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The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1920-07-07
THREE MEN CONFESS
TO TRAIN ROBBERY

Express Messenger, Ernest Hart and
w. j. Quattlcbaum Tell Officers How
They Robbed C.. & W. C. Train We'd
neSday.. About One.Third OF Money
Recovered.
Augusta, Ga, July 5.-One hundred
and twelve hours after the holdup of
the Charleston & Western Carolina
train from which the payroll OF the
Marine Corps, S59,725, was stolen last
Wednesday morning, the men impli-
Gated in the crime were locked up in
t5e county jail, confessions had been
obtained from them and the money to
the last dollar had been recovered.
Thus ends one Of the most thrilling
chapters in the history of crime
in this section Of the South.
The last Of the money was recover
cd late yesterday afternoon by county
officers and special asents at point
near the Richmond Factory in the vi
cinity OF Hcphzibah near the Willis
and Foreman Road when Hart led the
officers TO spot in a swamp where he
had buried $4,000 About one o'clock
Yesterday afternoon Quattlcbaum and
Derrick revealed the hiding place Of
S23,i75 in thc somc vicinity lcod;nu
them to n swamp where The money was
scrctcd.
AS told il Tho cbroniclc Yesterday
morning, $lG&lo was found Saturday
n,ornino IN > milo of cotton socd nulls
IN On,tt1oh,,m,s harm after thc
owner of thc ulocc was arrested -Four
hundred and siy;v dollars was found
SATURDAY noor or,,,loboum.s homo. if
yos in silvcr riclilos and pcnnics and
tho boldun mon had not bothered car
ryinp if away. hiding II in tho butlcr's
Crock swomps not far from Car
m;choo,s
Augusta, Ga, July 3.-M. b. Derrick
messenger for the American railway
Express Co., who lives at 936 Broad
street Ernest Hart, Stoval Street
and w. j. Quattlcbaum. living about
seven and a half miles from Augusta
on the new Savannah road. yesterday
confessed to the robbery Of the Char
lesion & Western Carolina train tha
eft Augusta at 5:1J last Wednesday
morning and the theft of the payroll O
the marine corps, amounting to $40,
725. A considerable portion OF tn,
money has been recovered, but ther'
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1920-07-07

lot Childrcns Gingham Dresses all now style and best
quality of Gingham worth $3.50 July Special J.. 5000
| lot Ladies Wolfe and Organdc Waists, face trimmed;
all new Spring Styles worth $3.50 big July Special 81 65
The Kendrick gazette., 1920-03-19

tion of normal relations between the
different nationalities is hardly con-
ceivable and that the German gov
ernment, on it's part, will be obliged
to take measures with view to the
expiation of punishable acts COM
mitted during the war by Germans
against allied subjects.
Promise Impartial Inquiry.
The note says the extradition lists
have been submitted to the supreme
states attorney at the Leipsic court,
so that the requisite measures may
be taken in accordance with the law
for the prosecution of war offences.
1t explains the terms of the bill
passed to supplement this law, and
says it gives every conceivable guar
antee for an exhaustive impartial in
quiry.
The German government attitude
toward all the allies reservations
therefore is manifest, the note adds.
The Kendrick gazette., 1920-03-19
PLAN TO RETURN
SOLDIER DEAD
American Graves Registration Service
in Europe Opens Office
in Paris.

PARASITIC American graves reg
istration service in Europe has
opened headquarters at No. Avenue
dTena. Colonel Harry T. Rethers
represents the war department in
preparing for the return to America
OF the bodies of soldiers and asso-
ciated military personnel, the return
of which have been requested by next
of kin.
The questionnaire distributed by
the department of war indicates so
far as replies have been received
about 80 per cent of next of kin de-
sire the bodies of relatives returned
to the United States, and about %
per cent wish them left permanently
in France. Fifteen per cent have not
replied. Nearly 100 bodies have been
sent or are ready to be sent from
England to the United States
Disinterment from France probably
will begin at the port of Brest early
in April.
The Kendrick gazette., 1920-03-19
SELL RANCH
FOR TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND
c. p. Ragsdaie Of Baker City Purchas-
er Of Property Containing
1883 Acres.

