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PRICE FIVE CENTS. TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR. GREAT FALLS, MONTANA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 4, 1911. BOMB AIRBED TITO STRIKERS WO TAFT '-MAKES I 1 I TALI FORCES IE SPEECHES SIT UATILIN rVNTV-) J79L' i ii i i -Ti 1 Train Bearing Strikebreakers Attacked in Mississippi. Several Hundred Shots Fired and Several Will Die as Result of Shower of Bullets.

Has One of the Most Strenuous Days Since Leaving on His Extensive Overland Trip Says the Party Is for Progress. Denver, Oct. 3. When President Taft done in the preservation of our natural 'anil our national resources, and hich was taken for a two n.urs automouiie steps ought to be tatcen which the mis-ride this afternoon and was hurled along of the steW show to wise at a speed varying from 35 to 40 miles; "It does not do to abuse everybody," an hour, it was but an incident of one said the president. "That does not help a of the most strenuous davs he has had bit.

There are certain of us that can since leaving Beverly more than two, stand it. I have got to the point where weeks ago. jit is a sort of normal condition, but when The president's Denver hosts kept him Jou to congress you will find gentle-nn tl.o rr, from earlv mnmincr until late nien there who have very definite ideas toniirht when he left for Cheyenne. Mr. Taft made two important speeches during the day, the first to the Public Lands convention and the second to the including the state central committee and various county committees.

the president talked polities to the republi- can committee men and outlined the po- sition of the republican party as he in-: terpreted it. "YVe are for orogre'ss and he said. "We are for prosperity and for Crawford Hill, then went to the base-doing nothing that will interfere with 'ball park, where he presented local the growth of this country, provided that! trophies to the members of the Denver action 5 ItVx- Ul 2 business irrowta is ahmg the lines that' are legitimate. There is not any desire on our part to tut corporations jusl ue- cause they are corporations. And if they are contributing to the growth cf the! country, if they are furnishing a large wage fund for the support of wage earners, and are engaged in that kind of work that is evidence of American enterprise, we are to encourage them, not discourage Speaks of Tariff.

"The quest i of the tariff," Mr. Taft add oil. "1 think all republicans airee on. We are in favor of a tariff that will en- able the manufacturers of this country that are dependent upon tne tanit to ne and to meet competition from other countries. We are not making any apology in the slightest for the blocking of those bills that failed to sustain that measure in respect to tariff protection." The president took a fling at "some tariff reformers" when he said: "There seems to be a little misconception as to 1 1 Af'Cilbe wis t0(klv ir the pure -flu tariff hilu nr.

Hu refpnt session or 1 IS CR of the depot, closely following the first encounter of the afternoon, in which one man was seriously wounded. The train bearing the strike breakers had pulled down to the freight sheds and was standing on the side track. More than 100 strikers assembled, words were exchanged and it is said, a strikebreaker hurled a brick among the strikers. Fire at Coach Windows. Immediately afterward a fusilade of shots followed.

The strikers opened fire on the coach windows at which the heads of the strike breakers could be fceen. Several fell after the first volley. The occupants of the coaches returned the fire through the windows, keeping well scattered. Occasionally when a strike breaker raised his head he was greeted with a shower of bullets. The fight raged fully 20 minutes.

Finally the engineer of the train made a dash for his locomotive, managed to get aboard while the bullets were flying about his head, opened the throttle and pulled out at full speed. The train did not stop at any pr ints south of McComb, going through Magnolia and Osyka at full speed. Realizing the "ravity of the situation, and fearing the strikers would attack the machins shops, where 80 strikebreakers are barricaded citizens deserted the streets early in the evening. Chicago, Oct. 3.

Xo more men will le hired at present to fill places of strikers cf the Illinois Central railroad, according to a statement tonight from the office of Vice President I'ark. Enough men are now at work to keep up light repairs indefinitely, it was said, and the men of numerous locomotive and other specialties will be discontinued. Mr. said: "None of the men who went out have returned' and a few additional men have gone out at other points, but considering the new men who have been employed, we have more men at work today than yesterday. We have stopped hiring men for the present and are resuming normal conditions.

"We will not require as many men in the future for the reason that a full force of men has supplied us with mechanical equipment in advance of our reouirements. We have also heretofore made a great many fjcomotive and car specialties largely for the purpose of keeping the men employed, and we shall now buy these direct from the manufacturers. "As to our car repairs, the bad orders are lower than they have been in recent years, and only part our carmen have left the service. We have sufficient men at work no, to keep up light repairs indefinitely." Five hundred employes of the Rurnside shops were not molested tonight when they left work. Several hundred strikers gathered around the plaint, but did not offer to molest the strike-breakers.

