Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 21, 1921, Page 1

ON FINAL VOTE Casper Manager Bill Is Passed; Hospital Here Donated to Natrona @ (Special to The Tribune) CHEYENNE, Feb. 21.— ‘The Sixteenth Wyoming legis- lature passed into history Sun- day as Shy Ben, the court- house clock, was tolling the hour of 12 noon — exactly twelve hours after the session tech- nically was ended with the arrival of the hour of midnight marking the end of February 19 and the begin- ning of February 20, The duration of the session was extended by re- sort to that ancient legislative fic- tion, stopping the official clocks just before 12 midnight, in order that im- peratively important unfinished busi- ness might be attended to before the adjournment sine die. ‘Thirty min- utes after the final gavel taps by the speaker and president sounded re- spectively in the Hall of Representa- tives and Sonate chamber some mem- bers of the legislature already were on trains, bound for home, and this morning the majority were gone. Five. results of the last feverish night and morning of legislative ac- tivity stand) out. conspicuously, viz., repeal of the statute of 1919 which forbade the wastage of natural gas in the manufacture of carbon black; granting of salary increases: to state officials and employes totaling ap- proximately $32,000 annually; failure of the Oviatt-Kabell hyphenated..con- vention-optional primary nomination hybrid to be enacted; passage of the bill authofizing sthe- governor to call a special “@lection and thereat sub- mit a proposal to issue $2,000,000 of state highway bonds, and passage of the bill authorizing the state board of charities d forms to dispose dan respectively. Inicidentally there was passed the emergency, appropria- tions measure increasing the total of appropriations for expenses-of state government during the coming ~ bi+ ehnium, to approximately $3,400,000, far and-away the highest total of this character in the history of the state. ‘There were gay scenes’ atthe capi- tol’ building during the earlier hours of the last night of the session; later still there .were other, ‘gay’ scenes of a character suggesting that even in the state ¢apital prohibition laws, state and federal, are not nearly so effective as they might be. ‘The cus- tomary ceremonies pf presenting gay- els to the presiding ‘officers, and other tokens to legislative employes, took place; there was public dancing in the rotunda and halls until\after mid- night, and, the state of Wyoming served refreshments. The two houses deadlocked until near the closing hour on Senate File 36, the so-called natural gas conserva- (Continued on Page 8) TORONTO, Ont., Feb. 21.— Re- vival of cock fighting, banned by law twelve years, was revealed here today with the arraignment of 111 prisoners taken in a raid on the National Conduit building yester- day. The prisoners include promin- ent business men of Toronto, Hamil- ton, Chicago, Brantford and Nia- gara Falls. . BANDIT VICTIM, AND ARE CAUGHT (By Associated Press.) TRINIDAD, Colo., Feb. 21.—Three men and one woman | ED JUDICIAL MAP OF WYOMING IS MADE OVER BY LEGISLATURE: NATRONA AND FREMONT iN ONE (Special to The Tribune.) CHEYENNE, Feb. 21.—Although it was not born until 1:30 o’clock Sunday morning, one and one-half hours after the technical expiration of the session of the Sixteenth legis- lature, a substitute for Senate File 100, a measure originally designed to create the Eigth Judicial district from Converse and Niobrara counties, was rushed through both houses be- fore final adjournment and as a re- , NOT TALK. LANDIS’ ACCU GISLATURE PASSES INTO HISTORY SUNDA Che Casper Daily Weather Forecast Snow probably tonight and Tuesday, colder with strong shifting winds.” VOLUME V JSER IS TOLD Y NOONSTOAM SCENE. MARKS OPENING: OF HEARING IN ChE OF JUDGE CTY E ) IT I ON Sharp Tilt Results Be- | tween Welty and Chair- NUMBER 113! man Volstead in House Crihune CASPER, WYO., MONDAY, FEB.. 21, 1921 sult of this eleven-hour action the judicial district map of Wyoming was redrawn. ‘The substitute bill, riow an act