The Wellington Daily News from Wellington, Kansas • Page 1

'1 T7 T7 Tr NGTON Member of The Associated Press WELLINGTON. KANSAS, FRIDAY, OCT. 22, 1920 Volume xxxix, No. 45 vP 5 1 raised a grave question as to whether BALL TAKES WITNESS COOUDGE TALKS ON Judge Fuller Thursday afternoon, when he sustained an' objection from DESPONDENCY REASON A FALSE ALARM The Ducks Were So Thick They Ate With The WRVff ANFi IDF AT bution- whether wages are being earn-3EJV1L ailll ULttLO ed by the combined enterprise of la- BRITAIN WAITS London, Oct. 22.

British labor and the oountry as a whole awaited today, the government's next move in the coal miners strike following the ultimatum by the railroad men and" transport workers yesterday that they would strike Sunday night unless the strike negotiations were under way by Saturday. The railway men in conference expected a reply from Uoyd George today. premier gave no hint that he receded'? rom his position but to niakft'the- negotiations with Ihtic'vrestrictiqns" onu shipping have' already, 'London, Oct. 22. -The miners' conference "in New South Wales today, asked the national minersVfederation to call a conference to consider the withdrawal of all from the mines.

The mines are being kept in order by special forces and their withdraw-. al would render the pits useless from the resumption of work. Present Wag Scale Can Be Maintained If Workers Work, Say Nominee Charlotte, N. Oct. 22.

America is synonymous with serivce, declared Governor Coolidge in an address here today brimful of allusions to the hon- or and dignity of wprk. He said he spoke of service in the-spiritual as wen as tne material sense, and, contjri- ued; "That -people ttill fail whichfi- votes itself to. the ac- cdmulation of1 wealth and which makes property endf man. That people will become strong and igorous wnose worK is measured Dy ideals oi right and justice and liberty." The Republican party, he said, cherishes no delusions that any scheme of government or any change in the organization of society could relieve the people from the necessity of work. The rules of nature cannot be set aside.

Observed they point the way to success and character." Sue- cessful democracy, he said, can be achieved only at the price of "con-1 stent is a law to disregard which, he continued, "is to invite de- struction and anarchy" and to ob- serve which is to "develop power and The American people, the Gover- nor went on, nave always exalted labor, whether of the head or hand. The old Europe, he said, sharply differentiated between its peoples and I So far this season those members of the Hazelton gun club who have gone out to the lake after ducks have done nothing bu. play pitch. The weather has not' been favorable for a flight; the ducks evidently preferring to remain up north where it's cooler. The sportsmen who have gone out with high hopes have met with nOth- jbut Tdisappojntnvyjt.

other morning the weather go cooler and the ty rain hegan falling, the 1 spirits of the duck hunters began to mount again The ducks must be -coming in. Members of the club held consultation wherever they met on the street. Billy Rush came down town; stopping at Keuneke's for his morning malted milk. Billy thought it looked like duck weather, too. By George, he was going on up to the shop and put in a call for Stevenson.

Stevenson is the farmer who lives' on the club's hunting preserve and acts as a sort of caretaker. Soon Gene Bowers drifted down town. He joined in on the conjecturing. Some one told him that Rush had put in a long distance call to get the dope on the ducks. Then Bowers, who is the blue ribbon joker of the gang, had a brilliant idea.

Stepping back to the phone he called Rush's number. "Hazelton calling Mr. Rush," he told the party who answered the bell. Billy came running. "Hello, this is Stevenson," Bowers, "vvh(n Rush answered.

said "Oh, yes Stevenson," said Billy production has been equal to distri- bor, management and capital, or whether they are being paid in part out of capitaL Wages can increase as long as they are earned. When not earned but paid from capital, disaster is at hand, a disaster sure to bear with the severity on the wage earner and his dependents. "There are two things that are im-. portant to wage first js to put sufficient effort into theft- employment i so. that; he present scale 0f wages will' not be educedi Sor cjety has determined rightly, that be- ibTt there, is any general reduction in our wage scale, every' effort shall be made to maintain it by a suffi- cient intensity of work.

To this end capital, management and the wage earner must cooperate." i LANDIS TAKES A HAND Chicago, Oct 22. Federal Judge Landis today began active participa- ed whigky ring" which1 is said to aW pi liquorto onne saloon nWfl ftftjai. ed the district attorney's office' to bri in every man-conhed th thi frofflV anA would "expose every "crooked police- and feJeral agent fa ChicagoV. Six policemen, are already under nf in connection with the ring. ROTARIANS TODAY IS, FINALJDAY TO REGISTER F01 ELECTION.

