Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 5, 1921, Page 1

tonight; strong shifting win HORIZONTAL CUT NE 95 CENTS.IN nounce eductions in Live With Cut Made in Major U. S. Mark Another Crop of 25 cents in the rrice quotations of all Wyoming crude oils was an- nounced by the buying com- panies this morning, effective today. : While the present drop was expest- ed atid rather predicted by the ce- cent cut of 50 cents in the price of Oklahoma oils, the cut is smaller than that reduction by half and this makes a total differential of 5 cents between the Oklahoma oils and the crudes pro- duced in the Northwest since the pre- sent reduction started. In other words the reduction of the Oklahoma ofl has Trached a total of 5 cents more than the Wyoming offs have lowered. Also the ofl men appear to consider that beause of the fact that the prog- ent reduction is only half of the re cent cuts, it portends that the bot- tom is nearly reached and that furth- er cuts will be even smaller than the present one. The market now stands as follows Grass Creek, Torchlight, Elk Basin and Greybull Creek it Creck, Big Muddy, Pilot Butte, Hamilton easiase Camere: eonee 11) Mule Creek Lander High Official Is Involved in New York Graitt (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, Feb. 5.—An official holding a high position in the city administration is involved in the evi- dence of alleged graft in the award- ing of city sewer contracts, Arthur M. King, assistant to Charles 8. Whitman, announced here yesterday. ‘This angle of the investigation of al- leged corruption, among city and county officials grew out of the board of estimate’s probe of certain sewer contracts in Brooklyn. Mr. Whitman refused to discuss the investigation being pursued by Mr. King. After first declining to make a statement, Mr. King denied a _re- port imputed to him, that Mayor Hy- lan and his officiat, family wero in- yolved in the sewer contract phase of the investigation. TO’ ON Mississippi Banker Weather Forecast : ‘ Caz per Daily Trifnme | city EDITION * e¢ Acceptance of War Bill Is Urged on Enemyin Address at Birmingham (By Associated Press) BIRMINGHAM, Eng., Feb. 5.—Premier Lloyd in a@ speech here today dealing with the recent meeting’ of allied supreme council, said that before the last election he laid it down that Germany was morally bound to pay for the wanton “| damage she had inflicted put that one could only get from a debtor what he was capable of paying. He asserted dn this connection, that Germany must not be allowed to pay in a way that would injure the country receiving payment—by cheap gods, for ex- ample. The occasion of the premier’s speech Stee his receiving the freedom of the clty. Mr. Lloyd George pointed out that Germany, being temporarily bankrupt, represented a baffling difficulty to the experts when it came to the question of her paying outside her own frun- tiers. With all these difficulties 'n mind, he safd, the allies had reached certain conclusions last week, and hart Presented a bill, which was frame ‘on the basis of German prosperity. If Germany were not prosperous, sho could not pay, and if she were pros- Perous she could and must. Dr, Simons, the German foreign minister, was an>honest.and sincere statesman, and he had said that he meant to carry out Germany's ‘obli- gations if he possibly could, continued the premier. Dr. Simons had. com plained that he had not received the bill in full, but he could have it at any time, for it was ready, Mr. Lloyd George declared. Once the German people got their minds off the war and on to peate they soon would become prosperous, the premier pre: dicted. Mr, Lioyd George said his advice to Germany would be to accept the bill and not allow herself to be misled by mand repeat the fo Britain and France. “Dr. Simons had the right to pre: sent alternative proposals, Mr. Lloyd George conceded, but if these propos- als represented a mere attempt to avoid payment, the allies would noc \+ orate them, At Spa; he said, he > 1 had an uneasy feeling that Fe hind Simons were the men of 1914, | but the assumption of power by the | provokers of the war could mot be per- ted. - The sword must be sheathed for ‘all time,’ he declared. Nothing would harden the allied peoples against Germany more than. the feel- ing that she was still animated by the idea of treating treaties as they treated those of fifty or sixty years ago—as “scraps of paper.” | HUN TRADE UNIONS PROTEST REPARATIONS, BERLIN, Feb. 5.—The German Federation of Trades Unions issued a manifesto today protesting against the reparations decisions reached in Paris and declaring “slavery, which has been abolished in Africa," is to be introduced in Europe. “The German people has declared (Continued on Page 8) LEFT HOME LAST OCTOBER.'COMES PACIFIC Regains Memory Five Months After Being Struck With Bottle, Robbed, Kidnaped (By Associated Press.) LOS ANGELES, Cal., Feb. 0 Houlka, Miss., told here today of how he found himself in 5.