Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 22, 1919, Page 1

- PEACE sY OF ERDE HSH SE oT SATURL rem TO ICATION RATIF ment of Scapa Flow Settlement with Final Note on Subject to Be Handed Ger-| mans Tonight, Paris Reports Say | | | | | (By Axsociated Press.) ,PARIS, Dec. 22.—The supreme council, it became known) y, is making every effort to reach an agreement with Ger-| he on the question of reparation for sinking the German fleet! jal pa Flow so that the protocol may be signed and ratifica- Supreme ‘Council Rushing Thru ‘Adjust-| || WEATHER FORECAST BY CHRISTMAS IS PROBABLE Ghe Casper Daily Cribune | imo Partly clondy tonight and Tues- day, not much change in tempera- ture. Uses High-Powered Rifle to End Life at Local tia Of the treaty of Versailles exchanged before Christmas. { The terms of the note replying to the last communication of to End Life at Local a a Senet ee Believed Cause of Act by the council this morning. | It} E . jWas planned to hold another session | jthis evening. It was believed the note, | ‘ if then completed, would be handed! during the evening to Baron Kurt von | John S. Band aged about 45 een head of ashe Eipen missior | years, a sheep herder in this region HITCHCOCK CALLS | for about three weeks, committed SENATE CONF os ha suicide Saturday afternoon by| WASHINGTON, shooting | . lf thru the head with | Hiteheoe today invited a number of -Senator | VOLUME IV, NUMBER 61 CASPER, WYO., MONDAY, DEC. 22, 1919 F RADICAL ON | Frame-up Charge in. a 30-30 caliber rifle in a room at the Natrona hotel. He was not found until this morning about 9:30 o'clock when a chambermaid was attracted to his room. Band was Inst seen alive Saturday | morning. He appeared to he in good | spirits at that time but for the last | three days previous to Saturday he had | Saturday afternoon the chamber maid | was unable to enter the room but could see no one in the room by looking | thru the key hole. She saw the man’s | coat lying on the bed. “Even at that | time he was leaning against the door where he had fallen when the shot took effect above the left eye. | This morning after not being able to | enter room either today or yesterday, the chambermaid called the hotel clerk. | Peering’ over the ‘transom, the clerk | saw the dead man with the rifle at his | side. The shot had killed him instant- | ly, the floor and room being spattered | with blood. Mr. Band had bee employed by Art Tarks, a sheep herder, the hotel clerk | sald, He had lived at the Natrona. ho- | tel about three weeks, the register | shows. Each week he paid up in ad- vance for his room. His room was pald up until next Wednesday, possibly indicating that sudden trouble or de- spondency caused him to take his life. The body of Mr. Band is being held | at the Shaffer-Gay funeral chapel pend- | ing further arrangements and the re- | sult of search for relatives. He was | practically unknown at the hotel. ARE EXECUTED BY HUNGARIANS (By Associated Press.) + BUDAPEST, Dec. 22.—Joseph Cserny and 13 other terrorists ac- cused of excesses during the Bela Kun regime were executed here. BRITISH INVENTOR PERFECTS NEW LIGHT, COLOR SCREEN IS SECRET (By Associated Press.) LONDON, Dec. 22.—A light, which | far surpasses any existing arrange- ment of artificial light and is the | closest approximation to actual day- light ever accomplished, it is under- | stood by the American Chamber of | Cc e in London, has-been per- fected here. be The apparatus consists of a high- . Mexican gover! of the senate. It will be held during the recess and will include both Demo/ crats and Republicans. —— | AGAIN CALLED ON FOR ACTION (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.—Freder- ick Hugo, American ranch manager captured by bandits in a recent raid at Musquiz, Mexico, and later liber- ated, was released under an agree- ment to pay $1,500 ransom within 12 days, according to information reach- ing the state department today. The | department announced that instruc- tions wi sent the embassy at Mex- ico City to insist that steps to cap- turd the bandits be taken by the | ment. 7 ee WHITE HOUSE TO | GIVE CHRISTMAS GIFTS AS USUAL COTS SEE Samad ’ t | | (By_Th_Aasociated Press.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.—Children living on the road. between Washing- ton and the Country club in Vir- ginia where the president plays golf receive Christmas presents from the White House this’ year as usual de- spite the president's illness. The | presents probably will be delivered on Christmas day by Mrs. Wilson. Em- ployes of the White House will get turkeys. The president will eat tur- key, Dr. Grayson said. | { power electric light bulb, fitted with ‘a cup-shaped opaque reflector and a silvered inner side, which reflects the light against a parasol-shaped screen {| placed above the light. The screen is lined with small pate’ of differ- ent colors, arranged accor toa formula worked out by Mr. Shering- ham, an inventor. DOUBLE CRIME AT LARAMIE, WYO. (Special to The Trivune.) GREEN RIVER, Wyo., Dec. 22.