aiting consideration by Governor Carey, provides for seven judicial dis- tricts, the groups of counties con- stituting these districts being as fol-| i lows: First—Laramie, Goshen and Platte. Second—Carbon, Albany and Sub- Jette, ‘Third—Lincoln, and Teton. Uinta, Sweetwater) Fourth—Sheridan, Johnson and Campbell. Fifth—Park, Big Horn, Washakie! and Hot Springs (unchanged). Sixth—Fremont and Natrona. Seventh—Crook, Weston, Niobrara and Converse. Represtntative J. C. Underwood, in introducing the substitute measure, explained that creation of the Bighth judicial district as proposed would in- volve an added expense of $20,000 a} year and that the business of the dis-| trict would not keep the judge busy sixty days a year. The redistricting proposed in the substitute, he stated, would equalize the judicial work of fiable only in times of war. the state among the Séven present judges without additional expens lations. TURKS TO DRAW MORE TERRITORY UNDER REVISION Part of Thrace, Now Occupied by the Greeks; "te Be -Céded= Turks Under” British and French Agreement 4 { % (By Associated Press.) LONDON, Feb. 21.—Revision of the Treaty of Sevres so as to give’ Turkey additional territory in Thrace, now occu- Pied by the Greeks, was decided upon by Premiers Lloyd George and M. Briand today in consultations preceding the Near East conference here. This decision, before becoming effective, however, requires the approval of the allied col- leagues of the French premiér and’the George and M. Briand agreed ‘that the British prime minister, Greek question might he settled speed- According to this Franco-British|ier° than had been thought. agreement, the frontier line in ‘Thrace i would be moved westward, extening TURKS MOBILIZE from Enos on the Aegean to Midia on| FOR BIG DRIVE’ the Black Sea. This would take from| LONDON, 5 21,—The_ opening Greece one-fourth of the territory she|of a new offensive by the Turkish now occupies there and add it to the oCnstantinople district. The Turks also, under this arrangement, are to be allowed representation on the inter- national commission controlling Con- stantinople. It is understood that Mr. Nationalists against the Greeks on the Smyrna front is expected, ys a Constantinople dispatch to the Even- ing News today. The. Nationalists are concentrating in great strength along the front, the dispatch adds, Lioya BUISNESS MEN ARRESTED AT TORONTO COCK FIGHT Twenty-five live fighting cocks and three hens and five cocks which had lost their lives im battle be- fore the police arrived, were con- fiseated. One of the birds bad stee! spurs attached, and a set of dag- ing squad had been secretly inform- ed more than a week ago that the illicit battles were to take place. tt was intimated a loser in betting on a fight in Buffalo, N, Y., last week gave the tip. ger-pointed “mailed spurs” was Inspector David McKinney said he found in a pocket of one of the pris- had been staged in many cities of oucrs. had ben stagfl in many cities of It was understood that the raid- | Canada and the United States. TAKE CAR, BIND Postal Is Sued arrested here Saturday in possession of an automobile al- leged to have been stolen near Syracuse, Kan., last Thurs- day, were today identified by S. B. Donnegan of Alamosa, Colo., as the four who held him up near Syracuse and gagged and tied him to a barbed wire fence and drove away in his ear. The three men held here are Salvatore Bialajno, Gaetano Guzzardo and Tony Morelli.. The woman is the wife of Bialajno. Sheriff O. T. Jones of Syracuse, Kans., is here to take the prisoners into custody. Donnegan was enroute home from Syracuse when he was held up. Re- lating his experience today he said he had stopped his car about two miles out‘of that city to make some repairs When=two of the men, Bial- ajno and Morelli, advanced on him with guns, ‘They gagged him with a towel, andtook him about 100 yards off the road, tied his hands to a fence post. and his feet to the wire after which the four loaded up all of their effects in his car from another which they had abandoned, and drove away. » Donnegan freed