Greeley Daily Tribune from Greeley, Colorado • Page 1

TODAY, LEATHER lerally fair to- and probably Sat- r. Little change iperature. HOT ONES If the local street or men go on a strike, who will walk! THE GREELET KEPFBLICAN ME XII--NUMBER 313 MEMBER OP ASSOCIATED PRESS GRECLEY, COLORADO, FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1920 AFTERNOON EDITION WEEKLY TRIBUNE ESTABLISHED Killed, One Dying, 34 Injured in Denver Riots CALLS 1LUNTEERS TO PROTECT CITY i Will Not Call Out Troops Regards Volunteer Force olice Organization as Suf- Protection lu' gOC V-Ma this Ion issued a proclamation theaters to close at 7 o'clock The police department has led citizens to remain at home I in the hope of preventing of rioting. er Aug. Dewey C.

Pearly this morning appealed 10 volunteer citizens to serve as officers, following a five-hour with Gov. Oliver H. Shoup, of Safety Frank M. Downer, If Police Hamilton Armstrong, lers in the governor's office at lehouse. The mayor issued the Is proclamation: I the People of Denver: fn the past 24 hours this city from the lawless acts of of men who have brazenly the laws of the city and state law-enforcing authorities, flty of life and property is in I jeopardy.

The merits of the between the tramway corn- fad the strikers now become in the greater responsibility me citizens of Denver end Its ex- officers of immediately re-es- and maintaining law and layer of the city of Denver I fa. all law-abiding citizens to 5 fullest measure accompllshing this object. Iregularly' established police Ithe city Is inadequate in num- Icope with the situation as it llop d. To provide immediate Iments, I call for volun- I act as special officers until lent crisis is passed and order led. 1 responding to this call will rlthout delay to Manager of frank M.

Downer, City hall. Imayor wishes to assure the ling of this community that ev- pssary measure will be taken order and respect 'for law. D. U. JtAILEY, Mayor.

Ir, Aug. 6, 1920. pwner issued the following: Denver, Aug. 6, 1920. fcoial officers, city and county Program of Band Concert at Local Park This Evening "The Imperator," march--Chrlstensen "Royal Emblem," overture 'Down the Trail to Home Sweet Home," new waltz song Ball By request: fox trot Bernard "Jack O'Lantern," Caryll "Tripoli" for vocal quartet with band accompaniment "Short and Sweet," concert polka, duet' for two trumpets.

Messrs. Callermau and Mobeck "Aisha," intermezzo Lindsay March of "The Anza6s" Lithgow YANK AVIATORS ARE RUSHED TO WARSAWDEFENSE Soviet Forces Advance Steadily with Poles in Desperate Counter Attacks; British'Will Accept Bolshevik Excuses Warsaw, Aug. Associated defensive line east of Warsaw lias been pierced in several places, according to reports from the tront. Preparations have been begun tor transferring the government if that move is necessitated by the Russian advance. The officials, however, still hope tho soviet forces will be checked some- east the Vistula.

6 vdng to tie desperate situation on the front nearest'Warsaw, the Kosciu- squadron, the air force Composed for the most part of Americans, attached to the Polish army, is being transferred from the southern front, The squadron will aid in the defense of the Polish capital. Close American Consulate Friday The American consulate in Warsaw Citement was over, will be closed Friday and Consul but it all happened kin Is making preparations to depart Friday night. Most ol the records al- LINVILLE SEES STRIKE RIOTS AS SPECTATOR 'Charles G. Linville of Greeley was a near at hand spectator of the sensational strike riots in Denver Thursday night. "I got caught in the crowd and there was no getting out until the ex- I saw quite a lot rapidly that Impressions were naturally incomplete," said Linville upon his return to Gree- The ley pre- At about 6 o'clock Thursday night Linville saw a collision -between two cars which had come from the north- side -of the city and a Ford filled with strike breakers at Fifteenth'street and Arapahoe.