— With his lifeblood gushing from 4 wounded that had severed the femoral artery, Joe Startz lifted himself to a sitting » took steady aim and sent @ bullet thru the heart of the man Fesponsible for his death wound, Edward Karel, his half-brother. , As Karel fell Startz fired a second time, putting another bullet within two inches of the already dead man’s heart. Startz then collapsed and within a minute or two was head |, from hemorrhage. These details of the duel to death between the’ half-brothers at the Startz homestead in the upper Grepn River valley were obtained by the coroner from Thomas Shaw, the only witness of the tragedy. While en route to the scene of the tragedy the coroner, F. P. Rogan, and two companions became lost in a blinding blizzard and wandered for eleven hours before they located a sheep camp and were directed to the Startz ranch. Arriving there they found the corpses of the victims of the duel frozen solid, a condition in which they have been permitted to remain pending shipment to Leroy, North Dakota, the former home of , the deceased. Karel’s widow and three small chil- \dren will be taken to the home of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Black of Sweetgrass, Mont. —_—_—_—_—————— ‘END OF HARRY I a rt er I OFFICER HELD FOR KILLING SECOND MAN The 'Tribune.) 22.—Night Wyo., Dec. nesiay shot and killed John Zahair- is, 2 Greek, has been charged with murder in an information filed by Prosecuting Attorney A. J. Rosier, The officer claimed he killed Zahair- is because the latter le a move- ment as tho to draw a weapon, but the coroner's 'y investigating the tragedy returned a verdict in which a justification clause was not pres- ent. Zahairis was the second man killed by Harris within a month..On November 17 the night marshal shot a Mexi yho was resisting arrest. | A coroner's jury exonerated him of blame. 5 HEAD OF KANSAS MINERS SENT 10 JAIL BY COURT (By Associated Press.) INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. _22.—Alex- *ander Howat, president of the Kansas district of the United Mine Workers of America was remanded to jail by United States District Judge Ander- son when court re-convened this aft- ernoon. Howat, who is charged with contempt of court, was granted a continuance this morning till next Monday. | 22.— PITTSBURG, Kansas, Dec, 22- ‘wo hundred and fifty miners em- ployed at Crowe, No. 16, one of the largest producers in- Kansas, struck today and declared they would not return to work until they knew what Judge Anderson intended to do with Alexander Howat. —— { ALL GRADES OF | CRUDE IN EAST RAISED TODAY (By Associated Press.) PITTSBURGH, Dec. 22.—All grades of crude oils handled in the Pitts- burgh market were advanced 25 cents a barrel by leading purchas- ing agencies today. The new prices are: Pennsylvania — cru $4.75; Corning, $3.35; Cabell, $3. Somer- set, $3.10; Ragland, $1.60. NEW TRIAL NOT | YET IN SIGHT, (By Associated Press.) LOS ANGELES, 22.—Hope that the case of Harry New would go to the jury by Christmas was aban. doned when the trial was resumed today. Pat Leach is in the city from the Cole Creek country getting supplies for the sheep camp and attending fo pri- yate business. | ELEVEN HELD FOR NRW YORK, Dec. 22.—Two petty officers and States army transport America, vestigation on board ship at the pier a’ mented by an I. W. W. agitator. When the America docked yesterday, Saturday night, the accused me revealed. It was charged fires die, imperilled her safety by cui frightened the women passengers an (By Associated Press.) MUTINY nine members of the crew of the United charged with mutiny on the high seas, today faced official in- nm were taken as: t Hoboken Unofficial reports said the trouble was fo- having landed United States peace delegates hore in irons and the story of the mutiny was that the men attempted to leave the ship without permission, let the tting off the electric lights, committed petty robberies, d gambled in defiance of the officers. tect the lives of American citizens and $three years in jail, but they |senators to a conference on the peace | ‘ | |treaty. He said tha conference was for | f the purpose of framing a compromise | f which insures the support of two-thirds | Berkman and Goldman Among 249 “Reds” on Way to Russia; Second Batch Will Sail from New York During Week By Axnocia' __ NEW YORK, Dec. 22—Led b NEW YORK, Dec. 22.