Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 8, 1918, Page 1

THE DAILY TRIBUNE the United Press. VOLUME 2. GREAT DRIVE T RUSSIANS Only newspaper in Wyoming car- rying both Associated Press and ~ | @rthune CASPER, WYOMING, MONDAY, JULY 8, 1918 " " ie i Mi aR O BREAK LULL ON . Tages are MURDER BOCHE REVOLUTION BREA Che Casper Daily WEATHER FORECAST | Local showers first half, fair sec- ond half of week; normal tem- peratures. NUMBER 225 WEST AND SOUTH AT ANY MOMENT | GRIFFITH TAKEN TODQUGLAS FOR THEFT OF TIRES. | | | | j Criminal Charge Injected to Court Tangles; Mortgaged Prop- | erty Sold to Home Owner, | Another Charge The affairs of E. J. Griffith of the} General Machine & Tool company, | recently made defendant in a suit for/t© give any grounds for their belief.) | 4. a receivership and who has been con-| nected with shady transactions in the) pact, took a serious turn yesterday| great strokes, and it is known that) sumptuous when he was taken to Douglas on al warrant charming }§m with the theft) of severa tires and inner tubes from the Dreadnaught auto shop in Doug- las on Friday night of last week.| Griffith confessed to the burelary af- ter the tires had been traced to this city and located them on a Ford car which had béen in the General Ma- chine & Tool shop. Implicated with} him in the. theft, according to_Grif- fith’s confession, was J. W. Gates, who is made an accessory to the} crime, and who was also taken to/ Donglas by the officers. In negotiating the larceny of the tires Griffith is alleged to have ap-| propriated the use of his patron’s car which was in his shop for repaits. The round trip to Douglas was made in the night and on his return he equip- pad the Ford with the stolen proper- | y. Reed & Co. have been twice de-| feated in attempts to throw the toor| nlant of which the Griffiths are the heads into a receivership, but on the secasion of the most recent decision the plaintiffs announced that the case would be reopened. WEATHER MAN IS_ DISMISSED FOR SEDITION [By Associated Prens.] | WASHINGTON, July 8.—Official| correspondence made public today disclosed: that Cleveland Abbe, Jr., editor of the Monthly Weather Re-! view and recently dropped from gov-| ernment service, was dismissed he-| cause of his well known sympathies Australians Advance Astride the Somme in Night*Attacks Momentous happenings are in the making on the Western front. The lull of the last few days will not continue long, and it is not improbable that the Germans will break it by hurl-| ng their masses aganst the Al- lied line to crush it, if possible. Correspondents at the front, while reporting that the new German blow is impending, obviously are unable But the Germans'have had much time in which to prepare for they have from thirty to forty divis- ions ready to throw into the fray. Meanwhile the Allies are strength- ening positions recently taken from the enemy. ARTILLERY ACTIVE LONDON, July 8.—Australians last night advanced their lines astride |the Somme slightly on a front of 8,000 yards, says the official state- ment of the British War Office. German artillery was active in the Somme region during the night. It | was similarly active north of Albert, in the vicinity of Beaumont-Hamel| martial of Corporal Joseph Dowling, | and on the Flanders front neighborhood ‘of Bethune. in the TRENTINO DRIVE IMPENDS PARIS, July 8.—A_new offensive! is impending on the Trentino front, General Ludendorff visited Austrian headquarters, hastening preparations | for another blow, says a dispatch to the Matin from Switzerland. eee LONE BEAR IS MOURNING LOSS OF OLD NAVAJO During the parade July 4th, Lon Bear, the Indian who followed the battleship Oregon in the procession, los t a Navajo blanket that has been in the family since its existence be- gan. Lone Bear’s grandmother, who lived in this country before the white man did, made the blanket with her hands, and it has since been handed|supply permits the use of beef in| down from generation to generation as one of the family heirlooms The blanket was picked up in front SELECTIVES THRILL, TO _ PATRIOTIC PROGRAM AT » _M.E. CHURCH SATURDAY ‘Natrona and Fremont Boys Are Guests of Honor at ; Banquet on Eve of Their Departure for Fort Logan, Colo. , Cantonment | there,” banquet served. by the |the Methodist church. ‘a JOINED TEUTONS IN PRISON CAMP, i | | [By Associated Press.1 | LONDON, July 8.