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VNIVER5UV KliAUlN ROOM "Way Out West," May 26; Frontier Days, July 2-5, 1921 ER.LY Journal -Miner PIONEER PAPER OF ARIZONA PRESCOTT JOURNAL-M-INER, WEDNESDAY MAY 18, 1921 FIFTY-EIGHTH YEAR 1ST SPEEDS IIP Oil THE FIRST DAK THESE WILL TRY CASE OF MRS. ANNA HOPKINS James Marlette, Mayer, electrician. J. S. Ambrose, Prescott.

Uriah Reed, Camp Verde, rancher. C. J. Bones, Prescott. George E.

Briggeman, Prescott, electrician. James P. Rice, Walker, mine foreman. H. H.

Hanna. Hillside, rancher. John Massing, Prescott, coal dealer. W. H.

Krieger. P. J. Nash. Dale L.

Smith. J. S. Swigert, Turkey, miner. Twenty-nine minutes sufficed to put in the state case against Mrs, Anna Irene Hopkins, wife of Clarence V.

Hopkins, former chief en gineer of the United Verde Copper company, and placed on trial yester day befofe Judge J. S. Jenckes of Phoenix on a charge of assault. One state witness, absent at yesterday's session, remained to be interrogated, and this morning, it is felt sure, the prosecution will be through. Although there was a great "gallery" of court room fans, nothing justified their presence in the testimony given at the opening session.

Selection of the jury required the morning and a good deal of the afternoon sessions. At 3:20, Robert A. McMurchie, special assistant toj County Attorney John L. Sullivan, made a brief statement of the case and immediately called East-burn, the first witness. At 3:59, the defense indicated it did not desire to cross-examine Lucille Gallagher, the complaining witness, in whose face a glass of carbolic acid was dashed by Mrs.

Hop-kins, according to the testimony, and after a short colloquy between court and counsel, the night adjournment was taken. Miss Gallagher did not go into I detail when she took the stand. Speaking in the rather high pitched voice that is common to persons who have been ill, or are in a weakened state, she. related briefly how on March 31 last, she was sitting in the Connor cafe at Jerome at breakfast with Elsie Humphries, another school teacher. Suddenly Mrs.

Hopkins appeared and dashed the glass of liquid in her face. She would not attempt to state what the liquid was, but told of its effects. "I didn't know what it was. It burnt me. It burnt my eyes." Asked how long she had been the Miss Gallagher said: "It occurred on a Thursday.

Three weeks later, on Saturday, I left," and her white teeth showed in a smile. "Describe how you felt as a result of this burn," Mr. McMurchie asked. "I never suffered more," the witness dismissed the question shortly. Miss Gallagher said her eyes had been strong; she never wore glasses.

"I can identify a person whom I know by the silhoutte or walk," she said. "1 can't tell faces." Could she read? "Since this happened, I haven't read a line." The big purplish spectacles were kept directed at M'r. McMurchie and did not turn anywhere while the witness was on the stand. Miss Gallagher said she had lived in Jerome four years. She taught in the junior high school there.

There had been no words between her and Mrs. Hopkins prior to the incident of March 31, she declared, although Mrs. Hopkins had taken breakfast at the cafe at the same hour as the school teachers nearly every day for quite a time. Lois Eastburn, the waitress who served Miss Gallagher's breakfast, told of the throwing of the liquid. Dr.

A. C. Carlson, surgeon at the United Verde hospital, described the burns, said they were all "second degree" burns and that the skin and surface of the eyeballs were replaced. Miss Gallagher's sight ten days ago tested 10-20, or about half normal vision, the doctor said. He told of the location of the burns on the face, shoulder, forearms, breast and above the left clavicle, and identified carbolic acid as a "caustic acid" in the pharmacopeia.

In response to a single cross-question, the doctor said the tissues cf the eyeballs would all grow back. Dr. Carlson had known Mrs. Hopkins nine years. Jack Shea, Richard Nardim and George Moore each told of the part they played in pulling the women apart as they struggled following the throwing of the acid.

