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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-01-07
victims Are Texans.

HOUSTON. Ten. Ian. G.--Thc Amcri'
cans employed by the International re-
troleum company. murdered by bandits
near Port LoboS. Mexico. were from
Texas. They were slain Monday. &C
cordlng to infOruation received here
today.
F. !. Roney was a Houston oll mar
and Earl Bowles formerly was with the
Gulf Refining company at Beaumont
The first rcpc received from cor
respondent al rampCO was confirmed
in n report TO the Texas company.
The telegram to the Texas company
from it's representative IN TamPiCC
merely said RSnry was killed by han
dts Monday nj lvrt Lobos. \ similar
message was received by the Gulf Re
timing company. Bowlcs was prominent
in Texas oil affairs in the Spindle T"I
days
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-01-07
BIG PRODUCER AND
A "DUSTER" COME IN

PITTSBURGH Pa. Jan. 6.-Pitts Gas
Well. No. .. in the McKeesport field.
was brought in today and the production
was estimated at 100000 feet every "a
hours. One company. drilling in the dis
trict. announced that It's Hirshbcrger
Well. No. /. was 'duster" and that
there was no hope for 4 strike.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-01-07
MEXICANS SLAY TWO
TEXANSI U. S, DEMANDS
ACTION BY CARRANzA
BRINGS TOTAL OF
VICTIMS UP TO I9
American Consul at Tamplco
to Report All the Facts to
State Department

WASHINGTON. Jan. 6.--Earl Bo~les
and F. J. Roncy. Americans employed
by the International Petroleum COM
pany. have been murdered by M"NicanS
within one mile Of ralo Rlanc". near
Port LoboS. according 70 privat" au-
vices received here today from TampIc9'
One Mexican also was murdered. No
details were given, but Il was said the
American Consul at Tampico was IN
possession OF all the facts. Hc has not
yet reported TO the state department.
The territory in which the murder
occurred was said To b" under the con-
troll OF the CarranZa forces.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 6.--RcCcipt by
the state department late today, of adj
vices that two more American oil men
r. l. Roney and Earl Bo~lcS, had been
murdered by MeXicanS in the TaWpic"
district of Mexico, was followed by IN
StruCtionS to the American WoaSSN IN
Mexico City. to urge the Mexican gov
ernment to take every poSSibl" step {"
bring about the capture and punishment
OF the murdercrs
Nineteen Murdered.
First word uf the killing Of IN" two
Americans. which brought the total "i
American citizens murdered in the Tam
pico district since April. 1917, up ,n
nineteen, reached Washington through
private sources. Later the state dc
partmcnt announced the receipt Of sim
liar adviCes and outlined IN" steps
which had been taken by the depart e
mcnt in the case. The departments in
formation. which came from the .\mcri-
can consul At TampiCo. said "a" bodies
OF Roncy and Rowl"S. VINO were en-
ployed By the international Petroleum
company. were discovered yesterday.
The state department ais" was IN
formed during the day in report from
the American consul At Mazatltn. McNI-
co. that Harry V. Leonard nud Harry
.. Martin, members of The crew of
United States submarine tender POGO
moke. arrested in Mazatlan, November
IL. after street fight with McNIcan.
had been sentenced to two months I'M
priSonment. Tho report said. however.
that as the sentence dated back to No
vember l2. when hte bluCJaCkctS were
arrested. their release should be effected
January IL.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-01-07
Indictments Against
Mooney Are Dismissed

SAN FRANCISCO. Cal, Jan: 6-Three
indictments against Thomas ]. Mooney,
two against Israel Weinberg and, Two
against Ms. Renn Mooney. wife or
Mooney. we're dismissed today IN Suc
nrrior Court. All were on charges OF
mrrdcr growing out Of the bomb cxplo-
sion during tho Preparedness Day pa
Two Indictments against Mooney
three against Mrs. Mooney and three
against warren *. BlliinEs. also SerV-
i,'r y life sentence with Mooney for con-
n"ction with III" bonrb murders. stu
ar" pending in another branch OF the
superior court.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-01-07

