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Bisbee daily review., 1922-08-26
ALLEGED R|NG
 OF CONF F|DENCE -
 MEN CAP APTURED
One Time Victim Is Means of Rounding Up Band of B
 Alleged Con Men
CONFINED IN CHURCH
Estimate More Than ,OOO,- 900 Has Been Obtained
 From Denver Visitors

DENVER, Colo, Aug. 25.-J. Frank Norfleet of Hale Center, Tex, one time victim of the Joe Furey gang of confidence men and who has since devoted much of his time to hunting down men engaged in swindling oth- CTS, furnished information to District Attorney Philip Van Cise that led to the arrest last night and early today of B persons alleged to have operated confidence games in Colorado, Florida Cuba and elsewhere.
 The arrests were made by Deputy district attorneys and state rangers and the prisoners were kept in the basement of church all night to pre- vent them from communicating with prisoners in the city jail. Lou Blon- ger and A. w. Duff, two of those ar rested were released today on bonds of S25,000 each but the others were held in jail in Adams and Jefferson counties, adjoining Denver.
 Norfleet,> discussing his career as man hunter" tonight said:
 'I had never known a crooked man or dishonest woman in my life until the day Furey took mo for 9 sucker. We-Ma, my little girl. my boy Pete, and I-lived on ranch at Hale Gen. ter, Tex. Pete was ambitious and wanted to go to school So Ma and I who saved quite a little pile, agreed he should go. We picked out the school at Plainview. After settling sonny there. I went on to Fort Worth"
 It was there he met Furey and first was swindled, After telling of this af- fair. in which according to Norfleets story, he finally was 'frisked of-every cent he owned and left to the neck in debt" Norfleet continued:
 You know, I promised Me I'd quit this man hunt and go back home and live in peace. But somebody's got to clear the earth of these vermin. They prey on the innocent. know "A men in Texas and elsewhere who have been robbed. broken-hearted, and some have died because of the villainy of these confidence men. Somebody's got to fight them to a finish and I'm the. man that's willing to do it.
 'Furey's dead, Gerber's in prison,
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Runaway Freight
 Cars Crash Into
 Passenger Train

PUEBLO, Colo. Aug. 25.-A runa way string of ten freight cars loaded with coal crashed into Colorado and Wyoming passenger train No. ? al Trinidad, Colo, late this afternoon the passenger train wrecked and the lives of scores of persons endangered Luckily. no casualties resulted, accord ing to information received here.
 The passenger train was standing at the Santa Fe railroad depot dis charging passengers from the mining camps. With no warning other th' the shouting of lone brakeman rid ing the runaway cars, the cars crash ed into the train. Thousands of pounds of coal were scattered about the plat form but none of those standing near by were struck. The passengers had gotten off when the collision occ'' an dthe engine crew jumped when the danger was noticed
 The entire wreck was forced dowr the track and across a much-traveled street crossing and the runaway was finally stopped in the Santa Fe yar@ by the one brakeman and other rail road men who were able to climb aboard the speeding cars as they passed
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WILL GET ONE MORE CHANCE
 AT SETTLING
 DIFFERENCES
Conference Considers Taking Over Anthracite Mines and
 Some Railroads by U. S.
MAY RUSH LEGISLATION
Roads to Be Given Reasonable lime to Furnish Adequate
 Service, Says Cummins

WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.-(By the Associated Press)-FederaI operation or anthracite coal mines and some of ! the railroads was considered at White House conference tonight be- tween President Harding and Chair man Cummins, of the senate inter- state commerce committee and Attor- : ney General Daugherty.
 Senator Cumming said after the con- ference that the anthracite operators and miners would be given one more opportunity to settle their differences
 If there isn't a settlement in a few days he said. 'I will introduce a bill authorizing the government to operate the mines"
 Likewise, he said, the railroads would be given g reasonable" time in which to demonstrate their ability to furnish adequate service and that those unable to do so would be taken over.
 Senator Cummins expressed confi- dence that legislation for both pur- poses could be rushed through con- gress without delay. It was indicated that consideration of these steps would not operate to interfere with proposed legislation now pending and designed to curb profiteering in coal.
 The White House conference fol- lowed survey of the whole situation at the regular cabinet meeting and the termination of the conference at New York, without result, between railroad executives and union officials. It was stated that the conference would be resumed tomorrow.
 Before tonight's conference the ground work had been laid through administration overtures for a further meeting between the parties to the anthracite dispute to be held next It was indicated that certain propos- als would be made which, it was said hoped would bring about an adjust ment of the difficulties which disrupt- ed the sessions at Philadelphia ear Her this week.
 While no detailed explanation was given as to how the government would operate anthracite mines in the event of their seizure. it was indicat- ed that the first step would be to fix a wage scale and then request or di. rect the miners to return to work Coal mined, it was stated. would he marketed through the regular com mercial channels, the government talk ing steps to prevent possible profit eerins
 The bituminous situation did not en- ter into the discussion, the conferees agreeing that this industry gradually was getting back to normal The ability of the roads to move coal from the mines, in the view of officials, constitutes an important element this connection however. and may prove determining factor as to the necessity for federal operation of car riers.
 While further developments in boii' the coal and rail strike situations are
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Senate Hear Arguments For And Against Bonus Bill; No Action
 Is Taken On Pending Arguments

WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.-For two hours today, the senate heard argu- ments for and against the soldiers bonus bill, but it took no action on any of the pending amendments. Sen- ator McCumber, Republican, North Dakota, in charge of the measure, made an efort to get an agreement for vote before adjournment tomor- row, but although unsuccessful, was hopeful that the bill could be passed early in the coming week.
 Two additional amendments were offered today by Senator Smooty of Utah, ranking Republican on the fin ance committee. One proposes that the amended house measure, with it's optiona ID onus plans, be financed by a manufacturers sales tax, at the rate of one-half of one per cent for the first three years and one-fourth of one per cent thereafter.
 The other amendment was in the nature of a substitute for the pending bill with paid-up insurance plan in lieu of all other options, that too, to
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be financed by a manufacturers sales tax, but at the rate of one-fourth of one per cent. Tn each case, the pro- posed tax would become effective next November l, and exemptions would be made in the case of all farm products and manufacturers doing business of less than $6,0OO year.
 In the debate today, Senator Reed, Republican, Pennsylvania, a former service man, declared his opposition to the bonus, his address being his maiden efofrt in the senate. He said that the plain fact was that the coun- try could not afford to pay the bonus, and added that in army parlance, he did not propose to pass the buck" to the president.
 Speeches in opposition to the bonus also were made by Senators New, Re publican, Indiana, and Myers, Demo- crat, Montana, while Senator Bursum, eRpubliean, New Mexico, spoke in support of the bonus and his amend ment, under which the veterans would be paid in cash within the next five years.
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Secret Service Men Assert Plot to Kill Premier is Underway

PARIS, Aug. 25.-(By the Associated Press)-The government secret ser vice, it was learned today, has been informed that a member of the notor- ious German organization Consul" ahs arrived in Paris to kill Premier Poin- care The premier now is guarded more strictly tha never to prevent pos sible assassination.
 The German is said to be known as Guenther in Consul" circles but is travelling under false name and with false papers. He is 30 years old and dresses in the height of fashion. He has blue eyes, chesnut brown hair and speaks French like a native French man. He now is supposed to be hiding in one of the fashionable suburgs of Paris, awaiting the chance to execute his mission.
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Peace Invitation Is
 Refused by Owners
 of Colorado Mines

DENVER, Colo. Aug. 25.-Because no Colorado coal operators appeared today to confer with them as was pro posed in an invitation from Felix Pog- liano, secretary-treasurer of District No. 15, United Mine Workers of Amer ica, the latter issued statement to- night over the signatures of A. J. Me. Guire. district president, Mike 1.-Two da, vice president, and MT. Poglianc
 The statement says in part:
 "The joint conference between Col. orado coal operators. and the United Mine Workers of America, called by officers of District No 15, did not materialize for the reason that no coal operators responded to the invi tation. A number of independent op- orators expressed their willingness to recognize the union and re-establish old wage scales. but fear the unfair competition of the Colorado Fuel and Iron company and others who refuse to establish the old wage scale.
 District officers will endeavor to meet individual operators and sign separate agreements in line with the Cleveland conference.
 Assurance has been given that the entire influence of the international organization will be exerted in the continuation of the strike until the wage scale of Colorado miners is re. stored. The attitude of the Colorado operators in refusing to comply with the action of the Cleveland agreement places upon them the responsibility for the continuance of the strike"
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NE W SUSPECT
 ARRESTED FUR ENGE MURDER
Arrest Due to Case of Mis- taken Identity, Officers
 Told During Quiz

