Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 6, 1917, Page 1

U-BOAT SENT TO BOTTOM SIM The Casper Daily Tribune IN FIGHT UP-ENDED BY SHELL ‘nian Waco So 1276 CASPER MEN SUBJECT = ight With Upidentified saxty siots rrev 10 MILITARY ‘DRAFT CALL Number Is Augmented by agai lee Hundreds of Others in WASHINGTON, June 6.—In an| City Whose Homes Are hour and a half’s running fight be Located Elsewhere; N\ tween an armed American mer 23 chant ship and a submarine, the Count on | County merchant ship came out victor by sinking the U-boat, according to|o- official advices reaching the State VOLUME ONE Incident Not Connectec With the Mongolia Incident, C! im f ) CITY BY PRECINCTS. Department from an American “0 onsul. | Casper Precinct 250 | The submarine, which flew na| | High School - 155 flag, fired 25 shots at the ste 99 and the latter replied with 25 t 589 shots. “The last shot found its! South Casper (b) 47 mark, and s k the submarine,| | South Casper (a) 36 ipending it, and it immediat ‘ a lisappeared from the surface pes 1,276 The name of the steamer i Absentces 960 withheld, but it is not the Mongoli : a a incident reported several days ago, Grand Total ___. 2,236 in which that stgamerclaimed taj7 AD Gt ee 0} have svnk a st hry weal ine a Bov! in brief. the story ration da 1 Cas and ttyl ic Mau ile predictions are freely made the od any registered by yoming who claim Casper a for military f the con Is il iT r its provisions. $ registered w th 0: this nember, Jeunty C ler! under the terms ¢ Enemy Pays Big Bae OT eWorisHaman|iacakseutee claves. Thelx named were turned over to the precinct re Lices for Assault on French ses eh istrars eurly Tuesday, in accord Positions ; English Renew with instructions of the Provost Big Offensive Move jaarohis In aldition to the above, there are | PARIS, June 6. — Extremely |}.undreds of men, virtually ‘es 3} heavy losses were inflicted on twojof Casper, but who claim ‘ir resi- German assailing waves, which vainly | dence elsewhere, who enrolled fir sought to reach the French lines near service un¢ jer the absentee clause and mailed their cards to their h» pre- Registrations of this churac- Hurtebise, says an official report. “There was action during the night | cincts. at Chemin des Dames sector, and |1c1 totaled 747, as shown by ‘he rec- also west between Ailette and the rds of clerk’s office, and while it Laon road,” the French War Office | ix impossible to determine the pro- says. jportion who are actual residents, it is The statement concludes by saying | beiieved that fully 75 per cent of that “‘Altillery struggle reached at! em are employed in this county. most violent stage, especially east of The grand total of registrat: Vaux Aillon and north of the Laf-|the Courthouse and precincts faux region, and around Braye-en-/ placed at 2, , which is as accurate Leonnis.” as it is possible to compute. Nine hundred and sixty applied at the Courthouse for cards prior to June 5 No count is available as yet on the aggregate number enrolled in the county. Outlying precincts are lo- cated at a distance and thru a spe- cial dispensation of the department, these officials of registration will not LONDON, June 6.—Field Marshal | come in for criticism because of the Haig has swung his columns forward | delay. : in a renewal of the offensive on the | Registrars for the West Cespey western front, according to his of | precinct were swamped with wor ficial report. Tuesday, incidentz al to recording 58 “North of the Scarpe we fu rther | nam and not until noon today werg nrograsves én the Western slopes of | they able to report to Sheri atton. Greenland Hill,” reports the Field|The latter has Marshal, “and yest of Loos we gained | the State, and following the compila- | ground slightly.” tion of complete data there, the re- Sa N PLANES port fo or the entire ate will be for: sal is VIENNA, June 6.—Today's official Austrian statement details the cap- ture of an important portion of the Italian trenches south of Jamiano, | announced in today’s official shrdlu with 171 officers and 6,500 men. to marshal — -—_——_ Alban ‘Dealives Freedom CASPER, WYO., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 1917. wired the returns to LONDON, June 6.—British sea planes took a heavy toll of German aeroplanes yesterday, which the Ger- man air squadron raided the English coast counties, according to a Brit- ish Admi ralty. statement. Eight or ten ofthe German planes were destroyed, and four were. dis- abled, out of eighteen! raiders, the Admiralty declares. 