Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 19, 1919, Page 1

“the big PREMIER CLEMENCEAU i __.WOUNDED BY ASSASSIi aprr Daily | Griburw CASPER, WYOMING, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1919 ‘SOLDIERS WANT | Official paper of the City of | Casper and Natrona County, | Wyoming. | VOLUME 3. FINAL QUTLIN OF PEACE WILL AWAIT WILSON'S RETURN, REPORT Delegates Hopetul for Settlement by , June; Germans to Delay Signatures (By United Prean.) PARIS, Feb. 19.—The big five delegates today discussed the preliminary peace program, intending to complete the out- line after President Wilson re- turns. The length of the ses- sions after the Germans are ad- mitted problematical, tho the del- egates are hopeful of effecting a set-! tlement by June. The necessity for | the Germans referring: certain ques’ tions to their government is expected to cause delays. The committee on responsibility | for the war“is having difficulties with | the ex-Kaiser’s Pang as th there, is Rp precedent. Serbia is asking for a stretch of | Bulgarian territory to protect an important railway. | The Balkan confederation of Greece, Serbia, Rumania and Czecho- | Slovakia will demand permanent rep- + resentation on the executive council | of the League of Nations along with five. RUSSIANS WON'T TALK TRUCE TO TRE BOLSHEVIKI WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—Formal rejection of the proposal that they | meet with the delegates of the Bol- | sheviki and other Russian govern- | ments at Prine Island was handed the peace conference today by the frovernments of Sibe and Southern Russi: patch to the Russian ‘emba Bolsheviki were denounc tors and fomentors of an Soe SSS Alex Hartman and ( of Lusk, are spending si in Casper on business. . Brown, eral days TO LOCATE IN ‘NEW’ WYOMING Scores of queries are being re- ceived by the local U. S. employment bureau from eastern points from sol diers who desire work on Wyoming ranches. One received yesterday in which a young capable ranch hand wants some kind of a position is on file at the local office. ‘Ranchmen and cattlemen in‘need of- help are urged to visit the office and look over the applications. a William Schwartz, an employe of he Burlington, is on the sick list for a few days. He is suffering from a severe cold. ee Mrs. Paul C. Graves, who has been visiting her mother, Mrs. Sarah Baab, will visit with relatives in Fort Col- ‘lins before returning to her home in Wray, Colo. Mrs. Graves left last; night for the Colorado points. Ba] DIMISION TO EMBARK EGR ° HOMEBEFORE END OF WEEK, SAYS [ETTERTOCAREVFROENETIL Gree’ Uhit Incltidifig Thousande oF Wy. Transfgzted from River Scheldt to Dunkirk and Is Now Designated for Early Return. The 91st division, containing | been designated for return to the United Sta@ts; it will be ready for 1: embarkation before the end of next week. : Official information to this effect is contained in a lettor received ; iby Gov. Robert D. Carey from Maj. Gen. William H. Johnston, cor- winds the division. IMPROVEMENTS ON C. B. & Q. TO BE MADE HERE C. H. McBride, road supervisor of , the Burlington is in Guernsey on ‘company business, piloting the new crews from the recently inaugurated nm at Alliance over the Casper di mn. What other changes for the betterment of Burlington serv- ice in Wyoming will be made is un- known but it is thought that many improvements in this district are con- sidered. BILL FOR SALE OF THE STATE HOSPITAL DIES Resolution ‘Protesting Against Enlarge-' ment of Yellowstone Park Adopted by the House This Morning CHEYENNE, Wyo., Feb. 19.