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WITNESS SI GERMAN DRIVE iOIN
BOMB PLANTED RENEWED ALONG
UPON SIBEWALK VERDUN FRONT, M
SCANDAL PI
V A- 1 1
PROBE HOTEL MEN OF
HOW
AWSON
CAPITAL GRILLED
IDE MONEY IN
FOR EXTORTIONS
STOCK
SLUMP
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Oxmari Declares He Witnessed Bill
ings, Mooney, Mrs. Mooney, Wein
berg and Another Drive Up in Auto
and Place Bomb Which Cost Ten
Lives at San Francisco.
SAX FRAXCISCO, Jnn. 2(i. F. 0.
Oxman of Durkec, Or., testified in the
murder trial of Thomas J. Mooney
liere today lliat lie aetnally saw plant
ed the, homl) tlmt eost ten lives and
injured forty persons during n pre
paredness parade bore July 22, J 0.1(1.
lie identified Mooney, Warren K.
Hillings and Israel Weinberg as the
men who laid the homl).
Oxman is the first witness the state
has produced, either in the trial of
Hillings, sentenced to prison for life,
or Moonel, to testify ho saw the
bomb set. lie identified Hillings in
the courtroom ns the man who nrtu
ally placed a suitcase containing the
bomb on the sidewalk. Mooney,
Weinberg, Mrs. Mooney and a man
tawith a black mustache' not in the
courtroom, arrived with the bomb in
an automobile, Oxman testified, and
fled after it was placed.
Creates Consternation.
Oxman is a stoek-raiscr. Up to (he
time he was placed on the stand hi'
"iand his story were held with the
greatest secrecy.
Oxman's story ercated consterna
tion in the courtroom. Oxman said he
knew none of the men in the automo
bile, but be readily picked Mooney,
Weinberg, Hillings and Mrs. Mooney.
Kdward 1). Nolan, the fifth of the ac
cused, was not "the man with the
black mustache," Oxman said, nor
was Nolan in the machine. All five
arc churned with murder. Hillings
was convicted and sentenced to life
for the explosion. Oxman's nppeur
aneo on the stand was a bomb itself
to the defense, which has been contending-
that the suitcase theory of the
explosion was false and that the
bomb was hurled from a roof top.
W. Ilourke Coekrnn, chief counsel
for the defense, failed to shake Ox
man's identifications or testimony in
a lurid cross-examination.
"Could you not be mistaken in your
identification of these four defend
ants?'' C'ockran asked.
" A. No.
Q. lint you only saw them once;
. your memory isn't ns sood as that, is
it ?
Actions Peculiar.
A. Yes, but their actions were pe
culiar. thought they were a set. of
thieves who bad stolen a suitcase.
Jlesides, Hillings brushed me out of
the way in his hurry, and I took close
notice. Therefore I am positive.
"1 put down the number of the au
tomobile on this telegram envelope."
lie handed the envelope to C'ockran
nnd on it was written, "Xo. filHT.
Suspect, July 22, IP. Hi. Stole suit
case." '
Police traffic records showed 'No.
.M87'' to be Weinberg's license, the
( police said. Weinberg- admitted pri
vately in court that it was his num
ber. "Y"hy didn't you report this to the
police immediately?" asked C'ockran.
A. Well, I had ."0(l0 cattle on my
hrtuds, and that's enough to have on
tiSe's mind. I didn't want to pel
mixed up with a bunch who would
plant a bomb on a sidewalk. I have
come here reluctantly, even now.
FACTORY OWNER
I
NEW YORK, Jnn. 26. Asserting
that a sentence In prison should
teach a far-reaching lesson to fac
tory owners and tenants who fall to
provide proper tire exits, Supreme
Court Justice Kapper today sent Sam
uel Ilarkin to Sing Sing (or from 2 V4
to 5'i years. Barkln Is a partner in
a shirt making company housed in a
Urooklyn building w here nine women
and four men operators lost their
lives in a fire because the trap doors
between their place of work and Har
bin's floor was locked.
Ilarkin was convicted by a Jury
earlier this week. Ills partner, Sam
uel Simon, and the building's owner.
Mr. and Mrs. Kdward I. Diamond,
proprietors of a candy company in
the structure, are stili to be tried on
similar charges.
Important Offensive Along a Three
Mile Front Teutons Penetrate the
Trenches on Dead Man's Hill
Fighting Along Riga Front Contin
ues, Germans Having Advantage.
