Anaconda Standard (Newspaper) - September 26, 1911, Anaconda, Montana WEATHER FORECAST FOB TUESDAY Cloudy warmer WEATHER FORECAST FOR WEDNESDAY Unsettled VOL 23 ANACONDA MONTANA TUESDAY MORNING SEPTEMBER 26 1911 PRICE FIVE CENTS TAFT AT MAKES SEVERAL ING DAT IX Til 1C TO W S O F Ail in tin It nh 111 lit clumped but Hint verdict of hoard be reft 1 lion nan il Kreat at 1C n UK its Ol t v e r n o r 11 n d 1 e y IT el c ni e N fallen cl t T n n 1 c on ii t P y h 11 d r r n n n il lire expected to Kansas City Sept to Missouri tonight President Tart ad- dressed tho third con- servation in vent Inn here After the retail u-r seated tho doors thrown open to the public and soon tho hull was to those who tried to obtain admission The president's speech cal In its nature railed to tlie urgent of the lands Ho predicted that back to the land movement In larger during tho next 10 years of agricultural as a solution nf the of Increasing the food supply While tho soil Is of Its fertility under present fanning ods said tho president he Is not nf tho opinion that the time will come when the United States will bo unable to feed Its own people In Eleven President Taft arrived here tonight to address the national conservation congress Ho had spent a hurry-up day in Southeastern Kansas making addresses at 11 little towns Ho was tired but happy over the warmth of tho receptions given him tho train and at other stations whore there was hut a pause groat waved a iiiR to the chief executive The crowds were thr largest the president has during any of bis travels Tho population of some of the had been swelled to twice normal figures Excursion trains were run from many directions Mr Taft confined himself largely to tho vetoes of the woolen free list and cotton tariff hills Ills bearers to understand that In- v us moro than willing to sign any bills the tariff if founded on the re- port of the tariff board Tills board lie said would bo ready to report in the woolen Dec 1 Ills ment nn this point sot at rest tho port that there would be a delay I believe that tho present woolon duties are too he exclaimed amid applause and just as soon as I get Information I shall their reduction Conservation of Soli President Taft's speech tonight was devoted almost exclusively to the con- servation of the soil Tho president that at lust year's session nf congress In St Paul he had repressed nt his with to other ph fuses of conservation and added that since congress up to date had not deemed It necessary to pass conservation legislation lie would con- tine himself to tho one branch of tho Mr Taft reviewed tho history of fanning and farm production In this country for tho last yenrs and de- clared that while hr does not with men who say that in SO years the United States will bo im- ablo to feed Us own people there is need of Intelligent understanding among farmers of tho trend of events The president said that If the lation of tho nation Increases in the next HO years the United States will have doubled tho number of its people Mr Taft said that the states should take up the of production of farms Much has Continued on Page STATE FAIR OPENS SOI FINE FLIC EXHIBITS COMPLETED CROWD SEES THEM IN AT THIS IS EASTERN DAY spected f luit f murk H re a ml of ninth slule exhibition at Helena Boy n via tor mn ken itu excellent on the first Oar nnd novel n f arc hooked for the doesn't prtr In Special Dispatch to the Helena Sept If tho state fair officers had had tho weather made to order today the opening one of the fair they could not have done any better than the weather man It was one of the few bright sunshiny ones Helena has had this month and the result was a good crowd in at fair The star feature this afternoon was thu flight nut do by well Uixon the a He one short flight and ho made the host one that has ever been In Montana Rising from the Infield ho flew directly north until lie was but a speck in tho air ing the mountains other side of tho Missouri and then he Mew directly west high over and the tains for the fair grounds ho found a depression in tho tains and rising to a height equal tho on each side ho sailed like a bird into tho open Then 500 feet in the air canted the machine at most right angles and made n dip that net many n heart pulsating righting the aeroplane ho sailed up and then made another dip Then ho struck a straight course for the alighting as us a bird within a few foot of the starting point Ho caught the crowd and be will have it with him the rent of the week When tho pates opened this Ing thu fair in operation all the exhibits were in place and this after- noon visitors had the opportunity to HOO a completed whole In every de- the exhibits are larger bettor than last year and in two tho superiority Is the most marked They are county collective and thy chinery Quantity and the quality of IMP county collective displays show tho agricultural development of the state The immense displays of chinery and Implements show the Im- portance of Montana's newest and largest Industry the artistry displayed in the arrangement nf tho exhibits Is what most forcibly strikes the visitor IS very Counts Shown Well Heretofore ono or two counties have devoted time and thought to the ning of their but Oils year every county has emphasized this