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or written in by electton oteiolals.
are contested ballots. and ars con.
west Texas congressman for stock
feeding experiments at
In and in which the voters had to
Springs, Texas governmental
rope In th* hand* of Ruthertora.
King asked Jacob* If
it to smok•
an attirmative
most immediately flam
SOUTHBEND, Taxa*. Jan. The
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IMPERIAL EDICT
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b. ur—Thir-
MANILA.
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pany the body.
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record of
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wanted by
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afternoon
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Deputy Bheriir Fred Baker
with
popne.
41081,733 FOR TEXAS
started at 1 o'clock thio morn tax.
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th* offieers using a machine gun.
rbrtresm.
Baker wan aaid to
Deputy
hare'been working for months
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FLASHES
MURDER MOST DIE
in ELECTRIC com
FIVE (DM MEH
FROM AUSTIN fit
IT PM ANTONO
. A Prairie Oil Company Announces
An Advance of Ten Cents Bringing
dore and
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write in their choice. Paddy recetv-
ed a total of 134,000 votes all of
PEDDY ATTORNEYS
CGLAM MAJORITY
OF 60,000 VOTES
CLAREMORE, OKLA.
DOCTOR ON TRIAL
RESULT ROUNDUP
train.ranking ngninst time to reach
the ewitch by * p m . sat making
9.
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lot
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for high i
At 3:00
the peaee i
ord on the
been partl;
The corn
is
ur
its
captain of the
team while R.
tenule of the "heotlegwerw* sear" and
todey three eempanles *r natlepo
guards war* •■ duty la the eounty.
wholesale ralde have been eondmet-
•d ta th* eounty reeentiy witheut
An east bound train had patted off
the blind mdihg at Hillendabi about
tive minutes before the eellielM and
F, but th* justice of
fumed to prepare a rec-
iron nd that her fine had
satistjed. . v t
EXPERIMENTS IN
STOCK FEELING
. IT BIG SPRING
day at
Beach.
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URGED FOR SOME TIME BY
CONGRESSMAN HUDSPETH
ran sM* ef the herder wan made
by Amerlraa and Mexleam mili-
tary authoricies today.
baah at blank postai momey ar-
dor*.
a
Inc-
and fir* members of th* gang wore
killed.
, The fight oceurted near the gang"*
camp at Fruita, la th* Evergindes.
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70,000 WRITE MAYFIELD
134,000 WRITE PEDDY
terior departmeat nopreprimtson
bill reported today by the house
mpproprinttena eommittee.
■f th*
Navarre
ALLEGE THAT ALL BALLOTS
WITH MAYFIELD PRINTED
THEREON ILLEGAL
Wichita Daily
— Times
TWO MEN ON INSIDE OF
TANK REMOVING WASTE
tr
ti
CONDITION OF BISHOP
IS REPORTED SERIOUS
Forty-Five Steer Calves Will Be
Divided in Three Late
For Feeding
4 LIST OF KnoWN BRAD •
4 1X PEKI DisAsrEI to •
AUTHORITY IS QRANTED
SECRETARY OF AGRI-
CULTURE
dleoruin, 606,166: Leulsiana, a66,7871
MinimwivpI, 412.283; Missour, 103.
IM: North Carolina. 1,016.408; onia
MOSCOW, Jan. ». 1*1—Acting upon
the advice of hia physielans Leon
Trotzky. ear let war comminsar. teft
Moacow at th* end nf laat week for
a two months leave, according to
th* war oftice.
Unofficlally lb la maid,ahat he hae
gone to th* mack Sea coast.
WASHIKGTON. Jan. o.em—Sweep-
Ing denial of all the allegation* of
(Continued on, Pag* 10, Column 2.)
RUSSIA CLAIMS TOH AVE
OUSTED AMERICAN GRAIN
FROM SEVERAL COUNTRIES
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dga
for M to as 9-10, and a and abov
$1.50. . - ‘
LEOX TROTZKY TO TAKE
TWO monTus vACAtON
ezp-hsag7
- OKLAHOMA CITY. Okla.. Jan. 4
(—Dr. L H. Gordon of Claremore,
one of the phystetanw-being Investi-
gated by th* atat board rmedleal
examiners for alleged abu** of the
profesalon in Oklahoma., will go to
trial her today before the board.
