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The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-04-09
HEAVY STORM SWEEPS
EAST AND MIDDLE WEST
Deep Snow and High Winds Mark
Early Spring Weather.-Reports
Show Worst April on Record

Billings. April 5.-The middle west
and parts of the east We're in the grip
of storm yesterday that was about
the worst the weather records have I"
show for April. Trains We're tied up
street car traffic at standStill and
considerable damage was done in many
places. Following are the records ut
the principal points affected:
ILI.1NOIS-TrainS all late. street
cars blocked by snow in Chicago Flee
trio plants affected and city in dark
ness for time.
1NDIANA-Heavy snow and gale.
Northeastern part of state is storm
center.
MICHIGAN - Whole state Storm
swept on eve of presidential pri-
marieS.
OH1O-WorSt blizzard state ever
saw. even in winter. Snow and ice
storm raises havoc.
MSSOCRI-St. Louis within four
degrees of the coolest April weather
on record. Heavy SHOWS in parts of
state. All trains late. Reports show
that wire service is demoraized ana
cattle suffering badly in blizzard
that covered Kansas. Nebraska. Texas
panhandle and northern Oklahoma.
NEBRASKA-Heavy snow upsets
train service but weather moderating.
WEST VIRGINIA--Houses unroof-
ed. and wires and poles blown down
Mt Parkersburg.
NEW YORk-EaSter parade threat
nue. by cold. driZZling rain.
The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-04-09
EASTER RIOTS OF IRISH
LESS THAN EXPECTED
Tax Lists Burned and Police Barracks
Attacked in Many Districts.-Sinn
Fein Flag Is Hoisted

Dublin. April 5.-Easter demonstra-
spectacular effort of force against
the government. which the adherentS
of the republican cause considered
would be suicidal. but there was Il
series Of outrages in many parts of
the island. The malcontents took a
new angle in their work when they at.
tackled Is tax officers in many cities
and towns. destroying the records in
various ways. mostly by fire.
The attacks against police barracks
and police hutS numbered 81. In most
Of the cases the police had left the
barracks to go to concentration
points in the larger cities. Where
only women and children We're left in
the barracks or huts. the raiders gave
warning of their intentions, hence
there We're no casualties.
At Dublin castle last night it was
stated that destruction of the tax rec
Ords would avail nothing: all citizens
whose records have been destroyed
would he re-assessed and their taxes
are likely to be increased by the needs
of funds to replace the barracks and
huts destroyed.
The Sim Fein flag flew all day long
from the masthead of the flagstaff on
the admiralty pier ut Queenstown. 1t
was hOisted during the night and the
pole was we'll creased to prevent IL
from being hauled down.
The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-04-09
NIGHT RIDERS RAID IS
EXPECTED; SOLDIERS OUT

Mayfield. Ny. April "a machine,
gun squad of the national guard was
on duty last night following Il re-
port that n second attack was to be-
made on Mayfield tobacco chutes by
night riders as II result Of the recent
decline in the price of tobacco.
\ number of citizens spent Thurs
day night under arms awaiting an at
tack. but none materialiZed. The ma
chine gun squad was asked for hy
Judge Gardner. of the circuit court.
as Il precautionary measure and was
ordered from Leitchfield by Governor
Morrow.
Judge Gardner instructed Il special
grand jury to investigate the burning
last Friday night Of the Mayfeld To-
bacco chute by a band of night riders.
said to have numbered 2Ou. The sol
diers assisted deputy sheriffs in bring
ing in witnesses summoned to appear
before the grand jury.
The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-04-09
LEAK IN HIGH COURT
ENDS IN INDICTMENT
First Case in History.-Alleoed Ad.
vance Information Was Obtained for
Purpose Of Stock Speculation

