Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 14, 1918, Page 8

KELLEY TRAGEDY [3 EXPLAINED BY ROADSOFUS. “COULD USE ALL GOSHEN SHERIFF) SURPLUS LABOR Coroner’s Jury Puts Blame on De-| tective Landry “Without Fel- onous Intent ;"” Details Are Told TORRINGTON, Dec. 14.—The Telegram of this city today publish- ed the following story of the shoot- ing here: Miss Sylvia Kelley, of Torrington, died instantly about 8 o’clock Thurs- day night at Henry, Neb., from a bul- let from the revolver of C. L. Landry, a detective from the De Lue agency of Denver. Landry and James Sher- man, sheriff of Goshen county, had followed an automobile into Henry which they thought had been stolen and when the driver of the car sud- denly started up to avoid search the detective and the sheriff both fired into the car with the above result In the car with Miss Kelley was the owner, James Nolan, of Torrington. Sheriff Shermian’s story is substan- tially as follows: “About 6:30 o’clock last night, just as I had gotten home for supper @ woman’s voice, very much agitated called over the phone saying that a car had been stolen from the street in Torrington. She hung up without giving details. Knowing that quick action was necessary I went out tc fill the radiator of my car, preparing to start out. While I was busy at this Mr. Landary, who had been here for a couple of days on a special cas¢ called up and I asked him to accom pany me. He said he had just seen a car going east down the railroad and we started in that direction. “When we were near the old Parker place between Torrington and Henry we passed a car standing be- side the road apparently dead. Just as we passed I thought possibly this was the car we were after and turned to go back and investigate. While } Adoption of Partial Program | Needed in Highway Im- | provement Would Furn- | ish Jobs for Soldiers NEW YORK, Dec. 14.—Highway improvement in the United States alone would furnish employment for every man of the demobilized Amer- ican army, if even a fair proportion of the needed highway work were to be undertaken. This is the opinion of E. S. Cor- nell, secretary, National Highways Protective Society. This society pro- motes the building of better highways thruout the country, without advocat- ing use of any patented paving mate- rials. During the war highway building practically came to a standstill thrn- out the country. Even if the gov- ernment had not placed a ban on the use of labor and materials for high- way work, except upon roads used in war work, the rising cost of labor and materials would have stopped the work. A good, 16-foot highway, concrete, before the war cost from $13,009 to $15,000 to build. By the time the war industries board was ready to stop most highway work the cost had risen to nearly or quite double these sums. ; The extent to which needed hivh- way improvements—will be cared out during the two years followiny beginning of demobilization will de- vend largely upon what the State Legislatures do this winter. If the legislatures are generous with high- way appropriations, many thou- sands of men will be employed in improving the nation’s roads. Fed- eral aid will supplement State ap- propriations. The days of the overland freighter are returning. It was shortly after the civil war that this overland wag- was turning, the lights on the other car flashed up and it started east. It passed us at high speed and we im mediately turned and followed. It kept well ahead of us all the way inte Henry and when we reached there it was standing at one side of the street with the lights on and the engine run- ning. “T drew out my revolver and step- ped on the running board of the starnge car. Starting to pull back the curtain, all were down, I asked who was in the car. Instantly the car started with a bound. I was thrown to the ground and acting on my first impulse I fired a shot aiming tc puncture a tire. I missed, however and the bullet went thru the fender. as.jwas afterward learned. Mr. Lan- dry fired three shots one of which did the awful work. “I immediately called the Scotts bluff county officers and also Dr Platz and County Attorney Sawyer of Torrington. “It was a terrible accident but on’ which is liable to happen when men are acting under excitement.” The accident happening