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CRUDEOIL AGAIN UP IN SOUT WEATHER FORECAST Rain or Snow tonight and saday, warmer tonight in Cribune CASPER, WYO., MONDAY, MARCH 1, 1920 STRIKERS GET CALL TO ARMY, FRANCE IS ‘FIGHTING WALKOUT Mobilization of Strikers for Military Duty Curbs Efforts to Tie Up French Rail- roads; General Strike Is Failure Thus (By Associated Press) | Far, Trains Running Regularly Pennsylvania to $5.90 a and Midco Jumps 25 Cents ent —-—— } (By Associated Press.) ; PITTSBURGH, Mar. 1. — The Seep Purchasing agency today announced an advance in) the price of Pennsylvania crude oil of 15 cents a barrel to $5.90. Cabel was advanced 25 to $3.67. Independent refiners, it ported, have offered bonuses above the posted prices but Hittle oil was sold. ‘Th producers, it was the prevailing n here, were waiting for higher | which they expected to develop 18 when the Seep company's mut OF suester from independent ! finers WHT become effective. 1 asks: inneculate our Rurepean premiers.” N SA, Okla. Mar, 1.—The price of | ment and North ol was advanced 25 barrel taday by the pany BEER SALE D ed Press.) Ss. WIS, March 1— ‘Texas. crude; . cents to $3.50 4 Sinclair O17} cam: (By United Press.) | : PARIS, Mar. 1.—Mobilization of railway strikers subject to |military duty has begun. Five strikers were arrested for re-| uw Sun | sisting mobilization. The government intends to break the) Manufacture and Sale uf 2.5 beer in ADVANCE EN WYOMING strike by mobilizing the strikers for military duty. | Wisconsin was legalized today under \ second advance In crude oil prices} To prevent a fuel shortage the government announced that! * cision of Federal Judge Geiger in ne Cast ant south, as reported inj all war-time coal restrictions would be reimposed. Authorities! * ““* C*¢ bromxht by the Manitowoc tches today, practically assures &/in all cities threatened with food short: » im quotations on Wyoming crude ace were empowered to commandeer rv) the end of the present week. In:| automobiles an nt other m s ‘’ Y at the offlces of the Miiwest Re-| portation, sy peert se { ASSURANCE FELT OF s company and thé Ohio Oi com-/ ‘phe majority of trains, takin, y ‘ ig France today failed to reveal the expected ag n when ave running secu. ance here but operators are confi-/ Ler * “that it is a matter of only « few | GENERAL STRIKE IS days be DECLARED FAILURE Sasi (By Associated Press.) | | Railroad mon mobilized by the Paris, freporting im increased numbers last} 0 NE jnight and the situation this morning | TONEGOTIATE | | and freight service is being, dislocated, seemed better. So far the general strike called Sat urday may be saki to be a failure, as large numbers of railroad men are re} fusing to quit, particularly in the prov: | inces, Inconvenience is heing suffered arian, eee FLETTIONEERING: SSE Or os cram PADDED AVE [| Law-breaning, newspaper says, Italy would net claim | BOARD ADVISED) ! be placed under Italian sovereignty. | ——_——»— t PASSENGERS ON ___ gesstst westcation ot the Date | NBIC Alsaevatrars cosmsdcd cp was urged in | Primary Nominations for Director- the senate today by Senator Fernald. | = ate Should Be Free of any | Seven negroes @rrested in the living} quarters in the east end of the Burling STRANDED SHIP | | FINAL EDIT NUMBER 119 |IFWILSONISILL,LET'SHAVE | | GERMS, SAYS BRITISH JOURNAL (By Associated Press.) MANCHESTER, Mar. 1—President Wilson's letters in the Adriatic cor ——< just published, are considered by the Guardian as a refutation ‘of reports that his iltness had caused some loss of mental force and balance.” “If President Wilson is suffering from any malady of political judgment, could not same American bacteriologist convey us a few germs that we may WISCONSIN JUDGE LEGALIZES ESPITE U.S. LAW Products Company for an injunction to halt the enforcement of the Vol- stead act. Geiger upheld the Mul- berger law, thus assuming that state prohibition laws take precedence over federal regulation. SCORE ROUNDED UP IN SATURDAY NIGHT RAID ON GAMBLING GAMES | Drive Against Bootleggers Is Continue Toward Elimination of Other Forms of 21 Are Caught | arrest of over.a dozen bootleggers, took a new turn Saturday | The crusade against lawbreakers launched by Chief Elli- | GANIZER HERE thorpe and the police department, manifested last week in the ; and Sunday nights in raids conducted on gambling games in ot || Turned Back to wners Today Administration Under Which Lines Were Merged Passes Out of Existence Last Midnight Following Wilson’s Signing of Railroad Measure Saturday Night (By United Press.) BOSTON, Mar. 1.