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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1920-04-30
Poland Troops
Defeat BOlsheviki

Berlin, April 30.-Polish troops
have pierced the Bolsheviki front and
taken 10000 prisoners, according to
a dispatch from Warsaw.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1920-04-30
Fertilization
Bill Passed

Washington, April 30.-The senate
passed the fortification bill carrying
more than 100000. The bill now
goes to conference.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1920-04-30
Report on Knox
Peace Resolution

Washington, April 30.-The senate
foreign relations committee today Or
dered favorable report on the Knox
peace resolution.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1920-04-30

two different lines north and south
through that beautiful region, and
will give the tourist an idea of what
lines he wants to travel over to visit
the locations which he most desires to
see
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1920-04-30
Both Houses Agree to
Water Power Bill

Washington, April 3O.-The wa
terpower bill, as agreed to by the
house and senate conferees was re-
ported to the senate today.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1920-04-30
TO PRESENT SOLDIER
BONUS BILL
THE MEASURE HAS THE APPROX
AL OF REPUBLICAN HOUSE
MEMBERS.

Washington, April 30.-The COM
plete soldier bonus bill, carrying in
creased taxes of 81, ,564, 100000, to be
raised during the next two years and
providing for a cash bonus of $1.25
for days service in the army and
navy, will be submitted today to the
full membership of the house ways
and means committee for its approx
al. The republican members already
have approved it. Bonuses and other
forms of aid for ex-service men can
not be paid until the first part of next
year, the republicans decided
Washington, April 3O.-The ways
and means committee, by strictly
party vote, today favorably reported
the soldier bonus bill to the house
If approved by the republican eau
Gus today the measure will be called
up in the house on Monday. Demo-
Gratis strongly opposed the provisions
in the bill for tax on sales.
New York, April 30.-Congress
must refuse bonuses to service men,
put the railroads on a paying basis,
and self all surplus war materials,
including ships, if the country is to
be put on a sound financial basis,
R. c. Leffinwell, assistant secretary
of the treasury, told the academy of
political science here today. Letting
well flayed the service men for asking
for bonus, declaring they should go
to work and support themselves as
any self-respecting man would do.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1920-04-30
Republicans Select
Convention Chairman

Chicago. April 3O.-With a view
to harmony friends of Will Hays.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-15

the Zionists in their plans to supply
lower Palestine, including the Sinai
peninsula, with large amounts of
water for irrigation, was the opinion
of Mr.. Haines. In the Sinai penin
sula alone there are between 5000
and 5000 square miles recurring
irrigation.
While irrigation Of lower Pales
tine will require drawing on the
Nile, upper Palestine need not go
out of the country, according to Mr..
Haines, who claims that the Litani,
flowing into the Mediterranean, and
the Yarmak and Jabock, tributaries
OF the Jordan, form a natural basin
which will be ideal for the irriga
ton projects of the Zionists, which
Will be put into operation along
with other reconstruction plans
through the s10,O0o,Ooo Palestine
Restoration Fund being raised
throughout this country this year.
Because the rainfall of Palestine
is punched in practically five months
Of the year the inhabitants have had
recourse to cisterns in which to
store their supply for the year.
Most of these cisterns have been
found to be filthy and breeding
places for the mosquitoes, which
have carried malaria over all Pal
estine and made one of the most
serious sanitation problems medical
officers in Palestine have had to
combat.
While these cisterns are being
cleaned out and petrolized by the
British and Zionist medical units.
plans formulated by the Zionist en-
glneers call for their abolition and
the installation Of modern water
supply systems, because the cisterns
have been a health menace to
Palestine.
Hezekiah, Solomon, Pontius PLATE
and Herod all tried to get q supplv
OF pure water into Jerusalem, but it
remained for the British to do the
Job in little less than seventy work
ing days, Captain Carson explained
IN describing water supply possibili-
ties for Jerusalem.
From the springs at Wady-el-
Arub, sixteen miles south of Jeru-
salem, water Is now flowing into
Jerusalem at the rate of 100000 gal
Ions day through six-inch pipe
line," he said. "The total capacity
New-York tribune., 1920-02-15

