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The Colorado statesman., 1913-01-04
CHRONOLOGY OF DYNAMITE

October /, 1s1i-Government authori-
ties. exactly one year after the Los An
consider possibility of federal prosecu-
tion for illegal transportation of explo-
sives
February G. 1912-Federal grand jury
returns indictments against fifty-four la
for union officials.
February 14-Most of the defendants
scattered over the country arrested with
in few hours by a telegraphic signal
October Trial begins exactly two
years after Los Angeles explosion. fifty
defendants present; three discharged by
government; Ortie e. McManigai pleads
guilty leaving forty-siS c,ror for trial sdossa
mostly of farmers; government opens It's
case
October 5-Herbert s. Hockin accused
by district attorney with having been
spy within the ranks of the dynamtters.
and with having given information to
October edward Clark. Cincinnati.
pleads guilty to having blown up a
Hockin Of having furnished the dyna-
mite; forty-five defendants remain for
trial.
ing his confession on the witness stand;
duplicates Ironworkers' Union officials
as having pointed out jobs for him TO
blow up; names Hock;n as starting him
in the business.
November 2S-Hockin's bond increased.
jail. after more testimony that he was
employed by detectives while an official
of the union; court denounces Hockln as
mot to be trusted by any one, day or
night" Miss Mary Field. a writer, de,
nounced by the district attorney as an
"anarchist" for criticisms published in
union magazine; Olaf A. Tveitmoe, San
Francisco defendant, also denounced
by district attorney for publishing 'an-
archistic" criticisms of the trial.
December 2-Governmeht concludes its
case after presenting 549 witnesses,
whose testimony covers $4,000 pages;
four defendants discharged by the gov
ernment. leaving forty-one for trial; de-
fense begins. Hockin resigns as secre-
tary-treasurer of the Ironworkers' Union.
December 2S-Verdiet returned.
Chief Prosecutor, United States Dis
trict Attorney Charles w. Miller.
Chief counsel for the defense. United
States Senator John W. Kern and Will
lam N. Harding.
Federal judge who conducted trial. AL
bert b. Anderson.
Labor union of which most of the de-
PENDANTS were members, International
Association of Bridge and Structural
Ironworkers.
Charges: Illegally transporting dyna-
mite and nitroglycerine on passenger
trains. or conspiracy to do the same.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-01-04

charged in the Indictments. These
crimes were all committed in the
name of organized labor. 1 will not
believe that organized labor approves
of such practices.
ANY organization that approves
and adopts the methods of these de-
PENDANTS is an outlaw and will meet
the fate which outlaws have met since
civilized society began.
"The evidence shows some of these
defendants to be guilty of murder, but
they are not charged here with that
crime; this court cannot punish them
for it, nor should it be influenced by
such consideration in fixing the meas
ure of punishment for the crimes
charged.
THE certainty of punishment, nc
its severity, is the important consid-
Grafton in the administration of Grim
inal justice. Such punishment should
be meted out as shall warn others
that even if they desire to accom-
plish lawful ends they must not vio-
late the law in the attempt to realize
them Keeping these considerations
in view, the court must repress that
Indignation which every law-abiding
which the evidence in this case dis
closes, in addition to those for which
the defendants have been found
guilty, and as near as may be possible
confine the punishment within its
proper scope"
Referring to the iron workers
strike, which began In 1905, and
which the government charged was
the motive which prompted John j.
Mcnamara to use dynamite as a
weapon, Judge Anderson said the
strike was attended by picketing.
then by slugging and riots. He added:
But in 1906 campaign by dyna-
mite was inaugurated, and, beginning
with explosions in the East and ex-
tending from the Atlantic to the Pc
cific, continued until the arrest of the
McNamaras and McManigal in April,
1911.
THE evidence In this case shows
that almost 100 explosions, damaging
and destroying structures in process
of erection by. and machinery of,
open-shop concerns, took place, cul-
minating on the first day of October,
1910, in the destruction of the Los
Angeles Times building and the dnur-
der of twenty-one people. Every one
of these explosions was upon the work
of open-shop concerns, and no explo-
sion is shown to have taken place up
on any closed-shop job. Since the ar
rest of the McNamaras and McMaD'-
gal these explosions have ceased.
This system of destruction was
not carried on for revenge or obedi-
ence to any other human passion, but
for the deliberate purpose. by a verit
able reign of terror. to enforce COM
pliance with the demands of the iron
workers upon the open and closed
shop question"
The entire proceedings in court, as
a climax to the three months dyna-
mite conspiracy trial, required only
two hours from the time court
opened.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-01-04
Prisoners Sentenced.

