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fl FOST LEAVEN WO VOL XIV. NO-21 5. LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 30, 1920. TEN PAGES Rrrp TO" THE WEATHER FORECAST MODERN filMD "PUSSYFOOT" JOHNSO.V 0" HIS RETVRV TO Ori'OSE BEER AXU WIVE MOVE. mm UNKNOWN GIVES MILLIONS Anonymous Gigt Giver of Three Million Dollars to Inter-Church Movement Announced.

Vsual Drop in Temperature Follows Heavy Sltower Thursday Evening. RADICALS PLOTTED MAY DAY MURDERS Kansas: Partly cloudy and un PRICE FIVE CENTS ALEXANDER HHT Miners' President and Other Officials In Contempt If Strike Is Called. New York. April 30. An anonv- SOLDIER RELIEF BILL! i settled tonight and Saturday.

Colder! in extreme east and warmer in west; mou3 gift of three million dollars to' the united financial campaign of thej inter-church world movement was! anTinilnOO Of 1 TELLS MURDER TALE James R- Huirt Can't Remember "What Happened" to Many of His Victims. More Than Score of Federal! portion tonight. Five Optional Plans for Payment of Compensation Are Provided. here today with the statement that ninety million dollars of the one hundred million sought had been and State Officials Marked for Death. The usual drop in temperature! followed the heavy rain which fell late Thursday afternoon.

From a I pieugea. ine campaign does not close until next week and more than one hundred thousand churches in various states are yet to be heard from. DESIRE TO KILL WOMEN temperature of 72 late Thursday the mercury dropped to a minimum of 4 8 last night. At 1 o'clock this afternoon the reading was 53. A chilly wind was blowing from the north.

SECRET AGENTS ARE BUSY UP 'MONDAY FOR PASSAGE I 5 ja TEMPORARY UNTIL' MAY 12 i Washington, April SO. The Monica hotel in an automobile equipped with a camp outfit. dier relief bill was completed today KANSAS EDITORS WILL TALK SHOP At their first camp, he was quoted by a majority of the Republican as saying, they quarreled about a Lo.s Angeles, April 3 0. At leat two of the numerous women James R. Huirt is alleged to have married in various parts of the country were murdered by him, two others "accidental" deaths while with him, and he "might have murdered more," according to an alleged confession made public early members of the house ways and means committee, and will be considered tonight at a conference of Washington, April 2 0.

Warning that they had been selected by radix cal elements for assault or assassination as part of a May day demon-startion has been received from the department of justice agents today by more than a score of federal and state officials. Announcement of the discovery of a plot by government asrents was announced last. Extensive Program Planned for 2Sth letter he had received from another woman. The officer said he killed her with a hammer and carried her body to a place near San Diego where he hid it. The officer said Huirt told them Anuunl Convention at lit iicbiuNon.

Hutchinson, April 30. Two uas oi snop talk, banquets, automo- M.e trips and general good times are night by Attorney General Palmer, i-. I included on the program for the twen- Pittsburg, April CO. Following the announcements of his decision late yesterday that the new court of industrial relations law is constitutional, Judge Curran this morniHg granted a temporary injunction enjoining Alexander Howat and other district and local union, officials of the Kansas district of the United Mine Workers from calling a strike. Judge Curran did not make the injunction mandatory as the state had asked, stating that it had been shown that the Kansas mines now largely are at work.

Judge Curran said he would make the injunction mandatory if a showing were made in th future during the life of the injunction that the mines were idle. The temporary injunction will be in effect until May 12 when the application of the state to make the injunction permanent is eet for ine assassinations and assaults tj -eighth annual convention of th house Republicans. Present plans are to bring it up Monday for passage. Five optional plans' for payment of the adjusted compensation are provided as follows: Adjusted service pay of $1.25 for each day's service in excess of eixty days between April 5, 1917, and January 1, 1920. Extension of vocational training at $1.75 for each day's attendance on a course of instruction declared suit were to have been part of the May Kansas State Editorial Association day program planned by the com-iwhich wiu be heM lere Ma" 7 and s- he did not know his right name, but he admitted to have used many aliases.