—The senate today killed the bill providing for the sale of the state Rock Springs while the house adopted hospitals at Casper, Sheridan and a favorable report on house joint resclution No. 3 protesting against the enlargement of Yellow- stone park. Governor Carey sent to the senate | the nomination of Adelbert Baker, | chief of the field division of the gen-| eral land office, for state land com-; missioner, He will assume his dut! es | ‘Tuesday. Governor*Carey also reappointed I. C. Newlin as state examiner. The state board of chariti and| reform appointed C. L. Martin of| Rawlins as warden of the poniten-| tiary to succeed Felix Alston. | — R. E. Dea, a well known Glenrock| resident, is in Casper on a severa. days’ business visit. —_—_—>——-- B. H. Carahan and J. B. Davis are numbered among the business arriv- als from Salt Creek. pra anara asa, 17. NAVAL OFFICERS COURTHARTIAL OF MEH ORDERE WASHINGTON, Feb. officers in connection with charges naval district was ordered today by No names were made public but volved the acceptance by a naval medical officer of a bribe of $1,000 for passing an applicant who was not phy he sought, and another case involved a bribe of $500 to secure a detail which would permit the applicant to remain at home indefinitely. ae eM aS a en \then moved by r: 19.—Trial by court-martial of two naval OS ST Sh aR SS hd iil ae | Who Surrendered All the news of the World, Nation and State while it is News NUMBER 104 | AO T.C.FOR HIGH SCHOOL WILL BE ESTABLISHED H, CASPER BY APRIL], oAYS CHEYENNE REPORT : [By Annoct automobile for a drive. is not dangerously hurt. | Policeman Goursat, who was ounded in the right’ eye, a rl Date for Installation of "Reserve Officers’ Camp ss" DR ee eA Core | bullets, told a representative of the ted Press that Premier Clem- reau rushed up to the assassin and grappled with him. The premier’s wound is not regard- Advanced Several Months by Visit to State of Lieutenant Colonel Palmer This Week. ed as dangerous itself, but it {fs felt (Special to The Tribune.) odes ae here might be serious conse- CHEYENNE, Wyo., Feb. 19.—All physically qual'fied male stu- quence: from it, considering the age dents in four Wyoming hish schoo!s—Chevenne. Casper, Sheridan and °"¢ infirmities of the victim. At 11:00 o’ctock this morning it was announced Rock Springs—are now billed to become members of the junior ree that Clemenceau was not seriously serve officers’ training corps by April 1 of this year, and there is a wounded. rs A a v4 igh schools in thi POLICE BELIFVE ASSASSIN Donate sachet hora a fore 38 or40 other high schools in this state OF RUSSIAN NATIONALITY. learned at the city hall that week had it that t was a man named Emile ng was likely to be years old and born at pools next Cre'l. aid his home was in the Montrouse quarter of Paris. The police, however, do not believe that the papers he possessed belong to him and are inclined to think that he is a Russian. nae ance of getting 1 fast Henry Moulin, a barber’: ant, this w y it to Chey- and a witness cf the shooting, told pPnne by Lieut. Col. R. P. Palmer of the Associated Press representative head of the R. O. T. C.| that when he heard the first shot he n the central de} ited.,.Statrs erm. artment of the bali He arrived the air t Ganeral Sot the ways he ee of the lower ey ming legislature. Clomen y that the army He closed with the premier’s a ing men ant, and the man threw ny h t the work would, yolver and held up his hands. as soon 8S COTTIN AND ASSISTANT BADLY MAULED BY CROWD. gh schools gle admin- Gene it was Americans :firing in as they are in the*habit of tran, yominiz Men ¢ hundreds of Wyoming men, has ;, Waiters from a nearby restaurant joined ir holding the assassin, whom police had seme difficulty in gett'ag from them and before police secured »» the assassin he was beaten by the crowd, One of the men in the crowd Il seemed to wish to help ths premier’s assailant and the crowd beat him * badly. , aid e will get R. ¢ of them, whether ve 100 male result of General Johnston further relates SLUgen is OnnCks that his command was visited by Gen. ++ John J. Pershing three weeks vesterday, and that during the v the commander-in-chief of the Ameri- iE auaine According to policeman Goursat can expeditionary forces compliment- andes entirely cmptied his nd their fi yntrol’? xu the windows of the ed the Wyoming boy lows on their fine appes pres the small amount of si alm complete absen among them. smashed