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mly Centime SUBSCRIBE TO THE DAILY NOW WORK FOU WOODSTOCK YOLUME TWO, NUMBER 160. WOODSTOCK, McHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 123. PRICE PER COPY THREE CENTA APJl AT ran Ma li5 is- WOODOTOQK ULIffl Vjm 1r He denied having stopped In Conn's lunch room until later cornered wilh. evidence to the contrary. Likewise he Ancient Stone Image and Colorado Man Who Found It SAVED MflHT LATEST WORLD NEWS RECEIVED BY WIRE This rock ia believed to have been worshipped by man in pre-glaeial times in the Colorado Rockies, and if proved to be geniune will eclipse all other records of the existence "of human beings known in scientific circles.

Its origin is believed to date back thousands of years. TODAY'S RHINE LAND DEVELOPMENTS Allied reparations commission at Paris voted Germany in default of coa! and coke deliveries pledged under the Versailles treaty. French troops reported to have moved towards Essen from Dusseldorf, crossing the border of the neutral zone. 1 Chancellor Cuno of Germany declares Germany will not' be coerced. German advices proclaim that France would have voided the treaty of Versailles if the Ruhr is invaded.

German press is filled with war scare talk. General De Goulle, commander of the French army of occupation, and General Bert helot. French chief-of-staff, have established headquarters at Dusseldorf. French foreign office this morning issued formal reparations disapproval. French chamber of deputies meets to consider Ruhr situation.

Great Britain holds aloof and assumes "watchful waiting attitude. CUNO SAYS GERMANY WILL NOT BE COERCED (Copyright 1923 International News Service) BERLIN. 9 Germany will consider the advisability of breaking off diplomatic relations when France moves French troops to enter the Ruhr, it was learned authoritatively today German officials gave the impression that if France secures the Ruhr and Wesphalian industrial belt, the government will issue a proclamation charging that the treaty of Versailles is rendered null and void bv France. Chancellor Cuno in an exclusive inter 1 'Jits I v-vtrretlL -a I ir' I I 'x If 1 Mv -r i I 1 i'j? A v' rf view to the International News Service, said that Germany would not bow down to force. "I can only repeat earnestly and emphatically that the use of force will mean the death of econo- PJ V.k, Jt.m...mtiiw, mic reparations." 3aid the chancellor.

"We are ready and ing to pay voluntarily to the limit of our capacity, but we will not bow to complusion. We want peace. We will walk the road. of suffering. We cannot oppose force with force, but we can demonstrate to the world the unreasonableness and the illegality of the French plan." 4V A.

BONAR LAW SUMMONS CABINET LONDON, Jan. 9 Premier Andrew Bonar Law today sum- I moned his cabinet to meet Thursday to consider the European of the reparations conference situation following the breakdown in Fans. BELGIUM TROOPS MOVE BRUSSELS, Jan. 9 Active military preparations were under way here today to support the French advance into Ruhr. Belgium troop movement toward the German frontier ri was reported.

ii FRENCH DENY TJISAPPROVAL fAKia, Jan. -ihe French foreign office today denied that Secretary of State Hughes' reparation plan had been transmitted to France. It also denied that the United States informed' ranee of American disapproval later period than the dinosaur, Lower right Chart showing how glaciers govged out the mountains and changed the general contour of the Kocktes from pre-glactoU times KILLED BY TRAIN Andrew Sylvester, J. i 44 at Fox River Grove, killed by the Wil llama Bay milk train, M8, on Mortday night The unfortunate young man was driving a Grant Six touring car. He had stopped and three companions had stepped out of the car, he driving alone across the track at the main street crossing on Center avenue.

A passenger train had just passed and the young man had waited a few moments for it to pass. As he crossed the tracks he saw a friend and turned around on the other side of the tracks to drive back again tojojn his friend. The milk train does not stop at Fox River Grove but goes through. Chicago bcund, at about 6:30 o'clock at a good speed. The train struck the car, wrecking it completely.

The young man was also killed instantly, his body being terribly cut up and mangled. The report of a terrible wreck wa nt over the wires and doctors-from Harrington, Cary and Crystal Lake hurried to the scene to give aid. There was nothing to be don, the lone victim was beyond human aid. The Sylvester home Is at'Fox River Grove where the young man was In the tileing and dredging business with his father, "Andy" Sylvester was unmarried. He made his home with his father and two brothers.

