The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-12-23
BANDITS MAKE BIG HAULS; ROB JEWELRY
STORES; KILL and ROB Mine PAYMASTER


Minneapolis-(A P.)-Bandits to-
day invaded the Minneapolis down
town district staged two daring
5ewelry store robberies within half
blOck OF each other and fed with
about twenty-five thousand dollars in
cash, diamonds and jewelry.
XIII Paymaster; Rob Company.
Pittsburgh-(A. P.)-Four bandits
shot and wounded Ross Dennis, pay
master of the Pittsburgh Coal COM
.pany, today and escaped with a sat-
chel containing about $40, 900 in cur
rency. The holdup occurred in the
hills near Mount Lebanon, near here,
while a party of company officials
were taking Christmas pay to the
miners at Beading, Pa.
Dennis died while being taken to
the hospital.
Military Train Wrecked.
Valencia, Spain-(A P.)-Eleven
members of the Vfscaya regiment were
Killed, including the commander,
Colonel Canabats, and over ninety
others injured, when a military train
out OF control, ran down a steep
grade to . distastrous collision near
sOnteniente station, Valencia province,
to-day Two cars were wrecked.
Sign Allegiance; Set Free.
Dublin-(A. P.)-Two hundred and
-sixty-four republicans, held prisoners
in Mount Joy Prison, were released
today, having signed declaration of
allegiance to the Free State. Four
eof those released are women.
Discover Stolen Five.
Baltimore-(A. P)-The discovery
has been made here of one of the
five dollar bills stolen by armed ban
n a rQi fh4 r fo14
reserve bank truck at Denver last
Monday, police officials here declared
today. 1t is declared that the bill
was passed at a downtown restaurant
last night.
Arrest Bandit Suspects.
Santa Fe, N. Ma. P)-Seven
men who arrived here driving large
touring car were taken into custody
today for investigation. Officers at {
Las Vegas wired the local officers to
arrest them, believing they might be
the fugitive Denver bandits.
Washington Governor Refuses Pardon.
Olympia-(A. Ex-Governor Louis
F. Hart today made public a state t
ment in which he said that under t
no circumstances would he pardon or
parole Pete Miller, who is serving 6
life sentence in the state penitentiary
at Walla Walla, on the grounds that
he is a habitual criminal. The gov |
ernor stated his position in a letter Z
to G. F. Van Deveer, who had been {
one of the leaders in the movement T
to obtain Miller's release, because of G
his excellent prison record. t
Men Believed Mob Victims. a
Mer Rouge, La.-(A. P)-The wire
bound and mutilated bodies of two
men recovered yesterday in Lake La
fourche by state troops, believed to Z
be those of Watt Daniels and Thomas I
Richards, who disappeared after be-
ing kidnapped by masked and white
robed men last August, were further
identified today when viewed by
Richards widow, J. L. Daniels and t.
the aged father of Watt with score s
OF other relatives and friends. c
Arrest on Kidnapping Charge. l
Lastrop, La.-(A./ P.)-Attorney =
General Coco this afternoon handed =
Sheriff Carpenter a warrant ordering !
the arrest of one man in connection =
With the Moorehouse kidnapping case. =
Cancer Expert Drops Dead. +.
Denver-(A. P.)-Dr. Charles And 81
rev Powers, widely known surgeon te
and president of the American Society a,
or the Control of Cancer, dropped tt
lead fre this afternoon
Police Stage Useless Man-Hunt. tt
Baltimore-(A. P.)-The discovery ~ In
# five dollar bill, thought to be "
me of the two hundred thousand dol ~
ars in five dollar notes stolen from ~
,he federal reserve bank truck at ~ ~
Denver, last Monday, led federal Sec - II
ct service operatives and police on a.
IN intensive man-hunt here today, :,
which continued for fours before the Nl
mistake was learned.
Passengers Bruised in Collision. 81
Peoria, lila. P.)-Between forty IL IL
nd fifty passengers suffered bruises
nd several hundred others were badly
haken up when two c. r. I. & p. u
assenger trains crashed head on to- IA
ay near here.
Pope May Call Meet of Episcopacy.
Rome-(A. P.)-Probability that the
'ope will call meeting of the en-
ire Catholic Episcopacy in Rome
uring the next jubilee year was an
ounced in the papal encyclical is in
ued today. Such a meeting would be- wi
continuation of the ecumenic coun- giv
IL held in Rome in 1870 tn,
ths
cOBERT PANKEY DIES SUD- ne
DENLY AT PRINCETON HOME he
Word was received over long dis co,
ance telephone by the Star-Mirror of
the death of Robert Pankey, Latah wi