PRESCOTT, AriZ., Aug. 25.-Formal ly charged with the murder last June 10, of Iver Enge, in a warrant sworn out by the county attorney of Yavapai county, T. w. Burge today sat for three hours in the sheriff's office upon his arrival here froms Phoenix. and stoutly maintained his Innocence. He claimed his arrest is case of mis- taken identity in spite of the fact that the officers claim that a number of Enge's personal effects were found among Burgess belongings when he was arrested at Yuma Wednesday.
 Enge was stabbed and beaten and thrown into a ravine not far from Prescott. He was found unconscious and brought here, where he died in a hospital.
 William E. Acker, who police say has admitted complicity in the murder of Enge, is being kept in ignorance of Burgess arrival here. Acker, it is said, has confessed that he and a com panion plotted the robbery and killing Ol EHS0 DuI CldlIuS ludJ HIS COIlpdulOH acted alone in the actual attack.
 Among other things EOund among Burgess things, the arresting officers claim, was a bank book that belonged to Enge. Burge was unable to explain its presence, it is asserted.
 Burge repeatedly denied today that he knew anything about the Enge murder. He talked freely about his family and said his parents were Iv- ing at Ringer and that sister owned a newspaper at De Ridder, La. He also stated that his children and for mer wife lived at Colton, Cal, and that he always sent what he could spare from his wages to his children, two boys, one Il years old and the other three.
 Burge even denied that he had ever known Enge, but the records at Fort Whipple, near here. show that both were employed at the same time, one as a waiter and the other as a kitchen helper, in the nurses messes at the hospital.
 The officials say they will not bring Acker and Burge together for several days.
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TEAPOT DOME O|[ RESERVE
 DEAL PLAYED
 BY KENDRICK
Senator Declares Contract Is 'Viciously and Criminally
 Wasteful, in Speech
WILL DESTROY RESERVE
Dispatching of Marines to Oil Field to Eject Drillers Is
 Declared 'Inexcusable'

WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.-Declarine that the recent leasing of the Teapot Dome naval oil reserve in Wyomine strengthened monopolistic control oi the oil indstry, Senator Kendrick, Dem Iocrat, Wyoming, told the senate in a speech late today that the contract winch turned over the field to Sin clair Oil interests was vicious and criminally wasteful" and that it would eventually plague and even damn the administration.
 The terms of the lease, the senator said, were not only improvident but would cause shameful and unneces- sary destruction" of the final naval oil reserve. He added that it would not promote competition as claimed, but in time of huge over-productIon arc in turning to private interests of the millions of dollars which the govern. ment would realize,' were the proper ty to have been properly handled"
 The senator declared the claim that 1t was necessary to drill wells in the Teapot reserve was not worthy of ser ious consideration, inasmuch as any assertion of such drainage for an area of greater than ten acres never had been substantiated by scientists. He added that, of all the myths and ia bles constructed by the secretary of the interior in defense of the lease' none had less real substance than that concerning drainage.
 Public attention again had been at tracted to the Teapot incident by the recent sending of a detachement of marines there to eject a drilling crew, he said. This action, he added, was done with the approval of the presi- dent, but added it was ''inexcusable" and was done over the protests of the state authorities. The federal gov ernment, he said. had had no trouble since the reserve was first set aside in keeping drillers out and declared it would have had no trouble in the futures despite arguments to the con trary by federal officials here.
 In an analysis of the contract given the Mammoth Oil company, organized by the Sinclair interests, and which Senator Kendrick maintained a broth erly relationship" with the Standard interests" the Wyoming senator de clared that it gave to the lessee. a oliver royalty rate than is provided in other federal leases. This phase alone, he added. meant that the gov ernment eventually would suffer the loss of huge sums in addition to pos sible shortage of oil for the navy, the object of the establishment of the re- serve.
 Critfcising the lease further Sena-
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OR IS
 CHARGED WITH ACTOR $ DEATH
Screen Actor Shot Down Fol lowing Quarrel in Home of
 Free Lance Director