—The return of the railroads today found New England facing the worst transportation crisis in its his- tory. The New Haven railroad immediately ordered the cur- tailment of 51 passenger trains to free locomotives for moving coal and other freight congesting the terminals. (By United Press.) _WASHINGTON, Mar. 1.—The railroads are under private control again, after over two years of government operation. By the terms of the bill President Wilson signed Saturday night, the railroads were restored to their owners last midnight. The switch was effected with no friction and little change in opera- tion except the resumption of separate freight offices and the restoration of competing agents in the} large cities, Railroad brotherhood leaders here still are dissatistieat with the status of thelr wage mands. Presktent Wilson asked the brotherhoods to take up their wage increases with labor adjustment beants to be created under the new kiw but unions will take mont Samuel Rea, presktent of the Pennsyt varia system, “The main law's success: declare that hs. negotiations saki today: responsibility for the rests on the interstate commerce commission in fixing the val nation of views on above all in credit is kept earnings that will ty railroad assuring 380 sou new capil! vallable.”* thy t for expansion railroads, in hearing liberal consolilations and that railroad ru reasonable NO CGANGE HERE IN PRIVATE OPERATION | Aside from the receipt of letters ap- | \ prising them of the fuct that the Bur Mngton and Northwestern reverted to private ownership at one minute after midnight last night, the local officials | of those roads state that they have noticed no difference today between pri- vate ownership and government con- trek. It is probable that no particular changes will be effective before May, it is stated, iQ R J. E, Carroll, trainmaster of the Bury { lngton, has been transferred to Han- nidal, Mo. and he and his family are moving to that place, Mr, Carroll is exchanging positions with Whistler of Hannibal, who as- leaving today. sumed change Pere today, . that if reports ef price manipulation | Influence Qver Choice of ton pene nokee Sa ohne LEAGUE TOSEND | CAPE COD CANAL REMOVED TODAY, "=.=, onmeced wa ei marin and ack nf fe Te (SURE To Bare “ought te be indicted for grand lar | ceny.” He based his criticism on reported disclosures In the grand jury investi- gation at Spokane, Wash. made about midnight last night The four men arrested Saturday night about 12:20 o'clock in the Inn on South} }Center street probably will be let | without fines because they were only | playing “solo” and there was no money! in sight. But the ten men ext in} the Wyoming club a chance of beir t | potice court | They were playing on the second) floor but there was no money visib when the police entered th) room, it is said. The men arrested, here and | | j | The activities of several candiates in | Selectioneering” for membership on the beard of directors of the Casper Cham- ae ber of Commerce through the solicita- tion of votes of friends and others, were condemned by John R. Kneebdone, spe- celal organizer for the American City aed soe AT TEMPT MADE | Bureau,-who is directing the present T0 ASSASSINAT ee ed Press.) Mar. 1. — Sixty-three passengers of the steamship wohe mian, which struck on the sambro ledges in a snowstorm were taken off by tugs and brot here. "sic Sheer ne hea eS PRICE FIXING peetive members, who will be voted } upon later, “It has been reported at Chamber of Commerce headquarters.that certain | bone: there #8/Lemon, D. Rogers, Art Richards, nothing in this action that is against) Wilson, E. Clancy and H. Wilson. ALICE STEVICK I WINNER: IN EooAY CONTEST gE LAW ILLEGAL, | 1 | (By Associated Press.) | LONDON, March 1.