A sister lives In Iowa. An injlie8( as held at Fox River OrOve 8rt im4if Una1 burial at Dundee beside his mother, who passed away sometime ago, on Wednesday. huge mastodon, which lived in a nnswiBt FOUR MORE IRREGULARS KILLED BELFAST, Jan. 9 Four republican Irregulars were killed' when Free State troops supported by armed cars and airplanes captured Quaker Island today. British troops have evacuated Tettago and the Ulster Free State border and posts were taken over by the Free State troops.

WOMAN AND ACCOMPLICE HANG IN LONDON LONDON, Jan. 9 In a cold grey drizzle, Mrs. Edith Jessie Thomnson wan hariowi in tho irljvkmv rntirtvar1 rf TInltnwav young, mm FflOM CftUOWS Judge Shurtleff Is Out of Sympthy with the Illinois Parole and Their Similar State's Prison Laws. Oliver Young, 21, and James Jewett.j who have been held for trial on charges of larceny, robbery and as-, sault with intent to commit were tried and sentenced Monday af-j ternoon, January 8. These two young men assaulted and robbed Chris Hansen last October 29,, tearing him for dead and escaped in a stolen automobile.

They were later captured In Effingham after flight' across Illinois into Iowa, and down to St. Louis. Although they confessed to the theft, assault and robbery upon being; brought back to Woodstock, they later assumed a stubborn attitude and denied the assault. This attltu'de was maintained until the arternoon of the trial. Attorney F.

E. Eckert was appointed attorney for the two young men andi they were consistently advised by him to plead guilty on all three charges They remained obdurate to his advice until shortly before trial on Monday, During the trial their attitude was, stubborn and they had, to be cross-, questioned and cornered at practically every turn of the evidence against them, before they would confess to the details of their crime. Questioning was conducted by both Judge E. D.j Shurtleff and State's Attorney V. S.

Lumley. I Jidge Shartleff Gives Limit 1 Judge Shurtleff sentenced them to( terms in the state penitentiary at Jo-: liet on each of the three charges. On the first charge of larceny, which in volved the theft of the Ray Wilson car, tliey received one to ten year sen-j tences. On the second charge of rob-j ery, using a deadly weapon, they re-i elved one year to life sentences, and the last charge of assault with in tent to kill they received sentences of from one to fourteen years. I In giving the sentences.

Judge Shurtleff preceded them with the comment that it was only an accident (the recovery of Chris Hansen) that they were not charged with murder on the third charge. He assured the prison-) era that their crime was equally odious as though Hansen had died and if the court were able he would sen-j tence them to death the full penalty of the law. He would consider the, court recreant to the law if he did any less. He stated his lack of sympathy with the parole law of the state of Illinois and other laws of the state, by means of which both Young and Jewett were placed in the county on parole, both these fellows being sent to McHenry county on parole at the time of the assault. These young men had previously both been involved or in contact with crime.

Young was sent to McHenry county from the Juvenile court of Chicago and had worked for a period on the farm of Oscar Gustafson. Jewett confessed to having previously stolen a horse and buggy at Edwardsville arfd serving a period in St. Charles reformatory. In the trial, Young was brought op first and plead guilty to all three charges. This he did with no perceptible show of emotion except possibly on the last charge.

When Judge Shurtleff asked him how he would plead he at least seemed to appreciate the enormity ot the offense when his voice deepened in his answer, "Guilty." Confessed to Assault He confessed to the assault, bat claimed he did not take any money. He had to be later cornered with Jew-tit's statement to the contrary before he would correct his statement We Will Pay $18 Ton Cash For all the CORN That the fanners of this county can deliver to yards at Ridgefield. Corn must be fully matured Ridgfield Sheep Feeding Yards F. W. SHURTE, Mr.

denied having returned to rob Hansen and ot complicity in a plot to assault and rob others until confronted with; contrary evidence. Young stated that he had hit Chris Hansen three times, once from behind and later twice from the front aud having indulged in a considerable scuffle before escaping. Upon correction of his evidence he said he had! returned and had gotten only a little i over a dollar in money. The purpose or the assault was in order to get money, according to his statement. Jewett Also Plead Guilty Young was asked to stay in th? court room while Jewett was brought up for hearing.

He likewise plead sutlty to all three charges, but main-, tained immediately thereafter that he' did not strike Hansen nor did he sae it done. He spoke of Young going in-; to Conn's for lunch, but maintains that he did not see the pipe in Young's hands nor did he know that Young intended assaulting Hansen. The cross-questioning of Judg-i Shurt. and State's Attorney Lum-; ley soon gave the lie to his former statements and revealed that he knew of the plot to attack Hansen; of Young's purpose and what he had done, and of the plot an'd talk Involv-j ing N'etzel. Beardsley, Austin and Axelso'i to attack someone with 1 money, steal a car and escape.

