Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 12, 1919, Page 1

MATERIAL CHANGES IN German Rejection Seen by Allies; THE DAILY TRIE Member’ of the ¢ Press, and served by the Unit- ed Press. Crihune CASPERFANLS TOLAND PLACE IN TOWNS DESIGNATED BY ADJUTANT. FOR ORGANIZATION OF PLATOONS Sheridan, Riverton, Kemmerer, Cody, Basin and Grey- bull Awarded Cavalry Units in New State Guard; Ten Towns Make Applications, Claim. CHEYENNE, Wyo., June 12 general for Wyoming, Wa: awarded cavalry platoons in th national guard. Here Sheridan will be headquarters for | troop A, and Cody for troop B. The platcons will be distributed as fol-| lows: . = | Troop A—First platoon, Riverton; | second, Sheridan; third, Kemmérer. | Troop B—First. platoon, Basin; second, Cody; third, Greybull. | In his message to Washington Major McCoy announced that the units had been organized and were now awaiting inspection. It is under- stood that this inspection will be done | by a cavalry officer from the regular! army before the end of the present month. Inasmuch as the squadron jest eee T: a McCoy, adjutant a oday wire e adjutant general at! shington that he had selected the six towns which will be| : are the six: Sheridan, Riverton, Kemmerer, Cody, of cavalry is to become*an eritity on! July 1, some quick work will be} necessary to have it inspected, re- | ported upon, and accepted. | In a telegram received by Mr. | McCoy today from Major General | fj. MclI. Carter, chief of the milita | bureau of the general staff, it was re- laied that the “furnishing of horses | for all mewated organizations, to- | gether with their forage and care-| takers, is conditioned upon the en- actment of the appropriation Dill! now pending in congress, and that | final action on this bill probably will | be taken this month.” . In case the measure fails to pass| the members of the new units may! have to furnish their own mounts for the time being. Inasmuch, however, as the war has taught everybody the need of military organizations in this! country, it is believed that there will CASPER, WYOMING, THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1919 WRECK TAKES TOLL IN LIFE OF T.S.SHEEAN Thomas S. Sheean of Chadron, NebA, railroad engineer}, died this morning at a local hospital of injuries received in the wreck of Northwestern passenger train, No. 603, three miles east of Ca per Saturday afternoon. He is survived by a wife and daughter and the remains probably will be taken to Chadron for burial, be- ing held at the Bowman chapel until arrangements can be madc. Sheean, who was severely burn- ed and xcalded about the legs, was supposed to be recovering nicely the first of the week but the nature of his injuries caused complications to set in and he expired at 10:30 today. His death constitutes the only toll of the wreck. € coming reorganization of the, Basin, Greybull. Local Office Again Working a Full Force Today MOUNTAINCLUB TORREET 149TH ees ea ONN. Y, ARRIVAL from Denver of six strike-breakers Messages from Home Folks Can Be| brot here to replace those who quit, Delivered When Ships Bearing Wednesday morning. Four Morse) Wyoming Boys Reach Dock operators and two automatic attend-| yoming, YY SUENCAG oC ants made up the force recruited from; in Gotham. Denver and a statement of the man-| Normal conditions were restored | of The Daily Tribune sold and | delivered to subscribers every day. OVER 4,000 COPIES | NUMBER 200 BLOODSHED AVERTED IN DISPUTE - VER VALUABLE ~ OFFICER WARNS | Peace by Quick-Witted | day afternoon when opposing a section of land in the Salt Cr. Companies Claim no Delay and Unions Report Success CHICAGO, June 12.—Both sides concerned in the country-wide strike of members of the Com- mercial, Telegraphers’ Union of America expressed satisfaction to- |day over the first day’s results. | Officials of the Western Union and the. disputing company, culminating Postal companies said the strike was “practically at an end,’’ while S. J. Greetings from the “folks at home”’ can be delivered to friends and rela-| agement says that the office now has} a normal force in all departments. The effects of the Casper walkout| tives of the 148th field artillery, now| Union, declared that between 18 and/Seidel stepped up at this juncture were first felt last evening when, it on its way hme, immediately when | 20 thousand operators throughout the facing both factions. Konenkamp, international president of the Commercial Telegraphers’ Leaders of Opposing Factions Deputized to Keep Trouble When Seely Heirs Occupy Rich Lands. Quick-witted presence of mind on the part of a deputy of the local sheriff’s office probably averted bloodshed late yester- a crowd of probably 100 men, grimly determined to eject an /opposing crowd of probably 25 men from the premises, the BOTH WIRE FACTIONS SATISFIED STRIKE-BREAKERS ON JOB HERE KNOX PROPOSAL [Peace Conference Js laa per Nails IS ENDORSED Pn Peace Certain COMMUNISTS ON (By United Press.) } WASHINGTON, June 12.