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Newspaper Page Textfw v I w The Weather Weather Year Ago Maximum 90 Minimum 52 Prediction . Maximum . Minimum ... Fair 83 53 J.uly Seventeenth Tear. A'kly Kitty -Second Year. MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1922 NO. 79 RIBUNE ( MOONSHINER KILLS PASTOR AND SHERIFF Dave West, . 70, Trapper, Shoots When Still Raided By" Linn County Official Holds Posse at Bay, Then Kills Self Tragedy at Albany,. Ore. ALBANY, Ore., Juno 22. Dave M. West, 70, rancher and veteran trapper, shot and killed himself late last night in his own barn after he had held a posse of several hundred men at bay for several hours, following his killing yesterday afternoon of C. M. Kendall, Linn county sheriff, and Rev. Roy Healy, pastor of the First Christian church of Albany. The sheriff and minister were shot and killed instantly by West while the sheriff was preparing to dismantle a moonshine still on the West ranch. As long as it remained daylight West barricaded himself In his house and defied the possemen to capture him, but when night fell, he bade his wife, who had remained with him, farewell, telling her to go away where harm would not befall her. Shortly afterward, he crept quietly from the house and under cover of darkness reached the barn, where he killed him self. No membor of the posse hoard the sound of the r'lot which ended West's life, but ex-SheriU Van Smith who led the posse found the aged rancher lying ; dead in the barn when reconnoitering the place preparatory to Closing in on the house. , , . The killings of Sheriff Kendall and Rev. Mr. Healy occurred at 3:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon and until the body of West was found In the barn, the bodies of his two victims lay where they fell inside the West yard, members of the posse, fearing to enter the premises and remove them. West threatened any one with death who should attempt to approach ex cept the coroner who he said could remove the bodies of the men he had killed. For fear, however, that West might mistake the coroner for a would be captor, no attempt to remove the bodies was made. West, an expert shot with tho riflo, shot and killed both Kendall and Healy without warning. He fired but two shots, killing both men instantly while they were perhaps fifty yards from him. Sheriff Kendall, armed with a search warrant, left Albany yesterday for the West ranch, accompanied by Rev. Mr. Healy who desired to see a raid on a still to obtain material for a story which he was intending to write. The minister acted merely as a spectator. Arriving at the West ranch about 3 o'clock, the stierlff and, minister first located the still and then called at West's home and Interviewed him. Afterwards the sheriff and minister left the house and sturted toward the Btlll for the purpose of destroying it. West's wife and his niece, Mrs. Harry D. Attlcy, who were at the wiouse said they heard the aged trap per mutter something about not allow ing his stilt to be destroyed. They then said he took his high-powered rifle and left the house. At the time ' he was shot, Sheriff Kendall was coming Into the yard where the house was located. He fell at the gate and apparently made no ef fort even to draw his revolver. Rev. Mr. Healy was standing in the yard some distance from the sheriff when he fell, shot dead. He turned and started to run, but a single shot from the rancher's rifle brought him down as he reached he lane In front of the house. The minister also never rose after the bullet hit him. After the shooting,- West returned to the house and sat down In a chair with the rifle between his knees. He (Continued on page eight) LAW TO HALT WILL AFFECT BUYER CHICAGO, June 22. Legislation to prohibit traffic in human glands will be introduced in the next session of the Illinois legislature, according to two members of the general assembly, Representatives Thomas J. O'Grady aid Lawrence G. O'Brien, both demo cratic members from Chicago districts. They declared that persons should he prohibited by law from selling nny part of their badles or from buying 'Hatred of Americans' Urged By La Nacion As Cuba's Religion HAVANA.-June 22. Lai'a- cion, an afternoon newspaper, today launched another bitter attack against the United States. The attack, which is printed on the firs' page of the newspaper under a seven col- umn head, declared that "hatred of the American must be our new religion." The newspaper asserts that gratitude for American coopera tion during the last years of the revolution against Spain, which would have been won anyway, 4 has blinded Cuba to the sinister move3 of the - United States, which only Intervened in the revolution to secure control of the Island. t I NTERESTS HOTEL AT E No Reservations to Sale and Scenic Wonder Is Now in Control Portland Men Ends Dispute With Mather Price to Manage Resort. Crater Lake hotel has changed hands. A. L. Par It hurst has sotd his interest in the concession without reservation, to tho Crater Lako Na tional Park company,, it was . an nounced, today. ,.; ,, tH . -, ., Eric V; Huusor, owner of the Mult nomah hotel, js president of the com pany; Itichard W. Price, manager of tho Multnomah, in vice-president and managing director of the new com pany; Vernon Vawter of Medford is treasurer, and George Collins of tho same city is secretary.