The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 9, 1920, Page 1

re i} \ ‘confessed to the murder adding that THE WEATHER FAIR AND WARMER HE BISMARCK TRIBUN E LAST EDITION THIRTY-NINTH YEAR * . BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1920 PRICE FIVE CENTS MOBS SEEK NEGRO WHO CONFESSED ASSAULT AND MU GIRL; MILITIA Is RDER OF LITTLE: ORDERED OUT! Lexington, Ky., in ane of Race Riots Follpwing Discovery of the | Crime—Police and National Guard Officers Seek to Prevent Looting of Pawn-Shops for Weapons—Blacks and Whites Mar- | shalling Forces For Serious Warfare Lexingion, Ky., Feb. 9.—Four persons were killed and fifteen | injured here today when a” mob, intent on lynching William Lockett, a negro, who confessed to the murder of ten- year-old Geneva Hardman, charged the court house during Lockett’s trial and was fired upon by police and While the excitement was at its height a jury.in thecourt room | convicted Lockett of first degree murder and the negro was sen- | tenced to be electrocuted March The prisoner has. been spirited away to a Two women were reported among those shot. The clash with} the soldiers held off the mob while the authorities managed to slip | state troops. 11. place of safety. the negro away to a place of safety. CONFESSED ASSAULT Soldiers and policemen continued on guard near the court house follow- ing the shooting. Trouble was feared by the authorities soon as Lockett was captured and confessed to the assault and murder of the little girl. Fearing that mobs world loot pawn- shops to obtain firearms, police and military officers) went to all such stores and gathered up guns and re- volvers. They said an attack on the} militia men was feared. The little Hardman girl was found} murdered by schoolmates a short:dis- tante from her home last Tuesday a few minutes after she had left for a neaby school house. The, girl’s body had been dragged into a cornfield and her head had beén crushed with a; stone. The body had been partly cov- ered with corn stalks. POSSES FORMED ' Within a few minutes posses were formed by residents ofethe neighbor- hood and a search was instituted for the murder. ckett was suspected | and finally was found late that night} at a,friend’s home about six miles; ~ from the scene. He was’ taken into} custody by a Lexington physician and; his friend, to whom he denied having} murdered the girl. Later police announced the negro “he didn't know why he killed the girl.” MOB STEALING FIREARMS Louisville, Ky., Feb, 9.—Réports re- ceived here-by telephones@uring. the BY MASS REVOLT has been evacuated by the Japanes it is claimed in a wireless dixpatel from Moscow today quoting an Om message. The population rose to ¢ Korean forces from Chinese territ raised in Chinese territory crossed the frontier and attacked the Japanese. Masses of the populatioi are joinin the insurgents it is added the Jap- anese retreating and evacuating nor i phere Or ls afternoon said mobs were then loot- ing pawnsWops and hgrdware stores at Lexington in an effort to obtain firearms: and had declared the inten- tion of securing the negro by any means. On the heels of the report came an appeal to Governor Moorow for troops to protect the negro and quiet the’sit- uation. Arrangements were immediately made at Camp :Zachdry Taylor to form two provisional battalions of 160 men each and send them to Lex- ington. FLU EPIDEMIC IS WANING, TODAY’S REPORT INDICATES Only Nine New Cases Reported For Past 48 Hours to the. Health Department There was a substantial decre the number of new influenza cases orted for the 48 hours ending this morning. Only nine. new cases, mak- ing a total of 103 since the epidemic appeared, were reported to Dr, C. E. Stackhouse, city health commissioner. This is the smallest number of new cases reported for any like period dur- ing the epidemic and city health uu- thorities and other ph, ‘ans are con- fident that the malady he wane here. None of the new are seri- ous. the report shows, No new deaths from cither influenza or pneumonia hayé been reported. BRITISH SAILORS | DIE IN ATTEMPT TO RESCUE CREW Hlaifax, Feb. 9.—The second officer and five men of the British steamer Oxonian perished while attempting to save the crew of the British steamer Sradborne when she was abandoued off the coast of New Foundland ac- cording to radio messages recetved here today WOMAN. INVENTOR Claims That She Made Anti-Gas Fan London, Feb. 9.