THE FRONTIER
D. H. CRONIN, PUBLISHER.
W. C. TEMPLETON,
Editor and Business Manager.
O’neTll, Re bras k ^
Salvage operations have 'disclosed a
Spanish armada galleon under 10 feet of
mud in 60 feet of water in Tobermory
Bay, Scotland. Pieces of richly engraved
silver plate of Elizabethan design, a
bronze Spanish ship bell and quantities
of well preserved oak timbers have been
brought up. This galleon is historically
known to have been sunk in the ar
mada's flight before Drake's pursuing
aquadrons. The tradition that Philip’s
foegalla and the admiral’s pay chest are
aboard has not been confirmed. Bits of
Elizabethan glass flagons continue to be
brought up by the dredger. The greater
part of the galleon has still to be un
covered.
A plant costing $1,000,000. for manu
facture of motion picture accessories, Is
to be constructed in flu* heart of the
Eos Angelos industrial district by Sol
Eesser, owner of a syndicate of Southern
Callfrmia motion picture theaters. Ar
ticles of nearly every description relat
ing to and used by the screen industry
will be manufactured.
Jerusalem soon is to have a daily news
paper, published in English. It will be
owned and edited by an American wom
an, Mrs. Galting, of New York, who has
spent several months in Palestine study
ing local conditions. Mrs. Galting has
paid $250,000 for a building to Ik* used
for her venture. The presses and me
chanical equipment arc* on their way
from the United States.
A millionaire’s son goes to work at
7:30 in the morning; carries his lunch in
a tin bucket, and seldom hears the
“quitting whistle’’ blow before 6 o’clock
»\ night and often later. That, briefly,
constitutes the daily round of Frank
Couzens, 20-year-old son of James
Couzens, mayor of Detroit, who for
more than a year has been employed as
an Inspector by a local firm of archi
tects.
With his right leg turned to stone
since he was injured in a dive, Frank
TTrbanavage of Girardsvilie, Pa., is dead,
lie received the injury a year ago. Six
months later the leg began to petrify,
and at the time of his death outweighed
the rest of Ills body.
A baby has a right to cry, particularly
during the teething season, and neigh
bors cannot force its parents to change
their place of abode becausefof the noise.
This is a ruling made recently by Mayor
Johnson, of Bridgeport, N. Y. A vaude
ville actor complained of ttie noise, say
ing It annoyed his wife.
The Duke of Rutland has to walk a
half mile from his study to his bedroom
\u the evening. There are no short cuts
n his English castle. The duke Is 70. The
jralk is enjoyable to him for he has al
ways been athletic and the jaunt is
nothing more than a stroll through
beautiful old corridors.
The negro is the most extensive user
of the oblong stamp, whether to carry
the suggestion of Importance or to se
cure speed can not be determined ac
cording to the postoffic© department.
A former professor in the Tokio Im
perial university has been sentenced to
four months’ imprisonment because of
an article claimed t > have been disre
spectful to the imperial court.
Tourist travel to Japan in decreasing.
The number of foreigners who came
last year was 25,(100, a decrease of 7,000
compared to the previous year, accord
ing to figures of the Japan tourist bu
reau.
Suspended 80 feet in mid-air by his
toes for a half hour was the experience
of a painter in New Orleans. He was
forking on a smokestack when over
„ come by heat. A bucket of creosote
paint upset and poured over him.
To increase trade relations between
the United States and F’oland an invi
tation to visit Poland has been extended
to American trade concerns by the Po
lish-American Chamber of Commerce.
T enty-two firms will send delegates
*«vly in the fall.
Costumes and other relies of the
Swedish nightingales, Jenny lJnd and
Christina Nilsson, will he displayed in
Sweden’s first dramatic museum to be
opened the last of this month. The col
lection will be shown with other treas
ures in the old Royal theater in the
castle of Drottninghohn.
A taxicab company at Columbus, Ohio,
has advertised alrplarte service to all
parts of the United States. Passengers
are sent to the landing field in a cab.
and a five-passenger airplane will arrive
at Hie landing field approximately at the
-same time.
The other day at the conclusion of a
conference, Warren T. McCray, governor
of Indiana, appeared with almost a yard
of red string wrapped about a finger of
his left hand. It was a reminder of
something the governor did not wish to
forget.
