Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 30, 1921, Page 2

PAGE TWO SALT GREEK WELL S GAPABLE OF - 100,000 BARRELS PRODUCTION rz } The total production from Salt Creek during the past ten! dhys under 100 per cent production from the south half of} the field and 35 per cent from the north half was 695,774 barrels or an average of 69,500 barreis a day during the fest. | A similar 10 days’ test of t cently completed returned a FINAL REPORTS OF 1971 CROPS ANNOUNCED Corn and Wheat Values Yield and Acreage Shown in Last Estimates of Department. WASHINGTON try’s important valued this year at aged on prices paid to December 1, t culture anno mates. The same crops. prise about 80 per cent of the v all farm crops were valued last y at $9,075,388,900. The area devoted to the important crops this year was 348,336,000 acres, Deo, 30.—The coun. farm compared with $49,067,000 acres last year. Fiyal estimates of production and value announced included Corn—Preduction 3,081,251,000 bush- els; value $1 Winter whes 2,000 and value $558,725,000. Spring wheat—Production 207,861,- 000 and value $1 All wheat 794,893,000; value $7 0 WATCH NIGHT SERVICE FOR NEW YEAR'S. EVE AT METHODIST CHURCH’ ‘The old year will be watched out the Methodist, church torn “watch night service” bo) Pp. m. and lasting till midn: first part of the service will be a so clal at which a pleasant program will) be\carried out. The latter part of tho service from 10:20 to midnight will be a “Cradle Service,” at which twelve) young women will represent the months of the year. The pastor ‘will light the candles of the months and| wend them out to the audience to iight| the candles of all present and wil! ad-| Gress the months before they go. Each} person who comes is asked to bring a| candle, but in case any forget to bring | candies they will bo provided with necessary ones. ‘The public is invited. he north half of the field re-| tal of 539,814 barrels or an| erage of approximately 54,000 bar- rels. According to this result the total) 100 per cent production of the field, should approximate 100,000 barrels a) day | The production by days follows: Dec. 2 Dee. 263] Dee. 760 Dec. Dee. 5,916) Dec De Dec SUMMARY OF NIGHT NEW OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. Dec. 30.—Mayor John C. Walton last night in = message to the White House asked President Harding for federal arbitration in the local pack- ing house strike here. ation by Hughes and Balfour sug- gested as only way to settle deadlock on Shantung question. WAUKEGON, IIL, Dec. 30.—Gov- ernor Small freed of every charge against him except that of censpir- ing and Vernon Curtis to dfraud ing and eVrnon Curtis to defraud state of $2,000,000. WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—Reso- lution by Root reaffirming existing rules of naval warfare for surface craft amd strict application of this | code to submarines operating against merchant craft was accepted in principle by naval committec. CHICAGO, Dec. 30.—Majority of physicians from six states do not regard liquor as necessary thera- | putic aguai, replies to questionnaire sent out by medical association shows. SIOUX CITY, 8. D., Fifty-three arrested, one strike disorders. Dec. 30.— shot in ESA CEES SS DISCOUNT RA’ RAISED. BOMBAY, Dec. 30.—The rate of dis. count of the Bank of Bombay and that of the Bank of Bengal at Calcutta was raised from 6 to 7 per cent today. NEGRO DIES IN CHAIR LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Dec. 30.— CITY BRIEFS || ,zrm moc, “art. ree. 00— Mrs. John Morton and son Edward of Douglas are holiday tors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Sulll-| van. They will remain in Casper until after the New Year festivities. cee John D. Allen is in Casper today on business from his ranch in west ern Natrona county. William Hagens, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Hagens, will leave tomor- row night for Louis where he will reenter Principia college for the sec ond semester.’ He has been spending the holidays with his parents in Cas. per. UL. F. McMahon is convalescing from his recent filness and it is ex- pected will be able to return to his offices tomorrow. Patrick Sullivan returned last night from Greybull where he has been for the past several business matters. . attending to ited ates ugh Casper m Greybull, r where he w of the United States Jax y 1 pre- side at a tern court right a: Wireless Will Bear Greetings From New York NEW YORK, Dec, 30.