Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 15, 1919, Page 1

oh VOLUME 3. "CASPER, WYOMING, SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 1919 e Casper Daily Tribune blished May 1, 1890, ed October 9. 1916. PAGE IANKEE Official paper of the City of Casper and Natrona County, Wyoming. NUMBER 125 LEAGU JWNED WHEN U.S. TRANSPORT HITS MINE IN NORTH SEA Yselhaven Explodes Mine and Sinks in| Deep Water; Thirty-Five Survivors | Landed; Details of Catastrophe Not An-| nounced by Lloyds in Brief Report in the sinking of the American naval transport Yselhaven, which. struck a mine Friday morning, according to Lloyds. The Ysel-' haven was bound from Baltimore to Copenhagen. Thirty-five survivors were landed at Hartlepotl. ‘ | | | Ey Ea | | The Yselhaven measured 3,558) SUICIDE FOUND tons and was built in Rotterdam in| CUT BY RAZOR United States shipping board after the United States entered the war. asper on Taking Life in a! Cheyenne Hotel She left Baltimore on February 18 for Copenhagen. The sinking of the Yselhaven prob- ably occurred in the North Sea. 4 W. W. Starks, Thermopolis CHEYENNE, Wyo., Mar. 15.—His body lying across the door of the | | room he occupied last night at the) | Trail hotel, W.. W. Starks was founa | dead this afternoon with his troat! cut from ear to ear by a razor. The man arrived from the north » Thursday night and registered from Thermop@lis. He was, last seen alive Municipal and Local Interests Matt ~nt--eletock lastnight, whenshe wen’! (Come to.Rescuc or Employ- to his room, | Se: a for Sol. 4 His identification was further es-' beret eS EE ati tablished by deposit slips of the Ther- | diers Will End. mopolis State bank, found in his ——— | pocket. He had nearly $100 in cash on his person, but there was nothing to indicate the reason for his suicide A trunk check from Cheyenne to; Casper was in his pocket but ro ticket. DOZEN ALIENS GIVEN PAROLES BY SEC. WILSON WASHINGTON, Mar. 15.—Paroles | were granted today by the Secretary of Labor Wilson to 12 aliens of a group of 54 sent to New York fron. the west recently under orders for de- portation. In 19 cases the deporia- tion order was affirmed. In the re- Unless state and municipal inter- | ests come to the rescue the federal | employment office in C. opened | by the government to assist return. | ing soldiers to jobs and one of the! most important offices in the state, ‘will be a thing of the past on or about March 22. Due to the failure of congress to pass the deficiency ap- propriation measure carrying funds | jfor the continuation of the work, the | organization will be cut to “skeleton” jform in Wyoming, the government maintaining only the office of federal director in Cheyenne. A communication received by! Agent Tabbert of the Casper office calls attention to these plans and emphasizes the need of community interest in maintaining the office. In all probability the matter will be |\taken before the proper authorities ere, | In a wire received at the state of- \then the | Nations plan. | Question Positively | Decided, President Declares in Wire to Sec. Tumulty (By The Associated Presn.) NEW YORK, March 15.—Sec- |yetary Tumulty today announced ithe receipt of a cablegram from. | President Wilson stating that the | «6 plenary council has positively de- cided that the League of Nations is to ke a part of the veace treaty.” The cable was in response to one sent by Secretary Tumulty inquiring whether there was any truth in a certain newspaper story that the lea- gue was not to be incorporated in the peace treaty. son lost no time in plunging into the problems of the peace conference on his arrival here. He conferred with Premier Lloyd George for an hour and after luncheon the president went to Colonel House’s quarters and for two and a half hours was in confer- ence with Premier Clemenceau, It was taken over by the Premier Lloyd George, Colonel House, countable for the crime that was com- Andre Tardieu and Loucheurn. The discussion ended at 5:30 when the president went to call on President Poincare. PARIS, March 15.