Three severe attacks of pneumonia fol
lowing influenza in the last five years
arc credited with restoring hearing and
speech to an 80-year-old woman in New
York.
A Wisconsin welfare worker favors a
prohibition law to suppress coffee as a
beverage for children. Those who drink
it dally are under weight, irritable and
difficult to examine.
Yellowstone park’s newest and biggest
geyser developed several days ago when
a mud pool near the head of Obsidian
creek sent a column of hot mud and
r*uks 300 feet in the air.
1iivvvr swapping is no crime. Now
York police have ruled. Two men were
suspected of having stolen the sedans
they drove. They unwittingly got their
Cars mixed. e.
A customer "all lit up" went into a
New York restaurant, ate three meals
ami refused to pay. The proprietor tried
V> (gall the police, hut summoned the
nre department by mistake.
A silver cup to the happiest looking
horse and driver passing the offices of
the sor.ety for the prevention of cruelty
to animals in Philadelphia was award
ed on "Rational horse day."
Queen tVilhelmina and Prince Consort
Henry will pay official visits to the
courts at Copenhagen. Stockholm and
Christiania in September.
A farmer near Fort Scott has not only
strung electric lights around his water
melon patch, but also announces that he
la sleeping In the patch.
An American concern has presented a
proposal to the government to pave the
business section of Kingston, Jamaica.
Cuhan asphalt wll be used.
It is estimated that New York's week
ly taxicab bill is more than $1,000,000.
Demand fur "love stamps" for use on
love letters has reached the poutoffleo
department.
"Social directa" is r.ew York's newest
Job. A woman fills the position at the
, Ambassador hotel.
Only SO years old, a woman at Plain
field, Wls., is the mother of 16 child
ren.
A California dialer furnishes free gas
and oil for six months to purchasers of
his used cars.
. A tablet commeinoratlug the original
"Delicious" apple tree has ueen dedi
cated at AYinterspt, la.
A woman in Germany hau leased 3b
teres of pasture to a farmer for a yearly
rental of C.bOO pounds of butter.
iniCK HIT
OF THLSTIITUTE
Sheridan County Organization
Goes to High Court Oppos
ing Appropriations for
Farm Bureau.
Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 26 (Special).—
The constitutionality of the law
which requires county boards to ap
propriate money for the support of
farm bureaus when a stipulated num
ber of farmers file a petition is at
tacked in supreme court by an organ
ization of Sheridan county farmers.
They say they represent 74 per cent,
of the farmers of the county, and that
the county board has forced on them
the support of a county agent by
means of voting a subsidy to the farm
bureau.
It is claimed that the legislature
has no authority to direct tho levying
of local taxes, and that this sub
sidy is violative of the constitutional
provision that the whole public can
not be taxed for the benefit of the
few. They say that it is lending the
credit or the state to private enter
prise, that it makes a voluntary as
sociation known as the farm bureau
the beneficiary without describing
whether it is a piece of furniture or
a duly organized corporation; and
that It deprives county boards of
their lawful discretion as to how the
county lands shall be spent.
The objectors lost in the lower
court. They say that the original pe
tition for a furm bureau appropria
tion had enough names, but that they
secured enough withdrawals twice to
reduce the number below the legal
requirement. They say the petitioners
concealed tho fact that a county
agent was to bo employed with this
money.
NEBRASKA NONPARTISANS
PICK THfelR CANDIDATES
Grand Island, Neb., Aug'. 26.—With
the co-operation and approval of the
labor group, the nonpartisan league
of Nebraska, In convention here Fri
day, adopted, the "balance of power"
plan and Indorsed a complete ticket
for the November elections.
R. B. Howell, republican, was given
the league’s endorsement for election
as United States senator, and Charles
W. Bryan, democrat, was favored as
the league’s choice for governor.
The league endorsed for the sen
atorshlp and state offices three re
publicans and seven democrat.*,
three progressives and one non-po
lltlcal candidate.
A. C. Townley, national organizer
for the league, was cheered when ha
congratulated the convention on Its
decision to udopt the “balance of
power” plan.
The ticket given endorsement by
the nonpartisan league and labor
group follows:
United States senator, R. B. How
ell, republican; governor, Charles W.