Today; tha.finl opportunity for regisirauon wie November 2.i Afl-vuto havfe movea from one ward to another should re gistel lt necessary reside in. a least thirty dm before Nov- ember 2 to be eligible to vote at that vr tnt times The ristraUoa5boks at the offices of City Clerk -Miss Walton wfll be closed atlO o'clockSonfgh'Cl'he reglstratron will showjhf n-um registration will show.lhe largest jni "Say, Stevenson, any ducks coming! to the treatment of their patients. -in this morning?" Miss Ethel Bailey, County Red "Ducks!" said Bowers, "Ducks! Cross nurse, and Miss Zoe Marner, Why, they're coming in so thick that public school nurse, assisted at the established their rank and social po-j Sixty-five members of the Rotary sition by the kind of work performed clubs of Winfield and Arkansas City "We shall have no such artificial will come to Wellington this evening standard here," he said. "To us the by special train to assist in the for-tiller of the soil and the skilled me- mation of a local Rotary Club, chanic are measured by the same The meeting will be held in Com-regard as are the doctor or lawyer inunity park house and will be at or banker. We demand that each of tended by every local man who has us shall do his work and do it with been instrumental in the tentative all his skill and might and energy, formation of the club here.

Exten-And we can demand promptly in re- sive preparations for the ntertain-tuni that the conditions under which ment of the visitors have been made, the work is done shall be fair and it is understood. FOR ARNSPIGER'S ACT; Despondency over his wife's condi tion of health is the only reason that can be advanced for Charles Arnsp-iger taking his own life Thursday, according to the officials who investigated the circumstances surrounding his act. It is said that several times he had expressed 'doubt of his wife's recov-cryahd had stated that if she could not get well lif a.meant' nothing more to him. The details, of the tragedy are 4 a little different from, those contained in the irieagfe report that was available Thursda son, who. lives at home, say3' that 'his father took the gun, a double-barrelled 12-guage shot gun, and some shells and went out in to the field to kill a hawk which he bad seen circling around near the house.

Not long after he left the house, which was about noon, the report of the gun was heard. A few roin utes later the son heard another, muf fled, report. The son did not think that' anything unusual had occurred until his father failed to reappear at the house for dinner. He went out to search for him. He found him dead, under a tree, at the edge of a corn field, not much over a block distant from house The position of his body and the gun and the nature of the wound make it appear that Mr.

Arnspiger placed the muzzle of the gun against his right side and pushed the trigger with his toe or a stick- The charge of shot made a large round hole in hi right side and ranged upward thru the heart. His clothing and the flesh surrounding the wound were badly powder burned. The circumstances preclude any possibility of his death being accidental, according to the cor oner, Dr. Sarchet, whose finding was that Mr. Arnspiger came to his death by; his own hand.

SEARCH FOR BANDITS Cleveland, Oct. 22. Three counties are being searched today fdr'the remaindpr of tho ha Ait- mxnrr L.no v.esterdav staired a most 'taenia hank- robherv inOhinfW bandit was killed and three others wounded and captured after a fight with Bedford citizens. $50,000 taken by the bandits was recovered. One bank clerk was probably fatally wounded and three citizens were also hurt.

Death of Arkansas- City, at Berkeley, Cali fornia. Mr. Carey is a brother of MrS. Andrews. Several months ago Mr.

Carey with his wife and son Trarey went to Berkeley. The son had entered the state university, and the family intended to spend the winter there. Mr. Carey was apparently in the best of health when he left here. The body, accompanied by his wife, and son, will be brought to Arkansas City, where the funeral and burial will take J.

C. Burford of Deer Creek wa9 a business visitor here I STAND OWN BEHALF. Defendant Tell. Details In Killing of Adam Baker at Caldwell; Case May Co to Jury Today Charles Ball, on trial charged with the murder of Adam Baker at Cald well last February, spent practically all of this morning on the witness stand, detailing the facts Sn and events "on the night -when be killed Baker. -resumed the stand again in the afternoon, in his own defense.

He recited i4Jie. events preceding the fatal night, how he had "spent Saturday with his little son Lloyd talking over the situation of Baker calling at the house, of the purchase of the re volver in Wellington Saturday after noon, the return to Caldwell, and later to the cook shack in Oklahoma, the return to Caldwell Sunday, seeing Baker go to the house Sunday night, waiting outside Monday night to see if Baker would come again, and if so to go in and discuss their affairs. The boy who was at the house was to tell him when Baker arrived Ball stated that Baker came the rear way, and when the boy notified him, he found Mrs. Ball and Baker on the enclosed porch at the rear. He prev iously told the boy to be present and listen as he wanted a witness for he intended having Baker arrested.

