Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 7, 1919, Page 1

ER RELIES BT Bick Peace Officers But Is W ithout ‘Authority to Prosecute WEATHER FORECAST Fair tonight and Friday. except snow in northwest. portion; warmer fu_ north: rer ot tonight and east portion VOLUME IV. M ps ae Order Compelling Officials to Call Back Workers Will Be ‘Asked .by Attorney-General Palmer When Injunc- tion Proceedings Are Argued INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 7.—The government. will ask that, a mandatory order to call off the coal miners’ strike be issued | by the federal court tomorrow at Indianapolis. The request | will be made’ when the government's petition asking that the! restraining order directed against officials of the United) Mine | Workers of America, now in force, be made a pérmanent re-| { Straining order, is argued. The miners’ attorneys will argue a THREE DIE. MAN’ }motion for the dismissal of proceed- a (Des on the ground that the govern- (Ry Associnted Press.) it has not shown its interest in the ATLANTA, Ga., Nov. 7.—At least visaera” controversy and that it is with- out equity in the matter. three Jost -their liyes- and -nearly 2 score were injured, | gosrens TOLD U. 8. DECISION NOT ALTERED (By Asnociated Press.) WASHINGTON, Nov,.7.—Before At- | | torney-General Palmer -went to the cab- {inet meeting, Samuel. Gompersj presi- | | dent; Matthew Woll, vice- ree gee and Frank” Morrison, secretary; the || House and was taken to see the presi- dent. It is understood that Gompers laid before Palmer a proposition from also | 7.—The poe & Northwestern has announe- plans. fer the erection of a new $32,- 000 depot for Wheatland. Construction business work on the new building, whieh w i | be 40 by 186 feet, will begin soon. ; woune aiederation sok Labor) called | In ee Wilson hotel here. on, him 'and were. informed: thut the | sph Ds han women were | government had not altered its decision renner ne dead was a woman | ey a Mean DRcvmbice unless ‘the strike order was withdrawn! who leaped-to the street before the Gompers expressed the opinion that a firemen arrived: ore bodies win | #¢ttlement of the coal strike could not i hund t che banding. The dem. |e Teached if the govérnment enforced : " the interior. [legal measures against the strike. He, are ierge, Sonnnoe.-ta the + | @lso again called attention to what he | sald would be the effect on the govern- | ment.by. the injunction upon organized | GREAT CARGO OF jm sect SUGAR RECEIVED (casixer 10 ace 'ON STRIKE QUESTION AT EAST PORTS: (By United Press.) WASHINGTON, Nov. 7.-Phe: cab- inet met today with Fuel Administrator injiubiiee Pech {Garfield and Director-General Hines in NEW YORK, Nov. 7.—The sugar sit- jone of the most important sessions of vation probably will be normal by the! the Wilson administration. Preceding end.of next week. One hundred and} the cabinet meeting Samuel Gompers sixty-eight million pounds are being un-! with other federationists called at At- loaded from ships here, and at Phila- | torney-General Palmer's office ‘to ex- ‘Argentina has prohibited fur-| press their views on the injunction and er sugar exports. the difficulties the restraining order has aes |raised in the: coal strike situation.’ }ihe strike leaders. If so Palmer laid it BUMP IN KANS. | vetore Presiaent. Wilson and the jcabinet. = MOLI STAFHORD, aneas, Nov. 7. wy, ee a Non-Partisan league speaker att ed to address an audience re ‘ant hight, the meeting broke up in confus- ion. No attempt was.made to harass the speaker further than to prevent him from speaking, it was sild today, | WHEATLAND, Wyo. Nov. and no one was injure a a Nl J. L, Marquis of Arminto. is in Cris jae per attending to important matters, ¥ Then Palmer went direct to the White * SL PRICES UP IN EAST, MAY FOLLOW HERE (hy Axssociited Vress.) PITTSBURGH, ‘a, Nove T— Principal oil p asing agencies to- .day announced new prices for crude ‘oll_as follows: Pénnsylvania crude; $4.50 a barrel; Corning, $3.10; Cabell, Somerset, $2.85; Ragland, The advance ,which was due en- tirely to increased demand, large) foreign, aniounts to 25 cents a bar- rel for Pennsylvania crude, 15 cents for Corning, Cabell and Somerset and ten cents -for Ragland, _the agencies said. MUST SPEND SIX BILLIONS TO PUT RAILS IN ORDER + (By Associated Presx.) CHICAGO, Nov. 7.