Anaconda Standard (Newspaper) - January 16, 1912, Anaconda, Montana WEATHER FORECAST FOB TUESDAY Fair WEATHER FORECAST FOR WEDNESDAY Fair VOL 135 ANACONDA MONTANA TUESDAY MORNING JANUARY 16 1912 PRICE FIVE CENTS AFTER DAY OP EIGHT ORDERED TO TECT WOOLEX PROPERTY of hose who took in attack on big mills are sentenced from one to tivo yearn in jail at night session of nay will demand other slonn before any of the fifteen strikers return EQUITABLE BUILDING IN FLAMES LINKS SOT POPULAR WITH ALL Lawrence Mass Jan companies of state militia including one field battery placed the mill dis- of this city under martial law after a day of rioting due to the strike of operatives in cotton and woolen mills In one instance a company of militia charged a mob with fixed bayonets one buy being probably fatally hurt Thirty-five arrests ot armed rioters ivere made today and a few strikers and mill employes were treated for bullet wounds Most the mills are expected to in the morning and the militia men had been instructed to use tic measures to prevent a repetition of today's outbreaks Even if the mills reopen it is expected they can run only with a reduced force as the strikers have trebled their numbers sinco Friday Although the strike was instituted only as a protest against the tion in pay before the operation of the law making the working week two hours shorter the strikers now sert they will not return without a per cent increase and other con- cessions including double pay for overtime and the abolition of tha premium or bonus system Will This decision of the strikers was made known at a conference between strike leaders and city officials this afternoon It was agreed that the strikers be allowed to place pickets about the approaches to tile mills with the understanding that any signs of violence in their part will be the cause for arrests At a special session of the court 2T rioters were found guilty tonight Three were sentenced to two years in the house of correction and the other 24 were given one-year sentences Mayor has ordered all loons to remain closed tomorrow The mills closed are the Wood Ayers and Washington controlled by the American Woolen company anil employing persons the cotton mills of the Lawrence Duck company employing more Other woolen and cotton mills the employes of which aggregate are running on a small scale Police Rioters The trouble today began with an attempt by strikers to rush the doors at the Wood worsted mills and the Prospect woolen mills The attempts al both places were repulsed by the police who used their clubs freely j made several arrests The strikers raided a train of coal oars and bombarded the windows of one mill with chunks of coal injuring six operatives The police then j charged the mob and fired into the air but the shots did not scare the strikers and orders were given to turn water in the mill hose At this two companies of militia under Cap- tain Ranlett were ordered out Captain orders to tho crowd to disperse were not obeyed immediately and he ordered the militiamen to charge with bayonets set In the charge many of the were pressed against the crowd but the militiamen were careful not to inflict wounds Battery r light artillery was dered out half an hour later guns of the battery were unlimbered whereupon the crowd dispersed Vincennes who the police pay was one of the most violent in the crowd was arrested charged with Ho carried a revolver and 32 cartridges a long dirk knife and a stiletto THUT FID FIRST SHOT Special Dispatch lo tho Standard Livingston Jnn Mnl B lowell now In the county jail nt Big Timber waiting trial for tho murder of Deputy Joe whom ho is alleged to have killed In December was fired upon by and that did not shoot until tho deputy hud fired several shots at him will be the testimony given by Dun McDonald jin eyewitness to tho killing McDonald Is a prisoner in the Park county and when Interviewed today told his version of the killing of the deputy to McDonald lie was ing ft saloon directly across tho street from tho place where the ing took plane He says that ho he deputy sheriff Ire at and heard tho shots distinctly Jowell killed all snld McDonald hut It he had not he would boon killed himself Ho nover Ural until the deputy shot at him McDonald Is one nf the most witnesses In the case Ho Is con- fined In tho Jail hero In order to rile him from tho other witnesses now in the Timber Jail TALK WITH TUFT p res Id on nud general over lie to ts not In cabinet officer's N of u tli em Rive mi the pi nit a hundred theories nil out Washington Jan ter General Hitchcock had been in con- ference with President Taft for more than an hour today an authoritative statement was made at the White House that there had been no friction between the president and the master general over the posed recommendation that the acquire operate all tele- graph lines as an adjunct to the office system The statement given out nt the White House A recommendation by the master general that it would be well lor the government to buy the telegraph lines and incorporate them in the system in an earlier annual submitted by him to the president After some discussion it was de- at the president's suggestion to postpone reference to the matter to another year and not to bring It forward then because of the of many other important changes the postal ings bank and the parcels posts These