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

CASPER, wyo., FRIDAY, Oct. 8, 1920 HARDING LAUDS HA LEAGUE, UR ACKERMAN CASE CONTINUED FOR 30 DAYS, WOMAN HELD WITHOUT BOND OW FIRST DEGREE MURDER with the Ackerman The state, represented by Alfred Lowey and Hal Curran, were strongly opposed to a continuance because’ the relatives of the murdered. man and friends who were to be called in for tes-|, tinmony,- would be on their way to Ra- i gon, N. M., tomorrow, where Mr. Hot- fay is to be buried. When a contin. uance was granted, the state asked for] WASHINGTON, © Oct.. 8.-Benjamin the maximum jJength of continuangs| J- Salmon, conscieutious objector, who and that no bail be granted. | has-been on a hunger strike at St. ‘The defense contended at ‘first that "Elizabeth's ‘military ainanated since Sully "FIRST ROUND OF by: h his attorneys iberties League of New a York seek to obtain his. release. The ‘Tubbs, however, | ruled that! second count, Cirested iat against the war bailable Civil { Tears Se lowa. Governor Gets Great Reception at Rally ‘Here; New Theater Is Packed Harding: of Iowa delivered a stir- ring political address last night in a clear-cut, plain- spoken, and at the same time witty manner with the main issues of the present campaign from the Republican standpoint—the League of Nations and America's war debt. Goy. Harding was received most en- thusiastically \by the Casper audience and laughter and agplause punctuated his witty handling of the subjects he diseussed made with his hearers. Gov. Harding's tariff argument made @ particular impression upon his au- dience when he pointed out that the Democratic low tariff policy is direct- ly responsible for the wool and mutton the’ keen these foreign products out, # prin; ciple the Republican: party has always stood * for. Seated with Goy. Harding about the speaker's table were County Chairman Hagens, Bx-Gov.-B. I, Brooks, Before and audience which was granted the defense in the case| filled ever availble seat in the) his address testifying to the hit which Consequently the court ruled v plea for bail made by the nse at- torneys, John Casey for Purcell, made | this morning was sufficient ‘and that Mrs. Ackerman must remain in the, county. jail until the time for hearing, should come up next month. The charge as read in court stated that Mr. Hoffay had been killed as @ results of shots from a shotgun, Mrs. Son ce poe eh a plea of not guilty dethnse asked for°n. con- ie yey ce Mr. Purcell could arrive in the city. Although it appeared evident that the friends, relatives, yap bared ae m of the murdered man wi mae fromthe city atthe caitglt, ee that funeral and railroad arrangements for the dead man could not be changed, the court ruled in favor of the defense in order that Mrss. Ackerman might be represented by Mr. Purcell. The state pointed out that two. put of ot three members of the counsel for the defense were present in court. today, .| been iriducted into service at the time of his courtmartial, hence was not with- in the jurisdiction of the military auth- orities. The ruling on this count was deferred a week, pending a submission of courtmartial records. Salmon, whose home is in Denver, meantime will remain in the hospital, but he made no statement as te whether he would continue hi; hunger strike, which for 85 days has been un: broken except for occasional | forc' feeding. = WORLD'S SERIES AGAIN oATURDAY Play in the ‘wuld ee ries will be re- sumed tomorrow at 2 o'clock in Cleve- land between the Brooklyn and Cleve- land baseball teams. At the same time and Mr. Lowey stated that one mem-| the play on the electric score board in ber of the counsel for the defense had} the Lyric theater will be resumed, but informed him yesterday that “we will) it will be at 12 o'clock Casper time. The Cc. E. Winter, Harry Free, and Charles Anda. -Mr. ‘Hagens presided and the. pro: gram opened with the ‘singing ‘of “America” by the audience, followed by the ‘officlal Republican campaign song, “Harding, You're the Man for Us.” In a short introductory talk Mr. Hag- ens urged the great importance of reg- istration upon the members of the au- dience, ~ The duty of introducing Goy. Harda- ing to the audience was delegated to B. -B. Brooks, who took occasion to speak of the remarkable record made in congress by Frank W. Mondell-dur- ing the thirty years in which he has served “Wyoming, before . presenting Goy. Harding. 