Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1913-09-18
MYSTERY SHR0UDS
ANOTHER ATTEMPT
ON LIFE OF OTIS
Dynamite Bomb Sent Through
Mail to Publisher of Les An
geies Times-Japanese
Boy Saves Life.
TWO THEORIES ADVANCED
General Thinks Old Time Foes
Did 1t, But Police Are In
clined to Put Blame
on MeXicans.


are;t oi the city which comprises the
business section and portion of the
cheap hotel district. the federal. city
and county authorities confined thci,
energies today i'm the search for the
sender of the dynamite bomb which
Was received through the mails Nestcr-
day by General Harrison Grey otis. OF
thc Los Angeles Times.
AN We're agreed that the maker OF
the bomb lived i'm this district. because
the package containing the bomb was
placed i'm Il parcel post box il the down
town section and carried TO postoffies
station g. which handles mail for the
greater portion of the business dis
trio.t and "a large section of The east
side
Tracing Dynamite Sale.
The dynamite used in the internal
machine WAS that extremely high
powered explosive known as ''S5 per
cent the same as was used by James
Il. Mcnamara i'm blowing up the Times
building October |. 1910 The legal linn
it for explosives i'm Los Angeles county
Is 40 per cent nitro. and police and
county officials directed efforts today
To learning what purchases of So per
cent dynamite had been made a pow
der factories recently
one of the theories discussed today
was that the bomb might have been
sent by some foreigner, agit:tcd over
the Mexican question and the possible
| lily intervention by the Omitted States
General Otis is heavily Interested in
4 the Mexican territory of I.ower Cali
| torni;i, where a few wears ago Indus
trial Workers of the World joined the
| direct action element of Msssicans ir
~ effort asestabli lisl,s u SO isllistes COM
\ inonwealth.
a few weeks ago there was another
/ outbreak. caused. according to report
| by The employment of Chinese in the
| places OF Mexican laborers by lanchrrs
| in Lower California. but Gcneral Oti.
| asserted at the time that none We're
| employed by him
Jap Boy Saves Otis.
The bomb WAS sent tn the ENouac." :"
| General Otis home. Ii was contained
| in a small package about five inches
Hong, three inches Witr and tNo inches
deep II Was wrapped in brown paper
| and bore General Oitis full address
written i'm what WAS believed To be q
disguised hand
! With other mail, il was given by the
lpostman to the Japanese servant. who
removed the wrapping paper before
taking il To General otis. who MAS
waiting i'm the upper room OF his resi-
dence. He told the general that he
| picious about the package
4 II pooh -poohed the boys belief at
| first said General Otits but eNaln-
| ined the box carefully could see
| parts of matches and black powder.
| had the boy remove the thing anC
asked the police department To send 8
| man to my home.
Bomb Made by Genius.
capt T.. u. Nelis. a powder expert liz
the police department. took the ma
chine To u splrsely inhabited section
of the city near the Los Angeles river
and there pricd open the box III. lu,inj
matches fixed to the insid" Of the bo,
| in such a way that if it Wore opened
! in the usual way they would have
rubbed against pieces of sand pare,
powder u small section of fuSe tpse
\ Illuminating caps and two sticks Of s!
\ prr cent dynamite. and cul in tsve
| pieces. NeltS exploded the dynamite
which tore q great hole in linz. ground
| 'l'h" WrappingS We're given over t.
| the lolice Inspectors Who began NJ
Investigation
| General otiis had "a surmisc nnly'
concerning the bomb.
That surmisc, ne said is that II,
| was sent to me by the tleVilS who want
| 20 blow mp the Times and mo. and MIC
are furious because lhoy h.lNe FAILED
4 same old gang or segments Of the same
old gang. With the same old .tn;nositv"
| Chief of Police Sebastian inclined to
tho theory that the bomb had been sent
, by some person violently opposed tc
| General Otis newspaper policy witt
| regard to the liuerta administration lr
| Mexico,