Now Friedlander will have to serve
four more years and McDonoug!1
twelve more for their trouble.
Carter, who had long term
ahead for burglary, vanished from
Warden Durston's custody on May
%, 1893. He received his sentence
for robbing the residence Of Warden
Louis Pillsbury Of Blackwell's Is
land penitentiary of silverware when
he completed a term there.
Before his mysterious disappear
ance Carter worked as an inmate
fireman in the boiler room of the
shoe shop inside Sing Sings walls.
Soon as he was missed searching
parties were put out. The vigil was
kept up for eight nights and on the
ninth Carter emerged and made off.
The first tangible evidence that
Carter was free was obtained on
June 6. His suit of hideous prison
stripes was found in Orlando
Potter's barn two miles north Of
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vance with food and water, or ar
ranges with some accomplice to
leave them where he can get them
after dark.
Soon as be is missed a relentless
search is begun. Guards are posted
in the wall lookouts and extra keep
ers watch the waterfront. Others
ransack every building and crevice,
taking the prison apart and piecing
it together again, in the dogged
hunt for the missing crook. Still
other keepers Just hide and watch
for hours in the darkness, expecting
the elusive one will emerge looking
for something to eat or chance to
scale the fence.
Through the long watches of the
night, night after night, keepers
must work overtime, search and
search. And the sad part of it is
they are never sure whether their
quarry is near at hand or is miles
away In one case the search was
kept up for thirty nights, but the
fugitive was never found.
The stowaway's prime object is to
tire out the searchers so they will
give up. Then the guards will be
pulled off the walls and river front
on the late shift, as in normal times.
After that the prisoner can make a
New-York tribune., 1920-02-15
Coodby, Cunga Din

The picturesque water vender
with hts pigskin pack on his back
as we'll as the more charming picture
OF the native virgin carrying
water jar on her head, will soon be
but a memory in Jerusalem. It ia
hoped that the terrible waterborne
diseases, so common when Palestine
was under Turkish rule, will like
wise disappear into the forgotten
past.
The retaining of thousands of
acres OF swamplands, to improve
agricultural, Industrial and sanitary
conditions Of Palestine, is another of
the reconstruction problems to be
started by the Zionist engineers,
through the s1o,Oo0,0oo restoration
fund.
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The InexOrable Law

koehler wearied of prison monote
ny June 16, 1873. He induced an
other convict to nail him up in an
empty lime barrel. Then acconr
pllces rolled it aboard schooner 81
the prison dock with several casa
OF lime, and the crew spread ss!l
While the craft was tacking OF
Plermont Koehler forced OFF the bar
rel cover. climbed out, dived over
board and swan ashore. Headlns
for Canada, he was arrested at W
licoon, N. Y, but broke jail the sans
night. He travelled the known wof"
and finally established a prospefou
baking business in Cleveland, uu''
His past bounded him, and he nv
to sell out and fee the city.
He next settled in Union Cih
Pa. Detective Jackson found nv
there and, fifteen years after -
escape, returned him to Sing Sls
in handouts to serve four years ~
six months he still owed the stase ~
burglary. The story of his sdS
lures impressed Governor Davle
Hill as being so romantic he
doned Koehler on May 5, 1890 Il
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fiction, perhaps, these stories are
all as true as they are amusing.

fiction, perhaps, these stories are
all as true as they are amusing.
Long as Sing Sing has existed,
which is ninety-four years, fugitives
have used two methods of escape
always dreaded by keepers.
One is the stufing Of dummy"
in a cell to fool the keeper making
the count SO the absence of an escap-
ing inmate will not be noticed. The
other is the stowaway.
Prison records disclose that back
as far as l847 Sing Sing criminals
who could not "stay put" slowed
away. Since then there have been
score of instances Of convicts hid
ing in workshop, under a pile of
material, in a hole or some other
Granny within the walls awaiting a
favorable opportunity to slip past
the guards unnoticed and make off.
James Jackson, of Ossining, former
state detective, who lately retired
after forty-fve years. service at the
prison, chasing escaped convicts,
personally hunted many of these
stowaways. In fact. all stowaways
that have happened since the early
'70s are indelibly stamped in his
retentive memory.
For one to understand stow
away's motive it is necessary to
New-York tribune., 1920-02-15

