Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 22, 1921, Page 4

HATHAWAY AND AMOS TO MEET IN SMASHING BOUT AT [nts MONDAY Lively Preliminary Scheduled to Precede Match Between Taylor and Linow Here Next Week; Battle Will Settle Recent Draw Eddie Hathaway and ‘Kid’ Ames, two of Casper’s best sluggers who battied to a draw before a crowd of enthusi- astic fans at the ringside on January 24, will again provide the fistic entertainment for the athletic card next Monday night featuring Jack Taylor and Ivan Linow in the main Hathaway has stood well with the Casper fans since his way to the champion-; and the next above amateur boxing tour- ney a year ago but Amos made him himself when the sbip in his < TOOT HELO TO BEFREE AGENT Landis Rules in Favor of St. Louis Americans in Dispute Over can be charged to the] tho bout between t week but with both on n a decision over the other rougher sports arc exchange of| punches and the probability that one| or the other will be declared the win-| Both keep in good condition for| long distance go by constant prac- tice and training—a virtue of which| ty of boxers cannot be ac-| WINS INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S SKATING TITLE—Miss Gladys Robin- son of ‘Toronto, who won the women's international ice skatimg: cham- pionship at the international meet just closed at Lake Placid. N. ¥. wrested the title from Miss Rose Johnson of Chicago. FIFTY ELK ASSURED FOR POLE MOUNTAIN RESERVE LARAMIE, Wyo.. herd of fifty elk will in the very near future be placed on the Pole Moun- tain reservation east of Laramie now appears to bé a certainty, following a letter from Colonel Dugan, comman-[ CHICAGO, Feb, 22.—The decision of pestbery. canbe asco: | sioner of thy advisory council of or- affair will round out &n/ ganized baseball, was rendered today that the/in favor of the St. The question was whether Phil Todt, ja pitcher and first basersan, was free agent at the time he signed a-con- tract with the St The St. Louis Nationels had claimed his services. The case was pending before the Louis Americuns, CHEYENNE DEFEATED BY UNERSTY PREP FE CHEYENNE, Wyo., University Prep five last night defeated the Cheyenne high five, 23 to 22. en CALIFORNIA-MICHIGAN ‘Taylor is op-} limistic as usual over his chances for Cossack but with little “dope” on which to guage the result appears very it is believed will be no m Leuis Americans. much in doubt by sport authorities, has reached the pinnacle of his fame in the wrestling achieving his present reputation has downed many of the Hackenschmidt was the Cossack as well Feb. 22.—The 1920, when the players father asked from Laramie the coramission to declare his son a The player, when 16 years old had signed with the St. Louis Na- tionals and was later sent to Sherman, near champions. 18,000 TELEPHONE CALLS HANDLED DAILY HERE THAEATENED 10 System Is Complex, but High Efficiency Prevails in Casper About all the average person knows or ever will know or care about a telephone is to grab the receiver from the hook, shout a number into ‘the transmitter and fume and fuss until the answering “hello” comes uver the wire. The technical side of telephony is too complex for the layman. The whys, the wherefores and the reasons, and peed beitgd wires are all con-}the line to overcome the cause of a using. Telephone engineers, wire|terruption. ‘This explains to the pub- chiefs andthe experts in anJ about| lic the speed with Nich service is|tionery. The company also Saree the exchange accept them and thelr|resumed after Breakdowns caused by | tea, coffee, chocolate ard milk froo 0 respective functions 2s simple|storms, floods, fires and the many|expense to the operators. The matron enough, but are they? other accidents that befall telephone| in charge is on duty during the day: In the basement of a telephone|lines. How the telephone company| Calls handled through the local ex. plant the underground cables enter,| obviates difficulties is best shown in| change is a rovelation in nutiber. ie are divided and carried on up to the|the leased wire service carrying press| record tur January shows an Lbagins switchboard in the operating room.