nutomobile were d what- Pre future Tt by. bullets. ld be VICTIM WORLD-RENOWNED ident FIGURE IN PEACE MEETING. ai vice ‘ of public Premier Clemenceau has been one The present location of the mem- In the ntime those ols of the leading statesmen of France bers of the 91st, the 1 100 boys to take for a decade but it was not until the the awarding of me number of them, all the Talo Ge letter lows rtually critical stages of the great war cane s and he took the reins and guided the country through to the end of the truggle that he became the world. be in full fol- “Headquarters, 9 one or two others, will renowned figure that he is today American E. F., Janu he able to muster the necesary 100, With a war, or at least actual fight- His Exce'lency, the wov Orders have been received from PanRcecs ming, Cheyenne, Wy to go ahead with the (Continued on Page 8.) Since my letter to you ef Nov. 30 y it is announced that as announcing that the 91st division had s : the application papers are been designated as one of the 80 received at the 1 capital one lcombat divisions to remain the cantain and one Teutenant tozether it has to the needed, four ae American expeditionary for murched from the Scheldt ri nity of Dunkirk, France, rem ere three wee waiting co 1 to the Americ mbarkation center, near Le Mz chout 100 miles southwest of P. all the equipment to each of the 1 to take the w ook in The Tribune call for the a latest PEACE SETTLEMENT INTERRUPTE Immediate Decisicn on Imvortant Ques- tions Held Up by Near Tragedy, But Material Delay Is Not Exnected that the premier was wounded in the head. the wounds were in Clemenceau’s back and shoulder and he apparently ‘One of Eight Shots Fired at “Tiger of France” Lodges in Shoulder; Official An- nouncement Says Wound Is Not Serious; Police Battle Mobs to Save Life of Youth to Barber ted Press] PARIS, Feb. 19.—Georges Clemenceau, France’s aged prerszier, was shot at and slightly wounded this morning as he was eniering his Five shots were fired and it was first reported It develozed later that PREMIER OF AUSTRIA TO COME TO U. S. BASL 19. — Austria Premier will be designat- ed German States if many, sa minister to the ustria unites a Weimar re $<» RESOLUTION TO FIGHT RUSSIA with gort. IS INTRODUCED ‘ WASHINGTON, Feb. ator McCumber today resolution Allied-Am h army Moscow and elsewhere in R defeat the Bolsheviki. It as a substitute for the Joh drawal resolution. INFECTION SETS to Petr : IN; TO UNDERGO 2ND OPERATION Richard Huff, who Lincoln recently where he w ing the of N ing forced to give up his after undergoin on his home h University Hasty exz hin have nother opinion tha return to ¢ eration will be necessary ight of the optic. If compl t in it is probable that the man will lose the sight of both eyes HAL CHASE IS TRADED TO THE United Ger- 19 —Sen- ntroduced 2 oring the sending of an ad, to offered on with- returned from ttend- . be. school work rious operation confined to his from a double in- s brought the to op- y to save the nm _. TL... LAM GERMANY ANY HOUR Ultimatum Sent Cab- inet *by Workers’ Council Is Fanning Flames ci Real Revolution, Claim (By United Prexs) WEIMAR, Feb. 19.—The real revolution threztens break out in Germany any hour. This is not politicai but econo- mic and is being organized by the workmen themselves. The Hazen workers’ council serv- ed an ultimatum on the cabinet in- ing on the soci ation of indus- minimum w higher than the “nt maximum, abolition of eapi- to talism and recognition of the work- @ councils The program borders on com- but the workmen have de. munism ‘ainst violc nece heidemz by prom as possibl “unl it is Chancellor absolute Phillip promise “as soon SPARTACANS DEFEATED IN STORMING PRISON STOCKHOLM, Feb. 19.-— i to fre vik en Moabite prison in Ber- , but government troops sulsed them. Other outbreaks were reported in Bavari STREET FIGHTING IN WESTPHALIA, REPORT. BASLE, Feb. 19.