Miss Humph- ries briefly described the incident, saying she was reading aloua lro' table, corroborated the stories of the of the display its axis may be de-a letter as she sat at the table with other witnesses. scribed as a horizontal line inter- IS OBLIGED BY RULE TO TRY CHECK CASES (Assoclated Press Night Wire) WASHINGTON, D. May 16. The supreme court today reversed decrees of Georgia courts which had refused to enjoin the federal reserve bank at Atlanta from collecting checks drawn on non-member state banks and the case was remanded to the lower court. As the issue before the supreme court was merely tvucuici as a maiier oi pleading me plaintiffs' bill stated a cause of action the decision today was not a final decision and the case will go back to the district court of the northern district of Georgia, where the, next step is expected to be trial upon the merits of the case.

The plaintiffs asserted that to enforce its policy of par collection of checks, the Atlanta reserve bank planned to hold checks of small non-member banks until they reached a material size and then to demand payment "in cash across the counter" and to utilize other methods which would necessitate non-member banks always keeping on hand a sum out of all proportion to their capital. Such methods, they said, would force them to close or to join the federal reserve system. A suit for injunction to restrain the federal reserve bank from pro ceeding along these lines was brought but was dismissed when the Georgia court sustained a demurrer of the reserve bank. An appeal then was taken to the supreme court. Governor Harding of the federal reserve board said tonight that the supreme court decision will not in terfere with the clearing func tion of the federal reserve banks and those banks will continue to collect checks drawn on those banks which are listed on the par list.

IIS FEIN IE ACCUSED (Associated Press Night Wire) LONDON, May 16. Three arrests have been made by the police in con- 1 ection with Saturday night's attack on residences in and its suburbs, which relatives of members of Hhe Royal Irish constabularly at tributed to a Sinn Fein campaign to terrorize London. A number of houses and other buildfrigs were fired and three persons wounded, one probably mortally- Attack Cork Jail CORK, May 16. An attack was made on the Cork prison at midnight last night. It took the form of attempts to snipe the guards.

The guards replied with machine guns and sent up signal lights which brought a strong military force from the barracks and the attacking nartv was dispersed. This was the third attack within two months. Death Rate DUBLIN, May 16. Reports of 3nrf nth-r ttrL on military, police and civilians Satur day and Sunday show there were 33 deaths from violence, this being the l. 1 I I 1.

I highest number recorded for such a period. Four Die in Ambush DUBLIN, May 16. Four persons, one a woman, were killed in County Galway last night by men lying in ambush at Ballyturn. Those killed were District Inspector Blake and Mrs. Blake, Captain Cornwallis, a son of Col.

F. S. Corn-wallis in whose automobile the party was riding, and Lieutenant Mc-Creary. Mrs. Gregory, the only other person in the car, was not injured.

IN THE STREET In the course of making improvements on the road to Pine Crest on Park and Pleasant avenues, it was found that the property of Joe Young, at 401 Park avenue, is 26 feet out on the street, the stone fence being that far off of line. A telephone, pole recently set on the line as now established is near the center of the present roadway. Miss Gallagher, and did not see the acid thrown, but saw everything that followed. She said Mrs. Hopkins was holding Miss Gallagher by the neck Miss Gallagher screamed, and cried out: "She's thrown acid in my eyes!" Other witnesses testified they had heard the scream and the cry of Miss Gallagher, "Oh, my face!" wJl0 was an adjoining SURVEYOR SEZ YAVAPAI LINE TOO FAB SOUTH (Associated Pres3 Night Wire) PHOENIX, May 16.

O. C. Thompson, a civil engineer employ ed by the Maricopa county board of supervisors to determine the correct location of the dividing line between Maricopa and Yavapai counties, to day reported to the board that the line was one and one-eighth miles south of wnere it should be. Mr. Thompson reported that the monument erected by Yavapai county in 1891 to mark the dividing line bet twecn me counties was not located the spot where he believed it should be, according to calculations made bv him from observations of.

the sun and north star. Mr. Thomp-1 son now is in Prescott securing further information regarding the line If Mr. Thompson claims are correct, the A. T.