3990
where botb th* candldat** names
peither. printed nor stamped
dis to propar* a reco
in hi* court in which
WrTIOUT JUiISDCTOS
IX CASK FROM AMARILLO
AUSTIN, Jan. »W>—Th* attempt
of Alic* Haves *f Amarillo to com-
pel Justice of th* Pence C. G. Lan-
Rope Bum* in Two and Esoape
Cut Off Until Hol* Is —
Cut In Tank__
Claim Court Injunction* Prevented
Printing of Name of May-
field on Ticket
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SIX ARE DROWNED
WHEN AUTOMODR E
60ESTHRDUGHICE
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ip burtousa-"
officer* end
of her case
a was fined ।
by ntates were: Alabama, 004.704:
Arianna, 62,371; Arkuneaa, 608,430:
California. 39,745; Florida, I*
le* the viet >1 (him.
Mezinelne la ___=
HOME
EDITION u
.ALEXAXDRIA, Minn., Jahyf.
+i (—Six ‘persos were drowned
• when an . automobll* tttke \
through Ur* Ice of Lake , An-
the
here
she was fined 41 and costa, but be-
ing unable to pay went to jail.
Letore her sentence expired part i.
of the fin* wan paid. Mb* then de-
cided to appeal the cane to the
county eoui
Afte ' Midnight
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ATLANTA, On.. Jan 4.<*>—An Im-
perial edict revoking the charter of
Kathen Bedford Forest Klan No. 1.
of Atlanta, for "ipeubordination.
dinloyalty, ireanon ara other acta
inimical to th* hest interentn nt the
Knighta of th* Kh Klux Klan. Ino."
was fesued today by Hram W.
Evanm Imperial wizard of th* order
IKES CRH
,__ ___ sun/wasaweep- Jl
ing the barricade ana a heavy nire ‘
t- becoming from behind ;
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Pa h
ms >
followed by Gus sim-
eon narcotic act and the board la to
determine whether hl* license to
practice In th* atat* shall be re-
vokea. <
vertmental farm. , For more than a
year Congressman Hudspeth hae
heen endeavoring to interest the
department of agriculture in tests
of this character, pointing out th*
chief loee of Texae cattle ratsera
baa been failure to reach the mar-
Kraeeln. commimnar of foreign trade
and commerce, in an addtess at the
foreign trade conference, declared
that owing to the ayatem 'of mo-
nopoly In force on foreign trade.
Runeta had attained a trade eredit
balance and despite th* atoppage of
grain export* dur’ng the last de-
cade end th* paralyzation of the
export apparatus, Rusala had nuc-
needed during her fleet year of ex-
port business in ousting American
grain from a number of foreign
countries.
Governor Small Has Been Asked
' To Remove Sheriff at Marion, III.,
Federal Dry Officer Is Acquitted
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TWO OFFKXBMS uandnD I
AUSTIN, Jan. 1. e— Convietion of F I
a person of two felontes in one in- I I
diet ment and one verdict la not |
permitted by th* law* of Texan, thS
court of criminal appeale held to- ' I
day in reversing n conviction of
Pedro Reyna of Cameron county on
n charge of transporting Md pon:
sesaing liquor. The court decided
transporting and possessine liquor
were two offenses and that they
ahould have been neparated. Reyna
wan given three years in the peni-
tentiary. ' 2 (
flae has been naked
RL PASO. Tsaaa. Jan. •.0—
Virtual admlaatea that a ship-
meat et riflea *f the tutted
States mrmy vatterm la 1017 bad
most tmpossible. Fred Rutherford.
Who was asniating th* entrappe
. men In eleaning out the lank from
, the outatide, procured n eledge 6am-
, mar and nucceeded at the rlak of
। his Ilf* in battering a hoi* sufti-
clently lark* enough through the
eld* of th* tank toailow th* bod lee
, of th* men to be drawn to wafety,
! but not until all three were baniy
Injured by burn* about the hand*.
