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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1911-12-22
Russian Troops BOmbard the
Palace of Governor at Tab
riz, Killing Many
TURKOMAN BRIGANDS
MARCHING ON TEHERAN
Fighting at Four Places Attrib-
uted to Different Causes
by Opponents
CONFLICT HINGES UPON
DISMISSAL OF AMERICAN
BULLETIN

patch to the Times says the Russians
have seized the telegraph lines at Meh-
rand and Khoi, the province of Azer-
baijan, northern Persia and Astara, ON
the Caspian sea.
w. Morgan Shuster, cabling to New
York. declares that Russia has begun
war on Persia. The governors palace
ut Tabriz has been bombarded. Two
thousand Turkoman brigands are
marching on Teheran from the north
east.
+" EHERAN, Dec. 21-That Sc
rious fighting has commenced
between the Persian constitu-
tionalists and Russian troops is
evidenced in dispatches from Tabriz,
which state that the governors palace
has been bombarded.
There were casualties on both sides,
but their extent is not yet known.
The Russian legation here processes
tonight to have no details of the en-
gagement.
There also has been fighting be-
tween the Russians and Persians at
Enzeli, on the Caspian sea, and at
Rcsht, 10 miles northwest of Enzeli.
Conflicting versions are given as to
the cause of the fighting. One says
the Russians seized the police head
quarters at Resht.
1t is feared that the news will have
deplorable effect on public opinion
in Teheran The special commission
of five deputies which the national
council yesterday decided to appoint to
deal with the Russian uItimatum has
not been formed. owing to the reluc-
tance of the deputies to serve.
Persians Attack Russians
ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 21.-Accord-
ing to reports received from Julia.
suburb of Ispasan, Persia. the Persians
today attacked Russian detachment.
The firing lasted all day and artillery
took part in the engagement
later dispatch from Tabriz says a
small body of Russians was attacked
while repairing telephone line. Two
of the attacking party were killed.
Final Demand Delivered
LONDON, Dec. 22.-The Teheran cor
respondent of the Morning Post says
that Russia yesterday presented to
Persia final ultimatum, demanding
compliance within "a hours, otherwise
the Russian troops stationed at Kasbin
will be advanced on Teheran.
1t is understood, according to news
agency dispatch from st. ePtersburg
that unless Persia decides today to ac-
cept the terms of the Russian ulti-
matum demanding the dismissal OF w.
Morgan Shuster, the American acting
as treasurer general. the commander OF
the Russian troops concentrated at
Kasbin has been ordered to advance on
Teheran.
The troops. who number about 1000
of all arms, viii, in the event of Per-
sia's continued refusal. begin their ad-
vance tomorrow.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1911-12-22
Witnesses Coming Back

Jack" dollhouse of San Francisco,
alleged to have known ]. B. Mcnamara,
was called into the chamber, and after
a few minutes was dismissed from fur
ther attendance. dollhouse said that
he and Mrs. Belle LAWN. also said 10
have been familiar with Mcnamara S
doings in San Francisco. would leave
for the northern city tomorrow
Another witness called this afternoon
was w E. Beekner, assistant agent OF
the American Express company, who
took books into the grand jury room.
1t was supposed that his testimony re-
lated to explosives being expressed
under false descriptions
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1911-12-22
CLANCY SCORNS
idea OF TALK
TO PROSECUTOR
Grand Jury Wants Labor Leader
s. to See Federal Attorney
Before Testifying
Salt Lake Iron Workers Official
Called at Inquiry Into
Dynamiting

Los ANGELES Dec. PIE. A. Clan
cy, the San Francisco labor leader, who
answered a subpoena to appear before
the federal grand jury that is investi-
eating the alleged national dynamite
conspiracy. said today that he had been
told the jury would not get around to
him until he was ready to talk first
with the government prosecutor.
Apparently Clancy rejected that al
legged suggestion. for he left the fed
eral building Immediately after he said
it had been offered him. His state
ment, however, caused many conject-
ures as TO what he meant
J. E. Munsey, an official of the Salt
Lake City Iron Workers union, ap-
peared before the jury today, but did
not complete his testimony.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1911-12-22
Dynamite Cache Explained