"There were several shots exchanged and the mob was trying to overturn -the cars. They did not succeed then ready have been shipped away. American legation here also Is pared to close within a very few-days. The legation employes have shipped their baggage to Camp Graphe, the emergency headquarters of the American typhus expedition. No announcement has been made as to what the government would move to, but it is reported it would be Posen 6r Czestochowa, 143 miles southwest I ut nev dld late in fining.

Poof Warsaw the Slleslan frontier. Reds Cross the-BUg Of the developments the east- era defense line, the word from the licimen were not much in evidence but X- was told there were plain clothes men around. The speed with which the barriers were ripped off front shows that 'after a halt of Several the ca rs waa Ambulances brought up and supplies for-warded along the river, the. crossings of the Bug at a number of places. At one point southeast of Ostrov, the soviet troops are expected to have crossed the river in large numbers.

Tonight's communique -fi-ohi hepd- quarters announced tMc the Russians had forced the Bug in the region of Drohiezyn (about 70 miles east of the capital), this being a part of a soviet Movement to outflank tiie-ilefonders The Poles counterattacked' and fierce fighting Is Between DrphlejOTn and Breit-Litovsk, ithe communique tho Poles made no a on the ambulances and not block their courses. The banners carried by the men who were prominent In this scrape indicated that they were railroad shopmen from the- Union Pacific and D. R. The flght at Arapahoe and Fifteenth was the one in which the most casualties occurred. It happened about 6 o'clock according to Linville.

He got up by the Post building after 8 o'clock. It was dark at the time. the entrance to the Post building but got there after It had been ransacked. "Every piece of glass In the building broken. You could see the wreck- of desks and wooden equipment getting noticeably Linville did not seo directed to report to me at Room 104, City hall, promp morning, Aug; 6.

Where bnng your automobile. FRANK M. DOWNER, er of Safety and Excise. inference began shortly after and ended at 1 o'clock this. Neither Governor Shoup nor 'alley issued any statement intal to the appeal from the; deploring" the demon- yesterday and emphasizing of a restoration of law and hey felt confident that the ap- volunteers would bring forth izens to serve during the W.

Hild, manager of the company, and F. E. West, perintendent, were present at part of tho meeting and fore the governor and mayor any's position and explained ttient for efforts to contlnu? of street cars. vernor declined to- say what said at the conference in re- itate troops, but no decision bed to call on them. or Oliver H.

Shoup stated this that he did not Intend to call troops or ask for federal In- He said he believed that awey 0. Bailey had the sit- hand, and also that 2,000 tizens armed to protect their would be sufficient guarantee ers are coming forward rap- Indications that the entire ed for by the city would be A special guard was being with Winchester rifles and It was placed under the of Sergeant Merrltt of the jartment as an emergency volunteers are being armed "or weapons are available. Jepartment in ferences on the Russian Situation ton, Aug. Secretary Col- Inder-secretary 'Davis of the had a long confer- with. President Wilson at House.

It was understood I Polish situation was dls- launched a counter itta-k ai-iinit tiie Vt I couldn't get near enough to see Russians whc, jw; B. 'what had been done to machinery," he 'slid, said there was considerable Brest-Li tor si. In tL'e RuP il Of Brest'Litvovsk, 'is fn the of the Russians, th-Ty an attack which competed. to evacuate Terrestol, j-oat'io the west of, the. river.

There was fighting at various points to the south but without gains for the Russians. The soviet troops have been checked in their westward push along the Prussian border, the statement announces. Aim to Cut Railway They have reached Nyszniez, In an advance apparently designed to bring them to the Warsaw-Danzig railway. Military observers assert that this is part of the Russian outflanking movement planned to encircle the capital. Russian gains are' conceded north and east of Warsaw where the soviet forces are regrouping for what may be the final exertion in their attempt to bring Poland to their terms of peace by directly threatening her capital.

London, Aug. Kamenoss of the Russian soviet delegation sent Premier Lloyd George last night a long communication giving the soviet government's reply to the Great Britain'ti statement of Tuesday with regard to the delay in the armistice negotiations between Russia and Poland. Cabinet Considers Soviet Note Prena) London, Aug. cabinet meeting at which the Russian reply to the British note on Poland was consld; ered- was followed by no official Ind5 cations of the trend of affairs. The Information, however, was that Great Britain would accept the soviet reply notwithstanding that It is not wholly satisfactory.