—It was author~ | itatively learned today that an unsuc- | cessful attempt was made to assas- sinate Lord Acton, British minister | te Ireland, at Helsingfors. He was | driving to the marketplace when sev- | eral shots were fired at him but none were effective. ‘UNITED STATES | STEEL IS NOT the rules, it is at variance with the) democratic principles on which the or } ganization is promulgated. We want free expression of opinion in nominating candidates and solicitatiog tends to de feat this purpose.” ‘TREATY DEFEAT. ~ SEENIN SENATE (By Press.) WASHINGTON, March * 1.—Inter- eral court decrees which held that the statute did not prohibit resale and price fixing unless there was an in- tention ef creating a monopoly. HOOVER'S NAME PLACED ON N. Y. -———> | | WASHINGTON, March 1.—An | < ve RS / | early unfavorable vote on ratification | ors and Stands Chance in (By United Press} | (By Uniied Press.) of the peace treaty was forecast to- | 3 ?, NEW TORR eT epubticans| WASHINGTON, March L—The | day in the senate when Republican National Contest of War in the seventeenth congressional dis-| United States Steel Corporation the leaders, replying te demands of the | ~ Department trict of New York are circulating peti.) worlds greatest industrial concern, Is treaty’s irreconcilable Republican op- —— tions to place Hoover's mame on the, nog a trust within the meaning of the | ponents, reaffirmed their decision not Mise Alice Stevick of the high school, party ballot in the April primaries, Saerman aet, the supreme court held | to accept any change in the substance is the first prize winner, locally, in the This was Hoover's home district when| teday.. The court also held that this | or language of the Republican reser | war department essay contest, in the need not dissolve: vation to article X. opinion of the judges who have review: ed the essays written Mast week, and will receive the prize offered for the } dest ssay m the city as well as the ward for the best high school essay. he lived here. corporation BAN Di I Ss Ki LL 7 WoO @) N | Other prime winners are announced ; : fas follows: | High Schoot—Second prize, Ruth Mc-| ‘Rae: third prime, Lawrence De Woody: a 2 | Central—Firet, Helen Bishop: second, : Francis Gidlin; thirt, Gertrude Cralx.| \ bs : | Park—IlFirst, Beulah Bailey: second, Dean Mechling: third Littian England .; be er a fruitless chase after the two ban-/ 5, my > aticder Second Fatality Occurs with Death of \%.2 Wr0'Sesco” Gotone‘cormatan| 2 Cee i Aer . commanding officer of the Nogales mili-/ Harry Engelson. Amer wa. r Whose Place tary district, declare hd was convinced) “North Casper—First, Kdwart John 4 Storekeeper W * Loctag ye tengptea gant: Em omed ere | son; second, Jack Mason; thint Irene of Business Was Raided Friday | Stipes. ie repeated the ent tpat| jany American troops had crossed the Htine. American, WASHINGTON, March 1.—The Amer gq) ican consul at Nogales reported to the state department today that the Mext- by Marguerite. Metz. ean consul there and General Pita of; pie manner of awarding the prizes the Mexican federalr promised every | ).4 not yet been determined. The war effort to capture Mexicans who raided genartment recommends that a special | the American side of the border! OM) occasion be made of the presentation of | fo awards. The special prize offered for the best eighth grade essay tn the city goes to |Harry Engelson. ne best sixth grade fessay at Park school was written by Beula Bailey The best sixth grade ssay. trom other schools of the city) ‘a (By. Asseciated Press.) NOGALES, March 1.-—With the death of J. A. Frazer, sorakeuner: at. the Baby’ ptatelfice, the death tol se the seek raid by Mexican bandits on Fraser’s general was i i, A. Erne brother and Danes pr ner, riday ‘shortly after the attack.- | directing the affairs of | COMMISSION TO MOSCOW, CLAIM. (By United Press.) ARIS, March of the League of Nations will P ool n| meet here March 22 to organim a com- | s misison for investigating Russia, recommended by the premiers” councit. siakines iver oe HELENA MANIS (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Mareh 1.—Joseph A. As! ige of Helens, Mont., was today appointed to be United States marshal for the district of Montana. -———$—<$—$<> BANKHEAD DIES AT WASHINGTON (By Associated Press.) John H. Bankhead of here today after an illness of weeks with the grip. Alabama died f several 1—The executive WASHINGTON, March 1.