Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 17, 1920, Page 1

FIRST SUSPECT JAI > > + “o. od JAILED IN N.Y. BOMB PLOT eath Toll of Murderous Dieter Ubinks ro he Casper s Da i lay Tragedy Which Claimed 34 Lives in Wall Street Revealed as Plot to Wreck U. S. * * ? ° oe ° * o * ¢ > * ° ¢ ° ¢ ° ° ° ° to 36; Over 200 Injured SECRET SERVICE AGENT WOUNDED BY TONGMAN IN ° ° > 2 Treasury and Frenchman Who Warned of Disaster Is Located in Dominjan q - > (By United Press.) ¥ bi aeRO : | HAMILTON, Ontario, Sept. 17.—Edward P. Fischer, x 4) ‘air tonight an ay, ») | No» $0 Kasthound 9.20 p.m. 9:45 p.m.| | complicity in the bomb plot in New York, was arrested this mn.’ ~ slightly cooler in northwest por- VT Ute No $2 astbound -Starto 240 p.m. |in the Hamilton Bank Building on a charge of insanity. ¢ Mr t tion tonight. No. 606 Hastbound _.2°35 pan. 296 bon. —— eer No. 603 Westhound_-3:20 p.m. 5a0 p.m. | | (By "United Press.) Nay j CASPER, WYO., FRIDAY, SEPT. 17, 1920. at RE. | NEW YORK, Sept. 17.—Officals here are convinced that the ex-|_ ~ —- NUMBER 290 Double Murder Charge Js plosion yesterday, which cost thirty-four lives, was caused by bombs.| \It is understood that threats had been made of such an occurrence Develope d With Death — —— = oo ee — —— by the r Radicals are being DRUNKEN FRIEND [russia sweer JOHN W. HAY IS ei 28 of lostice Department ett {400 or 500 pounds of T. N. T. had been} q \ BY ANTI-RED - | placed to utterly destroy the Morgan| Agent This | Morning Ss iH oO OT Ss AT PA L i RE VOLT, CLAIM NAM E TO i EAD gee fueingsuage today for Ea- CHEYENNE, Sept. 11. Thome former employe ‘of the] 5 | Eps | Ss T Ir high’ commission. Fischer | warned several persons .it was Igarned, | as Holland, agent of the depart- ment of justice, who was shot by Yee Geow, Chinese, last Friday, while he was taking the Oriental to jail as an alien illegally in the Uiited Si ~s, died this morning at.2 DURING QUARREL Man Sent to Hospital With Bullet Wound in Shoulder Received After Retiring; | ‘ (By Associated Press) LONDON, Sept. 12.—Reports of anti-Bolsheviki disturbances in widely scattered sections of Russia are coming in today. Unrest is in- creasing thrdughout Russia, it is re- |to “keep out of Wall street on Septem- told |ber 15.” | would be He others that there yal in New York. | Fischer was las n in Toronto, Can- Jada, but left there suddenly on Sep- |temiber 14. Fischer is said to be men- Convention Adjourns After Election of Officers and Adopting Resolutions; ported. General Peter Baron Wrangel is ] tally balanced, ‘clock D a emorrhage, resulting said to be successful against the tally unbalanced. o'clock 3 fi oar a hy ty au bs . ° ° Dislalpewikcl ti Stetnew offensive. Tie 4 : ——_ from his wounds. Geow now faces two Assailant Taken to Jail by Police has captured 1,000. prisoners. Sheridan Lands 1921 Meeting PINE AN LAW ACCUSES charges of murder, his: frst _victiga, Wrangel supporters,’ it is report- |FISCHER OF KNOWLEDGE. John Federhen, having been killed in |} ed, are negotiating in Paris for sup- = (By United Press.) stantly. & port to aid the general's effort to ‘i HAMILTON, Ontario, Sept. 17.—Ed-| The death of Holland has aroused J..L. Keller, aged 35, was shot, but not setiously wounded, about'| cut off the grain supply to the Bol. Resolutions adopted this morning by the Wyoming Bankers’ As-|“*"4 Fischer is allegea to have sent|Public feeling against the murderenit shoviki from southern Russia, | out postcards warning friends of the/ critical point. ; 2:30 o'clock this morning in his room at 535 West Midwest avenue, sociation indorsed a strong Americanization program, opposed the sol- raigned on Wednexday | General Wrangel recently was || New York disaster. His brother-in-| Geow was a . : ie } * R ° by James Harte, following what is believed to have been a drunken} warned by the allies that if he con- |! Jiers bonus bill, and voiced