Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-04-06
George II. Edwards Defeats
Henry L. Jost by Big
Majority.
TURBULENT ELECTION
Chief of Police Ousted and
Commissioners Placed
in Jail.

KANSAS CITY. April 4.-George II.
Edwards, Republican. was elected
mayor of Kansas City in today's cleo
ton. Henry J.. Jost Democratic nom
inee for reelection, conceded his de-
feat when S5 of the city's 22O pre-
cincts gave Edwards 11,130 to S,0O3
for Jost.
The election was the most turbu-
lent the city has witnessed in years
and resulted late today in the placing
in the county Jail of James S. Lapsley
and Col Fred A. Lamb. police COM
missioners, on charges of contempt Of
court after city patrolmen had ar
rested more than three hundred per-
sons all of whom were held at police
headquarters for investigation.
The commissioners were remanded
to Jail by Judge Clarence A. Burney
of the circuit court because they had
ignored writs of habeas corpus that
would have freed some of the persons
arrested by the police. Previous to
the arrest Of the commissioners Cap
tain Thomas j. Flahive, acting chief
of police during the suspension of
Chief Hiram Hammil, ordered yester-
day by the commissioners. had been
released from jail, where he spent
those placed against his superiors
The commissioners later gained their
liberty on writs Of habeas corpus.
Howe Fights, Too.
Many of those arrested, it was de-
clared, had been wearing buttons de-
claring that they We're for Edwards
for mayor. The two commissioners
placed in Jail are Democrats. Judge
Eurney also Is q Democrat
James O'Brlen, arrested late in the
afternoon on charges of illegal voting,
Is said to have admitted he mad regis
tered from three different places.
An election fight took place in the
Ninth precinct of the Eighth ward
during the afternoon between John
). Cannon, an attorney, widely lsoown
as tennis player and an athlete, and
Casimir j. Welch, justice of the
peace. Cannon is Republican and
WEIGH a Democrat. Physicians said
Cannon sustained a fracture of the
frontal bone of the skull. Welch was
cut about the face.
There are known to be other bands
operating in that same part of Mexico
and part of the American forces
must remain to deal with them while
another part pushes on in the pursuit
of the fugitive chief.
The action registered south of Ba-
chineva only served to stiffen the
opinion of staff officers that If the
punitive expedition is to complete its
work great many more troops must
be sent into the country or the MeXi-
can Central railroad from JuareZ to
Chihuahua and even through Chihua-
hua to points further south must be
used for the transportation of troops
and supplies.
The official admission at General
Funston's headquarters today that the
success of the expedition now depend
ed largely on the freer use of the
railroads or the material strengthen
Situation Serious.
and has diverted attention once more
to the railroad problem which army
officers here admit rapidly is becom-
ing acute.
There is frank skepticism in army
circles here over General Pershing's
ability to push much further into Mex
leo without the aid of the railroads.
1t Is pointed out that the number of
men required to guard the present
three hundred miles or more of com.
munication is out Of all proportion to
the total number of troops at General
Pershing's disposal.