Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 14, 1919, Page 1

The — Dai Unit VOLUME 3. led Preas Reports, Member Asseciated Press. JAP CONSULATE AT | TIEN TSIN, REPORT Rough Treatment of Americans in Tien| Tsin Results in Invasion of Japanese; - Quarter in Revenge for Injuries; Inves-| |BUDA APEST IN tigation Started by Minister. ,PEKING, March 13.—(By marines have raided the Japanese concession of Tien Tain, | 5; Associated Press.)—American| forcing their way into the Japanese consulate and assaulting the consul, according The trouble is said to ment given American soldiers TEUTONS MUST: GIVE UP LEASE HOLD IN CHINA SAY CONFEREES Disposition Is Not De- termined, Japsand Chinese Dispute Title PARIS, March 14.—(By As- sociated Press)—The supreme! council of the peace conference virtually has decided to include in the preliminary treaty of | peace a requirement that Ger- many. shall relinquish her lease hold / of Tsing-Tao and all: properities and | concessions on the Shantung penin- sula, No attempt, it is understood, will be made at. present to render a decision as to the ultimate posses-; sion of Germany’s right, which are} the subject of controversy between | the Japanese and Chinese delegations | in Paris. i ——— | GERMANS WILL SEE TREATY MARCH 25th PARIS, March 14.—With Presi- dent Wilson’s arrival here machinery was set in motion for rapid consum- mation of the preliminary peace treaty. The scheduled meeting of the supreme war council today ‘was cancelled to permit a series of con- ferences by President Wilson, Pre- mier Lloyd George, Premier Clemen-| ceau and other leaders. Indications are that the treaty will) be finished by March 20 and the Ger-/| mans called in March 26. Whether the league constitution | ‘will be incorporated in the pre-} liminary treaty has not been definite- ly decided. As it stands now the} constitution is ‘‘on the table” in the Peace conference. Formal meetings will be scarce during the coming week so leadera can get maximum results with mini- mum discussion. PRESIDENT ARRIVES IN PARIS THIS AFTERNOON President Wilson arrived in Paris shortly after noon today. President and Mrs. Poincare met him at the station. While their wives chatted the! Presidents inspected the guard of} honor. ‘ ae} The Wilsons went to a new resi- dence in the Place des Etates Enis, accompanied by a cavalry escort. {| Premier Lloyd George was waiting there and they held a brief confer- ence. They had an engagement with Premier Clemenceau this afternoon. Andre Tardiou today expressed the belief that the League of Nations would not be a part of the prelimin- ary treaties of which there will be 41 each with Germany, Austria, Tur- key and Bulgaria. BOSTON WOMAN WINS TITLE IN | TENNIS SINGLES| NEW Pe ORK in March i 14. — Mrs. George, Wightman of Boston today to ditpalcbes received here. lave been caused by rough _treat- who became disorderly in the , Japanese quarter of the city. Japa- jae soldiers drove out the Americans with fixed bayonets, it is said, wound- | ing two seriouly. The next day 200 angry marines | off duty paraded the Japanese con-| cession and it is alleged that they at-| tacked every Japanese encountered. | When the marines reached the consu- late they forcibly entered, it is re- ported, and assaulted the consul. whose injuries are understood to be! serious. It is said that feeling is run- ning high in Tien Tsin. U. S. MINISTER PROBES RIOT, SAYS DISPATCH WASHINGTON, March 14.—Aj| clash between American troops, a! Japanese policeman and some civil- ians at Tien Tsin was reported to the state department today by Minister Reinsch at Peking. The minister said he had sent First Reenetasy | Spencer ofthe legation.to investigate. Ne neihee Ce sehr eee American marines on the Japanese jconsulate and the wotfiding of the consul, reported in @ Peking dispatch | to the Associated Press. The min- | ister’s message was brief and contain ed no COM> ‘AIR DUEL MUST BE POSTPONED, SECONDS RULE. PARIS, March 14.