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THE NEWS HAS THE LARGEST CIRCULATION OF THE PAPER8 IN CENTRAL KANSAS THE NEWS BRINGS THE NEWS FIRST TO CENTRAL AND WESTERN KANSAS UT'OHINSON HE ws. NO. 8 LAST EDITION. 'HUTCHINSON, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1920. XXXVI THE TIGER HUNT IS ON CLOUDBURST AT SAUNA INJUNCTION IS DENIED SOVIET NORTHERN ARMY DESIRES TO SURRENDER Deluge of Rain Fell There at 8.30 This Morning.

District Supreme Court Justice Wouldn't Check Suffrage. Negotiations to That End Are Ceing JHade by Bolsheviks. PEACE CONFEREE CE Warsaw, Aug. 21 PpUsh victo RAN OVER THE SIDEWALKS AND THE WAY SEEMS CLEAR ASK FOR PEACE Newest Effort of Anti-Suffragists Cellars Were Filled with Flood Waters Many Rains Over State in Week. Number of Prisoners Already Captured by the Latter Said to Be 60,000.

Failed to Work in Washington. ries over Soviet armies which invaded Poland apparently have, not affected the Bolshevik delegates at the peace conference being held in Minsk. A wireless dispatch received from Minsk today by Foreign Minister Sapieha asserted. "The Bolshevik at today's meeting continued to retain their sure-ness of manner." This was the fifth message sent by the Polish delegates at Minsk, but one of them has not as yet arrived. The message received today declared, according to the foreign office announcement that M.

Danishvesky, chief of the Soviet delegation, in his provisional reply to the Polish representatives' declarations said, among other things, "The Polish front is guarded by France as a part of the general front against Soviet Russia." Up to Poland. Salina, Kan, Aug. 25 A cloudburst at 8:30 this morning sent water over sidewalks in the paved sections and marooned people in their homes. Basements are filling and there may be considerable damage. Heavy wires prevented communication from nearby districts.

Washington, Aug.25. Justice Siddons of the District Supreme Court denied today an anti-suffrage application for a restraining order to prevent promulgation of the federal suffrage amendment by the state department. Paris, Aug. 25. Negotiations looking to surrender to the Poles have been begun by the northern Russian Bolshevik army, according to a Vienna dispatch received here.

The number Of prisoners captured by the Poles is said to approximate 60,000. Talking of Boundaries. "Soviet Russia," he is quoted as ad ding, "cannot abandon its point of view upon the question of Polish dis armament until Poland proves herself a sovereign state Regarding the position taken by the Bolshevik, the message stated the Poles had maintained their attitude and that at the next meeting the detailed Russian reply would be receiv ed, The application was filed by counsel for the American Constitutional League and Justice Siddons' ruling sustains that of Justice Bailey of the same court last month in rejecting a similar appeal by the same complainants. The issuing of a temporary injunction the justice said, would be unwarranted interference with a purely administrative act of the secretary of state Dismissal of the proceedings leaves the way open for the appeal to the District of Columbia court of appeals. Washington, Aug.

25 Application for an injunction to restrain Secretary Colby of the State Department from promulgating ratification of the federal suffrage amendment was filed in the district supreme court today by counsel for the American Constitutional League. Associate Justice Siddons required that authority for such From Shady Bend to Salina torrential downpours occurred over most of the country, with most of the country under water. Water flowed deep over the Union Pacific tracks. Creeks are out of banks and the Saline river is expected to overflow. Wind storms at: Shipton and at Assaria ruined thousands of dollars worth of wheat and corn by tearing stacks to pieces.

At Assaria hail caused much damage as, accompanied by the wind, it broke glasses out of numerous business houses. The Lutheran church at Assaria suffered $1,000 damage from wind and hail. Second Big Rain Ten inches of rain fell at Gypsum this morning. The entire town is under water. At noon another terrific rain set in here.

A circus finding its show grounds inundated pulled out at noon without exhibiting here. The foreign -office announcement (By The Associated Press) Thorn, West Prussia, Aug. 23. Older officers in the Polish army ex-piesed. the opinion here today that in event of a decisive victory over Soviet Russia along the entire front at would be inadvisable to pursue the Bolshevik beyond the bounds of ethnographic Poland.