Washington, April 3.-FOr the first
time in history. Il criminal indictment
was returned Thursday against per-
sons alleged to have obtained advance
information of Il supreme court deci-
sion for the purpose of stock market
speculation.
Aston +. Embry. former secretary to
Justice Mckenna. was named as the
man who disclosed the substance of
the highest courts forthcoming deci-
sion in the Southern Pacific eases last
November. He was said to have re-
ceived 5000 for the information. where.
by the other defendants. f. Willard
Mayer Jr.. New York broker. Bar
nett f. Moses. lawyer of Washington.
and james HARDWOOD Graves, former
assistant attorney in the department
of justice. We're enabled to sell short
800 shares of Southern Pacific. on
which a profit of S1.4l2.:O was made.
The indictment returned in the Dis
trict of Columbia supreme court after
months of investigation by the depart
m"nt of justice. charged specifically
conspiracy to aefraud the United
S1ates of its right of secrecy surround
ing opinions of the United States SUI
preme court prior to public announce
ment by the justices in formal session.
1T recited that from time immem-
Orial' the custom WAS To deliver all
opinions so that all citizens might and
did have equal opportunity To he in
formed concerning them "to the end
that the court should continue and
lie tribunal administering and declar-
ing public law in Il public and general
manner without favor as one Aston +,
Emhry then and there we'll knew
The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-04-09
FAIL TO AGREE ON
RAILWAY WAGES
CONTROVERSY AoAlNN PLACE.
BEFORE THE PRESIDENT FOR
THE THIRD TIME
BOARD IS NOT ASKED TO ACT
Railway Executive Members Refuse
to Act on Demands Of Labor and
Quit nferences.-Attitude Of
Workers Expressed

Washington. April 3.-The Who'll.
railroad controversy was placed he
fore President Wilson yesterday fol
the third time since railroad labo,
filed its demands for general in
crease in wages last summer.
In Il letter To the president. h. NJ
Jewell. chairman Of the railway com.
mittee. which constitutes the labor
party on the railroad wage board. said
he regretted very much ito advise YOU
of our failure to obtain any beneficial
results from these conferences.
The employees. Mr.. Jewell said. were
keenly disappointed at the position
| taken by the railway executive com
mittee which announced Thursday
night deadlock and the withdrawal
nf the railroad members from the con
ference.
Mr.. Jewell did not ask the president
to lay the wage controversy before the
railroad labor board. which is to he
nominated by the president as pro-
vided in the transportation act and
on which the public will have repre-
Sentation.
Attached to Mr.. JEWELS letter was
correspondence setting forth the at
titude Of the men and the executive
committee. f. 7. Whittier. for the rail
way executives. wrote that the execl-
tiveS did not believe congress contem-
nj. tAI in<nlS.ipsr :
an addition to transportation costs
without the public being represented in
the conferences.
Replying to this letter Mr.. Jewell
said he believed the reason given by
the members for terminating the ne
gotiations was mot in accord with our
understanding of the law"
THE attitude of your committee in
failing to carry out the wishes of the
president of the United States came
as Il surprise to us" Mr.. Jewell wrote
to Mr.. Whittier.
I'VE understand from this that your
committee has definitely declined to
assume the responsibility and perform
the duty which is so clearly desired
in the public interest. and which the
transportation act. as we unde1x IA xsi
it. contemplates: That of agreeing in
conference upon rates of pay for rail
road employees which are just and
reasonable"
Union officials reiterated that. at
the request of the president they We're
going along to give the transportation
act fair trial" although they did not
indor>e any of its provisions. They
took the position that with the break
ing up of the joint conference the
whole matter was made more diff
cult since the union membership was
becoming FESTIVE.
The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-04-09
SHOOTS WOMAN SHE
SAYS STOLE HUSBAND
Calls Police on Phone From Victims
Home and Tells Them They Had
Better Come for Her

Los Angeles. Cal. April 3. - Mrs.
ably fatally wounded in her home yes
ter,lay few minutes before Mrs. Lii
liam Connally. using the Ferguson tele-
phone. called the police to arrest her
for the shooting. Mrs. Connally is in
the city Jail. where the police say she
will be kept until Mrs. FerguS"n'S con-
dition indicated what charge should be
preferred.
Mrs. Ferguson is the wife of IA dep
uty city auditor. A moment after the
shooting Mrs. COnnally called the po-
lice by telephone from the Ferguson
home and said:
Il have just shot a woman who has
been taking my husband away from
me. l am at this wOman'S residence.
would come down and give myself
up but I have no automobile, SO you
had better call for me-
The shooting was witnessed. by four
children of Mrs. Ferguson. Six shots
were fired. of which four took effect
Detectives said Mrs. Connally read
them a letter she said her husband had
written to Mrs. Ferguson ana which
she had intercepted. A paragraph
read:
Il do not blame You for accepting
my attentions. But I do blame you
for seeking me out. My wife is the
best little girl in the world and l am
going to be true to her"
The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-04-09
BELIEVE PRESIDENT
TO RETURN TREATY
CONGRESS TO RESUME FIGHT
OVER FORMAL TERMINATION
OF WAR THIS WEEK
TO ACT on PEACE MEASURE
Democrats Are Virtually Without
Hope That They Can Prevent the
Adoption Of the Resolution and
Depend on Presidents Veto