strong opposition to the Nonpartisan |!aw. Robert Pope, gave the police in |4"d bound over to the district cotitt without bond on a charge of murder in the first degree. This charge probably will be the one on which he’ will be tried for his life. = W’SWINEY HAS tinued his offensive against the formation leading to his arrest. Fischer Bolsheviks it would be at his own }|L€ague movement. aetia is suspected of knowledge of the bomb/ outrage. quarrel.. Harte was arrested by Patrolman Rickart, at the house| where the shooting occurred, only a few minutes after it happened. It} rick without moral or material sup- || Officers were elected and Sheridan was selected as the next meet- x ope port from the allies. : ° . 7 > is not known whether Keller had been drinking. ing place at the closing session, the meeting adjourned at noon. The shooting came as a result of a}> Sees st SAE an Ee te ok re ee ones The oMcers # i | Yo G MAN ADMITS | RECEIVING WARNING. drunken quarrel or misunderstanding, President, John W. Hay of Rock (By sic Jo . Hi | y Associated Press.) es Sela pu abee Let ance eee Basin; séqreta Harry B. Hender-/ing to keep out of Wall street until and eeu T aeokdine co aa }son of Che treasurer, C. H./after September 16 was received Sep- story told to Chief Ellithorpe. Harte Townsend of Casper; vice president for Wyoming in the American Banker's As- tember 9 by Joseph T. O'Neill, 24-year- old son of a bank note manufacturer, BETTER NIGHT (By Associated Press) LONDON, Sept. 17.—Lord Mayor Terence MacSwiney of Cork, begin the thirty-sixth day of his hunger t oh the bed, the bullet goin across national bank section, A. B. A., H. A. « i ted condition when rom n wanes gen antoges ia a Sores |sociation, Arthur K. Lee of Thermop-|he declared today. at police headquarters. t F jolis; member nominating committee, A.| O'Neill said he was on a tube train} Keller was shot in the left_shoulder |B. A., B. B. Brooks, Casper; alternate,! from Ne rk to Jersey City and got ‘ C. S. Spaulding, Laramie; vice president|into conversation with the man next to i \ , going across his spinal column and him. The stranger said he was a secret| strike after a somewhat better night lodging under the right shoulder, The (a } Ky France, Rawlins; vice president state) service agent attached to the French| during which he had little sleep, satd Dullet..awas- this-merning at Kesoute ha . pawns i penne after the entertainment of the’ Casper) bank. ection, A.” B.A, “George “C-) nighocommission and was on his way] the Irish Self-Determination League the state hospital where his condition 3 . Stampede. Muirhead, Worland; vice _president/to -Buffato, where some anarchists! bulletin today. Pains in his limh$” was reported this afternoon to ve ta-|Qld Timers Also Swell Douglas Crowd on| ‘ne cattic, sheep, poultry, duck and/ trust company section, A. J. Lowry,|were, under arrest. After he learned| atd back continue, but he was not The bullet did not strike any “ geese and hundreds of other exhibits,|Thermopolis; vice president savings/that O'Neill was employed in “4 wer} Suffering pains jn his head. yorable. rt bones and the wound was desc: being a skin wound. Harte will be turned county authorities. One story told by friends of Keller was that he was in bed and was awak- as including those by the state and federal! bank section, A. H. Marble; executive government, are worthy of any state,|committee, Sumner Milton, Pine Bluffs,/away from Wall street. O'Neillgaid although there was a lack of exhibits|Q. K. Deaver, Casper, F. W- Clark./the man said that a close watch 4Was| in some classes, | Douglas, William Pugh, Evanston, Fred! being kept of all known anarchists, Down under the automobile canvas) Noble, Lander; agricultural committee,/but a plot might develop successfully there were many pleasing automobile| Harry H. Hime, Basin, E. P. Perry,|in spite of precautions. Broadway office, he warned him toskeep Day Set Apart for Their Celebration; 7,500 Pass Thru Gates on Thursday over to the FREMONT POPULATION I PLAGED AT 11,020 ene Mapeeeasee: er armmcante “Ce S00ue (Special to The Tribune) displays, this phase of the fair appar-|Torrington, J. E. Dowling, Powell, a Harte appeared to have been drinking DOUGLAS. W. 7 y 8 ee ently suffered from the fact that Wyo-|Stephen H. Sibley, Burns, John J.) INVESTIGATION SHOWS and the argument and paaultants sate O Wyo., Sept. 17.