One declared, however, that war between Poland and Soviet Russia would be "inevitable" until an arbitration board fixed Poland's boundaries which he believed, both the Russians and Poles would respect. He suggested that there should be American, British and French members of such a board. Military officials variously estimate the number of Bolsheviki caught in the Polish corridor by the capture of Mlawa at between 10.W0 and 15,000. Not Fixed for Winter. The Poles say the Russians are not said the Soviet delegates are continuing to put difficulties in the way of Polish communication with Warsaw The" third wireless message sent to this city from Minsk, is missing, and it is said this will be necessary for Polish officials here to understand and from an opinion relative to the negotiations.

A Flat Rejection London, Aug- 25 Poland's reply to the peace terms presented by the Rus eauioDod for a winter campaign, and Soviet delegation at r.i nf-tonHnr, nrknra tllln Tiavff Sian arriving barefoot and in very amounts to a flat rejection says the LEROY IS THE BRITISH WEND POSITION RRESTED FOR MR. COX Manchester Guardian's Minsk correspondent in a wireless dispatch filed in that city on Monday. "Out of the fifteen Russian demands," he continued, "only-one, the one relative to demobilization, is accepted, and that orly on condition that Russia will take a similar course that is to say, Russia must demobilize at the same time Poland disbands her forces. "The terms relathx to disarmament the closing of munitions plants and the delivery of munitions to Russia by Poland, are indignantly rejected." procedure be cited and agreed to hear counsel on the point during the day. A Legislator's View.

Decatur, Aug. 28 Ratification Of the woman's suffrage amendment by the state of Tennessee has not been properly certified to Secretary of State Colby, according to Representatives F. S. Hall of Nashville, leader of the insurgent legislators who have come here to break the quorum in the Tennessee house. Mr.

Hall declared that Governor Roberts had merely certified a copy of the house journal. The legal requirements, he stated, had not been- complied with and the document sent to Washington by the governor will not be sufficient to warrant a proclamation from the office of the secretary of state. Other members of the party expressed doubts that the ratification could British Newspapers Are Pleased scant attire. There are reports, however, that the Russians are well supplied with gold and it is suggested that the prisoners are divested of most of their garments by their Polish captors. The Poles appear extremely bitter toward Germany, particularly East Prussia.

The Germans are charged with to aid the Soviet forces by giving them ammunition and arms. Confdence that the Poles are able to handle the situation was evidenced toy Patrick Verdon, head of the American Relief Administration today in his return to Warsaw. He was here 1 enroute to Danzig with large quantities of supplies, but said he would go back to the Polish capital and resume vrork, especially in sections devast Kansas Had Good Rains. Topeka, Aug. 25 Every portion of Kansas was soaked during the last with rains totalling from 1 to 2 inches in the eastern two-thirda and from half an inch to an inch iir the western third, said the weather and crop bulletin issued today by S.

D. Flora, federal meteorologist. "The bulk of the corn crop is now safe as far as danger of drought or frost is concerned," the bulletin added. In Northeast Kansas. Topeka, Aug.

2j. Heavy rains fell over the northeast portion of Kansas this morning according to reports received at the local weather bureau. There is no official guage at Gypsum, Kans. where a 10-inch downpour was unofficially reported, S. Flora, fed- end meteorologist, said.

The record precipitation in Kansas for any twenty four hour period 10.33 inches, was recorded at Moran, Allen county, September 7, 1915, according to bureau records. Detroit Man, Charged with the "Trunk Murder," Held in Rio Janeiro. Charged That That Qovernment Has Sent Money for Democratic Campaign. with the British-Italian Conference. Chicago, 111., Aug.

25. Charges that London. Aug. 25 London news by J. E.

Shanklin of Smith Center, who reported a pickpocket stole his wallet containing a $500 bank draft, $24 in cash and his railroad be effected. ated bv the Russians, where he be papers, la -commenting on uecisions reached at Lucerene by Premiers Lloyd George and Giolitti, and the re I i 1 a. 1 tin. a nin Vi A.l vH in it Sieved that the persons were csei uume, wmie SUGAR FROM RIO. Rio Janeiro, Aug.

