Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 17, 1922, Page 1

KIDNAPED UNIONISTS FREED, SINN FEIN FLAYS CRAIG PLANS LAID F()R|2ectarations of Uister Premier Branded Che Casper Dai ly FMEREENGY ON STATE. MEETING) nites Arar eee ioe PSE 0 WOALY | ===) Crihaniel &, | oe ee the border from the south, have been released. Michael Collins, head of Seabee Chan government today tele- Churchill that he had succeeded | graphed Colonial gTY NEXT WEEK ss BELFAST, Feb. 17—(By The Associated Press.) —Forty- | two Ulster unionists, kidnaped during the recent raids across | Portion; nct much change tn tempera- ture, Mrs. Lowell F. Hobart of Cincinnati, Natio Gathering in Casper An elaborate program in- cluding business sessions of the local unit of the American Legion auxiliary for the first state caucus of the American Legion aux- fliary of Wyoming which will be held in this city ary 24 and 2 Representatives from the 28 units m the state which work in co-opera- out the United States is one to three, one auxiliary to three legion posts, which shows the staté of Wyoming to be above the average. Delegates, two or three from each unit, are expected from Kock River, Sheridan, Kenimer- Cowley, Cokeville, Fort Bridger, Lusk and Van Tasscll. Thursday, February 23. will address the convention and will assist in the organization, with the constitution which will be adopted and with the by4aws. Dr. Florence Patrick of Rock River, acting state president, and Cora M. Beach of Newcastle, acting state sec- retary, will also be prevent. er of the American Legion, D. W- Ogilbee. A committee, composed of Mes- dames B. B. Brooks, W. J. Wehrli, Margaret Clowry and John A. Huff, are in charge of the social entertain- ment of the delegates. A banquet will the local unit, members of the Amer- ican Legion post who are to be ac- tive in the program of the caucus and the visiting delegates. The din- ner will be given under the auspices of the Casper unit. A musical pro- gram will be presented under the di- rection of Prof. Rudolph Lundberg and will include numbers in vocal and A tour of the city is also planned and an effort is being made by the committee to secure motor cars for * the guests. Tho delegates are requested to regis- ter at the Henning hotel immediately upon their arrival and a program of the caucus will be given them. Spe- cial accommodations for the visiting mémbers of the auxiliary will be pre- pared by the Henning management. The meeting will be called to order t 10 o'clock Friday morning by the acting state president. It is expected that more than fifty women from throughout the state will be present. —_—_————- ARMY BILL PASSED. WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—The sen- ate today ‘passed the bill paving the a number of army camps and supply bases which was taken over during the extension of facilities during the war. President, to Attend), in. obtaining the liberation of this number of prisoners. BELFAST, Feb. 17—({By The Asso- elated Press}—The executive board of the Sinn Fein in Belfest, after meeting last night sent a telegrant Professor John MacNeill, speaker the Dail Eireann in Dublin as follows. “On behalf of tne religious and po- tical minority in Belfast, forming 100,000 citiz-ns, we protest against the misleading and lying statements contained in a to ot mier) to the premier of England, in which he states that the recent atro- “We asst that {it can easily be proved our people were being murder- ed almost daily for a week before eith- er ef the’ occurrences mentioned. Furthermore, we are convinced that Craig deliberately made this misrep- resentation for the purpose of ex- cusing or justifying tne cruel and coki-blooded murders being inflicted BELFAST, Feb. 17.—(By The Asso- ciated Press.)—Last night was the "quietest Belfast has experienced since the outbreaks, Sunday night, of dis- orders that have taken more than to the. Belfast Telegraph says. EVACUATION TO BE RESUMED. DUBLIN, Feb. 17—(By The Asso ciated Press.}—The British military evacuation of Ireland is. expected to be resumed today or tomorrow, it was declared by Michael Collins, head of the provisional Irish government, on ing an address by the state command-|their conversation, {t was assumed, was in connection with the withdraw- al of the troops, Up to last night the troop movement had not bee resumed but preparations under way for the immediate shipment of hundreds of tons of army stores, provisional government could have in its present difficulties was for Eng- land to carry out the Anglo-Irish treaty in all its particulars. of the Irish parllamen- tary elections being held tn April are now much discassed, and it is said that a daily newspaper devoted to in preparation for the campaign. IRISH NEWSPAPERS ARE CONFISCATED. CORK, Feb. 17. —(By The Associ- ated Press.