Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 14, 1921, Page 1

AMERICAN CHOSEN FOR PLACE ON WORLD BEN ‘Che Casper Daily Crilnime a Weather Forecast | Probably rain or snow in northern and rain in southern portion tonight and Thursday; not much change in temperature; temperature near freez- ing nor@west portion tonight. VOLUME V . WYO. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1921. 9,500,000 BARRELS RUDE PRODUCED HER Assessed Valuation of Oil From Natrona County Fields Fixed at $19,304,391 for Last Year; Midwest Refining Leads in Production and Midwest Oil Is Close Second Natrona county produced over 9,500,000 barrels of oil last valuation of $19,304,391.02, according to a statemen of equalization and which has just been made public. year was placed at $2.00 a barrel, a figure that ruled i part of 1920. The figures show that the Midwest Refining company 706 barrels led the ficid but was close- ly pressed for honors by the Midwest Oil company which fs credited with the production of 3,360,507 barrels. The value of the product of these two. concerns alone was in excess of $14,- 000,000. Other concerns which had sufficient rroduction to warrant taxation follow in order of yield in barrels: ‘Wyoming Oi! Fields company, 919, E. T. Williams Ol! company, 297, ; The Northwestern Oil company, 7 ; The Ohio O!l company, 270,- Omaho Mother Gives Birth To Her 22nd Child Pany, 49,281; Wyokans Ol! syndicate, 26,092; the Glenrock Oil company, 21,- 664;Mosher Oil company, 17,730; Iowa Wyoming Oil company, 1,340; Jupiter, Oil company, 429; Outwest Petroleum company, 312, a Gas production for the past. year which is taxabl year at “he rate of .06 per thousand Cuble feet totaled in excess of 2,500,000,000 cubic feet and in this department also the Mid- west Refining company is the leader. ‘The Midwest's production of 865,865,- 000 led the way, Wyoming Oil fields Placing next with 461,678,000 cubic feet. The New York Oil company, 355,355,683; Midwest Oll company 334 610,717; Fargo Oll company, 44,847, 467. 5 The Midwest Oil company with a. to- talpf 120 miles of pipeline in county ds in pipeline values, being charged ith $693,924.00, The Natrona Pipe- Une company {s next with a valuation Of $180,500 and the Tlinois Pipeline company third with a valuation of $167,696. To Be Pressed By Spanish Vets MINNEAFOLIS, Minn., Sept. 14 Pension legislation and a resolution urging retention of Spanish war vet- rans in thé federal service without demotion, were before the annual en- campment of the United Spanish War Veterans today, William T. Lueper % New York, last: nfght- was clected supreme grandissimo of the military organization of Serpents, composed of Spanish war veterans, Japan and Chita Modify Claims TOKIO, Sept. 14—(By The Associ- ated Press).—The recently organized Far Eastern News agency says an agreement may shortly be reached at the Dairen conference. Both Japati and the Chita goyernment have modi- fied their original proposals, and the delegates are. reporting to their re- Spective government and awaiting in- structions. ere ROAD REPORT Grant Highway—Nebroska line to Keeline good. Dusty and rough to Lost Springs and fair to Orin. Yellowstone Highway — Platte county line to Orin, some. roligh places, then good to Douglas and “Careyhurst. Approaches to Alxali Creek bridge and frst bridge west of Careyhurst, rough. Careyhurst to Glenrock fair, then rough to Cas- per, Casper to Shoshoni and Bonne- =ville generally good, Shoshoni-Lander Road—Good ex- “cept somewhat. rough between Riv- Serton and Hudson, in Road Rough from end of pavement to Twenty e hill, then fair to Salt Creek 4 Johnson county line. - Johnson county ‘line-to Sheridan, generally goed. Murder Accusation Stands Despite Jury Indictment for “Manslaughter” in Connection With Girl's Death SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 14.