—The credit for hav} ing invented the anti-gas fan, which used on the battlefront ax a pro- jon against the poisonous «ases employed by the Germans, is claimed a woman. She is Mrs, Hertha Ayrton, the enly woman member of the Institution of Electrical engineers and a widely known writer. Mrs. Ayrton herself announced the other day that she was responsible for the invention. which was presented to the; | office for the duration of the OCCUPY CITY Tandon. Feb. ¢9—The Bolsheviki have cccupied Kasnoydsk on the eastern coast of the Caspian sea, ac- cording to a wireless »message from Moscow. ‘| this BOOST THIS Perfect Plan for» Organization Wednesday at Meeting in Fargo Fargo, N. D., Feb. %—Organization | Grace La “Rue, who in private life of the North Dakota Commercial} Was Mrs. Byron D, Chanler. Chanler Club Seerctaries association wil] he! ! better known as “The Million Dol perfected at a meeting in Fargo. it was announced yesterday by 5 tary W. FP. Chesnut of the Commercial club, Mr. meeting, having president of a tempore ization formed at the ational meet ing in Minfleapolis last. fall Cooperati inc advertising of North Dakota by the commercia dubs is the rime object of this or ation, ido Mr. Chesnut yes "It is to the interest of the cities in the state to advance tht development. of North Dakota and te i there must the various said Mr. Chesnut. ms will be held argo cemmercial club rooms. will be elected and pli sidered. for advertising the of North Dakota to the rest of the world, beet el ss Con FLAX ONE OF FIRST EXPORTS eb. 9, xEsthonia, Fe from soviet: Russia began on Sunday. They were initiated the arriva here of two carloads of flax outward bound. , Reval, CATTLE "EPIDEMIC TAKES Hazen, N. D.. Feb. Christman, a farmer of this vicinity. hzs lost 18 head of cattle they three months from accident and di ease. Four cows fell into the viver a creek, and. the re calves, have died of a dis indey mostly ase said te ing rural section, DEATH CLAIMS BRIDE AS VOWS _ ARE EXCHANGED Geneva. Feb. an unbidden gu at Appenzell last Sunday a struck down the bride just the priest asked her if she i cepted “this. man for @ band.” She. Was hurri hos gown, but diel an hour itter a m of a form of sleeping which was a sequel to an attack of influenza. | le JAPS FORCED 10, EVACUATE KOREA Population of Northern District | Rises to Help Chinese Troops London, Feb, 9, —- Nortern Korea | re rate, 4 als it is declared. ee tae me The Omsk message says that on} turn into tragedies, Broadway February sixth bands of Ki Jones, The Gold Diggers, Get Rich COMMERCIAL CLUB} SECRETARIES: WILL STATE ~ RUSS REFUGEES Chesnut called the state] he c¢o- com: in the Offi- TeSOULrces: FROM RUSSIA | Exports | HERDS IN HAZEN COUNTY 9§.—William near hfs farm. one fell off the bank of be hemorrliage septicemia and report- ed prevalent throughout the surround: } ty MUSICAL COMEDY FOLK IN MATRIMONIAL CHOP | SUEY | DAMAGE AND DIVORCE. SUITS RUN RAMPANT | | | \ It sometimes comedies New York, j Quick Wallingford. Jane Oaker, The Fillion Dollar Kid, Hale Hamilton. linnie Pepper, ¢ ‘¢ La ‘Rue, Luella . Riverside I ew York City, | str t, Amsterdam, N. Y., Westche: ter county and every other conceiv- able place and thing under the sun— are apparently mixed up in Broad- wa latest matrimonial chop suey. YOU DECIPHER IT this wa Myrtle Tannehill an actress and wife | star of “Get has sued a Rue, also actress and star of ‘ for alienation of af- fections of Mrs, Hamilton’s husband, Hale Rice Hamilton. $100,000 ¢ qT { i | | It’s { Hamilton, who of Hale Rice Hamilton, ih Quick Wallingford,” damages from CROWD CHINESE Mongolians Are Afraid of the Red Peril ; | caaresenien anghai, Feb, 9.~Fear of Bol-} m entertained by employers in i Shanghai is a factor which is making! more difficult the hard lot of the hun- dreds of Russian refugees who have j been fleecing in increasing numb out of Siberia into China The growing colony of these Russian | yrefu whose numbers swelled after a the Siberian capital of Omsk fell in- ‘to the lands of the Bolsheviki, bag hecome x problem jn the city of Shans: | hai. One handicap upon their efforts! to obtain employment has been the | elu stance of employ to give work | to persons from Sibe believed to have been exposed to the Bolshevik | infection, Members of the colony here which j numbers several hundreds ha 1 | tablished a school where English is y|/ being taught to the neweomers, At} [first one or two of the colony itself lacted as instructoms, After a few; weeks volunteer teachers came for- ward and cla are now being held day and nigh 1 the shabby and | cramped quarters provided at No, 73] Range road. ees Another untaking in the colony 48 a Community food kitchen. 0 nwillingness on the part. of man ssian Newcomers to recog {nize the Kolchak administration as the government of Russia has kept many from registering at the Russian con- snlate; which, it is stated. can extend aid only té regularly registered Russi-! an citizens. MEXICO DEPORTS, RADICALS EASILY ' [Constitution Permits President | | to Expel . Feb. 9.