Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 10, 1919, Page 1

aes ee SEATTLE, Feb. 10.—Thirty thousand striking union employees were ordered back to work here at noon to- morrow when the general strike committee, at 1 o’clock today, called off the sympathetic strike designed to help 25,000 metal trades workers enforce their demands for hig her wages. The general strike committee is calling off the sympa thetic strike, also requested the unions which had voted to return to work to walk out again today and return with the rest tomorrow noon. he Gasper Daily | THE DAILY TRIBUNE | Reaches a dozen towns of Central Wyoming the same | day it is published, with all | the news of the day VOLUME 3. rthune CASPER, WYOMING, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1919 Only newspaper in Wyoming served by both the Associated Press and the United Press NUMBER 96 ALLIED NATIONS TRIBUTE, PAID WILL WITHDRAW SOLDIERS FROM RUSS TERRITORY TO NATIONS MOST POTENT FACTOR FOR GOOD, ASSERTS SPEAKER Non-Intervention Is Agreed Upon, Ice- Eulogizing the passing of a “mighty spirit, a valiant soul”, with the greatest tribute that one American can pay another— “the nation’s foremost citizen,”’ in all that the name implies— CITZEN Judge Charles E. Winter Eloquent in Praise for the Late’ Golden iver diniPersonal Theodore Roosevelt in Memorial Address at Methodist Church Sunday Feeling for Leader Declarés Lodge (By Associa Press.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—In solemn services within the House SEATTLE STRIK IS BROKEN WHE WORKERS DRIFT BACK, 1S CLANY | Ranks of Strikers Is | Being Thinner by | Desertions From Sympathy Move (By Assxocinted Press.) SEATTLE, Feb. 10.—Con- | servative leaders of union labor who were to meet this morn-| ing with the general strike con- | ference committee hope to in- duce the committee to recom- mend that the sympathetic strike be called off. Little hope was entertained. by many of the union delegates that the strike could be prolonged thru- out the day, the fifth of the strike. | Desertions in the striking ranks cam sterday, despite the com- mittees’ on to continue the walkout. All except four hundred street car men returned to work. Teamsters, automobile drivers, garbage collec- tors, four theatrical employes’ unions, barbers and several other labor or- ganizations voted to resume work this morning. The schools are to reopen also, Butte Comrades Lay Plans to Deliver Prisoners, Train is Detoured to Frus- trate Attempts (iy Ans Press.) in CHICAGO, Feb. 10.—Fifty- four members of the I. W. W. passed thru Chicago today on a special train enroute to an Atlantic port, where they will be deported by the immigra- tion authorities. Forty of the pris- direct from Seattle, where they took part in formenting oners come the general strike. Three leaders of the Seattle strike, one Spokane ayi- tator, one I. W. W. leader of Denver ‘and five alien _the prisoners. A majority of the men were alien labor agitators picked up by officers of the United States immigration convicts are among service during the year for secret campaigning at industrial centers of \the pacifie coast. A majority of the prisoners will be sent back to Russian provinces. Thi are principally Norwegians, Swedes, and Finns, according to the guards on the train. “Proceeding against United States’ enemies of this type is simple,” an official with the train said. ‘eust two hours before the Seattle strike was called we gathered forty agitators into cars with everything c¢ ed away between them and tne middle of the Atlantic Ocean. “For more than a year the immi- gration service has been working LW.W. AGITATORS ARE ORTED BY FE HY STRIKE IS CALLED OFF Po cccccccccce cocccccccccccoeccecocoeccecccccocccccoeocevoecosoocecscoeoocole CITY OF BUTTE WITHOUT FINRS POLICE FORCE Mayor Threatens to Discharge Them on Eve of a General Walkout, Report eBy United Press.) BUTTE, Feb. 10.—Mayor Maloney announced today that owing to a lack of funds in the city treasury he must lay off all firemen and policemen at noon. Streetcar men took to the barns at 7 o’clock this morn- ing. if the mayor executes his threat it would leave the city only with pro- tection from regular soldiers when the city is threatened with a general strike similer to that in Seattle. PICKETS IN UNIFORM ARE GIV ULTIMATUM an Pees.) BUTTE, Strikers in the mines Butte who object to the re- cent reduction of a dollar aday in their wages and who are insisting on the abolition of the “rustling” ecard tem were halted at the foot of the quietly in all industrial centers checking up on strange aliens who have hill leading to the mines by guards and United States soldi Men who i ‘3 ‘s 5 a appeared, and gathered evi- wished to go to work were permitted _ Judge Charles E. Winter, in addressing an audience at the har beriSand h es | TACOMA STRIKERS dence against I. W. W. leaders and to Locked Port Pre-' Methodist church last evening summed up the feeling and char ‘er Sunday the nation’s lead-| Back AT WORK TODAY troublemakers who call themselves charged soldiers who still wore sents Problem LEAGUE CONSTITUTION IS VIRTUALLY COMPLETE | PARIS, Feb. 10.