—The way was cleared today for a speedy trial of Rogcoe C. (Fatty) Arbuckle, motion picture comedian, on one of two charges which hold that he is responsible for the death of Miss Virginia Rappe, motion picture actress, after she had been subjected to an alleged attack in his rooms in the St. Francis hotel. ‘The first charge i murder, prefer- murder charge should stand. If Ar- red Monday by Mrs. Babima Maude/buckle is cleared of that charge, in Delmont, who said ehe was in an ad-|the event that he is tried on it, he joining room at the time of the al-|must Still face the manslaughter leged attack, The second is man- slaughter, whieh was returned as a true bill by the county grand jury last. Right, and which will become @ for- tial indictment when ‘t is ‘filed in thie authonties are discissing to-|thorities and the grand jury that they day tho chafge.on which they willjWwere present at the Labor day part: jal. District At-|in the St. Francis hotel In which Miss (Continued on Page 6.) The coroner's*inquest, which start- ed Monday, wes continued today with Miss ch Prevost, and Alice Blake, showgirls, scheduled as witnesses, Dring the a€tor to tr t tourney Braiy is of the opinion that the| "They attosted in statements to the au-; year which had an assessed it of valuations fixed by the state board The average value of the oil for the n field operations during the major with a total production of 8,650,- Facts Marshalled to E Gotham Union OTATE RESTS IN NIC Labor Auction Is Opposed By Davis said today in a statem: the statement said. ‘A further encour-| laging fact is that $500,000,000 is now avaliable about the country in the NEW YORK, Sept. 14.—Plans of [form of bonds issued or ap Urbain. Ledoux to repeat here the |Propriated by county and “auctions” of unemployed which he | mun for staged on Boston commons, met | Works. with opposition today from various | S@nized pub or. organizations interested in the wel- | Pisitive signs of business recovery | fare of the jobless. Ledoux an- [have been furnished by the commis- nounced he would-hold his first aue- |Sfoner of labor statistics, Secretary tion here next Monday. “Such an exhibition would. ouly make trouble and would Davis declared. “Taking all the families of the Unit- ed States, there are, on the average, no useful purpose,” said Bird Coler, | ov two breadwinners to every fain-| commissioner of public welfare and /ily,” the statement continued. If one head of the mayor's committee on |of these breadwinners is unemployed, employment. it seriously cripples, but ft does not) Hugo Frayne of the American |necessarily impoverish the family.) Federation ef Labor declared labor | Mind you, I am not saying that there! was opposed to the auctions and jis not at this time considerable actual that Ledoux would get “a warm re- | suffering among our people, nor that coption” if he attempted to hold |this winter may not bring more suf-| them here. fering unless something intelligent Fix Guilt for Ed Schuster’s Death on For- mer Policeman; Defense Fights Attempt to Identify Nicholson as Man Who Fired on Taxi Driver The state rested its case son, former police officer, iast as the latter drove up pletion of the 's Indications yesterday that an son in the absence of 2 difficult turn this afternoon when self-defense was advanced as the pléa The defense introduced a gun alleged to have Been ‘carried by Schuster ont the night of the Killing with which he is:said to"have threatened Nicholson The latter fired in. self-defense, his attorney will attempt to show. After introducing formal witnesses for the purpose of placing on the rec- ord the fact that a crime had been committed and that all {ndications pointed to Nicholson as the perpetrator of the crime the state placed witnesses on the stand for the purpose of defi- nitely connecting Nicholson’ with the responsibility. DYING STATEMENT OF SCHUSTER BARRED, The state's Crst attempt to intro- duce one of the alleged final state- ments of the dying man through Bill Manthas, a witness was a failure. Manthas’ took the stand/and told of accompanying Schuster to the hospital and of his efforts to relieve Schuster’s: suffering before he arrived at the institution. known to be dead and more ity of the explosion. SEVEN POINTS YOU NEED TO KNOW IN OBSERVING ‘CASPER DAY’ AT FAIR The Casper Chamber of Commerce calis attention to the things to remember in connection with the celebration tomorrow of Casper day at the Wyoming State Fair, Douglas: First—The day, tember 15. Second—Time of departure; eave Casper by automobile in time to ar- rive at Douglas not later than 11.30 a. m. Third—Assembling point at Doug- lak; afsemble near the entrance to the State fair grounds at 11.30 a. m. for a short parade heaaea by the band. Fourth—The Casper -band will march to the fair grounds at 1:30 p. m. and will play at the grandstand following Thursday, Sep- ca who is charged Positive identification that he'was the man who fired on ‘|ted that he took charge of Schuster SEVEN KILLED IN PLANT BLAST PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Sept. 14:—Seven workmen are than a dozen injured as a result of an explosion this afternoott among tic Refining company in the southwestern Firemen believe the death list will reach. 