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The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-12-30
GUN BATTLE IN
ALLEY; ONE HURT
Walter Cochran, Said
" to Be Painter, Hit
by an Officer.

Walter Cochran. painter, was
shot Rnd seriously wounded In a
gun battle with John H. johnson. .
deputy sheriff employed by whole
sale firms to guard warehouses on
the north side, last night
The battle occurred In an alloy In
the rear OF 307 North Boston, John
son was walking up the alley to-
ward Cameron street when Cochran
suddenly appeared from behind "A
pile OF iron pipe.
Police say that Cochran opened
fire first, his shots all going Wild.
and johnson fired two shots, both
taking effect. Several eye witnesses
were skcptical OF the story that
Cochran started tho shooting. ore
man saying that tho private detec-
tive fired first
Cochran was taken TO tho OKLA
homa hospital. where It was said
late last night that he would prob
ably recover. At first II was believed
that CoChrans wounds would prove
fatal. one shot penetrating his
abdomen and the other entering his
right leg. Johnson was not hit.
The wounded man lives at AT
North Boston, neighborS said. and
Johnson lives near the scene OF the
shooting
Ten shots were fired. witnesses
said
Police officials expressed the
opinion that -certain persons In the
nelghbOrhood where Johnson Is de-
tailed have been unfriendly toward
him for some time and that the
shooting may have been the culmi-
uation of a plot to get Johnson
An oye witness said that Just be
foro the shots were fired he had
seen two or three women near the
scene. and that man ana two
women stood talking on tho corner
OF tho alley near the scene shortly
before the detective came up the
alley. Cochran, no said. was stand
ing under canopy which shelters a
pile Of iron pipe just of Cameron
street In the alley where the police
man came on his rounds.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-12-30
START CAMPAIGN FUND
Fifty Thousand Dollars Is
Pledged At Meeting OF
Democrats at Capital.
BRYAN'S FORCES ARE ACTIVE
Former Leader To Tell Views
At Omaha-Friends Can
vassing in East.

OKLAHOMA CITY. Dec. 20. -
United states senator Robert l..
owen, addressing meeting OF the
owen for president club nt the
capitol this afternoon. made wha,
party leaders construed as an
nomcement OF his candidacy for
the democratic presidential nomina-
ton Senator owen said:
The effort 10 place my name be-
fore the democratic convention for
The presidential nomination was not
made at my instance, he said. at
was done because my fellow oiti-
Zcns believed In the principles ]
haye represented all these years
When ! think OF the responsibility
OF the office Of president 1t seems
enough to appll me. Yet some
one must discharge those duties
And he should be one who can hear
the voice OF he people and put
Into concrete form laws to meet the
needs they express.
The candidate in the next cleo
tion who * to appeal TO the votes
or the people must be a believer
in popular government, and be-
.ieve In popular government. lie
must not be offensive to women
suffragists nor to prob ibitionists
because OF opposition TO those move
ments. | have favored both. so II
seems that | am free from offense
In those respects
A fund of $50 was pledged at
tho meeting TO advertise the name
and record of Senator owen to the
the nation before the democratic
convention next summer. and "A IL
nance committed will canvass every
county in the state TO increase the
to 100000.
Governor Robertson. president OF
the owen for president club. pre-
sided n. tn" meeting Talks were
made by score OF democratic lead
FRS from all parts OF oklahoma.
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Declaration Of Princi-
Piles Adopted at Cap
ital Meeting.
SEEK LONGER CONTROL
Extension for Two Years
Of Federal Operation
Is Asked For.
REJECTION LOOKED FOR
Assurance Received That
House Will Reject Pro-
. posal Leaders Say.
AGAINST LABOR PLAN
Report of Industrial Con-
ference Is Assailed by
Labor Officials.

