New-York tribune., 1910-10-04
s1OO,0OOFOR DYNAM|TERS'
Immense Reward Is Offered at
Los Angeles.
ARRESTS MADE EVERY HOUR
Round Up of Undesirables-Ex-
plosive Bought by Three
Men in San Francisco.

Los Angeles oct 3.-Under the stinu-
lus of proffered rewards aggregating
81 900, hundreds of policemen deteC-
tives and private citizens in all Pacific
Coast cities are searching for clews that
may lead to the arrest OF the conspirators
who blew up THE Los Angeles Times"
building last Saturday and caused the
death of more than a score of persons and
also attempted the destruction of the
homes of General Harrison Gray Otis,
owner of The Times" and of + J. Zee
handelaar, secretary of the Merchants and
Manufacturers Association.
Police and civil officers believe that at
least three men were concerned in the
outrages. and the city has placed a price
of $4,000 on the head of each. The coun-
ty to-day voted an additional reward of
$4,000 for every man captured and con-
victed. and members of the Merchants and
Manufacturers Association offered re-
ward of $4,000. of which SIS, 900 has been
subscribed.
The entire city is thoroughly aroused.
One newspaper that has been friendly to
union labor printed a first page editorial
to-day demanding that. in view of the
structures directed at the unions in con-
nection with the explosion. the strikes now
on be called off.
Chief of Police Galloway said to-day that
he expected TO have one or all of the con-
spirators in custody soon. He expected
news from San Francisco, whence has come
the most promising clew thus far developed.
Detective Burns on the Case.
William J. Burns, the detective employed
in the graft cases in San Francisco. is at
work tonight in that city with Los Angeles
detectives who were sent there on receipt
of information that dynamite, believed TO
have been the same as that found In the
| bomb at Zeehandelaars home, had been
bought from the Grant Powder Company,
near San Francisco. by men giving the
names of Leonard, Bryson and Morris. The
three men are said TO have brought the
explosive here on a boat. Burns and the
other detectives, with Earl Rogers. an at
torney, and powder expert, left Los An
geles for San Francisco last night, imme-
diately after reports concerning Leonard,
Bryson and Morris were received.
Two iron foundries. the Craig Shipyard,
at Long Beach; the Alexandria Hotel
annex, now in course of construction, and
several other large steel buildings where
there are strikes are heavily guarded.
General Harrison Gray Otis. editor of
THE Times" is protected by a bodyguard,
as are his offices and the branch office that
houses the editorial and business depart
ments of The Times and the auxiliary
plant where the paper is now being printed.
The City Council passed an emergency
ordinance at a special meeting to-day
which authorized the immediate appoint
ment of forty additional patrolmen, ten
sergeants and one lieutenant
To Gust the Agitators.
Many clews are under investigation to-
night, and in compliance with the orders
from the chief of police that every one fall
ing within the police classification of ''un-
desirable and dangerous should be taken
in, arrests are made almost hourly. These
arrests, however, are regarded as merely
perfunctory.
General Otis and Harry Chandler. assist
ant general manager of the Times" are
making arrangements for holding one
funeral service for all the victims of the
disaster A committee, consisting of the
editors and managers of all the papers in
the city, Is gathering a fund to relieve
the families of the victims. The funeral
Of Churchill Harvey Elder, night editor of
the Times" who died from his injuries
few hours after the explosion and fire, will
be held tomorrow.
IF the families of the men don't OBJ
ject we will have them buried in one grave
in my lot" said General Otis. "and we will
raise monument to their memory, which
will bear the names of all
A boy to-day found box containing
cIockwork and a cylinder which looked like
battery at the home of Mrs. Parkman,
on Grand avenue. When patrolmen arrived
they found several women in the Parkman
home in an hysterical condition. The ma
chine was a hoax. Shortly afterward
workman in the Llewellyn warehouse
heard buzzing sound and found a square
oil can, one side Of which had been cut to
admit two dry batteries and Clockwork.
he warned his fellow workmen, and every
one fed from the building. The police took
the machine away. 1t also was probably
hoax.
BROTHER NO. 81 IS COMING