The Leavenworth Times from Leavenworth, Kansas • Page 1

MA YE 1 A VENWORTH, KANSAS, THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 21, 1911 PRESIDENT -TUT' ismsiisino His Marriage cMust Must Not Mar His cMilitary Career GREAT QUESTION MARK LIES OVER 2 FAMILIES, IN ADJOINING HOMES, RUMORED THAT ATTORNEY GENERAL AND SECRETARY WILSON MAY RESIGN RAMMER OLYMPIC IP OE 0 THE MTOlTM R. H. BELL AND DAUGHTER ftBOARD UPPER MICH 1 FOUND MURDERED TODAY THE DOMINION WILL DECIDE ON TEE ISSUE OF RECIPROCITY. UNKNOWN PERSON SLAYS SIX WITH AN AX IN COLORADO SPRINGS. IS RETRACING LINE OF TRAVEL FROM NORTH TO SPEAK IN GRAND RAPIDS.

LEAVENWORTH MERCHANT AND MRS. J. E. OLVIS WERE ON WAY TO U. S.

ON VESSEU ew-- Ed Pm MJ liiilp 1 I VICTIMS' HEADS SMASHED THREE CHILDREN, ALL UNDER SIX YEARS, ARE INCLUDED IN THE LIST. ONE MAN HELD FOR CRIME A. J. BURNHAM, COOK IN WOODMAN'S SANITARIUM, ARRSET-ED BY THE POLICE. Employers Say He Was at Work at Time Crime Was Committed-Bodies Discovered by Woman Who Called at Burnham Home.

Colorado Springs, Sept. 20. Murdered in their own homes by an unidentified person who used an ax, 0 KnHlP9 nf six Dersons, three in 1 each of two neighboring houses, were I found here late today. The heads of jail the victims had been smashed in, I and the appearance of the bodies in- dicated that they had been dead sev-l eral days and that death came while they slept. A report says that the murderer has been caught and that he near the back door of the ayne come It was "believed the ax had been used to kill The dead: MRS.

ALICE BURNHAM, wire or A. J. Burnham, cook at the Modern Woodmen Sanitarium. ALICE BURNHAM, aged 6. JOHN BURNHAM, aged 3.

HENRY F. WAYNE, a consumptive, until recently a patient at the Woodmen Sanitarium. MRS. WAYNE AND THEIR ONE YEAR OLD BABY GIRL. The Burnham home stands at Dale and Harrison place and the two houses next to it on Dale are vacant.

Directly in tha rear is the Wayne home and close to it is that or Evans. The discovery of the bodies was made by a neighbor who called at the Burn ham home to spend the arternoon. Not getting any response and noticing- lished some weeks ago showing Presi- KEEPS CLEAR OF POLITICS Upper Peninsula Is Solidly Republican i and President Found Cheering Crowds Everywhere Hears Old-Time Campaign Speech. Marquette, Sept. 20.

Presi- dent Taft, the first President of the United States to set foot on the shores of Lake Superior, ended his two days' visit to the Upper Peninsula of Michi- gan today and tonight is retracing his line of travel from the North. He is due in Grand Rapids early tomorrow morning and while there will deliver one of the most important speeches of the trip a defense of the vetoes of the woolen free list and cotton tariff bills. The President plainly was pleased with the warmth of his reception here. The Upper Peninsula Is about as solidly ue- publican as any part or the country and the President round cheering throngs wherever he went. The atmosphere was charged with politics fiut Mr.

TaTt steered HZ and and support of the general arbitra-! tion treaties with Great Britain and France. cnmnainn Soeoti. i lau iisienea, nowever, to an oiu- fashioned Republican campaign speech from Representative young, wmcn tne pointed remarks about different brands of congressman tooit occasion 10 iuan.e a lew nafaccX the Presid eTer sTnce he entered Michigan, also drirted into politics during the day and denounced Mr. i Taft's critics as belonging generally to a class of "selfish politicians." lt was in introducing President Taft to an immense throng in a three-ring circus tent brought, on from Chicago for the -that Tlepresenqtative Young' made his political address. He referred ta Mr.

