Newspaper Page Text
'• , ' ■ ’ ■ * V 14 ’ • • —• - —""—■» VOL. 10. NO. 70. •' i ■. 43’ A- •. ; MEXICANS FIGHT IN LOS ANGELES % - Industrial Workers and Mexicans Have Grand Old Scrap and Some Will Fight No More. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 27—A band of Mexicans and a crowd of Indus trial Workers of the World became: involved in a dispute here last night and as a result several of each side were killed and thirty more are in hospitals suffering with severe wounds from clubs, pistols and kn'ves. The police also rounded up anoth er hundred of the street fighters- and have them in jail. It is likely that charges of murder and riel will be lodged against them. When the fight started the police man near the scene, knowing his in ability to handle the crowd, hurried to a nearby telephone and called up police headquarters and 100 police r serves were rushed to the scene of ihe riot, quickly surrounding the lighters and corralling the entire bunch. The cops smashed a number of heads in subduing the fighters and did not stop until all scrapping had ceas - ed. As fast as the police caught a scrapper he was passed through the line and as the patrol wagon was fill ed it- was sent to the station, after which the dead and wounded were cared for. Storm Sweeps Over the Eastern States—Loss to Shipping is Very Heavy. NEW YORK, pec. 27.—This city was visited yesterday by onp of the worst winter .storms in many years. New,York harbor, which is, ordinar ily, well protected, was,lashed into, a fury and many ships broke loose from their moorings and were drifted about, several being washed upon the New Jersey shores of tiff bay. Small craft were upset jtntj the po- j lice report that 14.,. people were j drowned, besides . many more that \ have not been, reported. ! Along the Jersey, coast the life! maids report a number of vessels ! ashore, but no details can be receiv- i ed as the wires are down or working : badly. Much suffering has been caused by 1 the intense told wa,ye which struck j the town. Several people have been Sound by the police frozen to death ca door steps. BUILDING BINS: PRESIDENT CHIU ■ _ Pacifies Mrs. Neville, His Hostess, While Detectives and Chauffeurs Extinguish the Flames. PASS CHRISTIAN,, Miss., Dec. , 27. —President Wilson, who is the guest of Mrs. Neville, of this city, iciiy noticed that the h<'use ofijtia hos tess was on fire pn3 ho Citio'iy noti fied her , while the .. detectives -onfl chauffer's o£ his party ret about to . extinguish the flames. Mrs. Neville was greatly excited, i but the president soon pacified her The flames were soon extinguish' ’, the damage being very slight. Mrs. Wilson end her two daughters vere nc i r la rated at ell and assisted the president in reassuring Mrs. Ne - ville. ' ! MOYER IKES Says Calumet Citizens Alliance De liberately Caused the Panic Which Resulted in Many Deaths. . C ALIIMET, Mich.) Dec. 27.—Secre tary Moyer, of the Western Federa tion of Miners, who is here in charge of the striking miners, declared to day that the man who opened the door of the nail in which the strikers and their families were enjoying a big Christmas entertainment, and yelled "Fire! Fire!” was a member of the Citizens -Alliance of ■ this city and caused the panic purposely. The panic caused the death of 80 children, who were crushed to death, while many more were injured. The city authorities are striving to locate the idiot who started the panic, but no one seems to have recognized him, and he was gone in an instant. The Citizens Alliance raised $25, 000, which they offered to the com mittee in charge of relief work among the families of those who were ln~ jur.-d in the Are or to defray burial expenses. The committee, however, refused to take the money, claiming it was coming from the men who have done much to injure the cause of labor in this section. CALUMET, Mich.. Dec. 27.—Late ■his afternoon the police here arrested Moyer, placed him on a pas senger train and told the labor lead er to keep going. M.qyer is being deported for statement.i%e lias made regarding the causes of the panic at the Christmas festivities, when 80 children were killed. He had urged the workers to resort to violence, and declared that the man who yelled “Fire! Fire!” was h'led by the Citi zens Alliance, but outside of making the general charge he cannot and will not make charges against any of the officers of the Alliance directly. Fearing that the parents of the children who were killed or injured might be lead into acts of violence by the heated speeches of Moyer it was decided to deport him. ’ Strong guards are placed about the town to prevent rioting. Good-bye to the Classics. CHICAGO, Dec. 27.