He said he knew nothing of his parents, but that he was born somewhere in the South. He said he had little education. Insane Desire to Kill. "A desire to kill," came over him, according to the alleged confession, about four years ago during the war." He said he married first in Cana-I uuesis oi nonor ironi outside or trie Today by his attorney and county officers. Huirt he "could not remember hat happened" to some of the women because he still in a weakened condition from two attempts to commit suicide, the reputed confession laid.

Huirt has been held here several days. Jail officials have been investigating reports of his numerous marriages. Women His Special Victims. England will be dry in ten years, said William E. (Pussyfoot) Johnson, leader of the American Anti-Saloon League's campaign in Britain when he returned to this country recently to help offset the move to bring bark beer and light wines.

He expressed himseif as highly satisfied with the munist labor party and other radical groups, Mr. Palmer eaid, adding that the contemplated violence was to be incident to attempts to bring state who will appear on program of Friday afternoon, April 7, will be H. C. Hotaling, St. Paul, secretary of the National Editorial Association, who will discuss the national association and its field; It.

S. Kellogg of New York, secretary of the News Print Service bureau of the national association, whose subject will be the familiar but problematic one of "News Print," and Jason Rogers of the New Vbrk Globe, who will speak Saturday. Chester Lea's ure, editor of the Hutch da about that time, but had been able by a federal board for vocational education. May Purchase Homes. Purchase or improvement of city or suburban homes with compensation at the rate of J1.75 for each day's service.

Issuance of paid up insurance at about strikes in all the basic American industries in behalf of peace with soviet Russia. Precautions in New York. New York, April 3 0. William J. Flynn, chief of the investigation bureau of the department of justice, conferred today wit It his New York lieutenants regarding possible May day demonstrations here.

Flynn arrived with a number of special agents and already more than AITEALED TO DISTRICT CO I UT progress of the prohibition movement in the British Isles and said that the los3 of one of his eyes as the result of being struck by a missile thrown by a London hoodlum had resulted in public sentiment that could not be otherwise than helpful to the cause he advocates. This photograph was takn just before he stepped ashore at New York. married so often, since he could not remember names, places and dats. He admitted, the officers said, that he had no direct motive in killing his victims, some of them being done as the result of violent quarreling, they quoted him as saying. He said, they declared, he had killed some women who "had no An He married "twelve or fifteen women," probably more, the officers uuot.ed Huirt as saying.

A desire io kill obsessed him four years ago, Huirt was alleged to have said, and women were iiis special victims. There was no direct motive for their death and he had no desire to kill men, children or animals, lie was quoted as saying. The women Huirt confessed having slain were Xina Lee Deloney ami Kansas Guard Trooper Start-Original Proceedintr. the rate of $1.75 for each day's ser vice. Such insurance will be paya ble twenty years after issued or in inson Gazette, will be toastmaster at the banquet to the visitors Friday night.

Following the event, the Topeka Press Club will stage a farce "The Industrial Court How It Should Function." Will Tounsley, Great Bend, Tribune, is president of the association; Imri Zumwalt, state printer, is case of death. Loans car. be ob a score of department operatives, are tained at any time after two years. Establishment of a board com DOROTHY LUMBER THIS OF CRASH posed of the secretary of the interior and four members to be appointed vice president: O. W.

Little, Alma, secretary; R. P. McCullough, Anthony, recorder. Among the score of Kansas newspaper editors on the program is one woman Mrs. Mary Frink Converse of Wellsville.

Left Mother and Kuth at Home and Was on Way to (liU-age She Asserts. Iola, April 30. Judge Oscar Foust has set May 11 as the date on which he will decide the national guard case recently broueht before him, said to be the first time such a proceeding has been brought in a district court in Kansas. It is practically an appeal from a court martial decision. A member of Troop local cavalry, Kansas National Guard, remained away from drill contrary to the orders of the commanding officer, claiming he was ill.