Taft 3S having jakep ofrjice a Jime wjien Constructive work" was needed and not a tearing down. ''He has been wisely, pru-dentlj and consistently progressive," said Mr. Young, "he is the greatest living representative of genuine constructive pro- resentative of genuine constructive pro- On the other hana mere is tm'oc i ranA ir tha r.thap hnnn Ti a vex la a spurious progressiveness at which cyn- les laugh and angels weep." Praises Vetoes. Mr. Young praised the President for bis veto of th3 statehood bills, becaus use of the It was' an 4ii A pf PDn il flr'1aTiriff that act or courage ana wisaom equal to Grant's veto or the Inflation bill and that Jt nuttu luiiii American statesmen and patriots.

-f- -r-f. i denunciation of Tart's critics. He re- i ferred to the "muck-raking magazines that sell slander and vituperation at ten fonts a rnnv and In a rlai nf "slinnprv disloval noliticians." The President, he said, 'was opposed by every demagogue and every "shifty politician." This fact, he declared, caused the President to be i i BOTH SIDES ARE CONFIDENT Election Eve Finds Dominion More Interested in Itseif Than Ever Before Return of Laurier Regime Is Predicted. Montreal, Sept. 20.

The election eve, when a great question mark lies across the Canadian map from Atlantic to Pacific, finds the Dominion more interested in it- self and the whole world more interested it than ever berore. Tomorrow will answer answer questions vitally affecting tnis country and of nearly as deep con- cern to Unitecl statesslla11 Lau' rier regime continue, and shall Canada, gMng government party or the last llfteen years continuance of power, put into errecl llle 'eciProclty agreement already ratified by the republic across the border? The leaders of both sides are express- mg extreme coniiaence. ine government papers assert that the liberals will win by fiTty majority, thus increasing their strength ror the tweUth parl.ament's House Common by seven seats. On claim an eaual maioritv for the nartv of Lcauti uui ui.ii, observers who claim the opportunity for impartial survey of the situation say they expect the government to be rcturn- they expect the gov cH tv-HIi 3 rnalnritv Thi fnvf. cast ranes rrom ten t0 thirty-five, though 1C 6 w.

asT latter is generally conceded that the Prov- uation. Durin, the flnecn years that Sir! vviuna aurier nas peen in power mis province ais roweu up luajymy sufficient to offset the adverse voting in other provinces. In the present election, hpp hptwppn thA ennsprvativpfs and tiip. bee between the conservatives and the third party, Known as the nationalists, as result of which there is a contest for every seat. A CHILD BADLYT HURT.

In Playing She Fell Against a Kitchen Range Cutting Her Head. The little 6-vear-old daughter of John W. Xahrendorf, a salesman for P. F. Bubb, accidentally tripped and fell at their home yesterday afternoon and,) in.

falling, struck her head aeainst the kitchen range. A gash on her head and reaching: down into the forehead! over the left eye, resulted. The little child was playing around the house, trying to amuse herself dur- hg raj hour neau strucK a snarp corner oi tne and the wound, several inches. loner was inf! ctd. Dr.

Fletcher Taylor took several stitches in the wound. The Nahren-dorf's live at S24 Pottawatomie street. TO BUILD PLATFORM FOR TAFT. J. H.

Johns, City Inspector, to Begin Construction Today. Wiley and sfy of f16 of the case since the President threw has confessed, but this is denied by the will be received before Congress again police officials who, it is intimated, fear convenes. Attorney General Wicker- 1 a lynching might follow such an an-sham is in no way by the nouncement. An ax which had been President inasmuch as the President I loaned to Mrs. Henry F.