-, Tho consid eration of the sale was not made pub lic. The first crew of hotel employes was sent from Portland today to get tho Crater Lake Inn ready for open ing to the public by July 1. They will be followed in a week by Manager Price, who. proposes, without modify ing his relation to the Multnomah hotel, to spend the first week of each month at the inn. v ' Tho ownership of the Crater Lake hotel concession is now lodged en tirely in Oregon and chiefly in Port land. At n meeting of the stock holders scheduled to he held in Port land Saturday morning, it was said that changes which would rtiore com pletely establish local control prob ably would be made. The operation of bus service to Crater Lake from both Medford and Klamath Falls has been contracted to Lew & Williams, Klamath Falls business men, who have purchased six seven-passenger automobilesfrom local dealers with which to operate the service. The Crater Lake hotel concession long has been in dispute due to at tacks on the management of A. L. Parkhurst by'Stcphen T. Mather, di rector of the national park service. The. new arrangement is said to be satisfactory- to the national park ser vice. IES OKMULGEE, Okla., June 22. En couraged by the recent decision of the United States supreme court holding that union organizations are liable for property damage wrought by their members during labor troubles, Oklahoma coaf operators have launched a movement to reopen coal mines of the state on an open shop basis." AND SELLER ALIKE tissues or glands from the Body of another. SAN FRANCISCO, June 22. Assem blyman William Hornblower announc ed today that he would start work soon on the draft of a bill forbidding traffic In human glands. Hornblower said he favored punishing the purchaser of life-giving glands rather than the sel ler. BUY PARKHURS CRATER LA EX-REFORMER NABBED FOR LOVE PIRACY Donalcf D. Stewart, Vice- Crusader, Pastor and Au thor of "We'll Keep Cali fornia Dry" Has Four Wives Faces Other Charges Was Unfrocked. LOS ANGELES, June 22. (By Asso ciated Press). Donald D. Stewart, the unfrocked clergyman who is held In the city jail awaiting the arrival of officers from Boston where he Is want ed on charges of bigamy, grand lar ceny and conspiracy, has met inter viewers with this comment: "I can't live down my past; the pub lic won't let me. With Stewart when he was arrested Tuesday night was Mrs. Ethel Turner Osbaldeston Stewart, the second of the four wives ho is said to have married, and who alsowas taken Into ptistody. She is charged with having conspired with his to effect his alleged marriage to Norma Ehrenseller of Boston, from whom he 1s said to have stolen $2500. Reports of operatives of the private aetective 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 of the country, but they listed his alleged marriages as follows: First To Mary Mitchell at Mlhning ton, Delaware, in 1918. A child was born to them, and Stewart is alleged to have deserted his wife and baby. Second To Ethel Turner Osbaldes ton In New York In 1920.- He is said to have deserted her. ' Third to JJertna Ellen urannis at Tnilfimnnnlla in 1091 Wo la aniil tn I have riF.sertad fLiznin. ' I Fourth To Norma Ehrenseller, ' at Boston In 1921 with the alleged conni vance of Mrs. Ethel Turner Osbaldes ton Stewart, with whom he Is said to have effected a reconciliation a short time before. He disappeared shortly after the marriage to Miss Ehrensel ler. In addition to these marriages, the detectives charge, he obtained $1250, through the endorsement of a check by Bertha Ellen Qrnnnls Stewart, and that when he deserted her, he took his departure in her mother's automobile. That he stole $2500 from Norma Ehrensoller Stewart and that through an alleged courtship of Mrs. Gertrude Van Typek, an art teacher of Detroit, In 19J1, he defrauded her relatives of $850. , Stewart, 37 years old and a native of Scotland, attained considerable pro minence in California a few years ago through his work as a vice crusader and temperance leader and as the author of a prohibition-campaign Bong "We'll Make California Dry." After Mrs. Maude Hendricks committed sui cide at Hayward, California, near Oak land, December 30, 1914, wlien he re fused to marry her and he was arrest ed on a statutory offense, he was un frocked, although