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FIERCE BATTLE
IN MINE STRIFE
SEVERAL ARE KILLED WHEN
1,000 STRIKERS STORM
ILLINOS MINE
MANY WOUNDED IN FIGHTING
Excel Toll Is Unknown Rue to Con-
fusion; Thousands of Arvnsd Men
Are Rushed Into Trouble
Zone
Herrin. Hl.—One union miner Is
known to have been, skilled and many
Others wounded during hostilities be
tween striking union miners and em
ployes of the Southern Illinois Coal
company’s Strip mine near here.
Three mine guards were seriously hurt.
Reports were current tha< 12 to 15
employes of the Strip mine were killed
but this could not be verified because
of the confusion at the camp.
Thousands of men, many armed,
were rushed to the camp. The striking
miners, said to number more than
1,000, surrounded the camp, shooting
from all sides, and open warfare was
conducted for several hours.
The trouble followed an indignation
meeting held Just outside of Herrin,
following publication of a telegram
from John L. Lewis, president of the
United Mine Workers of America, that
the workmen nt the Strip mine, who
are members of the shovel men’s union,
were “common strike breakers.” Mr.
Lewis’ telegram added that the shovel
men’s union had been outlawed by the
American Federation of Labor.
FARMER SLAYS SHERIFF
AND MINISTER IN RAID
Officers Were Shot During Search for
Suspected Still on Farm;
West Kills Self
Albany, Ore. —C. M. Kendall, sheriff
of Linn county, and the Rev. Roy
Healy, pastor of the First Christian
church of this city, were shot and in
stantly killed by Dave F. West, 60, a
farmer living near Plainview. The
shooting took place at the West farm
where the sheriff and the minister,
acting as a deputy sheriff, had gone
to raid a suspected moonshine still.
When word of the tragedy reached
here posses of citizens rushed to the
West home In automobiles armed with
rifles to try to arrest the slayer.
West, after barricading himself in
his house, shot himself through the
mouth, death occurring instantly.
Tong War Ends
San Francisco.—Five months Tong
warfare said to have started because
the Bing Kong Tong tried to estab
lish a branch In Billings, Montana, a
move which the Hip Sings resented,
has ended with the signing of a per
manent peace at the headquarters of
the Chinese peace society here.
Plans Hospital for Operations
San Diego.—Dr. John R. Brinkley of
Kansas, whose experiments In goat
gland transplanting have attracted
some attention, has left here for En
sada. Lower California. Mexico, where
he expects to establish a hospital for
transplanting goat glands in human
building. With him went a corps of
assistants.
Idaho Banker Given Pen Term
Boise. Idaho.—A federal court jury
here found 8. L. Reece, former presi
dent of the defunct Bannock Nationa'
bank at Pocatello, guilty of making
false reports to the comptroller of cur
rency. Reece was sentenced to three
years In the federal prison at McNeil’s
Island and was fined $5,000.
Gas Is Fatal to Idaho Miner
Mullan, Idaho.—Ed Lake, aged 40.
miner, is dead, and his partner, Wil
liam McCollough, in a hospital at Wal
lace, Idaho, as the result of an acci
dent in the Gold Hunter mine near
here. Asphyxiation is believed to have
caused Lake’s death.
British Marshal Assassinated
London. —Field Marshal Sir Henry
Hughes Wilson, chief of the British
Imperial staff and lately military ad
viser to the Ulster government was
assassinated near the door of his home
in Eaton place. London.
Big Wool Pool Sold
Oasper, Wyo.—Nearly 210,000 pounds
of wool were sold recently at the Na
trona county pool auction sale held
here. The highest price was 37 cents
per pound.
Pass Civilian Bonus
Washington.—A *540,000,000 bonus
for civilian employes of the govern
ment was passed by the house after
overturning the appropriations commit
tee which had cut the individual pay
ments from $240 to SIBO.
Northwestern Road Men Meet
Portland. Highway engineers of
western states are meeting here to dis
cuss the new federal road bill. States
represented Include New Mexico, Ne
vada. Montana, Arizona, Idaho, Wash
ington and Oregon. „ i
WOMAN WINNER IN
MINNESOTA PRIMARY
• /
Mrs. Oleson Is First to Be Nominated
to Senate by Either Ma
jor Party
St. Paul, Minn. —A woman has been
nominated for United States senator
by a major political party for the first
time In the history of the country.
