DEMAND LIGHTS
* ALASKA COAST
Secretary Redfield Writes to Western
Congressmen and Senators for
Aid to Get Appropriation.
WASHINGTON, April 11—In a let
ter written to the Western congres
sional delegations Secretary Redfield,
of the Department of Commerce, ap
peals for an immediate appropriation
to construct aids for navigation on the
Alaskan coast at an expense of $35,
000,000 is a hollow mockery while ac
cess to the railroad terminal is al
lowed to remain unnecessarily dan
gerous.
The letter of the head of the Com
merce department is a strong plea for
prompt action and friends of Alaska
here are confident that it will be heed
ed by the members of congress and
with the aid of the united delegations
cf the Pacific coast states, a large
appropriation is hoped for this ses
sion.
Secretary Redfield also denounces
the Pacific coast steamship inspection'
as indaequate and absurd. The force
of inspectors are inefficient to handle
ihe work and as a result the ships
are not properly inspected.
«0MTS
LONG SENTENCE
Murdered Vacoma Janitor—Starts
Thirty-year Sentence in Walla
Walla Prison.
WALLA WALLA, Wash., April 11.
—Roy Smith, alias Ray Duncan, alias
jOebert Welch, the 15-year-old "pick
aninny” who shot and killed A. H.
Worden, the janitor of the school
buildings of Tacoma, last June, today
entered the state penitentiary at this
place. Smith starts to serve a sen
tence of 30 years, the July having
brought in a verdict of murder in the
Srst degree.
The parents of the hoy made ev
ery effort to save the lad from the
consequences of his crime and spent
every cent they possessed to light his
ease.
The boy murderer killed the janitor
and robbed him of his valuables. He
later gave a stick pin taken from his
victim to another crook, with whorit
he was friendly, and when the police
arrested his pal they were able to
trace the crime to the negro boy an$
bis conviction soon follpwed. ,
now i minnow
tih puns
Catholic Committee of Clergymen and
Laymen, After 25 Year* of Study,
Recommend 125 Clean Plays.
NEW YORK, April ll.-rThe com
mittee Qf Catholic .priests and laymen
appointed to censor all thp plays Writ
ten the past 2j> years and now being
produced, or which have merit, but
have to((t favor With the public, to
day made public their report and of
all the plays reviewed * the-"White
list,” as given out te$ay, contains the
,nj^£ep of' oaly 126 plays as pt far the
members of the Catholic church to
witness. \
This Is the first list of acceptable
plays ever issued by the church and
lit Is believed will resiilt In great good,
as it Will warn all good Catholics not
to attend the many immdral plays
how being put on the New York stage
to attract the sensual public.
FEDERAL TROOP II. S. OFFICER;
ADMIRAL 0 FORGES PROMPT RELEASE
MEXICO CITY, April 11—The Mex
ican federal soldiers today seized a
launch of one of the American bat
tleships in the harbor of Vera Cruz
and kept the launch and held the
members of the crew as prisoners.
After the capture the federals parad
ed the streets with the flags of the
captured launch amid the cheers and
jeers of the populace.
.When Admiral Mayo was informed
that the launch with the paymaster
and a detachment of marines had
been taken possession of by the fed
erals he immediately ordered one of
his staff to demand the instant re
lease of the men and the return of the
flags, which he has given the federals
until this evening to publicly apolo
gize and salute with every honor.
The apology from Provisional Pres
ident Huerta tvas instant, and he has
promised that those guilty of the out
rage shall be immediately punished.
It is expected that several executions
will follow the investigation he has
ordered.
Excitement was at fever heat and
all tha battleships were ordered to
prepare for instant acHon and guns
were trained upon the fortifications
of the federals, and it looked as if
nothing could prevent the long staved
off intervention.
The Mexicans living neat the shore
immediately left their homes, fearing
DEMANDS AN ARO^bCY AND THE SALUTE TO THE AMERICAN FLAG
BEFORE SUNDOWN—PROVISIONAL PRESIDENT HUERTA 8ENOS
REGRETS—SALUTE IS EXPECTED TONIGHT.
that the big guns would start throw- j
ing shot into the city.
The Americans in the city sought
refuge in the consulate and aboard
the vessels in the bay.