—(By sociated Pre: 2 8, T. T.” in radio The As- 8. verybody lis- 8 of a bell striking the passing of A9: minister inv s blessing on the new y joat through the alr into the ears of more than 50,000 amateur radio operators in the vicin- ity of New York at midnight-Decem- ber 31 From station 2-Bak located at Tar- rytown, N. Y., Rev. Lucas Boeve will speak by means of a broadcasting raéfophone to one of the largest andi- 1 to a minis- A choir will sing. TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY. _ BOARD and room street. Phone & $28 South Walnut 12-80-2t) oom = apartment gas stove and | of age, was electrocuted at the peni- tentiary this morning for the mur- der of F. C. Moody, a dairyman of Helena. eee memes Sister Please At Exploit Of Edward Stinson SANTA FE, N. M,, Dec. 30—Miss Catherine Stinson, sister of Edward Stinson. the pilot who broke the con tinuous flying record at Mineola to- day, and who hug been at a sanitarium in Santa Fe for nearly a year past was much elated today when inform- ed of her brother's exploit. She was the first aviator in the Stinson family and one of the first woman flyers in the country. In addition to the first |Los Angeles-San Francisco flight, with which she is credited, .she has piloted machines in China and Japan, Her health was undermined by work es an ambulance driver in France dur. ing the war and she is recuperating here. 233 E. 2nd St. Next to Tele- phone Bldg. | worker, Eighth Victim Of California Storm Is Dead FRESNO, Cal. Dec. 20.—The eighth death as @ result of the storm which struck ‘California this wesk was recorded today after three em- vloyes of the Southern Edison com- puny at Big: Creek, nearly overcome by exposure and hunger, had stag- gered into the company headquar- ters and described how a fellow John H. Peterson, had frozen to -death while delivering company documents valued at $40, 000 from one camp to another. The three reported they had been caught | in a diinding bilgzard and had been snowbound for four days. Peter- son's body was found where he had fallen, his companions having been too weak to carry him. HOSPITAL USED OVERCROWDED | CINCINNATI, Dec, 30.—Following jan investigation of conditions at Long | View hospital, affecting former service men who are undergoing treatment jthere, Dr. C. W. McGaughey of the | Federal Veterans’ bureau of the Cin- |clnnati district, made a verbal report yesterday to Captain William M. Cof- fin, manager of the bureau, that the hospital was severely overcrowded. |Many patients are sleeping on mat- |tresses placed on the floors at night, but the former service men who are |patients at the hospital are well satis- fied with the treatment they are re ceiving, he sald. None of the former soldiers, Dr. |McGaughey reported, are sleeping on |the floors although approximately 250 jof the other patients are doing so. | ‘The Inspection, it was learned, was jstarted on the strength of newspaper jreports quoting Judge Robert S. Marx, jcommander of the disabled American lVeterans' of the World War, as an- nouncing at the Ohio convention of the association recently that the aver- |erowded conditions were responsible |for soldiers failing to receive proper | treatment. Dr. McGaughey safd he would make a written report today on which Cap- jtain Coffin will base his report to national headquarters. St. Paul Votes A Continuance Of Commission ST. PAUL, Dec. 30.—St. Paul will continue to operate under the com mission form as the result of the de- feat of a proposed new charter at a special election held yesterday. Approximately 38,000 votes were cast, of which 16,123 were for the new charter and 21, - Che Casper Daily Cridune RETAIL PHIGE MORRO INVESTIGATION S NEARING END DENVER, Dec. 20.—Charges of murder haye been filed tn the justice | court against Mrs. Caroline Rossi, In| connection with the slaying of Nor- man Gould with a baseball bat here Monday, according to District Attor- TRIAL t ‘Denver Thieves To Be Held For. the Authorities DENVER, Dec. 30—It the Denver | fax to Port Aux Basques, N. F., with] WASHINGTON, Des. 30—Presiae characterized as “ courts fail to convict Jolin and Mary Kirby for the alleged theft of $2,355) ‘ ‘Yandoa 4 in “ te gee total loss. The crew safely. & month ago, the Kirbys will be held, ‘ ‘ FRIDAY, NORTH SIDNEY, N. 8., Deo..20. tase | | —The schooner Defender, Hall- i general cargo went ashore on Petrie’s ledges late last night and will be a here ————— ney Philip Van Cise. Herbert Flan- the arms