Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 20, 1919, Page 1

ATTAC LUNGS PIERCED, SAYS DISPATCH Wyoming. Official paper of the City of Casper and Natrona County, ELIEVED TO B Intelligence Bureau; Works on Theory of General Plot; Brit- ish Alarmed (By United Press) | PARIS, Feb. 20.—A _ bullet, penetrated Clemenceau’s lungs, | causing a slight hemorrhage yes- terday afternoon, it was officially | announced today. His general | local condition, however, is satis-| factory. His temperature is normal | and he is taking a normal amount of | food. | | LONDON, Feb. 20.—The peace conference has decided to adjourn} rep as a result of the attack on Premier | VOLUME 3. 1 Clemenceau, says a dispatch from | Paris. There was no session of the conference today, the mesasge| adds. SWEEPING INVESTIGATION UNDERTAKEN BY OFFICERS. (By United Prean) i PARIS, Feb. 20.—Intelligcnce of- | ficers of the associated powers are! conducting a sweeping investigation of the Clemenceau attack, working | on the theory that it may have been} part of a plot against the principal Allied leaders. _ Premier Clemenceau _is__ restme easilv, no serious after effects having developed. The bullet was located in his right shoulder near the spine. Op- eration for its removal may be un- ‘BOMBARDMENT OF ROTTEROP IS REPORTED |terop, in Westphalia, with artillery, | according to messages from Muenster. Assistance to the defenders of Rot- BRIBERY CHARGE ($ UNFOUNDED, UAYS OPEGIAL COMMITTEE AFTER SIFTING REPORT AT THE CAPITOL COPENHAGEN, Feb. 20.—Spar- tacan forces ‘are “bombarding Rot- necessary. President Wilson wirelessed Clem- | enceau his sympathy and joy at his | escape. LONDON PRESS FEARS EPIDEMIC OF VIOLENCE. LONDON, Feb. 20.—The British press interpreted the attack on Clemenceau as an instance of the | Bolshevism that the woftld. Fe: acsassination interna’ archists. ls throughout epidemic of spapers suggested PARIS, Feb. 20. enceau certainly is his condition is as satisfactory possible,” George Mandel, Cleme ceau’s chief clerk, is quoted as say- ing at an early hour this morning. The quotation is attributed to the clerk by Marcel Hutin in the Echo De Paris. ‘Premier Clem- nal action to deal with an- | seriously hurt; | terop is being sent aby the govern- ment. i | ‘BERLIN, Feb. 19.—(By Associat- ied Press.)—-The general strike in the Ruhr industrial district is spreading despite the fact that a iarge majority of the miners oppose the movement. |Coal production is virtually at a standstill. YOUNGEST SON OF KAISER IS | (UNDER ARREST COPENHAGEN, Feb. 20.—Prince !Emperor William, has been arrested, |says a Munich dispatch which states | that he was arrested on suspicion of \being connected with “certain in- i trigues.”” CONFERENCE IS ADJOURNED E PART OF PLOT Fave eee CLEMENCEAU JOKES OF SHOOTING, SAYS HE WANTED A ‘REST All the news of the World, Nation and State while it is News Recommendation That Matter Be Dropped Follows Explanation Exonerating Senate Members and Citizens of Riverton of Blame in Case. CHEYENNE, Wyo., Feb. 20.—The expected has happened. The! ort of the special committee appointed to investigate charges of | bribery in connection with the creation of Pilot county thru a division | | of Fremont county, stated that there was nothing to report. | In explanation the committee said the bribery rumor arose from a conversation with Governor Carey which was*misunderstood. The | committee found no wrong doing or intent on the part of any member of the senate or the citizens of River- ton and recommend that the matter be dropped. The house this morning killed House Bill No. 49, legalizing osteo- pathy and adopted the report of its committee of the whole on the bill repealing boxing matches in the state. The senate killed Senate File No. 74, providing for the sale of the state experiment farms. IMMIGRATION COMMISSION IS CHOPPED OFF PROGRAM. CHEYENNE, Wyo., Feb. 20.— (Special.)—The immigration com- mission is dead; the senate killed it late yesterday afternoon when the committee brought in a report recom- jmending its indefinite postponement. The view expressed by the com- |mittee, and concurred in by the sen- ate, was that the bill, carrying a |salary of $3,000 for the commissioner lother incidental expenses, jat least half of the $40,000 appropria- |tion and leave but a small sum for actual working capital. | wise and tabled the bill. been drawn by a special committee | |following the suggestions of Gover-! |nor Carey, who was much interested in the work. Another surprise of yesterday was CASPER, WYOMING, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1919 IS AFFECTED BY Recen? srorm DELAYS WILSON Recent wintry weather conditions in the northern part of the state are | intertupting train traffic to Casper | slightly. Trains