Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 10, 1918, Page 1

HUN GUN STROKE PLANNED TO. REGAIN LINES EAST OF AMIENS, OPINION Preliminary Thrusts Hurled Back by the} Allies, Followed by Heavy Bombardment Along Eight-Mile Front Between Villers- Bretonneux and Ancre; Pianes Downed [By Asdoctated Press.) There are indications thet the Germans are preparing to recap-| ture the high ground won by the Australians and Americans within the | last few days on the front east of Amiens and north of Vallers-Bro- tonneux. | Local attacks occurred in that area last night but the British had little trouble dealing with them this morning. However, the enemy opened an intense bombardment over a front of eight miles. The British advanced their line slightly near Merris, providing for| the protection of Nieppe wood. | Comparative quiet reigns in the French front sectors and the Marne salient held by Americans is unusually quiet. AY THE PRESS delivered by the Germans were re-| | pulsed. | On the Flanders front the British, {carried out an operation in the vi- | cinity of Merris, northeast of Nieppe| }wood, by means of which the line! was adyanced ja short distance and several prisoners taken. | —-- | LONDON, July 10.—Activity de-| veloped this morning by the German artillery in the region east of Amiens from Villers-Bretonneaux to Ancre, says the official statement of the British fwar office. Local attacks Stockholders Say Brokerage Busi- ness Has Been Purchased by (By Associated Prens.] PARIS, Juyl 10.—Following the Alex Steinberg as Sole Owner in Casper ~) Repudiating the charge voiced by! the morning newspaper that the af- fairs of the Mahoney & Steinberg company, brokers are in a chaotic condition, G. R. Hagens, formerly | one of the stockholders in the com-| pany today, reiterated the state- ment made yesterday in The Tribune repulse of a German attack south of the Somme last night German artil- lery began a bombardment of the British ten_mile front between Vil- lers-Bretonneaux and the Ancre. \The Paris war office also reported artillery fighting in some sectors of the Picardy and Marne front. The French downed seven German |airplanes and two captive balloons Monday. The British downed thir-| that Alex Steinberg would ‘continue | teen planes but lost four themss!res. | in charge of the business, and that) | the books showed the affairs of the company to be in good condition. The small part of the stock owned by G, R. Hagens, R. G. Taylor, Pat- rick Sullivan and A. J. Cunningham,) is said to have been sold to Alec Steinberg, as well as the stock owned by Jerry Mahoney. Mr. Mahoney owned the greater portion of the stock, The present condition’ of affairs) and the depression of the stock mar- ket. has made it impossible for the} company to be run profitably for a number of stockholders where a sole owner might make good, paying bus- iness- venture of the brokerage house. The books of the company were ex- amined yesterday afternoon, rM, Hag- ens stated, and showed the affairs of the company in good condition with very few, if any, debts. $$$ PICTURES OF THE FOURTH ARE DELAYED BY WASHOUT It is with much regret that the} management of the Iris theater an-} nounces today that a showing of the pictures of the Fourth of July cele- brat in Casper must necessarily be} postponed until tomorrow evening, owing to delay in arrival of the films caused thru a washout on the Burl- ington. However, the pictures will be shown tomorrow evening and it will mean a wait of only one day longer. - June Caprice, the popular actress of the acreen, is the star in the ex- cellent pictures, “Blue-Eyed Mary.” In addition to this picture Mutt and Jeff will be seen in “Back to the Balkans,” a comedy of the first class. | TERRORISTS PLOT TO KILL BOCHE MILITARY By JOSEPH SHAPLEN (United Press Staff Correspondent.) STOCKHOLM, July 10.—Count VonMirbach’s assassination is only the first step in the plot of the Russian terrorists to wipe out the whole German military clique. Before 1 left Petrograd | had A Geman air raid on Lapanne, Belgiur,, seven miles behind the al- WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN FRANCE, July 10.