indianapolis, Ind.-Sentcnces vary
ing from seven years Imprisonment in
the federal prison at Leavenwortn
Kan, to one year :Lnd one day and
to suspended sentences, were i'm
posed upon the thirty-eight labor un
ion officials convicted in the dynamite
conspiracy cases.
Frank M. Ryan, president of the
Iron Workers International Union
was given a eentence of seven years
Olaf A. Tveitmoe of San Francisco,
convicted on charges of aiding in plot
ting the destruction of the Los An
geles Times building, and Eugene A.
Clancy, also of San Francisco, were
given six years each. Herbert S. Hook.
in received six years.
All the prisoners who received pris-
on terms are to be taken to Leaven-
worth, Kan.
Some of the mon made pleas for
mercy, others wept in the arms of
their wives. But the court pronounced
the sentences one by one, regardless
of the pleas.
Six men were given their liberty
through suspended centences. These
include Edward Clark of Cincinnati,
the dynamiter who confessed to blow
ing up bridge with the help of Hook
In. He had appeared as witness for
the government.
Ortie E. McManigal, another con
fessed dynamiter, was not sentenced
Mt this time.
In some cases sentences of one year
and one day were imposed, so that
these men might be confined in a fed
eral prison. Prisoners with terms of
less than one year are kept in county
jails.
Federal Judge Albert B. Anderson
had many of the prisoners whom he
said he considered less guilty than the
rest brought before him to make state
ments.
For an hour and q half the Judge
thus in conversational way talked
with prisoners, asking them whether
they believed in dynamiting as meth
cd of promoting a strike.
All of the men profossed innocence.
Before Judge Anderson passed SEN
tence he said he desired to read a
statement. He then reviewed the his
tory of the dynamite conspiracy, as
well as the evidence. and said:
"This scheme or campaign of dyna-
mite was entered into and carried on
throughout the country from the At
lantic to the Pacific.
THE evidence disclosed an appall-
ing list of crimes in addition to those
The Colorado statesman., 1913-01-04
SENTENCES IMPOSED.

Indianapolis. Ind.-Terms of impris-
onment were imposed as follows;
Frank NJ. Ryan. president of the Iron
Workers Union.
Six Years.
John T. Butler. Buffalo. vice presi-
dent
Herbert S. Hockin, former secretary
Olaf A. Tveitnoe. San Francisco.
secretary of the California Building
Trades Council.
Philip A. Cooley. New Orleans.
Michael J; Younng,. Boston,
Four Years.
Peter J. Smith. Cleveland.
Three Years.
Paul ]. Morrin, st. Louis.
Henry w: Legleitner Denver.
Michael ]. Cunnane, Phiiadeiphia.
Edward Smythe, Peoria. III.
Murray. L. Pennel. Springfield. Ill.
George Anderson. Cleveland.
Michael ]. Harmon, Scranton. Pa.
ETnest TS;s G. W cGn,Sy Basey InaisnepoIis eptI
william r. Reddin. Milwaukee.
Two Years.
Fred Sherman, Indianapolis.
Frank G. Painter. Omaha.
Richard H. Houlihan. Chicago.
Frank ]. Higgins. Boston.
One Year and One Day.
william S. Shupe, Chicago.
James e. Ray, Peoria, Ill
William C. Bernhard, Cincinnati.
Edward e. Phillips. Syracuse. N. Y.
Charles Wachmeister, Detroit.
Fred ]. Mooney, Duluth.
Suspended Sentence.
Patrick F. Farrell. New York.
James Cooney, Chicago.
James Coughlin, Chicago
Hiram B. Kline. Muncie. Ind.
Frank ]. Murphy, Detroit.
On motion of the government Ed
ward Clark. Cincinnati, confessed dy-
namiter. who testified for the govern
ment, was given suspended sentence.
FACTS AND FIGURES ABOUT TRIAL.
Facts and figures about the trial and
conviction of thirty-eight union leaders,
said to be the greatest criminal court
Time occupied by trial, nearly thirteen
weeks.
Time jury was out, forty-one hours.
Government expenditures. $4,000.
For government witnesses, $4,000
Witnesses for prosecution 54S.
Testifying for prosecution, 499.
Witnesses for the defense, 165.
Total witnesses testifying, 664.
Typewriter pages in record 80. 600.
Pages of oral testimony, II,
Stenographers regularly employed
nine.
Hotel registers in evidence. seventy
five.
At times twenty stenographers were
employed and the government had 100
persons employed in the case.
Six years of strike history was covered
in the trial.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-01-04
Two Men Were Colorado Residents.