—Eleven radi-; s. have heen deported || from Tampico, at the order of Presi-| {dent Carranza who invoked article 38 lof the constitution which permits the} ichief executive to expel pernicious mers Without the formality of a El Democrata reports in this; jeonti ction that government agents Jat all ports of entry have been cau- | {tioned again to exercise vigilance Mexico Ci all Ru jin County Attorney Herman Allen's opening statement today to the jur in the t of eleven alleged Indust | of the oppre inst *the possible cr ing of radi- s trom the United States. —— MANY INJURED) SrRov CHANLER - Jar Kid,” and was) maricd before wedding Grace La Rue but his first wife divorced him. Grace La Rue tried to divorce him in a suit brought at Amsterdam, N Y., but the decree was uct granted Later the divorce was obtained at Bus- ton, MORE DIVORCES Hale Rice Hamilton has also been divorced from Minnie 1% Pepper, otherw known ace as Jane Qaker, tre The Mrs. Hamilten that is and de t want to be any jonger, de- clares that Grace La Rue »jred Ham- ilton to ‘meet -her ia Dervor) or? she; would create a scene, The scene was not created, In addition to the damage suit, Mrs. Hamilton also has on her hands a divorce suit which she instigated against Hamilton in Westchester-co. And to add to the confusion, Luella Gear, of “The Gold Di now de- clares that she was m d to Chan- ler a fall and she’d like to know why ¥ Hamilton should sue. And that about all. You cipher it’ if you can, We've given up! WOBBLIES CHARGED WITH CONSPIRACY FOR KILLING MEN Trial of I. W. W. Members Who Killed American Legion Marchers Starts Feb, 9.—Exist to shoot down mistice alleged Montesano, Wash, ence of a cons} marchers in day parade the Centralia last November ¥ Workens of the World charged with the shootine. Four former service men were n but the men on trial are specifically charged with the mur- der of Warren Q. Grimm. “The evidence will show! Allen said, “that all the defendants partic ated in a cons ‘y to kill ex-ser- vice men.” ANOTHER LEAGUE IS STARTED; BUT IT IS NOT BASEBALL Far East Also Suffering from Unrest so Radical Maga- zine is Started Mukden, Manchuri: dication of the un is found in the apr new magazine edited by Japanese and called Great) Asia. ‘The announced purpose of the new publication is -to create a pan-Asiatic movement by the formation of an Aslatic Teague, the aim of which will be “to endeavor to arouse the hundreds of mill of Asia to a s injustice the nse of the wrongs and fer in Consequence of Europe and Amer that appear in the current eat Asia are abusive of Great Britain and America. Asiatics are admonished that “if they are to be saved from their thralldom it will not be as the result of the effort of the ron-Asiatie people but by the en- thusiastie effort sot the vellow races to win their freedom”. The articles are printed in Chinese, Japanese. Mengolian. Turki 2nd what is des- cribed as Tartar. The league claims a membership at present of 5.800 with branches at Dairen. Calcutta and Con- stantinople. its uificers arc Japanese. BIG. APARTMENT) HOUSE BURNED; Tenants of San Francisco Flat|' Building Flee in Night Clothes ONE Wi Death List Reduced to Solitary Victim When Firemen Search Ruins San Francisco, Feb. 9.—Only one life was known definitely today to have been lost in a fire that destroyed the five-story Berkshire apartment house here early this morning. A search of the ruined building revealed no addi- tional bodies. A score of persons, most of them women, in various hospi- tals, however, suffering from burns and injuries. Before squads of firemen and police- men entered the building at daybreak it was believed that more than a score of persons had been trapped in the upper floors of the five-story structure and burned to death, was that of an elderly woman, was so badly burned that identifica- tion was not possible. The fire broke out in a hallway on the third floor; how neither police nor firemen could say. The first alarm came shortly after midnight and three others within a few minutes, had call- ed almost the city’s entire fire fight- ing force to the scene. OCCUPANTS ESCAPE THINLY CLAD] Occupants of the first and second floors poured from the building, some clad only in their night dresses. A number of persons were carried down ladders.» Policemen and firemen car- ried others from the lower floor down stairways and fire escapes. Within half an hour after the first alarm the fire had pierced through the roof and its glare lighted the streets for blocks. Shortly after the roof col- lapsed. The Berkshire was a five-story brick building containing 85 apartments. It was in a section devoted almost en- tirely to apartment houses and hotels, some of them exclusive. GERMANS RUINED LENS. COAL. MINE FOR MANY YEARS Underground Workings Choked With Debris and Galleries Flooded Paris, Feb, 9.