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OH JANUARY 22ND AND 23RD WILL BE HELD THE
FIRST ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE
Colorado
: Potato Growers’ j
The headqaiirten of this convention will be in the Cry»Ul Ball
Room of
A LBANY
II HOTEL
For the evening of the 22nd has been arranged a most
unique banquet for the member! attending these meetings.
; Each dish served from the menu will either be oomposed
wholly of potatoes or the garniture w.U be of potatoes. Thia
will be a very unique affair and will no doubt be attended by
a great many people.
Don't forget the dates
January 22nd and 23rd
SATURDAY
THE CHEOnCLE-HEWI, TUMID AD, COLORADO.
GOUTY! VERDICT IN
DYNAMITE CASES
(Continued from Page One.)
suit cases ou trains, or aa having en
tered lit to u conspiracy. This indi
cated. iu District Attorney Charles
xv. Miller's opinion, the necessity for
a graud Jury luveatlgatiou, Indlau
apolia was the headquarters of John
J. McNamara, secretary of the iron
worker's tinlou, and the polut at
which. It was charged, the conspir
acy was entered into and from which
the explosives were carried.
Auollier coincidence was that the
trial begau ou October l. 1912. the
second anniversary of the "Times"
explohlou. The federal graud Jury,
ufter several mouths’ Investigation
return'd indictments against 54 un
ion labor officials. Before the de
tense begau its case this number hud
been reduced to II on account of
vurlous diminution*.
As a motive for the crimes chnrg
ed, the government referred to the
strike against employers of uou
union labor, couvlatiug uf bridge,
viaduct aud building contractors who
maintained un "opcu shop" policy,
employing workmen * rcgurdlcaa of
whether they belonged to the uiifou
or not. This strike never has been
culled off. It was alleged that a
warfare waged by tile union spread
all over tlie couutry unit I violence
wus resorted to. or. us waa stated,
"picketing spread to slugging, slug
ging to dynumlte, utid dynumlto to
nltrogjeerln."
McNamara, at the headquarter* ot
tlie union lit ludlanupolls, although
filer nuiued by witnesses aa the ac
tive per (set ra tor of the explosions,
was then unsiis|»ectr(| by the con
tractors. Itut Ibe advent of M'Man
igul and James 11. McXauiura. bro
ther of the union secretary, as reg
ularly hired drnliuaters. working
under Joltu J.’a direction, and, as
M«Manigal charges, with Hockin'*
leadership, tlie explosions became so
bold as to arouse suspicion Hint they
Were the work of au organised band.
Detectives already had been work
ing on the case when the killing of
21 |*eop|e in tas Angeles by a bomb
set off at I o'clock in the morning,
showed that the dei>p*railun of the
dynamiters had reached the murder
stage.
Much of the evidence that waa pre
cluded at lAngeles by the plena of
guilty by the McNamara brothers
• ume out here. Federal Judge Albert
11. Anderson ruled that while the spe
cHle charges were illegal transporta
tion all other evidence relative to
explosions might he offered as show
ing a motive. The testimony waa
that the deafructlon of the "Times"
building was not strictly a part of
the campaign against non-union iron
and steel work, but was done In an
effort to unionize various trades In
Ixm Angeles. James ft. McNamara,
who set the bomb, was a printer. Wit*
iieiwc* stated that McNamara after
wards expressed little regret that 21
people were killed, and. In fact, ex
pressed disappointment that he had
not killed (Jen. Ilsrison Gray Otis,
proprietor If the ''Times': that the
dynamiter was sent to the roast at
the solicitation of Tvelttnoc, a recog
nized union labor leader, and that
I Tveltnior furnish.*] David (biplan
and M. A. Schmidt, who were also
indicted for murder, but who never
were captured.
All the 100 explosions came In for
scrutiny by the Jury hero, and the
field of operations extended from
Boston to Los Angeles.
"Who raused those explosions?"
wan the question before the Jury. .
Broadly the charge.* were that J.
J, McNamara began them and
thought them an effective tm-ans of
fighting "open shop" contractors.
"Make the damage as heavy ns pos
sible" McManlgal said always were
hi* instruct ions. Hundreds of thou- i
sands of dollar*’ worth of property
was said to have been destroyed.
