m u,th YrNo. 275 OGDEN CITYTuT jfa FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 727' 192a " LAST EDITION- P. M. I
SEARCH MADE FOR BODY OF WOMAN IN WELL I
t 0 I
1 PRESIDENT OF HAITI PROBE WITNESS
I Cork Hunger Strike Called Off
I NIL BOARD
I SIFTS CHARGES
I OF KILLINGS
Haitian Executive Says He
Has No Official Knowl
I edge of Murders
I MARINES ACCUSED BY
PUBLIC CLAMOR, HE SAYS
People Rejoice Over Coming
Of Americans. President
Declares
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, Kov 12.
(By tho Associated Press.) Sudrc
Dartlguenave, president oi tin repub
lic of Haiti testifying today before
th0 naval board of inquiry, declared
he had no official knowledge of the
charge of Indiscriminate kllhng of na
tives by United States marines.
Speaking through an interpreter, the
president said he was without means
of proving the exls tones of cases of
homicide or violence that may haVe
been commltteed by the marines, add
ing: PI in 14 I I 1MOR.
"They had1 been accused by public
clamor"
M. Dartlguenave was the only wit
liens testifying, and after lie hud left
the chair. Judge Advuc.it' Dyer an
nounced he had n further witness or
evidence- The court then adjourned
to reassemble- Upon eull by Admiral
b, Henry X. Qfayo, president o.l the board
o( Inquiry, and it la not probable an
other session will be held before next
PRESIDENT DEM OCR I
The Haitian president, with demo
cratic simpiijcit) w..ik o rrom the-palace-
to the courtroom, climbing the
two flights of stairs. He expressed
his pleasure In informing the United
States government what he knew. An
swering a direct question h he h id
knowledge Regarding alleged Indis
criminate killings, he said: "Officially
no. I have heard of regrettable act?v
perpetrated at Hlnc he. SI Marc.
CroLxcs. DOuqufets, Grande Revert du
Nord, Merebailis and Lhs Cohidos
When people have been reprpatfhed
for not having kept the government
Informed of all that was bejng said,
tho answer, rightly or wrongly, has
. been they were afraid of being caugnt
by martial law, Victims or their par
ents have never brought their griev
ances, to me because leaders of the
revolution gave tthera to understand
Ihero was no Haltlen chief of state
nisi i in I l M IRISES.
The people, with a few exceptions,
such as may be found in every ioun
try. have rejolceci at the coming of
the Americans. They were expecting
their liberty, prosperity and respect
for their person and property, but
'compulsory road labor has been prac
ticed despite advice by the counsel of
the government This has given i Ise
to discontent, which lad to the revolt
ot the Cacos bandit. Misdeeds, how
ever, are always possible in cases of
repression "
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I ' PRESIDENT-ELECT KEPT
INDOORS BY WEATHER
POINT ISABEL, TO, Xov. 12.
MB (By The Associated Press.) Bresi-
liHjl' dent-elect Harding's tarpon fishing
I'M was interrupted today bj .t 33 - mile
y$M norther that churned the l'olnt Isa-
J Q'J iic-i fishing grounds into a tumbling
i rftj field of foam and drove the tempera
ture down to the shivering point.
I . i dins; to stay ashore, the senator
read and rested during the morning
In his cottage overlooking tho la
goon, but hoped before the day was
over to lake a motor trip to Browns
vllle for a game of golf He expressed
keen disappointment thai iad weather
ifffi had overtaken hl.s fishing venture.
Mr. Harding's speech in Browns
Bugjs villc yesterday was the only one on
bis engagement list during his sta
tsjyfwa here and he expects to do no work
before his departure on the other inat
JjS'4 ,,jrs awaiting his attention. Mail Ja
H beginning to come here for him In
great quantities, but his secretaries
HH arc filing most of it away and are
TPr giving Immediate attention only to
JLgft most urgent letters.
I HUMBLE JANITOR INHERITS
RICH CALIFORNIA FARM
FORT WAYNE. Ind., Nov. 12.
