The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 26, 1922, Page 1

} (t > $200 to $300, were col WEATHER FORECAST. Probably fair tonight and Wed- nesday. ESTABLISHED 1873 POISONO XMAS BIGGEST IN HISTORY OF LOCAL-OFFICE | Both Postoffice and American Express Company Report. | Heavy Mailing ALSO MAILED EARLIER Good - Hearted Christmas Shoppers Helped Make Pos- sible Early Clearing With the Christmas business pret- ty well cleaned up, postal officials here todway’ announced the Christ- mas business of the Bismarck post- office was fully one-third larger than it» has. ever been before. The business of the American Ex- ‘press com ger than’ last year, it was estimated. Not ‘only’ was the business larger but the’ “mail early” spirit was more in evidence this year, than ever be fore. The business of the’ American Ex- press company also was much larger than last year, it was estimated. Not only. was the business larger! but the “mail early” spirit was more} in evidence this year than ever bo- fore. i Both the outgoing and incoming mail. volume was larger, according to Assistant Postmaster O. Lundquist. The rush kept up to the last minute, he said, and there were some delay- ed packages, but it was expected that the office would be cleared entirely today. Shoppers began to mail in volume a week-ago Saturday.| The volume increased steadily until. Thursday before Christmas, the heaviest’ mail- ing day.- Friday and Saturday were not quite as heavy. . “More people mailed earlier this year ¢han even before, I believe,” said Mr, Lundquist, “and this retiev- ed the Pressurg so much’ that every- thing is handled fairly promptly.” PEACE AGREED: BY INDIANS Iroquois Indians Withdraw Threats of Migration Toronto, Dec. 26.—The Iroquis In-} dians have made peace with the Dominion government. Threats of migkation to the reservations of the nation in the United States, because the Dominion would’ not recognize the Red Men as an independent nw tion, have been forgotten. The hat- chet was buried and’ the peace pipe was smoked at Chswoken early in December. P Chief ‘Deskaheh, leader of the fac- tion fighting for indeyendence, car- riend. the .issue, to the council house ofthe nation, “hut accepted ‘defeat stoically when the other, chiefs: at tha, pow-wow out-voted him. He and his followers had maintained that their grievances were properly mat- ters for. an. international court of _law, thein independence having been recognized by a British sovereign. Leaders of the Loyalists, the win- ning faction|at Ohsweken, were chi¢t- ly from the Christian tribes of the Mohawks’ and-Delawares. They were wel satisfied ‘With thé outcome at the pow-wow, but no propose to go even further. Their tribes have virtually no representation on the hereitary council, members of which are elect- ed for life by the women of the tribes. The Loyalists, it is announc- ed will work for an elective council, “to conform with the democratic trend of the times and to do away with a remnant of feudalism.” DOUBLE HANGING : , CAUSES WORR Niagara Falls, Ont., Dec. 26.—Wel- land county officials ate worrying :bout a double hanging which -is set to take place in the county/jail on January 12th. y also was much Iar-! One of the chief “dandy” of tl 1 ayes . PROPERTY OF ’ DEMORES GOES TO THO SONS Report at $160,000— ! French Estate Larger The American estate of the Mar- quise of Mores, whose husband was prominent figure in the early ranching days of western North Da- kota, was divided between her sons, Louis, the Duc de Vallambrosa, and Paul, the Comte de Vallambrosa, ac- jeording to-a story in the New York Times. The valuation of the Amer- ican estate was given as $160,000. iShe also left $20,000 to a cousin, 'John R. Grymes, Only $1,005 of the estate was represented in New York holdings. The Times story contin- ues: * . The -report -states~ that the value of the estate of the Marquise> de Mores in France was 2,162,272 franc She ‘gave a fourth of. the French ‘estate to her daughter, Lou- jseywho' isthe wife of Paul Marie Robert de Gra‘fepreid, an artist, \and the two sons ‘get the rest of the es- tate. “She was married to the Mar- quis*de'Mores‘in 1883. In 1909 the Marquise came to America and re- sumed her American citizenship. Her legal ‘residence was at Medora, N. D. The’ papers state that the