Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 21, 1919, Page 2

Page 2 The Casper Daily Tribune issued every evening except Sunday at Casper, Natrona county, Wyo. Publl-, cation offices: Oil Exchange Building. BUSINESS TELEPHONE........... 15 Enter at Casper (Wyoming) Postoffice 4s second-class matter, Nov. 22, 1916. MEMBER THE ASS REPORTS FROM THE i EB. HANW R. EB. B. EVA BARL_B HANWA J. B. GRIFFITH. THOS. DAILY....Ad CIATED PRESS UNITED PRESS S, City Editor. Business Manager ssociate Editor ising Manager Advertixing Representatives { David J. Randall, 341 Fifth Ave, | New York City. Higgins, 314 Century Denver, Colo SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall or Carrier Ray Bldg, | | One Year $7.80 | Six Month: 3.90 One Month 5 — Per Copy D 105 No sueceiption by mall accepted for less period than three months. All subscriptions must be paid in ad- vunce and The Daily Tribune will not insure delivery after subscription be- comes one month in arrears. Member of the Asnocinted Press The Associated Press is: exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. | ONLY FOUR MONTHS MORE The countri is now definitely voted dry. More than the requisite three- fourths of the states have ratified the federal prohibition amendment. Others will ratify it during the next It is not likely that more than half a dozen few weeks for good measure. will withhold their approval. Tho amendment does’ not become immediately operative. It into effect one year after ratifica- tion. That means a little more than one year from the present time, be- cause the dated at the time ‘the secretary is to go ratification is officially of state receives formal notice from the state governments. This constitu- tional amendment, therefore, must wait until February or March, 1920, for fulfillment. Actually, tho, "the whole country will be dry long before that, as a re- sult of the congressional act which becomes effective July 1, this year. That act provides only for prohibi- tion until tho army is demobilized, but it is hardly possible that the de- mobilization will be completed before Actual- ly, then, the liquor traffic has only a little more than four months’ lease of life. Wet states and will probably make the most of it. the amendment is effective. wet communities The more they make of it, the gladder most people will be when it is all over and the nation can settle down to a period of permanent sobriety. — a COVERING THE NEWS Readers and subscribers of Daily Tribune elaborate The may have noted the rrangements that this pa- per has made for a complete report ef the deliberations of the Fifteenth State Legislature now in session in Peowwone will be inter- ested in this assembly and it is a source of pride to The Tribune to be in a position to furnish this city with every detail worth mentioning. dentally Inci-, service of this kind don’t grow on trees but nothing is too goed | for Casper. Another innovation of The Tribune | n and some- | during the present se: | should have a tendency | | thing whic to advertise the city to great extent is that every day when the s take their seats of The | put on their desk for perusal and in- te solon S$, a COPY | | Daily Tribune will have been spection. In seventeen states of the Union| commissions are preparing to codify their child welfare laws. It is hoped that the laws may be unified and har- dy foree them and paving the way for 4 the tecting the child. This is the mori making it possible to en- passing of additional laws. pro- only a step, but it is taken in right direction. There are still too many states that are doing practically nothing to conserve health and education for the child—and in the states where such welfare laws , have been passed, they are frequent- ly confusing and contradictory. They have been passed at different times with co-ordination. no attention to uniformity or The Kentucky laws are an example of That one law providing + such confusion. state has nermal the | ages of 7 and 12 shall attend school all rm children between and including thruout the school term unless taught at home. ‘There is another law for-- bidding the employment of children under 14, years of age. The 13-year-| old ‘child, therefore, is left unguard- ed.. He can work, but he need not, THE CASPER‘ DAILY TRIBUNE attend school. So far as the state is concerned, apparently, he is free to run the streets. The Texas laws are in a similar There is a mother’s pension | law supposed to enable children of! | muddle. needy parents to remain in sehool up to the age of 15. But the labor law, papers at 14, thus| thwarting the honest working of the pension law. sues working In New York state a} boy may become an itinerant boot- established bootblack until 14. He may peddle papers at 12, but can peddle no other line under 16. While the very laws designed to protect the child are so at variance it is little wonder