STRIKEBREAKERS ARRIVE. San Francisco, Oct. 3. Seventy-two strikebreakers arrived here tonight from Chicago and were taken directly to the Mission bay shops of the Southern Pacific railroad. Forty union pickets were on dutv when the strikebreakers entered the stockade and a crowd of union sympathizers was- gathered about the shops, but there was no demonstration.

The non-union men will be -fed and sheltered within the stockade. Officials of the federated shopmen expressed themselves as satisfied with the situation. The railroad company issued no statement. The strikers claimed tonight that a number of the strikebreak ers deserted almost immediately after their arrival. There has been no violence here since the strike.

AGITATING BOYCOTT. Spokane, Oct. 3. An effort to induce union men employed on all railroads operating into Spokane to organize a gen- (Continued on Page Three.) In Broad Daylight and Robber May Get Sentenced to Life Imprisonment. Salt Lake City, Oct.

3. Life imprisonment at hard labor, the penalty provided by the new state law for highway robbery, may be the sentence imposed upon John Murray, convicted in the district court today, Murray who was an accomplice of J. J. Morris, recently convicted of the murder of Joseph Axtell, was arrested after a daring holdup of a pawnshop in the business district during broad daylight. Following the robbery both and Murray fled through the streets before an angry crowd.

Murray was overtaken and ciublwd into submission ly the police, but' Morris continued on his wild race through the city. Three men at-tonpted to intercept the robber and all were shot. Axtell's wounds were mortal. MONTANA WEATHER. Washington, Oct.

3. Fair Wednesday; warmer in southwest portion. Thursdiy fair; warmer in east, rain in west DARING HOLDUP if 4 toe WKEEE5J IN TKSHELD Italy Preparing for Big Naval Yet Intervene. cabinet is causing the sultan great worry. Hilmi Tasha resolutely refused to enter the cabinet, as it is lacking a well defined policy.

Since Said Pasha took office, the ministry has had three all-night sessions in addition to the prolonged deliberations during the day and the strain is beginning to tell on the aged vizier. The porte has notified the embassies that neutral cargoes in Italian bottoms will be respected with the exception of contraband, articles. ASKS FOR DELAY. Rome, Oct. 3.

A despatch from Rear Admiral iaravelu, filed at Tripoli this morning ami arnvmsr here touight lv way of Yittoria, Sicily, says: 'Tn answer to a summons for the fit render of (lie city made yesterday the Turkish commander asked for delay and was granted until noon today. TURKISH CRUELTIES. Agosta, Sicily, Oct. 3. An enthusiastic welcome was accorded 91 refuges from Tripoli landed by the torpedo boat de strovers Iaciere.and Garibaldino.

The refugees gave vivid descriptions (Continued on Page Two.) Steamer Carrying $250,000 Cargo Strikes Off Alaskan Coast. Help bv Wireless. Seattle, Oct. 3. The Alaska Steamship company's steel freight steamer Edith is ashore on Level island, Sumner strait, north from Wrangel, Alaska.

The Edith is resting on soft sand and her owners believe they will be able to save her. Messages received late today from Captain James P. Deniel pay the freighter struck at 1 o'clock last night during a heavy fog. The Edith was southbound from Skagway and has a cargo consisting of 60,000 cases of salmon, valued at $200,000. The Ala.skan lifter Alamanda which is en route at Yaldez to Seattle has been notified bv wireless to go to the aid V.

1 I jJ3 I I I Jackson, Oct. 3. In a fight in the freight yards of the Illinois Central at McComb City between strikers and strikebreakers today, several persons were seriously injured, one probably fatally. Governor Noel ordered out troops at 7:30 o'clock tonight and two militia companies are now hurrying to the scene. Details of the fight are difficult to secure.

Ihe special train bearing the strikebreakers continued on its way to Xew Orleans, where it was reported none was killed. Citizens of Magnolia say that when the train passed there at full speed every coach window was broken and no one was visible at the openings, the strikebreakers lying prone on the floor to keep from being fired on. Several hundred shots were exchanged and among the strikers there were numerous bruised and broken heads. Many of the wounded were- carried to the headquarters of the strikers and physicians summoned. It has been impossible to learn ths extent of their injuries.