Charles Wlneland an $S3 a month
janitor at the City hall here, leaned on
the handle of his broom long enough
to read a letter Thursday and then a
few hours later started to California
to claim a 114-acro fruit rarm on tlie
outskirts of San Francisco, and $28,000
deposited in a bank there. m
The letter Informed hliu thai Tib
i.r..thet had died leaving ids estate
to the Janitor and n sister. Mrs. Caro
iii.i Bowman of Burlington, Ind The
farm Is appraised for lava -.on .t
J7S.00O according to the letter.
HOLIDAY IX I'LKIXtl.
PEKING, Nov U. Armistice day
was observed quietly In this city, and
HUj there were no public functions, al-
HH I though receptions were given al clubs
-- and patriotic dinners were held r. 1 ho-
;,; .'., . "m
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HERE ARE CHIEF
I PRINCIPLES OF
HOME RILE BILL
I
The fundamental principles laid
down by the British government
l in tho Irish home rule bill are
First That the people of the
six Ulster Counties shall not be
brought administratively under
and outside parliament in Ire
land. second That there shall not be
I and weakening of the reservations
which have been made by the
government for the purpose of
safeguarding the vital Interests
of tho United Kingdom.
At the time of the Introduction
of the measure It was stated that
the home rule the government In
tended to give Ireland was based
primarily on tho declaration of
Premier Lloyd-GOprge in a speech
hist December that Great Britain
i an not accept separation "
Cndcr the bill evo legislatures
I with upper and lower houses
would be set up. one for the north
Of Ireland and the other for the
south.
H les.s than half of the mem
1 bers of either legislature are val
idly elected or f"n to swear al
, legjtance to the king, the- king
may dissolve the parliament, and
place the go ernmeht In the
hands f coi mltteo appointed
l. the lord, lieutenant
A "council fpr Ireland." com
posed Of forv- members, half of
whom would 1e selected by each
parliament, also Is provided for.
The powers of the- council would
be limited to tho-.-e granted It
by the two legislatures.
The fra'mcrs, of the bill it was
said, hoped the council would
form th" nucleus around which
eo'rtd be built one parliament for
the whole u! Ireland.
The two legislatures would have
full control of education, local
i government the land policy.
transportation old age pensions.
j Insurance and other mnttors. A
court of appeals for tho whole
of Ireland, presided over by t he
lord chancellor, i provided for.
Neither body may establish any
particular religious creed or pen
alise ivny one for belono-ln 'o or
iiot belonging lo'any religious' de-
J nomination.
Control of th royal Irish con
Stabulary and the metropolitan
police of Dublin would be trans
ferred by the imperial parliament
to the Irish parliament three
yenrs after the act comes into
operation.
Powers reserved to the imper
ial parliament embrace the crown,
peace Bjjd war foreign affairs,
army ami navy, coinage, defense,
treason, trade outside of Ireland.
postofflces, navigation, Including
! merchant shipping, wireless and
cables and collection of Income
and BXCeSS profit taxes
Both north and south Ireland
would contribute for two years
to the support of the ruplre.
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SANTA CLAUS READY TO
VlSif YANKS UN RHINE
WASHINGTON, Nov. U'. Christ
mas paikugts for Amerhan troop-; en
th.- Khlne must reach Hoboken Py De- I
: comber 6 to insure delivery before.
I Christmas day. the war department
announced today Thoj should be!
sent In cure of the general superin
tendent, army transport service, Ho-
boh ' n
t'ackagCSJ for men stationed in Ha
waii and tii" Philippines should reach
the depot qtaartermaster, Port Masoi
i not later thun Dc -ember 5 while thos
for shipment to the Panama canal
zone and I'orto Hico should bl In th(
bands of the general superintendent.
army transport service, Pier Arm:
Supply Base. South Brooklyn, N. Y.. I
by November 30.
Packages for Germany must not e.x
, ceed seven pounds In weight and 7 2
Inches combined letiK'h and Klrth
Those tn men on dutv in thi 'anal
y.one and Insular possessions are llm- :
Ited to twenty pounds In weight and
jtwo cubic feet In volume.
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SMALL HOPES HELD OUT
FOR MISSING SEAPLANE
CHICAGO. Nov. 12. Search was
resumed toelay for the seaplane lost, in
In storm on l."'ke Michigan, although
Iveterun lake seamen had virtually giv
en up hope of finding the three fllors
I who set forth from Great Lakes n.iol
training station Wednesday Bitter
cold, high wind and raging, leas loft i
small hopo for survival of the trio un-
les they had found a landing n the
I Wisconsin or Michigan shores. The
missing men are Lieutenant Harrj i.