—The| senate foreign relations committee by! a vote of eight to seven ordered a} favorable report on the Knox resolu- tion separating the League of Na-! i] tions’ covenant from the treaty. } TOP IN AU R | Senator Sterling offered a resolu- |tion in the senate today seeking to except the United States from com-! pliance with article 10 of the covenant, New Government fo Be Proclaimed on Sunday, Report i By amoctia: Press.) There ae evident impression in Paris that the Allied reply to German counter proposals, which OIL LEAGE WHEN AGAINGT TROUBLE | will be given five days in which to make up their minds as to their | course. Thus final action by them on {the treaty may be expected on or |; about June 18. It now appears that | there will be no changes that will materially lighten the burden placed on the enemy by the treaty presented May 7. A dispatch from Coblenz tel! the Germans withdrawing all erial from the territories east of the Allied bridgeheads and suys that armed Ger- | man forces also have retired a con- deputy snapped a few orders, hastily tae be air oan 9 wa Hie s 8, < é e deputized four assistants, two trom | of rk Es al "That thece fake sain each side, and stood vigil all night,| position on the part of the German fo ere thal his orders were not dis-| civilian population to be prepared for ebay and to forestall any breach) an Allied advance into Germany is ing made in the dignity of the indicated. peace, | The menace of bolshevism in cen- The affair developed yesterday tral Europe again has assumed pro- When employes of the Midwest, the| Portions which are the cause of con- largest operating company in Salt | Ce? in peace conference circles, The Creek, disputed the right of posses- | success of the Hungarian soviet army sion of heirs of the Seely estate on| 2@ainst the Czecho-Slovaks, the mili- section 31-40-78 and on which the| t#'¥ Teverse suffered by the Kolchak Seely Oil company had just com-| forces in southeastern Russia and the pleted the erection of a camp and| danger of Austria passing under Bo’ day night, will refuse the German request for important alterations in the term: Deputy, Who Forestalls f interests faced each other on eek field. Unarmed, and facing was starting the building ‘ofa vig) Sheviki control have.brought matters for drilling. The lend was located in| t? # Stage where thete is no disposi- 1896 by Lou Seely, pioneer of this| tion in official circles to minimize the |section, and was included in the es-; danger. Poland, hemmed in by Bol- tate left by him upon his death sev-| shevism on the gast and south and eral years ago. It is adjacent to| hard pressed by the Germans on the |the big producer brought in by the| west, is said also’ to be (potentially Midwest a year ago and o half in-| threatened from the direction of Aus- |terest in it was recently sold to’ Frank Mitchell of Pittsburgh, 2 wealthy Pennsylvania oil men, and one of a group of wealthy oil mer interested in this state. | Occupation of the premises by the Seely and Mitchell interests is said to have developed a warning from | LONDON, June 12.—A Communist yovernment will be proclaimed in Austria Sunday with promise of im- mediate success, according to infor- nation obtained in circles here. The dest information indicates that about 10 per cent of the Austrian army is Bolshevik. The Communists are expected vuickly to align themselves with the Hungarian Communists. yesterday when 25 to 30 trucks loaded down with men, appeared or the scene, to carry out orders to put the occupants off. Deputy Sheriff (By United Press.) PARIS, June 12.—The Allies’ re probably will be ready late Satur- ” s of peace. The Germans °™ ! ONE STEAMER 1S SUNK, ANOTHER RAMMED IN FOG OFF EAST COAST Crew of One Ship Is Saved by Italian Vessel; Transport Also in Danger (By United Press) NEW YORK, June 12.—The ship- ing board steamer Yankee sank after crashing into the I[tdlian steamer Argentina, off Fire Island The Argentina saved the Yankee's 3,000-ton former rammed The ; Walders also w transport the of board steamer Redondo Hook while outward bound for I Wireless distr ¢ brot transports I id Patric , the rescue. The af Waldersee was enched on Lon Sen r was transferred to the RAILROAD BIL IS NEAR VOTE IN THE HOUSE WASI ‘ senate + comm day favorably reported the + 000,000 railroad deficiency bill in form pai The na ing nen iscal ye naval committee |tion of over iels’ COLONEL HOUSE | NOT GOING TO IRELAND, CLAIM (By Ann PARIS, June Colonel House of th delegation will go to it is authoritatively « will visit Irelund to inve Sinn Fein situation, as reported MOONEY CASE IS 2 bill carry s for the n 1 by thet dui Press.) nd tonight, he » the be little difficulty in securing favor-| i, understood, messages to certain! able action. |tho ship docks at New York. Those | country had quit work yesterday in | points were refused by the local of-|who desire to send such messages have | Tesponse to his call for a strike and nly to German proposals will be given “The first man showin i f Will be arrested,” he ahout.| Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau tomor- Just what it will mean to have) fice, ‘This condition passed this morn-| only to address them to the Rocky| that before the day is over several Violence will be arrested,” he shout- caretakers for the horses may be im-! agined. In the old days the cavalry- men had to groom, feed and look! after their mounts, this duty taking up a good part of what otherwire would have been spare time; under} the new system privates will be able) to walk out grandly to the stables’ and order “James” to deliver Dobbin | ing and traffic is again being moved! Mountain club of New York City and| without delay. Wednesday the wires| the greetings will reach the men| were kept clear by the two machines| promptly. | operated by girls and the work of Information to this effect reached} two executives at the keys. | The Tribune today in telegraphic ad- Among the operators who arrived) vices from club headquarters in New this morning from Denver were those| York. The Rocky Mountain club was who gave the names of O’Connor, Col-} privileged on Christmas, 1917, to en-) burn and Seigel. | tertain the men of the 148th on the} thousand more would walk out. Reports from yarious parts of the country showed that the Postal gen- erally had lost more men than the Western Union. In this city, it was asserted by union officials, that 600 men had struck, but company officials said the number was much less. In Pacific ed, so that every man in the crowd could hear him. “I don’t care whom he represents, or on whose side. I’m here to preserve the peace and I chal- lenge any one of you to start some- thing. We have courts in which to settle such matters as these.” Those of the opposing side hesi- row, it was semi-officially announced today. The big four has definitely ided to refuse to recognize Admiral Kol- chak’s Russian government. Foreign Minister Cerid of Turkey, accompanied by his secretaries, has arrived at Vaucresson, France. The 1 aoe ice ie vestern tated from advancing farther follow-|Femainder of the Turkish peace dele- gation will arrive later. TOBE TAKEN UP IN LABOR MEET Press.) J., June 12. being com- Annoclate (By the , 1 the resolutions no the mo considered by ons forthwith to the front door—wher- | Some bitterness was aroused among! eve of their departure for France. At| Union officials claimed their business eee Siete Taking aieaneage | The big four has decided that mittee of the American ation of ever a front door might be in the| in0 ctriking men by the importation| this time they are making arrange-| Was “practically unaffected by the of this intermission. the youre: dec. Silesia’s future shall be determined Labor is one dealing with the Mooney army. of strike-breakers today but no viol-| ments to see that their reception on| Strike, but Fore Cy ° a uty again scored a trick when he| bY a plebiscite. The council divided | C4S¢- In this it is proposed that the It is presumed that later on the) once or disturbance is anticipated un-| their return is none the less enthusias-| @dmitted that they were somewha deputized four assistants—-and two| the coal output of Silesia between the| federation appoint a committee to det feared bee ia i ie less it is talsed=by sympathy on the) tie. iguppied: of them were recruited from the| Germans and Poles. ee area iaitten 2 "She ld i ed, and that there will then be a) |. izati With a} f this unit, who were amon; = af . —_——.—__— a new trial for Mooney. Should the : |part of other organizations. , | Boys of this unit, w! | {ranks of crowd on the offensive. y r - ¥ F : = chance for other towns to get in on locas labor population, practically all/ the first to leave their homes for the| BROKER OPERATORS SEOUL, June 12.—Leaders of the | committee fail it will provide tha it. This time ten towns applied, and those which showed the most pep and whieh, had the best facilities were given the prizes. Each was inspect- ed last week by Mejor McCoy and Major B. W. Bennett, the latter be- ing the commanding officer of the squadron. It is required that every member of the troops must have served in the army ‘during the late war—or the presént war—the adjective de- pending on whether or not you think the hostilities have ceased. In each platoon thsve are to be 35 non-com- missioned officers and privates, and one commissioned officer. The tota] number in the squedron will be ap- proximately 210 enlisted men and eight officers. The maximum strength of each troop will be: One captain, one first lieutenant, one second lieutenant, one first sergeant, one mess sergeant, one stable sergeant, one supply ser- geant, five sergeants, eight corporals, two horseshoers, one saddler, one wagoner, two cooks, two buglers, 19 first class privates, and 61 privates. In each troop the captain will have direct supervision over the second platoon, and will have the assistance of the first sergeant; the first lieu- ‘nant will eommand the first pla- toon, and the second lieutenant the third platoon. The noneoms will be distributed among the three units. Thus the two captains will come from Sheriden and Cody, the two first lieu- of whom belong to the ranks of or-| war zone, are scheduled to arrive in | ganized labor, sympathy is strong for| New York Saturday and Sunday the striking employes. aboard the Peerless and the Floridian, | Reports from Denver today indi-and number many Wyoming and cated that appreximstely 30 more op-| northern Colorado men who have been erators walked out in that city but in the service for over two years. the service as yet is far from being) From New York they will be sent to | Cheyenne, where they will be de- EM | mobilized. ; | A great reception awaits them in VISITING IN CASPER Sten where state officials have | | , honor. Many from Casper who have friends and relatives with the unit Major Hill, formerly in charge of} will go down for the occasion and full and considered