In what appears to have been the
most important offensive movement
undertaken on the Fianrn-lsclgiun
front in several weeks, French
trenches on a front of approximately
a mile in the region of Hill DIM, north
west of Verdun, were stormed by
German troops yesterday, the ISerlin
war office announces. A connlcr-nl-lack
delivered at night by I ho French
failed jo drive out the Germans, who
during the operation captured about
.llld prisoners and ten machine suns.
The Paris account of the German
offensive reports it launched along a
rather wide front, the attacks being
delivered at four points between Avo
conrt wood, on the extreme left of the
French lines about Verdun ami Dead
Man bill, a distance of more than
three and one-half miles. The at
tacks were repulsed, the French
statement declares, except that the
Germans penetrated advanced
trenches near Hill :!fH. The German
statement mentions the fighting iu the
other sectors of this attack as enter
prises on Dead ' Man hill which
brought the desired results.
In Itigu Sector.
Fighting in the Itign region, the
northernmost sector of the liussian
front, continues to show advances for
the Germans, according to licrlin,
which reports additional liussian pos
itions gained on both sides of the
river An, southwest of 1,'ign, border
ing the great Tirol marsh.
Tilt' fighting in this marshy region
is made possible at this season by the
freezing of the swamps. A liussian
offensive early this month was taken
to be aimed at Milan, the German
base south, of IMga. hut it failed of I
decisive results. The Germans now
apparently have not only regained
such ground as thev lost, but are
striking northward across the
swampy ground in the direction of
Kiga.
On Other Kmnt. '
The Russians are offering strong
resistance and delivered counter-attacks
on the east .idc of the Aa river.
They failed, liovfever, according to
Merlin, which reports the capture of
.1(10 prisoners during the dav's fight
ing. Operations iu the other war areas
have been of comparative unimpor
tance. Minor attacks by the Huu.ai,
ians iu western Moldavia have failed,
licrlin says, as did nl.-o a Serbian at
lack in the Mogjenicn mountain reg
ion on the Macedonian front.
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SALEM, Ore.. .Ian. "iSlua
Snnduy.s" for Oregcn verj prescribed
in a bill introduce, into the house
of representatives hero today by
Representative YV. II. Horn of Med
ford. ' The measure would close, nil
lines of btiMness except drug stores,
hotels, restaurants, ice cream par
lors, enrages and mo'.ivo supply
houses. 1'udcr the act. baseball
games, theaters and oro"r forms of
amusement would be oroiiiVt.-d from
operating. (lore said l.c introduced
the measure at the reni.e.s'. of the
Oregon Retail Orocer-' association.
Any poison of faith t.ot observing
Sunday would be exempt.
J OF
SAN SALYAIiOIf. JU.Thr
jrnvcrnmi'iiN ni fiiuiti-niiila, (Vt-tii
I.'ii'U. Ilnni'itta iiinl Salvailur hnvr
irvi;ind -tiitcntfiit h t ran Mint-j
ti-l to l!i' Ami-rirjin iililiitc of tn
t rii;iliin.il l;v. n in M--ii in I
;tn:i. iitjifovni tin iM-tinn or tin 111
Miliih' in fi-i-nminori'iiit'z niiiititf-njnu-r
nt tin- (Yhtivt Ahiriir;'iT. court ,jt!-i-l
n iiJii'li;in of jmnh-c .ninri'.
titc H'I'iiuIm-. oi Liutral AjtKTU'U.
HAS CAPITOL
STRING OE PETTICOAT
P.y CIIAS. KDWAHl) Itl'SSKU,.
WASHIXdTOX, l.),ajC..,.Jan. '.'li.
irs. ltiiili Thoniason Viseonli, who
made such (i dramatic entry in Ihc
gr'al Vnieriean farce comedy en
titled -The Leak: or, Quid;, Watson!
The Needle," would be worth tint old
gold to a romance writer of the good
old school id' intrigue and mystery.
She is small, attractive, (poet, sil
ent, mysterious ami elusive. She ar
rives and departs and none knows
whence nor whither. She baflles de
tectives, subpoena sellers anil re
porters, and when you feel sure die
is here she glides for a moment into
view Mimcwhere else.
This used to be great stuff on the
stage and iu fiction, and may be
again. Some id' it isn't so much fic
tion at that. I'.vervbodv that knows
government as It really is knows that
it is largely a puppet play for the de
light and diversion of a large and un
discnniinating audience. It is per
formed by a variety of pleasing nnd
well-drr.-sed figures that move about
the stage in a series of most lifelike
and refreshing stunls as if they did
everything of their own will, but all
the lime they are pulled around with
strings, cords and wires not exhib
ited to the enlrauced spectators.