INDIANAPOLIS. Dec. 21-Claude E.
Myers, chief OF police of Tiffin, o.
where $40 pounds Of dynamite and
other explosives were found hidden in
barn the day after the arrest Of John
j. Mcnamara in Indianapolis April 22
was the chief witness before the grand
jury in the investigation of the dyna
miting conspiracy today.
He was among those from who II
was said the investigators expected tc
learn facts as to who. besides the Nc
Namaras and Ortie e. McManigaI, were
implicated in explosions in Pennsyl-
vania, Ohio and Indiana.
Information was said to have been
obtained by United States District At
torney Charles w. Miller that the ex-
plosions were directed from McNa-
mara's headquarters in Indianapolis
although the suggestion for the de-
struction of property came originally
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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1911-12-22
Detective Threatens Witness

Browne looked at Munsey when thu
latter passed, and the labor leader told
him TO Took again.
"I will have you put in the county
jail IL you don't watch out" SAID
Browne.
Afunsey retorted that he was a fed
eral witness and in the federal build.
ing, which was government territory
United States District Attorney A. /
Mccormick, who has been in Washing
ton for some time, is expected to ar
rive here tomorrow. 1t is not believed
however, that he will supplant the
special prosecutor appointed to con-
duct the western end of the govern
ment dynamite inquiry.
John r. Harrington, the Chicago
attorney formerly connected with the
Mcnamara defense, who was served
with a subpoena as grand jury wit
ness yesterday in Albuquerque, will
be on hand tomorrow.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1911-12-22
STILL ANOTHER

SUGGESTION FOR A CHRISTMAS
PRESENT: A BookLovERs' Con-
TEST ANSWER Book!
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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1911-12-22
THE WEATHER

YESTERDAY Highest temperature. So;
lopesi Wednesday night. 46.
FORECAST FOR TODAY-Far: light
frost in morning. light north wnd
For Details of the Weather see page IT
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-10-24
THE MILLIONAIRE IN JAIL.
rcripneu Reoisfer1

John Walsh, the millionaire prisoner
at Fort Leavenworth, has been re-
leased after serving about fourth of
his time. II is an item Of news which
causes decidedly mixed feelings. 1t is
certainly a pleasure to read how this
old man, bowed with a weight OF sor-
row and remorse far beyond the weight
Of his many years, is finally relea sed
from prison to go back 70 his family.
Few will begrudse him what little
pleasure there is left him for the years
that are to come. But why should he
have been selected for executive elem
ency? He could not plead ignorance
az an excuse. He was not driven into
crime by the temptation to relieve HIM
self from poverty. His sentence was
not severe. There must have been
dozens OF men in the penitentiary at
Leavenwor'h. more deserving of par
don than Mt. Walsh. The trouble is,
we Americans can not think of man
worth some millions OF money spending
his time between the bars OF prison.
We can not get over the idea that the
millionaire is entitled to better treat
n1ent than anybody else. And he al
ways gets it.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-10-24
DIES MONIES AND IFS eRQc -RynsN.

In the correspondence from DeS
Moines published yesterday in the
T.-R. a peculiar situation was outlined.
1t IS stated that because the newspap-
ers supported the city market PROPOSE
ton the combined grocers boycotted
advertisements Later it is asserted the
grocers announced that they would buy
no supplies from anyone who adver-
tises in the Des MONIES newspapers.
And we are further informed that a
political fight will be naugurated on
the members of the city council who
favored the market place as an Offset
against high prices set and maintained
by combination. 1t is further limited
that the state authorities may take a
hand and investigate Des Mo:nes trusts
and combines.
II it is true that grocers' trust
exists in Des Moines the state author
tiles would Go we'll 10 take notice of it.
II as asserted this alleged combine is
really state wide organization the
sooner the department of justice in
Quires into il the better
Grocers in other cities than Des
Moines can scarcely ahord TO permit
themselves to be classed with a COM
bination allegedly for the purpose of
fixing prices as against competition
The conviction that combina ton Of
that sort really exists ror the purposes
alleged would result in the sending of
millions outside the state. Neither
Iowa in general nor the grocerymen in
particular can afford it. If such a COM
bine exists il should be broken UP
without delay. II it does not the fact
that it does not exist should be made
clear.
Moreover a boycott is boycott
whether conducted by aati-sa!oonists
or saloonists. Iaboring or business men.
And none soueals ar its slightest pres
sure louder than the grocery1nan
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-10-24
The Perils of Authorship.

