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The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1922-12-20
Notice of AnnueI Meeting of The stock
holders of The Lamar Canal
Irrigation Company.

The annual meeting OF the Stock
holders OF The Lamar Canal & Irriga-
ton Company VIII be held on the sec
ond Monday in January. being the sth
day OF January. 1923, at the office Of
c. C Goodale. Lamar. Colorado. at 1890
p. M. for the purpose OF electlng .
Board OF Directors for the ensuing year
and the transaction of such other bust
ness as may properly come before the
said meeting. -
Secretary.
Rocky Ford, Colorado.
First pub, Dec. 30. 1872.
Lat Pub, yan- ., te3s,
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1922-12-20

State OF Colorado.
County of PROVERBS.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT.
J. II. christy,
J. NJ. Weber. John Lyons. sndD
certain unknown personal
whose names plaintiff cannop
insert herein because unknown
TO him.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF
, COLORADO.
To J. NJ Weber. John Lyons. and GER
Tain unknown persons whose names
plaintiff cannot insert herein because
unknown to him: the Defendants above
named. GREETING;
In an action brought against you by
the above named plaintiff In the Dis
'rict Court Of Prowers County. state
of Colorado. and answer the complaint
therein within twenty davH after N"
service hereof. II served within this
County; or. ~ served out Of this Coun-
~. or by publication. within thir'"
days after the service hereof. exclusive
NJ the day of service; or Judgment b"
default win be taken against you &C
cordirg to the prayer of the Complaint
And II a copy OF the complaint in tho
above entitled action be not served
! with this summons. or II The Eervlc"
hereof be made out OF this state Their
/ ZEN days additional to the time herein
before specified for appearance arT
| answer will be allowed before the TAX
1
The said action is brought 20 quiet
lille in the plaintiff and against tn
| defendants and each of them whether
known or unknown in and TO the fol
| owing described property. to-wit; Th'
West Half of the Southwest Quarter
| SwiGswAD 81 Section 2s: and tho
| Southeast Quarter tSEk) OF Section
| II In Township 81 South. RRnre iT
| West of the sixth Principal Mertdiar
| situate In Prowers County. Colorado
| md for an order restraining and en-
| tolning the defendants and ench Of
| hem from setting up or asserting any
claim, right title, interest or demand
| in and TO said premises or any par
| hereof and for costa.
As will more fully appear from tn
| complaint In said action to which ref
| renee IL here made: copy Of which T.
hereto attached.
| And you are hereby notified that n
YOU fall to appear. and to answer tn
| said COMPLAINT as above required. tn
said plaintiff will take Judgment
| ,gninst YOU Nv a f~"i' recording to III
prayer of his complaint
Given under my hand ana the Bea ?
| u said Court at Lamar. In said Coun-
v. this 18th day of November. a. ID
A. z. DowNER.
First Pub Dec 20. 1922.
Last Pub, Jan II. 1928.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1922-12-20
Notice

The regular examination of Appli-
cants for Teachers Certificates will be
hcld IN the Prowers County Court
House, Lamar, Colorado; also in the
Holly High School Building, Holly.
Colorado, December 21st and 22nd,
1922. Morning session will open Mt
} o'clock.
PAULINE GILBERT,
Co. Supt. Of Schools.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1922-12-20

We are now able TO take care OF
your farm loans. Drop in and see US.
Taylor & Frick. Eli w. Gregg, Mgr.
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NOTICE ron PUBLICATION

First Pub. Nov. %. 1922.
Last Pub. Dec. 81. 1922.
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]. NJ. Weber. John Lyons. andl
certain unknown persons)
whose names plaintiff cannoD
insert herein because unknown
to him.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-02-06
LOVE TRIANGLE:
|SREVEALED IN
TAYLOR KILLING
Continued From First Page)

CONTINUED From First PageD
details OF the murdered mans mys-
FERROUS past.
Added impetus in the search for
Sands was given yesterday by Mrs.
Dougles MacLean, wife or the screen
actor. who occupies a bungalow ad-
Joining the one in which Taylor was
murdered. Upon being shown pic
ture Of Sands, she exclaimed:
He looks very much like the man
saw leaving Taylor's house the
night of the murder"
Deputy sheriffs working on the
case last night questioned three men
engaged in motion picture work at
great length. Early reports were
that one of the trio was being held
as a suspect.
None Of Three Identified.
The men. after a long grilling al
the hands OF Chief Criminal Deputy
Al Manning. were taken to the
murder house" Mrs. MacLean,
who saw the men who is believed
to have fired the fatal shot into the
directors body, was given an oppor-
tunity TO see the three men, but
failed to identify and of the trio as
the man she saw leaving Taylor
home Wednesday night.
Police today are interrogating u
man, connected with the film indus
try, who told newspaper men that
he saw Sands, the much-sought
former employee Of Taylor, within a
block Of the slam mans home the
night the murder was committed.
Officers say they are confident
Sands was in this city last week.
Because Of the fact that he was
known to be without funds, unless
they have been supplied by some
person of means, they say the man
still is in the vicinity. His arrest is
looked for at any time, according to
Detective Capt. David l.. Adams,
who is in charge of the case.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-02-06