Washington. April 5.-The fight in
congress over formal termination Of
The war will be renewed this week.
With the failure Of the senate to rat
fly the peace treaty the house will vote
on resolution put forward by Repub-
ltcans, declaring the war ended. There
were indications yesterday. however,
that this might result in further de-
velOpmentS in connection with the
treaty. possibly its reSubmission to
the senate by the president as the
administrations counter move.
The peace resolution is to be brought
before the house Thursday. with rule
calling for vote Friday. Republicans
believe its adoption is assured. while
Democrats declare it certainly will he
vetoed by President Wilson. without
prospects of obtaining two-thirtlS
vote to override the veto.
In many well-informed quarters the
impression is growing that either be-
fore or more probably along with Il
veto message the president might re-
turn the treaty to the senate with af-
firmative expressions regarding res
ervations. Indeed. it would not sur
prise administration spokesman in
touch with the situation should the
president return the treaty within a
few days.
Although Democrats plan vigor-
Gus fight on the resolution they vir-
tually are without hope of preventing
its adoption in both house and sem
ate. This was indicated by Senator
Hitchcock of Nebraska. administra-
ton leader. who returned yesterday
from vacation in the south. Senator
Hitchcock differed from views ex-
pressed by Senator Lodge of Massa-
chusetts. Republican leader. regard
ing the length Of the senate contest
over the measure.
Il believe there will be prolonged
discussion" Senator Hitchcock said.
There are many new and most inn
portant issues presented in the pro-
poSalS.'
Senator Hitchcock declined to con-
firm or discuss reports that the preSi-
dent was considering return of the
treaty to the senate shortly. but indi-
Gated that he had been in correspon-
dence with the president during his
absence from Washington.
The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-04-09
RELIEF COMMISSION TO
RUSSIA is AUTHORIZED

Washington. March 31.--Contlitional
permission to send relief commission
into soviet Russia was granted to thu,
joint distribution committee for Amer.
lean Jewish relief funds yesterday 10y
the state department.
Under state department restrictions.
the commission must cOnfine its ac-
tivities to relief work and take no
supplies which could be of military
use. 1t goes ut its own risk and with
out involving the United States.
The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-04-09
RElCHSWEHR TROOPS ROUT
REDS IN PITCHED BATTLES
Radicals Melt Before Government Sol
diers in Streets Of Druisberg.-Ma.
chine Guns and SchrapneI Used

Dui>burg. RheniSh Prussia. April :.
-Reich>wehr troops marched into the
Duisburg region Saturday and cleared
out the radical element of the red
army in pitched battles in the streets
Machine gun and rifle bullets swept
the business district like driving rain.
artillery threw heavy shot and shrap-
mel. and hand grenadeS We're tossed
There WAS house to house fighting in
some quarters. Four citizens We're
killed and Il number injured.
The first shots between the kabiSch
forces and the reds We're fired in
kaiSerberg. on the eastern edge of the
city. Fighting soon followed in the
downtown streets of DuiSburg the
reichSwehr advancing from corner to
corner. driving the reds before them.
The reds fought in small groups,
sometimes only three or four manning
II machine gun,
The heaviest firing was in Some
wall street. The reichSwehr entered
the street at the north and from an
open square with machine guns.
The sweeping fire of both sides
Shvered half the store woindnwS. The
cutters We're piled high with glass
So pulveriZed that i, reSembled heaps
of drifted shaved ice when the shop
Keepers later in the evening swept
the sidewalks to the accompaniment
of machine gun fire in the southern
and eastern outskirts
Remnants OF the melting reds
gathered around the HiSmark monu-
ment fled when the troops charged
BarricudeS erected in kuS>elfe!der
street. where many aliens reside. We're
cleared ont by Shrapnei
The Reds, who numbered only 200
or 300. We're driven out within two
and half hours, but the deSultury
firing continued into the night as small
groups nf the radical element were
cornered.
The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-04-09
Fifteen Insane Escape.