if adopted would take up all the energy of the de- in making the necessary changes The postmaster general intended to bring this matter to the tion of the president before the publication in advance of this part of the report After having made preparation for publication he was called out of town suddenly out having done so His conclusion as to the wisdom of taking over the telegraph lines had been reached only after a full investigation and consideration As the report the has not been submitted to the president it has not yet been considered by him or by the cabinet with a view to it lo con- gress as an administration ure It Stirs Capital The pronouncement in favor of ownership arid operation of telegraph lines as an adjunct of the postoffice department stirred official Washington today as few tive acts have in recent years The postmaster general's statement was news to the White House and is said to have caused the greatest prise there This was when forts were made late last night to re- call the announcement These efforts however did not come from Hitchcock He was out of the city when the ment was released and did not return until late last night Then be went Immediately to his apartments and would not be disturbed Senators and representatives generally did not learn of the proposed recommendation until they read the papers today When they reached the nil were discussing the matter and many divergent views were expressed Most generally discussed of all the reports early today was one that ure might be brought to on Mr Hitchcock not to make the dation the matter has not beyond a declaration by the postmaster general that he would make such a recommendation to congress by a statement from him reasons for the proposed acquisition of the tele- graph lines A Great Question There was no disposition at the cap- Hoi today to avoid any serious con- sideration of the proposed plan The question of government ship of public utilities is a great one that needs long and careful on Page Two Cal Jan Mike who with hia son kii'ed Deputy Con- stable William Blake and wounded Constable Lansing at Fall City Nov 24 was captured tonight near Lovelock Sheriff er of county who rarr down the murderer telegraphed tonight to Montgomery of Shasta county that he to have tho gades within a Cow hours been on thu continuously since tho of the Sheriff Montgomery left tonight for Reno Where tho prisoner will bo turned over to him Indian Miko nml his son both In- fired three shots at McArthur a storekeeper of Fall City Constable deputizing William Blake to aroint him in ar- rest the The latter opened fired wounding both died tho following day Indian and his son to the lava beds for two months succeeded In posses Five persons were killed and damages done In destruction of the Equitable Life Assurance building covering an entire block in the lower part of New York city The accompanying photograph BOCl shows tho firo at its height VIOLET RAX AWAY TO BE WITH WAITEll-LOVKR MOTHER TOO STRICT WOULDN'T ALLOW A BEAU New York Jan the Chicago girl reported to be heiress to who was ar- rested here today as a runaway ad- mitted it the Children's headquarters that she came to this city because of her love for tho waiter Jack and not simply because sho wanted adventure iti the I met Jack in she said where he was a friend of one of tin in our hotel 1 wits in love with him wanted to marry him But my mean my foster far too strict Khc to think I was too young to have a beau Anyway she did not like and would not let me him But I managed to do so just the same Ho used to write me letters addressed to Bella Ross and I got them the call box at the Then he went to New York and wrote me almost day me ot the times wo could have here Finally he sending me money T paved up too and decided to come here to see him There Is nothing more to say Jack Is a fine fellow I like him and he ways Iras treated me properly Superintendent Walsh of the dren's society said the case is being thoroughly investigated It was intimated an arrest was likely After the girl had been taken to tho children's court Clime appeared In passing through the corridor Violet saw him and running up to him threw her arms around his Clune bent forward to kiss her but Detective ligan pushed him away None of exclaimed Mulligan he had nothing to fear FOR FIFTH TIME SHE ASKS FOR A New York Jan Mrs Margaret Anderson Wheeler Miller in a suit for separation from fifth husband was awarded an ad- sum by tho supreme court to the action against Gustav M Fauser a wealthy artist and designer The four hyphens In the woman's name represent as many divorces Mrs Fauser charges thai the last husband deserted her and accuses him of attempting to make love to her daughter Ernestine Is In a New Jersey convent attorneys aro endeavoring to establish the complainant Is of unsound mind SMOCK Jnn shook In Urn valloy Inn more In tho was full In thin section of tho valley nl a in today No has been reported ns ALSO ox OF AS EVE ST MATTHEW ARCHITECT WHO REMODELED HER HOME San Diego Cal Jan crino head ot tho Universal Brotherhood and society was looked upon an thu reincarnation ot Cleopatra by the lute Mrs Harriet J according to Theodore H Leak the architect who testified In the Thuraton will contest today is regarded as one of the principal witnesses for Georee L roll of the deceased who now In break the will of his mother