THE BEE: OMAHA. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30. 1921.
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; Death Dealt in
Name of Ku Klux
Klan in Florida
Youth Fatally Shot at Day
tona Brack When He Triri
to Save Father From
Mauled Band.
Texas I not Hie only tat in
7 vhkh the Ku Klux Klin hat Urctl
I its fang. ,
!. In Daytona, Tla.. during the
t month of November, 1920, Iliram L.
I 'Church was kidnaped and spirited
into the country, litre, surrounded
Z ly tnatked men, he Mas threatened
t 'v illi death.
JJ '. Scarcely a month later in Jack-
Kouville, Da., John D. Dischuff wai
J tarred and feathered, and dropped
J from an automobile at a prominent
corner by four masked men.
J At Daytona Beach Arthur flames
.was dragged from his home to an
I cutomobile by a band of masked
biul cloakeu men on December 26,
19.20, and when his soil. Giandy
' Hames, went to his father's defense,
he was fatally shot by one member
of the gang.
Threats of Death.
r 1 lames previously had received
J warnings from the "K. K. K."
that lie would be killed if l.e d:J
not leave town. He was taken by
his captors to the edge of town and
beaten.
t Following the attack on I lames,
Oscar Pcllctt and his brother wefc
victims, probably of the same men
2 who murdered flames' son. Al
though Feltett was unmarried, hi
3 Mas beaten for abusing his wife.
Thomas F. Dees was beaten without
coy cause being given. The same
day the manager of the Westerr
; Vnion telegraph office at New
Smyrna, Fla., was beaten, tarred,
I feathered and told to leave town.
! Dies After Beating.
! The record of the klan in Floridi
J i a long one. At Sea Breeze, only
last June a band of men who posed
" i members of the Ku Klux Klan
'.dragged Thomas Reynolds from his
; home and beat and shot him. Ui
tlied.
t When II. C Sparkman, editor of
J the Journal at Daytona, openly de-
fied the "kukoo" klansmen, threats
t were made through the mails that
1 the klan would deal with his case,
intimating that he was in danger
2 of bodily harm or death nt their
hands. . ,
I While the chief of police ol Pen
I sacola. Fla., stood quietly by a band
of "r.ightgowned" kluxers drove up
! to the restaurant of Chris Lochas,
; a Greek, the night of July 8, and
handed him this warning:
Warned to Leave.
5 "You are an undesirable citizen, "ou
I violate the federal prohibition laws,
the laws of decency, and are a run
is" iiing sore on society. Several trams
J are leaving Pensacola daily. Take
your choice, nut ao noi uiuu
! much time.. Sincerely in earnest,
'JK K K "
Chief of Police Harper w as sui
petided for 10 days tor. lalure to
ias an ordinance making Vuch a "dis
ltv.net." an rttfl1fi(. .
S Still later it was announced tnat
the imperial wixard had suspected
the charter of the Pensacola klan.
1 .! ; - nit and Feathers.
J In Birmingham, Ala., on the night
Of Jun 18. C. S. Coley, proprietor
of a batcher shop and Mrs. Kate
Alexander, who did not know each
r.Y.p.r wro whinned bv masket!
men, 'who charged them with friend-
IV 'relations with the negroes. They
.r nrAprrA to leave town.
I i, Lacking tar, masked men supposed
I to have been members of the Ku
Klux Klan gave Walter Billings, a
I movie operator, a coat of crude on
snd feathers the night of July li, at
; A mysterious voice over the tele-
jihotie warned Mayor Walton of
t nuialioma Citv. who announced he
J Hvould not permit bands of masked
men to operate here that "we want
to warn you to lay off the Ku Klux
I Klan or we will have to wait on
;you." The warning was delivered
j on July 24. . " ' i 5
. Dragged Over Roads.
After he had been dragged for
I six miles over country roads behind
a touring car, Wesley Smith, a farnt-
cr living near Tenhant, N. J., caused
J the arrest of six men. He said they
accused him of mistreating, his wife.
He was dragged behind the touring
car on September 24.
A band of masked men tarred and
feathered Jack Morgan, 30. at
Shreveport, La., the night of May
" 0 . T...A .....t.. I.ln. . ..nniGanta.
m-e or tut national Association tor
the Advancement ot Loioreu reopic
i were run out of town by the Km
Klux Klan.
I Governor Kendall Appeals
; For Unemployed of Iowa
J Des Moines, Sept. 29. Governor
X.' E. Kendall issued a proclamation
today appealing to the people of
lewa to exert every possible effort
ito .relieve the unemployment situa-
tion in the state. He says it is con
?srvatively estimated that there ar
JSO.000 men in the state who, with
families to provide for, are deprived
Sof the ordinary means of subsistence,
i Governor Kendall designates W:eJ
nesday, October 12. as the date for
state-wide consideration ot tne emer-
"gency.