—Trial by court- who landed on the Irish coast in a German collapsible boat two months ago, began here today. Dowling pleaded not guilty to charges under three heads: That while a prisoner of war in Germany he joined a hostile force: that he en- |deavored to induce others to join, jand that he participated in an at- |tempt to land hostile forces in Ire- land. SERVE BEEF AT EVENING MEALS, | ‘RULING LISTED | | | Food Administrator Huffsmith to- day announced that modification of recent rulings affecting the beef | any form at the evening meal each | day. By-products of beef, such as ox- tails, livers, tongues, for the imperial German govern-|of the Oil Well Supply company on} hearts, kidneys and tripe may be ment, WAR COUNCIL ABOLISHED BY ORDER OF SEC. BAKER IBy Annocinted Press.] WASHINGTON, July 8.—Secre- tary of War. Baker today abolished the war council arid turned over its | covery of the blanket will be zlad-! functions to the assistant secretary of war, General March, chief of staff, and Major General Goethals assist- ant chief of staff in charge of pur- North Center street, by some peo- ple in an automobile who stated that they would return if to the police sta- tion wheret he Indian could get it. So far the blanket has not zeen re- turned, and Lone Bear is seriously ccusidering atking to the war patt if necessary to recover the blanke' Any information leading to the re receibed by Lone Bear, or if tne penne $224 cin the: hlact-: ‘Il return it to the Tribune office in the Oil Exchange building, Lo chases, storage and traffic. ATALIANS HURL HUNS _ F< ar will one happy Indian. |served at any time. | In order to secure uniform obser- wane of the restrictions the evening {meal is defined as that served be- | tween the hours of 5:30 and 9:30 |m. Pp. CLOSING PRICES OF CHICAGO GRAIN TODAY {By Annocinted Preas.} CHICAGO, July 8.—Chicago corn closerd today at $1.543 and August oats at .70. BACK IN HAND FIGHT (By United Prens} ROME, July -8. —The Italians poked the Austrians miles farther rom Venice in a stubborn battle en the lower Piave. Thousands fonehe in water up to their wi s, Frequently using their hands an teeth in their death struggle. _ The Italians used vaulting poles in leaping over the wire entangle- rents and knifed the Austrian ma- chine gunnors, [By Associated Press.) ROME July 8.—The Italian terday advanced their front lines in the region of La Prible, the of- ficial statement of the war office ys. In the Monte Grappa reg- ion the Italians gained further ground northward of Massik on Saturday. Eight enemy anrplanes were de- troyed, the official report adds. Italian and French troops, July 6, began operations between the coast and the Tomorica valley. Op- erations are reported in a satisfac- tory stage of development. More than 1,000 prisoners were taken. WASHINGTON, July .8.—The Austrians have been cleared com- plet rom the right bank of the Piave, says an official Rome dis- patch. “We'll hang the kaiser to a sour apple tree when WE get over Z sang the Casper boys lustily, only to be answered by the|ing the Social Revolutionar selectives, nearly a hundred strong, with, “WE'LL hang Old the |Glory in the castle on the Rhine, when WE get over there,” at the TRIED FOR LIFE sweetbreads, | Mothers’ League Saturday night at! The Natrona and Fremont county | boys who left later in the evening | for training camps met at the court} | house and marched to the church at} 6:30 o'clock, where, after being) greeted by members of the Mochers’ } League and the Rv. J. JF: Gibiim, pas- jtor of the Gantz’ Memorial M. E.} |churech, they were ushered into the! big dining room in which long tables, | | beautifully decorated with the Amer-| ican and Allied flags and flowers,| were arranged. ; A number of the Fremont county boys were late in arriving due to a delayed train, but} were not too late to receive their} share of the most excellent dinner! prepared and served by the Mothers’| League members. After the singing of ‘Dixie’ by a | quartette, Rev. J. J. Giblin, as mas-| |ter of ceremonies, welcomed in be_| {half of the MotHdrs’ League the, “young German exterminators.” Rev. | Giblin told the boys that the dinner} and the little things people were do-| ing for them was but little in com-! parison to the big deeds that the! people at home are expecting of the | boys “over there.” | Fathr Mullin spoke of the sacrifice | the mothers of soldiers are making in sending their boys over seas to fight | and perhaps die, if need be, and | urged the boys to recollect and to think of this when far from home an flags to the Natrona county selec | from the influences of home life. | The presentation of two American | tives was made for E. Richard Shipp. | The lads hesitated a bit when Mr./ Shipp called for two captains to re-| |ceive the flags, the tension being! broken when Gov. Brooks said, ‘Man, | they’re all captains.” “These flags,” said