—At least six billion dollars of new capital must be invested .in railroad . facilities within the next three years if the roads, are to bécome able to handle adequately the country’s commerce, Samuel 0, Dunn, editor of the Rail- way Age, oe in an address here today, LETTS PUSHING GERMANS BACK ON RIGA FRONT: (By Upited . COPENHAGEN, Nov by allied naval fire, the Letts are pushing the Germans back om the Riga front ‘and in the neighborhood of Grobin, Many Germans were enptured. ‘NEW ADDITIONS 12 RED CROSS HONOR ROLL IN THE BUSINESS QUSTRIGT made following additions were rday and today to the list of 100 ent business offices abd tu tions in the third Red Cross roll call drive: Stockman’g National bank, Casper National bank, Citizen's State bank, Kassis dry goods the Globe shoe store, Schulte Pros confectionery, H. B. Kline jewelry, O Wail Lumber company, Blakey Golden Rule store, Carnes J. 1. dLearner: furnishing “sore Burkett millinery and George guson’s~law office. © women who ar are Mrs. J. ©. Hanw Pherson, Mrs. A. E Mrs. Oliv %, Johnson, Miss Alma Archambault Mrs. M. J. Gothberg, Mrs. H. P. Fe Miss Irma Patten and Miss Una’ Smith. A largé number of members of the ligiks’ lodge are assisting this afternoon Martz hat shop, ore, a ng today Alex Me Kyte. TREATY OPPONENTS WIN FIRST VICTORY McCumber Motion Voted Down, 48 to 40; Administration to Seek Compromise on Reservations After r Deadlock” ay [By United Press] WASHINGTON, Nov. 7.—Treaty, pee were victorious to-| day in the first vote on the reservations. The senate, by a vote of | 40 to 48. rejected McCumber's motion to strike from the preamble, of the ratification resolution the provision requiring iM assent of at. least three allied powers to all reservation - WASHINGTON, -Nov. -7.—=Following @ conference today. with| President: Wilson; -Sénafor Hitchcock | Stiached 16 it.—He’ sald Provident Wil. | 3 son had agreed to _aceept compromise! ed that administration forces in} SON Nat Mer ecensdry 10, secure ratitl| senate would vote against uny ratiti'l cation provided they 46 not destroy on résolution if certain. Republican the treaty’s effectiveness. Wilson ex- ‘servations in their present form were pressed a Willingness to leave the) fight | ey. lan the hands of his trien’s in the sen hate: - President Wilson agree’ with Titch-| cock that the: pending Lodge reserva tions would be destructive and there- fore unacceptable. | Hitehcdck informed Wilson that the Lodge reservations probably would muster 49 votes but not the necessary | two-thirds — majority. When the “Lodge reservations are de 'feated Hitehcock will moye for unquali- }fied ratification, which probably will ‘not a two-thirds vote.’ Inter pretative resolutions ‘then will be, of- féred but probably will not get two: thirds necessary’ and the treaty will be deadlocked. “But I told the president | am hope Member of the Associated Press, and served by the United Press. |” S pecial Prosecutors | Are Given Charge ‘After ‘Arguments in Court Today RESIGNATION OF | PATTEN COMING ‘Sheriff "Royce and| Kilgore on Bond; | Hearing Soon | THE DAILY TRIBUNE bane 23 COKE SUPPLY OF REFINERY ASKED FOR TRADE HERE Conference This [ Evening May Aid|” Fuel Situation; Wazon Mines Near Casper May Be Work- ed by Dealers | he Casper coal dealers, Special Prosecutors C. E. Winter and M. W. Purcell, ap-| pointed by the county commis- sioners to have entire charge of all law violations growing out of the murder of Deputy Sheriff Mafors will serve in this ca- pacity when the preliminary hearing of Sheriff Pat Royce, Deputy Sheriff Kilgore and two other operatives of the sheriff's office is opened before |Judge Tubbs