1 followed the explosion but was confined to immediate vicin- SPEEDY TRIAL FO ARBUCKLE IS SEEN shortly after the noon recess today in the trial of L. B. Nichol- with the murder of Edward Schuster on March 10 in eee Rad the Hong Kong cafe, West A street. With the com- first’ witnesses’ for the defense went on the stand. __ attempt would be made to establish an alibi for Nichol- “What'lr anything did Schuster say to you?” the state questioned. As the witnems started to answer, Judge C, D. Murane the defense coun- sel) who was on his feet most of the time to challenge the admissability of evidence ‘objected ta the question on the-ground that no proper foundation had been laid. The court sustained the ‘contention jot Mr. Burane and the witness was temporarily excused. |NEGRO WITNESS TELLS. STORY OF SHOOTING. ‘The evidence whici nad been exclud- ed was suddenly placed before the jcourt in the statements of Erest Johnson, colored, the man who adipit- JOINT TRIAL OF OBENCHAIN AND ~ BURGH IS SEEN LOS ANGELES, Sept. 14.—A result of the publication of a canfession al- leged to have been made by Arthur €. Burch to’ Chandier Sprague. local newspaperman, may be that the prow. cution: will insist Burch and Mrs, Madalynne Obenchain be tried joint- ly on the charge of murdering J. Bel- | ton Kennedy. ‘This was the statement lof Deputy District. Attorney, Asa | Keyes today. He declared the dis- jtrict attorney’s office was in posses: sion of “ample evidence that there was'a conspiracy to kill Kennedy.” im cedintely after the taxi-driver had been shot. “Where were you when the shot was fired?” asked the state. “In the rear of the cafe Hong Kong ’ angwered Johnson. a MORE UNEMPLOYED IN JUDGE 1914, DAVIS D \Fewer Bread Winners Affected, Declares Secretary of Labor in Reviewing Situation From Optimistic Viewpoint; Bond Issues for Public Works.to Give Work WASHINGTON, Sept. 14.—Those who are disturbed over the 5,735,000 unemployed of today, overlook that in 1914 there were 7,000,000 out of work, a larger percentage of whom were men and actual bread winners, than are the present unemployed, Secretary Mr. Davis saic present employment figures included a great number of persons upon whose earnings no one actually is dependent. “Whileve have our unemployed, let us not forget the 12,000,000 who are stil! at work; ent. and efficient is done to relieve the sit, uation.” Discussing effort relieve the sit- uation? Secre‘ary Davis said the em. |ployment service of the depafttment of labor was doing all {t could to place workers in positions. "During ‘the harvest,” he explained, ‘it sent between 55,000 and 60,000 men to the farms and kept them moving os the harvest season moved northward. “The employment service is at pres: nt taking care of the threshing and corn cutting; situation wherever addi- tional men are needed for this pur- pose. ' “Cotton and woolen goods already show signs of recoy ry and there is searcely a plant in the country turn ing out silk hosiery that is not work ing full or overtime. Silk fabrics are onthe move. These things speak for themselves, and may be speaking the HOLSON TRIAL Convict Free, Makes Escape. From N.Y. Pen OSSINING, soph Sorace, a hter con- viet, made a, thellitag estape. trom Sing Sing prison early today. Saw- ing through the bars of his cell, Sorace climoed through a trap door to thereof of the pr.son, slid. 70 fect to the ground on a telephone . scaled the prison wall and dived into the Hudson rivers He emerged below the prison and dis- appeared in the darkness. . a BALL SCORES NATIONAL LEAGUE. At Pittsburgh— R. H, E. ton... 000-00 002—2 6 2 Pittsburg! 200 03 00*— 5. 12 Batteries—Fillingim, Morgan, Brax-| ton and Gowdy; Morrison Schmidt, | At Chicago— R. H. E. Philadelphia 900 000 000— 0 2 Chicago 110 220. 40%—10 2i 1 Ratteries — Hubbell, Betts and Ben- Relate what occurred” he was told. “One of the girls who worked in (Continued on Page 6) Arguments on motions for separate trials for Burch and’ Mrs. Obenchain are scheduled to be heard next Friday. Sib chen Bea Karolina Gets ‘Through Ellis, Sister Is Held NEW YORK, Sept. 14.