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WASHINGTON, D C.. May 31.—
The amazing anti-dra.t movement
throughout the nation, the latest
phases of which are undoubtedly
alarming, is stirring the officials to
more resolute action.
They say that while no doubt
Ihe or position to the draft and to
the registration may he based upon
conscientious objections, none the
less all such will be treated the
same. “Whatever may be the mo
tives which animate them, all speak
ers taking part in the anti-draft
movement will be arrested and i ro
i secuted to the full extent of the
law.” That is the explicit state
ment made.
The latest development is mass
meetings of Industrial Workers ol
the World held throughout a num
ber of centers, and openly advocat
ing the non-registration policy on
all military eligibles. It was with
reference to these that that the. offi
cials said tb.at they may be poss
ibly based upon “conscientious ob
jections” to the drafting.
-'lay 31.—Three per
TOPEKA,
sons were arrested here today in
connection with anti-draft agita
tions.
The agitation is also engulfing
many other cities in the State.
CHICAGO, May 31.—The anti
draft agitation is leading to the ar
rest and prosecution of many who
are promoting it. The officials have
full power to arrest and act prompt
ly in meeting any kind of opposition
to the registration or the compul
I sory military service as enacted by
Congress.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 31.—Ef
forts at jury packing are delayed
the Mooney trial. Upon the re
sumption of the proceedings upon
Wednesday morning it was found
that wholesale irregularities had
been committed. The most notor
ious being that of Dan Kelly, one of
the first permanent jurymen.
It was discovered that Dan Kelly,
the first permanent juror, was in
the panel of the first hundred jurors
drawn, but his name was not on the
list of names numbering thirty-six
hundred persons which were placed'
in the box and from which his was
.alleged to be drawn. The defense
discovered the name of Daniel Kelly
had been inserted in writing on the
typewritten list, and thereupn an in
vestigation added to the discovery
of this striking work.
The Court suspended the Court
Clerk and the Bailiff and the work
of selecting the jury which had al
ready been completed with these ir
regularisies had to be begun all
over again to all intends and pur
poses. The Judge allowed both
the prosecution and the defense ad
ditional peremptories and excused
seven jurors who had been subject
ed to some suspicion for participa
tion in the irregularities, some ol
which are admitted to be however,
merely technical.
In consequence there remain now
only five jurors in the box and with
the additional peremptories held
there is no telling where the thing
will end.
Many good legal authorities insist
that from the beginning to the end
these irregularities will technically
render this trial worthless.
the popular astonishment at this
phase of official skulduggery in the
trial of Mrs. Mooney is reflected
everywhere, and people are asking
where it is going to end. There is
a very obvious and very intense
feeling being aroused against the
whole business which may yet take
on serious results if the matter Is
persisted in.
The delay to the trial is very ser
ious hut the court announced that
the jury selection will he proceeded
with on Friday morning.
CENT
COUNCIL OPPOSE DRAFT
SEATTLE, May 31.—The Seattle
Central Labor Council, with repre
sentatives lroni every organization
in King County, yesterday evening
at the suggestion of the Carpenters
Union took up the matter of the
draft.
The meeting then took on the
form of an enthusiastic anti-rcgis
AT DREAM TONIGHT.
Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, the
famous suffragist leader' will be
shown tonight in four reels of ex
citing anti sensationa photoplay.
Mrs. Pankhurst is the fearless
champion of Woman’s Suffrage and
created as much excitement in Eng
land, some years ago, as the Ger
mans are doing on the firing line to
day. A good picture with a thrill
ing plot that should strike a re
sponsive chord among all picture
patrons. Tomorrow night The Fox
Woman all star Japanese Cast.
tration gathering. Hulet Wells, who
is out on bail for printing, publish
ing and circulating a no-conscrip
tion pamphet, claiming to have done
so however before the conscription
act was passed, spoke in support of
the resolution which was finally
unanimously adopted amid tremend
ous cheering. Wells also was greet
ed with immense cheering.
NEW YORK, May 31.—Emma
Goldman announces that the No
Conscription League now has a
membership of ten thousand New
Yorkers of military age alone, and
that before June 5, when registra
tion day arrives, they will have not
less than than fifty thousand in that
city.
NEW YORK, May 31.—Socialists
are carrying on a very active pro
paagiula against the draft bill and
especially are urging the people not
to register. This is taking various
forms and different associations,
leagues, etc, have been formed for
the purpose of offering organized
resistance to the enforcement of the
d,raft.
