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J.uly Seventeenth Tear.
A'kly Kitty -Second Year.
MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1922
NO. 79
RIBUNE
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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
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'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.