tomorrow. County Attor- jney W. Patten will resigm from office. This was the net result of the pre- liminary skirmish of attorneys in who held a|Tubbs’ court this afternoon. Follow- conference yesterday afternoon at the |ing arguments which lasted for half an of the Nicolaysen Lumber com-|hour the court ruled that the county will hold a further conference |4ttorney was without jurisdiction in the ff with TH. I. Welton of the|&48e in view of the commissioners’ or- to see if arrange. | “er: ments can t de whereby the coke | say Les a acne pete Uy: rae wit| |supply of the Standard can be reledsed 18 Stidger that County Attorney Pat- for generat consumption in the city. {8% Would resign on account of public Liles EHeEs ik wtilioa tals, soe sentiment and the attitude of other coal on hand, the dealers believe ecu iyp On cie NE Ga eeecdeltH es PLoCeen . ae ings: Attorney Patten’s resignation ! Aken at: Once will be tendered at the next meeting of suffering here should coal) the board of county commissioners. continue for any The courtroom was jammed with Among other matiers which the deal-| people, the overflow extending into the ers discussed was the possibility of|nall, dining-room and onto the porch. |developing the small coal mines In the|Dhe majority were manifestly friendly jimmediate vicinity of Casper. Among )ro the defendants. officers of the she these mines the x Mills mine |{ff's office who were placed under arre: }which has a six-foot exposed vein of Ther ‘coal, a two-foot vein on the Nicolaysen of taxpay: {pasture some eight miles from town, bonds of $5 Standard t to pr the sength of time. {steps should be vent friends to sign the the four men s and 5,000 each for and “the ig Muddy mine, 16 miles|implicated, the names finally attached | from Her being those ane A. J. Mokler, Ed J.} coming to town for sup-|Schulte, P. icolaysen, Hugh L. Pat- lies, truckers who have little or no work ton, J. W. Sounder and Bibert Majors. | in the winter, and owners of automo-!/A score of other prominent taxpayer bite trucks céuld bring the coal, to Cas- Were ready to sign had their names jon was a general rush on the part | FUEL CONSERVATION MADE NECESSARY AS COAL FAMINE GROWS Distress Signal Hoisted in Five States and Oklahoma Governor Tells People to Fol- low Law of “Self Preservation” in Seiz- ing Coal; 66 Trains Annulled CHICAGO, Nov. 7.—Curtailment of passenger train service, discontinuance of bunkering foreign-owned vessels at American ports, restrictions in the use of public utilities and appeals for coal from various cities as the strike of coal miners today round- ed out its first week, gave the nation further indications of threatened distress. Other arrangements in the country’s 8 routine were expected today, with are — change, in general conditions. Kansas, Nebraska, Alabama, Towa ee KILLED BY and Oklahoma are suffering from the © 1 shortage. se) - HELSINGFORS, ‘No: 7.—A Bol- ‘ollow the first law of nature, which | shevik report received here toda is self-preservation, and take any coal | you get your hands on,"’ was the reply ; ie through German sources: says ¢ 630 of the 1,060 inmates of Kre: of Governor Robertson of Oklahoma t county's eppen Sixty-six trains were annulled in the} central west today. vado. prison have died of starvatioi Eight thousand fugitives, according to Helsingfors newspapers, have ar- rived at the Finnish frontier from sea — HUNS VIOLATE the Petrogra poe THETREATY ON UNION LEADERS MANY COUNTS GOING EAST TO SEEK RELEASE (By Un (Ry United DENVER, Nov. 7.—The Colorado Fuel and Iron company announced 71 per cent normal forces working today in its nine open mines in southern Colo- one.) (Hy United Press.) BERLIN, Nov. 7.—The entente has charged in note alleging breach troops were not withdrawn froin of the peace treaty that Gexman Russia, important oificial docunenis ed Prexs.) SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 7.