, arm* and faces.
proper, should have been taken to.
the nupreme court.
•Idered by the eohtestants ay il-
legal ballots. Mayfield received
lose than 70.000 votes In counties
MameX. m., Jnm. S. (
prices in grades above 11 degrees
wae announced today by the Mag-
nolia Petroleum Company. Nep
prices for Kanags, Oklahoma arid
Texas oils are: 11 to 32.0 grade. S>:
33 to 31.1, $1.25; 11 to 38.9, $1.40: is
and above. 31.11. Under it gravity,
at 10 cents, Md it to 30.0 grades at
IS cents are unchanged.
FLAMES RESULT FROM THE
LIGMTING OF MATCH IN
, , ARGE TANK
Shortly after midnight Bal
notitied the mherirt’s ottic
that all the men were to and
pomse started out in -automobr
well armed, taking along the
department responded
Poddy ballot
DALLAS, Jan. 1, W>—An adyakc6?n
ex- of it cents per barrel in crude of
Vernon: 4. Rhoades. Snyder; s. W.
Stokely. China: George P. Lillard.
Arlington: Ben Randalls, Pecos:
John T. sHman,. Dallas: John A
Minx*. Big Randy: G. V. Davi*. Bal-
ta*; 8 E. Bigham. Beaumont: A R
Thweat, Houston; torrts C. Laine.
Houston- Ralph R. Ogden. Austin:
Jernes A. Rordenux. Fort Worth:
Charles H. Coopet. Snyder. , ,
wwria DWNIAI, tung
by MAVFIKLD IX RMP1.T
on a vagrancy charge failed in
court of criminal appeals to
ket ahead of other gra.se neotions
and he helleved thia could be over-
eomei ths cattlemen of the mouth-
west would resort to a short teed-
mu period-
ActthE on thia sugi
Ths murder case of sam Wat
flom Hill county, caarged w.[
gltling sam Lonnahil st a nehnol
entertainment, w»g reversed on Rhe
ground that evidence of mansladUh- i
isr had not been given to the Jury |
The avpeal of Lunsford Woony of 1
C~liahan, charged ' with Lawrence
VanLandingham, was dismisnod,
fant speed as it cams toward Ih. knvensn CABB BRcAxB
Special to The Times: x
WASHINGTON. Jan. Becetary
Wallace has informed Representa-
tive Hudspeth that approval ha*
been granted application of th*
Dr Gordon la now under federal
indictment for violating the Harri- the "hexiur* Knowledue
, w‘eu,,
igdceoerk
THREE INJURED IN Two Engineers, One Firemanand
FELATETUESOM
the rope which was the only meana
of emcape for the entrapped men.
wh«m It Boomed for a few msnutee
sreaid be doomed to a horrite
death.
The flamee Immediately ignited
Speolni to The Times.
WASHINGTON, Jan. George
Peddy wm. elected United States
wenator from Texas by a majority of
60,000 vote* over Earle B. Mtaytteld
on u neon tested ballot*, according to
th* pleading* of Scott Woodward
and Luther Nickola, attorneys for
Peddy. In the election, contest now
pending before the nenate committee
on privileges and eleettons.
All ballot* upon which th* name
ofMayfleld wan printed, atamped
Special to The Times.
BORKBURNETT. Texae. Jan. 1.—
W. A Jacoba, who was serlously
burned late Tuenday afternoon, and
who with a fellow worker wae mi-
raeulously rescued from a horrible
death by fire, la reported in a fair
way to recovery. .
Jacobs. Fred Rutherford and a
young man by the name of King. a
nephew of Ruthertord’s, were en-
gaged In cleaning out a large tank
used by the Burk Oil Jobber* a* a
storage tank for kerosene - oil.
which was located la the rear of
the Burk Oil Jobber* building *it-
u*t*d on Flrat street and Ave-
nue A
Jacob* end King were on th* ln-
■Ide of the tank filling a bucket
with refuse oil which was being
drawn to the top by means of a
promptly and quickly extingulshed
the flam** before great headway
was made.