negotiations. Information to Be Available} nissan, a taxicab driver, will be pe Se at sg agg Retin MILK PRICES IN SLUMP. fame) St SE From Largs Cities and. | °b**sed with burgiary with and with-| Denver detectives. The pair ie want-| EI. PASO, Texas, Dec. 30\—Redue- Small Towns When Probe Is Finished. WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—Federal investigation of retail prices of nec- eesities in all parts of the country is rapidly reaching completion, it was said today at the justice department. Department agents assigned to the duty by Director Burns of the bureau of investigation, it was said, have been gathering price information in all the large cities and in smaller com- munities and country districts as well, and {t was believed that the whole country will have been covered in another week. Reports from the department's agents, officials said, are being pre- pared in tabular form for Attorney General Daugherty, who has an- nounce his intention of making pub- Mc the rewults of the investigation to show what margins exist between retail prices and prowuction costs of food, fuel, shoes and clothing. > SOVIET SIGNS OVER GOLD TO AID IN RELIEF LONDON, Dec. 30.—(By The Associ- ated Press).—-The agreement negotiat- ed here last week whereby soviec Rus- sia will turn over to the American Relief administration $10,000,000 worth of gold for the purchase of grain in the United States for famine relief in ine Volgt region was signed here to- day by Waiter Lyman Brown, on be- half of the iellef administration and by Leonids Krassin on behalf of ‘the Russian sovit government. Banks Withdraw Guarantee Fund OLYMPIA, Wash., Dec. 80.—Prac- tically all state banks haye withdrawn from the bank guarantee fund, only seven small institutions haying failed to give notice of withdrawal, E. H. Farnsworth, director of taxation and examination said today. By dropping eut before January 1, the banks are not liable for any future assessments to meet claims against the defunct Scandinavian-American bank of Seat- tle, it was said. “The action ef the state banks of course makes the fund inoperative,” Farnsworth. “The with: assessments would never in meet a small part of the obligations of the Scandinavian-American bank: WILL The Best in Groceries Our Usual Saturday Specials Will Be Continued This Week Our Headliner Is We carry the most complete line of Snowdrift Vegetable Skort- ening and Wés- son Salad Oil in Casper. The New Lyric Saturday A $2.00 Show for 40c At 12:45 Noon P. S.—Our regular price will not be 40c, but our old sliding scale will prevail. uce Bros. OPEN Phones 304, 1288 and 1705 out force same case, it was announced today. Gould met his death, {t ts alleged, when he entered the Rossi home de- manding in connection with. the money. THINK RICHARDS & CUNNINGHAM WHEN YOU WANT THE BEST of robbery in New York. ed, according to Rinker, on a chargs; tions averaging 1.3 cents on each For Cold, Grip or Influenza pint anQ 32 cents en each quart arejand jas a Preventive, take Laxa:i\. BROMO QUININE Tablets. The «- announced by large dairies here. ‘The new average prices will be 16!uine bears Results cents per quart @nd 9 cents per pint. Grove the AFTER HOLIDAY FOR SATURDAY ONLY Naturally at this time of year it is necessary to clear out seasonable merchandise in order to make room for Spring goods. Such is th: case in our store. . We Are Making Radical Reductions - That will save the buyers many a dollar. Remember, every piece of merchandise in this sale bears the Richards & Cunningham stamp of honest goods. FURS 25 Per Cent Off MUFFS _ At One-Half Price SWEATERS 20 Per Cent Off SKIRTS AND CHILDREN’S DRESSES 25 Per Cent Off ‘A Few Roll-Up Toilet and Manicure Sets at Ivory. Any Winier Suit or Overcoat Children’s Coats At Half Price _ A Few of Our Best Dresses Waists—20 Per Cent Off 10% Off Also hundreds of extraordinary values in smaller pieces of White Richards & Cunningham Com YOU CAN DO BETTER AT RICHARDS & CUNNINGHAM’S At One-Half Price ~ Values Up to $45.00, at $1 5.00 Did You Forget a Friend, Christmas? If you did, you can buy in White Ivory, a Brush, Mirror, Hair Recdiver, Powder Puff Receiver and many others. At $3.45 They Are Worth Double. TRAVELING CASES—With fitted tray. The tray can be used as extra case. 10 Per Cent Off Pilate cath tener EY aad aba dia aa TEN IVORY SETS—Consisting of a sewing set, At $5.00 to a complete toilet set At 20 Per Cent Off TOYS -Hobby iter Cradles; ALL AT WONDERFUL REDUCTIONS pany 30, 1921. f