YAKIMA.-Several realty deals OF
more than ordinary importance have
been announced here. c. X. and H.
l.. Anderson of Ellensburg sold their
ranch property. known as the Malcolm
Mcclellan ranch, to G. p. Ragsdale Of
Baker City, Ore, for a consideration
reported to be well in the neighbor-
hood of 100000. The Andersons OBJ
tanned the place, which consists of
1888 acres. including both summer
and winter range. in 1916, for $3.50, 900.
A band of 5000 sheep, with all stock
and equipment necessary to carry on
the ranch. goes with it. The Andersons
have been in business during three
years, when wool growing has been
most profitable.
The Kendrick gazette., 1920-03-19
TEXAS TOWN BURNS
ALMOST ENTIRELY
GRANDvIEW DESTROYED BY FIRE
LOSS TWO MILLIONS
LAST SUNDAY.
OVER $4,000 ARE HOMELESS
Hundreds Of Costly Homes and Busi-
ness District Swept by Flames
High Wind One Cause
1900 People Homeless.

FORT WORTH, Texas.-Fire caus-
ing loss estimated at more than
$2,0OO,000 and making 1900 people
homeless started Sunday afternoon at
Grandview at o'clock. The business
section and residential portion Of the
city have been destroyed.
Three men were injured when
building collapsed
Fire department from Cleburne
tasca and Alverado responded, but
the water in the standpines gave out
and the firemen thereafter could do
nothing except watch the town burn.
Automobiles, trucks, wagons and
other vehicles were pressed into ser
vice to carry the homeless people to
Alverado and Itasca.
More than 200 homes in the best
residential section have been de-
stroyed.
Under Mayor Williams direction a
committee OF safety is patrolling the
town.
The fire has destroyed virtually
o'SAS DuoAhSoo OuiuAu6 dAu lcSlucuCS
in the once beautiful city of Grand
view.
All vehicles were pressed into serv-
ice to carry the homeless people to
AlvaradO and Itasca. Merchandise
valued at hundreds of thousands of
dollars was piled in the streets.
In V-shape the fire swept the city,
destroying more than 200 of the
finest homes.
Mayor Williams of Grandview
called a massmeeting of all citizens
in the city park. A safety committee
was organized to patrol the fire-
stricken section and save property.
The wind blew at such velocity that
blazing brands were carried for miles
farm house three miles from
Grandview caught fire and was de-
stroyed.
The Kendrick gazette., 1920-03-19
Germans Make Objection
to Action Taken by Allies

BERIIN.-The German charge
d'affaires at London has handed to
Premier Lloyd George a note re-
garding the entente extradition list.
The note demands that the arrest
of Germans in the occupied territor-
les on charges similar to those emu
merated in the extradition list shall
cease and that those arrested shall
be delivered to German courts.
The release of Germans who have
been detained in war prison camps
also is requested
The note finally demands that the
allies abandon the reservation re-
garding their right to try for crimes
during the war any Germans not
mentioned in the list If encountered
on allied territory, saying that Incl
dents arising out Of the war should
be consigned to oblivion with the
advent of peace.
Otherwise. the note says, restora.
The Kendrick gazette., 1920-03-19
Miners Get Raised Paw

The number of men employed In
the mines, mills and smelter of the
Occur d'Alene region approaches 5000
by estimate. A greater number, if
not all of them, will benefit by the
bonus announced recently. The rate
of increase is so cents a day. On the
basis of 300 shifts worked in a year
the increase would aggregate $45O, 900
in that period.
The recent advance increases the
total bonus to $2.25 a day above the
base wage of $3.50. II this rate is
continued for a year the total bonus
paid in that period will be $2,O25,OOO
and the total wage $5,1i5,OOO on a
basis of 5000 men and 800 days of
labor to the man.
The new rate of 1926 day is the
same as paid in the mines of Butte,
Mont. The Coeur d'Alene bonus is
no longer based upon the price of
lead. but its payment is made pos
sible by the recent advance in the
price of that metal according to a
mining man.
The Kendrick gazette., 1920-03-19
Court Rules On Spokane Case.

Notwithstanding that the plan Of
the Spokane county commissioners
for the retirement of the $3.50, 900
road bond issue, voted by the county
last year, was legal and within the
terms of the notice given the voters,
the state supreme court issued a writ
ordering State Auditor c. w. Clausen
to register the bonds. which had been
bid in by the state board of finance,
and to deliver to the commissioners
Of Spokane county $450.O00, the
amount of the first issue to be sold
The Kendrick gazette., 1920-03-19
AMERICAN GENERAL
GUARDS THE RHINE
GEN. FOCH ATTENDED COUNCIL
OF LEADERS IN YANk AREA
SUNDAY
$4,000 OF OUR BOYS THERE
American Force Completely Motorized
Ready to March or Fight-Wait
Generals Word-U. S. Still at
War, Ready to Fight.

