Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 21, 1920, Page 1

TO MEET DEFEAT, OPPONENTS, SY Farmers Stand Alone Advocating Measure t President Held Certain (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Dec, 21.—Passage of the emergency tariff bill by the house was indicated today when a proposal to take up. the measure to- morrow pissed by a vote of 206 te 76. A majority of the Democrats will oppose the bill, it is indicated. 21— tales tat lieve doomed at EN soy be sgn tna ere er a way out me which the decision to pass bargo™ tariff for: the rol ar of on bas led them, Farmers alone have refrained ey attacking the bill since its introduction. Produvers and manufacturers have at- tacked it'and it is almost certain to he vetoed by President Wilson should ft pass. Congressional opponents detiare that, such a measure would leave the farm- ers and manufacturers free to charge as much as they could get because there Would be no foreign. competition. The measure probably will not “include; one-third of the commodities mentioned ; init t present. when it Analy ms EDMO: BE y Associated Press) WARBISGTON Dec. 21.—The. hous». ways and:means committee today yoted to recommit for redrafting the Edmonds } Dil, proposing to defer the date when penalties become. effective for failure to Day federal taxes. TAX REVISION IS __ is URGENT, SAYS KAHN. WASHINGTON, Dec. 21,—The busi- néas' of the country is demanding and must have a revision of the tax. laws if it is to continue a healthy growth, Otto H. Kahn, New York banker, told the house ways and means committee today in the course of a statement in which he denounced the economic as- pects of the Treaty of Versailles, and declared for a continuation of income surtaxes, ~ EXAMINATION TO FILL POSTMASTER’ — PLAGE HERE SET FOR JAN. 18 The United States Civil Service com- mission announces that an open com- petitive examination will be held on January 18, 1921 to fill the position of Postmaster at the Casper office caus- ed by the removal of W. W. Sproul. The position jcarries a salary of $3,- 400 a year.. OUST JOHNSON, [IS ADVICE OF VANKEE OWNER NEW YORK, Dec. | Dec. 21.—The elimt- nation of Ban Johnsén from base- ball was urged in a statement today by Col. T. L, Huston, part owner of the New York Yankees, who declared the new of baseball. There can no baseball peace as Ens een Smee? in 0 Keep Prices Up; Veto by USED OF BIGAMY— juadagno Essa of Sy-| funder arrest there, has calmly) to the police that she has| been twice married the last six months| and not divorced, though both husbands | are living:’ Only her age keeps the} girl from answering to the charge of bigamy, she being held on a nominal charge of juvenile delinquency. GIRL OF 15 A Blaisdell (By. Associa! NEW YORK, Dec. 21. dred and. thirty-eight fire ins companies aré their bask suspending ness in Mississippi, where their a gregate covering policies amount to $1,250,000,000. The outgrowth of a sult filed by the state revenue charging that in action is: Si ranenmmeuarernaeed Frauelin ‘Aune Boschek, member of the Austrian National Assembly is the author of a bill, which was passed al- most unanimously, regulating the hours’ and conditions of labor for. many classes of maar ornare. * RUSSIAN TRADE. TO BE REVIVED (By Gaited. Press.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.—American business men may. trade with Russia “at their own risk.” The last restric- tions by the government were removed) today. when the treasury department; announced that the export of gold and) currency and.‘dealings in exchange | would be permitted. | The government will not aid such trade nor aid any American who sut- fers losses or confiscation of goods, it stated. It is believed the proper meth- od of dealing with the Russians. BODY OF WOMAN FOUND ON BEACH (By Associated Press.) LONG BEACH, N. Y., Dec. 31.