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Mitchell Evening Republican (Newspaper) - July 20, 1921, Mitchell, South Dakota To Page the evening Republican City edition vol xxxv Mitchell s. D. Wednesday july 20, 1921 number 223 fells How sox double crossed Ball gamblers Chicago stars tired of delay in bribe Money and decided to win How Dickie Kerr won Ihli. Birns r i ates Inmei a Shiv of would Seki is scan Dai there Are times when nature seems particularly unfair in her dist ution of blessings a by an dated Presa i rate j u ret Chicago 111., july 20.�?the Chicago i White sox players after agreeing with a clique of gamblers to throw the 1919 world series to Cincinnati for j became sick of the Deal when they a re not paid the bribes promised and at a meeting before the third game decided to play their Best and win the series. Bill Burna accomplice in the alleged Deal and the state s Star witness testified today in the baseball trial. Urged by the alleged a fixers to win the third game to improve the Bitting Odds. The players said they had tort to two regulars Cicone and Williams and would not win for a Dick a or. Burns said then feeling they had been crossed by the gamblers they double crossed their bribes by telling them they would lose the third game but instead won it 3 to 0, with Dick Kerr pitching Burns related further details of meetings in Cincinnati hotels at which he said the gamblers and players discussed throwing the games. Atte and Bennett identified yesterday As David Zelser of Des Moines la., a defendant were the riders of the alleged gamblers and a a Chicks Cand ii headed the players. According to Burns Burns said at Tell refuted to pay the $20,000 promised the players after each game. He persuaded at Tell to give him 110.000 after the a co j game which was git in to . He said. Ten tim Suomi offered a St. Louis Man volunteered to up up $ 10.00. To have the fourth and fifth games thrown but the players turned him Down. Burns said he did not knew he mans name but said to Odeon of the St. Ix>u.-. Americans who was released aft r the grand Jon probe was present at the time the pro nos it on Quot was made. Rooms thet told How he conferred a till ban in i to son. of tic Arter. Vague and John Tyre 11. A a Gnu Lett state attorney. About the cause he raid he came Here voluntarily to testify and had received no Pron. Job or coir Penaat Ion other than his Kuperw s. Which were paid by Johnson. Burns then was Turtledove j or to the detente for Cross examination. Swede Biberg the White sox Short Stop agreed to go through Aith the it i a it it n f Oil murderer of Iii Piir on a to icky i ii rum us i Iii it i. Ass. John d. Sells Vas Standard Oil holdings gov. Small is held a con Man Rockefeller disposes of nearly All Stock in new Jersey Parent co. Son becomes owner mag wet Mav also have git exit his Sii Vuks in Oti ii pop Kalties any \ a it ated Rel Springfield. I. July 20.�?indictments charging governor Small. Lieutenant governor f. E. Sterling Anu Vernon Curtis tilth embezzlement conspiracy and operation of a Confidence game were returned by the Sagamon county grand jury at 3 00 p. Til. Today. The Climax of the first act in one of the most startling political dramas of the state history came late today following the grand jury s investigation of the $10,000,900 loan of state funds to Armour and company and Swift and company through a state Bank owned by state officials. This. ,. _ loan it was said was made through vast holdings in the Standard Oil com 15 to a a a. A rant Park Bank an Mali it Ion operated by the late senator e. A. Curtis close Friend and political colleague of governor Small for Many years. Bonds of All three were fixed at $4 0,000 on each count. On the first indictment the governor lieutenant governor and Curtis were charged with embezzlement of $790,-000. The indictment for conspiracy and Confidence games charges that the three obtained divers drafts warrants vouchers and documents to the amount of $2,000,000. Japs driven out of Field by workers californians Start general exodus of yellow men by associated press leased mire new York City. July 20.�?John d. Rockefeller has disposed of All his Pany of new Jersey Tho Parent com Pany with the exception of one thousand shares of common Stock valued at $106,875 according to an account published by the new York world today. The world s list shows that John d. Rockefeller. Jr., now holds 452.-080 shares of the common Stock and 88.970 shares of preferred the Rockefeller general education Board 170.