ture resulting In the products ing to the best advantage The double transportation service resulted in the crowd appearing on tho grounds lier than at paat fairs Tho street cars from 12 to 2 were crowded and the Great Northern also carried many persons to the grounds Tuesday is Eastern Montana ami as a big crowd is expected it will he a lug day at the fair besides tho aeroplane flights and tho regular amusement features there will lie a novelty stunt -a man a horse a mule and an automobile will run a race The auto must go the greatest distance and tho man the least The man goes 200 yards tho mule a ter of a mile the horse half a and the auto ono mile The big race ot tomorrow Is the handicap nf Some of the best in Iho Northwest are entered for this event Ho as not to discourage the other counties the officials of the Deer Lodge county collection exhibit today i wit from competition their play In 5 division O for best i- this i display and arrangement We wo spent moro time on th of our display than have tlie j other nnd tho majority nave i tried for this BO wo con- cluded to withdraw from the said one nf the of II cl a Is in nf tlu exhibits GREAT DROP OF YEAR STIRS WALL STREET York storm broko In the stock market today The most and precipitate drop In prices if the year occurred nnd for a time the market was demoralized though there WHS no single movement which paralleled Friday's out- pouring of United Stales stock declines the market wore moro severe Trading In United Stales Steel was enormous eclipsing tho total of any other stock and tho In all mocks the largest amount nt tho year three Heading nnd United States Steel woro especially heavy loners Union Tactile lost and among Monks In many oases amounted to throe or four points Intimation from Attorney that n tentative Pla fur of the company had been agreed upon caused Wall street to heart us It had boon reported progress lining mado toward n solution of Ihn problem up lain In Ihn day ami before Ihn closn wore reduced United Stool mill some oilier Issues only net declines The culminating of anxiety over the fulling and the uncertainty In regard tn nf United States md other crniH caused the renewed soiling today There was little to Wall would find the period of muled until indications woro obtained as to the of enforcement of Rhenium as now Further selling by Investors who feared disintegration of largo tions was evident Many soiling orders were received from tho West and don also disposed if stock The fall In prices ot stocks lo -0 to W points from tho high prices uf Ihr year Amalgamated Copper sold nt na compared with Us for the of American has fallen from to St from to Pacific from to Union from lo and Hulled Slates from lo Mty Them are of age has beon In progress nill list nnd Unit has n depreciation if of dollars In value of securities ARMY AVIATOR CARRIES MAIL A Lieut Beck of the army aviation service carries the mail twice daily to and from the International aviation meet grounds at Nassau Boulevard L I Beck is at the left In the picture above LOSES AIM POUT n RULES THAT HE MUST AN- QUESTIONS TO HIM BY GRAND JURY COURT TELLS COUNSEL TO SIT DOWN AND BE STILL Los Angeles Sept R rington of counsel for tlie McNamara defense charged with contempt of court for living refused to answer questions asked him before the grand jury was ordered today by Judge Bordwell to respond to the questions As a result of the ruling Lecompte Davis one of the McNamara attorneys declared H was probable that the de- would ask for a change of judges at the main trial The associates of Harrington who was cited for contempt for refusing to respond to queries regarding his attempt to Influence Mrs Lena Ingersoll of San Francisco a witness for the style said that did not know whether he would appear before the grand jury next Monday the time agreed or would elect to go to jail and institute habeas corpus Judge ruling came only after a stormy session in court In Davis and Joseph Scott attorneys for the were ordered to sit down and J Ford assistant district attorney was commanded to arguing Judge Bordwell said that after an examination of tho records had concluded that Harrington's answer to the contempt charges contained no denial of the facts stated in the of Charles Weir foreman of the grand jury regarding the attorney's refusal to answer Won't Amendment When the judge reached part of his ruling Scott rose and paid lie desired to file an amended answer to tho charge ton Ho said the new document would denl with the contention of himself and his associates that the main issue in tho proceeding against Harrington was whether the grand jury and the district attorney were noting in good faith or were instituting n proceeding merely to annoy the defense Judge said he did not think nn am ended answer necessary as he nnd original document Ho Unit versions it tho grand jury nnd thu dis- attorney by I lie defense at the nf the hearing last Friday had not hern admitted to tho and he did imt wish to of thoni declared services to the worn not those of and therefore Iho law did not him in that rapacity Thoro was no reason tho judge declared why should not answer asked by grand jury argued that the grand Jury right to the charge that to Ingersoll in Ran Ho paid that If any Investigation