—The National Council of Teachers of English, which finished a three days’ annual meeting here, put its official seal upon a prop osition,, to teach modern authors in the public schools and universities. The teachers expressed the conviction that the classics were, not of much value for educational purposes. The Curriculupi, according to Prof. YV. H. YY’ilcox, of the Maryland State Normal school, will consist of equal parts of Alexandre.Dumas, Jack London, Rich ard Harding Davis, and Booth Tark ington, with selections front De Mau passant for older p-tpils, and plenty of Kipling for all. “It is time that the art of teaching received some consideration,” said James F. Hosic, of the Chicago Teachers’ College. "The trouble is that we have too many young teach ers who have received their degrees for writing treatises upon the com parative philology of the intransitive verb.” Arthur Patten In Jail. TOPEKA, Kan;, Dec. 27.—Arthur Patten, 29 years old, who has had on ly nine years of freedom, was arrested again today end sent to jail charged with stealing some wagon wheels. When Patten w«s nine years old he was sent to the reform school for thievery. He was paroled but had been free only a week when he was arrested for stealing food. After finishing his unexplred sentence in the reformatory he soon was. arrested for burglary end sent- to prison. Last summer .Governor Hodges- paroled Patten from the penitentiary on the mound that lie “never had a chance.” The go /ernor obtained a plaee for him in ' packing house. According to the man's, employ era.-he had worked con r.c’entiously until his arrest today. General Agent Tracy, of the Alaska Steamship company, is n round tripper (the Northwestern. • i CAUSE TROUBLE : . ■ . : r i Many Cities Demand Establishment I Their Towns—Committee to Hold ; Hearings in Fourteen Cities. WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.—Thej board established by congress to se-t lect the cities which shall have thej regional banks will hold hearings in, fourteen cities before makihg* the se lection. Hearings will be held in San Francisco, Portland und Seattle, as all three cities are working hard to se cure whatever advartage may be se cured from the establishment of the regional bank. Special committees have been appointed by the chambers of commerce of these cities to go back to Washington and iobby in the interest of their respective towns. The Washington delegation claim that Seattle should te given the pref-, erence, as Seattle !s the clearing point for all of the banking business of Alaska, and that with the passage of the Alaska railroad bill the business will increase greatly and will total more than that of Portland and San Francisco combined. I _’ I ■ ■ ■ •: . ■ 1 1 M^ny Are Starving and No Crops | Have Been Planted—English Red Cross Asks for Aid. • LONDON. Dec. 27.—The English j lied Cross society has asked for funds ; to aid the 200,000 Bulgarians who are I reported as starving to death. Hun-I dreds are dying every day in Bui- i garia and conditions in the Balkan j states are every day becoming more j and more desperate, The king is un- j able to relieve conditions, as the I treasury is depleted, the cost of the late wars being enormous. The appeal is meeting with a. ready ! response and the agent of the Bed | Cross at Sofia has been, instructed to j furnish food to the starving. . No crops were raised the past sea son and all the food stuffs are be ing imported from Russia and other foreign countries. HIGH TIDE Mm PLENTT THDIIBLE I »OCEAN PARK, Cal., Dec. 27.—A j record high tide here last night broke ; tlte bulkhead which protects the city and as a result the entire lower sec- I tion of the town is under water, while j the men are working to repair the ' damage. The heavy wind and high j sea blowing from the ocean make re- i pair work ye.ry dangerous and slow. It will be some-'time before the break can be repaired. , . *.. • •' « 4 . ;-V i | : h -j t HDHT f C0LLISI1 ■' - ■ .1 LOS ANGELES, Dee. 27.