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CHICKEN RANCH FOR SALE
Lot 50x270 in alfalfa on car line,
with -l-room frame cottage and screen
room; north of, town. Price $1750;
easy payments. E. E. PASCOE, 110
N. Center St.
THE
ARIZONA REPUBLICAN
10 DAY SNAP !
Fine corner, close in, best loca
tion for apartment houser must sell
in ten days. E. E. PASCOE, 110
North Center Street.
TWENTY-FIRST YEAR.
12 PAGES.
PHOENIX, ARIZONA, MONDAY MORNING, DECEMBER, 26, 1910.
12 PAGES.
VOL. XXI. NO. 218.
Ml! AVIATION STUNTS
If LOS ANGELUS MEETS
The Thrilling Performance of The Intrepid Archie Hoxey
Over The Pacific
CHISTMAS WEATHER
A Disturbance Will Sweep Across
the Country This Week
HE SOUGHT THE ALTITUDE RECORD BUT FELL SHORT
Brookins Kept the Grand Stand Nervous With His
Maneuvers Which Threatened the Same Death That
Overtook His Partner, Johnstone. The First Acci
dent of the Meet in Which a Local Expert Lost Con
trol of His Homemade Machine
Los Angeles, Dec. 25. Hoxey, of the
Wright team, again outdid the eagle
and other natural denizens of the
higher altitudes at the Christmas
matinee of the aviation meet. More
than a mile high, lie sailed out over
the murky waters of the Pacific,
black, under a leaden sky. Then
climbing to still greater heights ho
Iointed his prow landward and van
ished from the view of the spectators.
He next appeared diving straight
through a heavy water-laden cloud.
The cloud parted soon after, letting
the sun peep through, and taking the
slant of the rays, Hoxey made a spot
light swoop back to earth. He did
not alight, however, but kept flying
for two hours in an endurance flight.
When he finally stopped the judges
oponed his sealed barograph, and the
record showed that he had reached
a height of 7,299 feet in his second
attempt for the altitude record.
"At the same-time the judges an
nounccd that they had made an error
ill 'calculating Hdxey's height yester
day at C2S0 feet. It should have beea
9.2SS 1,211 under the world's record.
But even this figure is not final, and
must await final verification at the
end of the meet.
Brookins, another of the Wright
team, also tried fur a new altitude
mark,, but got no higher than 4,300,
but in lieu of a broken record he
gave the crowd a thrill with another
of his spectacular spiral dives. At a
distance of probably 3,000 feet he
spun downward in ever narrowing
circles, until the planes were nearly
vertical. The assemblage in the
grand stand watched the feat with
bated breath until he finally righted
his machine. Then he caused more
gasps by erratic darts and dives, and
an exhibition of the "Dutch roll'
during which his biplane caromed and
rocked like a dismasted ship.
Next to the performances of Hox
ey and Brookins, the most interesting
event was another race between a
Curtiss 60-liorse power racer and the
sieedy "Baby Wright," with Parma
lee at the lever. Ely at the wheel of
the Curtiss passed the "Baby Wright"
onco in front of the grand stand and
again on the farther side of the field.
Parmalee. however, was able to over
come every advantage by quicker
manipulation at the turns. Glen Cur
tiss' racer also won the speed prize
of the day, defeating James Radley.
the English aviator, who at the time
was making an effort to lower his
own world's record of 77 miles an
hour. Badley pointed the nose of his
Bleriot monoplane in the face of a
ten-mile breeze and made the best
lap at the rate of 54 miles an hour
The Curtiss racer did 59. Ely in the
same machine later made 58, and
Parmalgc in the "Baby Wright"
marked 52.
Latham took down the daily prize
for endurance. He soared over the
course for two hours and forty-three
minutes. His Antoinette performed
as majestically in the gusty breeze,
as she did yesterday when there was
practically no wind. She looked as
safe as a boat as she flew, and Lath
am seemingly had no more to do than
a quartermaster steering a ship at
seat Frequently he took his hands
oft the controlling wheel entirely and
smoked cigarettes incessantly during
his long flight.
Radley. while his Bleriot kept him
always in the tense attitude of a
jockey riding a close race, smoked
an ancient Iookliig black pipe. When
told on alighting that his attempt to
break tlie 77-mlle record had failed
he only remarked: "I say, give me"
a bit of spag, me pipe needs rilling."
Wlllard tied Latham In the bomb
throwing contest, in which both
scored eight points. They dropped
oranges on the deck of th" plan of a
battleship marked t,n the course. The
tie will be decided tomorrow.