to bft mado of the crime it should he made In San Francisco Milken Sit said that had de- otherwise nnd declare that the grand jury must bo permitted to ceed with Itn Investigation whenever it thought there was ground for bo- that being on either side Illegally to witnesses wild It to bo for tint work Thon whore do wo roared Rend Iho tho court Kit down Mr Scot I I wont no further argument over the Davis roso nnd the AS QUESTION IS TROUBLE HAS BROKEN OUT SAY IS DARK FOR SETTLEMENT AT ONCE Sept Britain in the rest of had Juat settled down to what it was hoped would be a state of peace after the settlement of the Moroccan question when news conies of a threatened war between Italy nnd Turkey Nobody here believes that Turkey up Tripoli for economic or without resistance On the other hand the friends of Italy do not believe that she proposes to take Tripoli by force without having first attempted to settle tho differences through diplomatic channels although it is admitted that she has serious grievances including the boycott of Italian goods in Asia Minor and Tri- poli the danger to Italian subjects in Tripoli throush the return of the tator who has before been expelled from the country for stirring up the people against tho Italians and in the matter of concessions in Tripoli ed to non-Italian firms However from all sources comes the information that Italy Is preparing to force a ance with hor demands by the of her army and navy and the movement of her ships toward Tripoli The Turkish forces In Tripoli are variously estimated al from to 30.000 men described as badly equipped and unable to offer serious opposition to Italian land parties who would be protected by the Buns of the navy Turkey's only reply could be the en- forcement of a boycott of Italian ping in the Levant and the expulsion from Turkey of Italian subjects who have in the country France it is expected will not inter- fere in any way with Italy while Great Britain would also be a spectator Germany would be most seriously as she would be in the position of having to choose between two ir- reconcilable friends upon a matter which is the direct result of her Moroc can enterprise and which will ize entirely the naval advantage which she from a careful nursing of Turkey tho reconciliation of the Turks and tho of Austrian ambitions Germany therefore Is likely to at- tempt a settlement It is improbable however that the Turks could be held back For them to back down would about further international bles in Turkey while on the other for them to po to war would mean an opportunity for which tho Balkan states have long been On the whole the outlook Is dark CLERKS Memphis Sept A general strike of nil tlm of the Union of Railway Em- ployes hero has horn Almut iOO men urn affected the clerks the order Includes tho boiler uiul shop A KKW T general of the Illinois SUM no clerks fnr iny in- got Ift lions to HO tile nuy Thoro arc Umu kXl men ployed Jin tn and New leans I n fmv BATTLESHIP IS BLOWN UP THREE HUNDRED MEN DIE Toulon Harbor Scene of Most Fearful Accident in France's Long List of Mishaps in the Plate of Destroyed Liberte Is Hurled Against Sister Ship Republique and Fragments Fall in Smoke Over Waters Toulon France Sept than three hundred officers and men of the French battleship Liberte lost their lives today when the shin was torn apart and totally destroyed in the harbor here by an of her magazines The battleship was badly damaged and the ships Democratic and Verito suffered heavily from the masses of twisted iron and armor plate hurled upon their decks This is the greatest disaster that has over befallen the French navy and in magnitude Is almost without precedent In the annals of the world's fighting ships The explosion which wiped out ono of France's most powerful battleships occurred at o'clock in the ing It was the result of an outbreak of fire The flames spread rapidly in spite of all efforts to extinguish them and reached the magazines before them was time to flood them The magazines exploded with tremendous violence sowing death and destruction in every direction Some Taken Ont Alive While the naval authorities mate the killed at three hundred it is feared this figure will be exceeded It will be necessary to go through the ship's muster rolls a task of days be- fore a full list of the victims can bo prepared Several men already have been taken alive from the torn and twisted mass of wreckage and the hope is strong that others may ba reached Exactly from what cause or when the fire broke out has not been but it is believed It had been smouldering for hours Of the full compliment of 742 men Cap- tain Jaures brother of the socialist leader and tho second officer In com- mand were both on shore on leave as also were 140 officers nnd men The command of on tho senior lieutenant who perished Could Flood a The fire Was discovered at 4 a m and the bugles immediately sounded the alarm The crew rushed to quarters and fought desperately the spreading flames but It soon was dent that the fire had obtained a firm hold Signals of distress were flashed to the other these dispatched steam pinnaces and launches to sist In the work of extinguishing the flames and rescuing tho men Tho sition of the fire made it impossible to flood the magazines and