-320 common and 56.77 9 preferred the Rockefellr foundation 196.000 common and 55.000 preferred and the Laura Spellman Rockefeller memorial fund 40.000 common and 19,000 a preferred. No information was available As to whether or. Rockefeller was Mak Jing transfers of any of his other vast holdings. Kidnapped Man talks to wife Over phone kick Over Low wages Kitty eight workers loaded in tricks and ordered to to leave country flux perform operation on tarred Man by aisle pm leased wire san Francisco. Cal., july 20.�?fifty eight japanese hired under contract to work on fruit and Melon lands around Turlock. Stanislaus county. Were placed Early today on automobile trucks by White workers taken to Keyes six Miles North and told to leave the according to a dispatch to the san Francisco Call. The japanese offered no resistance. Executives of the fruit and Melon pickers Union a White organization said Whit help has insisted on 25 and 26 cents a Erat for picking fruit while contract japanese Are working for 16 cents. A laps in general exodus Turlock. Cal., july 20.�?a general exodus of japanese Field labourers and their families from this District is taking place today following deportation to Keyes five mile North. Of 3 8 japanese male workers by members of a Union of fruit and Melon pickers the authorities announced. I the Union is composed principally of Whit itinerant. Japanese Here who witnessed the enforcement departure of their countrymen complained to the police that they were roughly handled and in modern Ransom seekers allow their victim to end worries at Home iffy to a Flat a pm Law a wire Sharon. A. July 20.�?thomas d. Klan in second assault drags some instances were robbed. Man from Protection of officers i the authorities said that the members of the mob which numbered about 75. Threatened to Burn on japanese hotel and two japanese bunk houses in order to hasten the Ile by cd it try pre letter wire Shreveport. La., july 20.�?j. W my Knight. Nacogdoches tix. Plumb a Artur. Their occupants or. Who was beaten but masked ire to fifteen japanese were taken from at Timpson saturday night was taken the Ger no Nch near town and the from Deputy sheriffs Between Tenaha and Center. Tex., last night by. ,. Unidentified men. And again tarred and prominent a us Lnu a Man of Foah red and Torch to submit lot Sharon r. I a it. L to hav Boort kid-1.________. To info the japans a Vav today pro to. Ing in All directions but the greater remainder from various other properties. The police expected to arrest some of the mob leaders . ,. _ surgical operation according to info naked monday night and held f�\1i1llion relived Here today. $50,000 Ransom talked with his wife the no spa it through Timpson number a headed by Long distance Telephone at two by Dav to Yevg pistol Keyes and Modesto. O clock this morning from Franklin. For Stockton. Shots. Wobbly killer mex oilfield i americanism still at Large prey of fire session opens Gam throwing. Burn testified repeated attempt4 to persuade the play ers to throw the rest or the games failed and Burns then Gar up j c efforts to again bribe the players by said. Bums. Himself Walt Lou blk Croe a out of his Shar of the spoils by a a Chicks candid who refused to Jay him the witness testified dding the p a told candid then that he would i 11 Vul on s. I., july 2 0.�?the Zuur do r of William a Henderson la still a Large. Every Effort huh has been made to find the i w w who shot and killed the cd acc vice Man while hording Norm bound Milwaukee freight at Wolsey on Friday night has Faile d squawk and expose the whole Deal. ,.archmg parties were out Over the county All Day saturday. Frank during. Recognized As the murderer by Koh John Wright who courtroom jammed to the in kiwis to of or Oto Chicago. The. July 20.�?an hour it do ban and before opening of the third or were Ravlin Clendenion a into e trial this in Ornit the doors with a Thullin Tow Thor with of Tho court room were ordered Hartman Johnson and John Mats Moed every eat was taken. It a Quot one-mao., which the sheriff hundreds of disappointed fans Arreal a. A til in the county jail crowded the corridors end waited out it a re Orion of tide building to a a sue co Ltd in in touch with rival of the former Star Ball to str ill a waiver through the who e4trday were accuser a. I a Standard Oil Coin puny it a Asper. Of playing to to the Ecru in Wyoming where lit rus recently pm Tun for $100,000 to be a d a . They a Fay Henderson a a tabling Syndicate. It Sherman. To it was. And w p. George Gorman. Assistant stat attorney resumed his questions concerning meetings in Cincinnati hotels when Burns took the stand when Vou were in room 7 08 of t hotel Sinton the Day of the second game what happened i Quot asked Hor Lua n. A Ramhi and several others wet answered Burna. Attell Sui rot Lirten bad 200.00# to bet on the furies by it a hard to go its Down and he did not want to give. In any Mouet. I insisted on at least $10,000. Attell showed in pics of f Oner und a a mattress. Forty thousand dollars a due the Hayr a land then Attell in talking of to Thohn said rot Butlein had a private Wir from new York to Cincinnati and it Onderson. Father at Stratford. Tex a it. It if pc Ted that the body will be shipped to Texas Tor burial Bonus could be paid if Harding would fire Plum suckers Landis a it Okum i aloft a re a i in a u Irr i Chicago Iii. July 20.