"Minneapolis Man and Wife
: V Killed in Motor Car Wreck
J IW'atertown, S. D.. Sept. 29. Mr.
Jand Mrs. V. D. Jones of Minneap
olis were killed yesterday when
ttheir automobile turned turtle in a
J ditch six miles east of Clear Lake.--
Mr. Jones was general ticket agent
Iht Minneapolis for the Great North
;cra railroad. . -
Control Forest Fires.
.Deadwood, S. D, Sept 29. The
several forest firea that have been
Oblazing in the Black Hills since last
under control, but the situation is
son critical, according to forestry of
ficials. The warm sunshine of the
r-tSt few reV tn&eihrr with hra TV
jtosis, nave dried out the ground
I cover until the whole forest is
ast tinder box.
"Mother" Collins' Birthday
Is Celebrated by Kearney
Town Unites in Tribute
As Beloved Pioneer
Reaches Ninetieth
Year.
Kearney, Neb.. Sept 29. (Spe
rial) From time immernorable peo
ple of the world, i nai ion or com
munity have been given to connect
ing certain epochs in the arch of
civilization with the beginning of all
things worth while in their lives.
Kearneyitei are not an exception to
the rule and what is tantamount to
founding of the city is being cele-
uisico iirre iooay in lorm ot an an
niversary. the 90th birthday of Mr"
F.lwa Collins, widely known more
anectionatel as "Mother" Collins.
Mother Collins, 50 years ago, was
one of a group of pioneers who
founded the Methodist church in
Kearney. That anniversary is being
observed simultaneously, as Mother
Collins is the only surviving mem
ber of the original founders, thus
making the dual event more memor
able to the community. The life
story of Mother Collins is one of
vicissitudes such as only the earliest
pioneers of Nebraska experienced
The hardships she suffered were too
numerable to chronicle. They in
ciune mat ot making the supreme
sacrifice in advancement of civiliza
tion, two sons and her husband, the
Kev. Asbury Collins, having lived
that Nebraska of the future might
uphold the title bestowed upon it,
the Promised Land.
Missionary Among Indians.
Kev. Asbury Collins and his fami
ly canir to Buffalo county in May,
1871. Years prior to that date Rev.
Mr. Collins had officiated as a mis
sionary among the Sioux and Paw
nees then claiming Nebraska as their
own. Un a homestead claim with
in the Kearney corporate limits they
erected a home and it became quick
ly familiarly known as Hotel Col
lins. It was anything but a hostel
ry, but such was the hospitality of
its owners, their readiness to wel
come every stranger and give him
lodging for the night, that the hotel
appellation struck a popular chord
Their little home immediately be
came the religious, social and edu
cational center of Kearney. It was
in the Collins home that the Method
ist Episcopal church of Kearney.
now celebrating its 50th anniversary.
was tounded. in Uctober, 181. Kev.
Mr. Collins becoming the appointed
pastor of the congregation. The
next year Mrs. Collins organized a
Bible class ot which she boasts to
day, "Every woman, excepting one.
within 10 miles of my holc, was a
member of that class." The little
parlor in the Collins home rapidly
became an accepted place of meeting
of those God fearing oeonlc who
helped mould the destiny of this
state..
Son Shot to Death.
In 187S. on September 11. there
was brought most vividly to atten
tion of the minister and his wife
the horror arid suffering that went
hand in hand with the then familiar
and common "open town." For on
that day . their youngest son, Mil
ton M. Collins, 24, was shot to death
by a drunken cowboy by thet name
of Jordan P Smith, the boss of a
cattle herding outfit returning from
South Dakota where they had dis
posed, of their herds to Sioux In
dians. The . killing took place on(
what is now Kearney's main street'
and was, according to numbers of
eye witnesses, unprovoked. It was!
Jp'" t-J.
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one of tliofe shootings, incited by
drink, which became commonplace
in frontier towns in those early days
and were not stamped out until
vigilantes took the law into their
bauds.
Organizes W. C. T. U.
That same year Mother Collins
organized the first Women's Giris
tiati Temperance union in the state
'of Nebraska at Kearney, a work in
which she became intensely inter
ested and active and the fruits of
which she realized in measure when
national prohibition went into effect,
almost a half century later.
In 1882, May, another son, Daniel
F. Collins, 24, then a graduate of the
law department of the Iowa uni
versity, met death suddenly by an
accident. While hunting a gun in
his .buggy was accidentally dis
charged, the load of shot penetrating
his chest and death being almost in
stantaneous. '
Eight years later, on March 9,
1890, the father, grief stricken al
most to a point beyond human en
durance, passed away. Over his
grave memorial services were held
Wednesday.