—O. M. Harrill, banker of WILSON VETOES Los Angeles four days ago, with only hazy recollections of what had passed since he left home last October on a busi- CASPER, WYO., SATURDAY, FEB. 5, 1921 Full Associated Press Leased Wire. Reports from the United Press. AESOLUTION FOR REDUCING ARMY 10 475,000 MEN Action Not Justified by World Conditions, He Says, Sending Meas- John H. Peckham Slays Wife and Wounds'| Friend, Mrs. Joseph Maltby, Before Turning Gun on Self in Triple Tragedy Resulting from Domestic Estrangement %wo farewell letters, one addressed to his former wife and children er, were among the effects of John H. jay, county coroner. tenderly iid them goodby and told them of his contemplated suicide. Nothing was mentioned concerning the killing of his w A telogram from Peckham’s father was received by Mr. Gay this morning asking that the body be sent to him at Tacoma, S. D., for burial. Dewey Peterson. Mrs. Peckham's son by a former marriage, will come here tomorrow to take charge of the murcered woman's body. and one to his father and mother, Peckhan: turned over to Lew M. Mr. and Mrs. John H. Peckham, beth about 49 years of Beatrice Maltby, wife of Joseph Maltby of 719 East Fifth street lies at a local hospital with as the result of a murder and suicide age, are dead and a bullet in her lung ure Back to House (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 5. President Wilson today vetoed the joint resolution directing the war department to stop army re- cruiting until the force is reduced to 175,000 men. Returning~ the measure to the house, the president said he was “unable to see in the condition of the world at large or in the needs of the United States any change’ that would justify a restriction upon the minimum enlisted strength of 280,- 000 men provided for in the recently enacted army reorganization bill. Quoting the resolution as restrict ing the enlisted strength of the army to 175,000 men, the president say: “No provision is made in the reso- lution for the preservation of any proportionate strength in the com- oatant corps of the % tivcontinuance of enl! for a long time, preserve the «staff corps disproportionately enlisted and “training which ought. to be. as- sured if an-army of 175,000 men is tb be efficient in Proportion: to its aggre- gate number. ‘i “On the 4th day of June, 1920, I signed a bill passed by the present congress, providing. for the reorgani- zation of the army.” Because of the profoundly disturbed conditions of the world and in order that full benefit might accrue to the people of the United States from the lessons of the world war as to what, under modern cohditions, is required to he the nucleus of an efficient army, the war department had recommended an army of approximately 500,000 men. The congress, after prolonged consid- eration, determined to authorize and did authorize, the reorganization of the army on the basis of an enlisted strength of approximately 280,000 men, including in the organization new arms like the air service and the chemical warfare service, the use of which were developments of the war and provision of which is a necessary addition to the pre-war strength of the army. “The act authorized for the’ first addition to the pre-war strength of time in our history a tactic organiza- tion of the army, resting upon divi- sions ag tactical units, and required the training of the National Guard and the organized reserve in terrl- torial areas of the United States in association with the divisions of the regular army. At that time, the con- gress plainly regarded the provision then made as the minimum which would provide for the added arms and new duties imposed on the army and for that efficiency which the’ peace- time army of the United States should haye as the nucleus of mobilization in the event of @ national emergency. “T regret that I am not able to seo In the condition of the world at large, or in the needs of the United States any such change as would justify the restriction upon that minimum which is proposed by the house joint resolu: tion.” ul ae 1 BP WILSON MOVING. (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.—Three trucks loaded with furniture from President Wilson's former home in Trenton, N. J., arrived here yester- ONG A Muere | ent would, | the combatant corps insufficiently | j4¢ ness trip to Memphis, Tenn. The recollections included over the head with a bottle, robbed of $600, kidnaped and brought across the country in an automobile by @ group of men. When he found himself here, he communicated with a bank which in turn notified Houlka authorities. Money was sent him and his nephew, Mac Reed, came to take him home as’soon as he is able to travel. c atinelie 2S ke ck To Be Demonstrated “Is that new girl an expert steno- grapher?” “I dunno. She takes notes and uses a typewriter rapidly, but I have not yet asked her to address a letter to Schenectady.”"