the charge was dis missed for lack of evidence. Stewart is known also as Donald AlliBter Stewart and as Robert Allan McLaren Browne. The latter is said to be his true name. He has filled pastorates In Dundee Lake, N. J.; Pat- erson, N. J.; Sanderson, Tex.; Douglas Arizona, and Chico, California. DETROIT, June 22. A charge of conspiracy to defraud may be brought here against Donald D. Stewart held in Los Angeles on a fugitive warrant, but authorities of Massachusetts, New York or Indiana probably will first claim the prisoner, a private detective agency announced here today. The conspiracy charge is contemplated, it was said by Bruce Grannis, who claims Stewart defrauded him of $1200 In a stock deal in 1920. , Grannie's sister, Bertha Ellen Grannis,. was one' of tbe four women to whom Stewart is al leged to have been married within the past four years. His lawful wife, Mary 'Barbara James Mitchell, also resides here as does Miss Gertrude Van Loplk, to whom Stewart was engaged to be mar ried, but who broke with him after sev eral of her relatives endorsed alleged worthless checks issued by the former minister. Mrs. Mitchell was aware of her hus band's relations with other women, she said today, hut forgave him several times after he nad deserted her, then sought to return. She bears him no ill will now, she asserted, and sympathizes with him In jUIJS il cuiLniiicui,' I Mrs. Mitchell said she was sure Stewart did not marry her for her (Continued on page eight) Gets Vacation ) ' ! i CwidM ! 'Sji.ColA.i- Jvit: COPENHAGEN, June 22. A mes sage from Moscow ta the Central News says the Russian council of commis sars has granted Prcmnicr Leniue a leave of absence until autumn on ac count of his illness. It is expected, says the message, Commissioner Tsur- apa, second vice president of the coun ell will act in his stead. CALIFORNIA TO Transportation Needs of State Demand Minimum Delay Evasion "-of Supreme Court Decision Tabooed Group Railroads Is Plea. SAN FRANCISCO, June 22. The state railroad commission announced today that as a result of the United States supreme court decision sepa rating the Southern Pacific and Cen tral Pacific systems, it will petition the interstate commerce commission for such groupings and such consoli dations of railroads as best will serve the ever-growing transportation needs of the entire state of California." Tho Interstate body will be asked to take up the situation "as soon as pos sible," the state said. According to tho statement it will be legally impossible for the state commission to take any action before the supreme court because the law does not provide for such appearance. "It is the sense of the commission," the statement continued, "that noth ing could or should be done to evade the supreme court decision. If the court refuses to modify its views on a rehearing of the case, it is our be lief that tho interstate commerce com- mislson can group the railroads under the transportation act in a manner not inconsistent with the decision." The statement was issued the com mission said, because of many In quiries as to what Its course would be In the unmerger emergency. National Lcacuc. At Pittsburg: It. H. E. Chicago ...6 13 1 Pittsburg .8 11 0 Batteries Alexander, Osborne and Wirta; Cooper, Carlson and Gooch. At New York: It. H. E. Brooklyn 3 6 0 New York 2 8 2 Batteries Reuther and Deberry; Ryan, J. Barnes, Causey and Smith. At Philadelphia: ' R. Hi, E. Boston 4 12 1 Philadelphia ,6 7 1 Butteries Miller and Gowdy; Ring and Henllne. American. At Chicago: ' R. H. ' E. Cleveland 0 8 2 Chicago 3 6 0 Batteries Covelesklo, Llndsey and O'Neill; Leverette and Schalk, At Boston: R. H. E. New York 2 6 1 Hoston - 6 10 1 Hoyt, Murray, Jones and Hoffmwn; Qulnn and Ruel. , At Detroit: . R. H. E. St. MUn ..2 9 1 Detroit 3 12 1 Bntterlen Pruett. " nn Collins; Ehmkc and Bassler. REQUEST ACTION S.P-C.P.D1V0RCE 2ASSASSINS Kill BRITISH ARMY CHIEF Sir Henry Wilson, Field Mar shal, Murdered at Door of Home Advisor to Ulster, and Sinn Fein Blamed for Deed Belfast Fears Re prisals. LONDON, June 22. It was stated at Scotland Yard this evening that correspondence had been found in possession of Jumos Connelly, one of the men arrested for tho murder of Field Marshal Wilson, proving be yond a doubt that he was a member of the Irish republican army. LONDON, June 2 2. (By the As sociated Press.) Field Marshal. Sir Honry Hughes Wilson, chief of the British Imperial general staff and lately military advisor to the Ulster government, was assassinated today near the door of his home in Eaton Place, London. Two men fired upon the field mar shal as he was alighting from an au tomobile after attending a war memo rial unveiling where he delivered a speech. Struck by two bullets, ho staggered and fell. He was carrlod Into his home, where he died before the arrival of