The prompt response of President
Huerta has done much to overcome
the hostility caused by the federal
troops in interfering with the Amer
ican marines.
To Increase Ranger Force.
AUSTIN, Tex., April 11.—Reports
of new disorders along the Mexican
border caused Gov. Colquitt to order
the Range force recruited with "men
who can shoot.”
“I have instructed Captain Hughes
to look for more men suitable for the
Ranger service. My instructions to
him are to get men who can shoot
and will shoot when necessary,” said
Gov. Colquitt last night.
Captain Hughes commands the
Ranger force, which has headquarters
at Raymondville, Cameron county.
Brownsville is the county seat. Cam
eron county citizens today asked the
governor for protection, as several
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filibustering expeditions have been re
ported this week, operating along that
part of the Texas border.
Gov. Colquitt would not discuss the
conference of Adjt. General Henry
Hutchings with the federal command
er, Gen. Guardajaro, at Piedras Negras
today. Consul Blocker accompanied
Gen. Hutchings, who is investigating
border conditions, and especially the
Vergara incident.
EAGLE PASS, Tex., April 11—Capt.
Apolino Rodriguez, commander of the
Mexican federate accused of captur
ing Clemente Vergara, the Ameri
can rancher, who was slain, is be
lieved to be attached to the federal
garrison at Piedras Negras, but it is
not. known whether Adjt. General
Hutchings, who conferred officially
today with the federal commander at
Piedras Negras, asked for the return
of Rodriguez.
BROWNSVILLE, Tex., April 11 —
Twenty United States cavalrymen
were conducting a search along the
Rio Grande, 12 miles from here, for
a score of Mexican federal sympathiz
ers, who crossed the border, killed a
constitutionalist soldier and returned
to the United States. A federal sol
dier was also killed in the fray.
Reports that 'federal sympathizers
in the United States are organizing
filibustering expeditions has resulted
in increased activity by the border
patrol. Capt. Smith, commanding a
company of cavalry at Rio Grande
City, has been notified to watch for
one expedition, reported as being or
ganized between Roma and Rio
Grande City.
Charges that shots are fired fre
quently across the river at his men
have been made by Gen. Pablo Gonza
lez, federal commander in Matamoros,
to the American consul there. He says
he should not be held responsible if
his men returned the fire.
DOUGLAS, Ariz., April 11.—Ives
Leleviever, the constitutionalist rep
resentative here, wired today to the
State Department at Washington, in
sisting that neutrality be enforced on
the border.
Lelevier stated that Mexican fed
eral sympathizers had organized fili
bustering bands on the American side
and had invaded constitutionalists’
territory with the object of destroy -
ing lives and property. To keep the
bands in check, be said, the rebels
were required to maintain large forces
needed elsewhere.
WLt USE FISH
US CHICKEN FEED
Valuable By-Product Utilized In the
Herring Oil Industry—Experi
ment Is Successful.
SEATTLE, April 11.—A new devel
opment in a comparatively new in
dustry is announced by -Phillip G.
Funcke, president of an Aiaskan
company which is engaged in the ex
traction of oil from the herring which
swarm in the northern waters. It Is
the utilization of the by-products as
poultry food. •
“When the fish jure brought to the
factory,” said Mr. Funcke in -discuss
ing his new departure, “the catch
Is divided Into five lots and distribut
ed In equal portions near the five
rooller presses. After being thor
oughly boiled in huge vats the fish
are forced through giant rollers op
erated by compressed air, the oil
‘flowlrtg into recepticles provided for
it and the crushed fish falling dow'n
a chute to the floor below. Here the
fish are again compressed to extract
the remainder of the oil, and the
guano or residue is boxed up for the
market. The guano was formerly
sold for fertilizer, but by a special
process much of it is now mixed
with a small percentage of the oil
and becomes an (excellent poultry
food, which experiments prove is
greatly relished by chickens and
ducks.
“Last -year, for experimental pur
poses, 300 tons of this poultry food,
which has the appearance of bran of
a dark red color, was sent to San
Francisco. The sale of the food was
good from the first, and contracts for
large shipments this season were
made as a consequence.
