Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 22, 1922, Page 1

e o e I llinois Strikers and Strik > ° a he Casper Daily Crthine | su | Weather Forecast Partly cloudy tonight and Friday, somewhate unsettled northwest por- tion. not much change in temperature VOLUME VI ° Sa - > - 2 ad Sd ‘Z * ° ad a4 o ° ° ° breakers in Bloody CASPER. WYO., THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1922. MILLS COUPLE HELD FOR ARSON, THREATS Name of Ku Klux Klan Invoked by “Fire Bug” Preceding the Burning of Town Marshal's Home and Threatening Let- ter Sent Mayo: 1; Handwriting Leads to Arrests A combination of circumstances hinging on several threatening letters to prominent Milis officials, an incendiary fire and a long-standing hatred between Florence McCane, of Mills, and the authorities at Mills caused the arrest and detention of Mrs. McCane and her husband by Sheriff Joe Marquis, Wednesday night. The events surrounding the case lead back to the time of the burning of the residence He had received, a short time before the conflagration, a of Kirk Walter, town marshal. fetter of warning signed “K. K. K.” Upon failure to heed its hidden mean- ing, his house was burned to the ground. and the “firebug” was never pprefes. 40d. APNot Jong after, the note of warning to Mayor Boyle was received, as fol- lows: “You're Next!. We got you, ied ‘There, are seven more on f — Mills hotel, Boy, Hunter, Pool and Barnes, Brakebille, and McGillivray,” : “K. K.K." Investigation by County Attorney M. W. Purcell disclosed a threatening letter from Florence MCCane™in the: files of the mayor's desk. ‘The wri of Mrs, McCane on the night of her arrest was the same in practically every respect to that of the letters, it is said. ‘The personal letter sent to Boyle some time before the mysterious mis- sives reads in part: “As you don’t seem ready to come and see us, I will tell you from the start you and your bunch have ruined us by placing a $70,000 mortgage on our I will ruin you if we don’t sell out in a few weeks. This is not idle.talk, either. I don't your dad to enter into this. swallow my pride and put him he belongs and should have been, I was soft enough to let him off. T can put’ him there—it's late. Study this over careful, as don’t want to act too quick, only quicker the better, for in a few days I will turn what I have to say over to my attorney.” This letter was dated May 25, 1922. ‘Authorities are still working on the case, and no real evidence has as yet been presented as to the guilt of Mr. and Mrs. McCane. The only explana- tion now in the light for the whole affair brings up the recent Mills wa- terworks election at which bonds were approved to install a real water sys- tem in the town. The mortgage men- tioned in the personal letter to Boyle may have been connected in some way with the land needed by the city for the instal'ation of pumps ani bee theory that any agents of the Klan may have operated”in the vi- “sinity of Mills has been thrown out by officials. The crudeness with which the™etters were written and the lack of any sort of seal or stamp makes such a conclusion ludicrous. aeyeial g CHINESE MUTINY, THOUSANDS SLAIN TRAFFIC IN HUMAN GLANDS 1S OPPOSED IN BILL MEASURE FRAMED FOR ILLINOIS LEGISLATURE CHICAGO, June 22.—Legistation | to prohibit traffic in human glands will be imtroduced in the next ses- sion of the Illinois legisiature ac- cording to two members of the gen- etal assembly — Representatives ‘Thomas J. O'Grady and Lawrence G. O’Brien, both Democratic mem- bers from Chicago districts. They declared that persons should be prohibited by law from selling any part of their bodies or from buying tissues or glands from the body of another. Representative ©! Grady, .- am nounced that his proposed measure to make gland transplantation ‘fleg- al has been drafted and that he will offer the bill as soon as the general assembly meets next January, When the two legislators learned of each other's similar plans they | NUMBER 217. | Young Men’s Republican club that another speaker will appear on the program. The candidate will out- Ine his platform briefly and enter into the need of economy’ and efficiency in the management of the affairs of the state. . ‘The meeting tonight will afford the voters of Casper their first opportunity to hear Mr. Hay, one of the leading citizens of the state,, make a political decided to cenfer on the matter. ‘The tentative draft of Representa- tive O'Grady’s proposed tire, in’ Part follows: 7 “Whereas, the public press has re- cently given an account of a so called glandular operation performed in the state of Illinois by an ac- credited surgeon, said operation in- volved the cutting away of a vital Continued on Page Four.) “John Hay Night” Plans Completed Final arrangements for the “John Hay night” of the eluded, according to George W. Jarvis, chairman of the pub- lic meetings committee of the club. In addition to the speech by Mr. Hay, who is a candidate for the Republican nomination for governor, it is expected ‘TIME NOT RIPE FORCOMPLETE _ INDEPENDENCE, FILIPINOS ARE TOLD BY PRESIDENT HARDING WASHINGTON, June 22.