Bryan, democrat; lieutenant gover
nor, T. J. Ellsberry, progressive; sec
retary of state, Charles W. Pool, dem
ocrat; state treasurer, G. E. Hall,
progressive; railway commissioner,
Charles A. Randall, republican; land
commissioner, Dan Swanson, repub
lican; auditor, Grant Shumway, dem
ocrat and progressive; attorney gen
eral, Kenneth W. McDonald, demo
crat; state superintendent, E. Ruth
Pyrtle, non-political; congressman,
First district, left to district ltague;
congressman, Second district, left to
district league; congressman, Third
district, Edward Howard, democrat,
congressman, Fourth district, H. B.
^umrnlns, democrat; congressman.
Fifth district, John Franklin, pro
gressive; congressman, Sixth dij,
trlct, Charles W. Beal, democrat.
BARROWS DENIES HE
WILL SUE GOVERNOR
Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 2G MSpeelul).—
Lieutenant Governor Barrows says
that he has been made the victim of
neswpaper string fiends again, and
that he has no Intention of suing the
governor or of filing a claim for the
time he has served as governor dur
ing teh absence from thu state of the
governor. He says he believe he is
entitled to be paid, but that all the
governor has paid him has been $100.
The governor declines to .pay be
cause he Is ubsent on state business
often when he leaves the state. Mr.
Barrows says that always when the
governor desires him to act he has
been notified.
RAIL EMPLOYE IS SHOT
WITH HIS OWN GUN
Omaha, Neb., Aug. 26.—Burton
Bridges, of Omaha, who has been
working as a rail employe in Coun
cil Bluffs, la , was shot and wounded
with his own pistol while resisting
a man who he said attacked and
robbed him lust night. "You’ll never
’scab’ In Council Bluffs any more,"
Bridges quoted the man as saying.
Bridges’ condition ^ not serious.
STORM LAKE WOMAN
HEADS COUNTY W. C. T. U.
Storm Lake, la., Aug. 26 (Special).
—Mrs. Bert Lewis of this city was
elected president of the Buena Vista
county unit of the W. C. T. U. which
mot at Alta Thursday. About 100
women from the county were in at
tendance. The other officers are:
Mrs. Abel Kindwali of Alta, vice
president; Miss Leona Delay of Alta,
recording secretary and Miss Lillian
Stamm of Alta, treasurer.
SHELDON FAIR WAS
PRONOUNCED SUCCESS
Sheldon, la., Aug. 26.—The annual
district fair just closed was probably
the largest ever held here. The ilve
stock and agricultural exhibits are
probably the best ever untered in the
history of the fair. There were en
tered 263 hogs of which 88 were
Durocs, 67 Inlands, 67 Chester
Whites, IS Hampshiros and five Tam
worths. There were 130 cuttle entries,
64 horses and 500 poultry entries.
FOUR HEIRS GET
Omaha Capitalist Left Estate
Which Was Valued in Ex
cess of One Million.
Dollars.
Omaha, Neb., Aug. 26.—The estate
of John D. Creighton is invested
largely in 6 and 7 per cent, mort
gages, and has been appraised at $1,
163,312, according to figures given out
at a conference of heirs and trustees.
The appraisal was to be filed in
county court. No will was left by Mr.
Creighton. The estate is to be di
vided equally between three daugh
ters, Mrs. Fred A. Nash, Mrs. John
M. Daugherty and Mrs. C. C. Allison,
all widows, and one son, Charles H.
Creighton, who is administrator.
County tax on the estate will be
approximately $11,000 and the feder
al inheritance $56,000, which, with
attorney fees and other costs, will
leave about $1,050,000 to be divided
among t^ie four heirs.
Among the Investments listed are:
Cash in New York drafts, $20,000;
cash in the Fist National bank, $10,
894; household goods, $3,316; notes
secured by mortgages, $673,460; in
terest in J. M. Daugherty Land and
Cattle company, $82,629; 208 shares
in First Trust company, $6,900; cer
tificates of participation in Douglas
Hotel company, $929.82. Investments
listed as having no value are 63 H
shares of Ross Dome Oil company
stock and 20 shares of New Butte
Hardware stock.