—This year’s state fair—the Six-| ting is not industrially inclined. Cash, Kaycee; legislative committee,| BOMB WAS RESPONSIBLE. WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.—The cen: ing | folowee. od to be serious at first {teenth annual fair in Wyoming—has broken all records. Certainly} Two perfect airtane flights and a|John W. Lacy, Cheyenne, William Mul- (By Associated Press.) sus bureau has announced the follows ane nes ort circulated about the terda hich C. d Old Ti > da eded the fond-| "ns Parachute {ap under the aus- len, Cheyenne, W. C. Kinkade, Che; NEW YORK, Sept. 17.—William J.|i"S population figures for three WyoF and one rept yesterday, which was Casper ani mers day, exceeded the fond-| nice; of the Western Aeroplane Cor-|enne, T. C. Diers, Sheridan, Charley|imynn, chief of the bureau of investiga,|™Ié counties: 2 business section this morning ‘was that he had been killed. SCHUYLER LEAD IN COLO. IS CUT Fremont, Goshen, Platte, 7,4 11,820. 064. mie. |tion of the department of justice, de- clared this afternoon that he was posi- tive a bomb had caused the explosion in Wall street yesterday which took a toll of 36 lives, injured 200 and caused property damage running into millions) ed on Page 5.) poration, from a_height of about 3,800|Dekay, La feet, were the real startlers of the race| As the newly elected president, John program. The auto race was too much|W. Hay of Rock Springs, was not in| @ one-car affair. During a lull in the| attendance at the convention, the vice program a former service man, judging| president, D. S. Darr, of Basin was in- from his appearance, gently took a fall| ducted into the chair for the final min-| out of the arena director when the per-|utes of the convention, | sonage wearinz that badge | est hopes of the management as far as attendance is concerned. Ap- proximately 7,500 people thronged the state fair grounds yesterday and witnessed the wild west stunts and races. ; Douglas looked like a boomer town;huge crowd yesterday. Besides these, during an oil boom yesterday and last|every “old timer” was designated by night. Never have such crowds from/means of the wearing of a large but- The percentage of women engaged fa earning a livelihood in the Philippines is more than twice that in the Unitet State - .|ton bearing his name and communit got per- G . Bpetiats satan Bete rallcongitarienetat at iz sonal, ‘The service man won the ‘first| | Arthur 1 Keo was given a unan — hundreds from nearly every station! But it was the cattle, sheep and ag-| fall. There was only. one fall. muss woes ft tenis) for Bis, RERVICO SAA along the line of the railroads through |Ticultural exhibits that won the praise)’ The state fair lacked a’ real night) Pst! CUTIE 10 Pet eaihe sue Central Wyoming. and admiration of the visitors from all| show. ‘There were the usual dances, | ‘°° estes cae sae A parts of the state. Probably the béstlone under the auspices of the Ameri.|C°Ss of the conyention, termed the a Every reserved seat was sold before|display of apples*in the history of the|can Legion, and a gentle wrestling|™0St Successful and interesting ever held in Wyoming to the Casper bank- ers. | Sat CASE AGAINST | The pringipal interest of the conven-| fam tion centered in the real menace which! p “bot the Nonpartisan Lengus, yoicihg Bol-| shevistic theories, offers to American) institutions. | je The first warning along this line was} Fred R. Marvin, editor of) States Banker, in his ad- 2 o'clock. In the stands yesterday there were ex-Goy. Joseph M. Carey, Senator Francis Warren, Gov. Robert Carey, Charles 8. Hill, first commander of the American Legion in the State of Wyoming, Secretary of State W. E. Chaplin, Joseph: Garst, Ex-Gov, B.;B. Brooks, John Clay and Judge A. C. Campbell. (By Associated Press) DENVER, Sept. 17.