"Analysis of the new food proves It
to be rich In protein, which is one
of the most valuable .elements in a
poultry food, and an added percent
age of lime from the bones of the fish
tends to make shell for eggs when
fed to laylflg bens.
"After the oil is taken from the
presses it is allowed to cool and large
cakes of fat soon form ,in the fluid.
The oil is then strained through fine
ly woven sieves afld in this manner
separated from the fat. The oil ls bar
reled -for market And the fat ,al*d is
barreled to be sold as the foundation
for axle grease and other lubricants.”
KILLED PATIENTS
BURNED BODIES
police Arrest Entire Stall of Pittsburg
Maternity Hospital, Charging
Abortions and Murder.
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PITTSBURG, Pa., April 11. -The
police of this city today raided a
maternity abortion hospital and ar
rested all the doctors and nurses in
•the building, charging them all with
wholesale murder.
Detectives had been watching the
•place for several months because of
the fact that Dorbthy Arnold bad been
traced to the building and has never
been seen since: The fact was not
known until several months ago, when
the police were given a clue as to
what had become of the girl and they
made an investigation.
Doctors Meredith, Leader and Lutz
were in charge of the hospital and
had as their assistants Lucy ,Orr and
Mary Snyder, the women nurses.
> Under a third degree -examination
given by the police Dr. Luts broke
down and confessed that the buildingjj
•was used to aid women in a delicate
condition and that illegal operations
were constantly performed. When
ever any of the patients of the hos
pital died they were cremated in the
big furnace in the basement of the
hospital. He stated that scores of
women had thus been disposed, of af
ter they had died from the effects of
the operations.
Dr. Meredith has made an inde
pendent fortune bleeding his victims,
according to his accomplices, ( and
would force the male friends of his
victims to pay blackmail for many
years.
The police claim they have enough
evidence to hang the entire staff of
doctors and nurses. .
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Eartft Swallow* Mlt\.etw.
POTT^WlLLE, Pft., April U.—The
eiirtti1 Opened and spallowed twomin
si* a work ahijltjr tin ’]$&$ tyoun*
«»e «poy Rtin CMMery
hdoah .far. ’iirge-^pa
of then have .beeti put to work both
Inside the mines anti at tie ■ surface,
hut no trace of men or building can be
found. They' iftifti’ fravV been dropped
5p0 feet. A third man working near
tfeb stianty atHfee tfisWaVed' fflniti&t >
b yhanging on a steam pipe until help
arrived.
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Road Seems to be in Bad in Every
Way—Interstate Commerce Com
mission Wants Books.
WASHINGTON. April 11.—The In
terstate Commerce Commission today
issued an order to the officials of the
New York, New Haven and Hartford
railroad to produce the books of the
company at once, as they have ex
hausted all patience with the witness
ed who have been called before the
commisslpn in the present hearing, of
whom all refuse to give any informa
tion, claiming that they have no
knowledge of the affairs.
The order came as a surprise to
the railroad officials, who are strain
ing every nerve to prevent the road
from being placed in the hands of a
receiver, as some of the stockhold
ers threaten to do. President Elliott
has spent the past week in Washing
ton trying to straighten out the tan
gle of the railroads and the steamboat
lines owned by the road, and. has been
successful in arranging for the disso
lution of the merger of railroad, trol
ley line and steamboat lines. It is
expected that he will make every ef
fort to prevent the Interstate Com
merce Commission from securing the
books of the company until an ar
rangement has been completed for the
operation of the road under the agree
ment entered In by the attorney gen
eral and the road, as It will seriously
complicate matters and prevent . a
quick adjustment of the road’s affairs.
Reinke Orchestra at Oongregational
Church.
The Easter services will be held
Sunday In the Congregational church
as -follows:
In the mornlhg the psstor will
preach on the subject, <sThP Resur
rection," and in the evening his sub
ject wiil. fee, ffrjie Power of An .End
less Life." Both are Easter sermons.
At the evening service music will be
furnished.bgr.the Reinke orchestra and
appoint staging will be a feature. You
afp cordially invited to attend these
services.
Supt. Ray Millard, of the Granite
Gold Mining Company, returned to the
mine on the Brighton, which left Val
des this morning.
