Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 31, 1918, Page 1

Ge © aper Daily Tribune RUSS A 2200000000009 THE DAILY TRIBUNE Reaches a dozen towns of Central Wyoming the same ‘>y it is published, with all 2 news of the da: Te The battleship Nineteen Eighteen is on the rocks. The wind whistles thru her rigging like the wailings of a lost soul. A great hole is in her side. The waves sob in and out, out and in, with a grief that will not be com- forted. Her passengers and crew have donned the life preservers and prayerfully wait the end. Her spars go by the board moment by moment. (By E. Richard Shipp.) CASPER, WYOMING, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1918 THE SHIPWRECK es, {Ki GA She breaks in pieces and sinks to oblivion. At that moment a great peace and quiet descends upon the waters. Her passengers and crew, as in a dream, find themselves on a new, trim and well found cruiser. All the dangers, the horrors, the sufferings are forgotten. Happiness and joy, music and song, dancing and merry-making fill the hours. Nineteen Nineteen sails out of the harbor on her year-long cruise across the unchartered seas. FFAIRS a a ey IN TURMOIL, ALLIED PLIGHT DENIED Anxiety Over Allied | 099909909300090000000 . WILSON LEAVES AFTER SON LEAVES MN AGENT PLAS YONG AD LNDS ONE BURGLIRBOCHE TYRANTS 2 AASAND AFTER TW OTHERS TRAPPED BY AUSE-OF POLICE DETECTIVE PUT 10 DEATH. oosie” ‘ON OCCUPATION FRANCE T0 ASK J MACHINERY AND -2 [By Anmociated Prexs} ON PEACE PLAN STOLEN GOODS FROM TWO STORES; ALL RECOVERED King and Queen at’ Victoria Station to. See President off for Paris (By United Press) | LONDON, Dec. 31.—Presi-| dent Wilson left for France| this morning. A complete un-| derstanding was reached be-| tween Great Britain and the} United States.as a result of his, visit, said the Exchange Telegraph. | President Wilson will remain in Paris until tomorrow night when he goes to Rome to visit the Italian king, the pope and the Methodist | college, returning to Paris next week, 7 DEMONSTRATION MARKS | DEPARTURE OF TRAIN [By Associated Press] LONDON, Dec. 31.—President and Mrs. Wilson left Victoria station at| 9:18 this morning on a special train | enroute to France. King George,| Queen Mary and the Duke of Con-| naught accompanied them to the sta- ton, Premier Lloyd George was on| the platform and saw the president and wife depart. The Scots guards formed a guard of honor and the Trish guards’ band played. Queen Mary chatted with Mrs. Wilson and shook hands with all pres- ent. The king and queen were wav- ing their handkerchiefs and the band played as the train pulled out. It was a dark, rainy morning, but! »wds lined the streets from Buck- ingham palace to the station and! cheered as the procession passed. As Queen Mary and Mrs. Wilson, fol-| lowed by President Wilson and King George, left the waiting room on their way to the royal solon, the band played “Over There.” DOVER, Dec, 81.—President Wil- Son and his party sailed from Dov- er for Calais at 11:20 this morning. 0 HIRSCH ON BUYING TRIP Max Hirsch of the Leader leaves tonight for New York and other Eastern markets to purchase new ‘pring lines for this popular store. The Leader has inaugurated a clean- Up sale to dispose of the old stock 'n order to make room for the new Purchases. The Leader expects to handle @ greatly increased volume of business during the coming year and sal add several more to the sales ‘orce, Cliff Ellis, Jack Morton and Ed Allen languish in the city jail, vic- tims of a trap baited by Night Ser- eant W. E. Kilgore and the pres- | ence of mind of Chas. Mednick, pro- prietor of the Casper Loan Com- pany, resulting in the capture and recovery. of over $550 in merchan- | | dise stolen from the J. L. Learner- store last Thursday night and $108 in pawned goods taken early Fri- day morning from the loan compa- ny’s Center street establishment. The trio also confessed participa- tion in a series of robberies in east- ern cities. Cliff Ellis, younger o neof the three, allowed his curiosity to get the better of his judgment yester- day and walked into the store of the Casper Loan Company, on Cen- ter street to see if the proprie- | tor, Chas. Mednick, would recog- nize him as one of the men who committed the burglary early yes- | terday morning. Mednick recognized Ellis at once and covered him with a gun until the officers arrived. Ellis was then taken to the jail. At the same time Night Sergeant W. E. Kilgore was