Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 8, 1920, Page 1

we _ " 4 i ¥ ; | if | & if Mie HUNDREDS DEAD IN DEVASTATION BY EARTHQUAKE’ Towns Are Entirely Destroyed; Death Toll Growing — Bee Unitea a é pt. 8.—The casualty list resulting from yesterday’s earthquake in North Central Italy continues to grow. - Several towns were entirely destroyed and it is feared that hundreds ‘were killed and injured. Troops and relief parties have left for the stricken area. The quake lasted 20 seconds and was the Most severe ever felt. The districts of Lugiana and Garfagnana are the hard- est hit, it is reported. (By Associated Press.) ROME, Sept. 8.—Several hundred persons lost their lives in the earth- quake at Fivizzano, and many more were injured, accordng to a dispatch to the Tribuna from Massa, REGION NORTH OF FLORENCE HARD HIT. (By Associated Press.) ROME, Sept. 8.—Scores of lives are believed lost in the district north of Florence, wich was shaken by an earth- quake yesterday morning. “As reports from the stricken region come in over faltering telegraph and telephone lines, the extpnt of the ‘disaster seems to be growing with the possibility that the damage done may be much more seri- ous than first believed. : The , territory violently disturbed seems to be losenge-shaped, with Flor- ence at the southern apex and Modena at the northern end. It extends to the Etrurian coast and runs over the Apen- nines eastward for upwards of 100 miles. . RUSS REVOLT AT MOSCOW IS PUT DOWN BY BATTLE (By Associated Press) LONDON, Sept. 8.—Serious revolts against the Russian soviet government in the neighborhood of Moscow have been suppressed much bloodshed, Gaye Canna loth wichange Tele: graph company, filed at Copenhagen, quoting telegrams received from Riga. ae DENVER GIRL Is, ASSAULTED AND ROBBED, REPORT (By United Press) DENVER, Sept. .8.—A 16-year-old telephone operator was attacked and robbed by two men last night. The girl told the police she was waiting on ‘corner for a street car when an automobile drove up. Two men forced her into a car, drove to a lone- ly spot in East Denver and assaulted and robbed her. The police are mak- ing a city-wide search for her ass: ants who are said to be young Ital- ians. M’SWINEY TOO WEAK TODAY TO. SEE RELATIVES (Ry Associated Press.) > LONDON, Sept. 8.—Tcday's bulle- tin said that Lord Mayor Terence MacSwiney, who is on the 27th day of his hunger strike, suddenly had got much weaker. Doctors have for- bidGzn relatives to converse with him. coaches toot Tight SPRING WHEAT _ ESTIMATE FOR MONTH LOWER (By United Press) WASHINGTON, Sept. 8. — The spring wheat crop is estimated at 237 milliom bushels by the department of agriculture, based on reports Sep- tember 1. The estimate of August 1 ¢ was 262 million bushels. The condi- tion of the crop is 64.1 per cent nor- mal. The average yield is estimated at 12.2 bushels per acre. Corn prospects improved during Au- gust and promised on September 1 a crop of 3,131,000,000 bushels, the de- partment of agriculture announced. This is 128 million bushels more than was indicated August 1 and six mil- lion bushels above the largest previous crop of record in 1912, over 200 mil- .council, WEATHER FORECAST | Generally fair tonight and Thursday, telly warmer in ex- treme north portion tonight. aS AR I ears ee AT ORT |. ITALY HIT BY DISASTER The Casper Daily | Cribune RAILROAD TIME CARD B. & Q. Arrives Leaves 29 Westbound__ 7:35 a.m. 7:55 a.m. No. 30 Eastbound -_ 9.20 p.m. 9:45 p.m. No. 31 Westbound_-10:30 p.m. Sto} es en --Starts 245 p.m. . W. No, 606 Eastbound --2.35 p.m. 2:55 p.m. No, 603 Westbound. ‘0 10 C. Ni TAX COLLECTION FOR IMPROVEMENTS HELD UP BY COURT ORDER Property Owners of District No. 3'Get Injunction Which Will Be Argued on September 21; Ordinances to Finance Work Adopted Last Night by Council With a temporary injunction in force restraining the city from collecting taxes assessed for improvement work in grad- ing district No. 3, and similar action pending in the case of two other grading districts, the city council in regular session Mon- day night passed ordinances providing for the issuance of im- provement bonds for districts Nos. 1, 2 and 3. The injunction was issued by Judge Ralph Kimball in the case of Alec Mar- shall in behalf of himself and all other residents of grading district No. 3, against the city of Casper. It enjoins the city and the city treasurer from proceeding to enforee the collection of the special assessment for grading work in district No. 3 and from