Wayne, one states that his decision was given be-! of the victims, by J. R. Evans, a fore all the facts which were presented neighbor, last week, was found, blood-by President Taft were known by At-I stained, by Mrs. Evans on Monday STRUCK BY CRUISER HAWKE Largest Vessel in World Lies Off Shore with Gaping Hole in Side No Lives Are Lost in the Collision. K.

H. Bell, of the Bell Dry Goods Company of this city, accompanied by his daughter, Mrs. J. E. Olvis and her baby were scheduled to be aboard the steamer Olympic which was rammed yesterday off Southampton, England, by the British Cruiser Hu ice.

Mr. Bell left six weeks ago to visit i i- -r Lte daughter who lives in London. In a letter to Mrs. Bell here, Mx. Bell said that they would sail on the Olvmpic 1 Southampton, Sept.

20 The 2reat Stpiimsllin ftlrmniK Vi bar Ime wllich lclt Southampton shortly before noon today, crowded Wlth returnin2 American tourists, lies tonight off Calshot Castle, at the en- to thtmpto. water, with a t. .1 VP5 noie in ner side as the result of vi wn tne isritisn. protected turner Hawke. Fortunate no lives were lot the two thousand or.

more tt.lu Ul lue tousana or. more OaSSent'Prs and prpws nf iha voocaIs was ia- Aae atciaent; occurred a tew miles from the spot where the American Uer St. Paul and the British ernir corded nearly four years ago ouu ot) su iiir aa can be ascertained tonight. The extent of the damage to theliner however, tAuuut ue aeciaea until it is docked and an examination is made of the Tent which the cruiser's ram cut in its side. A Miraculous Escape.

The left. 4ock promptly at 11:25 o'clock this morninsr for Cher- bourg to pick up the Continental paa-I sengers. It. already had on board near- ly 1,700 persons in addition to the crew- The first cabin passengers were n. i I just answering the call to lunch when attention was attracted to the Hawke, which was undergoing steam trials.

The warship moving at great speed, ner but apparently was Suddenly it swerved and i -i i- i lue passengers coma realize wnat was happening struck the liner on the star- coara quarters near tne stern tearing tbrougIl a section about fort feet in If.V". not suns as tne iiawKe is utted with' a ram specially designed to sink a ves sel in spite of its water-tight com- partments. The. liner's frame stood the shk well. and the "water-tin-ht doors which automaticallv closed held the compartments hermetically sealed.

TO SUSPEND ALL BUSINESS. Special Trains to Bring Friends to Madison's FuneraL Several special trains will run here froin over the district to bring tne iarge number of personal friends who desire to attend the services. DAMAGE SUITS BROUGHT IN KANSAS TAR CASE School Teacher Employs Topeka Attor. ney Against Fifteen, Who Particip- aitu 1U AtidCK. Topeka, Sept.

20. Miss Mary Chamberlain, the victim of the Shady Bend, tar party today employ ed J. J. King, an attorney of this city, to bring fifteen neronal dimae and boys who at- suits against the men and tacked her and covered her body with tar. Some of the men who were in the tar party are wealthy and heavy damages may be obtained from them.

F. D. Coburn, secretary of the state board of agriculture, who reecntly started a fund to assist Miss Chamberlain in prosecuting her assailants, has received $70 for that purpose which will be forwarded to W. W. McCanles, county attorney of Lincoln County.

John S. Dawson, attorney general of the state, announced today that his office would render all the assistance possible in prosecuting the men. JJOUKe VllV, oepi. tlie business houses here will be closed Fri.lL dav afternoon when the funeral of tliP puau. 4.x.

-Lusvjii is held. i i in a I a strong odor, she Torced an entrance. Lieut. S. M.

Rumbough. Washington. D. Sept. 20 In spite of the fact that General Leonard Wood rias reiusea ro accept tne resignation oi i Lieut.

