Sherman Daily Democrat (Sherman, Tex.), Vol. THIRTY-EITHTH YEAR, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 29, 1919 Page: 1 of 8
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WEATHER FORECAST.
Tonight and Friday generally
fair.
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MEMBER OF. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
THE DEMOCRAT hu bmi pvb-
lished continuously longer than
any other newspaper in Graywn
Co—Established, Daily 1881, Week-
ly 1879, by G. 0. and E. C. Hunter.
THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR.
SHERMAN, TEXAS, MAY 29, 1919—THURSDAY EVENING.
Subscription Price, 60 Cents Per Month.
NEWS ON THE ELECTRICAL STRIKE
AS GLEANED FROM DIRER PAPERS
SHERMAN CENTRAL LABOR UNION STANDING FIRM-DALLAS
SEEMS TO BE HAVING RATHER A HOT TIME—REPORT
FROM DENISON NEWSPAPERS.
SHERMAN (ENTHAL
LABOR I N ION. t
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(Contributed.)
Sherman Central I-abor i’nioii I
and tliu taking out of meters in Dal-
j las and various parts of .North Texas.
GEO. W. TRUETT AT
AUSTIN COLLEGE
/ NEXT SUNDAY
l»r. George \V. Truett of Dallas
will deliver the memorial address at
the exercises which will Ik* held in
Sherman llall next Sunday evening
in lUtmor of the ten Austin College
students who paid the supreme sacri
flee in the recent war. The exereises
will Ik* a part of the eomineneement
program, following the haeealaureate
sermon, which will lie held in Sher-
man Hall Sunday morning at 11
o’clock. Dr. Mefleachey delivering tin*
Intern In n rea t e sermon.
Definite. plaits for a permanent me-
morial in honor of the Austin College
men who died In service are now un-
der wav. The memorial will he in
the form of a combined water, clock
and I tell tower, erected lit the eenfec
'of the campus’. At a cost of $25,066.
THINGS THAT NEVElf HAPPEN
Copyright,
Situation at Dallas.
Dallas Evening Journal, May -8. J
I'nless Hie Texas-.lTi.xvui* and Might
Company agrees within twenty-four
| met In regular session last night | * hours to submit to lubltruttou in the)
i and transacted tjuite a lot of ! dispute With the electric linemen, Who
| routine business. Nearly all dele- I lmv'e’becii on strike for several Week*
| gates were present and Hie elec- i all of tin’* budding (.races unions in
| triclan strike was diseussyd to | North Texas will immediately go on (|„. money to lie provided bv the gift
j some length. I strike. " . j of Liberty bonds on' the part of for-
) This resulted in their deterniina- I i inis was tins ultimatum issued at ( mm* students of the college. The strop-
| lion to remain firm and support j 11 o'clock Wednesday morning byltni'p will not-only pay a fitting trih-
I their resolutions previeusly adopt- I Frank Hwor. chairman of the exeeu- ute to tin,* dead.-hut will fill an cx-
I |„ (lie limit, 1 live hoard of the Electrical Workers'
| The coiinejl was addressed tiy Union, following u long conference
1 lion. Ilanip I’. Almey. city alter- ! with representatives gathered
* ' from building trades unions all
this soetlou of the State.
I He estimated that nearly 2.1.000j sjm, ,,f
men would la* affected by such a1
strike and that all building opera j
tioiis would he tied up until Ao1
■ settlement, lie listed the following;
|! unions as affected:
|| Electric linemen, Inside mid outside:;
j building .laborers,-sheet metal work-j
I ers, hodearriers, bricklayers, plas-j
teivrs, lathers, painters, plumbers.
here
ik’.v. Who aired tile legality of the I
j Texas Tower & Eight 'Company's i
! franchise In Sherman and a vote I
i of thanks was extended Mr. Ab-
I ney. by the oantdl for Ids very f
'Welcome address.
1 Miss Wright, who Is one of tin*
I vice presidents of tin* State Fed-
j erathni. also addresaed the body,
j, Miss, Wright represents the Gar-
! uienf Workers local of Sherman.
I The council expressed Itself as
I being more than pleased with tin*
tremcl.v useful purpose to coming
generations. It will he erected as a
part of the “Greater Austin College"
over plans, which have been drawn up by
! architects to provide for tin* expan-
sion of tin* present college eipilpment
of buildings.