BOSTON. Jan. Z The four hundred
alleged radicals gathered IN federal
raids in New England last week EaT
voice today 10 their desire To accept de-
pOrtation without legal battle.
officials ut Deer Island said the pris-
onrrS were well provided with funds.
Their examinations will be started to-
morrow.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-01-07
HARDING, SUTHERLAND AND WOOD
FAvOR|TES Of LOCAL REPUBLICANS
KENTUCKY RATIFIES
SUFFRAGE AMENDMENT

FRANKFORT Ky. Jan. 6.-Rattfca-
,ion ~ tho federal woman suffrage
amendment was completed by the Ken
tucky legislature late this afternoon;
The house Of representatives voted :
Ia - and the senate 30 10 10 ratlty
the amendment. Thcer was little deoate
in Tho inwer house, but action in the
senate was not taken until an amend
mcnt which would have submitted nc
question Of ratification 10 a state-wius
referendum was rejected by vote OIL
% to 10.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-01-07
BIa wRrsKEY SEIZURE

OGDENSBCRG. y. Y. Jan. 6--I'uitcd
States customs agents at RuuS"'S Point
seized five hundred cases OF canadian
whiskey today. They wcr" found IN a
car of hay which was ConsiEn"d from
Montreal TO nrm in Newark. ~ j.
Suspicious Of inspectors wrr" aroused
by the weight of the car.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-01-07
FORCED TO COMPLY.

OTTAWA. Ont. Jan. 6.--Thr govern
or general signed an order m council
today authorizing the minister uf Gus
toms to refuse cXpOrt licenses to manu-
facturcrs of news print PAPER who re-
fuse 10 comply with any order " the
controller of paper
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-01-07
FATAL WRECK
On THE |. & n.

louisville Ky. Jan 6.--Louis-
Vile & Nashville train No. -. running
from Knoxville. Tenn. % LouiSFlil".
cmbankmrnI al Sew N"pe. KY. near
Lebanon. late tonight. - reports re-
ceiyed here said tcn "" injured. sew
oral probably fatally.
At the l.. x y. "Ht"rS mere II was saiu
scene OF the wreck and was bringing
the injured 10 Louisville.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-01-07
LOST WITH ALL HANDS

HALIFAX. y. :. Jan. 6.-Thc sChnon-
or Lucrlr Of lS9 tons which sailed from
Nrw York for ilallta>. N"N"mh"F -.
w.i,h rrnl - brlir,rd Ia hav" been lost
with all hands The crew numbered SIX.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-01-07
THE WEATHER.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.-ForseaSt:
Oh1o-Ea1n or snow, and warmer on
wednesday; Thursday local rains or
RnowB ana colder.
west virS1nta-Suow or rain and
warmer "wednesday; Thursday NOW or
rain, colder By night
wSBtarn PSnnBylVAniA--spowo or rain
wednesday md probably Thursday,
warmer wednesday.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-01-07
Eha Attack UnfrSt

The statement from ex-Warden Os
horne concerning the West Virginia pen.
itentiary At MoundSvillc. will be read In
this locality with no little amAZcmcnt.
Contrary 10 being regarded as among
the worst penal institutions in the coun-
try. il has for several years been re-
Garded aS one OF the best prisons in tho
United States. and so referred to in tho
sessions Of the American Prison Con-
GreSs. As early as the administration
OF eH-Warden Brown. OF Norgantown.
forms OF punishment which were re.
garded as inhumane were abolished. and
this reform continued through the ad-
ministration OF eN-Warden NJ. z White
and is SIN in progress under the admin
istration Of Warden J. Z. Terrell.
These wardens. and probably others
before them. although firm in dealing
with conyicts and strict in enforcement
Of prison discipline. have enjoyed the
reputation OF making the West Virginia
penitentiary a place where criminals are
taught to live right instead OF being
subjected 70 inhumAne treatment for
the miBdeeds which sent them 10 the in
stitution.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-01-07
PORT OF MARIUpOL IS
CAPTURED BY "REDS"

LONDON, Jan 6.-The BolShevtkA
have capsur ed the seaport OF MSriu-
pol In th0 government OF Efaeer-
in oslav, sixty three niles west of
TnganroH.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-01-07
UNJUST ATTACK ON CONDUCT OF
THE WEST VIRGINIA PEN|TENT|ARY
Thomas Mott Osborne De-
clares the Gray Brother, 1"
An Ex-Convict, Will Devote
Fortune to Putting Penal
Institutions on Humane
Basis
Special Dispatch to The Intelligenccr.