was testifying letters to have boon written by Mrs Ion to tho witness Airs Patterson had told him that Mrs ley was the reincarnation of Cleopatra Mrs Mary whose namo has figured In tho contest was the re- incarnation of Mother The ness further testified that Mrs son told him lie was the reincarnation I of St Further ing alons this line was prevented by objections from tho defense The ness further stated lhat he did not consider Mrs Patterson to been rational Leako raid that in nearly every conversation he had with tho i woman spiritualism and reincarnation were the only subjects would discuss Mrs Patterson was constantly un- der the fear that sho would be re- he testified Lcake said he had consented to di- reel the remodeling of Sirs son's Golden hill borne and to trans- form It into a spiritualistic temple with two vaults In which Mrs Hastie was to keep her priceless papers Seventeen wore introduced to day nine by the contestants Peking bomb was thrown nl Premier Rid Kal's carriage this morning Two soldiers and the horse drawing the carriage wore killed Yuan Shi Kal has been warned edly that attempts be made against Ids have urged the premier to and others fearing his assassination urged refuge the foreign concessions at Tientsin The rebels have more than once ened with dynamite Tho premier however Informed Sir John Jordan the minister hr did not foar A guard of 11 usually accompanied him through tho streets of Peking According tn Chinese reports nn at- tempt was made to assassinate Yuan in November but this report never was con- firmed LAW IS APPROVED Bf HIGHEST JUDICIAL BODY THAT ITS WAS IX OK MONTANA CASE IS ONE OF THOSE DECISION Washington Jan nearly a year's consideration the supreme court gave its approval today to the em- law enacted by con- gress in to take the of a similar act which hail been declared unconstitutional The decision murks an in labor legislation The old common law hedging in the rights of employes Is displaced In eral particulars by the statute approved today these is the abolition of the servant trinn and tho substitution of a employers liable for the gei ce of an employe in In- jury to an interstate employe it the employe from con- in many instances and limits the effect of the doctrine in others and likewise in many erates an employe from assuming the risk when lie enters employment the danger in his employment Jn the Bessie easy from the Mary A Walsh caso from Massachusetts and the Edgar G case from Connecticut the law was at- tacked seemingly from every able point of view Justice in the opinion of the court criticised these objections and rejected each He first decided that congress had the power to regulate the duties of tho common carriers in respect to the safety of their employes while both are engaged In among the state and the liability of the former from sustained by the hitter Authorities cited to abow that no valid objection could be founded on the fact that several slates already have determined the liability of Inter- state commerce employers Pursuing this line thr justice said that now that congress has acted the laws of tho suites in so far as thuy cover the same field arc suspended for necessarily that which is not supreme must yield to which is IS HELD ON CHARGE OF SLAYING HUSBAND H Mnr row and author on a uf murdering WUH hold to tin jury today In bonds of KlH did not tho stand In lior own defense at tho who nn Inventor to loath on the porch of I lie homo ho hail to Mor row their marriage that their domestic was stormy and one witness n roomer hn usurped Morrow's us a husband A maid In the house testified Unit Mrs Morrow had requested her to tell rollers that Morrow had committed because of financial troubles THAT OR TO TO SHOTEL IN OF FUIES REVERE IV TAKES FIRE AT EARLY HOUR ARE TRAPPED of nil Cor 11 In lit bur council In n n until report In- In MC in on of iii cut prosecutor in Attic c-d to p r en I il c n 1 or f rd r rn 1 1 on Icn r I it ml vn nc of Fresno Cal Jnn 15 In his report to the California Building Trades council which mut here O A that Lawlur prosecutor hml at Loa An- lust to induce and other labor leaders to implicate Samuel president of the American Federation nf Labor in the dynamiting sorted promised them im- from and consideration Ho declared that lor wonted thorn ID say f knew in advance nf the trial that the guilty now IH under federal in- la the dynamite case His statements before the cil received with applause which was to Indicate that he would re- thn council's In Los An- has not yet for official Xo Pirn of Them will ho no pica he said in hfg report the men accused urc not and they refuse to as stones either for Mr hns his eye on tho governor's chair or for Mr or for Mr Hearst's dency The case was reviewed at length a portion of the comment being confined to un article on the Los Angeles pit nation by Charles Russell in which it was declared that the thought they were the battle of their While not defending the denounced the of- who conducted tlu case and character I zed tho proceedings as n blow aimed at union labor Union men and tho report continues believe that murder Is the most horrible of all and that the of human whether com- mitted by individual society state or nation In an ordinary brawl and in- struggle or a so-called civilized war R murder of If labor should invoke as a law an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tire