Hurr, Lake Forest. 111., pilot. Ensign
Edwin M. ' "lark, Peoria, III . and fjun-i
ner's Mate John Caesar, of Chicago. I
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ORDER RE-ESTABLISHED
AFTER SPANISH RIOTING
BARCELONA. Nov. u order has
been re-established In this city after
serlouK dh'turliances during the past
fortnight. Governor Anido, who wns
recently appointed, has returned from I
Madrid where he has been conferring!
With rh president or (he council and
the minister of the interior.
SPEECH IDE IN
DUBLIN SIS
ENGLISH WRATH
j I
"May Have to Use Lamp Posts
Or Wall," Liberal Ac
cused of Saying
'ADDRESS IS DECLARED
INCITEMENT TO MURDER
Fremier Declares Independence
For Ireland Means Con
scription in England
CORK, Nov u (I5 The
SO la ted Pn--.-. ) The lump r
strike of the nine Irish prisoners
in the oi k mil was called ofl to
day, the ninety-fourth day f th
strike.
LONDON, Nov. 12 lieutenant Col
onel L'Esrangi Malone, liberal mem
iber of the house of commons for the'
eist division of Bcyton, who was ar-I
rested Wednesday night In Dublin
where he had gone Ijj invitation to,
speak in a debate on Bolshevism, was
arraigned In Bow street police court
toelay under the section of the eiefense 1
of the realm act prohibiting the use
of language likely to cause sedition
among the civilian population The
proceeding.-: arose from a speech de
livered by Lieutenant .Colonel Melons
in Albert hall here last Sunday. The
' am was adjourned for a week and
th.- defendant was released In .0inj(
bull. A large crejwd of sympathizers
outside cheered him as he- left the
cpuit. l 1 1 1 MI N I IX Ml KIM R
Humphrey Travels, the crown pros
ecutor, declared L'olonel Maionws
bpi-ich was nothing l-.-ss t.iati an "in
citemenl to muvdOr.' rie xjuoterl the
lotldwiitg passage- irom me speech In!
quostfon':
iite Russian revblutlon taught us
the Humbug ot ine old parliament
i hope the day will soon
come wh.n .. e s.iall meet Were to pass'
., blessing on tlic British revolution
waen you ii,e-et heijs as delegates of
the Clrut all-British congress of woik-,
era, saiiors nd soldlera
H vM.i n POSTS.
"When Ltiut ia comes, woe to all
UldSfl people who get In our way. We
.ii - out to change the .resent constl-,
tUuou, and i it Is necessary, to have
bloodshed and atrocities, we shall have;
to iiai I nc lump 1'Ots or the wall.
v hat are a ,ew I liurehllls or a lew
urzons on lamp posts compared with :
li.e rataerj 0 tiiousands Of human be
ings'.' HUNGER B i RIKJ RS LOM .
CORK, NOv, a The condition of'
the nine hunger strikers in t;ie Cork!
tail IVi, s- rl..u-ri I...H cu "uhn.l(r.l, i
low" on this, tae lllnetyrfOUrth day of
their strike
Bishop cohalen of Cork in a letter
made public today, expresses belief
that It is still possible t nurse the
men back to health, and snld. Lord
Mayor Mac8wisjeys strike accomplish
ed tho purpose of attracting world at
tention "
II W CALL WOW .
NEW YORK, Nov l : The com-!
mitiee of 100 Investigating the Irish
question announced today it had nc-i
eepted the oiler f .Mrs Murie l Ma. -
Bwlney, widow- ot the late lord mayor
of Cork, to come to the I'nlted States;
to testlty in the hearings which the i
committee plans to begin November'
21.
Mrs MacSwiney, thfl committee
said, had been askedi to reach tho
United States it possible hoi later than
December (j.
PKKM1F.K O.N IRELAND.
London, nov. Former Pre
mier Astiuith yesterday appealed fori
advantage to be taken of tlie associa- j
tlons and emotions aroused by the an
niversary of armistice day w hich could j
not be put to worthier use than an en
deavor to find a bols of real settle- ,
nteiit for Ireland.