Two Men Were Colorado Residents.
Denvcr.-Henry w. Legleitner and
Frank NJ. Ryan, two Of the men con-
victed at Indianapolis. of sending eX-
plosives by interstate commerce in
connection with the dynamiting
charges against. officers of the iron
workers Organization, were former
Colorado residents. 'ayan is president
of the organization and is now past
fifty years of age. He was Colorado
resident twenty years isSlo, being mine
operator in the Cripple Creek and
Georgetown
The Colorado statesman., 1913-01-04
pynamiters Convicted.

indianapolis. Thirty-eight la
bor union officials including H. w.
Legleitner of Denver were found guilty
of completely il connection with the
dynamiting cases, including the wreck
ing of the Los Angeles Times build
ing.
Seiffert and Buckley, the only two
men out of the forty labor union off
cials to be adjudged not guilty. imme-
diately were discharged from custody.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-01-04
Fate of McManlaaI Is Secret.

Los Angeles, Cal.-"What will be
done with McManiSal?" was the ques-
ton put to District Attorney John d.
Fredericks, who prosecuted the Nc
Namaras. "Ah," replied Fredericks,
'ah, that will be story for another
day. McManigal will be here soon,
but l cannot discuss him now. l will
say, though. that without his testi-
mony and assistance there would have
beSn no case either here last year or
at Indianapolis" McManigal confessed
tc having blown up the Llewellyn Iron
Works on Christmas Day, 1910
The Colorado statesman., 1913-01-04

At meeting of the general educa.
tion board held several days ago s44O..
900 was appropriated for education
among white people, north and south.
in this country. and $4,000 was appro.
priated for education among negroes.
We are wondering II our race is doing
its duty in making applications to the
general education board for help. Un-
less there is a screw loose somewhere
it seems to us that we should get
more money from this board for the
education OF ten millions of people
than $4,000. considering the large
amounts appropriated for white
schools.
We understand that the general edu-
cation board does not appropriate
money unless the institution will
agree to raise a certain amount We
earnestly advise the colleges and uni
versfties existing for colored people
to do their part in making application
to the board and try to meet the re-
quirements of the board. SO that our
race will receive larger share of the
money.-New York Age.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-01-04
THIRTY-EIGHT UNION LEADERS
GUILTY IN BOMB CASE; TWO FREED
THRTY-THREE CONVICTED DYNAMITERs SENTENCES
SEVEN
LEAvENWoRTH, KAN, PENITENTARY.

Copies of the Bridgeworkers' Magazine
for six years were used in evidence. with
kilograms. way bills. express records
and postal records.
Internal machines nitroglycerine cans.
fuse. photographs of dynamite and other
exhibits were used by the score.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-01-04

The notion has grown up in the pub,
lie land states and territories that
everybody who is on the ground has
right to all the public domain he
can get hold of under the thinnest
possible color of compliance with law
that every lumber company has right
to run its steam sawmills day and
night on public timber. and every own
er of live stock has an inalienable
right to free pasturage on the public
domain. Cases involving the rights OF
the nation when tried in the local
courts have often been decided by the
prevailing local sentiment But the
Supreme court of the United States is
not subject to the influence created
by 'sooners" and boomers" and the
expioiters of natural resources in the
newer parts of the country. The ma
tion has right to protect its proper
ty and conserve it's natural resources
and administer its lands and mines
ana forests and water powers with a
view to general rather than individual
interest, and to take some note of the
rights of posterity. The exploiter OF
the west has had long day, but it is
over at last.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-01-04

John Baker, one time employed or
the Union Pacific railroad. recently
purchased farm at Grand Oakland
Nebraska He has retired to this
farm. He is also operating several
restaurants.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-01-04

Chicago Blade recently observed
that negro soldiers had demonstrated
their ability to serve with less loss of
time from active duty by reasons of
sickness than the white soldiers. Ac-
cording to the annual report of Sur
geon General George H. Torney. the
non-effective rate of the negro was
2,5SS. while Snat of the white was
1860; the Porto Ricans 2,97S, and the
Filipino 1886.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-01-04