The trooper was arrested, tried by court martial and fined $5 with the alternative of serving five days in jail. He sought relief through habeas corpus money. "Something just told me to do it," he was quoted. He told them he obtained a certain satisfaction in the very act of murder, the officers said, and experienced a sense of relief that the woman in each case was dead. They said, he asserted, he had never had a desire to kill men but on the contrary was foid of persons of his own sex as well as children and animals.

Will be Tried for Murder. Murder, not bigamy, will be the i-hargre against James II. Huirt. covering radical headquarters in this precautions against possible attempts at May day demonstrations have been taken by the police department. Every policeman will be held in reserve from today until Monday forenoon.

Special guards will be thrown around all public structures, railroad yards and terminals and churches. Warnings have been sent to prominent citizens to be on guard against possible attempts at assassination Elizabeth Fryor. the officer said. They quoted Huirt as saying He killed the former at Long Leach, with a hammer, and the latter near Plum, by crushing her head with a sledge hammer. The "partial according to the officers, related tj the death of Bertha Goodnich and Alice Ludvig-ion, who were said to have married Huirt.

Miss Goodnich, the ofik-or said, was tipped out of a boat by the President, at least two whom shall be former service men who would be authorized to make loans to service men not exceeding $1,100 for the reclamation and development of farm lands. Higrh Officers Not Included. Commissioned officers in the army or marine corps above the grade of Captain and lieutenant in the navy and coast guard would not receive compensation, including the men absent from their commands because of drunkenness or on farm furlough, would not be paid for the period of TARGET RANGE FOR CADET BATTALION Dorothy Laniber, alleged by defendant to have been driving the Lamber car at the time of the motor accident in 1917, was cn the witness stand at 3 o'clock this afternoon. Ruth Lamber, the defendant in the last night admitted, according to the ana postornce ana express oinciais district attorney, that he had killed i have been asked to watch all mat- $7,5 00 damage action, was the second witness for the defense this afternoon. Miss Ruth testified that First Shoot on Ground iNorth of Farrell Property "Will be Held Saturday.

she, in company with her mother and younger sister, Dorothy, had been riding on the afternoon of October 4, 1917. Ruth and her mother ter in transportation addressed to persons high in public and private life. Special Guard for Court. Special preparations to guard the criminal court houses and Justice Weeks' court room and chambers have been made for Monday when James Larkin, Irish labor leader, le- in the district court. A hearing was held and the court took the decision under advisement.

Meanwhile tha trooper is at liberty on bond. Maurice McNeill of the attorney general's office represented the guard and the adjutant general in the case. The principal question involved ia whether a judicial arm of the law has the power to decide a question involving a strictly military affair. their absence, utners exempteu included civilian officers employed In any branch of military or naval forces, contract surgeons, West Point cadets, midshipmen, coast guard cadets and members of the reserve officers' training corps. Those entertaining the service after A target range for the R.

O. T. C. cadet battalion of the Leavenworth high school has been located on Three Mile creek north of the Farrell property, purchased by the Board of Education with the intention of erecting a community house. The first shcot on the new target range wilt be held tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock when the cadets will be given a chance to show their skill with the rifle.

in Washington, near t-eaitle, and Miss Ludvigson was drowned in a river in Idaho. Were Killed "by Accident." Huirt's actual words in connection with the deaths of Misses Goodnich and Ludvigson, the officers said, were that they were killed "by accident." Xina Lee Deloney, whose ho-re was at Eureka, married Huirt the officer said, under the name of Charles W. Harvey, at San Francisco, December 5, 1919. She was last seen at the hotel at Santa Monica, January L'G, 1920. She had property valued at $20,000.

of it was found in Huirt's possession, the officer Bertha A. Goodnich. of Spokane, married Huirt, they said, under the name of H. L. Gordon.

