Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-06-12

Qynamltlng OF a LrOOp train near Gua!
mas, Mexico, by Constitutionalists
Many others were severely wounded,
A detachment of General Ojeda's Fed
erals Immediately began pursuit OF
the insurgents.
Upon recommendation of a commits
sion of the Long Beach builders, the
Municipal Auditorium, the approach
to which collapsed May "a, carrying
80 persons to their deaths, will be
Iazed IL the voters indorse bonds for
the construction of new auditorium.
The city council has decided to sub
NIT bonding propositions for munich
pal improvements to cost 81 100000.
An explosion occurred at Racine,
Wis, today aboard the steamer E. NJ.
Peck, while 1t was loading, and it is
now burning. Five bodies we're taken
!. from the vessel The list of dead in
cludes the engineer and two OF his
helpers. Two members Of the crew.
| badly injured, have been removed.
| The force of the explosion wrecked
| the vessels stern and its coal cargo
Is still burning. It Is feared others
still are in the hold.
The Notifications for offense and de-
tense at the Panama canal will be
the most powerful in the world.
The defense of the canal will con-
sist Of ten 14-inch guns, one 16-inch
gun and twenty-eight 1.-fnch mortars.
1t is proposed to divide the arma-
ment for the canal so that six of the
14-inch guns and the 16-inch gun now
at Sandy Hook shall be placed at the
Pacific terminals of the canal, togeth-
er with sixteen of the Pinch mortars,
and the remainder of the 14-inch guns
are to be assigned to the Atlantic side
cftthe canal The harbor on the Pa
Lihc side of the canal has been mined
and the sea for miles out has been
mapped for the effectiveness OF NOR
tars.
Gun Range.
The ordnance experts know that
they can throw a shell from the NOR
tars to any point indicated on the
maps and within space not larger
than the deck of a battleship at dis
tances varying from seven to eight
miles. The 16-inch guns can throw a
shell Of 1000 pounds weights a dis
lance of eighteen miles. The 14-inch
guns in the Pacific harbor will make
1t hazardous for a hostile ship to adj
vance any closer than thirteen miles
to the Pacific locks OF the canal.
Strongest Ever.
The officers who have compared the,
proposed defenses for the western or
Pacific side of the canal say that so
far as ordnance goes it will be strong
en- than Manila, stronger than Pearl
Harbor. the key to the Pacific, and
stronger than Gibraltar itself.
Fire early today destroyed the min
ing town of Pens Creek, near Johns
town, Pa. The loss. will reach $20a,-
600. No one was injured according to
the meager reports.
The commercial treaty, replacing
the recently expired treaty between
Spain and Japan, was ratified by the
senate Tuesday. It expressly stipu-
lates that Japanese may acquire land
in Spain. The treaty already has been
ratified by the chamber of deputies.
Surgeons of Southern California are
watching with intense interest at Los
Angeles the result of an unusual graft
ing operation being performed by Dr..
Charles D. Lockwood of Pasadena. who
replaced a tubercular portion of the.
spine of Frederick Loring, agen seven
teen years, with section OF the
healthy bone from the youths leg.
The operation was undertaken as a
final resource To save Loring's life.
The surgeon now believes Loring will
completely recover.
The president declared Tuesday that
Solicitor General Moore Is framing an
answer to Japan's rejoinder regarding
the California anti-alien land law. He
thought it improbable, however, that
it would be submitted to Ambassador
Chinda this week.
The president thinks there will be
considerable diplomatic negotiations,
involving delay, before final settle
ment is flnaily erected.
Marcel s. Brindejonc Des Moulinais,
q French airman, made remarkable
flight Tuesday morning from Villa
Coublay to the Johannesthal aero
drome. Berlin, doing the distance of
674 miles in seven hours and four min
utes or approximately mile in 81 As
seconds.
So rigid are the precautions taken
by the authorities at Windsor against
the possibility of suffrage outrag Is
that the gatekeepers are instructed to
refuse admission even to the grounds
of women wearing W. s. P. U. or in
sigma of any sort The building it