S. F. railroad has been paying taxes on about $250,000 worth of property to Yavapai county which should have been Maricopa, i IF INCOME OF 1920 IS (Associated Press Night Wire) WASHINGTON, D. May 16. Private ownership of railroads cannot continue if railroad operating costs when fair return on capital is considered, continued to exceed revenues, Daniel Willard, president of the Baltimore Ohio, todayj testified before a senate investigating committee.

He said that the railroad situation, in so far as depression and lack of earnings were concerned, differed "only in degree" ffom that now being met in other industries. General economic conditions and troubles "encountered in federal war-time operations, he added, were, in his opinion, largely responsible for present difficulties and he expressed confidence that private ownership would justify (itself financially and work out under present laws and government poli- cies. Chairman Cummins of the senate committee had previously expressed the opinion that the "railroads can1- not last" if 1920 returns from opera tions are to continue, an opinion agreed in by Julius Kruttschnitt, chairman of the Southern Pacific board, the first witness. CAUSE IT UEERAFF; HIS OBSERMD Sunday's sun gave Commander 'Milton Updegraff, U. S.

navv (re 'tired) of Oak Knoll, this ty, the secret Saturday night magnifi- ccm aim unusual aurora ooreans. Two sun-spots, large enough to be seen with the naked eye, close to- I i i i gether, and located just west of the center of the disk, were observed by Commander Updegraff, and by him connected with the phenomena of the night before. The sunspots are large enough to swallow the earth and a few thousand other planets of its size, and the effect of these solar storms is so 'tremendous that the magnetic currents of the earth are troubled, and manifest their unusual state in the lambent displays known as aurora bore-alis. Commander Updegraff, who was formerly director of the Nautical Almanac office at Washington, D. and astronomer at the U.

S. naval observatory, has given the Journal-Miner a transcript of his notes covering observations at his home, Oak Knoll, Saturday night and Sunday. They here reproduced complete: May 14, 10 p. m. Remarkable exhibition of aurora borealis (northern lights), first noticed at p.

m. Continued with undiminished intensity for half an hour. Low down auroral, arch about north point at 10 p. m. and later.

Display consisted of bright whitish or pearly rapidly changing cloud-like patches of light, 5 to 10 degrees in diameter, in all parts of the sky except within 20 degrees of the zenith, large diffuse reddish areas in southeast, southwest and northwest at altitudes of 30 or 40 degrees and streamers converging in a point 15 degrees south of the zenith and 10 degrees west of the meridian with no corona and near the star Beta Leonis (Deuebola) the streamers persisting for half an I V. r. 1 1 r- riliri'nrT ll 11 irr.nt.i.'t Iff ON COMMITTEE OF CUTS RAISES (Associated Night Wire) WASHINGTON, D. May 16. The senate finance committee was swamped at hearings today with suggestions for revision of the federal tax laws.

It heard for the first time a defense of the excess profits tax as well as pleas for reduced-taxes i ir 1 and elimination of alleged discrim inatory provisions against business. C. C. Hanch of Indianapolis and G. M.

Graham of Buffalo, speaking for the National Automobile Cham ber of Commerce were the chief witnesses from the industrial ranks and urged removal of 'the excess profits, luxury, excise, transportation and consumption taxes. H. A. Harris of Chicago, a certi fied public accountant, was the champion of the excess profits tax. Mr.

Harris also urged exemption of cor poration dividends from personal income sur-taxes. Frank Seidman of Grand Rapids, took still another tack- on the profits tax question suggesting a tax on undistributed earnings of -corporations to make good losses caused by repeal of the profits tax. Attempts of officials during the war to differentiate between essential and non-essential industries have left bad spots the nation commercial life, said Mr. Graham. HELD BY DISCUSSION (Associated Press JWght Wire) WASHINGTON, Di May 16.

The '500 million dollar naval bill was unable today to make headway against opposition of advocates of the Borah proposal for a disarmament conference. Addresses by Senator Pomerene, democrat, 'of Ohio, and Senator La Follette, republican, of Wisconsin, prevented amendments from being readied and when adjournment was taken the later had not. finished. It was expected amendments would be reached late tomorrow. Both -senators deolared great expenditures were unnecessary and inexpedient.

