Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 9, 1921, Page 1

AD. LASKER 15 MADE CHAIRMAN GEIS STREWN FOR } Denver Times Correspondent First to Penetrate Valley Below City, Sends Back Following Story on Conditions Defiled by Looters of the Dead. ARKANSAS RIVER, BELOW BOONE, Colo., June 8.— (VIA PUEBLO) Tuesday Night, June 7.—(By Courtesy State Ranger Control.)—Ten million dollars worth of Pueblo goods, scores of bodies of Pueblo citizens, and God knows of inundated farm lands for 35 miles south on beth sides of Last Republican Cam- paign Is Selected by Harding for Position |= WASHINGTON, June i Formal announcement of the appointment of A. D. Lasker, a Chicago advertising man, as chairman of the shipping shipping board was made to- day at the White House. Mr. Lasker served as advertising manager for the Republican committee during the last campaign. Mr. Lesker is appointed for a term of six years as the representative of the central portion of the country. His nomination and those of the other. six members Were sent today to the senate. |The other members are: T. V, O'Gonnor,, Republican, of But- falo, N.Y, @ppointed for five years as represehtative of the Great Lakes region: ; Former Senator George F. Cham- berlain, Democrat, of Portland, Ore., appointed for four years as a repre- sentative of the Pacific coast. Edward C. Plummer, Republican, of Batn, Me. appointed for three years as 3 representative of the Atlantic it, } [Woman “Bluebeard” Returned to U.S. To Stand Trial on Charge of Murder Batterjes—Causcy, York, Vaughn and and Utes New York at Cincinnati; game post- Rear, Adnt “William 5S. Benson, retired, pointed jifor one year, as a representa- 5 of ‘the Astetic coast district. rd % The o} nomina+ tions were. feferred” to Scordmlties in the usual ‘curse. cree aeebase > WASHINGTON, : “June 8.—The nomi- nations of John D. United States attorney for the western dis: ‘Was sent to the sen- it Harding today.” WASHINGTON, ‘June 8.—Brig. Gen. George C. Richards of Penn- sylvania national guard, mentioned by President Wilson for chief of the military bureau, but. never confirmed, was renominated for the Place today by President ent veer aie FUGITIVE SHOT, CHASE ISENDED Mrs. Lydia Southard, charged with the murder of her fourth husband, Edward F. Meyer at Twin Falls, Ida., and beliéyed ‘to’ Have slain three previ- | Be eee athe eat rere er ee ae custody of a deputy sheriff. ‘ $15,000 Haul At Roadhouse CHICAGO, June'8—“Line up here or you'll get shot,” commanded HIGH GIVEN DI Bishop Mead Calls U pon-Young People to GRADUATES OF GLOBE, Ars. ‘Sune Lepealta B. (Red Whiskers) Burnett, convict and of Regan mur- der of Mariona Teague here on the night of May 22, for whom a search has been conducted continuously by | sheriffs posses and) cowboys, was shot apd, instantly {dilled yesterday afternoon ‘by a rifle in the hands of a member of the posse which had = ee ee | > STILLMAN Bes. as as) LIMITED. ited until June 14 the stay which he granted yesterday in the Stillman (tt) voree case. Opposing counsel then agreed to resume hearings before! Referee Gjeason June 15 at Pough- keepste, Defense counsel announced a woman known only as Clara would be named as en additional co-respond- ent. Warm Day; measure against discase. s given to that section the odor of reveal more definitely tho loxs life -witich the Red Cross. still es- Umater at 500. Work of recovering bodies has begn subordinated to the To Aid ‘Starving \. NEW ROCHELLE, N. ¥., June 8.—} Supreme Cét}t)Justice Keogh has lim-) anston early ‘this ‘morning. The guests laughed. ‘Three other ‘bandits stepped in, fired several shots into the ceiling and then gath- ered .up money and jewelry esti- mated to aggregate about $15,000. One woman was said to have saved diamonds valued. at - $15,000 by dropping them into her cup of coffes. She ercoveted it ‘thent later. $40,000 Donated 'China by Masons WASHINGTON, June 8.— Forty ‘thousand dollars, a_donation from the supreme council, Scottish Rite Ma- sons, Wes cabled today by the state department to Minister Crane at Pe king for aiding the starving Chinese. Realize on Educational Investment in Address Tuesday. Evening The Natrona county high school class of ’21 successfully finished an important lap of the journey over life’s highway last night when they were presented, with diplomas at the graduation exercises held in the new high school auditorium As the high school orchestra played the opening selection the curtain rose, revealing 28 young men and women in caps and gowns, and all wearing smiles of } Mary Flinn received a tremendous ap. satisfaction for the work completed.