—With only 178 precincts out of 1,532 in the state missing, Karl ©, Schuyler today re tained a lead of 536 votes over Sam- uel D. Nicholson for the Republican nomination as candidate for United States senator. The Denver Times figures gave Schuyler 30,832 and Nicholson 30,296. Wyoming fair Sane the main attrac- tion in the largé agricultural hall. Most of the blue ribbons won by Natrona County in thd agricultural products Were from the splendjd apples dis- played. Of the eleven first places won, ten were for excellent apples grown in Natrona County, not to mention two white ribbon winners in apples. match, but even the ordinary carnival) left the evening practically “vacant” for the out-of-town visitors, Douglas took on appearance of a real convention city at night. A well- ar- ranged system of lighting and enough “traffic” officers and hundreds of peo- ple on the streets to listen to the Unt-| “sy |offered by versity of Wyoming and, made the tthe Mountain Ri and twenty-two pre- Republican leaders in the state*and| To the hundreds of Casger people} town look truly festival in appearance. a aetia Aye S or’ the ° ° Ren eed Pere cen. | iatiy Mallee OF the: Haplnlican party |whs latiantod tia thai yyaeeeday nef eae {tite ee aranen ume ie) First Evidence Heard Today After Comple- cratic senatorial candidates the fol- }held a meeting last night. Harding|exhibits, races and airplane stunts| ai shapes ste a oe che uti wae ae e x : és ‘ 3 . ‘ * ciation, is the big man behind the whole lowing totals: ray Bet itt Me buttons ware seen everywhere in the were the only source of real attraction| ciation, X6 the Dig man penn ne reel enMr. Lea offered a. motion at the tion of .J ury; Cha rge Involves Fun d a R. Callivotte 11,139, grounds and is never too busy to greet| Closing sion that the Wyoming 4,151. SSS ]lgne visitor. Although the tose ofpet,| Bankers’ Association co-operate in Transfer to Own Account every way with other interests of the state in combatting the propaganda of the league, and that a committee be appointed to raise fudds and take other| s, : steps which: may seem necessary. i After summoning practically every member of the Mr, Darr appointed Mr. Lee as chair-/ panel for the term a jury was finally selected for the trial of man of the committee with George W.| Claude J. Gavin in the district court at 9:15 this morning, the Perry and A. C. Jones. "4 i i j i a nf, 7 REO CHARA CeOAEDN Cotte kek WEA. examination of jurors having taken all of the session yesterday afternoon. 5 \ nedy of Nebraska, both spoke of the riety . h ING (Continued on Page 6) Gavin is being tried upon one of several indictments against him, the specific charge this tims ting on such a big state fair is a task) fit for two or three men, Douglas peo- ple point to Mr. Ewel as the guiding} hand in the success of the fair this} year. ' | Thursday's winners of track and| wild west events, aside from contests | in which only final awards will be) made today, follow: Motorcycle race, § miles—Shorty Brown, Casper, first; Red Carlisle, sec- ond; G, E. Burdick, third. ‘Time 6:41. Cordillo Branded With Term Figure In State Prison, CHEYENNE, Sept. 17.—By an inter- esting coincidence Pete A. Cordillo, convicted of the murder of Frank Ten- jury _ NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS Effective October 1, the subscription rate of the Daily Tribune will be increased from 65 cents to 75 cents a month. Subscribers are pS Se Tatsenta anid nentenvet-to 2 n er) Cow pony race, % mile—Pax Irvine, being the transfer on November. 