Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 5, 1917, Page 1

“SEN TE AGREES T0 31 PER CENT WAR +> Anti-Austrian Campaign Planned to Check Germans on Riga Front SENATE TO TAKE VOTE ON BILL AS HOUSE CONCEDES GREAT WAR BOND Informal Pact © Assures Passage of Measure to Provide U.S. Fund and Big Loans for Allies. | By United Press | | WASHINGTON, Sept. 5. A\ thirty-one per cent tax. on war| profits will be voted by the sen ite today. This is the program of the finance committee which has op- posed the Johnson-Borah group in the latter’s fight to appropriate the major share of profits for use in financing the war. The.latest program will raise a total of $1,060,000,000, or twice the sum originally expected from this source. Three amendments calling for a higher tax on profits were defeated by the senate during the past twenty- four hours by decisive votes. EEE EEEEEEneeee rniSHMISTINS Che GAY OF ALLIES IN EFFORTS. 10 OFSET MENACE Casper Daly Crihune NUMBER 308 «<@fge- CASPER, *VYO., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1917. TAX CASPER DRAFT MEN OFF FOR ARMY CAMP FIRST RECRUITS DEPART CITY Ao SECOND CALL TO WAR (3 SOUNDED MBER 309 United States Urged to] Declare War; italians |)EATH TOLL (IN Dominate Great Peak: in Austrian Defense. By United Press WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 To offset menacing possibilities aris | ing from the fall of Riga and the | triumph of German arms in the | east, and*iv* force Germany ‘nt> peace more rapidly, ‘thé “!e prob-| Austrian campaign, | Third Air Raid in Same Number of Days Raises | Casualty List to 283) Killed and Woundeds,_ | bear on the United States to declare war against Austria for the purpose of lending aid in downing her sad} eutting Germany off from her assist- ance, also from Turkey and Bulgaria. Thus far, United States officials have been inclined to let Austria take the initiative in declaring the existence Strong pressure is being brot to By United Press HOPE OF OIL LEGISLATION REMOTE “es: Peed’ 19°Ne INCREASE WHEN AS PRESIDENT LEANS 10 VIEWS OF TEUTONG RENEW DANIELS ON CONSERVATION NEEDS wos Summoned to Appear for Duty Sept:8. Without military pomp or pre- onstrations which marked the event as one of great significance Failure of Cabinet Members and President to Compro- |'2 the larser cities of the countrys mise on Terms of Leasing Measure Is Death Blow To Development of Government Lands in Wyoming; Factional Strife to Prevent Amendments to Bill. (By F. H. WASHINGTON, Sept. 5._(Special to the Tribune) Slight en- jcouragément given prospects for an oil and gas leasing law during the present session, chronicled in these columns recently, has been | the movement of Natrona county's draft quota of 51 men to the National Army cantonment at American Lake, Washington, began today with the de-~ parture of the first increment, con- sisting of two men. Their clothes done up in bundles as prescribed by |department rulings and equipped with jtransportation and requisition blanks: jfor meals enroute, Roy Ta! Perry and Howard Herschel Hunt en- trained at Casper this morning. for {Camp Lewis, as the new camp has BARROW) WASINGTON, Sept. 5.—An infor-|of a state of war between the two LONDON, Sept. 5.__The third |: ‘ been designated. mal agreement entered into between | nations. | ; ; ~ es |given a back-set, and the outlook is now less favorable as a result of | Hunt served as an alternate to house leaders assures the passage this jGerman air raid over England} recent developments. Those witw have been hoping for such legisla- |Carl Kimmel, who was subjected to afternoon of the $11,538,000,000 war} ROME, Sept. —The capture of| within as many days last night at tion, in view of the activities of the |Un@VOldable delays in reporting for bond bill. Indications are that there|Monte San Gabr one of a great | Senate committee recently, are most |@uty and who put in an appearance will be no dissenting votes. chain of peaks defending the Austrian| sulted in the death of eleven peo- ALLIES GET TWA Iikalysto be Slisappointed,; just a few hours too late to take hia The measure includes provision for|lines east of Isonzo, is officially an- “ . ¢3 3 ; . place in the vanguard of recrut a $4,000,000 loan to the Allies. nounced by the war office. This ia| Ple and injury to 62 other¥ in the | I, Information from a confidential |P YC Guied to leave this month, jens EE the fourth height to be captured by London district, Lord French an- ¢ | ut most reliable source, which I WAS | consequence he will be certified to .