The first accident of the meet oc
curred during the preliminaries this
morning. C. F. Day. a Los Angeles
flyer, testing out his machine just
built, while rounding' a turn at a
height of about 23 feet tilted the
1 ..I .w.- .-.,1 T'V, l, ; ..
turned completely over and an ambu
lance held always in readiness saw
its first service. Although the bi
plane fell upon Day, he was not scr
iosusly hurt, and the smashing of the
fuel tank was the only damage his
machine sustained.
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HOTEL MAN'S SUICIDE
A YOSEMITE TRAGEDY
Washington, Dec. 25 With the
exception of a cold spell on Monday
in the eastern states, moderate tem
perature will prevail everywhere
during Christmas week, according to
the weather bureau bulletin.
The principal disturbance of the
week which will reach the Pacific
coast on Tuesday or "Wednesday ajid
the Atlantic coast on Friday, or Sat
urday, will be attended by a general
precipitation, and a pronounced
change to colder weather.
COOK REPLIES
TO RASMUSSEN
KILLED AN APACHE
Cattle Company Foreman Who Sur
prised Indians Killing Beef
El Paso. Dec. 25. While riding the
range fifty miles from Globe, on
Friday, AValter Williams, foreman for
the Chiricahua Cattle Company, was
fired upon by a party of 'Apache In
dians whom he surprised in the act
of killing a beef. Williams return
ed the fire, and one Indian fell. He
rode to Fort Apache and surrender
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THE SPLENDID CHARITY
OF "BIG" TIM SULLIVAN
DONE IN MEMORY OF "LITTLE
TIM"
He Describes The Dene As
Literary Muckraker
FILLED WITH AMBITION
The Explorer Goes Over
Alleged Hearsay State
ment of His Two Eskimo
Companion in Search
for North Pole
CHIHUAHUA GOVERNOR
Appeals to the Patriotism of the
State.
El Paso, Dec. 25. Governor Alberto
Terrazas, late on Saturday night is
sued a proclamation to all citizens
of Chihuahua to rally to the support
of the government and organize them
selves Into a company of the rural
police for protection. The proclama
tion asserts that the insurrectionists
are common malefactors and robbers
and should be dealt with as such.
Public tranquility, it is stated, can
only be restored by the united efforts
of the people.
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BOY'S DEATH
He Was at the Wrong End of a
Shotgun
The Fifteenth Annual Feast of New
York's Homeless
He Left a Party of Gay Guests to
Die
Yoscmitc. Dec 23. While his wife
and daughter were entertaining
guests from San Francisco at a
house party in the rooms below, J.
B. Cook, one of the best known hotel
men In California, committed suicide
by shooting himself in the head late
this afternoon. In an upper room of
the Sentinel hotel of which he was
the proprietor.
He left no communication, and no
cause of his act is known beyond
despondency over reputed business
reverses. Cook retired from the gay
party on the plea of a slight illness.
He had not left the guests long
when a shot re-echoed through the
hotel corridors. A hurried search of
the rooms of the second story re
vealed that the host was dead. His
wife and daughter were carried
shrieking from the scene. Cook was
postmaster of Yosemltc.
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CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS
Three Are. Dead and Many Are in
the Hospital
Greensburg, Pa., Dec. 25. Three
persons are dead, eight in danger of
death from Injuries, and ten more in
the Westmoreland hospital with ser
ious burns in penalty for sovmebodys
carelessness or vengeance, while the
miners were holdin g a Christmas
celebration at the Keystone shaft,
near here late last night.
The accident occurred at the home
of Michael Wilding, while he was
entertaining a party of about twenty-five
men and women. It Is be
lieved one man while a dance was
In progress carelessly threw a cigar
ette butt under the stairway. Twenty-five'
pounds of black mining pow
der is said to have been stored there
In an open "can. The flames of the
powder shot through the room, and
the acrid smoke blinded dancers as
they tried to escape.
The clothing of nearly all the danc
ers took fire from the explosion.
Although the room was burned and
blackened, the house was not ser
ionsly damaged.
Men in adjoining houses rushed In
and blankets were wrapped about
the burning women, saving many
from death.
A special train brought the Injured
to this city.
Xew York, Dec. 25. In the Bowery
today State Senator "Big Tim" Sul
livan fed 5,000 derelicts and unfor
tunates in the room of the Timothy
D. Sullivan Association, making the
fifteenth annual "Timothy D Sulli
van Christmas Feast."