Duc de Vallambrosa is representative of the Paris banking firm, of Morgan, Har-, jes & Co., and his brother is a bank- er’s clerk. The two sons of the Marqu’se dis- ‘tinquished themselves for gallantry under the French flag during the war and won many honors. The Mar- quise. was the daughter of Louis Hoffman, banker, and Miss \Athe- nais Grymes of Grymes Hill, S, I. ‘Her husband, Antone, was the son and heir of Richard, Duke of Val- lambrosa and of Asinara. He en- gaged in ranching on a large scale in the West after his marriage and founded the North Dakota town to which he gave his wife’s name. He engaged in warfare, with cowboys, and was credited with having k'lled/ ‘several, He was gk‘lled himself in +1896 by-a band off Arabs while lead- ring a filbuster in the Sahara. “TRES” FISHER FAMOUS BALL: Philadelphia, Dec. 98—Weston D: “Wes” Fisler, a noted baseball, play- er of a half century ago and first baseman of the. original Athletics, died in a hospital yesterday. He was about 81 years old, and was born in Camden, N- J. He joined the Athletics in 1865 as an amateur and when the game bs- gan to grow in popularity he accept- ed a salary of $1,500 a year. He was a’ member of the Athletics in 1874 when that club and Bdston made ‘the first trip to Europe of American ball players, Mr. Fisler in his baseball days wore white cuffs and a collar and neck tie. He was known as the he diamond. He retired causes of concern is that no official! 6-55, baseball in 1877 to enter bus: hangman has Yet been engaged. In response to a recent advertise-| ines, ment several applications were filed, but the fees demanded, ranging from idered too: high. In the past, officials said, $50 was sufficient to get a man to fasten the black/cap on a condemned man ‘and spring the trap. The man sentenced to die are Har- ry Rutka aid Nick Thomas. They| oo iness and was active up to his final Steal $200,000 of Stock Certificates ‘From Automobile Chicago, Dec. 26.—Theft of $200,- 0 worth of unindorsed stock cer- killed a neighbor in a row-over 8) tifcates of the Commanders Motor real estate deal. ‘CHRISTMAS GIFTS . TOTAL $10,000, . his name might be made from his pee Jamestown,. N. D. Dee. 26.—Two gifts in cash amounting to $10,000, for current expenses, were Teceived by the president of Jamestown col- lege, This makes a total-of $20,000 revently received from friends: of the college. There has been a large increase in attendance this year, about 3 per cent among freshmen and 50 per cent among seniors. company was reported. to police last ight by Hugo Ogren, vice president. le said the stocks were taken from his automobile while he was absent. He expressed fear that forgeries of signature on a bank book taken with the stocks. ROYALTY DISCARDS HORSE London, Dec. 26.—The \famous roy- al stables at Buckingham Palace, known as’ The Mews, are to be de- molished. In theirtétead will be built a modern garage large enough to care for the numerous automobiles of the royal family. y; a Here are shown the oldest members of each party in thi Congress visiting President Harding. : eee “Joe” Cannon, the oldest Republican, and his less well-known friend, (Congressman Charles M. Stedman of N. Caroling, the oldest Democrat PLAYER DEAD _BIS US” Oldest Lawmakers Visit President They. are, left to right, famous PAY TRIBUTE "TO MICHIGAN GRIDIRON STAR, Ypsilanti, Mich., Dec. 26.—High of- ficials of. the state’ and the educa- i tional world as well as gridiron stars j day to pay the last honors to Ber-| nard Kirk, star football player jof; the University of Michigan, whose death Saturday ref#ulted from an au- tomobile accident. ~ The funeral was held this morn- ing at the home of Kirk’s parents. | Acting as honory pallbearers were of the University, and’ Governor Alex J. Groesbeck. Members of the 1922 Michigan football team were active pallbearers. Burial was in St. John’s cemetery here. Kirk had been chosen by many keritics a8 the All-Ameri Seattle, Wash., Dec. 26—The cor-| oner’s office here was seeking today! to learn, sqmething,of the history of! Emil Neuriter, a ferry boat. operator, who yesterday invaded the home of! D. C. Engel, a woodworker, with three pistols just as the celebration of Christmas day, was starting, slew/ three of Engel’s children and killed) himself. The only: light shed