Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 10, 1921, Page 1

Weather Forecast Cloudy nd unsettled tonight and nday, continued cold temperature; Incar freezing over entire state tonight. g ‘OLIJME V Took a Drink or Two calin Apartment, BALL SCORES NATIONAL LEAGUE. CASPER, WYO., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1921. IRL DIES, FATTY — NUMBER 284. | | EXPLOSION ON FORMER SUB KILLS THREE LIVERPOOL, Sept. 10—(By The Associated Press). — A tremendous explosion on the former German submarine Deutschland at Birken- head, across the Mersey from Liver- pool, killed three men and injured three others today. It is possible that many others perished. | The submarine was being dis: |-mantled at the time af the explosion RIVER 1S DYNAMITED FOR BODY, DOUBLE MURDER HELD POSSIBLE > Great Storm Takes Toll in District From Gulf ‘to the Canadian Line CHICAGO, Sept. 10— Country-wide thunderstorm disturbances were reported to- SAN ANTONIO SIT ~—-BY BIG DISASTER of Dead Run as Hi, SCORES PERISH IN FLOOD > ° irty Bodies Recovered; ‘100 Believed Dead; Mexicans Are Heaviest The Casper Daily | Crihune | EDITION | ° ° Sufferers % % % e e Over 30 Bodies Recovered and Estimates gh as 500 in Stricken City; Property Loss of Millions Results From Great Cloudburst SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Sept. 10.—With 30 bodies recov- ered out of an estimated death list placed by some as high as SUSPECT SEIZED IN WISCONSIN 500 and with a property loss variously estimated at from one ARBUCKLE IS HELD | missing for twe and Became Hysteri-| _tie boiy ct weraara 5. “Fatty” Admits in |. cu1caco, sept-10—The | miting the Des Plaines river BULLET! CHICAGO, Sept. 10.—The body of a man, found buried under the euler the home of Henry W. Church, was positively identified this that of Carl Asmus automobile salesman, who has been days. Church is being returned to Chicago to was arrested in connection with the Daugherty Asmus’ fellow salesman, yesterday. from iz of police this morning were dyna- at Maywood, a suburb, in an : e { masts ide F At seat nos Statements to the Police effort to find the body of Carl Ausmus, missing companion . agg | of Bernard J. Daugherty, automobile salesman, whose hand- delphia, ..100 030 000-4 9 4 Boston .. .001 001 30°— 5 10 0 BULLETIN peers eee mangled body We greet from par ae Boag Batteries — Meadows and Henline; FRANC! Sept. 10—Rosene Fatty) Arbuckle, motion day. e police theory is usmus, a salesman for the Fillingim, McQuillan and Godwy, Gib- aieanee to a i sas” rere, Oy Potter of the ~e aes automobile agency where Daugh-| sisted he had paid Daugherty $5,400 ee death fe erty was employed, was murdered by | for the automobile. Daugherty's stayers. Daugherty, a graduate of Harvar At Pittsburgh— Harvey W: Cuiseh, Shipeirs)etham| University ands er resident of Culcngeies e who bought an automobile from|St. Paul, came to Chicago a short Meer the rooms of ie Daugherty for $5,400, was in custody| time ago from Philadelphia. Ausmus nations and en route back to: Chicago from|home was in Bloomington, Ill. Both 7 » a O'Farrell; M and Gooch. ines Trenance oem tae a Oy tthe’ woweienia tae bestia the {‘Adams; Wis., today to be questioned} were former service men and Daugh- At New York— RH. E. -010 000 000-— 1 8 I 800 000 00°— 3 6 1 Grimes and Miller; Barnes and Snyder. =~ pags Los Latterkes — Haines, North and Clemo z 4 ats was sent to a chemist for analysis. « os Reports from! Los Angeles. said \rbuckle, accompanied by his attor- rey, left Los Angeles for San Francis: 20 this morning by automobile. He 's quoted as saying ho would assist in che Investigation. As a result of the party in the hotel, Arbuckle was asked to leave, the hotel management said. Arbuckle in Los Angeles said Miss Rappe came to his apartments to meet a friend of his who wished to model some gowns for her. She had “one or two drinks,” he said, after pies — Coveleskie and O'Neill; by the police. In the basement of his home the police found two hats bear: ling the. initials of the cwo automobile salesmen, and @ baseball bat anda hatchet, all stained red. ji With Church when hé was arrested oi stricken while ai a ight in a hotel suite .