friendly than most, and at various
times he told me many things which
perhaps every one did not know.
For example, he told me about
having been married and having a
child and also about having been
divorced. never thought anything
about IT.
But any number Of us in the
I'll mcolony knew this, ana those
who didn't know had no reason to
they weren't the sort of people or
weren't close enough TO Mr.. Taylor
IN he told. I don't see why any one
is surprised to learn about that
Photo Christmas Gift.
ITS not unusual, either, that he
should have had my photograph on
his desk. He directed me i'll any
number of film pictures and we for
years have been good friends. l
gave him that picture for Christ
mas one year and he had it framed.
"As a matter of fact, one is more
liable to frame a picture of an old,
though platonic, friend, than a pic
ture of one in whom he is but mo-
mentarlly interested"
Mss Kingston threw some very
interesting light on the career of
Taylor's valet, Edward F. Sands.
These details she had CLEANED, she
said, from conversations with Tay.
lor. She said:
while Mr.. Knoblock was living
at Mr.. Taylor's home Sands went
to a department store in town and
bought at various times a cons.d'
cradle amount of lingerie.
II understood he gave this to a
girl he was interested ina very
young creature who lived at home
with her mother. All of this he
charged to Mr.. Taylor's account,
a matter which greatly enraged
the director when he returned
from abroad.
Sands had frequently done
shopping for him, but Mr.. Taylor
told me that he would hardly have
sent servant to pick out ladies
lingerie"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-02-06

come home at once. Immediately
took a train for the city and when
l arrived learned that my husband
had disappeared.
I'VE hunted high and low for him.
We employed detectives and did
every thing possible to make likely
his discovery, but in vain. To this
day / have never heard from my
husband.
During the time / was married
I became friendly with Mrs. Fred
erick Young. of New York. She was
the former wife OF Edward Thaw, a
half brother Of Harry X. Thaw.
II was also good friend OF
Ethel Putnam, daughter of George
II. Putnam, and her sister, Dorothy.
One year on a tour of Europe, l
stopped off at Kent England, to
visit Mr.. Deane-Tanner's family.
Thus l learned something of Will
liam Deane-Tanner, though I met
him personally but several times in
my live.
Both these sisters finally were
married, and have lost track OF
them--don't even know their names
now.
Finally, after futile searches for
my husband, / and my children
moved to Monrovia to stay at the
home of my sister, Mrs. DIR.
Pomeroy.
My husband, while with me in
New York, worked for A. y. Vernay.
IL East Forty-fifth street, as an in
terror decorator. and when he dis
appeared Mr.. Vernay could find no
business reason for his having
done So"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-02-06
Pink Nightgowns Now
Enter Into Taylor
Death Mystery

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 6.-These
are among the latest discovered
facts in the Taylor mystery:
Taylor kept in a bureau drawer
in his bachelor bungalow bedroom
a set Of pink nightgowns. Valet
Sands had charge of these, and
he used to fold them in a certain
way. Every morning he would
find they had been folded by
someone else. One Of these is
missing. = -
The bullet that killed William
Desmond Taylor entered his back
two and half inches under the
left armpit, passed through the
left lung and lodged at a point
about midway between the right
shoulder and the ear.
It's course, expert surgeons
state, indicates that the famous
film director was shot from be-
hind while seated at his. desk.
Taylor's estate, estimated at
$60,000, plus jewelry worth
$4,000, will go to his daughter,
Ethel Daisy Tanner, nineteen,
whose mother, divorced from
Taylor, is now the wife of Ed
ward L. C. Robins, of Mama
roneck, N. Y, owner of Del
monico's and other restaurants.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-02-06
| DOUG NJ LEAN s
WIFE DESCRIBES
TAYLORSUSPECT.
Saw Mystery Figure Leave
Slain Mans House Wearing
Sardonic Smile.