—While the league of nations constitution provisionally is completed, the constitution commit- tee will continue in session to con- sider ‘possible amendments and addi. | tions before its submission to thy general conference this week. Presi- dent Wilson will read it to the con- ference. now.” —Louisville overnor Frank L. | sympathy that greeted the death of Theodore Roosevelt in de- that “a mighty figure ha: fallen. One of the pillars of the re- public has been overthrown. The column of a great life has been broken. The most potent single in- | dividual force for good in our pub- | lie life has been lost, except as the inspiration of his life and deeds con- claring pi: té actuate a hundred million | people.” The church was crowded for the memorial service, one of thousands held thruout the country, and the speaker, who accepted an invitation to come tbh Casper for the occasion while the arguments of the supreme court were demanding his close attention, paid eloquent praise to the memory of the ex- president as a citizen and a man. “The very great are plain and simpl he said. “On a winter's day, snow-whitened, under the trees| of Sagamore Hill, amid the simplest, | plainest surroundings and ceremony, all reflecting his rugred, herdwork- ing, straightforward life, Theodore Roosevelt, citizen, was consigned to Mother Earth by his family and his neighbors. | “Theodore Roosevelt was a physi-! cal, mental and moral dynamo. He radiated strength, knowledge and light. He was the most remarkable, original, diversified and fascinating personality of his generation. He oc- cupied more responsible official posi- tions requiring more different qual ties and abilities than any other in our history. Assemblyman, il Service Commissioner, Police Com- missioner, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Lieutenant Colonel, Governor, Vice-President, President. “He was an essayest, an historian, an editorid}] writer, a Ipcturer, a moral philosopher; a ranchman, a naturalist, a hunter, an explorer; he was a soldier, a mediator, a builder; he was a legislator, a life-long student of national and world affairs, a poli- tician, a statesman. “In all these diversified activities | he did not excell as first in any one. | ; There were greater hunters, but few from courts Continued on Page 5.) '$25,000 CASH ‘IS OBTAINED BY MINN. BANDITS (By United Press.) MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. armed bandits today held up the Lib- erty State Bank and esvaped with | $10,000 in cash and $15,000 in Lib- 10.—Five j the i | 7... OMSK RUSSIANS PARIS, Feb. 10.—The associated | powers are exnected within a few days to proclaim the principle of non- | politically... They will .wleoexecu! sad ‘ois their intention by withdrawing all “OF JAP Allied-American troops as rapidly | This is an outcome of Anglo-Amer-! imei an ican representations to France. 4 setae} . It is impossible to get boats to! VALADIVOSTOK, Feb. 10.—Re- British are mobilizing a fleet of ice! sian government there has accepted CORTE by Fae tn #0 offer from Japan of men, money Before the joint conference with 14 arms to settle the Bolshevik dif- powers probably will sign the armi- ‘This step is due to reports that mee | the Allies are to withdraw their | forces from Siberia and also to conference will result in recog- nition of the Bolsheviki. Japan secure iron and coal conces- turn for aid, said. Pasten cee eee What Everybody Thinks efficiency training. I can show you ae | how to earn more .money than you 10.—Republicans| are getting.” @efeated the monarchists in battles | ! ot Vizeu and Lemego. | Courier-Journal. pct OARD ° Valuable Oil Lease Granted to Himself on' ° ° ° ° Eve of Retirement in Violation of » ———_—_ (Special to The Tribune) il CHEYENNE, Wyo., Feb. 10.—Three hours before retiring as governor of Wyoming on Jan. 6, 1919, Frank L. Houx, in a member and in contravention of the plain intent of law and precedent since the organization of the state, granted to bim- self a half-interest in a valuable oil lease estimated to be worth today when the new state land board] to Hantz. canceled the lease in question on the] On the morning of Jan. 6, 1919— grounds that it had “been granted in|‘three hours before he went out of board.” Youx filed an assignment of one-half Following on the heels of Houx sec- ‘nterest in this lease from Hantz to retly pardoning the principals in one history of the state, today’s disclos- ures lend additional color to disgrace- ful rumors regarding the conduct of administration as acting governor and secretary of state. On December 12, 1918, according intervention in Russia, militarily, or| ACCEPT OFFER possible. Archangel now as it is frozen in. The| port from Omsk state that the Rus- the Russian factions the associated ficulty. the fear that the Princes Islands sions in the Priamur district in re- “Better consider my course in —— LISBON, Feb. rip a er e IS RESCINDED BY Law, Disclosed by Board violation of the rules of the state land board of which he was $50,000. The fact was brought out jis instance, but the lease was given violation af the regulations of the| office — Acting G of the most revolting crimes in the the governor’s office during Houx to the