¥** bis white-haired mother. He de- NATIONAL ...- F or gr night ina Jelared he had no. knowledge of how ‘At Cineinnati— iii eS bcoe (Fatty) An autopsy dis-/taucherty met his death and said he St. Louis 099 900 002— 2 closed Miss pe died as the result of congested Jungs Muper-' knew nothing of Ausmus. © He in- Cincinnati ....200 012 01°— 6 13 1} inauced by peritonitis. Her ‘stomach 5 3 PES POWEL i erty was said to have held a’ cap- tain’s commission in the tank corps. Church, formerly a railroad” brake- man, appeared at the sales agency ‘Thursiay morning and said-he wanted toupurchase a cer for his father, who residew at Eagle River, Wis. He ar- ranged for delivery that\afternoon and |* said he would have a certified check (Continued on Puge’6.) SELECTED FO NEXT M. E. CONFERENCE Batter Shocker and Seyereld. ONLY 221 “TORRINGTON, Wyo., Sept. 10— ‘Three thirty-six former service men were ants for the 221 irrigated awarded at a drawing con- yesterday by the United States on service. A com- Plete list of the winners was not = today. ‘The greatest number of applicants for one tract was over 150, who reg- istered preference for one of the more valuable units in the division of land just opened under the North Platte project. GIRL CAPTURES “OMAHA, Sept. 10.—A girl, Miss 5 grt, Jennie B, Fuller of , Neb., -an ex-nurse in the army, won the 3,436 EX-SOLDIERS IN DRAWING LAND PRIZES AWARDED ‘thusand four hundred and | which she became hysterical. Two other women, who were callers at the apartments, he declared, looked after Miss Rappe, after which she was tak- en to another room and placed in the care of a physician. Arbuckle said he had no intimation her illness was (Continued on Page 6.) prize farm at the Goshen Hole land drawing for ex-service men and women at Torrington, Wyo., yester- day. Drawing began shortly after noon and continued until nearly midnight. There was a general exodus of from Torrington today, excursion carrying back to their homes throughout the country. Nearly 50 ex-service men reached Torrington yesterday too late to file applicxtions. The hun- dreds of men gathered on the court- house lawn cheered lustily as the names of lucky girl applicants were The land was only recently open ed and is frrigable: It was set apart by the government for for- mer soldiers and women of the army. ORNADO AKOTA, Reports of Committees. and Final Canvass of Appointments Occupies Business Sessions of Church Today Powell, Wyo., was chosen as the meeting place for the 1922 session of the Wyoming state conference of the Metho- dist Episcopal church at the business meeting of that body held this morning. Reports of a number of the conference committees were heard arid accepted at ‘this morning’s session and the re- mainder will be heard this afternoon] the present time, there being but two prigg.to a meeting of the bishop and| retired ministers and the families. of sablnet for a final canvass of the list} two deceased ministers upon the lists, of appointments. but it was pointed put that this num: tag! was cocuplon ‘ith an CAeMtvelia ane Ce pimggtoerense and thatist ve is well to begin now t vid session of the conference held behind! against this santas: Sete ae closed doors and this was continued; The committee recemmended that ae MStase peoee * it.| tS Members, Rev. W. L. French, Rey, @ special commit-| i. M. Jones’ and Dr, Shepherd, bi tee appointed at the conference last | continued with the district. cers year to consider ways and means of; tendents asa commission to work out snereetne Asad oe we a eee the details of the campaign and that claimay - H. E. the commission be empowered to ask Shepherd and recommended ‘that fol-j assistance from the national board of lowing @ year of educational work,| conference claimants when the time the Rayne enter a campaign toi to launch the campaign arrives. aise 388, Sse baie hd at al The committee on conference xela- for this work. eres | tions and the board of examiners hec- principal sum will go to pay the sti-/ ommended that Hubert Webster of pends of retired ministers and the|*tnermopolis. be elected to elder’s or- widows anid. orphans cS args bk y oe) ders, that Alvin R, Dixon be advanced au re PEER oe conference. /io second year ministerial studics, CLAIMANTS HERE. {that Albert Evans be continued in ‘Wyoming has very few claimants at (Continued on Page Four.) RAILROADERS IN EL PASO FAVOR STRIKE, REPORT Vote Taken by Trainmen’s Brotherhood Reveals Sen- timent for Walkout * Against Cut. EL PASO, Texas, Sept, 10.