Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 18, 1920, Page 1

Nation Starts — Man Hunt For mb Slayers The WEATHER FORECAST Generally fair tonight and Sun- day, cooler in west portion tonight LAND IS THROWN OPE Casprr Dails | No. 30 Eastbound ._ 9.20 p.m. 9:45 p.m. No. 31 Westbound_. 10:36 Si ity. é ay: io estbound..3 m2. 2% Officers and Citizens Spurred to Efforts|'— No S98 i cegrouna yee a Bee. by Posting of Large Rewards; Blacksmith! yo.yme 1v NUMBER 291 Who™~ Shod Horse That Drew Death Wagon Located; Pamphlets Found (By Associated Press.) NEW YORK, Sept. 18.—Confidence that “the anarchist fighters,” believed to have caused the disastrous bomb explosion in Wall street Thursday, would be brought to justice, was expressed today by William J. Flynn, chief of the bureau of investigation ofthe depart- ment of justice. Chief Flynn, in charge of the federal investigation under the personal supervision of Attorney General Palmer, said he was certain from the similarity of cir-]ature found in connection with terror: 's found in a mail box near Wall|ists’ plots in 1919, street at the time of the exploison to} One difference between the two was those found on the scene of various bomb explosions in June, 1919, that the same crowd of terrorists was responsi- ble for both outrages. We have solved; the mysteries of last year’s bombs, but Vere frustrated in bringing the criminals to justice when Alfredo Salesedo, whom we were detaining at the New York office of the | FATHER TO SUNDANCE, Wyo., Sept. 18.—The testimony of the 6-year-old daughter of Frank Hickey, charged with ‘the murder of Laban Woods, may send, him to the gallows. The little girl, it is said, has corroborated the testi- mony of her mother, who is suing the alleged murderer for divorce, that Hickey shot Woods, his former { (Continued on Page 5) TESTIMONY OF CHILD MAY SEND PRISON FOR MURDER ——$—$— NATRONK LANDS SECOND WW HORTICULTURAL GLASS GAVIN FOUND GUILTY BY JURY; TAKEN INTO CUSTODY BY SHERIFF Matter of Appeal to Be Considered in Case of Alleged Embezzler if Court Denies Request for New Trial brother-in-law, in the back and. then dragged his body to a creek and cast it in. The mother, in the law of evi- dence, cannot testify against her hus- band, but the child muy testify against her father. The little girl, i is said, related to the prosecuti counsel a childishty graphic story how papa shot “Uncle Laban” and threw his body into the creek. bur of aS ogee ted ‘bh eap ea! Judge Ralph Kimball in district court this afternoon sentenced Claude a fourteen-Story window during ie J. Gavin, conv e 5 seven y nighties ittitig. suicides That. tip) avin, convicted of embezzlement, to a term of from five to seven years in our*hand and the crowd got safely out of the country before we could nab them,” Flynn said. He said he -had more to-work on in this case. “The similarity. of the circulars makes available all our knowledge of! the gang who committed the outrages last year. We even established the identity. of one anarchist killed by his own’ bomb in last year’s explosion with much less evidence than we have in the present ease. Worn bits of) pink paper were the only evidence we had ldst year. Now we have whole.circu- lars dropped in a mail box, presumably by the man who set off the bomb, a half hour after the letter carrier had emptied the box. In addition there are the horse and broken bits of the wagon on which the bomb was placed.” Douglas Achievement Wins High Praise from Local People Who Returrt With Honors in State Com- _ petition; Natrona County Springs Surprise flying colors. The entertainment provided was of the highest order, gratly made up in quality. Casper people who have neyer missed the fair in sixteen years past declare that it far surpassed any other year with everything taken into consideration. See «In, the cultural ‘and horticultural Aiyisions, rona Coumty ranked high 2 fe, de- ‘the fact that this ty has not ween” growth in this respect as ‘other, counties where irrigation is car- ried on more extensively. The Casper grammar schools took the first premium for the best display of school work in the state; Cheyenne took second honors and Sheridan third. The ‘Douglas County high school carried off the blue ribbon on domestic art and manual training exhibits. In the school section, an exhibit that UT “ DRAG NET THROWN 01 FOR. @! “PARTIES, RETU (By Associated Press.) NEW YORK, Sept. 18.