June the armistice and those enlisting De-fore the declaration of war for the two wives, contributed to the death of two or more and married at least twenty. The murder charge will be brought r.gainst the man under the name of Walter Andrew Watson, it was said, because the defendant was most frequently known as Watson; because th? marriage with Nina Lee Deloney, which preceded the alleged murder was solemnized under that name; and because it was the name most used by th-- man in Los Angeles county. Watson in his statement said he believed he was a native of Tennessee, that he was raised in an orphan asyiuin until about ten years old, then he lived with a family named Harper and remained with them until he moved to Pittsburg, Kansas, about five years later. While employed in a blacksmith shop an anvil fell on his head knock period extending beyond November 11, got out cf the car at their home, 311 North Broadway, and Dorothy drove away alone, saying she would take the car to the garage, according to the testimony of the defendant. Dorothy Lamber admitted that she was the driver of the car at the time of the accident.

She denied making any remarks concerning being in fault and saying she would pay for the damages. She also denied say 1 yis, also would be excluded. TO PROBE BANK ACCTvITA.VCES. cently convicted of criminal anarchy, is scheduled for sentence. Forty plainclothes and a number of government and secret service agents have been selected to guard the court house while Larkin is being EXTEND OSAWATOMIE YARDS.

Central Banking Government lieves Privilege Overdone. Cadets have been cleaning up the site of evenings for the past week and have succeeded in making an excellent twenty-five yard range. Ten targets were put up thi3 afternoon. Captain Pacific AVill Lengthen Out Switch Tracks at Division. L.

I. Witney, in charge of the battalion ing she lost control of the car. April i. me said that every cadet would be given the preliminary drill in shooting before the end of the term, even if sufficient time to produce experts shots Missouri Pacific railroad announced 11. 1919, at North Yakima, Wash.

sentenced and only persons known to the court will be admitted to the court room. Molly Steiner, 20 year old radical, under sentence to fifteen years for violation of the espionage law, will leave for prison at Jefferson City, Mo. Special precautions against a demonstration in their behalf have been taken. Vut Imv to Full Extent. Washington, April 30.

Federal agents have been instructed to "go as far as the law will allow in breaking up the May Day radical demonstration. I New York, April 30. Pursuant to the policy of reducing unnece-sary credit, the federal reserve board, it was learned today, is making exhaustive investigation of bank acceptances throughout the country, on the strength it was believed thai the government of central banking considers that the privilege of issuing bank acceptances is being overdone and that conditions call for more scrutiny if the policy of deflation is to be successful. was lacking. "I want to give every boy in the cadet battalion a chance to shoot," said Captain Witney.

"A squad of cadets will be given instructions on the range every afternoon for the remainder of the school term. Each cadet will be given at least the pre ing- him unconscious, he said. He then worked on a nearby farm and tow years later began to drift over the country. ot Kiion at PittsTmrg. Pittsburg, April 30.

Investigation here today failed to reveal any information concerning the residence in Pittsburg of James Huirt or W. A-Watson, held in Los Angeles for the murder of two wives. today that additions would be made to the yards here at a cost of The plan for the additional track space includes the lengthening of the yards to the soutk about 150 car lengths. The increased business at this division point makes it necessary for greater track space to handle the present and future needs, according to the company's announcement. "I looked both ways before starting across the intersection and saw no approaching cars," said Dorothy.

"Just as I started across the intersection the machine of Mr. and Mrs. White was directly in front of my car. I applied the brakes immediately. I did not lose control of my car at any ytime." The Lamber car was being driven at a rate of between twelve and fifteen miles an hour before reaching the crossing, according to the testimony of Dorothy.

Before reaching the intersection this speed was reduced, she said. liminary instructions in The cadets will shoot into the large WILL SPEND $23,000 ON DEPOT lion. Wash. A short time afterwaid trunks belonging to her were located in a Van Couver, warehouse. Kept Victim's Propeifj.

