Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-03-22
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Lincoln, which would comprise ten
counties of North Dakota. n part of
western Montana and Eastern Wash
ington are to raise a fund to be used
for propaganda purposes it was stated
at Spokane Washington last Saturday
by Herman Taylor. of San Point, ,1da-
his. The campaign will: be started
within Il. few weeks and will be carried
on for two years he stated. The Ida
no legislature recently passed favor
ably on the scheme, to form the new
state, Of which Spokane would be the
capital. Northern and southern Ida
no arc separated by a high range of
mountains and this would be the
southern boundary of the state OF Lin
coin If 1T Is formed t-.ri
y! Sir Philip Gibbs. English journal
ist whom the war made famous,
lounged in an easy chair at the Black
stone hotel at Chicago a few days ago
and told what in his opinion. the
world may: expect "to bump up
against" in the. near future. There
will be another; great European war,
rather soon; You see." he declared,
"the;. world; hasn't moved forward as
the result of the recent war. The var
ious alliances now being formed Sc
cretly or openly, merely means that
the continent Is choosing sides again
for j. another tussle. Your. present
trouble here in America Is due to the
collapse Of your European market
Germany, Austria, Russia and the
other countries that. are down: II
Germany. Is wiped out economicalE
it will mean: that. the rest Of Europe
will also sink into a state Of social
and economic decay" -a-.. T..
- The Department: Of Justice is: be-
ing requested to review the opinion
Of: former Attorney General Palmer
that beer and wines may be prescribed
by physicians and that no limit, legal
Iy;. can be placed upon the number of
prescriptions issued by one physician
to; different patients. Wilbur Rish
Crafts, president Of the National Re-
form Bureau, accompanied by Clarence
True Wilson of the Methodist Board
Of, Temperance, Prohibition and Pub
lie Morals, few days ago, conferred
with Assistant Attorney General An
nette Adams, in charge Of prohibition
cases, and asked that the Palmer opin-
ion be set aside They urged that
Harry NJ. Daugherty, the new Attor-
ney General, issue Republican" op-
inion that would prevent liberalization
ofthe law. Following their conference
with Department Of Justice officials.
Mr.. Crafts and Mr.. Wilson indicated
that a new ruling might be forthcom-
ing which would supersede the Palmer
opinion. Crafts expressed the belief
that breweries would not be permit
ted to take advantage Of the Palmer
decision by manufacturing real beer.
approximately 100000 Americans
are to be classed as draft deserters
IL {hoir-
be published by order of the War De-
partment. Publication will begin be-
fore Aprilf1.' This was announced Fri
day by Adjt. Gen. Harris, who stated
that. this number is the ultimate list
cut down through a series of investi-
cations from an original list of draft
deserters totaling 4S9,003 reported to
the provost marshal general. The ad-
jutant general said an examination OF
the records OF his office prior to July
Is, 1919. resulted in tho Determination
that 1884 Of the number reported
as deserted had enlisted in our own
armies or those Of the allies, or had
been enormously indtctefl. so thai the
thereby to S37,649. OF the last num-
Der 163,73S had been apprehended prior
to July Is, 1919, and their cases dis
posed of by the military authorities
leaving an actual balance of outstand-
ing -desertiohs on that date Of 1891.
The finding of the bodies OF three
unidentified negroes in Yellow river
near Covinstop, Ga, may be investl-
gated by the federal grand jury rs
part Of its inquiry into alleged peon-
age conditions in Georgia, it was in
dicated here last Friday by District
Attorney Alexander The grand jury
will meet again April 4th, and Mr..
Alexander said that while he did not
doubt that the coroner's jury in New
ton county, where the bodies were
found during this week, had not been
able to obtain evidence to place the
blame of the killings, he was morally
sure" that there were persons In New
ton county who knew "about the al
fairs. Mr. Alexander declined to go
into his plans in detail, but he reit-
Grated recent statement that the al
legged peonage situation in Georgia IS
q challenge to the conscience and
civilization of the state" The grand
Jury recently made an investigation
of peonage charges in Jasper county
adjoining Newton, and returned indtct-
ments against Sheriff Persons of that
county and his nephew. w +. Per-
sons, on charges Of peenaSe. Their
trial has been set for April 4, it was
announced today.
After escaping with sentence OF
Is years for the murder OF his wife ana
an unborn child. Carl Wanderer was
sentenced to death by a jury in Chicago
Friday, for the Staying of the ragged
stranger" he used as a dupe to: cover up
his greater crime. The defense imme-
diately moved for anew trial. The Ver-
dict was reached after 90 minutes OF
deliberation and Wanderer, when he
heard it, betrayed no sign Of emotion
except to flush slightly. Il didn't care
what they did to me-" he said as he lett
the court room. His defense had been
insanity and his attorneys asserted that
this plea would be the basis Of his ap-
peal. Wanderer shot and killed his
wife and the ragged stranger last
June. His first story was that the
stranger" had attempted to hold him
Up In the entrance Of his apartment ana
that his wife had been killed by stray
bullet when he and the stranger.
fought with pistols. The police traced
the pistols and found he claimed one oil
the weapons and said the other belong.
ed to the dead man. The police proved
that both belonged to Wanderer and he
broke down and confessed that he mad
hired the stranger to impersonate a
robber so that he would escape Suspi-
cion Of having slain his wife.
Williamson. West Virginia, March
81. Police Chief Sid Hatfield and 15