Governor Woodrow Wilson is begin
ming to discover how perilous it is TO
write a book. Maybe when he publish
ed hts History Of the American Peo-
pie" ne did not expect to live to be a
candidate for the democratic presiden-
tial nomination. He has recently com e
uEcer the severe censure Of Colonel w.
II. Stewart. of Portsmouth. Va. who. in
addressing a gathering of confederate
veterans at Newport News. read a part
CT DR.. Wilson'S description OF the bat
tie between the Monitor and the Mer-
rirnac and then exclaimed: III this is
the way n Virginia born historian
writes her history, may God deliver US
from another SUCH"
The sentence to which the fiery col
cnel objected most emphatically was
this: ION the 9Th of March these two
novel craft made trial OF each other
and the Virginia (Merrimac) was
worsted." According to the DIRECTORS
judgment land he said that he had
been an eye witness OF the encounter)
Il was the Monitor that was worsted.
Colonel Stewart does not subscribe to
the biblical assurance that faithful are
the wounds of friend" He remarked
further to the veterans:
We may not expect justice from men
like E.lson. but when one born OF our
own soil speaks Untruthful history 1t
cuts deeper and makes 4 more frsidi-
Gus wound than one hundred Of Ell
sons flaming ISLANDERS for they fall Of
overloaded prejudice and ignorance.
The Richmond Times Dispatch" APP
plauds that sentiment and says that
Colonel Stewart deserves the thanks
OF all the old soldiers of the confeier-
acy and all the people OF the south for
his manly defense OF the truth of his
tory" What is Governor Wilson going
to do in this critical emergency? Will
ne throw THE History Of the America
People" overheard as he recently threw
overheard his Princeton lectures on the
Initiative and referendui I'm?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-10-24
PAylNG OUT.

| An Iowa newspaper complains that
a fellow who stole a banks money to
spend on a woman is likely to be rail-
roaded away from the grand jury" while
Il poor devil whose crime was of a
similar character will be very likely
to go to the penitentiary. The in
| ference is that the man who stole the
banks money has found way to re-
place it and that the other fellow either
didn't steal enough to make its restor-
ecution or else hasn't been able to find
friends who can and will make good
for him.
The complain made by the Water
loo paper is a common one because
the practice is common over which it
complains. Somebody steals or FORCES
notes. Under threat OF indictment, and
prosecution with the shadow OF dis
grace and penitentiary sentence for
one OF its members the family OF the
crook raise money at any sacrifice,
sign notes, mortgage homes. do any
thing and everything 10 save him and
themselves. And they usually sue
coed. Sometimes They do it over again
later. sometimes the lesson abides. But
the poverty stricken devil goes to the
penitertiary.
II is common. but it isn't justice.
Moreover it is composition of felony
but it is natural enough for the man
who has been robbed to care more for
his money than revenge and for the
respectable family to save its face at
the sacrifice OF its savings; but it
isn't Justice tia; one thief should pay
out and go free while another goes
to prison.
However. let the complaint be made
clear 1t is not against sending the
one to the penitentiary but against the
conlpounding Of felony which lets the
other loose. There need he no pity
for the convicted felon. He gets what
he has coming. deserves all he gets
anu Is uHCeSerNlNE OF peculiar SYM
patty. The wrong Is in the evasion OF
Ian which railroads the other away
from the grand jury" But the innurl-
cradle cases OF "railroading away from
the grand jury" the collision or Quie-
scence Of prosecuting and executive Of
fcials in the process is responsible for
very general contempt of Law. class
feeling Of oppression by legal opera
ton, ard the assertion that you can't
convict thief If he has money"
What are we going to DO about it,
Whose particular business is it to see
that one criminal as we'll as another
is prosecuted? Anybody's? Can
criminal pay OUT without incri.nin-
ating those who receive pay and do
these belong before a grand jury for
investigation like others gravely sus-
lected OF crime? By the way. who
ever heard of a prosecution for COM
pounding felony?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-10-24
THE STRIKE TO DATE.
Waterloo Times-Tribunel.