—The body of a welldressed woman of 30 was found today half buried on the beach with a bullet wound in the c=: FIRE INSURANCE ‘OG FATAL Tl ANLAOADER: TEN MINUTES AFTER BEING INJECTED Coroner's Jury Probes Sudden. Death of Man Treated for*a Virulent Disease in Cheyenne “(Special to The Tribune) CHEYENNE, Wyo. Dec. 21—A coroner's jury at nooa today returned ® verdict that the death of August R. Johnson, who died Sunday after- noon in the office of Dr. W. K, My- lar soon after the physiciam had treat- ed him with an injection of salvarsan, was due to the injection of the drug and “said W. K, Mylar is criminally responsible for the said death by rea- son of the neg'igent and — careless manner in which the seid drug was Prepared = administration.” ig Attorney Charles E. Lane stated that he would take no other action in dhe case until he re- ceived the réport of two physicians he would employ to perform an sutopey, thesn physicians to be other than Dr, J. Hf) Conway and Dr, C. Y. Beard, who performed the coronet's autopsy. (Special to The Tribune.) CHEYENNE, Wyo., Dec. 21.— August R. Johnson, 27, employed as a railroad fireman, died in Dr. W: K. Mylar’s office Sunday morn- ing, ten minutes after the physi- cian had given him, an injection of salyarsan, also known, as 606, @ curejot the Wo for the most Wirulent of blood digeases.| declared t . EA Men ata Mae on * dietor j the «“!Com: sus: ; Partita ar ma nae dnto another’ room and Jolisor'| vest sat down to await the effect of the in-| American Conaul Wells“at Manchester In about three or four min-| had attempted to prevent utes Johnson complained that he was|coming to America to testify before the Jection. getting faint. The pbysician told him to Me down on a couch and continued the preparation of a prescription. A few minutes later Johnson's stentorian breathing attracted the doctor's atten- tion and at about the same time other persons entered the office and observed that Johnson was in dire straits. Mylar at once summoned other physicians and he himself did al Ithat he could to re- lieve his patient, but Johnson expired. A ‘coroner's jury was | summoned Monday to inquire into the circum- stances of the case and ascertain j Whether there had been, or had not been negligence on the part of the physician, The taking of — testimony j Was. completed last night, but the ver- divt withheld until this morning. At the inquest Mylar testified in de tail regarding the administration of the salvarsan. He admitted that the dose given was of a different brand than he ‘hitherto had used. He atiributed Johngon's death to heart, failure, pos- sibly due to treatment which Johnson had regelved from another physician in combination with the salvarsan treat- ment. A. BE. Roedel, the driggist from whom the salvarsan was procured, and Dr. J. H. Conway, an authority on the use of salvarsan, testified, the latter's testimony including an explanation of the difference hetween ‘'60%," the orig- inal salvarsan—and ‘‘914," an = im, proved form of the specific so neutra- lized that it may ke injected. directly fmto the circulatory system. Dr. Con- right eye. Flowers growing in the Polar: re- gions seldom have any perfume. | CIGARET STUB CAUSES FIRE; BANKER DEAD (By “United United Press) ST. PAUL, Minn., Dec. 21.—T. W. Doughty, &° prominent ‘banker af Armstrong, Towa, was burned to death in » room at the St. Paul Ath- letic club. The. fire is believed to have been éaused by a burning cigs- ret. Doughty was dragged from the bed but efforts. to revive LANDIS SCORES “WILSON PARDON (By Associated Press) CHICAGO, Dee, 21.—Judge Kene- saw M. Landis today refused to sent- ence siv men charged with stealing six hundred sacks of sugar from trains in Interstate commerce after learning that President Wilsun last week granted a pardon to James J. Dorsey of Gilbert, Iilinols, known as the “millfonaire cattle king.” Dorsey was sentenced to cight years in prison by Landis after conviction for selling several thousand head of tubercular cattle throughout the west under false papers, “YF can't sentence these men with the Dorsdy thing. fresh in my mind,” the Judge declared.” @. way said that persons who had used 914 and who were not familiar with the difference between that mixture andj the earlier salvarsan, known as 606, might produce disastrous effects by in-| Jecting the old form in the manner that the new may be injected without dan-| gerous reection. The new form, he! testified, is known as neo-saivarsan, to distinguish it from the old salvarsan.) peddaahee A ncatats Aas, TEXTILE MILLS TO CUT WAGES (By Associated Press.) PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 21.