that the selfish! and grasping employer should exploit childhood to the limit. Uniform, and | enlightened state laws will help to | clarify public understanding. of the situation and its needs. Enlightened | public opinion will hasten the day of uniform interstate or national laws. ! -——-0. The Jack Pot | I'd like to be a Bolshevik, The oily, woolly kind; I'd let my whiskers grow and reek; I'd abrogate my mind. Vd give my brothers all the banks | (I'd keep the coin myself) ; I shouldn’t work for gold or thanks I shouldn’t need the pelf). I'd blow up all aggressors and | Assassinate the meek. I'd have a peaceful, happy land Were 1 a Bolshevik. { —Chiecago Tribune. * The members of the house of rep- vesentatives elected their tallest man temporary speaker, the Hon. A. S.| Mercer of Big Horn county. And then they turned around and elected the| keenest-witted permanent, speaker, the Hon. E. J. Sullivan of, Big Horn county. was in it right from the start.—| | Laramie Republican. * man Big Horn county! All the world’s a stage, and the movie camera’ is filming every act. Pictures were taken the other day in Berlin of the Red battle. Well, there is nothing like the pictures to show up bad actors. * * When the country goes dry will automobile tourists have to run their cars with steam, or can they get “it,” at the druggist’s if they have a phy- sician’s prescription? | area ee | Today’s Events ! 2 The new British parliament will meet today to begin the work of or- ganization. After-war problems of reconstruc- tion will occupy much attention at the hands of the Quebee Provincia)| legislature which assembles today. OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS, BOARD OF COUNTY? IMISSIONERS January 6th, 1919 * Office of the County Clerk, State of Wyoming P ss. County of Natrona 3 Board of County Commissioners in Sir Wilfrid Laurier will be the chief, 824 for Natrona County, Wyoming, speaker at a meeting called for To. | met this 6th day of January, 1919, Ontario Liberal association. |nonto today to organize the Centra)! there being present The annual convention and exhi-| |black at any age, tho he cannot be an bition of the Maine State Poultry as- | sociation will open at Portland today jand continue until the end of the week. | Robert A. Cooper will be formally jinducted into the office of governo: | of North Carolina today in succes- sion to Richard I, Manning. A military parade and elaborate) ceremonies will attend the inaugura- tion of Governor Hobby and other state officers in Texas today. Fifty thousand dollars has beer! appropriated for the inaugural cere- monies incident to the induction of William C. Sproul into office as gov. ernor of Pennsylvania today. Post-war problems and the political outlook will be discussed at ference of the Woman’s Democratic League to be opened to- day in Washington, D. C. Twelve thousand birds will be dis- played at the thirtieth annual shov. of the New York Poultry and Pigeon association, to be opened today on Square Garden. | A nation-wide conference has been called to assemble in Kansas City to. day to discuss the concentration of the efforts of highway association. throughout the United States and the establishment of a national system of highways. Conventions opening today: Denver—American National Stock Association. Portland, Ore.— Oregon Retai. Hardware and Implement Dealers’ As. s Live | sociation. Dallas.—_-Texas Hardware and Im- plement Dealers’ Association. Denver.—Colorado Editorial Assu | ciation. Denver.—Mountain States Lumber Dealers’ Association. Philadelphia.— Master House Paint-! 2rs and Decorators of Pennsylvania. Chieago.—National Pickel Packers Association. St. Louis.—Mississippi Valley Im-| plement and Vehicle Dealers’ Asso- ciation. Buffalo.—Retail Lumber Dealers’ Association of New York. oe = Year Ago in War a * Widespread strikes favoring peace} and protesting against food shortage in Austria. Sir Edward Carson resigned from the Brfitish War Cabinet in anti pation of the findings of the cor vention on Irish Home Rule. | t Today’s Birthdays | ee cy Surgeon General Sir George Ryer. son, founder and président of the Ca. nadian Red Cross, born 65 years ago today. Admiral Sir Henry B. Jackson, for- mer First Sea Lord of the British o + 8 | Admiraity, born 64 years ago today. : . James J. Storrow, the Boston Herb Hoover told two German banker who served as Federal Fue, food-robbers in ‘Belgium to go to Administrator for New England, was h—— with his compliments, and they} born in Boston, 55 years ago’ today 2 Frederick Madison Smith, head 0: | promptly returned to Germany.—|tne Reorganized Church of tesse| Washington Post. Christ of Latter Day Saints, Mr. Paderewski, who is an adept pounding the ivory, should be able direct the heads of the Bolsheviki to some at to in better purpose.