�?stating that what he said might to Raaon for pm Reachi Zient. Of Quot Ltd ral judge Kenesaw la in Ait address before the wounded i of id Ion at fort Sheridan last night denounced the foes of the soldiers Bonus Bill a lid alerted that a of i run i fall w or Mexico Cit. My july ?0.�?the a Martian Oil Fields Are of tire with drilling towers falling Tike Huff and a work a feeling according to re porn a received Tor describing Quot the Gromest Utasi Ruple it in the history of the Oil the cause of the fire is not known. The financial loss cannot be estimated. Says the advices which add that tile conflagration dwarfs into insignificance the Mordro Del disaster. Columns of fire hundreds of feet High Are covering the entire Field it is declared and efforts to suppress the Blaze Are said to be considered hopeless. It is feared that there will be sonic loss of life. Reed released in c h p Case exam an of or of Gayville Farmers Stoke dismissed Al ter Muc la testimony is killed. Addresses my kit led for this afternoon Are hot Punko until tonight show no objection a. According to word received by it Knight a plumber came here1 the police Cje notified that a local police. Yesterday to secure warrants for the number of japanese taken to Keyes mrs. Randolph it is said declined Arryl 0f Nome of his assailants of by the mob were placed on Board a to disclose their conversation but it whom a said he had recon North bound freight train which was was Learned that Randolph the county officials arrested him flagged. The japanese submitted in lice said had passed through Oil City carry no concealed weapons and most instances without even a pro War ing him to renter the county test. In an automobile and writs headed for brio to. Cut Rhu he was again Selfred. J the japanese had. Been brought in to ton the Wolfie raid to. Flux aids homeless f0 District under contract to his a the biome of her father. Dallas Tex. July 20.�?knights of a note ranchers to pick the fruit and fog i. From a hotel at i rank Guj a klan have contribute a Lon crop. They were being paid folic at Franklin were notified la a support of Hope cottage sixteen Cut nth a a crate. Whereas White k v Lin. And following a fruitless search for her it be jul ated to the care of Horn the missing Man. Turned in the report children tile Money was mailed Liat he had left in an automobile. To a Kocaj newspaper yesterday w were a of none said that to Pittsburgh a was a Resit of a would a fire the whole outfit at Washington who were a getting Iii a a in another a Way trying to pass on the be towns compensation proposition a 1#.rv wee in on the Deal. T Don ? know who said that. Attell. Feb net and Maharg were there. Someon saw the Pittsburgh gamblers had a hard tim getting Money Down a Wattell then took 10�0 from a a Galij said they bad to a for Der the maitres and gave a to in. Regular Pitcher and they would not a i offer it to Maharg. Vrin for a Hiither. Would t take it. I put if in my Shiv j _ my the Gay Kov who was Ymir end took it up to the placers room. To pm Rah the thin game i passed a kids Gleason on the Way. J a yes. In k Kerr i then want a Wrisberg and Mcmullen were in the to that. Tenn to to Chicago hotel room i Don t recall the others j q�?p.f0r in Jung to Chicago let later of a Iotte an la Randll earn in an by i a to new Yolk. In the i gave the $10,000 to candid. Of the conversation you had with with re were two other Era Cost in new York. Defence that the left a Obj Etc. Iting jul a go Friend s ruling yesterday when tills w0nversati� i was barred in question and answer fat to testimony Ras As follows. Or. Gorman conducting the questioning questions what did the players say a Gamin said they in been double Cro Ltd de. Attell said they must win the third games the next Dav so us to improve the Odds w Linch then were the re to two in favor o i Hgo. Attell said the Odds must a better. A a what a re Suells words he said if the players would win the third game the Odds would change and the players could be paid. Of what did the players Hay judge Friend again barred Thonvo ration for the time being a serving the right to a it vow his ruling when Tho mate privately informed him that the allege conspiracy had its inception at the la meeting Between Cicotte and Burns. A Olcott and Burns met in the writing room of the Ansonia hotel discussed the a throwing of the series and met there again the next Day with Maharg and candid and derided to get the gamblers to Back til Deal or. Gorman attic in arguing the Point. Her time Hitoi press i a a of \4 Rel Yankton. S ii. July 20.