—Stefania Watrobska, of Westport, Conn., camt to America eight yeats ago from Poland. She sayed her money hoping to bring her family here, But war, pestilence and famine left only one, her sister Karolina, Stef- ania sent Karolifia her passage money and waited. At Ellis Island she learned that Karolina had arrived too late to en- ter port as one of: Poland’s quota nder the new immigration law. Kar- olina wept and declared she would kill herself rather than go back to Poland. Stefania made a_ resolve. She gave Karolina her American clothing and her pass to New York and sent her to friends and she took the immigrant’s place. Stefania later was taken into custody charged with aiding an alien to enter the United States unlawfully. But she will not tell where Karolina is stay- ing. oil tanks of the Atian- part of this city. 0 or more. \ Fire if PDA NES Colorado Hero To Be Laid At Rest Thursday DENVER. Sept. 14—The funeral of Lieut.-Francis Brown Lowry, the only Colorado aviator killed in France dur- Ing the war, will be held here tomor- row. The body of young Lowry, who was the son of Walter P.! Lowry, city Be jmanager of parks and improvements, there, and wear a booster tag: arfived in Denver today with the bod- PAE ET, :- VT ee ae les of eight other Colorado. heroes. DIVIDEND, DECLARED. Airplanes will fly over the cortege TNDEPENDENCE ‘Kan., Sept. 14.—| and’ drop flowers on it. Mayor, Dewey The Prairie’ Oi and Gas company to-}C Batley bas asked that all activities day, declared @ quarterly dividend_of |.pause for two minutes during the fun- $3 and an extra dividend of $2; pay-}eral, in honor of the officer's memory. able October 31 to stockholders of rec-] City cffitials will take. part in the ord, September 30. funeral parade. during the afternoon program. Fitth—Band concert by the Casper concert band in the evening between 7:30 to 8.15 p. m. Sixth—There will be no special train, efforts having failed to secure enough purchasers of the cut rate fare tickets. - Sevent x booster tags can be secured from the Casper €ham- ber of Commerce headquarters. line; Alexander and O'Farrell. At St. Louis (Ist game} RK. H. E. klyn .. 0 200 12— St. Lonis 010 041 00— At Cincinnati— R. H. E. New York .._-..10 200 070—10 18° 0 Cincimmati 010 000 CO 1 6 1 Batteries. — Donglas und Snyder; Rixey, Markle and Wingo. fs ia a AMERICAN LEAGUE. At, Boston— R. H, E, Detroit 900 000 000— 4 Q Boston 000 100 007 — 1 7 0 Batteries — Oldham, Middleton and Bassler; Pennock and Walters. At Washington— R. H. E. St. Louis ......000 000 00— Washington ....000 001 10— At New York— Chi os New York 610 013 5—) At Philadelphia— RH. Cleveland -++--001 402_00— Philadelphia . 690 004 O1— Mrs. Mallory | Wins Match 0| lezed mistreatment of inmates of the and} was authorized by a resolution adopt- LNG CLARES LEAGUE JUSTICE BY VOTE TODAY Acceptancé Assured in Statement Issued From Home; Mandate Ad- sie language an the figures showing JUStment Postponed that more garages than houses have) been bufit recent months. Shoe | ~~ x jories seem to be working for th c GeMIe Sarton tunay hist prised were “NEVA, Sept. 14.—( By =. Ral pep Retell Lae 4 Associated Press.)—The by the further fact that men now out}eh «judges of the perma- of the hardy forms of employment % ‘ernational court of jus- not shoe b ers. The demand for "= I these will come when the railroads ‘e elected by the as- and factories are started on a more| semb @ of the league of na- going scale, wh the more tions t and were confir by thi grades of shoes for men w council © league, which met sim: into Jarger demand. a ultaneotay with the assembly long delayed. The situatic be The bench of the t chosen con- brighten.” sists of John F Moore ot the — United Robert Fin lay of ¢ oro ST. PAUL, Minn,, Sept. 14.—Mtinne-| of Jan wet Shee sota led today in a proposed national} Commor ie movement to relieve the unemploy-| Italy, Dr. ment situation and speed construction| BR. T. o. of Holland, Dr. An- of needed highway improvements. tonio S. de Bustame of Cuba, Judge Charles M. Babcock, Minnesota com-| p. m of Denmark, Dr. Max Hu- missioner of highways, announced alt nd Dr. Rafael plan to enlist co-operation pain toward-influencing congress to vote a 1921 a emergency appropriation POST / cPTE! ¢ uble highway ald, instead of the pro- A CoREZED BX JUDGE MOORE. posed 25 per cent reduction. The movement is being launched in line} NEW YORK, Sept. 14—John Bas with an appeal by Herbert C. Hoov-| sett Moore announced at his residence er, secretary of commerce, for dontin-| here today that he would accept elec uance of highway building to employ | tion to the international court’ of jus- idle men tice. He is in his 61st year. Elthu Root, who had dectined election be- peed ae SEE SLAYER TRIES TO BREAK JAIL ROEBURGH, Ore., Sept. 14—An at- tempt to break jail was made Mon- day night either by Dr. Richard M. Brumfield, chatged with murder, or