Special Dispatch TO The Intelligencer
PORTSMOUTH. y. II. Jan. 8 - The
fortune Of an ex-convict. man OF In
huence at Washington. whose identity
must for the present be hidden. known
by the sobriquet Of IN" Gray Brother"
has been rendered to Thomas Mott Os-
borne. lieutenant commander in charge
Of the United States naval prison here
to finance campaign for putting SOW
eral state prisons and penitrntiarics up
on humane basis. according TO the
statement issued by Lieutenant Com
mandrr Osborne here today.
Every effort was made this afternoon
TO Ect Mr.. Osborne to divulge the nature
OF the benefits TO ConvictS. without sue
cess. ne simply stating that the man
WAS known from one end OF the coun.
try 10 the other and was an eX-Convict.' .
He declared that evidence had been
given him that the prisons in question,
among which were Michigan state pris-
on at jackson. and the penitentiaries at
Sioux Falls, S. D., and Moundsvillc w.
Va. were the worst institutions in the
country. and that the campaign which
would be started Immediately and be
thorourh in every way. should be 4
powerful factor in ending the alleged
prison abuse that these were noted for.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-01-07

MAr4upol, IN South Russia, 10 located
on the sea Of Anow, which In connect
cd with the BLACK sea. The city has
n population Of 5000.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-01-07
THE INTELLIGENCER

Has the Largest Circulation of
Any Morning Newspaper in the
State Of West Virginia.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-01-07

Snow or Rain and Warmer Wsdnes-
day; Thursday Snow or Rain.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-12
WARMING THE WATER TO
DROWN THE KITTEN
By DR.. Frank Crane

There is a kind of person that is harsh
and cruel in the important things and kind
and gentle in the little things that do not
matter.
Shakespeare speaks Of ''the mildest man
nered man that ever scuttled ship or cut
throat"
Many a tyrant has been good to his folks,
any many a political boss who robs the COM
munity right and left is careful to return
your lead pencil.
Doubtless the Prussian officers who
burned Belgian homes, shot down women
and mutilated little children, always pune
tilously arose when lady entered the room,
and never failed to bring a sack of sugar
plums for the baby when they visited their
cousins family.
There are fathers who buy daughter all
the new hats she wants, but mercilessly re-
fuse to let her follow the dictates of her own
heart and nature in the big things that make
her happiness.
And husbands who cover an unyielding
selfishness with profuse affection; and
wives who are kind as you please and win
some, but lazy, trifling and wasteful and
will never be anything else.
There are Church people whose creed,
when they dare state it, is little less than
monstrous, who believes in God incredibly
vindictive, a salvation as unbelievably pro-
vincial and captious, and a punishment that
implies a Deity far more bloodthirsty than
any one has ever conceived the Devil, and
yet who are gentle and gracious enough
when you meet them at picnic.
Also there are employers who, as a mat
ter of principle, allow their shopgirls wages
so small that they are driven through hun
ger to shame and tragedy, yet always give
pennies to the beggar on the street corner
and never tip the waiter less than dollar.
If we could only get our gentleness, kind
ness, consideration and good manners into
our fundamental creeds, our basic principles
and our deepest beliefs!
Some one said of Mark Twains mother,
who was fiercely unyielding in the harsh
conclusions of her orthodoxy, but very gen
tie and human in her actual human relations
that eff she had to drown kitten she would
warm the water"
Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-12
OUIPS AND OUIDITIES

