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PIONEER PAPER OF ARIZONA.
PRESCOTT, ARIZONA, WEDNESDAY HORNING, JANUARY 1, 1913.
FORTY-NINTH YEAR.
Mediation Is
Turkeys Scheme
"Wants Peace Terms to Gome From Tke
Powers in Order to Save
Its Face.
By Associated Press.
LONDON, Dec. 30. After a fort
night of sparring and feinting Turkey
finally has shown her hand at the
peace conference. Mediation by the
Great Powers is the Ottoman scheme
for emerging from the war.
The Turkish delegation proposed
this solution in guarded terms to
day. The meeting was brief and
-more strained than any that has pre
ceded it and the Turkish tactics
were characteristic
Reched Pasha announced he had
received fresh instructions but part
of the telegram was undecipher
able. After it was repeated from
Constantinople, he said he would be
able to state that most of the ques
tions under discussion should be re
ferred to the Powers. The boundary
between Bulgaria and Turkey was
the exception. Tiis matter, he said,
BLIZZARDS IMPEDE
RAILROAD TRAFFIC
By Associated Press.
SEATTLE, Dec. 30. The rail
roads of the Northwest are fighting
one of the worst blizzards of the
last twenty years. The Milwaukee
line will probably be blocked for
several days but the Great North
ern was able to get through its
SCUTARI FALLS
TO
By Associated Press.
LONDON, (Tuesday) Dec 31.
The Times published the following
from Belgrade: "It is reported the
Ministry of War has received a
telegram that Scutari has fallen to a
Servian attack."
3y Associated Press.
MEXICO, Dec 30. General Luis
Fernandez who was prominent in
Orozco's army, surrendered with 200
of his men at Parral today, accord
ing to official reports.
SILVER.
NEW YORK, Dec. 30. Silver
62J. Mexicans dollars 49.
SERVIAN
AH NX
REBEL GENERAL NEW SCHEll TO
AND BIS MEN LOWER COST OF
SURRENDER 111
Vou1dBe Burglar Falls
Into Trap of
OAKLAND, Dec 30. Mick Dabe
lich, who weighs 185 pounds, walked
into the police station last night and
reported that he had been held up
by two footpads, who robbed him of
$65 and threw him on the roof of a
saloon twenty feet high. It seemed
impossible to the police, who asked
him many questions. During his
cross-examination Dabelich admitted
that he had tried tp rob the saloon
and failed. He said he told the story
of the holdup because a woman had
Was between tile two governments.
The Turks attempted to discuss the
questions informally but the allies
insisted they pu the propositions in
writing which the Turks said they
were not prepared to do. The Allies'
purpose is to bring affairs to a cri
sis Wednesday by a statement in the
nature of an ultimatum. They ex
press the determination not to waste
more time waiting for telegraphic
consultation, real or pretended, be
tween Constantinople and London.
Through mediation the Turks hope
to save the government's prestige by
making it appear Turkey concedes
the sacrafices it Inevitable must make
to the pressure of all Europe, in
stead at the dictation of the Bal
kans. The latter object to such
course because certain powers, Aus
tria and Italy, could not be consid
ered disinterested arbitrators.
trains tonight. The Northern Pa
cific opened the mountain division
for passenger traffic late today but
there is danger the' line will be block
ed again before morning. Snow in
the mountains is eleven feet'deep on
the level and a stife wind is piling
high drifts across the tracks.
ASK RECOGIION
OF CHINESE
By Associated Press.
PEKING, Dec 30.4-The American
community In) Peking, numbering
eighty, telegraphed today to Wash
ington urging the eairly recognition
of the Chinese Republic Local of
ficials are delighted At the action,
By Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Ipcc. 30. The
California branch of th Housewives
League has announcedi a plan to
lower the cost df living, j It will seek
to have consumers utiliA the parcels
post to buy products dirtect from the
farm, thus eliminating (the middle
men's profit.
Own Making
seen him on the roof and I he thought
he had better beat her to) the police.