Ball said Baker's arm was around Mrs. Ball when he entered the porch, at which moment he let his arm fall. Ball said, "Hello, Mr. Baker, are you having a talk?" Ball told them to go into the house. He then asked Baker to sit down, which he did.

He asked the boy if the girls were there, and when they came out he said, "Girls, I'd like for you to get another room tonight. Baker, Mrs. Ball and the family are going to have a talk." After the girls were gone, Ball asked Baker: "What are you coming to my place so much for?" speaking in a calm voice. Baker replied he had only lwen there a couple of times, coining as a neighbor and friend. Ball testified: "I called him a liar.

I asked him what he was commfr home -from chiffch with the woman, sitting in the dark with her. He said he only walked home with her twice." Bali ten called him a name. Baker started to arise in a crouching position. After he was out of the chair Ball fired the first shot to frighten him, which shot slivered the top of the chair. Ball testified that he.

wanted Baker to leave, but he kept coming toward him. He took his hand out of his pocket about the time of the second shot. Ball did not notice whether the hand was gloved. Asked if he thought. Baker had a pistol, Ball said he didtnot think Baker did not have a pistol, but thought he had something in the pocket, in fact didn't do much thinking.

A juror at this point asked what kind of light was in the room. Ball replied, electric lights. When the third shot was fired Baker was striking with his right hand, Ball said, and he did not know what, if anything, he had in the hand. Ball said the first shot slivered the chair, the second was fired into his shoulder, the third hit Baker in the right' arm and the fourth struck him in the side, which shot is said to be the fatal shot. Ball said he stepped back a fool; or so, while was advancing.

Earlier in the testimony Ball said he saw Baker enter the house five or six times, two times while he was at the house. He said he bought the gun here Saturday to protect himself from a man entering another's home, and carried it to the home to protect himself in his own home against an intruder. He thought it necessary to have a pistol in meeting a man who had been warned to stay away, and he expected difficulty if not danger, ne did not want to catch him nor any other man there. He said a man of that kind might do anything. Ball began his testimony by telling of receiving an anonymous letter telling him to come home and look after his household as something was going on there.

He has since lost the letter. He stated that he watched the house, that he formerly had a little difficulty with another man. Other witnesses in the morning were Mrs. Ruth Ball, who testified to viting! the house and finding it dark' Royal Ball also took the stand but what he knew as to Baker Mrs. Ball? was not allowed to be fied to.

E. T. Erickson gave his opinion as to the positions Baker was when; shot. Miss Hazel Lynch's testimony was' i objected to. Earl Rhodes testified to taking Iva Ball home from church.

The admissibility of evidence tend ing to show the relation between Mrs Ball, wife of the defendant, and Adam Baker, was ruled against by at first witness, Mrs. Lee Crouch, of Caldwell, on the stand, and resulted in the defense being prevented from bringing out much testimony in this connection which was introduced at the former trials. It also prevented much of the testimony in the deposition of Mrs. Charles Ball from being read when the deposition was introduced, yesterday afternoon. Aside from character witnesses most the afternoon Thursday was taken' up wiih introduction of impositions made by Mrs.

Bali at Medford.Okla.. Sept. 22." Atty. questioned her for the "defense, read that part cf the deposition and County Tag-gart, who cross examined her for the state, read the latter part of the testi mony. Mrs.

Ball gave her residence as Oklahoma and stated that when she testified at the first trial, she hardly knew what she was doing. She continued: She was ill and in charge of a nurse, and under influence of County Atty. Taggart and Sheriff Lingenfel-ter took the witness stand, and not of her own free will. She was told she must go on the stand to save herself, and at that time, she did not know what plea her husband would make. She was given six doses of medicine during the hour preceding the time of taking the stand, which produced a strange feeling and she hardly knew what she was doing, that the medicine caused her to become purple and spot ted; that she was misled as to what her husband would plead; informed that he had made her out to be a bad woman, she was excited and made to be afraid of Ball.