It is reported that several will die. The fight at McComb City occurred at the freight shed about half a mile south AFRA1S Of Foes Stephenson's Rea son for Spending $107,793. Milwaukee, Oct. 3. Aside from hearing testimony that followers of Senator Robert M.

LaFollette in Wisconsin are known as "half breeds" and that they are the political foes of Senator Isaac Stephenson, the senatorial committee which is investigating charges that Senator Stephenson's election was secured through bribery, today devoted its attention to digging into campaign expense' accounts. Much of the necessity for expending an amount as great as $107,793 to get the nomination for Mr. Stephenson at the primaries in 1908 was declared by witnesses to be due to opposition exerted by Senator LaFollettes followers. To organize each of the 2,200 precincts in the state it was necessary to spend the money liberally, the witnesses said. All four of the Stephenson campaign managers E.

A. Edmonds, of Appleton; I. H. Puelicher, of Milwaukee; J. A.

Yan-Cleave, of Marinette, and Rodney llaek- ett, of Berlin, all testified that the funds were legitimately used. Senator Stephenson's slogan, often repeated to them, when he gave them money, according to their testimony, was: "Keep within the law whatever vou do." Decline Responsibility. While the entire amount expended by Senator Stephenson in the primary campaign was declared to be no one ot the witnesses admitted handling the entire amount. Edmonds, who was in charge of-the headquarters in Milwaukee, testified that he personally handled not more than $5,000. Puelicher said he merely was custodian of the fund and the extent of his responsibility was to pay it out when requisitions were made.

Yan Cleave testified he remained at Marinette, Senator Stephenson's home town and when calls came from Milwaukee and other places for more money he went to see the senator. In this way he said, he handled but he did not know hat was done with it beyond that it was sent, to the headquarters to be expended for campaign purjoses. "Whenever a call came in from headquarters in Milwaukee you went to Senator Stephenson's office and told him about it was that it?" asked Senator Heyburn, the chairman. "Did the senator readily give up the money "Yes," replied Yan Cleve. "He always gave it up.

Sometimes he asked what they were' doing with all that money, as the campaign was costing him two or three times as much as he thought it would. Ifis only comment was that he wanted them to keep within the law. Not a dollar was spent corruptly." Hackett Handles $98,000. Rodney Hackett, who is a clerk in the United States senate, testified that he worked in the Milwaukee headquarters and that he had the handling of alwiut $98,000. He spent the money in paying salaries and traveling expenses of managers and workers who were sent out over the state to boom Senator Stephenson's candidacy.

He kept a card index record of the expenditures but after the campaign finding the cards had been badly worn, he destroyed them, after making a cop' of the amount spent. "How, when you destroyed those cards, did you expect to defend j-ourself against a charge that the money might have leen used for bribery? You hae nothing to show now that the money was not spent for brilery have asked Senator Heyburn. "Xo one ever thought there was going i to Ite a charsje of bribery and there is no The committee, wbicn is investigating U-harwft that Mr. Stephenson secured his seat in the senate by bribery and other somebody shall get an advantage, not of Jou, of the generations to come atter 'ou Is Royally Entertained. Arrivinir in Denver this morning, the president was entertained at breakfast aI the Country club under the auspices of the Yale association, lie was then driven about the city, visiting Denver university and a number of schools, lie lunched at the home of -Mr.

and Mrs-. Next Mr. Taft visited the Denver baseball team, champions of the West inu league. (Continued on Page Three.) McCabe Dismissed and Wiley Is in Full Command. Dr.

Washington, Oct. 3. In a sudden sue cession of orders, an initial move in, the re-organization of the department of agriculture, the solicitor George P. Me food and drug board; Associate Chemist T. L.

Dunlap. closely identified with Mc Cabe, was allowed leave of absence until the president's return and Chemist Harvey W. Wiley, was left apparently in supreme command of the board. Dr. 11.

E. Doolittle of New York was temporarily appointed to the board to succeed McCabe. These changes were announced by Secretary Wilson today totlowing a conference with Dr. uev who has; lieen on a long vacation. They were deemed inevitable in view of the antagonism which was disclosed before a congressional committee last summer and in view of Dr.

Wiley's exoneration by President Taft, after Attorney Gen eral Wickersham, with views aligned with those of Secretary Wilson and So lienor McCabe had recommended his dismissal. The pure food and drug board is the agency that passes upon many important cases arising under the enforcement of the pure food law. Dr. Wiley on the one hand, and Solicitor McCabe and Dr. Dunlay on the other, were members of the board.