upon:the trag- edy was given by Helen Engel, 16 yearé old, sister of the victims of the suicide, who said that the forty-year old slayer had made love to her last spring, had shot at her when she re-; pelled his advances, and afterward| had written letters threatening to) kill her and her family. Funeral arrangements were being made for the three children, Anna, 17, who was shot in the heart when she sprang to the defense of the fam- ily after Neuriter had forced her father with two leveled revolvers to! admit him to the house; Lillie, who} received a bullet in ‘her forghead as she stood on @ chair with two dolls in her arms while her parents ran out the front door, and Hans, 14,! who was slain in his bedroom, where Neuritzer shob himself in the chest.| The surviving members of the fam- ily are the parents, Helen and a a brother, Ernest, 15, who escaped with Helen through a window, after Neuriter had afnounced his inten- ‘tion to kill Helen and “you all.” BALMY XMAS OVER NATION Chicago, Dec. 26.—Throughout the United States all previous authentic records for warm temperatures for Christmas day were broken, accord- ing to reports ‘available today. Santa Claus returned to his myth- ical home in the cold northw‘thout experiencing zero weather in any | work of coal distribution. Mr. part of the country. The ' highest degrees. In the northwest, vis;ted recently by cold wane that sent the mercury to 36 below|zero, above zero weather temperatures maintained. Towns in Montana: and North Dakota that re- ported temperatures from 20 to 30 degrees below zero during the cold | temperature of 10 abdve zero at waves, yesterday recorded readingc |7 o¢lock this morning was the cold- above freezing. , VILLA DECLINES. TO WRITE Mexico City, Dec. 26—Pancho Villa erstwhile bandit and now a gentle- ‘man farmer in the state of Durango, has. declined to write his. memoirs, although an American publishing is Said to have offered him $50,000 for the’ manuscript. ; Villa is reported to have told the | —Christmas publishers, that he has no desire to perpetuate the "story of his tures,’but rather prefers that Hiv|in cash and $270 in checks children, now small, hear of their trance was gained- by removing a father’s exploits as a rancher and| panel of a rear door by boring a benefactor. |“higher ups” in Jefferson county's | alleged of this and uther years gathered to-|#gainst liquor dealers, officials’ ad }revolver was imi i Dr. Marian Leroy Bugton, president/that he was tot killed where his \Veltrie was lured into an automo- | Foad, XMAS RAID ENDS FATALLY - TODRY AGENT Prohibition Officers Redouble' Their Efforts at Steuben-. | ville, Ohio KILLED IN RESORT. Blinn Known as , “Marked Man of Bootleggers”—A _ | Series of Murders Steubenville, Ohio, Dec. 26—A} fresh and vigorous warfare on vio- lators of the prohibition law and the liquor ‘combine, wil] be launched at once, prohibition officers announced, today, as a result of the slaying last midnight of Charles “Dickey”Blinn, leader of a squad of eight dry, agents. Cooperating with city police and county officials, the enforcement of- ficials believe the drive will result in wholesale arrests and the nailing down of the Volstead lid tighter than ever before in this county. ' But while planning the new move mitted they were baffled-by the mur- der of Blinn, whose body, with three bullet wounds, was found in the dark alley in the Polish’ section of Steu-j bensville. ,Twenty feet away lay: the empty pocketbook of the officer. His ing. Only one new theory regarding the manner in which he met death {was advanced by. the police today— 1 i body was found. - Police pointed out that the tell tale pool of ‘blood was missing. ‘i “Blinn undoubtedly was killed in some resort while on a raiding ex- cursion and his body. hidden: inthe alley,” said Sergeant Richard Edger. ly of the Steubensville police fore “Had he met death in the alley there would have been big blood spots on the pavement,” he added. ‘ Blinn, known to his friends as thé “marked man of ‘the: bootleggers' who operated from his headquarters in Richmond, Ohio, is the fifth Jef- ferson county prohibition officer to meet death at the hands’ of unknown gunmen, Less'than a year ago Mike bile, ‘shot. and his body thrown from the car along an isolated country} Four other