|the Italians in the same line of de-}nounced today. It is stated that one| privileged to share today, warrants | ccompany the second delegation of fense of the raiders was brot down over! Ex a Peggy Peer mh detente jnineteen men who are due to depart = ne | Sheerness, presumably as he fled. | | Peaidi te ha ais y fers ae hi © lon September 19. LONDON, Sepi. Portuguese} Announcement.of the most recent —_—— scary a le b erat he os Vale tly acy Coincident with the departure of troops on the west front successfullyjraid raises the total casualty list to (By United Press) | there is uttle hope of the House Com- the first increment, notices were ADDRESS TATE CLUB MEETINGS Preparing to Enter- | tain tes to Federation | Gatherin First Week in { en # October. THERMOPOLIS, Sept. 5. — The, City Federation of Women’s Clubs) is active in making preparations for the entertainment of the State Fed- eration of Women’s Clubs to be held) in this city October 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th. About one hundred and twenty- five delegates are expected and an excellent program has been prepared by the state program committee. The topics for discussion are mostly pat- riotic and ‘along the lines of work which is absorbing the time of tre women of the nation at this time when so much depends on the women of the country. Among the prominent speakers who will take part in the program are Ex- 7 beat back German raiders last night, Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re- ports. } British contingents near Armen-} tieres repulsed raids by the enemy. | Near Lens the Teuton artillery is ac- 3, of whom 119 were killed and 64 injured U-Boats Bombard Coast LONDON, Sept. 5.—German sub-| marines bombarded the British town tive, the report adds. of Scarborough last night, Lord ee French announced today. Three were Grade Schools Overflow | killed and tive injured, while other ooo eo? eee Attendance Gain Is 281 ee See | ees tinal Choc MIGHAELIS ONS GERMANS LOYAL (By United Press) AMSTERDAM, Sept. } } Possibility that the Board of Edu- cation will have to rent the First Presbyterian church building in or- der to accommodate the overflow of schoo! children from the first grade 5.— If of the Park school now faces the America had known of Russia’s board. The matter will be decided dealing, as ‘revealed in the trial at a meeting of the board tonight, but) ¢,. treason of General Sukhomii- it is fully expected that this will be noff, her reply “would have been the outcome of the condition now ex- quite different,” according to Ger- isting in the schools man Chancellor Michaelis. Each’ grade is filled and every He defies the Prisideni to cre-*! room in the three schools is being. ate any break between the German | | The register for the entire; people and the kaiser. ‘The Ger- man people are loyally harmonious used. Governor B. B. Brooks of Casper; | grade rooms is exactly 1,000. students, Dr. Grace Raymond Hebard, Prof.|an increase of 281 pupils “over the | Creager and Emeline Storm Whit- grade registry of last year. The High comb, of the state university. ischool has gained nineteen students } = The sessions will be held in the|this year, now totaling 135 students, | 'y of Daniel S Frey to} Masonic Temple beginning Tuesday |but~this number is easily accommo- as far as their aims are concerned,” he says. evening, October 2nd, the women’s | Club and the Women of the West Club being the hostesses. | The State Library association will) also meet here the day previous to the state federation meeting, begin- | ning Monday afternoon and. closing | Tuesday afternoon. dated in the High school department. | FREMONT VALUATION SHOWS BIG INCREASE: HUDSON, Wyo., Sept. 5.