—Invitation sent | the peace conference to neutral states! *' * : |to participate in the discussion of a|Sist County Attorney W. H. Patten} outranking two generals pws Sere | League of Nations has brought re-| lent a touch of interest to the case geant Louis Van Israel of Newarl conference. | countries have forwarded statements! jury had been chosen. | on their views to the secretary of the! | | of both Davis and Henry. was first | [Bv United Press} PARIS, March 15.—President Wilson still believes the League of Nations’ constitution should be in- cluded in the peace treaty. He is expected to make his Position; the form of the clothes worn by the | at this afternoon’s meeting ‘of the supreme war council, which will discuss the military terms of the | treaty preparatory to drawing up the} complete treaty next week. ‘President Wilson’s return has ziven a new impetus to every piiase of the peace work. Leaders are more hope- ful than ever that the preliminary treaty will be ready to submit to the Germans around March 20. BRITISH WOULD HURRY PRELIMINARY TREATIES. PARIS, March 14.—(Associated Press.)—The British program for the peace conference is understool to contemplate the signing of separ- ate preliminary treaties with the cen- tral Allies as soon as Germany is ¢is- posed of. Next woyld come amend- ments to the League of Nations a 1 league would be whipped into shape. The final peace treaty would fol- low and would include the League of The leading thought is to strip the preliminary re terms of unnecessary encumbrances and secure the signature of that docu- IARESPONSIBL FOR MURDER, | Temporary Insanity and | Bloody Passion Caused by Blows Delivered b | Victim Made Defense. AGF NATIONS TO BE PART OF PEACE PACT ROME, March 14.—According to an interview with Stefania Turr, daughter of the noted Hungarian general, which was printed today in the Giornale D’Italia, the belief e wife, as well as some of the Rus death by the Bolshev ists that emperor Nicholas and his n grand dukes, were not put to F REPORTS PERSIST THAT EX-CZAR GERMANS SIGN § AND HIS FAMILY ARE NOT DEAD AWAY SHIPS T0 PLEA OF HENRY, NOW ON TRIAL SAVE COUNTRY FROM STARVING U.S.TROOPSIN FIGHT STARTED conomic Demand of COMBAT REVIEW in a “white heat of passion” when| Eighty Decorations Conferred he inflicted fatal knife wounds in| Sam Davies’ body at the Ohio camp | \in the Salt Creek field February 23, | jthat he had been dazed from the! | blows he received, and was unac-) mitted, are the main points of the | defense that Attorneys Alex B, King, and George B. Ferguson are offering | for the decused man. The introduction of Attorney A. E. Stirrett as special prosecutor to as-| OUT |sponses from Switzerland, Holland, when it was opened by the state at | N- 1 Medal of H 5 | Denmark, Norway and Sweden. These 3:45 yesterday afternoon, after the ene On OE Chas. B. Johnson, a fellow worker. summoned to the stand and on direct testimony summed un the details of the came of cards leading to the argu-! | ment between the two men which re-! |sulted in a fist fight and later in the Ghastly evidence of the crime in \ deceased man at the time gf the }affray. was introduced as state’s ex- | hibit Nos. 1, 2, and 3, covering vari- ous articles'of clothing showing the knife wounds and clotted with blood. The clothes were identified by Mr. ; Johnson, the witn ; worn by Sam Davi | the assault. : ! A touch of humor was injected into the trial when Shannon Taylor. an- other eyewitness to the proceedings, testified that he was sitting in the game over which the fight originally started. He explained the intricacy of “21” to the court, but admitted taht he was not much of a gambler as he invariably lost in games he en- tered. He stated that about four or five minutes elapsed between the time that Henry was knocked down and the time of his.renewed assault on Dav: On rigorous cross-examination by the defense attorneys he admitted that {he waS not sure of the exact time | that elapsed as it was a moment of | | intense excitement. During most of the questioning the state’s attorneys were on their feet objecting to the lines of questioning on the ground fatal attack. t s the clothes! i fi at the time of /tenced to death for shooting’ Pre-|W. H. Zindel for $268,000. Se 8 by General Pershing Upon Occasion of First Review in Fighting Formation COBLENZ, March 15.