Kindlng tlie maintenance of n hired
dynamiting crew" cost money, Mc-
Namara is alleged to have appealed
to the union for funds, aud In thi*
way, the government charged, others
became implicated. For instance,
the government set out that the union
executive lioard decided at last to al
low McNamara SI,OOO a month, for |
which he would be required to glvcj
no accounting. letters also were I
written which, the government as- 1
sorted, showed certain business j
agent*, recognizing the "dynamiting
crew" oh a regular instltutioa, sent
word a* to what jobs should be blown
up. All the Indicted officials were
declared by their letters to bo "link
ed together in guilt."
That waa the case the government,
at tho opening of the trial, asserted
it had to place before the Jury. It was
stated that the trial, In the number
of defendants, in the fact that the
defendants were ailed with labor
unions. In tho nation-wide oxtent of
the conspiracy, and lu Its ramifica
tions, was unprecedented. McMani
gal's confession, detailing 21 explo
sions which he said he personally
caused, was scrutinized to determine
In what minute particulars corrobo
rative witnesses were needed.
The witnesses came from almost
every city. Dozens of them were
brought from the Pacific coast to re
main on the stand only a few min
utes. A curly-headed, dimple-cheek
ed girl, garbed in a pink dress, vu
called from North Randall, 0.. to
point out In the court room l*etar J.
Smith and George (Nipper) Ander
son, of Cleveland, as men she saw
I going up u lonely road with u box
shortly before un explosion ut North
Randall. A mechanic came from lla
i wail to tell of overhearing certain
I of tho defendants discus* proposed
explosion* in Detroit. An engineer
came front Panama, lo recount his ex
perience* with Hocklu. Men who
drove livery wagons, check hoys In
railway slot lons, who cared for suit
cases, filled with Infernal machine*,
hotel clerk* who "booked" the Mc-
Namara* and McMauigiil for room*,
detectives, stenographer*, contract
ors who uuffered from explosion*,
and telephone operators, all related
piecemeal their knowledge of the
defendant*' conversations or move
ments. which the government under
took to weave into u completed store
to show at ouco the Individual guilt
qf each, and the cullcctlvc guilt of
all the defendants.
On** by one the defendant* heard
the ehnrges repeated against them.
Tveltmoc hoard his uuiiie mention
ed often. Iwas accused as having
furnished Caplun and Schmidt to
help blow ii|* the "Tillies" building,
lie was naun-d a* having sent word
to McNamara tho mouth after the
explosion thui "things were all right
on the coast." and as having request
ed the dynamiters again he sent to
laic Angeles, later acknowledging
another explosion there ou Dec 23.
I'*ln. as "n Christmua present.” Me-
Munigal said lie culled at Tveitmoe's
office In Bau Francisco but met only
Kugene A. Clancy there. Anton Jo
hannseu wa* mentloued In witnesses
us having helped Tvcltmoe. William
J. Burns testified lie told Mavor
Alexander, of tas Angeles, the day
after the explosion that "Tvellmoe
and Johannscu were behind It "
Testimony 111*1111 Johauuseii wa*
permitted on the ground that though
not a defend* 111. "he had been shown
to he * conspirator."
J. K. Munsi . Sail take City, was
charged with harboring tlie lain An
ge|r* dynamiter for two weeks. A
tailor In Salt take City said he alter
ed clothea for tlie dyuuiuiterl and
other wltncsM--. -mid they saw Ifuii
aey, also known a* “Jack Bright."
and McNamara together.
Clancy was again mentioned ns
belrfg In llohinii when the Pacific
coast explosion occurred, and as
hurrying we*t after telegraphing,
"clean house." meaning, a* the gov
ernment ehnrged, to destroy evi
dence. 11. W Pohlman. of Seattle,
waa mentioned as bringing McNam
ara and Clancy together In that city.
Of all the deendant* Herbert H.
Ilorkln waa probably the 11*1*1 con
spicuous In the testimony.
The story of Hockin, a* mid. was:
An an organizer for the unlou he
induced MeManigal to do dynauilt
tug. Then he began to "hold out" on
the pay allowed McManlgal for Job*.
This resulted In quarrel*, aud tha
McNamaras derided to have little to
«k> with him. Knowing tills. Ilockln
west to a contractor In Pittsburgh
aad betrayed the dynamiter*. That
was Indore the lose of life at Ism An
geles tatcr Ilorkln worked for
Burns, while atilt remaining as an
; officii*l o the union, and when the
federal grand Jury began work lu
Indianapolis. Ilorkln took Informa
tion to the government.