7 and Italy Is Her Protector ROME, June 6.—Albania has de- | ciared her independence, the foreisn office announced yesterday. She hus chosen Italy as her protector. Albania has been for years one of the most Ue de little countries in the northeast. She is one of the chief bones of “contention between Austro-Hungary and Italy. a Chauffeur in the Army ries become of your chauffeur? Oh, he was with the regiment down ir Texas and crawled under an ancy . \mule:to see why it wouldn’t go. NUMBER 232 BRITISH LABOR COMMISSION | These are the members of the British I: w in this coun- try conferring with the representatives of ilzed labor al others. They are: ted, left to right, Rt. Hen, ¢. Bowerman and H. W. Garrod; standing, Joseph Davies and J. H. Thomas ————$$_—$—$——$—$ PAVING PHOGHAM GAVPNGN OPEN STARTS ANEW! WY TO. RAISE FUND ACTIVITY TODAY. TO ND Y.NLCA, ; Resumption of Improvement Work | Association Work in Training Begins With Completion of | Camps to Receive Help from Contract Which Was In- | Casper People; Local terrupted in Winter Committee Named The Warren Construction Com- | \ meting in the interest of the ting » intere f the pany, paving contractors, who were A meeting in the interest of th aoe ae gas Yer [the Library, with a goodly attend-| pe Dan OR COn DeLee ous z tituted | ance Mr. Bailey spoke, and ex- last fall because of the advent of| plained the nature of the work of | freezing weather, started work today | the Youny Men’s Christian Associa- |tion in connection with the boys at |the mobilization camps. | At the conclusion of a permanent committee lof which Mr. J. dent of the Casper Industrial Club, was chosen chairman, and he chose \the following men to serve with him: | cleaning the mud and rubbish from ‘Second street preparatory to fulfill- jing the terms of their contract with- in coming weeks. Stakes were set by engineers and the first ground was broken to reduce the street to the jdesired grade. That section of Second street ex- the meeting was chosen, tending from Wolcott to David is to|C. B. Manbeck, as vice chairman; L. | be paved at once. Paving completed |A. Reed, N. C. Allen, C. T. Boone, last fall, extending from Second,C. H. Townsend (treasurer), B. B. streect to the Courthouse, will he r 3rooks, A. A Cunningham, J. J. Gib- surfaced, while the top coat of con-/lin and . Lutz. crete remains to be applied on a The bass ose of this committee is small section extending from a point to decide what part of the $5,000 opposite Boyle’s garage to the Court. | which has been suggested by the In- house. Only a few weeks will be re- ternational Committee } quired to complete tnis work id by for Wyoming to raise, will be sub-} that time the city will be p nred to scribed here. This committee will de- termine this. Probably there is no work which will be more appreciated by the boys ming than to have the work ed by the Y. M. ©. A.’s in amps» -All-the money» that is ributed toward this goes strictly to this cause and to nothing else myvar contracts for the braced in the new improvement dis trict recently established. ‘ This probably will be authorized t the next meeting of the City Coun- cil, the.session this week having been given over to plans for the extens of the water system, the erection of paving cm ja new Gity Hall and the = Sot aa storm sew r excavating for the new tele election, Ac ivertis r the ! building ym pleted and th of bonds to consumr th ‘ 5 of the cement was begun by will be published this week workmen today WATCH THE STORE NEWS—— THERE’S PROFIT AND ENTERTAINMENT in keep- ing up with what the stores are doing. If you have it for yourself—BEGIN TONIGHT! never tested | SHOP IN THE TRIBUNE BEFORE YOU SHOP IN THE SHOPS | | { } a | “Slackers” S. Mechling, presi- | of New York, | SLACKERS WHO FLEE COUNTRY TO ESCAPE DUTY ARE STRIPPED .. OF RIGHTS BY BILL |. Measure Introduced by Colorado Congressman to Pre- vent Return of Deserters in Hour of Need Is Slated for Early Passage; First Estimate of Potential Strength of New Army Too Low, as Shown by the Heavy Registration; Men Acting Thru Good Faith Still Allowed to File Names By the United Press WASHINGTON, June 6.—The first Congressional recognition of who deserted the country to avoid registration came when Representative Taylor of Colorado introduced two bills in the House of Representativs, one expatriating any citizen who flees the country, and the other to prevent such persons returning to the coun- try after the war is over. | Chairman Burnett of the House Immigration Committee, to whom the bills will be referred, is understood to be in favor of the passage | \of the bills, and assurance is given that they will be speedily reported ‘out of committee. WASHINGTON, June 6.