Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 9, 1919, Page 1

Che Casper Daily OVER 4,000 ae of The Daily Tribune sold and delivered to subscribers every | day. VOLUME 3 -MONDELL AND LODGE (Cities Crihune CASPER, wYo., SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1919 Member of the Press, and served by the Unie: ed Press. THE DAILY. TRIBUNE Associated NUMBER 248 BE. ARIGATION FOUNTS OF FUTURE (PRESIDENT T0_ REVIEW FIRST | TROOPS AUG. 12 (Ry Asxociated Preax.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—Pres- ident Wilson will review the fa- mous marine brigade of the second division in Washington Tuesday. Orders for two regiments of ma- rines to parade here were is today by Acting Secretary Roose- velt. These are the firat return- ing troops to be reviewed by Pres- ident Wilson. PLEDGE ASSISTANCE XAYCEE RANCHER TO TEST OWT ORIGINAL THEORIES TO HELP PRESIDENT Appropriations and Legislation to Drive Profiteers Into Open Promised by Re- publican Leaders in House and Senate; | President Makes Plans for Great Tour By United Press.) WASHINGTON, Aug. ‘9. —Congress will begin immediately con- sideration of President Wilson's message recommendations. Congress- man Mondell, Republican leader of the house, said: “Congress will grant any money needed to make an effective cam- paign against the profiteers. Besides, | have no objection to extend- ing the Lever food control act if necessary.” Senator Lodge, senate Republican leader, said: “IT think the president made some good suggestions and I am sure con- ss wil] deal with them immediate-| He probably will his ing his tour again. touch on the cost of living’ in y- | President Wilson is now consider-| WASHINGTON, Aus. Wyoming, who has been in the Zindel | pliance: | stock int | thoroughly tested. | in Wyoming the coming winter. NEW HUNGARIAN GOVERNMENT {S ENDORSED BY ENTENTE MISSION speeches. Before leaving he may confer here with representatives of both capital and labor as in his message he said that many other things between them | IN BUDAPEST, DISPATCHES SAY should be corrected and that he was | ready to confer on them with “men who know what they are talking about,” DOMESTIC PROBLEMS WILL BE DISCUSSED Anmociated Prens. WASHINGTON. Suge 3 -Domes- tie problems now facing the gountry may be taken up direetly with the people by President Wilson during his forthcoming trip in the interests of the peace treaty. It was said at) the White House today that plans for the president’s tour are going for- ward. INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMITTEE IS WORKING | (By United Press.) | WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—Con- gress took its first action today on President Wilson's message when the senate interstate commerce commit- tee authorized Chairman Cummins to| appoint a sub-committee to begin work along Wilson's recommendation and besides decide how much the ex- ecutive and administrative depart- ments can accomplish under existing laws. Associated Pre WASHINGTON, Aug. —Hear- State of Siege Reported While Another Mes-| sage Says Rumanian Forces Will With- draw From Most of Budapest GENEVA, Aug. 9.— The inter-allied mission in Budapest, after a| conference with Archduke Joseph and Premier Friederich, forwarded. to Premier Clemenceau a report to the effect that entente représen- tatives are in full accord with the new Hungarian government, accord- ing to a Vienna dispatch today. : Associated Press. VIENNA, Aug. 9 9.— (Via Bern Berne.) —A state of siege has been pro- claimed in Budapest, according to ad- vices “received /here today. A TKINS SPEA KS SUNDAY, NIGHT ON ARMY ‘HUT’ Brigadier J. E. Atkins will speak Sunday night at the Masonic Tem- ple dance pavilion starting at 8 o'clock in the interests of the Sal- “vation Army drive for a $25,000 hut here. His subject will be (By United Pres.) LONDON, Aug. 9.—The Rumanian commander in Budapest intends to | evacuate most of the Rumanian troops shortly, due to the allies’ attitude. A Budapest report today says that Archduke Joseph's govertiaent will be endorsed in the coming Hungarian elections. Doubtless, Joseph will at- tempt to restore the monarchy, says the Popolo Romano in Rome. It be- lieves the efforts to form a union of Austria Hungary, Croatia and Slo- | venia will follow as Joseph's first pice cog eae eee | step toward reconstruction in the Aus- will begin before the house agricul- tro-Hungarian state. os ture committee Monday, Chairman Haugen announced. It is understood} Mr. and Mrs, Patsy Carr left this the measure as proposed would limit| afternoon for new York where they the time in which supplies might be/| will visit for some time. From there held and compel disposal of them|'they expect to go to