�?embezzlement charges against i z Recti for Mer manager of the Farmers t of operative store at Gayville. S. It. Were dismissed yesterday by judge Richey sitting As a committing magistrate in tit preliminary hearing and the defendant ordered discharged. A mans of evidence was offered by til slut during the two Day hearing in an Effort to Hii stain the charge but much of it was ruled out on objection of the . The complaint alleged that Reed embezzled about $12,000 of the company s fund Between november 15, 1917 and january 2��. 1920. While a was manager of the Stor at Gayville. La wan discharged on la latter Date and a Warr. It for bin arrest was is us u about a week later after an audit had been made of the company s books ii Wah arrest <1 in Loa Angeles. Cal. Early this year and Hun by in out tinder $5.ooo Bond sin May. State s attorney Howard Warren declined to Lay whether or not ii my complaint filed. Fix Dun on shoes in new Pill for Tariff Addi esses which were scheduled to to Given at the City Hall this afternoon for the opening of the state a me in an legion americanism Contention will to Gen at the West hide a a Ark they evening in connection with the a my concert it warn announced today. Ail legion members Are invited to attend the dinner to be Given at the methodist Kins Opal Church at 6 p. Rn., after which the hand convert will be Given a dance at dreamland will follow. Chaplain Guy i. Squires of Brookings. Mrs m. To. Wider of Mitchell. David m to Gers. I Davison county Bonus a for. And Alvin m. Owsley Aristano director of the legion americanism commission will appear on the program. A a done of the convention will be held thursday morning and afternoon at the Cit shall. Among the delegates who had registered at the convention lip to noon today were August f. Hagen of Mobridge. In l. Woodworth of Ipswich. Guy f. Squire of Brookh is. Fred o Isber mgt of i-iavi.-. Roy c. Nerd of i Faulkton. David Heffron and f. M. O Connell of Sioux Falls. E. J. Bee Tham of Murdo. Frankf l Sich of Aberdeen. And e. D Coltin Jiam of it. Vernon. Today a baseball National league first game Chicago. 2u2 010 500�?io 23 0 at Philadelphia too too oooo 0 6 i Alexander. Daly and Killifer Smith. Betta and baggy. Getting 25 and 26 Ith cents an Given As the Princi pal cause of the trouble. Followed a few accompanied by a Man and woman. N Lulu a Ying a number of infants. Nnr.9flnn through Oil City in the direction of b _ red for by the institution a Are deportation uric i Dur Dir atty to lax enforcement of is a of Japan the police said they had Learned to Ltd a jaw a a condition a which must be. Be worker it from the Livingston from Randolph s wife that he was to _ i Merced county freight take a boat from Erie to Cleve ton i this was the extent of the information they ascertained. Mrs. Randolph s Mother this Moi met. District. In however the not her Man carnal the former instance. Lufkin. Tex. July 20.�? Ben Riley Farmers of the Livingston Region were about 30 years old. Seized Here held to be responsible for Tho Enma it night by mask a men. Given a forced departure of the japanese. Reserve Ryn is in Boston. New Vork Phil a., and Frisco Down to a i a Cincinnati. Too too 10o�?-2 Al new York Rixey and Hargrave Toney ton and Snyder. 9 0 8 0 Ben by 4�ftsrt�ted pre i eased wire i Boston. Mass. July 20.�?a reduction in the discount of Federal Reserve Hanks in Boston. New York. Philadelphia and san Francisco to five and one half per cent was announced Here today. The new rates Are effective tomorrow. They have been approved by the Federal Reserve Board. Great american Back Yard gives Way to apartments Illy a m4mtaled pre mire i Washington. It Chi july 20.�?compensatory duties of ten per cent and Valorme on All leather Good including Hub and 7 1-2 per cent and Valorme on All textiles composed wholly or in part of Long Staple Cotton is at Cleveland. Understood to hav been agreed upon Shawkey and Chang today by the House Way and Means Morton and of Neill committee. They result from the Boston. 03 House action reversing the committee at St. Louis. 000 and voting Tariff on hide and Long Pennock and Ruel Davis. Burwell Staple Cotton. And severed. St. Louis. 320 ooh j21�?8 15 3 at Brooklyn Ooi 120 001�?5 12 6 Pfyffer and a Lemons to Rimes leu ther Mitchell and Miller. Second game Chicago. Too 000 ooo�?0 7 i at Philadelphia 140 ��01 2ox�?8 13 i York and Italy Hubbell Ami pet evs. Pittsburgh. Ooi 010 ooo�?2 it i at Boston too too oooo h i Cooper and Schmidt Oak cheer anti of Neil. American league Wallington. 010 000 000 at Detroit. 