enforcement/ agents who had worked with Veltrie also were murdered, one at Weirton West Virginia, another at Washington pa., a third at Yorkville, Ohio, and the fourth in Italy after returning to his native: land. A woman entered, into considera- tion today in the killing yesterday of Charles “Dixie” Blinn, prohibition officer, the “marked man” of the dry squad here. Police said Blinn. was last seen leaving the home of Miss Lulu-Lyle, about 10 p. m., and that shortly after that residents told of hearing shots near the house, and of seeing an au- tomobile driven away. from near the residence. According to information given police, they said today, Blinn appear- led at the home of Charles Walker last night in an intoxicated condi- tion, brandishing a revolves, and threatening to “pinch” a number of “places.” He is said to have left | Walker’s home in company with Miss | of the country. ‘STATE SEEKS LIGGETT GOES WITH N. Y. PAPER Walter W, Liggett, formerly man- aging editor of the Fargo, N. D., Courier-News, who has-been in Washington for the past few years, has been appointed editor of the New York Call, according to information received here. He succeeds Charles: ‘W. Erwin, who resigned. Mr. Lig-| gett has been with the paper for three months. The New York Call is known as the leading Socialist daily TO IDENTIFY © - MARKED RIOT Governor Parker Orders In-; vestigation Into Feud War At Mer Rogue DISCOVER EYE WITNESS ‘Farmer Declares He Saw Seizure and Spiriting Away of Citizens Bastrop} La. Dec. 26—That the | state willbe able to establish through an eye witness the identity of several members of the masked mob which last August kidnapped five Mer Rouge residents, including Watt Daniels and Thomas Richards, whose decapitated bodies were taken from a nearby lake last week, was the statement today of investigators who have been working on the case for several months, The identification will be made, the secret service men seid, through testimony at the opening /hearing or- dered by the Governor John Parker | to ‘begin here January 5, of a farm- er whose home is near Qakridge, in the seutheastern part of Morehouse Parish, who they declare, told them he witnessed the se‘zure and spirit- | ing wway of the quintette and recog- nized’ some of the abductors when | they. lifted their hoods to drink wa- ter. w’Phe farmer, according to informa- tion’ the ‘investigators declared they had” in hand, was held up by the band= on* the Mer Rouge-Bastrop highway the night of the kidnap- ing. and comanded to go to a near- by ranch and get a, bucket of water for the thirsty band. He obeyed and when he returned he was directed take a seat on a log. He is said to have declared that he recognized several members of the band when they. raised their masks to drink from the bucket. The investigators declined to dis- close the present whereabouts of (Continued on |Page 2) EVEN WEATHER | IS UNUSUAL ON CHRISMAS DAY Thermometer at ‘High Points Equalled But Once in Last 50 Years Even. the weather man was in good spirits at Christmas time. The balmy breezes which visited B'smarck Sunday and Monday have ‘|| terical. _]on the second floor. reading yesterday | tion will be trained in Washington was recorded at Fort Worth, Texas,|to meet any sudden conditions call- where the thermometer registered 78 | ing for immediate action. dven- | ‘and helped: themselves to about $150 been equalled but once in the half. century history of the local weather bureau. The. entire Northwest, as well as the rest of the country, also enjoyed warmer weather than usual. Only those who like to see a deep blanket ‘of snow at Christmas time were disappointed. One doesn’t have to go back to the farthest reaches of memory of ‘the oldest settler to have an equal to the’ period, however. The weather in 1919 was almost a duplicate of the Lyle. WHITE QUITS NORTHWEST Fuel Distributor to Leave for Washington present year thus far, the weather | E bureau reports, i On Monday the thermometer as- St. Faul, Minn, Dec. 26—C. P-|cended to the 45 and its lowest White, northwest federal fuel dis-| resting pont was 28. On Sunday tributor, will give up his office here) the highest was 44 and the lowest and return to Washington Saturday,|was 33. -In 1919 the temperatures December 30, he announced today. || ranged just