This became apparent when returns
from half the precincts participating in
Minnesota’s primary election showed
Mrs. Anna Dickie Oleson had cap
tured the senatorial nomination of the
Democratic party over two male op
ponents.
When 1,715 of the state’s 3.348 pre
cincts had reported Mrs. Oleson had
a margin of 4,200 votes over Thomas
Melghan, her nearest opponent, the
count then standing: Mrs. Oleson, 18,-
212; Melghan, 14,029.
Opposing Mrs. Oleson in the Novem
ber election will be Minnesota's junior
senator, Frank B. Kellogg, who was re
nominated on the Republican ticket
with other state officers endorsed by
the party’s convention. Henri Ship
ped. farmer-labor candidate, will also
be an opponent.
GRAIN DEALERS PASS
WHEAT DISCOUNT RATE
Schedule® Are Adopted Over Protest
of Producers and Northwest
State Officials
Spokane.—Schedules for wheat dis
counts for the present season were
adopted here by the Pacific Northwest
Wheat Dealers’ association over pro
tests of producers and state officials
of Washington. Oregon and Idaho, who
asked that schedules be fixed by a
neutral board.
Discounts in the schedule include:
45 to 95 cents per ton bulk and 75
cents to $1.25 sacked on smutty wheat,
and 2 to 10 cents per bushel on wheat
below No. 1 grade, because of insepar
able material excess moisture. Sales
are to be on a sacked basis, with 4
cents per bushel differential for bulk.
Discounts on mixed wheats vary from
two to eight cents a bushel, according
to grade and percentage of mixture.
Treated wheat is not to be deliverable
except on option of the buyer.
18,000 MAROONED BY FLOOD
Food Lacking in Isolated City; Dam
age Is Enormous
San Antonio.—Twenty-one thousand
acres of Rio Grande valley, with crops
valued at $2,500,000, flooded in Hidalgo
county, a fresh rise in the lower
stretches of the Rio Grande as the re
sult of flood waters from the San Juan
river in Mexico, while the cloudburst
flood of the upper river is nearing Its
crest at Laredo, 150 miles up stream,
summarizes the border flood situation.
Meantime the fate of 18,000 inhabi
tants of Pledras Negras, Mexico, across
the river from Eagle Pass, isolated
since railroad and railway bridges were
swept out, is causing grave concern.
Nothing has been heard from Piedras
Negras and the Mexican city has been
without water and light since that
time. The city is known to be sur
rounded by water and the food supply
is thought to be short.
Ask Harding to End Strike
Washington.—President Harding has
been asked to take steps to end the
coal strike in a joint appeal presented
to him by the commission on the church
and social service of the Federal Coun
cil of Churches, with which are af
filiated 30 great Protestant commun
ions. the Department of Social Action
of the National Catholic Welfare Coun
cil and the Social Justice commission
of the Central conference of American
Rabbis. This is the first time, as far
as is known, that? these representative
organizations of Protestants, Roman
Catholics and Jews have taken joint
action in an industrial matter.
SIOO,OOO Fire at California U
Berkeley. Cal. —Hearst Hall and
Hearst Hall annex were destroyed and
, the Pathology building of the Univer
sity of California was damaged in a
fire with estimated loss of SIOO,OOO.
The University infirmary was threat
ened by the flames and its patients
were removed, but the building was not
reached by the fire.
Claim Dock Strike Broken
Portland, Ore. —Strike precautions
on the loading docks have been largely
abandoned, according to a statement
issued by the Waterfront Employers’
association. The statement declared
the longshoremen’s strike in progress
here for more than two months has
been practically broken.
Bandit Taken to Nebraska
Rawlins, Wyo.—Fred Brown, wanted
in Omaha for the alleged kidnaping of
two young women, and for other law
violations, is being taken to Lincoln,
Neb. He is In the custody of Ous
Hyers, Nebraska state sheriff and
Warden Fenton of the Nebraska state
penitentiary.