—The for an unnamed Russian port yester- day with 249 radical, deportees aboard, will be followed before she has oppor- tunity to land by a second. “ark” lond | of “Reds,” according to information ob-| thined here. ‘It was stated that the| second batch of deportees would be em-| barked some time this week. Alexander Berkman and Emma. Gold- man were among the 249 radicals sent from the United{States yesterday. | | | COMMISSIONER DENIES KNOWLEDGE OF DESTINATION (By Press.) WASHIN' Dec. / 22.—Anthony. aminetti, commissioner general of immigration today said that he did not know the destination of the transport Euford whictr left New York yesterday with a cargo of deported anarchists. “T do not know the ship's destina- tion,” he said, “and if I did I would {eel it my duty 4s an American to pro- soldiers on board not to réveal it. I do not know where the vessel is going | und I feel perfectly sure that no one | (By Axsociated AN AND GOL! NEW YORK, Dec. tion of Emma Goldr and her de- voted companion, Alexander Berkman, ends a joint career of 30 years in the| United States during which they | preached the overthrow of government by violence. He spent 16 years and she were | never punished for the part their | teachings played in attacks by others on life and property. Berkman served fourteen shooting Henry Clay Frick s for} two | and years for urging young men to abstain | from registering for the draft early in’ the war. Miss Goldman was in prison | two years for opposing conscription and one year for inciting to riot. Berk-| man was uever brot to trial on an in-) dictment for murder in connection w! the preparedness day bomb outrage in| San Francisco, * Miss Goldman was ac-} confession of Czolgosz described the in-| fluence which Miss Goldman's writings | had on him. Matthew Schmidt and David now in jaft with others for that crime, | were “of the Goldman clan,” Attorney General Palmer has said. They were suspected of by the United States before the United | States entered the war. in India during the war. They were the pioneer radicals in the United States. Now there are 60,000} Reds here and 472 disloyal foreign lan-} guage newspapers, according to Attor- ney-General Palmer, DEPORTATION AGITATED FOR OVER TEN YEARS Denounced by judges and other pub- lic officials from) President Roosevelt down as enemies of the country seek- ing to destroy it but regarded by wo- men anarchists who greeted them with kisses as “beautiful characters, 100) years ahead of their times,’ they so in- creased thelr following that it was e for them to provide $15,000 jor) $ 00 bail in cash or Liberty bongs. | Yet fines of $10,000 each for opposing: the draft were unpaid. They had no) property, they said. For more than 10 years their depor- tation had been agitated and-at times seemed near but no formal proceedings ‘for this purpose were instituted until! (Continued on Page Seven) band was depbrted to Russia yesterday on the “Soviet Ark”, Buford, a |mob of 150 “Reds” today attacked the entrance to Ellis Island ferry in an effort to reach fellow radicals still awaiting deportation. A riot call was turned in before the police restored order. (By The Associated Press) ' . ith | out unequivoca for a settlement which, quitted of illegal distribution of birth|ments for north and south fre! dent McKinley, the government charg-| NEW: ed in its deportation proceedings. The | BY IK ‘Their influence was traced in the dy-| dependent” was namiting of the Los Angeles Times. | goy Caplan, | servers } Viscount F that Sinn lable to défy the authorities in th receiving |of the heaviest policed city in German money to oppose preparednéss |The damage to the plant of the Inde |group captu They co-operated with German spies | the editors: in endeavoring to promote a revolution | the linotypes raiders were captyre j | ted Prenx.) | y a woman, who declared her hus- ! | “Soviet Ark” > b 2 (By CONSTANTINOPLE, Dge. zied in reaching a decision as to whet DEBATING ui Axsoclated Press.) 22.—Abraham, sheik of Islam, is sorely puz- Jennings Act as Murder fo. Boomerang ‘Evidence in Cordillo Case May “Rock” State Alright, but Prosecution Will Do It, Attorneys State (Special to The Tribune) CHEYENNE, Wyo., Dec. 22.—The forecast in a news dispatch that at the trial of John and Peter Cordillo and Walter Newell, charged with the murder of Frank Jennings near Laramie September 7, the de- fense might introduce evidence tending to “rock the state of Wyo- RAY TO SANTA her Moslem children may pray to the “American Santa Claus” for Christmas presents, The question was submitted by th e children in the Aidin and Diarbeker district; who asked the sheik, in his capacity as supreme interpreter of the — Moslem law, if such prayers would be impious. 