24 (Tuesday) Eugene LeRoy, wanted by the police of Detroit, in connection with the murder of a woman supposed to be his wife, was arrested cn board the British freighter Dryden, which arrived here late this afternoon. LeRoy was a member of the crew. virtually destitute. a slre" tttr a uunu tuwu There has been a universal spirit of yesterday. sulting British note to the Russian Soviet government, strongly commend the British government is helping finance the campaign of Governor James M.

Cox, are made in a statement by Congressman Fred A Britten of Illinois, issued at republican national headquarters here. Referring to the senate committee's investigation of campaign expenditures, Mr. Britten says; "The pending investigation will show that the British parliament re- the position taken by the two in Poland, and the hope that Ameii-j I fiVn flFflRfiF SAYS IT wmilrf hpln rohnhiHtatA rh conn-LLU 1 ULUHUL. U.1IU II Rio De Janeiro, Aug. 24 The embargo on exportations of sugar has been partly lifted and 30,000 sacks were shipped- yesterday for United States ports from Santos.

Showers have been falling inter-mitently during the afternoon, in Hutchinson, but no great amount of moisture has resulted. The British and Italian premiers. IS HP TO H'SWEENET says the Chronicle, "are very anxious t.i. r. to come to an agreement wit.u nusaw, but no agreement is possible unless A GERMAN "SUB." 0.

LEE IS NEW LEGION LeRoy was placed under arrest at the request of United States authorities here, and while the Dryden is in port will be guarded by four members of the maritime police. The ship will the Russian government removes the cenlly appropriately $87,000 in favor of I the British ambassador at Washing- ton, for entertainment purposes' and presumption it will not Keep such agreement in good faith." DEPARTMENT COMMANDER If He Wants to Starve Himself to Death in Prison That Is His Affair. Must i that this fund has already found its Quotinc President Wilson's note to way to the democratic national com- try have been expressed. Poles Hold Rybnik. Berlin, Aug.

24. Rybnik, a town in Upper Silesia, where disorders have occurred recently, has fallen into the hands of Polish forces, according to reports to the Lokal Auzeiger. -Bolshevists Near Georgia London, Aug. 25. An alarming concentration of Bolshevik forces on.

the borders of the Republic of Georgia is reported in' advices to the Georgian legation here. Troops which were assembled at Akstafa, south-east of Tif-lis, are said to already have occupied the neutral zone in that region. A note dispatched to the Bolshevik government of Azerbaijan relative to Tortosa, Spain, Aug. 24 The submarine discovered at the mouth of the Ebro river late last week by workmen engaged in salvaging a stranded vessel there is reported to be a Gorman craft. Its nose was buried deep in a sand bank but the U-boat apparently was undamaged and will be refloated.

the Italian ambassador in Washing-1 mittee, where it no doubt will be fol Topeka Mart a Winner Webster ton on the Russian situation, me Morning Post declares: lowed by ten times that amount, should it be made evident that this new disciple of Wilson can win with money rather than on honest issues." Holloway for National Committeeman. 'Mr. Llovd Georgewill now suu- scribe to these weighty words, after his experience with Kaameneff, alias Lucerne, Aug. 25 Premier Lloyd George in a statement today concerning the case of Lord Mayor MacSweuey of Cork, whose condition is grave because of his hunger strike in Brixton jail, London, said in substance that, whatever the consequences, the government could not A POLITICAL CRISIS. proceed to Buenos Aires, and from that port will sail for- New York, where LeRoy will be turned over to officers from Detroit.

Sailed on August 3. New York, Aug. 25. The British freighter Dryden, upon which Eugene LeRoy was arrested yesterday at Rio DeJaneiro in connection with the trunk mystery murder sailed from New York, August 3 ten days after the body of his supposed wife was found jammed in a trunk in a local warehouse. The authorities learned a week after the Dryden sailed, that a man answering LeRoy's description was on board The world is full of substitutes for Rosenfeld, for the British government it quite clear, has to choose be-'i quality but there has never been in tween the entente and "the ruffians of vented a substitute for Buick satisfaction.

