Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 10, 1919, Page 1

WEATHER FORECAST | Unsettled weather, jons tonight. east and central portions tonight. probably snow Thursday, and in west and north por- Rising temperature in SIX APPLIGANS OUT FOR POLICE CHIEF OF CITY No Dearth of Candidates for Choice of New Administration but Rumor Fails to Divulge Probable Incumbent Only three of the city offices had applicants other than the pres-| ent men in office last night at the informal meeting of what will be the council after January 5, 1920. Applicants had been told of the| opportunity to present their claims foriethiceilast night and most of the| VILLA AND TWO OF IHS STAFF—V itla and Gen, Francisco Villa, Mexican rebel and applicants appeared i in person before the old members of the present | tive by his own men who are seeking to ransom him to Carranza and types of the men he gathered around him and council who continue in office and the newly-elected members as we! ‘or Elect Hf. B. Pelton. 1 position of chief of police hel nter of attraction last night with n desirous of holding the posi- Present chief, Frank Webb, is al andidate for his old office. Bb, ion wus taken In regard to the police situation nor no announcement of poliey made at the meeting last night. The applicants may be notified of the probability of acceptance to any of the ort but the official appointment as approved by the mayor and council can- not come until the first meeting of the couneil, January 5. hk. M. Eliithorpe, at present heritf serving u of the taston, # smber of the polic sking for the position. 1B. Place, who served nine days under the old council but who resigned in face of what he termed unjust coun- cil criticisms of his men, is also re- questing the office of police head. Mr. liace is head of the police guards at the Standard Refining company where he is known for his efficient work. He has heen back in his old position since erving the brief period on the police force here, the x om a deputy es for police c! hi nd Joe Rodman, an oil driller in the Big Muddy, is also asking for the police oflice. Jess A. Sheffner, a former sher- | und ex-marshall, has applied for the | ice job, too. D..R. MeKay, another | Standard Refinery man and former Union Pacific railroad detective, has isked to be named as police chief. Mr. McKay time and is an old-timer here. it. M. Boeke, a former lawyer of on but now of Casper, is the new int for office of city attorney. Kioeke served during the world war an officer but since his discharge has iblished his practice here. William Cashel is the new applicant lor street commissioner. O. Freel 1s} the present street commissioner, who asking for his old position. Nothing was done regarding the office of city altho “it is understood that nt engineers will apply for re- n of their former positions. offices had no applicants other ‘sent incumbents. For the po- han y ition of city treasurer there is J. S.| In the office of city clerk | Van Doren, there Asa F. Sloan. For police judge, | \ . Tubbs has asked for retention. Hresent chief of the fire department, Oscar Heistand, has asked to again old office, Fred Villnave has asked or his old position of captain of the re department. Menachrtent is | was also a deputy mafshal at! | ' { | | li who now are reported trying to sell him out. WEST SUFFERS LACK OF COAL::: FLOODS SWEEP DIXIE STATES: ‘Cold Wave Sweeping East and South After or Sheriff Pat Royce, | Leaving Trail of Discomfort Where Fuel Supplies Are Exhausted nited Press) CHICAGO, Dec. 1 10,—The c cold wave from the Rockies has caused | | widespread discomfért thruout the many places. temperatures as far south Twenty below and middle ‘west. Fuel.is exhausted in The cold wave is sweeping east afid south with zero | the Texas Panhandle. wer temperatures from the Dakotas, Ne- braska, Missouri, Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Oregon and Montana.! (By Associated Prenn.) CHICAGO, Dec. 10.—BRelow zero tem-! | peratures prevailed today in virtually all districts from the Mississippi valley to the Rocky mountain region and the cold wave began its eastern invasion. In many parts of the western country, already hardest hit by the fuel short age, many towns are destitute of coal and suffering 1s reported. TEMPERATURE MODERATES IN ROCKY MOUNTAIN REGION, (By Associated Press.) «DENVER, Dec. 10.