—The wages of 200,000 workers in the tex- tile industry in this city are to be reduced from 10 to 30 per cent in the near future, it was announced today. cba a id ar Chit eg Be 375 Moonshiners of Southeastern District Caught (By Associated Press.) | LOUISVILLE, Dec. 21.—Three hundred and se *onty-five moonshin- era were arrested and 774 illegal stills with 3.700 gallons of liquor, were selzed in the southeastern prohibition district during November, according to the prohibition officer’s report to- day. — ‘The Russlan eats on an average once ovary, two hours, mb Biggest Battle Yet Fought Reported; Village Destroyed in Reprisal, Claim (By United Press.) ~ the biggest battle vet fought in the present Sinn Fein uprising, — srg at Mallinahone y night, are fragmentary and conflicting. Ten Sinn Fein- |ers were killed and thirty woundéa or captured, while British casualties are estimated. at eight killed and many wounded. ~The Irish were routed, says one report. The battle opened at dusk in the mountainous district of Tipperary when the Sinn Fein ambushed the soldiers. SHOPS AND HOUSES BURNED BY BRITISH. (By Associated Press.) LONDON, Dec. 21:—The Press Asso- ciation’s, Dublin correspondent quotes a dispatch from Tulsk, County Roscom- mon, saying that crown forces burned the village of Ballinalee, County Long- ford, early this morning, as a répyisal for a recent attack on the police bar- racks there in which one constable was Rilled and three wounded. Shops ind houses were destroyed. the dispatch states, some outlying farm houses were burned and livestock shot. The military commandeered and’ for- tifled a schoolhouse and most of the in- habjtants fled, according to the dis- patch. - (By Associated Press.) LONDON, Dec. 21.—The Irish home rule bill, as slightly modified ‘by the house of lords, was adopted today by the house of commons. .Thée measure now needs only the royal signature to become a law. AMERICAN CONSUL ACCUSED BY WOMAN. (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.—Mrs, An- not E. Robinson of Manchester, Eng- land, secretary of the British branch ‘s International League, before the.commission of her from commission by refusing to vine her passport Sav, Dasara en Be 5 December 6, STOCKGROWERS. TAKEEXCEPTIO TO TARIFF BILL (By Associated Press) DENVER, Dec. 21.—Theé annual con- vention of the Colorado Stockgrowers association today adopted a resolution advising congress of “profound disap- pointment of this association at the} action of the ways and means commit tee in placing such inconsequential du- ties on. imports competing with our farm and animal products, as well as} at its omission to place any hides, Ree ey St frozen meats, etc. BOOTLEGGER IS CAUGHT PLYING TRADE IN ALLEY Greek Who ‘Attempted. to Market “Hootch” During Business Rush Comes to Grief at ~ Hands of Police A rather spectacular raid took placc today at noon near the Center street end of the alley between the Kassia and Kimball stores. .Chief of Police Lyneh' arrested one Alex Kuptos, a Greek, and confiscated about five al lons of moonshine that was about the last wort in bad whiskey. The chief had been watching Kuntos for some time past and tried to catch him with the goods several days ago, but was unsuccessful. Kuntos how-~ ever, thought he could get by if he) tried to market his wet goods during the busy houra of the day and ag re- sult he was caught red handed with | | tomers. The moonshine was of such polswor- ous strength that for a time the offi- cers at city hall were afraid it might eat out the sewer pipes in the drains —— It has been diseovered that it is pos sible to transplant trées without Injur- ing them if the operation is perform while they are subjec' jan anaesthetic. A |its eaves after transplanting in. tho | summer instead of jn the autumn, at) it very soon recovers itself and becomes, normal, ! DUBLIN, Dec. 21.