world would have a deluge of man blood without a saving ark on Mount Ararat but with numberless columns to mark the final landings Of Asiatic exclusion Mr The oriental coolie question i3 far from settled The present Chinese ex- net has proved wholly quate and the agreement with Japan it but satisfactory Chinese coolie laborers are coming in by the hundreds and thousands dis- guised as business men and students Another of large proportions Is the almost dally arrival of large numbers of Japanese women The report of General dent P H McCarthy former mayor of Kan also was read to the delegation but it contained no direct mention of the MeNamara case or of the Indictments against and other labor leaders The report stated that organized labor stood face to face with the critical period of its history in this state to conspiracies fo destroy it BANKERS IX TROUBLE Saskatchewan Jan 15 B McKinnon teller and 0 R ford manager of the Union bank here were arrested today tho former charged with theft and tho with forgery Tho arrests followed the dis- covery of an alleged shortage OL eral thousand dollars 1 I i r e i HI e driven hack In their to cnpc- in t and down ladders by ex ford hotel In urine and hall of hut both nre from Boston Jan Revere house caught fire shortly before 2 o'clock this morning The fire started in a dining room and spread through stories Many guests were carried down ladders by firemen and others scantily clad rushed from the building through the smoke From the Revere house the lira spread to the hall of the National Lancers and then to the house of en- gine company No 4 Hotel Rexford is in danger and the guests have been dered out One fireman has been killed Police officers who went into the In- tel to rescue the guests were driven by the dense smoke They declare that dozens of people still were in the building and that many must be dead Four alarms called out greater portion of the city's fire fighting paratus and the firemen were able by strenuous measures to save the Lancers hall the engine house although there were brisk fires on the roofs In Doomed A sudden shift in the wind sent the blaze around to the main part ot tho hotel and at the building appeared doomed The fireman killed fell from the fourth story and on a picket Confirmation of the report that there are a number of dead in the hotel ia lacking A party of sailors from the ships in tho harbor who were in the vicinity did excellent work They the firemen in raising the ders and carried several women and children from the building r More than 300 persons were sleeping in the hotel when tho fire was ered and there wag wild confusion as they scrambled for safety Families became separated and for aj time the police had difficulty In straining some who sought to return to the At 3 o'clock it was thought that all had been accounted for ing the reports of policemen that many still were sleeping when they were driven out by smoke At that hour the fire was still be- yond control Xo hotel in Boston and few In tha United States are associations than the Revere house Here stopped in the heydey of the hotel's Ity visiting royalty famous men and soldiers and some of the prima donnas who charmed a generation oft Bostonians now dead The Revere house was named after Paul Revere It was opened in May The ballroom and banquet halls were regarded as models of splendor Tha late King ward of Eangland when Prince of Wales was a guest of the hotel and for him was prepared the famous royal suite CHIEF VERT ILL Los Angeles Jan John Campbell of the Colorado court is reported seriously 111 at his winter homa in Long Beach His illness is due to recent injuries added to a nervous breakdown GALLATIN COUNTY WINNER OVER RAILROAD Special Dispatch to Hie Standard Helena Jnn 13 county won Its case In the States court here in the litigation involving the validity of its action in ing tho assessed valuation ot acres of land belonging to tho ern company from to an acre The board of tion of county raised the and tho Pacific re- fused to pay tho Increase and naked for Injunction to restrain tho county from selling Its property because of Its refusal to pay tho taxes Tho tion of tho company was that tho now assessment was higher In proportion than that levied on similar land In tho county It was also charged that tho board hail been guilty of fraudulent and unlawful action In raising tho Judge Hunt In nn opinion held that there was ft to show or Irregularities against which the federal court not grunt an injunction The court also ruled at some length that the no discrimination by the against the Northern Pacific Railway company that all lands adjacent to those Involved in the dispute are sessed as high as the Northern Pacific lands and that the Northern lands are worth on an average of per although assessed at only per acre biu that the sixmo ratio difference between assessed valuo and the real value OH Northern Pacific lands was observed as to all other lands In county Therefore Judge Hunt hold that the charge of discrimination failed Tho court said that It was n delicate power for ft federal court to enjoin tho collection of a tax levied by a subdivision of thos sute government and that while tho power would bo exorcised upon a clear It would not bo used thoro wore mere nnd tho party asking for an Injunction did not show injury upon tha merits