These great and sudden afflictions,
sufficient to crush all lite and ambi
tion of an ordinary individual,
seemed in the case of Mother Collins
to cause her to be more solicitous
for the welfare of her friends and
neighbors and today, 90 years old,
she is still the center and inspiration
of a large circle of loving and loyal
friends.
Inspiration to Everyone.
Mother Collins at this day still
attends every meeting of the W. C.
T. U. held in Kearney. She is also
a regular attendant at services in
the Methodist church. At times
she is given to riding about in a
wheeled chair, not so much as a
matter of necessity, but rather to re
serve her own energies. bne re
tains all her faculties and her pleas
ing manner and courteous .-mile, in
shadow of the century mark; is an
inspiration to everyone. '
Mrs. Collins sees no reason why
bhe should not become a cen
tenarian. 'She loves the world tor
what good it has to offer and con
soles herself in her advancing years,
despite all the sorrows she has ex
perienced, with the knowledge that
there has come over the people an
aVakening and a purposeful desire to
become better citizens in the eyes or
their God and their country.
Stuber Declares
He iMet Alleged
Mate in Resort
Denies Charge of Woman
Who Claim! to Do Com
mon-Law Wife Sayi He
Offered Marriage,
Leon Stuber, Omaha and Wood
uard, la., real estate and livestock
man, in DiMrict Judge Scars' court
yesterday denied the allegations
made by Edna NichoUon, who l
n t king separate maintenance on her
claim that he is Stuber' common
law wife.
Stuber said he met Mrs. NichoUon
in the notorious house formerly oper
ated here by Stella Marquette.
"She told me she would like to get
away from there and said she could
(.ct out for $200," Stuber faid. "I
put up the money and he nwed to
:'I7 Harmy Mievt."
K plying t tt.c voiiuii' '!'.
lions that he had a.Ud hrr to have
an illrl operation performed, Stu
ber -aid:
"When -he lultl me of her fundi
t'on, 1 said, 'If 1 am rv-ponsible, I
am ready o marry you. I'll stand
by you.' Hut the said !' 4
liiuid it might fot hfr lf to be
ci'iitf a nioilier,"
IU nvrr intiodured her lit
ftiit ir lived with hrr hu.baud
and wife, he llitird,
1'otlowiiig Sttiber'l
ttttified, she rame ( WiMvJwaid, la , rr a.Mr. Leon $nibrr. I sJ-1,
one day In W '-,u ,'"u l'' ",ul i-alul
he m me m the tre, J "e.tif.rd he nmr lin-d wait
aul, 'I tinderUnd your married XK-hoi,,, huband and wiu
"I d. .'I '.' Hie d, 'Whutj,, ,i, Twenty-ninth unci.
r IU lilMllg m 'I'J ur !ir I W'V.l
l. fiie taw, i nave a
I 'Not a ihiuu? She .aid. 'I have a I Ilee want ad charge rale are
marriage, he! notion to go to the hotel and rrgU-i higher than the cah rote.
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Pastors Confer on
Noon Meetings
New York Man Tells of
Downtown Evangelistic
Services in East.
Practical evangelistic work in
churches was discussed by ' Dr.
Charles L.' Goodell, New York, in
charge of evangelism in the federal
council of churches, at a meeting of
the Ministerial union at the Y. M.
C A. yesterday.
Dr. Goodell, who has been on a
tour of the middle west, came from
Kansas City, where he held meetings
Wednesday, to. confer with pastors of
local churches on regular noon meet
ings in one of the downtown theaters
during fall and winter similar to the
meetings held last year during Holy
week in the Brandeis.
Dr. Frederick Fagley, secretary of
the Congregational evangelistic work,
spoke briefly on the work, and Dr.
Stillwell, secretary of the Baptist
denomination, told of the evangelistic
work done in Cleveland. Dr. Shaf
fer of the Reformed church of Phila
delphia was another speaker.
Dr. Goodell spoke at a mass
meeting last night at 8 at the First
Methodist church, on ".Personal
Evangelism." Dr. Jesse L. Baker also
spoke last night.
Farmers in Holt County
Commence Husking Corn
Corn husking has started in Holt
county, according to Fred Siebert
of Atkinson, who was a visitor at
the stock yards with two carloads
of grass cattle. Mr. Siebert said no
definite plans had been made by the
farmers of his section as to their
disposal of the corn crop. He said
he supposed some of the corn would
be sold for 25 cents a bushel, but
that there was a disposition on the
part of many to hold their corn for
better prices, if it goes below 25
cents.
Farmers in Gage County
Start Gathering Corn
Beatrice, Neb., Sept 29. (Spe
cial.) A few fanners in this county
have begun gathering corn, which
is yielding well Thft season is
about two weeks earlier than last
year, and a considerable amount of
the grain is now in shape to be
gathered.