She was told to sav Baker held up his right arm while she believed he held up his left arm when shot. She said she could not go on the stand, but was told she must take the stand; that she left Wellington last May of her own free will; that she would net have testified unless persuaded to do so. The next question in the deposition referred to her accept ng money from Baker, and what plans were to be followed after a div orce from Ball was obtained. Answers were ruled out upon objection by the prosecution, and eighteen questions and answers at this point concerning relations of Mrs. BalT ahd Baker were" left out.

Mrs- Baker then said that she was advised by the codnty attorney or sheriff to go to the sheriff's house or to parts unknown, after the shooting; that the medicine made her feel that she did not care. what happened. She said she was told that she did not have to testify but must go on the stand to sav'e herself. Cross examined, she staled she was under so much influence she had to answer as she did at the first trial, that the sheriff told her if there was anything she did rot want to say to answer that she did not remember. She reiterated that she was not testifying against her own free will but had to under influence of medicine and was told to get on the.

stand to save herself. She concluded by saying she did not want to take ihe stand again. More than fifty questions and answers to the cross examination were left out as being inadmissible because dealing with relations of Baker and Mrs. Ball. The defense began its testimony with Mrs.

Lee Crouch, who said that she resided across the street from the Ball She said that the Luder house, alongside of which were the two girl roomers when they heard the shots fired, was two blocks east of the Ball house. She was followed by her husband, who testified similarly. The following witnesses testified that Ball had a good reputation as a law abiding peaceable citizen and fortruth and veracity: Roy Rhodes of the Cald well Home National Bank, E. Show-alter, Caldwell State Bank; S. W-Gile, garage owner; Floyd Parsons, C.

Burford, near Caldwell; R. D. Met-! calf, forty years a resident of Caldwell; William Brockus, Grant County, Okla. J. W.

Malacher, farmer, testified to seeing Ball and Baker talking on the street, December 11, and Ball shook his finger at Baker, and later they joined Malacher. E. B. Dunham of Caldwell testified that Ball paid the grocery bills. J.

L. Macklin said Baker weighed 154 pounds and that he weighed 155, both having weighed the same time at the mill. S- W. Hiatt started to testify as to the gro-ery bill but this was ruled out. The deposition, of "Ball then was read.

An jerrpr.was ma.de in reporting the testimony of Walter Coolejr Cpoley, testified that he sold the gun, which introduced. as having been used by but said, he did t-ot-know to. whom He sold tha gun Ralph Hangen, who recently under went an operation for removal of tonsils, is recovering nicely at his home. TV U. Andrews received a nafafes' on gage, this moping telling of the sud-fory of "the- city; den death last night of W.

B. Carey tory decent, with adequate reward for accomplishment." Touching on the alleged need of greater production-whichy In? 'deicrib- ed as "the sure cure of profiteering," he saidr i nruiin 10 never itti aucou ut starvation- bitter experience has starvation, bitter experience has between fuel artd freezing. We, who have the fields and the mines and who are blest with order under law, have a supreme duty to ourselves and to humanity as a whole. That duty is to secure m'axim'um output in agriculture and industry and in return to pay the reward to which such action is justly entitled. Production is a moral obligation as well as a material necessity.

It is the sure cure of profiteering. To -evade it is to injure ourselves as well as our fel- low man. "We have been living under a tre- mendously rising tide of wages. Our. progress in this respect in the last four years has almost exceeded the progress made in all previous time.

It has put on a new stan dard." Never' before was there any-! thing to compare with it This has RED CROSS CLINIC. Twenty-one persons suffering from diseases of the skin availed themsel ves of the opportunity to be examnin-ed by Dr. Richard Sutton of Kansas City, at the Red Cnm clinic, which was held yesterday efiemoon at the' clinic rooms of the Red Cross headquarters- Besides those from Wellington, pa tients were here from Oxford, Plaine and Argonia. Many were prevented from attending who. would pro bably have been here if the roads had been good.

Twelve doctors were present at the clinic and were advised clinic. KANSAS CITY STOCK MARKET Kansas City, Oct. 22. CATTLE Receipts 1,400. Market: All classes steady; cows, $5.50 to veal-ers, $13.50.

HOGS Receipts 2,500. Market: Mostly Bcto l.Ca4or?r'43v'ST buU -medium and heavy, $12.75 good and choice 130 to 160-pounders, $12.80 $13.10. Caah Wheat 2 cents lower to 2 cents higher; o. hard, No. 2 hard No.