imposing any: penalties for failure to pay the assessment. A further order was is- sued by the judge requiring the city to show cause why the injunction should not be made permanent and this ma’ will heard “at 10 a, m,-on v youaptober 213 4 District No. 3 The ordinance §for amounted to $98,796, according to words of the contract. The improve- ment bonds are for ten years and are for $500 each at 6 per cent. District No. 1 was $81,111 and No, 2 was $38,- 241. : The possibility of re-creating the District No, 3 so as to lighten the bur- den of taxation in the district was discussed, The law states that this can be done where the benefifs extend be- yond the district. In District No. 3 the extension probably would be for the opposite side of the street where both sides are benefitted lut only one side is in the grading district. This exten- sion would make a difference of $100 to $200 per lot, it was stated, and| would make a difference of $10,000 in the entire district. W. W. Keefe, senior member of the said he did not believe the Representation of a speech here today. The candid: ducts with a view to stabilization SEVEN KILLED AS RESULT OF jobs of the contractors had been com- 3 pleted in District No. the other grading distri that the job had becn said: “It is not a question of whether cr and some of When told accepted, he CASPER, WYO., WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 8, 1920. So Says Senator Harding in Minnesota Address Slim Caskey, official announcer, is a] Jimmy Shannon, who was r tall husky six-footer from Wichita | n i$ the feature clown in Falls, Texas. “Slim” has followed the | uniform, injured his right leg Sun roundups for several years and is a! and was unable to continue hi lim, but Caskey made a good bet with | cow horse Dick Hornbuckle on-the first day's at-| endance. Slim bet a big dinner that it| would be a capacity audience. Need- less to repeat, Caskey feasted Sun night. | rac George Everetts, policing the grounds, had his own tro} ¥ | bles Sunday keeping the Island, Neb. Most of the people were! fence in ¥ outside at the Grand Island show. (Continued on Page 2) AGRICULTURAL INTERESTS TO PLAY — BIG PART IN FUTURE OF COUNTRY Farmers in Governmental Affairs and Comprehensive Policies to Advance Their Interests (By Associated Press.) MINNESOTA FAIRGROUNDS, Sept. 8.—An agricultural program designed to keep the nation self-sustaining and improve the condition of the farmer was outlined by Senator Warren G. Harding in late set forth his policy as contemplating the following step: Larger representation for farmers in governmental affairs; establishment: of a system of co- operative associations for marketing farm products; scientific study of world markets for farm pro- of prices; curtail nent of unnecessary price-fixing; administration 0 the farm loan act to decrease tenancy;| finally to widespread agricultural 4is. restoration of railway facilities to a] tress from which all of our people suf state of highest efficiency; revision u.{fer. As a reconstruction measure the tariff to-protect American agricul-|therefore, our government should dc everything in its power to restore the normal balance between livestock and grain. production, and thus encow While it is in my thought to speak you specifically concerning agricul | NUMBER 282 STAMPEDE DUST | who had charge of front of the grandstand tye | Urging Larger i} Rider Injured indup of Stampede Accident Mars Concluding Events of Day but Victim Improves at Hospital; Finals in Bulldogging and Steer Riding Run Off in Sea of Mud Late Tuesday | Yesterday’s final day of the first annual American Legion | Stampede was a success and put the George W. Vroman post management over the top in spite of a heavy downpour which threatened to stop the program shortly after the girl’s. cow bear at bull dogging the steers. He | Monc and Tuesday. Jimmy is horse race.