|plause from the hearers. After the invocation by Rey. R. L. At this stage of the exercises Supt French, Miss Ruth Kimball rendered} A. A. Slade introduced the speaker of a piano solo which brought loud ap-|the evening, Bishop Charles L. Mead. plause from the large audience gath-} who held the attention of the audienc: ered for the annual event. The high|while he delivered one of the most! school girls’. chorus then sang “June| instructive and interesting addresses | Days” from tho platform. The man-jeverfheard here on such an occasion. ner in which this was rendered showed| By way of introduction the bishop talent on the part of the pupils and| called attention to the fact of how the able training on thé.part of the in-| people of this age are surrounded by | structor. The violin solo played by! the spirit of progress. In speaking of SUNSHINE HURRIES WORK OF SANITATION IN FLOOD CITY Sanitation Needs’ ij eaphattred on First Stricken Farm Area Covers 296 Square Miles, Is Report PUEBLO, Colc., June 8,—(By The Associated Press.)— A bright sunshine today played over flood-stricken Pueblo and made the more imperative’ bodies cf animals and clearing of debris as a precautionary the work of removing dead Already the stench of decaying meat in the flooded area work of cleaning up and restoring sanitation. DEAP ANIMALS BEING REMOVED. Although there are many dead ani- mals lying around in the flood ‘areas. these bodies are being rapidly removed and the danger of disease, in the opin-} o'clock this morning. A special train fon of authorities, has been greatly| of Western Union Telegraph company overestimated. In fact, they are in-| repairmen got here. last night to re- clined to think that with the passing| connect the city with the dutside world of the first wave of sorrow and ex-| in a commercial way. Railroad repair- citement it will be found that the| men are coming in daily. A carload of situation is not as serious as it was) baking powder was to arrive this <ft- eriginally pictured. | ernoon. Every available nurse, every Boy | Restrictions against outsiders enter- Scout, every patrolman and fireman! ing tne city was tightened again today, and every volunteer of every sort is at)The chambers of commerce of sur- work today and considerable progress; rounding cities were notified to issue has been made already in the cleanup) no permits except to persons com- campaign. | pelted to.come here on official busi- Funerals of the identified dead are| ness or bring supplies. Four hundred | to start at once. This Colonel Ham-| more guardsmen are coming this aft- tock says, will be quiet and without | ernoon to assist in patrol work. ceremony in, order that the sorrow] MAIN STREET wey be put behind a3 soon as possible.| VJADUC? OPENED. Fuo? SHORTAGE The Main street viaduct which was PASSES TODAY. closed yesterday when its condition} Food has begun to come into the) became menacing, was openéd to traf city in large quantities. A train of) —— 23. carloads of supplies arrived at 4/ + (Continued on Page 4, Rising Waters in Central Wyoming Do Great Damage Pathfinder Is | Heavy rains reaching flood proportions in many places in, *Central Wyoming are beginning to take a heavy toll of dam- lage in roads and bridges, according to reports that are con- stantly coming here. The huge Big W 'shoni is reported to have been washed out by the flood waters CONFISCATION BY REDS ENDS RIGA, June &—A Moscow dispatch Announces that a decree is being pre- pared to prevent further confiscation jof money from private persons except by court-martial. . Another decree |provides that anyone arrested must hours, and, if a member of a trade union may be released if the union vouches for hit Killing Officer Would Be Felony 4 Under Proposal '* WASHINGTON, dune §—1 ment to the federal penal codé te make the killing cf A federal officer engaged in gerving a process a felony waa rec: ommended to ¢ongréss today by At coesets General Daugherty. The