Mr. Shipp, “are carrying the history of the American nation, they are its soul. It has never yet been defeated or sullied;! see that it never is. Take it to Ber- lin when you go victoriously march-/ ing into the Hun stronghold. | “And, boys, if you hear it said) sometime that Wyoming is giving 20 per cent more than her quota of} (Continued on Page Three.) eo ei as NEGROES URGING ANTI-LYNCH LAW ON LEGISLATORS) Negro residents of Wyoming are| deluging congressmen with requests for their support of the anti-lynching| bill. submitted by Representative | Dyer of Missouri. The proposed} statute provides for prosecution of lynchers for murder under the Fed- eal law. MONETA ROBBERS ARE BOUND OVER TO COURT TRIAL SHOSHONI, Wyo., July 8.—Geo. R. Coon and companion by ° the name ‘of Martin were bound over to the district court in the sum of $500 each for beating up and robbing a band of Indians near Moneta, In| lieu of bail they were take nto the} county jail at Lander. 1 a a a a TT Oa thd nn nn KS OUT IN FIGHTING ALLIE fighting between the Bolsheviki and|‘ispatch today from Switzerland. |before Judge INTERVENTION RAGESIN WILL BE CONFINED TO STREETSLOCAL AID, DECISION Germany Will Demand Right to Police the Leading Muscovite Cities, Says a Report from Stockholm; Assassins Gain Entrance to Hun Embassy Thru False Credentials, Then Make Escape Counter Movement Start- ed in Petrograd Is Put Down by the Bolsheviki; New Developments [By Associated Prees.) LONDON, July 8.—A serious: revolution has broken out in Mos- cow, according to Wolff telegrams Sunday from Moscow, and trans- mitted by the Exchange Tele- graph’s correspondent in Copen- hagen. Fighting of great severity is tak- [By United Press} WASHINGTON, July 8.—A number of trade and business experts, supported by a sizeable police force of inter-allied troops, will be sent to Russia to aid in establishing order there. It has been learned | semi-officially that President Wilson has decided to execute this plan ;soon. There will be no military intervention at this time. The personnel of the Russian mis-} nm will be announced next week. binet secretaries are suggesting ing place in the streets between the | The eine son. fortis Bolsheviki and the Social Revolu-|pest andl quickest way for assemb- TAKE CONTROL tionaries. ling a police force and the plan is A message from the Russian wire- less service, dated Sunday, Moscow, says that the counter-revolution was started in the Russian capital, but was suppressed. Several hundred Russi }the most unique in history Financial experts ricultural and trede 2 go to Vladivostok to assist in crop 3 |movements, and build up transpor-| , includ-|tation. The news of their work will| Jeades, [be widely advertised thruout Rus ted, it is IH EMERGENCY [By United Press} ‘ WASHIN( jstrike of telegraphers grows serious President Wilson will seize the sys Alexandroviteh, were arres declared. COUNT MIRBACH KILLED Germany Severs Relations MOSCOW, July (8— Two / un-|to™s Without congressional authori- LONDON, July 8. — As soon as|known persons entered the German| President S, J. Konenkamp penneror wes heard of the assas_|embassy here by false credentials| ident of the Commercis ation of Count Von Mirbach, Ger- Saturday afternoon and threw a/ers’ union, wired Secretary man ambassador to Russia, hi | ed Foreign Minister Von Kuchimerg|bomb into German Asbassador Count| to break negotiations with Bolshe- Mirbach’s room, killing him. The viki delegates in Berlin, says the Ex- | *#59ssins escaped. change Telegraph. The Bolsheviki as follows: “Workers bitter, may be impossi- ble to control situation. Is there any _ {assurance you can give those locked 4 it + aver jout.in order to keep trouble from e “are many indications that} Pressed sorrow to Berlin and Count} ine?”? me pene fds Heel during the next | V9n Mirbach’s family. erecne are reported here, in ew days wil e im: a klat a City Jinti i af, ard Raven el eal of the) GERMANY TO POLICE RUSS Oklahoma City and Cintinnati. Murman region have overthrown the) STOCKHOLM, July 8.—As a re-| CHICAGO. July &.