MEMORIAL DAY
TO BE OBSERVED
CAKE of FOR
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youee MtsTAyer*
ft A 0AMfc -THE CA*e
IS HST * F«e5H . IT
HAS ©E6M UMtH^
Otw THE CASt FOR
THGEE OASS AHO tT
YtAS ALSO tS THC
wt IM0OV4 FOR A*
vdeeK etfoRe that
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ALLIES HAVE
HONS COUNTER RANGED BY MOD
MAKE STRONG OBJECTIONS. TO
T1IK TE.VCK TERMS OFTER-
El) THEM. ...'
DISPLEASED WITH LI F SEN-
TENCE, NEIGHBORS O** Ml R-
DEKED SHERIFF AIT. '
WON’T GIVE UP KAISER NO ARRESTS WERE MADE
lluns Newspapers Profess Displeasure
at Counter Proposals, and I ut
I p Piteous Wail—Peace Confer-
rnre Now (onsulering New
Turn of Affairs.
"31 Auortatcd Press Dispatch]
COUNTER I’ROPOSAIjS
ARE DELIVERED.
l Associated Pros* Dispatch]
Paris. May git—The
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Paris. May iffi-Thc counter |
proposals formulated by the bvi:
man delegation at Versailles, have
been delivered to the Flinch au-
thorities. Til'* proposals probably
will go before tin* council of four
of the |M*aCT* coiifereurc ut thU i
morning's session.
The counter proposals were de-
livered to the allies this afternoon.
steam fitters, carpenters, iron workers, AttoHa,cn ;>r„, Dispatch]
aethm taken by the Retail Clerks' | roofers', tile setters, cement finishers
PnliMi In stating that the iirgani- | ^und hoisting engineers,
Washington, May 28,—In a cabled
I nation was fiiiiv"prcpared to *fuinl if He added that in ease of a general! Memorial Day message to tin* Ameri-
1 bv the is'iitral' IkhIv win | walkout, it would uffeet also all mil- can people.- President' Wilson today
I called n, win and that they stolid-! way shopmen employed in shops iu !«*rfthal Memorial Day wears
I 100 per cent in the matter.
SATURDAY’S ELECTION RETURNS
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Situation at Denison.
power or products of the Texas Fow-j.tht* year an added significance, and 1
or and Light Cdiiipuny of the Dallas wish If only.bx JhisLuiessage to take-
Power and Light Company were used. I»trt with von in its observance and ex-
Tliere are now approximately tWO-j pressing tin* sent burnt which it iiiev-
inslde and outside electrical linemen jithbiy suggests,
strike in North Texas, Mr. Swor
Oil strike 111 .MirtU i exits, .nr. rawur ! k ~ . .
said, including nil of the cities and In ,Sherman Memorial Day will In*
towns in North Texas served by the "'"wned tomorrow, in which tin* Bine.
the Gray and the Khaki will take part.
'its 'P % .....I lx.. t_* I... I
’Dr. T. A- Wharton and Dr. Sliol-
Denison Morning Gaxetto. May 28. i
Win!t was generally supposed to
have Iw*cn a rneetliig of three com- jTexas ]>oXVer and Light (‘utnptthy or
mittees. one from the retail mer- fts subsidiaries. . , ,
ehnnts. one from I hr labor trades p,. ,,,, lvl«rt» of vie '*'!!'!"* "l'i addresses at 1 eat
mumdl and one from the shop crafts. , 110„m«ioi. men and nthers. Mr.I”111 wmrtery «t ) a. suffer which
with iH.wer to take some action look- Swm. ,i|Mt jf imv (1IK. Imi) ma n I11"' «rnva» of soldiers will be dccor-
henten u|i lie and other union officials*
of it and orders had |
Following is the total vote for Cray son County on tin* four aiueudmenta to
tin* State Constitution voted on Saturday, May 21, 11)11), with tin* exception of
Warner, wliich box had not i-onic in:
PRECINCT.
knew nothing "of It‘and'"ilXr?fK’Slrt 'Allull,,,:,H -re earnestly requesteil
, , 1, , , ,, „ , i:... r »i.„ to hr ig flowers, ami all are invited
been issued to alt nn ndters of the I
ehvti ienL imUais ,,viy\t,*n<e.J
tobi-eak UO la vs nmrto desfroy no’
iug to Hie clearing up of tin* some
( wlmt muddled eondilion of affairs in
Denison, brought on by tin* strike
7igains the Texas Power & Light Cotn-
TWIT, Hurt Hi ‘ntP-Tisuns of rtm retail *
uiercliants last night, turned out !°, pnt)x.rty.