Reno Buick Co. 25-lt this concentration ot troops is aeeiar- After warmly commenting the Brit One in Belgium May Stop Proposed Trip of King to Brazil. Brussels, Aug. 25 General Janson, the war minister had an audience with King Albert today and announced his intention to resign. General Janson's resignation, fol WEATHER REPORT.

ed to have brought a-reply that the take the responsibility of releasing move is in acordance with a "certain MacSweney. plan regarding Armenia." This "cer- The premier declared he regretted tain plan" is believed by the Georgian MacSweney had decided to starve legislation to be a scheme on the part himself but said that if he were re- ish premier's stand, the Times says the policy announced at Lucerene "gives promise ot more vigorous Temperature for Past 24 Hours From the Gas Office. Temperature at Noon. 72. Pittsburg, Aug.

25. Thomas A. Lee of Topeka, was elected state commander of the American Legion at the convention here this morning. George Withers of Clay Center was elected Rev. E.

A. Blackman, of Chanute, chaplain; Edward W. Cooper of Wichita, master-at-arms; W. W. Holloway of Kansas City, national executive committeeman; Richard Meek of Parsons, alternate.

of Soviet leaders to march forces I leased then all the other hunger-strik- and the freighter's captain was re-! "Only the wilfully blind can fail to through Georgia and Armenia and es-; ers would have to be released quested by wireless to hold the sus lowing that ot Paul Hymans. the foreign minister, yesterday, would precipitate a grave political crisis, which A law which is a respecter of per discern the crafty intentions of the Soviet leaders," the newspaper con 4 A. 6 A. 8 A. 10 A.

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.....72 2. A. 70 pect for the Rio Janeiro police. Simultaneously, Detroit police officials sons is no law," Mr. Lloyd George's statement continued, "If the cabinet, therefore, departed from its decision, it is said here, would necessitate postponement of the king's visit to Brazil.

tablish communication with Turkish nationalists in Aisia Minor. Local Fighting. London, Aug. 25 Polish and Russian Bolshevik forces are engaged in local fighting with alternating success tinues. "Their pious recognition of Polish independence was and is a sham." P.

M. Maximum, 84; Minimum 66. a complete breakdown of the whole filed with the state department at Washington on application for LeRoy's arrest and extradition, should he attempt to land in Brazil or any country enroute. RAIN STOPPED GOLF. The offices of adjutant, finance of machinery of law and government WEATHER FORECAST.

(By The Associated tis) In Entire Accord. Paris, Aug. is5. The French foreign ficer and war risk insurance officer from Brest-Litovsk southward to ircland inevitably would follow, were made appointive, the places to wiooawa, according to an oniciai Kansas Partly cloudy and some office today announced that the be filled by the appointment of. the executive committee.

what unsettled tonight and Thursday; warmer in northwest portions to Freneh government was in entire accord with the American government Topeka, Aug. 25 Heavy rain here this morning prevented resumption of play in the state invitation golf tournament of the Topeka country club. The continued downpour gave little hope of starting play this afternoon. night." Webster W. Holloway of Kansas Citv, is the son of J.

C. Hollo LARGEST BALL PARK. New York, Aug. 25. The largest baseball park in the world will be built in this city for the New York Americans it was learned today.

Tentative plans call for a seating capacity of from 50,000 to 60,000. way of Hutchinson and well known Btatement issued yesterday in Moscow, and received here by wireless. East of Lemberg, Soviet operations are said to be developing successfully, the Poles offering resistance and in places launching, counter attacks against the Bolshevik. In the neighborhood of Halicz, Soviet detachments have debouched along the Lesser Lipar River; and fighting is proceeding for the possession of the crossings of that stream. The statement asserts that fighting here, having grown up in this com I NOW Fof A LITTLE 1 Stock reducing sale of Fisk Gooo- munity.

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Eales, 5 So. '-6 Walnut. 17-tf OFFERS TO SURRENDER. that the Polish armies should remain within Poland's ethnographic frontiers. It was added that the definite ethnographic frontiers were not yet determined.

A Socialist Plan. Rome, Aug. 25 A manifesto declaring that the Italian Socialist party favors recognition of Soviet Russia and announcing a great demonstration August 29 to protest against the "reactionary attitude ot France, the instability of England and the duplicity of Italy," is published by the newspaper, Avanti, ot this city. .4, 4 POPULATION. Pedro Zamora, Mexican Bandit, Would Follow Villa's Footsteps.