physicians. The two assassins fled, closely pur sued by the police, who had been guarding the field marshal on inform ation that his life was likely to be attempted. Both men were captured. One of thein is reported to have at tempted suicide and have inflicted serious injuries upon himself with bis own' revolver. Their names were given as . Connelly and O'Brien. Field Marshal Wilson was formerly cllef of the Imperial general staff of the British army. He retired from this post early in the present year and stood for the Imperial parliament as unionist candidate for North Down, Ireland. He was elected member for this Ulster district tn February 2i, and shortly afterward was appointed by premier Craig as Ulster's prime agent for the restoration' of order. The field marshal went to Belfast from England early in March with plans for restoring order which he submitted to the premier. While the, chd:ce of Field Marshal Wilson as organizer of pacification measures . was favorably received in Ulster, it had a contrary reception in southern Ireland. The former Brit ish chief of staff was regarded there with more or less the same feeling as bir Edward Carson, the former Ul ster leader, and prediction were free ly voiced In the south that he would be strongly In sympathy with the Orange side of the feud between the two factions. BELFAST, June 2 2. (By the As sociatcd Press.) The news of the assassination of Field Marshal Sir Honry Hughes Wilson created a sen satlon in EelfaBt, where it Is feared it will provoke reprisals. The Sinn I'clners are popularly blamed for It. They are also being accused of the move made a few nights a'go against Sir James Craig, the Ulster premier, when an attack was made upon Stor mont castle, his official residence. Flold Marshal Wilson was a popu lar figure In Ulster. Premier Craig and the members of the northern cab inet were deeply moved by the news of the tragedy and as a mark of sym pathy and mourning the Ulster house of commons adjourned until Wednes day. . IN BRITISH GOLF SANDWICH, June 22. (By Associ ated Press). Walter Hagon, one of the three American professionals com pet Ing In the British open golf champion ship, led the field at the end of the second round, concluded this afternoon with an aggregate of 149. His morning score was a 76 and his afternoon 73. Jim Barnes, the American open champion, was closo' behind with 461, tied with two British golfers, while Jock Hutchison, present holder of the British title, was In the next group with three British golfers with scores of 153. The eight leading Aggregates at the end of the second .round were: Walter Hagon, 149; Jim Barnes,. J. H. Taylor, George Duncan, 151; Jock Hutchlnon Tom Walton, flnsslat and AIIIhs 153. Protest Jack Dempsey Wearing the National Colors for Belt ELLENSBURG, June 22. A resolution protesting ngalnst "the proposed wearing of the Amer- lean colors by Jack Dempsey in his coming bout with Bill Bren- nan" was unanimously adopted 4 by Austin-Rees-Wheeler post of the" American legion here. Anti-Saloon League Attacked Southern Senators Call Each Other Liars Secy. Week's Speech! Rouses Hint of Graft. WASHINGTON, Juno 22. Renew ing his attack on tho anti-saloon league, representative Tinkham, re publican, Massachusetts, dec lured In the house today that tho eighteenth, or prohibition amendment had been bought and paid for and that accord ing to reports "worthy of belief," Wayne B. "Wheeler, th league's gen eral counsel, and interests he con trols," expended from $100,000,000 to $150,000,000 in tho' series of years preceding its adoption.: ' Mr. Tinkham asserted that "con clusive and sworn prool" ' of his charge in the house of "extensive vio lation of tho corrupt practices act," by the anti-saloon league had been laid, before the department 'of jus. tice and that "twelve woeks have olapsed and the evidence' has not been presented to a grand Jury." WASHINGTON, June- 22. Senator Glass, democrat, Virginia, was called "a Uur" today in tbe senate by Sen ator Hoflin, democrat, Alabama, after the Virginia senator had de clared that a statement made by the Alabama senator was false. The senators were called to order by Senator Watson, Democrat, Georgia and under the senate rules each was required to take his Beat. DALLAS, Tex., June 22. Presi dent Harding was asked- whether Socretary of War Weeks Is voicing tbe policy of the administration in sentiments expressed concerning the Volstead act at the Pennsylvania military college recently in a telegram sent today to the executive by tho Itev. Attlcus ' Webb, superintendent of the anti-saloon league of Texas. WASHINGTON, i June 22. Con gressional Investigation of the office of the alien property Custodian was called for In a resolution introduced today by Representative Woodruff, republican, Michigan, setting forth chart.es that