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

SrDECE ‘PIPE eeerrrrrcr eeeeansnete wr evderecrserntecretererreeeert Pee PURNEEE: SeSRECREEN EDA S Ree __PAGE FOURTEEN TWO SERIOUSLY HURT WHEN HIT BY AUTOMOBILE Mrs. J. A. Stoolfire Knocked Down and Dragged While Crossing Street With Child in Arms; Driver Detained Mrs. J. A. Stoolfire, 1122 Box Elder street, and a little child suffered serious injuries at 3:30 this afternoon when struck by an auto at the corner of Second and Durbin streets. At the Women’s and Children’s hospital, where the injured parties were taken, an examination of their injuries had not DA. 5. K. LOY 70 ADDRESS NEXT CHAMBER FORUM Dr. 8S. K. Ley chemist for the Stand- ard Of] company at Casper, will ad- dress the chamber of commerce forum meeting on Tuesday, October 4, on the subject of “Protection of our War Industries.” Dr. Loy, realizing the great role that organic chemistry has played in the development of chemical warfare and believing in the incalculable peace- time benefits which accrue from the devolpment of the science of organic chemistry and its application in medi- cine, agriculture and the {rdustries cénnected with food, fine textiles and dyes, has consented to tell the peopie ¢ Casper of the grave crisis whict threatens the chemical industry of the been completed a short time later but they are believed to! coun:ry. Mrs. Stool-| was regaining con- ical nature. ated, crossing él ant when st ase was Gri Raymond Rouen. Circumstances "eel the accident had not been completely | estigated by the police but it is/ ‘ood = th the woman erazged some distance. Rouen ing an investigation of the case. Mrs. Stoolfire is an elderly woman, | which may aggravate her injuries. FOUR UNDER ARREST AND TWO | MOONSHINE STILLS SEIZED AS | ices Smatetagacee' =| RESULT OF LATE BOOZE RAIDS Activity by both county and city law enforcement agen- RQ THE BIG BUSY STORE (A CALL 10 JUSTICE HOLDUP PLOT (SFRUSTRATED, OFFICERS SAY Arrest of Two Neg Negroes, Héay- ily Armed, by Railroad Sleuth at Depot Believed to Have Prevented It. In the arrest. of Curtis Hayes, and George Baxter, negroes,” who were Placed under arrest at the Burling- ton depot last night, the police be- Meye that they nipped a plot waich had been laid to rob the Burlington Ricket office or some employe of that department. ‘When placed under arrest the two} megroes were heavily armed. One of} the men had a gun in his possession while the other is said to have thrown bis gun away at the approach of the officers. The gun was later recovered where the negro is said to have thrown it. Tt ts said that both men have been hotorious in the underworld life of the Sand Bar district. Police records show that both of the men are old-time of fenders. The arrest was made at the station | lest night after George Shermood, special agent for the railroad had watched the men for soms_ time. Thinking that they were abut ready to carry out the plan they hed batch- ed he called the police department for assistance. Although apparently =. overt act had been committed, it is Probable that the negroes will be ar- raigned on the charge of carrying con- cealed weapons and will be given “drifting orders" to leave town under Gelayed ja! ntences. WYOMING LEGION WILL. “TAKE PART IN BURIAL ~ OF UNKNOWN’ SOLDIER Some state in the union has lost a hero son who will be laid in an un named grave because the war depart ment records are unable to establish the identity of the boy who gave his Mfe for his country on the battlefields of France. The funeral will be fit- tingly held at the nation’s capital No- vember 11. In order that the state which for- merly held the home and interests of the deceased hero may be represented at his funeral the government is plan- ning to have at least one representa- tive of every American Legion state department attend the funeral. The government will defray all expense re- quired in having a delegate attend the Service. D. W. Ogtibee, department com- Mander of the American legion for Wyoming has taken the case under consideration and will name the man who will represent this state at the funeral service of the unknown hero. The announcement will be made some- time during the coming week, ANNUAL PARGEL POST. CHECK BEING MADE Gonsistent with tl ef ti postoffice a nent a detail- ei'checx on parcel post consignments and receipts will be inaugurated to. day to last u the close of the busi- ness on October 15. The purpose of the check is to determine the cost of operating the parcel post service and to establish absolutely whether it is a Baying