A month or 80 ago. before the men
Railway Company, and while they
or not to strike, the Times Tribune
warned them to proceed with caution
and called their attention to the over
supply of LABOR at present on the
market. 1t spoke OF the financial con-
dition Of the business world, of the
winter approaching. and advised the
men. that Of all times. the present
would be poor time to begin battle
with the railway company. We made
no attempt to discuss the merits Of the
case but argued that there IL 4 time
for everything and that conditions
were against the men and that II the
company was not bluffing-if it intend
ed to resist recognition Of the fedora
tion-the men started with q handicap
that augured poorly for success.
It seems to be apparent now that
had determined to fight and vros rot
playing for time or for compromise.
The strike has gone far enough to
was iIl-advised at this time; that the
railway company. after three weeks,
has q decided advantage-and It would
seem certain that the position Of the
company would improve from this time
onsas, from now on. II will get exper-
fenced men ~ strike breakers instead
Of common laborers. who take POSI-
lions during strikes at big wages, on a
BLUM o. that the employers might make
q showing against the men. AZ the
company looks at It. the worst 10 over.
And suppose It IL not? Does anyone
really believe that the company will
capitulate. provided 1t has determined
moi 10 3 ~; 81 r:e lo11srans; &: 5: ".:ccm:.s"
itself and the zen are "joliying" Them
selves. We 10 not believe the COM
pany has so per cent force of COM
petent men, - y claims. but we do be-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-10-24
Topics of TIE Times

Martial law in Coweta Okla. and
race war and massacre imminent.
Sounds like dispatches from Turkey in
Asia doesn't It?
An epidemic Of husband killing
seems to De IN progress. Under the
present rapiGity OF court action in di-
ought to De willing TO let the law take
il course.
Everybody favors a dry town at
Philadelphia
Ii appears pretty certain that SEN
a:or Frederick didn't ask Hnl,slaw
over to his saloon simply to have one
On him. But it put one on him.
A Detro!; woman suffrayist is ad-
vcca ting Law to make men pay their
wives wages. This ought 10 go a long
way toward explaining why they throw
sGffra gist agitators into Jail in honest
OLD England.
Has it ever occurred TO you that
Roosevelt is coming back and coming
fast?
Dakota insurgents made President
Taft welcome and LaFollette's man
ayers showed him good time The in
surgents honor highly the office of
president of the United States. so much
that they want a president of their
own.
If that world series drags much long
er the players may need snowshoes to
run bases in.
Anyway if Shelby NJ. Cullom were
sent back to the senate he would be
put to the trouble Of adding another
volume to his Fifty Years In Public
Life" Why make trouble for an old
man?
| 1t looks as tho the weather man had
bet on the New York team.
Secretary Wilson stood pat with the
brewers. And here comes Doc. Wiley
advocating woman suffrage.
Alas! Senator Cummins win not b
on hand to say few kind words fol
LaFollette when he comes 70 Iowa
Sioux City Journal
| However the Wisconsin man viii moi
be lonesome In Iowa. moro especially
in the Eleventh district.
| Men may come and men may 20 bu,
Lorimsr seems ready 70 stay on for
ever
The press Of Iowa 10 fond Of boast.
Ing Of the high values Of Iowa land
as an evidence OF the prosperity o,
10w& But let VI not everdo the mst-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-10-24
Modern History in Storage.
(Chriatian Science Monit0rl.