— Ruhr district is r-ported in tacan’s hands. The government has concentrated 30,000 troops equipped with artillery nd minerwerfers in Westphalia, where sanguinary street fighting is in progress. They defcat- (ed the Spartacans in Dorsten. neral strike Muc!theim. 162ND HFARTRY ARRIVES TOBRY AT PORT OF #. Y port ( © entire the Spar- was called in N.Y. NATIONALS “*,t NEW YORK, Feb. 19.—Hal Chase will play first base for the New York Nationals. New York getting Chase from Cincinnati in exchan:ge for First Base Rariden. man Holke and Catcher 1 among the Casper y from Par kerton So Says Senator Poindexter in Senate Ad- “It has been billeted in this a ini to include work since Jan. 1, and undergoing t ine guns, and ° ag similar to that receiv aaanealntes dress Declaring Entrance Would 1 when it 1 France. New clothin. hes been ued, attention to ath! has been developed, and some forn of amusement provided in most of th villages each night. Nearly eve company has been able to provide a warm place in which the men can gather at night for reading and writ. | ing. Using talent ‘from the ra and some furnished by the Y. M. C who qualify ’ reserve first reach Entail Abroga the chool work each boy ! y the federal rover pt his ander, army suits s with them . ing. In ad- dition, summer camps probably would be held, and the boys would thus get | (Continued on page six.) an AG Y ion at the expense} ine wor fad out for senior R. hools which do tudents would wo: with those neighboring towns, and the time officers would be divided | in of the army among them. of bribery cand graft in the third Secretary Daniels. —_ | PRESERVATION MONROE DOCTRINE IS SOUGHT. WASHING? , Feb. 19.—Sen- Bo n open letter tod asked the advocates of the League of Nations if they would offer an amend- | }ment reserving America’s right to preserve the Monroe doctrine intact. | was learned that one case in- vices of those lately with the colors. that soldiers are arriving in an ator ally qualified for the duties ing help for a brief space also are the office of Attorney Purcell. tion of Rights «ny i WASHINGTON, Feb. 9. Seas the ‘first prepared Rivdvecs on the League of Nations delivered in the senate since the con- stitution of the proposed league was made public, Senator Poindexter, Republican, today declared that the entrance of the'United States into the league would mean the surrender of American rights, privileges and sovereignty, abandonment of pict he i ee ee D TO REGISTER _ CASPER PEOPLE READY TO HELP Returned soldiers without employment or funds with which to pro- cure meals and lodging are requested to register at the office of M. W. Purcell, Oil Exchange building, where their needs will receive the at- tention of those who desire to extend their appreciation for the ser- Those interested in the work realize pation of finding immediate work, Y: | and failing to do so, are temporarily handicapped. Those having rooms which they would be willing to place at the dispos n of soldiers need- asked to leave such information at : caer OF NATIONS slation stitution indetinit the Monroe Doctrine and of the constitution. The of th » is confictin and unce 1, he said, and the chinery which it is proposed to se up r to the ment of Rus: ip “No ch tangling alliance ceived the world, “is sin soviet gover 1 burden en- ever before con- the enator sad of beir nstru ce it is the fertile seed of yn’s teeth from which, armed soldiers — will or 1, ‘Inst ment of pe war-—the dr: when so spring.” AMERICA LED TO ABYSS, DEC'ARES POINDEXTER rough participation in drafting the league’s constitution, Senator Poindexter declared the United States had been Ied to a point where “we are facing an abyss.” If the senate should ratify the pro- posed constitution and sanction the entrance of the United States into the League of Nations, without sub mission of the question “to the American people in a political cam- paign where it shall have been made the issue and upon which they will have the opportunity to render ju ment in an election,” he deel “self government in America have disappeared.” 1, will 5 > > > > > > ° ° ° > > > > hd . % ° g < . 4 »