LOS ANGELES. Feb. Elm an
interview here. Mrs. Douglas Mac
Lean, wife OF the cinema star. gave
of the sinister happenings OF Wed
nesday night. The MacLeans live
next door to the Taylor bungalow.
Mrs. MacLean, said OF the man she
saw on Taylor's porch:
II simply. cannot describe the
man. I should say he was five
feet. nine inches tall. perhaps. II
seemed to me he had a prominent
nose. hardly think II was the man
Sands, whom knew. 1t seemed
to me he was not so heavy as
Sands.
II can only be sure of the gray
plaid cap and that his neck was
muffled with something-perhaps
his coat collar.
"a Shot, Said Maid.
I'VE had just finished dinner.
Christina, our maid, was busy in the
dining room. 1 was sitting here in
the living rooms, knitting. Mr.. Mac.
Lean had gone upstairs.
Then came the shattering report.
1t was muffled, but still II seemed
loud.
Christina paused in her work.
Automobiles, climbing the hill there,
often make just such a noise. But
she said she was sure it was a shot
II rose, walked to the door and
opened 1t, looking out into the dark.
Then I saw the man.
HE was standing with his back
almost entirely turned to me, look.
ing toward Alvarado street. He
stood on a corner OF Mr.. Taylor's
porch. The door of the Taylor home
was open and the room inside was
lighted.
Almost on the instant I saw him
the man turned and faced me.
He did not seem alarmed. can.
not understand why 1 stood there
and watched him.
! As II Saying Goodby.
HE smiled at me. could see
the corners of his mouth curl in
the shadow of his cap. I could not
see his face well enough-that is,
to distinguished his features.
THE man turned away, walked
to the door and almost disappeared
inside. 1t seemed he was bidding
his host goodby.
HE closed the door. He didn't
slam ii, nor did he shut II with un.
usual softness. Then he walked
across the porch, down the steps
and turned toward me.
"I started to draw back into the
house. While slowly closed the
door. saw him turn into the walk
between the houses and disappear
THE next morning, when the
screams of Mr.. Taylor's servant
awakened us, l remembered the
man"
That is the story of Mrs. Mac
Lean. the cultured girl who was
married to Douglas MacLean eight
years ago in New York, who has
led with him a life with none OF
Hollywood's midnight gayety, and
who has been drawn into the great
est murder mystery OF the year by
whirl Of the wheel called fate.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-02-06
WALKER HEADS SOUTHERN
BUILDING ORGANIZATION

Allan Z. Walker has been elected
president of the Southern Building
Company, Inc, which has just been
organized. The company recently
took over the Southern building at
Fifteenth and II streets northwest.
The other officers are: Leroy
Gaddis, jr.. vice president: William
i. Browning, secretary.treasurer.
Directors are William l.. Browning,
Leroy Gaddis, jr., S. f. Golden,
Hugh L. Hanna, w. Edgar Leedy,
William II. Sholes. John Lewis
Smith, Allan E. Walker. and John
r. Waller.
The formation OF the company
supersedes the original plan of co.
operative sale, although in the
main the stockholders are occu-
pants of space in, the building.
The Southern building, erected in
1910 at a cost of 81 ,250, 900, is now
valued at 100000 according to
members OF the company.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-02-06
ANOTHER ALIAS
USED BY SLAIN
|. FILM DIRECTOR
As "cunningham Deane," Tay-
Ior Played Minor Parts With
Fanny Davenport.

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Feb. 6.--An
other name has been added to the
many used by William Desmond
Taylor. 1t is the name Of Cunning
ham Deane.
Melbourne Mcdowell, husband Of
the late Fanny Davenport. one OF
the most celebrated actresses in hei
day, was looking over an old scrap
book today when he came across the
name Of Cunningham Deane, whom
he has met many times since az
William Desmond Taylor.
When the Fanny Davenport com
pany played "Gismonda" at the
Fifth Avenue Theater, New York, in
1894. according to Mcdowell, there
was a handsome young Englishman
playing one of the minor parts. The
cast of characters showed that the
actor who played Stredella, II noble
was Cunningham Deane.
Later in Boston and on tour all
over the country, during the years
1894, '95 and 90, Cunningham
Deane belonged to the Fanny DaV'
export cast. In Boston, at the
Globe Theater, in the play Cleo.
patra" Cunningham Deane played
the minor part of Juba, a guard
L He udtt VI tHlS pioy a. WV
was April s. 1895.
According to Mcdowell. Taylor,
who was said to he forty-five years
old, must have been fifty-two at the
time of his death.
SANTA BARBARA, Cal, Feb. ..
William d. Taylor during most
of the period between his disap'
pearance from New York In 1905
and the time he entered the EN-
ployment OF a motion picture com
pany in Los Angeles in 1912. was
working as timekeeper for the
Yukon Gold Company, in Yukon
Territory, says George Morrison
city engineer here.
Morrison today said that Taylor
went to San Francisco from New
York early in 1909 and was sent 10
Yukon. He remained there until
1912, said Morrison, who was hy'
draulic engineer for the company at
that time.
Taylor told Morrison that Taylor
was not his real name.
He also told Morrison that he left
Now York because Of an Overwhelm-
ing burden Of debt, contracted when
he was All art dealer there. Mrs.
Potter Palmer, Chicago society
leader. now dead, was his hacker, he
told Morrison.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-02-06
DIVORCED
BROTHERS
YEARS AGO
Claims Mate Vanished and
That Marriage License/WiII
Prove Contention.