—Although all’ possible efforts to reconstruct the war-shatter- ed mines of Lens have been and are being made, there is now no hope that a single ton of coal will be extracted 1921, In fact, the t of wing back Lens to its former pras- perity, is so.,jmmense that it is not expected that! the’ town. and its mines will return fo. anything. like): their former state before 1928 or 1929. Provided that the work can” be carried on without interruption, it will take all 1920 to clear the under- ground workings of the debris with which they were choked by mans, Me of the all the deeper ones, workings, ure flooded. A plan for drawing off the water |" has been arranged. The reconstruc- tion and repair of the tubbing will be carried out by German workmen, and the cement. for the purpose will be brought from Germany. The pump ing out of the mines is expected to take at least three yea Tt is hoped year it will be possible | which are only 600 feet deep but it is not expected that the water will be; pumped out of the lower workings. which run down to 2,250 yards, until 192% or even 1924. : in the Lens district not be completely tired till OF the 800 workmen's dwell- pelonging to the Miners’ society, not a hundred can be repaired, Four hundred concrete huts are to be built in which it is hoped to house the who will be employed of the pits for the The railwa will is {and Oldham on teria id all members ee eee = "of the colony were called upon to be 9, i by | Today’s W eather | present, Liferd and Oldham — were | o— = _ - oo « nd the court convicted | aa 3 . om soe pt them to be expelled from the colony. | For twenty-four hours ending atl Citimately both were deported, noon, February 9. : THUMP ON YE. BRICIT Temperature at 7 un. m. » “Oldham once came to the colony, Temperature:at ngon, and having created a serious b Highest yesterday . vest. yesterday... last night pitation Highest wind v For For North Da Fair tonight and Tuesday; somewhat warmer @x- treme west portion tonight. Lowest Temperatures . 16 14 20 14 14 32 10 W. ROBERTS Fargo, Williston St. Paul Winnipeg Helena . Chicago see Meteorol: gs: ; | play advertising which had MAN IS CREMATED }) The body found | but it} the Ger-| and |, | called AUTOMOBILE EDITION MUCH ABBREVIATED The Tribune, because of lack of print paper. and re- stricted press facilities, has been compelled to restrict the automobile number planned | for today to eight pages. As a result all of the reading | matter and much of the dis- ereliheeh? 5 | been arranged for this edi- tion has been omitted. The Tribune intends later to get | | out’ an automobile edition | | which will make up for to- | day’s deficiencies. COUNTY 6. 0. P CONVENTION 0 NBET TOMORROW Republicans Will Assemble at Court House to Pick Delegates In response to a call from Theodore 1, Burleigh county republicans will meet in mass convention at the court house at 2 o'clock Tuesd it- ernoon to select twelve dele to the state convention called hy me {bers of the republican state centr cgmmittee to meet in Bismarck February 17. It is announced t any’ Burleigh county republican wil be aémitted to the coun nvention. MINNEAPOLIS MEN PROTEST |AGAINST END WHEAT PRICE Believe Federal Grain Corpora- tion Should Continue Guaranty Vro- Minneapel Feb, 9.- ‘ A. J. tests inst the bill of senator Gronna now before the senate which would wind up the affairs of the federal grain corporation and wipe out imme¢ y the government gua anty on wheat even though -it scheduled to operate until Juve 1 was tdegraphed to. Washington today fol- lowing a special meeting of the board of directors of the Minneapolis Cham- ber of Commerce. DEPORTING REDS WAS. PRACTICED BY OLD SETTLER Even Miles Standish Had to Send Dissenters Back to Old Country Boston, ». 9—Deportation of bles? is not an innovati this, country, The Pilgrim f confronted with the problem o ing with malcontents among them, | shipped the disgruntless ones over: seas. There was not Soviet ark in those days because there) were not any trouble spirits, but the fath- ainst the men who sought nsion was summary. “un- Pilgrims, quotes from. Governor }Bradford’s story ef the Plymouth colony to show how things were done ys. in those ¢ < says, “were represcnt- ed by John Liferd and John Oldham who conspired together both agaiust the chureh and the gevernment of the colony, endeavored to entice others le in with them, and wrote det ters to the friends of the color faction as the 3 were they never so vile or pi them jn thetr doing.’ “Oldham having refused duty when upou by Captain Standish, it] Was determined to place both Liford | Bradford says, he was tamer, guard of mus- puss throw. Governor ‘they comited him till and then appointed a keters which he was and everyone was ot 1 to give him a thump on ye brich, with ye but end of his musket. and then cenveied to ye wa side, where a boat was ready to him aw Then the bid him 50 and mende his maners.” $1,500 TO BE PAID FOR N. D.. 9.—The Oliver County Corn club has been organized 0 tor use in a corn contest. The launched an agitation for England. As the governor says, ‘both | Oldham and he, Liford. grew ver tnd show spirit of great nancy, many into! . they did nourish | CORN IN OLIVER COUNTY | here and expects to raise more than} GERMAN TREATY AGAIN T0 FORE IN U. 8. SENATE With Situation Just What It Was November 19, Pow-wow Is Resumed EEK TO LOSE CLOTURE t Move to Expedite Action Would Remove Limit on Debate v —With the sit- uation just what it was November 19 when ratification efforts reached a deadlock and an attempt at comprom- as abandoned, the German peace today was again to the fore in the — senate. The pact itself Was not actually before the body, but it indirectly came up with the begin- ning of efforts by leaders in’ the con- y to untangle the parliamen- web that must be removed before the treaty can be considered, The first move after formerly call- ing up the treaty was to get rid of the cloture rule. Just what course this would follow has not been fully de- termined when the senate convened. {but it was belleved that the technec- alities could not be cleared away be- fore tomorrow or Wednesi When debate does begin a long « hitter cont was forecasted hy lead- ers and while some senators on both id. wer hopeful ly others believed iiock” would not be broken and tie whole question would be taken into the eom- ing presidential election, WILSON FAVORS RESERVATIONS THAT INTERPRET President Writes Only Clauses Which Explain U. S. Stand Acceptable Washingotn, Fe treaty Washington, Feb. 9.—After listening to a Jetter from President Wilson re- affirming his stand against any but interpretative reservations to the peace treaty democratic sepators de- cided in. conference to. proceed with their previous plan to help bring the treaty up in the senate Monday and to work for a reservation compro- Mise, The latter is understood to’ have ex- pressed the president's willingness to accept any interpretative reservations that the democrats might name, but to have omitted discurgion of any specific reservation proposals. FAMOUS* MARINES WILL BE FORMED AGAIN WITH VETS Fifth “Regiment: of Belleau Woods Fame is to Be Reorganized Washington, D.C, fifth regiment of Marines of Belfeau Wood fame, which was demobilized last August, is to be immediately re- ized according to advices from | Marine corps headquarters. Only men who have served in the Marine corps on the army will be accepted for duty with the fifth Ma- es, and Marine recruiting officers will be notified to make a special ef- fort to get into touch with former | fifth regiment men. | The fifth saw ice in all the big American offensives in France, and in jaddition, the French offensive in the Campaign. The regiment was cited three times by the French army, and is one of the few American organiza: ‘tions whose men have the privilege lof wv saring the French “fourragere”’ or citation cord on the left. shoulder ‘of their uniforms, Feb. 9,—The 'JOHNSON COMING | LATER IF HE HAS ' TOWALK ALL WAY | “LE titend to fill my engagement in (North Dakota ultimately. if I have to | walk into your state,” Hiram W. John- son, ill with the flu in Washington and compelled to cancel his speaking ‘dates for the last of this week and the ’\first of next, advises his North Da- kota manager in wiring his regrets. Senator Johnson was invited to visit North Dakota early last fall, and he planned originally to come immedi- ately after the adjournment of con- gress. Something arose to prevent ‘his coming then, and his dates were ‘advanced to January, to again meet {with disappointment. Definite ar- | Tangements had been made for his ap- | pearance in Grand Forks, Minot, Bis- marck and Fargo on February 13, 14, 16 and 17, when the flu bug took a {hand in the game. “North Dakota may positively de- pend upon hearing Senator Johnson before the presidential primaries in | March,” 2, Sheldon Wilcox, who is making arrangements for the speaking Se jtour, annouyced this morning.