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JANUARY 17, 1913
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, An Astoria, Ore., dispatch, carried
by tho Associated Press, says: The
oil steamer Bosecrans went ashore
on Peacock Spit. There were, ter
rific seas and a 66-mile gale. The
tug boats and the life saving crew
endeavored to rescue her crew of
thirty-six men. Shortly before 11
o'clock the tanker's hull had sunk
from sight. Three men of her crew
clung to a top mast which projected
above the waves. All others, it was
believed had perished. It seemed
impossible that the three survivors
could bo saved.
Several million dollars damage
was done to fruit in California by
reason of the recent cold weather,
which was the coldest in forty years.
hotels and restaurants. After ho
concluded his speech Ettor was asked
to comment on his words. "I meant
just what I said," was his reply.
Earlier in his speech Ettor urged the
strikers not to consider modiation.
"Hotels could not exist without you'
said he. "Do not accept any arbitra
tion board to decide your grievances.
Close the doors of every hotel In the
city and keep them closed. Not the
pantry doors, but the front doors."
District Attorney Whitman of New
York, made an investigation of the
Tombs prison and found that several
influential prisoners habitually en
gaged in poker games for money.
A Columbus, O., dispatch to the
Cincinnati Enquirer says: In one of
three mesages sent to the general
assembly Governor Judson Harmon
recognized as an able constitutional
lawyer, agrees with Governor Joseph
M. Brown, of Georgia, that the con
stitutional amendment providing for
the direct election of United States
senators is faulty and was improperly
submitted by the national congress.
The question of the course It should
take is left by the governor to the
judgment of the legislature, and,
though he favors the amendment, he
does not recommend that it be
adopted in its present form1.
Enos H. Nebeker, who was treas
urer x)t the United States under
President Harrison, died at his home
in Covington, Ind., aged seventy-six
years.
Governor Suteer lost no time in
getting to .work. An Albany dis
patch to the New York Journal says:
Governor Sulzer announced the ap
pointment of H. Gordon Lynn, of
New York, as the third member of
his graft-hunting commission, and
for the first time disclosed the great
scope of the investigation. The for
mal order declares that John N.
Carlisle, John H. Delaney and -Mr.
Lynn are "to examine and investi
gate the management and affairs of
any and all departments, boards,
bureaus or commissions of. the
state." For the benefit of those who
were looking forward to a perfunc
tory investigation involving only a
few officials and handicapped by lack
of authority and funds, the governor
made it clear that under the law the
commission possesses all the powers
of a court to search any branch of
the government and punish recalcit
rant witnesses; that, in addition to
the $25,000 fund now available, the
legislature will appropriate $50,000.
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A New York dispatch, carried by
the Associated Press, says: "If you
are compelled to go back under un
satisfactory conditions go back with
a determination to stick together
until you get what you want. Go
back with your minds made, up that
it is the unsafest thing in the world
for the capitalists to eat food pre
pared by members of your union."
This was the advice that Joseph
Ettor, the labor leader recently ac
quitted on charges growing out of
the textile strike at Lawrence, Mass.,
uttered to striking hotel employes
who met in an all night session after
a series of "disturbances in front of
A Shanghai cablegram, carried by
the Associated Press, says: Thirty
nine lepers recently wore put to death
by order of the provincial authorities
of Nanking, province of Kwang-Si.
The sufferers from the dread disease
were first shot and then burned in
a huge trench. These advices wore
received here in letters from the
Catholic mission at Nanking. The
letters were dated December 14. They
stated that the lepers lived in the
woods a few miles outside of the city
of Nanking. The mission sought per
mission to build at its own expense
a lazarette for them, and the authori
ties, pretending to consent, dug a pit
in which was placed wood soaked
with kerosene. At the point of the
bayonet the lepers then were driven
into the pit and shot, and the pyre
was lighted and their bodies burned
In the presence of a large crowd.
The authorities offered rewards for
the discovery of other lepers and this
resulted in the shooting of one more
man affected with the disease. The
governor, after the massacre, issued
a proclamation in which he accused
the lepers of having committed out
rages. The letters from the mission
say there is no foundation for this
charge.
Congressman John W. Weeks of
Newton, Mass., has been chosen as
the republican candidate for United
States senator from Massachusetts to
succeed Senator Crane.