finally the commanding officer realizing that the ship was doomed ordered the bugler to sound the Sauve qui peut let him save himself who can and shouted to the men to jump for their lives Shattered Windows In At the first explosion occurred It wag followed by three others at one- minute intervals Then came the final terrific detonation which the windows of tho entire city and was heard for many miles The Liberte was rent asunder her bows were thrown high in the air and then the vessel slowly settled down and in 19 minutes nothing was visible but the top works Those still on deck were hurled skyward amid a shower of iron and stoel The boats of the rescuers were sunk and serious damage was done to tho which lay at anchor close by Two of her decks were stove In and one of armor plates was hurled against her port side and demolished the cabin of an absent en- sign For a few minutes after the final ex- plosion nn intense black cloud of smoke hovered over the harbor When It shifted a horrible spectacle met tho eyes of the people of Toulon who awakened by the first explosion had hurried to the shore The twisted upper works of the were protruding from a mass of wreckage among which struggled the seamen from the rescuing boats that had been sunk by the flying de- bris or sucked down In the maelstrom of Dead Late tonight the naval authorities said the number of victims fa greater than at first appeared The official estimate Is now given us between 330 and 400 dead or missing Tho work of rescue began quickly An ambulance station was Ins tailed In the arsenal and Admiral maritime prefect wont nut to the wreck and superintended he work of extricating those imprisoned under tho shattered steel The first body ro- was that of an officer which had been hauled from an ins with a boat hook Up to ing 10 bodies had been taken out and 04 injured transferred to the hospital shears to cut til rough plates and a flouting crane to lift the masses of steel were used in tion with divers who are at work ex- tho Interior of thu hull Tho ship appeared as If hoc hows had doubled over onto the stem Men hi hat part of tho wreckage above the water could bo heard ing mid screaming for help Tho lower dock was a horrible sight One mini had his held under a mass f weighing tons A ft IT throe hours effort to lift the i surgeon the fool Through a In the armor portions of con- and rouM be nil ol them by Iho II nod It Ono of Iho survivors n who came nut f Hre with 11 on told of The lint In I store among cans of oil turpentine paint and other In spite of every effort tho Mam eg reached the cual bunkers and after j that it was difficult to prevent from gaining the powder j It wag about o'clock and dawn s was about breaking before the danger to be realized Assistance was then sent us from the port and from three other warships lying in thu harbor Just when the whole ship's crew seemed to have reached the boats in safety there WHS a terrific The Liberte was burled over on her side and the fore part where the full force of the explosion was felt lurched forward heavily with an appalling crash Cries resounded on all sides Sink The greater part of the ship's boats with the rescuers and the men from the Liborte instantly sank Krom that moment all that T was conscious of was that I was being carried aboard tho Republique where I was taken care of When 1 had somewhat re- covered my senses they told me what had happened After the explosion an enormous fragment detached from the bows of the Liberte and other pieces of iron fell on the Republique smashing the bridge and plunging between the decks The bugler of the Liberte was hurled through tho air from our ship to the deck of the Re- pul lique where he was picked up badly hurt In hie hand be still held the bugle with which he was sending tho alarm All the boats that tho Liberte were engulfed In tho pools caused by the sinking ship and they vanished amid the despairing cries of the crew On reaching the wreck a reporter found the battleship was a mass of buckled plating Inextricably mixed with torn boilers and broken ery Puffs of smoke and steam darted in and out from the vessel's mangled hull Commander of the Re- said that when the explosion occurred his vessel was shaken from stem to stern Afire FirM It is now considered almost that the disaster was due to the deflagration of B powder as In the case of the lena Toward 5 o'clock the watch perceived a dense smoke coming from the fore part of the ship He re- ported this to tho officers win ly ordered that the magazines be flooded as a first precaution The men whose It was to open the sea valves returned precipitately saying that it was impossible tn carry out orders on account of the thick fumes rising from the magazines Word of danger flew from mouth to mouth Men rushed to the boats or jumped Into the sea At this Juncture help from the other ships and the officers of the Liberia decided to make another effort to conquer the fire The bugler was ordered to sound the rally Tho spirit of discipline was so excellent that tho men who had jumped overboard asked tho boats picked them up to put t hem back aboard tho O Killed on Deck Some Idea of- the violence of the ex- plosion may be had from the fact that officer commanding the gunnery school ship anchored