records at the state house, Mosea M. Hantz of, Thermopolis was} granted a lease to a section of state oil land—36-44-92—for $100. There were four applicants for thin lease and each bid $100 for it. Under the rules’ of the board in such cases the lease is then given to the highest bidder. The rule was not followed in AS pg ae eee himself. | ‘When the transaction was discov- |°TY Bonds. ered by the incoming land board the . Hantz lease was cancelled, the seiee | FRA NKFURTER SieGenasls, who was not one of the| RESIGNS FROM POLICY BORD. previous bidders for the lease. Section 86-44-92 is located in) Washakie county, twenty miles north- east, of ‘Thermopolis. Ay, half ‘mile from this land is a producing oil well, WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—Felix and the value of the lease in which| Frankfurter announced his resigu.. |Houx was given a half interest is|tion today as assistant to the secre- | variously estimated at from $50,000 | tary of labor.and chairman of the to $100,000. ' a |war labor policies board. The boara Houx has been in California, where | will go out of existence within a few} jhe is ‘said to have oil interests, most| weeks since activities have come to of the time since his retirement. an end. with the close of the war. SETA RRP at iy be ee a poled ee ae ors and representatives of foreien vovernments naid tribute to the nemory of Theodore Roosevelt. | Members of Conzress, Supr Court justices, members of the cab- inet, army and navy officers, and diplomats of many nations heard Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, praise Rodsevelt”as.a statesman and as a man. Crowded galleries and the throng of men and women who could not zain admission testified to the per- sonal fecling for the man whose feath shocked the world. It was tt to whieh Senator Lodge, close friend of the man he eculogized re- ferred when he spoke these words in the stillness of the House chamber: A tower is fallen, a star is set! Alas! Ala for Celin. “The words of the old Moorish ba hood we used to recite, must, I think, dave risen to many lips when the world was told that Theodore Roose- velt was dead. But whatever the phrase the thought was instant and everywhere. ariously expressed, you heard it in the crowds about the bulletin borrds, from the man in the street and the man on the railroads, from farmer in the fields, the womca in the shops, in the factories, and in the homes. The pulpit found in his life a text for sermons. The judge on the bench, the child at school, alike paused for a moment conscious of a loss. The cary of sorrow came from men and women of all condi- tions, high and low, rich and poor, from the learned and the ignorant, from the multitude who had loved and followed him, and from those who had opposed and r ed him. The newspapers pushed aside the absorb- ing reports of the events of these fateful days and gave pages to the man who had died. “Flashed beneath h in boy the and ocean \thru the air went the announcement of Theodore Roosevelt’s death, and back came a world-wide response and cabinets, from press and people, in other and far-distant #lands. Thru it all ran a golden thread of personal feeling which gleams so rarely in the somber formalism of public grief. It would seem that here v a man, a private citizen, con- spicuous by no office, with no glitter of power about him, no ability to re- ward or punish, gone from earthly life, who must have been unusual even among the leaders of men, and who thus demands our serious con- sideration.” Senators Lodge was the only speaker and the services were simple. Prayers by the Senate and’ House chaplins and anthems and patriotic hymns by the Marine Band added to the strirring spiritual nature of the services. — KITCHEN MOVES FOR REPEAL OF APPAREL TAXES WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—Chair- man Kitchin of the house Ways and Means committee, announced today that as soon as the president signed the new war revenue bill he would in troduce a resolution for the repeal of so-called luxury taxes applying to articles of wearing apparel. ation from gx} TACOMA, Feb. 10.—Following a decision of the central labor council last evening the general strike is off at Tacoma today and members of the unions who went out on a sym- pathetic went back to work at 8 jo’clock this morning. | | ‘BOLSHEVIST REVOLUTION’ DEFEATED, SAY CITIZENS SEATTLE—Feb. 10.—The generat rike is gradually breaking up. Ftreet car men are resuming work. Several other unions have decided to return to work. Business yenerally attempting a normal resumption o1 st activity. Following Mayor Hanson’s threat to “shoot on sight" a disturbance, the cit issued a sattement de yone causing, s committee ing Seattic had defeated an attempt at a “Bal. vist revolution.” Mayor Hanson appealed to the federal governmeni to order the arrest of the leaders. The shipyard strike is still on. LAWRENCE STRIKERS ARE DISPERSED BY LAW. LAWRENCE, Feb. 10.—Ime Kap- lan, textile strike ler, was arrested today charged with failing to register in the draft. ‘ One thousand strik tried to close the mill gates to prevent the workers from entering but the police inter- fered. The strikers threw stones and sticks. The mounted police dispersed them, NEW YOR eb, 10.