—Reports of | the “convenience” marriage, she said. NO MORE WILSON APPOINTMENTS TO BE CONFIRMED BY CONGRESS REPUBLICAN LEADERS INDICATE Further Action Blocked When Proposal for Execu- tive Session Is Refused; Harding Will Fill Vacancies duty on} |the moonshine in his possession’ and in| the act of selling same to ome cus: | IN, MANY WOUNDED IN SIN FEIN BATTLE | bef SAYS HER HUSBAND WAS “LOVE. AGENT”. OF SLAIN OIL MILLI AIRE—Mrs. uth Walker Hamon, of Sacramento, Cal., who has revealed her husband as dhe. paid “love agent” of Jake L. Hamon, who was slain by! Clara Smith Hamon, For his services! im becoming a “convenience” husband! $100 a month. A real divorce followed’ been gent, dy ‘| Wedsesday; ; colder tonight east and~-south portions, rising temperature Wednesday. ALTERNATIVE AGRE. TAAGT =) BY BOARD 00 sO TO PURCHASE OF FAVORABLY CONSID ate Officials ‘Not Inclined to Recede from Decis- ion on Smaller Tract, But Agree to Take Up Proposition Broached Here Which Will Open Way for Parks and Additions South of the City | Way for the development of Casper to the south along systematic lines and in accordance with a definite city plan, was partially opened |yesterday, when, following a conference with the directors of the | Chamber of Commerce and the Rotary Club, the members -of the (By United Press.) 1 coats commission is other. cseematala Of gape , it was diselosed today. apes Fa esr 4 "Fletcher of Florida asked Republican leaders to consent of orts of | atic pesecage fol- to an executive cession so that hundreds of. other nominations now Sims might be referred to commit- tees to be reported on. | Senator Cur- "| tis, Republican whip, said: “We ‘are not ready for an executive session.” This is taken to mean that Republic ns will decline to approve Wilson's ap- pointments, leaving to Harding the fill- ing of just that mdny ‘more Vacancies. PLANS FOR ASSOCIATION OF NATIONS TAKES FOR (By Associated Press.) MARION, Dec. 21.—Another member of the irreconcilable camp in the sen- ate, Senator Miles Poindexter, was ed into President-elect Harding's onsultation on the plan for a world | peace association. The conference ts }the fourth that Harding has held here | with Senators who fought for flat re- | jection of the. Versailles league and it! is understood that others will be sum- mone4 later, in the hope that the ir- | reconeitables’ may add strength to the plan to be proposed by the next ad- ministration. SHERIFF LEAVES ARDMORE TODAY ON HAMON CASE (By United 3 Press.) ARDMORE, Oklz., Dec. 21.—Sher- iff Buck Garrett, accompanied by Charles, A. Coakley, a mhember of the law firm of Coakley and Math- ers, left Ardmore todwy, for an un- known point in Texas, presumably near El Paso. It ts believed here that the trip is connected with the search for Olara> Smith Hamon, sought for the death of Jake L. Ha- mon. The firm of Coakley and Math- ers has been retained as counsel for the ete) | Spi eenttlenoae WAITERS? WAGE CUT IN CHICAGO. (By Associated Press) CHICAGO, Dee, 21,—A wage reduc. tion’ amounting to 20 per cent In the pay. of Waiters in one of the rae | downtown hotels was announced today by George Keevel, head walter: ital tet PS ahoatal AMNESTY URGED ON HOUSE (By Associated Press) | action by congress on the WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 Favorable | resolution | (By Associated Press) NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., Dec. New Jerseys crime wave today en gulfed Milltown when four men at- tempted to rob the Firat: National bank A posse of 30 citizens after a revolver fight captured two of the robbers. a TWO FIRES IN CASPER CAUSED BY HOT STOVES Unusually cold weather today caused | two small fires as 4 result of overheated stoves. The damage from both did not } amount to more than $16 it is estimated. |The firemen were called first to the house. at 308 South David street about | noon. At 12:55 o'clock the fire trucks Were called to the office of the junk yard on East A street where again an overheated stoye caused a small blaze. Chemicals were used in putting out | the flames. | | 21.