The Coffeyville Daily Journal from Coffeyville, Kansas • Page 1

lEIGHT if EDITION sf Associated Press SerOice In Southeastern Kansas LAST Siilg -wy PAGES VOL. XX. No. 163. COFFEYVILLE, KANSAS SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 6, 1912.

brain of one man. It is the engineer LATE PICTURES OF MRS. WOODROW WILSON 13-VEAR-OLD LAO THREE CHARMING WILSON GIRLS SHOOTS A and turned' Iri his saddle and opened fire on the motor car party. A. running fight ensued.

The bandit was well supplied with ammunition and for some time returned the fire. James O. Laughlin. a merchant cf Rome, received a bullet in the back, but his injuries are not serious. When only a short distance ahead of the motorists the bandit threw both hands to his breast and tumbled from his horse.

An examination showed that he had been shot through the heart. The stolen money was recovered. The injuries cf Hileman are not severe. He was shot in the arms when he refused to comply with the demands of the bandit. The police are searching for'Clark's companions who are believed to have aided him in getting from the bank to the woods, a short distance away, where he was given a horse.

AND THE Sea Girt, N. July 6. ShouU. Woodrow Wilson become the next president the United States the White House would have four feminine lmxates, something that the handsome old building never saw befcre. For the first time in history there will be three young women im the White House family.

Mrs. Wilson herself looks more like an elder 3ister than the of such iris. She is a bril- li -v. I Km? BIX- rfTTsiTiARSTARTn wj.lson I' cam I 21 EXCURSIONISTS KILLED IN WRECK ENGINE PUSHES AN OVERLOADED COACH INTO A DOUBLE HEADER: FREIGHT NEAR PITTSBURGH, KILLING MANY. WOODEN COACH IS CRUSHED NURSE AND TWO OF FOUR CHILDREN SHE WAS CARING FOR, KILLED.

ROAD'S FIRST FATAL WRECK Small Road Running from Wilpen Coal Mines to Ligonier, a Resort Said to Be Owned by the Penns-vania Railroad. By the Associated Press. La Trobe, July 6. Twenty-one persons were killed and thirty injured, a number fatally, as a result of a wreck Friday evening on the Ligonier Valley railroad at Wilpen. An overloaded passenger coach, pushed by an engine, was struck by a double-header freight train of coal cars, crushing the coach like paper and spreading death and injury to all but one aboard the train.

The accident occurred at the fair grounds at Wilpen, one and a half miles frcm Ligonier, a summer resort. Engine Pushes Cach The passenger train had started from Ligonier. It" consisted of an engine and coach, the engine pushing the coach. The freight train was being pulled by two heavy locomotives. The impact was terrific.

The passenger coach was practically laid open and the passengers either crushed or thrown like shot through the air. It was the first fatal accident, it Is said, in the history of the Ligonier road for forty years. The Dead George V. Hublney of Pittsburgh, civil engineer, body crushed. Matthew Niepont of Pittsburgh, crushed.

Mary Hoddy of Ligonier. Frank E. Beatty, engineer, head crushed. Mrs. Harry Dillon and baby of Wilpen, crushed to death.

William Campbell of Wilpen. Frank iMcConnaughey of Ligcnier, engineer, scalded to death. George Byers cf Ligonier, fireman, crushed and scalded. Louise Rhoddy, aged 8, of McCance, crushed. Elizabeth Rhoddy, aged 13, a sister.

John M. Ankney of Ligonier, fireman, died on way to hospital. Mrs. M. Esse of Wilpen.

Thcmas Murr of La Trobe, head crushed. George Tosh of Wilpen, body smash ed. Mike Hudock of Wilpen, side crush ed. Frank Overton, aged 10, of Wilpen, mutilated. Mrs.

John Overton, aged 10, of Wilpen, mutilated. John Overton, mother of Frank, died on train bound for Pittsburgh. Unidentified bey, aged 12. Two unidentified foreigners, badly crushed. Several Injured May Die A majority of the injured, thirty in all, were residents along the Wilpen branch.

Among them were Dr. J. B. Johnson of Ligonier, hurt internally, "will iprobably die. Dr.