—The strike of 50,000 building trades workers in many eastern cities is scheduled te morrow. It will be in sympathy with carpenters’ demanding a dollar a day increase, FH. BARROW MENTIONED _ FOR COMMISSIONER OF IMMIGRATION IN. STATE Word comes from Cheyenne that F. H. Barrow, widely known Wyom- ing newspaper man, is mentioned for commi: ner of immigration in con- nection with the bill to revive this most important department. Few men in Wyoming have a wider ac. quaintance over the state, or a more intimate knowledge of local condi- tions. Mr. Barrow’s wide experience and ability as a writer are strong qualifications in his favor, while his| familiarity with public land matters and departmental detail would be valuable asset in the administration of the soldier settlement work in co operation with the federal govern. ment. } DEMOCRATS HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR FOURTH SUFFRAGE DEFEAT WASHINGTON, Feb. defeated the national woman suffra: of 55 for and 29 against. The vote Suffrage leaders afterward said the extra session of congress. Bolsheviki. “When the evidence was compiled against this particular crowd each case was brot to a federal hearing and all court findings sent to Wash- ington, where they were reviewed by Secretary of Labor Wilson. The secretary has the power to order this type of prisoners deported or re- leased and so far there has been little trouble in getting quick action.” The only attempt at mob delivery of the prisoners was frustrated by the foresight of federal officials. Be- fore the train reached Butte, Mon- tana, officers were warned that I. W. W. leaders in that city and Helena had learned of the deportation and were massing to deliver their com rades. The two cars then attached to the regular train were cut off at the junction and set into another train, which made a wide detour, missing both Butte and Helena, Several hundred men gathered at Iroad station at Butte when nal train reached that point, accordingy to reports reaching offi- cials. They were allowed to search the train and when they found the prisoners were not aboard, left. Only one of the made serious objection when told of the in tention of the government to deport him. He swore out a writ of habeas corpus against the deportation, which was quashed by the federal court at Spokane. One woman, wife of a Finnish agitator arrested at Spokane prisoners was in the part a WASHINGTON, Feb, 10.—Brand ing Francis Heney’s charge as “a vicious, dishonorable, unprofessional falsehood.” levy Mayer, Armour at: torney, denied today that he tried to bribe Heney at a recent session of the packers’ probe HUNS WO y uniforms were ing picket duty for tt were signaled out by men and orde! to immediately d card their uniforms or ce partici- pating in attempted picketing. Mayor Jones, in commanding Com- pany C, 44th S. infantry and de- tachment of E Company of the same regiment, had the stréets leading to the mines patrolled long before time for the early shifts to go to work and mong those do- . They y army committees of pickets were stopped in some instances as © y 4 o'clock. Congregating is forbidden by the military and those slow in moving at the command of soldiers have been made feel the sting of the boyonet’ point. Reports were circulated that sol- diers fired over the heads of s ers who prevented cars from leaving the barns but Jones denied this. Onl 2 few engineers are now workir n the min One hundred additional regular tro Returned s arrived Sun redon day their uniforms for picketing — the G.O. P. LEADER IPTACKS NAVAL BILL IN HOUSE WASHINGTO » Feb. 10.—An at- tack on the new naval program ot ten drendnaughts and ten scout erui ers was opened in the house tox by Republican Leader Mann, whe made a point of order against the provision as soon as it was called ay for ¢ deration. He art 1 that suthor ion without an appropria tion was not ( yermain and could not he included in the appropriation bill ULD USE BOLSHEVIKS AS CLUB ON ALLIES Threaten to Turn Country Over to the Rad- icals in Preference to “Slavery” of Treaty Now Being Drafted severe. WEIMAR, Feb. 10.—The German government may attempt to use the Bolsheviki to force the allies make peace terms less Officials declare they will refuse an “unreasonable” peace treaty, resign and turn Germany over to the radicals, 10.—For the fourth time the senate today They declared they are determined that ' the Democratic party shall accept full responsibility for today’s defeat. which officials believe would ‘create internal chaos. | would thus be unable to pay any indemnities. This would be no worse than “com- from the Germans Germany mercial slavery" foreseen settlement, The military class is defiant toward the entente. phan peace some argue. It’s the Truth That Hurts An item is going the rounds of the Canadian press to the effect that a New York State paper is being sued because a comp made an ‘ obituary conclude, “May he roast in peace!”’—Fourth Estate. ge amendment resolution by a ovte failed to get a two-thirds majority. they would renew the campaign at = DERAL ORDER > > > » > > > ° ° ° www we’ a