—Last night’s THE. DAILY TRIBUNE Only newspaper in Wyoming car- PATRIOTISM IS. KEYNOTE HOME. GUARD MEETING Inception of Popular Move- ment Launched at Court- house Last Night With the court room comfortably, filled last everiing, the citizens’ meet- ing to decide upon whether Casper should have a home guard or not turned out to be a patriotic rally and the proposition went thru with a rush with the enthusiastic support of all those present. | Altho the meeting was to mark the commencement of the mustering in of the new soldiers, the.company had ‘already taken in 26 niembers whose enlistment and service depended upon | the ratification by those at the meet- ling last night. The meeting was called to order about 8:30 o’clock last evening with |Captain Lanning in the chair and a |goodly representation of the promi- nent-citizens of Casper in attendance. }C. B. Manbeck was the first to take the floor after the captain had stated the object of the gathering, and.in a) short, terse speech he outlined the policy of the new organization that the business interests of Casper would follow. Mr. Manbeck also teadersd his support, both moral and financi:l S ROAR W @rthune GOVERNOR ORDERS OUSTER PROCEEDINGS AGAINST WOLF Wyoming Executive Aut H THE | NARNING Che Casper Daily WEATHER FORECAST Partly cloudy tonight and Thurs- rying both Associated Press and day; warmer in extreme east- the United Press. ern portion tonight. VOLUME 2. CASPER, WYOMING, WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1918 NUMBER 227 horizes Litigation to Compel City Coun- cil to Obey Laws When the Mayor “Renigs” on His Promise to Oust Pseudo Chief from Office Held for 7 Months per’s city administration, Democratic tothe core, stands ief as ming’s chi institution of quo warranto proceedings against Chief of Police which require that none other than qualified electors of the Stat County, today filed ouster proceedings, which will be carried to repudiated in the eyes of Wyo- jief executive, Governor Frank L. Houx, Democrat, who today issued orders for the Frank J. Wolf, appointed by the Fifty Names Entered on Roll at Mayor and the Council in direct violation of th: laws of Wyoming and the city ordinances, e of Wyoming be appointed or \ elected to office. As a result of the order, Russell H. Nichols, prosecuting attorney for Natrona the highest court in the State in the event the Council proyes obdurate its decision to fight the removal of Casper’s pseudo police chief. Governor Houx authorized the proceedings after Mayor Jo a verbal pledge to the state executive that Chief of Police Wolf would be succeeded by a new appointee on July 1. .In conse- quence of complaints placed before the Governor early in the year, and later emphasized by representative citizens of Cas- per, Governor Houx, in a telephone communication with Mayor per, received assurance that the resignation of Chief Wolf, which had remained in his pocket since the first of March, would become effective July 1. The promise of Mayor Leeper, since unfulfilled, caused Governor Houx to defer action with respect to authorizing que’ warranto proceedings, but continued pro- - crastination on the part of local of- hn F. Leeper had failed to keep TIRE THIEF WAS OUT FOR CHIEF’S POLITICALSCALP, An incident worthy of note came ‘115 KILLED, 100 HURT, IS FINAL ACCIDENT TOLL | to ight when E. J. Griffith wis ar- tfieials today brot sffairs to a climax. rested for the theft of an auto-a few | The complaint filed today in Dis-| days age. jtrict Court by Prosecuting Attorney) “ When the officers were taking him | Nichols sets forth that the Mayor and ¢, jail, Griffith quietly. removed a |the Council “without warrant or au- |thority in law” appointed Frank J. | Wolf as chief of police and ‘‘alleged” lefficiency expert of the C of Cas lper, the latter office being create l lespecially to entitle the chief to ad- ditional emoluments of $125 a month , ehemy assault-in the Villers Breton-|to the new company, and offered it) neux region was preceded by an in-| tense bombardment of the tewn and neighboring territory. Between eight and nine o’clock the Germans made | a rush for the defensive positions but | were easily thrown back all along! the line. Villers Bretonneux was again heav- ily bombarded early today. German} artillery and machine guns were ac-| tive from Vaire wood northward to} Ancre. AND QUEEN FLY 7w0 cotorapo OVER CHANNEL "0077S AMONG | MISSING TODAY [By Ansoctated Press.) 1 | LONDON, July 10.—King Albert! (My United Press} and Queen Elizabeth of Belgium! WASHINGTON, July 10.