"Big Tim" himself threw open tlic,
doors at 11 o'clock. Three long tables
extended the length of the room
with a capacity to feed exactly 210
at a time. There were no chairs,
for It was a stand-up dinner, al
though feed was plenty.
It took exactly fifteen minutes for
the first round of the Boweryites to
eat, drink and get out. As they
jmssed out, each man received a
pipe and paper of tobacco, and a
npnt llttln tirlnlfil rnril. InstnioHnEf
him to bp' present on Monday, Feb
ruary 6, 1911. The presentation of the
card will entitle the bearer to a
pair of shoes and two pairs of sreks.
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A LONE BANDITS IDEA OF
Xew York, Deci 23. By implication,
i
accusing Knud Itasmussen, the Dan
ish explorer, of "Stooping to the
depths of the literary muckraker to
get public attention," Dr. Cook, of
Brooklyn, gave a reply tonight to
Rasmussen's recoct attack on Cook
which was published November 9 last.
Incidentally In defense of his own
HIS ROBBERY OF MISSOURI PA
CIFIC TRAIN
Not a Car Was Left Unvisited py the
Robber
Kansas City, Mo.. Dqc. 25. A lone
bandit celebrated Christmas tonight
by going through Missouri Pacific
train No. 112, due here at 10:35 and
holding up more than a hundred pas
sengers, from whom he took only
money and watches. Tlie man -boarded
the train at St. Joseph, bound for
St. Louis, and left it at Northwest
ern Junction Kansas City, Kas., af
ter securing a large amount of mon
ey and valuables, and shooting one
man who attempted to resist him.
As the train pulled out of Leaven
worth Junction station the robber
opened the rear door of the Pull
man and confronted the astonished
crew with a revolver, after which he
robbed them. Cautioning the con
ductor and porter to keep still, he
went through the car, taking a col
lection of watches and wallets. Fin
ishing the Pullman he continued
through the chair cars, and smoker,
.until he had robbed every passenger.
. The train wa3 In charge of Con
ductor May, who with Brakcman
Porter, was robbed. The train left
Leavenworth Junction shortly before
10 and by the time' the man liad fin
ished his work it had reached Kan
sas City, Kansas. Here he dropped
from the steps of the smoker and dis
appeared. The train reached Kansas City,
Kan., at 10:30 tonight. The police
were notified arid a squad of officers
were sent to Northwestern Junction
to searcli for the bandit.
The railroad officials say the man
shot was not seriously injured. They
could not say how much money the
bandit secured.
San Diego, Dec. 23. Harry Lamar,
aged thirteen, was accidentally shot
dead yesterday. The boy was draw
ing a shotgun from a boat to kill a
crane. The hammer of the weapon
struck tlie side of the boat discharg
ing a cartridge, tlie contents of which
entered the boy's body under the
right arm. Death was Instantan
eous. o
A DAY OF
narrative of Arctic exploration. Cook
says, by ItasniusSen's method of in
vestigation Peary" could with equal
ease, be discredited, but he declares
that he "will take' Peary's word, or
that of Itasmussen, or the Eskimos in
the matter of his own accomplish
ments." Itasmussen's attack on Cook was
sent by him to his wife at Copen
hagen and by her made public. It
contained what purported to be state
ments by Cook's two Eskimo com-
sanlons in th north polar quest,
Itukusuk and.- ""XpIIak. Itasmussen
said that he did not personally talk
with the Eskimos but that their state
ments were taken by two mission
aries who were working in the coun
try from which Cook says ho started
to the pole.
Their stories are in brief: The
Eskimos left Annatok with Cook and
eight sledges in Fobruury, slept once
on the ice on the way to Ellsmere
land and took four days to cross that
land. Eighteen days out, all but the
two Eskimo boys left. The nineteenth
day they changed their course west
ward. Later Apilak came upon Cook
drawing a map and asked him whose
route lie was drawing.
".My own," said the explorer, but
that statement makes the boy say, '
that he drew the map long way out
at sea where he had never been.
The Eskimo's statement continued:
the party eventually reached Cape
Seddon. and wintered there. Cook
spent most of his time writing. At
the first sight of the sun they started
home; that the explorer promised a
good reward, but "We no get the
guns he promised us. Ho gave us
only a knife, some matches and a
useless boaL"
Commenting on the report Itas
mussen said: "I regard tlie reiwrt
as absolutely authentic."
In the statement given out tonight.