—The mercury, | after hitting 11 below zero here last night, rose rapidly to 5 above this morning. It was warmer in Wyoming, Colorado and Utah, (Ry Asnoctated Prenn.) AS CITY, Dec. 10. Stihe south: KA 's harassed today by extremely | west w: cold weather. It was zero or below in , Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and at many points in Arkansas and Texas. Ansociated Prexs.) (8: of TON, Dec. 10.—The cold | wasitt ys, swept into thé east > and’ south today, accompanied by high winds and preceded by a general and sinusually heavy fall of rain. for several ds BRITISH AVIATOR WINS 10,000 POUND PRIZE FOR LONG FLIGHT (By United Press) LONDON, Dec.| 10.—Captain Ross Smith, Darwin today, completing the London to Au “All's airplane. Smith’s message reads: 00 pounds sterling. ———O7=—=—""— British aviator, landed at Port ralia flight, in a Vickers-Vimy Smith won the prize of 10,- well. | | yesterday | went through in good shape, arriving in | TRAIN SERVICE “PARALYZED BY ‘« (DRIFTEDSNOW «: Central Wyoming Swept by Terrific Gale} Jed ne: Following Storm and Railroad Lines in All Directions Are Blocked A 65-mile-an-hour quae which d ‘the west in its srip | train service on the Northwestern railroad today in Central Wyoming, | | while the Burlington trains are ‘slowly bucking the drifts east andi west of Casper. Three freight trains of the Northwestern are stalled in drifts near | the Big Muddy. oil field this afternoon. There will be no attempt; to operate trains through to Lander, | Wyo., while the terrific wind is blow- ing. Drifts will fill up in fifteen or| twenty minutes, officials estimate and only by operating 4 snow plow in front of each train can service be maintained. The train which started for Lander afternoon at 3:40 o'clock Lander nearly on time. It was the first | passenger to Lander in three days. With the afternoon Northwestern train arriving here this morning about | | 7:05 o'clock via the Burlington tracks, | lit is doubtful when train communica. | -— SCHOOLS OF | CITY CLOSE Dismissal Ordered After Hour’s Session Today and Reopening Is Indefinite; @il Burners to Be Installed After an hour's session, , the grade schools of the city were closed this morning, ‘by order of the school board, on account of fuel short-| age, and the children were sent to their homes. No definite time for| reopening was set, the length of the enforced vacation depending up-| on whether the board i is able to secure fuel and whether oil bumers © | in the school building plants prove sue- | | cessful. | | Work was begun immediately after , the dismissal of school this morning on the installation of an oil burner in the heating plant at ‘the Central school. | This will be given a thorough try-out, | | and if a success the burners will be | placed in the other buildings at once. | The supply of coal on hand at the) buildings is sufficient to keep the water | | systems from freezing, for some time, | but Is not sufScient to mafntain the (Continued on Page 2) maser Tunre Representatives of 400,000 Striking Miners| JENKINS WANTED Agree to Proposition Made by President Wilson for Return to Work; Inder aralts 10 BE KIDNAPED MectingComesto cosy ~ "119 PROVE LACK OF PROTECTION So Sue Bandit Who Carried Him Into (By Associated Press.) INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 10.—The strike of 400,000 cou. miners of the country was settled at 3 o’clock this afternoon’ ~_____. when the general committee of the United Mine Workers, after intermittent sessions which opened at 2 o’clock Tuesday, agreed NUMBER 51 ' to accept the plan offered by President Wilson. f Acceptance of the president's plan ame LT 1 to reject the| : . trike seitiement had been voted wown.! Captivity in Letter Another motion that the president's pro Ce posal be submitted te nd ote of union members w oaueacd,, 0 Newspaper on the ground that it would involve of several weeks. i rs voted to accept the pro By Aswueticd ireame) ident Wilson shortly after) SAN ANTONIO, Dec. 10.