WASHlNGTON. Dec. 90.--Repre-
scntatives OF the. four railway broth
erhoods and heads of affiliated
trades adopted onight n declaration
OF principles opposing legislation
which would make strikes OF railway
workers unln wful.
Tho declaration framed ht a con-
ference with President Gompers OF
the American Federation OF Labor,
declared II was the sense OF organ
lied railway employees that penalty
clauses In pending railroad legisla-
ton against workers ceasing their
employment should be eliminated.
At the conclusion OF five-hour
scsAion President Gompers die
IA ted this statement:
ron Friday last, n number or the
re representatives OF the railroad Or
ganizations, both shopmen and tho
train service. met ~ my office and
we discussed tho situation regard
ing the railroad legislation and | Ia
sued AN initiation TO the executives
OF the 10 shopmcns crafts affiliated
with the American Federation OF
Labor and TO the four railroad
hrotherh oods asking them to meet In
conference with mo here today We
began our meeting at 8 o'clock and
adjourned after 3. The entire time
was taken up with discussion OF
the parliamentary situation OF tho
railroad bills, We reached these
conclusions;
Want Larger Control
That IL In the sense OF the confer
encethat the control OF the rail-
roads should be exercised by the
government OF the United States for
period OF not less than two years
In order that "A proper test may be
made as to government control.
That such test has not been
given n fair opportunity during war
times or since.
This conference IL opposed to
legislation making strikes OF work
ere unlawful II Is the sense OF this
conference that penalty clauses In
pending Legislation OF railroads
against workers Censing their om-
ployment should he eliminated
That the conference fsvors tho
OF beneficial features OF
the BILLS which tend TO esta ablish
better relations between the en-
ploves and the carriers.
That the beneficial clauses
should be extended to the sleeping
car and Pullman company en-
ployes
while tho conference reiterated
the demand Of organized labor that
the government should hold tho
railroas for . peace time test OF two
Years. the union officials explained
that they had no reason TO doubt
the carriers would be handed back
on March | the date specified by
rhe president. reGarless OF the en-
lctment meanwhile OF legislation for
the protection Of tho properties
T.. +, Shepard, president OF the
CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-12-30
Child Mistaken for
Ddnsey Bdby Taken
Home By Its Mother

Mrs. Philip Scott. who claims
10 be the real mother OF WI
liam GoorE" Holmes. adopted re
Gently by the schaffer family OF
this city and alleged by some
persons 10 be the missing Billy
nanscy of Hnmlonton y. T.. left
here early this morning with the
nearly perfect baby for Rrls
tow. OKLA The mother SAYS that
The stories about her hoy" being
the Dansey boy are ridiculous.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-12-30
THE WEATHER

TULSA Okla Dee 20 Maximum. 90
minimum. 20 wrs' winds c'rsr
OKLAHOMA. Tursfa, 49, WrinrsdAy
fair liiil. change b. temperature.
LOUISIANA ANp WIS., IrNNS Tues.
day s0d Wednesday far h'tc change in
Temperature
ARKANSAS Tuesdsr I'D Wrl1s'dsJ
generally fair little change bon tempsra'grr
Fhcr TEXAS Tursdsy ard W-irs,iay
fair moderate tsupsratgrs
KANSAS Pair Tursdsy ard prohsh' 3
Wednesday. continued moderate snpefs
tufs
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-12-30
URGE DEFEAT OF LEAGUE
Resolutions Are Adopted Mt Meeting
of Tennessee Republicans

NASHVILLE. Tenn. Dec. "a
Hesolutions urging defeat OF the
Iessue Of nations covenant. immedi-
ave return OF railroads to private
owners and removal OF al war re
suictlons on business were adopted
~ me meeting here today OF Ten
hesee republican executive com
mttee, which also fixed April IL
the date OF the state convention
shqualified approval Of the action
W republican senators in advocating
eser'ations to the peace treaty
vas expressed
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Sir william Oslcr was one OF the
great men who Eprang rom cana
dian soil He was born In the prov
Iuce Of Ontario and grew 20 be the
most distinguished Of four dis'in-
guished sons ot a famous mother.
Nho was 100 years old December II.
1906
Receiving his medical degree from
MtGnl university In 1872 Doctor
Osler placed the imprint OF his abll-
ity on medical learning 20 such a
marked degree rhat within few
years ne became accepted authority
In medical science. His great art
LAY IN his skill In diagnosis ana his
profound knowledge Of an the parts
a Al functions OF Nhe human body
and the various HIS of nature II
such thing could be. he was a
specialist In all Departments or
medicine,
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-12-30
Noted Iurportcr Dies.

NEWPORT. II. j. Dec. %
Frank VI Wheeler for % years cor
respondent for the Associated Press
here. and known hs one Of the best
u,N4 gtthcrcrs tn New England.
died today He had been In III
health for several months
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-12-30

Dancing and other forms NJ en-
tertainmcut have been provided Tor
the veterans OF the i2d division a.
the reception 70 hC given lu their
honor 10y the Tulsa chapter OF the
Rainbow women ~ oklahoma az the
chamber of commerce auditorium a.
o'clock tonight
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-12-30
AoWAT'S CASE POSTPONED
'sos Anderson Continues II Indcfi-
niteiy on Contrmpt Charge

INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 2s-Hear-
nt Of charges OF contempt OF court
,sanst Alexander Howat. district
,aent Of the Kansas mine work
80 Tor alleged violation OF the fed
court Injunction against fur
,sscs OF the coal miners strike.
ny was postponed indefinitely
sclon followed return % work
,hers In the Kansas fields last
s,,s and puts Howat In the same
I, .on as 81 other international
\ NJ Hrlct officials Of the United
kS workers against whom con
charEes are pending.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-12-30
BRSA\'S FRIENDS
BECOME ACTIVE.