pénal code. Mr. Dougherty explained, makes it a crime to assault an officer of the United States s> engaged but makes ‘no provision for a killing. COUNTY PLOMAS in¥entions and discoveries he showed how that the person could cross the Atlantic in the shortest period of time was the king of the hour. “We have become the tourists of the skies and’ the playmates ‘of | the clouds,” he said. ‘The school is the most democratic institution in the world and a very important part is played by the instructor and pupil. “The problem,” he said, “is to pro- vide a course of study that will give the best returns on the investment. The real purpose of education is to attempt to provide adequate citizen ship for the world. The psople must know how to live in the world, must know the rights and duties of citizen- ship in order to make a social com munity. “The law of the land insists that a child, remain in school until the age of 14 in order that he may recelve a intelligent personality. In only will he be a fit contribu to society on the investment It is neecsrary for the people tion made: to be trained so in order that the world. may live in peace and har- mony.” Bishop Mead then outlined what he | considered the three steps necessary to attain this goal: “First, personal interests must be subordinated to the interests of the community; every life . affects hu- manity.” ‘This was illustrated by relating how the discoveries in the medical science had not been confined to a few but given to the world for the benefit of humanity. The value of education in the returns it gives to the hu- race, econd, we must regard personal- ity superior to property. Property is ised as a benefit to personality. We did not think of the $10,000,000 lost when the Lusitania was sunk but rather of the loss of human life, The life of Abraham Lincoln was never measured by his.estate, but what he gave to: the’ world. “Third, regard for the principal of unity. There is no Asiatic chemistry nor African mathematics. Two and two make four anywhere in the world. ‘There is no place where'disease lurks and the rest of the world is safe from its. ravages. When the Spanish, in- fluenza first mado its appearance in Trrkestan, we in America were uncon- cerned, but thé time came when we had tobe concerned and do some- thing. The whole world is coming to- ma (Continued on Page 4) }be given the reason for this within 24) the raging Arkangas below Pueblo. In the vicinity of Vineland, Avondale, Devine, Boone, Fowler and Manzanola jdcath holds supreme sway tonight with only. the torches of thirty ghouls to light up the desolation In company with Kanger Eddie Bell and by means of motorcycle, automo- bile, saddle horses, ple, footwork and swimming, we than thirty miles of below Pueblo today, father into the dismal swamp than any human has come since the event cul Friday of last week, discovering four bodies of men, millions in prop erty carried down from Pueblo, hun dreds of dead horses and cattle, many lodged in trees. The stench and the view are such as are given to few men to experience. Starting out from Pueblo in a ranger side car and mo- torcycle early this morning, we bueked lnkes, rivers, creeks and yel low swamps for mi'es and miles through a trackless waste of mud. marked here and there with bed sprinz wrecked automobiles, oil tanks. dead horses, t-blos and trunks, in wild confusion, « Crossing Salt creek in a sea of spray and taking the course that once was the main pike to La Junta, we traveled. by motorcycle to the St. Charles river, which is roaring high, swollen to an enormous volume, Here a single cable across the rive’ is the only means of crossing. With a re- cruited squad cf farm hands to grunt and tug on the pully we went across FARM HANDS FIND CORPSE OF GIRL. Eddie went first, I next with our mud-caked boots and slickers within eight inches of the torrents, Here the farm hands “had just pulled out the corpse of & seven-year-old girl, Which they {had wrapped in paper and laid reverently on the.river bank. Hiting a car we went on down until the muck and the debris fipatly raised le “Leaving penetrating But Security of Not Menaced nd river bridge at Sho- during the past two days. At. Lander the highost water ever known is reported. Strcets are seas of water and heavy