—A fle 00) ‘ Cyn g | ' waist na volwn, had been taken, facsimile of what purports to be a on the question of Holding a conven \letter published in El Democrata, a tion of the The ce oe . + cuit that aumttes SS newspaper of Mexico City, and The ‘ that the miners|purported to have been writ- hall return to work immediately at an ten by Rebelde Cordova, the man er mmiis: ion at eS ba Rts Ha 8 who captured American Consular Agent | investigate und determine within 60 Wana t aed SU oued Satie eh if Possible, the basis for 1 New | president Carranza. ix \nable to afford | The conference was made up of in. | Per Be BEBLOO LATE: tO TUnEImNeEn a ttelt ternational and distriet offic: crag Wuhasuadis uot Toi) | members of the ecutive board and vale committee organization, Associated Press.) 10.—Parther ef ease | 8 session was devoted _ |to arguments, all speakers : be . fort to becloud the issue is the way ad Villa is in the center. lowed to go the Hmit in the discussion | Ministration officials regard the let ‘of the proposal ter published in I aie 0 £5078 Fah DISSOLUTION OF Ww ASHING Dec, 10.- Shere will no tion of restrictions in the juse of coal for the p a re > o |Sult of the ending of the s Gar Tiel announced thi ternoon -“LIBERAL’ PLAN (Ry Annocinted Press.) INDIANAPOLIS, Dee, 10.-—The mine ! e | SO eee > . Lanocinted Press.) FLU MICROBES {Four Die, Hundreds): Rath vito, which consists of of manopotles ihn oni aol i . a nal and r Officers and yi ie og is TO PAY VISIT |: Are Homeless in aaped cinveneaucivegnatee lenin] acinai helped loa aceordine tes mmittee, gathered, gossip a reports of the program committee, | the uses of the prolonged ses: submitted to the national conference EARLY IN 1920} Three States \iceralriten Willie vorsa taamexceticcgs || oUlelakgralnelin | cealani werehtotee: | {Dens ver, all agreed that President | The committee said in its report that Wilson's proposal would be accepted! it was designed to eradicate “poverty (By Anxeciated Prexn.) j rf LONDON, Dee. 10. v—Infiuenza mic- |} robes have a regular programme by which they recur in cycles every 33 weeks, according to the medical re- search committee here. The next call is expected in January or Feb- ruary, it is said. some time tod One of the high officials of the min- ers'_organization, who asked that. his.| name be withheld, said that most of the argument yesterday was on the re- quest of the Illinois miners that the | Cleveland convention be reconvened to (Continued on Page Six.) REPUBLICANS RAP MEXICAN POLICY, U.S. and squallidness. | = AY DELAYED BY STORM Altho today is the regul for the Midwest Refining company, the |men were not paid off as the pay ‘checks fafled to arrive from Denver United Press.) ATLAN ‘A, Dec. 10.—Four are| known to be dead, hundreds are homeless and thousands of dollars jin damage are the result of floods} jin Georgia, Alabama and Mississip-' = |pi. Train service is crippled. Riy-| ers ‘swollen by rain overflowing into the low lands, The Southern rail annulling trains at Atlanta and | con as a result of washouts. La Grance, C reported bridges and [ous nlong the Chattahooche washed | with heavy damage, West Point, s inundated, ‘cou D WAVE STRI AS CLIMAX TO FLOODS (i Associated Press.) A, Ga., Dee. T broke alt re fat other points in t to freezing weath ling 10 the misery of thousands made homeless | by flood wa from numberless rivers \" and s ums Wier and two girls were drown Atlanta when their motor car rrential ords here and th gave way I Ce overturned Raine in inches, reporte om M = Mississippi; 11.7 t Atlanta ~ [zat inches at Aum. ‘Keynote Speech of Governor Sproul at Washington Meeting Promises Salvation of National Honor in Success of 1920 Campaign; Platform Is Outlined ‘COLORADO COAL | BEING SHIPPED EAST, REPORT hh started last night, has shut off all) WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.—Ch ZO Was chosen as the meeting place of the (By nited Press.) 1 DENVER, 0.—Colorado coal is! Republican National convention in 1920 by the committee hers to day. Patrick tion on the Northwestern will be re- | Whew, eins shipped rnd eastern Cole| Sullivan, in a splendid speech, had tendered an invitation from Cheyenne. sumed again. A train for the east will | 40 cities shortly after settlement of - be started probably at 2358 ew gay (the strike, the fuel committee announc : [By Associated Prean} | until after the wind dies down [Sse anaitey ok rota tuoliewanes| WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.