—The fol- | an increase in the taxable wealth of Be Brot Here. for Burial| The body of Dan S. Frey, who died yesterday at the home of his son, Howard M. Geary at Cheyenne, will Episcopal burial service at the grave. Mr, Frey was about 80 years of ——__- . ‘in Fremont county this year. It shows | Mark's Episcopal church, will read the | oll | c Ite county of nearly a million and | . \three-quarters dollars over last year:/;¢0 and for the past twenty years| WEEK INCREASE ‘ | LONDON, Sept. 5.—Losses of | British merchant Is by sub- marines for the past week have been slightly over those of the pre- vious week, according to an au- Last week's =| property The real and personal |within the county totals $10,282,805.. Private car lines total $31,398.75. Railroad and telephone and tele- graph lines total $2,671,795.93: Making a grand total of $12,986,- 999.39. 5 Last year the total was $11,270,-| 620.88. 4 Increase over -the assessed. valua- tion of 1916, $1,715,3878.51- —<—$— BONES BROKEN WHEN HORSE FALLS ON HIM has made his home with his son-in-law, H. M. Geary, who for many years lived in and near Casper, owning a ranch about twelve miles east of the city. Mr. Geary is now steward ‘at the Plains hotel in Cheyenne. Gee Oe Dekkbed | With Bullet Wounds Reverses Holdup Yarn EVANSTON, Wyo., Sept. 5.—An- HUDSON, Wyo., Sept. 5.—George elo Saloff, a Serbian, who was Vaughn is nursing a broken collar- Neon couple of broken ribs, and a badly. bruised body, as the result of having the horse which he was ridingr fall with him and reil over on him. The accident occurred at the Edg- omb ranch, three miles east of here, where Mr: Vaughn is employed. A brought to Evanstan With two bullets in him, reversed his story of an attack ‘by robbers before he died. During Tuesday bis first story began to weak- en in ‘the minds of the officials in charge. Soloff felt that he was going to die and when told so hy the attend- ing physician he revealed the fact d gotten away from Harry|that he and his partner had held up ittle weosen, A Mr. Vatahn was mrad 2 third workman. The third being where | after it when his own horse fell. H* | well armed, replied with shell fire. m1 |Wwas immediately brought into Hu3-|Seloff is quite ure that his partner ne of his’ wes also wounded, but no trace The) won, and is now at the rete i ering Bim med WASHINGTON, Sspt. 5.—Sec- retary of the Treasury McAdoo to- day announced the loan of $100,- 000,000 each to England and France. JOHNSON LINE STEAMER SUNK (By United Press) BOSTON, Sept. 5.—The John- son line steamship Kenemore, bound from Liverpool te Boston, has been sunk by submarines, ac- cording to adyices received today. Crew and passengers are believed safe. DENVER LANDS RESERVE. BANK (By United Press) WASINGTON, Sept. 5.—The Federal Reserve Board today auth- orized the establishment of a branch bank at Denver to handle the business of the intermountain district. The Denver institution will be under the control of the Kansas City ‘reserve bank. lowing is the summary of the results} ¢or burial in the Casper cemetery, the | lof the labors of the assessor’s office) pey RB. W. Hutt, rector of St. CHICAGO MAYOR (By United Press) CICAGO, Sept. 5.—Sailors, sold- iers and civilians staged a monster demonstration a Thompson today Grant Park enroute to the Kanka- kee County Fair. Crowds jeered and hissed the mayor, some going so far as to cry “traitor” before they were stopped by the officers. BREAD. CHEAPE TN WAR NATIONS (By United Press) WASHINGTON, Sept. 5.—-Euro- Peans are buying war bread cheap- er than Ainericans, despite the fact that it is made from flour milled from American wheat. England, France, Italy and Belgium are sell- ing bread at prices from 60 to 100 Per cent less than people here pay, ‘mecording ‘to figures quoted by | mittee on Public Lands taking up the leasing bill as long as the two mem- |bers of his cabinet continue to hold jand advocate opposing views. There jappears to be very little hope of | Secretaries Lane and Daniels com- promising their differences on this, legislation. _The secretary of the in-/ |terior’s view would most nearly meet} the