2 Mondell Here Next Week. Mr. Mondell will address the people of Casper.on October 16. in opening his agdress Gov. Hard- ing made mention of the number of former Iowa residents he had met in Pressed it as his firm belief that a greater part of the audience had prob- a few minutes in the Tobby and ex-| not want @ continuance.” The member of the eounsel in question did not deny Mr. Lowey’s statement. In substance Judge Tubbs said he bolieved he would be’ wrong in making: « yulleg, wish woul raed are| Ackerman. on bail, The shotgun used in the murder is being held by county authorities. It is a small, single-barrel gun of bout 16-guage. It is @ cheap gun, presum- bly used as a precautionary measure by Mrs. Ackerman while her husband, who is a freight conductor on the Bur- lington Railroad, was out of the city. Police officials say that there was only, one shell in the gun and that it was the one - discharged. A dog hitehed to a lawn-mower stor- ped to bark at a passer-by. “Don't mind the dog,” said the boy, “He is; just barking for an excuse to rest. It doors of the theater will be opened a short ‘time before. piay is started and the game played off on the score board starting promptly at 12 noon. Good crowds have been watching the world's series here in the Lyric theater, the wire service having been excellent and the game play-by-play having been fiatistactory. Every play is telegraphed from the grounds in Cleveland direct to the theater Where it is placed on the score 20 KILLED, MANY ‘HURT IN WRECK ON ITALIAN ROAD _ _ (By Associated Press) LONDON, Oct, 8—-Twenty Leabig nd were killed and 30 others injured in » caltietc in which the Venice-Milan is = heap easier to bark than it ia to Gxprees’ Was ‘ayoived, ‘ecording to Dull. aa machine.” Say; iid good fel-} an Telegraph dispatch to- low, | you really got the trick to ro Rome based on advices to- nee ae point? Italia. ably. at one time lived in that state. “The great thing about the Iowans who live out here is that they are almost as good looking as the natives. ¥ou can always tell a native by the way he walks... They are all legged. “T am glad they selected such a good name for this building. It is much more popular now than before the war to use the name America. “I am going into this campaign with just. three ideas—I am an Ameri- can, I am opposed to internationalism and I am a Republican. “There are a fe wthings you ought the United States of America is the old- to know about America. One is that est established government without change on the face of the earth today with one exception. You may ask, “What about Great Britain?" But bless — DAWNS IN BUT SOVIET. (By United Press.) gel is operating against the Reds. There; LONDON, ct. 8—Europe Is almost at/aro reports that Poland has been asked peace following the receipts of dip-|to show moderation in her demands on| patches stating that Polish-Russian| Russia. (By Associated Press.) 8.—Existence torm of government once, if Lea ‘twice since wet licked her the last “There ign't any good thing mah man} (Continued on Page 4)/ EUROPE IS MENACED the body Just held in Petrograd, accord- ing to dispatches received today at the. state department, Poverty, lack of foodl Propaganda was reported to be circulating | and the gloomy military situation were given by Zinovieff '.s the chief causes! of dissatisfaction. According to the re ports, he noted with alarms the grow- tendency toward bow-} your soul, England has changed her, i + i e months engineer's office WOMAN OUSTED FOR ALLOWING BOOZE REMOVAL (By United Press.) SA FRANCISCO, Oct. 8.—Mrs. Gilad. Kimball, Warburton, California woman prohibition director,. today was ordered to turn over her office to. John that fifty-one barrels of whisky were isi sgl from a: bonded warehouse. (By Associated Press.) CHICAGO, Oct. 8—Collector Har- ry W. Mager of ‘the internal revenue department, ‘announced today that the cases of seventyifive Chicago breweries and 1,000 saloons, whose ‘owners are alleged to have manufac- tured and sold peer with 31-2 per cent or more al-oholic conten,t would be presented to Federal Judge Lan- and said violators would be prose- cufed to the limit, l S.NGENT GETS POLICE ‘IN BAD’ A man professing to be a govern- ment agent is blamed by the police de- partraent. for the apparently useless night search of the neighborhood in the vicinity of 118 North Washington street where R. B. Groves, an auto me- chanic, lives, and the seemingly un- called for search of his home. Tt was stated today at the police de- partment that the search was made for Mquor but that none was found, and that Mr. Groves was the so-called vic- tim of the man professing to be a gov- ernment agent. This alleged govern- ment agent is missing from the city as far as the police department knows, | leaving the city police depar@ment to shoulder nearly all the blame for the search of the neighborhood by reason of a. police officer having. been per suadeéd to accompany him on his search. notes hae + Aer in Laney |'VIOLENT QUAKES| FELT: AGAIN IN ‘NORTHERN ITA Ly’ \ (Gy Associated Press) | LONDON, Oct. 8.