- The program was continued with even the roman was hurt recently on his last steer at| “card,” and the show seemed slower | standing race being “pulled off” i f mud and th th j cberenre pubes able to appelr here | with his funny antics missing. Jack | pain RBane facil k's aL Ata lee wine ofrmud anche hae 1 his gia egaphone. Caskey's | Brow > his | ™ 2 ‘oe Br en bashi : LA SRG, ometineiae ee sicher Peleg =o ae Later during the short “let-up" in the! into a fence. Tex Smith, riding for well with the crowd Sunday as he un-|of his time to feature riding stunts |Testor™: the champtonship’ finals in| the George Vroman popt of the Aniérf Pots nL NMARAEEE. brani tisettedinn feelin hermetic nee ft the steer bulldogging and steer riding| can Legion, copped second in the bare- zap beeen nee cry Vrone) riders ts iin: | ay. events were run off, back steer riding championship finals. non rode Tar Baby. ; mn TENT 18 THE cow, | pihe_tain and the serious injury of| Helen Biliott, Leona Sears and DorotWw dd NT Is 2 | Roy Kane marred the final day of the| GriMth finished in the order named in Not to giveltéo much mantion to| ACE is the most successful stampede show ever| the girl's cow horse race yesterday, all anon announced the quarter mile | given in central Wyoming. Kane, who| three finishing almost as one: the most It was citing race of the day. Slim key copped the finals in the steer bulldogging chamy event in spite of the rain yester Caskey was one of the star performers and| \\prize winners in several events, was | hurt when the brone he was riding —bucked violently. So far| horse lunge forward that ‘88 | ay. had to ride almost the length of the Si, ‘the fair grounds. Two me continued to turn over forward| fleld before he could catch up with his One wild steer nearly cleaned honse |i" returning to the grounds and when / lighting on his back with Kane be-| stee lim could make little headway Sunday on the bald head row of the ame pugnacious, he took mat-| neath. | on the sloppy field but flopped his ani- “moocher spectators” which. continued in his own hands, The two | Kane was rushed to the hospital} mal almost instantly when he perched: outside tthe fairigrotinda ‘fancé * got the worst of the argument | where at first it was doubtful if he|™* with the speeding steer. Sart HOTTIE oni theta ierixan. were given transportation to the| would pull through. Reports this morn-| had won f also Monday in 17 sea- Legion boys. Later several steers | City. F etts had a man size: | ing, however, were that he was much} onds. Yest ay his time was 34 sec- made things interesting for the “out-| handle but George was “the | better and able to talk to friends. In-| onds, fully 28 seconds faster than the siders.". But at that there were few| Hing the grounds. | ternal injuries about the abdomen, and| time made by the second man, Ray I seripeohermentin Gauner, accordmartaltha'| serious bruises about the left leg and| Quick. cowboys whol had 4dlloweds Dick? Horn. | y lost any chance of firse| face were suffered by Kane. The steer riding event was won in buckle and Eddie McCarthy to Grana|™mon when his steer jumped the) Pax Irvine again copped first in the| the rainstorm by John Free. Tex stake race yesterday while Burt Steed| Smith had to ride in the rain to win was eliminated by a fluke in brone rid- (Continued on page Fight) CONNECTION WITH REPUBLICAN FUND CONTINUED BY PROBERS (By Associated Press.) CHICAGO, Sept. 8.—First evidence supporting Gov. Cox’s charge that large quotas were assigned to principal cities by the Republican campaign fund committee was introduced in the senate committee in- vestigation today when: Dudley S. Blossom, who helped raise Cleve+ f|land’s quota, testified that Cox’s figures of $400,000 for that city -| were correct. Senator Reed called the witness’ at-| Cleveland as it was the “cream list,” as~ s] tention to the quota sheet submitted] signed to the executive committees >| last week by Upham, Repybli-| Blossom said he Wad been told by *| can national tr . which fixed’ the|Protzman that the executive commit-, 1! amounts for the entire state of Ohig|tee had obtained $28,000 in pledges at $400,000, Blossom testified that A. A.| from this list. Reed brought out that INVESTIGATION OF CHARGES IN & pehrgeta yes me REEL Z — SIRE Slee pit not the district is acceptable but whether the job, has been completed ac- cording to the contract. In one dis trict the exposed curbing varies from to 16 inches. There are cracked curbs in some districts. The work cer- tainly is not completed.” L. 8. Worthington said that City En- gineer Knittle had inspected the work and had accepted it. RECOGNITION OF MEXICO HELD UP BY OIL DISPUTE (By United Press) WASHINGTON, | Sept. 8.—Recogni- tion of ‘Mexico by the United States is complicated by the oil situation. This country probably will refuse to recog- nize either President De la Huerta or President-elect Obregon unless assured of fair treatment for American oil men. ~ (By United Press) MEXICO CITY, Sept. 8.