|matter, industrial corporation busi-|of 18,000 local calls per day. e In the basement, also, are the stor-|ness and market reports for broker-|bustest period is just before noon when age batteries from whence flows the|age houses. This service requires con-| the average reaches 1 600 an Eee “juice” for both the telephone and|siderable special equipment. If a|There is a fairly steady average © telegraph. Being the heart of both| break occurs between the distributing | calls from 8 a. m. to 6 p. m., at 1,500 wervices, it follows that these batteries| md receiving offices, these reports}an hour. There is a rapid increase must, at all times, be maintained, in|are simply switched to other lines| from 6 a. m. to § a. m- at which lat- the highest state of perfection. which are in aporation. The matter|ter hour the number takes up the In the instrument and wire room,|may be carried thousands of miles out| usual hourly stride. which is oh the first floor of the Cas-|of any direct route but it winds in] ‘The unusuafly large number of per exchange, approximately 3,000/finally to the proper receiving office| changes and removals in Casper adds lines enter from the basement. You and the delay is nothing worth talk-|to the burden of the operators. Fully get here, a momentary impression of]ing about. As long as a wire line]590 changes are made during a direc: other wire entanglements you havelenters Casper the company will find|tory period. While these changes are known, a way to hook up on connections with] in process it requires the closest at- In this department. Old Man| the outside world. tention on the part of operators to ‘Trouble is employed. He. is faithful] The Casper operating room is no] observe the markings on the multiples, and constant, works two, shifts, day| «different from any other well-equipped | which indicate changes and disconnec- and night, is always on the job, rever|Plant. The switchboard is of the lat-| nections, to prevent the ringing of sleeps on duty ,and keeps steady on|¢St type, manually operated board. | wrong numbers. the trail of the wire chief. The, multiple - system. is “employed. | ‘1+ has been and still is a problem It is all interesting and it is a lucky} Which merely means that the operator! i, oxtension work to keep pace with thing the wire chief- knows all about|Can connect and ring any line on the/i1, growth of Casper. Since 1917 it, or else we never would get to talk|board, however each operator re-| there has been @ gain of 2,000 tele- to 9765-Q. ceives calls only from those lines con-| (100.520 of which came in the past The way the wire chief is pursued) ected to her special position. year. There are now a total of 3,000 by his nemesis is a caution. Old Man| This operating room is no man's! subscribers using the local telephone Trouble saunters through, looks the|!and. You will understand why it is) vice, At this time ft is necessary to works over and—bing! A fuse blows. add another new position to the out. True an automatic arrangement switchboard and another telephone re- rings a bell and a light flashes on, peater. The company put in $30,000 locating the exact seat of the das- worth of new cable during 1920 and tardly “work of O. M. T., and with will duplicate in 1921. his skil? and knowledge the wire chief) py |is enabled to make the repair without M ADE 4 He PPER |the slightest interruption to the pub- It is fortunate that reasonable allow- lic service. So it goes all day long. ance was made for future extension The contest between the W. C. and BY B BARUCH a when ‘you learn that forty young lady operators, including a ledy chief, are on dtity here. They work, in eight- hour shifts, but are relieved every two hours for a brief rest. A very comfortable retiring room’ (ts main- tained supplied with many comforts, including current lterature and sta- Tex., and then to Houston, refu8ed to sign a contract with either der of Fort Russell, Rotary club. J Before placing the elk on the reser- vation the colonel and the state gamo warden have asked that protection be assured them, and with this in view the Rotary club today decided to offer a reward of $100 to the person or per- sons giving