—Richmond Times Dis- patch. fe LON: Fah seta Women have got to quit weepin at weddings if they expect the ush- ers and groomsmen to marry the bridesmaids, the belief he had been struck COAL INDUSTRY (By a Staff CHEYENNE, Feb. 5. © Platt- Brewer bill, regulating. the coal in- dustry, which was introduced by Representatives William Platt and L. R. Brewer, the Goshen county house delegation, almost —immedi- ately after Governor Robert D. Carey had sent his special messazo to the legislature requesting a coal investigation, went down to defeat in the house yesterday afteraoon. And tho defeat of the measure was ) emphatic, day and are being unloaded at the. house recently purchased by the president from Henry P. Fairbanks. INVESTIGATION VOTED DOWN BY LOWER HOUSE Correspondent) The bill, according to its spon- scrs,-is a replica of the law now being used by the state of Indiana, It was boosted as a means of sav- ing the state thousands and thou- sands of dollars, as accomplished in Indiana, and provided for commis. sioners, price regulation, special Si- censes and other opera’ regalia. ‘The fate of the bill was decided by the house acting as a commitive of the whole and the vote: was over- | whelming. at the Maltby home at 4:15 o’clock Friday afternoon, when Peckham shot and killéd his wife, wounded Mrs. and then turned his .38 caliber gun upon himself. Peckham ¢died at the State hospital at 2 o’clock this morn- ing without regaining consciousness from a bullet wound in the head. Mre.(P@¥® been in this city for the past Maltby's condition, while critical, may not prove fatal and she was reported to be resting easily today. x Failure to effect a reconciliation with his wife, from whom he had been estranged for the second time for the last week, led to the tragedy. Mrs. Peckham, died instantly from a bullet wound in the head and aviother in the chest. VISITED WIFE DAILY TO URGE HER RETURN The triple shooting took place at 4:15 o'clock yesterday afternoon in the Maltby apartment, 719 East Fifth street. Peckham had called to see his wife as he had been in the habit of doing since their separation. These trips were mado on the average of three or four a day and as far as known Peckham had never entered the house until yesterday, o}ways Riandiag.tn the door and pleading With : return to him. Yesterday when he called: at the house he ear ried.a .38 callbre revolver. Neighbors: who’ saw Lae seemed to be in’ good spirits. Details ot the shooting are known only by Mrs. Maltby, the only eye witness ofy the tragedy, whose condition does not permit her to. talk. It is believed how- ever that Peckham became momen- tarily insane when his wife refused to return to him and dismiss divorce pro- ceedings that were pending. From Mrs. Maltby it was learned that he turned the gun on her when she interceded | for Mrs, Peckham. Peckham had al- ready shot his wife once when Mrs. Maltby attempted to stop him. It was} then that he fired the shot that struck her in ‘the breast and came out under | the right shoulder. As she ran from the room Pockham fired the “second shot into his wife’s body and then shot himself through the head. NEIGHBORS SUMMON POLICE AID Chief of Police Lynch was one of the first to reach the scene of the shooting in responding to a call from neighbor. George Nash, who with his family occupies the upper part jof the house in which the Maltby’s live, also entered the apartment. Mrs. Maltby was found on a bed in her room, weak from loss of blood and the shock of her injuries. Peck ham was picked up in a dying condi tion and removed to the State hospital. Mrs. Maltby was taken to the Wo- men’s and Children’s hospital on South Durbin street. MURDERED WOMAN MOTHER OF ELEVEN The Peckhams have been married only about 18 months, both having been married before. Mrs. Peckham is said to have had cleven childrn by a former marraige and Peckham is said to have had five, He was an employee of the Midwest ficld garage outside of Casper and since their estrangement Mrs, Peckham has been employed in the city as a domestic. According to Sheriff Lee Martin who, in company with Lew M. Gay, coroner, investigated the shooting shortly after its occurrence the couple had been separated before and that the latest estrangement was the fall- ure to-live together after having gone back together before. Before their separation the Peck- hams had made their home in house- keeping rooms at the Willlam Lester residence on East First street. Sinco the estrangement Mrs. Peckham had made her home with Mrs. Maltby. MADE THREATS AGAINST WIFE JUST A WEEK AGO Friends state that it was just a week ago that Peckham called and (Continued on Page 8) Casper Sure Reads The Tribune The total paid circulation of The ‘Tribune Friday was 6,423 An increase of over 20 per cent in the past 10 days» Of this amount 5,224 copies were read and distributed in Casper, better than one copy to every three people in Casper. | | | |last night on a sidewalk in the sub- In each letter he ife, | Maltby Mr. and Mrs. M. O. Corey left last night for their home in Denver. They |Several days attending to business in- SUICIDE ARE COMBINED IN C Pay to Limit of Her Prosperity, Declares Lloyd George °° ¢ @ TAX EXEMPTION FOR SOLDIERS APPROVED AFTER SENATE FIGHT Lively Debate Inspired by Proposal to Limit Benefits to Citizens of State Only, but Advocates Win Majority; Sublette County Bill Back in Committee (By a Staff Correspondent.) CHEYENNE,Feb. 5.