about the same during With the return of Mr. White to] the latter part of the month, accord- Washington, the northwest will. have|ing to weather bureau records. Dur- to depend upon the various state|ing the first half of December, 1919, fuel distributors’ to carry on the|as this year, the temperatures were White | very low. : Golf and ball games were indul, in at various points in the North- west Christmas day. Out at Beach a ballgame between ‘bus‘ness men was on the holiday schedule. | Winn‘peg was the only point on the weather report today which showed a temperature below zero, the lowest there being -4. Some other points gave their lowest temp- erature as follows: Bgise, Idaho, 28; Chicago, 40; Des Moines, 32; 4Denver, 30; Edmogten, Alberta, 14; Helena, Montan# 34; Miles City, ‘Montana. 24; -Moorhead, Minn., 10; Toledo, Ohio, 36 “Truth in Fabric” Bill Reported Washington, Dec. 26.—Favorable report was ordered by the senate Interstate Commerce Committee to- day of the Capper “truth in fabric” bill to require manufacturers of woolen cloth or. garments to mark the percentage of wool and other materials contained in their pro- ducts, said that an emergency organiza- FARGO COLDEST PLACE IN U.S. Fargo, N. D., Dec, 26.—Fargo, with est spot in the United tates accord- ing to R. E. Spencer, federal weather forecaster. XMAS THIEVES — IN NEAT HAUL East Grand Forks, Minn., Dec. 26.} thieves entered | the Howe and Hageh cigar store here En-]) large number of small auger holes. KILLS LOVER SHE SAYS IN SELF DEFENSE! Christmas Tragedy in Louis- ville. Mystery to Police Who Investigate CONFESSES TO ' CRIME —_ Automobile Salesman Found Dead in Room of Divorcee He Courted Louisville, Ky. Dec. 26.—A wo- | man’s story of a quarrel, a shot and her vigil from dusk to dawn over the body of the man she k'lled was being checked up by police depart- ment invest?gators here today. “I killed my friend,” Mrs. Olive L. Jones, 32 years. old, pretty divorcee, announced when she entered police headquarters just after daylight Monday. “She was disheveled, hys- The men on duty discount- ed her statement. “Oh, he’s dead, I shot him; you'll find him out there on the floor. I left him covered up with his own overcoat. I know he’s dead. He hasn’t moved for hoyrs,” she de- clared. This was the first intimation ‘of- ficials had that O, L. Blavck, sales manager for, a Louisville automo- bile company, had.been shot to death late Sunday afternoon in Mrs. Jones’ apartment. Mrs, Jones sid she had fired in self defense. Black, according to her acount of the tragedy, became angry when he learned her daugh- ter, Clara, 17, was with her and that her divorced husband, C. H. Jones of Cincinnati, a Louisville and Nash- ville baggage, master, was to visit h’s daughter. Black feared, ' Mrs. Jones declared that a reconciliation between the divorced couple would be effected through the vis't of the father with Clara. When . Black, who, she declared, “broke up my ‘home and: caused me to get a divorce,” reached for a pis- tol on a nearby table she seized the weapon. first .and fired. Black fell. How fong.he livad:she d'd not know. Ske, covered him with his coat and ‘@ quilt, Later she. placed afscreen pf chairs before the body. All night long she kept the death watch. ‘ Never was she able to sum- mon courage to call the police, Three times, she declared, she went to the telephone, and three times she turned away. Clara returned from a_ picture show. With her companion the daughter spent some time in the halt. Later she went to her bedroom Mrs. Jones fin- ally called the girl to come down stairs and sleep with her. When morn‘ng came the daughter was still unaware of the presence in the room, the mother said. And then Mrs. Jones telephoned for her former husband to come to her. He refused, It was then that she told Clara what had happened and sent her for her father. In the girl’s absence the woman went to police headquartersrand told her story. She was charged with mur- der, Jones, it was said, here, filed suit for divorce four years ago, naming Black corespondent. Later the pe- tition was withdrawn. Mrs. Jones then filed suit charging cruelty and non-support. By consent, it was said, this suit was not contested. Jones said yesterday he would do anvthing possible to help his former