be ll te 14 by Thurnday night
Arkansas; Tbnight and Thuramay
un**lt:M. probably rain, warmer
tonicht in noutheast portion. coldz
er Thursday except in nouthepnt
ij454ipormn-toxmni Tonight and rhur--
day dowdy, probably rain: coider
ton ght in nottnwest potuem: cold-
er Tburaday. cold wave in extreme
Philadelphia, with
Althouuh brake* war* applied a*
the trains sighted each other, the
impact a* they came together was
heard for more than ■ mile. Wreck-
age was strewn on either alda of the
track, while a portion of one engine
waa ahunted nearly to the right of
way fence. Besgage cara. tele:
(Continued on Page 10. Column 4.)
the Big
WEST PALM BEACH. Flu.. Jan. t.
m-The notoribus Ashley-Mobtey
Kswg of bank robbers and deapera-
does which ha* mads the Florida
Everilades It* rendezvous for years,
was wiped out thin morning by
Palm Beach county mherirtm and
Jacobs and King are suffering
some lung troubte in consequence
of smoke, wblla Rutherford’s only
injuries sre badly burned hands and
arms All the injured men are be-
ing taken care of at their homes in
the city, ,
The property damage la small aa
of criminal appeals
Worth will be head of the Mayfield
team.
The Mayfield list given out by the
commute* this afternoon follow*'
R H Masn, Fort Worth; Gilbert
taahnume, Fort Worth; C. A. Mevere
Tort Worth; T. W. Hunt. Fort
Worth: Van L., Cult*. Houston; J F.
MIDCONTINENT CRUDE ADVANCED
MACHINE GUNS ARE MOUNTED IN MARION, ILL. COURTHOUSE
FOUR ARE DEAD AS RESULT'OF KATY WRECK NEAR HOUSTON
I* Oli Co. posted an increase In
-—I pt cruge oil bora today and
alloc and water supply have been
provided at Big Bprings Md a hard
of 45 staer calves averaging 4M
pounds esch acquired These haie
been divided into throe iota of 14
- each and tests mad* a* follow*:
one-lot .will bs ted on sumac al-
lag*, cotton need meal, ground mlto
and audan groan hay. Another, on
sunanc foddar, cottan seed meal and
ground milo, while the third will
be fed cotton seed hulls, cotton seed
—meal and ground mto. At the con
ciuion *f the tests th* three lot*
will be mold and slaughtered, all
data being collected on weight*
and ahrinkage.
Heretotore th* Big Springs Ms-
tlon has been devoted to agricul-
tural experiments only and Con:
hhegreesman Hudspeth is convinced
"that th* enlarged aotivities will
prove of Immense benefit to the
stockmen. These experiments ar*
colducted In cooperatlon with th*
Texas Agricultural Experimeat Sta-
—tlon-;—
chine gun to arrest the oudawe,
John Ashtey and Handford Moble
were encape conviets with a
Hishop William R Murrah of th*
Methodist Episcopal Church, Routh,
who surtered a stroke of apoplexy
yesterday, was reported by his
physician* a* ratting easier tndax,
but that hia condition stun w*s
critical. Bish) Murrah, who is 71
years old, has been ill for several
month*.
Washington. Jan. ".-Cot-
tnn ginned prior tn JAuanry l to-
wns picking up pen@ for its run to
the next statiot. The south bound
C. Hiekermell
which precipitated the ealling of
the troopu < is a growing bitternes-
between two factiohm, th* Ku Kins
Klan aha jentt-ktan personn whe
have formed on orsranization called
th* Knighta of th* Flaming Circl'd.
MorFaune Ara sena
According to th* hardware man
of Herrin, more gun* and ammuni-
tion have bden eeja in Herrin than
ever before during th* prenent
orieis.
‘ Th* klan recently gave n demon-
*tration. hooded and gowned. IB
whleh th* declaration was mad*
that Williamson county was to be
etemned up. On Saturday night.
December 11. th* flrat spectacular
raid waa made in which 134 wars
arrested for bootlegging activities.