Senator Pomerene supported the Borah amendment and advocated one of his own to clothe the president with authority to sus- pend capital ship construction iorlj six mouths. AURORA. SAYS secting the horizon 10 degrees cast of the north point. Cloud-like whitish patches were seen from 5 to 10 degrees from the south horizon. The moon was at first nnarter and the planet Jupiter midway between Alpha and B.

Leonis. Vividness of the phenomenon diminished by moonlight. There were a few cumulus clouds to the northward, and nothing unusual in the humidity of the air, the temperature or other meteorological conditions. May 15, 7 a. m.

There are two spots on the sun, slightly west of the center of the disk and close together and plainly visible to the naked eye. Unusual electrical conditions were observed locally yesterday and the day before. Rustling sounds are sometimes heard in connection with auroral displays and rapid motions of vertical streamers in the auroral arch known as "merry dancers," but nothing of the sort was observed here last night. Auroral displays are unusual at this latitude 3iid it may be many years before another such as this is seen in the southern part of the United States. Spots as large as those now visible on the sun are also seen only once in perhaps two or three years at most.

It has long been recognized by scientific men that a connection exists between spots on the sun and auroral displays and magnetic storms on the earth. The record of auroral displays at low latitudes is incomplete and the frequency with which they are to be expected is not accurately-known. But the laws which control these phenomena are not as yet fully understood. It is well known, how-ver, that auroral displays are caused by electrical discharges in the upper air at- heights varying perhaps from 50 to 300 miles and are local -in their nature as compared to the appearances of comets and other heavenly bodies, which move at enormous and greatly varying distances from the earth. WHITEWASH DAY IS HERE: "Round his neck he wears a little paint brush.

He wears it in the morning and the evening," so theH say. It's day. Starting bright and early this jvttw.vjr iu HIV- glUUIIU3 VJl Northern Arizona State Fair associa- I tion, there to whitewash the fence surrounding the half-mile track and to have it all "dolled" up, ready for the big Out West day, May 26th. The hardy sons of toil, and that includes every man willing to swing a white-wash brush, or assist with- the other work necessary to make the work a success, will meet this morning about 7:45, oh Montezuma street. Those having cars are asked to line-up at that time, so that those not owing transportation, but willing to do a day's work, or have it done, will be taken to the fair grounds.

Following a suggestion made by C. E. Yount, president of the Yava pai county chamber of a committee composed of Frank Fos ter, chairman, Bob Connell, William Greenwood, W. W. Pickerill- and Chris Totten, legal has been on the job rounding this idea into concrete form.

Today, every man owning or able to steal a white-wash brush is asked to bring his brush and himself to the fair grounds. As many whitewash brushes as could be found have been taken in possession by the committee, but it will require this per sonal co-operation- to make the day a success. Wh'te-wash Lunch Henry Hartin with his usual genial manner, will serve a "white-wash lunch." This will be in name only for a good old-fashioned barbecue will be spread for the workers. The Owl Drug and Candy company will serve coffee and sandwiches, so that the harder a fellow works, the more i reason for a second helping. i xne white-wash gang to date is composed of the following well- known citizens, some donating labor, others cash, and a few both labor and cash.

If your name isn't on the list, see to it that you put your energy to the wheel and are on the job today e. Yount and sons, lab'or and Wm Crooks, labor and use of -large truck; Puntenney Lime com pany, 20 barrels lime $70; Arizona company, one truck' and lab'or; Walter -Hill, H. W. Heap, T. H.

Bate, O. A. Hesla, R. E. Morrison, i Louis Bunte, W.

A. Drake, R. N. 'Looney, L. C.

Derrick, Ralph J. Roper, r. W. Uoville, A. awen-son, W.

M. Roberts, W. W. Pick erill, labor; James Lowry, T. F.

M'cLoughlin, I. S. McCash, James Whetstine, M. L. Gainey, M.

