The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-04
Harmless Electric BUZZer Fright
ems NOnuniOn WOrkmen.
All Los Angeles Is Still Nervous
and Excited.
BIG REWARD Is OUT
For the Arrest of Those Guilty
of Dynamite Outrage.
Detectives Are Working San
Francisco for Clues.

Los Angeles, Oct. 4.-The seventh
body and part of a backbone have been
recovered from the ruins of the Times
building. Several bodies are known to
be pinned beneath t { mass of twisted
steel girders but it will be impossible
to recover them until this steel has
been removed. 1t is impossible to 1den-
tify six of the bodies recovered.
The nOnunion men employed at the
Llewellyn Iron works were thrown into
a panic yesterday afternoon by the dis
covery of what was supposed to be an
internal machine in a brick warehouse
near the plant, but which later turned
out to be a sort of grim joke. Some
one had arranged a small electric buzz
yer. with a clock and two dry cell bat
teries attached, in a, tin box and secret
ed it in the warehouse. The continued
buzzing finally attracted attention and
the apparatus was rushed to the police
station but the officers found that it
was not dangerous. 1t is supposed
some one was trying to scare the work
men.
Under the stimulus of rewards aggre-
eating 100000, hundreds of men-po-
Hcemen and private citizens-here, and
in all coast cities, are searching for
clews that may lead to the arrest of
the band of cOnSpiratorS held RESPONSE
BILE for the blowing up of the Times
building last Saturday and the attempt
ed destruction of the homes Of General
Harrison Gray Otis and F. J. Zeehan-
delaar, secretary of the Merchants and
Manufacturers association.
Police and civil officials believe there
were at least three men concerned in
the outrage and the city has placed
a price Of $4,000 upon the head of EACH
The county voted an additional re-
ward of $5,0 900 for every man captured
and convicted and the Merchants and
Manufacturers association decided to
offer a reward of $50 900.
The entire city has been thoroughly
aroused. All classes are working to
bring to justice the dynamiters. One
newspaper that has been friendly to la
Dor printed a first page editorial de-
manding that strikes now in progress
be called off in view of the structures
directed at the unions in connection
with the explosion. The State FEEDER
alton of Labor, in convention here, pro-
badly will take action looking toward
the appointment of investigators to
work in connection with the committee
named by city officials.
Chief of Police Galloway said he ex-
-pected to have one or all of the bomb
conspirators in custody soon.
William J. Burns, former head of the
detective force engaged in the graft
cases of San Francisco, is at work in
San Francisco, in company with Los
Angeles detectives, threshing out the
theory that the dynamite found in the
internal machine at Zeehandelaar' s
home had been purchased near San
Francisco by men named Leonard, Bry-
son and Morris.
Search for the dynamiterS who de-
strOyed the Times building was re-
sumed today in all the country be-
tween San Francisco and San Diego
and the ocean and San joaquin.
While there has been no cessation
in the search for the conspirators
here, the police are more confident
than ever that the hunt in San Fran
cisco will produce important results.
A report was received by the detec-
tives today that the launch Peerless,
on which the conspirators are sup
posed to have shipped the dynamite
from Giant, Cal, had been traced
from San Pablo to Avita. on San
Francisco bay. According to the in
formation, the launch was met at the
latter place by an automobile, which
Immediately started southwark.
Messages were sent to police and
constables in most of the coast and
valley towns asking for information
regarding all motor car touring par
ties seen travelling southwark since
September %.
The police here don't think the
dynamite way brought southwark in
an automobile; that would have been
dangerous. They are convinced a
launch brought the explosives to some
point on the coast near San Pedro,
while some of the conspirators came
out in the motor car The funerals
of Churchill Harvey Elder, night edi-
tor of the Times, and J. w. Reaves,
the young stenographer who met
death at his post, were held today.
The certificates of death issued by
Coroner Hartwell to permit the burial
of Elder and Reaves read as follows:
Death resulted from burns and in
jurieS caused by an explosion, the
origin of which is yet to be deter
mined"
Abandoned Launch Found
San Francisco, Oct. At is re-
ported the launch, which. under the
name of Peerless, carried dynamite
from Giant has been found, aban-
doned in the marshes near AIviso.
ORGANIZE A GUN CLUB.