-A WINTER IN FLORIDA
Miami (Fla.) Herald: More and
more each year is Florida coming
into her own as the premier spot in
all the northern hemisphere as a
winter resort, and in no newspaper
or magazine is greater prominence
given to any section than to Miami.
In the winter resort section of a re
cent New York Sunday Herald an
entire page was devoted to Florida
The writer has a number of nice
things to say of Miami, rhapsodizing
to the limit in an apostrophe to the
moon rising on Biscayne bay. It
says:
A winter in Florida has become
an accepted part of the social life
of a large colony in the eastern part
of the United States, as much so as
a summer along the New Jersey
coast, in the mountains of New York
or on the New England seaboard, or
an autumn in the White mountains.
Florida enterprise and energy
have risen to meet this situation, and
now at its hundred and one resorts
on its shores and inland or on the
islands that dot its waters whatever
of comfort money can produce has
been prepared for the annual influx
of visitors from the towns and cities
of the north. Palatial hotels, great,
comfortable inns; fishing facilities,
yachting and motor boating accom
modations, golf, links and tennis
courts, baseball grounds and aero
dromes, garages and automobile
driveways and small but completely
equipped playhouses are to be found
everywhere.
Down the eastern coast of Florida
Is to be found Miami. Miami has
two supremo boasts. It asserts that
it has the finest winter climate In
tho whole south and that it has the
finest fishing in the world. In addi
tion to these pre-eminent features
Miami is a regular city. It has all
tho modern conveniences of civili
zation. No visitor there lias to put
up with any "roughing it" experi
ence. There arc electric lights, water
works, gas plant, sewerage system,
telephone, freo mall delivery, two
daily newspapers, banks, pavod
streets and mercantile establish
ments in every lino of trade. Rock
surfaced roads lead out from tho
city to hundreds of homes occupied
by families of wealth and leisure.
Miami is situated at tho head of
Biscayne bay, which gives it un
equalled facilities for yachting and
fishing. Its yachting has become of
national importance. Its yacht club
is one of tho recognized organiza
tions of the country. Every winter
finds yachts from all along tho At
lantic coast and from tho St.
Lawrence anchored in its waters.
These visitors are always royally
entertained at tho handsome new
club house on tho bay.
Miami is the home of the game
kingflsh, the Spanish mackerel, the
amberjack and a dozen of other
sporty denizens of the deep. The
great tarpon is found there in his
best condition. Soldier Key, a
pleasant boat ride from the pier of
tho Royal Palm hotel is the favorite
rendezvous of the fishermen, being
in the center of numerous fishing
banks. A comfortable club house
has been established on this beautiful
little coral Isle.
Surf bathing Is also a feature of
this resort and promises to bo In
high favor this season owing to
added facilities for reaching tho
beach. A bridge spanning Biscayne
bay is nearing completion and
bathers will be able to walk or drive
over it to the beach in a short space
of time.
It is at Miami that one enjoys
Florida's spectacular moon at hor
best. Rising slowly above the keys
that separate Biscayne bay from the
ocean, the great silver orb glides
majestically upward in tho heavens,
shedding her wonderful light over
tho purple waters of the bay and
outlining with a streak of silver the
tall palms that rise to greet her.
Her rays gild the rude tents of the
Seminole Indians hidden in tho heart
of the Everglades as well as the
homes of the wealthy, whose tropical
gardens are laden with the perfume
of oleander, orange and jasmine.
Under Luna's spell the nights are
warm and soft and still. One in
stinctively seeks to stroll by the
water's edge where quiet reigns.
There Is no sound to be heard save
the muffled dipping of an oar as a
boat glides along in the shadow of
the mangrove or a pelican splashes
after its prey. .
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS
Following is an Associated Press
dispatch: Washington, Jan. 13.
Electors in forty-eight states met to
day and formally elected Woodrow
Wilson to the presidency and Thomas
R. Marshall to the vice presidency of
tho United States. Returns prepared
by the electors chosen at the polls
last November are now on their way
by mail to Washington for the presi
dent pro tempore of the senate. An
other set of these returns will be
brought in person by an elector
chosen from each state, to be can
vassed February 12 in joint session
of the senate and house when Gover
nor Wilson will be formally pro
claimed president. In two of the
states, Utah and Vermont, four votes
each were cast for President Taft for
president and Nicholas Murray
Butler for vice president, the latter
having been named by the republi
can national committee to succeed
the late J. S. Sherman on the re
publican ticket. ,
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December.
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