EDGE,WATER, N. J.. Aug. 25.-John Bergen, motion picture actor of New York City was shot and killed tonight and George Klein, a motion picture director is under arrest, charged with the shooting.
 Just before he died Tn the Edgewa- ter police station, Bergen fupbled through his pockets, brought out a blood-stained piece of paper and scrawled on it:
 George Klein killed me"
 The police do not know the cause or the circumstances of the shooting which occupied shortly after, Bergen had arrived at Klein's nome this eve ming. The driver of the taxicab which took Bergen to the Klein home heard the shots and hastened away for a police officer.
 Klein, according to the police, ad- mitted the shooting, declaring he had fired in self defense, following a quar- rel which arose over Bergen's alleged treatment of Mrs. Mary Klein, the picture directors wofe. Klein, the police say, charged that Bergen as- saulted Mrs. Klein two weeks ago.
 Klein tS said to have told the police that he did not shoot until Bergin had himself drawn pistol and threatened his life. David Landau, driver of the taxicab, told the police Bergen had in- sructed him to wait for him in front of the Klein home. The actor had been gone but few minutes, the chauffeur said, when he heard the re ports of two shots. Immediately af ter Bergen appeared in the doorway, Landau thinking his fare had done the shooting, started in search of an officer. When he returned with a pa trolman they found Bergen a block away from the Klein home. He had collapsed on the sidewalk, twice wounded
 Klein did not go into details concern ing Bergen's assault of his wife, the pplice say, nor did he tell of the ac- tors reason for coming to his home tonight. ,He said that Bergen immed- lately began to curse as he entered the house, drawing a gun as he ad- vanced. Two pistols were found in the Klein home, the police said, but no weapon was on Bergen's person.
Bisbee daily review., 1922-08-26
SHOP WIEN I URN DOWN PROPOSAL
 MADE BY ROADS
Strike Develops Into Fight to Finish With Collapse of
 Latest Conference
RENEWAL OF STRUGGLE
Mediating Brotherhoods Say Further Peace Efforts Are
 Futile; No Suggestions

NEW YORK, Aug. 25.-(By the Asso ciated Press) s)-The rail strike today developed into fight to finish when peace negotiations were blown sky high. sp.s SRAzs
 Heads of the "big five" railroad brotherhoods, acting as mediators be tween executives and striking shop men in final efort to effect separ. ate settlement with individual roads after the Association of Railway TX ecutives as a whole had rejected the running trades first peace overture, reported to the representatives of 77 roads at the Yale club this morning that the shopcrafts had turned down a proposition made to them yesterday by the carriers.
 Negotiations then were sharply bro ken off and executives, strike leaders and brotherhood chiefs packed their bags and began leaving town pre- pared for test of endurance.
 Before he departed for his headquar- ters in Chicago, Bert M. Jewell off cial spokesman for the strikers as serted that he believed the executives who had fingered for the barley on individual settlements soon would be enabled ito bring home to their hard shelled colleagues the railroad situa- tion in its grim reality"
 We shall be content to let the condition of equipment prove that the railroads cannot operate with un- skilled strike-breakers, declared MT. Jewell, adding later that we can and will fight for our terms and for na- tion wide settlement"
 Labor leaders then dispatched tel egrams to all parts of the country, calling upon strikers to renew the struggle with redoubled vigor.:
 The latest peace proposal, centering as was the case with all the others on the question of seniority was brief ly that roads interested in individual settlements would pledge themselves to find employement for all strikers not convicted of acts of violence, would not curtail pension rights, or "other privileges" and would agree to submit to a commission of ten brother hood leaders and executives all dis putes which could not be settled by direct conference. The strikers who have maintained that they had not au- thorized the "big five" to suggest in dividual settlements, rejected this pro- posal with the explanation that it did not guarantee seniority to the men
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BATTLE ENDS FLIGHT IF 4
 JAIL |N|NAT TES
One of Four Who Escaped From Penitentiary Killed in
 Roundup by Posse