000 010 too Johnson and Picinich Leonard and Bas i or. Philadelphia. Too too 010 at Chicago. Ooi too 010 Keefe. Rommel and Perkins Wilkinson and a dial new York. 003 olo 3 000 Ooi 0 Cove less k in Wahi \ ton. 1>. \. July 20.�?the old fashioned american Home the single dwelling with a front and Back Yard is giving Way even in the smaller cities of the United states to the modern apartment House. This is revealed in a report on 1920 building operations issued today by the United states chamber of Commerce. The report compiled in conjunction with the Federal Bureau of labor statistics shows that last year to per cent of the families provided with new Homes got one family dwellings eleven per cent two family dwellings and Nineteen per cent Multi family dwellings. The ing denied that her daughter hat coat of tar and feathers and release j work by Moonlight spoken to Randolph on the Telephone from an automobile on a Pron in the mob worked silently and was -0 1 rpt As the evening show a Hided to some extent by the full Moon. Trons were passing. Riley ran the Rug ii the japanese were aroused and Given the business streets to his automobile a certain time in which to dress and and left hurriedly for his Home in collect their belongings and were then ordered onto motor trucks and driven away. Wives and children of the deported were not molested. The act of the mob followed a protest to the Turlock chamber of Commerce yesterday by the fruit and in Aid. Would Melon pickers Union and the refusal Federal Banks Cut discount Dibell about ten mile from Here. Want War on Kluvers Austin. Tex. July 20.�?representative Batman of Cass today prepared a petition requesting the governor to submit a Bill to the legislature making it a felony to appear in disguise in tax Tho Bill to said would. In tax. 1 Kun flux of the chamber to Pas a Resolution klan own Sutlon or Patmon was upholding the protest. The chamber menu Latorr the. Petition Union the Lilied a statement however Erst Mhz House members Al noon and several ins White Farmers who brought Japan bad signed workers into Tho District it will be presented to the governor this afternoon. R pass Bill to Aid sick veterans Senate wakes up and speeds Sweet Rill through in record time. Washington. I it. C., july 20. In record breaking time the Senate passed today the Sweet Bill to consolidate All Federal agencies dealing with veterans and extending additional benefits to disabled former service men weather report forecast South Dakota generally Fuir to a amp my figures show that the proportion night and thursday somewhat warm of Multi family dwellings provided last or tonight and in East portions year was largest in the Small cities. Thursday. Trouble m by result Between America and Jai office san Francisco. Cal., july 20.�?action on Tho Turlock situation is being withheld by the japanese consulate Here until detailed advices were received from japanese and american participants. S. Yada. Jan anese Consul general said today. A the incident was the most deplorable affair of its kind that has happened in California since i became Consul general or. Yada said. A however i feel certain that the Amer Iran government should protect the japanese residents in this country for in our country the japanese government protects the americans. -0 Champion Kisser bets he can kiss thousand girls in trip from new York to Frisco by Atko Ruurd press leased Mfd new York City. July 20.�?kissable Young women Between Here and san Francisco arc hereby warned that they May be approached soon by u Young Irish Bohemian poet to a crushed opera hat and Khaki hiking suit and asked for a kiss. The two Young poets from Greenwich Village made the rounds of new York City editors Early today and exhibited the Champion Kisser who. They declared. Had wagered he could win kisses from 1.000 girls on a trip across the continent. This main attraction of the party who refused to give his name said the Young women of Yonkers would be Given the first Chance to kiss him today. He will then Start West. Find Thompson $1,189,000 Short figure grows in Packer Omran y embezzlement Case at Austin. Minn. % by associated pre l ended 4% ire Austin. Minn. July 20.�?the actual shortage Iii the accounts of it. J. Thomson former comptroller of George a. Horine and company local packers is $1,18 9,000. According to official figures received Here today from Chicago where creditors of the concern Are in conference. Of held in horse theut Kennebec. S. A. July 19.�?sheriff e. M. Kagan arrived from leu coma wednesday and went Over to the reservation to arrest Maurice Henrick son who was charged with stealing a horse from Bert Roeser. Or. Hen Rickson was taken to Oacoma for preliminary hearing on thursday

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