—America may have more potential sol- diers than at first thought, and incomplete returns from registration | precincts thruout the country indicate this. : { Against a 10,000,000 estimate made by the Census Bureau, “many of the States show indications of exceeding their estimates. Wisconsin was the first State to report complete unofficial re- (ee this State registering 218,700 men. Men who were unable to register yesterday, and who show good Mi tith By appearing before the Board in the next few days, will not be “Slackers,” and the penalty in these cases will be suspended lif they appear before the Registration Boards voluntarily. The Gov- | ernors of all the States were wired to this effect. TEAMGSTERS BACK AT WORK TODAY PENDING SETTLEMENT OF STRIKE - iets [Business Men’s L eague, ot Last Night, May Take a Hand in Future Actions for Protection of Own Interests; Demands Not Modified lassed as Without reaching an agreement to Striking teamsters have received jm odify their demands, striking team-| encouragement from members of sters who week walked out on), F lthe lumber ¢ other local trade unions, and their alers for grievances at- 2 action this morning is attributed te tending the sale of lumber to non un‘on contractors, returned to their an agreement reached at a corference work this morning for a period of ten | of these affiliated organizations last jCays. pending a settlement of the con-|evening. On the other hand, they | trover y less made no concessions in their demands and will still insist that the lumber stop work again, | lers of the city discontinue the satisfactory solution sale of lumber to contractors em- y likelihood that | ploying ron-union labor. The dealers ct other business | maintain the right to continue such sales and no concessions from either side are in prospect. The strike, if continued, threatens to curtail building operations in Cas- |uer, but it is certain that steps will be jiaken to relieve thie danger. Numer- jous carpenters were recently thrown out of work when material on hand was exhausted, and while work has sen resumed temporarily, it carries ssurance of continuing little longer than ten days. At the end of ten days, un » acceded to their the « |Cemands, the fund provided no is found, there is « will af of the city In anticipation of this, a represent ative gathering of merchants and pee ness men met last night to form Business Men’s League, for the pro hee tion of their own interests and to e-sist in bringing about a settlement in future difficulties. The merchants, jit is understood, do not propose to | antagonize the union organization, | but intend to work for the interests | | of all concerned. the strike j interests TWISTERS KILL SOCIALISTS OF Q.SCORESHURT, SWEDENIN RIOT KANSAS STORMS OVER ELEGTION Tornadoes Run Wild Over Sun-| | Laborers Wounded in Sabre Fight flower State and Extend Into Waged by Police and Soldiers © | Missouri; One House | in Effort to Quell Pa- Left at Elmont rade Disturbance | By the United Press By the Unitetd Press | KANSAS CITY, June 6. — Tor-; STOCKHOLM, Sweden, nadoes running wild over Kanses and | Ten thousand Socialists and laborers | rioted in the Royal Square Tuesday June 6.— | part of Missouri last night claimed a | toll of nine lives, according to meager reports. Near Richmond, Mo., two womrn, one baby are dead and three negroes were fataily hurt | Two are dead at Centralia, Mo. | One man was killed at Elmont, Kan- \sas, where only one house is left \standing. Two farmers were killed tnear Topeka, Kan. Deaths are also reported at Pratt, Clinton end Law- Koensas. (der he e The new Governor General of Bel- igium today issued a statement in |which he agreed with Chancellor | rence, afternoon, when the Premier of the |Lower House of Parliament refused to certify the election of Socialist Leader Branting to the Upper House. A number of rioters were wounded by sabres wielded by the police and soldiers. Violence began when the parade found itself halted from ad- vancing on the Parliament buildings and the palace by guards: The riot was finally placed under control. ———— The Rock Island Railroad has pes Litioned the Public Utility Commission of Illinois for permission to issue $65.~ Bethmann-Holoweg that Germany is in no position to talk peace at present. 000,000 of preferred steck. to re-or- ganize the road. Poy Utes be | n Is r Jon- rent ED hat