WASHINGTON.-P direct ad
vices and clear understanding of
the situation in Germany and the
scope of the new revolution. officials
would not comment Sunday.
Silence was maintained at the war
department, although it was regarded
as probable that a definite summary
of the new situation as it affects
allied and American troops holding
the Rhine bridgeheads was soon to
be expected from Major General Hen
ry r. Allen, commanding the Ameri-
can forces.
The fact that a council of the mill
tary commanders on the Rhine had
been called and that Marshal Ferdi-
nand Foch had gone to MentZ to at
tend the meeting, was regarded as
significant. Any steps involving the
use of troops, it is thought, will
originate at this conference Monday
What part American troops may
play in the situation appears highly
doubtful. The American forces lin
Germany are on an entirely different
footing from the French or British,
as the United States technically is at
war with Germany, it was pointed out
Armistice conditions govern the AM
erican forces. while the allied COM
mands are under the terms of the
treaty of Versailles.
General Allen has more than $4,000
American troops under his command
The total number in Europe on March
as 17,08l, but a number of detach-
ments are scattered in different parts
of France, engaged in closing out
war time enterprises.
An unusual feature of General AL
lens command is that it is complete
ly motorized, including the artillery,
ready to move or fight on a moments
notice
The Kendrick gazette., 1920-03-19
SAYS WAR TIDE TURNED
by UNITED STATES
Herbert Hoover Ayers America Did
Not Win Great
Conflict.

WASHINGTON refusing to
comment on military plans or policies.
Herbert Hoover Saturday told the
senate committee Investigating the
navy departments conduct of the war
that owing to shortage OF food and
heavy sinking of allied merchant ships
by German submarines, conditions
abroad We're critical from April, 1917,
until September.
Mr.. Hoover was called before the
committees at the request of Rear Ad-
miral Sims, who asserted he was best
qualified to support his contention
that the allies were losing the war
when the United States Joined them
and that only vigorous campaign
against the U-boats could bring about
victory.
Not Technical Expert.
Asked if the navy department could
not have offeerd more complete CO.
operation by sending more vessels to
the critical zone, Mr.. Hoover declined
to express an opinion except to say
that he supposed everything was
done that could be-" He told the COM
mittee that he did not consider him
self competent to testify regarding
technical military and naval matters
and that his business was to "get
food to the allies"
Mr.. Hoover expressed the belief
that American participation turned
the scales in favor of the allies at
the critical period of the war, al
though it was incorrect to say that
the United States won the war.
Efforts to prove that the navy's
failure to keep him informed of i'm
portant developments and changes in
policy caused his association on the
allies naval councils to believe he
was not in the full confidence of his
government, formed the burden of
Admiral Sims testimony.
The Kendrick gazette., 1920-03-19
PATROL FORESTS WITH 30
UNITED STATES AiRPLANES
Five Machines Likely to Be Used in
Inland Empire, Is Report from
Washington.

Assignment of 80 government air.
planes for forest patrol in the north
western states, of which five would
be stationed at some point in the In.
land Empire, Is considered probable,
according to reports made at the
semi-annual meeting of the North Ida
no Forestry association in Spokane.
The service of the 80 planes would
be given in Washington, Idaho, Ore
gon, California and parts of Utah and
Montana. About Is of the 80 planes
would be used in Washington, Idaho
and Montana.
The Kendrick gazette., 1920-03-19
Discover Laurens Portrait.

LONDON.-A long lost portrait OF
Henry Laurens, who was president OF
the American congress in 1777 and
1878 and one of the leaders in the
American revolution, recently was
discovered in country house at
Clonmel, Ireland. near Tipperary, ac.
cording to the London Times. The
portrait was painted by John Single
ton Copley, a noted Anglo-American
painter. The portrait of Laurens
says the paper, was purchased by
dealers and sent to the United States
The Kendrick gazette., 1920-03-19
~" Teachers to Get Raise

MOSCOW.-Faculty and staff of the
University of Idaho, including the ex-
pertinent station and agricultural col
lege, are to have 10 per cent increase
In salaries beginning April 1. This &C.
uon was taken at meeting of the
executive board attended by DR.. E. A.
Bryan, state commissioner of educa.
ton; Ramsey Walker of Wallace and
President E. H. Lindley of the Uni
versity of Idaho. Provision was made
to secure the sum from funds now
available
The Kendrick gazette., 1920-03-19
Feature Frontier DAYS.

WALLA WALLA.-The fair board
has decided not to hold race meet
this fall, but to devote all efforts to
Frontier Days" show and to increase
live stock premiums by one-third over
last year. The fair will open We'd
nesday, September Is.
The Kendrick gazette., 1920-03-19
Bryan Fights Booze Gano

LINCOLN, Neb.-William ]. Bryan
does not desire the democratic nomi-
nation for president, but feels it his
duty to the progressive democrats"
TO go to the party's national conven-
ton to help them in opposing the
reactionaries and friends of the sa.
loon, he announced here.
The Kendrick gazette., 1920-03-19
Ice Dam Floods Ranches.