He also admitted trying to crack the
safe of the Franco Amejican Wine
Company.
COPPER
NEW YORK, Dec
quiet, 16jc to 17jc
30. Lake
17.87J4.
Electrolytic, $17.62J4 to
Castings $17.00 to $1725.
Journal-Miner High class job work
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JUDGE EXONERATES
ORGANIZED LABOR
Says He Does Not
Acts of Violence Done
In Its Name.
By Associated Press.
INDIANAPOLIS, Dec 30. Judge
Anderson's statement about the trial,
read from the bench, contained a
long resume of incidents which oc
curred in the struggle beginning in
1905 between the American Bridge
Company and Iron Workers Union
as snown ay tne cviuence aaaucca
at the trial.
He told of the beginning of the
strike when picketing, slugging and
rioting were attended a year later
with the inauguration of the dynamite
campaign which continued until the
arrest of the McNamaras and Mc-
Manigal.
Of nearly a hundred explosions of
open shop concerns, the court said:
This system of destruction was not
carried on for revenge or In obedi
ence to any other human passion but
for the deliberate purpose by a veri
table reign of terror to enforce com
pliance with the demands of the
Iron workers upon the open and
closed shop question."
After detailing excerpts from the
MANIA
IS
Mil
PLACERVILLE, Cal., Dec 30.
One girl is dead and another has
been brought from her home to this
town for protection, while a posse
are scouring the mountains for Laf
ayette Newell, an escaped inmate of
the Napa state hospital for the in
sane. Newell is terrifying the coun
PRODUCING M NES
ASKED FOR FIGURES
Tax Commission Wants to Pass Upon
The Bill Proposed by The
Companies,
PHOENIX, Dec 30. Notices
calling on all the producing mining
companies of Arizona to submit
statements of their gross and net
production for 1912, as soon after
the first of the year as possible, were
mailed today by the state tax com
mission. No detailed figures are required.
The commissioners merely want to
know what each mine produced and
what that production netted after the
costs of mining, transportation and
treatment had been paid.
The commissioners want this in
formation In order that they can pass
intelligently upon a mine taxation
bill drawn by the companies them
selves and submitted to the commis
JVvr
Believe It Sanctions
evidence which he said showed con
clusively the guilt of the principal
defendants, the Judge continued:
"The evidence discloses an appal
ling list of crimes in addition to
those charged j in the indictments.
These crimes were all committed in
the name of organized labor. I will
not believe that organized labor ap
proves of such practices. Any or
ganization that approves or adopts
the .methods of these defendants is
an outlaw and will meet the fate
outlaws have met since civilized so
ciety began. In recent years we
have heard much denunciation of
government by injunction but con
spiration of the evidence in this
case w,ill convince any impartian per
son that government by injunction is
infinitely to be preferred to govern
ment by dynamite The evidence
showed some of the defendants to
be guilty of murder but they are
not charged here with that crime
and this court cannot punish them
for it, nor should it be influenced
by such a consideration in fixing the
punishment for the crimes charged."
try side, following his escape Rose
Lemos was murdered a week ago
on her brother's ranch. Newell was
next heard from on his way to the
Sierras, pausing to promise the mur
der of Dora Dukes, the fourteen-
ycar-old daughter of a farmer. Blood
hounds are being used to trail him.
sion for its approval, amendment, or
disapproval. This law provides that
the mines shall pay taxes on 100 per
cent of their net production and on
12J-5 per cent of their gross valua
tion. For instance, if a mine's net
production Is $500,000 and its gross
production $1,000,000, the owners will
pay on $500,000 and 12S per cent of
$1,000,000.
Before takings any action in re
gard to the bill the commissioners
want to know what percentage of the
state's taxes the mining companies
would have paid in 1912 had such a
law been in effect. They want to
make sure that under that law the
mining companies will pay their just
proportion.
INSAN
MAN
GIRLS
WITH MERCY
R DYNAMITERS
1
MAXIMUM PENATLY
S FOR
SIX SAVED
FROM JAIL
Ryan, Hockm. Clancy, Munsey And
Tveitmoe, Leaders of Conspiracy
All Draw Long Terms.