Sometimes the hands that pull
these Mriniis lire a woman's small
hands that make hi-dorv and pass
WASHINGTON, Jan. -JH.- I'niver
sal military traiuilej: iu the i'llited
States will not make for militarism,
Ili-liop Samuel Kallows of Chicago,
chaplain of the famous Iron llrigade
of the civil war. told the senate com
mittee considering universal training
legislation. j
"We never can be and never will I
be a military nation," said HUhopj
Kallows. "The tct of that came at
the close of the civil war, when two
million mi n were mu-lered out, flush-j
ed villi victory and under the com
mand of a man who be ame prc-identj
of the I niled Stales. There wcri'
predictions that (irant would become'
dictator. Instead of becoming a die-'
tutor, he couid not be nominated for'
a thud I nn, and that great niuiyj
melted like siiowt'af.es in the slreamj
of American lite. j
"t lovet-al tlamiiej. be eontllillcd.
"is perlcetly ica-oliable and impera
tively detualided. It is tile solemn
ilutv of the American nation to meet
FAMOUS BISHOP !
FAVORS UNIVERSAL
ILITARYFRAINING
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any war conditions t liut may ari-c."j
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MRS.RUTM
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away and arc forgotten. Mul the re
sfilfs ;f tlmir maitinda1 ion, maneuv
ers and sccrel designs last always
thercallcr. Madame do Maintenon,
the duchess of Marlborough. !ess of
llanvick, the fair (iabrielle, and all
that soil ,,f thing, mean. They
show still in a fashionable avenue in
I'aris the house where a red-haired
woman iu the day- of the second em
pire used to settle treaties and deter
mine the policies of Kurope, and all
the time she no better than she ought
to be.
It's more of a Kiiropean plot than
an American, but there have been
some women in our own history. Pres
ident Arthur was a widower, but flcn
eral Adam lladcaii charged Mint it
was a pellienat admiuisl ration, al
though the woman be said dominated
everything was never brought before
the public, lladi'au lost his job in
that admini.-lralioii and charged his
troubles to the same fair lady of
Washington.
The secret of the whisky ring
scandal, which clouded the closing
years id' Oram's second administra
tion were understood to have hern be
trayed first by a uiunan, the discard
ed friend of one of the lingslers.
In tin' fiftieth congress one of the
republican leaders, a -enalor, made
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NAVY TO BUILD
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'WASHIXdTOX, .Ian. 2 1; . Secre-,
tary Oanicls today began preparing
to meet the Iiriilsh government's re
fusal to permit Iladilelds limited to!
manufacture projectiles, for the j
American navy by making ready to
equip a government plant lo do the ;
work. Ordnance experts were put lo
work on the plans. j
"I expect work to begin on the j
plant in the sju-lni:,' said Secretary'
Daniels, "and (lie machinery will l,e
advertised for soon." ;
The navy department practically,
has abandoned hope of getting satis-!
factory bids from American manu
facturers. Th" board felnetlng a site
for the $1 i.oniiinn armor plale plant
probably will local" tho projectile
plant on the same site. j
Secretary lianleis conferred todny I
with Charles M. Schwab of liethlc-;
hem, whose bids were rejected by the'
navv department. ;
Frank Lewis of Kaglo Point uat In
Med ford on business Friday.
HO.VE.UTH THOMPSON VVjlONTI
GOES ASHORE ON
1 ISLE
VAXCOrVHR, H. ('.. - an. 2(1.
I The liranrl Trunk I'ncll'lc liner Prince
I.I.ohn, bound from Prince Rupert, II.
jC. to Skagway, Alnsku. struck on
i Rocky Point, Wrangell narrows,
jAlasku, at one o'clock this morning
and began to leal; lnpirily. Captain
Davies, of the Prince John, steamed
for Singer Point, a few miles north
of Rocky Point, and beached his ship
on a soft bottom. Local craft, which
gathered aorund look the passencers,
between I.", and -0, to Peiersburg.
Alaska, whence they will ronl:nin'
their voage. None was lujuieil.
The (Irand Trunk Pacific liner
Prince Albert is standing ay tbf
Prince John, and the salvage stivin..'
Salvor left Vane uiver this al'ti raoo.l
lo assist the stranded ship. The
Prince John carries a crew of IIS.
Wrungell I:. land Is one of the many
Islands bordcr'rg the Inside par-sage
to Alaska and has him the scree or
several wrerl.s In .i'C past. Ilee i ilil-
ing vessels sometimes ground iu the
, shallow 'ral.-g"!l narrows, helv.een
the island and toe : i.ilnbmd when
J they attempt to nia'io tne passage at
; low tide. Several graves of wr.'ek
victims dot one corner of the l-iund.
liii I'r nee John is a steel y".:o of
'). moss Ions, built In Knglai.d In
O n.