lie merely a delmthig sW*b*ty. 'I^iisj •.n„t,‘" he added, "the officials of
fact finally he(*ame dear after more
tliau an hour and a lialf
sloif
After tlie delegates
F. A. White of tin* machinist* was j yjr, Swor made (Ids statement:
chosen eliairman and tin* discussion j •• A week ago the linilding Trades
opened. Tony Hill Jones stated tin* Council ordered all member* of affili-
position of the merchant* am! pleaded aied brganlzations to refuse to work
for some sort of an expression from ,m „nv job with iioiiiMiion electrieians.
tin* trades council in regard to tin* Three nonunion men''were put to work
use of tin* juice of1 the T, I’. A I.. He Tuesday, imt on one Job. The one
was followed hv Ilormaii Kaellei. who union umn employed there ijuit. and
reviewed tin* history of tin* strike the other non-union men employed I not
from till* lK*gfnniiig‘ and tohtwhat laid there also unit ujkiu learning (here
Ih'oii done by organized laher in other was a strike aud came to our offices
cities In tht* flglil against the light and applied for membership in the
company. .Several other* expressed* In- union.'1
dividual views'*ill regard to this or Mr, Swor said represtisitiHtires of
that phase of the trouble. After tic all of till* unions lie had listed as nf-
meeting tmd proceeded along tliese j feeted by tin* strike attended the eon*
lines for almost two hours, it began tojfereuee at the Labor Temple Weilnes
aud urgi*d ti> In* on
.oaewoseti.
tin ml ami take
St. Vincent’s Sanitarium.
Mrs. Herbert l>. Alarsii of Okln
i the union M ill not assume any respon-
1 alhlllty for damage or injury ....... honlH (;llx was n|K*raled on here ves-
others than members of the electrical .terday.
lind asseuihled unions." Miss lirace Mock. Troup. ‘ Texas.
was operated on here yesterday.
Mrs. Elizabeth Kolm of I/'high,
Okla., was ora*rated on yesterday.
Joe Itisliop of Sasakwa, Okla.,
was opera toil on yesterday.
Miss I lie*/, Boyd of Madiil, Okla.,
was ofierated on yesterday.
the cireuui-
dawn on at least a portion of thus*?
liresent. that there was nothing to lie
aeeompllslied by this .mode of )iroe<*d-
vive.—It finally .beenme plain that the
merchants Commit tee and a eoininrit-
t<a* from the blacksmith* was (lie only
portion of t.iie gathering that had liow-
er to a of: tha* those present from
ttie trftlies eoilneH eotild not commit
that body In -any matter "liatsoover.#
It was understood afti*r tlio meetin:
iH't'iitght tlmt a meeting nit! be held
Thursday night, at which' will he
day morning. They were still in con-
ference at the time he gave the state-
ment.
He gave tin* following history ot
tin* strike: "on March “. eleven line-
men employed by the Texas Power a ml
Light Company at Rurklnirnctt. then
being paid 55c an hour for a iiiiie-
liotlr day. asked for Sj%e an hour for
an eight-hour day. 7’liey were ininie-
diatety disetiarged by telegraph from
the Dallas office.
"At tin* same time the Dallas llnc-
(m*event authorized eoiumittees, from j men "ere negotiating witll tile Dallas
•the trades council. from different, I’ower and IJglit Company for in
simp crafts not iiffliiated with tlie|emisi*d pay and shorter hours. They
trades eimnell. and from tin* retail! "''O' <<'!'! Unit tin* officers of the
merchants, and that (tils meeting will ] company would not dismiss the matter
decide tin* entire mattev of Tin* ipies- "ith them, lint would discuss any otli-
tie-n of falsing restrl tion on the light jcr grievances with the men imlividu-
iu Denison peymsuetitly. <0* of tliejnll). thi March 11 they walked out
clamping
tighter.
down of tin* lid all the
and tlie strike since lias spread to all
of tlie towns where I tie Texas I’ower
and Light Company operates,'*.