— [per “It Was ‘stated, and it Was “thot ‘Peenmeededern + 2 that the men could be found to got the ‘3 max ¥; Salat Oe j Accused of assault with intent addition to P. C. aysen an .) Fag ' pe Conwell, the men attending the t0 killa man whose hands, it is al- meeting were ‘onkin JL. Bied- Jeged, were red with the blood of | erman, O, L. und O. W. 1 * | | A representatiy of the Kelth Uumber one member of the sheriff's force killed in a raid on the Martin boot-| legging cache in East Casper early | company is expected to attend the con ference tonight were confiscated from territories News that President Martin Cahill | the Germans’ captured, all German and Secretary James Morgan of, submarines were not turned over District 22, comprising the Wyo- to the entente, Germany has + ming coal fields, have left for the tained confiscated art orks aid east to demand e release of Wy still owes the ente locomotives, cars and agricultural machinery. —~_ FATE OF OHIO ning miners. from the strike order” was received here today by «the | local chief bureau of investigation from special agents in Wyomin do Asal ic hl Kilgor rested after midnight on the jor GAH y Attorney W Patte ored by the county commission KEY INDUSTY » appointment of Attorneys . Vuree}l and C. &. Wine h special prosecutors to have | Fee en aw ations growing out” case. uded in the ‘arrestst made Business Unpioteted by Import | are two other operatives of the ‘shi offi ho furnished informati Restrictions Seeks Govern on the cache and the movements ment Ai of the bootleggers. Hearing on this latest phase of the murder ¢ e will LONDON—Nearly every industry in| Come up in Justice Tubbs’ courc at 2 | Great Britian not favored by the protec-| O'clock this afternoon tion’ of import trying to) The county commissioners accept the Ihave itself * industry Move on the part of the coun tor Is One essential to n industry and | ey a vindication of their a 1 in {considered so aff by) the war that appointing special prosecutors in’ t lit must be nursed back to health|1se, the effect of the arrests being, lthrough the medium of government as atever their purpose, to retard and sistance obstruct the prosecution of Hugh’ D. | "The government did not remove im-|Armstrong, said to have shot and killed | port restrictions September’ 1 on pro-| Deputy Sh) Tom Majors: when the ducts manufactured by so-called rit jlatter 0} him to throw up his jish key manufacturers forced into com- | han So say other county officials, petition by removal of the restrictior Special prosecutors in the who} believed their industry should haye been) claim enti harge of law violations | in the favored list. rowing out of the murder by «virtue Among these are thé automobile men) of sr issued by the county eom- who have protested vigorously “against | missioners in special session, this aft- American machines coming into Eng-ernoon will try to secure the release and with a duty of 33 1-3 per cent.!or cx and a dist 1 of Brisjish manufacturers admit they can-| et em thru representa- not ‘produce cars in anything like the! tions to be m 1 court. A definite jamount needed within many months so| course of action had not been decided | |the Board of Trade so far has turned a! ypon noon hour and probably will |deaf ear to their protestations. In the! not be known until their s sat |meantime American cars are increasing aye made in the preliminar jin numbers London's streets and one circumsiances of the ¢ ae H American firm advertises “delivery with-|onig at such an early hour, were some-} in forty-eight hours after order take! |what unusual. as were the instructio J} Duty, the difference in exchange an jor County Attor Patten to Consta-! [freight charges (raises) the price of BM ibie McClellan to place Hoyce and Kil-| American car in London to about double) gona in the city Jail. in solitary. con. ithe price in the United Statees but that fine e is not deterring the Englishmen from WARRAN 'S SERVED snapping them up as rapidly as they 2:30 A. M. TODAY jarrive. “ ot vem aS . Kilgore, who has been sleeping on a ench in the