one of the most emi-| will be made known later. nent surgeons of the country, is visit-| —— ing in Casper for a few weeks as a) house guest of Mr. and Mrs. Wilson | | Cleveland, but at the entrance of| America in the world conflict he was | rapidly summoned to prepare medical | During his stay here Dr. Hill will | Barker, chairman of the railway spend most. of his time at the Kimball },,otherhoods’ mediation board, in for- place in the mountains on game hunts mally announcing that an attempt to tenants from Riverton ‘and Basin, | brotherhood executives are facing and the two second lieutenants from | strong pressure from s railroad em- Greybull and Kemmerer,! The names| ployes to permit the Winnipeg locals ippled. ( |a debarkation camp and a week later ee | will have reached Fort D. A. Russell, made.arrangements for a fete in their all American hospitals in England,| particulars regarding their arrival §. Kimball, Sr. Dr. Hill’s home is in arrangen.ents in England to take care | of American casualties. WINNIPEG, June 12.—H. E. and fishing excursions. conciliate strike controversies have -_- TT TCP completely failed, ' admitted that of these officers will be announced) to vote on the question of a sympa- ‘n a week or so. \ thetic strike. MAY JOIN WALKOUT. (By United Press.) NEW YORK, June 12.—With both sides apparently satisfied, the tele- ‘graphers’ strike was unchanged today. Western Union officials everywhere ‘state that traffic is normal. The eastern broker operators divi- sion voted on a sympathetic strike and may quit. Operators for western brokers are considering a walkout also. 3,500 BROKER KEY MEN TO QUIT JOBS. CHICAGO, June 12.—In the face of statements by officials of the tele- graph companies that the nation-wide strike of operators had failed, S. J. Konenkamp, president of the Com- mercial Telegraphers’ union, an- nounced that assurance had been given him that New York broker op- erators, some 3,500 strong, would go on strike. This announcement followed tele- phone conversations with union rep- resentatives in New York and Atlan- tic City. The date of the New York operators’ strike is not stated. Konenkamp claimed the strike was growing in Arizona where he said conferences were being held with the governor by business men anxious to see a settlement. RAILROADERS CEASE TO HANDLE BUSINESS ST. LOUIS, June 12.—An order | “Arrest any man showing signs of Korean Inde violence,”” was the order given. | they have secretly set up a provision- All last night the road between! in K i =} 7, , al government in Korea with Y Seung Casper and Salt Creek was the scene) yan as president. ae jof fast driven automobiles carrying messengers gnd couriers seeking in- junctions and restraining: orders | against each other. And 2ll night, | keeping a peaceful, yet watchful > ° ° o pendence league claim vigil, the young deputy stood watch) , between the two crowds of men, al-|*" ways alert to detect any signs tend- jing to “disturb the peace and dignity” |of the community. i It is said today that both sides are |willing to compromise in the mat- jter and are willing to take their grievances into court, if ne-essary, rather than resort to the carly day methods of settlement. | | With the initation of 17 candidates as a feature of the program, the Elks’ “goat” is being fed on a ration of nails and cactus this week prepara- tory to the entertainment of some 200 members of the antlered herd from Thermopolis Saturday night, and plans for the local fete are also known to include the police patrol and sun- dry other equipment heretofore not pressed into service for such an oc- casion. Thermopolis Elks will arrive on a special train and groups of mem bers from points on the Northwestern, added to those who reside here but who do not belong to the Casper lodge, will swell the number of par- ticipants by hundreds. The calendar has been marked for a gala time here and among the entertainment features which the publie will enjoy is the parade being arranged for the early directing members of tre Order of Railroad Telegraphers to discontinue hendling business of the Western Union and Postal companier after 6 o’clock Saturday, June 14, was is- sued today by E. J. Manion, presi- dent of the railroad telegraphers. The order affects 80,000 railroad op- erators in approximately 30,000 railroad telegraph offices, according to union officials. WASHINGTON, June 12.—Tele |graph strikers are seeking congress- jional aid. A committee of strkiery asked Senator Watson to press his resolution for an investigation of the |wire administration, THERMOPOLIS ELKS TO to an internat question of calli: the date to federation suk ory nization the 4-hour strike in protest, | be determined later. BE GUESTS eveni w uled to b: night forecasts a riot of fun. At the I. O. O. F. hall, used by the Elks until a home of their own be built, the regular lodge meeting will be supplemented by a smok banquet of good proportions 4 evening is included with more novel stunts to make the enter lively. The Thermopolis visitors will re- main in Casper all night to root for their home nine at the return game with the Midwest the following and the combined festivities are ex- pected to draw hundreds from cen- tral Wyoming points. TREATY TO BE REFUSED. Bolshevism Brews in Central Europe t c b E « “amr Ao