- Newton Kansan. | Not having Senator Chamberlain's of information, failed to detect all that military incompetence which eurees Ger: ny American the ew Senator is still talking about.— York World. * In his talk at the banquet in honor of President Wilson, said that the American people “speak King George the tongue of Shakespeare and Mil-| ton.” In the main we do, but we © added a few words and phrases that make Shakespeare and Milton scratch their heads and look would around with a nobody-home expres- sicn on their faces.-Arkansas Ga- zette. —— | | In the Day’s News | A Mitchell Palmer, who is said tc be slated to succeed Mr. Gregory as attorney gencral of the United States! E rved during the war with Ger. many as alient property custodian, | ‘under the Trading-With-the-Enewy Act. Mr, Palmer is a Pennsylvanian ond first made his mark ia public life as a representative in congress from the Keystone state. During the two terms in the house he displayed much ability in dealing with problems of finance und revenue production, which was natu in view of his previous experience as a banker and, trader. In 1915 he was appointea judge of the Federal Court of Claims and held the office for a few months. “A Quaker by early training, he de- clined the post of secretary of wat when it was offered to him by Presi- dent Wilson in 1913 at a time when the first cabinet was being made up. ‘ born; at Plano, Ill, 54 years ago today. | Francis E. McGovern, former gov. ernor of Wisconsin, born near Elk- hart, Wis., 53 years ago today. Dr. Jam: Henry Morgan, presi, dent of Dickinson College, born near, Concord, Del., 62 years ago today. ee eA > | Today Ss Anniversaries es 1689—Daniel Henchman, who estab- lished the first paper mill in New England, born in Boston, Died there Feb. 26, 1761. | 1802—Franeis E. Spinner, Unitea| States Treasurer under Lin- coln and Grant, born at Mo hawk, N. Y. Died at Jack- sonyille, Fla., Dec. 31, 1890. King Oscar II. who ruled ove: Sweden for nearly 35 years, born in Stockholm. Died there Dec. 8, 1907. 1890—Funeral of Field Marshal Lord Napier of Magdala was hele 1829—1 at St. Paul’s Cathedral, Lon- 7 don. 894-—Governor of Florida ordered troops to Jacksonville to stop the Corbett-Mitchell prize, fight. 1915-—-Germans recaptured positions lost to the French in the St Mihiel region. | 1916—Allies announced discovery two German submarine b: at Corfu, Americans ot 1917 for ce honored at great pub-) who died eting in Paris. we SPANISH FLU PASSES OUT IN CHEYENNE CHEYENNE, Wyo. Jan. 21—(Spe- cial.)—Spanish influenza has prac-, tically disappeared from Cheyenne. Reports from the office of the board of health show that there were only four cases during the week ‘just. closed, Three of these were reported | on Wednesday, one on Friday, an none at all for:the balance of the weck. There were no deaths from} the malady, which physicians declare has been totally stamped out here. | lic me Commissioner Chas. Anda and E. M. Ogburn, clerk. No quoram being present, the board adjourned to January 7th, had, to-wit | Applications for retail liquor deal- |er’s licenses by Clark,& McDonald,' Robert White and J. T! Foote, here- tofore on the 3rd day of December, | 1918, presented and set for final ac-| tion at this meeting, allowed, and the County Clerk is hereby directed to issue licenses according to law. Applications for retail liquor deal- er’s licenses by C. A. Holloran, James Hayes and Tom Burke, this 7th day of January, 1919, ana set for final action at the next regu- lar meeting. The Casper Daily Tribune, pub- 1919, E. M. OGBURN, Clerk. —— OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS, BOARD the County. OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS | lished at Casper, Wyoming, is hereby ' designated as the official paper of, Banner Chemical Co: supplies” As provided by section 1272 Com-| | Mrs. J. A, Huff, eleetion ex- pense it January 7th, 1919 Office of the County Clerk, | Casper, Wyoming, Jan, 7th, 1919, 9:00 a. m. State of Wyoming, 2 Ss. Cgunty of Natrona Board of County Commissioners in jand for Natrona County, Wyoming, met this 7th day of January, 1919, ,at 9:00 o’clock a. m., there being | present Acting Chairman Chas. Anda, » the term of four (4) years Commissioner T, A. Hall and E. M. Ogburn, clerk. The following proceedings were had to-wit: Unapproved minutes read and ap- proved. The report of the county and prosecuting attorney submitted in writing, as required by Section 1209, Compiled Statutes of Wyoming, 1910, that the official bonds presented by the- various officers elected, in his opinion conform~to the requirements ef the statute governing bonds, and may be properly approved by this board if found sufficient as to surety. The following bonds presented and approved: Patrick Royce, as_ sheriff, sum of four thousand dollai Edward L. McGraugh, as assessor, in the sum of five thousand dollars. William Henry Patten, as county and prosecuting attorney, in the sum of two thousand