himself in about an hour, he said, and walked to a near- by ranch house and notified the auth- ‘rities who notified travelers. to be party were arrested here with the car which yesterday was io corres- pond: with the description of messages received hy the local police. After being identified today by Donnegan as the bandits who held him up, the men admitted the robbery. The prisoners sdy they live in Brooklyn. N. ¥., and were enroute to California and that the car in which they left the east having broke down near Syracuse, Kans., they held up Donnegan and took his car to’ con- nue their journey. pila Ss LB Laer, MISSING BOAT TURNS UP (By Associated Press.) SEATTLE, Wash., Feb, 21—The. mail boat Venus, recently reported missing in Alaskan waters, has ar- rived safely at Unga, Alaska, accord: ing to @ message received here. The on the loofout all along the route from Syracuse, Saturday evening the boat is operated by Dr. Andrew C, Smith of Portland, Ore. .For Accounting By Government NEW YORK, Feb, 21—The United States. government, through Assist- ant United States Attorney Earl B. Barnes, filed in the United States Distric Court here today, a suit. in equity to obtain an accounting from the Postal Telegraph system for the money paid to that com- pany as agent of the government in operating the system for one year during the war. Mr. Barnes said that the amount between the government and. tho Postal Telegraph company totals ap- proximately $2,000,000. According to Mr. Barnes, the companies took in a net revenue ex- -cveding $4,000,000 during the twelve mionths they were under government control, but when the lines were re- turned to their owners, th govern- ment neglected to take its money out and the companies later refused to give it up. It is deciared Ogasawara will be fo Lieutenant Langdon more than the thirty paces prescribed i % Belief is expressed, however, ni viihege ah ATLANTIC COAST SWEPT BY STORM SENTRY’S CONVICTION TO INVOLVE HIGH OFFICIALS IN MURDER OF AMERICAN (By Associated Press.) TOKIO, Feb. 20.—Convictoin of Toshigiro Ogasawara, the Japanese sentry who shot and killed Lieutenant Langdon of the United States erusier Albany at Vladivostok late in December, is forecast by a number of ‘newspapers here, including the usually They declare that. not’ only will the seritry It is asserted the officers of the sentry's regiment may be found several high officers will become inyolved in the case. culpable because their instructions to the sentry would have ‘been justi- | | | | well-informed Jiji Shimpo. be found guilty, but that und guilty because he pursued that his punishment wilt be slight. CONGRESSMAN WHO ASKS, IM- PEACHMENT OF JUDGE LANDIS —Representative B. F, Welty, Demo- crat, of Ohio, who has asked the house of representatives to impreach Federal Judge K. M. Landis for “high crimes and disdemeanor in office.” DENNIS WYATT DIES IN OMAHA QUNDAY NIGHT Part Owner and Manager of: Local Hotel Falls Victim to Heart Trouble After Long Illness Dennis Orville Wyatt, 26, owner of the Wyatt hotel of Casper and son of Henry Wyatt, Natrona tives. Mr, Leswig is proprietor of a last night at the Clarkson hotel, county sheepman, died at 10:30 o'clock Omaha, where he was removed about six weeks ago for treatment following an illness which developed before the holidays. Heart. trouble caused his, death and for two weeks before leay- ing Casper he had been confined to the Casper. Private hospital. The, body will be taken to Noble, Ti, his birthplace, for burial-and will be laid at rest beside his mother. “Denny”. Wyait,as he was known to a large circle of friends in Casper, was born March 10, 1894, and had lived here for 18 years, He attended the public schools:in Casper and also attended college at Fremont, Neb. In October, 1917, he began a period of| army. service in the World war and in July, 1919, was mustered out. On his return to Casper he purchased a sub- stamtial interest in the Wyatt hotel! ] | Nine Li part Judiciary Committee y Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 21—< |Somewhat stormy scenes oc- curred