C. A. Hainill of Ligonier, crushed, may die. Walter Serena of McKeesport, bank clerk, is in a precarious condition. The injuries of the others were all severe consisting of broken legs ann arms and contusions.

The train was well crowded, every seat In the lone coach being occupied by persons returning from a Fourth of July holiday. The freight engines ploughed the wooden coach, crushing it as it would paper. The accident occurred on a branch road running from this place to Ligonier, which is owned by the Mellen interests of Pittsburgh. It had been reported that the line was controlled by the Pennsylvania railroad. It will take an Investigation to determine the cause of the wreck.

-Many of the passengers were women' and children. Two incidents are pathetic. Miss Esther Matthews, a nurse employed by an official of the road, was taking a party of six child-! ren to a woods near Wilpen for a picnic Two of the tots were crushed to death, the others badly hurt. Miss Matthews' condition is critical. The second incident is, the grief cf Mr.

and Mrs. Rhoddy, Their three young daughters, Louise, Elizabeth and Mary were killed. Mr. Rhoddy, well-known business man, and his wife are frantic and under the care of physicians. Human Brains at Fault.

New York, July 6. "No matter howl III PENNSYLVANIA i I iiant conversationalist takes an active interest in all subjects cf current Miss. -Margarejt row Wilson, the eldest daughter, is 'twecity-six years old, Miss Jessie Woodrow Wilson is' a year younger, while Miss Eleanor Wilson kno wn as Nell to all her friends is twenty-two. The 'eldest' daughter is fond of athlete and dancing, She (plays a good game of tenniB, basket 'ball and in the cab." This was the statement today of George A. Cullen, general traffic manager of the Lackawanna, after hours of effort In trying to place the blame for Thursday's disaster near Corning.

"Railroad men have studied this problem for years," he went on, "and always we come to the same question agency that will protect perfectly the lives of those intrusted to our care No, there must be the human mind the man. "In every accident it is some human mechanism that is at 'fault, some brain forgot or neglected to work at the proper time. The steel and wire mechanism is never at fault. That was the case in this terrible catastrophe. Our signals worked perfectly; all the men on the road performed their prescribed duty except one, and he says, in explanation, that he did not see the signals.

He blamed the fog. He was the engineer of the express which telescoped'' the Buffalo Limited." WILL ATTEMPT TO CAPTURE PACIFIC COAST PORT TOWNS HIS ARMY BADLY DEPLETED lnvasin of Sonora Begins- With Base on Pacific Coast Rebe.s May Be Able to Continue the War By the Associated Press. Orozco's Headquarters, Suaez, Mexico, July 6. General Pascual Orezeo tcdaji ordered the (bulk of the rebel army westward frciau here toward the state of Sonora and the Pacific Coast towns, where it is hoped to get ammunition Jaifan and 'cont'nue the revolution. Guaymas will be the first seaport whkh the rebel, coMtib will attempt to take.

By the Associated Press. El Paso, July 6. Only 3,500 men are estimated as the remnant of the Mexican rebel army today. Desertions because of lack cf food and money and federal triumphs have greatly reduced the columns of Orozco. Though the plan for guerilla warfare originally called for a division of rebels into detachments of 150 each, Orczco has ordered each column shall not contain less than 500.

The rebel invasion of the state of Sonora has begun. HIGH SCHOOLS INADEQUATE EDUCATORS SCORE ITS TEACHING AS BOOKISH AND ABSTRACT 1 Taught the Language, Politics and Customs of the Century Instead of Today, Says I nois Expert By the Associated Press. Chicago, July 6. High school education throughout the United States was branded as generally "bookish, scholastic, abstract and inadequate to most of the practical problems of life" in a Teport submitted to the national council of education of the National Educational' Association today. "The whole trouble with our high school education," declared David Fenley, president of the state normal school at Normal, 111., in reading his report, "Is that it is regarded too much merely as preparation fo rthe university.

Instead of dealing with the problems of life today the students are taught to deal with the language, politics and customs of the" fifteenth century About all the high school teachers are college graduates who have no adequate knowledge of affairs outside of college. Their teaching is, therefore, academic, scholastic and abstract. "We need a change of aim in high school teaching; a look in the direction of the farm; the shop "and the home. While we do not. recommend an education entirely vocational we urge a departure from the college idea.