—(By Asso- ciated Press.)—General Pershing had’ hia first sight this morning of Amer: ‘can troops in combat formation on German svil. On the 600 acre plateau on the east bank of the Rhine, he in- spected the second division and pre- sented 80 decorations. At the head of the line of those re- ceiving decorations and for a moment J., who was given the Congres- During the battle of Argonne forest he crossed the Meuse, fell into a German trap, escaped, and again crossed the river with valuable information as to the enemy’s forces. << EMILE COTTIN IS SENTENCED TO DIE SOON (By United Press.) PARIS, Mar. 15.Emile Cottin, sen- will be executed fortnight. His trial wa: mier Clemenceau, within a brief. MANSLAUGHTER IS VERDICT IN ALBRIGHT CASE (Special to the Tribune.) WHEATLAND, Wyo., March 15. —After being out for 30 hours a jury today rendered a verdict of man- slaughter in the case of Charles Al- bright, who last December killed Clifford Boyd by stabbing him thru the heart. The case attracted much TO KEEP BOOZE "ON RHINE BANK AFTER JULY 1ST LONDON, March 15.—Nine sailors are reported drowned| PARIS, March 15.—President Wil-| That E. G. “Blackie” Henry was | Brewery Stockholders Claim Dry Clause for War Prohibi- tion Became Obsolete With Signing of Armistice (By Anne d Press.) NEW YORK, March 15.—Prelimi ary action toward testing the con: tutionality of war time prohibition was taken today by the filing of a holders’ in federal court inst the James Everard breweries. The complainant asked the court for jan order restraining the defendant |from suspending manufacturing or May 1 and sales on July 1. The complaint alleges that the emergency prohibition clause of the ovember, | agricultural bill adopted in N. | 1918, is unconstitutional as the meas- ure was intended to safeguard na- tional security and defense, the armis- jtice having been signed, hostilities teeased and orders given preliminary lto a reduction of the military forces , before that date. ‘POWDER RIVER RANCH ~—(G SOLD FOR $268,000 BUFFALO, Wyo., Mar. 15. (Spl.) —One of the ‘largest ranch deals jof the year was made here when the | Faddis-Spear Viiven Cattle company | purchased the Powder River ranch v1 FALLS FROM BIG BARN, | PARKMAN, Wyo., - 15. (Spl —Chartles F. Younce, , is dead here from injuries received in a fall from a big barn on the Dana ranch. | DANIELS SAILS | FOR FRANCE ON LARGEST SHIP (By Asnocinted NEW YORK, March tary of the Navy Dani France today on the L Secre- ailed for hian. DIES OF HIS INJURIES} maining 23 cases no applications for |fice in Cheyenne from Federal Di- |rector Densmore, no win Washington, \the latter states that “we should urge {state and municipal authorities, wel- fare organizations, chambers of com- | merce, labor organizations and others ;to take over and finance as far as!/ | possible all offices eliminated by this} ‘order until congress’ makes an ap-! propriation. No office placing sol- diers should be permitted to close./ PERU DISPUTE :: is highly probable that conzress will act promptly after meeting. Con-) | sequently use every possible endea- vor to secure such assistance.” This closing, it is pointed out, is of temporary nature, but no one can foresee for how long. Congress is expected to be assembled in extra session immediately upon the presi- dent’s return from France, be! ween} May 1 and July 1, and the defivienzy) reopening the hearings are pending WILSON IS NOT GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador, Mar. 15. —It was officially announced today} that the report that Ecuador had asked President Wilson to act as ar- hitrator in her boundary dispute with Peru was entirely without foundation, It was explained that such a step might be considered as seriously compromising the government’s po- appropriation measure wit be one « sition with the Ecuadorean congress |the first enacted. To tile over ths) before it had a chance to pass upon interim it is necessary for local cu- the League of Nations project. thorities to take hold. ‘ MORMON BISHOP > AND PARTY ARE | VILLA CAPTIVES JUAREZ, March 15.