proposition or not. The same check will be made in every ote Postoffice in the country. The last report of the local office, | covering the three month period end- ing June 30, shows that 52,836. pack- ages were handled by the office and| that the average cost of handling the/ Packages amounted to 15% cents or a total of $830, Details of the eSptember period are expected to show a tremendous in- crease in this branch of postal servic due to the he: volume of catalogues 7 has been handled during t! od in the local postoffice. — annual custom 28-4t! cies last night resulted in uncovering two more complete moonshine making outfits, the arrest of four men and the de- | struction of manufacturing plants of the contraband liquor. While the police department was raiding a suspected place in East Casper, the sheriff’s forces were conducting ‘Nine More Days to Do Yourself Justice | ‘MAN WANTED FOR THEFT OF AUTO IN MONTANA 3 SEIZED IN CASPER C. A. Metz, charged with the theft| of a Ford car in Billings yesterday was arrested here this morning by Deputy John Powert shortly after he} had arrived at a local soon as Metz rest, to search him and found he had a large caliber revolver in his posses- sion Metz's arrest was effected on infor- mation telegraphed here by the Mon- tana authorities. He had managed to slip through other towns in the state without being apprehended but was placed under “arrest almost as soon as he arrived in Casper. CASPER REAL ESTATE ACTIVE, SALES OF ONE FIRM TOTAL $42,200 Five real estate transactions involv- ing a total transfer valuation of $42,- 200 were mide during the past week the Mars),ell & Brown Realty com- y: All of the transactions were on residence property and threo of the preperties averaged over $11 000. Realty transfers of this nature in: dicate that & new buying tide has vet im on local reat estate. The properties transferred are. pbell property on Kimball ra Knight. - property on CF avenue garage. As was placed under ar- . Sikes property North Casper to Hush Smith. J. %. Learner property on Sout Center street sold to E. J. McMahon. Ralph Kamman property on Park avenue transferred to E. Emerson. a Harding Goes To Maneuvers WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.—President Harding accompanied by a small party, including Mrs. Harding. lef: Washington shortly after 9 o'clock today for Fredericksburg, where be will witness the fall maneuvess of the East Coast Expeditionary forces of the Marine Corps, spending tonigtit in a “tent white house” on the bat- tlefields of the Ctvil war Wilderness campaign. ————_— S. 5. CLASS ELECTS. The Men's class of the Presbyterian Sunday school taught by Dr. G. M. Anderson held a very interesting busi- ness and social session at the church parlors last evening. Election of officers for the following year resulted as follows: ‘Frank C. Fisher, president; Fred Van Gorden, first vice president; John G. Jon second vice president; W. R. McGreg. or, third vice president; E. T. Patter- son, secretary; Mr. Donaldson, treas- urer. Enroliment in the class !s: increas- ing rapidly and gives promise of de- veloping into one of the lergest men's Bible classes in the city. The offi- cers and teacher extend a hearty in- vitation to the men of the city to meet with them each Sunday morning at the deputy took the precaution | similar operations at a place about a mile north of the Platte river that is almost inaccessible by road. At the place raided by the sher- iff's force considerable equipment and material incident to the manufacture of moonshine was uncovered but the operators had departed, taking with them the still with which they had been manufacturing the contraband. | Officers here believe that a num- ber of bootleg manufactories are ‘be- | Ing abandoned because of the activity jot county and city “agencies. The police were more fortunate. They recovered a gallon still, learned the latest and most approved methods of manufacturing bootleg whiskey, and uncovered 13 barrels of mash, 22 jugs and five kegs of whis- key. They also procured much other material for the manufacture ct whiskey, Quick work by the police in follow- ing out a clue that one of the offi- cers ran across led to a house at 1129 East Second street, which has been under suspicion fo.» several weeks. Warrants to search the property were procured. Two men were ar- rested as they were Iéaving the house with some of the contraband in their ossession. It is stated by the officers that they secured damaging information from the wife of one of the men arrested in connection with the