion of the I xm Angeles Times office.
Ex Representative C. A. Rarlow, of of the explosion the entire building
The sailors were singing and joking Bakersfield, attacked Pinehot and hia was firey furnace.
Crowds that gath
AUTOS KILL MANY.
An young Italian was clubbed to
at the top of their voices, when the policies
ered early say they saw many men fall
death by highwaymen in Chicago while
craft struck a large wave, dumping a
"Pinehot ia a
good
man l»ut back from the windows into the flames.
his fiancee w.aa waiting a fine Sunday Four Dead and Nineteen Hurt Strew great quantity of water Into the boat.
thoroughly impractical as to oil," he Others leaped and were injured.
dinner for him.
Course of Races.
Another wave threw water over the declared. The delegates shouted ap
A later account says the Times
Twenty-nine men from the battle
Ix>ng Island Motor Parkway. New gunwales.
plause. Barlow said Pinehot'a ideas office was dynamited, and claims it
Seeing that the boat was sinking, led to the United States fixing the was done by enemies of the paper,
ship New Hampshire were drowned by York Four dead and 19 seriously in
the sinking of a l>arge on which they jured three probably fatally was the some of the sailors sprang overboard. price of oil and would abrogate the presumably memlwra of labor unions,
«ere returning to the ship from shore. price in human flesh paid for the run The fellows first overboard made the laws of demand and supply and would whom the Times has been fighting re
jump, as one sailor explained, because end our government.
lentlessly for a number of years.
W’u Ting Fang, formerly Chinese ning of the sixth Vanderbilt cup rare,
they were expert swimmers, and got
T. A. O'Donnell, a L<e Angeles oil
The entire building anti newspaper
minister to Washington, has cropped won by Harry Grant driving a 120-
.out
hoping
to
lighten
the
cutter.
operator, declared himself antiPin- plant are destroyed, with a loss of
his queue, to emphasise his request to horsepower AI co machine.
Their
jump
was
made
at
the
behest
of
The race was the most cloecly con-
chot.
1500,000.
his government for permission for all
a heavy-voiced sailor, who shouted
"Pinehot la honest but misguided."
Most of the department editors are
of his countrymen abroad to do like leetcd <rf any of the Vanderbilt races,
and with the two small-car events run "Every man who is a go«d swimmer he said. "I favor the oil men's associ believed to have escaped. Thirty men
wise.
ning ax a unit with it brought out a
_
x . l .
ating with the eongr<-M and the pans were at work on the linotypes and 50
A German aviator fell 150 feet in record number of starters.
A moment more si d the cutter wax
ing of some resolution of natural re in the "ad” room.
It is not known
his machine, and died of bis injuries.
The time for the first throe cars io awash, with her load of jerkies strug sources and conservation as applied to how many of these got out.
gling
in
the
water.
Some
clung
to
the
Canada is seeking new reciprocity finish in the main event exceeded the
the oil business here. B’4t 1 am for
Flames followed the explosion so
arrangements with the United States. beat time ever made in an American water-logged craft, strong swimmers ever against the drifting of the gov quickly that many of the printers are
road race.
Grant, by covering the gaVe a hand to the weaker ones, while ernment toward a bureaucratic super tielieved to have perished. Some were
Danger of an uprising in China is
27M.80 miles of the course in four doxens shouted the familiar cal): "Man vision of Western mining and forest seen to fall backward from the win
causing military activity in the United
overboard. '’ Thia cry was heard on industries." *
hours, 12 m'nutes and 5H seconds
dows into the fire. Many others who
States.
equivalent to an average of
is the New Hampshire, and the steam
leaped to the ground were injured.
launch
J>ut
out
to
the
rescue.
The son of a rich San Francisco man miles an hour established a new
EARTH SHAKES. SETTLERS FLEE
r..ov.o ... ..roo.u
« The launch rendered valuable asais-
ia serving a five months’ jail sentence American
record.
HUMAN HERDBOOK NEEDED,
""Br'iilU^tL wax the performance of
!'n<J reinforced by a nearby pow-
for pocket-picking.
the three winners ami thrilling as was
boat, which chance.! to be on the Volcanic Disturbances Destroy Homes
A Sar, Jose woman has been given a the race itself, the horror caused by
Albert P. Hall Suggests Registration
and Frighten People.
•»•’T "»•"
»>Kht
verldct of 11,792 against a newspaper the wholesale maiming
of Entire Race.
....
—
ami
— _
killing
....... „ out of the water ?
Whenever a bob
bob-
Flagstaff. Aril. Remarkable earth
for being called a leper.
cast
such
a
deep
king
head
showed,
a
n.an
was
rescued.
disturbances
continue
north
of
Flag
Washington
— Bertillon measure
which attended it, <
For >the flart time in 50 years all shadow over spectators, participants But in the darkness several sank, and staff extending through to the grand ments and photographs of every citixen
gambling In Nevada will be closed by and management that the crowd dis others were almost unconscious when canyon. J. P. Chaves, a well known for public record were proposed at the
dragged to safety.
law, taking effect October 1.
stockman, brought in hie family, and American Prison Association congress
persed under's pall of rororw.