At Dallas. Tolu Beil. Deputy State Ijibor
Commissioner, who arrived In Dallas
Dallas, Texas. M |y 28,—Trouble in j Tuesday afternoon to investigate tins
labor circles in regard to ttie electri- | strike situation, asked that this state-
emus' strike situation eomin'meed 1 ment l«* published; “Despite the fact J Tuesday evening when attacked by
Monday afternoon when Ben .1. Flood, j that the Wav Labor Board of the Fed-! seven moil ns they were working on
legislative rcptesnimittre fw tlie^eral liovermneiu has JSaiguijed col-1 the wiring in a partly eonstrueted; _ _ ,
TlmiherhiKid of Railway Trainmen, leetive luirguining in settlement’'oftlioilSf mvTtmr trr ---Rjf Huwt''«wi. IJve tp^—Veulli°P' ......* *
beaten hyjlaiior disputes, and the eight-hour Oak, neifr Collett. SuHier is a 16-year- 1,a-v----- V " " "1LH
svm.pai.liy1 workday- Hie Texas i’invi*r and f.ight 'aid hoy.' - ——1-- " 'J
A cording to tin* eoupte who were at-
la* igrimto.ii under
stnnees. ».
A call to Monger l’laee was made
late Tuesday afternoon, where threats
are also supitnsed to.,have been made
Against nonunion electricians, working
on a new house owned by .lames
Remold*.
“We have nothirtg..t« arbitrate." was
tlie only stnteiiK’iit J, F. Strickland,
president of the Texas Power and
Light Company, would make with re-
gard to the strike.
Another Dallas Report.
Dallas Times-Heruld. May '28.
Nonunion electricians are being in-
timidated and beaten, presumably by
striking electrical workers or their
sympathizers, and property damage
is being, done, according to reports
made to the pul fee Tuesday night and
Wednesday morning. *Tlu* situation
Ms arisen owing to tlie protracted
strike of tin* linemen and the inside
electricians, tin* police state,
Following an attack ‘ on Ben J
Flotxl. a union man. who repiysents
tlie Brotlierhood of Railway Train-
men, which took' place Monday eye-
ing after lu* had urged tltyt_ 110 gener-
al 'strike l>e called.-otlier incidents of
the same nature have been brought to
the attention of city officials.
Two employes of tlie Hmieoek Elec-'
trie Company. John Skalski and Roy
Surlier, his helper, were lindly lieaten
Hlierman, 1st Ward s-i.......
2ni, Ward. . ......
Sherman, til'd Ward ......
Sherman, 4th Ward ........
Sherman, North 5tli Ward...
lan ing...................
Batsell s Park ...............
Black Bridge .. .. ........f.,
Fair view .. .........
N. E. Denison ..............
X. \V. Denison....... ......
S W. Denison .. ..........
S. E. Denison .. .......... t
Cushion...... ..............
Preston ,. ..................
Poltshoro ...... ............
Loi'Ust....................
Cedar Mill*.................
(iordonvilli* .. ........ ..
Rock Creek ., . . ............
Delaware... ..............
Sandusky .. . * .. ,......... •
Basin Springs...... ..
Sadler .. .................
N. Whitesboro .. . . .......
S. Whitesboro..............
Sontliinayde ...............
Collinsvilh*..............
Ethel.....................
Tioga .... .. .......... .....
GuUter....................
Farmington .. ..............
Klniont...................
Vail Alstyni!..............
Howe....................
Jamison .. ... .. .. ..........
Pilot tirovo .. .............
Whilewright..............
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Tom Ti*au .. r.....
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Cherry Mound .. ...........
Shiloh...... • • • • ..........
Dripping Springs .. .. ...*..
DesVoignes .. ............
Hyde Park ., .. ...........
Ellsworth................
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Cotton Mills .............
Warren .. ■ • .............
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Dorchester...............
Hagerman ...........»•
Red Braneli .... ..
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was attacked and Imdly
1 hroc* or four men out of
wTiTi nrgnmeuts Wldeii he had pre- Cominttiy hits steadfastly refused these
setited opposing tin* calling of a gener-1 rights to tip* linemen. On May 24
at strike. Tiu* difficulty is said, to press dispatches from Washington
have occurred at iathpr Temple Mon- stated tliat the War l.a I air Board had
day afternoon. ' placed the blame for this strike on
While none of tin* ncoplo involved in tin* company.”