Ruulans Have Ample Munitions Washington, Aug. 6--Soviet Russia la in possession of sufficient munitions for five years to carry on war of the scale of that now being conducted against Poland, according to estimates made here today by military authorities. Practically all of the stocks on hand are from supplies furnished by the allind governments to thn regime during the world Aug. 0--A wml-offlclal raps- 4aughing and jeering at the Post building but that the crowd had been quiet jwhile the fight over the street cars was going on. "You could hear kids shouting but most of the crowd were onlookers just like he said.

Champa street was packed with people all the way from Fourteenth- to Seventeenth and the cross streets were blocked according to Linville. Blocks and blocks of pavement around the Post building were carpeted with unrolled print paper. Linville remembers seeing the stuffed elephant which decorated, the lobby on the third floor of the being carried down Sixteenth street by men who were carrying it by the legs and ears. The lights in the Post building remained on until after 1 o'clock in the morning. In the meantime more cars had been overturned at Logan and Colfax.

There were no uniformeditrafflc policemen at Intersections but boy scout de- itails wero stationed 'at several busy corners. Reports were current that the south side car barns, the Tramway building, the Empress theater and other buildings had been wrecked but these all proved to be misleading. Clans Gathering for Notification of Cox Dayton, Aug. Democratic clans were here today for the great quadrennial event, the presentation tomorrow to the American electorate on the presidential nominee, Governor Cox of Ohio. All was In readiness for the governor's formal notification by Senator Robinson of Arkansas who presided' over the San Francisco' and the candidate's terms of acceptance declaring tho broad lines of the -campaign.

Irish Coercion Bill PisMrf Pmu) London, Aug, 6--The Irish coercion bill was passed on Its third reading by the house ot commons this afternoon by a vote ot 206 to 18. sage filed lant night says the Poles have evacuated Ostrov the Bug and Narew rivers, 25 miles south- writ of Lctmzti and about 55 miles northeast of Warsaw. WOMAN BURNS TO DEATH IN FIGHT TO SAVE HOUSE Mrs. Grace Henderson, Widow, Dies of Burns Six Hours after $he Walked from Some near Briggsdale to Neighbor for Aid Mrs. Grace Henderson, a widow ot about .60 years ot who lived on a dry land ranch nine miles northeast of Briggsdale, saved her borne at the cost of her lite in a desperate battle with oil flames afternoon.

Mrs. Henderson died at 10 o'clock Thursday night at the Wlllard ranch northeast of Briggsdale after six hours of suffering from burns which covered almost her entire body. The story of Mrs. Henderson's courage and fortitude is of the most remarkable in the the coroner's office. She In her home when an oil stove which she was adjusting burst Into flaines.

Mrs. Henderson succeeded in moving the stove from the house but infso doing her clothing caught in the rfcmes. Before the fire was, subdued all of her clothing except ier shoes and part of lier hose waj away, and her hair and were singed. She cut away parrot the burning clothing with scissors in her desperate battle for life. Throwing a light coat over her shoul ders Mrs.

Henderson started for the Willard ranch an elghlh ot a mile distant. As she approached the house, Mrs. Wlllard was terrified believing that she was confronted by an Insane woman. Mrs. Henderson explained her predicament and Mrs.

Willard assisted her (tod placed her in bed. Mrs. Henderson Insisted that she was not badly Injured'and protested when Dr. Spangler was summoned from Briggsdale. Later In the evening she became weaker and died at 10 o'clock.

Dr. W. H. Wood, the corpner, was called to the scene of the tragedy and the body was brought to Qreeley late In the night. Mrs.

Henderson had lived In the Briggsdale district for about 10 years. She had been a widow for about 25 years. Her brother, John Hayes, who had been living on the ranch bad gone to Oberlin, to work In the bar- vost flelds. He has been notified of his sister's death. Mrs.