—The four seconds of Leon Vaudercrane and Robert Schreeber, former army aviators, who proposed an aerial duel, met this morning and decided that as a state of war exists it is impossible to permit any duel in France. Therefore the question of challenge has been Foreonce until the srestyi efivecce:is sien of peace is BUFFER STATE ALONG RHINE IS AGREEABLE BASLE, March 14.—The Frank- furter Zeitung says a committee rep- resenting the Rhenish provinces had asked the Allies to recognize the “‘re- public of western Germany,” which the committee said was ‘‘necessary to secure pacific relations between the east and west.” This would indicate that the in- habitants are favorable to the Allied plan for a “buffer state.” ———<————— PRAIRIE PAYS EXTRA BONUS OF $2 A SHARE INDEPENDENCE, Kans., 14—The Prairie Oil & Gas company today declared its regular quarterly dividend with an extra dividend of| past two years, has resigned to accept|the rounds in market circles $2.00 a share, payable April 30 on stock of record March 31. March} CASPER, R, WYOMING, F FRIDAY, , MARCH | 14, 1919 | CAPITAL ON HIS | TRIP TO FRANCE (By Associated Prens.) WASHINGTON, March 14. Secretary Daniels left Washington to-| Morrow on the transport Leviathan for a European trip. STATE SIEGE PARIS, March 14.—A state of lege has been proclaimed in Buda- pest. Recent reports described com- munistic uprisings there. |RED CROSS IS ' MAROONED IN | VIENNA, CLAIM LONDON, March 14.—The Amer- tercation between the Czechs and ; Austrians. The Czechs refuse the Americans’ permission to cross the | closed frontier. The Austrians also | refuse to permit the mission to pro- ceed, fearing that the Czechs would day for New York to embark to-|state funds, Official paper of the City of Casper and Natrona County, EXTENSION OF SALT GREEK AOAD TO SHERIDAN, i |DANIELS LEAVES Private, County, iS aieeandt@avernment Funds tc Make Possible the Most Extensive Building mn Here of Any Place in State. Success of the state highway bond issue at the ril 22, which wi in Wyoming some election on | provement on Natrona county roads during to Z. E. Sevison, state highway engineer, yesterday on matters connected with] local projects. At the same time it) will mean the extension of the Sait! Creek highway to the Montana state} line, thru Sherifan, thereby provid-| ing a means fof motor truck trans- | port to fill the heed of a north and! south railroad thru this section. It} has been definitely determined that | this latter road shall be built, not| at the expense pf highways needing} attention in other parts of the State, | but as a means Of extending and im- proving the main arteries of travel in| all directions. Prospects that the bond issue will | carry are exceedingly bright, accord-| ing to Mr. Sevison, who states that every newspaper -in the state is ican Red Cross mission to Poland is|backing the movement and it is re- marooned in Vienna owing to an al-| ceiving substantial support from in- fluential men and organizations. Cas- ver is expected to vote unanimously for the proposition and in view of the excellent’ condition of state finances it is looked upon as a con- servative investment in state develop- | confiscate the Austrian engines. The| ment. Americans that | starving. GIRLIS INJURED TN FALL UNDER WHEEL OF TRUCK report Vienna is Natrona county, due to its loca-) tion on the Yellowstone highway and a disposition on the part of industrial interests to build permanent roads, | will probably see the most extensive) work of any copnty in the state and this linked with;the city proposal to | pave West Second, means the cons snptaining ” tinuation of -an~éctive program. ene: other projects that will! e precedence is the construction of a SKeRee from Buffalo to Worland | thru the Big Horn mountains, a drive that will be second to none in point of scenic beauty and serve an im- portant economic end. A road also, | Margaret, Nau Suffers Broken Ankle |has been projected from Dubois to | and Severe Bruises in Un- fortunate Accident on Down Town Corner. ter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Nau, 414 | dent which occurred on the corner of Second and Wolcott streets shortly before 1:00 o’clock this afternoon when she ran into a truck belonging to the O. L. Walker Lumber