LOS ANGELES. Feb. 6.-Out
of the tangled past of two broth
ers detectives We're endeavoring
today to find the secret of the
death of William Desmond Tay.
Tor. slain movie director.
Both had been married, both
were fathers, both had everything
to hold them at home.
But both mysteriously disap-
peared from their homes and their
old haunts.
One is dead from an assassin's
bullet.
Mrs. Deane-Tanner Talks.
Reports had reached officials here
from the East that Mrs. Deane-Tan-
.ner had not married Dennis, the
brother, but had married William,
the director who was murdered
here last Wednesday night.
This Mrs. Deane-Tanner today
emphaticaliy denied when seen at
her home in Monrovia. She said:
IT can prove that l am not Will
lam Desmond Taylor's widow. l
am his sister-in-law. have a mar
riage license here which shows
married Dennis, not William. The
records in New York city will
show separate licenses on separ-
ate years for the marriages OF Den
mis- and, William. DR.. Pomeroy, the
county health officer, my brother
An-law. knew Dennis, my husband,
and can tell you he is not the man
shown in photographs as William
Desmond Taylor, the famous film
director.
my first child, Muriel. was born
IN New York city in 1908, IN No
vember. and after her birth 1 met
my brother-in-law for the first
time.
1.-THE disappearance of william
Deane Tanner, who in later years
called himself William Desmond
Taylor. was the talk Of the town at
the time"
Mrs. Deane-Tanner admitted that
she divorced her husband here in
Los Angeles six years ago.
The divorce, she said, was granted
by Superior Judge Charles Monroe
on the grounds Of desertion and non.
support
Rejects 1912 Theory.
The theory of certain officers that
the investigators should go back to
New York. and 1912. instead of to
Los Angeles, and 1922, for the solu-
ton of the crime, met with little en-.
thusiasm from Mrs. Deane-Tanner,
She said:
Mrs. Deane-Tanner's elaborate
story Of her relationship in this maze
Of tangled lives is as follows:
my maiden name was Ada G.
Brennan. was the daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. c. K. Brennan of New
York. Both my parents are dead.
Il was married to Dennis Gage
Deane-Tanner, a man considerably
smaller than his brother, though of
similar general appearance, in 1907
in New York.
by that marriage I had two
daughters, Muriel, now fourteen,
and Alice, now twelve years old.
I'm 1912 l had lung trouble and
my husband sent me to the Adiron-
dack mountains for a rest cure.
When 1 had been there a week I
suddenly received a telegram from
my mother in the metropolis to
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-02-06
FRIENDS HONOR
BODY
is LAID IN STATE
Slain Man Will Be Buried in
British Uniform With SaIvo
Fired at Grave.

LOS ANGELES. Feb. Ga scar
let rose-only a single blossom-was
laid yesterday on the bier OF VIII
liam Desmond Taylor, murdered
film director.
Pinned to the flower was a snow
white card, signed by Louis EN-
mons, and containing the following
message: -
Just a tribute to a wonderful
friend" ..r =.
Another small boaauet-white
hyacinths-was laid at the head OF
the casket. The sender was not
identified. -
And many others, friends Of the
man who was slain last "Wednesday
night and who numbered his friends
by the hundreds, sent floral tributes
to~the rooms where the body will lie
in state until the funeral Tuesday.
Visitors Throng Chapel.
Throughout the day visitors
thronged the chapel where Taylors
body lay attired in the uniform In
which he saw honorable service with
the British army in the world war.
Stars whose names have bloomed
in incandescents in all parts Of the
world, lowly extra men and girls.
who had known Taylor and loved
him; employees of the studios where
he has worked: tradesmen with whom
he had dealt in the past, and per-
sonal friends outside the motion pic
ture professionally were represented
in the steady stream which flowed
into the chapel. -
A slow, measured approach to the
coffin, perhaps a tear or two. a pass
ing glance at the still, pale face
that was the procedure Of most of
the visitors.
Funeral services will be held at
2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at st.
Paurs Pro-Cathedral. The Most
Rev. Dean William MacCormirk
will officiate. The BODY will bc
placed in a receiving vault at lto'
iywood Cemetery, pending the arrt
val here Of Miss Ethel Daisy t."
lor, the daughter.
Directors as Pa''h"ar"r-
Pallbearers, selected from among
Taylor's personal friends and ne.
bers of the Motion Picture Dire
tors Association, will be: WILMA,
DE Mile. Frank Beal. George Mel
ford. Arthur Hoyt. James Young
Frank Lloyd, David Hartford ana
Charles Eyton. g..
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-02-06
OVERSEAS WOUNDS FATAL
TO WORLD WAR VETERAN