It was clearly proven that, although ho had not actually struck the blow; ho was equally guilty of the plot. I Judge Shurtleff's comment before sentencing these young men to the state penitentiary was particularly pointed after their forced confessions. They were in no attitude of mind to receive clemency. He commented upon the apparent disregard of law in the state of Illinois in general, partly due to the parole law and in other ways with which he was not in sympathy. Further comment was upen the growing tendency to get money easily by robbing and killing.

This entire community, shocked with the felonious attack on Chris Hansen, is in hearty sympathy with Judge Shurtleff's enforcement of the Inw to the limit. FOUR PRISO IERS ENTER PLEAS OF GUILTY MONDAY Judge Shurtleff listened to pleas ot guilty from four men un'd'er indictment in the circuit court Monday afternoon. Each of the prisoners at the same time made applications for parole and same have been referred to Piobation Officer Crissey of Marengo. Those admitting their guilt were as follows: Lee Ball, larceny. Charged with stealing a Ford touring car belonging to Len Fay of Harvard.

Lyle Hawver, burglary. Charged with entering the Chicago Northwestern depot at Marengo. John Haakman, forgery. Charged with forging a check on the Chicago, Harvard Lake Geneva railway company. Charles A.

Smith, obtaining money by confidence game, at Huntley. Sentence will not be passed on the quartet until Officer Crissey makes his report. MRS. NETTIE AGNEW DIES IN ROCKFORD Mr. and Mrs.

R. J. Beatty were Informed of the death of their mother, Mrs. Nettie Agnew, Monday afternoon. Mrs.

Agnew, whose home was in Rockford, formerly lived in Woodstock and is known to many here. Mr. and Mrs. Beatty left for Rock-f ord. Tuestfay morning.

The funeral la to be held Wednesday afternoon. OYSTER DINNER AT WILMINGTON HOME The Seneca Ladies Literary society held their annual meeting at the home of Mrs. J. Zimmerman on Saturday. Because of the stormy weather but thirteen members were present.

It was votefd to hold the annual oyster dinner at the Henry Wilmington home on Thursday, Jan. 11. It is hoped that all ot the members and their families will be present. The following officers were elected to serve the society during the coming year. President, Mrs.

Henry Pugh. face President, Mrs. Lizzie Hakes. Secretary, Mrs. J.

Zimmerman. Treasurer, Mrs. Fred Perkins. WEATHER REPORT Generally fair tonight and Wednesday. Co.lder tonight, OUR INVITATION Present Nthis Clipping-for admission at the Prineeat (either ahqw) this evening.

The Daily Sentinel invites as Its guests Wfr. and Mrs. William Schneider, D-ane to witness tonight's presentation of "Clarence, with Wallace Reld, Agnes Ayres and May McAvoy. Also All Sadoo and Princess Isis In "The Tent" at the Princess Theatre. image portrays, is a uropod.

It has a long neck and was a vegetable eat- ing dinosaur. Lower left A carnlyorous dinosaur of the American Cretaceous period, having a long tail, and beneath it a Who knows? Sciential In New wasningxon and Santai are trying to decipher these characters, according to Chalmers. 1 The image, through 'changes in tho consistency of the rock, has become harder than steel. Geologists wno have seen the stone lay it would be impossible to make ttijse impressions to-day by rubbing with- flint implements. It Is fourteen inches high, nine inches across the tablet and about twelve inches through to thi back.

Glacier Still Active Glaciers were still active in cutting down the Rockies as recently as a few thousand years ago, according to T. Van Tuyl. professor of geology at the Colorado School of Mines. He has not seen the image, but has found alternate dark and light-colored banded rocks in the Denver Mountain parks near to where the stone was found which, he believes, dates back to the Archean period. This indicates the numerous uplifts In the Rockies, several times nearly worn away, and the contention of certain geologists that the stone may date back thousands of years.

In the meantime Chalmers is receiving requests from museums and research societies for the privilege of taking plaster-cast impressions to study the rock image under strong giasses, or to borrow the freak stone. Post Ofice Roiled by Powder Puff in Chute ST. CLAIRSVILLK. Ohio, Jan. 9-The owner of a powder puff is being sought by Postmaster Richard S.