Premier Lloyd-George, replying
contended thut the present bill was a
generous measure but the Irish people,
were ne.t In a temper to give it proper
understanding and consideration.
He declared that documents to be I
published it an early date, found In,
the possession of Sinn Fein leaders in
1918, proving they were Involved In a
Geiman plot, would Show the neces-1
sity of England retaining completi
control of Irish harbors
MEANS CONS4 RIPTION.
To give Ireland the powei to raise'
a conscript army, he suld, would bi
a dangerous menace to Great Britain
and he warned the laboiltes that with
an army of that klnel In Ireland un
der full powers of Irish dominion i ulo,
conscription In England would become
incv liable.
The premier contended that it was;
squalls Impossible to allow Ireland;
her own navy which was ejuite need-:
less lor her nutlonal life and could!
only be used for the peril of Great
Piitaln and her own destruction.
He argued that It was fruitless to i
talk of granting fiscal autonomy to
peopl still demanding a republic. Im
pressing a fervent hope for the re
moval of misunderstanding's which
would make the future so dark, the
premier closed with a note of mo
tion PR USES IRISHMEN.
"It may b- thai il was an Irish
soldier we honored today. Ireland has
h
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$12,000,C00 IN I
GOLD ARRIVES
FROM ENGLAND
NEW YORK, Nov. 12. Of
512,000,000 gold which arrived
on the steamship Adriatic to
day, $9,500,000 was for account
I of the federal reserve bank of
, this city and marked the final
transfer of $111,000,000 held for
that institution by the Bank of
England for upward of a year, i
The balance of the Adriatic's
gold was consigned to Kuhn,
Loeb & Co , making a total of
about $63,000,000 received by
that banking house so far this
year.
Most of the gold imported by
( Kuhn, Locb & Co. was shipped
from South Africa to London
'where it was bought in the open
market in competition with
British and Oriental interests.
The National City bank an
nounced the arrival of $1,000,
000 gold at San Francisco from
Australia.
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THREAT OF WAR
WITH GEH
HADE B POLES
Newspaper Warns Great Brit
ain to Keep Hands Off
Silesian Plebiscite
WARSAW, Nov. 12. The declara
tion that vvar between Germany and
Poland woulel be inevitable if the
plebiscite to be held In tipper Silesia
tfiv,. that regpui to (iermuny. Is made
today in the iJiizette lJoi-,jnna In dls
CUSSlng the peblscitc. The- newMpaper
Is the organ of the National Democrats
who.se leader in John Dombski. under
set retary for foreign affairs The Qa-;-..t;
poranni -predicts that another
world war would result with France
nnd Belgium Joining Poland and
Great Britain sldlnK with Germany.
It adds. -lf England should enter
this war It would mean, perhaps, the
end of British world lower "
The newspaper contends that Great
Britain has shown certain leaning to
wnrd Germany In .Silesian affairs and
warns Britain to keep her hands off.
The data 6f the plebiscite In Kllesla
has apraln been postponed Indefinite
ly. Meanwhile unrest In the retjlon
continues.
A dispatch from Beuthen today suys
ihat the allied authorities seised a car
load of Germun urtlllery mine throw
ers, machine guns and ammunition.
The Polish mark today real hed Its
lowest, figure of -I 5.1 to th- dollar and
some of the newspapers attribute its
drop to German lnfleunce seeking to
Injun Polish Credit because of its ef
fect on the Silesian vote.