Stanley M. Rumbough of the Fifteenth Cavalrv, which the latter ten- ire(j on score" 0f his approaching un- Mjs Elizabth Colirate of Vew York, wi.l take place on Wednesday next. I Also General Wood softened the blow of his refusal by giving the pros- cective brideroom three months leave pective brideroom three months leave! i' i i I oi ausence wnn icave to anpiv lor ex- tension of same. The couple will go to Suain for their honevmoon 1 v-x tr: ZZl the government, owe the country at least Iour years service ana even tnen, they should not be released merely to marrj Hence his action in the pres- ent instance. THE 8QY SCGUTS ARE fcip'ffiiEK To Go.

to Camo Fridav Evenines and i I Remain" Until Sunday if the Permits. As the countv fair interfered with the encampment on the Big Stranger 7 xtiMid t-Hi iv i.iik iniiiLn Lilt i I now arranging to go to the camp each jday nignt atter school and stay un- a permit. The rain last nisht interfered I Ui, 0 nilH. wj A1 intended to have this evening antic ipation of a two days' encampment from Friday until Sunday. Reverend uunmngnani, the scout master, was afraid last night that the rain would to be held on those dates.

"We had planned to drill in. the city'; hall during the winter and it has bee rented so that after the drill tonight we win have no hall "We will have a business meeting to- night and lay plans for our encamp- ment and also for securing another drill hall. About twenty boys win oe in camp. CAPTURE ESCAPED CONVICT. Man Faces Officers Bullets with Rocks as Weapons.

Joplin, Sept. 20 With rocks his only weapons, Cleveland Black, 30 years old an escaped convict from the Texas penitentiary tonight faced a volley of bullets fired at him by two officers. and succeeded in injuring one before he was himself fatally wounded. Black was locatd in the home of his sister in Prosperity eight miles east of here. The place was surrounded and when he appeared he was ordered to surrender.

Instead of complying; he picked up a rock and opened an engage- ment STATE WILL NOT HELP HUN NEWELL 3LWORESS. Topeka. Sept. 20. Mrs.

Ella Wilson, mayoress or Hunewell. must fight her battles alone. This is the ulti- I matum handed down ny nave Leany, pri- I vate secretary to Governor Stubbs, to whom the aPpeal ot lTS- Wilson was turned over. Leahy said today the Hun- inwen mavoress' dispute with her coun- cil was all a piece or foolishness and that the state would not Interfere. The town must settle its own troubles, he declared.

i I I 1 a I "But the great American people are jt seems that the scouts are under sound at the core," concluded the con- an unucky star this year," Mr. Congressman amid the cheers of his constit- nmgham said. We laid our plans for uents, "and while the shirty, slippery pol- 1c. Iticians and the demagogues may distt i 11 hlS camP rom P4- 4 to SePt- 8 the judgment of tne people for- time. and then discovered, that the fair was Work on the speaker's stand on Hay 1 Diekelman was night clerk at the New Then Mrs.

Kimmel, 70 years who had day, and the same terrible scene was Market Square, where President Taft is Baltimore Hotel in this city September 29, asserted that the man is impersonating sented. Covered in bed as though in their Reproduction of an illustration pub dent Taft weighing tn the scale Doeto 1U wuv.o,. cago Tribune showing the present status his weight on the side of Doctor Wiley, Washington, D. Sept. discuss iion is heard on every side of the Wiley controversy which President i'aft decided in favor of Doctor Wiley and over flip head of Attornpv Oem ana over tne neaa oi -Attorney u-en- oral Wickersham and Secretary of AgrU culture Wilson just before his trip West.

position of Secretary -Wil. son is made almost untenable and there is frequent rumor that his resignation STATE HIM WITNESS GONE T. K. Diekelman, Who Is Wanted to Aeamy iui oiaic, whim wui. ui frt Wom Sight in New Mexico.

TAMPERED WITH BY DEFENSE? Los Angeles, Sept. 20. The sudden dis- ivr.rr, iThnmi.pmto D. K. Diekelman, an important witness for the state in the coming McNamara trial, was reported by wire here today to the prosecution.