in Nebras. ka jurisdiction belonged to Scotts- bluff county and an inguest was held by Sheriff Koenig and County Attor ney Grimm, of that county at Henry The bullet passed thru Miss Kelly’s left arm, thru the fourth rib anc lodged in the right lung. tracted by Dr. Platz. The cononer’s jury consisted o Vance Kibbe, W. L. Wallace. C. H Hilsebeck, Lee Anderson, Joe Wil liams and Floyd Anderson. The verdict was that Miss Kelly came to her death from the revolver shot fired by C. L. Landry, without felonious intent. Miss Kelly was about 19 years of age and was for a time bookkeeper at James Nolan’s garage, the man with whom she was ridnig when killed. Lately she has been em-- ployed in one of the banks at Mor- rill. Her people live near Burge in this county. ably be held Sunday. ASSESSMENT LEVIED BY FREMONT WOOLGROWERS | TO PAY ENTERTAINMENT The Fremont County Woolgrowers’ Association, at a meeting held in Lan- der this week, voted to levy an assess ment of one cent a head on sheep owned by members to defray the ex pense of entertainment of delegates to the Wyoming association meeting scheduled to be held there January 9 to 11, inclusive. At the same time It was ex- Fred A. Earl and Alex Johnson wer,, have} appointed as a committee to charge of the entertainment, the for-| mer being secretary of the assovm tion. SCOTCH TRADE UNIONS on freighting became a great indu. try. There were practically no good artificial roads. But most of the freighting was done in the boundless West, where there were no fences to keep traffic within a narrow road. The whole valley was a road. Railroads were scarce or entirely lacking in the West. Demobilized soldiers, lured by the government’s liberality, in giving away farms started for the great plains country High cost of labor and m -+er’+Is may cause many ‘communities ¢o de- lay their road work, Mr. tee fect thinks. He believes few of ‘the re- turning soldiers will b2 willing to oH to work on the roads for wages sim-| ilar to’ those paid fot such werk be-| 4 fore the war, and many legislatures or highway commissionérs will hesi- tate to start road construction at/| prices nearly twice as high as those} paid for the work before it was stop- ved by the war. The secretary of the highway im- ‘wrovement society is sure, however, hat any possible surplusage of man- power in the United States could be | who have arrived at the Hague fron. used in road building and road re-| Constantinople on their way to Amer- oairing for many years. ‘JEWS WARN AMERICA AGAINST OTTOMANS: AMSTERDAM, Dec. 14—The Jew- ‘Hague has issued a warning againr the Turkish Grand Rabbi, Ihaim Na upon the legisiatures't this winter. | favorable to Turkey. BELGIANS WHO ENJOYED ENGLAND'S HOSPITALITY NOW LEAVING FOR HOME <ss*semisk sexes" (as tana a PEACE BLAST LAST BRITISH There are. 150,000 Belgien retures| WARSHIPS HEARD FOR 100 MILES ON SHORE in ingles mostly in the LONDON, Nov. area. | The question of their repatriation | is being carefully thought out. The reconstruction committee, which has| ence of The Associated Press.)——-A vast chorus of siren whistles from a} | thousand fighting ships split the air when the British Grand, Fleet re- left London for Bruges, will work| in’consultation with the minister for) |ceived the news of the signiny of the) jarmistice. First the thirty-mile line the interior. \of vessels sprang into light. | East, one against another. “Thaim,” the bureau says, lopponent of Jewish national | Zionist aspirations. as the only way to attain an indepena. It is planned to send the railway- men and their families back first, so they can repair and rebuild the! railroads, thus facilitating transpor-| tation of of refugees who return! later. In many cases men will re- ships, cruisers, torpedo destroyery, turn to Belgium some time in ad- esas and patrols united in one vance of their families in order to! nage, synchronized diapson that| help build their new homes and |.tartied the hearers for a radius of @ make things ready for their women hundred miles. The tremendous! and” children: {sound re-echoed amongst the hills on Many Belgian children who sr-| |both shores, awesome in its inten- rived here at a tender age cannot’ sity. remember any home other than Eng-, A. hundred searchlights, which for, land, and they speak