before the house judi- ciary committee today with the presentation of impeach- ment charges against Federal ves Lost In East; New York “Digging Out” Bee | | HENRY P. FLETCHER TO BE | UNDER SECRETARY STATE ees IN THE HARDING CABINET |e. eek ene » last week and NEW YORK, Feb. 21. —| fire of que New York’s millions.of work-| (ig it pee Alas ho Oil eer Bt EU Laces - y Assi ss. husetts, wanted to know if ore, (noes pie? impaired trans- WASHINGTON, Feb. Henry P. Fletcher, former American am- | Welty bad any proof that Judge portation facilities as a result} bassador to Mexico, is to be undersecretary of state in the Harding | Land $s supreme arbiter of in acting of the 1214-inch snowfall yes-| administration, | i, eball had neglected his terday, experienced difficulty | The tender of the position to Mr. Fletcher, who is here after spending and suffering in getting to places of| COPSiderable time in Florida with the president-elect, was made through | ‘When ‘you are trying to catch a amploymenttinday: | Charles Hughes, whose selection as secretary of str+e was announced | rabbit you've got to follow his tracks,” Service from outlying districts eran Saturday by Mr. Harding. Mr. Welty repli I am trying to hampered! hy! anow, avittath to aol reet According to information here, Mr, Earding had Mr. Fletcher in mind | ¥nburden myself ‘ in depth. Insections close to the| f0F Service in some diplomatic capacity and in selecting him for under- | “Well. give us the facts and don't heart of business travel was impeded| Secretary of state consulted Mr. Fletcher's wishes. ‘There had been |™ake so many sp Balt tora Rieathantent, reports that Mr. Fletcher might be named ambassador to Tokio. [socueirman “Vols IDiib psaida "OH ielad with Pieprewea Mr. Fletcher, who is a Pennsylvanian, has been in the diplomatic || The Ohio memt hen offered: 1 facilities for removing the snow, were| Sér¥ice for many years, serving under the Wilson administration until | ‘elesrs a SRP Ee Say pee at work in an effort to clear a way| Tecently, when he resigned. ca sendin cage Danae oi pending in Judge Landis’ Tetons c I ng in Judge Landis’ The storm, which began before 1 o'clock Sunday morning, continued un- abated until shortly after 10 o'clock jast night. Nine persons lost their court. airman Volstead asked. ‘ou want to knoW you can find Welty replied out lives, either directly or indirectly as “I'm not goin: to be insulted by as result of the storm and hundreds you,”” announc the chairman. “I were injured: | want a civil an , | it } Declaring OPEN DECISIONS =. sentative Huster, that STORM PASSES $42, OUT TO SEA, (By Associated Press.) an New WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—Although |York, irsisted the committee wanted the blizzard, which Saturday night facts on which an indictment eould ba and yesterday swept the Eastern drawn. ' Important Problems Before Meeting 'As-| state fram Western Tennessee to New “In other words legal way: to imé En| |, had passed out to sea in a bl a T d I 1 d ‘A ‘ |peach him if we c "suggested Rep- no: sterly direction, the big area| |resentative Bois, Republican, Iowa. it visited still was in the grip of the semble o ay neluae rmentan, am going to show that these ice and snow it left behind. In many places, particularly in the vicinity of | ‘New Tork, whers the storm was at/| its worst, apd the mountainous‘ re- gions of Virginia, Maryland and Penn- T baseball players are guilty of bribing Sue Bs Be Weity” shoutore | ‘his statement was made in re- jgard to the indictments for throwing } games. Danzig and Lithuanian Rows..« (By Associated Press.) grea’ s, the inhal | . , wanted Mr. y to get dow! ally to dig themselves out and first|im the Petit Luxemburg palace shortly before noon today) (jas, tacks on hin charge that under the chairmanship of Dr. Gastoa Da Cunha, Brazilian) Jucge 1 ambassador to France and president of the council. | The council decided to reappoint four members of the reports of blocked rail traffic and de- moralized wire service were shown not to be exaggerated. fandis had negtectod his o: cial duty. Mr. Ws ‘i ‘elty said Judge Landis ac: AN | Sarre Valley governing commission whose terms have ex-|°¢?'