Brown will be taken to the Nebraska
prison for safe keeping If plans of the
officers are carried out. He la artlll
suffering from the wound inflicted by
a posse which captured him near Medi
cine Bow recently.
BONUS SECOND ON
SENATE SCHEDULE
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FAILS TO WIN PRECEDENCE OVER
TARIFF AFTER DESPER-
ATE BATTLE
TARIFF TAKES FIRST PLACE
Action on Veterans Bill Will Follow
Disposition of Duty Measure;
Sponsors Will Bring Act
Up Constantly
Washington.—The soldiers’ bonus
bill has been made by a vote of 52 to
8, the special order of business of the
senate Immediately after the final vote
on the tariff bill unless it is disposed
of before that time.
Adoption of a motion to this effect,
after an all-day fight at the outset of
which an effort to get the bonus before
the senate, failed. Several senators
gave formal notice that they would
continue to press for action on the
bonus ahead of the tariff.
Majority Program Sticks
A move to upset the program of the
Republican majority calling for action
first on the tariff, was launched by
Senator Walsh, Democrat, Massachu
setts, who made a formal motion that
the tariff bill be displaced by the
bonus measure. Senator Watson, Re
publican, Indiana, moved to lay this
motion on the table and his motion pre
vailed. Eight Democrats supported
the Watson motion and two Republi
cans voted against it.
TWENTY-FOUR INJURED
IN MOUNTAIN WRECK
Spreading of Rails Believed Cause of
Accident Near Foot of Ten
nessee Pass
Leadville, Colo.—Twenty-four per
sons were Injured, four seriously, when
the first section of Denver & Rio
Grande Western passenger train No.
2, east bound, was wrecked at Keelbar,
a small station 10 miles from Leadville.
Spreading rails were believed to have
caused the accident. The scene of the
wreck was near the foot of Tennessee
Pass.
The train carried many Sbrlners re
turning from San Francisco.
Three Pullman cars and the dining
car turned over while another Pullman
also jumped the track and turned part
way over.
CUT IN SECOND CLASS
POSTAL RATES PLANNED
Washington.—The administration Is
considering the matter of decreasing
second class postal rates. Considerable
discussion was given to the subject at
a recent cabinet meeting and President
Harding and Postmaster General Work
are inclined to believe that at least a
part of the Increase In the second class
rates made during the war should now
be removed.
Slayer Given Life Term
Jackson, Mi-ch.—George Straub, con
fessed slayer of Alice Mallett, pleaded
guilty to first degree murder here, and
immediately was sentenced to solitary
confinement at hard labor for life in
Marquette prison. Miss Mallett, who
was matron at a girls’ home, was mur
dered a short time ago. having ap
parently been attacked with an axe.
Her head was crushed and her body
mutilated In a night attack as she was
enroute to her home.
New Mexico Forest Burning
Albuquerpue, N. M. —With every
available man In the vicinity at work
fighting a terrific forest fire which is
blazing unchecked on a 10-mile front
f .n the Gilead forest, forest service of
ficers here have appealed for 100 sol
diers to be sent from Fort Bliss, Texas,
to aid in the work. More than 100 men
are fighting the fire which is traveling
rapidly, driven by a high wind.
Establish New Travel Record
Livingston.—A new travel record for
the opening day of Yellowstone Park
was established June 20, when 1,639
touj’sts entered Wonderland.
The record hung up is within 20 of
the biggest day 1n the history of the
park. August 8, 1921.
Plan to Return Property
Washington.—Legislation is being
prepared with President Harding's
sanction which will return to approxi
mately 30,000 Germans and Austrians
property taken over during the war
by alien property custodian in the
amount of SIO,OOO or less.
$112,000,000 Equipment Order*
Chicago;—The Wabash railway has
placed orders for passenger and freight
equipment Involving the expenditure of
approximately $112,000,000.
Endorse Tariff League Plan
Chautauqua, N. Y. —The board of di
rectors of the General Federation of
Womens’ clubs, in session here has en
dorsed the principles of the non-parti
san tariff league and decided to send
to the 2,000,000 members of the federa
tion information on the work of the
tariff league.