RAPID CITY. S. D., Aug. 25.-(By the Associated Press)-Halted at the borderland of the Black Hills, four escaped convicts from tho Sioux Falls penitentiary ended their terrorizing drive across South Dakota about 50 miles east of here late today with the death of one of their ndmber and the capture of tho other three.
 Their wild flight was begun August 17, when they knifed deputy warden kidnapped the warden and escaped in an automobile.
 Through three counties they streak ed today, probably mortally wounding a county official and injuring two oth- CTS in a clash near Stamford and stop ping finally when a shot from sher- ifs rifle toppled the driver of their car and sent it into a ditch.
 The other three convicts scurried into a corn field along qhe road but the sheriff's party. reinforced, they were soon routed out and captured, though not until they had put up a fight in which another of their num- Der was wounded.
 Henry Coffee. alias Hickman, a negro, was the convict killed, and Joe Foreman, recognized leader of the band was seriously wounded The two convicts taken uninjured are Joe Feel and J. B. King. All were sent to prison upon conviction Of grand lar ceny.
 It was said the last convict cap tured begged his comrades to shoot him rather than. permit his surrender.
 Airplanes circling overhead and heavily armed posses headed by state and county officials, marked the end of the chase.
 Early this morning the convicts were discovered at Murdoc, in Jones county. and when they left toward Stamford. to the west, States Attor- ney M. L. Parish. Sheriff J. c. Bab- cock and J. A. Robertson set out in pursuit.
 Overtal1ing the convicts near Stam- lord. the officials opened fire and were met with an answering volley that probably mortally wounded Par ish and less seriously hurt Babcock and Robertson.
 After their successful clash with the Jones county officials. the con- victs seized Parish's automobile and continued their flight southwestward through Jackson county. abandoning the car at Interior. and stealing an- other the eighth they had taken in as many days.
 The convicts escaped from the pen itentiary August r. knifing Deputy Warden Arthur Muchow into helpless ness and forcing Warden George w. Jameson to accompany them in the automobile they stole near the prison.
 guard witnessing the escape with held fire in fear that he might hit the warden. The convicts left the war den bound. in a church about 16 miles from Sioux Falls. He had not been injured
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Three Injured When Train Leaves Track

MOBILE, Ala, Aug. 25.-Three mem bers of the crew of train No. 8, fast mail tran nthe Mobile and Ohio were injured tonight, and scores of passengers escaped injury when the train hit an open switch on the Bay Spur, near Whittier, a few miles from here. Then engine and seven coaches left the track. The injured are: En- gineer Charles Conner, Meridian, Miss. Fireman Lee Oliver, Meridian, Miss. Raggageman l.. Graft Mobile.
Bisbee daily review., 1922-08-26
Harding Authorizes
 Cable Construction

WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.-President Harding today signed a license author izing the Western Union Telegraph company to land and operate at Nil anna Beach, Florida. cable extending from there to Barbados, where it con meets with the line of the Western Telegraph company, Ltd. a British concern, to Brazil. Announcement to this effect was made after official mo- tification had been received that the Argentine government had acceptea the remuneration by the Western Tele- graph company of its monopoly rights in that country.
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U. s. Soldier Found
 Slain in Germany

COBLENZ, Aug. 25.-(By the Asso- ciated Press)-Private Lester Irons of TNms River, N. J., a member of a pro- visional military police company. was found today in a pool of blood with part of his head shot away, outside the garage of Major General Henry T. Allen, in command of the Ameri. can forces on the Rhine. Private Irons had been on guard duty at this post last night
Bisbee daily review., 1922-08-26
22 Are Hurt When
 Trolley Runs Wild

SYRACUSE. N. r.. Aug. 25.-A troll ley car ran wild down Walnut Avenue Hill during a terrific rain and electri- cal storm here tonight, jumped the tracks after speeding three city blocks and was wrecked against concrete and metal lighting. poles on corner. Twenty two of the passengers were re- moved to hospitals.
 Reports fro mthe hospitals were to the effect that none of the passengers had been seriously injured, the mapor- ity suffering from bruises and schOck.
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COPPER PRICES

Ave. for mo. of June .13575 Ave for mo of July .13653 Ave. wk. end. S-9-22........l375 Ave. Wk. End S-16-22 1875 Av. week ending S-'23 .137375 Close week 8'23 =. .13725
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