The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-10-05
ANOTHER CLu1i:
TO EXPLOSION
But Los Angeles Police Keep 1t
Yelled in Deep
Secrecy.
ARREST GENERAL OTIS ON =
CRIMINAL LIBEL CHARGE
Mayor Refuses to Make Labor
Federation Officials Part of
Regular Investigating Com
mittee.

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Oct. 4.-The
veil of secrecy maintained by Chief
of Police Galloway and all his sub
crdinates since the explosion which
wrecked the Times plant, became
thicker and more impenetrable lat ,
today when a report came in that
trail of the dynamite conspirators had
been struck in this city. II regard the
second clue quite as important as
that which is engaging the attention
of detectives in San Francisco" This
was all a half hours interrogation
could elicit from the chief. He adj
mitted he had but two clues, the one
discovered here and the other that at
San Francisco.
Arrest Gen. Otis.
One incident of the day here was
the arrest of Gen. Otis, proprietor Of
the Times. on a charge of criminally
libelling r. Gallagher, the San FIR l.
cisco leader, in the columns Of the
Times. He gave bail in the justice
court, where the hearing was ar
ranged for tomorrow.
The charges against Otis were con-
tanned in two warrants. These were
issued some time ago in San Fran
cisco while Otis was in Mexico. SINH
lar warrants were, however, served on
Harry Chandler. assistant general
manager of the Times, but he was re-
leased under a habeas corpus writ is
sued on the grounds that the warrants
were insufficient.
The alleged libel was contained in
an article criticising not only Gala
CHER but Mayor Mccarthy and o. M
Taveitmo, following the visit of Gal
lagher and Taveitmo to this city to
confer with labor leaders regarding
the strike conditions here. Otis bonds
were fixed at 800 and the habeas
CORPUS writ was returnable tomorrow
Labor Leaders Ask to Investigate.
The committee appointed by Prasl-
dent Sullivan of the State Federation
of Labor called on Mayor Alexander
to ask permission to join the 'nvestl-
CATION now being made of the eXplo-
sion. The mayor refused to make the
federation appoin :ee.s members y the
investigation conlri GO NAM sew
eral days ago. Labor leaders then
asked for permits t. go Upon the
Times property aud conduc: SEP
arate investigation. This also was re-
fused, the mayor holding that ne had
no authority to II more than issue
instructions to tn" police to let the
labor committee within the police
lines surrounding inc bulldog.
May Call Or Strikes.
Several reports were current today
tina the mayor ht7 asked the LABOR
leaders to call off the strikes Of the
ircnworkers and b'twery workers
lie mayor denied co.'s, but salu If he
thought the labor leaders W'uld look
favorably upon sucn a Suggest ne
vCLid gladly make it,
Several bodies We're recovered from
the ruins today. which brings the
number of bodies from the ruins up
to fourteen. Seven are believed stlli
to be buried in the ruins.
Identify the Launch.
OAKLAND, Oct. An the discoV-
cry of the launch Pastime at the poat
house of Burrows e. Baxter in the
Oakland estuary, detectives are GER
tain they at last have located the mys-
terious craft, Peerless, used by the
perpetrators of the Times outrage 10
carry dynamite from the Giant Pow
der company works. The boat was
identified by George Phillips, chief
salesman of the powder company. De-
tective Burns declared there was no
doubt about it's being the boat. 1t IS
plainly seen where the name plate.
spelling some other name than
"Pastime" had been fixed over the
launch's name.