—Convinced that the explosion. which snuffed out the live of 35 persons and injured near- ly 300 others .in. Wall ‘street Thurday noon,, was deliberately planned by radi- cals, officials of the department of jus- tice, ‘headed ‘!by -Attompey ‘General Palmer, today spread @ dragnet in ef- forts to trap® the originators. Spurred by reward aggregating $20,500, offered by the New York City administration RNS NOT IN Associated Press) Sept. 18.—Scattering re- remote country: precincts received by the Denyer Times |attracted much attention and comment, and the accident insurance company, poliea exservice men and citizens -will kept the: I for the Republican | was that prepared by the Lincoln Coun- senatorial nomination alternating be- |ty Thayne rural community school. The lend aid to secret agents. William J. Flynn, head of the bureau| of invetigation, was the chief spokes- man of this opinion. Attorney General Palmer corroborated. it. .Flynn was of the opinion that the finding of radical literature in post office boxes near the scene of the disaster, soon after it oc-| the city on business for a few days and curred, indicated a radical plot and he visiting with friends. Mr. Hurley ts pointed out the similarity of the liter, connected with the Ohio Oil, company. HUGHES GOES ON STUMP FOR SEN. HARDING TODAY Former Candidate Flays Administration for Shortcomings; Nominee Talks to Foreign-Born; Urges Americanism tweem Karl C, Schuyler and Samuel D. Nicholson. At 10. o'clock Nichol- son had a lead of 12 votes. No ad- ditional returns haye been received from other contests. exhibit was in the form of a map made in_ relief of the United States. On it was depicted oil, grains, timber, live- stock, “mining, and, in fact, practically every product of the earth and where it .was grown or found most exten- sively. In the horticultural ‘section Natrona County took the following places: Mrs. B. B. Brooks—First, Okabena' Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Hurley, are in Hibermal crabs; first, Whitney and firt, Florence crabs. James Speas—Second, crabs; second, Florence crabs; second, Patten Greening; first, Minnetonka. * A. Menice-—First, Patten Greening; thirch, Duchess; first, Siberian crabs. Roy Mills—First, Snow; first, Long- field; first, other standard apple. Ed McGraugh, Jr!—Second, Yellow) Transparent; second, Gideon. In the vegetable, grasses and grain) segtion, the following ribbons were: awarded to Natrona growers: John Oliver—First, dry land green crabs, (Continued on Page 2) (By United Press.) iss i, bi TRENTON, N. J., Sept. 18.—Justice C les E. Hughes actively entered the campaign on the stump for Senator sare ding by a speech today before the state Republican convention. He condemned Article X of the League’of Nations as a maker, He blamed President Wilson for the failure of treaty ratification because he refused to accept adequate reservations consured the present administration all BAILEY AUTO” STOLEN.FRIDAY - NOTICE To S Effective October 1, the Daily Tribune will through his speech. (By Associated Press.) MARION, Sept. 18.—Warning against the dangers of hyphenated citizenship, Senator Warren G. Harding told a gath- ering of foreign-born Americin citizens today that he, believed the United States must avoid “meddling” in the pe ti of other nations if eee aE ibes of American citizens are to be wi in = J loyalty to the government. 2322 and the engine number 1932023. 18 RADICALS PUT UNDER ARREST (By United Press.) Bi GENOA, Sept. 18.—Kighteen radicals are under arrest here following the explosion of a bomb in the stock exchange here yesterday. The bomb caused little damage and there were no casualties. Anarchists are suspected by the police. ' The explosive was set off by a time fuse and was placed in a room which was seldom used. before the new rate tak: A Ford car, belonging to H. M. Bai- ley of 147 South McKinley street, was stolen last night, The car was a 1917 lel, abigail car, with Goof. The license number, was per cent increase in cos cent over August, 1919. only increased that, muc would there? PAY UP YOUR SU! GRADE SCHOOLS HERE LEAD IN DIS The sixteenth annual state fair closed at Douglas last night with. the exhibits'the best, and while lacking to some extent in volume were | apples; first, Northwest Greening; first,| Whitney} cents to 75 cents a month. Subscribers are privileged to extend their subscription for a period of six months at the present rate if paid The Tribune has tried earnestly to keep the present rate in éffect in the face of over 280 other materials over 1918, and over 125 pe The increased rate represents a slight 15 per cent or less than one-third of a cent a day. There wouldn’t be any complaining on high prices these days if foodstuffs and clothing had PLAY AT THE FAIR CASPER BEATS RAPID, WINS the state penitentiary and pronounced sentence of from two to four years on Nye Roberts, convicted of fraudulent check operations, 7 The jury in the case of the State of Wyoming against Claude J. Gavin, charged with the embezzlement of funds belonging to the. Con- tinental Supply Company, returned a verdict of guilty, after consider- ing the case for three hours, Friday evening. The case went to the jury at about 5 o'clock in the afternoon. Gavin was immediately taken into custody by the sheriff. 