—Army| reached England in an airplane when casualties reported to Washington to-| they came last Saturday to attend/day totaled 103, including 21 killed| the silver anniversary of King George|in action, 14 dead of wounds, 46 and Queen Mary, it was learned to-| wounded, 12 missing and two prison- day. | ers. Marine casualties totaled five. (Continued on Page Four.) U.S. DESTROYER NAMED IN HONOR OF LATE SOLON Secretary Daniels has named the | latest destroyer the Tillman in hon-! or of the late Senator Benjamin R. oso T. F. McReynolds, instructor on} [By Axsoctated Presa.} the shoe repairing machine made by} WASHINGTON, July 10.—Alvan the Landis Machine company, of St.|Graves of Akron, Colo., and Lieuten- Louis, is in the city on business, hav. ant Harold Gile of Colorado Springs, ing recently installed a machine inj are listed among those missing, ac- the Natrona Shoe Repairing com- cording to the report of Genrel Per-| pany in the Natrona Hotel building, shing today. heard of a plot to kill Mirbach | closely identified with the plot. | Tillman, chairman of the naval af-| {is the most notorious intriguer in |mer’s plot }which he could not have drawn as {By Associated Prena-} | chief of police. NASHVILLE, Tenn., July 26. —| The complaint recites the fact that Latest reports from the morgues and|Frank J. Wolf has never been a legal | hospitals indicate that fifty white /Tesident of the State of Wyoming, |persons and sixty-five negroes were |and alleges that “the statutes of the killed and more than one hundred |State wholly fail to create the of injured in yesterday’s head-on col-|0f chief of police and efficiency ex- lision. | pert in cities of the first class, »vt do authorize the Mayor and City Council in such cases to create, when neces- jsary, special offices, and to provide \for salary payments to incimbents ithereof; that the office of efficiency jexpert has never at any time been lereated in the said City of Casper, {nor have the authority, powers, du- {ties and compensation of any office ‘of the city been designated as chief of police ever been prescribed by or- | dinance,”” Sections of the statutes which af- fect the local case are recited at length, furnishing positive proof of the illegality of the Council’s action. Quo warranto proceedings _insti- tuted today supplement individual ac- tion instituted by Sheriff Hurh | $$. 1 NOTORIOUS HUN _ WILL SUCCEED TOKUEHLMANN | UBy United Press} LONDON, July 10.—Berlin offi- cially announced today that Foreign Minister Kuehlmann’s resignation has | been accepted. Other dispatches stated that Admiral Von Hintze, Ger- man minister to Norway, probably | Patton several days ago, in which would be his successor. jsimilar charges are set forth. The If true this means a victory for) Council, at that time, with the excep- the Pan-German party. Von Hintze|tion of Councilman Perry A. Morris, voted to fight any attempt to oust the German diplomatic service andjthe chief, and since that date there is a close friend of the kaiser and/has been no indication that they had Admirals Von Tirpitz and Shroeder, | tetracted their decision. leaders of the Belgin annexationists.| According to local reports, the Von Hintze was minister to Mexi-| Mayor hopes to defer action on the’ co during Huerta’s rule and was im-/chief’s removal until the latter’s legal plicated in a plot to furnish Huerta|residence in the State of Wyoming with German arms following the low-| has been established, and in the event ering of the American embargo on/| litigation revolves about this point of guns and ammunition. law, the city will seek to establish He was also engaged in last sum-|the fact that Chief of Police Wolf hatched in Norway to took up his residence on the occasion smugele bombs to America to blow| of a visit to Casper last August. An up allied merchantmen. |answer must be returned to the yuo warranto proceedings within 30 days’ {By United Presst time, which will give the city an op- COPENHAGEN, July 10.