ideas of interested parties in Wyoming fields, and the enactment of legislation along lines the secretary mailed to the next contingent to ap- pear for duty at 106-o0’clock on the |morning of September 18. The names jof these men as compiled by Deputy Clerk Siedel today follows; Carl Kimmel dh Frank Vincent Wilkie John William Clarkson Harry Adolph Grondel John Phillip Hirz Steve Sullivan of the interior recommends would | Ciasvess E tt Bansell d create the greatest development in ug icKenzie Wyoming fields. Secretary Daniels) George Martin Kaltenback lis an ultra-conservationist, and his} W- 7. Wilson — " ideas enacted into law would with-| Herbert H. Smith 4 |hold from development much of Wyo- yauey a Dunn &, o oo! ming’s valuable areas now withdrawn. The trouble is, as I get it from; |very good sources, that the president | jis inclined to the Daniels viewpoint. | If the Senate passes the Walsh measure, the House will probably do} nothing with it unless the president 3 r urges leasing legislation as a To make up the deficiency in the war jmeasure. If he should do this, and| local draft quota, at present eati- bring the administration pressure to|™mated at 45 available men selected |bear, the House would be forced to|from the first call, a second call for act—and would most likely substi-|¢x®mination was issued Tuesday to. tute the Ferris bill, which it has a!-| those next in order on the military ready passed on two other occasions. |Tlls. .A reserve of five men also wilt |The result would be to put the legis-| be needed to prevent eleventh-hour ation in conference, where it would| “¢lays and the names of those from Sam Fougias Renelto Weikel John R. McCurdy Francis Leo Riley Charles J. Gerber Raymond McCleary probably die because of the factions jrepresenting the divergent views of} |the two secretaries. Were the pres-| sure strong erough to force an agree- ent of the conferees, nobody at this| jtime could say what kind‘ of legisla- whom the remainder of the locak_ quota will be recruited are: Aage Mathiasse, Railroad street, Casper. James Murry, Casper. Guy O. Drake, 337 North Lincola tion would result. | Casper. | - — Ie Petros Dandulakos, Rose block, lyre | Casper. ‘Kinney Buys 20,000 John J. Woodica, Casper. Colorado Sheep for Ranch at Cokeville. | | MONTROSE, Colo., Sept. 5.—The purchase of 20,000 head of sheep from E. E. Shinn of Montrose, by Joseph C. Kinney, president of the! {Kinney Oil and Refining company of! Casper, Wyo., has just been an- nounced. The price paid was $16 a! head. Mr. Shinn, who is one of the state's llargest sheep raisers, was led to make the sale, it is said, by the fact that the government has been limiting the Benito Garrico, Fort Steele, Wyo. Lymford Walter Craven, 266 North, Maple, Casper. : Joseph Francis Morcomb, Casper. Marion Lemuel Garrett, Thermope. olis. Hugh Summers, Salt Creek. Pitt Covert, Jr., 366 CY avenue, Casper. Da James Wyo. Charles Irvil Stafford, Casper. James Patterson, 304 West Park, Casper. Harry Lewis Duhrkopp, Salt Creek, James Wright, Casper. Harmon Howard McMaster, South Harrington, Casper. Milton Smith, Moorcroft, space to be used as range in the forest reserves. |FIVE-YEAR OLD LAD ___ ___ | f ACCIDENTALLY SHOT , Sept, 5.—B, M. Moss- aan of Gties Gilchrist, Colo., was accident- ly shot in the leg by the five-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Peterson, at Wood’s Landing, where the famil- ies were Z ‘ The boy picked up a gun which his father had laid down and playing with the trigger accidently discharged it, jthe bullet entering Mossman's leg just | month and during the past few days | below the knee. After medical attention Mossman Representative Keating of Colora- jand his wife returned to ois AAG ‘ do, in a plea for a S-cent loaf here. McKinley, Casper. Henry Johnson, 128 Williams, East, Orange, N. J. Guy Anson Applegate, 227 Map .- Casper. Police Are easured for Brass _and Blue this Week. 1 9 i In” keeping with metropolitan gorwth Casper’s police force, consist- ing of seven men, will be togged out in uniforms before the end of the have been measured for new suits ta 4 ee NET SE NB