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H. W, Samson, of the department
of agriculture, is waging a campaign
to have consumers demand that such
fruits as peaches and apples be sold
in standard shipping packages, or
else by weight or count. In one bas
ket Mr. Samson shows four peaches
touching the bottom of the basket,
while in the other he shows one peach
that supports all the rest. Even stan
dard packages, he declares, may be
packed by swindling hucksters so as
to deceive the consumer.
The Midland Fiasco.
From Lincoln State Journal.
The refusal of Wilson & Company to
excrci.se the option for the lease and
purchase of the Midland packing plant
at Sioux City means more delay in the
settlement of the affairs of that mush
room corporation. It probably means
also that the millions invested in the
concern will be eaten up by expenses
and that there will not be enough left
for the stockholders to be worth con
sidering. Two years ago. when the
company passed into the hands of a re
ceiver, it was found that the money of
the stockholders had been used for the
following purposes:
Promotion expenses .$2.561.814
Packing plant . 3.158.897
Note discounts . 3(12,000
Organization expenses .... 23.000
Traveling, entertaining ... 11.787
Office expenses . 38,000
Total .$0,272,533
Practically one-half of every dollar
paid In was wasted on organization and
promotion expenses and bad financing.
The other half was spent on a fine
packing house which Thomas Wilson
now refuses to take at so low' a price
as to amount to almost a gift. The re*",
ceiver will endeavor to interest some
other packer in the property. It may be
that a good bargain will yet be made,
but the outlook Is not encouraging.
The money of the stockholders is lost.
Six millions poured Into the rat hole at
Sioux City. Half a dozen millions Into
the same sort of thing at Des Moines
and even more at Omaha. At the time
these “investments’* were made it was
possible to buy on the open market the
stocks? of old and well established pack
ing companies, that have paid 6 and 7
per cent, every year, and may be ex
pected to appreciate in value. The cut
ting of eye teeth has been a painful and
costly process for the farmers and small
town Investors in this part of the west.
REVOLUTIONARY BATTLE
DATE IS CELEBRATED
Burlington, N. C„ (U. P.)—This
town celebrated "Almanac Day” Aug
ust 17 with a parade, and a repro
duction of a historic battle which pre
ceded the revolutionary war.
Hundreds of red-coated "supers"
took the parts of British soldiers, and
other hundreds In the garb of pioneers
represented the "Regulars."
HEADS 34TH DIVISION.
Des Moines, la., Aug. 26 (A. P.)—
Col. Bari D. Bure, of Minneapolis,
was elected president of the 34th
division association here today at the
closing of the reunion. Frank B.
O'Connell, of Lincoln, Neb., was
named vice president for Nebraska.
ACTOR SEEKS DIVORCE.
Los Angeles. Aug. 26 (A. P.)—Carl
Gant-Voort, former grand opera
singer and now a motion picture ac
tor. toiSiv filed suit for divorce
against Anne Gant-Voort. an actress
whom he charged with desertion.
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Operators of Bloomfield Plant
Fail to Get Sufficient Re
turn Fronr Pre-War
Rates.
Uncol**. Neb.. Aug. 26 (Special).—
Giving telephone service to the poo
ple of Bloomfield at pre-war prices
has cost the owners of the company,
two local men, $1,389 in the last six
months, according to findings of the
state railway commission. Bloomfield
gained a place in the public eye over
a, year ago by going out on a strike
against an Increase in telephone rates
to the Union company, of Wausa,
which owned the BloomfielQ ^ex
change. The new schedule was 23
per cent, higher tha n before the war,
but the farmers and business men, to
the number of over 600, cut off serv
ice one night in April, 1921, and swore
they would never order it in again
until the pre-war schedule was put
Into effect.
This situation continued for six
months, at which time Messrs. Gess
ier and Grace, local men who were
stockholders in the Union, traded
their stock for the Bloomfield ex
change and agreed to pay $3,000 a
year, for 10 years for the plant. They
put'in the pre-war schedule, and now
it the end of the six months’ period
find themselves $1,389 in the hole, plus
m unnamed sum that should have
been set aside for future replace
ments, when the plant, now new, be
comes old. That figure represents
what is lacking to pay operating ex
penses and interest on the notes. Most
if the deficit was during the first two
months, and the monthly deficit, with
most of the subscribers back, has been
cut to less than $50. The commission
jays that the company has exercised
:he most rigid economy, and has
>een given free rein to cut service as
:he managers’ Judgment dictates.