Henderson is not survived by children. No funeral arrangements have, been made. The body is at Macy's. ILLINOIS CITY IS GUARDED BY 150 MILITIAMEN (AMoeliited PreM) West Frankfort, 111., Aug. 6--Following a night of rioting in which five persons are believed to have been kill- sd and scores injured, comparative quiet wag restored here.

Approximately 5,000 foreigners against whom the rioters directed their attack had left town, coupled with the arrival ot 160 militiamen of the Ninth Illinois infantry tended to bring about order. HARTMAN DENIES GREELEY CARMEN STRIKE REPORTS Reports that the Greeley street car would" be discontinued Saturday because of a strike 'of employes was declared to be untrue by C. It Hartman, superintendent of the com- 'pany, Friday afternoon, Hartman stated that the men were uneasy and dissatisfied but that he did not anticipate a strike. The highest paid man on the cars gets (3.00 a day at present. The matter of obtaining a 6-cent fare for tho street car company is to be taken up at once by the management.

The company claims that It Is paying its entire Income for operating expenses and must have increased Income before It can pay higher wages. WINMOR BANK'PRESIDENT DIES IN FKTZCR, TEXAS Windsor, Aug. has been received here ot the death Aug. 4, of J. M.

Allam, president of the Farmers State bank, who died In FeUer. Tex. He was 63 years old. had ieen la 111 health for some time. The tody will be brought to Greeley the tlrst ot the week and Interment will ie In Lakeside cemetery.

Allam Is by a daughter, Dora, who live 1 here. Members of American Olympic Team Kick on Conditions on Vessel On Board the U. S. Princess Matolka, By Associated Press, Aug. among the members of the Olympic team on board this steamer resulted in the holding today of an Indignation meeting at which a committee was appointed to confer with the officials regarding future arrangements.

MOB SMASHES EQUIPMENT OF DENVER POST Denver, Aug. plant of the Denver Post was wrecked last night by the mob that roamed the streets all night. Thousands witnessed the work of destruction. Police dispersed the after the plant had been practically put out of service. City detectives arrested O.

Mj- Kee, 21 years old, and Tannenbaum, 19, as being among the leaders of the demonstration. The throng, which was a portion of the mob which held Denver in a reign oi terror last night by staging spectacular strike demonstrations on the downtown streets, 7'recked tramway cars, beating up the!) crews of strikebreakers and firing tramway cars and car barns, shattering desks, overturn-, ing counters ami benches, smashing machinery and demolishing the private offices of H. H. Tammen and F. G.

Bonfils, and was at last driven into the street by a squad of officers and -city ttetectlves. attack upon tha offices of the Post by the mob followed three demonstrations staged in front of the building in the afternoon and earlier in tho evening. Newsboys selling the Post in tho downtown section were stripped of their papers and the pers destroyed. Members of the Post staff on duty and the night of printers were warned by officers that the mob was heading for the building, intending and they made their escape from the building and-tbe mob, while the officers turned in a fire alarm in an effort to fight the crowd off with streams of water. This led to a rumor, which spread rapidly, to the effect that the Post building had been fired by the rioters.

First Shatter Windows In their attack the mob at first shattered the huge plate glass windows on the first floor and then devoted their attention to demolishing the counters and desks in tho buslness office. As others shoved thru the door into the office men went both up and down stairs, searching for breakable articles, and left behind them a trail of splintered wood. In the editorial rooms, chairs and desks were overturned and several typewriters were smashed but the intricate telephone switchboard and the telephone system lu the office was unharmed. Several linotype machines were smashed and hopelessly destroyed, but virtually none of the type cases were touched and but little of the type scat' The presses also to be unharmed and it was the opinion 'Of machinists that they would be able to operate today. Most of the energy- of the mob was evidently directed to the private offices of Bonfils and Tammen, and these rooms were stripped almost bare of their furnishings.