HELENA, Mont.-A dam formed by
ice in Prickly Pear creek flooded sew
eral ranches in the valley north of
the city. Some people were obliged
to spend the night in the open.
County officials broke the gorge Sun
day.
The Kendrick gazette., 1920-03-19
NOTED PERSONS DIE

WOODLAND, Cal.-Justice Hurd
Taylor, noted minstrel of early days,
aged So.
PASADENA, Cal.-Mrs. Virginia
Jones Bacon, cousin of the first Mrs.
Woodrow Wilson
WASHINGTON Charles p.
Undertake, wife OF Representative
Timberiake of the Second Colorado
district
The Kendrick gazette., 1920-03-19
6O-Mile Gale Uproots Trees.

DENVER, Col-The Rocky Noun
tam states were swept Sunday by
6o-mile gale which in places blew
down telephone poles, uprooted trees
and destroyed buildings.
The Kendrick gazette., 1920-03-19
Spirit Lake Progressive.

SPIRIT LAKE.-The people of
Spirit Lake are determined to pro.
vide the children of the public schools
with modern gymnasium. The bond
issue OF $4,000 was voted last year,
but was not enough, so now 47O per.
sons have petitioned the board of
education to call for further bond
issue of $4,000. and this the board
has done. fixing the date of the
election at March &C. The sum asked
for will be sufficient to construct the
building and equip it as it should be
equipped
The Kendrick gazette., 1920-03-19
Debs, in Prison, Candidate.

ATLANTA, Ga.-Eugene v. Debs of
Terre Haute, Ind, now serving a long
sentence in the federal penitentiary
here, has consented to the use of his
name as socialist candidate for pres
ident of the United States.
The Kendrick gazette., 1920-03-19
Oil Boom Is Indicated.

YAKIMA.-News that the pres;dent
mad signed the oil land leasing bill
mas resulted in sudden rush to file
rights to develop oil lands in Rattle.
snake near Hanford.
The Kendrick gazette., 1920-03-19
President Enjoys Outing.

WASHINGTON. - President Wood.
row Wilson Sunday took his fourth au-
tomobile ride since his illness, brav-
ing typical March wind in an open
machine
The Kendrick gazette., 1920-03-19
Express Companies Want Raise.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. express
charges, ranging from 10 to rs per
cent to yield $25,O00,0OO additional
revenue annually. were asked by the
American Railway Express company,
whose employees are on strike at Chi
cago, in a petition filed Monday with
the interstate commerce commission
The Kendrick gazette., 1920-03-19
100000 RANCH DEAL
Spokane, EIIenshurg Men Buy Mon
tana Holdings.


tana Holdings.
The ranch and personal property
of John Peterson of Horse Prairie
Mont, which is near Lemhi county
Idaho, has been sold for 100000 to
William McCarter and associates of
Spokane and Ellensburg.
The property in question consists
of a 7000-acre ranch of fine meadow
land in Horse Prairie, Mont, all irri-
gated, and the adjoining 15,OO0-acre
ranch in the Big Hole basin, also
irrigated, 1000 head of cattle, 800
horses and full equipment. The two
ranches ordinarily raise 5000 head of
cattle and cut 10000 tons, more or
less, of hay.
The Kendrick gazette., 1920-03-19
Rules For the Gridiron.

NEW YORK.--The football rules
committee after two lengthy sessions
finished it's meeting here without
adopting any radical changes in the
rules governing the gridiron game.
The Kendrick gazette., 1920-03-19
Hear Music 100 Miles Away.

NEW YORK.-Passengers on the
Cunard liner Mauretania, which ar
rived here from Southampton, were
entertained when 100 miles at sea
with a concert transmitted by wire
less telephone from the Marconi
works at Chelmsford, England
The Kendrick gazette., 1920-03-19
IDAHO NEWS PARAGRAPHS
Recent Happenings In This State
Given In Brief Items for
Busy Readers.
Asks Investigation.

BOISE.-State Commissioner of Ag.
riculture Miles G. Cannon has issued
a statement declaring for a grand
jury investigation of flour mill oper.
ators in Idaho. He asserted that they
were profiteering.
Heavy Snowfall. at Moscow.
MOSCOW.-A snowstorm swept
over this section Sunday, following
two days and nights of rain that
soaked the ground thoroughly. Dur
ing the early part of the night the
wind began blowing a gale and snow
began falling and continued until
toward noon. But the heavy rain has
put a stop to all farm and road work
Make Money on Peits.
MOSCOW.-Although this section is
not known as a "game" or "varmint"
district, much money has been made
during the winter by hunters and
trappers, who have secured and sold
thousands of dollars worth of furs.
Coyote, skunk, raccoon, muskrat, mar
ten and bobcats, or lynx, have been
killed in every county of the "pan-
handle" of Idaho, and their furs and
pelts have found ready sale at prices
never dreamed of in former years.
The Kendrick gazette., 1920-03-19
Unions Show Progress.