CUTTING THIRD CROP. E. I. Burton, the alfalfa king, was in frcm his. farm eist of the city Saturday afternoon.

He is cutting his third crop of alfalfa this season and expects to get three more. He usually gets seven cuttings a season "but this season started month late. The crop is good. POLICE KILLED A DOG. The police killed a small white dog cn East Eighth street, near Pete Axer's stor Saturday afternoon.

The dog was in a fit and frothing at the cnoutki 3,000 MEN ARE WANTED. fflvnr't' w. r.jwt ibvu vt mil -r Avft I man ia -na crop in that vicinity. The wages are X7 rill trk nrt vu Hi-r fTnft iftref Jbegan there Friday. JAP AMMUNITION HOPE Or OROZGO THROUGH THE LIP CHARLES ADAMS, 8-YEAR-OLD SON OF "HI" ADAMS, WOUNDED BY A TWENTY-TWO CALIBER RIFLE BALL SATURDAY HE TOOK DELIBERATE AIM? SEEF VANNORSDOLL HELD BY PO LICE FOR THE JUVENILE COURT THOUGHT HE USED "BLANKS" By Declare Ho Did Not Take Dc-liberate Aim and Did Not Know of Cartridges Accounts of the Shooting Differ Charles Adams, the 8-year-old son of "HI" Adams, the hay dealer living at 813 East Ninth Etreet, was shot through the lower lip Saturday morning about 8:30 o'clock.

The wound was made by a 22-rifle ball and See! Vannorsdoll, the 13-year-old sen of James Vannorsdoll, an employe of the Rea-Patterson mill living at 905 East Ninth street, is being detained by the police for the juvenile court as the party responsible for the shooting. It appears that the Vannorsdoll boy and Dick Tatman, the 12-year-cld son of Frank Tatman, were playing with the former's 22-rlfle and the latter's blank cartridge revolver, such as are used for Fourth of July purposes. The boys were in the Vannorsdoll yard, when Charles Adams, his brother Carl and Fred Goppert appeared in the Goppert yard, next door west. The Vannorsdoll and the Tatman boys aro said have fired at the other boys, the Vannorsdoll boy taking deliberate aim at Charles Adams while the Tatman boy aimed only in the general direction. The former says he had the blank pistol, having exchanged with the Tatman boy.

The pistol, however, evidently contained a loaded the explosion broke tho pistol and the Adams boy was wounded. The two Adams boys and the Goppert boy say that the shooting was i done with the rifle, that the Tatman boy shot In their direction first, and that the Vannorsdoll boy grabbed the rifle then and took deliberate aim at Charles Adams. The Vannorsdoll boy denies taking deliberate aim, also thai he knew any of the cartridges contained bullets. The injured boy taken to his home across the street and Dr. Ileus-ton called to dress the wound.

The bullet passed entirely through the lower part of the lip, tore the gums and scraped the bone. The wound is net serious unless blood poisoning 'should result. The boy's mother is visiting in Nebraska. I Policeman P. K.

Smith took the Vannorsdoll boy into custody. Judge Osborn of the juvenile court agreed to turn the boy over to his father upon a promise that he would produce him whenever wanted, but the father sent word that he would not take the boy. It is expected that he will be taken to Independence. The Tatman boy had started fishing and fell in with the Vannorsdoll boy. His parents were not aware that be possessed the pistol, he having purchased It a few days ago.

LORIMER DEBATE STARTS Dillingham Oprfs in Defense of ths Illinois Senator By the Associated Press. Washington, July 6. The general -debate on the Lorlmer senatorial election case opened today, marking the beginning of the end of this, perhaps the most sensational contest In the history of the Senate. Senator Dillingham, chairman 'of the second Lorimer Investigating committee, made the opening speech presenting the findings which upheld Lorimer. Senator Lorimer himself plan-, ned to close for the defense with his own extemporaneous speech.

TOBACCO TAKES THE COUNT The No Smoking on Street Fight Is Over and Won Cars Kansas City, July 6. (Special) The long fight over the right to smoke on the local street cars, is over and the non-smokers have wod Mayor Jost this morning signed the measure repealing the recent ordliance permitting smoking on the three rear seats and rear platform. Manager J. M. Egan said he expected little trouble in -enforcing the rule, because the public has learned to accept it MISSOURI PASTOR HERE.