Three were ahot in that raid, not
serlousty. The Ku Klux Klan then
claimed tn have raised $a,000 tn con-
duct that' raid alone, which state-
man, 114 ' ril
Th* lone machine
West Texase To-
night and Thurs-
day partly cloudy
to. Cloudy, prob-
ably snow in
north portion and
mtn moutheast
portion, co l don
cold wave Ih north
portion with tem-
beraruge it to IB.
oklekoma: To-
night and Thura
ADVANCE POSTED BT PRaltE.
EMPIRE ARD TEXAS conrANLES
Th* raise in th* price of crude oil
which has been looked forward to
by th* operators in th* distriet to
follow in th* wake of the two nd-
vanoes made in tba Pennsylvania
field, became a reality Wednesday,
when the Pratrie Oli and Qan Oem-
pany boosted the price 1* centa on
all urades of crude in the north and
central Texas fields, bringing th»
bulk of the Wichita district's out-
putJ to 41.40 per barrel, an advance
of 10 centa over the , prevatlina
prices posted by the Texss Pipeline
Company a tew weeks ago.
The new price was promptly met
by he Toxa* Pipeline Company and
the Empire dea and Fuel Company,
andlt.la expected that before
Thursday morning the other bf
producing and pineline compmni--
will meet the new schedule. Be-
low ar* given the new prieen etree-
tive 1.00 a. m. Wednesday. nsiponted
by the Prairie company: 7
. Below 43 gravity. 41 per barrel.
S3 to 34 » gravity. 41 14 per barrel
44 to 44.4 gravity, $1.40 per bar-
44 and above, 41.30 per barrel.
Wichita Fall* and Vicinity: Tem-
perature, maximum. 04 degree*;
minimum. 43 degrees; at 1 p m.
Wedpenday, 44 degrees. Barometer
28.66. Partially cloudy, Southwest
breeze.
INDEPENDENCE. Kan.. Jan. 0. U)
-The Pratrie Oli & Gas Company
today announced a net inereane of
from 44 to 50 cents in th* price of
Kansas, Oklahoma and northern
Texas crude, effective at once. The
new prices at the well:
Below 34 degree* Raum* gravity
41 per barrel: 41 to and including
34 degreea, $1.25: 14 to 44 0-10 grav-
ity. 4140; 10 degrees , and above.
41.40 per barrel. -
This tn an inerease over the old
schedule
Below 41 degree* th* prlee I* nd-
vanced 14 cents ■ barrel or 114 per
cent Th* next grade is rained IS
cent* a barrel and th* grade low-
•rad from 380-19 to 35 9-10. Th*
next grad* le raised 14 cant* a bar-
rel and the grad* lowered from 40
to 30 degrees.
wait* nil which had saturated th*
wooden platform upon which thb
tank was sitting, completely en-
elrcllng it and making rencue al-
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COTTON GINNED PRIOR
TO JAN. 1 IS 9,807,138
F. O’Boyle, win accom-
-*E
DALLAS. Jan. B. O—Vegi-
HOUSTON. Texas. Jan. 4. —A
bum of twisted wreckage piled high
on th* railroad track and along the
right of way was its ncene that
greeted the dawn today at Hillen-
dahi, 13 miles west of her*, where
two fast Missouri - Kaneas - Texan
railroad passenger trains plowed
into each other at 0:03 p. m. yenter-
day.
At least two persons were killed
and more than 40 injured, three
probably fatally and several others
seriously.
The wreck is thought to have re-
sulted from confusion of orders on
the part of trainmen.
The dead:
ENGINEER ED DEROSSETT,
train No. 13. Smithville.
FIREMAN ED SULLIVAN, train
No 13 Smithville.
ARTHUR SUMMERS, of Houston.
AUSTIN, Jan. p. un—Tw* men
ism blag st murder, must gn in Ohn
eleetrie ehnir, the rance et erimaimei
ap prate deelded hin movuima I
mumtaiming the verdiets ef deuth
ngnimat Kwell Morvtw et Vie taste
county and Blains Dyev *4 Della*
AUSTIN, Jan. 0. (—A wit. who
aeniats her husband In n robbery to
the extent of hiding evidence un-
der a mattress is an accompiice and
the husband’s partnsr In the erime
cannot be convicted on he testi-
mony alone, the court of erimmnal
appeals held today In reversing a
verdict against Luther Ballard nt
Jones county. Ballard was nen- !
tenced to two gears for burglary.