—Patriotic addresses and appeals mingled with objections and amendments yesterday when the house bill exempting veterans of the nation’s wars from tax payments on $2,000 in property aiid yoll taxes came up in the senate for fizal consid- eration. terests, | liable Than. Direct than direct evidence, BY AUTHORITIES (By Associated Press) PARIS, Feb, 5.—Six alleged Rus- sian‘communists were arrested here Jast night and it is expected that others will be taken into custody today, 21 warrants having been sworn out late yesterday. Police officials are continuing their inves- tigation of communists’ activities and have reported successful op- erations at Havre and Nancy. The authorities at Frankfort have arrested 14 persons, among whom are several communists and leaders of armed organizations, says a May: ence dispatch to the Matin. Nows- papers here declare that it has been reported that communists in France ‘are obtaining American ERS from some source in Ber- in, Shee eae REBEL MAKES PEACE, STATE OF VERA CRUZ (By Associated Press) VERA CRUZ, Feb. 5.—Gen. Perez, who has been at the head of an incipient revolt near Minatit- Jan, in the southern part of the State of Vera Cruz, has reached an agreement with Gen. Guadaloupe Sanchez, commander of government forces here. it was officially an- nounced yesterday. Newspaper dispatches received from the district of Minatitlan, how- ever, state that there has been fighting there. MURDERER OF WOMAN IS SOUGHT, (By Associated Press.) MONTREAL, Feb. 5.—Police today are searching for the murderer of an unidentified young woman about 20 years old, whose body was found Izte urb of West’Mount. Her bead had been crushed with an axe, which lay near by. Miss Mary Girard, a resident of the} neighborhood, told the police she saw | a woman fall and that a man who| Willis Says in His Instructions . . ae ‘ " (By Associated Press.) \ Pret itns ~“EOS-ANGELES, Cal., Feb. 5.—There “is nothing i nature of circunistantial evidente that renders it less reliable . nN ” Judge Frank R. Willis today instructed the jury which heard the ‘trial of Mrs. Louise L. Peete on a charge of having murdered Jacob Charles Denton. “It is not necessary to prove a motive,” the judge’s in- accompanied her fled. A rich man who has inherited his} money always knows there is no ex-! cuse for poverty, | with foreign go nd patriotism won, for th Amendments were made, hoy bili pa: sed muster easily. ever, confining the benefits extended to the former service men to men who were residents of the state at the time of their enlistment, induc- PEETE CASE IS GIVEN TO JURY AT 12M. TODAY Circumstantial’ Evidence “Not Less Re- Evidence,” Judge \ the structions continued, “but the absence of a motive ts to be considered in |favor of the defendant.” REDS IN PARIS BEING ROUND UP, He also called the jury's attention to the provisions of the law for the punishment of accomplices the same as the principals in a crime. He said the “benefit of a reasonable doubt” should be given the defendant if the jury decided such a “reason- able doubt" existed. The prosecution's case against Mrs, Peete was built on circumstantial evi- dence and her defense on @ “reason- able doubt.” ‘The pleas of defense counsel in their closing arguments in behalf of Mrs. Peete that the jury ‘do justice to this young mother” was attacked by Thomas Lee Woolwins, district attor-| ney, in the final argument for the state “There has been talk of mother- hood by defense counsel,” said Mr. Woolwine, “But I have exhibit A on motherhood,” and he pointed to| Frances’ Denton of Phoenix, Ariz., daughter of the dead mining pro- moter. “She will never hold her parent's hands nor look into his eye again in ther prosecutor continued, “because Louise Peete shot and killed him and buried him in the basement of his own home." Mrs. Peete, as throughout the trial, showed no emotion while the district attorney was appealing to the jury to “send her to the gallows.” The jury retired to deliberate at noon. W. G. McAdoo in Conference With Mex _Treasurer (By Associated Press) MEXICO CITY, Feb. 5.