OMAHA, Ncb., Dec. 2g.-William
j. Bryan will speak here January
IL on The attitude OF the demo
cratic party for 1920" Friends Of
MIR. Bryan say he plans a tour OF
several weeks in which he will dis
Cuss the league OF nations, the peace
treaty and other possible cam
paign issues.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-12-30

NEW YORK. Dec Harry
II. Walker who managed cam
paigns for william jennings Bryan
for president today left for a tour
OF New York state and New Eng
land for the announced purpose Of
Interviewing old members OF Bryan
leagues regarding reviving those
organizations Meetings OF the
New York and New Jersey leagues
will be called soon, Mr.. Walker
said. Martin II. Glynn, former
governor % New York; seems TO be
favored as BryanN running mate ~
old members OF the New York
league, according 10 Mr.. Walker.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-12-30
DR.. WILLIAM 0SLER DEAD
Noted Physician Suctumhs at OK
ford, Eng Formerly in L. 4.

OXFORD. Eng. Dec. 30. sir
william Osler, Eoted physician, who
had been III for several weeks
died here this evening.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-29
Sheriff Clark Tells Story
of How Negro Prisoner Is
Turned Loose to Lynchers

Will Brown handed over to thirty members of
the mob on the fourth the court house by Browns
fellow prisoners according tS Sheriff Mike Clark
Here's Clarks story of the capture of Brown:
"The deputy sherffs bad orders to hold Brown and
they did all in their power TO do When the flames and
smoke crowded off the fourth floor Commissioner
Ringer Chief Eberstein Mayor Smith and some police Of
fcers started for the freight elevator The last men into
the elevator Mayor Smith, Commissioner Ringer and
Chief Eberstein.
"The women prisoners were screaming at the tons of
their voices We took fl teen women prisoners and re-
leased them rather than ave them burn like sheep there
in their cells. They escan led from the building.
Later we took the ale prisoners out of their cells
when became too hot there and led them to the roof Of
the building They were panic-stricken. The coored
prisoners seized Brown and tried to push him over tho
cornce into the crowd below. The white prisoners and
deputy sherffs restrained them.
II was on my way UP stairway to the roof when
of bodies tumbled down over my head and
on the floor beneath me.
"The coored prisoners had bolted by me with Brown
in their clutches They hurried him the floor below and
turned him over to crowd of thirty or more who had
climbed into the window from extension ladder That
was the last saw of Brown.
I'VE had l26 prisoners in the Jail Sunday morning
We released fifteen women Three men prisoners es-
caped two confined for petty ofenses and one for
burglary"
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-29
ASSAANT OF AGNES LOEBECK PAYS FOR HIS CRIME
Conductors Nerve
Saves Negro From
Fury Of the Mob

The nerve of street car con-
ductor saved lone negro from be-
ing mobbed at the corner of Six
teenth and Farnam streets Just about
dark.
The negro had jumped on the car
at Seventeenth. The conductor
swung the door shut and the car
shot down the Farnam hill. A mob
oflboys and young men failed to get
On, the conductor boldly. ignoring
their demands Of "open the door,"
Just as the car passed Sixteenth
the trolley was pulled down. The
car sped down the hill at top speed,
too fast fer the rioters to follow.
At Thirteenth the conductor
swung open the door and the negro,
safe. jumped off and darted up
Thirteenth street,
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-29
Mob Enters Gun Stores to
Secure Firearms---Nothing
Taken but Ammunition
Police Arrest Negro Armed With Three Guns in Jack
son Street Basement and by Clever Ruse Escape
With Prsoner-Armed With Shotgms, Police
Barricaded in Fire Hail. Hold Mob Back.