The owners made no request for &
continuance of the schedule, but the
commission has Issued an order con
:inuing It indefinitely, with permission
:o the owners to make application
my time for whatever rates they
hink the situation demands.
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UNION PACIFIC BUYS
EIGHTY NEW LOCOMOTIVES
Omaha, Neb.. Aug. 25.—The Union
Pacific railroad today announced the
curchase of 30 locomotives at a cost
>f $5,600,000. Flrty-rive of the loco
notives are to be passenger engines
which are to be, all at a high rate of
ipeed, the most powerful locomo
ives ever constructed, according to
Union Pacific officials. Twenty-five
>f the new engines will b^ for freight
rauling. The now passenger loco
motives are to be used in the moun
aln division.
AUBURN MAN MAY TELL
STORY TO GOVERNOR
Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 25 ,(Speclal).—
Luther Gritz, Auburn man, who
claims four state agents beat him up
without provocation after they had
stopped him in his automobile and
tound no liquor, has been Invited to
come up and see the governor Satur
lay. fie will be cot^ronted with the
igents whom he accuses. Sheriff
Hyres went to Auburn to investigate,
irid has made a secret report to the
governor. The officers say that Gritz
resisted and was struck once in the
struggle that followed.
Auburn people have been so
wrought up over what they claim to
i>e an unwarranted assault that two
indignation meetings have been held
in the town hall to demand the offi
cers be fired.
SAYS MATHEWS BIGG E^
FINANCIAL CROOK
Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 25 (Special).—
Declaring W. V. Mathews, president
of the Pioneer State bank, now in
prison, to be “one of the biggest fi
nancial crooks ever turned loose in
the state,” Attorney General Davis
?ave out a statement denyng that he
had ever made any agreement with
Mathews as a return for pleading
tuilty. Mathews has lately been try
ing to get out of prison, an bal, in
cutler as he says to reorganize the
company, and he has sent letters
to the stockholders complaining be
cause the state had interfered. The
attorney general says his talk is all
moonshine, and an effort to repeat
the original offense. He says
Mathews never had more than $14,
000 invested in the many-millioned
company he organized.
FAITHFUL DOG WATCHES
OVER DEAD MASTER
Miller, S. D., Aug. 24.—James
Boyd, a pioneer bachelor, aged 75,
was found dead near his home south
of here where he had gone after a
loadof water. He had been overcome
by the heat und fell from the wagon
It Is thought. The next day he was
found with hls dog watching over his
body
When the undertaker was attend
ing to the dead man the dog would
not be put away, but tried to wake
up his master by licking his hands
and rooting his arms with its nose.
The dog had been heard barking in
the night, no doubt driving away in
truding stock or animals, or to give
the alarm of his master's plight. It is
a Shepherd dog.
FOUND CRUSHED TO
DEATH UNDER CAR
Rockwell, la., Aug. 24.—The hody
of R. R. Parrott, married, Iowa Falls
resident and well known in northern
Iowa, was found by a tourist crushed
under hls automobile at the first
turn on the primary road pavement
south of this place Wednesday.
Sheriff F. E. Marsh and Coroner
W. E. Long, of Mason City, were
called. Their theory was that Par
rott tried to make the sharp *urn at
an excessive speed and that the car
turned over and crushed his chest.
Parrott was atone.
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WAR IN ERIN
ON COLLINS’
FUNERAL EVE
While Remains AFe Moved to
Cathedral Fresh Outbreaks
and Outrages of Rebels Take
Place—More Murders.
BY DENNIS O’CONNELL.
Universal Service Correspondent.
Special Cable Dispatch.
Dublin, Aug. 28.—While the re
mains of Michaet Collins, Ireland’s
hero, were being removed from the
city hall, where he has been lying in
state, to the cathedral in preparation
for the funeral Monday, fresh out
breaks and outrages of the irregulars
were taking place.
Nothing paralleling the tactics of
the insurgents Saturday night and
Sunday occurred even during the
presence of the black and tans.