SENATE APPROVES
NAVY PERSONNEL
Bill Carries Appropriation of $255,450,-
000, and Provides Enlist
ment of 66,000
Washington.—The annual naval ap
propriation bill, carrying approximate
ly $255,450,000 and providing for an
enlisted personnel of 86,000 men, has
been passed by the senate and sent to
conference with the house.
Action on the enlisted personnel,
now about 115,000, is final as the sen
ate accepted the house decision and
the question will not come before the
conferees who will deal principally
with senate increases of about $44,-
000,000 over the house bill. There was
no record vote on final passage and
no effort was made to reduce the en
listed personnel.
Unsuccessful efforts to end Ameri
can occupation of Haiti, the Dominican
Republic and Nicaragua, and to launch
a congressional investigation of naval
administration marked the final day’s
debate. *
BAIL OF EX-KLANSMEN
GOBLIN FIXED AT $5,000
Court Orders Bonds of 36 Alleged
Members of Raid Party Raised
to SI,OOO
Los Angeles.—William S. Coburn,
former grand goblin of the Ku Klux
Klan, has furnished a bond for $5,000
for appearance on an indictment charg
ing him and 36 other alleged members
of the klan with felony in connection
with a raid at Inglewood.
Judge Frederick W. Houser, who
took the bond, had just previously is
sued an order increasing the ball’of 35
of the other defendants from SSOO to
SI,OOO on his own volition.
The remaining defendant, Kleagle
Nathan A. Baker, has been confined
in the county jail since his arraign
ment, having been unable to raise
$5,000 bail, .fudge House voluntarily
Increased Coburn’s bail from SI,OOO to
$5,000, when the ex-grnnd goblin ap
peared to plead. Coburn arrived here
from Atlanta. Ga., where he had been
in conference with klan leaders at the
organization’s national headquarters.
HELD ON FEDERAL CHARGE
Son-in-law of Ambassador Charged
Violating Neutrality Laws
Trenton, N. J. —A federal indictment
was recently made public, charging
Lieut. Col. Marrellus H. Thompson,
son-in-law of George Harvey, ambas
sador to Great Britain, with conspiracy
to violate the neutrality laws by at
tempting to ship arms to Sinn Fetners
aboard the freighter. East Side, in
whose bunkers were found 495 machine
guns when she was seized at Hoboken
a year ago.
Thompson has been released !n bail
of $2,500.
Treasure State Advanced $6,000
Washington. Seventeen advances
for agricultural and livestock purposes
aggregating $959,000 have been ap
proved by the war finance corporation.
Distribution of loans Included. Idaho,
$17,000; Montana, $0,000; Washington,
$26,000, and Nqrth Dakota, SIIB,OOO.
Small to Know Fate Soon
Waukegan, 111. —Governor Len Small,
charged with conspiracy to defraud the
state of interest money in public funds,
probably will know his fate within an
other week. The trial is in its ninth
week.
Kellogg Leads in Minnesota
St. Paul.—First scattering returns
on the senatorial contest showed Sen
ator Frank D. Kellogg mainlining a
decisive lead on the Republican ticket
and Mrs. Anna D. Oleson lending the
Democratic contest.
5,000 Kiwanlans at Convention
Toronto, Ont.—Five thousand Kl
wanians are in attendance at -the sixth
annual convention of their Internation
al organizations, which opened here.
Girl Named lowa Mayor
lowa City, lowa. —Miss Emma Har
vat, for the past 15 months an aider
man at large, was unanimously chosen
mayor of lowa City.
Former Envoy Penfield Dies
New York.—Frederic Courtland Pen
field, former U. S. ambassador to Aus
tria-Hungary. died at his home here,
following a short Illness.
1,200 Lepers at Large in U. 8.
Washington.—A recent survey by the
U. 8. public health service showed
there are 1,200 lepers at large in 25
itates.
Motorists Body is Formed
Chicago.—The National Motorists’
Association was organized at a meeting
here by delegates of 18 states. W. D.