The testimony at the trial result
'd in the increasing of Hockin'*
bond*, mi that ho was confined to
Jail. Ilotkin asserted to tho*'* for
whom lie was accused of acting an a
spy. that lie took no part In dyna
mltltig. but witnesses from Muncle.
Ind.. and nt Cincinnati pointed him
nut us the man to whom they act
ually sold explosives.
Ilorkln again was tins man most
mentioned by McManlgal. "After
he had Induced me to blow up a Job
[nl Detroit in 1907." said McMant
gal. "Ilorkln told me there wa* no
use of my attempting to quit now.
as they had the good* on me. I ask
ed him who was gong to pay mo for
my work, lie sold the executive
lioNrd hail set aside a limited fee of
$123 for each Job and expensed. I
told him it was too little for a thing
like that, lie replied my family
would lie taken cure of if anything
happened. So I went to HlooiiivHlp,
Ohio, and got an order from Nat
Franco to Hilt Carey, who wa* the
keeper of a magazine, where dyna
mite was stored for use in a atoue
quarry and they let mo havo some
without knowing what I was going
| to do with it. I used It to blow* up
;a derrick at Clinton, lowa. Feb. IC.
1 190$.
1 "Hocklu two weeks latce visited
We again in Chicago and said he did
not have enough money to paf ex
penses for the Clinton Job. but for me
to go to Up* hall of tho locAl union.
When I went there the secretary, R.
H. Houlihan, gavo me an envelope
containing $165. Houlihan said:
There is money lo that.’
In July of 1908, according to Mo-
Manigal, Hockin met him In Buffa
lo. and after pointing out a- viaduct,
said he wanted to get to Canada be
fore the explosion took place. About
11 o'clock that night McManlgal set
off the dynamite with a sixty-foot
fuse. Ho said Hockin met him later
in Chicago and paid him.
Then Hockin asked McManlgal to
go to St. Louis, hut he refused, nud
went instead to Holyoke, Mass.,
where an explosion failed because
the dynamite was burled In the
ground too long, McManlgal said.
"Up to March, 1909. Hockin w»i
tbe onl yman who knew me as a dy
namiter." said McManlgal. "Just
before that date ho arranged for me
to go to Boston and see M. J. Voting
regarding the Job ou the Boston Opera
House, which was blown up.’’ Later,
on instruction from Hockin, Me*
DECEMBER 28. 1812.
Munlgal Haii! ho wont to Hoboken to
confer with Prank C. Webb, of New
York, about blowing up a viaduct.
A dispute aroae und McManlga! told
Webb that llockln wan paying for the
work und be purposed to follow 1 ti
nt ructions.
"Ho<kin pnid me s2.'»o for the Hos
tou und Hoboken John. Mild Me-j
Munlgal. “Then it wuh arrauged I
should meet .1. It. McNamara for thej
tlrHt time. Iloekiu had telegraphed
m« to meet him iu lndlunn|»olUl We
went from there to Mtinrie, I lid.,
where we met .1. 11. Itocklii made all
arrangements here übout gutting
rigH, boxes ami chub for the nltro
glyeerln he was negotiating for. I!r
had nie buy a piano box am! rent a
house, till harrelH with sawdust uml
put them In the house for storing
the explosive. Iloekiu paid me for
itie rent of the lioiihc and urrunged
with a well-shooter to gel the nltro
gl>'*'i rin, which we truiihferred to the
huu»u in Mum le.
"In February, It* 10. in I'lilcugo, I
received a telegruiu from Iloekiu to
come to liidiauupoliH. I did not go.
but J. It. McNamara came to Chicago
and told him llockln had sent him
to expluin a new Invention J. It.
explained uhuul the alarm clock ar
rangement by wliicli we in the future
were to regulate the time for explod
ing l»oiiil*h. A few days later Iloekiu
wired me to come to IndianaiHdi*'.
where lie uml I and J. .1. McXniuuru
Hilly went over th«« clock scheme.