English better! pour years had resolutely watched: than their native tongue. It is quite|the skies, or peered steadfastly along) a common thing for Belgian parents | dark waters for enemy craft, merrily | to make use of their offspring as! criss-crossed about the sky. Flares! interpreters—in the courts, at the were lit, star shells fired, and here) doctor's, and recently, even to trans-rand thére some of the greater ships) late the posters’ which are dotted over a fireworks display. England regarding For sixty minutes the fleet threw against “flu.” ‘off all reserve and let itself go. At Fingland has done her ‘best for the 2 o'clock the’s! s suddenly silenced comfort and protection of Belgians | the lights snap who sought refuge here, and as the | Fleet was again waiting and watch-- Belgians as a whole have been very ing and ready, and scarcely had the rugal, most of them will carry back | last sounds died away than from the a little nest egg. | Admirals’ ships there were winking ON WAY FOR VISIT \ish Correspondence Burean at The! sedition, was sentenced to from eight |S Purpose of enrolling Norway in fee soldiers may retain pern ‘um and his deputy, Nissin Nazliah, | Whether it/ ica and Paris, with the intention, the/ will be so used depends pretty largely | bureau says, of creating a sentiment| particularly in} | America, and of playing off the n-} =e | terests of the Entente Powers in m« ODESSA EVACUATED BY “is an and The Jewish peo- | ple views its liberation from the Tur-| *)Kish yoke-and a British protectorate! 20. —Correspond-| Then, | suddenly, the great fleet of battle-| out and the Grand) The funeral will prob-| It is a far cry back to those heart-| breaking days of 1914 and 1915,) when the piteous groups of Begians| first arrived here, packages that held all their worldly! goods, dazed and bewildered by the suddenness ot their. flight. in “co¥ered wagons”, often taking along in one or more wagons the bride, the dog, and all the household possessions. The prairie was hard and unbroken in the land where the soldier sought his new home. There was little dan- ger of even the narrow-tired wagons, heavily laden as they were, _ being) mired or blocked in the road. When one wagon track became too deeply rutted the traffic simply moved over | a few yards and followed the sama firection. Thus the old Santa Fe | rail and other highways of the prai-! vie pioneers became wide strips of | deeply rutted tracks, often covering | a quarter of a mile in width. Thru Kansas and the Southwest sunflow-: ers grew in the abandoned ruts and’ nodded the way to the long, weary | trains of “movers” that followed =e course of the day.” Wagon freighting from town to! town in the newly © settled plains | country became a great and pictur- | esque business. Always the trains of | “covered wagons” crawled a¢ross the prairies, loaded down with buffalo meat, hides and supplies. The new “covered wagons” of the new reconstruction period also will | travel in trains, and will carry loads | many times ‘heavier than the loads the | | horses and mules of the Western | wagoner used to haul. The motor trucks that are to do so much of the freighting of this period are going to be a severe test of road building. Practical at reasonable prices has filled munity. take care of your wants, some as a whole is still good. Casper, Wyo. Holmes i IGables aoe Blu: at the masthead the orders for further duty. . clutching tiny | FOR SALE—Fifty March Buck} Lambs; in good breeding condition. |$20. per head. . Neb. a From The Gift. Store This enlarged store with its great variety of useful gifts a long felt wantin this com- For the last week’s business we are in good condition to lines may be low but selection Please shop as early in the day as possible. Holmes Hardware Co. to Homes Phone 601 Only roads that can vie with the Ap- pian way of ancient Rome can stand up under the wear and tear of the | big trucks, carrying five or more tons, and traveling at a speed that wou'd| | have made the freighter of °70’s | eaep with wonder. Early day wagon freighting was aptaaary because of absence of rail- roads, and it disappeared as an in-| | dustry when the railroads were ex | tended. The revival of wagon freight- | ing is due to inability of the railrodds | to keep up with expansion of