The streets of Dublin from the city
hall to the cathedral were thronged
with thousands ranked IB deep 'on
both sides along the way, watching
in solemn silence the removal of the
leader’s remains. In spite of the
great crowds the streets were with
out sound save for the beat of the
marching soldiers’ feet, the roll of
muffled drums, and the sobs of men
and women. .
Guard Renders Honors.
When the cortege passed the old
parliament house the guard of Irish
soldiers clad in the national uniform
rendered military honors—the first
time in 120 years that this ceremony
has been presented for an Irish
leader..
Marching behind the coffin, as
close in death as for many years in
life Joe O’Reilly, ’’Mick’s” long time
personal body guard, shed tears open
ly at every step.
Rnnrlnv nle’ht a fplparam was re
ceived by the Irish government from
"Winston churcl>hill, in the name of
the British^abinet, expressing deep
est sorrow at the death of Collins and
pledging the English people to the
honorable carrying out of the treaty
and declaring tho faith of the Brit
ish government that the Irish people
would do likewise.
Alderman Cosgrave, acting head of
the government, replying to the tele
gram, said the sacred heritage left
by Arthur Griffith and Michael Col
lins has come down to the new offi
cials for the Irish people, and that he
and his colleagues will follow the pol
icy of their revered leaders, and with
the same determination.
New of Horrors.
Among the w'eek-end outrages were
an unusual string of crimes and ter
rorist tactics. Saturday night three
men in the vicinity of Dublin were
seized and shot by the irregulars.
Two were taken in broad daylight at
Baliybough bridge by six armed mep.
They were driven in a mdtor car to
Puckstown, where .they were openly
executed before the eyes of the popu
lation. The car pulled up on a terrace
before the villas. The women of the
place saw the men trying to smash
the gates, but failing they took the
men from the car, gave them time to
pray, and then placing them on the
piers of the gates shot them dead.
Saturday /flight national soldievs
found the body of an unknown man,
veil ty-essed and bearing marks of
evident wealth, riddled with bullets in
a field at Ballygrffi'n.
133rd Infantry, Including the
Sioux City Company, First
to Pass Before Governor
at Camp Dodge.
Des Moines, Aug. 28 (Special).—
Thirty-five hundred Iowa ' national
guardsmen passed in review before
Gov. N. E. Kendall on the parade
grounds of Camp Dodge Sunday
afternoon at 1 o’clock.
Because of the condition of the
weather Saturday, governor’s day was
postponed until Sunday. In the bright
sunshine of the afternoon the mer
marched onto the field to the music
of the three regimental bands. The
field was lined with cars from cen
tral Iowa. Hundreds of people visit
ing the fair went to the camp in the
afternoon to see the review.
The 133rd infantry, made up oi
units from the northern part of the
state, including Companies L and M
and Battalion Headquarters com
pany, of Sioux City, was the first
regiment to pass the reviewing stand
Following this regiment was the
168th infantry and the 113th cavalry
In the reviewing stand were Gov
ernor Kendall and his entire staff
Adjutant General. Basher and Gen
M. A. Tinley, commanding general o(
the troops at Camp Dodge.
Monday will be the big field day
at th<5 camp to take place of the
regular dril schedule. This is the
last work at camp, and the troops
will depart for their home stations
early Tuesday morning.
barge asks parole.
Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 27.—Herbert H
Barge, convicted of embezzling funds
of the bank at Haskins, Neb., has ap
plied to the state board of pardons
and parole for parole from the peni
tentiary. His case will come»up early
in September. He was found guilty
c on two counts and sentenced on both
The sentences run concurrently. H<
was sentenced May 30, 1921. Ho is
eligible to parole. He was to have
had a hearing March 14 on his appli
cation. but the case was killed at his
request.
FOUR HELD,
1 CONFESSES,
TELLS STORY
Men, Including Confessor, a:
FQreigner, Will Be Tried as.
Murderers—Other Acts of
Violence Were Planned.
Universal Service.
Chicago, Aug. 28.—The wreck of ».
fast New York Central express train
near Gary, Ind., a week ago, in which
two lives were lost, was platted by
striking shopmen, according to the
authorities here Sunday night. Four
men have been arrested. One is said
to have confessed.