The stats charged Ballard and
Frank Hateshad robbed the stere
of O. w Baker in ylventer. Fisher
county, on August 0, 1921. taking n
quantity of automobile casing*. Mr*.
Bate* testified ahe hid tags torn
from the casings under her mat:
trese. Her busband was kilted
some time after the alleged robbery. 1
Rhe waa the state’* principal wit-
n*«a. The court held her testimony
was not sufticleat toconvtet Hal-
lard, a* aha was an accompllae
MAnIOX. Ill- Jan. • «—fherirt
George Galligan la a formal utnte-
ment this afterncon »barged that
-religieum end racial atred" la*
wptrea the eleunuy drive in Wnam-
day cloudy, prob-
ably rals or enow,
colder, cold wave, temperature will
W. L. GEORGE
- I* th* general title given to n
nerien of *lx stories tories an
remarkable a* th* eccentric,
altogether delightful genlus
who wrote them.
“AFTER
MIDNIGHTS”
- V AUTHOR
was educhted as a chemisr.
Tiring at chomisfrybe.
studied enirineering. Lnter he
became n lawyen it was
too dull, so he took to soldier-
ing. Next we find him hold-
ing down a newspaper job.
berwen editions he began
writing fiction. Presently bi*
first book appeared—"The
Second Blooming." It was n
success. "A Bed of Roses" fol- •
tewed It was a menmatiog
Then "Caliban"—and lb* enE
les proclaimed Georze "one of
the most brilliant writers of
the younger English school."
But It is of his short ntorls
that titeraty expert* apenW
with tM moot uMuailfted ad-
. mairation
After Midnight
MEMPHIS. Tenn..
draw*, six mtjoa houthwest of
Alexandria, lat night, 1,
Five of the dead. ” Urk Pearl
Glade and her wo amall-hil-
dren. and Mra Rota Glad» and
her child, were passengers Jin
the machine. 1 and the si*,.
Rudolph Wolf*, , a memberBor
the party, who had electea. to
walk nerosa the lake, pefished’
While helping Carl Glade/ boa-
band of Mr*. Pearl Glade.,
reneue porl* Glade. Carl's algter.
Decision to bring the Claremore
*' doctor to trial was reached by the
board at a meeting her* yesterday
which were written ballot*.
. Th* other approximately 200,000
vote* were illegal ballot* It was
stated, because they had Mayfield's
name printed in violation of two
court injunctions which. Poddy con-
tends. were In actual fore* nt th*
time at th* eleetion.
Testimony will hegin th* May-
field case about February 11, it wm
indicated by Chairman Spencer *f
the Mayfield uuh-commtete• today
■ bo said by that time he expeetea
that allot th* ballot* wilt he
counted, and in th* meanwhite sub-
poenas will be tasued to witneanes
with a Washington return of that
date.
KANSAS CITY, Jan. 4 (F|—A bul-
let intended for Pete Carrollo, aged
gangster, last night took the life of
O B. McCauley, 28, a pedestrlan.
McCauley, an elevator operator at ।
the Kannas City Athletic Club, teas j
fatally wounded when C. A. Cardell,
a patrolman, emptied hla revolver at
Carrollo In the downtown distriet.
The officer waa a member police
which had'raided a die* game In a
etgar atoro. Carrollo and his broth-
er. Charles, were engaged In the
game and fled when the otticers
raided the place.
Pete Carrollo waa at liberty on,
bonds totalling $99,000 for varloun
oftenses. He later waa captured in
a coal shed neveral blooks from the
ncene of laat night's shooting.
hems 622,034; South Carolina TIL-
MI: rennessee, 221416: Taxa* 4,-
•44,TM: Virginia 46,447: all other
states 26,108, >
Th* revined total coton ginned
this seahn to Doeamber 13 was an-
nounoed M 1,584,171 running dales.
iAk. There were 43.103 zinnefies opet-
Ginning* to 3uiWr 1 this rear ated prior to December 14. ,
glatog,
- * ddhosg i , *
taued •,807,138 runnipu balew, ini
eluding 234,723 rgund balea counted
as half bale* 13,030 bate* of Amer-
iemn-fsptian and TT4 bales or sea
ilandi omparea with 0.57.220 run:
ntn bate* including 166.072 round
tune* 14.414 belen nf. American:
A. * Kevpuan and 5.062. badtes of ,
f' island ginned to Januavy 1. tan:
% enr, the eeneus bureau announeed
FIVE MEMBERS OF
GANG AND OFFICER
KILLED IN BATTL
• I ■. 1 i ■ nr *] .