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SAVING AND INVESTMENT
MAY BE SCHOOL COURSE
WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 Officials
of the savings division of the treasurj
department conferred here today with
a number of eel in ators regarding plans
for malting the principle of tho saving
and Inv estiueiil ..l nion, a p. i mam lit
and compulsory part of the American
public school e urrlculum anel for tho
us-- of government savingy securities
as the practical medium for applying
those principles,
The conferences will continue to
morrow and th. committee of educat
ors, appointed at the National Edu
cation association convention at Salt
Lake last July, win comer with Seen -tary
Houston during its stay In Wash
ington n.i
NICKEL STEEL INVENTOR
RECEIVES NOBEL PRIZE
STOCKHOLM, Nov. il. Charles
Bdouard GUlaumc Bretehll, head ..:
the International bureau of weights
and measures, was today awarded the
Nobel prize for 1920 for physics by
the Swedish academy of leisure, ft is
discoveries relative to toe alloys of
nlck-l steel won him this honor,
had a great and brilliant share In the
empire- Some of hoi greatest states
men the shining wisdom of Hurke
and I he stern leadership o Wllllng
ton all contributed to bulhl tho em
pire. "All we ask is that Ireland should
not. In a moment of anger, east nway
an Inheritance which is as much hers
as ours, but join in the empire it help
fed to build and adorn. "
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OLD LIFEBOATS
RESOLD TO NAVY,
WITNESS SAYS
Castoffs Sold By U. S. for $10
Bought By Board for
$110, Claim
INVESTIGATION TELLS OF
EFFORTS AGAINST GRAFT
One Building Firm Had Only
One Man Who Knew Ship
Building
NEW rORK, Nov. 12 Details of
Steps taken by the ("nlted States ship
ping board to suppress 1 Irregularities"
being Investigated here by the Walsh
J congressional committee wore given
'at the committee's hearing today b
John T. Meehan, deputy chief of the
board's (li Vision of Investigation.
lb said that after Investigations
conducted under his personal super
vision, six indictments against alleged
tninsirr ssors of the law had been ob
tained through Investigations which he
had not personally directed.
TWELVI INDICTMENTS.
Mr. Meehan said that the, twelve Jn
dli linents have been returned alter
sifting down something Ifke 2400
'charge, against various persons, ua h
of which, he declared, had been thor-
joughlv run down and either verified
or disproved.
.vianv of the eases InveaUsaAAsK Mm
. Meehan vld. involved charges of
Hand against contractors preferred
; by citizens desiring to protect the
' government" or by employes on ship
ping board vessels.
lb tostlfled that the first order to
reduce his staff came in 191 and
that now after a succession of cuts,
, his corps of workers Included ten in-
vestigators.
i IFEBO VI si N l
Questioned regarding a complaint
said to have been referred to his of
fice concerning a firm of lifeboat
builders, tho witness referred to rec
ords which he said were on lib- in
the offices of his department Thej
showed, he said, that the- building firm
had "but one man who Knew anything
I about boat building." and thai be
cause of Inferior work boats COnstritCt
' ed by it w ere rejected.
"In 1920." the witness went on. "wo
wer' advised by the military Intelli
gence Service thai the same firm was
buying life-boats from the salvage ser
vice of the navy at 10 each and re-
mo"8 ,h' U ' lht' 3hippi"s bard for
I Meehan said the investigation to
llr.d out h..v. man-. mslam-.-s had
'occurred was still under way
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ATTACK ON PERUVIAN
PRESIDENT PLANNED
, LIMA, Beru, Nov. 12. Discovery of
a revolutionary plot with famlflca
l tlons in the provinces of Madrc de
I Dios, Huallaga and Lambayequc and
, the cities of Cuzco and Arequlpa was
lannouneed by high officials at the
government palace this morning
The conspiracy was to culminate in
an attack upon President Levgulu
during B dinner given In his honor at
(he I. nlon club yesterday, it is said.
.Some thirty persons, some of whom
are prominent members of the oppo
sition party, havn been arrested at
Anoehe. Tiny include Garcios Li
tres Colonel Cecar Bardo and Colonel
i lanfranco.
Pro-gOVerhment demonstrations
were hebl at Anoehe today, but the
I police are In full control of the Mtu
atlon and arc maintaining perfect 0r
eler , All traffic over the branch of the
' entral railway serving the Cerro
Pasco region has been suspended be
cause of a strike.
I The situation was tranquil at 6
o clock tonight. Among those taken
ETl0.II?rUr,ng ,h" da" Senator
, M guel Grau, who recentlj made a
bitter attack upon tho government
.and the senato in a manifest
PRIEST WHO PRAISES
SOLDIERS GETS BEATING
LuNImiX, Nov. 1.' Serious rioting
haH occurred at Genan... n ar I otonza
Italy, according to ft Milan dispatch
to me Exchange Telegraph company.