Two -Get Four Years, Twelve Tnree
YX. TJ
ears, rour
A Year
By Associated Press.
INDIANAPOLIS, Dec 30. Im
prisonment in the Federal prison at
Leavenworth was imposed today as
punishment on the 33 labor, union
officials convicted pf dynamite con
spiracy. As head of the Union whose strike
was given as a motive for promoting
dynamite, plots, Frank M. Ryan was
given six years. Two were given
four years; twelve, three years; four,
two years, and six were given one
year and one day each.
Six men, Including Edward Clark,
of Cincinnati who pleaded guilty
were given their liberty on suspend
ed sentences, leaving 33 who go to
Leavenworth.
By the liberation of Hiram Kline,
Olaf Tveitmoe remained as the only
Union official among the prisoners
not related to the Iron Workers
Union. Tveitmoe was given six
years.
Hockln, the former secretary,
tremed as "Iago of the conspiracy",
Eugene Clancey, of San Francisco,
and J. E. Munsey of Salt Lake were
sriven the same sentences as Tveit
moe. Steps toward appeals in behalf of
all the prisoners have already been
taken. Meantime there is no pros
pect of procuring the liberty of the
men on bonds, according to attor
neys for the defense What time the
special train to carry them to Leav
enworth will depart is kept absolute
ly secret. It is undertsood no effort
will be made to take the train out
before tomorrow.
Less than a period of twenty min
utes was consumed in the work of
actually imposing sentences, although
for an hour and a half before, Judge
Anderson, leaning over his desk, in
vited each prisoner to step up and
talk with him as to his degree of
Snow Is Direct Cause
Of Series of Disasters
By Associated Press.
ELLENSBURG, (Wash.), Dec 30
A Chicago & Milwaukee fast
freight, stalled in a snowdrift near
Laconia Saturday, was wrecked late
today when an avalanche swept down
the mountain just when the train
was almost free from the first drift.
Two locomotives were knocked off
the track, twelve cars smashed and
a score of others buried in the snow.
Roadmaster Hunt was severely Injured.
SIX YEARS
Two Years and Six
and a Day.
4
guilt. He said the reason for want
ing to tilk to some was because he
believed some evidence was omitted
which might -have ucn brought
out at the-trial. -
Six . prisoners stepped forward.
Farrel; Cooney, Coughlin, Bern
hardt, Murphy and Kline. All ex
cept Bernhardt were liberated oa
suspended sentences. Bernhardt
pleading his cause began: "I hope
God may strike me dead" but the
court interrupted: "Sit down. You
know you are guilty." Bcrnhardt's
sentence later was a year and a day.
Eacft of those who came forward de
clared he believed the dynamiting
wrong, and each denied knowledge
of the plots.
After the prisoners had taken
leave of their relatives and the court
room was cleared, they started sing
ing and again sang on the way t
jail, despite the efforts of the ac
companying officers to stop them.
After his release Kline mingled
with friends and relatives of the
convicted men. He was crying as
he bade his former associates good
bye. Murphy of Detroit, one of those
released said: "Not because he let
me go but because I think it due
him, I want to say a fairer judge
never lived than Judge Anderson.
I am absolutely innocent. What I
say I say from what I observed
throughout the trial. I wish all the
judges. in this country from the judg
es of the supreme court down to
judges of the police court were like
him."
Judge Anderson said he gave some
a year and a day to preclude their
serving sentences in the county jaiL
LEAD.
NEW YORK, Dec 30. Lead
$4.40 to $4.50.
EVERETT, Dec 30. Five mem
bers of the Great Northern rotary
snow plow crew were seriously
scalded today when the boiler of the
rotary exploded two miles east of
Cascade TunneL One may die
FERNIE, (B. C), Dec 3a Six
men were killed and seven injured
when a snowslide came down at Coal
Creek mines and carried away a
carpenter shop in which the men
had just entered. Another Is believ
ed to be missing.
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