Willi It I went to Mi. Vernon, 111.
and pulled off a job on a power house,
lor which IliM kill paid me *!-.'•
It was In the summer of I'Jlu
when explosions were frequent that
McMunlgnl said his relation* with
llockln were broken off because ||c
discovered Iloekiu had been keeping
part of bis pay. Alhhil that same
tlllle witnesses said Him kill begun til
give information about the dynamit
crr.
Kdwurd Sinyl be. or Peoria. 11l .
also was ac« us* d by McMaiiigal as
having personally pointed out Job-%
to be blown up . A hotel keeper re
utrd that after the explosion Smyth**
examined the hotel registei. and
later the page on which McManiftnl
out. McMunlgnl said Sniylhe ar
ranged to go to a theatre the night
of the explosion and prove an ulihi
by keeping the seal checks.
I'r ••■blent It >a a. of the iron work
ers’ union, ami all the other defend
ants were charged with being prin
cipals to tbc conspiracy through the
writing of letter*. It)mi's defense
was that the McNamaras and thoe*-
who confessed along knew* that a
'dynamiting rniit|Mign" wa- Im*liik
carried on. ami thut the executive
hoard member* did not know whut
Secretary McNamara did wits Ike
ll.non monthly appropriated for his
use without his being required to
give an accounting.
||e>oml iloubt the testimony which
attract**! keenest interest was that
which related to the blowing up of
the I .os Angeles "Timeit" building.
That a man ro\ild deliberately bitv
..no pounds of high egposlve with the
puriMise only of destroying property
gave unusual xest to that |inrt of the
story.
rnreairlcted by the court, the gov
ernment went Into every übnllutd*
detail of James It. McNamara s ac
tivity on the Pacific const wairh was
considered essential to thn charges
here. The dynamiter's arrival in
Sun Francisco, after ho left hia bro
ther's office in Indianapolis in July.
IHI b. hi* iiccotiipanying McManlga
as far as Chicago, hi* sending hark
to McMnuigal a postcard giving him
greetings from the far west, and say
tug: "The best of friends must part"
the dynamiter's wanderings utiout
San Francisco, bis meeting with
Clancy in Seattle, bin "taking les
sons*' from mi eloctrlcal expert in
Scut lie in how to set off a bomb by
a spark instead of by a fuse. Ills
tanslng an explosion in Seattle, und
liis return to San Francisco, prepar
atory to going to l«os Augcles, were
all traced.
A woman iu San Francisco who
rented a room to McNamara, a wo
man who rented a room to Schmidt,
and another women friend of Cap
la n. telephone, operators who con
nected McNamara with the jiowdcr
company which sold him to nltro
gdatine, the men from whom lie.
Schmidt and Caplau rented th«*
launch used to carry the explosive;
a clerk who sold the aluminum let
ters l»y which the name of the launch
waa disguised: a man who rented
the bouse, In which the 600 pound#
of nitrogclatiue was stored in San
Fraucisco: u clerk in a hotel in lx»s
Angeles to whom McXamurn bid
"good night" at about 7 o'clock at
night, after the bomb bad boon sent
in "Ink alley" iu the "Times" build
ing, and policemen who run to the
wreck after the building was de
stroyed and McNamara hud fled, all
testified.
Iu connection with the explosion
ihe story of William J. Hu run wan
given. His son. Raymond .i Hums,
also rotated how detectives had Me-
Xamura and McManigal pointed out
to them on Nov. ♦*. 11*10. five months
and six days before the arrests were
made. In the meantime these djrna*
miters were followed on a hunting
trip to northern Wisconsin, hut they
escaped the detectives and ten mom
explosions Hums said lie
was looking for "men higher up."
McManigal testified, and others
testified, that Hockin had said many
more explosions were planned Just
about the time of the arrest* of lift#
dynamiters. These proposed plots
were: To blow up the locks of the
Panama canal; to blow up various
buildings iu eastern cities where the
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off!ci*s of "open shop** contractors
were located; to blow up many rail
road bridges; and even to cause
more explosions on the Pacific coast
N. Y. STRIKERS IN
CLASH WITH POLICE
l.ittlc Falla. X V . Dec. 2* With
the ttnte hoard of arbitration sitting
a* inedialora on tbo stroke of the
lextlle workers, hundreds of strikers
gathered iu tin* streets today and
cliihlicil with tile police. Til** first
conflict came at the Phoenix inllU
where til** police cleared the side
walk* of minted pickets; the second
on Main street, whole they dispersed
the strike!s' parade
During the second demonstration
one of the striker* lying prone on the
sidewalk refused to move. Women
iu the proretudon began to scream
Ihutu lie hud been clubbed hut this
the police denied
The laiurd continued taking tes
timony of strikers today. Annie Ko
kin. u machine operator at the Phoe
nix Mills, testified that Chief of Po
lice lx>ng threw her down the step*
of the strokers* henduarters the day
the strike was called. Then she con
tinued. he threw three girls on top
of her. Tills was while ho was raid
ing the building to find the strike
leaden* Yesterday, she tidded, a
policeman attempted to flirt with her
while slm was on picket duty. She
told the liluccoai sin* was married
and took her husband's arm. Ilcr
husband, she said, was immediately
clubbed.