A priest is said to have been severely
beaten durinK a church ceremon j jt
i which he praised Kalian soldiers and
j a general strlk. followed the arresi
of 200 person accused of having par
j tlclpatcd ,i the disorders. A strike
i also has been called at Foren.a
town in the Apennines, fifteen miles
northeast of Potenza,
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RESIDENTS OF MADRID
UNABLE TO GET BREAD
MADRID, Nov. il. Residents of
this city found today that the bread
shortage had grown much more sori-
; ous in consequence of the bakers'
strike Newspapers demand that en
ergetic measures bo adopted t in
sure supplies for the city.
tMILES4 M, A,1I,'L- Beoretl
service agent, -vyill be in
command of the bodyguard oX I
Presideill Warren (i Harding,
He is lnivv in cha re of the pro
! teotion of the president-elect
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& w i fi c ep
M FRIEND :
BF PROGRESS,
GDMPERS SAYS
Organized Workers Declared
Not Opposed to Science
In Industry
WASHINGTON Nov. 1 J Organized
labor will welcome' what over assist-.
lanCC research and science can offer!
I to modern industry. President Gomp-i
jcrs of the American ITederatibn oi La
bor toelay 'old delegates gathered here I
for the preliminary conference on In 1
dustrlal research. A part of orga-'
'nized labor's own work, he said, has!
been directed toward the., scientific;
Study of conditions surrounding pro-j
ducllon, and to the assemblage of
data.
I '.'A persistent effort has been made
to saddle upon labor the odium of op
position to improved methods and ma-1
chinery In production,'' Mr. Gompers
said This Is not true as a general!
statement. What labor has opposed
is an effort to exploit them by the use.
Of Improvements that ale Intended as
i a blessing to manklnel.
"Labor is not opposed to Increased
I production or improved methods. I
iQutte the contrary We recognize there
an be no permanent betterment of'
standards of living for .-ii except by
Increasing the things that contribute I
to better and mote satisfactory Hvlni
, Itut wo hoM as a fundamental that,
i material products are not the ulti-1
j mate of production but service, in a!
better life for humanitj
"I take It all of us haVe too much
vision and experience to think we can
I solve the labor problem. That is a'
lite problem that will last as long as'
' life."
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BRITISH FAST SECURING
OIL LANDS OF WORLD
WASHINGTON, Nov. It - British '
oil interests ore .showing renewed In
terest In Mexico, Ecuudor ami Peru'
while th. British government Itsell has
started a survey of the Hungarian oil
fields, according to advices received!
today by the American government,
The survey of th,- ifungarian field .
I the adVloes said, Is being made by the
' British commercial commissioner at
i Budapest
Alfred MacKe-nzle, a British Subject,
Is said to have been granted an oil con
; cession in BCexloo covering 2imi miles!
along the coast of Lower California.
I The British Controlled II Fields,
I Ltd-, whieh has interests in California
Texas, ESucador, Peru and Venesuela,
I the advices .said, has begun w ork n
Us leases in Ecuador and I- seeking
I large concessions In Peru.
AMERICAN RED CROSS
WORKER IS PRISONER
I PARIS, Nov. 12.-Washington re-j
'ports that Captain IDmiuel KllpatrickJ
American Red Cross worker in south
Itussla. was not killed by the Bol
Lslievtki, but is being held prisoner,
w.-re confirmed hi a telegram received
at a Paris branch of the American
Bed Cross from stebastopol today. The
! telegram was filed In Se-baslopol on
November 8,
Tim telegram reads. "Definite in
formation that Klip. Uriel; Is u pris
oner was received from Russian of
ficers who escaped from the frroup
of prisoners whieh included Kllpat-
rlck. Thts group left l.avlka under
guard in the dir. clion of a prison
vamp .it Klovaka on the Qnleper;"
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BOY DECLARES 1
RE SI ESTHER I
GOU CRIME I
Stepmother Struck Down and
Body Buried in Well,
He Says I
KEEPS STORY SECRET
4 YEARS THROUGH FEAR
Alleged Slayer Disappears 0c
tober 30; Then Son
Makes Disclosure
LANGDONj New Hampshire. Nov.
I 12. An abandoned well on the farm H
I of William B. Whitney, which had
j been filled with rock ami debris, ws H
re-opened today by county and city t H
. authorities in a search for the body ot H
Whitney's second wife The search H
was ordered by County Solicitor Henry H
j N. Herd, as a result of a declaration H
I made to him by John Whitney, 15- H
tld son, of William B Whitm-v H
; by a former marriage, that he saw his H
father strike lown his Stepmother In
' their home four years ago, take I.e. H
! body to the haymow and later bury H
the H
WHITNlSf DISAPPEARS.