Alice M. Ludvigson. whose home was in Seattle, married him under the name of Henry Hilton, the officer said, October 6. 1917, at Von Townsend, Wash. Property belonging to her, various papers and her will and their "marriage license." they declared, were found in Huirt's possession.

Kliazbeth Pryor was a waitress at Wallace. and Spokane, Wash. She married Huirt, according to the. Milton Lewis, at Coeur d'Alene, Ida-, March 1919. She had little property.

Her picture and some tax re-j In making this announcement today rQck wall aIong. tne north boundary of Assistant Attorney General Gar van tne rarren property. This is the old said the department of justice officials I0unaati0n of the cold storage build-were concentrating ail efforts to pro- irs wiere tv. H. Farrell in a produce Union Pacific Plans Many Improvements at Junction City.

CLARA GLADDEN DIES IN OREGON tect the lives of officials, federal and state, who have been marked for destruction and to prevent violence and commission business apples and other fruits were stored away in the caves undermining the Farrell home. Arguments In the case were expected to start about 4 o'clock and it is probable that the case may be in Tank Corps Reaches Fnnston. Junction City, April SO. The 328th battery tank corps reached Camp Funston from Camp Meade, where it had been stationed since its return from France. The equipment brought to Funston included several battle-scarred combat tanks.

the hands of the jury before 6 o'clock. DEFEATED BY NARROW MARGIX. 300 WILL SEEK PAROLE. Cflpt. Mueller Receives Telegram Notifying Him of Sudden Death of Sister.

Junction City, April 30. Twenty-five thousand dollars will be spent in remodeling the Union Pacific freight and passenger stations here, it was announced today. Plans are now ia the office of President Gray, awaiting his final approval. A large addition will be built on to the passenger station and the TREASURERS HERE NEXT FALL. Harding's Campaign Manager Lost by Only 307 Votes.

That Xnmfcrr of Federal Prison CaiM to be Heard May 12. Decide to Join Hut of Officer Kaosan Official Council. Mrs. Clara Gladden, a native of Leavenworth, died at her home in ceipts in her name were among her' effects when he was arrested, they ad fled. Columbus.

April SO. By a margin of but 307 votes Harry N. PnrrlQnd f.T- Thic mr.r-ninp' ac More than twenty-five cording to a telegram received here freight depot is to be moved thre blocks to the north end of the lociJ yards. have been attnouted by tne orticers Death of Harrey Taylor. Harvey Taylor, colored, a former well known resident of Leavenworth, died at his home in Kansas City at 3 o'clock Thursday afternoon.

The body will arrive in Leavenworth this eve-ring and will be taken to the Gough and Hardin Undertaking Company's parlors. Funeral arrangements will be announced later. DREW LAUGHLIN BUYS PAPEiS Daugherty. of Columbus, national campaign manager for Senator Warren G. Harding, was defeated in Tuesday's primary for delegate at large to the Republican national convention at Chicago, complete returns from the state showed last night.

Senator Harding probably will have 39 of the 4S delegates to the by her brother, Capt. William J. Mueller, of the police department. Burial will probably be in Portland. She was 45 years old.

Mrs. Gladden was born in Leavenworth where she attended the parochial and public schools. She was married to William Gladden, who. One prisoner was dressed in the federal prison this morning. He was convicted in Wisconsin and will serve three years.

The population is still above the l.SrtO mark, having reached more than that number several days ago. The parole board will meet May 12 to consider the cases of 30-0 inmates whose records and the fact that they have served at least one-third of their sentences entitle them to parole. Each case is gone into thoroughly and recommendations made to the attorney general. The annual meeting of the Kansas State Treasurers' association, which was to have been held at Junction City May 6 and 7, has been called and the treasurers will meet with other county officers at Topeka next November. The treasurers have that the November meeting interfered with their duties at tax collecting time and heretofore have held their meetings in the spring.

They have decided, however, that the November meetirg is better suited to their purpose and have discarded the May meeting. Miami Republican, Paola, Is Sold by W. D. reason. to Huirt.