L. Tribby, labor; Wm. Allen, Oliver Bess, Lyle Abbott, labor; Frank Foster, labor and Grace Sparkes, Lester Ruffner, labor; C. Holbrook, labor; E. G.

Weil, two boys and spray pump; J. A. Morrison, labor; Chris Totten, labor and Bob Connell, labor; N. C. Clark, labor and W.

L. Richards, labor and Howard Cornick, labor; E. H. Loveridge, labor; H. D.

Ait-ken, R. H. Burmister, Ed Block, J. B. Downey, Gordon Clark, labor or "squivalent;" R.

L. Jones, Kirkwood Huber, labor; Ralph Greet, G. O. Vyne, O. F.

Orthel, J. H. Blain, T. G. Norris, J.

H. Morgan, John L. Sullivan, Wm, Greenwood, R. B. Westervclt, Brubaker painters, D.

W. Russell, D. H. Biles, Fred Moore, labor. NATIONAL LEAGUE Philadelphia, Pittsburg, 6.

St. Louis, 4. New York, Cincinnati, 4. Boston, Chicago, 1. AMERICAN LEAGUE Detroit, 17; Washington, 11.

St. Louis, Boston, 10. Chicago, 4. Cleveland, New York, 6. COAST LEAGUE No games.

COTTON MARKET NEW YORK, May 16. Cotton closed steady at a net advance of 8 to 32 points. METAL MARKET NEW YORK, May 16 Bar silver: Foreign, 59j4c; domestic, 99'Ac. Cop per: Firm; electrolytic spot, 13 to 144 c. GREW 1LALS0 EAT ON HMD TO VIEW ACID CASE VICTIM A full court room greeted the beginning yesterday morning of the trial of Mrs.

Hopkins. More thjli half the spectators were women. While the testimony the first day lacked interest, being a brief and highly summarized story of flic alleged assault, and not going into -the 'question of motive or that of. the sanity of the defendant, the appear ance of both Mrs. Hopkins and Miss Ualiagher excited attention.

Mrs. Hopkins did not sit with her counsel, Judge Ellis, but- remained on the long bench between Mrs. J. R. Lowry, the jail matron, and her hus band.

She wore a dark' gray dress, relieved by a small gold crucifix, ana a cape of the same material. Miss Gallagher sat on the opposite side of the court room between her parents, and with her were two other women witnesses from Jerome. Miss Gallagher's face was pallid, the whiteness of her skin being unmarked, however, and her pallor was heightened" by the large colored glasses she wore. These she did not remove even while testifying; her eyes were not exposed during the session. The Hopkins assault case was the subject of great interest on the streets, and it was said that the people of Jerome were even more concerned in 'it.

The speed with which the first day's session was over, and the fact the prosecution had but one more -witness, indicates that the trial will be quite Judge Ellis, counsel for the defense, believed it would re quire today and part of tomorrow to dispose of the case, and Judge Jenckes excused jurymen not used in the trial 'until Wednesday morn ing. The missing, witness is H. J. Min hinnick, one of the editors of the Verde Copper News, fie was called just at 4 o'clock and found missing. Judge Jenckes offered to have Mr.

Minhfnnick summoned forthwith by the processes the law has. at its elbow, but it was pointed out that he could not be brought here before tomorrow morning, anyhow. Judge Ellis advanced an explanation for the absence of the witness, saying he had been summoned as a defense witness as well as by the prosecution, and the second subpoena called for his appearance Tuesday morning. (Associated Press rJight Wire) WILLIAMSON. W.

Mav 16. Firing on the Crystal Block Coal company's head house at Rawl. W. broke out early tonight, accord ing to reports received here bv Cap tain J. R.

Brockus at state police headquarters. It was the first disorder reported today in the Kentucky-West Virginia border trouble zone. The shots were fired. Captain Brockus said, from the Kentucky mountains. He added the shooting lasted but a few minutes.