—Althongh commending the Philippine aspirations to independence and complete self- sovereignty, President Harding today replied to the Philip- pendence.” |pine parliamentary mission “thatthe time is not yet for inde- The president’s statement was made to the members of have been satisfactorily con- address. His 40 years of residence in Wyoming have made him very widely known and unusually conversant with the probiems of the commonweaith. C. A. Cullen, vice president of the young men’s Republican club will pre- side tonight in the absence of Harry B. Durham, president! The meeting will commence at 8 o'clock sharp. sa edad recnak ‘Chain Bandit’ Exonerated By Holdup Victims CHEYENNE, Wyo., June 22.— ‘There's one crime of the long list with which he is charged that Fred Grimes, the “Omaha-chain. bandit,” did not commit. Persons who were held up on a street car on the Fort Russell military vation the night of June 14, while Brown was in Cheyenne, after examining photo- graphs of the wounded bandit, state positively that he bears no resem- Dlance to the street car bandit. the mission who last week presented to him yhe Filtpinos argument, and plea for a separate political existence. The policy of the administration, Mr. Harding stated, would follow slong the lines laid down by hin predecessors in the White House, notably President McKinley, under whom the Filipinos were freed from Spain. “With every mindfulness for your aspirations, with sacred pride in your achievements, with gratitude for your loyalty, with reiterated assurance that we mean to hold no people under the flag who do not rejoice in that rela- tionship, I must say to you that the time is not yet for independence,” said the president. “I can imagine a con- tinued progress which will make our bonds either easy to sever or rivet them more firmly because you will it to be so. We rust await that de- velopment. * ¢ © “At this time, ft ts not for me to’ suggest the day, distant or near. Meanwhfle, I can only renew the prov- en assurances of our good intentions, our desire to be helpfiil, without ex- acting from your private or public Purposes, or restricting the freedom from which men and peoples aspire and achieve. No backward step is contemplated. No diminuition of your domestic control is to be sought. Our relations to your domestic affairs is that of an unselfish devotion, which is borne of our faith in opening to you the way of Mberty which you dream. “Our sponsorship in international af- fairs is related in the common flag, which.is unfurled to you as it is un- furled for us, and security is your seal of American relationship. GEDDES HONORED. PROVIDENCE, R. L., June 22.—str Auckland Geddes, British ambassador to the United States, was awarded the honorary degree of doctor of laws at the 154th commencement of Brown university. —>—— Of more than 200 organizations which “maintain Washington, D. C. headquarters, nearly one-half are Dus iness bodies. ° ° e ¢ TH \Bodies of Victims Foliowing Attack Non-Union Camp; Bodies were spread over an area fifteen miles square, some of them riddled with bullets, others beaten to death and three hanging by ropes from trees. An Associated Press correspondent, after ten ineffectual attempts today, finally persuaded a taxicab driver to take him through the scene of the fight. The strip mine had been fired and a freight train on a siding also was burning while miners looted sev- eral cars of food suppltes. Out, in a road near the mine, stx ‘men tied together and terribty man- gled by bullets and clubs were lay- ing in a scorching sun, while hun- ‘dreda of men anf women ‘aughed at their pleas. for water made in the hame of God One of the men, his faee bloody and one shoulder shot away appar- ently was within a few minutes of death. ‘ “Please boys, sive me a drink,” he moaned. A langh from the hundreds of spec tators was the only reply. ‘The correspondent rushed to a house for water and when he return- ed he was faced by a sword, quickly drawn pistols and’ told to keep away. When the man begged again for water, “for God's make,” a young woman with a baby in her arms, plac ASSASSINS KILL BRITISH MARSHAL Yellowstone Tour of Unexcelled Excellence Is Opened This Year By Northwestern’s New Service ‘The dream of years is at last a reality. “ A southern entrance to the won- ders of Yellowstone park, through the Teton mountains and the fa- mous Jackson Hole region, has been made possible through the co-opera- tion of the Northwestern railroad, H. O. Barber, E. Amorett!, and the city of Lander. The tourist engaged in “Seeing America First” now finds himself availed of the opportunity to travel in a straight line from Chicago to Lander, Wyo., via the Northwest- ern, Here, without the unnecéssary inconvenience of purchasing another ticket and making arrangements for New Republic Given Fresh Baptism in Blood With Uprising ‘Against New Leader in Own PEKING, June 22.