— Except for authority of the Bolsheviki govern- sult of the assassination of Ambas-'the walkout of 150 Western Union ment at Moscow and joined the en-|sador Von Mirbach, Germany will omplo in Atlanta, the telegraph- tente allies. There is a great amount| demand the right to police Moscow, ers’ strike has been called off to of war supplies in this region and the diplomats here say. The demand | await congressional action on cov- American, French and British forces} will come under the guise of main- ernment control. are guarding it; while German-Fin-| taining order. A strike of telegraphers thruout nish armies have been reported ad-| Germans charge that the Allies are the Southe is threatened as the vancing in forces northward from Finland. The Murman coast offers the start- ing point for lalied operations in Russia. Germany has not yet acted on the murder of Count Von Mirback, ambassador to Moscow The Bolshe- | viki made apologies and enforced strong measures in an endeavor to find the assassin. Opinion in France and England is agreed that far reaching results may be expected from this act, which is compared in importance to the murder of Archduke Francis Ferdin- and, Austrian heir-apparent. Former Premier Kerensky be- jeves the Germans will march on Moscow but thinks the murder is the first sign of an awakened anti-Ger- man feeling in Russia. behind the a: ported that the mier Lenine, Foreign Minister Trot: ky and other Bolsheviki leaders is being plotted by the Russian Social Revolutionaries. The Germans will passage of troops to coast via Petrojrrad. Russians in Murman, anticipating a German_ Finnish invasiou, declared their alle- giance to the Allies, it is declared. The Baltic fleet is said to be in imminent danger of capture unless the sailors blow it up. result of the disc ists at Atlanta It is re- ‘ge of some union- erday. NEW ORLE. . Ju bers of the Telegraphers’ union who reported for work in the local offices of the Western Union today were told that the company had no fur- ther need of their services. Each operator was asked if he was a member of the union, it and all replying in the a were turned away . demand free the Murman ATLANTA, Ga., July 8.---Thir two union telegraphers left the k of the Western Union officers before orders were received cancelling the strike call. i FEDERAL LAWS WILL PROHIBIT LIQUOR SALES [By Associated Press.] WASHINGTON, July 8.—Leg tion to prohibit the sale of d liquor and wines and beer January 1, 1919, and to pro! ufacture of wine and be ovember 1 ~* was eo by the senate mittee. CLIMBS TREE AFTER BOCHE [By United Press) WITH THE AMERICANS IN FRANCE, July 8.—Americans aid- ed the French in clearing Hill 204, dominting Chateau- Thierry from the west. They fought for three hours, mostly in hand-to-hand con- flict. Ge WASHINGTON, July 5.—German Ambassador Mirbach’s assassin took refuge in a building defended by ma- chine guns, say reports from Kiev to- | day. Clashes with the Bolsheviki have continued since Saturday. AMSTERDAM, July 8.—The Uk- rainian government has resigned and Markievitch, Socialist Federalist, has been charged with the formation of a new cabinet, according to a Lem- 5 i fe h berg dispatch to the Vienna Neue|lutionary Socialists, following the Freie Presse. | assassination of Count Von Mirbach, It seems from this account that; German Ambassador, according to a [By Associated Press.] WASHINGTON, July 8.—Fight- ing took place in Moscow between the Bolsheviki forces and the Revo- Saeiee ee la- illed Social Revolutionaries mengt ted to be} [Dx Reastinisalwresa.} taking place in Moscow was the out- c a growth of the Von Mirbach affair.| ,, AMSTERDAM, July | 6. — Berlin A Frankfort message from Mosc6w |) our Sega da Nesey: infall = mentioned such fighting as taking | ering ae oF Gaviane, bat ana place in various parts of the cicy, ™&n¥ Parts 2 oe Cee 9 f F yay .|2ge was dons crops and loss to prop- ¢ meen the aispacss ‘was filed, but gavs lerty is reported in many districts. = ~_—— 45-YEAR TERM FOR NEGRO WHO | OUTRAGED GIRL) | NEWCASTLE, Wyo., July 8. —| Fred Jackson, colored. charged with the attempted rape of a nine-year- old Gillette girl, was sentenced to a term of 45 years in the state peni-| tentiary on entering a plea of guilty Raymond. Jackson} was removed from Gillette to New- castle at.a time when popular sen- timent advocated the lynching pen- alty. after | | German airmen on the Toul front dropped a note saying that three missing American airmen | are uninjured pr!--~ ees German camp. a | RIVERTON, Wyo., July 8.—Leo} McLaughlin and H. Reber recently! secured samples of potash from the | Dubois country which they sent to| an assayer in Pittsburg, Pa., and re-| ceived a return of 92 per cent pure} poatsh. Considerable excitement was | [By Associated Press] WASHINGTON, July 8.—Gen- eral Fershing's ily communique for Sunday orts a successful raid in the Vosges region in which an machine gun< in the tr An Ame! n nt climbed one tree, stuck created for a time but high water) the German thru with his bayonet heavy losses in killed, wounded has drowned the fever for the pres-| and pitched his body to the and prisoners were inflicted on the 3 ground. | enemy s ent. | - ee ewwws oP NG SLITS Ge