The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-04
REWARD REACHES
100000 MARK
IF Money VIII Capture tho Los An.
eees Fiends, They Surely VIII
Soon be In
Prison.
DETECTIVES ENERGETIC
The Entire City is Thoroughly Arous-
ed and Everybody is Trying to
Find the Guilty
Parties.

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Oct. 4.-Under
the stimulus of preferred rewards ag-
gregating 100000, hundreds OF po-
iicemen and private citizens in Los
Angeles and in all coast cities are
searching for clews that may lead to
the arrest Of the conspirators held re-
sponsible for the blowing up OF the
Times building last Saturday and the
attempted destruction of the homes Of I
Gen. Harrison Gray Otis and F. j.
Zeehandelaar. secretary of the Mer-
chants and Manufactures Association. I
Police and civil officials believe att
least three men were concerned in the |
outrage, which cost the lives Of more
than score of Times employees, and
the city has placed price of $4,000
upon the head of each. The county
has voted an additional reward of
$4,000 for every man captured and con-
victed, and on top of all, the members
of the Merchants and Manufacturers
Association decided to offer reward
of $4,000. Twenty-Five thousand of
this amount already has been subscrib-
ed. The rest, 1t is predicted. will be
contributed today.
Upon the assumption that at least
/ three men were responsible for the ex-
I plosion, the combined offers of reward
/ thus approximate 100000. figure al
most unprecedented in the annals of
criminal pursuits.
!. The entire city has been thoroughly
aroused One newspaper that has
been friendly to union labor printed
a first page editorial demanding
that, in view of the structures direct
ed at the unions in connection with
the explosion, the strikes now on be
called off.
i The State Federation of Labor,
which met in convention in Los An
geles probably will take action look
ing toward the appointment OF investi-
gators who will work in conjunction
with the committee named by city
officials.
Chief Of Police Galloway said he ex-
pected to have one or all of the con-
, spirators In custody within few
| hours, and later he stated he expected
: the news to come from san Francisco
: whence has come the most promising
: clew so far developed
William j Burns, former head ot
the detective force engaged in the
: graft cases of San Francisco, is al
: work in that city with Los Angelo:
detectives who were sent north upor
receipt of information that the dyna
, mite, believed to have been the samt
as that found in the bomb at Beeaan
). delaar's home, had been purchased
near San Francisco by men named
Leonard, Bryson and Morris. Burns
and the other detectives. with Attor
! ney Earl Rogers and a powder expert
!. left for San Francisco immediatel.
!. after reports concerning Leonard, Bry
> son and Morris were received.
e Running Down clue.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 4.-The pc
= lice of san Francisco are almost pos
= tive that the three men giving tn
names of Leonard. Morris and Brysor
who purchased 500 pounds of dyns
u mite from the Giant Powder plant a
y Oakland on September "a, are re
sponsible for the dynamite outrage
: at Los Angeles.
{. Attorney Earl Rogers and Detectiv
- VIM, Burns. who are here inyestiga
- - Ing this clue learned today that tn
- three men in question, anchored
n launch at saulauito from Sept. q
- % and that on the night of Sept. 2
. they gave the vessel new coat {
raint. The next day they purchase
in san Francisco, two sets of nam
~ plates. bearing the name Of Peerles
"a The next day. the three men in tt
!, launch with the name Peerless yeI
= clear and distinct on the side of Il
70 launch. appeared at the Giant powd'
~ company's plant and purchased IL
". dynamite.
Burns and Rogers found furth
confirmation of their theory when re
idents of Aldiso, on the extreme low
ng end of the bay reported today tn
IL they saw a launch enter Aldiso slous
MT on the afternoon of September
in Three men were on board Near mi
as night thev were seen to unload the
ed cargo and place it in a wagon or aut
20, At davbreak, Sept. 26, the thr
by men and the launch had disappeare
We II is believed that the launch
beached somewhere in the marsh'