Hie matter would talk and Mr. Flood- Ivan Ferguson, nonunion electrician,
could not la* reached Tuesday, it i* employed by tin* Blnkcncy Electrical
understood that Flood nft*«ei»tt*d a Comimny in wiring a liouse at 2107
resolution to a meeting of lalior union South llurwood street. was told
roeresontatlvos lirginr that no general ( Wednesday morning that his life
strike Ik* called fir Dallas in symm-, would la* in danger if lie continued
thv with*Ahc striking linemen. Tlie working on tlie job.
reselutiotf, was adopted. | “1 came out to the automobile to
Tuead-jy imfrnlug several memlwM**^ get a tape line.” lie said. “There were
of Mie It rot herb rood of Railway Train- about n dozen men gathered around
men. who Flood ha* represented for it and one of them told me I was
‘'"^iWC'Tleft their work and started risking my life by working for the
hunting fo>* the men who had beaten. company. I 11111 a nonunion electrician,
up their fellow-member I Ferguson did not know any of the
Flood, who was chairman of the j men. nor could Henry Blakeney, id*
former central ialior council eoniuilt- j employer, positively identify any of
tee, has otnMised a general strike, rt, ■ j the group. They did not enter tlie
'%rl”g. Get it would harm union la- house, hut remained outside on tin*
iior in Dallas. I street until just before the arrival of
A general strike still continues to the police.
1 of tlie |
strikin'? linemen, who are anxious) carry a pistol, declaring he ^believed
for definite action on tin* part of. tlie union men are seriously deterniin-
orgimlaed htlmr beyond the ft-led to attack nonunion workers, lie
naneinl support offered tlie 'striker*| wiis told r.,nt
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|v» ndvoe-ted by .ymp'itliizers of tliej Mr, Blakeney asked permission to
tacked,, the. men entered tlie lmilding
where they Were at work and' after
aimsing them knocked them dnvjn nnd
kicked them and heat them.
“Construction work in this town has
got to. stop." they were told by one
of their assailants.
The Hancock Electric Company lias
operaLeii with nonunion ^employes for
tin* t»i<t eighteen montlis. Their etn-
ploH's have not been molested before.
NotniBlmi electricians working for
other electrical eoncerns were report-
ed to have been driven from their
work by threats during tin* day.
At tlie house of James Reynolds, a
new structure in Monger Place, elec-
trical work recently installed by non-
union men was torn down (hiring the
night,
A general walkout of building
crafts seems likely during tlie next
twenty-four hours. Should a sympa-
thetic strike in* called 2.7 00'! uien tn
North Texas will leave their jobs.
Tuesday morning a general meeting
of workers and representatives from
Building Trades Council in North
Terns will wait on flic city board of
arhitrniton.
HARVESTER BUYS
ANOTHER CO.
WOULD LET THE
MEXICANS PASS
Associated Press Dispatch]
_ 111 I’a so. Tex.. May 2b.-Statc Sena-
tor M. Dudley and I!. K. Thompson,
speaker Of tlio Texas House of Repre-
Associatcd Press Dtsfatch] sciilatives, last night wired Gov. Holihy
protesting against modification of the
Chicago. May 2!)—The International; (;0Ternoi.*s announced intention of
Ilaryesfer Caa'piinv lias heuglit tli** j |trt»vt.n( j|,j» (d,* movement of Mexican
Chattanooga Plow Company of ' lint- fJq-ough Texas. In liis tt*fe-
tanooga. Tennessee. This siipplcments! vviiieli was in response to Mil's-
il’i* ivc<*nt .acquisition of tlio HtcH'lt
plow plant and imsiness iif the Par-
tin and .Oremlorff Company of Canton.
Illinois. The transfer will la* made
on ,June 1. The Chattanooga Plow
Company trade lias been .principally
south of the Ohio river and in south-
eastern Missouri. Arkanaps. Oklahoma
and part* of Te\a*. Tlie Harvester
Company announces it. will continue
tlie line of horse anil power carte
mills established by the Chattanooga,
company.
Texts of Counter Proposals.
Associated Press ZRa|iatv/i}
] Kill don. May 20 - The German
counter proposals to thi* allied peace
terms have been published in Berlin,
an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from
Copenhagen says.
The reply asserts tlie willingness of
Germany to reduce her armaments to
a greater extent than demanded by
tin* allies. ' , - .