—(By The Associated Press.) —The newly established republican regime in China apparently is receiving that baptism of blood, without which few new gov- ernments have fixed themselves power. sand and fifteen thousand troops of the forces under Pei-Fu, chief military leader of the new government, have mutinied and slain “thousands” ‘of persons in Kiangsi province, accord- ing to reports reaching here. So far, reports of the mutinies are vague, but those telling of the broad extent of the mutineers’ ruthless sparently. are authentic. ‘Tod Ranks, Report Between ten thgu- u in that province is worse, if anything, than it was last night. =~ Reports of activities of the mutin- ous troops recetved from Hankow and Nanchang stated that the mutineers were led by Gen. Tsai Chen-Hsun, military. commander of Peking, who a complete change in the mode of travel, the tourist will find a com- fortable, powerful automobile await- ing him. A few instructions to the driver by the superintendent, a hurried ed to new friends made during the trip, and the party is off through a country that some call superior to the great park itself. ‘Through the great Shoshoni Indian reservation and the schools at Fort Washakie the busses wind over roads smooth as glass and newly named, “The Rocky Mountain High- way.” The tourist is able to follow the Continued on Page Four.) | Sir Henry Hughes Prominent Ulsterite, Shot to Death at London by Sinn 1 Feiners; Two Assailants Are Captured LONDON, June 22.—(By The Associated Press.)—Field Marshal, Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, former chief of the British imperial general staff and lately military adviser to the Two men fired upon the field marshal as he was alighting from an automobile after attending a war memorial unveiling where he delivered a speech. Struck by two bullets, he staggered and fell, He was car- ried into his home, where he died be- fore the arrival of physicians. ‘The two assassins fled, closely pur-| sued by the police, who had been guarding the field marshal on infor- mation that his life was likely to be attempted. Both men were captured. One of them is reported to have at- tempted suicide and to have inflicted serious injuries upon himself with his own revolver. Their names were approaching Changshu Ki, a city about 100 miles north of Kianfu-and 50 miles south of Nanchang. The British gunboat Cockchafer en- tered Poyang lake, a large inland body of water in the northern end of Kiangsi provinee, to pick up foreign- ers in danger Nanchang. The American gunboat Monocacy probably will follow the Cockchafer. Northern reinforcements of Wu Pel-Fu's forces are arriving at Khukiang and pro- ceeding to Nanchang. The American gynboats Isabel, and Quires and the British gunboats Bee and Foxglove are being held in readiness and will be dispatched via the Kan river to Poyang lake should it become neces- sary to protect nationals in Nachang. CONTINUATION OF FIGHTING PREDICTED. AMOY, Ching, June 22.(By The Associated Press.}—More fighting is Gispatches ndicate that the situation’ was leading his men northward and! anticipated inthe region of Canton. Ten thousand-troops loyal to Sun Yat Sen, deposed president of the China republic, are reported returning to- ward Canton from a northern expe- dition. Dispatches from Canton dated Mon- @ay said developments since Saturday had been unimportant. Fighting had ceased. Sun’s routed troops were awaiting reinforcements. The city’s raflroads and strategic positions were held by Chen Chiung-Ming, the gen- eral who, in the interest of the Peking government, drove Sun Yat Sen into exile and reported capture. Casualties in the Canton fighting are estimated here at 200. The Amer- ican consul and the commander of the United States destroyer 217, which was stationed at Canton, boarded a Chinese cruiser to protest against the firing near foreign concessions. Sun’s| “ wife is missirng and believed a cap-j tive. given as Conhelty and O’Brien. Policeman Marsh, who was near Field Marshal Wilson when he was fired upon, died from his wounds. later jn a hospital Field Marshal Wilson had been un- der police protection for some time, as the authorities had reason to suspect an attempt on his life. Poticemen were at the door of his residence when his assailants approached and opened fire. With the Wilson assassination as thelr immediate incentive, the “dio hard” consrvatives will move the ad- journment of the house of commons tomorrow to obtain a statement from the government as to what steps it is taking to preserve life in Ireland and in England. The arrested men, the Central News states, gave the names of James O’Brien, aged 24, no, occupation, no address, and James Connelly, aged 24, no occupation, no address! Six men are believed to have been implicated in the attack and a house to house search by detectives was be- ing made this afternoon in the vicin- ity of crime. A civilian who joined the pursuit in a motor car was wounded in the leg. A policeman received a serious wound in the stomach. One of the captured men who is very tall, declared he was an officer. Blood was streaming from his face and a cut caused by someone striking hith with a bottle. It, took four men to carry him to the police station. His companion is a man of very short stature. One of the two men ran toward Eaton Square, passing No. 29 Ches ham place, which is the residence of Ambassador Harvey. Shortly before 8 Chief Justicr of the United (Continued on Page Two.) { = government, was assassinated today near the door of his home near Eton place, in London. Wilson, Former Chief of Imperial Staff and|Japs to Reduce Navy Personnel HONOLULU, T. H., June 22.