Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 19, 1917, Page 1

The Wasteful Ferson in Times of Peace is a Critninal—Now, a Traitor to His Fag and Country REPUBLIC IN SPAIN RUSS WORKMEN WILL FIGHT POSSIBLE Movemennie) to Establish a Free Government Said to Have Been Formed. by Anti-Monarchists KING HAS RESPECT 5 ] Economic Unrest Lends Aid to Revolu- | tionary Plans By the United Press LONDON, June 19.—A Repub- | may be in the making in Spain, ording to meagre advices sift- |, ng thru Spanish censorship. Personally, King Alfonso com- nands the respect and confidenc: the people, but the anti-monar- sts are aiming at German-in- Juenced ministers and the German- dominated court surrounding the King. The economic unrest has aided the revolutionary movement. Dispatches sifting thru the rigid also | vernment censorship indicate that the anti-government forces e effected a combination, and | formally announced their deter- mination to force such changes ‘as may be expedient to make the Rese? will of the people pre- ACD CROSS I (UIGK 10 WIR CAPSPER RELIEF Report That City Is Inundated by the Flood Waters of Platte Brings Response from State Director C. Bretschneider, Wyoming: Casper, Telegraph me at once regard- ng flooded area. Can you meet | the demands of the suffering? Jo you need assistance of Amer- can Red Cross? Wire me at _ Buffalo, Wyo. C. E. PARISOE, Wyoming Red Cross Director. The above message, time when the city is in the heat of | 2 campaign for Red Cross funds, al ates the service which this great organization renders, and while Cas-| per is not in need of aid from flood | ters, as intimated in the message, | the telegram volunteering such as- | sistance comes at an opportune time | in emphasizing the response which | reports of this kind inspire. The Message was based, presumably, on a s report published by a Denver aper telling of wholesale destruction by od waters in this city. ilso comes at a time when the | yple of the city are united in 2} paign to raise funds for the work already hundreds of dollars have ed to the credit of the local on in a Casper bank. 2 parade Monday proved to be j the big feature of the first day’s cam- Paign, and with practically eve’ la- Lor organization, firm and society representative it developed into one of the greatest demonstrations the city | has ever witnesses. The Casper Band} and the Moose Drum Corps furnishe | the music for the long line of march which extended for blocks. Harry | Brennan, who directed this part of the program, is entitled to great cred't for the success of the movement. | — - coming at a| Gorge B. Hensen of Mold, Ore., and Lewis Dietrich of Spokane, Wash., both filed on homesteads thru the M. P. Wheeler real estate office on Sat- urday, Re SS Frank I. Cannon, lecturer and au-|eyery boy thor, and formerly with the Rocky|15 years 0 Suntain News, Denver, is a, visitor i Casper today. t aboard several of the v Che Casper Daily Crihune VOLUME ONE Sfx CASPER, WYO., TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 1917. NUMBER 244 KING GEORGE VISITS AMERICAN WARSHIP als. The t Britain gree photog ted the United States destro. ph shows him inspe on thelr one of the Poles Break With Austria; Germany Bésiowneed Openly By Deputy BELIEVED: CONGRESS AUSTRIAN ENDORSES REVOLT IS ORDER OF REPORTED MINISTER AS ACUTE Heated Debate Ends in| Fall of Ministry Will Pre- Decision to Ratify De-| cede Far-Reaching Re- portation of All Peace sults, Is Advice in Swiss | Agitators Dispatches arriva British waters and big guns went FOUR LOST WIT SINKING OF tL TANKER BY aU Missing Men All Foreigners, Says Advice to State Department; American Crew of Four- teen Is Saved By the United Press NEW YORK, all foreigners, are missing believed to have been lost as sult of the torpedoing of the Stand- ard oil tanker, John D. Archbold, off the French cx the local Standard Oil office is advised. Fourteen American members of the crew were saved. The vessel was of 8375 tons, and sailed without a Four men, and are June 19. |cargo from a French port Thursday, and was attacked and sunk by a Ger- |man submarine arine Saturday. DEVELOPMENT OF LARGE OIL AREA ASSURED HERE; General Petroleum Company Will Aid Production With Drilling of Twenty Wells Near Cas- per, Is Report By the United Press SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., June 19. __The General Petroleum Company has announced plans for developing 6,000 acres of oil lands near Casper, Wyo., following the departure of Ww. J. McClaine, operating supersn- tendent of the company, for Casper fields. Options on valuable property have ‘hen secured and twenty rigs will be jerected mediately. sek | Miss Mi ldted Kittell, ~ children’s su- perintendent of the Casper Chautau- qua, arrived here this morning and} will conduct the Junior Chautauqua jhere. Tomorrow morning at 9 o’clock | Miss Kittell will superintend a play | festival and ticket hunt to which) and girl in the city under f age is invited. This fea- ture of the Chautauqua will be held at the, Central School grounds. . a re-| | ming Great Fleet of War | ‘ACROSS SEA | ny \British Officers Look to This Country for Top- notch Aviators in Man- Planes Ordered FROM UNITED PRESS STAFF CORRESPONDENT SIMMS ON BRITISH FRONT, June 19.—Aero officers here are convinced that the | | great war will be decided largely in the air, and therefore the news of the American project to build and, man a huge sky armada is enthu- | siastically received here. Air experts here are all agreed that the United States is capable of an enormous and rapid output, and also hold that the Americans are naturally top-notch flyers. That the Germans keenly realize the im- portance of the air branch of the Allied armies is revealed in a re- port taken from a captured Ger- man officer, who frankly admits the baloons are forced to remain in| jhiding and the artillery kept con-| cealed. POLICE GITED 10 ATTEND HEARING | By the United Press NEW YORK, June 19.