Of the line is 100000 gallons dailv
but the springs have twice this ca
pacity'
Captain Carson emphasized that
Jerusalem could be furnished with
100000 gallons of pure sparkling
water, sufficient in this country for
population of 100000. The cost
OF giving the Holy City an adequate
water supply would be lower than
1or most American cities, he said
Other springs could be utilized at
Wady hclb, twelve miles from Jeru-
salem, while at Ain Fowar the win
ter rains could be impounded and the
pools of Solomon put into service
again, he pointed out.
"PracticaIly every house in Jeru-
salem has its own rainwater cistern.
and it has been estimated that If all
these cisterns were full they would
contain 360,o00,ooo gallons" Cap
tain Carson said. Before a cistern
IS now filled with pure water the
owner must obtain certificate from
the newly organized health depart
ment that his cistern has been rem
aered sanitary and mosquito-proof.
lie is then given enough water to
MI his cistern, through temporary
pipe line. The organized effort to
supply pure water to the $4,000 resi-
dents of Jerusalem has enabled them
to have ten times more water than
formerly"
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or the ashcans. When the dugout
was unearthed Carter's trinkets,
water bottle, some food, tobacco,
newspapers and other belongings
were found. There was also table,
lamp and large rug. Where they
came from has never developed.
Unlike most Jail breakers, Carter
has never been recaptured.
Frank Grabowski, serving life
sentence for murder, was a success
full stowaway. He had done less
than two years when he disappeared
after he being permitted to go to
the prison hospital August 16, 1916
Thomas Mott Osborne, million
aire reform warden, was convinced
the "lffer" was not yet outside the
prison confines. SO he had the
prison searched nightly. For the
first time in Sing Sings his
tory, convicts were permitted to
search, along with guards, for a
hidden prisoner.
Warden Osborne established p
marine patrol to guard the river in
the event Grabowski scaled the
fence and tried to swim the Hud-
son. One night keeper fired at a
man trying to get over the wall.
The fellow scurried back into his
haven and was lost. After thirty
nights of fruitless watching the
search was called off
"Bracebit Bill" Armstrong, a
hardened burglar, was less fortu-
nate. He gave Warden Kirchwey
the slip July 8, 1915. Every part
Of the prison was ransacked for
three successive nights. The keep
ers felt, however, that Armstrong
was in hiding, but could see them
moving about the inclosure, so
would not show himself.
The officials resolved to try a
New-York tribune., 1920-02-15
"A Water Supply for Palestine

'erage yearly rainfall of California,
1t becomes apparent how unfounded
are those fears" he emphasized.
"The comparison with California
is very significant. Although there
is marked similarity between Pal
estine and California regarding gen
eral topography, vegetation, agri-
cultural as we'll as economic posi-
bilities, Palestine has a further ad,
vantage in that the bulk of the rain
fall in the winter, the so-called rainy
season, is practically the only rain
fall in the country. It can thus be
collected and made more dependable
than is the case in California or in
any other sub-tropical or semi-arld
country"
Palestine has remarkable advan-
tage in putting through engineer
ing projects to store the rainfall,
which occurs during five months of
the year, because the Mediterranean
is at higher level than the main
water basins Of the country, the
River Jordan and the lakes, and
therefore little of the total rainfall
runs off directly to the sea, Mr..
Haines explained.
Utilization of the Nile as source
OF Palestine's water supply, predict
ed thousands Of years ago, when the
ancients were combating the same
problem, was accomplished by re-
markable engineering achievement
Of General Allenby's army. Pipes
were laid from the "sweet water
canal" near Kantara, which has it's
source in the Nile, and water
pumped at the rate of several mil
lion gallons day across the Suez
Canal, through the desert, supplies
the lower portion of Palestine.
According to Captain H. Y. Car
son, Of the American Red Cross
Commission to- Palestine, the plant
at Kantara has capacity of from
100000 10 10,o0o,00O gallons a
day. The pipes were the property
of the Standard Oil Company, stored
in Egypt just before the outbreak
Of the war, and were to have been
used for pumping oil from the re-
Gently developed fields there.
Water From the Nile
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And thou shalt smite the rock, and
there shall como out from it water.
and the people shall drink"
MUS was the first water sup
ply problem of Palestine
aalx1ad l.xx AG -