2 American missions in Asia Minor for thousands of children, are preparing Christmas celebrations IRELAN FREEDOM FOR D NOW | ming” has been countered by information from an official source that Buford, which sailed such evidence will be introduced in all probability, but that it will be introduced by the prosecution. It is J intimated, furthermore, that the charge jof Superintendent Pinch of the Colorado Anti on league that the prosecution of the Cordillos is a ‘“frame-up" by the “Jiquor interests” to “railroad innocent men to the gallows,” is not the only frameup" cha that the trial will wing forth--that the pri has ined evidence of an to acquit the accuse » Cordillos, who are in jail here, ell, who is in the county jail 1 ju at Rawlins, pre nly will be taken to, | wzarnmie early in Ja di given if ‘well, it is preliminary he 2 will be arraigned: separately 4 to the district court, tried In order that his, fate and © Cordillos, who signed con- |fessions that they f blamed him ‘ror the slaying because they jeved ltnat by so doing they could escape liynehing for a crime of which both he land they were innocent, may not be |tinked, with the possibility of a misear- |riage of justice a |OPERATORS TO | LEND HELP TO NOT POSSIBLE coazreieunar Premier Opposed to Absolute Freedom but Will Advance Plan for Sevarate Parlia- ments on Emerald Isle, Says Revort (By United Press.) LONDON, Dec. 22.—Absolute independence for Ireland now or at any time is impossible, Premier Lloyd George is expected to tell the | thi house of commons this afternoon. It was authoritatively learned and, each | control literatfire. lto select a national council over which Their joint activities as publishers ofia v yy will preside, T form of| |the anarchist magazines, ‘Mother | governments for the two sections will) |Harth” and “The Blast,” suppressed) he decided. Each parliament will! be| during the war combined with their| required to pay its own expenses | addresses at anarchists’ meetings oe helped cause the assassination of Presi: | ECKED (By United Press.) DUBLIN, : Dec. 22,— Yesterday's | | successful raid upon the newspaper “In- serious blow at the} rnment's prestige, according to ob-| Following the attack on h, it apparently showed in ‘and other radic: ara rt na | estimated at $100,000, A ed the plant and held up staff while others smashed and presses. None of the pendent is se hs First day of winter, (By United Press.) de DENVER, Dec. -Alex Miller, investigation of the murder of Adam of whom were shot to death at their h ready bodies. Miller's actions following his arriv: and he was arrested. DEAF MUTE HELD FOR MURDER OF FAMILY AT GREELEY, COLO. of Shank and is alleged to have had several disagreements with him. was discovered at noon Sunday whe iff Hall and Coroner Wood took charge immediately, today that the premier will come lly against such independence. He may disclose a plan | it is learned, will recommend separate parlia- in scotiana. | (By Unit ) WASHINGTOD .—Coal op- | erators will co-operate fully in the | president’s coal tribunal, it was learn- | Pre Ce ed at headquarters of the operators” | association here today. The meet- ing is scheduled for Cleveland tomor- row at which the proposition of stand- | ing aloof from Wilson’s plans was to called off. be discussed, has been | —— William R: e of Lost Cabin is-in | Casper for the He is leaving for eastern coast and from there wil \o to his old home in Scotland. We has been a rancher in this country for 2 years and will return after a short visit. There is a rumor of a wedding which will take place at his old homes BEN F. WERNER WAR VETERAN, SHOOTS SELF ‘Considers Life a Failure Uncle at Douglas , Goes to Home of: and Ends Life by Shooting Himself in Head Ben H. Werner, geant Co. F, 116th ammunition cide yesterday at Douglas, Wy head with a .45-calibre automa af mute, is being held here awaiting ank, his ww me near ¢ ud four children, all Miller is a former a cousin found the ‘al at a Denver hotel aroused suspicion assistant state game warden and first ser- train over there, committed sui- o., by shooting himself thru the tic. Mr. Werner, who had been in the real estate business here until recently, went to Douglas to locate on a homestead. Hedative two or th own life. red to become disconsolato days before he took his Going to his uncle's home, he Ishot himself, In one hand he hefd an \empty envelope. But on it were writ Nwen words indicating that he considered his life a failure | Mr. Werner took part,in the national rifle shoot At New Jersey this year and Jered a crack shot. | His work as a booster for the American Legion won him place on the: state executive committee, He was al a delegate to the state convention from Casper this was con: year. Mr. Werner had lived much of his life at Douglas, He is survived by two or three brothers and sisters. One (Continued on paze Eight)