— There are of holly. TWO BOYS DIE OF POISONING FROM INJURY (By Associated Press) PITTSBURGH, Pa, Dec, 2h— James Ryan, 11, who injured a fing- er in a football game two weeks ago died today as the result of blood Poisoning. John Bowers, 14, who bruised his right shin fi» a basketball game last ointees has ARE CAPTURED over a hundred varieties week. nisn ded of blood poisoning. cee ene nantes the wealthy uncle paid Frank Hamon state school. land board, who had been guests of the city throughout the day, announced that the forty acres in the northwest quarter of section 16, advertised for sale Wedner- day and desired by the Standard Ot! company, would be withdrawn at this time, The board farther announced that [a- vorable consideration would be giveft the plan presented by the Chamber of Commerce and embodied in the follow: ing resolution adopted yesterday morn- ing: “Be it resolved, That we ask the State Board of School Land Commis- stoners to rescind the sale of scnoul land, set for December 22, and offer the following proposal for their considera- tion: “That the éntire 600 acres remain- ing of Section 16 be offered for sale. That ‘the ‘committee be authorized to guarantees to the state board, that a holding corporation of Casper citizens, not organized for profit, wili guaran, tee to purchase the 600 acres ut not lesa than $250 per acre, Proposed sulo ine con! - m- the 18 year installment plan, with the understand ing that as s00n a8 a-resale is consum- mated on/any portion of the tract, that the holding corporation may pay far the resold tract in full and secure-pat- ent for same." The resolution was presented to the directors by the specia) school lind com- mitte which was responsible for yes- terday’s conference. It was thoroughly understood that the land is to be handled without profit by members of the holding company arid that the city shall have the oppor- tunity ‘to’ secure the rough land at ac tual cost from the holding company fox, parks, playgrounds, etc. The members of the land board were in favor of ‘releasing the section 4 acres at a time to the city, but it was pointed out that, in anticipation of Casper which will be a city of 100,000, it is necessary to adopt a comprehen- sive city plan, and that unless all this. land can be included in the plan when it 8 made, the development of the'seg- tion could not be made systematic and the development might be decidedly along hit and miss lines, The thought was carried to the lanit board that In considering the disposal of the schoo! section along broad lines, the members of that body were provid. ing for the welfare of the state, and adding more to ‘the taxable valuation of the state than by the sale of thé portion of the section at a prohibitive price. Wyoming can only develop sources by acquiring a larger popula tion nd no city can hope to attract residents unless it can provide them with homes, school facilities, parks; Playgrounds, c. It was the impression of those whe attended the confere that the com mittee left Casper with a broader in- sight into the situation as it affects Casper, and Casper's needs, and that it is their desire to act for the best in terests of the city and the state. It is* thought also, that it was thoroughly demonstrated to the board that Cass per’s development will bring muoh more revenue to. the state in the long run-than the $60,000 which the 40 acces of the school section would bring at the board's price. Telegrams and letters from commer: its re cial organizations in all parts of the state were sent both to the Casper, Chamber of Commerce and to the lant commission supporting Casper’s conten’ tions regarding the price of ‘he 40 acres. eg Quotations from these are given: “Have just wired Governor Carey behalf of our commercial club requ (Continued on Page 5) | P asking immediate amnesty for prisoners| LYMOUTH FETE iS CELEBRATED held for violations of the espionage act was urged before the senate Judie- | __ (By Asnoclated Press) jary committee today by Senator! PLYMOUTH, Dec. 21.—On the | France, Republican, of Maryland, | by Samuel Gompers, espionage act was “offensive to au- @ the effedts of | thor of the measure, and officials of the | treatedsh ds | Amorican Federation. of Labor, headed | Gompers said the} all m@n Who kxow What fveedo=; means.” breaking waves washed high,” mouth Rock, thelr decendants today observing the tercentenary of thelr shore of Plymouth Bay, where “The | when the Pilgrims set foot on Ply: | landing, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge gave an outline of the Pilgrim's story and in drawing from it les: sons for present-day America. he pointed out that “they set character first," “sought to give men freedom both in«body and mind” and “tried” to reduce the sum of human misery.”