for the past few day: | have been arriving in Casper about} ‘an hour late. The inclement weathe | {has confined itself to the northern part of Wyoming and southern Mon- | tana, SMOOT BLOCKS LEASING BILL CONSIDERATION WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—Con- | sideration of the long delayed con- ference bill providing for the opening and development of millions of acres | of oil, gas coal, phorphat: and so- | | di ds was taken up by the | ception plans are complete. today, but opposition by Sen- | tor Smoot, one of the conferres who had decliged to sign the ro- port, prevented final action on :t. Senator Pittman announced that he | Slow Time Make y United Press.) | |lincr here. welcoming committee to the liner. President Wilson’s speech ATLANTIC GALE TRANSPORTS 0 BELATE, ALSO Arrangements Made for Address of the President; Ships, BOSTON, Feb. 20. — While planning to reach Boston Monday ‘!¢ t port on the oil Icasing a gale which delaved the George "*%c) Tevolver, in hand. ‘Washington yesterday may post- the window. I didn’t roflect that were | camp con pone the arrival to Tuesday. Re- Six destroyers will convoy the) followed rapidly, one after another, | ative day,” All navy vessels here/and I felt a shap pain low down on y and three ships carrying an official) the back of my neck. The pain was would call the report up again to- | planned for Mechanic’s Hall Monday Rests Comfortably and No Complication Is Reported; Careful Rule of Living Lends Resistance to Effect of Wound, X-Ray Ex- amination Is Taken Today {By Associated Prean} PARIS, Feb. 20.—Good news came early this morning from the sick room of Premier Clemenceau when it was announced that he was | resting comfortably and no complication had appeared. i Nothing definite, however, can be known as to what the results of the premier’s injuries are likely to be until an x-ray examination of the wound taken this morning is examined by the doctors. The wound is slight, but necesszrily serious for a man as old as the prime minister. Physicians, however, say that his jheart arteries are young and that he has been a lifelong abstainer from alcoholic drinks, has not smoked for 20 years and followed a careful rule of living. This resulted in making him exceedingly vigorous for his Ji years. A VICTIM GIVES OWN VERSION OF SHOOTING. PARIS, Feb. 20.—Premier Clemen- cMau’s story of the attack upon him a sand given in the CLAIM OF CHIEF, (CONDITIONS 0. K ga spot at the corner of the boulevard |Belessert, 1 remarked a strange| silhouetted figure upon the pavement, | serine et Se ie ners ons | Commander of Yank sett Giunyieltehallo, at fellow up Forces in Russia Also Denies Re- ports of Health to no good.’ “This morning at the same spot I) perceived the same silhouette and im- | |mediatc'y thought ‘why, that’s my ‘friend of yesterday.’ | | “I hadn’t time to continue my re- flection, for the individual’s arm was cin POAT ec iaTeaeetey He fired) WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—Health jet the door of the automobile and hit | conditions Brest Francetigeneral : ions and the method of perhaps other bullets in the revolver. |handling troops through that camp As soon as the first shot was fired I) had received high praise from all who leaned forward to see. Other shots! inspected them since the first for- Pershing re- General ported to the war department today. _ |so intense that I could not helv cry- is,ing out. I realized I had been hit. “What followed,” continued the WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—Colonel Stewart, commanding American |and $2,400 for a deputy would, with | consume | Some sen-| division were sacrificed by failure o ators urged that the department was | artillery. needed, but a majority thought other- | | Boche | . The measure presented for approv-'«but we advanced twelve and a half Joachim, the youngest son of former jal of the solons is understood to have | kilometers on a two or three kilo-| BRANDED FALSE WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—Major General Traub, commanding the 35th division in the battle of Argonne for- | est denied before the house rules committee the charge by Governor Allen of Kansas that men of the} f “We were up against three crack divisions,”’ said the general, meter front and held it. In the first | three hours of the battle we had taken what the French had been up against for four years.”” to a radio message, the steamship {will anchor in President Roads in ‘the lower harbor and the presidential party will be transferred to the coast guard cutter Ossipes in which they will be brought to the city SHIPS BATTLE AGAINST ROUGH SEAS ON RETURN. NEW YORK, Feb. 20.