Mrs. Annie Malurlk. who said alio
was " I years old and earned $1 a
week, testified she and her husband
lived in an eight room house with
23 other persons. They slept three
or four iu a bed, she said.
Iliggolytam Kotarse, who said he
made $8.91 a week by working five
nights, compared tin* police of Little
Falls with the Russian Cossack' "In
Russia," he declared, "the Cossacks
use their fists, but hero tho police
use their clubs."
The bearing was adjourned until
Mouday.
SNOWSLIDE NI ALASKA
Cordova, Aluska, Dec. 2*. A big
snow slide near Mile 811 on tho Cop
per River and Northwestern Railroad
hori blocked traffic and there is lit
tle likelihood of the line being
cleared before the latter part of next
week.
Holiday
Rates
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Dates of sale Dec. 23, 24. 25, 30,
31st end January 1, 1013
Final return limit January 3. 1913
R. VV. HOYT, Agent C. B. LITTLE, Ticket Agt.
PAGE THREE
CZAR’S INCOME FROM VODKA
Russia’*, Ruler is Given $400,000,000
Annually by His Subjects
For Drink.
I St. Petersburg. D**« 28. Public
I opinion, strongly expressed In • I**-
[ilniii.i and the pres.. lias at lac*,
aroused tile government to take ».tep
to fight Ho* \*Mika fiend A homo for
inebriates will I**- started uml ail in
stitute for uuti-ulcuhulle rosear* h
will follow
Over 8o per colit of tho city popul
ation of Russia become confirmed
MHlka fiends before thex are twenlv
live years old. while I.* per cent of
tlie girls fall into tin* habit hetw*. .
• tho age* of seven ami twelve Re
cruits are driven to drink through
lUMiifficient food and mid hat racks,
because four-fifths of the ewl an I
meat allotted to them are snap;.**! up
by officers ami purveyors he» r. *
reaches (li«* stores.
Vodka linH !>••*• n a < row it monop
oly since tlie sixteenth century. Tin*
czar has now 30,000 vtslka saloon
uml control* -4.000 dlsllllerl*—. on
which he realizes S lun.ooM.nou a
year. While the govcrnmeitt spends
ouiy 3 1-2 rents per head on educa
tion. each Russian cltlxen carries be
tween 30 cents ami $7 a year into
tho czar’s saloons. Tim vodka spirit
is distilled from (Kilatocs and cereals.
MILLUS WILL NOT BE
PERMITTED TO LAND
Now York. Doc. 28.—KdunrJ F.
Ml Huh. tho Kugllsh journal! t who
served ti year lu Jail for llbelliutf
King George V. will not be peruili
ted to and on American shores, ac
cording to a decision by a Specie!
hoard of Inquiry at Kills Island beat
ing hi* appeal from an order of d« -
IKtriallon.
GOVT. TIMBER SUIT.
Salt l.ako City. I tab. Doc. .
Frank Hall, Hpccial a-: ihtunt io i!»••
I'nlted States attorney general rc
celved iiiHtructioiiH to leave (■>. San
Francisco January I I to take part
in tho government’ll cose against A.
\V. McCuuo and others men - d oi
selling timber cut illegally from gov
cruineiit lands.
MERKLE IS SUED
Toledo, O . Dec. 28 Fred- I I r
Mcrklo. first baseman for tho Now
York Giants, was sued today iu Lu
cas county common pb • *ourt fo.
$3,000 damage* by Petei II Garret!
a bartender, who ullugcs that in a
saloon row .Merkle knocked out >
oral of Ihs tooth and pummelled him
severely.