Chester. Ill.,, April 5.-One man was
shot, probably fatally, yesterday by a
posse hunting for Is inmates of the
Chester state hospital for criminal
insane. who escaped from the institu-
ton after assaulting and Overpowering
Night Keeper Edward Burton. The
wounded man is Harry Stork. Of Rock
Island. ILL.,. who was serving a sentence
for burglary and larceny at Joliet be-
fore being transferred to Chester. He
and five others We're recaptured. The
other nine are still at large.
The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-04-09
ELEVEN ARE ARRESTED
FOR BOMB THROWING

Chicago. April 5.-Eleven men. three
of them said by the police to be Off
GERS Of Chicago locals of the inter.
national Upholsterers' union. were ar.
rested yesterday in connection with
recent bOmbings incident to e strike
of upholsterers.
Seven of the men confessed to
throwing bombs into six homes and
smuggling % foremen Of upholsterine
factories, the states attorneys office
said.
The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-04-09
CHICAGO sWlTCH0eN
ARE OUT ON STRIKE
Train Service Out Of the City 10 On .
Twenty-Five Per Cent 0asia-Nsn
Claim 5000 Workers Are Out

Chicago. April 5.-Iolice details yes
terday were guarding railroad yards
in the Chicago switching district at
the REQUEST Of railroads affected by
the strike Of switchmen. called by the
Chicago yardmen's association.
All railroads entering Chicago. with
the exception Of the Chicago. Burling.
ton and Quincy and the New York
Central. were said by Union officials
to be affected by the strike, and eff.
forts were being made to induce
switchmen on these roads to Join the
walkOut, they said.
The strike. starting when 700 switch
men employed by the Chicago, MIL
waukee 4 st. Paul railroad walked
out. demanding an increase in pay
from 10 and 6 cents an hour to IS
cents and 81, spread Saturday to the
Chicago Junction railroad. which
serves the stOckyartls and the Illinois
Central and Chicago 4 Northwestern
r;lilrmds.
Union officers said switchmen on
other railroads were joining the walk
out voluntarily and that no general
strike had been called.
Strike leaders last night claimed that
5000 switchmen and yar,lmen were
On strike and that train service out Of
Chicago was on - per cent basis.
Hundreds of officers. employees and
loyal switchmen of the Brotherhood
If Railway Trinment and the Switch
mems Union Of North America We're
hurried into service yesterday to
nails. in an effort to maintain sched-
uleS.
Following meeting Of the eXecu-
tive committee of the Brotherhood Of
Railway Trainmen II statement was
issued placing the controversy up to
the labor board authorized under the
recent transportation act.
Unless the strike can be stopped
Immediately it will affect interstate
commerce. throwing 100000 men out
of employment and curtail the food
supply of the nation" w. ]. O'Brien.
general manager of the junction rail-
way, said.
New York. April 5.-Plans are be-
ing marked out for Il national strike
of 6.OOO.OOO trades unionistS. ito head
off Il suspected move by employers in
leading industries to abolish the eight.
hour day." William A. Maher. vice
president and secretary of the Marine
Workers affilation and one of the
leaders of the harbor employees strike,
announced last night. He said the
complete plans would be submitted to
Samuel GomperS and the executive
council of the American Federation Of
Labor.
The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-04-09
DENMARk'S STRIKE is OFF:
NEW ELECTIONS COMING

Copenhagen, April 1.-THE general
strike called as protest against the
resignation of Premier Zahle on March
20. was called off yesterday morning,
following a meeting of the chairmen
of II political parties in the rigsdas,
called Saturday night by King Chris
tian.
The announcement stated that all
the parties had agreed it would be
necessary to hold elections after a
new electoral law has been passed.
The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-04-09
FALSE PROSPERITY ERA
HERE, SAYS VANDERBILT

Chicago. April 3.-America has en-
tered an era of false prosperity. Frank
Fanderlip. former president of the Ma
tiOnal City bank of New York. declar-
ed yesterday in an address.
There are three things on which
real prosperity must be based" he
said. "These are ample capital. eff
cient labor and an application Of
sound economic principles. and our
prosperity is false as We'll as danger
GUS"
The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-04-09
DISTlLLERY ROBBED.