wife. Already, police investigators de- clare, flaws have been found in the acount. of the tragedy as given by Mrs. Jones. Black was shot in the back, E, A. Larkin, captain of detectives sa‘ This fact, he said, ind'cated the vic- tim was not taking the aggressive when wounded. Also his clothes were powder burned, showing that the weapon was fired at close range, Two other facts also are unex- plained. Clara hag declared, police say, that she did not sleep with her mother any part of the n‘ght. In- vestigation disclosed, it was claimed that the bed in the girl’s room had not been occupied. The investigat- ors also are at loss to account for the fat that no occupant of the three story apartment house heard a pis- tol shot near the time Mrs. Jones cla'ms the shoot'ng occurred. Claims Cotton Is In Hands Of Speculators Washington, Deg. 26.—Declaring that cotton consumption figures. for November as announced yesterday by the government indicated a pos- sibility of exhaustion of the Ame: can cotton supply by next June, Senator Heflin, Democrat of Ala- bama, ‘asserted in the sénate today that present prices of 26 cents a pound for the product showed “con- clusively that’ the speculators have got control of the market and are depressing the price.” ELEVEN TO GRADUATE. Minot, N. D., Dec. 26.—A class of eleven was graduated at the Minot normal last evening. The com- mencement. address was delivered by Dr. Geo. N. Sleight, supervisor of} handling. He died yesterday. CK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1922 LIQ (Leased Wire of Associated Press) ‘SARAH BERNHARDT IS IMPROVING; ~ MAY PLAY AGAIN eS SARAH BERNHARDT, (By the Associated Press.) | Paris, Dec. 26—Mme. Sarah Bern- |hardt showed further improvement this morning and her physicians said they tentatively considered her out of danger. ' They asserted that if the actress’ aemarkable recovery continued there was a possibility she might st‘ll ap- pear in a new play as planned. Mme. Bernhardt was taken with a fainting spell during a dress re- hearsal of the play several days ago and suffered a relapse on Sunday. SELF-DEFENSE PLEA IS MADE BY MCUTCHAN Declares He Shot Inman, Amidon Business Man, Only After Being Attacked Of Semi-Concious Condi- tion at Time of Murder 'Dickinson, N. D., Dec. 26.—After a recess, extending, over Christmas the ‘trial of Dave McCuthchan, charged with first degree murder for the shooting of Walter Inman, Amidon pool hall proprietor, last ‘spring, was resumed in d’strict court here th’s morning with Mr. Me- Cutchan on the witness stand in his own defense. Judge Thomas H. Pugh permitted the jury, which has been guarded with extreme care, to go to their homes for Christmas. Mr. McCutchan had sybm'tted his direct testimony in which he stated that he had fired the fatal shot only after he had, taken a severe beating at the hands of¢Inman which had rendered him dazed, when court ad- journed Saturday noon for the hdl- idays and was under. cross-examina- tion by the attorneys for the state when court opened this morning. In- dications were this morning that the state would not complete its “cross -Jexamination of the witness ‘until late afternoon. On direct examination Mr.| McCut- chan told of how, Inman, together with Oscar Erickson ‘ind’ John Doug- las, came to’ the Gelett farm and bf- ter demanding that he vacate in fa- vor of Erickson, wh'ch he refused to do, Inman started a fight by admin- istering a blow on his head, these blows. Mr. McCutchan , testified, caused him. to bleed ‘profusely and rendered him semi-conscious, It was after taking a severe beat- ing and to ward off further attack, Mr. McCutchan tet'fied. that he re- (Continued on Page 2) ', / Bergdoll Believed To Be on Coast Seattle. Wash.. Dec. 26,—Search for Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, who es- caped in May, 1920, while serving a five year service for desertion from the United States army and who had been reported on a German’ vessel bound for the Pacific coast was set afoot here laest Qght by a report | that he had been seen in a restaur- ant. L. Seaver Hamilton, proprietor of a Seattle eating place told police one of three men there looked very much like published pictures of Bergdoll. Hamilson added that in hi® suspicious he looked. closely at the stranger who bore the scrutiny uneasily. Catches Anthrax Handling Skins Gloversville, N. ¥., Dee. 26.