WASHINGTON, I). C., May 31.—
The government is determined that
the draft law will be literally en
forced and that all opposition will
be stamped out regardless of the
consequences, was definitely stated
today. That there is to be no vacei
lating policy indulged in on this
measure is reliably certain.
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Also the only house keeping apart
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tion of guests.
SEATTLE, May 31.— Strong’s ar
rival en route to Washington is an
nounced almost simultaneously with
the dispatch in this evening papers
from Washington D. C., stating that
Strong’s re-appointment may be con
ceded, as Secretary Lane is sup
porting the Governor with all his
strength, and “it is highly unlikely
that Wilson will refuse to re-ap
point the official at the request ot
his strongest cabinet member.” The
democratic organization is backing
Riggs and Jennings is admitted to
be out of it.
Coombs and Allen sailed from San
Francisco on the Senator Tuesday,
and report Corrigan remaining
there. Daly will sail on the Vic
toria. Others hooked on the Vic
toria are Geo. B. Grigsby, Andy An
derson, Ogilsvie etc., Joe Vint
bought the Flodine dredge Serpen
tine river and will move it to the
Kougarolt.
Halpen bought a Johnson dredge
for the Kougarok. Harry Dobson
bought the Welsh dredge for Ann r
ican rivet on his own ground.
Lindeberg, Mrs. Lindeberg, J. J.
j Cole and others are going to Skag
I way on Friday.
It is rumored that there will bo
considerable governmental experi
mental fishing work in Nome this
summer, and this strongly aids the
passage of the appropriation ot
Snake river work which is included
! in die rivers and harbors bill.
Alaska is now represented by two
delegates for the first time in the
history of an> territorial represen
tation in the National Congress De
legates Wickersliam and Sulz-r are
both drawing delegate’s sa'aries,
until a decision is rendered. This
is a uniQue condition.
ST LOUIS, (By mail and wire),
May 31.—This city has just been
visited by the fiercest cyclone since
the famous great hurricane of 1895.
Sixteen hundred is the most con
servative estimate of the dead. How
many have been injured it is im
posible to say and damage is rough
ly estimated at three quarters of a
million.
CHICAGO, May 31.—Owing to the
wires being down with all affected
centers the details of the tornado
in southwest St. Louis are lacking
anti only brief mail dispatches wired
from these centers where commu
nication is resumed with the rest
of the country, are coming out.
These initial reports although
claiming to be conservative and
rather an under than an over esti
mate, indicate that the calamity
which aflicted a portion of St.
L>uis, mainly in the in the south
western section of the city, reaches
terrific proportions.
POPULAR BLUFF, Mo., May 31.
—Fourteen are reported dead at
Chamnai near here, fifty are re
ported dead at Zelma in the dis
astrous tornado that, swept Missouri
today. All wires are down but re
ports from affected sections show
that the loss of life will total an
enormous figure. Some estimates
report St. Louis dead over two
thuosand while thousands morfi
were injured. Many fine buildings
were wrecked. Several small vill
ages were wiped out in other sec
tions of the state.
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ST. PAUL, May 31.—Reverend
Dr. C. L. Lehnert, a German pastor
of the German Lutheran Church
here, allowed his Germanism to get
the better of his piety and common
sense, and in a letter replying to
a communication from a committee
asking his aid in raising the
“Liberty Loan”, he wrote that the
Committee could »“go to Hell. 1
hope that President Wilson will be
shot before the end of the war”.
This was not by any means the ex
tent of the holy man’s profanity,
and in consequence of the commit
tee’s handing over the skypiot’s let
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ter to the authorities, his itever
| ern e is now in durance vile with a
! series of charges against his name
would scare out anyone but one
who placed his hopts in the here
after.
Lelinert is charged with attempt
ing to incite murder, arson, and
assassination and is held for trial
pending some of his flock coming
forward with $25,000 bail which
the authorities are demanding be
foie they let him loose to do some
more profane talk.
Lehnert is known as a rabid Ger
manist and has from his pulpit
bitterly attacked Wilson and the
United States for Joining in the
war. His sermons have of late be
come so bitter that many of his con
gregation have begun to absent
themselves from this holy follower
of the Kaiser.
VERNON CASTLE NARROW
ESCAPE FROM DEATH
TORONTO, Canada, May 31.—
Vernon Castle, Ihe dancing and avi
ation exponent while acting as air
man instructor at the aviation
school today fell with his pupil
from a considerable height. Castle
was thrown on ihe roof of a build
ing and escaped unhurt but his pu
pil did not fare so well being caught
in the wreckage and burned to
death before help could reach him
beneath the crushed aeroplane.
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