13, nerya fect 30 to 40 years in the strte privileged ,to extend their subscription for_ a first; Clarence Dunn, second; Elmer 1919, of $1,000 from his account in the penitentiary, is wearing prison oum-' period of six months at the present rate if paid EES, Nips rane 4 Shy ae ea nla | Stockmen’s National bank as agent for bets | cy ariot race, mile—Campbell } the Continental Suppl a eon eae we \ | before the new rate takes effect—October 1. Christian, first; Lem Carmen, second; Polat paniowal account Ta he Cae | J. Miller, third; C. J. Saul, fourta. I RY i oO i jtional bank. . | 3 4 : 1 aa the + {| Time, 58 secon In his opening statement, A. BE. Sti S TROOPS G0 The Tribune ere pee ehrneetyte ee oe0 Buldogging—Billy Kingham, 162-5 rett, acting as special prosecutor for s a present rate in effect in e Tac ) Seconds; Buck Lucas, 264-5; Roy | the state, declared that the state would | Quick, 462-5; Joe Mooney, 51 seconds, Ladies’ cow pony race, % mile+Mrs. Irvine, first; Mrs. Walker, second; Leone Sears, third. Time, 26 seconds. | Auto race, 5 miles—Jack Bixler,| Cheyenne, driving a Ford, first; J. Y, in the Stockmen’s National bank only , checks received from St, Louis, head- | quarters fof the Continental Supply company, to the agent’s account and that he had the right to check on the per cent increase in cost of newsprint, ink and other materials over 1918, and over 125 pe cent over August, 1919. _ TO COAL FIELD TOKEEP ORDER (By United Press.) The increased rate represents a slight 15 per WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.—Attempted violation of the American ¢on- his staff left this morning for Birm- | ingham to establish temporary head- quarters for six companies of militia, he expects to take into the coal fields this afternoon. The troops will be Stock, Casper, driving a Buick, sec-| sulate ak Genoa, Italy, by workmen displaying red flags who sought to force | account for company purposes ont a : ¥ A c 3 \s iv: MONTGOMERY, Ala. Sept, 17.—|||. < these days if foodstuffs and clothing had Stake race, three heats, 100 yarés| ported to the state department today, posited Im the! eomnbany? wnccirte: era Brigadier General R. E. Steiner with pies Cae ath rs hin th tt Lat and return—Pax, Irvine, first; Stub The report of the incident was communicated by Vice Consul Murphy | Casper National bank upon. whieh only increase au much inthe past two years; Engles, second; Peach Shaw, third.| 9¢ Genoa through the American embassy at Rome. The funeral was of | Gavin had no righi to check. ‘9 Time, 16 seconds. Roman standing race, % mile—Mrs, Walker, first; Armstrong, second; Lem Carmen, third. Time, 55 seconds. would there? Mr. Stirrett said he would show that | Gavin deposited money in the Stocle- |men’s account received by him as agent, jand that he’ withdrew that money by workmen who had been shot during the elash with Italian police in the disturbances of September 10. As the procession was passing the core sulate, a number of workmen rushed into the building and tried to enter PAY UP YOUR SUBSCRIPTION NOW! posted at several mines now under saa Oey ee ey, os the consul’s office to lower the Amerivan flag to half mast in respect for | check, depositing it to his personal a& threat of violence in coal strike activ- + 2 igen, BONG; JER | 3 ae |count in the er National bark. » thir pad the dead. Murphy stopped the crowd, refused their demand and ordered nt in val barrie, ities. Six additional companies are be- |Race, third. Time, 11 onds. e tt PP The Itallan | That he later withdrew his personal the crowd out of the con The workmen finally withdrew. authorities expressed their regret. late, Relay race, 14% miles—J. Miller and ing held in readiness to rush into the (Continued on Page 5) mine districts if necessary. | account and now has a balance of $1.46 (Continued on Page 4.)