—Severe | storms have delayed the arrival of 18| transports bringing 20,000 men from overseas. All are weathering the gales but many will be several days over- The steamer Henderson with 1,200 }turned and brought me back home. Now I feel absolutely nothing.” The premier paused and added sar- castically: “My adversaries shots. They are exceedingly clumsy.” To Stephen Pichon, foreign min- ister, he said: “Am I not a good prophet? Do I not arrange things ahead?, I had ar- ranged to have no meeting of the conference today so that I could get a little rest. Well, I’ve got it.” really are poor PREMIER’S CHAUFFEUR DECORATED FOR BRAVERY. morrow. \evening. There is great demand for| premier, “passed with lightening-like sroppakinyNorthernr Russia, ‘cabled’ the ——_—_—_——__—- tickets. rapidity, The orderly seated behind war department today that ‘alarmist the chauffeur on the front of the|SePerts of the condition of troops in BOSTON, Feb. —The George} automobile had, at the first shot, pulls | Noreen Russia” were not warranted Washington, on which President Wil-led a revolver out of his pocket. The} nye health of his command is ¢ j son is returning will reach here at)chauffeur at the same time put on} leat ASE Rae eco ed oat rea ; 1:00 p. m. yext Monday. According speed and got us out of range. He| cellent, Stewart reported, anc 5 s | | wounded are well cared for and the j Allied command is capable of taking care of itself against the whole Bol- | shevik arn OMAHA MEETING VOTES AGAINST “U.S. OWNERSHIP NEAR MURDER IS SEQUEL TO SAND BAR JUBILATION Frank Towns at Point of Death in the Hospi- tal and Syl Stewart in Jail; Sand- bar Rivalry Proves Tragic The scheduled premier social function of the Sandbar attendant upon the opening of the Canadian rooms and dance hall under the management of Syl Stewart, colored, came to a sudden termination about 6:00 o'clock this morning when Frank Towns, colored, alleged to have participated too freely of the joy water, visited the place and upon the instructions of his mother, Mrs. Ethel Hudson, to “smoke ‘ mH eded to demon- A aria PR nAnaRID on the person |hington. His only statement was that of the proprietor. After Stewart had after he had tried to make peace ducked three bullets fired from a .44/| with Towns the latter started to shoot calibre revolver hd drew his own /at him, and had fired three shots be- weapon, resulting in Towrs being |fore he (Stewart) was forced to confined in a local hospital with three shoot Towns in self protection. bullet holes in his body. The first; Over 30 witnesses were summoned bullet entered Towns mouth, coming | before County Attorney W. H. Patten out at the back of the neck, while | this morning to testify but so many the ‘ other shots inflicted a bad|of them were in various stages of in- shoulder and a leg wound. \toxication it was impossible to ob- The shooting came as the result of a night of revelry at which scores of the negro denizens ‘of the Sandbar participated. No reason has been as- cribed for Towns’ attempt to shoot Stewart other than he was a friend of Mr. Ford’s and that he did not want to see Stewart set up a place in opposition to Ford’s place, one of the notorious dives on the bar. Stewart was arrested shortly after Sandbar, ei the shooting by Patrolman Jim Gal- othe: hea ‘tain a connected story. | -No information \against’ Stewart pending the |termining of his victim’s condition, |which is considered serious owing to |the loss of. blood and the nature of the perforations made by the shells. | It is thot that the shooting is the ‘outgrowth of hard feeling existing | ‘between two factions residing on the one headed by Ford and the led by Stewart.” * Cy LEM TA GM FANON oe“ a yy ‘a silver cup for has been filed | Brubaker,” whose advent into this; le- ‘the action of the house in killing the| | Riner bill, Senate 36, which failed to! |secure the requisite number of votes | ‘on third reading. The vote was 16! to 26. The Riner measure was in-| tended to make the state educational | commission constitutional by subor- dinating it to the state superintend- ent of public instruction. After ap-/ proving the senate measure the house | The failure of the Riner 'actment, after a stormy session in ]committee and on the floor of both jhouses, seemed certain. Commission- jer Creager, who resigned late yester- ‘day, jupposed to have quit because | \of this legislation which would sub- | ordinate his department to the state isuperintendent. Representative Hun- ter, who was for the Riner measure, gave notice that he would move a re- consideration today, and the matter) is likely to come up during the day. | The much talked of blue sky bill} |has run the gauntlet and after going |thru the house has passed the senate | | by a vote of 25 to 0. The legislature made another rec- ord yesterday in rapid legislation, when within one legislative day the measure appropriating -25,000 for; improvements and water works at the | penitentiary ‘was introduced and finally passed by both houses, Members of the house paid Repre- jsentative Brubaker a neat compli- iment when they made up a purse for| “Jack Pershing vale of tears occurred since the Glen-/ jrock representative came to attend | the sessions. | | PARIS, Feb. 20.