Tne New Me-lco authorities were jested to investigate his leaving. re- oriy-ejgui nours jjciore me times Bryce." Recently Diekelman left the employ of the hotel and has been working for a rail- road restaurant system. He has been ertAnaUy working his way east, it is said and reached Albuluer(lu about three Tha Vort in I.Mirh weeks ago. ine prosecution Kept in toucn with him. Monday Diekelman sent a telegram to tue authorities nere, tney taia, uecianng that emissaries or the derense were try- mg to "talk with him." He, asked what he should do, and was told to "leave the -emissaries alone." Today the prosecution received word from its ag-ents that Diekeiman had de- parted suddenly Tor Chicago last night.

0F WEALTHY MEXIC-W innFSTrn mn titfft Chicago, Sept. 20. Louis Lauguet, a son of wealthy parents residing at Chihuahua. was arrested here today charged k- runa -n-itH tha thr.rt rt nv i lub uiiw r. 1 diamond pendant.

The to young Lauguet's owr 'propertv of his grandm pendant, according admission, is the grandmother, who resides wjtn the Lauguet Tamily at Chihuahua. -rne police say that Lauguet with his cous- in, Benjamin Marquez, attempted to sell the pendant to several Chicago dealers. I Kansan Shot Mysteriously, Independence. Sept. 20.

Israel Shadley. a grocer, was shot and killed at the door of his store early today by an unknown person. A charge of shot fired from a short distance tore a big hole in hi3 chest. So far no clue as to the identity of tSe murderer has been Shadley was the father of ten children. i I i mm fhia mnrn no- TliP nlatfnrm is moiici ouu 01 -inw i Dicjnan by th, reCeived and to -1 c- iV authorities here to have later identmed $-25000 morP in i "lu'e 1U uc iix.ee ituu iirck injfu.

j. t. Moamara as tne man wno registered tive; scrutinized d. joims, citv inspector, win nave as torney General Wickersham. However, there is belief in 'some quarters that the attorney general will also offer, his resignation.

filBEL CASE PUZZLES Mrs. Kimmel Meets Returned Man and Asserts He Is Impersonatmg Her Missing Son. DRAMATIC THEIR MEETING IS 20. Niles' strange Niles, Sept controversy over the identity hlmself to be a man long supposecl t0 be dead, was further complicated today. While dozens or people positively iden tilled him as the son Tor whose death thirteen years ago, Mrs.

Delia Kimmel re- ceived $5,000 in lire insurance, others were as positive that he was not the son. ncr son merely to deprive ner pi. me prevent the payment of insurance to other rela- the man who Oaims her mother. Face to face' with the woman the "Kim- mel' Just released-rrom a Hve-year term the N. penitentiary, stretch ed out his arms, a Motlier.

don't 1 and said, pleadingly: ou know your boy? I Don't disown me any longer. You know I am your son." Mrs. Kimmel, withdrawing from the man 3S ne attempted to embrace her, stood sternly scanning his face. "No," she said, "I don't see In you any positive -resembblance to my son." The meeting took place at the home of vrs Harrv Fot who alreadv had ao. cepted "Kimmel" as a cousin and pos itively identified him as the son of Mrs Kimmel.

It was made known that Mrs. Kimmel has no direct interest in any money which the insurance companies re- Kimmel money which the insurance ccmp fuse to pay on the ground that the son is still living, but that a $20,000 policy is held by a daughter, Mrs. Edna Kimmel Bonslett, and another $3,000 policy is held bya distant relative. BAKERS' ORGANIZER. NOT TO BE TRIED FOR NEGLIGENCE.

Kansas City, Sept. 20. Marcel Willey, general organized of the Inter-rational Bakery and Confectionery Workers' Union, will not be tried on the charge of neglect of duty brought against him recently. The union convention decided here today that the allegations against him were not well founded. His office is in Cleveland.