Charles Henson, pastor of the Carthage, Methodist is. viisUng -relatives In CoffeyVllle. He will preach Scnday afternoon, follow- Sunday school Itfciur, at the Dela-wara street -Lt (tl ELeadl A Lew Bush cf Mouid Valley visited here Friday with his colsin, Mrs. W. D.

MdCabe, and other relatives. or A WILSON CLUB HE WILL MAKE EFFECTIVE USE OF IT IN HIS CAMPAIGN. BLAMES IT ON THE TARIFF Tariff at the Center of It and the Trust Problem Both, Declares the Democratic Nominee. By The Associated Press. Sea Cirt, N.

July 6.Governor Wilson said that the "high cost of living is the burning issue of the hour and that "At its heart lies tho high protective It is an issue, he said, that he expects to cover in full in his speech of acceptance and in icairgi gn 3peech that he may make. "Undoubtedly -the tariff Is at the center of it," he aid, referring to tbe high cost of living. "The thing is co Interlaced on public questions of all kinds that the conclusion is inevitable. A great imiany of the trust questions of the time have arisen cut of the tariff. The minute yoa get out from the center the high tariff, you get into the trust question and others." 8 ABES RILLING IN RICHES WEALTHIEST WARDS IN WORLD ARE FOUND IN OKLAHOMA.

Sixty Thousand Young Indians Own More Than $129,000,000 Exclusive of Oil and Gas Property. Muskogee, July 6. (Special) The richest aninors ia the world of any race of people per capita are the children in the Five Civilized Tribes of eastern Oklahoma. Mtre than yooing Indian 'boys and girls own more than $129,000,000 exclusive of oil or gas property. These facts were unearthed by Dixon H.

Bynum, probate attorney for the Union Indian agency, who incorporated them in his annual report to Dana H. Kelsey, Indian sui erintendent. "And the unfortunate part of the whole preposition is the peculiar state of affairs whereby the county courts in eastern Oklahoma must handle on an average of 1,000 probate cases as compared with an average of 50 oases in other states in the union," aid Mr. Bynum yesterday. "Here is a.

condition for which no provision was made when Oklahoma was admitted Into the union and the result is County courts in the eastern ipart of this state are flooded with cases all the time and Telief is not in eight unless the state constitution be changed to establish a probate court to look after probate cases and estates of minors particularly. "Here are the figures that show approximately the number of irdnor3 in each cf the five tribes and the value of their TToperty based upon an esf-mate that each allotment ls' worth three time sits aippraisetti'ent for allotment purposes, excluding the value of improvements, and all mineral property: Nation No. of 3 Titoes E3t Minors App. Value Value Cherokee 25.000 976.S0 $24,420,000 Choctaw Chickasaw Creek -Seminole Totals 15,000 3123.84 46,859.600 7,000 11,000 2,000 60,000 3123.84 3120.00 900.00 21,866,880 21,866,000 1,800,000 $129,264,480 FUNERAL HOUR CHANGED. The funeral of Guy Heslop.

which was to have been held Saturday after noon at 1 o'clock at the Christian church, has been changed to 1:30 Sunday afternoon. The burial will be crude Rcbbins cemetery. Mr. Hestop. died Thursday afternoont at Dewey.

The body will be brought here Sunday morning. PARTY AT THE "NAT." Mrs. J. F. Overfleld chaperoned a party of Independence young peopte at the natatorium Friday night; j-oame Jn three autos.

COST LIVING Slaughter of Veal Ey, the Associated Press. Duluth, July 6. "The cause that has been raising and continues to raise Hhe price of beef is the continued slaughtering cf young calves," said Marcus Balanger, government live-stock inspector here today. "There are eight million ycung calves being killed every spring that average about seventy pounds apiece', fallowed to grow another year they would average five hundred pounds each, which means there would be pounds of beef added to the supply. But suppose we had a law like thaf cf the Argentine Republic which prohibits the killing of a female bovine until she is seven years old.

Porterhouse steak would cease to be a luxury. Beef is high because it is scarce." golf ard has; a fine soprano voice that she is cultivating. Miss Jessie is the executive, of the family. She is a member cf the-national board, of the Y. W.