—Cottin, who at-! tempted to kill Examina-! tion’ of the automobile in which the! premier was riding when fired upon! FIRST YANKEES LEAVE RUSSIA _IN MAY, CLAIM wounded is heading for Bermuda. The; PARIS, Feb. 19.—(Delayed.)— OMAHA, Feb. 20.—The Trans- small steamer Polar Bear is in dig-, Latest reports tonight cay Clemen- Mis ippi Readjustment Congress tress. The President Grant is going ,© is improving but owing to his today adopted a resoluion opposing to her aid. | fatigued condition the x-ray exami government ow nership and operation The Woonsocket lost her propeller tion was postponed a day. The at- of the railroads. It advocated their blade but is proceeding at a slow rate tending doctors made a complete ex- return to priv ownership as soon of'speed jamination and despite Clemenceau’s Tho resolution indorsed ——— appeal for an immediate x-ray ex- ue of Nations. amination ordered a complete rest. ANARCHISTS TO | Expressions of sympathy reached! WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—Presi- jthe premier’s home all day from all dent Wilson may sign the six billion BE CURBED BY {quarters. Chauffeur Decaudin was dollar revenue bill on landing in Bos- decorated by order of Clemenceau. ton. Secretary Tumulty will take the U. S. CONGRESS te was driving the premier's car when the premier was fired on. bill there portance. because of its great im- WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—It will be the middle of May at the earliest WASHINGTON, Feb. a precautionary measure. ‘the senate judiciary committee. CARDINAL GIBBONS HONORED ON 20.—Legis- on Tuesday recommended postpone- before troops can be removed from lation to punish anarchistic activities, ment of a similar measure, House 164. |the Archangel region, it was stated | propaganda and the display of flags BERGER DENIED NEW TRIAL BY JUDGE LANDIS measure | authoritatively today. The dispatch /and other emblems of violence was | {came as a complete surprise, as its en-|Of engineers to that region is merely recommended unanimously today by) OCCASION OF GOLDEN JUBILEE. Defendants in Espionage Case Request Op- ( [By Aasoctatea Press} WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—Thanksgiving that the “blessed sun of Peace has da for the work of the papacy tempting to mi t! ply of Cardinal Gibbons today to addresses of congratulation at his golden Episcopal jubilee. The clergy and laity of the Roman Catholic church gathered to pay homage to Ca: al Gibbons. Dignatarics of the church said the celebration was the most notable gathering of the Roman Catholic heirarchy in North Am Pope Benedict was Cerretti, who Archbishop came from Rome to bring the pontifical blessing. Clemenceau, was|- |taken to the state prison. MEXICANS AND YAQUI INDIANS | TWO BATTLES IN SONORA STATE [By United Press} NOGALES, Ariz., Feb. 20.—T wo Mexican soldiers and the Yaqui In dia: border. within the last two di last encounter. Yaqui casualties sanguinary battles between have oceurred across the Twenty Mexicans were killed in the unknown. The first occurred near Losuil, Sonora. The result is unknown. portunity to Make Statements in Court Before Hearing Sentence CHICAGO, Feb. 20. Victor Berger and four other Socialists, \convicted of violating the espionage act, were each sentenced to jtwenty years’ imprisonment by Federal Judge Landis. after a motion for a new trial had been overruled. CHICAGO, Feb. 20.—Judge Landis today refused to grant a new ‘trial to Victor Berger, congressman-elect of Milwaukee, and four other Socialists convicted of violating the espionage law. Each of the defendants asked permission to make an open state- ment before their sentences were pronounced. Victor Berger spoke first, declaring that the position of the defend- ants was simply that of the interna- ~_______———C tional Socialist movement. He de- One Born Every Minute |elared that if they were sent to the “I’m thinking of going into the |penitentiary it would be proof that poultry business.’’ | America had taken Russia’s place. “Then I’m the very man yuu want | Adolph Germer read his address. Ato meet. I can supply your needs noon rosess was taken with the de- I’m thinking of going out of the fendant’s statements unfinished. |poultry business.”—Farm and Home. weeeeerrvry ewe Ye Saas Ra? %¢ Cn a hs ee i x7 % ° o4, e o¢, 4 +4, x o4, % e o%, % 04, % ¢ 0°, % ¢ oe, K? ° >, Oo eae) M 0% K 2 ¢ ree, e % am % be