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MOON :y must die
ON SCAFFOLD FOR
MURDERS BY BOMB
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SAN FRANCISCO, March 2—Thomas J. Mooney j
must hang as a result ot his conviction ot murclei as ale-j
suit of the bomb explosion during a preparedness parade ,
here in July, 1910, in which ten persons were killed. Moon-:
cy must die on the scaffold unless executive clemency in-:
tervenes. The State Supreme Court decided this today j
after denying application tor a new trial. Moone\ still,
lias a chance for life through the intervention of Cover-1
nor Stephens or President \V ilson.
Ramifications of the murder trial of
Thomas J. Mooney, included an in
vestigation ordered by President W il
son, and disturbances on the streets
of Petrograd.
The President's mediation commis
sion, which was directed to examine
the situation while carrying on its
work on the Pacific Coast, said, in a
report made public Januaiy 26, that
changes in the evidence brought out
in connection with the trials ot other
defendants, “cast doubt upon the
prior convictions oi Hillings and
Moiney,” and that while the record of
each trial separately might be such
as to preclude appeal, the records ol
all trials taken together “leave the
mir.d in the greatest uncertainty as
to the complicity of the accused.”
Warren L. Hillings, referred to in
the report, was the first man tried for
murder in connection with a bomb ex
plosion in a preparedness day parade
here July 22, 1916, and he was sen
tenced to Lfe imprisonment. He is
now serving sentence at Folsom pris
on. Mooney who came next, was con
victed of murder in the first degree
February 9, 1917, and sentenced Feb
ruary 24 to be hanged. A prominent
wit .less was Fiank C. Oxman of Dur
kee. Oregon.
The trial judge later advised the
attorney general of California that in
view of later developments, Mooney
should be retried. One of the reasons,
he said, was that F. E. Kigali of Gray
ville, 111., had ottered letters bearing
Oxman's signature, urging him to
come out and testify in the case. Ox
man s\as tried for subornation oi
perjury and was acquitted. He was
not used as a witness in later liiais.
The attorney general in turn filed
: with the Spreme court a “consent’ to
a new trial. The Supreme court
found nothing in the constitution en
abling it to act on such a document
and proceeded with consideration oi
an appeal which had be?n filed pre
viously. This is the appeal, de< is*ou
on which was given today.
Cables from Petrograd concerning
street demonstrations over “Mooney,
the anarchist” reported in Russia to
have been hanged in San Francisco
meanwhile directed attention of the
State department to the case. Presi
dent Wilson communicated with Gov
ernor William D. Stephens of Calif
i ornia, and was advised that Mooney’s
appeal, filed February 24, 1917, was
still pending, and he could not be
hanged unless the appeal were decid
ed adversely.
Mooney’s wife, Mrs. Keiia Mooney,
was tried next, and also acquitted.
Israel Weinbery, another defendant,
followed, and also was acquitted. Both
were charged with murder. After
their acquittal they were held in jail
without bail, on the ground that they
were still under indictments of mur
der one indictment having been voted
for each of several victims of the ex
plosion. Edward D. Nolan, a fifth
defendant, who said he could prove
he was in Baltimore, Md., the day of
the explosion attending a labor con
vention, was released on bail and has
not been brought to trial.
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VICTORIA DUE |
TOMORROW-HAS
MANYJFOR HERE
Steamer Victoria sailed from Cor
dova at 9 o’clock this morning and is
due here tomorrow during the day<
sometime. The Victoria has seven
days mail aboard, and a good cargo
of freight for here including lumber
for the San Juan dock. The follow
ing passengers are aboard from Se
attle: I. J. Strere, S. G. Norman,
Mrs. V. Mason, Charles A. Benson,
Mary Rock, Sam Abelson, Lee Camp
bell, Miss Helen Vcrksather, Miss P.
Wilson, M. W Moek, Christen Ander
son, H. W. Kuhnhausen, P. J. Vest,
A. D. Grey, Louis Roy, J. Carlson,
Arthur Frame, Iver Hagen, A. Carl
son, J. L. Johnson, Art Mikel, J. H.