WASHINGTON.-T will be no
more strikes of building trades unions
growing out of disputes over division
OF work.
The Kendrick gazette., 1920-03-19
Breaks Worlds Pin Record.

PEORIA, Hl.-The Brucks' No. / of
Chicago shattered the worlds record
in the fivemen events at the Ameri-
can Bowling congress on a late shift
here Saturday night, shooting for a
total of 1895 pins
The Kendrick gazette., 1920-03-19
SUMMARY OF THE
WORLDS EVENTS
IMPORTANT NEWS OF BOTH
HEMisPHEREs BOILED DOWN
TO LAST ANALYSIS.
ARRANGED FOR QUICK READING
Brief Notes Covering Happenings In
This Country and Abroad That
Are Of Legitimate Interest
to All the People.

Marshal FOch denies as fakes the
news" from Paris that he is hostile
to the league of nations.
Miss Yvonne Gall, French soprano
of the Chicago Opera company. sus.
tanned an injury to the skull recently
in New York in a collision of two taxi
cabs
Plans are announced for a march
from New York to Washington by sew
eral thousand former service men, all
American citizens Of Armenian birth,
as a protest against the massacres in
Armenia.
For the purpose of preventing the
union Of the Methodist Episcopal
church, south. with the northern
church, ministers and laymen of the
north Mississippi conference have or
ganized the Southern Methodist
league.
Hope has been abandoned in Paris
for Russian steamer chartered by
the American Red Cross. which left
NOvo Rossisk ON the Russian east
coast Of the Black set, for CONSTANT
nople with 500 wounded and sick
refugees
At Berlin, March IL. Dr. Karl Helf-
ferich, former minister of the treas
ury. was found guilty of libeling
Matthias Erzberger. former vice chan
ceilor. DR.. Helfferich was fined 300
marks and also charged with the
heavy costs of the trial, which began
January 10.
Milk distributed by producers as
sOciation, with cooperation of Omaha
city authorities, went on sale recently
at Is cents a quart. The retail price
was 16 20 cents. Patrons will go to
a central plant for the present, but in
few days the milk will be on sale
at fire stations.
The Kendrick gazette., 1920-03-19
Million Men in leuion Now.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.--The Ameri-
can Legion has membership of more
than one million in S475 posts scat
tered throughout the country
The Kendrick gazette., 1920-03-19
Saving in Shipping Cattle.

ST. MARIES.-The Benewah county
farm bureau held a meeting here re.
Gently and the retiring secretary, H.
u. Garland. gave resume of the
years work and project leaders re.
ported on the progress of the indi.
vidual projects. N. w. Carpenter re.
ported a saving of $25,OOO in the
eradication of ground squirrels. Levi
johnson described the saving of $1,000
through cooperative shipment of cat.
tie. J. r. Hagaman advocated ex-
tensive work on livestock improve.
ment.
The Kendrick gazette., 1920-03-19

More Aliens Go Than Come.
NEW YORK.-Prohibition is caus-
ing so many foreign-born to leave the
United States that emigration is ex-
ceeding immigration.
The Kendrick gazette., 1920-03-19
So, 100000 For Shipyard.

WASHINGTON.-A offer of So, ,4OO,-
900 has been made to the shipping
board by David Rogers for the Skin
ner and Eddy Shipyard No. at Sc
attic. Chairman Payne says the board
was considering the offer, but that the
present operators would also be given
an opportunity to bid. The govern
ment purchased the yard two years
ago for $3,874,0
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1920-01-06
THIRD MEMBER OF
INTERCITY AIRLINE COR.
PORATION ARRIVED In
LAKELAND SATURDAY

Mr.. Waldo S. Boyd of Maine ar
rived here Saturday evening and has
become affiliated with .he Intercity
Airline Corporation, being third
member of that concern.
Mr. Boyd is a master electrician as
we'll as being an engineer and during
the war was in charge of the overhaul
OF aviation motors at the flying fields
where he was stationed.
Mr.. Jack Duffner, who has been
with the local aviation company since
they started operations here, is leav-
ing soon for the north. He has made
a score of friends during his brief
stay here in Lakeland, all of whom
regret his leaving.