IR, Ballet, cettmate of the dentist, according to Deputy, Sheriff. Hopkins, acting special jailer for Béumfield. cause of his age, is, 76. Mr. Moore has been professor of in ternationa} law and diplomacy at Col- umbia university for 20 years and has had a varied public service involving international relations. He was a law clerk In the departmen: of state In 1885, third assistant secretary ‘of state from 1886 to 1891, assistant nac- rotary of ‘tate in 1898, secretary and eounsel of the Spanish-American Perce commission in 1898, councillor of the state department in 1913. He hes been a member of the permanent court at The Magne since 1914 and ia Vice. chairman of the international high cormmission organized’ at\ the Hopkins discovered that one or the] Pan-American fnancial conference in other or both of the prisoners had] 1915. made ‘an effort to jimmy, the steel Hoor to their cells. A short piece of] LEAGUE POSTPONES iron bar was found in the cell Dep-| MANDATE ADJUSTMENT. futy Hopkins said. He did not learn |where the tool came from and neither would throw any light on the subject. GENEVA, Sept. 14.—(By The Asso- cated Press)—Decision not to inter+ vere in the mandates question pend- | Es. tin OS BG P ing the result of negotiations between PROBE AUTHORIZED. the principal mandatory powers and | AUSTIN,.Texas, Gept. 14.—Gover-| the United States was reached today | nor -Neff*today appointed a commit-} by the — special | tee of Confederate veterans to, make an investigation of complaints of al- commission of the league of nations. Lord Robert Cecil, representative of the Union of South Africa, recently presented a resolu- tion that the two principal classes of mandates for former German colonies b fmmediately defined and expressed (Continued on Page 6) Confederaté home. The | committee eG atthe first called session of the legislature, IRISH ACCEPT BRITISH ‘BID: TO MEETING Representatives Elected at Meeting of Dail Eireann Today; Premier Not Satisfied With Reply, Report DUBLIN, Sept. 14.—(By The Associated Press.) —Ap- pointment to plenipotentiaries to the proposed*conference at Inverness with British representatives to discuss the settle- ment of the Irish question, was approved by the Dail Eireann at its session here today. The appointments approved follow: Arthur Griffith, founder of the Sinn Invern to the prime Fein and foreign m in the Dail; min: but have been | cabinet, chairman. e negotia: Michael Collins, fi ance Robert C. Barton, one of the leading minister. y not follow yd George of figures tions. Eamonn J. Du; ber of parliament. it George Gavan Duffy, who has acted} in ‘the negotia- plenipote: itical quar throwing re- n, Sinn Fein mem- PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 14.— Mrs. Molla Bjurstedt Mallory, woman's na- tional champion had little trouble in winning her way into the third round of the women’s middlestate tennis tournament here today, defeating Miss Virginia Carpenter, Philadelphia, 6-4 and 6-3. A z p y for any breach in the ne- Se aeprpacnta ste of the Sinn Fe gotiations on the prime minister. road. = Reports circulated in wel The Dail’s official bulletin announc-| jones vag Shaul ome: oe ing approval of the five plenipotent-| (eo the Sin sf Seorge inc t 3 faries says this was done “in view of See ee a toes courlers conditions whic |sidered, might involve h it was oc a possible conference with re; . uch a. breach. tives of the British government. The Dail plenipotentiaries, it was explained, were not appointed to go to presenta- ONE KILLED IN PRISON JOLIET, HL, Sept. 14.—One man ; was shot to death and two were wounded in a dash for liberty at the Joliet penitentiary today, in which | Carl Stepina, a Chicago gunman, and Edward Thorpe, also of Chica- g0, made their eseape.. Stepina had filed the ‘holts"‘of his cell lock dnd released the others, REPLY MAY NOT |BE SATISFACTORY. e Evening Standard ier was so dissatisfied BREAK oS n t to Scotland immediately to Dublin to <F jeonvey to Mr. De Valera the premier’s views on the points r Theodore Sthilier, 25 years of age, was killed by. tue rifle of a guard as he was sealing the wall after the quintet had escaped through a hole cut in the roof of the cell house. John Koch, serying 10 years to life, end G€erge Williams, under the same sentence, were wounded seri- | ously. | riers were in effect told to go anid produce something better. Mr. De Valera’x note |Was_so full of reservations cipitate all sorts of difficulties they not. cleared up in advance of the [full conference.