information which would lead to the arrest and conviction of anyone caught killing or attempting to kill any elk on this reservation. The Rotary club has taken this step In order that the safety of the elk may be assured, thereby making the Pole Mountain country one of added interest for the tourists and autoists. received by the PLANS ARE CALLED OFF (By Associated ARBOR, Mich., Definite announcement would be no football game this year Calffornia and Michigan came today, along with vompletion of the Michigan schedule. GUERNSEY QUARRIES T0 been placed on sale at Brick and the advance demand indi- cates widespread loca} interest in the Fans along the railroads out of Casper are now making week-end In 1920, the St. Louis Americans, treating the player as a free agent, obtained his signature to \a contract. Judge Landis declared Todt was a matches as their excuse and the usual number of these will be at the ring- AUTO THIEF ESCAPES PEN Ls SARATOGA BANK 10 BE REOPENED THIS MONTH when the Casper exchange was con- O. M. T. is @ merry one. mand as well as it has. The very latest thing in telephone| WASHINGTON, Feb, 22—tn an ad-|is the. watchword from manager to range conversation, This little ma-|reiterated his charge that B. M. Pa-|tain States System will compare in (scence LE ag talk just as clear as a fow remarks| While chairman of the War Industries made face to face. The chief says, | board. F SLADE GOES T the transmission limit of a number 12} “There was a corrupt conspiracy structed, otherwise the company could never have answered the public de- Down in the instrument room they ‘The local service is prompt, and ex- have what is called the “repeater.” cellent in every respect and courtesy equipment. The toll wire man says|dress Monday in the House, Repre-|omce boy. As to no man’s land, it is its business is to put the “kick” into| sentative Mason, republican of Illinols, | goubted if any exchange in the Moun- chine seems to be on to its job for alruch, of New York had “made more | emciency. test brought out a three-hundred-mile| than $50,000,000 in copper alono” copper wire is approximately the sume|#"4 Barney Baruch was head of it,” , as the distance Casper to Denver and|Shouted Mr. Mason. “He had the pow- without the “stimulant” by this little|¢® Of the government an turned it to instrument it would be next to im.| tie use of men who were robbing the ossible to com: government. tees toler Wee teeta tS Adare eat Representitive Wingo, Democrat,| A.A. Slade, superintendent of Arkansas, asked Mr. Mason whethcr| schools, left this afternoon for At- aE thn etna wnocent appearing) 15 iad attemtped to have Mn fa. iantie Clty where he will attend, the contraption whieh locates trouble on! rch prosecuted. annual convention of the National Ed- the lire. when something goes) «1:1 try to have him indicted after | ucation Association to be held the first wrong between Billings and Chey-) March 4," Mr. Mason replied. three days of next month, Before re- CONTINUE OPERATIONS Feb. 22.—The Ingleside Lime Rock company, a sub- sidiary of the Great Western Sugar company, will continue operations at the Vaughn & Barlett quarries instead of clésing down the plant, according to an announcement correcting pre- vious reports that activities would be New contracts have been entered into recently, Casper mountains are as well or better fixed for the propagation of elk as the mountains about it might be well to look into the mat- ter of placing a small number of the animals in this vicinity al: BURMAN AND MOORE ARE. MATCHED FOR 12 ROUNDS (By Associated Press) TOLEDO, Ohio, Feb. 22.—Joe Bur- man and Roy Moore of Chicago, ban- tamweights, will box 12 rounds, no- decision, here the night of March 1, it was announced toda: (By Associated Press.) SALT LAKE Charles Harris, 40 years of age, serv- ing a indeterminate term for the theft of automobiles, escaped from the state At the time of his arrest a few months ago the police aileged he had stolen automobiles in Denver He is said to have a wife and@ two children living at Prise, UNDER NEW DIRECTION SARATOGA, Wyo., Feb. 22.