Meals of Cleveland, was elected presl
-lent. The new association resulted
r rom a break within the ranks of the
American Automobile association.
Movie Magnate Dies
Salt Lake City.—William Henry
Rwanson, 51, owner of many moving
picture theatres hare and reputed to
be one of the pioneers of the motion
picture industry, died of pneumonia.
(Copy for Thia Department Supplied by
the American Legion New Service.)
REGARD FOR HEROES’ WISHES
Judge Neterer of Seattle Holds Re
quest of Soldier Killed in War
Demands First Consideration.
Is the last wish *of a soldier dying
jn the field of battle more to be re
spected than legal forms decked out
with sealing wax? The American
Legion thinks it is. Recent cases be
fore the courts have brought the ques
tion to the front. According to Federal
Judge Neterer of Seattle, the wish of
i soldier killed in battle is higher law
than any departmental regulation. Ac
cording to this decision Agnes Classy,
sixteen-year old niece of Clarence
Swank, is awarded the residue of
Swank’s estate, amounting to $9,000.
Swank was killed in France. Depart
mental red tape cluttered up the case
on account of the death of Swank's
mother, the original beneficiary. In
handing down’ his decision Judge
Neterer cited precedents extending
back to the days of Caesar and the
legionnaires of ancient Rome.
The latest case is that of Miss
Elenore R. Knapp of New York, whose
claim to the estate of Ernest Charl
ton Mason of the One Hundred and
Sixth United States infantry has been
contested by ’Mason’s uncle. In a
muddy dugout before a general ad
vance against the Germans, Mason
told his buddle, Oscar Westgate, the
story of liis engagement, and added
that he now felt that in this advance
he was slated to “go West.” “If 1
don’t come through this,” he said, as
they started over the top, “I want El
enore to have all my estate.’’
Mason, among others, was cut off
and captured by the Germans. They
were taken to the same prison camp.
For ten days, a bunkle testified. Mason
lay ill on the ground with influenza.
Then he was taken away in an ambu-'
lance and his death reported. Event
ually a death certificate was issued
by the United States government, But
the attorneys for Mason’s uncle con
tested the case to the extent of argu
ing that the “proof of death” was un
satisfactory. Wv ' ■
The justice of the soldier’s latest
will has been upheld in startling fash
ion by the highest courts of England
recently. An English major of in
fantry died alone in bis lodgings in
London directly after the armistice.
He left no legal will. Across the front
of a photograph of his fiance he
had hastily scrawled: “All to her."
The case was brought before the high
est tribunal of England and the “will”
stood.
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TABLET GRACES LEGION SHIP
Bronze Piece In Main Dining Saloon
Engraved With Dedication by
National Commander.
The steamship “American Legion"
the Munson lines, sailing between
New York and Buenos Aires with an
American Legion crew, now bears in
Its main dining saloon a bronze tablet
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tablet was made In the presence of
Hie New York and New Jersey officials
of the Legion and two hundred guests.
Send Diseased Poultry to France.
The Germans are Inoculating with
cholera the fowls they are delivering
the French under the reparations
agreements, according to French biolo
gists. It was noticed that the poultry
sent in from Germany soon died.
Prompt inquests on the ‘dead fowls
disclosed the cholera germ. The Paris
Matin, one of the greatest French
newspapers, calls for a government In
vestigation.
Pending.
“Well, want to marry my daughter,
I suppose?” snapped the grouchy mil
lionaire as he glowered at the timid
youth. Adjusting his glasses he added:
"By the way, aren’t you one of my
daughter’s former suitors?”
“N-c-no sir,’* faltered the cheerless
>ne, “but I expect I soon will be.”—
American Legion Weekly.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 1922.
WYOMING
STATE NEWS
(Waters Newrpeper Union Neva Sarrica.)
Debts totaling nearly $250,000, com
pared with assets amounting to only
$4,000, were listed by Mrs. Etta M. Ir
win of Cheyenne in filing a voluntary
bankruptcy petition with the clerk of
the Federal Court at Cheyenne.
Forty-eight hundred dollars In the
harness classes and running events
will make up the purses for this at
traction at the Wyoming state fair at
Douglas in August, according to the
announcement of Otto Boln, fair man
ager. Os this amount, $2,000 will be
given the runners.