! the Job of arbitrator a month NOTHER STORM ‘ - ; after baseball players were indicted ° "i |pired, M! Rault, French president of ant. Two others were sponsored by ay sh i BREWING IN EAST | w 2 j at Chicago for throwing the 1919 "ASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—Another|the commission; Major Lambert, Bel-|Honorio Pueyrredon, Argentirie for-| 96 iq yea! WE : ea gium; Count De Moltke Hvidtfeldt,|cign minister. One would proclaim as} Bs : snowstorm/over the greater portion of/7 oo arc, and R. D. Waugh, Can-|members of the league, all nations| Mt. Welty declared baseball could the territory east of the Mississippi) 2 7 si |which have not announced their de.|Net be made clean “as jong as base- and” north’ of the Tennesseo-North) 7) decided to invite Ger to remain outside. ‘The other] Dall magnates can be protected by a Carolina line is probable. tonight or) y and Ecuador to send rep.|Would provide that all members of| federal jude Tuesday, the weather bureau's fore-| /UNSAt ey i the 1 4 neil should be electea| Referring to the damages of $240,000 * to the transit conference|the league council should be elected) | wn) aesotl > sus cast said today by. the’ aaseribly assessed on associations in the su G Rae talc’ weather. prevailed in| <2 2 Held in| Baroslonay-thaamuch) Py fed that the adminis-|Preme court of the District of Colum: pate ag yak f yous| Sethe, assembly. oF fhe, longue al Gsn:| ida sea ep . ne amin | bia under the anti-trust laws, Mr: the it today after the storm o! ¥eS-l ava recommended that all interested | ive comn sion for the tre val- Welty a terday. At Boston there was 16 inches) ‘tates be represented liey would be re-appointed. Hiv nal Tent AL . . - |* The counc et at the Petit Li “While baseball organizations need paopsnures, Chroughou! |given the council's proceedings will| ©” pragie open court and gave them a bath." tory were low today, but the bureau| q ee Bourgeois, former president of the u ‘ 7 be continued this afternoon, opposi- Mes \ - Mr. Walsh said he could not get that said Sioy would rise slowly except in| having developed to” full pub.|coUncHl. Dr. Gaston Da Cunha, Bra- : not g on having developed to ub i 5 : arenes: ssiohda Peninsula: Wiest avec TP cat epeil 5 ambassador to EF and| 7 é pogo UOC, SUSH AS LWHe) AALEG SIOE Sa Lo president of the council, was in the{ Judge Landis would no! have ate - resolution by Lord Robert Cecil of| oy iiy. | signed the baseball contract if he had DUBUQUE, Ia. Feb. 21.—Because/ Great Britain and Hjalmar ting |“ fs balleved: the /-verdict ‘was. just? Maw of little rain last fall, a nearly snow-|o¢ sweden, put through the va| “Mr. Bourgeois represented France,) Wucved {10 | less winter and the ice already gone} Arthur J. Balfour was the British y assembly. | delegate, while Italy, Spain, Belgium, an and China were represented re-| tively, by Marquis Imperali Dt} out, old river men today predicted} = = —__ there would be no spring floods on the; the] (By Associated Press) | announced that he had no other wit sp pismemtiol river. Laat | apring, $1,.| PARIS, Feb, 21—Questions of] ¥rancavilli, Count Quinones De Leon, | Hesses. ‘ a‘ ee: "| great importance were laid before 'the| paul Hymans, Viscount Ishii and Dr.| Representative Gallivan, Democrat, RoSLnOD . council of the 1 of Nations| Wellington Koo. Officials hoped the|0f Massachusetts, said he would like | We |when it met here toc These prob-|qiscussion of the nda would be| to talk to the committee Ia adding li Tit liems included the Allied attitude. t0-!completed by March that he did not think Mr. Out wes |ward Danzig and Armen the pri Switzerland's refusal to allow} charges had * n substantia | Pos ed plebiscite in Lithuania and) league contingents to cross that} The : fer ne ed wus Wi My plans for the relief of Armenia. iSsuntry on. thelr Way: to: ‘ia | Membe ahoheita er ife, Then Dies) In addition, a commission to study] will b scussed early during the| off-hand discussion of the propriety lamendments to the covenant of the|meeting, it was decla:ed lof Judge La ‘ : = lleague was to be named. ‘hree ot| jt wos wot expected the| Chairman Volste athe commit: (By Associated Press.) |these amendments were would act uron su tee probably would mee ain Wed- POPLAR BLUFF, Mo., Feb. 21.