PROCESS PURIFY
SMELTER HIMES
j New Method Will Save Much Money
to Copper Mine Owners—In
ventor Predicts Success.
REDDING, Cal., April 11.—Tests of
a new method of controlling smelter
smoke encourage the inventor and his
associates to predict the commercial
success of the new process. The runs
of the small plant here were made on
sulphide ore from the Balakala mine,
averaging about 45 per cent sulphur,
and the experimenters say that every
vestige of the mineral was removed
from the smoke fumes.
Mining men and farmers were nat
urally the most interested observers
of the tests, the latter because of the
injury done to crops in the neighbor
hood of smelters not equipped with
controllers, and the former because
the new method is expected not only
to obviate such injury and the con
sequent suits for damages, but also
to recover and utilize, at slight ex
pense, practically all the copper, zinc,
silver, sulphur and other elements
which have been hitherto carried off
in the fumes.
The simplicity of the process has
won much favor from local metallur
I gists, and further experiments are be
jitfg awaited with interest. The suc
j cessful application of the process on
j a commercial basis will be of tremen -
i dous importance to copper companies
I throughout the west, where noxious
i fumes have caused agitation against
1 the smelters, with disastrous results
j to the copper industry.
Catholic Church.
Sunday services:
Confession and holy communion,
8:39 a. m.
Mass and' sermon. 10:39 a. m.
Sunday school: 8:09 p. ».
Rosary, instruction and benediction,
17:30 p. m.
FATHER VAN der POL, S. J..
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Episcopal Church.
Easter day services at the Church
of the Epiphany are:
■> Moaning prayer and holy commun
ion 10:3.0 Sermon. “This Same
Jesus.”
Sunday school at 12 m.
Evening prayer and sermon at 7:30.
Subject. “Who Shall Roll Away the
Stone?”
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MUTILATE MANY
GERMAN STATUTES
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French Naval Doctor Goe* Insane and
Injures Statu s of Great Germans
In Berlin. *
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BERLIN, Germany, April 11.—An
insane French naval doctor, visiting
in this city, last night mutilated the
statue of Frederick the Great and
three other statues of great Germans
who had done much for the German
empire.
The police arrested the insane
Frenchman and he is noty in a ward
of the local insane asylum undergoing
observations and will be deported
No international difficulty is antici
pated because of the action of the
French naval officer as the French
ambassador here has already express
ed great regret at the outrage.
PARIS, April 11.—-The news front
Germany of the mutilation of a num -
ber of monuments by a crazy French
naval doctor has caused keen regret
and the leading newspapers are print
ing ediedrials depreciating the work
of vandalism.
LIGHTED CIGAR
CADGED EXPLOSION
Ignites Big Gas Bag of Derrigible Be
longing to Austrian Army and
Fifty People Are Hurt.
MILAN, Austria. April 11. A light
ed cigar in the haflds of one of the
spectators inspecting the big army
derrigible balloon caused the gas bag
to explode and SO persons in the
crowd near the scene were seriously
injured and several of them are ex
pected to die.
The man with the lighted cigar will
not smoke for some time, as his face
was badly burned. He was also se -
verely injured about the body.
Had the accident happened a half
hour later when the big crowds were
expected, the loss of life would have
been appalling.
The exhibition was given on the
army aviation field and the staff of
doctors maintained at the hospital
were soon attending to the needs of
the injured. The big machine is a toial
wreck.
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Government Secure* Services of At
torney Constantine Smythe of
Portland to Prosecute.
PORTLAND. Ore.. April 11.—The
Department of Justice has retained
Attorney Constantine Smythe, of this
city, to aid the district attorney at
Seatle and the special deputy attor
ney general in charge of the prose -
cutions for alleged illegal locations of
coal lands In Alaska.
Judge Smythe made a reputation for
hithself When he successfully prose
cuted the big Bell Telephone trust op -
era ting In this City and other north ■
Weetern towns and secured the dtsso
lutiOn of the trust.
Several secret service men have
been detailed to aBiiat the lapd of
ficials to secure evidence.
There will be a special meeting of
| the Eastern Star April- 14th at 8
! o’clock for the purpose of initiation,
j Bertha C. Cockertlle. k It