dollars. Elizabeth McDonald, as treasurer, in the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars. Hazel Conwell, as clerk of the dis trict court, in the sum of ten thous. and dollars. Lew M. Gay, as coroner, in the sum ef one thousand dollars. May Hamilton, as superintendent of schools, in the sum of five hundred dollars. in the Marion N. Wheeler, as surveyor, in the sum of one thousand dollars, W._.E. Tubbs, jas justice of the peace, in the sum of fifteen hundred | dollars. J. A. Crawford, as justice of the peace, in the sum of five hundred dollars, | Richard McDermott, as constable, in the sum of fifteen hundred dol- | ! lars. The official bond of E. M. Ogburn, county clerk, in the sum of four thousand dollars; approved and de- ivered to the cqinty treasurer, to be filed and preserved in her office, as | required by law. | The’ following certificate of War-! ren L. Bailey, clerk of the district vcourt, showing that he has approved the official bonds of the county com- missioners elect, presented and order- | ed of record on the Journal: Certificate The State of Wyoming : County of Natrona To the Honorable Board of County Commissioners, Natrona County, Wyoming I, Warren L. Bailey, clerk of the District Court, in and for said County, do hereby certify that as clerk of the District Court, in’and for Natrona County, Wyoming, I have approved and filed in my= office, the official bonds of Robert J, Veitch, as County Commissioner of said County, for in the sum of one thousand dollars, and of James B. Griffith, as County Com- missioner of said County for the term of two (2) years, in the sum of one thousand dollars, commencing on the 6th day of January A. D. 1919. Witness my hind and the seal of seid Court, this 7th day of January, 9. (SEAL) WARREN L. BAILEY. Clerk of the District Court. The official bond of Robert A. Smith, as Treasurer of School D trict No, 18, in the sum of two thons- and dolla approved. | bond of the Citizens State Bank, in the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, approved. Board adjourned without date. CHAS. ANDA, Acting Chairman. 2. M. OGBURN, , {Clerk. OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS, BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS January 7th, 1919 Attest: E Office of the County Clerk, January 7, 1919, 1:00 P. M. Slate of Wyoming: 2 SS. County of Natrona: Board of County Commissioners in und for Natrona-County, Wyoming, | met th y day of January, 1919, present Commiggioners 7.’ A. Hall; Robert ‘J. Veitch, and ‘James Griffith, and E. M. Ogburn, clerk. The. Board proceeded to organize by choosing Robert J. Veitch, chair. man to preside at all the meetings when present, ag required by law. The following proceedings were 1:00 o’clock P; M., thfre. being | B.! | piled Statutes of Wyoming, 1910, jis ordered that the ‘County be, an | hereby is, divided into assessme: districts, and that the number shall | be five, described and bounded as | follows: District No. 1: All that vart of Natrona County, embraced within the corporate limits of the City of Casper. District No. 2: 2 All that part of Natrona County, north of the Platte River, and east of the Thirty-three Mile Road. | District No. 3: All that part of Natrona County, lying west of the Thirty-three Mile | Road, and north of the Wyoming and Northwestern Railroad. District No, 4: | All that part of Natrona County, | lying west of the Platte River, and south of the Wyoming and Northwest ‘ern Railroad. | District No. 5: All that part of Natrona County, lying south of the Platte River. It is ordered that Mother’s pen- sions be granted to Fay Evans and Ameli: Stanko, for a period of six months, in the sums of fifteen and twenty dollars, respectively. The following bills presented, audit- ed and allowed, and certificates ordered drawn for same, viz: M. €. Price, salary M. C. Price, expense _ Helen Brown, salary __ | E. M. Ogburn, salary and ex- $150.00 171,63 123.35 pense = 225.17 Hazel Conwell, salary 100.00 | Helen Carlson, salary - 100.00 atharine Dunn, salary 75.00 iugh L, Patton, salary and i expenses © ue eee 155.50 Hugh L. Patton, board County ° Prisoners 290.50 Hugh L. Patton, expense _ 28.00 Hugh LU. Patton, expense 56.22 Hugh L. Patton, sheriff's ex- pense _ Perry Elswick, salary - E. L. Seidel, salary _._ W. S. Kimball, Jr., salary _-_ | Drs. Kamp and Keith, calary | May Hamilton, salary and ex- 130,00 Tel Cpe Saye se 103.09 Warren L. Bailey, salary and expe 126.35 E. L. McGraugh, | expense ___ 106.46 | Geo. S. McKenzi - 100.00 100.00 E. P. Rohrbaugh, expense _ 95.00 Natrona Power Co., light, De- cember ______ - 76.25 | Natrona Power Co., light, No- vember - 67.20 Natrona Power Co., heat, No- vember _ 69.85 | Natrona Power ' cember = BOG a0) | Natrona Power Co., supplies 1.55 | Natrona Power Co., supplies_ 429.30 Keith Lumber Co., Coal P&P 11.00 | Mary L. 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