— | important capital of the league b neggay to hear any ¢ witnesses William L. Tillman, 79, reputed to | One was introduced at Gen from weh actica is| we ished to anpes : er a cathe have been married more times than |c. J. Doherty, a Canadian delegate,! being discus gue circles, Tt bf Ben also is exrect A NOL < any other resident of Missouri, died |and proposed. that Article X, about|is known one member had refused to} et time oppositi here last night after a brief illness. | which storms of opposition have raged/attend the council had the meeting! Pe 4 a a ee His eleventh wife died last week. Ishould be eliminated from the coven-|been held at Geneva. Continued age Bi f “0, DAUGHERTY SELECT.) FOR ATTORNEY GENR/:.’S POST method of handling the problem is of|s Definite ‘Announcement Made of Second |: vane CASPER TO . . > * ° “4 | ; Ww ASHINGTO! , Fe bs Pen rest 74 Choice in Cabinet List; Program jue: eit ac teaties | CELEBRATE For Tariff and Taxes Decided |prising two tariff bjl’s, a temporary | from his father and was identified eT a pecmandnt shbamine witnitee BIR T Meera rt eeerenn ot: Che-pincet ae legislation sandwiched in between the. time ‘of his death. | George Vroman (B, Chairman Fordney of the House post of the American Legion num- A east DPM EG ei GOH RsHOR OE: siness hou e closed in th bered him among its members and mil~ ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla., Feb. 21 ennite pnneunemnen: Waye and, Means: ‘comnilites, "A5-).” Business houses: 01 Be monastic itary honors probably will be observed] that Harry M. Daugherty of Ohio had vibe ci pa a conference with Mr. Harding at St.| curtailed and public’ offices and tho by the legion at his burial in llinols.; \teopney.generalship under the coming administration wes) )0)) 0), ee eee eelil Cateat erotik BOUdR TE erenaneoran cs esenuer Hels SUE de here today by President-elect Harding. Mr. Fordney cil his com Washington's birthday on vive (by. 'three) aisters-\ and,” three TRAE peaiaentalect said he was con-| dent-elect. conferred today with Averell| would turn attention to the w|TPuesday. The day will be erved 1 brothers: Donald and. Evelyn Wyatt) {le é . | Harriman, of the Harriman shipping| program as soon as the pending em-|the schools with appropriate Pru: reside in California, Harriet is attend-| vinced that Mr. Daugbtery would) (MNT tle ny i eward he was|srpen: riff 1 of} grams in which sc ¢ children w ing college at the University of Colo-| “make a great attorney-general much inipcsaned tthe MEASTOr eo rhe ay.” ‘There omel Cais part rado, Joseph and Herbert are in a mili-) when his attention was called to) oi oping men who want the govern-| sentimer ong committee mer eo ies eh: tary academy at Alton, Ill, and Zella,| recent newspaper attacks on Mr./ to out of the shipping busi-| be nactment of the Payn BROKERAGE FAIL the youngest sister, lives in Casper-| Daughtery, he replied Bees Marich Ja > measure K, Feb, 21—The tailure| Not all the family will be able to at “Phe opposition to him has made he president-elect said he regarded| that § } se >. wa irm of Morris & pereason Seer me more than ever convinced that I) the suggestion to abolish the shipping sposition coulk Pe) pe | ee eae rould like to have him in the cabinet.” joard and create a new executive de i 4 tock exaha TNCIL MI TONIGHT. Myke! 3 = é r Sabin nina ee comprises W. Wilson srhesey council. meets this even-| ‘The selection of Mr. Daugherty, who| partment to deal with: shipping p w Tex., Feb. 21—A heavy | Herrick, floor member; 5. Eversl ing at the city hall’to discuss several| was the Harding pre-convention rai | met tute el aero ine pete | morning is believed to have | Bénnett, Frank L. Scheffey, Jy sid 3 , teas “T think there is a growing feeling,” | ¢rc norni li , Benne Sik on matters. bi ot Me 3 i