—Re- duction of the Japanese navai estab- lishment under the Washington trea- ties will result in the discharge of 50 officers and men, according to a dis. patch today to Nippu JijJi, a Japanese language newspaper here, quoting an anouncement of the Japanese navy Gepartment. The number of civilian employes will be reduced by 1,087. SWINDLERS TO BE ARRESTED NEW YORK, June 22.—The police notified the Miam! police that they had under surveillance two men <i ALIENS T0 GET PROPERTY BACK WASHINGTON, June 22.—Legisla- tion is being prepared with President Harding’s sanction which will return to approximately thirty thousand who were among the three indicted May 31, by the Dade county, Florida, grand jury on a charge of swindling Peter R. Nicholson out of $120,000 in a fake horse race scheme. Against Donald D. four wives he is said to have married, Germans and Austrians property taken over over during the war by the alien property custodian in amounts of $10,000 or less, it was announced at the White House. Stewart, Ex-Evan- gelist, Now Under Arrest LOS ANGELES, June 22.—(By The Associated Press.) — Donald D. Stewart, the unfrocked clergyman who is held in to Norma Hhrenseker of Boston, from, e Con ° ° ° flict TOLL ° CLIMBING Scattered Through | Woods and Roads Around Herrin Mine by Union Men Upon Outrages Numerous HERRIN, Ill., June 22.— (By The Associated Press.) —A check up at noon today, made by The Associated Press, showed twenty-six known dead and indication that the total would be more than thirty in the hostilities between striking union miners and non-union employes of the strip miue of the Southern Illinois Coal company near here. ed her foot on the mangled body and anid: “ITl see you in hell before you get ary water.” The men apparently had been down a rock road behind an automobile. Thetr clothes were torn and pieces of gravel were inbedded in their mangted flesh. THOUSANDS VIEW KILLING TODAY. HERRIN, Il, June 22.—(Ry The As- sociated Press).—Nineteen known to have been killed in the open warfare of unton men and sympathizers with employes of the strip mine near here of the Southern Illinois Coal company. An incomplete check up showed 16 non-union men and three union men dead. Ono of the non-union men was found hanging to-a treo, his body riddled with bullets ‘The bodics of the sixteen non-union men were found in a woods near the strip mines six miles east of here. A man named McDowell, foreman at the mine, was beateri to death, and the other fourteen exclusive »f'the man hanged, were shot to death. It was stated the men were massacred when (Continued on Page Two.) BALL SCORES NATIONAL LEAGUE —---O11 210 30°—8 11 0 Batteries—Alexander, Osborne and Wirts; Cooper, Carison and Gooch. At New York— R.A. E. Brooklyn — 3 60 New York — 8 2 Batieries—Ruether and Deberry; Ryan, J. Barnes, Causey and Smith. At Philadelphia— R. i. E. Boston .___ 3 o0—4 12 1 Philadelphia 20°53 7 1 Batteries—Mifler and Gowdy; Ring and Henline. No other game scheduled. Se AMERICAN LEAGUE At Boston— A R. EL E. New York —~-000 001 100-2 5 1 Boston -010 130 01°—6 10 1 Batter Hoyt, Murray, Jones and Hoffman. Quinn and Ruel. ' At Detroit— R. HE. St. Louis _____.010 100 00*—x x x Detroit -000 002 00°—x x x Batteries—Pruett and Collins; Elum- ke and Bassler. At Chicago— R. H. E. Cleveland 62 Chicago _ —000 010 20°36 0 Batteries—Coveleskie, Lindsay and O'Neill; Leverette and Schalk. s No other game scheduled. FORMER CLERGYMAN OF BIGAMY FAME AND OTHER CRIMES HELD BY POLICE Forgery and Fraud Charges Are Piled Up whom he ts safd to have stolen $2,500. Reports of operatives of the private detective agency which arrested the couple were incomplete, it was stated, as to the charges said to have been Placed against Stewart in various sec- tions ef the country, but they listed his alleged marriages as follows: 4 First—Te Mary Mitchell, at Wi- the city jail awaiting the arrival of officers from Boston, |™instor, Del., in 1918. A child was where he is wanted on charges of bigamy, grand larceny and porn SF pos pt kata is alleged conspiracy,. has met interviewers with this comment: “TI eee name tt Pee Sneeee can’t live down my past; the public won’t let me.” icetnatews workin ian gee Vea With Stewart when he was arrested and who also was taken into custod."|to have deserted her (Continued on Page-~Twa) 26 SLAIN IN COAL MINE WAR :