The conspiracy is being investi
gated by city, state and federal au
thorities. The (freatest secrecy has
been maintained since the investiga
tion started immediately following
the wreck.
W. A. Forbes, chief of police of '
Gary, and Michael Hughes, chief of
Chicago detectives, have been con
ducting the investigation, aided by
federal authorities. None of tin*
names of the men under arrest has
been revealed. But, according to the
authorities, the men claim to be mem
bers of the shopmen’s union, although
they contend none of the officials of
the organization knew of the plot.
Conspired to Dynamite Shops.
The wreck of the New York Cen
tral train was the first of a series of’
acts of violence planned, according to
the confession. Others included the
wrecking of a New York Central pas
senger train and the dynamiting of'
quarters where non-shopmen are.
housed.
The man whp confessed, a foreign
er, according to the authorities, gave
every detail of how the New York
Central express train was wrecked.
He, with his companions, went to
Gary from Chicago in an automobile
last Sunday morning. .me work or
pulling the spikes and twisting tho
rails of the Michigan Central, re
quired hut a short space of time.
Then they waited.
The “million dollar express” thun
dering through the early morning at
60 miles an hour, making up lost
time, struck the defective-track and
hurtled into thp ditch. The engineos
and fireman were buried under the
locomotive.
A coroner’s jury returned a verdict
of homicide In the death of the !wo
trainmen. The four men arrested hero
will be charged with murder under
tlils verdict. m
$5,000 Reward Was Offered.
A reward of $5,000 was offered by
the New York Central for the arrest
and conviction of the plotters. It.
was after this reward had been post
ed that a foreigner furnished Chief
Forbes, of Gary, with the names of
three men. All live in Chicago. Chief
Forbes conferred with Mr. Hughes.
Federal agents and railroad detectives
were called in. ^
In a raid here last Wednesday nine
suspects were taken into custody.
One of these men broke down Sunday
and confessed, according to Mr.
Hughes.
According to the confession none
of the higher Jlnion officials had any
knowledge of the plot. The author
ities were led to believe from the
confession that not more than a doz
en men are implicated and they, It is
believed can be identified with til*
communist movement.
The story of the plot was not re
pealed by the authorities until the
man who confessed was taken to Gary
Sunday. He went to the scene of the
wreck- pointed out just where' the
spikes hah hen drawn and gave other
lnformation which the authorities feel
sure he could not have given had he
not been at the scene when the wreck
occurred.
“We wanted to kill the fireman and:
engineer so other train crews would
bo afraid to run trains he told tho
authorities. He said it was intended'
to blame the wreck on faulty traitv
equipment.
Further Plans of Plotters.
In revealing further plans of the
plotters, the man said:
“We planned to have someone go to
work in the Elkhart shops of the
New York Central Monday. He was
to say he had deserted the strikers.
He was to get a plan of the strike
breakers’ quarters and other Informa
• tion so we would be able to blow up
the whole works.
“The New York Central train
which we were going to wreck was to
have been derailed with a horseshoe,
jammed in the rail at a switch, so*
It would hold the switch open. Wa
believed the locomotive would crash:
through, taking {he horseshoe with it
John Misar, a farmer living nino
miles north of here, was instantly
killed Friday night when he was
thrown from a load of hay. Hist
neck was broken. Mr, Misar hacfc
been drawing hay during the after
noon and was on his way home about
7 o’clock when an automobile cama
rushing up behind him, the occupants:
yelling, whistling and making other
disturbances frightening hi's team and!
causing them to run away, it was re— ^
ported. An inquest was held Satur
day morning, and the jury, after tak
ing the testimony of three witnesses,,
rendered a verdict of accidental death
caused by the frightening of the teanv
by persons unknown to the jury.
CHINESE STRIKERS WIN.
Pekin, Aug. 26 (A P.)—The "first
extensive” railroad strike, which re
cently tied up all traffic on tho
Peking-Hankow line has been won by
the strikers, according to announce
,ment here today. Among other de
mands of the workers grapted by tha
railroads is an increase in wages of
10 cents a week.
England hopes to solve Its servant,
problem by establishing a college for
the training of young women in domestic!
science and the useful arts. The govern
ment has set aside $256,000 for the pur
pose.
