Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 7, 1919, Page 1

} CIVIL WAR RAGING tN BERLIN THE DAILY TRIBUNE paches a dozen towns of Central Wyoming the same day it is published, with all the news of the day Coaccccccccccoccccccccccccces: The Casper Daily Only newspaper in Wyoming served by both the Associated Press and the United Press VOLUME 3. CASPER, WYOMING, TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1919 “NUMBER 67 GAS SERVICE BY SEPTEMBER 1 IS Contracts Preliminary Step Toward Installation of Service in Casper gas for heating purposes this week brought to the people of Casper; the first immediate prospects of securing this valuable asset to the city | since the great strikes at Iron Creek and Poison Spider, easily accessi-| ble to the city, made this program possible. Frank G. Curtis of this city and Harry P. Hynds of Cheyenne are forming this new concern, which is designed to furnish the city with fuel gas and also build a gas pipeline to the Iron Creek and Poison; Spider domes to connect with the} big gas wells there. The Casper Gas| company, thru incorporation plans, ; secures the gas franchise for the city|fuel purposes already is acclaimed by | that originally was granted to Harry|many residents who have enjoyed its P. Hynds. ‘benefits and convenience elsewhere | Contracts are now being signed by|and because of the fact that there is the citizens of Casper whereby the | no finer fuel being clean fuel gas is to be furnished to resi- dence and business properties at 50/| cents a thousand feet. At this rate according to the leaders in the enter- prise, fuel bills will be reduced about | i one-half. With fuel gas at 50 cents a thousand the average home will be: heated for about $8 to $10 a month the year round, including the opera- tion of a stove, say company officials. | Prominent observers, _ including’ those in touch with industrial” pros- pects, believe that a gas supply will Cause the city to double its popula- tion in five years’ time and to reach 50,000 inside of ten years. Glass factories and other interests stand ready to establish plants here if gas distribution becomes a reality and with this virtually assured predictions are held out that it means material increases in property values in addi-j tion to unprecedented growth and development. Thru this means, it is claimed, fuel gas will be a friend to the electric, light company, in that no good} householder will abandon electricity | for lighting and the industrial activ- urged to contract immediately in that it will assist materially in pressing the enterprise to an early and certain success. The opportunity to obtain gas for are to be anticipated in securing ing the next nine months. Oh. G W, THOMAS DEATH GOMES. AS PROJECTED HERE Incorporation of Company:and Offering of Incorporation of the Casper Gas Company and the contracting of | ARMY AVIATORS MAINTAIN VIGIL FOR ROOSEVELT No Hymns, No Sermon, But Simple Service to Mark Funeral of Former President; Hush Steals Over Oyster Bay OYSTER BAY, Jan. 7.—With flags at half mast, arrange- ments for unostentatious funeral services for Colonel Theodore Roosevelt are being perfected. Over Sagamore Hill, army air-| planes from Hazelhurst Field have maintained a vigil, occasion- ally dropping wreaths of laurel among the Elms near the | mansion. | | Final Bloodshed of Revolution, Says Bolshevik Procla- mation Issued ‘nited rea u COPENHAGEN, Jan. 7.—Civil | war has broken out in Berlin ke-' 3! tween the Bolsheviki and govern- iment forces. Complete anarchy ‘reigns in Berlin. Thousands of workers are fighting in the strects. ~The rattle of machine guns is ‘heard thruout Berlin. | The Bolsheviki barricaded them- | selves in many public buildings |and hold all the banks. Lieb-| {knecht and Rosa Luxemburg and two Russian envoys are directing | operations from the central police |,” | station. Independent socialists have | joined the Bolsheviki, issuing the, following joint proclamation: “Today the final fight for the| revolution will be fought.” Rival elements in big demon- strations carried placards reading | “down with the government, | down with the Bolsheviki.” The Bolsheviki then massed i in! the Tiergarten and Zoological I. 0.0. OPPOSED TO GOVERNMENT HAIL O/ERATION “Reasonable Period 3:\t Readjustment” Is Recommended P. Zor to Return to Priv- ate Ownership and Control in State- ment Submitted Today; McAdoo to Stay at Post Until Successor’s A ppoint- ment sree WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.—Opposition to government ownership and operation of the railroads at this time was expressed by an inter- state commerce commission statement presented to the Senate Inter- state Commerce Committee at a hearing today on railway legislation by Commissioner Edgar Clark. The commission declared, however, \that “‘a reasonable period of readjustment for preparation should be [allowed before relinquishment of federal control.” we can all the arguments for and against the ethane: WE a say the | tiohe ee with the RERGEA of ap- propriate provisions and safeguards BACK IN RANK for regulations under private owner- ship, it would not be wise or best at this time to me government ownership or of tion of the rail- (By Associated Presn} WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. “Ot 71,114 wound and injury cases tabulated in the American expeditionary hospi ways of the coun sioner Wooley — diss commendation ag: jcontracts that will place the supply} {within reach of Casper residents dur-| were driven from Lubachofr, north- | Some places are closed. Few mourn-| ‘RUTHENIANS TO BATTLE POLES NEAR LEMBERG:! [By Ansociatea Presr } LONDON, Jan. 7.—Ruthenian and| troops have surrounded Lemberg, | Cemetery. The Colonel }simple to use, no serious obstacles | which is defended by Poles, accord-| among fir trees on the crest of al ing to a Central News Bureau dis-| patch from Copenhagen, The Poles | west of Lemberg. DIES AT 6 TODAY DOUBLE PNEUMONIA HASTENS: END oJ SHOCK TO CITY Week’s Illness from Influenza Takes Critical Turn! »remen Monday With Death Early This Morning; Funeral | Arrangements to Await Arrival of Relatives The funeral will be simple. There | | will be a prayer service at the house, | | attended only by relatives, At 12.45 Wednesday the Protestant Episcopal | service will be read at Christ church. Where will be no music, no eulogy |; and no honorary pall bearers. Mrs. | Roosevelt has requested that no flowers be sent. Present and former | employes of the Roosevelt estate| | probably will carry the coffin. Burial | will be made in Young’s Memorial will lie t | knoll overlooking Oyster Bay cove. There is a hush over the village. | | ers have arrived. ly Roosevelt lay not in state with a \military guard of honor but like the humblest private citizen in the sor-! rowful calm of his own house with none but his own folks to look upon his face. The house looked-desolate, The blinds were drawn and a bit of crepe flapped in the wind. The leafless trees added to the atmosphere of j sadness, Meanwhile expressions of grief poured in by cables and telegrams from world’s greatest men as well as pecre from his poorest admirers. ‘he death mask of Roosevelt was aa this morning, also minute meas- ts for use in designing sta- tues and busts. His widow is stand- ing the strain well. A “mourning airplane’’ flying over | Gveter Bay dropped a wreath on the ouse. The casket was delivered at | lass house today and the body placed) jis at a standstill. Women sup-| | government. \of the arden. Shots were fired and| Righting began. The Bolsheviki seized all telegraph offices. Shops are closed and business| centage of adsathsiis is pla ced at 8.9. porters of both factions are par-| ticipating in the street fighting. Hundreds of persons are fleeing from Berlin. The latest telephone messages said the government! | forces were planning to storm the | central police station. The central offices of the Wolff! Bureau, the {(semi-ofticial news agency, last night informed the Copenhagen office that “central {Berlin has been occupied. Send jtelegrams to Frankfort temporar- lily.” Previous dispatches report- ed that the Bolsheviki had seized ithe Wolff Bureau and the principal Berlin newspapers, including the} Vorwaerts. | (By United Pr Prenny || WARSAW, Jan. 7.—Prince Sapicha | obtained control of the Polish gov- ernment by a coup d’etat yesterday | with the object of establishing a coalition (Ot ae BRITISHERS | l _ RUSSIA COMING HOME, IS CLAIM (By United Pi Presn) LONDON, Jan. 7.—The British | REVOLT LAUNCHED IN DEMONSTRATION Associated Press.) BERLIN, Jan. 7.—The Sparta-| cus Group is engaged today i Aa al big demonstration against the) Tens of thousands| followers of Liebknecht | between January 15 and October 15, Continuation of government control 1918, 85 3-10 per cent have recover. #nd advocated the adoption of Direc- ed and returned to duty, the war) tor Generals McAdoo’s suggestion for | office today announced. ‘The per-, #7 extension of federal management. The commission presented a detail- ed program of proposed le lation in case the railroads are returned to | Strict regulation by government of rates, services, finance, security is- sues and the pooling of facilities, and 4 aves sification of doubtful relations | federal and State authority. POLARD, REPORT WASHINGTC . 7,—This was W. G. MeAdoo’s last day in Wash- ington as director general of the rail- roads. He has planned to leave to- night for Santa Barbara, California, for a vacation of seve months. Owing to the President’s delay in naming a successor, McAdoo will con- coalition ministry, His generals re- | tinue to super using the tele- fused to make it a complete revolu-! graph between Santa Barbara and tion, inducing Sapicha to a limited’ Washington. ‘The impression prevails object. Sapicha is now endeavoring that the President will not aame his to induce Paderewski to accept the, successor till he returns to the United States next month. a MIGRATORY BIRD LAW NOT LEGAL, TRIBUNAL RULES Ww ASHINGTON, adn eral migratory bir in effect declared preme Court toc n. 7.—The fed- w of 1913 ulid by the ity and growth to result from the use of gas will greatly increase demands for lighting current.’ While it remains for the Public Service Commission to fix the fuel gas rate, gas company officials be-- lieve it fair for the public to pledgé| a price of 50 cents a thousand feet | that it may lay out its necessary business program. The cost of piping and equipping this city for fuel gas and construct- ing the pipeline to Iron Creek and Poison spider will cost the greater} part of a million dollars, it is esti- mated, and it is planned to complete| this work by September ist. erty owners and tenants are being AMERICAN LEAGUE OF NATION'S PLAN BARED Death struck sadness to a large circle of Casper’s busi- jn it. It is of severely plain design. ness, professional and social life today when it claimed Dr. SEES Prop-| |C. W. | week, home at Kirk and Lincoln, monia, superinduced by influenza. Pending the arrival of his father, who left Douglas, Kansas,, imme- ) diately upon notification of his son’s ;untimely end, no funeral arrange-. | ‘ments will be made. Altho taken ill with a cold a week 12B0 Sunday, Dr. Thomas was able | to be at his office the following day and administered treatment to a few patients at that time. The next day “Arbitration. of Inte rnational Disputes Would Be Compulsory, If Necessary; Great Britain Is in Agreement [By Associated Prem] PARIS, Jan. 7.—What it calle the American plan for a! from the iCentralRoversy Powers. Fe ode Nations is outlined t not only h ted the : iy has accep’ joday by the Paris edition of the Daily Mail. The paper says the British government plan, but is prepared to go much | The framework of the American scheme, according to the Mail, follows: ie working organization would ‘be located in a small) country such as Belgium or Hi Each nation shall send one ambassador who also will be| a member of' the cabinet of his jolland. country. . Thomas after an illness that had its inception a week | ago Sunday and gave cause for no alarm until Monday of this PRESIDENT CABLES Death occurred at 6 o’clock this morning at the family and was caused by double pneu- | The ambassadors would sit continuously and would act in agreement with their home government. , The court of the League of Nations would be subordinate _ to and distinct from the ambassadors. Arbitration in case of disputes would be voluntary if de-| sired and compulsory if necessary. case of refusal & arbitrate, the league would appoint | some 0 of ste) members to exercise pressure. CONSOLENCE TODAY (By Untted Prean) + PARIS, Jan. 7.—President Wilson | rat cabled Mrs. Roosevelt as follows: “Pray accept my heartfelt sym- pathy on the death of your distin- he was confined to his home thereafter he was quite sick, altho| ‘his condition carried no foreboding of the grim specter of death. Monday suished sore BER of which it was realized that he was critically} Frente, wast decaly. checked) iat ill but notwithstanding efforts of phy- sicians\to ward off congestion of the lunes, he expired before the break of day, (Continued To Page 8.) Roosevelt’s death, as tho she had lost | one of her own greatest statesmen. FRIENDS ONLY TO TAKE PART IN SERVICES (By Ansocinted Presn} | NEW YORK, Jan. 7.—Explaining | that it was the Colonel’s wish that | his funeral be conducted “entirely | by those friends among whom he had lived so long and happily,” Captain | Archibald Roosevelt today declined | on behalf of the family the offer by | the Secretary of War to furnish an | escort of United States troops at the funeral tomorrow. NEW YORK CITY TO STOP ALL INDUSTRY IN TRIBUTE NEW YORK, Jan. 7.—As a part of plans for paying a last tribute to I TALY TO ASK 45 BILLIONS we" h'm. tomorrow, the time ap- FROM ENEM Y| proximately set for committal of the former President’s body to his last | a resting place, for a period of at least ROME, Jan, 7.—It is reported that one minute, not a wheel would turn | Italy will ask a 40,000,000 indemnity as i | | | | anywhere in greater New York, Bells will be tolling. \WICKERSHAM IS SEATED TODAY BY BOLSHEVIKS | |. WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. — The| | House today seated Wickersham, Re- | publican, as Alaskan delegate to re- | place Sulzer, Democrat. {By Associated Press} Associated ited Press i;have been parading the Unter Den Linden and Brandenbergerstrasse. Wilhelmstrasse from the Unter [Den Linden to below Leipsigstrasse jis packed full of government sym- | pathizers. Hundreds of youths! jand other civilians of the Sparti- jcan ranks are carrying rifles and fist fighting occurred at the corner of Wilhemstrasse and the Unter Den inden, where the Bolshevik demonstrations took away their! |opponents’ standards. The Spar-! tacans took up a stand in open or- der in front of the Hotel Adlon! with their rifles but there was no firing. Spartacan marchers, with the exception of workmen from cer- tain factories, comprise the scum! of the city and four-fifths of the whole number are bedraggled, women and young girls. RUSS BOLSHEVIKS DIRECTING REVOLT vik mission to Germany, are in Berlin assisting Dr. Liebknecht land Rosa Luxemburg in some- fomenting a Bolshevik revolution. PRESIDENT BACK MEET TO START Press) PARIS, Jan, Ts esPresident Wilson returned to aPris at 10 o’clock this government has not th? slightest in tention of sending any more troop OREGON UNDECIDED ON COPENHAGEN, Jan. 7.—Joffe| and Radek, leaders of the Bolshe-! to Russia, it was announced today Not more than 20,000 British troops jare in Russia today, a number of | Which are non-combatant, and th }are neing brot back as quickly possible. ROAD OR STATUE PLAN FOR SOLDIER MEMORIAL PORTLAND, Or.—-Whether Ore- fsron’s memorial to her sailors who fought over a “Victory Road” Mt. Hood, or or whether a statute LUDENDORFF IS RECLUSE, CLAIM (By United Presn) STOC KHOL M, Jan. 7.—General Ludendorff is living incognito like a | recluse on a Swedish farm. He re- from where in t . shlal take ane form of or column erected to tre memory of the fighte s the ques- | fuses to see visitors, tion now vexing the Victory Me:no- ——----— rai association, This organization | The first woman to be honored with was former to determine in whit |the Freedom of the City of London manner the State might best do was tha celebrated philanthropist, the honor to her soldier and sailor boys Baroness Burdett-Coutts. in the great war, HUNS SUPPORT PEACE LEAGUE Bernstorff Working on Data for Conference Says League Is Only Means of Lim- iting Armaments of Warfare LONDON, Jan. 7.—Count von Bernstorff, former Germa: ambassador to the United States, is working every day at the German foreign office preparing data for the peace conference, according to a Berlin dispatch to the Daily Express. To the | correspondent Bernstorff said he had endorsed a League of Nations. He said in it he sees the only way to prevent war by limitation of armaments. — “We,entirely agree with Premier 1B ‘LONDO Riga was captured January 4th by sian wireless received here. | thonia, the Bolsheviki are marching no Reval and have reached Chario-; | tenoff, about 30 miles east and south- east of Reval. , Jan, 7,—The TDort of | the Bolsheviki, according to a Rus-| In Es-| The Baltimore American wants to/! jknow whether the Crown Prince re-|' nounced or not. If he did, it was a case of subtracting mothing from nothing and having nothing left. Houston Post. morning from Italy. He will plunge Lloyd Geérge and want to get rid of immediately into final preliminaries universal military service,” he said. of the peace conference. | Bernstortf thinks the German as- A joint conference of the Ameri-| sembly will meet January 23, but ean, British, French and Italian dele- believes the government will be firm gations, which will constitute the enough to deal with the situation. real peace congress, probably will get “They will only have to shoot underway next week. once,’ ”’ he said, discussing the sub-| ject. “It is unthinkable that the former emperor or any member of his fam- ily will again rule over Germany,” he said. Asked if there was danger in William Hohenzollern being so near in Holland, the Count replied: “Where the hell were we to send him?” i | een ee