—Two violent earth quake tremors were felt in Mantun, northern Italy, at midnight Wednes- day, according to a telegram to the} Rome, Epoca, says a Central News dis- pateh from Rome, dated Thursday. The inhabitants fled into the streets In alarm. ‘he message reported that some property damage has been caused. pasts aceeo~nlad asset *| ALLEGED I. W. W. UNDER ‘ARREST In the arzest of W. W. Walker last night, the police department officials believe they have an TI. W. W. The and literature which Walker. led the police to such a belief. A jail | sentence is staring Walker in the face as ‘a result of his alleged activity. He is not known here and was near tie | 49 by 200 feet on Bring Back “Red” of August and September, showed , during th $223,600 wart of new building, according to figures kept by the city! in issuance of building permits. actual cost ef many of the Ratton. os often placing their cost at the lowest Bitlideriatsad, . Rawicathdantlons Bomstadvh This is far below applicants for building permits figures possible. \ This ee building program for the | two months just past did not include the new Midwest Refining company building which is to cost more than $500,000, frame work on which has progressed to the fifth floor. This will | be a six-story structure and the toliest | | building in Wyoming. | } The Midwest Refining company final building permit has not been. let be: | cause contracts for plumbing and heat jing have not been let’thus far and this | must ¢ome in the estimate handed the city engineer, |. August was p larger month in new | construction work than September in the city of Casper. There were 35 per- its issued during the month, the new anting to $134,100; while in September the 37° permits issued brought.the total up to only $89,500. ed in September was the two-stoi concrete warehouse and store being erected by the Midwest Refining com- Pany on West Yellowstone avenue near Spruce street. The building will be 50 by 120 feet, will have aii concrete floors made from concrete slabs, and will cost ‘Sherif Royce Leaves for New Mexico to With Killing Natrona Count N. M., has in his custody R. L. gee pp ough al suspected of the murder of John J. ranchman, who was murdered at his ranch, eight |Casper, last January, that Sheriff Royce i is leaving for’ \cily tonight, armed “with the necessary requisition papers, and will jDrene, RDING, RIDDLES GES TARIFF IN ADDRESS CASPER BUILDING PERMITS FOR TWO MONTHS TOTAL $223,600. EXCLUSIVE OF BUSINESS BLOCK In spite of the lull in the buildin; thr ited and felonious-| America Theater, Gov... William | States, Casper, the ae fe pagel mma gg }eral | Chief among the large builings start- } FIFTY NEW SEATS FOR <<: CONGRESS ZIN CENSUS ow Mexico ss Livingsto Corbett, wealthy the “Suspect back to this city, n he Will be chatged with the mur- of Corbett, | | v der ‘The latest telegram received from Sheriff John Snyder of Alamogordo de- {clares thta’ Livingston has admitted his! identity, and also admitted that hel |\Many Shifts Due if broke jail in/Casper last January.~ He Number Is Not In- contends, holwever, that his real name is Jesse Re Atkins. | creased; West and Records of the CaSper police depart-| yi iment show that Livingston broke out! of the Casper city jail the 18th of A South Make Gains January, while the sheriff of Rushville, peak NSN Neb., was awaiting extradition papers to take him back to the Nebraska city on @ charge of burglary, and all. trace: of him was lost until the murder of Corbett, which is believed to have oc- red on January 20. The murder of John J. Corbett is one of the foulest crimes uncovered here in récent years, and the local sheriff's office has conducted a nation-wide search for the suspect since the body of the wealthy ranchman was found Secreted in a dugout on his ranch, rid- dled with bullets from o .25-36 