On board the New Hampshire 61 others have followed since, all very by Albert P. Hall, of Minneapolis, in
Yet notwithstanding the list of can
All foreign steamship lines are re-
were counted with wet clothes, in
fu»ing to take paa-engers hr fre-ght ualtiea, it was announced that the dicating merely that 61 had been saved much alarmed.; Chaves* adobe house submitting the report of the committee
was shaken from its foundation, the on the criminal law reform.
grand
prise
race
over
the
same
course
from Naples, on account of the epidem
"The United States government
would be ,held October 15.
Fifteen and leaving blank the more serious gap corner cracked, and the chimney to|>-
ic of cholera there.
ought to mske its chief concern to dis
care have already been entered for the of possible dead. As 250 men from pled off.
the
ship
had
shore
leave,
there
was
no
The Southern Pacific and Salt Lake event.
Lava stones weighing many tons cover, develop and realise itself by
wsy of ascertaining just how many were torn from the lava bed and gathering and recording full biographic
railroads have granted a material re
wero aboard the tender. Several sail crashed down the mountainside.
duction on citrus fruits from Californ
Only and civic data of each of its component
UNION CULPABILITY DENIED.
ors who wero in the upset lost hesi a few stockmen live in that section. units, the life of every man," said Mr,
ia to all Northwest points.
tated to estimate the number lost, al Those who have come in refuse to go Hail, "We have developed the regis
Walter Brooklna, a ¡>upil of Wilbur Strike Committee Gives Statement
though those who are inclined to take back.
tration and identity of domestic ani
Wright, flow from Chicago to Spring
Deploring Loss of Life.
a more serious view of the affair placed
The rumblings seem to come from mals. Why omit the record of human
field, III., 1H7 miles, with but two I
Ixw Angele* The utrike committee the list as high as thirty.
the direction of the grand canyon and life, the supreme product of creation?
stops, winning a 110,000 prise and es
There was given out from the battle cover an area of 40 or 50 miles along The task is not impossible, its benefits
of the metal trades, members of which
tablishing a new long distance record.
have been on strike for some months, ship a list of 29 men who wero sup- the mountains.
The earth tremors would be incalculable and far reaching.
The patent rights in this and all issued the following statement:
|«»ed to have persished. Appended to have been continuous since Saturday,
"Such a registration should be Na
foreign countries for the new concrete
“The union labor men in Ixw An- this list are the names of 11 men who and occasionally with much violence. tional in scope and authority, embrac
railroad tie recently invented
by gclcs deplore deeply the l<»a of life are still absent, but who were not Both whites and Indiana have fled from ing a continuous enumeration and con
George Gates, of Stockton, Cal., have and injury in the explosion and fire at recognised as having been in the the region.
secutive numbering of the whole citi
been sold to a syndicate of capitalists the Times' plant The unions declare swam|*ed boat.
There arw more than 80 old volcano zenship, including a duplicate card cer
for 117.500,000.
that the statement in the Timex that
craters in the section, but so far ax tificate system identifying its bearer
FLIGHT TRIAL ILLFATED.
known none have ahown any sign of by photograph or finger prints."
By a vote which was practically the explosion wax caused by some per- j
activity. The phenomena are believed
unanimous, the American Mining con- son or persona connected with organ-
gross at Ixis Angelos, decland itself in I ised labor here or elsewhere is false. Aviator Has Disastrous Trip Ovsr to I m - due to faults in the earth’s crust,
Carshops Are Destroyed.
Rocky Mountains.
which is slipping. The whole country
favor of state control of all natural re Ever since the beginning of union labor
Tucson,
Aris. The Southern Pacific
sources,’and against ail ideas of con here, violence of every sort haa been .
Helena, Mont. J. C. Mars, aviator, is of volcanic origin. No alarm is felt shops here were destroyed by fire Sat
condemned
in
pubile
ami
private.
No
in
Flagstaff.
servation except to prevei.l actual
underwent one of the most remarkable
urday night. The loss is estimated at
union man haa been permitted to com
waste.
experiences of hie career when he es
8350.000.
The fire waa the second one
HOME
RULE
NOW
SEEN
NEAR
mit any act of violence, be it ever so
within an hour and the cause of neither
Advocates of states’ rights And little lights, nor have the uniona failed rig aayed to make a flight serosa the Rocky
i i* known. Ten locomotives, eighteen
Mountains. The effort resulted in dis
support at the conservation congress.
orously to demand that their members
aster, but Mars succeeded in establish- Redmond's Speech Enthuses Amen-1 oil tenders and four ballast cars wero
obey
the
laws.
A New York actress now claims
can Irish to Pledge Help.
i ing an American altitude record, his
destroyed.
Immediately across the
"We believe that success can only be
S5o,000of ’’Lucky” Baldwin's estate.
aneroid indicator showing a height of
Buffalo.