Two attorneys who have been buy
ing up the claim rights of what are
declared to have been original loca
tions on oil lands in the Salt Creek
field, have filed suits against the Mid
west Oil Company and associated cor
porations and individuals for the pos
session of oil leases valued at many
millions of dollars—some place the
value as high as $40,000,000.
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Railroad Company is making surveys
for a railroad line which will be built
to the Salt Creek and Teapot oil fields,
forty-five miles north of Casper with
in the next year, according to admis
sions of high railroad officials, who
added that Harry F. Sinclair of the
Mammoth OH Company was financial
ly Interested in the project and that
It would be carried out unless unfor
■een circumstances should arise.
By direction of Attorney General
Walls, following an Investigation he
made recently, the county commis
sioners of 4lot Springs county de
clared a vacaficy In the county attor
ney’s office, on motion unanimously
carried, Fred Wyckoff was appointed
to fill the unexpired term of Major
John L. King, who has been absent
from Hie county for some time. It is
claimed flirt t King’s present where
abouts is unknown in Thermopolis.
I). D. Zack of Rock Springs is all
smiles these days, and he has very
good reasons for wearing one that will
not come off. Last year Zack in
vested SSO In a lease in the Pacos
county, Texas, oil country. Zack for
got about It until the other day, when
he received a notice for taxes amount
ing to $6 on his oil land. He sent the
taxes and received a wire from a San
Francisco oil company offering him
$2,000 per acre for his lease of forty
acres, which he promptly accepted.
The Cody Memorial committee is
jubilant over news concerning the
statue of Buffalo Bill, which news has
been received from Mary Jester Allen
of New York City. Mrs. Allen, who is
a niece of the late Colonel Cody,
writes that after a conference between
Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney and James
West, executive head of the Boy
Scouts of America it Is prr.etically set
tled that the Boy Seoul ‘ of America
will take up the matter'o. raising the
money and make it a great interna
tional movement with the statue to be
made by America’s famous woman
sculptor.
Study of the decision of the Su
preme Court of the United States In
the case of Wyoming against Colorado,
involving the waters of the Laramie
river, an interstate stream, reveals
that the judgment of the court lays
down a policy full of possibilities as
iiffecting the future of the West. The
progress of the case hash een watched
progress of the case has been watched
carefully than by residents of states
in which the Colorado rivor forms a
part of the drainage. The decision will
go far toward clarifying the situation
wherever irrigation is practiced on in
terstate streams, which means practi
cally wherever irrigation Is practiced.
Decision to hold a county fair In
Sheridan again this year hrts been defi
nitely reached. The county commis
sioners have appropriated $3,000 for
the fair on the condition that the
business men and Commercial Club
appropriate a like sum. Committees
are now out securing pledges from the
business men.
A construction crew was unloaded
at Wamsutter recently, consisting of
about thirty-five teams, ten or twelve
wagons, all loaded to capacity with
grading and ditching machinery and
household goods. It also has one large
excavator to be used in ditch work.
This construction outfit will commence
work on the Dolan reservoir project
Just as soon as it can get Its camp set
up.
Thomas E. Tubb, his wife and S. S.
Magnuson are dead and two other per
sons, Including Deputy Sheriff John
McPherson, are seriously wounded as
a result of a battle at Orin Junction
recently, between Tubb, the officers
and citizens. Mrs. Tubb was slain by
her husband, who Is believed to have
become suddenly Insane. Tubb was
killed by un unknown resident of
Orin and the three others were
wounded by Tubb.
Call for bids has been issued by
County Clerk Willard 8. Doane at
Sheridan for the construction of an
elghteen-foot paved road to connect
the city paving with the Big Horn ce
ment road, a distance of 1,010 lineal
feet. Estimates on bltullthis paving
and on concrete paving are to be
asked.
A jury In the District Court at Lara
mie found that Mrs. Louisa Rosin, wi
dow of the late Albert Rosin, was
mentally incompetent to handle her
affairs, and Judge Tldball of the Dis
trict Court will appoint a guardian.