9,011,084 ACRES IN THIS STATE ARE CLASSIFIED Late Designations to © en Big Area in” Wyoming oy ciated Press.) WASHIN Sept. 18.— Nearly 3,000.7, ves of land in Wyoming, Califor. % ad Montana were classified dunag August by the department of the interior un- der the stock-raising homestead makes public lands aVailabie- homesteatls of 640 ~ é aising in acres or less, Classifications in Wy¥p- ming total 2,011,084 acres; California, 918599, and Montana, 23,545. Since the. passage of the act in 1916 more than 81 million acres have been slassified*as stock-raising land through the geologi survey. te Approximately 740,000 acres of Mon- tana, Colorado and Idaho lands were classified during the month under laws pvoviding for entry qn non{erigable tracts in subdivisions of 320 acres or less for dry farming purposes. One hondred and fifty-one thousand es in California and Wyoming were placed within producing oil and gas. re- strictions under the leasing act passed ON SHIP LOST IN. ORIENT WATEP, (By United Press) . TOKIO, Sept. 18—The United States shipping board steamer Hel- fron, carrying 1.350 Czecho-Slovatt troops bound from Yokahama té Vladivostok, is reported to have sunkk near Hon Kong. + | ac Judge Kimball will probably pro- — nounce sentence upon Gavin and upon| Nye Roberts, who pleaded guilty to for-| gery on September 9, within the next few days if Gavin fails in efforts to} secure a new trial, A motion for a new trial for Gavin will be filed by his attorneys, M. W. Purcell, Willis Stidger and C. Olson today, and. if this\is not granted by the court, the matter.of appealing the case. will be considere: | Mr. Purcell will base his motion for a new trial, upon the fact that the case} was reopened by the state for the in- troduction of a letter written by Gavin Ito an officer of the Continental Supply Company, as part of the evidence, after} the state had rested its case, and that| this was allowed by the court over the objection of the defense, In conducting the case for the de- fense, Mr. Purcell took advantage of all technicalities which offered. He! made an impassioned plea to the jury for his client, declaring that Gavin but} followed the example of other company officers in his handling of the agent ac- count. He declared, also, that the state failed to prove the origin of a} $2,500 PURSE Twenty-five hundred dollars flow- ed into the exchequer of the Casper. Tri-State fair series by defeating Rapid City for tite seeond consecu- tive time, 8 to 7, in an T-inning game. The score on games in the Crawford ‘aéries ended, Bapld City Record atiendance is expected. at the Casper athletic park tomorrow afternoon when Casper and the Da- kota champions cross bats on the heme grounds. The teams will ar- rive in Casper either this evening COX WOULD FIX PROFIT BLAME ON OPPONENTS (By United Press) i | United States Senator Kendrick, were overnight visitors ance at the state fair at Douglas. morning on their return home to S| oN ee ea rats fay Legh number of the deposits in the C. J.| dinner tonight. with: firétecting’ the" "moet ahitoelaae Gavin agent account and the money Since the adjournment of con might have been Gavin's own, although no evidence to prove this was intro- duced. His final plea for clemency, how- ever, was based upon an admission of Ga 's cupability, and his wish, ex- pressed in the letter read to the court, to make amends for the wrong done. Hal Curran gave the opening argu- ment to the jury for the state, using) principally a transcript of Gavin's own testimony on the stand, in which he admitted transferring the money to his} private account, but declared that it profiteers in history,” Governor Jamo M. Cox today outlined five plans to reduce the cost of living and elimin- ate profiteers. First, congress should grant a revolving fund ‘so the presi- dent could buy as much of the sugar erop as is necessary to prevent prof- iteerIng; a law should be enacted lim- iting the cold storage period; a lav should be passed requiring that the price of goods when’ placed in cold storage be marked on them; a. law should be* enacted requiring that tne price of all goods for interstate com- UNION LEADERS IN DENVER OUT ON BONDS NOW (By United Press) merce be marked with» the price at/was'a business transaction which had| DENVER, Sept. 18.