A loyal wife is one who has implicit
confidence in her husband, even when
he's running for office.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-01-04

The man who looks toward the well
watered plains of Sodom with long
ing eye, will soon be wearing out shoe
leather in trying to get to them.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-01-04

Miss Mamie H. Burroughs, CORE
spending secretary of the Women's
Auxiliary convention and president OF
the National Training School for
Girls, made a strong plea for the
women of her race and appealed to
the white women of the south to as
sist in the efforts to make the negro
what he should be.
She said in part:
We have too many organizations.
The negro is the most organized race
in the world, and his organizations
are the least effective. We have our
hands on the mass of people, and this
mass is plastic-but,7 1t seems exceed
ingly difficult for the leaders to settle
upon a definite plan either for our
moral, social, political or Industrial
betterment
ITO be permanently effective or re-
ligious and secular organizations must
be manned by live men and women
who have been somewhere and have
seen something. They must be full of
faith and of the spirit of the living
God.
The negro is restless because he is
not a normally placed creature: he is
put into an unnatural position and
kept there by force, and whenever
this is done with race or an indi-
vidual, it makes trouble Persons
thus placed are uncomfortable, and
as natural result. we protest. and
this protest creates disturbance and
resistance that will never be stopped
until the right remedy is applied. AID.
ply to the negro his constitutional
rights and not special laws; give him
an opportunity to try his strength.
to labor and to enjoy the fruits of his
labor, and there will be no negro
problem.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-01-04

How easy it is to conclude that we
can do the most for the Lord where
the pay is best.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-01-04

DR.. W. T. Grenfell describes Labra-
dor as land still hardly known be-
yond its borders. The cold current
that flows along it's shores from the
north dominates it's climate, and. not
withstanding that it is considerably
further south, it receives less continu-
GUS sunshine than Alaska, because its
summer is shorter. The coldness of
the soil and the dryness of the winds
stunt many of it's plants to such de-
gree that larch growing at the
southern end of Labrador which
showed 80 annual growth rings. was
only nine inches tall. and its trunk was
but three-eighths of an inch in diane
ter. Mineral deposits seem to be
abundant. but prospectors have been
able to stay but for short periods.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-01-04

The New Orleans Business Journal
a negro weekly, has been changed tc
a negro daily. 1t is henceforth to be
known as The Daily Spokesman.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-01-04

1t is an old and much disputed
question by what means carrier
pigeons find their way home over. dis
tances sometimes of hundreds Of
miles. Some extraordinary sugges-
tions have been offered to explain this
strange faculty, such as that the birds
are guided by magnetic currents, that
they possess a special sense of direc'
tion enabling them to reverse a course
once pursued, and that they have a
particular arrangement of the internal
organs of the ear which affords a
means of guidance. The problem has
been attacked again recently by P.
Hachet-Souplet, director of the Insti'
tute of Animal Psychology in Paris,
who concludes that the whole secret
is contained in the ability of the
pigeons to lay their course by recog-
nized points in the landscape beneath
them. He believes that the longest
authenticated flights are explicable in
this way.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-01-04

After a jealous man gets married
to jealous woman there is something
doing every little minute.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-01-04

1t isn't very consoling to a homely
girl to be told that beautiful dispo
sition is more admirable than beau
tiful face.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-01-04

The education of negro children is
of greatest Importance to negro par
ents. All the possessions given a
child may vanish, but good educa-
tion remains forever. The educated
man can maintain himself against all
difficulties. He is to all intents and
purposes the architect of his own for
tune. We owe it to ourselves and
our posterity to contribute substan-
TALLY to the civilization which we
enjoy. This we cannot do unless we
educate in the most thorough manner
Wherever we. fail to educate the race
suffers in the most singular and dis
tressing manner.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-01-04
AFRO-AMER|CAN CULL|NCS