Germany, tin* reply says, refuses to
accept ttie punishment terms fixed by
the poaoe treaty, awl it is decltu*e<|
tlmt (lie allies cannot'*both accuse aud
s(‘ntencc (Icnnnns guilty of responsi-
bility for punishable acts*
Issoaated Pies* Dispatch]
Berlin, nMy JD-tiernuiuy's eounter
projKwals to tlie terms of the peace
treaty presented t4» her plenViKitentiaries
ut Versailles include the following
point's, aerinUng to an -unortigiai sum-
mary availuhle today:
Germany offers to disarm all he)
battleship*, on enuditon that a part of
her me rea nt lie fleet lie restored to
her.
Slu* proposes that tliere be no ter-
ritorial changes without consultation
of tin* populations affected.
Ttie cession of Upper Silesia and
tin* claims to East Prussia. West
Prussia and Meiuel are emphatically
rejected.
It is stipulated that imnz.tg shall he-
eonie a free port and tlie River \ ia-
mbi neutralized.
Occupied territory is to be evaeuat-
(>(] within six months. x
If tin* League of Nations is estah
lished witli (iernmny as a member,
Germany shall continue to adminis-
ter her col711 ie* in accordance with
the principles of (lie league as its
mandatory.
Germany offer* to pay 2().tMMMH)0.
<8X1 marks in gold by tlie year 1926
indemnity and to make annual
Oil lit) payments from 1927 onward to a to-
tal not in excess of 100,000.000,000
marks in gold.
It was expected today that the
counter-proposals would he otlieially
made known immediately.
Tlie''German counter proposals, in
tho opening section argue for the ex-
istence of Germany’s contractual right
to a peace based Oil I Resident -Wil-
sons' fourteen points, heeause the en-
tente nations agreed to a peace on
that basis, and neither Mr. Wilson nor
the representatives of any other al-
lied government have since demanded
Unit tH'.ace lie established 011 any oth-
er basis. - .
Tlie second section will deal with
tin* contradiction between the- draft
of tlie treaty and previous assurances
fiamt entente statesmen and tlie gen-
eral Ideals of international right.
Tin* onuntor-proposals will declare
that tlie terms of peace completely
ignore the fact that. Germany lias re-
placed an “impcriallstie and irrespon-
sible Government** by a strictly dem-
ocratic* one, and tliat Germany has ad-
herd to tlie itrincipli* of a limitation
of armaments..
. '‘-'tt mndd- )*.* Ui f l'ic U.Lt 111*1X1." OU.1’
section reads, "wbiif dif’leveut—caiilllic
tions could have lH*en imposed oil an
inuierialistie government. The solemn
assurances of France, <1 rent Britain
and President Wilson that the ]w>acc
would lie a peace of right anil not of
violence have not been kept, especial-
ly regarding territorial (piestioiis.'’
A-
.Jay Lynch, In Attempting to Rae.ipe
Jail. Killed Sheriff John Harlow
and Hia Son—Kilter ia Hanged
on Tree Planted by the Sheriff
Ten Nears Ago.
10mar, Mo., May 25)—Whether tliero
nil: he an effort to Identity ait 1
bring to prosecution members of the
mob which yesterday hanged Jay
Lynch, confessed slayer of Sheriff
John Harlow and Harlow's son here
on March 3, last, was a matter of
much speculation today.
D>eal authorities early today said
no warrants had been issued. The
coroner's Jury late last night returned
a verdict that Lynch came to ids
death "at the bauds of parties un-
known.”
Tin* court house yard where Lynch
was hanged shortly after he hail
pleaded guilty to the double murder
and received a sentence of lifer, im-
prisonment was visited by'scores of
persons, many of whom recalled that
tlu* elm tree upon which lie Was hang-
ed was planted ten years ago by
Sheriff Baton.
The cliamlier of Judge B. G. Thur-
man to which Lynch had been taken
for safe keeping while the authorities
prepared to hurry him to Nevada,
Mo., and from which lie was dragged
by flu* mob, also attracted tin* curious.
It became known today that while
Lynch was pleading witli the molt hi
tlie court house to spare his life that
he declared tlie shooting of tlie sher-
iffs son was up accident. Both tho
sheriff and his siuV were shot by
Lynch when lie escaped from tlie coun-
ty jail, where lie was being held fur
tin* St. lmuis authorities.