US,VICE CRUSADER
SAX I'li'AN'Clscii, ,. mi. ev.
Paul Smith, pa-tor of Ihc Central
Meihodi-I ehnreh, wit!, drew today
from a vice erii-.-ob- he -larte.l two
weeks ago, and which fulminated
last riii:bt in a lua-s uicctiic.: of cili-l
lis calling upon M.ivor J,
liolph, Jr., o nppioul a v ice eoaimis- j
sion. "My work i- done. I,,r tbej
time," said Rev, Smith. "It i-- now
op to tile public and the con -t it ul ed ,
authorities earrv out the li s-alV
reforms. intend, however, to keco:
a close cheek I,, s,.. that the laws,
applying to tin' conduct of eate- andj
street soliciloi- ;M-e eanicd oat."
cslcrday the pa-lor'- cliur li was
invaded by nearly ."aio women who
work in the tenderloin and the "liar
bary Coast" di-lrict. a-kilig what he
intended iloio" with llieui.
Senate Voies $25,000 for Inaugural
Expenses, But Members Declare
Innkeepers Rub Visitors Works
Objects to Pomp and Paycantry of
Occasion.
WAsmxdTox. Jan. -The
si nate voted favorably toda on II".'
f'J.", (inn appropriation to pay for the
inauguration (xpenses at (ho c.pitol,
brt not until lhere had been some
liclv talk about how Wushingi,i)'i ho
tt ! keepers ' rob" visoors aud'some
I'iiM'i vut Ions ":at the liiaiigurur' cere-
is. nies have come, to resembli a
(ozonation p.ts"unt. ' ' ,
When Senator Overman biougbt
up the resolution from the aproula-
I lions committee, Senator McCnmbei,
republican, suggested that It should
ilieitul" provisions to prevent hotel
peepers f, nil raising their rates, lie
i u id ho had been Inrornied by one
j hotel that a room' for iuaiigu,vtou
v.iek wouo1 cost ?l!oo.
! ' Works Objects,
j "I'm not going to object to lhf.
i resolution." said Senator Works, re-
t'lioiican I ul I would like to see
one president inaugurated with ap
propriate c 'l emonies, suitable in a
democracy. We are having a oiona
tion every four years and It ! un
democratic and uu-Anieiicau and I
would Ilk : to see It abolished. There
Is no reason that such a ceremony as
this should be conducted nnd every
reason that II should not. 1 should
like to see the president himself de
clare against that sort of thing null
protest against his Inaugural lining
made a show of this kind, There !s
iiO ' olicaslou for 'the government of
the United states to spend $ 2 .1 , 0 0 0
to provide a place for the Inaugural,
f should like lo see the senate raise
Its voice against It; It violates every
principle of our government."
Senator Thomas, democrat, ex
pressed himself in accord with Sen
ators McCuinber and Works and de
clared: Inn Keepers Robbers.
"Old Spanish buccaneers who
sailed the Spanish main, flying the
black flag of piracy and taking their
lives in their hands to rob merchant
ships must turn over In their graves
when they see the lavish successes of
modern hotel proprietors on occa
sions of the kind and the immunity
from punishment they enjoy In prose
cuting their business of plunder."
Senator Horah. republican, observ
ed thai people who come to Inaugura
tions do so with eyes open and pocU
els full for a good time.
Senator Sherman, republican, said
he hoped that "this matter will ho
given wide publicity so that certain
of my constituents who may come
here won't have to borrow money
from me to get home."
TA( i. A. Wa-h., .Ian. -J(i. - The
Tacoiiia (las company went into the
baml- o a r icr today whin
mcr Hover, president, of thi- eily was
appointed by l-'ederal .Indue Cii-hmoi!.
on a plea of .Mnllhcvv ,. M,,i risiei of
Cbicimo, on a claim of . III. mill in b.-.
halt' oi l be c it-odors.
Tile 'I'.o-oina (las company -uie.li,-.
arlilieial gas lo fa na, Huston, I III
lb III and PiiyaM-!;'. !l i- cnpilulicd
lor 7..'iim.ii0(l, ,, w hich ."i.lMI0,lu)tl is
common mul (lie remainder piefern-d
slock.
DEWEY'S PROPERTY
LEFT 10
WASIII VdTOX, .Ian. 2i! --Adlilir.il ,
Hivvev's will, dated Deniiiher 17.!