—William G. McAdoo, former secretary of the treasury of the United States, con- ferred for more than two hours yes- terday afternoon with Adolfo De La Huerta, secretary of the treasury. No statement relative to his visit was is- tion, or commission. It was also agreed that nurses who served the nation should also be included in the bill. ‘The amendment restricting the ben- efits to citizens of the state almost caused a rupture, and for a time threatened the hopes of war veter ans for its passage. As soon as the motion for the amendment was ma: however, Senator John Stansbury of Converse, opposed it, asserting that the idea was small and not benefitting the peopls of a great state, He declar- ed the benefits of the bill should be made to include all service men who make the state their home, rather than only the men who were residents at the time of the call to arms, The fight for and against the amend- ment continued until a vote was ask- ed, and when this was given the re suit was still in doubt, so that a standing vote- was. asked. When the vote was counted it wis found that it stood 12 for and 12 agninst the amendment. Senator J. W. Johnson of Casper, who was in the chair at the time, then cast the deciding vote for the restriction. A still further fight against the bill was made by Senator Johnson dur- ing the height of the dispute on the merits of the ill. Asking that he be permitted to leave the chair and take a place on the floor, the senator then outlined his objections to the bill. He declared the Casper post objected to the measure and for that reason, and for the reason that he concurred in the objections, he was compelled to vote against the measure, PRESIDENT TO RESCUE At another period of distress, when the amendments were being discuss- ed, and the members apparently at sea as to the wording of some por- tions of the bill, President W. W. Daley came to the rescue with an of- fer to produce copies of the bill for each man in the senate if the mem- bers would withhold consideration for twenty minutes. Within the prescribed time the cop- jes were on the desks and the discus. sion resumed. While the house members were dis.’ (Continued on Page Hight.) U.S. SHOULD PAY FOR BERGDOLL FRACAS, CLAIM (By Associated Press) BERLIN, Feb. 4.—During an in- terpollation by members of the Peoples’ party in the reichstag, to- day, one member said that the American government should be asked for damages for the shooting of Lena Link at Eberbach during the recent attempt by two Amer- icans to capture Grover ©. Berg- doll, the Anrerican draft evader and his chauffeur, Eugene (Ike) Stecher, The government spokesman indl- cated that the “American military apology and the fact that papers were issued to the two Americans by the American authorities in no- wise justified their procedure,” but that the incident was officially closed. The girl was wounded in the hand by a shot fired at Bergdoll. castle i at It is possible to have too much of a good thing. You seldom see a con- |fectioner e || Murder News |is Carried in | ‘Night | Extra’ First news of yesterday's mur- |] der story reached the Casper pub- lic last night thru a Casper Trib- une “extra” which reached an en- |] ormous sale while the show crowds j[ were going home, Over 1,200 |] papers made up the edition, which would have been greater had it |] not been that electrical connes- tions prevented speed in putting the paper on the street. KANSAS MINERS STRIKE, HOWAT LEADS WALKOUT Dispute of Two Ye ars’ Standing Over Miner’s Wage Revived in Challenge , to State Ind ustrial Court “fl * (By Associated Press.) PITTSBURG, Pa., Feb. 5. .—The first strike of Kansas coal miners, called officially by the district board of the union ince the passage of the industrial court law, is in effect today. Two hundred coal miners were called out by the district board headed by Alexander Howat, president of the Kansas Miners’ union. | mash, which depend on his age. The sued by the department. Mr, Me- Adoo later was given a formal re- ception by President Obregon. FINANCIAL NEGOTIATIONS WITH (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.—A_let- ter from Secretary Houston of the treasury department, saying he would not during the remainder of his term of office proceed with any further financial negotiations ornments was read in the senate today by Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, the Re- publican leader, ‘The strike was called because of a|Mispute is two years old. ‘The union dispute over the wages of Karl Mis-/NoW claims that Mismash is 19. The contention is challenged. ‘The opera« tors say that Mismash's birth is rex corded in the Mismash family Bible in two places and that the two rec« ords are in conflict. Calling of the strike is considered in mining circles here as a challenge by Howat to the state, Howat and fellow union officers were sent to 1 by Judge A. J. Curran last sum- |mer when they refused to obey or ders to appear before the industrial The secretary said there “have not been any official propoxais on | court as witnesses. the subject that would in any way | Immediate arrest of Alexander Ho: bind this ‘government, or the for- | wat and other union officials connect: eign governments other than the with calling of a coal miners? agreement of the foreign govern- |strike in the Pittsburg region prob ments contained in their dcauand jably will result, Governor H. J, Ale obligations weird the united jlen and W, L. Huggins, presiding’ States to give long-time >)ligations, | judge of the court of industrial relue if requested in exchange there- | tions said today when informedsof the for.” strike by tile Associated Press, }