TULSA, Ohls- Jan. * (-The
Pratrie Ml Compamy todm adv s weed
mid-centtment erad* all petera M
te so rente, devemdtne M the grade.
The mnerennen are 10 swats wrenter
per bnrrel then eheme prated we-
eenti, by th* Texas Compnn7.
■ । ■swan ‘ $ a
BA wru Rg VI LL I. Ohls- Jaa. B. ()
— The Mmpire Petroleum Camp say
prated nnoumeement *f a BB real
raise la' the prlee af *11. etteettye
today, t* meet tb* rate* in prira
queted by the Prairie eompamy.
m UI -yM-AVE IVIM. n-I-5 .
kzemmEgEiee
gled and burned beyond recoxnietom
teen members ot the Pailpotne
eonatbulary. Imetuding tw* et-
fleers, have been billed by re-
uuleun tnnntiem •• Dwehas
tsibna, eft the nertheant eraat
•f Mimdnnne, merordimg t* otti-
rial mdvtee trem Surteue,
Island et Minannao.
. Fla.. Jan. >. on—alohael
W O'Boyl *. 70, wealthy coal opeta-
that both th* klan and th* Knighta
of Columbus participated.
The next day th* road heusen and
other" placea opened again full
| strength In defiance nt authorities.
| Thia precipitated another raid Jan-
uary 4 in which over 50 were ar-
rented and eome men. preyidualy
under custody, retaken. On Monday
of thia weak the raids were resumed
slid 59 men were arrested at Her-
rin under chargea of violating the
liquor laws.
Treubte Inventtunted
Major W P. Greaney. Company K
of Cairo, who- le in charge at hie
company In Marlon?waa aent to In-
vestigate the trouble severat
months ago when Knighta of the
Flaming Circle wars parading In
parta of the county and the klan In
other parts. Major Greaney at that
time reported all quiet in the
county.
‘T'ung. former prohibition offi-
cer who naa assistsd in the raid*
became involved in an argument
with a Marlon merchant. Paut Cor-
der, In which the latter waa atruek
and it waa alleged Young and bin
men drew guna This argument
grew .out of a utatemet mad. by
Young to tbe effeet that a
recent raid on th* home of
State Reprementative Wallace A
Randy wee "framed." Corder pre-
ferred charge* and II was in tbi*
trial that machine gun* war* car-
riad into th* court whleh wna a*
ergwded •• had been th* court at
th* Berrin trials.
Mass meetings said ta have been
secretly announced for today by th*
Knights at th* Plamieg Circle and
tb* K- Klux Klan was belleved ta
have been th* reat eawe for the
eaiiiu of troops by Bherifi Galli,
gn*. This theory although ineking
confirmation was strengthened by
th* departure of Company f. mi-
sole national guard. Salem, ftl.l at
11200 o'clock laat night for Herrin.
Two rampants* remain "I Marion
with heniquarters at the county
• court houne. -
held they I had no jurisdictton in
the cane and that th* apveal, it,
rille, emgimeer at th* morthbeend
train whleh waw in eellimlen with a
wewthbeune near Hillendabi, this
eoumty. died mhortly after I ■'•tech
tram his imjuriea-
Anventtunciena"er• beta* Marled
ladar by the ralirend and by
juntieee at the penee mettmu a*
eeronerm
This marwlag tnventigntera ta*sd
ih* Mr helleved I* be that at Vire-
mnw «M seiliveme #utiivamarendy
had been listed as dead. The •thee
'vtetlm' la Ed Derenette *r suteh-
Ville, engimeer •■ the wonth-bound
train. _____________
at which it was announced steps
already irve been taken to curb the
practices of "diploma mill grade-
■tea" and other medical taker* who
ar* said to have viettmized nun-
dreds of pernons in th* atat*. Ex-
hauativa inquirles era being mad*
with a view toward prosecutions, it
was said.