From giants the conversation had turned
naturally, to dwarfs, and the various accom-
plishments of the various Tom Thumbs had
been related at length. Then the club liar
hustled in.
Cali those dwarfs you've mentioned are
right enough" he declared, arily; "but none
Of them can compare with stunted speci-
men 1 once came across in the wilds of Cen
trail Africa
The audience began visibly to dwindle.
"Now, he was short, if you like con-
tinued the club liar, speaking rapidly. "I
know you are a set of unbelievers, so I will
not venture to give you his height in actual
inches; but I will tell you this, friends
that that man was so short that every time
his corns hurt him
"Well?" queried the only member of the
audience who remained.
Every time his corns hurt him." repeated
the narrator che fancied he had a splitting
headache!"
small boy who had scratched his name
on the paint of standing motor car had
been cuffed by the motorist for his pains.
His wailings had attracted a crowd, through
which his father elbowed his way, exclaim-
ing in furious tones:
who struck my boy? Show him to me
show me the man that struck my boy"
The motorist stood up: He was six feet
two in his socks and forty-nine inches around
the chest. 81 did," he said.
Serves him right" said the man, touch
ing his cap, land I'll give the kid another
beating when I get him hoG=es'
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-12
THE SOCIALLY UNSTABLE
By H. Addington Bruce

N NARY D is a girl in her late Adde'S
MI cence. She has ambitions to win
~'~ place in the theatrical world, shining
as emotional 'star.''
But she has no conception Of the hard
work this will demand of her and the pa
thence with which she must struggle to at
tain her hearts desire. She seems to think
that life should grant her whatever she
wishes without much effort on her part.
Her school record has been sadly disap-
pointing to her parents. 1t is not so much
that she lacks ability as that she chafes I'M
der discipline and insists on doing what she
wants to do, regardless of consequences
Having an undue craving for excitement,
this has led her into serious indiscretions.
1t has even brought her into trouble through
grave moral delinquencies
Efforts to reconstruct her character
through summer camp influences have failed.
She has, for that matter, been expelled from
two camps because of cher vicious attitude
toward rules and conventions"
So a doctor has been asked to examine
Mary and advise her parents as to what they
ought to do with her. He finds her neither
feeble-minded nor insane, but of person
alty misdeveloped through faulty home
training.
1t is perhaps not too late to stabilize"
her. But the girl obviously presenting a
problem too difficult for her parents where
shall she be sent to receive the needed train
ing? That is question the doctor is puz-
zled to answer. 1t is a question other doc
tors are puzzled to answer when confronted
with similar problems.
Wherefore there is point to suggestion
recently made by New York physician, Dr.
L. Pierce Clark, writing in the Medical Rec
ord:
GIN the ordinary sense these socially I'M
stable persons are not ill, as are praecox and
manic depressants; they require an entirely
different system Of care. Their needs are
more nearly allied to those Of the feeble
minded, but here, again, the intellectual and
moral habit training is quite different. Their
greatest need is character building.
practically no such institutions exist that
provide the proper community environment
and ethical training, combined with the
amount Of restriction suited to the individual
need. 1t Is one Of the greatest demands of
our times.
'While trained psychiatrists should be at
the head of such institution, it must en-
brace teachers and trainers in all lines of
human activities and interests. It's morals
should be high and worthy of the fullest &C
ceptance and cooperation Of the public and
the interested relatives.
Until such an institution is established the
lection of the socially unstable will not be
adequately met"
And, DR.. Clark might have added, society
will continue to be burdened by unemploy
able men and women, to be harassed by de-
linquents and to be afflicted by deficients'
who might more or less readily be converted
into useful citizens adding to the wealth and
prosperity of the nation.
I commend his suggestion to all phi1anV
thropists of large means, and to all legisla-
tors who really have at heart their country's
Welfare. y
Copyright 1920, by the Associated News
papers.)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-12