sheriff's office since Syn" of prot ion. was called NEW WELL FOR. \ite warrant for his nevest wa ° thim Co able John MecClellen, A oy "i: rant sworn out by Patten, al- WATER SUPPLY jrwsc that Kiigore totoniousty attacked rm ng on the morning of Novem- | DOUGLAS, Wyo., Nov. A new};* {well will be drilled to supplement the! jeity water supply, which shows signs, of developing an alarming short h the pur jury upon him » to commit such of committing That he was injury “and ‘| thru failure to keep pace with the grow. | {Bat with premeditated malice he struck ing demands, of the el of the cit [Armstrong over the hi 1 with a load | ed gun and then assaulted him with a wooden stand with the purpose of -kill- ing him, ‘OALY SHLES EL RECOROED fill of a compromise, altho this is im The warrant served on Sheriff Royce possible until after the deadlock.” Takes the sume charg ainst “Txt would prefer the treaty’s defeat to the iment of + id felony Royce “did aeceptance of reservations. Dutton & Stanley “have ts unlawfully oniously counse! and Hitchcock said he found “Wilson | (heir offices on the fourth: £1 eneourage Kilgore to « said, fel “much improved.” The president sat|Ojl, Exchange building blac oer ony in the manner afo; propped ‘up with pillofs sand’ seemed vice showing the quotations on Wyor) The nd his deputy were im: keenly interested, putting and answer-|ing oil stocks and the local sales mace Medi loin’ Judge Tubbs ing -questjons: with chararcteristic -ener-jeath day. ° ‘Theo quotations “from > toe CeUrt bond, of: $5,000 was. fixed N (Continued on paze Eight) w York exchange are also given. who! DRY BILL NOT SHOT FATAL TO YET UNCERTAIN HUN SOCIALIST. (iby Assacinted Presa. (By Ax ted Prean. RE RUAN, Nov. 7.—H Haase, COLUMBUS, No: —The fate of of the Independent the prohibition amendment is 1 Socialist purty, died today of tain. Complete unofficial returns | wounds received in October whe from a4 but ten counties gave the | he was aber on entering the reich- wets a lead of 9,154 against the {| stag. ndment. The ten missing cou | eres 0 gave dry majorities 8237. rere $40,000 THEFT bere bg ASKEDT SSE _ “Gymessencee U.S. BOLSHEVISH CBs Press.) WASHINGTON, Nov.“7—The senate labor committee in reporting its steel strike probe will make recommenda tions to stop the spread of Bolshevism. This program will intlude an American- }ization bill, an amendment to prese sedition laws and more drastte feder laws for the suppression of radicalism, Senator Kenyon said. a year a amounting t wocinted Press.) HELENA,” Mont., Nov. 7. Charles Stevens, 18-year-old messen- ger for the Union Bank and Trust company, has confessed, authorities announced today, that he stole $40,- 000 worth of securities from a regis- tered package which he was con- veying last Wednesday from the postoffice to the bank. = GOMPERS BRINGS ‘UP NEW PLAN TO END THE STRIKE Refuses to Make Public Proposition He D cussed with Palmer but Outlook Regard- ed as Hopeful in Capital Ansnociatéd Press.) WASHINGTON, Nov. 7.—Renewal of efforts to bring about an agreement with the government which would end the stril:e of coal miners were made today by Samuel Gompers, president of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor. Gompers and other federation officials have held two confer- ences with Attorney General Palmer, and were to see him again to- day jficials for one week It Wus intynated that in the mewn npers would corsult, with fonn INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 7 not of the m rs) Lewis of the ine workers’ said oo union o hon knew nothing about the propos ther F “enor Gory ‘ of Gompers fora ‘settlement of the |say what had happehed. Gemper¥ uv strike. lner indicated that he regarded t! Fur Ames, when a look asx hopeful, The general impros:jernment intended to press sion wax that the government would! for an ord quiring a recall of the lagree tomorrow to the postpon t of strikMorder Feplied: ‘all court: proceedings agninst sot ‘That's what we are hore for.” "Wee