! Approximately 50 men broke into
the Townsend Gun company store
1914 Farnam street, at 8 o'clock and
took 80 rifles and all the revolvers
and ammunition in the store.
Employees of the store said moth
ing was missing but the firearms
and the ammunition.
The lock on the front door OF
the store was broken.
Walter G. Clark, sporting goods
house. l408 Harney street, was also
entered by the mob and all of the
stock of guns and ammunition TAX
en-.
Jackson Street Riot.
A negro and white soldier en-
gagged the police and the mob at
. Eleventh and Jackson streets at 7:30
in front of fire hall No, |. The negro
was armed with a revolver which
he fired into the crowd. The white,
soldier was armed with a club.
When a policeman interfered he
beat the officer. Here the mob took
a hands
The white soldier was knocked
unconscious and the negro took
refuge in a cellar at ITO Jackson
street. The mob, growing to more
than 1000 persons, many OF them
girls and women, together with the
police stormed the house. The
negro held them at bay for 10 min
utes. A riot call was sent to po-
lice headquarters and two automi-
bile loads of police and an ambu-
lance responded.
Smardick Arrests Negro.
Policemen Woods and Samardick
attempted to invade the cellar, but
were halted by shots from the
negro's revolver.
Samardick crept into the cellar
way in the darkness, during an in
terval of silence that followed, he
turned his fashlight into the cellar
and, locating the negro, ordered him
to surrender. The negro, taken by
surrendered.
The mob, learning of the capture
by the police, rushed into the door
way. Crys of Lynch him. Let us
have him." were frequent. One man
pressed forward with a rope. The
police, led by Sergeants Russell and
Rose and Captain Briggs, held the
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-29

mob off while Officers Samardick
and Woods remained below with
hle negro.
Use Clever Ruse.
Finally by a clever maneuver the
man was rescued. Officer Samardick
later relating the story said: 1--WE
agreed on a plan," Sergeant Rus
sci instructed me to fire two shots
at the same time yelling Hes got
the gun again." which | did. This
threw the crowd back for a mo-
ment."
In the interval that followed the
police pressed forward out Of the
celler. and rushed the man into a
waiting automobile in the alley.
The car darted up the alley and to
the police station. The mob ifol
lowed to the police station.
The police were powerless to Fpld
1t off. Captain Heitfelt, in chalge
at headquarters, announced that
the negro had been taken to Co,Al-
Gil Bluffs. The mob was uncoA-
vinced and a committee of five
three of them soldiers, were brougl
into the police station and show
through the jail. There was b
one negro.
Turn Out Lights.
Walter S. Byrne, sales nanagi
of the Omaha Light & Power ce1
pany, at the request of the pol
department, disconnected all of IN
Ak-Sar-Ben ornamental street lightsS
William Francis, Thirteenth and
Vinton streets, a good friend OF
Miss Loebeck," rode horseback
through the crowd.
At s o'clock a mob, estimated at
about 1000 men, accompanied BY
about 300 automobiles, formed OUT
side central police station.
Cries of "We want him, We want
him." filled the air.
The few police on duty at the
station tried to reason with the mob
and explain that the negro was not
there, and would not be brought
there.
A rumor spread that the negro,
Brown, had been taken from the
county Jail and rushed to Council
Bluffs, but the story was said to be
foundation.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-29

building for more than an hour be
fore real attempt was made I,
gain entrance to the building.
In the meantime the police KEEP
breaking up the larger crowds an,
keeping them away from the build
ing.
], T. Thomas, Gibson, Neb.,
mechanic for Andrew Murphy ant
Son, appeared before the Grove
about $50 wearing a badly tori
shirt. He had no coat.
The crowd pushed along behine
him until he stood at the curbing ir
front of the Harvey street entrance
to the court house.
Thomas addressed himself to the
police who stood between the mob
and the doors.
IF that Loeback girl had been a
sister of yours you'd throw down
your badges and clubs and lead us
into the building" Thomas said
Don't be afraid of losing your Jobs
Just let two or three of lis in and
release the negro to them"
His appeals brought laughs from
the police.
The crowd listened to Thomas for
several minutes and then with a
rush stormed the doors, forcing
back the officers who were guarding
them.
The glass panels in the doors
crashed in and a few minutes later
with another rush the doors them
selves splintered.
2s Officers in Building.
Twenty-Five police officers yester-
day took their places inside the build
ing. Rush after rush against the
doors was repe1led by thes police.
The mob seized Robert P. Samard-
ick, a police officer, and beat him
badly. Officer Harry Askwith res
cued Samardick and pushed him in
to niche in the building. Ask
with fought valiantly to defend his
fellow officer. In a few minutes
a dozen officers and detectives
pushed through the crowd and res
cued Samardick.
A fire hose secured inside the
building sent stream of water into
the crowd storming the doors.
A shower of bricks and stones
from the vacant lot west of the
Y. M. c. A. building answered the
stream of water.
Window after window on the
Harney street side of the county
building was pierced with missiles.
hose shot stream of
water from a second story window
and the aim of the missile-throw-
ers went to the upper floors Of the
building.
Rope Across Saddle Horn.
William Francis, Thirteenth and
vinton streets, a CLOSE friend of
the Loebeck girl" was mounted on
2 horse. He was clad in high
school cadet uniform. A rope lay
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-29
Loebeck Girls Chum
Appeals to the Crowd
With Tears in Eyes