working up to a cli- max in the robbery of the J. L. Learner store last Thursday and in his investigation had unearthed evidence to connect Ellis and two unknown persons with the burgla- ry. Kilgore found that the trio were working together but living apart, in local rooming houses. After Ellis’ arrest, Kilgore ar- ranged a decoy note which trapped Ellis into giving the whereabouts of his pals and warned them to leave town. This enabled the of- ficer to gather up all the loose ends of evidence and connect all three with the two burglaries. On being put thru the third de- gree at the jail, two of the prison- ers went thru the ordeal without | breaking, but Allen broke down and made a clean breast of the activi- ties of the trio. He even drew a map showing the location of a cache of booty that the three men had looted from stores in central Illinois while on their way west. The chase had become too hot for them to either carry or dispose of the booty in that state so they hid the stuff intending to return and make use of it later. The informa- tion was immediately wired to the "chief of police in that city and the recovery of the property is in pros- pect. are expected to be cleared up by the present capture. HINDENBURG FAVORS BERLIN OCCUPATION WAR COST U.S. Boishevik Uprisings. OVER EIGHTEE BILLIONS, 1918 Ten Billion for Military Estab- lishment and Two for Navy While Rest Represents Loans to Allies WASHINGTON, Dec. 34,— {It cost the American people $18,160,- 000,000 to run the war govern- ment and make loans to the Al in the year ending today, accord-- ing to computations from the treasury report. Of the eighteen billions probably ten billions went for the army and the general mili- tary establishments d two bil- lions for the navy. That the public has paid only about one-third of the war’s expenses, ex- cluding foreign loans, in taxes and in cash and two-thirds is represent- ed by loans to be repaid in another Lead to Murder in | Silesia, Report LONDON, Dec. 31.—German Field Marshal Hindenburg has telegraphed a Berman industrial magnate, say- ing he would support British occu- pation of Berlin, according to a Ber- lin dispatch to the Daily Mail. LONDON, Dee. 31.—Bolshevism broke out in German Silesia Satur- day, according to. a Berlin dispatch. Striking miners, under menace of loaded rifles, compelled their em- ,Ployers to sign “‘all sorts of docu- | ments,” the dispatch says, There has generation, is indicated by the treas- | ury figures. With the last four days of the year, not yet tabulated it is shown thet tectipts from taxes, cus- toms and riiscellaneous revenues amounted to #4,600,000,000 of which $2,900,009,000 came from excess ! profits taxes. 1 been murdering and pillaging. Siles- ia has been declared a Bolshevist re- public. AMSTERDAM, Dec. 31.—-Saxon classes of 1886 to 1899 have been called to the colors because of fear of a Czech invasion, says a Chemnitz dispatch. BERLIN, Dec. 31.—The German army command has telegraphed the eastern command protesting against giving arms to the Bolsheviki, declar- ing this a violation of the armistice and likely to lead to a renewal of war. BOLSHEVIKS OF ONE CITY PLANT BOMBS TO KILL Murder of Philadelohia Pros-| ecutors thru Use of T. N. T. Explosives Attempted but No Lives Are Lost [By Associated Prean} PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 31.— Shrapnel shells loaded with T. N. T. were exploded last night in the homes of three men prominent in public life here. There was con- siderable property destruction, but no one was killed. Revenge against judicial and po- lice authorities for enforcing the law against sedition and display of the red f this city, the police said, fur: the motive. etihe ease Clumsy Cheating kaiser said. fears I'm now compgiled to feel; I stacked the y | And then mp i The up the deal!” Numerous other robberies ' | | | POSEN, IS CLAIM Polish Request for Use of Railroads to. Vilna Refused by) the Germans | LONDON, Dec. 31.—Polish| forces in control of Posen have} executed several German officers, disarming others. They also cut) all communication with Berlin. a | LONDON, Dec. 31.—Germany has refused to accede to the demand | of the Poles that Polish troops be | permitted to use the railroads from | the Polish border to Vilna, according to Warsaw advices. The Berlin gov- ernment based its refusal on the ground that permission from the en- tente nations is necessary BOLSHEVIKS WOULD ANNEX LITHUNIA TO SOVIET NATION STOCKHOLM, Dec. 31.—-Rus- sian Bolshevik leaders have arrived at Vilna prepared to annex Lithua- |nia to the Soviet republic, PEASANTS REVOLT AGAINS THE SOVIET GOVERNMENT PARIS, Dec. 31.—The attitude of the peasants of the Moscow region is alarming the Lenine government, according to the Petrograd corre- spondent of the Journal. Early in| December, he reports the peasants re-| volted. It was a week before they were subdued, MERCURY TRIES TO HIDE, HITS 21-BELOW MARK; | Three degrees were clipped from | the winter’s cold weather record this morning when the mercury reached | 21 degrees below zero in its efforts to hide in the bulb. The previous ‘record established in November was! 18 degrees below. At 8:30 this morn- ing the temperature was still at the 20 mark, but moderation was noted during the hours following. | Riverton reported 22 below this, ae shameful morning as a new record for the win-| ter and other points confirmed the WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.— Favorable reports on the situ- ation in the Archangel region of Russia, where unofficial ac- sca DEFEATED HUNS allied and American forces as SO Says Pres. Poin- facing destruction at the hands of the Boisheviki in overwhelming num. Care, Who Expects bers, have been given the state de- to Visit America aft ter Peace Meet partment by G. A, Martiuszine who conferred today with Acting Secre- tary of State Polk. His informa- tion showed the situation well in se Hand: PARIS, Dec. 31.—President According to these reports the Poincare of France is planning to visit the United States after the peace conference. He predicted today that the Allies would enter the conference agreed on a basis ‘for for peace. The whole tone of President Poin- ’s interview granted the United was permeated with a friendly ng toward the United States. y must not be permitted to get ahead of us by starting her factories while we are struggling to rebuild our which she destroyed. She must furnish us with inery and mate to rebuild our factories,” he declare Bolsheviks are officered by the Ger- mans and consequently are able to make good use of their artillery and rapid-fire guns, but they have stomach for fighting. no BLACK SEA COAST IN HANDS OF THE ALLIES CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 32 Allied forces now control the Bl. sea coast and the British have oc- cupied Batoum, which is connected by pipe line with the oil center of Bakun, according to an anriounce- ment made here. VOLUNTEERS AND FRENCH ADVANCING TOWARD KIEV CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 31.— A volunteer army and French forces are advancing from Rumania thru BALFOUR CONFERS WITH COLONEL HOUSE TODAY Bessarabia toward Kiev, the Ukrain- _ PARIS, Dec. 31.—Arthur J. Bal- ian capital, according to a report four, British foreign minister, had from Odessa. a conference today with Col. E. M. pe eee Ho! The talk was u sequel to AMERICAN WARSHIPS discussions President Wilson had in ON WAY TO THE BALTIC England with Premier -loyd George COPENHAGEN, Dec. 31.—Ameri-' and Se etary Balfour and had to do can warships, which arrived here with practical details of the peace yesterday, leave this morning fer conference. German ports on the Baltic where = they will take aboard sick Americans, Might Be Lonely—“Look here, The situation in Posen is extreme- now, Harold,” said father to his little ly critical, according to the Vor- son, who was naughty, “if you don’t waerts of Berlin. The German gov- say your prayers you won't go to ernment has been asked to send heaven.” troops there. Secretary Landsberg “I don’t want to go of the Ebert cabinet, has gone to sobbed the boy. Posen to negotiate with the Poles. you and mother. ~ to heaven,” “I want to go with —Pearson’s. WILSON FRAMES REPLY TO VIEWS OF CLEMENCEAU PARIS, Dec. 31.—British Foreign Minister Balfour arrived today and immediately conferred with Colonel House on the details of peace, President Wilson will reply to Premier Clemenceau’s speech of yester- | general belief that the cold wave was | day at the proper time. It is generally understood here that Clemenceau cards for thirty years |general over Wyoming. A return to} is not ready yet to abandon. the balance of power idea. His attitude is not MATERIALS OF d formal temperatures is promised by |Tesarded by Americans as any cause for alarm as Clemenceau is prepared —Washitgton Siar. <he last of the week. |to concede much in the interest of right. , =