—Governor Sproul of Pennsylvania, in eital ate Tuesday's afternoon trait weather is expected 10 relieve the situ:| @ keynote speech’at the opening meeting of the Republican National from Cgaha, Neb. Today's afternoon | 2U0n, however jcommittee today, attacked the administration’s Mexican policy, de- from Ognaha, Neb. train m the east was four and a half hours late at noon today and ope! ting into Casper over the Panllngton ks. The Burlington No. Fort Morgan, Lyons and other Colo- rado towns reported without coal are|¢Clared the Republican party approached the coming presidential cam- {ieee looked after by the local com-| paign with confidence that the people would endorse its policies. | His outline of these policies included better relations hetween cap- 31 train from | Omaha due here last night at 11:20 RDE Ky [ital and Jabor, economy and business /ine its own affairs, under the constitu o'clock was not in at noon today S STEEL ORI R Management in the administration, firm | Gon. ’ f the officials could not say for sure fe handling of the Mexican situation, res: ! We must prepare,” said Sproul, “not | it would arrive. The No. 20 morning | ARE PILING UP canism and constitu-| oly to clean up the governmental mess train from Denver on the same road ; tional go! nt and und solu. in Which we find ourselves, but we must had not left Cheyenne at 11 o'clock this | tion of the rai prob! Iny our plang for restoring the nation | 2 os to the position of respect it once held ere: / Cy fence el ita te Het reneabraacy C0. thy treaty. | We must lay our plans to meet. the This same train did not arrive here] NEW Dee, 10,—-Unfilled or nublicnn yee o gaeice nana te eet Ui until 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon, but | ders of the United States Steel corpor 10 CO-OP ET ee ace 3 Abeine irs continued on its way to Billings, Mont. ation on November ! sion of the matter with (ec. In be. Gatire ape h In Casper, drifts as high as three tons, an in ations as will presery Nae ?aleweneatit cee Reese hers feet had formed in the streets and on, the month p ‘to chia republic its full right to determ:| ihe wore of our relations with Mexico sidewalks. Many motor cars were stalled in drifts in different parts of the city, Parents, unaware of the losing rule, accompanied their chil- dren to school today in order that they reach the school building in,safety. during the past year COMMITTEE APPOINTED \ON INDUSTRIAL PROBLEMS (Dy United Press.) ANOTHER ‘HARDBOILED’ GOES ON In some instances the smaller chil ere ran ote Te se tthe dren were blown down or even actually TTA KOGE RURAL Ceriny con TercncaNelia liar er emttciaceas was lifted by the to an industrial commission, which will ‘ Ov : . sit continuously until the convention, | terrific gale over the roof of the Bur- NEW YORK, Dec. 10.—Brutal treatment and even the deliberate tor- receiving suggestions regarding plat lington depot. The high wind carried snow down the streets making it seems as though it was snowing again. Many’ signs were blown over and in some cases, glass signs and windows were smashed in'by the weight of the wind Se torm planks Ho also announced the formation of a council of 24 including {which will consider matters of party wolfare and make recommendations to the national committee. Governor Sproul, in his keynote speech, charged that Democrats during the war plunged the party into a fool's paradise of ex trava nee and inefficiency ture of enlisted men of the American Expeditionary forces was charged against Captain Earl W. Detzer, formerly commanding officer of the 308th military police company, whose trial opened at Governor's island today. The evidence of the court martial is expected to be as sensational as the trials of “Mardboiled” Smith and Sergeant Ball, now serving prison sentences Roy Salisbury ig here from Denver on a few days business trip, concern ing his oil interests here. for brutality. tle di