Cook answers categorically the
statements reputed to have been
made by the Eskimo boys, denying
each in turn and giving reasons why
he thinks they should be considered
false: he declares that Itasmussen
had reason to dislike him; he says no
effort was made to get the truth in
the alleged examination of tlie two
boys, but that on the contrary they
were plied witli leading questions de
signed to evolve the answers desired.
He points out what he terms tlio
well known tendency of all Indians
to give answers which they believe
will please their questioners. Cook
says that Rasmussen's reputation as
an Arctic sledge traveler rests upon
his journey from Tassau Asak to
Cape York.
"Tills trip," he says "was taken by
me also occupying three and a half
days and was covered by one sen
tence at the ending of my narrative."
The only rational explantion of
Rasmussen's irrational course to cred
it lilm was ills ambition to get into
the limelight, for lie jumps without
invitation first into the Cook band
wagon, and when the music stops, he
joins the rebound of the. shouting
press, and then out of a job he- runs
to the Peary band wagon; again
when the music stops he joins the
anti-Peary knockers in the hope that
the outcome will give him the publici
ty which is aimed for. But need an
explorer stoop to the depths of thej
lltfrary muckrake to get public at-:
tentionr' '
ON ALL SIDES EVIDENCE OF
SORROW
LLEWELLYN
IBON WORKS
0 BY DYNAMITE
An Effort To Blow Up
In
The Largest
Los Angeles
ndustrial Concern
OFFICE TOTALLY WRECKED AND A WATCHMAN INJURED
Though it is Conceded that, the Outrage Was a Result
of the Company's Attitude Toward Union Labor, the
Company Officials do Not Believe that Los Angeles
Strikers "Were Concerned in the Attempted Destruc
tion of the Works
The First of the Funerals of the
Dead Firemen
Chicago, Dec. 25. Christmas was
a day of mourning in official Chica
go. The disaster of the stock yards
Thursday when the fire in the Mor
ris beef refrigerator house swept
away the lives of Fire Chief Horan
and twenty-four other men coverid
the whole city with a pall of sad
ness. In the churches,, with the
Christmas services were Joined pray
ers and expressions of sorrow for the
dead, and sympathy with grief-stricken
families. From staffs on public
buildings, department stores and
many residences flags are hung at
half mast.
Eight of the dead firemen were
buried today. The funeral services
semi-public, being attended by all
the members of the fire department
that could be spared from duty, city
officials and hundreds of citizens.
The funeral of James J. Horan,
the fire marshal, will take place
tomorrow at the same time wjth the
burial of twelve other members of.
the department Captain Dennis X.
Doyle, engineer of company 39, and
his son, Nicholas Doyle, of ttuck
company No. 11, will be burled side
by side. Their bodies were taken
from tlie wreckage only an arm's
length apart.
BANNER YEAR OF
POLICE DEPARTMENT
Crime Better Handled in 1910 Than
During Incumbency of Chief
With the approach of tlie close of
the year, Chief of Police Moore yes
terday announced that . 1910 stands
as the banner year in the history of
the Phoenix police department since
he has been connected with the
force. He believes that more arrests
have been made In the year now
closing than in any former year
since 1903, the receipts in fines have
been larger and the apprehension of
petty criminals has been more fre
quent and prompt.
While there will ever be crime in
every progressive city, the work of
the Phoenix police according to the
chief, lias been so effective that vio
lation of the law has become dan
gerous and apprehension Is pretty
certain unless circumstances com
bine to make it practically impossible
to secure the criminal.
In a few days Chief Moore will
issue it report of tlie work of the
department for the year. It will
be found In this report that the
month of December has been the
lightest in the point of number of
arrests as it was also the lowest In
the point of number of local crimes
reported.
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IMPERSONATED SANTA CLAUS.
Los Angeles, Dec. 25. An explosion,
presumably of dynamite, wrecked a
considerable portion of the main
building of the Llewelyn Iron Works,"
one of the biggest industrial institu
tions of the kind at Redondo and
Main streets at 1:54 this morning.
J. E. Asbury, a night watchman;
who was in- the office, was slightly
injured. The windows of the adjoin
ing plants of the Lacy Manufacturing
company, the Johnson Machine works
and the Stearns Gas Engine company
were blown out, and some minor
damage .was. done. Residents of the
Westlake district, two miles away,
were awakened by the force of the
explosion, u'hlch "sliook the whole
neighborhood.