six doctor* at present ar* oper-
ating in Oklahoma under traudulent
diploma* the board charced, while
mor* than a mcoreshkthers employ
machtpes in thetMTgat practice
which they peprement ga net only
being capable of diagnosing any an-
mentiby a alpgle drop o trom
th* patlant, nt whin alno wHleur*
nil diseanea known to medical
nlenee ecimmhgeramra
that when "women were struck
down, ehiidrer hold up with guns.
property destroyed Md money
stolen" It wna time to take draatlc
measures to eontrol the blltern.ee
engendered during the repeated
raid* He did not reoaut the vielt
of federal hdentw, he said, but wel-
comed them tn the eounty If their
prenence would prevent bloodshed
and further trouble in the future,
"ack of the immediate event*
1 WICHITA FALIS, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 9, 1924
Ma apartment a
l la body will ba
* PEORIA. III.. Jan. »,(—
4 The Hat of the known dead in •
4 tb* Pekin starch plant disas- 4
4 ter mounted to it last night 4
4 when two vlctlma died in a 4
4 Peki honpi(al and another 4
4 body waa removed from th* 4
4 rain* Th* body at - orte 4
4 Lohnes wae taken from tka +
4 wreekaze and Tony Karen 4
4 and Homer Bullock died at the 4
4 hospital. It la expected mor 4
4 bodice will be recovered to- •
4 day. 3 Ti t *
$,,0,0644662
-- TWO CONVICTED OF
last night renehed teur this after-
nornwest portion with tempera-
tures 20 to 14 byVhurmday night:
moderate t* fresh moutherly to
wenteriy winds on the const.
Louimiann: Tonight increasing
otoudinesn, rain in west portion,
warmer: Thursday cercamtonal rain,
colder in n-rihwest port ion t warm-
ter IB woutheast portion.
1 • “r gr-".
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SAN ANTONIO, Teun* Jan. t. Un
Five young men, said to be mem-
bers of wealthy Austin famine*
war* taken Into custody here today
and nrs being held at the police sta-
tion for investigation. A luxurious
closed automobile ia which the man
were riding also is parked st th.
police ntation. Officers claim they
removed a bottle of genutne Bestch
liquor from the car.
bora but waited until he hnd
nil in camp.
Small, meeording te Jaka L Watte-
■Me. lendinu memter at (bs Ka
Klux Klan ta wiiammon ecust»
sheritt Cahigam yesterdny reqwewted
ECEIVES THE FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF ASSOCIATED PREM DAILY AND SATURDAY NIGHT
Wichita Mnilp Times
WASHINGTON. Jan. •.0—
Abellahment at 31 tand otfieen
sad eonnontdattow at the otfieen
at register mud receiver ta 14
MARION. III., Jan. 4. on- 8.
Glenn Young, former prohibition
entorcement officer, recently depu-
tised for work In the raids wbleb
have scoured Williamson county for
the net few weeks tn search of
boot lezgers and other law breakers,
waa acquitted of a charge of as-
nult yesterday in a court room
where machine guns wete mounted
for "seit protection."
A chart while after the trial
three hompanles of the llllnola na-
tional guard arrived In the city fol-
lowing a rail aent to Adujtant Gen-
eral Black by Sherire Georgs Gal-
ligan from a sick bed. The troops
were quartered In the court house
with ordera to be In readiness for
any emergency.
The open display of machine guno
in 'bs court room wna but one of
meverai reanona for the calling of
troop* according to Sherwt Galli-
gan Ha enta that he had called
for troope because he felt they were
needed tomdhe proteetion at life
and property and would prevent any
riot and killings as those occurring
at the l'm* of th* Herrin riots.
Galligan regretted the necenalty
for such measures, but said he tel’
tetuw nertem
Quotation On L^a! Market to $1.50
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