—Mem- bers of the Brotherhood of Railway Traihmen in El Paso have voted in favor of \a strike, following nation- Wide wage reductions. . This is the first instance in which a strike vote result has been obtained by others than the railwaymen, it is believed. A-grievance man, sent from the grand lodge at Cle d, took an in: dividual vote from each man, and at the completion of the balloting said that the vote was “practically 100 per cent in favor of a strike,” according to members of the brotherhood, The Big Four conducted a joint meeting there last night at which representa. tives from Cleve'and were and following the meeting, clared that the sentiment in railway the Strike and will support it. wa Acad deem a S STRIKES 3 KILLED Storm Just Outside of Sioux Falls Is Damaging to Life and Farm Property; difficult to obtain. bd A Reports that the village of Hartford and Ellis had been destroyed were without foundation. Ben Woods and Géorge Fenelcn, both of Sioux Falls, were found dead vator at Avoca, Neb., last night, ac- cording to telephone advices from Weeping Water.’ No one was killed or injured and no estimate of the prop- erty damage was available. -Near Avoca-a number! of ‘small ‘farm "bulld- Another Twister Hits Nebraska SIOUX FALLS, S. D., Sept. 10.—Three men were killed, Snother was seriously, perhaps fatally injured, at least one Person is missing and heavy damage to livestock and farm Property was caused by a tornado near here last night. Wires are down and the roads impassable with fallen trees aud debris and accurate reports of the toll of the storm are in a field some distance from the road where they left their automobile ings were destroyed and some live- stock Was killed. , when the storm broke. No damage was done in Sioux Falls proper. Rh ae EXCESS RESERVES. NEW, YORK, Sept. 10.Pho actual Bech sd condition .of clearing house banks and WINDSTORM DAMAGES trust compantes for the week shows NEBRASKA BUILDINGS. that they ‘hold $16,368,930 reservé in OMAHA, Sept. 10.—A severe wind-j'excess of legal requirements. This storm damaged a large number of/is an increase of $16,769,000 from last buildings including the Farmers” ele-|'week, ee , ROAD REPORT State highwa} department, Sep- tember 10, 1921. Grant Highway—Nebraska line to Keeline ‘good, dusty and rough to Lost Springs, and fair to Orin. Yellowstone Highway — Platte county line to Orin, some rough places then good to Douglas and Careyhurst; Careyhurst to Glen- rock fair then rough to ‘Casper. Casper to Shoshon! and Bonnevillé generally; good. Shoshoni-Lander Road— Good ex- cept rough between Riverton and Hudson. -~ Casper-Sheridan Road —~ Rough rom end of pavement to 20-mile ill then fair to Salt Creek and the Johnson county line. Johnson county lne to” Sheridan, ‘generally’ good. day from the Canadian north- west to the Gulf of Mexico, marked by tornadoes in South Dakota and Nebraska, a disastrous flood at San Antonio, Texas, and heavy rainfall over the enti:> Missis. sippl valley. Thirty known dead, with estimates running as high 0, were reported from San Antonio, while two persons were reported killed at West Sioux Falls, 8. D. Heavy rainfall varying from 5.1 inches ‘In Watertown, Wis. to 1%, inches in San Antonio waa reportel by Prof. Henry J. Cox, head of the weather bureau here. He said @sturbance was general over the «n tire country and would probably last over Sunday. from the northwest last night, l’ro- over the Ohio valley south to the gulf. ‘The rain is fast turning to snow in the northwest and the temperature in Montana is ptready below Prof. Cox predicted a genera} fall in temperature to a marked degree. FROST REPORTED IN, NY STATES. DENVER, Sept. 10.