"HUS was the first water sup
ply problem of Palestine
- solved by Moses, when the
exodus from Egypt reached
the desert Of the Sinai peninsula. a
problem which has been acute in
the Holy Land ever since, although
the country has heavy yearly rain
fall which can be converted into
tremendous water supply, in the
opinion OF engineers Of the Zionist
Organization of America.
From the average yearly rainfall
Of twenty-six inches enough water
could be stored up in Palestine to
support population of 15,00o,-
600. according to James Haines,
secretary of the Zionist Society
OF Engineers, which is laying
plans for a water supply sys-
tenn Tor the Holy Land as part
OK the restoration work necessary to
make the land ready to receive the
hundreds OF thousands Of Jews from
all over the world who will emigrate
there as soon as the political status
OF the country is cleared up.
Allowing for a so per cent loss
Through evaporation and running
on. Mr.. Haines has figured that the
yearly rainfall over the 10000
square miles Of Palestine will pro-
vide future population Of 6,000.-
600 with daily per capita supply of
2,066 gallons. The average daily
consumption in New York at present
10 estimated at about 800 gallons.
Like California
Palestine's present population Is
100000, and 1t will be years before
It reaches the 100000 mark, but
Mr.. Haines gave out these figures to
show that the fears about large
population in the future Jewish ma
tional homeland suffering from
lack Of water for vast industrial and
agricultural operations, as we'll as
EoJ private consumption. were
ytoundless.
when it is considered that the
sveraEe yearly rainfall in Palestine
. about one-quarter higher than
hat Of either Constantinople, Lon
lon, Berlin, Paris or Vienna and
'ssat ens-third higher than the av-
New-York tribune., 1920-02-15
Comforts of Home

Carter tunneled from under p
stairway, in dark recess Of the
boiler room, through the masonry
foundation. Further on he excav-
ated a cavern about seven feet
square and six feet deep. In the
portal he stuck large stone, which
ne removed whenever he emerged
from his hiding place and put back
IN place when he returned there.
The prison attendants believed that
ne disposed of the earth taken from
the hole with the aid of other con-
vlcts, who shoveled it into the fire
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trick. They passed around word
among Armstrong; prison cronies
that they believed he was free and
had given up looking for him. On
the fourth night the guards were
taken out of the watch towers and
away from the river front fence.
When Armstrong peeked out there
was, apparently, nobody around. So
ne started to mount the river front
fence and get away. The armed
guards, however, had been posted
outside the walls and were watching
there. AS Armstrong dived into
The water to swim around the brick
barriers the splash attracted the
waiting keepers. Rifles began
cracking and the fleeing burglar.
menaced by the hail of lead.
swan back to the dock and surren-
dered. He confessed that he had
hidden for four days under pile
Of timber.
Keenan,, builder of the false wall,
was missed by Warden Sage on Nav
2s, 1895. He left his stripes on the
prison dock to give the impression
that he had drowned himself. It
was on the third anniversary of
Carter's disappearance. Sage be-
lleved keenan, was still somewhere
In the prison. So the keepers
searched nightly. Keenan's ravenous
appetite was his undoing.
John Y. McKane, political boss Of
Coney Island, imprisoned for cleo
ton debauchery, had a private ice
oox in the carpenter shop. 1t con-
tanned all the luxuries of million
aires larder. McKane kept missing
many dainties from his refrigerator
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Ice; they went to the pains to deco.
rate the walls with pictorial art. For
fifty-four hours they stayed in this
dark, damp, dismal hole, with no
way Of distinguishing night from
day except by hearing the toots of
the prison whistle sounded at noon
and again at supper hour.
Major Lewis E. Lawes, the war
den, has proved a past master at de-
tecting and recapturing escaped
prisoners while managing other in
stitutions. From his knowledge of
the game he had an intuition that
when the two Queens County street
car bandits were missed Sunday
afternoon they had not gotten
outside the prison limits. So he set
out to find them.
A tiny bit Of fresh clay, found
next day near the coal pile in the
yard, proved telltale clue. His
theory wss that some one had blun-
dered. Somewhere, close by, he
suspected, there had been excavat-
ing going on.
So Monday night a gang of keep
ers with pickaxes began digging in
the vicinity. They worked hours
without reward and went home. Still
1laJor Lawes would not give up. So
on Tuesday afternoon digging was
renewed. Perseverance was reward
ed that evening when the searchers'
axes crashed through the roof of the
well-provisioned, buried dugout and
the two hidden bandits cried out that
they would come up and surrender
NOW every criminal in Sing Sing
believes what he read when the new
warden came-that, while he is
kind hearted and humane, he is a
terror to escaped convicts.
They say industry has its reward
The bandits worked six weeks max
ing and provisioning their cache.
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Sing Sing" How he fooled the
guards remained a mystery until
June 25, 1895, when Keeper Thomas
Coultry, with gang of convict
laborers, accidentally crashed their
shovels through the roof of hidden
dugout.
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Stood on His Head

