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MEXICANS FIGHT
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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M^ny Are Starving and No Crops |
Have Been Planted—English Red
Cross Asks for Aid.
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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
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»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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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. ' .
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_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
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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
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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
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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. |
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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
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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. .
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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.