Grantsville. Nd, April 3.--On the
sixteenth visit to the warehouse of the
Fair Chance distillery, thieves took
the last drop of Al barrels of liquor
left Mt the distillery at the time war;
time prohibition became effective.
1t is believed the distillery was the
most robbed whisky warehouse in the
United States. 1t is located in q
rather lonely spot. The whSkey taken
is valued at between $4,000 and
$4,000
The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-04-09

New York. April 3.-The five So
cialists evicted from the New York
assembly will appeal to the supreme
court and ii necessary to the United
States supreme court. s. John Block.
state chairman of the Socialist party.
announced here. He said counsel for
the Socialists. of which he is one
would meet in Il day or two to deter
mine whether an immediate appeal i.A
the state supreme court should be
made.
The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-04-09
FIVE SOCIALISTS ARE
|OUSTEO N new YORK
EXPELLED FROM ASSEMBLY eY
el0 voTG,-exclusloN FROM
BALLOTS SOUGHT
APPEAL TO SUPREME COURT
Driven From Ballot Box Where Shale
We Go? 10 Question Asked in
Statement BY the Former
Assemblymen

Albany. n. v. April 3.-'rhe five S'-
cialist members of the state assembly
Louis Waltlnlan and August ClassenS
vf New York Samuel A. Dewitt ana
Samuel Orr Of the Bronx, and Charles
solomon, Of Kings cOunty-were ex-
peiletl from the lower house Of the leg
islnturc Thursday by an overwhelming
ma jOl'ity.
The next step in the fight against
the Socialist purity. characterized as,
I'll traitOrous party" by the assembly
judiciary committee, will be taken liz
the legislature soon.
Bills designed to carry out the reg
concentrations If the judiciary conn
mittee that appropriate legislation be-
enacted to the end that hereafter NJ
party. group or political organization
in which aliens are acceptable as inen-
bers or whose principles. policies ~
program are responsible to or deter
mined by an organization. national or
state. shall be privileged to occupy tie
position of IL political party on the Of
fetal ballot Of this state" are expect
ell to be introduced
Reports from New York that the So
cialiSts would appeal to the courts
were given little or no attention. most
members of the assembly declaring
that the courts could not review the
action of the assembly in voting TO
deny seats to the. five assemblymen.
because. they said. 1.-The house Is II
Judge of it's own members and its de-
ciSiOn is final"
Albany. n. ". April 3-''Treason has
been committed in the New York AS
senbly by Republicans and Democrats.
with few honorable exceptions" says
Il statement issued by Louis Waldman
and Charles Solomon. two Of the TX
PEELED Socialist assemblymen.
"A bipartisan combination has over
thrown representative government
The representatives of political
party have been driven from legi>la
tive halls solely because their plat
form. was distasteful to political OPP
ponents.
/ "rhe\Gonjituuon has been lynps'"'
| and the perpetrators of this outrage
must he brought to justice. The spirit
of the mob breathed in the assembly
debate throughout the proceedings.
Under the leadership of Speaker
Sweet. man after man openly melted
to violence.
"The doctrine of arbitrary power
was shameleSSly proclaimed again and
again.
"rhe workers by whom we We're.
elected must and will be heard. If
the people are to he driven from the.
ballot box. where shall they go:
"rhp right of the ballot is an Amer
lean right and those who deny ii are
| traitors
Cleveland County herald., 1920-08-19
WORCESTERSHIRE

A pretty home vel ling was solemnized at the home of Mr. anG Mrs. ]. L. sa3Ier Sunday morning at 1o:30 o'clock, when their daughter Verda was mar ried to V. Q. Thomasson Of Pine Bluff.
 The Rev. A. N. StanG Id said the ceremony.
 Only members of the immedi. ate families and a few close friends witnessed the ceremony.
 The brie..e is popuIat and nc. accomplished and a favorite in So- cial circles.
 The groom is the youngest son of ]. l.. C. Thom,sson ol. Howell. Both have large circle Of friends
 They left immediate ly for Pine Bluff wLere they will reside.