damage to mer- cantile stocks in the business district is reported. Nearly every basement is flooded with water. Reports reaching here today state heavy rains have occurred around Orin Junction. Every report received from ntral Wyoming from Keeline on the east to Lander on the west and from the borders of Johnson county on the north and the Casper mountains on the south, tells of heayy rains and eloudbursts. ‘Traffic wif! be biocked for days at |Shoshoni due to the washout of the | Big-Wind river bridge. Other places in Fremont county are almost impass- able due to the high water in .th Big Wind and Popo Agie rivers. Alarmist reports concerning the safety of the Pathfinder dam, the huge pose apart service structure west of have spread here. constantly Saree the past several days, En; Binecrs for the refinery here have kept constant check onthe rise of thaggiver and have checked the con- aitioR$ at the dam. Thore is no need ‘or alarm fk to the safety of the structure ‘or the high water. The Platte river in Casper is rising rapidly, having attained ite high water mark of last year, 11 feet 10 inches, some time yesterday afternoon. The messurement was taken at the Stand- ard’s ‘raflroad bridge on West Yel- fowstone. This depth is nearly eight fest below the plant grade That the refineries are in no dang of high water is shown by thé meas urements and records at the plants, The bed of the Platte river is 18% feet below the grade of the Standard) plant.. At the east end of the Stand- ard plant the Yellowstone highway is two feet beiow the: plant grade. This condition obtains at the west end of the plent also. At a point on. the highway about midway on the plant the highway is four feet below the plant grade. Measurements of the water in the Platte river this morning at the Stand- ard railroad bridge show the water has reached a depth of 11 feet 2 incher, This is seven feet and four inches be- the plant grade and four inches below the highway Pullman Strike Vote Cancelled CHICAGO, June 8.—The strike bal lot circularized among the Pullman company’s shop forces in more than 80 cities, which was to have been voted and returned Friday morning today was recalled, following a con- ference with the railway emp'oyes de- partment of the American Federation of Labor. and t we are mired in ithe midst of the ruins of Pueblo, 32 miles below that town. Heré there is no human life but us. ‘About a mite.up the river, which is approximately three-quarters of a mile at this point, torches are Blinking in the night. Ghouls, mostly down val. ley ‘Italians, who have found fortune come, to. them on ‘the swollen river, work, We passed scores of y, all busying jands along the rivér. ‘Sheriffs and’ deputies have warned them out, and wo ordered them out again, but as soon as we passed they went back to digging in the eternal slime. © Rumors run among these folks of lucky finds. One man turned up a trunk belong to John Bukowitch of Pueblo. He ‘ig said to have found $142 in it, two watches and papers. He threw the papers in the mud. Another ghoul got $500, they say, and reports of finding cases of liquor are frequent. Down beyond Devine, along the right of way of the Missouri Pacific. the angry river has heaped moct of Pueblo. CITY IS MOVED DOWNSTREAM BY WATER. There are houses down ‘there and shops, and. stocks of goods, and bar. rels of oil Great electric signs still intact, stand propped against trees, lies from the river bed — tonight erything is in a tangled heap; some stuff is: isolated on islands, much in- terred in the mud that is waist deep everywera except in the quicksand beds. Splashing, dodging, ducking through these swamps of the dead to- day, Eddie and I came to but one écnelusion—no man will ever know how many died in the Pueblo flood, or when they died, or how, or where God-and the river have buried them. There are great mountains of wreckage dotting both sides of the river bank In some places the river was ‘particularly generous, leaving tons of stuff within the area of an acre. low three | feet Yellowstone —_ C. H. Reimerth of the it Yan Denberg accounting firn! here, re- turned this morning from Cheyenne Schat other things, lie strewn in the mire and the quicksands| MILES ALONG RIVER GRAVE | TORCHES OF GHOULS LIGHT UP ESOLATION LEFT BELOW PUEBLO © JHIP CRIPPLED BY ICEBERG IN COLLISION OFF ATLANTIC COAST Bntish Freighter Makes Way Toward St. Johns Port After Misfortune; S. O'S. Call Is Heard HALIFAX, N. S., June 8.