N. Y. Irishmen from all ' yards were the tanks holding 200.000
won by peaceful reasoning ami show
John Ringling, of Chi parts of the United States and Canada i barrels of fuel oil, which were barely
Catholic newspapers at Madrid free ing the laboring man his rights and 7,500 feet.
cago, and Lewis IVnwell, of Helena, rallied to the standard of John B. Red saved. Their destruction would have
ly predict the early removal of Premier duties.
offered Mara a J>urse of 11,000 if he mond and hia colleagues in the Irish ' doomed the entire city.
The destruc
Canalejas.
"We therefore deny unequivocally
succeeded in crosaing the main range Nationalist party. It was the opening tion of the shops takes from Tucson
that
the
unions
or
any
union
man
in
Coulee City, Wash.,
went "dry”
of the Rockies and he made the start of the fifth biennial national conven- j her chief industry.
by one vote, and the one saloon in the our knowledge had anything to do with at 10 o’clock.
tion of the United Irish league, but
any violence against the Times' em
town will be closed.
The start was most auspicious, the the sessions resolved themselves into I
Chinese Press Organizes.
ployes or property.
heavy weather favoring him, as he a continuous eulogy of Redmond. Dev
\ ictoria, B. C. Mail advices from
Roosevelt was elected temporary
"We stand ready and willing to do
passed cut of sight. Hours paaaed and lin and O'Connor and their colleagues, China state that a Chinese press as
chairman of the Republican state con all in our power to aid In a thorough
no report wax received from towns on and a ratification of the policies they sociation has been formed with head
vention of New York
investigation of the explosion."
the other side and it was realised that represent.
quarters at Shanghai and arrange
Robbers who looted a S. P. mail car
he had met with an accident
ments are being made to send corres
Haskell
Slights
Colonel.
In Louisiana, overlooked packages of
Searching parties were sent out and
Woman's Luggsge Seired.
pondents to Washington. Ixmdon, St.
currency containing 1250,000
Oklahoma City Governor Charles found the dismantled machine near the
New York —Mrs. H. N. Slater, of Petersburg, Thibet. Japan and to all
N. Haskell informed Geroge R. Beld top of the range, where it had fallen.
Oolera has become epidemic at ing, secretary of the Arkansas fair as Fortunately Mars had escaped injury. Readville, Mass., related to the prom- , prominent Chinese centers. No fore
Naples, Italy, and many have died in sociation, that he declined an invita The right plane, front wheel and ipro- inent Slater family of New England igners are to bo included among the
and financialy interested in a New correspondents.
I
the streets of the poorer diatricta.
tion to be present at the reception to peller were smashed in alighting, but
York firm of the same name, waa not
|
Colonel
Roosevelt
at
Little
Rock,
Octo
the
machine
was
brought
back.
Men Strike for 920 Per Month.
Rioting became general In the Ber
permitted to take away her baggage
lin strike and over 100 persona were ber 10. The governor declared that
Warsaw—A strike of the electric
when she arrived from Europe in the
Football Takas Its Toll.
Injured by charging police, many of until he changes hie mind tow an 1 ths I
Katscrin Augusta* Victoria. She de streetcar employee haa been declared.
"official misconduct of Colonel Roose
Carlisle, Kan. Melville Waters, 17 clared the model gowns valued at 81,* j It waa organised by the Socialist par
them seriously.
velt in the past or his attempt to de I years old, a junior in Carlisle high
George Chavex. who crossed the ceive the people In the present," he school, was kicked in the bead in a 400 and additional personal effects ty. The men demanded a minimum
Alps from Switcerland to Italy In an could not consistently place himself in football game between the Carlisle and worth 8300, but the customs inspectors ! wage of 820 monthly and the repeal of
aeroplane and met disaster while try the position of approving the Roose- Rockville high school teams, and died insisted on s complete appraisement of a system of fines which they declare
the contents of her nine pieces of to be in force. There were no distur
ing to land, died of hie injuries.
. velt policies.
| an hour later.
baggage.
bances, but the police arrested the
... .
leaders of the movement.
Walter Bros kina, in a Wright aero
Aviators Collide In Air,
Negroes Control State.
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Middleton, Conn. — Arthur Wright,
plane, sailed about over the city of
Milan —The aviators, Dickinson and of Oakfield, N. Y., a member of the
Columbia S. C.—The plan to wrest
Wireless Lights Lamps.
Chicago for 20 minutes and then re
Copenhagen - W'aldemar Puxenim.
turned and landed safely at the start Thomas, collided while circling the Wesleyan eleven, is in a serious condi control of the Republican political or- i
aerodrome here at a rapid pace. Dick tion as a result of injury suffered dur ganisation of South Carolina from the the Danish inventor, haa succeeded in
ing point.
inson was probably fatally hurt in ing the football game with the Con negro did not materialise at the party’s lighting incandescent lamps by th«
Strikers and police had a pitched ternally.
Thomas was injured about necticut Agricultural college. It was state convention, and It will be over wire lees transmission of an electric
battle in the streets of Berlin.
| the legs and head.
whelmingly controlled by negroes.
stated that he had ruptured a kidney.
current.
ìhiings of the World at Urge
Told in Brief.
Sailors From Warship Swamped
in Overloaded Boat.
Building and Plant Destroyed
in Fire Which Follows
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