high- powered rifle. The only clue to the identity of the slayer wos that Cor- hett had employed, a little “red-headea” ical conventions. As a result of the ranch hand, who had been missing increase 50 new seats could be added since the murder, together with a sad-| to the house. , - die horse belonging to Corbett and sey-| Should the present membership 4 guns and other valuable which’ left unchanged increasing the basis cf had been taken from the ranch after the apportionment, there will have to the murder. The horse, for which Liv- be transferred 13 seats now held by ingston had given a bill of sale, was twelve. states to nine other states. For recovered from a rancher near Glendo,! the past half century the precedent has and several guns taken from the Cor | been to increase the size of the house bett ranch were reeovered in Douglas,| to prevent loss in the existing repro: forming a chain of circumstantial evi-| entation of any district. If this pre! ia Intiidesible to) Cedent Is followed one additional seat Gonee Pelleved airmst Anmidesible” tilt be given to Arizona, Montana ind Th .| New Mexico. HOUSE FORFEITS (By Associated: Press.) WASHINGTON, Aug.’ 8. 8.—Ee- amination of the final census fig- lures of the co which place the total population of the conti- nental United States at 105,683,- 108, indicates that the’ West-and South proportionately will gain more in a political way than the East and Middle West through increased mem- bership in the house of representatives, more votes.in the electoral college and larger delegations in the national polit- the m pred rancher, $200 by the Na- trona County commissioners, and the palance by y friends of Corbet of Corbett. MAMMOTH NALVE VALVE BREAKS LOOSE AT PATHFINDER, DROPS INTO THE fil What is probably the p hard luck story of the fall son came to light today ‘when it wa‘ $30,090, according to the estimate. The firm of Larsen & Jorgensen is the con-| ° a tractor. as when he opens his court next A two-story frame warehouse cost: | ‘Wednesday. Mager forecast the con- ing $8,000 is being erected on lots 15 fiseation of the breweries and saloons | ana 16 of the Burlington site on Bu lington railroad grounds by the. Par ersburg Rig & Reel company. The} building will occupy a space of 36 by | 86 feet and‘is to be constructed by J./ L, Cunningham, contractor. Mr: Cun-| ningham applied for a permit to erect | a house on Tenth street between Spruce | and Chestnut streets, the dwelling to| cust approximately $5,000, : A one ness building he ere: A. Blackmore North Wolcott between East and East C streets at a figure estimated at $6,000 according to the application | for permit which was granted. This building will be of brick and concrete and will take up a floor space of 25 oe 60 feet, according to the permit. contactor 1s the firm pf Colby & Rogne| stad. Two houses being built at an esti- mated cost of $4,000 by the Poling| brothers form the principa? other pieces | of new construction worx going up th’ month, These houses are both one-| story frame dwellings, one befng on CY | avenue between Walnut and Chestnut | streets and the other on Thirteenth | street between Walnut. and Spruce streets. The $50,000 building being erected by the Oil Well Supply company at Rat!- road and Center streets is. the largest building to be started during the month | of August: This will be a one and| twostory structure. of steel amd brick material. It will have a floor space of the first floor and will front on Center street. The John ‘Tripeny company rus} store which is now being built on South Center street between Second and} Third streets {s to cost $40,000, accora. | ing to the permit ‘granted. ‘This buil1- Ing will be a one-story affair and will be constructed of re-inforced concrete. It is being built by the Frank Con-| struction company. The most expensive dwelling for which a permit was issued during t month of August was the one-story res | dence being bullt by EH. H. Kilpatrick on Wolcott street between Thirteenth | and Fourteenth streets. | } to} oa} | is (By Associated Press.) CHICAGO, Oct. 8—Arrests other radicals in St. Paul and Milwau: of six | terms \ eseraapinde dg Oct. ing bureaucracy pose . 