—Frost was re- ported. today fram the northern por- tiow of tho Rocky mountain plateau and weather) b=-eau forecasts Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Utah predicted frost at higher eleva- tions in these states tonight. A statement by the bureau “Rain or snow. on* the: northeastern Rocky mountain slope and rains from the Missouri valley eastward to the middle Atlantic ‘coast have attended yesterday's areca of low pressure, Wyoming to Iowa. The following heavy rains are reported inches: Huron, 8. D., 1.70; Des Moines, Iowa, 1.68; Siovx to three million dollars, San Antonio today had suffered the worst flood in its history. A cloudburst in the Olmos valley, north of the city, sent a flood of water down the San Antonio river which Joined with flood waters from the Alazan and San Pedro cree’ On the west and tmundated a 11 part of the business section and sev-) eral residence sections The residence section in which the greatest los# of life occurred is oc cupled largely by Mexican families. Two thousand persons are home-} less. The electric light and stregt railw power plant was flooded and it w !be several days before rervice will | the! be reshmed. ‘The water supply was | cut off and it will be 24 hour: ‘defore ‘The disturbance swept down over| BUSINESS DISTRIC) the Missouri and Mississippi valleys | ENG Le +s fessor Cox said, and would continue] wnich freezing. for led to the it can be resumed. Telephone serv-| ice is disrupted. ‘Water from the San Antonio river winds through the city from its tributary, Olmes creel, flood- began at ULFED BY WATERS. jwrater which and} fssuing an extra pres at 6 a. m. Alarming repo the valley of the 4 south of the city coming in but the Light ts unable to confirm them FLOOD CAUSED BY EIGHT INCHES OF RAID An unprecedented rainfall midnight Wedne continued throughout Fri day night, causeg the flo eight inches of ‘rain edition on a hand s of lif in mio river which y and Fret 1. At least fell during this period. Early last night there was heavy rainfall in the va! of the Olmos creek, north of the city. Water from the creek rushed into the San Anton'o river and joined the surface as pouring into the river from the heavy tain throughout the day in the city proper. The river went out of its banks within a few ed the business section of the city for Many blocks to a depth of from 10 to 18 feet. San Pedro creek onthe west Bide of ‘the city which runs through the Mexican district overflowed and jothed the waters frometho river and sept through the southerm part. of the city. Water poured 15 feet deep in the lobby of the Gunter hotel which is a Mock from the river. The flood reach- Alamo plaza on the east, which is five blocks from the river. ‘The power house will be out of com- There is a partial telephone serv‘ce. Water service will be cut off for at} least 24 hours. Streetcar service is suspended indefinitely. Both banks of the San Aantonio which has advanced from southern|Tiver are strewn with the wreckage, night. of houses. A number of automobiles! were swept away. Throughout the night the east and | Omaha, 1.80; Iowa 1.22; Keokuk, Iowa, 1.20; Daven-| ‘fom each other and it was only at hours..[he water and electric light [plants are located along the banks of jthe river and thelr operations were quickly stopped Streetcar traffic was suspended and {hundreds of persons were unable to Teach their homes. Many ‘of them Spent the night wandering about Police and firemen empted to | warn residents in the Mexican section of the city and succeeded in getting hundreds of them to safety before the Pedro creek overflowed. Many others were cut off before they could get out saia. | Mission for at least two or three days./and the police estimated the loss of life in this district would be lar; At $ a. mythe waters were receding but were not yet within their banks, Soldiers were bringing out people who had been marooned throughout the The weather still was cloudy and further rain was in prospect. Un- less there should be ynusual precipi- tation in the Olmos valley it is not City,| West sides of the city were cut off) believed there Is further danger. Wire of commercial telegraph com- orders other than the B. R. T. favor |‘ okt, Tivmmcl #8: daylight that the waters had receded panies went down early this morning “Freeaing temperatures in Montana| ¥fficiently to permit. crossing by one! and scores of persons, anxious to get and most of western Canada, with | ridge in the northern section word to the outside that y were much cooler weather extending to Newspaper plants were oded but) safe went to the office of the San An- northern Colorado, are accompanying {tte San’ Antonio Light succeeded in| (Continued on Page 6.) the northwestern high, the center of brn which remains over Alberta.” ID i DU R K ; = RA Shot Jack Delury in Self-Defense, Says DIVORCED MAN MURDERS PAIR Woman on Trial for Murder; Case Will Go to Jury Tonight, Belief Here BOSTON, Sept. 10—Mrs, Ella Wells was shot and killed and A. Louis Alt- meyer, a lawyer, was fatally. wound- ed dna street car here. Charles A. Wells, who was divorced by his wife, within a day or two, was arrested on the car, charged with the shooting. Passengers said that Wells, sitting two seats behind his former wife and her lawyer, drew a pistol, rested it on the shoulder of a young woman on the seat between them, then fired five shots. « Altmeyer died in a hospital. fc Riapeathon a Ofticial Hel tor Fraud Is Freed on Bond Taking the stand in her own behalf, Ida Durham, who is being tried for the murder of Jack Delury, gave strength to the foundation of self-defense which had been laid in her defense by her attorneys, Hench and Bullack. Quivering and on the verge of a nervous breakdown, the accused woman was fighting a brave battle to maintain con- , | trol of herseif as she answered the arrived here, she traver RENVER, Sept. 10. T. S. Na aa > Mente enick “ts pd the streets me", ‘ » th g of Delury on the evening! had gath Speed pa ‘ formerly charged -yester-| or June 17, ; wa y conspiracy to defraud the ‘: just about to enter the crowd when she International ‘Trust’ company, togeth-|_ Telling of her ar here and her, Was roughly jostled and was suddenly er with Birnle 9. Connor, former tell-| hopes of getting Jack Delury to make’ confronted b: Delury, whose only er of the institution, today was re-|®mends for losses he had caused her| statement, she said, was “D—— you leased from “Jail under a $2000 boad|®nd.of her efforts to secure the as-/T~have you now.” As he mado the furnished by a bynding company. sistance of county authorities in her, statement, Mrs. Durham'said that she Connor’s bond was fixed at $7.500 behalf Mrs. Durham laid a pausible stepped back thinking that she saw a on one account and at $2,000 on an- foundation for tbe eliminaries to knife in his hand and as Delury other. Late today he had not obtained | the shooting and the act itself. ped after her she fired the shot a bondsman. Lost in a new town on the day she ch cost him his ‘The case has been devold of the sen onal ts: incidents which were pre- 2i The case ig now on the verge of completion and in all probability ° - e o ° ° * will be concludéd and sent to the jury ea this evening. In presenting the case of the state in an hour and a half county attorney M. W. Purcell made a new record for the presentation of prosecution ex!- SHIP BOARD TO IGNORE UNIONS WASHINGTON, Sept. 10.—Refus- al of members of labor organizations to live up to their agreements with ig board operators will be fol- lowed by employment of “whatever labor is available” to fill their places the board announced today. Members of the board adopted a resolution going on record as being 4 | “firmly, of the opinion” that labor organizations “must observe the let- ter and spirit of such contracts.” Action of the board followed re- ports- that membérs of the long- shoemens union at New Orleans, La., and Mobile, Ala., were refusing to load vessets with material previ- | ously handled by non union labor. | dence in a murder case. In all proba- bility he will waive the right to in- troduce. rebuttal witnesses and w close his case with a brief summ up of the state’s contenthon With the case based on self-defense the defénse quickly admitted all ma tial charges, admitting that 2 ham shot and killed Deh the introduetion of the sun and othep state exhibits. Y