—An unofficial report says that Bishop Joseph Bentley, president of the Mormon state of Colonia, Juarez, together with Joseph Spencer, Joseph Williams and two other Mormon mission- aries are being held by Villa south of El Valle, Chihuahua. Neither: church officials nor the American consul have received information of their capture. Spencer and Williams are members| int g§, Williams, according to leading of the Mormon colony at Colonia| Mormons here, ard it is possible taht Dublan, 122 miles southwets of here.| he may be one of the four mission- With them in their missionary tour of {aries reported held with Bishop northwestern Chihuahua was’ Plens-| Bentley. ment so the world can begin to settle back to normal. PARIS, March 15.—President Wil- son today authorized the statement that there had been no change in the! original plan for linking together the| League of Nations and the peace! treaty. The plan was enunciated by the peace conference itself at its first plenary session, and he added, there had been no departure thus far from the order then laid down. —— TWISTER KILLS ONE, INJURES THREE IN NEBR. LINCOLN, Nebr, March 15.—Wire communication in parts of Nebraska is still demoralized as the result of a tornado which visited Saunders ‘county yesterday, killing one and in- juring three persons and heavy property damage. L. L. WILLIAMS BUYS INTO THE FOSTER REALTY L. L. Williams, who recently came to Casper from Taylortown,: Pa., where he was an accountant for an important eastern railway system and later engaged in a general coal and supply business, has purchased a half interest in the Foster Realtv com- |pany. Mr. Wililams states that he is greatly impressed with Casper’s opportunity and that he has great belief in its future extension. causing see Buying booms business. Don’t put \off till tomorrow what can be bot today. . . BAVARIANS TO NAME PREMIER NEXT MONDAY that the defense was continually call-, attention as Albright was a compara- ing for presumption, not fact from tive stranger and his victim a popu- the witness. lar rancher. - One of the most unusual requests Sp that was ever made before the local PER E court came when Mr. King requested , the witness to re-enact before the | jury the scene and approximate times 1of the events leading to the stabbing of Davies. The state objected on the ground that it was not fair to the witness to make such request as he would be in- vading the province of: the jury in determining just what time four or five minutes would be. During the argument by counsel the .jury was } excluded from the court room until various objections were settled. Judge C. E. Winter, the presiding judge, ruled against the motion of the prosecution and the witness was instructed to enact the scenes if possible. “I cannot react the scenes that| transpired at the Ohio camp that eve- ning, for everybody was excited and the circumstances are changed now, the environment different. I stated | that my opinion of the time was four or five minutes and my illustration) | might refute my statement.” | Dr. A. S. Roach testified that he; \ had been summoned to Salt Creek to ‘give the injured man medical atten-| tion on the night that he was stabbed, | ‘arriving at the Ohio camp about 11) o'clock. In the preliminary exami-| nation of the man’s wounds Dr | Roach discovered foreign matter in | the wound in the scrotum, which later | proved to be a knife blade. | A trend of sensational examining| by the defense attorneys was brot) forth by their endeavor to intimate) that the wounds received by Davies; | were not necessarily fatal but that | |improper medical treatment at the time resulted in his death. | | On rebuttal in which Attorney) | Stirrett closely questioned Dr. Roach | ‘it was brought out that the operation | LABOR BUREAUS ARE CLOSED UP (By United Prens.) : WASHINGTON, March 15.