1 red, $2.07 red GARY IS OPTIMISTIC Was? York, Oct. Business pros neat's are unusually bright, both in tbe United Statfs an3 abroad, Elbe it H. Gary, head of the United States Steel Corporation, said in an address before the American Iron and Steel Institution here today. "Although this is a time for courage, composure and caution, business successes are without clouds," he said. "If there should be a serious' reaction and depression, it will be the fault of those connected with business operations and not because of any deficiencies in our lesources and opportunities." Dick Republican nominee for" congress, talked to "a small-? crowd at, the tabernacle night under great difficulty.

The rain, which began just before six, continued almost without Mr. Bird had to put all: his power in his voice to raise it above the noise of the downpour on the tabernacle roof. He divided his time about equally between the league of nations issue and what he termed the failure of the present national ad- ministration. He had addressed a meeting at Belle Plaine in the afternoon. WILLIAM MORRIS DEAD.

Word was just received today of the death of William Morris of Riv. -dale on Wednesday of this wetk. TI. deceased was about 83 years of age and was one of the county's oldest set: tiers. Funeral services will be held at Riverdale Saturday afternoon and in-i terment will be made In the Riverdala Cemetery.

STILL FEEDING MACSVViNLY. Loudon, Oct. Mf.you Swtney is still delirious today and tha prison authorities continue to forco food into his mouth despite- It's pro- tests, a bulletin by the Irish Determination League 6js. He becomes constieds at intervals lAit" is unable to recognize' relatives-or hU.surround SHOES' TV DECLINE- St. Louis, Oct.

2. 'A continued, decline in the price of shoes was pre dieted by delegates of Vr'' Association" of Shoe Vv 1'; today. The delegates ntti Liii shoe prices, had declined on of 35 per cent since May, thev were ud in the barnvard feeding with the chickens this morning!" Bang! Billy slammed the receiver on the hook. Then he started out to round up the bunch. Those who weren't in on the joke got as exelU-d as Hilly.

They began making preparations for 3 hurried flight to the lake Then Billy "met jBowers. ge told Bowers the dope. Bowers showed the proper amount of interest. He suggested, even, that Billy go down and see Jack Wells, chief dispatcher, about a permit to ride a west-hound freight train It was too muddy djvf anji the evening passenger trajn Bjg4 bja too late for them to gjyt wa thjt big flight. Bilty thought that a fine fdea.

rtBtt you'd better go d.9"7 and Jack, 'Cefle," Rash. 4VVcn knc? him better than I do." Bowers demurred. He didnt have the time. But he continued to "rib" Billy not to waste any time. KeunekeV telephone rang.

Joe Infield answered the call. "Paging Mr. Rush," said Joe, after getting a request from Mrs. Rush to talk with her husband. Billy headed for the phone.

Bowers trickled out the front door. "tevenson Juift called from Hazelton," said Mrs. Rush when Billy answered. "He said that a few bunches of ducks were sailing around last night, but that there weren't any on the lake this morning." Then Billy got next to the fact that he had been the victim of a joke. His end of the conversation over the telephone had apprised the gang around the front end of the store that Bill was on.

He came back to face the laugh. "Bowers! You blinkety-blank-blink began Bilf. But Bowers was gone. IMPROVING ELKS BUILDING. The new lodge rooms on the second floor of the Elks building will be finished in time for the next meeting night, Tuesday October 26, the con tractors stated today.

They were busy today in erecting frame work for the new addition on the south side of the building. Valerious, ex-soldier for sheriff Monday. October 6 wesTof eW- mSLe.as sotith; of rdvU-tt miles' northwest and" nQrtpoiB Bome.iorses, nogs, machinery, corn, 3. An- nis. 4 Monday, November 8 At farm 3 miles southeast' of -VeHingtoaT about 30 head Holsteins, cows and heifers.

Watch for sale bills later. Holmes nd Hackney, owners. according to estimates today. Methodlt CJwh-zii All our services will be held at the regular hours Sunday. Sunday School Public Worship Epworth League at 6:30 and Evening Worship at 7:30.

The new Pastor is here, and will preach at both services Sunday. oe, Castor. MASONS ATTENTION Special meeting tonight at seven-thirty o'clock Work on third degree By order of Worshipful master 45 Valeriout, ex-ftoldier for heriff- ft- Are You Extravagant? Are you spending more than you know y6u should? Do you know the state of your husband's finances? Do you realize how hard you are driving him for money in these days of high prices? Whether you are a very new- bride or a full-fledged matron or only just contemplating matrimony -it will pay you and thrill you, to read "The Woman He Rttied" A new serial novel. by. Jane author -of "usl a Girl." The new story begins nest iveeF.

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