Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-25
OVERNIGHT
FEDERAL
WIRELESS
To the Advertiser

Confident that in the end California
Will accept the national viewpoint
on anti-alien legislation and will fore
go its plans TO exclude Asiatics from
ownership or lease-holding land In
that state, President Wilson today de-
clared himself satisfied that there will
be no attempt TO embarrass him By
anti-Japanese legislation at Sacra-
mento before Secretary Bryan arrives
there next Monday. L
Set the Dead Line.
Bryan and the president today dis
cussed the situation and it is believed
they have determined, upon line be-
yond which California may not go.
This decision will be communicated
to Governor Johnson. ~. .
The president thinks there has al
ready been too much publicity given
to California's stand and declares that
hereafter the theater Of interest will
be in Sacramento only. 49,"
Should Satisfy Japan. .s
He thinks the dispatch of Secretary
B5an to Californiasshould be sufficient
to convince Japan that her interests
will be protected and does not plan to
have any further conference with Am
bassador Chinda until Bryan and john
son and the California legislators have
considered the matter. -
Intense irritation is evidenced in
Vienna at the defiant attitude adopted
by King Nicholas to Austria's notice
to yacate the just captured city Of
Scutari and the press is calling upon
the government to enforce the demand
by force of arms, even though the
move should precipitate all Europe In
war, the outcome of which. none can
tell.
The powers thus far haveenot signi-
fed any intention of following the re-
quest of Austria to take Scutari from
the Montenegrins. The capitals of
Europe are watching with interest for
developments which may yet involve
the Old World in war. SO vast as to
make the bloody war in the Balkans
| only a curtain-raiser.
Austrian troops are reported as be-
ing massed along the Danube in prep
aration for whatever may come.
Considerable ammunition fell into
the hands of the Montenegri1s with
the capture of Scutari With these
resources Nicholas is proceeding to
prepare to defend his prize against
the world, If necessary.
Walter Macarthur. editor Of the
Coook II. LII 90 Et,-o
cisco, today sent by wire his accept
ance of the post of United States ship
ping commissioner for the port of San
Francisco, following the offering of
that position to him by Secretary Of
Commerce Redfield.
The tong war hak kept San Fran
cisco's Chinatown fns d turmoil for
months. Since the outbreak of the
var just ended, a score of lives were
snuffed out by the ,gunmen, while
there have been armed encounters and
shooting matches almost withouc mum
Der.
Twelve men are known today to
have persisted as the result of a pre-
mature dynamite explosion at the Riv-
erside Portland Ceihent Company's
quarries at Crestmore, and 1t is be-
lieyed that fifteen to twenty have lost
their lives.
Throughout the morning workmen,
under the direction of the coroner,
searched the quarries. Arms, hands
and portions of the m1tilated bodies
were found 1900 feet from the scene
of the explosion.
Princess Schakowsky of Russia,
while learning aviation, was injured at
Johannisthal today and her instructor,
Aviator Abramoviteh was fatally in
'ilred when their biplane turned turtle
at 100-foot elevation. Immediately
after NJ. Dunetz, a Russian, fell with
his monoplane and was killed.
Little hope was entertained today
for the safety of 100 men who were
buried under tons of debris yesterday
as the result of an explosion at the
Cincinnati mine, of the Monographs
River Consolidated Coal and Coke
Company r.. 49, 49,:
State troops and two companies of
rescuers, aided by scores of volun-
teers, are working from the Courtney
and Mingo entrances, two miles apart.
The Mingo entrance afforded the chief
avenue of escape.
Today a large window of the Free
Trade Hall, Manchester, was blown
cut by bomb, which exploded be-
meath the platform. The police be-
iieve that the bomb exploded prema-
tureIy and was intended to provide 4
militant suffrage salute for John
Burns, president of the board of trade,
who is to speak in the Free Trade
Hall tonight.
The new Italian dreadnought, the
Duilio, was launched today at the
navy yard at Castellamaro, Italy, in
the presence Of the king and queen.
Pope Plus is greatly improved to-
| day. He wanted to sit up in his room
tOdav and tho rtsaupSt NAV he granted