—Senator gg dissolve the so-called “steel trust,” the federal government’, Affirming the New NATION FACING March 1.—The Cape Cod Canal was closed today a3 the result of a controversy over its ownership, Pilots and bridge tenders were withdrawn when the railroad ad- ministration relinquished its control at miinight and the Boston, Cape Cod and New York Canal Company, its former } owners, had issued n+ orders to resume operations, (By United Press) MIAMI, Fla., March 1.—Samuel Gom- pers announced today that the Ameri can Federation of Labor would take no further action on the ralivoad DAL Sees ah, ' POLICE FIRE ON MOBS IN MILAN; STRIKE CALLED (By Associated Press.) MILAN, March 1.—As the result of @ collision between the crowd and police here yesterday, officers fired em the mob and two civillans were mortally wounded. A general strike was declared af midnight. N. Y. INCOME TAX LAW IS ILLEGAL, TRIBUNAL RULES (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, March 1.—The sus preme court today held the New York state income tax law of 1919 uncon stitutional. } Mra D.C her home in Omaha, \ ing three months here as her son, Q. K. Deaver. eturned t@ spend uvst of ‘STEEL TRUST’ WINS CASE IN FINAL RULING MONT. DISTRICT Supreme Court Refuses to Dissolve Big Cor- poration; Upholds Organization Dis- misses Government Suit (Ry Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Mar. 1.—The supreme court today upheld the formation of the United States Steel corporation and its sub- combinations in the iron and steel industry. 's Sherman SHORTAGE FUEL OIL FOR SHIPS Solution of Problem Important Factor in Pians for Mercantile Marine, Daniels Tells Conference in Washington (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, March 1.—Stens to prevent a shortage of fuel corporation and restore conditions in at a conference called | oil for government vessels was considered today by Secretary Daniels and attended by Chairman Payne of the shipping rupt business, the dects board, Acting Secretary Vogelsand of the interior department, who is “3\"" that body following the resignation of Franklin o-: 0 atives osY 4s they had been gu K. Lane, director Manning of the bureau of mines and ef the war department. that olf consuming agencies of the gov- fernmant must study their needs in the light of thelr relation to supply and demand if a future shortage of fuel oil was to be avolted. Daniets said ment in any plans for the estabtis! }ment of a permanent merchant mar ine. it was sakl at shipping board head-)| quarters. h objectionable practices In refusing court dismissed the law suit for its dissolution. Jersey federal court’s dismissal of gov- ernment prosecution, the supreme court [declined to enjoin the corporation for | restraint of trade and also denied an or der to break up the supescombination, said to be the workl’s greatest indus: | trig! organtsation, with assets of two bition dollars. In dismissing the federal suit }ever ,the court ordered such dts: ernment to use its power corporation actually resorts to illegal, wrongful, or repressive practices. In rendering the decision, Justice | MeKenna saki that since 1912 no act in violation of law can be charged against the steel corporation and that it was the opinion of the court that practices complained of by the government had been abandoned. Justices Pitney, Clark }and Day dissented. MoKenna said that to grant the gov- ernment’s request for disruption of the the industry ag they were 20 years ago would be impracticable. It would dis- m said, and not be in the public interest Senna said the tobacco and Stand tL company cases offered no anal- of certain which the steal corporation had not been. oft pena Ss Mrs. William H. Baker, who was here Should the United States be 1.5: week as preliminary organizer for compelled to turn to coal burning craft. | ing Interchurch Work! conference, bas it was said, the only advantage it NOW} cone to Denver to make arrangements has would be lost before the real strug- for the Colorado conference which will ‘The use of fuel ol fs an important ele: ste for commercial development began.) pe neld there.

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