Ryan here. Someone, accidentally, dropped the puff into the mail chute at the post office. Hitchin'On sa 1 jail at 9 o'clock this morning Upper left W. L. Chalmers, who discovered the freak stone on Willow Creek, near his home in the Grand Lake district.

Upper right Outlined above the arm and the leg of the being holding the rock tablet, which the Relic Called Biggest Find in Years DENVER, Jan. 9 Make way for pre-glacial man, or memories oi aim! That's what scientists are doing in temporarily discarding the chronologies of Indians, Mound Builders and even the Aztecs of old Mexico in their efforts to establish, if possible, pre-glacial usage of a rock image unearthed by W. L. Chalmers near Grand Lake, high in the Colorado Rockies. He found the 66-pound stone six feet below the surface while enlarging an irrigation reservior on his homestead.

Mammoth animals outlined in the stone of blue granite are contemporaneous with the Cro-Magnon period. That flat nose is generally associated with a race preceding the Aztecs, ac cording to J. Allard Jeancon, curator of the Colorado Historical and Natura: History Society arid at one time special archaeologist for the Bursa ot American Ethnology at Washington. Important "If this stone can be proven genuine it is the biggest find in all anthropo logical research and on the American Continent going to establish the remote antiquity of man," continued Mr. Jeancon.

"I have never seen such remarkable outlines of dinosaurs and mastodons." The rock Image represents early man sitting and holding a tablet with hands that have but three fingers. On the tablet are hieroglyphics which in a measure resemble signs of the tecs, Utes and Mormons. If the rock image is genuine, then all the others are copied from the symbols made by pre-glacial man: if not, then the imitation Is unusually compelling. A PC? TO SUPPORT FRANCE of seizure of the Ruhr. 1J A for the murder of hejp husband, contrast to present future "5 4 ai tne same nour tne woman twenty-year-old lover, Frederick Bywaters, condemned on the same charge, went to his deatt on the scaffold in Kentonville prison.

Both executions, according to English custom, were strictly private, "only a handful of of cials were present. Percy Thompson, the victim of the illicit 4 love affair, was stabbed to death at Ilford, on last October 4 by Bywaters, after Mrs. Thompson's unsuccessful efforts to poison -him. Mrs. Thompson collapsed and was under the care of the prison physician, and as the hour drew near to go to the scaffold' she lapsed into unconsciousness.

In hej lucid moments ghe kept calling for Bywaters. The condensed young man kept up hiJ courage to the end, and smoked a cigarette until the hangman adjusted the black hood of death. It is understood that up to the last moment, Bywaters protested the innocence of Mrs. Thompi son. "Edie is innocent," he kept repeating.

Death was instan- taneous in both cases. It is understood that the Bishop of Stephens visited Mrs. Thompson early this morning and asked for her confession. She replied, "I am prepared. There is -nothing on my soul.

I am innocent." Kf.r t-if VATICAN ASKS FRANCE TO REFRAIN FROM INVASION LONDON, Jan. 9The Vatician has requested France not to invade the Ruhr, according to a news dispatch from Rome this afternoon. TRADE WAR ANNOUNCED BY GREAT BRITAIN WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 Great Britain served notice that she would go out and capture the markets of the world in order to pay the five billion dollar war debt due this country. In effect she declared a trade war.

The American debt funding corn- mission was left in no doubt today about Great Britain's purpose to pay, but the frankness of the British spokesman in an out- standing new policy of British trade dominance, aa the onlv method of payment, was in signal British financial prospects. TRY TO KIDNAP MER ROUGE WITNESS MER ROUGE. Jan. 9 A sensational plot to kidnap Miss Addie May Hamilton, important government witness in the "hooded mob" murders of Moorehouse parish, was foiled last night by department of justice agents. Five armed men in a high powered automobile stopped the girl on a lonely road after nightfall while returning from a visit with a friend.

They were driven off by the approach of another car driven by de partment of justice men and national guard troops who had been tipped off as to their" plans. Two armed men who had been'on guard at the girl's house were replaced by armed soldiers who are to maintain guard until after the trial. NEW WITNESS BRANDS K. K. K.

KILLINGS COURTHOUSE, BASTROP, Jan. 9-The 'Invisible Empire" of the Ku Klux Klan with its secret far-reaching ramifications, was openly branded with? full responsibility for th3 "reign of terror" in Moorehouse parish, which culminated in tha Jideous murder of Watt Danieb and' Thomas Richards, by J. P. 'Norsgroth, former, klansman captain, sensation surprise witne; tor tne stare. (Wire News Continued on 2).