The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-10-03

Los Angeles, Oct. 3.-The city
council today authorized the ap-
pointment of forty additional police
men, ten sergeants, and one lleuten-
ant, in addition to the present po-
lice force engaged in hunting the
perpetrators of the alleged dynamit-
ing of the Times plant and to assist
in guarding the persons and prop
erty believed to be in danger from
future outrages.
Increase Reward.
The city council also discussed
the proposal to raise the city's re-
ward for the detection of the bomb
conspirators from $4,000 to $25,-
000 1t was determined to make
the reward of ten thousand for each
of the conspiratorS. The city's re-
ward was augmented today by an
offer from the county board of SUI
pervisors of $4,000 to s25, 1000, the
exact amount to be fixed later.
Take Out More Bodies.
Seven bodies have been taken
from the ruins of the Times build
ing since the force of 500 men from
the city street department began the
work of clearing away the wreckage.
Two were identified as J. F. Westry.
private secretary to Assistant Gen.
eral Manager Harry Chandler, of the
Times, and Elmer Frink, one of the
linotype operators. Seventeen men
are now in the city Jail, booked as
suspects. However, the best clue so
far obtained came from the offices
of the Giant Powder company of San
Francisco, where it is said two men
named Byleston and Morris and
third man purchased 500 pounds of
explosive similar in power and kind
to that found in the internal ma
chine discovered at the home Of F.
J. Zeehandelar. secretary of the
Merchants and Manufacturers As
ISOLATION. The clue is regarded as
very important and detectives and
others have gone to San Francisco
TO take up the thread. The men are
believed to have come south on a
boat with the explosives.
Homes Are Guarded.
In the meantime the people are
guarding the homes of Gen. Harri-
son Gray Otis, proprietor and gen.
eral manager, and of Harry Chand-
Ter, assistant general manager of the
Times Guards also are watching
over the plants of several industrial
concerns which recently have been
involved in strikes.
Dynamite Experts to Report.
The inquest will be held tomor-
row. At that time the committee of
dynamite experts and engineers ap
pointed by Chief of Police Galloway
to investigate the wreckage in an
effort to learn the character of the
explosive used will report their
findings, If they have any.
Burns on the Case.
Capt. Paul Hammer, chief of de-
tectives of this city, said today that
w. ]. Burns, formerly connected
with the San Francisco graft prose-
cution and now head of the secret
service of the American Bankers
Association, and NJ. J. Moran, of the
United States secret service, inspect
ed the ruins of the Times office to-
day and declared it their opinion
that the building had been Destroy
ed by a charge of nitro-glycerine.
1t is understood that both of these
men are now working with the local
detective force in an effort to ferret
out the parties guilty of the crime.
Burns arrived here today, attend
ant upon the bankers convention,
which begins tomorrow.
Remarkable Escapes.
Remarkable escapes also were re-
ported by Mark Bentley, chief press
man of the Times, and his assist
ants. Bentley and his men were
making ready to run off a section
of the Sunday paper when the roar
of the explosion sounded and the
floors overhead broke and fell. The
press room Immediately was filled
by Sitting cloud of smoke and
dust. Walls of flames blocked all
the doorways and ventilators. Bent
ley said today it seemed as if he and
his men were doomed to die there
in the basement, when one of the
men remembered that a hole had
been cut near the sidewalk for some
temporary purpose. The pressmen
made a rush for this means Of es-
cape.
Crawl to Safety.