so that their one idea Of happiness
What say you, Mr.. Good Man? Do
you plead guilty or not guilty?
Are you a murderer Mrs. Good
Woman?
Have you killed your husbands
love? (.
He was mad ado ut you when he
led you to the altar. When he look.
ed at you his face wore the look Of
his saint. Is that look still in his
eyes, or has he grown hard, and
cynical, and dillusioned, one of the
men who sheer at love, and say
that marriage is the great endur-
ance contest?
Have you been small, and mean.
and nagging, too poor a thing for
any man to worship? Have you kill
ed love with selfishness and greedi-
ness, or starved it to death through
neglect?
If your husbands love is dead you
have murdered it. Your hands are
red with more than his life blood,
and all the perfume of Araby shall
not sweeten them.
Are you murderers, fathers and
mothers? Have you slain the am
bition in your children and killed
their faith in themselves?
The >bookish boy who wanted to
be, lawyer and whom you forced
lHlO lHS grocery business because
you had planned for him to carry ON
the firm. When you look at him
struggling hopelessly with unsuc-
fully along in an occupation for
which he has no aptitude and for
which nature never designed him, do
you ever see the ghost of the chief
justice you murdered in him?
An dthat strange, beautiful, bril-.
liant girl of yours, with her won.
derful gift of mimicry who was
crazy to go on the stage, and whom
you kept at home because you belieV-
ed woman's place was at the cook
stove and washtub. She's old, and
worn, and bitter now. Have you no
| computations of conscience when
you think Of her talent that you
strangled? Do you not know that
you murdered her far more cruelty
than if you had choked her to death
/ in her cradle? -
And stand forth and answer to the
charge Of murder in the first de-
maiice aforethought. all ye who are
blankets and killjoys. who lie In
wait to stab hope to death with
raven croakings, who Stay our self
confidence until our ability to
achieve things perishes of hamilton,
| who stab US to the heart with cruel
speeches, who poison us with sus-
| picions of those we trust and who
kill all that makes life sweet and
beautiful
You are murderers all. Repent.
your crime. And reform.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-12
The VALLEY" Association

. HE ideas and aims of the Mississippi
Valley Association are characteristic
OF that spirit of liberal co-working
winch thoughtful citizens and alert com
minutes see more and more clearly to be
the motive source of prosperity and progress.
me Association, as described by itself. is
volunteer general organization, formed
" zones and sub zones, of the people of
the tWenty-seven States lying within the
Great BASIN, between the East and West
mountain ranges, Canada and the Gulf for
the purpose of massing the strength and
influence of all sections behind each sec
ZION in the solution of those problems
wnlcn now stand in the way of the attain
ment OF economic freedom by each sec
ZION and by the region as a whole"
AS means to this end the Association is
working for the development of WATERWAYS
and terminals. for equitable transporta-
ton rates, and for governmental policies
mat Will tend both to conserve and utilize
the regions natural resources particularly
those of stream, forest and soil. 1t is also
heartily concerned with improving rural
condltlons by better roads and more ade
quate markets. Every province of produc-
tlon, agricultural and industrial alike. en-
ilsts the Associations keen interest: indeed
Its efforts in behalf of TRANSPORTATION and
commerce are put forth primarily to secnre
1feer outlets and deeper incentives to
production w
Such an organization is worth much to
the South and the Middle West and in
ultimate results to the entire country tt
affords a broad base and leverage for that
cooperation without which no region. no
community, no business can prosper and
grow. Every merchant and manufacturer is
materially concerned in the development of
transportation and terminal facilities, by
water, rail and highway. But how can the
great energies required therefor be mobil-
lied and brought effectively to bear un-
less there is cooperation of the most lib
eral and far-reaching character Every farm
er and every producer in whatsoever field
is materially concerned in the DEVELOPMENT
OF markets and related branches of sery-
Ice. But how can such enterprises involv-
ing as they do vast stretches of TERRITORY
ana all manner of different UNDERTAKINGS
De pressed forward without widespread
thoroughly organized cooperation? It is
upon this sound principle that every COM
munlty should support chamber of com
merce or board of trade, and everv state
some similar institution of wider scope It
is upon this principle, too, that the Mis-
slsslppi Valley Association purposes to serve
the common needs and interests of a great
group Of States o"'