Warden Brush was puzzled at
first to find how he got out
Guards recalled that ten large pack
ing cases, laden with shirts. had
passed through the prison gate in
the forenoon. A two-horse truck
took them to the railroad station.
Keepers were hurried to the depot
There they found an empty case
with a hole cut out of the side. In
it was a kit of burglars tools
Some one had nailed Murray and
his tools, stolen from prison work
shops, securely inside the box. When
the case was left on the depot floor
by the TRUSTEES" and keeper on the
truck Murray took his saw and ham.
mer and cut his way out. Two years
later Detective jackson located him
IN the Illinois state prison at Joliet
and returned him to Sing Sing to
square his old debt.
John Boehman made q fzzle Of
his attempt to play Murrav's trick
The prisoner was serving life term
f2r suffocating two boys In Brook
lyn. He slowed away in six-fou
case, with one side on hinges, and
was carried to the freight house
on a truck in charge of Keeper Law.
renee Murphy, February 20, 1898
Inc box was pushed into a car
bound for St. Louis, Mo. Unfortu-
nately for Boehman, some ono lifted
the case up on its end, 50 he was
stood on his head. Unable to en-
cure the pain he begged to be let
out. He was released and hustled
back to the prison. The authorities
Kept him in solitary confinement
more than year trying to make
hlm tell who Grated him up But
boehman, afterward termed "ths
gamest man ever In prison." kept
silent, and finally the warden let
him out Of the dungeon.
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and finally complained TO the ke.,

and finally complained 70 the ke.,
ers.
keenan, was suspected Of the steal,
ing. The warden felt positive tbe,
that he was somewhere around g.
he tried a ruse. Word was give,
out that the search was off. n.
guards were taken out of the ward
on the twelfth night Of the ma,
hunt. keenan, looked out and ssw
nobody. So he ran to the fence and
started to climb over. But he ran
afoul of Keepers McClelland and
Gibney, who cowed him with tho,
rifles. keenan,, under pressure, dis
closed where his hiding place was
and told how he crawled across
little footbridge, one story aboya
ground. that ran from the store.
house building, where he hid on the
second floor of the carpenter shop
few feet away from where Ne.
Kane kept his private stock.
keenan, was brick mason. When
at work building the storehouse Il.
conceived the plan of making
secret compartment in the wall So
outside of the real brick wall he
built a dummy" wall and made
secret pocket in the partition, ore
story up, about two feet wide, six
feet long and nearly as high e
He left several loose brick, fitted
tightly together, in the outside Of
the false wall. When darkness came
he would remove these, thrust out
his head and look down at the guards
below, telling what was in store fo,
him if he fell into their hands again
When hungry he would creep quiet.
ly across the footbridge, but a step
from his hidden compartment, to
the second floor of the CARPENTER
shop and raid the star prisoners
refrigerator of meat, jam, milk,
wine and other things.
Of criminals who have been car,
ried out of Sing. Sing by Others
Murray made the most thrilling es-
cape. He had finished but six
months of a ten-year sentence for
robbery in Manhattan when the
guards missed him, on May 27, 1887.
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bolt for freedom with good pros
poets Of success.
1t was not the fact that Fried
lander and McDonough hid away
that CALLED prison attendants. In
fact, they, were rather quickly
caught. But the mystery of their
adventure is how they managed to
excavate that hole, six feet square
and about as deep, in the frozen
earth without keepers catching
them at it. They had to work in
broad daylight, close to the river
front, with an armed sentry pacing
back and forth only a few yards off.
They say they avoided detection by
having one keep tab on the guards
while the other worked with the
shovel.
A Roomy Cave
Not alone did they build the dug
out we'll, roof it, over with plankinp
and camouflago it with snow and
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Safe for the Night

Theoretically, prisoners cannot
get into the yard after that until
breakfast time next morning. The
bars Of the cells and dormitorv. to-
gether with the keepers watching
there, are relied upon to hold every
prisoner inside all night. So the
keepers outside are withdrawn and
the yard left unguarded until in
mates are ready to turn out again.
The fugitive's idea of slowing
away is to have access to the yard
late at night. So before being
locked inside he vanishes and goes
into hiding in some out-of-the way
nook. He stocks this haven in ad