Several are listed by the officers as missing. Just Fell Overboard. He said the death of the Goodnich woman came about in this way. He was in a launch with her on Lake Washington. The water was rough and she fell overboard in trying to go from the extern to the renter of the boat.

Later on. the oi't'ictr said. Huirt himself referred to this death REPORT RESOLUTION TO TERMINATE WAR I with twelve children, the youngest about one year old, and four broth- ers, Capt. William J. Mueller, Julius I Mueller, Ernest Mueller and Fred Chicago convention pledged to him.

General Wood apparently had won) two delegates in each of three dis-j tricts, one delegate in each of the two districts and one delegate at as "a murder." Paola. April 30. Tho Miami Republican, one of the oldest newspapers in Kansas, established in 1S66, was sold today by W. D. Grea-son to Drew McLaughlin, of Hiawatha, Kan.

Greason became an apprentice in the Republican office in 1875 and has been publisher and owner of the paper since 1885. Ke is one of the oldest publishers ia th state. large, a total of nine. In the Pryor case, the officer said, he asserted the woman attacked him Miss Wood Going to Europe. Chicago.

April 30. Louise Bar Mueller and one sister, Mrs. Lena Davis of Waters, survive her. The death of Mrs. Gladden comes as a shock to many friends in this city, as it was not generally known Comes Out of Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Strictly Party Vote.

Wilson Nominates Two. Washington, April- 3 0. Henry Jones Ford, professor of politics at Princeton university, and James Duncan, of Quincy. a former vice president of the American Federation of Labor, were nominated by bara Wood, daughter of Major Leonard Wood, applied for passports to HARDING AVILL NOT QUIT RACE. Ohio Senator Declares "Withdrawal that she was not in her usual good health.

She was well known in Leavenworth, as her whole life was Washington. April 30. The state of war with both Germany and Austria would be terminated under a Report Unfounded. England and France today, she said she will serve as a chauffeur in France to join in the work for the American fund for devastated France. President Wilson to be members of the interstate commerce commission.

spent here with the exception of the last four years, she having moved to the far northwest then with her husband and family. with a haipin in a house at Plum, and he defended himself. He shoved her so violently that she fell and struck her head against the corner of a box. Hammer Made Death Certain He believed she was dead, he was said to have declared, but to mcke certain he got a hammer and struck her on the head with it. The Deloney woman, he was quoted as saying, he killed at a camp thffy made near Signal Hill, at the edge of Long Beach, January 20.

last That was the day they left the Santa Death of Burr Fisher. Burr Fisher, Civil war veteran and member of the National Military Homt, died at the Home hospital yesterday afternoon. The body was removed to the O'Donnell Undertaking Company's parlors to be prepared for shipment to his home in Paola, for burial Saturday morning. He was 85 years oid. A son.

Earl A. Fisher, a. conductor on the Frisco, will accompany the body home. New Albany, April SO. Reports that he would withdraw from the race for the Republican nomination for president following the alleged pcor showing he made in Ohio, his home state, in the presidential preferential primary, were declared without foundation by Senator Warren H.

Harding, who delivered an address here last night. resolution reported today by the senate foreign relations committee. The vote on the resolution was nine to six with all Republicans supporting it and all of the Democrats lining up solidly in opposition. It i3 planned to call up the resolution for debate in the senate next week and final action is expected within two or three weeks. Wood's Jersey Lead 1.207.

Neward, N. April 30. Complete and correct figures in the New Jersey preferential presidential primary gave Major General today a lead of 1,207 votes over Senator Hiram W. Johnson. The vote stood: Wotd 52,608, Johnson 51,401 Death of John W.

Kee. John W. Kee, well known former resident of Leavenworth, died in Kanga3 City, Mo. The body will arrive in Leavenworth for burial Saturday afternoon, May 1. For further information call 641.

Plans for a big dance at St. Lawrence hall. Easton, Wednesday, March 5th, are being made. Music will be furnished by Linck's orchee-tra of Leavenworth..