An incident that might have in
famed the crowd to a frenzy was
an address attempted at the south
side of the court house by Miss
Frances Hobbs, a chum Of Miss
Agnes Loebeck, assailed by the me-
gro Brown.
Breaking into tears, she appealed
to the mob to hear her, and was
hoisted to the shoulders Of some of
the men.
This poor, innocent girl was my
chum." she cried, "and l ask you"
Yells interrupted her, and her es-
cort, apparently fearful of the con-
sequences, pulled her down and hur-
ried her away.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-29
tContinued From Page One,

the lengths
nj rope ne mans dto another
andI with
the reply. s
IieutGov Barrows called Secretary
Deadwood b.
and he reached the order Omaha.
and
soldiers
McKi
81 Lincoln.
gathered
policemen 6
in
gained
others to follow.
Of
FIREkEN COUL
When
All through anda
Victims
vicinity the CLOSED
house to the shef office
Y
reached the cell The prisoners
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-29
Wilson Arrives Home;
Condition Remains Same

Washington, Sept. 28.-President
Wilson returned to Washington
Sunday from his interrupted tour
tor the peace treaty. He was able to
walk through the railway station
from his special train to a White
House automobile, and was taken
at once to the White House, where
it was said there was little change
in his condition.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-29

across the saddle horn. Francis
stood in the saddle in front of the
court house and said mob of me-
groes was forming at Twenty-sixth
and Grant streets. The excitement
of the crowd grew to fever height
with that announcement.
| The police inside the building be-
gan shooting down the elevator
shaft to frighten the crowd. That
move only intensified the mob's ex-
citemeht. The crowd gradually
walked around the building.
A lone negro, about SO years old
appeared at Seventeenth and Far
nam streets about 5 o'clock. A mob
was on him at once. They struck
and kicked him several times before
Johnnia Lee, Omaha puglist and an
unidentified soldier could rescue
him. But for Lee and the soldier
the negro would probably have been
seriously injured. Lee and the SOL
der hurried the negro north on
Seventeenth street followed by a
raging mob At Douglas street
they pushed him onto the running
board of touring car bearing
license number 1o3S58 Neb. in which
two men and two women were
riding. The driver of the car hur-
ried east on Douglas street with
the negro.
Negro Seen in Car.
"A negro was seen in an eastbound
Farnam street car as it passed Sew
enteenth street. A youth clambered
into an open window, struck the
negro twice and then Ieaped out.
Some one pulled the trolley from
the wire and the car rolled down the
hill to Sixteenth street without
power.
Most of the mob then directed at
tention to the front doors of the
court house. The glass panels were
smashed in, but when police officers
in the rotunda of the building be-
gan to shoot the crowd refused to
enter the portals.
Claude L. Nethaway, whose wife
was murdered in lonely railroad
cut north of Florence two years ago
by negro named Charles Smith,
pushed his way through the crowd
to the court house steps.
Facing the crowd he screamed.
My wife was murdered by negro. /
# ! get my hands on this one, III
burn him to the stake!"
(Thaorc
and he started into the building.
Two shots rang through the ro-
tunda and Nethaway returned to
the crowd.
Guns and Ammunition Arrive.
When darkness began to fall the
mob began to shoot in answer to
he police. Guns and ammunition
began to arrive from the plundered
sporting goods houses and pawn
shops.
Somenone brought large guam
ity of gasoline. Members of the
mob poured it through window |
nto the city treasurer's Office in |
he Farnam street side of the |
and touched a match to it. |
IS the file cases took fire brilliant |
'laze lighted up the whole court
ard. The fire soon burned down
'ut it was started again. This time
spread to other offices on the first |
loor and then upward through the
At $50 Police Officer Earl o.
,isk from South Side station es-
aped from the building. He had
ought his way from the fourth
oor. through the smoke and flamo
Risk ran for help to the fire sta
ion at Eighteenth and Harvey
treets.
when l left the fourth floor the
moke and fame were terrible"
aid Risk. police Commissioner
,inger, Captain Haze and some Of
GERS are still up there"
The police waved a white flag