—The Stock Growers’ State bank of Sara- toga, recently closed on the order of the state examiner, will reopen for business on February 28 under the management of Fred H Healey of Encampment and associated in- terests. A reorganization of the bank was effected at Cheyenne, it is understood, and officers will be an-. nounced this week. The institution will have strong financial backing, according to the announcement of those in charg: prison today. and other cities. Sa es In the last 100 years only two comets —one in 1843 and the other in 1882—~ have been brilliant enough to he seen ———_ “Mind your own business with all your absolute will and soul; but see @ good business first.” IN HIS NEWEST PICTURE “THE ROAD DEMON” AND A DEMON HE IS, IN AUTO AND SADDLE! SPEED—THRILLS—AND STUNTS GALORE A WILD AND WOOLLY ROMANCE ON WHEELS Two-Part Comedy, “ROARING LIONS ON PARADE” CONTINUOUS 1 to 11 Today, Wednesday and Thursday AMERICA Finest Theater—Always Worth While -ADMISSION 40c enne the wire chief is made aware of| ‘The Iilin tional lois representative said| turning he will attend the national it instantly. By @ manipulation of| john D. Ryan and Mr. Baruch came|convention of the Boy Scouts of plugs and levers he can not only de-|o Washington to “arrange to seli| America to be held in New York City, tect the natyre of the diMeculty, but| copper to the * government, adding that | March 7. ' its exact location as well. It is then} both should show all their booke if ————— @ mere matter of despatching a re-|they wished to convince the public if} Harry Free, state ‘representative, Pair man from the nearest point ‘on'they were ilty of no wrong-doing. returned yesterday from Cheyenne. ee RIS/zy ONLY THEA TE Ra NORMA TALMADGE SUPPORTED BY Thomas Meighan Ina Special Return Engagement of One of Her Finest Pictures Shows at 1:00, 2:00, 3:30, 5:00, 6:30, 8:00, 9:30 Also Return Showing LARRY SEMON “BETWEEN ACTS” IRIS ORCHESTRA ADMISSION 30c TOMORROW “THE GIFT SUPREME” . A Special: Production With Selected All-Star Cast, Includii Star of “THE MIRACLE MAN” and “THE. PENAL CHANER DROWN BABYS WIFE'S CHARGE of Family Is Accused of Hold- ing Infant Over Bucket Feb. 22,—That Rob- ert Montgomery, husky @x-street rail- way motorman of Denver, had held his- two-month-old , daughter over threatening to but in response to ap- peals from his wife finally had com. promised by figpping icy water from the bucket on the naked child, was one. of many charges of cruelty pre- ferred against him by Mrs. Mont- gomery when he was arraigned be- fore Justice W. H. Edwards Monday on a charge of beating the wife and CHEYENNE, Montgomery eountered his wife's charges by relating a story of inter- ference in his maritxl affairs by rela- tives-inlaw, one of whom once shot him in the leg, he asserted, and sev- nother occasion in- ~aded his home with the intention of killing him, but on findimy him ab- sent had contented themselves with wrecking the furniture. that he had beaten Mrs. Montgenie! asserting that the bruises which exhibited to the court were cal by his efforts to restrain her when she attempted to stab him with a He made ugly charges régarding his wife's morality. Justice Edwards took the case un- der advisement and remanded Mont- gomery to the custody of the sher- iff pending a decision. —— Surely a champion among the ab- sent-minded is the young woman of recently caused a eral of whom on carving knife. Pittsburgh, who sensation in a large store there. parently fully dressed in the height and wearing a rich fur coat, this young woman went into the store and began her shopping. place was warm, and her fur coat made her uncomfortable, so she un- fastened it and thew it open. then seen that she had forgotten to An assistant called put on a dress. her attention to the fact dropped unconscious. BIG SPECIAL HOLIDAY BILL LYRIC Continuous 1 p. m. to 11 p. m. IS THE PIED PIPER STILL ON THE JOB? The answer is to be found in the Cinema Bohemian Why do girls listen to dangerous proposals? Even in a free love af- fair she mingles with the low lights as well as the high ones. It’s an amazing pic- TOM MIX Tom Surely Mixes "Em In a Big Western PATHE REVIEW “THE TIGER’S COMING: CHARLIE CHAPLIN In His Latest and Greatest Comedy “THE KID’