Advertisingly Speaking 3 3 4-- 4 Washinton, Aug. 25 The American embassy at Mexico City advised the News to Detroit, Aug. 25. Police here had no information concerning the arrest of Eugene LeRoy except that furnished in Associated Press dispatcher. Detective Inspector McCarthy, who is in charge of the case here, stated that detectives and persons capable of identifying LeRoy would -be sent to New York to meet the Dryden upon its return there.

Was Sought Everywhere. New York, Aug. 25 The "trunk murder mystery in connection with wliich Eugene Leroy was sought by detectives all over the country and in Canada and Mexico, has ramifications which extend from New York to Michigan, Mississippi and Alabama. A few minutes after an employe of the American Railway Express company bere had discovered the nude and mutilated body of a young woman in a trunk stored in the unclaimed baggage warehouse, police of New York and Detroit began following the train ot evidence which led to the Victim's identification as Mrs. Kath-erine Lou Jackson ot Sturgis, and the location ot A.

A. Tatum, whose name and a Detroit street address were found marked on the trunk Washington, Aug. 25. Census fig 4 ures; Galveston, Tex. 44, 255, increase state department today that the Mexican foreign office had confirmed a report that Pedro Zamora, the bandit leader, who kidnapped a number of 274 or 19.7 per cent.

MANY ARE THERE. Eastland, Tex. 9,368, increase 8,513 or 995.7 per cent. i Erie county N. Y.

containing Buffalo favorable to the Bolsheviki continues oh the left bank of the Dneiper in the region of Kherson, south Russia. Poles Taken Kolno. (By Tlie Associated Press) Warsaw, Aug. 24 Kolno, an important town near the east frontier north of Lomza has been taken by Polish forces which have ibeen sweeping repidly northward in pursuit of -the retiring Bolsheviki. More than 10,000 prisoners, who were cut off from the main body of the Soviet army have been captured in this region.

Reports from various fronts, particularly the norlhern sectors of the line indicate the Bolsheviki are demoralized and fleeing everywhere in. great disorder. 634,588, increase 105,603 or 20.0 per cent. Americans and a British subject at Cuale, state of Jalisco, had offered to surrender. Negotiations to that end are to be begun at once, the embassy was informed.

The Mexican foreign office said this action would remove apprehension as to the safety of the captives. i State of Georgia, (revised) 2,893,900, Natlonl Fraternal Congress Brought Together Many Folks. Chicago, Aug. 25 The National Fraternal Congress of America entered upon the second day of its tour-day gathering of delegates, representing ninety-three mutual benefit societies, today at its 7th annual convention. Among the societies represented in The Time Saver The Dollar Saver The Effort-Saver.

Minutes, money and motion are running a race to see which is the most valuable. Mr. Common People, multiplied by many millions, is on the lookout for ways to save all three. Read the advertising columns of The News. Here are the country's advertised products worthy goods up for inspection.

You may depend upon them as good goods; for, if they didn't "pass muster" they would not continue to enjoy popularity. The public would not buy them and the newspapers would not take their advertising, even if they had the money to spend for It. UP TO DATE AT LAST. York Has Finally Abolished Its Fire Horses. New York, Aug.

25 The picturesque the congress are the Masonic Mutual Life, American Mutual Union, Catho which concealed the crime forjnore i gallop of fireliorses to fires in Man lic Knights of America, Ryal Arca Ambassador Davis is Home. New York, Aug. 25 John W. Davis, ambassador to Great Britain, accompanied by Mrs. Davis and his daughter, arrived here today on the steamship Olympic, to spend two months in the United States.

The body ot William K. Vanderbilt, who died in Paris wa3 brought back on the A KANSAN IN OMAHA." than a month. At 105 Harper street, Detroit, Ta num, Maccabees, Knights of Pythias, hattan became a memory today with the complete motorization of the fire department. The last horse drawn turn was unknown but someone told Independent order of Foresters, detectives that a young couple known "Zimmie" I' 4 Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, apparatus formerly passed out of ex While He Was In Town Someone Stole All His Ducats. Omaha, Aug.

25 Omaha police today made public a complaint Knights of Columbus and Women's Istence and special ceremonies were held at fire Quartern to mark tha event. Contlnuud on Page Benefit Association-.