three kilometers from the Liberte was killed on his own quarterdeck by a fragment of shell hurled from the Liberte nnd two sailors standing beside him were wounded There was a the remnant of tho crew of the Liberte on board the battleship Sufron tonight Tho scene was as many of the men were injured and most of them were in tears Experts are of the opinion that the fire on the Liberte not the cause hut the result of the explosion Eye i witnesses say that it was not until after the minor explosions that smoke was seen issuing from the ship A ferry boat with more than a dred workmen on board was involved in the disaster As it was tho Liberte sinoko and flames wore observed from the battleship and tho captain immediately reversed the engines removing his boat from the danger none ny Accident ri in Toulon The battleship was tho of ship of the so-called Liberte class in tho French a boat of tons displacement and an over-all length of 452 feet She carried R crew of 793 men and boro four guns i and 10 guns of the French type She also had 23 small guns and j four torpedo tubes She completed in 1907 at a cost of about Tho battleships include the Democrat I the Justino the ito and the Liberte nil vessels of tho most modern type They spond approximately to thp five can battleships of the Now Jersey Including tho Virginia Georgia Island and Now Jersey The recent history of the French navy a series of disastrous most of them ex- i plosions and several occurring at Ion thu scene of today's On 1907 Iho utmost destroyed by tho explosion nf her nnd and men los their Until today jhe lena stood an illy by ho French of Like the j the leiu was blown up in Iho Toulon but loss of loss tho Irna An Investigation ot thu lena ex pin sion resulted in an official report that it was due to spontaneous combustion of H powder in a magazine where the temperature was too high on account of the proximity of the dynamo com- Sere The report severely censured the sanitation of the navy and The real cause of tho disaster was the absence of uncord as well as the divisions and antagonisms existing in the different branches of the service extreme weakness of tho tral power explains the progressive weakening of our naval forces Where will it A parliamentary committee ed in presented a report ly denouncing tho naval administration of the preceding 10 years and mending a complete reorganization with special attention to the tion of red tape and the distribution of responsibility Other notable French disasters of re- cent years Oct 10 Submarine Lutin lost off Bizerta 13 dead Feb 8 1907 on torpedo No 339 nine dead Feb 9 Cruiser Bart lost off the northwestern coast of Africa no deaths Aug 13 Gun exploded aboard at Toulon six dead Sept 23 exploded i board cruiser La Touche at Toulon 13 dead May re- mained submerged after diving in lon harbor 27 dead Sept 10 Oun exploded aboard cruiser of Toulon one man killed 33 injured three fatally AMERICAN ATTACHE SHALL TRANSMIT OUR SYMPATHY Washington Sept If subsequent information bears out the first advices as to the extent of the loss of life on the Liberte the disaster will go in as one of the greatest in naval the loss of more than 250 lives on the American battleship Feb 15 standing second on the mortality Hat Based on the first reports of the terrible naval disaster in Toulon harbor the perts of the navy department here were disposed to believe that ths explosion on the Liberte resulted spontaneous combustion of some of the smokeless powder had rated from being kept too long inspection It is to guard just such accidents that naval regulations require a careful ex- amination of the powder In the zines of warships at comparatively short Intervals This examination in- volves a chemical test calculated to demonstrate absolutely the safety of the powder Acting Secretary the Navy son today cabled Commander Henry Hough the naval cf the American embassy at Parie at Brest Return to Paris and express to the minister of marine the great sorrow and earnest sympathy of the secretary of the navy of the United States and the American navy for him and the French navy in consequence of the accident on board of the Liberte that has Involved the lives of so many gallant French seamen Special Dispatch to the Standard Bozeman Sept wooden leg of Welsh proved a poor bank the unfortunate man lost not only money but tlie artificial member was also reduced to splinters in a nt Three Forks hist night Welsh is a ir the valley and had been working on n ranch near Three Forks He was given a check for which he cashed late last at Otto Anderson's Tills was placed in hollow of his Several hours later Welsh drifted into tho freight yards In- tending to catch a freight train for Harlowton Ho wna accosted by two tramps who for money Upon refusal Welsh was felled with a blow nn the head rendered him un- Tn order to got at the money the broke the leg open nnd left victim unconscious In the yards The police that assailants saw Welsh put tho money In its hiding and are to thorn upon that theory Welsh not seriously from a bruise on the huail and a piece of wood for a lop FIFTEEN KILLED IN FIGHT AT SANTA RITA RANCH killed nnd four wero ivil In a battle with tho Saturday ut the much Mexico continued throughout ycK t n wounded soldier ln