To the Presidents and officers of Lo-
cal Negro Business Leagues:
Now that the political campaign is
over and we are free to give our at
tention to matters that more direatly
concern our welfare as individuals
and as communities, | want to urge
upon each Local Negro Business
League throughout the United States
to cut out a definite piece of work
that the league may accomplish dur
Ing the coming winter.
First-In order to accomplish some
definite thing, each league should
have a regular time for meeting.
Second-A regular program should
be mapped out in advance of each
meeting.
Third-Each league should have a
special attractive place to meet in.
Fourth-Each league should consid-
er carefully what the organization
can do to promote the welfare of the
community in business and CONNER
cial directions
There never has been such CONNER
cial prosperity existing throughout
tne country as lS true To-Day, ana our
people should share in this prosperity.
1t is largely through the help and
leadership of each Local Negro Busi-
ness League that they will be able to
do so.
If your league has not had meet
ing for some time see that one is
called at once and new life is put
into the organization.
Persons desiring to organize new
Local Negro Business Leagues may
secure information by writing to Mr..
Emmett ]. Scott, corresponding sec
retary. Tuskegee Institute, Alabama.
(Signed)
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON,
President National Negro Business
League.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-01-04

When a man agrees with you at all
times look for the ak he has to grind
The Colorado statesman., 1913-01-04

Where lands have been cropped to
DEATH" as some plain people aptly
term it, live stock farming is the sur
est, cheapest and quickest method of
restoring it's fertility. In live stock
farming the crops raised on the farm
are grown primarily for the purpose of
feeding one or more classes of live
stock, and but little is sold except an
imal products. On the other hand,
concentrated feeding stuffs are pur-
chased for feeding the farm animals
which adds to the amount of fertility
returned to the land in the manure
Since the animal products sold do not
as a general rule, contain large quanti-
ties of fertilizing ingredients. it is
easy to rapidly increase the fertility
of land by this system of farming.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-01-04

Messrs. A. Dejoie and T. ]. Howard.
two very successful business men OF
New Orleans, Louisiana. have open
en- a fine shoe store.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1913-05-30
They Arouse the Appetite and Pro-
mote the Secretion of the Cas-
trio Juice.

The spices are a very interesting
group of substances; they are the
foundation of a considerable industry.
they have their medical uses and final
ly are of special importance in dietet-
les
Their value resides in their richness
in aromatic substances and essential
oils; strictly speaking, they are not
foods, but often enough they are es-
sential elements in the diet Spices
have been the subject of classic re-
search, as, for example, in the clover
and important investigation which
Pawlow undertook as to the psychic
influences of food and as to the value
of zest in nutrition.
Spices were shown 70 arouse appe-
tite and to promote the secretion of
the gastric juice, and the role they
play therefore in dieteties is very
important one. The medicinal action
of some of them is further of value.
Allspice, for example, is used as an
aromatic and has been successfully ad-
ministered for f1atulency or for over
coming gripping due to purgatives, and
occasionally it Is reported that the Oil
gives relief IL rheumatism and neural
gia.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1913-05-30
not only disturbs others, but uses up
her energy and strength uselessly.

not only disturbs others, but uses up
her energy and strength uselessly.
Repose of manner is more often
found in the woman who has passed
twenty-five. That is why some men
prefer her to the giggling miss in her
teens.
If you are talking with anyone who
constantly iidgets her hands or twitch-
es her mouth you may find yourself do
ing the same thing. 1t is very dis
concerning to say the least.
If you study women's faces in the
trolley cars you will find that eight
out of every ten bite their lips or make
faces.
All that some girls need to make
them attractive and good looking Is
poise. The older one grows the more
essential it is to take things calmly.
Poise is synonymous with good
breeding. An excellent plan to help
yourself acquire it is to go into quiet
room by yourself each day for at least
twenty minutes and relax, not only
your body, but your mind as well.
After you possess this necessary
quality it will become part of you and
you will not mar your health and
beauty by unnecessary distortions Of
the face and body.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1913-05-30

trinket; in the dim light he could
have imagined that she had become
suddenly agitated and hurried.
mo, it is too heavy" she declined.
Good night, have enjoyed this eve
ming very much"
In his own hotel apartment, when
he drew off his gloves. Stanton was
puzzled to find his right fingers slight
ly stained with crimson. Slowly mem
ory brought back the fact, unnoticed
at the time, that Jessica's bracelet
had been warm and damp to the touch
when he picked it up. 1t had cut her
arm, then, in falling. he deduoed. And
she had not spoken Of the hurt or
cried out! Stanton laughed in ap-
proving admiration, she had her broth
er's pluck. He hated whining people.
Only he wished that her eyes were
not so exactly like Floyd's; 1t con-
fused him.