indus- try, and the rapid improvement of gasoline-propelled vehicles. The mo-| torized wagon has developed such | speed and carrying capacity tlat it! is overhauling the steam train to a considerable extent. The community that does not im- prove its highways to meet the de- mands of the revival of overland freighting will find itself ont of the way of traflic, even as did the towns and villages that failed to get ra‘ | road connections in the days of rail- | road building after the civil war. GOOD ROADS CONVERTS Mr. Cornell points out that th: American boys in Fraftice and Bel- gium and Germany are writing bick home continually about the, excellant. highways encountered by the moving Humidors, for Cigars, Men’s Leather Sets Card and Bridge Sets Purses, Pass Cases, Bi High Grade Cigars—in UAGE MOONEY TRIAL armies 0’ id 6 there. Such a large numbér of Americans traveliag thru | a land that long has depended upon | good hichways for much of its iiter- SMOKE Tobacco Jars in Mahogany or Metal Cigarettes in Xmas Boxes Flasks, Leather Goods, Cribbage Sets NEW YORK, Dec. 14.—The Gia» | urban busiriess and. pleasure travel- gow trades council, representing on’ | ing, constitutes an American good | hundred thousand Scottish trade un-| roads mission, Mr. Cornell believes. | ionists, adopted resolutions demana. |“‘When the boys come home they'll ing a new trial for Thomas J. Mooney | start the ball rolling for American | or else his immediate release, accord-| highways as good as European high- ing to a cablegram made public her. hires s,” says the highways secretary. up” and delivered, Free. pe ee ee Peace Prices Cigarettes or Tobacco Solid Silver, Leather and Metal Cigarette Cases Plain and Fancy Cigarette Holders ill Folds Confections Gift Boxes HOUSE — All articles wrapped in Holly Tissue and “dolled y, Sl! bats SMEOOTLLSOMOI TLIO ES, Address Wm. H.! 3h) aie | CVSCMRGED SOLDERS MAY RETHN UNO LWA SENTENCED 70 ~ NORWAY WOULD 000 | 16 YEARS M BLU LEAGUE OF NATIONS. BILLINGS, Mont.—J. A. Griffich, | CHRISTIANA, Dec. RPE, Baker informed Chairman. ay iL W. W. organizer, convicted by, agian leaders in silence, politics and! of the house military committee th he in district “court las week of business have formed a society for|the war department had decided a _ to sixteen years at hard labor in the | Jemeeeatic of Nepoon- eit ee state penitentiary by Judge A. C.|sen, the famous Arctic explorer and) "| Spencer. Counsel for the defense scientist, has been elected’ president | gave notice of appeal. A motion for/of the society, In his introductory | (BY United Press) arrest of judgment was overruled by | addréss, Professor Nansen said: | TOKIO, Nov. 13.—(By Ma Judge Spencer. |’ “The dream of the fraternity of! The marriage of a direct descen ‘| nations. has suddenly come within! of Benjamin Franklin to the daugh- sight. It is the goal of which one of/ter of a retired surgeon in the | the world’s greatest statesmen,|anese army took place when Robert | President Woodrow Wilson, is aim-| Walker Irwin, Jr., married Miss 5... | ing. The reason why America is now/ako Wamtabe. able to make this Utopian dream =| Hundreds “cf frieaas, including GENERAL VON MAGKENSEN sestss": is because the ‘nation is young! many prominent foreign and Jupan- ~ jand healthy. America went into the | ese residents of Tokio, attended a re. /war only to make future wars im-| ception at the bridegroom’s nom¢ fol- ;possible. It will achieve that end.”| lowing the wedding in the Catholic =. ; Cathedral. Irwin's father has beer ently their uniform and over., ‘out they wear when mustered out, i ——— JAPANESE ALLIANCE Gott LONDON, Dec. 14.—Odessa, ths principal port on the Black Sea; 1s} FOR SALE—Thorobre Mammoth} a resident of Japan for almost halj being evacuated by the Germans, ac-; | bronze turkeys, Buff Orpington|a century and is one of the wealth. cording to the official statement from| chickens, Toulouse gees, Pekin} iest foreigners bere. His relatives Berlin. |ducks. Address Mrs. Wm. Keith,| include members of many old Penn, Disarmament of Von Macken’: Casper Ranch Box, Casper, Wyo.!sylvania families. The bride army is proceeding systematically. | Phone 1-F-23. caughter of Lieut. Col. Wan 11-8-4t* IRIS THEATER | TODAY Jesse L. 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