It alsb was learned by the authori-
ties v that the first attempt to hang
Lynch failed. Stunned by lielng
struck witli a stone by some one in
the crowd, which had Urst seue(Lhiw,
tin* unconscious man was placed un-
der the tree mid Hie rope tossed over
a branch, The brunch, however, was
too frail and tlie laxly pitched down-
ward. Amid tlie shouts of fjie crowd,
wliich included many women and chil-
dren, a stronger branch Was selected,
flic mpe drawn over it, aud the body
hoisted, into miyl-nir.
pressing as tin* entente terms.”
In tin* section treating on territorial
(mentions tlie German counter propos-
al* to the terms presented by tlie at*
lies say. a cording to a synopsis reaeh-
ing Paris by the way of Basle, that
"tho territory of the Saar, inhabited
by six hundred thousand persons is
to la* detached from tlie German em-
pire solely because, of claims upon its
coal.”
_________
Italian Matters.
Associated Press Dispatch]
Paris, May 29—It was stated in
high circles this morning tliat a set-
tlement of the Adriatic, (jestion now is
a certainty as a result of the negotia-
tions of yesterday and last evening.
Under tliis settlement Fiuiue becomes
an independent city.
The Italians will receive certain of
tlu* Dalmatian Islands, but it is un-
derstood tlmt they will not get Zaru
or Sebenico,
I
An Amsterdam
Associated Press Dispatch]
Story.
Berlin. May 29—The semi-official
Wolff Bureau is circulating a story
tinder an Amsterdam date which as-
serts the United States is "becom-
ing increasingly dissatisfied with de-
velopments at \ ersuitles,” and that
there.is an "unmistakable strengthen-
ing ttu* inclination for an understand-
ing with Germany ebrotigli a modifi-
cation of (lie peace terms.” -
A coiTesppondout of a German
newspaper at VersaRtes claims the
Poles are “especially favored by tho
entente because they proposed to lake
over Russia's debt to France, which
totals 20.000.000,066 francs."
sage from • acting Seercknry of State
l’oik forwarded by Gov. Hobby to
to speaker Thomason. Senator Dudley
declared he "would not lie 11 party to
rcjM'titUui of the Santa Ysubel af-
fair" Mint said tlmt “ to tiie State-De-
partment...the protection of Americans
is seemingly of no import a we."
The island holding the Eddystone
light house is tlie smallest bit of all
tiie year-around inhabited laud iu tlie
world*
Hun Papers Not Pleased.
Associated Press Dispatch]
Berlin, Wednesday. May 28— The
conservative press of Berlin condemns
the counter-proposals to the peace
terms submiteii by’ Gerontjuy. esticc-
.tally the financial and military £,ai-
cessions which are granted.
Tin* PaipGemtyit Gazette brands
tin* reply as "suicide" and tiie Post
say*:
"The German pimple are doomed to
shivery between the masters until a
new Geramny arrives to break the
chains." The Krenz Zeltung is skepti-
cal of tiie success of the counter t»ro-
posals. despite what it. calls “Count
von Broekdorff-Uantzaus sulnuissive-
riess," ami the Taeglisohe Ruudsciiaii
says:
“The German reply Is fully as do-
-------Htrjhe Grows.
tacmfit.ii Press Dispatch]-----------r22/-.,..-
Galgary. Alta.. May 29—It was an-
nomieed today tliat the Brotherhood
of Bail way Worker*, including freight,
handlers, clerks and baggagemen had
voted to join til** general strike. Elec-
trical workers, telephone operators
a>"! commercial telegraphers voted
against a walkout.
jL-
Wildcat IMriaion Coming Home.
Jss.iciatf'd Press. Dispatch]
ltivst. May 254 Ail tlie troops of
the eighty-first <‘Wildcat” 1 division,
now are homeward Iwiund. The last
contingent* sailed this morning on
the steamers von Steuben and Flnis-
tere. Major General C. J. Bailey,
commander of the division, ia ou
hoard tlu* former vessel.
t
Americana Get Crosses.
Associated Press Dispatch]
Washington. May 25L-DI»tinguished
services crosses have been awarded by
General Pershing to the following:
Sergeants David L. Buford, Frank-
ston. Texas.
William H. Cochran (decaeaed)’
GulfiHirt. Mis*.
Private Frank Bell, Visa. OkJ#. )
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