operation of the plant. AGED MAN GOES TO PRISON FOR OUTRAGE HERE Sentence of 10 to 12 Years in State Penitentiary Passed on J.S. Wilson by Judge C, O. Brown. , y J. 8. Wilson, age 68, convicted of} a serious statutory charge against a| Z-year-old child, was sentenced to serve from 10 to 12 years in the state penitentiary, when arraigned before Judge C. O, Brown yesterday. This was the last official act which brought the fall term of the district court to an auspicious close here with the largest number of convic- tions that were ever secured in a term of district court heré. After sentencing Wilson, Judge Brown 'ter- munated court sessions here and left for Lander where he will hear the criminal cases on the docket. After sentence was passed on {Vil- son the court granted him a stay of execution of the sentence to permit him, through attorneys, to get the cage ready for presentation to the) state supreme court. The case, which developed a vol- ume of.sordid detail, was the last ac- tion to appear on the docket. Wil- son was sentenced in just two weeks after the crime with which he was charged is alleged to have taken place. KLAN HEARING SET FOR OCT. } WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.—After a conference with Attorney General Daugherty, Chairman Campbell of the house rules committee announced to- day that public hearings by the com- mittee on resolutions to investigate the activities of the Ku Klux Klan | would be held Tuesday, October 11. ATTORNEY IN WHOSE ROOM LINCOLN DIED IS PAUPER ON BLACKWELL’S ISLAND ee ~ NEW YORK, Oct. 1.—Thomas | Proctor, in whose room Abraham Lincoln is saié to have died, is 2 pau- per in the city home on Bia island, the New York Times ex: day. He was formerly a lawyer here, .| but a breakdown of his health about ten years ago caused financial em- barrassment which ‘resulted in his be- ng sent to tha home tn 1915. 7 years of age, was department and oom in the lodging house op- | Posite Ford’s theater, where Lincoln | was shot by “The assasain, Wilkes Booth, as set forth in the story told by Proetor and corroborated by his friends. Proctor was returning to his roont, shortly after 10 o’clock that night, he said, just as a number of men crossed the street carrying the unconscious form of Lincoln. Proc- tor directed the party to his room, where the president was laid on his {bed and died at 7:20 o'clock the fol- lowing morning. Proctor "and Robert Lincoln, the ‘Yormer. president's son, are believed to be the only suryiving witnesses of Abraham Lincoln’s death, NAR nar nee Rema pac, fe eee —— annem Come to the Webel’s Commercial Company and receive the benefit of which we are the: loser. Thousands of Casper people have visited our store- today and have convinced them selves, Why not you? The remainder of our stock is going fast. We earnestly urge you to take advantage of the most stupendous offerings ever put before the Casper pubic. We are @- offering merchandise at astounding figures. Figures that we could readily call on any jobber in the country and sell balance of stock in bulk. But we realize the loyalty of our patrons and we are going to retail all of our merchandise until the last dollars worth leaves the house, so as our customers may receive the benefit we offer for your approval a few items we are slaughtering. COLORADO SALES SYSTEM IN CHARGE: RED BORDER MUCK TOWELS Good Size. ~ Regular 20c Each. One Special Lot Trimmings, Novelty Braids I day’s advertise- and Bandings. Values Up to 50c Stupendous LADIES? SILK ering TEDDY BEARS HOUSE Whi D ES hich Formerly Sold Up to $10, Values Up to Your Choice $17.50, Going at LADIES’ WOOL $2.95 ' migsiacin’ Guaranteed. Special Lot of = . 00. é ‘ Tied Challis ou P LACE 20c. Values. 3¢ PER YARD Selling Now for * COMFORTS Easily Worth $7.50. Our Price $3.49 1-Yard Wide CHEESE CLOTH All Golors. Per Yard 8} & DRESS SHOE oC Regular $18.50. Our Price, While They Last M’KIBBIN OR . $9.95 We Have a Few One Special Lot of EMBROID- ERIES | 25c¢ Value. UNDERHILL BIBLESS OVERALLS The Well Known STACY A Few ADAMS : FUR CAPs In White. Regular $1.15 Per Yard. Our Price RIBSONS All Colors. Values Up to $2.75 Per Yard, Per Pair Of ‘the Finest Quality, at Half Price 75c Going at SCHOBLE HATS Values Up to $10 Selling Now at $1.75 AND UP KLOSTER CROCHET AND PERLE ALL PICTORIAL REVIEW PATTERNS To Be Sold at Half Price _ ‘No. 1 Grade. MEN’S ONE-BUCKLE OVERSHOES OVERSHOES $5.50 Value, at $3.65 ; Our Price Special Monday From 9 t¢,10 A. M. Safety Pins Regular 5c Per Package THREE PKGS. FOR On Victrola’ Takes Place This Evening ‘At 8:30 P. M.