—President Rodolfo De la Huerta, declared today that the oil question could be settled easily if the United States would cease to be influenced by private interests. He said Mexico wants to be friendly with the world and it is up to the world to decide whether it wants to be friendly with Mexico, He repeated his lion above last year and almost 400 -million above the five years average. guarantee to protect foreign lives and propert, POISON SPREE (By Associated Press) BALTIMORE, Sept. 8.—The.list of fatalities among civilian employes at the Edgewood arsenal, resulting from drinking some form of poisoned al- cohol, was increased to seven today by ti death of Nelson Lucius of Rochester, N. ¥., and James ,Davis of Salisbury, Md. Militarv authori- ties at Edgewood are unable to as- certain where the liquor came from by the refusal of survivors to tell where they got it. cfs ee aS LIQUOR BARRED FROM ANY USE IN U. S. NAVY (By Associated Press.) ‘ WASHINGTON, Sept. 8.—Spirituou: liquors received a. final complete di- vorce from the United States navy in an order issued today by the bureau of ‘medicine and surgery prohibiting their issue to naval vessels for medi- cinal purposes. woe the STAMPEDE HORSE MISSING A bay horse with the MT brand, owned by Herman Warner, escaped from the Stampede outfit at the fair grounds last night and search is being made for him in the hills today. MOSES AND LENROOT WIN - (By Associated Press.) MANCHESTER, N. H., Sept. 8.— Senator George H. Moses, opponent of the League of Nations and woman suffrage, was renominated by the Ropnblicans in yesterday's primary | | | | by a plurality of 12,000 over Huntley Spaulding. (By United Press.) MILWAUKEE, Wis. Sept. Senator Irvine L. Lenroot is leading SENATORIAL CONTESTS James Thompson in the Republican primary race for senator on early re- turns. Thompson was backed by Senator La Follette. Roy Wilcox, an- ti-La Follette man, is leading in the race for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, fcan activities, It has become a very | common practice to make one address) to those who constitute the ranks of labor, another to those who make up | the great farming community and still Janother to the manufacturing world | large are such that Important happ and its associates in commerce, - ahd | ings in other lands have a marked ef to other groups of less importance. | fect upon coffiitions here at home. Or There is a very natural and a very |der must be restored, industries rebuilt, genuine interest in each and every one, tated lands reclaimed, transporta but the utterance of a political party plished, the vast armies re nominee ought, in every instance, to| ad in the occupations of normay be inspired by a purpose to serve our common country. If America is to & on and come to the heights of achieve ment, we must of necessity be ‘all for one and one for ail.’"” CERTAIN RESULTS JF CONDITIONS: “Without speaking at length of farm | production and prices during the war, | it is necessary to note certain results, | if we are to deal understandingly with | the agricultural situation at the pres-) ent time, and speak intelligently of a| future policy. War conditions put a} premium on grain growing at the ex-| pense of livestock production. As consequence, many stock producers and | feeders have suffered heavy and, in some cases, ruinous losses. If this con- dition should continue, we are in danger, in the near future, of having | to pay very high prices for our meats. “For two outstanding reasons the maintenance of a normal balance be- tween livestock and grain production is a matter of national concern. One is that we are a meat-eating people, and | should have a fairly uniform supply at a reasonable price. Conditions which either greatly stimulate or greatly dis- courage livestock production result in| prices altogether too high for the average consuming public or alto- gether too low for the ‘producer, The other is that the over-stimulation of grain production depletes the fertility | of our land, which is our greatest na-| tional asset, and results in a greater | supply than can be consumed at aj price profitable to the producer, and a | fe \ to be delivered y from a world crisis such as experienced is slow, in Recove: It is like the human conyales: | cence from a long and dangerous ill ness, Our relations with the worl The near future promises te a period of uncertainty for the as well as for the men en: dustrial enterprises. Ameri no ater problem than returning secure- y to the normal, onward road again, his isn’t. looking backward—it is a forward look to stability and security. “It must be evident, however, to any one