Elevators Shut Down
Bigspring, Neb., Sept, 29. (Spe
cial Telegram.) Elevators here
hare had trouble getting gram cars
the last week and had to shut down
a day or two. The grain car situa
tion has been rather bad here lately. ,
Bank Cashier Must; Go to
Jail for Crime Five Years Ago
Cheyenne, Wyo., Sept. 29. (Spe
cial.) Linn W. Lancaster, former
assistant cashier of a national bank
at Wor!and, Wyo., pleaded guilty be
fore Judge Riner in federal court
here to a charge of embezzling funds
from, the bank. He was .'sentenced
to serve 18 months at .Leavenworth.
Lancaster's career has ' the car
marks of a 1921 movie melodrama.
Indicted in 1916 for the offense, he
got away from the officers, dropped
out of sight and later, when Amer
ica entered the world war, served
with distinction overseas. . A short
while ago he was arrested. Now he
must go to. jail for a crime com
mitted five years ago and prior to
the time he. became a defender of his
country. .
Prominent' Persons Get
Permits to Shoot Moose
! Cheyenne, Wyo., Sept 29. (Spe
cial.) A district judge got the first
license to kill a bull moose in Wyom
ing this fall, and the wife of the
governor got permit No. 2. A
countess secured another.
, Fifty permits will be issued for the
season of September 15 to October
31. Arginally it was planned to per
mit the killing of 100 moose, but the
number was cut in half after eastern
game protective societies had pro
tested against the slaughter of so
many of the bulls. .
Saunders County Red Cross
Answers Clothing Appeal
Wahoo, Neb., Sept. 29. (Special.)
Saunders county chapter of the
American Red Cross continues to
live up to its war record in getting
things none. As its share ot the rc
cent- clothing campaign, there were
shipped from Wahoo, 17 large boxes
weighing 2,590 pounds, containing
the following items: Articles for in
fants, 2.289; children, 2 to 14, 829;
adult, 557; shoes, pairs, 70.
Nebraska City Moonshiner
Gets Jail Sentence and Fine
Nebraska City, Neb., Sept 29.
(Special.) Dewey Yearsley, con
victed recently of having a still in
his possession, was sentenced to 30
days in the- county jail and to pay a
tine of ?500 in district court by Judge
James P. Begley. Judge Begley
overruled a motion for a new trial
Beatrice Plans Drive
To Build $300,000 Hotel
Beatrice, Neb, Sept 29. (Spe
cial Telegram.) Directors of the
Chamber of Commerce decided , to
start a drive for the construction of
$300,000 hotel to be erected in the
spring on the site of the old Pad
dock hotel, which was destroyed by
fire some years ago.
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.Bane or' Boon to America ?
The first two minutes of August found two .ships lying quietly off New York, just outside
the three-mile limit. And these particular ships were not "bootleggers," either; they were car
rying immigrants to America. The reason for hovering outside the jurisdiction of the United
"States with steam up was that the July quotas allowed several European nationalities by the
new three per cent Immigration Law had been exceeded. When the new month was ushered in,
however, a race for shore began, with the result that the winner (by two minutes) filled the
quotas, and nothing but deportation remained for scores of immigrants on the losing vessel. In
the wee sma hours of September 1st a similar race occurred in which six ships participated, and
it is predicted that the same thing will happen around midnight of October 1st. The New York
Globe finds the new act "stupid"; The World, "asinine" and "idiotic"; The Evening World,
"oppressive, absurd, and illogical." But in the opinion of the Los Angeles Times, all this "clamor
about the iniquities of the new immigration law is Assuming such proportions as to lead one to
suspect that propagandists are back of it." As that paper sees it, "undesirables are kept away
from our shores at a time when the number of unemployed is probably as great as at any time
in our history."
In a striking article in this week's LITERARY DIGEST (October 1st) the blessings and
iniquities of the new immigration law are dwelt upon by leading American newspapers, and a
new solution for the immigration problem is suggested which has the elements of common sense
and practicality.
Other very interesting news-features in this number of THE DIGEST are :
The Arms Parley and the League as
Rivals
Talking Ireland Into Peace
New Mexico Elections as a Straw
Yankee Capital Invading Europe
The World's Unemployed
Japanese Doubts of the Washington
Conference
France Democratizing Syria
Grounds for an Irish-English Com
promise The Famine Truce in Russia
How to Look Well in Glasses
About Blood Pressure.
A New Way to Trap Forgers
German Poets Turning to Politics
The Best of Jazz
Opera in Mexico
To Christianize Business in England
Mother as a Movie Censor v
Personal Glimpses
Investments and Finance
Topics of the Day
Best of the Current Poetry
Many Interesting Illustrations, Including Humorous Cartoons
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