prodigious fees had been paid lawyers, some of whom represented . the custodlnn and the alien enemies at the same time. ULSTER DETERMINED TO BELFAST, June 22. Cries of shame met tho announcement by Premier Craig in tho Ulster parlia ment of the assassination of Kieid -Marshal Sir Henry WlUon. "This event." the premier declared, "places beyond nrgumcnt the exlstenco of a wldo conspiracy against those who are fighting the battle of Ulster. I do hope there will be no further doubt In the minds of any man about what Ulster Is up ngulnst. The battle Is not for us alone, but -for tho empire, and It anything Is needed to steel tho nerve nml heart of Ulster, It is that fart." PLEAS FOR WATER BY WITH SNEERS AND HERRIN', 111., Juno 22. Out In a road near the mine, six men tied to gether and terribly mangled by bul lots and clubs, were lying In a scorch Ing Min, while hundreds of men and women laughed -at their pleas for water made in the name of God. One of the men, his face bloody and one shoulder shot away, appar ently was within a few minutes of death. "Please, boys," give me a drink," ho moaned. A laugh from the hundreds nf spec tators was the only reply. PEEVISH DAY IN CONGRESS; THERE IS MUCH DOING SLAUGHTER NON-UNION INE HANDS Non-Union Miners Lynched, Shot and Beaten to Death in Open War Fate of Pris oners Unknown Woods Full of Bodies. HERRIN, Ills., Juno . 22. A check-up at noon toduy, made by th? Associated Press, showed 26 known dead and Indication that the - total would be more than 30 in tho hostili ties between striking union miners and non-union employes of tho Strip ininCH of the Southern Illinois Coal company near heve. liodlea wero spreud over nn area 15 milett 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 taxi driver to take him through tho scene of the fight. Tho Strip mino had been fired and a freight trnln on a sidin? also was burning, whilo miners looted, several cars of food supplies. HERRIN, Ills., June 22. (By Associ ated PreHs). Nineteen are known to have been killed In the open warfare of union men and sympathizers with employes of the Strip mine near here of the Southern Illinois Coal company. An Incomplete check-up showed 1G non-union men and three union men , flnnrl. One nf thn nnn-uninn men wna found hamring tn n trnn. bis hndv rid dled with bullets. Tho bodies of the 16 non-union men were found In a woods near the Strip mine, six miles east'of-here. A man named McDowell, foreman at tho mine was beaten to death, and the other 14 exclusive of the man hanged, were shot to death. It was stated the men were massacred when they attempted to escape after being taken prisoner by the union forces. " ' . Reports reaching here Bald that the fifllltnrarl urnllrfia mam Inlran tha woods and some of them killed. The union sympathizers stormed the mine camp shortly after daybreak and found the men hiding behind steam shovels and other equipment, the reports said. The mine employes thereupon were lined up, and some were marched Into the woods and lynched the reports stated. , It was reported that 46 of the pris oners were being brought here, but several hours after the report was re ceived, they had not arrived. Persons , who surveyed the woods said, "bodies are scattered all over." i ue surrouiiuiug cuuniry is swarm ing with persons, many armed, and the confusion prevents checking up by numerous and somewhat conflicting reports. The dead non-union men were re- , ported to have been among forty-four prisoners captured at the Strip mine. Four others were found riddled with bullets, and are not expected to re cover. What became of the other 24 could not be learned. There were several thousand men. and boys present when the 16 non union men were killed at 9 o'clock this morning. The forty-four men were taken prisoner at the camp, herded In front of the union mob, and when they reached a xlnt about half way be tween the mine and Merrln, where they passed through a woods, the killing began. Strikers declared the prisoners, by an apparently -pre-arranged Blgnal, made a dash to escape and they wore pursued and killed. The three dead union- miners were killed In last night's fighting. The bodies of the !) dead were counted by an experienced and conservative news paper man. ' ' '' ' Four of the 16 bodies' of strikebr'e'ak. (Continued on page eight) DYING MEN MET TAUNTS OF CROWD Tho correspondent rushod to a house for water and when he return ed, he wns faced by a sword, uulckly drawn pistols and told to keep away. "When the man begged again for water, "for God's sake," a young womnn with a baby In her arms, placed her foot on tho mangled body and said: "I'll see you In h 1 before you get nny water. The men apparently had heen dragged down a rock road behind an automobile. Their clothes were torn and pieces of gravel were imbedded in their mnngled flesh.