C. A. and has done considerable settlement work in a tenetment district in Philadelphia. Only her health pre vented her becoming a foreign mia- sficnary. Eleanor has talent for xUinting.

Inherited from her moth er and she has. studied the art. seri ously. Soars Beef Prices HEAT KILLS SEVEN IN CHICAGO Many Bitten bV Sun-maddened Dogs-Lake Steamers By the Associated Press. Chicago, July 6.

Seven dead, a score of prostrations and a 'num'ber bitten by heat-madderd dogs wbs the "summary last night in Ch'cago at the close of the hottest day thus far this year. Excessive humidity, registering above 80 and a maximum tearerature cf 92 degrees, (resulted hi great -suffering. Thousands of persons In all parts of the -city slept out cf -doors, on roof tops and in the Lake steamers were crowded with persona seeking to. escape the great heat in the city. POSSE KILLED A YEGBMAII I wans in Wot or Cars Chased Robber -V Who Wounded Bank Cashier Mt.

Pleasant, July 6. The lone bandit who late Friday afternoon entered the savings bank at Rome, shot F. W. Hileman, the cashier, and escaped with several hundred dollars in cash, -was shot and instantly, killed last night by a member of the party who, had been seeking the robber, in motor cars for-several hours. The.

bandit, who was identified as Charles Clark, a local character, was overtaSfen by the posse- several miles south of here. He was riding ahorse StoeMtooHEM YANKEE ENTHIES. CAPTURE EIGHT FIRSTS IN INITIAL HEATS AGAINST FOUR FOR ENGLAND, TWO FOR CANADA. 2 OLYMPiC MARKS BROKEN A SWEDE THROWS JAVELIN 190 FEET, TEN 'FEET BETTER THAN RECORD. 1 MELV1N SHEPARD BEATEN The Irish-American Athletic Club Star Finished a Poor Second in 800 Meter Trial Heat, to an Englishman.

By The Associated Press. Stockholm, Sweden. July 8. The athletes, got off well in the lead in the opening track events -of the Olympic games here today. Thirty thousand spectators, among them the Swedish royal family, cheered theV respective favorites to victcry while the United States entr.es an nexed a large share of the firsts in the initial heats of the 100 and 800 master events.

Eifrht Americans, four Englishmen and two Canadians won places in the finals of the 800 meter race. An early "upset" in the meet came in the seventh heat of the 800 meter race when J. C. Soutter of England won from Melvin W. Sheppard easily.

Another surprise was the w'nning of the javelin throw by Ev Lemming of Sweden who 'broke the Olympic record by nearly 10 feet, hurling the spear 190 feet. By the Associated Press. Stockholm, Sweden, July 6. The inauguration of 5 the Olympic Games today provided a spectacle probably. never equalled since the days of Ancient Greece.

day was perfect and th great stadium -was filled with thirty When the members, of the Swedish royal family entered their gaily decor-. ated box, all present stood with bared I Concladed From Pace C'" NOT IHSiSTEHT OH HILLfcS Taft Won't Demand That His Secre-tary Be Made National Chairman By the Associated Press. Beverly, July 6. Although President Taft has favored the appointment of his secretary, C. D.

Hil-les, as chairman of the Republican National committee, with the active leadership of his campaign for re-election, he will not insist on this selection if members of the national committee who will meet him at the White House Monday hold different views. In addition to Mr. Hilles, William Barnes of New York and former Representative Parsons of the same state have been mentioned as possible chairman. Objections have been raised against both jusL as they have been raised against Mr. Hilles.

4 MISSOURI FARMER SLAIN Body of Guy F. Reed of Galena, Mo, Fourtd Near His Home By the Associated Press. Springfield, July 6 The body of Guy F. Reed, wealthy farmer, was found near his home south of tJalena, Mo, today. The Galena authorities he" was murdered.

The sheriff and a posse have left here for the Heed home. i 1- fwriect' tDO fflecnanirftl OP-nartrrxon nf n. raiiroaa ana now strict thel mips -aad regulations given the It is IlUUWDOiMisr 6S onaj iiUUi LUB raCT that we have, always to depend on the iiiimi" m' 0.llr.ia-T:i'.w'-H--.