Valuable Records Destroyed Valuable records and files that can never be replaced were carried by the mob to the street, where they were torn Into bits, while a truck loaded with several huge rolls o.t paper was confiscated and the paper dumped into the streets, where it was spread for Dlocks as the paper was unrolled. The first demonstration staged before the Post building occurred just before the first tramway riot at Fifteenth and Champa streets, about 5 o'clock. At this time a committee from the mob visited the editorial rooms and protested against the attitude of the Post toward the strikers. Extras Destroyed as Issued After the rioters had marched around the city for more than an hour thty returned to the Post building, where they, destroyed the Post's riot extras fut as they put on the street by newsboys. This was con- for some time, until the'mob was dispersed by the police.

The tlnal started when the yelling mob demanded that Post pull down the American flag loatlag from Its flagpole, and one.of final acts of the rioters was to this flat and tear It from the by which It was hoisted. Will Publish as Usual Today F. G. Bonfils was reported out of city on a fishing trip last night, but H. H.

Tammon declared that ho bo- SPECIAL RIOT OFFICERS AND 2000 VOLUNTEERS ORGANIZED TO CHECK RECURRENCE OF PROPERTY DAMAGE Cars Wrecked and Burned, Car Barns Are Fired, Denver Post Plant Badly Damaged When Mob Conducts Reign of Terror (Aunt-luted Preu) Denver, Aug. 0--Fear that rioting which last night caused the death of two and the injury of 34 would be resumed today was expressed lu official circles. Mayor Dewey C. Bailey issued a proclamation calling for 2,000 volunteers to patrol the city and was receiving excellent response. The police were helpless before the mob-last night, which continued Its work of destruction until It wore itself out.

Reports from hospitals today indicate that most of tHe wounded will cover. No attempt was made by the Tra, way company to operate cars today. Yesterday was the first "-y since ft- day that passengers were carried on Denver cars. The mob which surrounded the car barns early this morning dispersed later in the day. H.

H. Tammen, one of the owners ot the Denver Post, said today that he could not estimate the damage done to his plant. "The city is without protection," Tammen said. Early editions of the Post were issued this morning from the regular plant. Strike breakers with rifles wero patrolling the grounds In front pt the! car barns this morning.

One hundred' and fifty strike breakers were houses in barns which the, strikers set afire last night. The two fatalities occurred at the car-barns. Mount Machine Guns on Trucks in preparations for possible resumption of hostilities tonight, the police prepared to mount two machine guns. Hundreds of sawed oft shot guns and army rifles were being assembled at police headquarters. Up to 11 a.

m. more than 600 citizens had answered Mayor Bailey's call foi volunteers. The two machine guns of the Browning type were turned over to the city forces from the ordnance department of the Colorado National 'guard. Each gun has been mounted on a motor truck and jsun crews made up ot veteran machine gunners from the American Expeditionary forces were organized. Riot Guns Supplied Fifty "riot" guns, or sawed off shotguns, were brought to the hall the morning and will be used In event of further rioting.

The rioting began late in the afternoon and it was not until 1 o'clock this morning that members of the mob which had kept police busy in various parts of the city for more than six hours had dispersed. Eight street cars were wrecked, the office of the Denver Post partially demolished and damage done to car barns in widely separated parts of the city. Tramway Guards Bulldlnj Reports from the fortified offices of the Traction company early In the day Indicated that no further attempt would be made to -operate cars until the city had made progress on new plans for the preservation of order in the street. The strike breakers are being used, as guards in all buildings owned by the company. At the offices ot the Denver Post a scene approaching martial law prevailed.

The sidewalk in front ot the building was roped oft and a heavy police guard was working. Denver, Aug. 6--Rutus Darling, aged a switchman, probably will die from Wounds received in last night's rioting. Thirty arrests of men alleged to have had a hand in the disturbances had been made up to 2 o'clock this afternoon. One hundred more strikebreakers are expected to arrive here today.

Hundreds of others are on the way here according to tramway officials. "The tramway will continue efforts to run cars until this strike is crushed and 1 General Manager F. W. Hlld announced. "When the city Insisted that we increase the number of cars' we were compelled to reduce the number of guards on the cars.

