Show T 1 j j i Veteran an Editor Editor ur I Again Escapes i J Assassins Assassin's Tool I t W r S S I II I II JEN E HARRISON HARRIS ON GRAY GRA T OTIS 1 GENERAL GENER L OTIS GETS BOMB iN HIS MAIL Escape From Death or Injury DUB Dire to Watchfulness of His Japanese ervant Continued From Page 1 1 first sal said General Otis but examined exam exam- ined med the thc box carefully I could see ace parts of oC matches and black powder I had the boy remove c the thing and asked the tho police department to send a aman aman aman man to my homo home Capt F B. B Felts a a. powder expert Inthe In Inthe Inthe the police pollee department took tool the ma- ma machina chino china to a sparsely Inhabited section of the city near the Los An Angeles river and there pried open the tho box He found matches fixed to the inside of the box in such a way that if iC it were opened in the usual way thc they would have rubbed against pieces of sandpaper sandpaper sandpaper sand sand- paper and Ignited There was also black powder a s. small section of fuse tuse two fulminating caps and andl two sticks of oC 85 per cent dynamite each cut In two pieces Felts Felte exploded the dynamite dyna dyna- mite which tore a great hole In the ground Tho wrappings were given over to the police pollee authorities who ho began anI an I Investigation ayes 1 gat I 00 General Oti Opinion General Otis Otia had bad b d a a. 3 surmise only concerning the bomb is that it That surmise surmise- he hc said eaid was sent to me rae by the devils who want and who to blow up the Times and me mo are arc furious because thc they have hae failed so long to do so BO They The mu may be the i some same old gang or segments se ments of ot the old gan gang with the tho same Iame old animosity Chief of Police Pollee Sebastian inclined to the theory theon that the tho bomb had been sent b by some nome person nerson violently opposed to General Otiss Otis's newspaper policy with regard to tho Huerta administration tion In Mexico I Chief Sebastian sal said the act might have been committed b by persons disgruntled disgruntled dis dis- because Mexican residents of or Los LOB Angeles celebrated toda today the anniversary o of Mexican dence 0 one eIt e. e It was the tho desire of oC those In charge of ot tho cee celebration said Chief Sebastian SebastIan Sebastian Sebas Sebas- tian to celebrate merely the anniversary anniversary er annh-er- sary of or Mexican Independence ence without regard to th the positions of ot contending factions in that country Man Ian Many others however desired to be partisan and I threats of ot death it was reported to the police were made against several severa-I who therefore remained out of ot tho the parade para eIt e. e It is possible that some sarno of ot the disgruntled disgruntled dis dis- Mexicans sought to kill the newspaper man whom they believed to tobe tobe tobe be supporting General Otis who Is a n. close close- friend of former President Diaz of ot In the tho Mexico o owns ns large acreage southern republic Ho He is largely large Interested Inter Inter- ested sted In the tho California and Mexico Ranch and Cattle company which owns California and groat roat tracts In Lower Sonora Reports from Yuma Tuma Arlt MIs today toda wore to o the tho effect that band of oC fifty rectos who arrived yesterday ester ay at Colo- Colo mia on the east cast bank banI of oC the tho Colorado river fifty miles south of ot Yuma hod had hodI declared their intention to clean up I all tho the California and aull Mexico Ranch Hanch nn and md Cattle company holdings |