California to after the permitted pet iod. spend the winter months. “Over the Top with Theodore Roosevelt, Junior.” The Salvation Army warrior who went over the top three times in France will give a brief talk at the Thermopolis- Casper baseball game at the high school athletic park Sunday after- noon. COUNTY ATTORNEY ASKED TO RESIGN BY THE BOARD Incom petency and Negle. Neglect of Duty Are} Charged by Commissioners in Demand That Patten Give Up Office Here For alleged incompetency, neglect of duty and persistent failure! to back up the sheriff's office in the prosecution of criminals, County, Attorney W. H. Patten has been asked to resign and if the request is! not complied with ouster proceedings will be instituted by the coun-| ty. Attorney Patten was today served with a notice to appear before! the board of ¢ounty commissioners at 10 o'clock Monday morning to show cause why he should not give up the office to which he was elected) fused while in others confessed crim-| last. November. jinals have been ordered released State officials, including Governor! without prosecution. The district at-| Robt. D. Carey, are said’ to concur) torney’s office, it is also claimed, has} in the demand, it having been learned) refused to do the work delegated to} that similar proceedings were con-| it under the statutes and on numer- | templated by the executive Gevart-| ous occasions it has been necessary | ment if the county board had not/to secure legal advice and assistance! taken action. The commissioners| from practicing attorneys. were inclined to be lenient in the hope that shortcomings of the office were temporary and would be recti- fied. In the bill jot particulars against the county prosecutor are charger that he has been dilatory in the pros- ecution of criminal offenders, war- rants in some cases having been re- The com-, missioners say they have proof to jus-! tify their course. | The action of county officials du- on the same score. tested. ‘STEEL ORDERS | SHOW GAIN IN MONTH OF JULY PV ORK Aus Press.) NEW PY ORK. A 9.—Unfilled orders of the United States Steel corporation on July 31 were 5,578,- 661 tons, an increase of 685,806 tons compared with orders on hand June, 30. This is the second in- crease shown in any month since October of last yea: ment in June marked a turn in the tide of the steel industry and fig- ures for the last month indicate steady improvement of conditions. en SENATE TO GET PEACE PAPERS FIRST OF WEEK WASHINGTON, “Aug. "8—Docu- ments used by the American reace plicates that of the city administra-| delegation at Paris and which have tion, which called for the resigna-|been sent to this country will be tion of Mr. Patten as city attorney| transmitted to the senate Monday by It is not be-| President Wilson in response to re- lieved that their action will be con-| quests of the foreign relations com- mittee. The state- | 9.—(Spl.) — Irrigation of western lands from a hitherto unknown and untried source is promised with the success of an experiment |to be tried next winter by W. H. Zindel of Kaycee, st to test certain ap- ecently disnosed of his big ranch and ests near Kaycee for $185,000, to devote his attention to the new plan until it has been Briefly, the Zingle plan is to use icebergs for irri- jon next summer—real icebergs he expects to build He will carry water | from a mountain stream to a point where it can drop | several hundred fe: said Zindel, ‘and nd proposes bergs can be built will hold the moist . entirely melt until zles with a view suited to the parti Wage Demands Not Rela fer snow has disappeared. work. During the winter months thousands of th et—and during the winter, when t ara last winter, I can see no reason why it will not ice- in Wyoming and the west, and they | wre back untiliafter the rus-off from | the snow leaves the ground. Many of them would not, late August.” Zindel has been investigating various typet of noz- of trying them out to get one best cular purpose. RAIL QUESTIONS ARE DISTINCT, SAYS LABOR Related to Spansor- ship of Sims’ Bill, Providing Tripartite Control; Will Work for Both, Claim ‘ 5 Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 ders of 15 organizations of railroad employes today united in a definite assertion “that they had no desire and have had none to impress the public by violence or threat’ of their tion of the railroad problem, ison | leaders said that if President Wilson | and congress could not meet this re-| quest the men would “have to try to} find another solution.” _. While labor Yeuders did not hiéntion| the president’s address yesterday, it! was the general +elief that their Statement resulted from his warning to the labor world that a strain would | only make present