—To provide for the employment of re- turned soldiers and sailors, the Coun- cil of National Defense has organized an emergency committee. Unemploy- ment is again increasing in the face of an 80 per cent reduction of the ! federal employment service, due to| the failure of congress to make an appropriation for its continuation. The state councils of defense are asked to replace the closed federal employment offices. —<<—___*__ to remove the knife blade from the injured man’s body could not have} | been handled at Salt Creek because it wag almost certain to result in the immediate death of the man. “In your opinion as a practicing, physician and surgeon you did the best possible thing in endeavoring to get the injured man to a medical in- stitute?” asked the prosecution. “In cases of that kind,” said Dr. Roach, “‘it is first necessary to stop the flow of blood, prevent infection and then if possible to remove the injured man to some hospital where ke can get the necessary medical} treatment.” Dr. Roach’s testimony was com- pleted shortly after 6:00 o’clock and court immediately adjourned until this morning at 9:00 o'clock, when the state resumed questioning of its witnesses. [By Associated Pressel BASLE, March 14.—The Bavariar diet will convene on Monday and will be asked to elect a new premier to succeed Kurt Eisner, who was assassi- nated last mont! HARBOR STRIKE _ ENDS, WORKERS IVEN DEMANDS (By United Press.) NEW YORK, March 15.—Three- fourths of the harbor strikers have been granted an eight-hour day and increased pay. Only 4,000 strikers are left. W.S. S. SALES IN U.S. AVERAGE 45 CENTS IN MONTH WASHINGTON, Mar. 15—War savings stamps sold in January at the rate of 45 cents for every person in the United States. 1,419,000 MEN DEMOBILIZED WASHINGTON, Mar. 15.—Offi- cers and men already demobilized inumber 1,419,380, the war depart- jment announced, 83,774 being in com imissioned grades. Allies Agreed to at Conference in Brussels, Claim | (By United Press) PARIS, Mar. 15.—It is reported that the Germans signed the Allies’ economic demands providing for immediate food shipments into Germany until the next German harvest, and the Germans to sur- render the use of their merchant fleet, the rental of which will be applied on food payments. WILL NEED SUPPLIES TILL MIDDLE OF AUGUST. (By Associnted Press.) SRLIN, J ch 11.— (De ermany expects the All will provide food supplies until Aueust 15, which is the earliest possible date that flour from this year’s harvest here can be counted upon, it said by Under Secretary of S Braun before leaving for B take part in nego' ion Allied commission relative shipments. was Von to the food ith to RUSSIAN RUBLE ‘TO BE BARRED IN GERMANY. BERLIN, March 15.—(By ciated = Pr —The ministr: finance, it is understood, mend to the German mediate enactment of a the R ve ruble from circulat Ge The influx of R curr gan in astonis mits ne manner with the advent of Adolph Joffe, Bolshevik amb: ier- many since last sum: tant source of alive to the Bolshevik menace. EXPORTS ARE CONFINED TO RAW MATERIALS ONLY PARIS, Mar. 15.—The Germans agreed to all conditions imp 0 the Allies in shipments, it was offic “Jl. German exports will o raw materials such : und dye materials. not be permitted any commer anta; over the French gians. German ships will be used tempor- sarily part payment for food, thi valance to be paid in cash. Hoover announced that there is sufficient food alr stored in ope to start revoctualing: 2 many, which will receive about 2 100 tons monthly. BERLIN, Mare} meeting of the Pru since the republic was held this afternoon. the speteators and weapons. RETURNS MADE ON 2 BILLION REVENUE TAXES March About two billion dollar the hands of revenue night, treasury officials large number of tz posing of their federal taking advantage of the installment privileges. Collectors through country are swamped. T congestion in every revenue office un- til midnight. WILSON TO RUN AGAIN IN 1920, MACK PREDICTS ‘ RICHMOND, Va., March 15.— Woodrow Wilson will again run for president in 1920, Democratic Nat- ional Committeeman Norman Mack predicted today. General Pershing, Harding or Wood will be the Republi- can candidate in Mack’s opinion.