Who placed the supposed charge
of dynamite is unknown but the ex
plosion Is believed, to have been the.
outcome of the general labor trouble
in Los Angeles' in which the Llewel
lyn company has been prominently in
volved. A hole in the ground eighteen
inches deep and about six feet in di-'
ameter bears witness as "to the
place of the origin and probable
cause of the damage. This hole is
just outside the building line ad
jacent to what was the wagon en
trance. On the other side of j the
hole was a wooden shed which with
its contents of stored iron was re
duced to a muss of debris. The front
of the main building, a thrje-story
frame structure at a distance of
probably seventy-five feet, was shot
to pieces, and its contents of furni
ture and office parphernalia. were
piled together in apparent ruin. The
material damage however, which was
confined to the shipping room and
the office space above, was relative-,
ly small.
Tlie big machinery plant is ap
parently undamaged. The building in
which the chief injury was done was
a frame shack, which had been in
use more than a generation while
the plant has grown to cover sever
al blocks.
Tlie officers of the company an
nounce that work will be resumed as
usual on Tuesday morning, and early
this morning carpenters were busy
building a temporary structure for the
use of the office force.
Asbury, the watchman, was seated
in the office thirty feet from the
center of the explosion when it oc
curred. He was buried under a
mass of debris but was dragged out
by Policeman W. M Caliill who was
in front of the office at the time.
With the exception of a cut on his
right hand and an abrasion of the
scalp and face, he was uninjured.
WHAT A POLICEMAN SAW.
"I saw a flash and heard a whip
like reiwrt." said Caliill, "and next
the front of the building seemed io
crunjble and the air was filled with
debris. I called out inquiring if any
one was in the building and hearing
a cry for help from Asbury, I found
him and dragged him" from under the
ruins to the street.
The Llewellyn Inwt Works have
long been prominent in the fight
against the recognition of union labor
in this city, and is one of tlie con
cerns involved Jn the metal workers
strike, which went into offect on
June 10th of this year. The strike
was called for the purpose of en
forcing the demand for an eight hour
day for all metal workers at tha un
ion wage scale of 50 cents an hour.
The struggle was precipitated by a
notice from the men engaged in the
metal trades at San Francisco that
the employers there had made the
condition of concession to be mado
to the men that they should not
thereby be placed at a disadvantage
in competition with non-union Los
Angeles firms in the same line of
business.
.After the strjke had b"een on some
time the antUpicketing ordinance .was
enforced by the Los Angeles authori
ties and a large number of union
sympathizers were .charged with its
violation and were arrested, convict
ed and fined. They refused to pay
the fines and were committed to
jail.
Officials of the Llewellyn company
are of the opinion that the effort to
destroy the plant was the outgrowth
of their differences with and attitude
toward union labor, and the police in
their efforts to discover the porpe
trators are working on this theory,
but Waller Taylor, vice president, and
John Llewellyn, secretary of the
company, both gave as their belief
that local union men are not respon
sible for the crime.
Llewellyn said: "There is no doubt
in my mind that this effort to destroy
out property is due to the fact that
we are standing for our rights to
run our own business in our own
way. I do not however wish to be
understood as intimating that the
men who are working here in Los
Angeles and went out in tho metal
workers strike are responsible. I do
not think they had anything to do
with it. I believe it is the work of
men who do not belong here, who for
their own malefic ends are willing to
commit any kind of crime for the
destruction of human life and prop
erty." LABOR LEADER'S SENTIMENT.
Fred C. Wheeler, president of the
Los Angeles Labor Council, made the
following statement: "The fact that
the Llewellyn Iron works has been
engaged in industrial warfare with
organized labor is all that our ene
mies need to endeavor to lay the out
rage at our door. Every true friend
of the cause of Iaor knows that vio
lence injures our cause more than
those against whom it may bo di
rected. AVe cannot win our way witlv
out the backing of public opinion and
nothing alienates that more quickly
than such deeds as this.
"To those who would seek to fasten
upon us any responsibility for such
a crime as this, we of the Los An
geles Labor Council, are able to muke
answer by defying any one to point
out any time in our twenty-six years
of existence when we ever advocated
other than peaceful measures for the
accomplishment of our just ends.
"We are invariably charged with
responsibility for crimes of this char
acter, by some of our opponents, and
unfortunately, we are thus made to
bear the odium in the minds of
many uninformed people."
At six o'clock there had been no
arrests and apparently the police had
no definite clew to the perpetrators.
Portland, Ore.. Dec. 25 A candle
sotting fire to her clothes while play
ing Santa Claus for the benefit of
some children, Mrs. Eva Baker, aged
50, was perhaps fatally burned.
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