conditions worse | and that those who sought sto em- ploy threats or coercion were only “preparing their own destruction,” “To prevent any musunaerscand-| ing as to the policy of organized rail- road employes,” said the statement, fwe unite in a definite assertion that we have no desire and have had none to impress upon the public, by vio- lence or by threat our proposal that the railroads be nationalized under tripartite control. Two distinctly separate considerations now confront the people, the wage requirements of railroad employes and the Sim’s bill (embodying the railway employes plan for reocesnieete of the reil- roads). “In the matter of Wages we have submitted an eminently just proposi-| tion. We have said that if we are| to continue to live. as Americans should live and are to care for our! families as American families should | be cared for, the profiteers must be! restrained and our wages increased. Every fair minded man and every intelligent housewife will recognize the reasonableness of this request. If }congress and the president cannot meet this request, it is still a living question and we shall have to try to find another solution. “This, however, bears in no upon our sponsorship of the bill. We do held to our conviction that railroad employes are in no mood! finally to au- controli or financial dicta- tors, but in proposing the rectorate, we have no purpose of in- timidation. We appeal to the states- Y | mazshie of America and to the com- | mon sense of American manhood and womanhood. ILLNESS CAUSES POSTPONEMENT OF BIG REVIVAL Wm. H. Chappell, Baptist t who expected to open re- ‘eetings in Casper tomor- row, was called to Lincoln, Nebr., this afternoon by illness in his son's family and the series of meetings have been indefinitely postponed. It is hoped) that the evangelist will be able to return within a week. —— + The Maxwe)l agency here is in re- ceipt of its first carload of one and a half ton trucks and is now demon- strating for the benefit of prospective purchasers. Economy and service in‘ operation are the main talking points of the sales agent, who is ready to prove their efficiency on short no- Rev. tice. proposal that the railroads be nationalized under tripartite control. Declaring that the requests of the men that living costs be reduced | or their wages increased was aside from the question of future disposi- SHOPMEN OF NATION DRIFT BACK TO JOBS BUT UNIONS SAY THAT 275,000 WORKERS ARE STILL OUT PRIVATE FOOD - STOCKS TO BE SEIZED. SOLD All Special Agents of the of the Department of Justice Ordered to Drop Activities and Concentrate Efforts on Evidence to Bring Profiteer to Justice; Law of Sup- ply and Demand to be Reestablished By Associated Press.) PITTSBURGH, Aug. 9.—In a drive to curb profiteering among is not needed for any purpose, it will freeze and create | farmers who sell foodstuffs i in this city at abnormal prices and do not an iceberg that will not melt until long after the win- | Properly mark their measures as required by state law, Murray Living- ., | ston, city ordinance officer, today arrested 32 farmers charging them with misdemeanor. (By COntted Press} WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—The government will seize hoarded private food stocks and market them to help reestab- lish the operation of the law of supply and demand, the depart- ment of justice made known today. Preparations for this work are under way as a part of the department’s nationwide cam- paign against the profiteers. eo STAPLES MOVE BACK IN MART ON CROP NEWS (Ry Associated Press.) CHICAGO, Aug. 9.—All staples of the board of trade rose decided- ly in price today. Whatever effect to the contrary might have been ) Attorney General Palmer hourly is expecting arrests as district at- torneys are flooding him with tele- grams concerning evidence they are collecting. (Ry Associated Press.) WASHINGTOD Aug. 9. All special agents of the department of justice over the country have been ordered to assist district attorneys in uncovering evidence of profiteerins in foodstuffs and other neceasitic Attorney General Palmet’s looked for from the add of President Wilson to congr on? drop everything but the 1 press the high cost of living was entire- J ing cases now pendin ly obscured by the influ of the | their entire attention ti in government crop report issued be- J) the campaign to reduct of fore he spoke. living. The result will put instru tions were that special agents shoul rteways So impressed were traders with hundreds of trained investigators in the unexpected magnitude of crop losses during July that the resi- dent's views, it appeared were vir- tually ignored as a market factor. Extreme upturns of four centeo bushel on corn and $1.75 a barrel for pork were recorded. the search for men who have inflated prices exorbitantly. ‘SCHOOL BONDS | BRING PREMIUM AT SALE HERE | | At @ meeting of the school board in the office of W. } ©. Wilson, bids for the purchase of $125,000 worth of bonds for the new school were opened and that of G. E. Miller and company to buy them at par and accrued inter- est with a premium of $651.50 was accepted. The range in bids w bout $1,700 on the part of several bond h | '25,000 Return in Chicago Today, Reports of | PARIS | REPORT Operators and Unions Conflicting; Chicago & Northwestern Still Out ON PERSHING CHICAGO, Aug. 9. altho officials of the Chicago district ‘ad NOT OFFICIAL of federated railway shopmen are returning to work in small groups! thruout the country By Associnted Prem CHICAGO, Aug. 9.—Ov: 0 railway shopnien strikers in the r shi- cago district have voted to resume work pending a settlement of their claims as a result of President Wil- son’s request. The passenger train situation thru- out the central west continues to be |acute, however. Many trains have been suspended. Freight is being re- fused in several directions. The strike on the Chicago & North- sist that 275,000 shopmen are out and! that not more than 25,000 have returned since President Wilson de-| clared the demand of the men for increased wages would not be con- sidered until they return to work, railroad officials declare that the total number of men on strike does not exceed 40,000 and that men! western, including Casper, has not been broken, according to advices in railroad circles here. Local machin- ists and boilermakers are still out and no decision is announced regard- ing prabable action of the next few ays. the men walked out a week ago today SITUATION SERIOUS IN NEW ENGLAND j NEW YORK, Aug. 9.—Possibility | of the food situation in New Eng- land becoming serious was admitted today by New Haven railroad offi- cials. Only perishable foods are be- ing accepted for shipment due to the shopmen’s strikes, One hundred and forty-one Dapeerin ts trains have been withdrawn. No parlor cars are haul- ed and only a few ws alesoing cars, FALLS ASLEEP WITH GUN IN HAND, REPORT Will Phorigo was found asleep in an alleyway with a gun in his hand lest night. The police be- lieve he was waiting for somebody but that he fell asleep while await- ing the arrival of some passerby. The police record shows that he was fined $25 and that he is still in the city jail. (Hy Annocinted Prem.) PARIS, Aug. 9.—It is reported here that General Pershing has been recalled suddenly to the Unit- ed States and may even abandon his visit to King Albert of Bel- gium, which was planned for Sun- day. ARMY MAN ANG Ki0 GEORGE FIGHT 18 ROUNDS 70 ORAW | (By Associated Preas.) EL PASO, Aug 9.—Johnny Sud- enberg, middleweight champion of the southern department of the army and Kid George of San Francisco, fought a furious fifteen-round fight to a draw here last night. (Hy Annocinted WASHINGTON, Au, —Sec- retary Baker and General March today said they knew nothing of ay order recalling General Porsh- ing to the United St . The White House also said it had not heen advised of such an order. lt was said that so far as the war department is concerned there was no immediate reason for ord- ering the return of Pershing. Such an order’ would come from the as commander-in-chief Pp of th FOURTH MAN IN ASSAULT CASE ARRESTED HERE Archie Matthewson Accosted by Officer on Point of Boarding Train and Goes to Jail in Lieu of Bond for Release The sixth arrest in the sensational case, charging criminal assaults | against a 13-year-old girl here, occurred last night when county offi- cials arrested Archie Matthewson as he started to board a Burlington train for the east. The arrest came last night about 9:45 o'clock just as the train was about to pull out, County officials have been look- ing for Matthewson as the fourth man charged with rape for the last two or three weeks. When arrested last night Matthew- Russel] Orchard, Lyeres, son said he had been at Dubois, Sher- John Russell and Mr doward iff Pat Royce knew that Matthew- have been bound over tu u.e Septem. son considered Casper his home and ber term of the district court for waited until he should return here. their part in the case. Mrs. Hanna He arrived here this week. MeDenald, the other woman arrest- Matthewson asked under what bond ed, was released after preliminary he would be released. He chose the hearing in justice of peace court. county jail last night when informed The two women were charged with that bond was fixed at $5,000. , aiding in the crime. a3 331i waar a | SPOCOSOEGH $-4-2-6-4-4-0¢ 64O4044640604666060644? ‘ , 4 ‘ WAa DT’ aI aIaaA aaa a2 FAC ZZ CFL ZA £8 2