Dr. Wiley declared that he was usually outvoted and made several sensational statements in the investigation of the controversy. Smarting under the frequent overruling of his views wherein he held certain food products deleterious, lie told a congressional committee that lie regarded his assistant Dr. Dun-la) as his superior officer. Secretary ilson's brief announcement of the changes stated that Solicitor McCabe resigned voluntarily and that his resignation had been accept ed.

Dr. Dunlap was acting chief of the board when Dr. Wiley was absent from Washington. His temporary withdrawal was attributed officially to the fact that be is to take the customary four weeks vacation; but Secretary Wilson said Dr. Dunlap would not return until after 1 'resident Taft came back to Washington.

In place of Solicitor McCabe, to serve with Dr. Wiley on the board, Secretary ilun appointed Dr. Doolittle, long a member of the bureau of chemistry and now head of the bureau's substation in New York. Secretary Wilson said McCabe' duties as- solicitor remained unchanged and under the general provisions of the law he continues to exercise an important control over the enforcement of the pure food law. CITY GETS PROPERTY.

Special to The Daily Tribune. Helena, Oct. 3. The property in this city and county of the Helena Water Works company was today formally turned over to the city of Helena. The bonds issued by the city were taken up by the American National, the National Bank of Montana and the Union Dank and Trust company of this city, and the $400,000 turned over to the water company representatives.

Next week Mayor llorsky will appoint a water commission to look after the running of the plant for the city. AVIATOR DELAYED. Uuntingti Oct. 3. Aviator Rodgers, whose aeroplane was wrecked near here yesterday, will not be able to get away before Thursday.

He received only trifling injuries when his plane 'dunged. WILL BE TRIED AGAIN. Kansas Citv, Oct. 3. It was stated tjday that Dr.

Clarke Hyde will be placed on trial a second time on Octoler 16" on a charge of murdering Col. Thos. Swope. May Not Proclaim Neutrality Berlin, Oct. 3.

It was announced at the foreign office today that Cermany possibly would not pro- claim her neutrality toward the Turko-ltalian war. The reason as- eribed for this decision was the probability' that the conflict would be of brief duration. No steps toward mediation were likel to be taken, it was said, before the Tripolitan coast had been occupied by the Italians. Had lurkish General, Troops Expedition It The last official word from Tripoli comes from Yiee Admiral Faravelli, who notified the Italian government that he had given the Turkish commander until noon Tuesday to surrender. A special edition of the Iiome Tribuna published the statement that the Italian cruisers entered" the harbor of Tripoli Tuesday afternon, bombarded the forts and governor's castle, made a landing and hoisted the Italian flag.

The most important naval capture of the war so far is that of the Turkish transport Sabah with a Turkish general, a large consignment of trops and much ammunition aboard. Corfu reports that the Duke of Ab-ruzzi. in command of a flotilla off Pre-vesa, threatens to bombard that place. The porte's appeal to the powers has been answered by them that they cannot offer mediation until a basis of settlement is suggested on the lines of the Italian demands. Late reports from Constantinople say a new cabinet has been nominated and that it will continue the policy looking to mediation.

Turkish battleships and a eruiser have been sent to reinforce the squadron in the Dardanelles. Turkey, it is said, has FOUND Number of Known Dead in Austin Flood Disaster Now Thirty-Eight. Austin, Oct. 3. With six bodies recovered from the flood wreckage here today, the faee of another and a skull badly charred, the total number of known dead in the catastrophe of last Saturday now stands at 38.

With the almost hourly revision of the list of missing the remaining number is approximated only. This is given out officially as about 40, and the feeling is expressed tonight that several will never be found. Several storekeepers today began to display their wares. The regular water supply has been re-established. TICKET NAMED.

Salt Lake City, Oct. 3. A municipal ticket headed by Samuel C. Park, a jeweler tf this city, was nained tonight by a committee of business men. whose ob ject is xo iurtner a movement tor a citizens non-partisan league.

Candidates for commissioners include two democrats, a republican, and a socialist, congress on the part of those gentlemen who would be entirely consistent in signing those bills. I 'mean the gentlemen that are not in favor of republican protection and are in favor of a democratic tariff for re venne and trade. It would le entirely consistent in them to sign any bill that reduces the tariff, because they are opposed to- the tariff generally. I am not in that class. I was elected as a protectionist." Not Due to Democrats.