— The British freighter Seapool struck an iceburg off the New- foundland coast today and slowly is making for St. Johns with her forefront broken and her forepeak full of water. Advices received by the Canadian naval staff here said that the steamer was not in need of immediate assis- tance. The position given by the Seapool was 48:20 north latitude, 48:50 west longitude, or approximately 300 miles easterly from Newfoundland. The Seapool, a steamer of 4,502 gross tons, was built in 1913. She was last reported “leaving Montreal for Dublin June 2. For several weeks steamers arriv. ing here have reported vast ice fields off the Groat Banks, BOSTON, Mass., June 8.—Announce- ment that a steamer had struck an iceberg in mid-Atiantic and was be- leved to be sinking was contained in a radio message received at the navy yard here today, The message did not name the steamer and gave the posi- tion only as 48:30 degrees west longi- tude. The message read: “Just struck iceberg: position 48:30 west longitude Some one near please er Believe -we are sinking.” ne ress call, wan received qn ay which requires ia station, THREE KILLED IN TONG WAR FRESNO, Cal., June 8.—Fong: Kee, & pioneer merchant in the Chineso quarter, is dead, and three other Chi- nese are fatally wounded as the re- silt "of a tong war that broke out here shortly after 10 o'clock last night. ' wedi habe Ste MALLORY WIN BIC XENEAM, continua’ high-pow! waye, P sendin AGAIN. Kent., England, June 8—(By The Associate: Press.) —Mrs. Molla Bjurstedt Mallory, Amert_an women’s singles ‘tennis champion, defeated Mrs. Ford Hutch- inson by 6-3, 6-1 in the third round of the open nis tournament here * RCAD REPORT At 80a. m. today, the following road conditions reported on state ishways: Yellowstone highway—Very heavy rains aroand Orin, also heavy rains from 15 miles east of Glenseck, on west to Shoshoni, Trafti¢ detoured at Alkali Creek on account — of bridge washed out. Heavy rains from Riverton to Lander. Groat hichway—Heavy rain line t> Orin. Salt Creek road — Heavy rains throughout. Salt Creek to Kaycee, no report. Big Wind River bridge at Sho- shoni reported washed out. Travel will probably be blocl.:d at this point for sime time. High water in Big Wind and Popo Agia rivers, Fre mont county. At Lander the highe.t w=!er ever (Continued on, Page 4.) where he has been the past few days attending to business for the firm. known reported. Streets and base ments flooded. HEROISM OF EN IN STOPPING H Cars Are Checked Before Locomotive Ts} Plunged Into Platte on Alliance Branch of Burlington Railroad counting the story of heroism shown by George Fouts of Den- ver, engineer of Burlington train No. 303, Alliance, Neb., to engine had run upon a weakened trestle near here and was sinking into the flood swollen waters of the Platte river. They were unanimous in so" entire eer of which had become weakened that Fouts’ action saved the entire flood waters, began swaying and train from going into the river and | sagging under the weight of the en- UNION, Colo., June 8.—Trainmen here today were re:| Denver, who brought his train to a stop last night after the: PASSENCERS SAVED BY CINEER IS TRAIN te: Snedeker, fireman, leaped into the water. Fouts managed to swim to | safety but Snedeker was carried down | stream }and searchers, unable to reach him, | heard his cries for assistance for some He sought refuge in a iree |time. When they could get to him he was dead One end of the front baggage car followed the engine in sinking into the river. The baggage man was rescued from the car as it balanced precari: ously on the river bank. Trainmen said that only the safety chain devices on the baggage*car prevented it from being entirely submerged. Two passengers were reported te have been slightly injured when the accident occurred. The passenget 4 tmperiling Ives of 200 or more pas-|gine. Remaining in his seat, he set coaches were taken to Sterling; Colo, sengers. the emergency brakes and brought the and from there routed into Denver ‘According to Fouts, the trestle, one' train to a stop. Then he and Elmer|by way of Cheyenne, Wyo & 4 X