\—When the mil trajn from Dublin arrived here today a party of armed men seized all, the ist Irish Times and the English news- papers were not touched. LONDON, Feb. 17.—(By The Asso- ciated Press.)}—The bill establishing the Irish Free State passed its second raiding in the house of commons to- Ulster unionists, boundary commission ‘provisions of the Anglo-Irish treaty had been de feated by a vote of 302 to 60. fficers Rounding Up Juveniles in Effort ..to Apprehend Lads Charged With ‘ Holdup at Lewis Home Two youthful desperadoes, armed with .45 caliber re- olvers, caused a short reign of terror in the vicinity north f the Platte river bridge west of Casper and culminated eir program by staging apparently a well planned holdup, n which the home of Mrs. Louise Lewis adjoining the Salt reek road was visited and the woman was covered by one of ie Iads while the other ransacked the|per and were lost as they entered the use and succeeded in securing $¢/Sandbar district via the Burlington n cash. bridge. After leaving the Lewis honse the Mrs. Lewis later reported the hold- athfui Lind@its beaded back to Cas-}up but not in time to give the. offi- MINISTER CIVEN | LIFE; EMPLOYED KILLER, BELIEF of Part in Killing Recluse MOUNT IDA, Ark., Feb. 17.—The Rey. Harding Hughes, superannuated minister, charged with murder in connection with the death of Mrs. Anna McKe. guilty by a jury early today. Mrs. McKennon, a recluse, in order that he might obtain her property be- Meved to contain valuable mineral de- posits. Cole, who is serving a life sentence for the killing, testified the minister gave him whiskey and when Hughes on the stand denied the tes- ARE STARVING SHANGHAI, China, Jan. 19.—{Cor- respondence of The Associated Press) food. cennon last May, was found His punishment was fixed at an unfit teacher for students because of his acceptance of modern science, including the theory of evolution. Mr. Bryan had objected to expres- sions of Presidept Birge that his teachings were causing injury to religion because of his attempt to unite the teachings of the Bible to enough money to pay the salary of grandparents of the students.” Irvine Man Is Horse Whipped By Masked Men E. E. Tubbs of Irvine, eastern Wyoming, is confined to his bed it became known here today. victim's flesh was badly it is reported. An il-yearold stepson of Tubbs recently underwent an operation at & Douglas hospital for the amputa- tion of both feet, said to have been frozen when he left home on one of the coldest nights af the winter The QE ———————EeeEE——E—EE—————— VOLUME VI - ; CASPER, WYO., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1922. NUMBER 111. CONVICT F\ 'EED AFTER SEi VINC OVER 10 . EARS Father Is Now Held for Crime MADISON, Wii Feb. 17.—John A. Johnson was released from the state prison today after serving 10 years and s months of a life sentence for the murder here in 1911 of Wisconsin President Replies made to Mr, Bryan following his ‘speach to students here declaring that he had “never found it neces- sary to justify religion to science @r excuse science to religion.” “I have accepted both as equally divine revelations and both as equal- ly, ought into the constitution of “Mr. Bryan seemed to dislike es- tury people were told that the doc- trine of round world was ‘atheistic.’ In the nineteenth century evolution in like manner was called ‘atheistic’ by men of whom Mr. Bryan is a be- lated follower, “Did such; teachings help religion in the past and is there any good teachifigs of evolution.” ENACTION OF SOLDIER B BILL CERTAI Engagement to Is Not Denied CHICAGO, Feb. 17.—Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick today re- fused to confirm or deny reports published here quoting her 16-year old daughter Mathilde, as saying thad she would marry Max Oser, 48-year-old riding teacher in Zurich, Switzerland. In response to re- quests from a dozen reporters, Mrs. McCormick's secretary finally gave the following statement: “Mrs. McCormick has nothing whatever to say concerning these reports, either one way or the other.” Miss Mathilde McCormick was marriage and to be planning to come here trom New York to seek her mother’s consent. YOUTHFUL BANDITS cers here a time to apprehend the lads The holdup is said to have been staged about 2o’clock yesterday afternoon: A wholesale roundup of juvenile of- fenders is now om so that all lads who might be implicated,in the case can be brought before Mrs. Lewis so that she can identify them. Before the holdup it is said that the lads caused. considerable trouble in the vicinity of Mills and other adjoin; ing sections to Casper by indiscrimi- nate shooting and by other acts of outlawry. = In order tp put a stop to practices of this/kind Sheriff Joe L. Marquis and other county ‘forces here contem- plate drastic action, cgainst younth- ful offenders so that. the example can foree home to realization .of such acts on juvenile delinguénts hers, Texas Solon