—An up-| portunity to advance this claim. roar followed the announcement of| However, thru the alleged failure Von Kuehlmann's resignation in the! of the Council to pass the ordinance German reichstag. Socialists an-| creating the office of efficiency expert nounced that they would not vote for|and chief of police, and stipulating the foreign loan until the new for-|the duties and salaries of the offices, eign minister has announced his pol-\the State hopes to prove that the icies, | chief had no right to salary advanced The bill was referred back to the/him during recent months. Indica- committee to prevent. possible rejec-' tions are that suit will be opened for tion. a return of all money paid him by the] | Council. SOLDIERS FROM lo Ouster proceedings are directed at hief Wolf in person, and not at the Council, but any answer of the chief and then send terrorists to kill the kaiser. Generals Ludendorff, Hin- denburg and German Foreign Min- ister Von Kuehlmann. It seemed so improbable that I thot it the wildest dream and I still think so. But Count Von Mirbach is dead» and social-revolutionaries are They learned of a« definite alliance between the Bolsheviki and Ger- many 4| st internal opposition and the entente. , German defense of the Bolshe- viki in connection with the murder of Count Von Mirbach tends to prove the existence of the alliance. CAMPS FIGHTING FOREST BLAZE _ [By Asociated Press.) GRASS VALLEY, Cal., July 10.— A company of soldiers from Reno, Nevada, and one hundred men from may be expected to reflect the decis- ion of the Council and their claims. ; Truckee. Cal., are fighting a forest fire which threatened summer resorts | on the west side of Lake Tahoe.| Two resorts are said to be in the immediate path of the flames. | -” . folded paper from his breast pocket and under cover of his coat attempt- ed to destroy it. The attention of the office was attracted by the sound of tearing paper ar pped the destruction before Gr had ed in his object. The paper proved. to be a petition that Griffith had taken around Casper himself and was directed to the mayor and e cilmen asking the removal of the chief of police from office The paper had been torn down the center and was in two parts when the officers took poss n of it but the names are perfectly legible and most ef the signers are well- known characters who have been in. carcerated in the city bastile at some time or other. ‘MORE PAPERS’ IS CRY OF YANKS, SAYS RED CROSS [By ated F LONDON, July 10. ore home newspapers” is the constant from American soldiers in ca hospitals in Great Britain, American Red Cross report. OPERATION ON SUNDAY TUESDAY IS SUCCESSFUL [By Ansocinted Press.] ROCHESTER, Minn., July 10. William A. Sunday, evangelist, was operated on for hernia at a local san, itarium. It was announced that the overation was successful -| Czecho-Slovak forces ALLIES LEADERS TQ RISE AGAINST TEUTONS Plans for Economic Aid from America Progress; Trotzky Plans Big Army by Conscription. Hy: Ansoetated Press. ] LONDON, July 10. — A new provisional government for Sibe- ria which has the unanimous sup- port of the population and which will continze to fight the central powers has been established at Viadivos jing dispatch mo restore | sur wand WASHINGTON zovernm r Rus PARIS, July opening of t Russian s ¢shevik mir ing “Russia is on the evescf s thilitary sérviee conscription.” Trotzky empha of Russia having to a disy [By Axsoc WASHINGTON, July the vosto - telling of the prisoners and Niko miles Czecho-Slovaks lost fe two hundred wounded They were opposed force of Bolsheviki Red ¢ armed German oners They ards and pris and retreated tov zesk on the Amur river, trains, they took x Nikolsk and did s roads. LONDON, July troops now opers sire to fight and don’t want nel Hurban on ovak National ( he Times correspondent. SNOW FALLS IN BOULDER, COLO.. EARLY TODAY [By Associated Pre: DENVER, Colo., July 1 Snow fell for a quarter of an hou rat Boulder this morning, following a cold rain. The snow is the latest ever recorded here. HUN GENERAL IS REJECTED (By Associated Prens.} ROME, July 10.—Austria has declined to accept, German General Otto Von Buelow as commander in chief of the forces on the Italian front, because Germany rofused to send 12 German divisions with him, according to the newspaper Epoch, which bases its statement on advi. from Swiss sources. Austria, it says, has temporaily ~ toe eeeee DD ag SOS given up the ‘dea of revenging herself for her recent defeat by Italy. ROME, July 10.—The Italians, on the offensive in Alban tinuing their advance, tl statement of the war office says. The enemy, in yesterday's fight- ing, was beaten back on both sides of the Osum river.