1 !!, was filed today for probate, it j
berpieaths a life annuity of n 0 to !
his sister. Mrs. Mary P. drcetey, and'
dlrecls that a suitable stone he placed j
over his grave u Arlington national
c.-lneterv . The remaining estate, of
which no estimate is made. s left for'
the widow and his son (borge Dewey,
lr., wlio are named as cx'Tutors with,
out bond.
Note:. Financial Authority Tells How
Fortunes Can Be Piled Up on a
Breaking Market as Well as on a
Risinti One Process of Stock
Margin Deals Explained.
XKW YORK. .Ian. L'li.- llow did
Thomas W. Law-sou and the "boar'
crowd make money when stocks went;
down with a hang Unit is, if he did'
make money.' Cnu money be niada
when stocks are dropping on the ex-,
clinmre
"Yotf mean, how are short sale-i
Hindi' ,'" 'said John .Moody, financial
w riter and expert, and one of Ihc best
informed men on Willi street.
Very Simple Transaction.
"That is very simple. Suppose you!
sell I no shares of Iniled States Steel'
at I'J.'i, going on the theory Unit Steel
stock will be worth less money short
ly, 'flic customer goes to a broker,
deposits n margin' or 111, '((, :t( ppu
cent of the price of the slock ( vvhicli
at 2r, is .1-J,.-(I(I fur nil) shares), nml
instructs the broker to sell 100 shares!
at PJ.'t. 'flic broker execute-, the or-.-der.
Thai elisloiuel.'s ueeollllt stands)
short inn shares of stock. Xnvv, ac
cording to the rules id' the stock ex
change, the broker must deliver 1(10
shares id' stock lo the buyer tomor
row. The broker goes into the 'lonn
crowd' and borrows a certificate toe
1(1(1 shares of steel slock. That eer--til'icate,
at the' market price, is wortU
$l'J.olltl, and the broker must put U
that amount of money as security foi?
the loan of Ihc slock. The broken
uses his borrowed certificate to de-i
liver o Ihc mini lo whnnr he sold irl
I lie first in-.lance. . ,
Covering Ihc H(ick. 1
"Thiil is Ihc way the I rnnsactiorf
slanils nn I il the slock is 'covered.'
To rover is to buy enough stock lo
cover a sale. The broker, for the cus
tomer, has sold 100 shares of Sleel
al I'J.'i. Hut the customer does not
own any Steel stock; he bus merely
borrowed Hill shares, putting up for
II -l.."i(IO. He stands short until he.
has seemed lull shares of stock ti
deliver lo the person who loaned tho
ccllificale.
"Suppose the trausnelion slander
for a week or so. lii ordinary limes
he has no premium to pay because the
mull who loans the cerliticalc has tho
-lil'.',."li(l to use. Of course, if tint
market should go up, instead of down.
as he expects and hopes it will, he
will have to Vovor' by buying Sleel
slock at a higher price than ho sold'
lor. and iu thai case be will lose; or
if he conl inues to stand 'short' he will
have lo keep pulling ii)i nililitionul
iiinrgin as long as Ihc slock goes up.
Process is lleverscd.
''Hid he made the sale in the fir-.fi
in-lMiicc on Ihc Iheory thut the mm
kel is going to break. Suppose. t
doc-
brink ten points, and he ile-
eiiles that is about as far as it is go
ing. He decides to cover.' lie gives
hi- broker an order to buy lilt) shares
of Sleel al I lo. That lakes .ll,."ill0,
and Hie cel l II i.-al e for the till) .-.hares,
which he gets by purchase, goes to
replace the one he has borrowed. Tho
ceililieale returned, the broker gets
the .J2,."Min back, and the customer
has made .-I nun on the deal, less com.
missions, and so on.
"Tlinl is how short trading is ne-eompli-heil.
On the other hand, the
process i- reversed and money is
niade or lost on a ri-ing market. The
two groups of traders interested in
seeing the markets go up or down are
known il.- bulls and bears."
M ly a--ers that he donbr
whether the famous breuk in Hie mnr
':( last month was due to tho peace
nole.
"Whether lhere had I n any nole
or nut, there would have been a '
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WIXiiXA. Minn.. .Ian. L'li. - The
henv v blanket id snow over southern
Mmncsole lias covered the f 1 ol the
birds and I hoi els are dying of
-lunation. Feed will be ilistribuled
tree lo any person who will assist in
fcediu'.. ituii il during the prc-ent se
vere weather.
m HEAVY BLANKET OF