There is no room for reasonable
doubt as to the lasting quality Of many
modern achievem ents. It may be SAFE
| ly assumed that the discoveries and
/ inventions Of the nineteenth and twen-
| tieth centuries will 90 down to the age2
1t is questionable. however. whether
present day record Of these achieves
ments will long endure. We do not
write on stone as did the ancients; We
do not even write on papyrus or pArch.
ments: we write and print on paper
that soon yellows, dries, crumbles. Let
anybody who questions the periShable
character Of modern records take down
from the shelves book or q newspa-
per file OF twenty years ago and SEQ
for himself how insecurity preserved
are the chronicles OF our times.
A modern historic records associa-
ton has been organized in New York
by people OF distinction who have sfv-
en- serious thought to the question OF
preserving for future generations what
might be called the running history OF
our day. This association declares In
its prospectus that II proposes to adj
vocate. promote and systematise the
employment Of all possible mechanical
means that will insure the preservation
vi tilc SoIIlpIClSSt POoSAoA0 ASSOANC ~
the present for the Information OF the
future" To this end, the aid OF the
camera. the monograph, the vitascobe.
and other mechanical inventions still
to come. is to ne called into service.
and by these means 1t il proposed to
secure enduring records.
The movement inaugurated by the
New York organization is highly COM
mendable: it should spread. Modern
civilization has done and Is doing much
for the advancement Of humanity. and
the good 1t is doing Is certain 60 sur
vive all changes. But as we regret tho
dimness OF the past, and as we well
come every little ray Of light which
research throws upon It, In an equal
degree should this age, so far as 1t 70
possible, preserve for the centuries to
come such data as will enable their
generation to learn how We thought
and planned and labored. The uncer-
tainty. the doubt, the mystery already
enveloping the lives and works Of soAte
OF the greatest figures Of the Elizabeth
an period should be at once a sum-.
cient warning and a sufficient incent-
i've In this connection.
Some recent experiences have taught
us that neither museums nor corner
stones are safe receptacles Of treas
ures or records Of the past. We are
all conscious of the fact that In our
times. whether things are built to last
or not, they are not lasting In the sense
that they can be expected to survive AZ
have the vaults and pyramids and ar
cl1itectural piles Of older Civilizations.
Even the records which the New York
association proposes to collect must
finally be stored. and here is really
where the great problem arises. It 70
one OF the problems upon which mod
ern ingenuity NAV well concentrate Ito
thought and energy.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-10-24
THE PROFIT OF AysR,cE.

John r. Walsh died yesterday in
Chicago.
few months ago Walsh was a fin
sncier. He was building railroads.
financing great schemes, owning his
Cwn newspaper organ, a close friend
of a treasurer of the United States
| Il easury, posing as a financial and po-
litical power. making and unmaking,
| looking for millions and more millions
greedily and graspingly. He built a
card castle Of finance as others have
done and are doing 1t fell apart one
dy and exposed a criminal Walsh in
his old age went TO q federal peniten-
tiary. He had been crooked. Deliberate
y crooked, perhaps no more crooked
than many other men who have estab-
ished great fortunes by unlrust worthy
manipulation Of other peoples money.
He took thee nance. His was one Of
the cases where the IA bric fell apart
and exposed the manipulation. So he
Went 10 prison in his old age. vas par
doned and released, hurried back 10 his
home and died with the mark Of the
prison and the travel stains Of the
homeward trip upon him. What did it
profit Walsh that he sold himself to
the devil Of gain? How could 1t pro-
monetary stake however great when ne
wagered his reputation, peace of mind.
family ties and liberty in his old age
or the hazard? What would he actual
II have won had ne succeeded? No
doubt he looked back from his cell on
the potsherds of his broken career ard
saw them crude and common clay
which under the spell Of false magic
ne had believed pure gold and preci-
| Gus porcelains.
So John r. Walsh pursued the
swamp lights Of a sordiG ambition into
the quagmires Of personal defilenent
and disgrace and at the end came home
and forgotten. So other men follow a
selfish ignis fatuis without open dis
grace but to a sense of futility and
a lonely old age; for the sordid man
is rarely happy in his later years. To
have lived sordidiy carries its own
| penalty. He sees friendliness as a
greedy sycophant. suspects kindness
OF designs upon his hoard The wolf
ish watchfulness which guarded with
a jealous eye the growing accumula-
| tons of selfish life rarely mellows
into confidence and reliance upon 9TH
ers with the decay Of mind and mus
cles.
1t doesn't pay. What shall great
wealth profit a man who loses love
and the true liking Of men to gain a
great loneliness. Such are not happy
men In the autumn Of their years when
content and companionshtp are as a
precious ointment to the aged. The
evil days come when he hath no pleas
ure ia them. And 50 he dies and ID
buried out Of sight and men glance II
his funeral cortese as 1t passes and
turn to speculate upon the distribution
Of hoard which has ceased to be his
The corpse candles Of avafice burn
without incense.
How did It profit Walsh, Q convict
for his crimes dying Of burden Of his
shame and sorrows. except by the pity
of authority, in the cell Of peniten.
tiary7 What shall Il profit IL rnAf