—Pat- rick Sweeney, 54, of Johnstown is dead, a victim of anthrax, contracted while handling skins in a‘mill in that city.. Mr. Sweeney first felt the et fects of the disease a week ago, and believed it was caused from poison in Spanish skins which he had been This training and diplomas were present-| is the second death from the disease ed by President Geo. A. McFarland. in this locality. WAS RENDERED DAZED, Asserts He ‘was Coming’ Out} ¢ LAST EDITION PRICE FIVE CENTS EIGHT DEATHS BOOZE RESULT IN NEW YORK Score or More Victims Are Confined to Hopsitals In the City TWO OF THEM WOMEN Brooklyn Woman Held as Seller’ of Whisky to One Person New York, Dec. 26.—Eight deaths were attributed to drinking. poison- ous liquor over Christmas.A score or more of victims were confined to hospitals. “Of the eight persons who died, two | were women. A Brooklyn woman was yarrested a seller of whisky which caused the death of one of the wo- men, New York, Dec. 26.—While police records show that yesterday was the driest: Christmas in New York’s-his- tory, six deaths were attributed by police to bootleg liquor... Auopsy will be performed on the bodies of the sixty-five men and one woms) today. Threats of prohibition authoritic= to make the city as dry over the ho'- idays as the eighteenth amendment contemplated for the whole year ha:! its effect so far es public drinking was concerned, police reported. For the first time within the mem. ory of oldest attaches of the West Side court not a defendant wa brought to the bar there of a charg: of intoxication, Bellevue hospital: reported only 12 persons suffering from alcoholist: were treated! there yesterday. Thzi isthe lowest number for: Christma day in the history of the institution. Minor raids were; made by’ prohi- bition gents, liquor being confiscat ed in several of the places visited. ONE DIES ‘IN BOSTON Boston, Dec. 26.—William Brady is dead and more than thirty per sons. in. hospitals. today as.a ‘result of drinking liquor sold during the as holiday. Efforts, to trace the; source of supply of ‘the liquo: were made by the police today. ONE IN DETROIT Detroit; Dec. 26.—Poisonous liquor obtained over the Christmas holiday jwas declared by: the poiice today tv have been responsible for one deat) and the illness of more than a score of persons here. From Saturday night until this morning. 23 persor: declared to have partaken of poiso» ous whisky were admitted to hospi tals, Four were discharged after short stay in the’ hospitals, but -t! others are reported to be ina serio: condition. , TRAINS DOG 10 ROB HOME: , Seattle, Wash., Dec. 26.—Leon Na toli, told the police here that: witi the aid’ of a dog he had trained hic had robbed more than 100 Seattl< homes this year, they said, The dog is said to have stood: on watch outside dwellings while his master, who is alleged tohave used ‘a truck to haul away ‘the ‘loot,.wor)- ed inside. A Urge Placing . Dry Officers ‘ In Civil Service Madison, . Dee. 26.—The Wir- consin Anti-Saloon League today urged Senators LaFollette and Len-/ {root to support re conf the sen ate bill now before conggess which if enacted would place prdhibition en forcement agents under civil sérvice The bill, according ‘to league letter addressed to the two senators, would take the agents out of politics “Under the present system pro- hibition agents are chosen, in most places, because of their politica! quilifications rather than their {\:. ness for the position.” “Many agents, knowing the effec! of political influence, hesitate to 1 force the law aggressively and wit out fear or favor. Civil service give these agents the Mrgest amount 0: personal security in the performan: of their duties,” ’ STAR HALFBACK NEAR DEATH Chicago, Dec. -26.—Herb -Stegc: halfback on this year’s Universit of Michigan football*team, was © ported in a critical condition tod at a Chicago hospital where he receiving treatment fer relief from appendicitis. He was stricken 32: Saturday, ’ DAMAGES PLANT. Mnreapols, Dec. 26—Fire w is believed to have started from 4 fective wiring in the finishing ¢ partment did $15,000 damage plannt, machinery and stock of th Barnard, Cope Mfg. Company night. , The flames were spread by an plosion and burned on three figo: