Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 21, 1919, Page 1

U Member RUSS SITUATION IS STILL UNDER PROBE OF PEACE MEETING TODAY Memoranda of Five Great Powers Is Submitted to the Supreme Council n. 21.—The peace conference now has the Rus- sian situation under examina- tion while plans for a League of Nations are fast being brot into shape and are expected to be taken under general considera- tion for the first time when the supreme council of the confer- ence reassembles today. ; Latest information was that all the associated governments were prepared for the presentation of their memoranda on the Russian sitastion. President Wilson had in hand this morning memoranda on the subject prepared by the American mission. Th hear the statement of the Russidn| situation which Harold Scavenius, | Danish minister to Russia was pre-| pared to make, Scavenius, it is understood, con- tended more emphatically than did Ambassador Noulens yesterday that intervention into Russia was neces- my to check the regime of terrorism | ere. — PRELIMINARIES HURRIED BY PRESIDENT WILSON PARIS, Jaf. 21.—Following a longfed by their recommendations. a ee conference this morning wherein the/| Russian situation was further dis- cussed the supreme war council re-} sumed its sessions this afternoon in; an effort to clean up the preliminar-| ies and permit the general congress to get underway. It is understood President Wilson was instrumental in speeding up action. It is reported| that the disposal of preliminaries has progressed so far that the full con- gress will be able to consider the big; problems before Saturday. i Preas Repo: e Casper Daily Cribune rts. Aasociated Prens. Lm a Garon casve CAPITAL QUIET AS. LEGISLATORS NUISANCE HERE oo at NARVA IS TAKEN CINN ERINS TO) BY ESTHONIANS: (By The Aanoeinted Press.) LONDON, Jan. '21.—Notable suc- cess has been won against the Bol- DECLARE IRISH d Mn 1890, ed October 9, 1916. Majority Socialists and German Dem- ocrats Triumph in Polls on Sunday |Process if the suggestions that de- {veloped at last night’s council meet. ing are put into effect. The dog: The canine population of Casper} Pr M fs . | | sheviki by Esthonian troops operating aa febouravon@olthrabaqwecding coy to the northeast of Lake Pespus, ac- lcording to the Esthonian official They have taken Narva REPUBLIC. THRU (By Annociated Preas.) council was ready to| have multiplied so rapidly in Casper they have become a menace and & source of trouble to the city. A tax high enough to cause persons who| have dogs that are not valuable dis- posed of is planned for one source Resumption of Business of decreasing the dog populatioz:. There is a city ordinance which’ ON Wednesday with Re- prohibits residents bringing dogs inte | | tum of Solons from! the business district without having the dogs in leash. Hereafter dogs Say . running indiscriminately in the town} Colorado Visit Tonight will be picked up by an official dog | | catcher and impounded awaiting the) | ¢ {Spectal to The Trib payment of the tax, or later disposed | CHEYENNE, Jan. 21 ae the| jof. legislature at Denver today having &/| — —___ jthe capital presents a quiet apnear-| lane A few members remained here| |Back entirely. Tomorrow will se then | i IN DISCUSSION MONDAY | The special train is scheduled to leave} Acting on the suggestions recently | fast Wednesday morning, and the ses.,| good time looking at the Stock show, | to catch up with deferred business. | |and just enough employes were about! jto keep the legislative mill from stop-| back on the job, however, for a steady pull for the balance of the session. ! Denver late tonight—in time to get; | | |the Wyoming folks back for break-| made by The Tribune, the city coun-!.; tart: cil last night in unofficial discussion laser Startsjatilo. | | decided that systematic numbering of | | property in the city had become.a, ne |cessity and some members are going to take it upon themselves to develop an ordinance requiring a complete re- numbering of all property in the city to make it conform with the new regulations that will be adopted. eee ee ordeey dines ae: | for the county divisionists and other | cording to lots instead of under the | members|of.the third house were very)| old system of a change in numbers for | much in evidence when the special train pulled out yesterday at noon. every 12 foot of property front. What! tt is safe to say that in addition to councilmen who have interested them. | the Colorade/anlons\end taking aipesky selves made an. investigation follow- patithe Stockmaharathe legislators will ree * ve-emioothed out many a legisla- | tive bump by‘ tlie time ‘they ‘return. Gbvernor Carey was keenly. dis- |that matters legislative have stopped, | |by a long shot. There will be more| |sum total of committee meetings for |two days. BRITISH DOMINIONS ASK | RECOGNITION IN LEAGUE (By The Ansocinted Press.) PARIS, Jan. 21.—New claims which were characterized in official circles | among the most momentous that, come before the peace confer- | | UNDERTAKING BUSINESS | portant meeting of the state Iand | ernor was‘ obliged ,to forego the pleas One of the largest business deals! 4 iy head yesterday when Todd W. Bow- ! CHAFF Ky HELAY pany the folks to Denver. An_ ini. | 3 GHAMBERLAN COMPANY | board today, however, made his pres | ji | ure. that has been culminated in Casper man of Worland purchased control! Red tape in the office of W. K appointed at not being able to accom; | | ence here of importance, and the gov- ———@q6_-- it, SOLD TO WORLAND MAN | fot several weeks was broucht to a of the undertaking business of the | Chamberlin Furniture & Undertak-| ing company. SHOW IN DENVER ==: on the Reval-Petrograd railway line together with a large number of prisoners. MILITARY RULE 91ST DIVISION ‘M eeting Scheduled UNITS SAILING | FOR HOME NOW Several Already Embarked and| DUBLIN, Jan 31. Probebly ee Others Are on Waiting country exce; = pt Ireland could present List for Transports ea episode as remarkable as the as- sembly of “Daily Eireanne,” which is the Irish gaelic for “Irish Parlia- WASHINGTON, Jan, 218—The| ment,” that will be called to order in transports Conia And Susquehanna! Dublin's ancient mansion house this and the cruiser Frederick are on the) afternoon to proclaim Ireland an in- way home from France with 6,000) dependent republic. About half of Episode in Dublin (By The Ansorinted Press.) troops. | the Sinn Feiners elected to member- |ship in the British parliament will WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.—The! participate, the other half being va-! Twenty-seventh, Thirtieth and Thirty-| rious English prisoners charged with Seventh divisions, including all at-|sedition or merely held on suspicion | tached units are being instructed to} (/Under the provision of the defense War Department announced today. The 102nd trench mortar battery} lin castle, the scene of Field Marshall field artillery of the 91st division al-!tary government. They will meet | Some knotty problems! ready have sailed. All other units! with his tacit consent to take meas-| | will be worked out, and some very! of the 91st are now on priority and! ures which are purely seditious and/| Bavaria. | diligent lobbying will be pulled off—j will be embarked as shipping be-\in direct violation of the explicit | gain a single district in Wurtemburg. comes available. law. MOVEMENT FOR CHARTER CONTROL OF PUBLIG WTILITIES WNITIATED BY COUNCIL IN STATE MEMORIAL Resolution Passed Last Night Calls on Legislature to Enact’Amendment Confernng Rights on Cities of First Class in Wyoming The preliminary step toward municipal control of public utilities in cities of the first class in Wyoming was taken by the city council 2) business interests in the knowl. tion last night when it unanimously adopted the recommendation of Coun- cilman ‘M. L. Bishop that a memorial he had prepared be forwarded to the Natrona county representatives in the state legislature. in Law Violation; Offers Remarkable | | will meet under the shadow of Dub- | PARIS, Jan. 21.—Early re- turns from the German elections are interpreted here to signify a |promising prospect for the estab- lishment of a fairly stable Ger- man administration at an early dato. The Majority Socialists and German Democrats, who are the suc- cessors of the old Radical party, ap- parently will go into the constituent assembly with a big lead over the In- dependent Socialists. Friederich Von Payer, former vice chancellor and leader of Democrats, and the Socialist leaders, Ebert and Schiedemann demonstrated _ their lability to work together in the old Reichstag. They also can count on Konstantin Fehrenbach, Centrist Jeader, as an ally. ELECTIONS BLOCKED |IN RHINELAND TOWNS BERLIN, Jan. 20—(Delayed.) — did not affect the countrywide mar- |gin of the Ebert-Schiedemann Social- The Denver trip does not mean prepare for embarkation home, the! of the realm act, the Sinn Feiners| ists’ result in Berlin. | ? Government Socialists won casily jin Northern Schleswig, one of the ‘discussion of legislative matters vu. of the 27th division and the 316th| Viscount French’s first victory inj first districts to join the revolution. jthe train enroute both ways than the| trench mortar battery and the 346th/ years to give Ireland a purely mili-/ The government carried Bremen, |Hamburg and other districts. Centrists maintained their hold in The Bolsheviki failed to Bolshevist Leader Eichorn w elected in Berlin. Scheidemann w chosen by one Berlin , district. Mathias Erzerberger, Centrist leader, fvas elected in Berlin also. — | POSTMASTER COMPLIMENTED BY ARMY AND NAVY DEPTS. Postmaster J. S. VanDoren is in receipt of a letter from the war and |navy departments congratulating him jon his prompt attention and direc- ion of the postoffice in Casper dur- ing the period of the war. The extra work piled on the local postoffice au thorities during the war period was by no means light, and included | among other things the handling of War Savings and Thrift stamps, in- | volving no end of detail, and the fact that the local management has been complimented by the military goes to substantiate the sentiment of lo-- eeveccccccccccncccsccsceccsccescococece : : Only newspaper in Wyoming : served by both the Associated Press and the United Press NUMBER 79 s- RING STABLE RULE FOR GERN:ANY REGULATION OF MEAT INDUSTRY TO DEMORALIZE OTHERS, CLAIM Armour Takes Stand to Warn Against Enaction of Bills Now in Congress (By The Axsocinted Press.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.—J. Og- den Armour told the House Inter- state Commerce committee today that pending legislation to regulate the meat packing industry was reaction- ary and part of it probably uncon- stitutional, and Warned congress that '“if a monkey wrench is thrown into the gears of this business’ its effects would be felt in many other lines of The Bolshevik succeeded in prevent- industry ing national elections be'ng held Sun- «If the ability of the packing in- day in several Rhineland towns, but dustry to function properly is. im- aid Armour, “it will affect the livestock i try and it in turn will affect corn prices. Wheat will then be drawn in and so will bread and so will labor and so will every- thing that has for its basis wealth pair on which pending legis- lation is based would disrupt great manufacturing and marketing ma- chines which half a century of en- terprise has evolyed and the results would be detrimental not alone to the leading industry of this nation, but even more so that portion of the public which produces and to entire | public which consumes food of the price agreement policy when the hog committee meets January 28th to con- sider the price for February. Referring to high prices Armour said that live hogs had increased 245 per cent in price in the last four years besides labor and fuel increases and denied that the packers’ profits were excessive. LOGAN DENIES HE WROTE SPEECHES FOR HURLEY WASHIN( Logan, Washington | Swift and Co., TON, Jan, 21,—Thomas employe of and other corporations today testified regarding his connec- Chai and relations with Mr. Bowman will devote his entire ence, will be ra: by self-governing |time to the undertaking business, dominions of the British Empire in |which in a town the size of Casper connection with the formation of a “necessitates special handling for prop-| League of Nations, The dominions er service. He has been in the under will ask to be admitted to the league | taking business ever since he was 9 with the status of individual nations, | boy and will maintain the same record| whose sovereignty as far as internal |of efficiency and service given undet | affairs is concerned, shall be recog-|the old management, but with the in- nized by the world, altho the right |creases attendant upon devoting hi: | of Great Britain to control foreign | personal attention to the busines | relations is admitted. Canada, Aus-|The Second street chapel which is tralia, New Zealand and to a lesser | involved in the transfer is one of the the | finest mortuary parlors in the state. it to enter on the same basis as| Mr. Bowman will move here at Belgium. once with his family from Worland. SS |He will be accompanied by his wife’s W. .B Howland and H. V. Raynor |mother and father, Mr. and Mrs.! of Casper have returned from Lara- |Frank D. Helmar. Mr. Helmar is one Weaver, adjutant ‘general for Wy oming, is holding up the proper dis- charge of the Casper Home Guard organization, according to the versior. of local members, “ Ever since the local company dis. banded and received a blanket dis- charge last’*November it has’ been trv- i jing to get a proper individual dis- charge so that the service the men Saw in the home guards will not act as a stigma against them instead of a help. ‘ Military ‘service without a dis- charge is one of the most, objection. able things in the world according to a military man’s point of view. Captain Handbury has repeatedly made requests on the state official and that charter cities had the power to control absolutely its public utilities the councilmen are anxious to have a law passed which would virtually abolish the public utilities depart- ment as a state institution. In order to have the rights of a | homo rule city Casper would have to |be granted a special operating char- jsitate special elections, a constitu- tional amendment or some other dras- | tie change in the state law. self explanatory will.be forwarded to the state legislature: : Whereas: The citizens of the | ter for home rule which would neces- : The following memorial which is| mie, where they spent several days in the interest of the Midwest Re- fining company. lot the old-timers in the state and is la big livestock raiser.in the north- ern part of the state. PORTUGAL PUTS DOWN UPRISING. | OF MONARCHISTS “Government. Official Statemen Master of the Situation” Is t Despite Reports “That Movement-Has Spread [By United Press} LISBON, Jan. 21.—“The government is master of the after considerable delay Has had them partly acceded to; The latest angle came in the request that all discharges issued by the: local~commander be forwarded to the state office for the counter signature of ‘Mr. Weaver. | This would necessitate a great delay and in all likelihood, would mean that many. of the home,guard members | never would receive their individual) discharges, : EXTRA SESSION.) OF CONGRESS 18 LIKELY MAY 20 an extra session about May 12th, it was indicated today. . city of . Casper, Wyoming, and other cities in Wyoming similarly situated, are at the mercy of the Public Service Corporations, who make excessive charges for inade- quate and intermittent service, and Whereas: The present method of handling grievances thru the Utilities Commission of the State of Wyoming, is unsatisfactory and Casper. Be it Resolved: spoztfully. request the States Legis- lature of the State of Wyoming, now.in session in the city of Che: enne};) Wyoming, to enact legisla- tion: conferring on the several cities of .the State of Wyoming, power'to inspect, regulate and con- trol their Public Service Corpora- tions, to the end that such public service corporations may receive 8 fair’and just return upon their in- “|! vestments, and tho public receixe adequate, efficient and economical aia especially so in cities of the size of | That we re- | Actuated by the recent ruling of the Colorado Supreme court edge that any shortcomings that have Hur of the shipping come to light may be laid at the door other officials before the jof Postmaster General Burleson, riculture committee consi: whose reputation as an executive has lation to regulate the meat indu dropped to zero in this immediate He said he informed his employers vicinity. WOULD-BE SLAYERS OF OIL KING (By United Press) | on the lives of John D. Rockefeller and his son, planned by anarchists shortly after the beginning of the European war, was described to (By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. | sage of the $100,000,000 food ap- | propriation which President Wil- | som asks is menaced in the Senate. | i | y 21.—Pas- Hostility crystallized in a series of speeches wherein senators de nounced Herbert Hoover. In re- buttal Senator Hollis, Democrat, charged an attempt to humiliat: President Wilso: id the R: publicans were conducting a poison ges attack on the entire Demo- cratic war record. Senator Johnson said he sympa- thized with the European poor but would not support the appropria- tion as he believes the fund will be used ilize pork prices to | WASHINGTON, Jan, 21.—Plots | KILLED BY BOMB MEANT FOR HIM ‘:: the senate propaganda investigat- ing committee today by Thomas of the probable Herbert Hoov appointment of food administrator three d it was announced, but th ined the information thru intimacy with public affairs and not thru confidential r ions with officers. aid he made suggestions to speeches the latter was chairman of the shippi ed that he wrote for Hurley. He said to n board, book of speech Tunney, police inspector of New ut a le dinner for | York, who said the plotters were ) the latter left the Fed- | killed by the explosion they made mmission, in addition | to kill the Rockefellers. to bein udviser to six corporations of $ he condue The witnes: ‘OPPOSITION TO EUROPEAN RELIEF BILL CRYSTALIZES IN SENATE ondence agency apers and maga- for several newsp zines. His principal clients, besi Swift and Company, he added, were the Standard Oil Company of Indiana, the Genera! Electric Company, the Freeport Sulphur Company and the | Atlantic Refining Compan. FRENCH WOMEN WOULD PUNISH _ HUN CRIMINALS | Petition Addressed to Peace Congress Seeks | the American packers from | | Condemnation as Criminals of situation,” says an official statement issued today on the con-| | “service. spiracy to restore the monarchy with former: King Manuel on the throne. “The monarchial movement led by Captain Con- ceiro centered in Oporto, Braga and Vissu, despite former King Manuel’s opposition.” MADRID, Jan. 21.—It is reported that martial Iaw has been proclaimed thruout Portugal.’ It is rumored that Spain possibly may intervene. War- ships were: gent to Oporto, the Mon- archist strejighold: ” ’ a ‘The Associated Prewd:) MADRID, Jan. 21.—A Monarchist movement in: Portugal headed by ————— | Paiva Conceiro has been successful jin northern Portugal and a govern- cording to a report received by the Spanish government from the gover- nor of Pontevedra in yorthwestern Spain. ‘ 4 mH The report adds that. Lisbon is be- lieved to have joined the moyement, ment has been formed at Oporto, ac-|’ BIG INCREASE __ IN_LIVESTQCK VALUE IN 1918 WASHINGTON, Jan, 21—Live-| (yo penta oe Sanens eee stock on the farms and ranges Jan-| | ‘ed by i heat, official duties vary, 1 wag valued at $8,830,204,000| ined bY Ten ea ee Wyoming in an estimate, made public by the de-|, Pinte te etait yesterday, Gov partment of agriculture .today, an in- Gears: Heaven. at 8:80 -c’slock laa SOF BAS ORGANO quar. a: Yeas this‘afternoon: for the Colorado, me- Lago. ‘ GOV.'CAREY ON “DENVER VISIT SF tropolis. 45,000 METAL WORKERS WALK OUT IN STRIKE SEATTLE, Jan. 21\—Fo#:y-five thousand union metal workers in the shipyards here and at Tacoma struck today in protest againet the govern- ment board’s refusal to increase wages. Those Who Defiled Homes [By Asnociated Press] | PARIS, Jan. 21.—French women today addressed a petition to jmembers of the peace conference asking justice in the name of thou- sands of women, young girls, and children who were systematically \torn from their families and subjected fo various forms of ill-treatment at the hands of the Germans during the war. The petition adds: * “In order forever to prevent the recurrence of such atrocities, we ask those’ that executed them and those ordering them be condemned as criminals of common law.”