com- pany and driven by John Kennedy. The extent of the child’s injuries have not yet been determined by Dr. J. C. Kamp, who was summoned to give ; medical attention, owing to the ex- cessive swelling of the child's legs. Conflicting reports of eye witnesses | state that the front wheel passed ove) | the child’s leg while the driver of thc | vehicle reports that the little girl ran into the side of the truck and re- ceived her injuries by being thrown under the car, her foot being caugh‘ in the rear wheel. The driver's statement is generally accepted inas- much ag the tritk, which weighs two tons and was loaded with 5,000 pounds of lumber, would have crush- ed the child’s leg off if it had passed | over it. The child’s legs are badly bruised and swollen but according to the statement of Dr. Kamp, it is improb- jable that she has suffeder any in- | juries with the possible exception of (@ broken right foot. This has not | been definitely determined, however | Miss Rita Rutledge, who was with Miss Nau at the time of the accident, i states that the injured girl was run- ning for the crossing and looked be- hind just as the truck came into sight. She also substantiates the driver's statement that the victim of the accident ran into the side of the car and was hurled under the moving vehicle, ———__.. William Moody, employed by the Webel. Commercial company for the a position with the Midwest commis- {sary at Salt Creek. ‘WILL GET DEBS 0 UT OF PRISON OR GO TO JAIL, TOO, IS PLEDGE CLEVELAND, Ohio, March 14.—Practically crowd into a theater to hear an address by John Reed, editor of New York, stood with up raised hande lest night « Mee the woman's national indoor ten- Int Mee Manion tndessene” defeat- jen everybody who could Socialist swore that “either Gene Debs would get out of fail or we would all get in.” Sete ne Debs was recently sentenced to 10 years imprisonment by a fed- eral jury fer be radfersens id eof the espionage law. Jmaking it more accessible the top of the continental divide, pen- etrating the big game country and to the motorist. This, it is estimated, will cost $170,000. Thruout the length of the Yellowstone highway and on the Lincoln highway in southern Margaret Nau, 13-year-old daugh- Wyoming money will be expended to ernment e¢ ztood advantage in surfacing and im- | CY avenue, was the victim of an acci-| proving the roads. The various projects now being aurveyed and considered will give work to hundreds of men and the bond issue will enable the State of Wyoming to do its part in stimulat- ing building and improvement for the purpose of giving work to re- turned soldiers. At the present ine there is urgent need of engine: ‘hruout the country and Wyoming is is no exception. To date they aye not been discharged from the arm at a rate in excess of the demand ae their services in civilian life and by | reason of the many construction en-| terprises being launched in the na- | tion the prediction is held out that: they will all be assimilated, together with those of associated epctgassociateditrades: EA. JOHNSONTO. BE BURIED HERE Enos A. Johnson, a pioneer of Cas- ver, died’ at the home of his daughter in*Sheridan Wednesday morning, the body will arrive on the Burlington Saturday evening, and the canera will be conducted by the I. O. O. lodge of whic he was one of the on est members. OIL REPORT IS UNCONFIRMED. A rumor, which has been going} this | morning that the Stanley-Greene Syn- | dicate which is making an original test in the Mule Creek had brot in| a commercial well, is unauthenticated and is attributed to recent reports that gas‘and slight oil showings were found in small pockets by the drill-| ers, The units showed strength this, Se and are holding at $150-| —————____ Edward J. Schulte, manager of the: Webel Commercial company store, | returned Wednesday evening from} Denver where he was a business vis- itor for severalidays, in the inter-! ests of the local institution. 