The president said he was perfectly willing to sign any bill that compiled with the republican platform upon which he was elected and lie hojed that when the people realized the "sincerity of our promises, they will see fit to continue us in power." "The fact is," he added, "that the defection from the republican party in the last congressional election, or the defeat of it. was not due to an increased number of democrats. It was due to the defection of republicans who insisted that we had not performed our promises. Now if we ahead, as I hope we may, and show to them that that is just what we are doing, acting on the tariff boaru report, it senis to me, that we are not over-sanguine in expecting that the republicans, who did not leave us exactly, but who withheld their votes, will now return to the place, where they belong." Ask Reasonable Attitude. In his speech before the public lands convention the president made a plea for a reasonable attitude on the jmrt of eou-Htrvationists generally.

He urged tltem not to -lose everything by claiming too much. He also frankly stated that he disagreed with many of the views expressed by the convention in recently adopted resolutions. Mr. Taft said he thought that the "fetish" stage of the conservation movement had passed, and that the country now was prepared to "settle down to a calm consideration of what ought to be Northwestern Lumber Co. Mill stroyed at Kalispell Loss Is $100,000.

De- Special to The Daily Tribune. Kaiispcll. Oct. 3. The immense modern mill of the Northwestern Lumber company situated a mile north of this city was completely destroyed by fire, together with the planing mill adjoining.

Starting from unknown origin in the en gine room about 9: 30 p. m. when flames were discovered by Mike Burke, the en gineer, who had been summoned to the mill by the night watchman. The entirej engine room was soon enveloped shutting off the steam suply to the pump house I'M) yards away, and completely crippling the water system which is ne of the most effective maintained by any mill in the locality. The chemical engine of the city fire department was hurriedly dispatched, but was of little avail and only the he roic work ot several hundred volunteer men and boys forming a bucket brigade made possible the salavtkm of the offices and lumber yards containing 17,000,000 (Continued on Page Three.) Mill BURNED and Ammunition Aboard Is Possible That Powers IVlay trops aboard two Russian steamers now held up at Suez.

This tends to confirm the Yienna report that Turkey has ordered the Yoemen expeditionary force to occupy the coast of the Italian colony of Kriteria, with the support of a squadron of warships. London, Oct. 3. The lapse of another day leaves the Turkey Italian war without further developments. There is no continuation of the reported bombardment of Tripoli, which appears unlikely to have happened, it will be several days before the expeditionary force is ready to leave Italian shores.

Apparently the Italian government is apprehensive that the Turkish fleet may be able to hamper the passage of transports and great precautions are being taken. The expedition will start from ports in two seas, rather than from south Italy and Sicily, in order to minimize that danger, and evidently Italy is in no hurry to get the expedition on the way. Another reason for the delay is the continuance of Turkish cabinet crisis. Clearly the old ministers are remaining in office against their will and are unable to formulate or agree upon any definite line of action. It" is even reported that the minister of marine has resigned because of flagrant disolxnlience of his orders to the fleet.

Meanwhile the pour parlers of the powers continue ith intermission. It is said that Russia is supporting Germany in efforts to bring about peace. REPLIES FROM Constantinople, Oct. 3. Replies to the porte's appeal have been received from most of the power, but they give little satisfaction.

In effect, the powers say they will be unable to offer mediation until the porte suggests a basis of sett on the lines of Italy's demands. The Austrian ambassador had a long interview with the grand vizier today, it is announced, the Russian ambassador will visit him tomorrow, but it is questionable whether Said Pasha will be able to remain in office another day. Turkish telegrams report that an Italian warship has slunk two motor boats near Hodeida, a seaport on the Red sea and pursued the Turkish destroyer Peikeshevet. A large number of volunteers, both soldiers and sailors well officered, departed for the Dardanelles, where the larger portion of the fleet is awaiting orders. Two battleships, the Messudich and the Assar-I-Tew fik and the torpedo cruiser Berk-I-'Satvet, have sailed from Golden Horn to join it.

Unable to Form Cabinet. It is understood that Austria has given a guarantee to Turkey that the status quo in the Balkans will be maintained. Mopped Pasha, son Sheik Abd El Kader, the la.st Algerian sovereign, has asked the sultan to allow him to return to Tripoli for the purpose of rousing all Mussulmans in -Africa to repel the Italian invasion. The grand, vizier's inability to form a ot the Lditu ana scows nave neen sent ground for anv now," replied the wit-from Wrangel to take off part of the I lless cargo. It is believed the vessel is not in Edmunds Examined.

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