—Henry Silbere. which they left the producer, and ©) occurred before and that he did not, president, and six other “members of law licensing and regulating those en-|intena to use it for his own use. the tramway union executive board ROR che tare ak onin ee In extenuation he declared that he WEY bie bed Ee cri ey efiteery {Had erased his first notation on the 9 es eclayed fhe PLA a hd corresponding stub and written in his} who have been serving jail sentences for contempt of court were released this morning by the state supreme court on $1,000 bonds. The men were SENATOR KENDRICK TOUGH NIMFROUS INTERESTING TOPIC3 IN INTERVIEW ON-VESHT FRIDAY Majority of Jackson Hole People Opposed to Exiese sion of Park Boundaries, He Says; State Fair and Casper Complimented ES ON John B. Kendrick and his son, Manville in Casper, having been in attend- They left at an early hour this heridan and will arrive in time for gress the senator has devoted his time to active conduct of his large ranching, cattle and other business in- terests and he is not only physically fit, but has every appearance of it. since the war broke, Senator Ken- ar like other Western senators, has had ve little opportunity to spend any tim’ in his home state until ‘the present recess, and during the summer he has done more visiting among the folks than he has ever done since he first went to Washington. In the early part of the summer ha. visited the Jackson Hole country, more particularly to learn the wishes of the people of that section toward the mat ter of extending Yellowstone National Park. His visit convinced him that ful- ly 95 per cent of the people are em=-. beh pea he =D ma own name. A. EB. Stirret in rebuttal also called attention to Gavin's admission that he had many times taken money from the agent account. He emphasized the company rules concerning its agent’s account as stated by the company au- ditor; and urged that although a plea had been made for clemency on ac- count of Gavin's youth, that the jury should not turn loose upon the com- munity a man capable of consistently robbing his employer if there was to be any respect for law. He laid emphasis upon the fact that Gavin did not attend a meeting of com- pany officials in Denver when he left here in February, but instead took flight, and upon the fact that he ad- mitted to Sheriff Royce when coming back to Casper that ‘he {had taken much more money from the company than he had been charged with taking. REXALL VOTE The totals today for the Rexall straw | vote being taken in Wyoming for presi. dential candidates follows: Harding, 64 1 Cox, 886. | TAMPICO FIRED BY BURNING OIL ENTIRE ‘CITY HENACED, 1S CLAIM | TAMPICO, Sept. 18.—Fire originating gfrom lightning striking an oil sentenced August 16. N’VSWINE G. W. Goff of Cheyenne, is spend- ing a few days here on business. ! the subscription rate of ‘be increased from 65 Prison Finds Lord es effect—October 1. t of newsprint, ink and | was conscious. ‘This was the 37th day h in the past two years, BSCRIPTION NOW! tank here late yesterday is threatening to destroy, a large portion of the *city. Five other tanks caught fire and 40 houses, two river boats and a number of freight cars have been destroyed so far. (Continued on Page 4.) Y STILL CONSCIOUS BUT SINKING SLOWLY Thirty-Seventh Day of Hunger Strike in Mayor Lingering; Women’s League Stirs Up Sympathy (By Associated Press,) LONDON, Sept. 18.—Terence MacSwiney, lord mayor of Cork, passed a very bad night, without any sleep, and this morning was in a complete state of exhaustion, said a bulletin issued this affrnoon by the Iris Mary MacSwiney, a sister, who visited her brother-at Brixton jail, said he was looking worse than she had ever seen him, but Self-Determination league: of his hunger strike protesting against his arrest by British authorities; LONGSHOREMEN TO STRIKE ON BRITISH SHIP: SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 18.—An sass sertion that ‘they had succeeded in ine ducing between 100 and 200 longshore- . men to stop loading the steamer Star of Galicia, under British charter, as a protest inst the imprisonment of Terence Swiney, was made today by representatives of the Women's gue for Irish Independence. The shipowners said no longshoremen had quit, I a a