Foreman and J. H. Ritter.
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SMOKELESS DAY IS
• ENDORSED BY i'HE
MONTANA GOVERNOR
HELENA, Mont., March — Gov
ernor S. V. Stew'art has endorsed the
idea of a “smokeless day” the money
saved to be used for the purchase of
thrift stamps, and has volunteered to
bo one of the first to observe it
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• ten AMERICANS *
« CAUGHT BY HUNS *
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* BERLIN, March 2. — An ofti- *
* cial war statement this morning *
* says that ten American soldiers *
* have been captured by the Ger- *
* mans near Chavigon on the *
* French front.
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POTATO FLOUR PLANT
WILL HELP TO GIVE
HOMES SUBSTITUTES
IDAHO FALLS, March 2.—A plant
for making potato flour has been
built here which will help to supply
the demand for wheat flour substi
tutes. According to R. F. Bicknell,
food administrator for Idaho the plant
i is ready to begin operations.
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ALICE PAUL HAS MEASLES;
KEYHOLE CARRIES ORDERS
WASHINGTON, March 2. — Alice
Paul, militant suffrage leader, has
broken out with the measles. The
“militants ’ are apparently to follow
the military as victims of this disease.
Miss Paul, though quarantined in her
room, is still directing the suffrage,
campaign in the Senate. She discuss
ed the political situation with her
lobbyists today through a traditional
political instrument—the keyhole.
SAY DEMOCRACY PREVAILS IN CAMPS
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That a democratic spirit is the most outstanding feature among the
officers and their subordinates In the camps throughout the country is the
assertion made by MaJ. “Archie” Johnson (ieft), son of United States Senutor
| Hiram Johnson, and Capt. Peter R. Kyne (right), well-known magazine
i writer, now stationed at Cunm Kearny.
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ARMY OFFICERS IN
I DANGER OF LOSING
Ll\ :s IN A HOTEL
SAN DIEGO, Cal., March 2—Two sticks of dynamite
were found this morning in a trash barrel of the Mary
land hotel shortly before its contents were to be sent to
the incinerator in the basement.
Probably the hotel which houses many army officers,
would have been seriously damaged had an explosion oc
curred and death would surely have been registered.
The police have no clues.
BLACKMAIL WAS
A METHOD USED
BY THE KAISER
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WASHINGTON, March 2. — Wash
ington hears that, according to a
pamphlet issued by August Thyssen,
a wealthy German business man, that
ich Teutons were blackmailed by the
Kaiser from the time immediately
preceding the war up to the present
time. In 1916 guarantees were asked
from 78 German business men, in
cluding Thyssen, that they would sub
scribe $1,000,000,000 in the next war
loan. Thyssen declined to guarantee
his share—$1,000,000 and thereafter
lost valuable war contracts. In 1912
the Hohenzollerns wanted to get the
support of the commercial class. Toys
sen was promised a free grant of 30,
900 acres in Australia and a $750,000
loan from the Deutsche Hank at 3 per
cent. German business men were al
i so told that India was to be conquer
ed and the Kaiser promised special
trading facilities to German films. A
syndicate was formed to exploit Can
ada with $100,000,000 working capital
half of which was to be provided by
the German government.
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BY GREEK ADMIRALTY
ATHENS, March 2. — The Greek
Admiralty has authorized the em
ployment of a woman seaplane pilot,
Miss Demise Kalimeri, wh6 is the
i daughter of one of the government
airplane engineers.
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FRANCE FORCED
INTO WAR BY A
GREAT DEMAND
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PARIS, March 2. — Foreign Min
ister Piclion showed up today another
German trick which forced the war.
The Foreign Minister, in a public
statement, said that just bclore the
outbreak of the war, former Imperial
German Chancellor Bethman-Hollweg,
sent word to Paris that if France
would decide to remain neutral, Ger
many would request as a guarantee
of French neutrality, the handing ovei
of the French fortresses of Verdun
and Toul to the Germans for the pe
riod of the war.