I Whitney disappeared on October 3o
after eight years of residence hero In
whieh he gained a reputation as a H
solid citizen, in his wake came bank- 'I
ruptcy petitions against him, and
ohasges that he had depullcated moi l - .H
gages on hist holm-. The son went-to H
county authorities with the story
. which he said he had kept secret tin- H
d.-r threat of death by his parent. 'H
Liie i.tmny was originally named BVflyflyflyfl
Doollttle, according to the son, ami
lived at Nfadlson, .Maine, where the B
mother died.' The father was charged
with passing a woithless check, his
son said, and. calling his children t.. H
him lob) them he was leaving for tie
w est and that the ir names t In r.-a f i
would be Whitney He went to Mbn
tana and lived there several H
returning east in 101; w ith a second
wife, and settled here
H SEES 1TTAOK. I
n the ni!,'nt of June ..to. l'JIG.
W hltn. y and his, Tif, went to a l -c-
returning late, John told the
county solicitor thai he was awakened
in his bedroom over the kitchen by a
dispute, and looked through the hot
air reglstdrVlnto the room below. H
saiel he- saw his father grasp a sti. ;k
of firowood and beat ids stepmotb. iH
it.
The woman was apparently killed
by the repeated blows, the b,,y said, L
adding that he saw his father next
tak the bod out of the house to the
haymow In the barn. There, accord H
Ing to his story, it lay for several
davs before Whitney buried it under
rocks In tlm well. He told his son L
that if he ever told anyone what had LH
iei, done he would klil him. the bov
Whitney told neighbors that his
wit.- had gone to I hio on a visit. There
was an Official inojilry n the summer
of irij: County authorities went to
the farm to investigate. After-thev
i n. young Whitney said, hl.s father
built a hay stack over the well.
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NATIONAL GRANGE WILL I
FIGHT PRINTERS' STRIKE
BOSTON, Nov. 12 The appearance
at the annual sessions of the national
grange today of its monthly magazine
With two pages blank was explained
at a. meeting of the board of managers p
1 y thi dttor, I h irlcs M .,. rein, r, K
of Ma lachusetQ B
grange", blh due to a strike of printers :H
Th.- ediror sa,i (y,.,, ;l. tise 9H
two pages' liad been set but not locked sH
before the strike started, and that
when he and his foreman locked up
pagi erotypei refused 1 Wt
handb- them Th.- board of managers
today voted to print the tull eireula
tion of 60.000 copies with tho blank
The national grange went on record
lii i ' solutions as approving the action
Of the board of managers and com
mending them tor refusing' to permit
the necessities of Hie national grang
'...-in made use of an attempt bj H
labor leaders to compel n forced set
t lenient anel acceptance of their de- v'l
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REINDEER FROM ALASKA
WILL BE MARKETED HERE
SEATTLE, Wash. Nov. 12 Meat
packers at Nome. Alaska, will be pre
pared to ship al least six thousan 1
reindeer carcasses to American mar
ketS through Seattle next year, Carl
J. Lome-n of Xome said her,-. Noun
interests ,,r,. building iwo addition:!!
refrigerating plants at Egavlb and Go
lovln. near Nome, and plan to estab
lish a string of such plants along the
coast of Alaska The reindeer herd 6
owned by one company In the- vicinity
of Nome numbers more than 37,000
animals. Mr. Loin en said.
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RAILROAD TO LAY OFF
1.300 MEN ON NOV. 16
ALTOONA, Pa., Nov 12, An- k
nouncemedt was mad.- al 'he Pennsyl; H
vanla railroad offices here today that
ISOo men In the Altopna sliops, or ten
per cent of the force, would ba laid
off November 16.
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COAST PIONEER in S.
.KI Nl. t'nl, Nov. IS, Hugh
Craig, 7-, former president of tho San
Eeron Cisco chamber of commerce, died
here Thursday. Mr. Craig came to
tho Pacific coast as a sailor before the
gold rush of 1819 At one time he was
president of the Truus-Mlsalssippl eon
grresa to whieh post he suejeeeded WIL-
Ham Jennings Bryan.
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