Frank S. SwitZer, world war
veteran. who was wounded overseas,
died yesterday at Mount Alto Hos
pital where he was under treatment
by the Public Health Service.
The body was taken to Speare's
chapel. where il is in charge of
Stuart Walcott Post, No. 10, Amer
lean Legion, which will send the
body 10 Switzers home in Marshall
Mo. There the Marshall post of the
legion. VIII be in charge of the
burial.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-02-06
Directors Dual Life
Revealed by Staying
"He lUh0 HUes more iUes than one, more
deaths than one must die."-Oscar Wilde.

WILLIAM DESMOND TAYLOR.
IN 1909. with unexplained past,
L appears rs time clerk on
railroad being built through
Canada to Prince Rupert on the
Pacific Coast. -,
Makes two trips TO KIondike.
earning considerable money IN
Returning to Prince Rupert and
subsequently, works In office OF
a mining company. L
I9IO-Sppears for first time in
Los Angeles and obtSiis employ
ment as actor with movie COM
pany.
ISIl-Out Of employment. re-
turns to Prince Rupert to work
for railroad company. -,
l9I2-Plays with theatrfcai
stock companies in Seattle and
Tacoma.
Isl3-Returns TO Los Angeles
and becomes connected Win
moving picture concerns.
l9I5-Joins British Fusileers and
becomes Captain of the British
Reserve Corps.
At close Of war goes back TO
Los Angeles. Is film director Tor
Famous Players-Lasky CORPORA
tion when slain OH Feb. l. l92.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-02-06
Gross Estate Probated.

Leavin> an estate OF $4,000 to each
OF his daughters, Blanche +. Gross,
Cordelia r. Gross and Florence l..
Boteler, who are also named as Joint
tenants Of premises at 1922 Seven.
teenth street northwest, the will OF
Alfred G. Gross was today filed for
probate. The rest Of the estate is to
he distributed among his children,
Blanche, Cordelia, Florence, Alfred
c., Jr., and Louis f. Florence l..
Boteler and l.. Pierce Boteler are
named executors.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-02-06
SMOKING ON INCREASE
REVENUE FIGURES SHOW

Devotees of Lady Nicotine are
becoming more numerous.
Revenue officials today said this
is shown by the Governments
stamp tax sales on cigarettes manu-.
featured and sold.
In the ak months ended Decem-
Der 81 revenue collectors turned
into the United States Treasury
$7S,560,000. This was an increase
of 81, $4,000 over the taxes paid
for the same period a year ago.
Officials said increases were gen.
eral also in other classes of tobacco.
though cigarettes led the list in the
large revenue sources.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-02-06
WILLIAM CUNNINGHAM
DEANE TANNER

DEANE TANNER
IPORN in Dublin, Ireland. BE.
- fore he reaches age Of thirty
Is an actor, scene painter, COW
boy and world traveller.
IN late COS arrives in New
York. Buys interest In Little
shop, dealing in art objects and
antiques.
Known TO intimates by nick
name of Pete" is gentleman.
lily" drinker and loose spender.
190l-Marries beautiful young
actress, Ethel May Harrison, OF
I"FIorOdora" company. (She now
lis wife of Edward l.. {. Robins,
owner of DelmOnicO's.)
Ideally happy i'm married life,
Spends Summer seasons at Muir
ray Hill, y. j., near Summit.
19O3-Daughter is born. She
now is nineteen and Is known as
Ethel Daisy Deane-Tanner.
Moves to LarChmOnt and joins
Larchmont Yacht Club.
1908-BecOmes nervous, walks
streets at and 3 o'clock In
morning.
October %, 1908, vanishes. leav'
ling no trace.
19I2-Wife gets divorce.