An Associated Press correspondent had traversed the trouble zone from j'Rawl to Sprigg with Captain Brock us and a detachment of state police an hour earlier without hearing a shot. Evidence of the battles of the last few days was plentiful at Rawl, Merrimac and Sprigg. Houses and stores were riddled and windows, mirrors and- show-cases shattered. A coat hanging in one house at Sprigg was found to contain 17 bullet holes. Another step toward completion of the patenting of Humboldt townsite was taken yesterday when Field Inspector Busch of the general land office and Judge John J.

Sweeney, trustee, visited the town and looked over the ground. Busch's inspection was to determine the mineral or non-mineral char acter of the 20 plus acres included the He will report to the land office at Washington and later a patent will be issued to the trustee, who in turn, will convey title to the land to those proving preferential rights. Land not claim ed will be sold and the proceeds used to defray expenses in connec tion with the securing of the patent. surveys and incidential expenses. HUMBOLDT TO GET TOWNSITE DARING ESCAPE IS EAST RIDE (Associated Press Night Wire! RAWLINS.

Wvo. Mnv 1At Bfscardo, 35 years old, serving a term Of 15 vears for lntnmnhilr theft in the Wyoming penitentiary, shot and killed himself on a prairie. 15 miles south of Rawlins today after making one of the most daring escapes on record from the Wyom ing prison. After forcing Warden F. O.

Haskell to unlock the door of his cell while with drawn revolver he forced the prison physician! Dr. Raymond Baker, and 'Magor. who had come to attend Biscardb, believing he was ill, to. stand against the wall, he told the warden he would hold the two men as hostages until he made his escape. Leaving the prison with the three men covered, Biscardo took the doctor's automobide.

orderinc him tn drive the machine; with Mr. Magor in the i front seat with him. The convict sat in the rear, his revolver pointed at, the two fnen. The warden was given instructions not to- follow until they had proceeded three blocks under penalty of death to the two hostages. The chase was taken uo bv the warden and Deputy Warden Keefe after the first automobile passed the line indicated by Biscardo.

Three miles from Rawlins Magor took a desperate chance for liberty and" leaped from the machine into sagebrush by the roadside. He was unhurt and Biscardo made no attempt to recapture him. The first automobile gradually mctv away irura inc pursuing machine until it was forced to stop 16 miles from Rawlins owing to engine trouble. Fearing a plan to trap him, the convict investigated the engine himself. Leaving the physician hi ran a short distance to hide himself from the pursuing party.

He took refuge in the brush. the warden's car drew up a sho was heard and Biscardo was found dead, one bullet having passed into the brain. CAPITAL VALUE IF TAXED AS INCOME (Associated Press Nght Wire) WASHINGTON. D. C.

Mav 16. Through a decision of the supreme court today the government won two important victories in. controversies involving interpretation of income -provisions of- the revenue acts of 1916 and 1917. Increased value of a capital fasset could not be added to "invested' the court rules in the appeal of the La Belle Iron Works, an Ohio concern, from -a ruling by treasury officials, but on the contrary be considered in computing profits of the corporation on which the taxes were to be assessed. In the other decision, the court ruled that inheritance or succession taxes paid to a state could not be deducted from the "net estate tax under the revenue act." The suit was characterized by a high government official as "the most important legal suit affecting federal finances to arise in several decades." The specific point at issue was whether land in the Meserbe range of Minnesota purchased for $190,000 prior to 1904 could be returned by the Iron company at a new valuation of $10,000,000 in 1917, the increase being covered by a stock issue and carried under invested capital.

TO START TRAINING (Associated Press Night Wire) NEW YORK, May 16. Confident of victory, Georges Carpentier, challenger of Jack Dempsey, heavyweight champion, arrived today to begin training. The Freuchman. who disembarked at noon from his steamer, did not go directly to his training camp at Manhasset, Long Island, as he had planned, but spent the night here. He plays to go to his camo to morrow, beginning training Wednesday and keep at it without interruption until the fight starts at Jersey Uty.

WEATHER DENVER. Mav 16. Tuesday i Local showers andi cooler: Wednes day, fair west, showers' and cooler east. Warmer west portion. Fresh, westerly winds.

OF CONVICT.