You tee the result." Two street cars which had been deserted at Fortieth and Williams streets last night and partially destroyed by a Keyed the paper would be able to publish an usual today. "We have just succeeded In getting the mob out of the building," he said late last night, "and hare not yet been able to ascertain the full extent of the damage but from outward appearances I believe we will be able to operate." Every member of tho Post staff was ordered to report at 7 o'clock thl-i morning to report tho day's developments. mob said by the police to have included many men from railroad shops were burned today. The police casualty list as announced this afternoon showed nine patrolmen and Chief of Police Hamilton Armstrong injured. Three of the officers wero in a serious condition.

Altho he was knocked unconscious last night by a brick hurled by a member of the mob, Chief Armstrong today was directing preparations for pra- venting renewal of hostilities tonight. Trains Delayed Leaving Station "Ten thousand people jammed the streets of Denver Thursday night," aald Mrs. S. B. McClelland, who with a of W.

C. T. U. ladies from Greeloy, returned from Boulder to this 1 city. "The streets -were strewn with papers.

Print paper taken frprn-tlie Denver office WAS, stretched in one long it'rlp fi'Mn tlr9 Pbstoffieo to the union depot. tpuk us i. halt hour to get from the Union depot to the edge of the city thru tho mob. We saw four wrecked street cars. One was on its side on the track while the other three were smashed up completely with broken glass scattered like salt them," Mrs.

McClelland said. Denver, Aug. Shoot tq kill!" These were instructions this to 1,000 citizens armed with off shotguns and army rifles were sworn in to protect life and and to prevent a reoccurrence of the disastrous riots of Thursday night. business district will be an armed camp tonight. Mobs bent on rioting will not go unresisted.

Armored tank Cars mounted with Browning machine guns capable of belching forth 600 shots a minute were prepared for the city's use this afternoon. The cars are being with steel plates protecting all occupants from anything except artillery fire. They ore manned by experienced machine gunners, veterans of the world war. Machine guns have been mounted on tops of buildings near likely riot centers. Tho city authorities have the theaters clos.ed at 7 o'clqck and effort will be made to' keep crowds off the streets.

Army Private Held as Leader, Private W. L. Dewitte, medical corps tl. S. was arrested in tho offices of jthe Denver Times late this afternoon where- ho went to write what he considered a "full explanation" of the attack on the Denver Post last night.

it was said, had been arrested by the police last night, but was rescued from them by the mob. He is attached to the Fitzslmmons military hospital at Aurora. The police charge that Dewitte was the ringleader of the attack on the Post. Hawkins and Williams Clash Horace N. Hawkins, special attorney for the city In the Tramway cases, and Wayne Williams, counsel for the Tramway employes union, clashed 11 district court today In a hearing bo- fore District Judge Qreeley W.

Whitford to determine whether strikers ishould be cited for contempt of court. Tense feeling marked the argument. Hawkins sprang to his feet to answer what he consl56red a threat of revolution made by Williams if the -court cited the strikers for contempt. "If such a rule is made," Williams said, "then nothing can prevent a rev- in this state, and the law will be changed. There Is nothing in law will deny the working man his right to strike." Whitfortf Stops Argument "We will meet that trouble when It comes, and when it does come we writ crush It with an iron heel," Hawkins said ns he sprang to his feet.

"Yes, and I'll you In that," Williams replied. Judge Whitford stopped the argument between the attorneys and tho hearings proceeded. i Digger Indian Said To Be 144 Years Old Laguna Mountains, Aug. 5-Said to hare been born yws ago. the the Declaration of Independence was signed, oa a spot which is now a government reservation and which he still calls home, Domingo Jaclnto, chief of a tribe of Digger Indians, was one oj the spectators at the Independence Day celebration here.

Accompanied by his dauchter, a granddaughter and a great rrandson, he evinced keen interest In ths program Ho fc said to be older than the pines ind oilier trees which mako Lacuna, Mountains resort a playground fnr thi rc.tldrnta of Imperial and San countli'S. Although focblp, hn walk, ECO and hear without.