7 Meg pera! eat itor selene of the Com iniais the Soviets. on i be anbes when arrested, the kee ae pending, following. the eeaate uggested League ‘ ations, eam Russia was admiti Other patches: department ofte Pn SE NEE SEM ere last night ot colai John Jazzin- 1 esa ot Ae oar ot) aE ne tas eaneetett; aver. ot el MAbs cresette, Steae MMRMAN Malad adtatestion LoGMeTIOEC Mi: gihickilekiy denn’ Hioloeay, ead A tees week Hostilities continue in sen| central exceutive, committee of the|serious disturbanc-s i an anti-Bolshe-| election will be open all this week at|anarchistic literature declared to have ‘ran-| party, at an all-Rusalan conference of! vik character in Ukraine. regular voting places, disclosed a revolugionary. plot, the de- learned that a new brass valve for the Pathfinder dam had broken loose from the cables and had fallen sev- eral hundred feet. It took approxt- mately one year to build, it is claim- ed, und was shipped here from San Francisco where it was constructed. The valve was moved out to the dam recently on a truck and trailer, » stance of nearly 50 miles, It weighs 17_tons, Just as it was started down to its Place in the dam, the cables with which it was being lowered broke and it fell to the bottom where it broke into three pieces. The workmen voiced their opinion of the cable. A new one will be. ordered. a The most serious and delicate queo- tions of life are the sort that lead us away from the rabble, Ts. Bessie bg ater a raid on ber. Yellowstone avenue vy miorning, broke’ herhond’ And failed to ppear in police court as ¥heduled yes- texday afternoon. The ‘bondt was for only $300, the charge being tHab of dis- orderly conduct and conducting a diss Jorderly house. Whether she would | have been tried on a charge of of jing a still is a matter which has | left to federal authorities. The p JofMficials here believe they seived | enough “evidence” connected. with the operation of a still to be practically com clusive. The two women charged with disok- | derly, conduct were fined $100 apiecd | whilggthirteen men arrested on a di | orderly conduct charge were fined who was arrest- jouse on West Wednesday » BON To ca each, All paid their fines, : Operation of similar “clubrooms” in reality miniature disorderly houses ' which, it is said, are believed to be un= | der police surveillance is expected tO bring further raids in the immediate future, APPEAL OF S.A. - LEADER DRIVEN HOME IN TALK A most profound impression was) made by Col.,George H. Davis of the! luncheon, called particular attention to Salvation Army lin his talk at noon! the fact that Casper did not go over today to the men of Casper who are/ the top in the Salvation Army drive working in the local Salvation Army | of last. year. : arive. It is the one driv His relation of incidents of the war-| tno city tailed to Ii time work of the army. of thelr readi- | ness to help ‘in emergencies, in addi-| jon to the ald extended to*men fallen through drink, to fallen women, and to i helpless children showed to the full the|th® ™alntenance of the local army value of this organization which has| WOrk through all the hard winter o ‘ived down the attitude of contempt and} st year, and $8,400 remains to ridicule which once attached to it. {into the building fund now being Sol. Davis is traveling with \several! A meeting of the local committee and other prominent. officers of the organi-| team workers will be held tonight in the ‘mations office of A. E. Stirrett to receive re- He will speak tonight at one of the| Ports of progress and make further local theaters and will display -pictures | Plans. showing Salvation Army Work. Other] “This drive must be put over,” Mr. officers and other pictures will be| Stirrett declares, and. every effort to shown in each of the other theaters. | that end is to be put forth, A. E, Stirrett, wlo presided at the e of many in which ve up to its record, Of the ~$13,000 raised in last year’s arive, $2,000 was in pledges <which were not paid, less than $3,000 was used for RED PLOT IN -U. S. BARED IMORE ARRESTS PENDING | partment of justice announced today. ment. Bonds of $25,000 will be asked, Warrants have been issued. Federal) arcording to John Boddie, ancletant dis- authorities allege that the plotters | trict attorney. planned to assassinate the more at Sentences of terms to hard labor, in portant officials of the state. addition to deportation will be asked Jazzinski and Holoeny will be ar-| hereafter in the cases of convicted rad- raigned on two chargus: First, violation |icals, J. 1. Rooney, investigator of the of the espionage, act, and the other,| deparim< st of justice said, under a new conspiracy to overthrow the govern: | federal plan of prosecution. ee