1 ly & can ill mean the expenditure of no less th HARERAL LAR NUMBER 124 N REBELS DEATH NE-GUN a IACEI 2a. u DA nD FOR RGUTE BERLIN special ill make available for road im- $6,750,000 in government and 30,000 ding Cre asper \ GREED (ey aptured Sparta- cans Chained To- gether Face Execu- tien in Prison tho-Slovak Resis- Slo lowly the next three y who was in Casper CREEL TO TAKE UP POLITICS AS BUSINESS, CLAN" |Formal Resignation Not Ac- cepted by President but Committee’s Work Is Self- Sustaining, He Says (My Unite BERLIN, teens.) farch 13.— (De- jlayed.)—Cver 100 Spartacans ‘chained together in the prison rtyard were shot by use of machine runs this afternoon. War ance, having 1,055 m Minister Nos ke “ce ordered that railroad under its contrel and de- shall es that soviet troops will reach! May 1, says a Helsingfors Areas to the Baily Mail. shevik that du the Bols ry and Febru ny occupied territ the size of F of } he exe- Gove au the today suburb let comple ALLIED CASUALTIES (By Associnted WASHINGTGN, ing last ni self us a private ci pl. hi on the 23 h The Belshey d to have lost at le BASLE, March 14 tion may be i, Minister onneed in G im Creel, chairman of the committ public information said that he x to take an active interes: in fp affairs. He added that it would r as an office secker t much humble assistant in the del cess of which our public in need.” Creel said that Pr had not yet accepted nation, but declared’ th domestic work v mained to be cleare 2 on the Dvi MORGUES PILED HIGH WITH REVOLUTION DEAD COPENHAGEN, March CZECH REDU SLOVAK ARMY D BY HARDSHIPS vi HONOLULU, March 14.—General Victims of the latest Spartacan dis- Robert Paris of the French army, turbance in Berlin, according to the on returning today from Siberia, Zeitung am M the that it is id thru ‘dation fer ¢ are so numerous fficult to find accomr + hadia reporis whore he was associated with Czecho-Slosak command, 2 Hanoverstrasse CLAIRs ally. U.S. z forces, whelm Id Europ He half th ce not been id S$ manv in t 1, while 115 bo sermans most ba ) . able grip on pj Pr B worn hospital re with- helpless TOBE ADJUSTED Ww: poi ior adj 1 PE ='S MARINES EXECUTED F BERLIN rin ARE NOSKE teadily worse |, could ch tion of miners ale caeailed in t was announced tod department. Ti yaster were Moore of and fifty mem- J. F. Shafroth, for silors’ guard Colorado, and M representative com of bread- question is LEAGUE f CHARGES ASKED BY CONVENTION Londen Conference Recommendations to Meet Objections; Senator Fall Flays Constilution ‘Outlines one Mar. 14.—Delegat=s to ie of Nati n- the Fee sett for Paris today to pre- sent the peace conference with rec mendations for a number of amend- ments to the covenant. ons Societies a —— 5 WOLF HIDES EXHIBITED and Fr: ank Sinnle Blake Horn of in Ci ra : “The London conference h sani ; ; ‘ per two mammotl terially strengthened the wolf hides, the rest their re the league’s successf I . : hunt in whieh ¢ said Arthur Kuh a He thinks the t Jed: will largely meet Republic rowth of an was caught d run of am which were also killed jections such as removal of the dan ger that the United States would be automatically forced into war. of passio ed by Att for the will endeavor to rder was premedi- e onterowth of ted betw > pt locate 1, were ree QUERQU , New ar. 14.—“If the present 1 Men is’ plan is adopted, G we Brit. are re- ain will rule the leag and I ob- ported to b I to re ject to- America’s beco i oon only covery while their condition subsidiary country to | ned to be was thourht Isles,” declared United § d both the state and defense present phy Fall, of New Mexico, addr most exhausted their challenges. is i business men here at the cha pecial venire wa: yuired to com- they v of commerce. > the panel. hor of Mr h YOUNG TURKS IGNORE AREISTICE BY TERRORIZING CREEKS, REPORT : SALONIKI, March’ 14,Turkish troop troons in pouthass Asia Minor are ignoring the fact that an armistice has been rigned and are ter- rorizing the Greeks in that region, according to the metropolitan of Sivas, Asiatic Turkey, who says Allied forces chould be sent to pro- tect the population from the Youn g Turks. p result of - ning when. the child and in‘a heavy door at the okér for the irm, has returned Kk where he Spent a couple vs on business in connedtion with interests in the Lance “Creek