—;Forty j merrymakers -were injured here last |1 night-when two c»iv collided on -the j interurban-lines. No one was killed, : but several are in a local hospltayj hovering between life,and death. The -j mo orm in lost control of his car and (’ ran <n{o a stalled train ahead, teli ■ jl stoning one car. |t> Father V711 der Pol returned to! Vgldc-4 today.on idle Northwestern af- } ter. spending several weeks in .Cor- i i dova. j I I POLICE CRUEL TO RICH PRIEST Separate Him From His 27 Wives— One of the Victims Testifies Against Hei “God.” TACOMA, Dec.. 27 —The United States commissioner has bound the Reverend Dahlstrom-, head of the Hel iga cult, over in the sum of $10,000 :o appear before the grand jury to inswer to the charge of white slav ;ry and violation of the Mann act, n that he had 27 gills and women to ive with him after he had perform ;d a mock marriage ceremony with hem, according to the rules and reg ulations laid down by the high priest 5f the Heliga cult. i Edna Englund, one of the wives of i he high priest, testified against him ; ind gave in detail the story of her ! shame and the duplicity of the priest, j i’he details were so shocking that the ; :ourt room was cleared of all except the district attorney, the defendant and his attorneys and the court at taches. Dahlstrom claimed he was God and had come down to earth to make the women happy. is I ■■ ] Ties Up Traffic and Causes Much : Suffering to the Poor of the Larger Cities. ST. LOl'lS, Dec. 27.—A terrific blizzard swept over Missouri, Nebras - ka and Kansas yesterday. The in- i tense cold has caused much suffer- , ing to the people in the cities, where many are illy prepared to withstand the cold. Street traffic is at a stand- j still here, as the drifts and heavy i snowfall has made it impossible to j operate street cars. The railroad of ficials are. sending out crews to the scenes , of the worst tieups. on the i roads and are hopeful that they can dear the tracks and resume traffic shortly. Efforts are being made by charita- J ble people of this city to provide the ! [>oor with shelter and fuel and also j food where required. ' - | MIKE I RECORD j CHICAGO, Dec. 2' -The Postoffice ' lepartment of this city handled 2j >00,000 local packages during the five , lays previous to Christmas'. The Chi- i ’ago officials declare they., have ,es- j tablishcd a. record that will be hard | o heat. The postmen are thankful ; that Christmas is over, *and a num ber of them ere inclined to believe that the postman is the real Santa Claus. ' . ' • f .} 4 T . ! -» / j ^ W lii'-tr _PICTBRE ROME,, pec. ,27.—Perugia, the ex lonvlct who stale the Mon* Lisa, and vho is now-on 'trial 'for his offense, entitled today that he had tried to lell the picture to a representative >f the late J. P. Morgan, but had been | insuccesaful and was forced to hide ! Utnsel^.knowin^. thr t the French au horitjes, had been notified of the ne- ! to iations. - j One-thirrd off on Out Glass. China \ ind leather goods for oao week on- j y rt Ohmi’s. j I room ns - i Huerta Establishes Distributing Sta tion* to Prevent Starvation—Fear* For Railroad Line*. MEXICO CITY. Mex., Dec, . 27.— Provisional President Huerta has or dered that free bread be distributed to the poor, of this city and he has al so ordered the establishment of dis tributing stations in many parts of the city. Many Mexicans are out of work, as all industries have closed down. Mines, railroads and manufacturers are working at half time or are com pletely shut down and the people have Hocked to this city. The banks are making every pre paration to stay any run which will be made upon them when tne ten days holiday is over, and if the crowds are still inclined to demand their money the holiday will be ex tended until financsal conditions have been bettered and confidence is again restored. WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.—The State department has received advices sug gesting that communications between Mexico City and Vera Cruz, its near est port, may be cut in the near fu ture, though this information is not positive. The department apparent ly inclines to the view that this cut ting of communications would be due more to President Huerta’s determi nation to suspend traffic than to the rebels’ ability to blow up the lines. The number of Americans who would thus be shut in is known to the de- [ partment, though it refuses to give ■ out the figures. The one unexplained feature in , these various items of official infor- j mation is the unqualified statement ' that Secretary Bryan's optimism has been unimpaired by developments of the last few days. The determination, however, to keep Mr. O’Shaughnessy at his present post fits in with this , statement and shows at least that j what has been caned the Micawber j