O. Officers for the ensuing year will be nominated by the convention tomorrow. Proposed changes in the constitution also will be discusse 1 or I i i cr ner two children were found in their ceds, which were covered with blood, and the walls and ceilings were also spattered. The woman rushed into the street ana gave the alarm. Instinctively a dozen persons went to the Wayne house, where there had been no signs of life since Sun- nawrai sieep, wne uuu' mangled as in the case or the bodies the Burnham house.

So Tar as can be learned, there is no motive for the crime. Both the Burnham and Wayne families were of moderate means. Burnham. who lives at the sanitarium, was placed under arrest soon atter the discovery or the crime, but there seems nothing to implicate him in the traged. 'His employers say he was at work when the crime must have been committed.

He is a member of Colorado Springs Camp No. 7226 M. W. and is a native or Michigan. He was last seen at his home Sunday afternoon and is.

said to have left there about 5 o'clock. On Long Motorcycle Trip. Salina, Sept. 20. George Thomas a young -man started today on a living near here, 500 mile motor- cycle trip to Hanover, ra.

He will go way of Topeka, Kansas City, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Columbus and Pitts burg. He expects to make the journey in ten days. Detroit Strike Settled. Detroit, Sept.

20 The strike of the Detroit United Railway Employes was settled by arbitration late tonight. The employes accepted a new wage rate schedule or 23 cents an hour Tor the first six months, 27 1-2 cents for the next year and 20 i-2 cents thereafter. The rate wa3 within half a cent or that originally demanded. Democrats Name Taggart. Paola, Sept.

20. Joseph Tag. gart of Kansas City, was nominated for Congress by acclamation this afternoon by the Democrats of the Second District convention. to speak next Wednesday is to be be- "The stand is to be built said Mr. Johns "Secret service men will in ispect it before the President goes it and it must be safe in their II d-IlU it illUSl UK Brflt 111 HIGH upon opinion FACES OUSTER PROCEEDINGS.

District Court Clerk at Columbus Joined "Keg Party." Columbus, Sept. 20. Because he was a member of a "keg" party which bought confiscated beer Trom a deputy sheriff last May. 5. Vicker5ham, Llerk oT the dlstrlct cour: l3 factRg an ouster suit M.

Brewster, assistant sttornev eeneral. todav instituted an in- quisition to obtain proot or Wickersham's part in the purchase or the captured beer with a view to instituting an ous- ter suit. A rmantifv nf 'limior had been seized in a sheriirs raid at Veir City and was be ing brought to Columbus by deputies WR0 are cnarped with selling a keg of "i beer to a party or men, or whom Mr. Wickersham was one. Hens Keep Wolf from Door.

Crystal Plains, Sept. 20. Mrs. Pete' Frydendal, who lives here, has marketed" 1,446 dozen eggs since March 1 from 250 white Leghorn hens. Mrs.

Frydendal is mistress of a fine mod- em home and takes her daily trips to market in a motor car. She says that a flock of White Leghorn chickens, if properly attended on a Kansas farm will keep the wolf from the door of a large family. they will see right at last, and President Taft will stand in glory of the noon-! day as the leading American statesmen or his time and historians will point with pride to the two terms or William How- ard Tart as President of the united 5tates. FROM THE PENITENTIARY TO STATE REFORMATORY Eight Prisoners Taken from Lansing to Hutchinson by Warden Codding Six Incorrigibles Brought Back. That the better behaved and younger of the prisoners in the State Penitentiary might have an opportunity to learn a trade and to receive an education Warden Codding and Assistant Warden Lindsay took eight of the prisoners to the State Reformatory at Hutchinson Tuesday.

They returned this morninrr with six incorrigible pris- oners from the State Reformatory who will serve iceir rune at xjauaiug. It is unusual to transfer penitentiary prisoners to the state reformatory according to Mr. Codding and the change represents strict compliance with the rules on the part of the prisoners "Often young men who are under age are placed inP the penitentiary," said rnrr Tho4 who how that Mr Coddmg Thoje mey are wnnug a the rules are to be sent to the reform atory in the future. At the reformatory they may learn a trade and will be La a better environmept.".