—Summon- ses have been issued for two police- men to be examined by the district attorney in connection with the mur- der of RutheCrugger and the escape Jof Alfredo Cocchi, were issued this afternoom =A. ‘AIR FIGHTING STEAL CHARGED. TO DETERMINE {Ni STEEL PRICE WAR RESULTS PAID GY BOARD Senator Stone Challenges Action of Shipping Board in Placing Large Contracts for War; Goethals Not Involved By the United Press WASHINGTON, June 19,—With a warning against “cold-blooded at- tempts to rob the United States treas- ury,” Senator William J. Stone, chair- | man of the Foreign Relations Com- | mittee, carried the Shipping Board | | Controversy to the Senate floor. British and German mastery of the | air, and declares that German war} |By the |liminary artillery fire as the tback with heavy loszes, the French |the British front is confined to raid-/| Senator Stone declared he did not wish to appear as involving General Goethals in attempts to have the gov- | ernment pay for the steel, but de- clared that the steel companies were | japparentivagrysngsto]do (this trying to do this. GERMAN WAVES — SHATTERED BY FRENCH FOE Mass Attack on n West Front Broken Down by Fierce Fire; Raid Is Reported on the British Front United Press | PARIS, June 19.—A violent attack on French positions Monday, betwee: | Montblon and Montcronillet, in the Champagne sector, was broken down | by a murderous French defensive fire, jsays an official statement. The War Office describes the pre- “most violent” known, and the enemy as- sault as a “‘strong attack.” The German waves were thrown taking a number of prisoners. LONDON, June 19.—Fighting on ing operations, according to Field Marshal Haig’s report. “Southeast of Le Verguier, in the | neighborhood of the Bapaume road, we raided enemy positions at night,” said the official report, which added | “Several of the enumy were killed, gouts were destroyed and eleven Germans made prisoners.” \carry but 130 volts. jpianation of the accident rests with | lifeless form suspended VOTE IS 640 TO 140! (CABINET DENOUNCED ISaite aSocidligtenvvilll Bel Poles Refuse to Deal With | Deported from the Officials in Control of | Country Present Cabinet | By the Untied Press | LONDON, June 19.—The af- PETROGRAD, June 19.—After | fairs of Austria have reached am ia heated debate, the all-Russian| acute crisis thru the formal break | Congress of workmen and soldiers by the Poles with the government, | voted, 641 to 140, to support the according to dispatches received |Minister of Posts and Telegraphs hy the way of Switzerland, telling |Tseretelli, in the deportation of | of the fall of the minist d it | Swiss Socialists and Robert Grom, is arabables that ae eet: ithe peace agitator. reaching results will come. ‘WITH SLACKERS 200 ARRESTED. not deal with the present Cabinet. By the United Press pissed state Hoover Warns That Food Control Is a Necessity MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., June 19.— Department of Justice officinls an- We ae June 19.—With ning that fo Sd control alone nounce that 200 arrests will be made on the - can aeevane tanker increases in food prices, Herbert Hoover addressed the members of the Senate today. “It is my belief that unless some control be inaugurated,” said Hoover, Mesaba iron range of men “that we shall look back at this mo= ment as one of comparatively mod- erate prices.”’ Hoover made his address before rest, and the jails are overflowing. about fifty Senators, the majority of I. W. W. officials have called a whom opposed his bill. The address strike in the mines as a _ protestwas designed to hasten action on the food bill. LINEMAN. NEAR ELECTROCUTION IN NEAR TRAGEDY LATE TODAY who failed to register for war ser- vice. Two hundred are already under ar-! nst the arrests, it is reported. 'O. L. Trueman of Natrona Electric Co. Flirts With Death at Top of Pole and Is Rendered Uncon- scious by a 2,300-Volt Shock O. L. Trueman, employed as a lineman for the Natrona County Electric Company, was near electrocution and death this afternoon, when he came in contact with live wires on a pole at Second and Da- vid streets, at 2: 15 o'clock. For fully fifteen minutes Trueman hung from the pole, supported only by his safety belt, and unconscious from the shock. The power was shut off immediately, the unconscious form of the lineman was lowered to the ground, and reports from the hospital late this after- |noon state that he has regained consciousness fully, and will recover. It is believed that 2,300 volts passed thru his body. The primary |wires carry this voltage, while the secondary wires, directly below, Electricians ventured the opinion that it was the |latter with which he came in contact, but there was no one working ith him th - ye Bo Sg RCE I and paralyzed by the force of the shock. Later he was removed to the State Hospital, where he is reported to be resting easy He sustained burns on his arm the injured man. Employes of the Castle livery barn, directly across the street, heard the cry of Truman as he sustained the |:vhere the current entered his body, shock. The alarm was given prompt-|but will retain no permanent effects ly, but fully fifteen minutes elapsed|from the near-tragedy when he re- before a rope could be procured to ; covers. lower him to the ground. During} At 4 o'clock this afternoon, J. A. this interim scores who gathered at|Ward, manager of the Natrona the scene of the accident watched tl.e from the cross-arm and not until he was re- leased from his precarious position was it known that he had survived. County Electric Co., after remaining with Trucman until he had regained consciousness, stated that the lineman had slipped while on the pole and had grabbed the wire carrying th> Bystanders and friends, working|£,300 volts. But for the fact that his under the direction of Dr. W. C. Fos-|eafety belt held him suspended to ter, suceceded in restoring circulation | one of the cross-arms, he would have and respiration, temporarily arrested | falleri*to the ground 40 feet below.