Foreign Minister said this showed
conclusively that the Germans delib
i crately made war inevitable.
cornrTrchase
IS ORDERED IN
MIDDLE WEST
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NEW YORK, March 2. — The Fed
eral committees in the middle west
states are to purchase 500,000 to 700,
000 bushels of corn daily during the
next three weeks at various middle
west grain exchanges. This corn is
for use abroad.
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GRAVE SITUATION
CONERONTS ALLIES
A 10UT MUNITIONS
WASHINGTON, March 2—Japan may at once take
a hand in the Russian-Germanv situation and render the
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Allies needed aid. The American government has sound
ed the Allied nation regarding possibility of Japan send
ing forces to Siberia, assume control of the trans-Siberian
railroad and also occupy Vladivostok where immense war
supplies, sent from the United States for use of the Rus
sians, are now stored.
The Allies have replied that something must be done
and the Japanese and Russian representatives now in
Washington are understood to be ready to make sugges
tions to the government of Japan that the occupancy of
Vladivostok is necessarv for the Allies.
The possible action of the Japanese in Siberia is the
main topic of consideration in diplomatic circles today. It
is expected that some international agreement to pi event
the Germans from obtaining Vladivostok stores and con
trol of the railroad will be made within the next 48 hours
if not sooner. President Wilson is studying the question
today.
It was publicly announced this forenoon that the cab
inet meeting yesterday afternoon Japan had made a pro
posal for action in Siberia and this was thoroughly dis
cussed but no conclusion was reached. Exchanges of op
inion are going forward rapidly.
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NEW THEATRE
! OPENS WITH A
DOUBLE BILL
Seward’s new theatre, the Seattle,
will open tomorrow night with a big
double bill. The first show tomorrow
oignt will be at 7:30 o’clock and the
second at 9 o’clock. The picture cur
tain was placed today and everything
is already for the opening with the
exception of the seats and these are
expected to arrive on the Victoria to
morrow. If time docs not permit of
the placing of the opera chairs addi
tional seats will be secured from the
A. B. linll for tomorrow night’s per
formances only. On Monday the
new opera chairs will be placed -n the
theatre.
The Seattle will have an entire
change of policy. Every' Sunday night
for the two shows there will be a spe
cial bill. There will then follow thi'v*
changes for the remainder of the j
week, the Seattle to be open every
night of the week. The change of
programs will be on Mondays, Wed
nesdays and Fridays. On the week
day nights there will only be one show
and the hour will be at 8 o’clock
promptly.
For tomorrow Harold Lockwood
and May Allison will be seen in the
Metro feature “Mister 44” a comedy,
fairly bubbling with good clean hu
mor, no murders, just a splendid b»L
for an evening’s recreation. Besides
the Metro feature there will be the
king of comedians, Fatty Arbuckle, in
“The Butcher Boy,” the first of his
new comedies under his own manage
ment. There will also be the Hearst
Pathe weekly making a most satis
factory program. The isual prices
will prevail.
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STEAMSHIP IS
SUNK BUT CREW
RESCUED AT SEA
NEW YORK, March 2. — The Brit
ish merchant steamship Tiberia, 4880
tons, was submarined while bound
from London for here. The crew
were rescued and brought here today
by an American transport which pick
ed the lifeboats up at sea. The mem
bers of the crew said the boat after
being ' torpedoed did not sink for
twelve hours and they had plenty of
time to provision their lifeboats. They
were picked up by the American trans
port two days after the disaster.
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FISH COMPANY
COMES UP FOR
TRIAL SHORTLY
SEATTLE, March 2. — The Booth
Fisheries Company, indicted more
than four years ago for alleged viola
tions of the Sherman anti-trust act.
will be placed on trial next Tuesday.
March 5, before United States Dis
trict Judge Jeremiah Neterer. Wit
nesses are being summoned from as
far east as New York City and,from
all the cities in which the company
Operates. It is not known whether
the case will be tried by United States
Attorney Clay Allen or by Special
Assistant Attorney General Clarence
Lu Rcames.
It will be the first to be tried of a
the same time against fishery com
panies. N
a half dozen indictments returned at