policy of this government has not ; been changed. Mr. .O’Shaughnessy j will remain in Mex’co City, and Mr. j Lind at Vera Cruz, and both of them j are in constant communication with j Washington, receiving instructions for j every movement from the State de partment: Unofficial'estimates here fixed the number of Americans In Mexico City at 1,500, though the State department appeared’ reluctant to excite alarm lit this country by giving the precise figures. Six 'tnonths ago it was es timated that there were 10,000 Amer icans in Mex'co scattered throughout the country, so that the estimate for Mexico City would be moderate. While press dispatches from Vera Cruz and the City of Mexico indi cate no danger to the line connecting those cities, me department has bee* advised of such danger. This infor mation is thought, partly at least, to explain the urgency with which some j Americans have tried to leave t.ie | Mexican capital. .j 7 Tried to Bribe McAdoo. WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.—Secre tary McAdoo today declined an invi tation from a correspondent, whose name he " would not make public, to appoint him a revenue collector in return for a present of one-third~of the first annual salary that goes with the office. .' “I will give you $100 just as soon as appointed and the rest just as soon as I can have a public sale,” wrote the jbb seeker. “There is r.o place for you in the Treasury department,” wrote Mr. Mc At’oo in reply, “Such nn offer as this shows your unfitness for public office or public tru^t of any. kind. Th? host sorvice 1 can render to you is to ad-' vise you to revise your moral stand- j ard.” . . . „ r Special Saturday Change at Orpheum. ' The Wooing of Wathena, Indian no minee-. ; When <>. Woman Wont, <.owboy. I T he Bindit's GnfituJte. K. II. : <=n i sattcnal picture. | i I JAPS AGAINST UNCLE SAMUEL Thousands Greet De La Barra When He Reaches Japanese Capital Cheer For Mexicans. TOKIO, Japan, Dec. 27.—-Senor De La Barra, formerly president of the Mexican republic during the short time after the death of President Ma dero and the elevation of General Hu erta to the office, arrived in this city today on a mission for his govern ment. He was greeted by thousands and thousands of Japanese, who lined the way from the pier to his hotel-, cheering the distinguished Mexican. The demonstration is against the Uni ted States and indicates the feeling of the populace towards the American republic. De La Barra is here to thank the Japanese government for the partici pation of the nation in the Mexican Centennial. The real purpose, it is believed, is to secure Japanese aid in the event of hostilities between the Mexican republic and the United States. It is not known as yef if the for eign secretary or the Emperior will receive De La Barra. Crowds con tinually block the streets about the hotel at which the Mexican represen tative is stopping and cheer for Mex ico and wave the small silk Mexican flags Follow Directions of Russian Profes ' ^ *«*,!> sor, Because He Knows How.lt Should be Done. ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 27— It is easy enough to avoid getting cancer. Here’s all you have to do: Pass your knives, forks and spoons through the flame of a Bunson l-urner before us ing; refrain from eating raw foods; boil and filter all water; see that all vegetables and fruits are well cooked before eating. Toast ylour bread so as to destroy microbes oh the surface. This is the advice of ProfesBor Metchnikotf, the famous Russian bac teriologist, who claims to have estab lished absolutely that cancer is not hereditary but is produced by mi crobes from the outside. “If more than one member of a family develops cancer it is simply because they live in unhygenic sur roundings or fail to observe proper precautions against infection,” says the professor. Philadelphia Garment Workers Spent $300,000 ip Unsuccessful Fight forHigher Wages. . , i , 1 • • ■ • • PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 27,—Th-i ’ garment workers ot this city, - who have been on -strike since July, arte expected to-returoto work next week, as the treasury of- the local union is bankrupt, the big fund of 3300,000 having been spent. ' - The manufacturers of clothing in sist that they will not recognise the union and will deal only with a com mittee of workers from each estab lishment. The sweatshop workers have -al i eady returned to work and thoee employed in the factories are expected •o -rive in Monday.