who has given the matter gven su- a perficial consideration, that we ha new come to the end of the long pe- riod of agricultural exploitation in the United State: longer are there great and easy and awaiting areas of rtile land awaiting the land hungry. » now under the plow practical ily-tillable land, though | await reel: ion and de-| velopment by that genius and dete! mination which e have mi ns ture respond to human needs. Addi- idle areas said Senator Harding in pret: the prompt return to that system of 4l-) protzman, paid agent of the national| this conversation with Protzman tuole ing his address, “I want to’ so convey | Versified farming by which alone We! committe w present when the| place after the committee subpoena was my thought as to have it known that | Can maintain our soil fertility. This is} Cieveland quota was announced ag| served on Blossom. I am thinking not of the welfare alonc|# ™atter of immediate importance to} g499,000 and that Protzman helped di-| See of those engaged in agriculture, but | 2!! of our people ‘ rect the raising of the money DEMOCRATS CALL ON STATE the welfare of agriculture ag it relates | HARD TO FORECAST A list of 3,000 names of prospects was| AIDES FOR EVIDENCE. |to the good fortunes of the Unitea| TREND OF PRICES. | provided by W. R. Woodford, chairman | (By United Press.) States of America. I very much de-| “No one can forecast with certainty | of the ways and means committee of| CHICAGO, Sept. 8.—Democrats hav plore the present-day tendency to ap-|the trend of prices of farm products| Cuyahoga county, and from this Ust| spread a dragnet throughout the coun- peal to the particular group in Amer.|during the next two or three years.|each team captain selected the names| try to get evidence to prove Governor of by as wit giv Form which never he step the plan, Blossom nodded or expre assent. tee was formed as described in the plan| and he members, erator and chairman, and John Sh and J broker, as members. hoga county alone, although — this quota sheet introduced last week by | Feria the Republican national committee | (By United Press) shows the goal for the’entire state of} WILKE Pa., Sept. 8.— Ohio was only $400,000?” Reed asked. | Rioting # this ishorninente Yes, sir, that was my understand |the anthracite coal district. Blossom said when he left Cleveland) persed at Pittston. The rioters suf- on Labor Day that $74,000 1 been | fered a severe beating but there were pledged and the work was still going |no casualties, on with Protzman directing it and all a al. workers trying to reach the goal of| Mrs. Joe Denham left yesterday $400,000. The “prospect list of 3,000 | for Centralia, Mo., where she will it names" which form’ No. 101 recom-|with her parents, Mr, and Mrs. W. L. (Continued on Page 8) COAST-TO-COAST AERIAL MAIL SERVICE LAUNCHED (By United Press) MINEOLA, N. Y., Sept. 8.—The longest aerial mail route was begun this morning: when a plane piloted by R. G. Page, left here with mail for Francisco, which was expected 60 hours. The first mended, | stop will be at Cleveland. carries mail for Nebraska, Iowa, Ore- gon and California, ped off at 641 a. m. fr from 50 to 75 men to be canvassed | his team. Some cards in the list furnished by Woodford were marked h th the prospect should e, F Cox's charges of a huge Republican fund. E. H. Moore declared today that he had wired all state chairmen for tn= formation. He said he would have a lot more testimony to offer as replies came in. Moore became angry yesterday when Republican members of the senate com? id | mittee said he was trying to use hears | say evidence. He started to leave and by | told the Republicans that they were not sed| following up the leads he had given pmmit | them. tor Reed took Blossom through | No. 101 of the campaign plan, Republican witnesses said were issued and which Blossom never seen. At almost e the organization described had in He said the executive RIOTING BREAKS OUT IN STRIKE FIELDS OF EAST remembered of its dozen or 80 Michael Gallagher, coal op-| rwin | utt, bankers, and C, A. Otis, R. You were to get $400,000 in Cuya State troops ore the men dii Blossom replied. battled for an hour be’ was identified as existing in Green, for several days. CHEY) E, Wyo., Sept. 8.—Two mail planes hopped off here at 5:30 this morning, one bound for Salt Lake City, with a stop at Rock Springs, Wyo., and the other headed for Omaha with a stop scheduled for North tte, Neb. The plane The plane hop- is Continuous services coast to coast. planned |