Takes Exception to Admis- WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—The soldier bonus bill will be reported to a Republican caucus within the next ten days, “and a Republican house wil of the ways and means comm! day during a discussion over f The house was thrown into an uproar during discussion of the measure after Representative Garner of Texas, ranking Democrat on the committee, had protested against the action of the Republican members in calling in a representative of the American iegion to advise with them at a secret session from which Demo- crats were excluded. Representative Mondell, Wyoming, Republican leader answered Mr. Gar- ner and then Chairman Fordney joim mittee, Mr. Garner without mention- ing names, had reference to the ap- pearance of John Themas Taylor of the American Legion and {Richard Jones, representing veterans of foreign wars who were before the committee Taylor and Jones were said to have been questioned as to how former service men would feel if no cash pay- ments were authorized. Both were to take a different position. Mr. Mondell declared that the pro- test of Mr. Garner was neither “mod- erate nor accurate,” adding that the same custom had prevailed Wuring Democratic control. Chairman” Fordney declared that when the Underwood bill was being framed Democratic members “called in a man from New York to advise about the tax on lemons and the Demo- crats took his advice and wrote it in the bill.” Court Commissioner Named CHEYENNE, Wyo. Feb. 17. Judge T. B. Kennedy of the United States district court for Wyoming has appointed Rush: L. DeNise United States commissioner for the Rock Springs district, vice Lewis H. Brown resigned, . 1 pass it,” Chairman Fordney ittee declared_in the house to- she manner of its framing. TWO KILLED IN POWDER PLANT BLAST INN. Y. LAKE HOPTACONG, N. J., Feb. 17.—Two men were killed today when the dynamite packing house of the Atlas powder works at Landing, N. J., was destroyed by an explosion. The two men killed—Fred Alpaugh of Sueeasunna, N. J., and Eugene Lommen of Ledgewood—were said to have been the only persons.in. the building at the time of the explosion. Life as Lover Of Girl Friend | CHICAGO, Fela Donald. Campbell, believed by his wife to have been buried with military hon- ors last Labor day, a few days after the casket said to contain his body arrived from France, was to be tried NUS N, SAYS FORDNEY Hunter Eats Seriously Ill ASTORIA, Ore., Feb. 17.—John H. Bell, noted locally as a hunter of wild fowl and who for a period of years past has eaten his kills regularly, was taken serlously ill a week ago with a mysterious mal- ady. Examination by X-ray finally disclosed that his intestines were full of shot and that lead poison- ing had resulted. Physicians re- moved more than 200 of the shot, but a new X-ray examination today showed more than 100 shot still in the digestive canal. Preparations were made for a sec- ond operation for removal of the wild fowl, ———— SHERIFF IS HELD GUILTY son pleaded guilty and for which Mar tin Lemberger, father of the girl, was formally charged with manslaughter on January 5, 1922, brought Governor Blaine to conclude that “there is only one fact th stands out clearly and The father availed himself of the It was after ten years spent in the state’s prison that Johnson protested his innocence and applied to Governor Blaine for a pardon. He then claimed that His confession had been made be- cause of fear that he would bo mobbed. ‘This contradictory attitude of John- son in first admitting his. guilt and knowledge of a crime, either as an accessory or as one who stood by, innocent of the crime, although ment ally too weak and too depraved to follow any course except the course pursued by Johnson.” Suspended In Mexican Field and workmen numbering upwards of a thousand was discharged immedi- ately according to advices from Tam- pico. Only the pump workers will be retained, it was added. NO PROG TAYLOR LOS ANGELES, Cal., Feb. examination of William Davis. VETERAN ARMED WITH REVOLVER OUTWITTED BY ILLINOIS GHOST, heard about the home of Mrs. Cath- before a general courtmartial board at Fort Sheridan today on a grave charge. A girl friend recently told Mrs. Campbell that she had met “the most wonderful man.” A little later Mrs. Campbell discovered that | it was her husband. Examination | disclosed: that ihe body sent from | France was not that of Campbell. | stairs creaked. The door opened. There was a moan. erine Milakowich, hers, foited a shot c A voic gun squad that had stayed up 17.—When | } |ly BE DEMOBILIZED Trucks Kept Loaded with Supplies and Tanks to Offset Possibility of Sudden Outbreak EL PASO, Texas, Feb. 17. ¢ ~ cities to which our people have been asto lo * * fi = a ‘. A —Brig. Gen. ls v2 patch cn Seating pe pt Macyyites ang Fectansys, and we ‘4 . Follows Accomplice to Prison Fal-| tym ur waived wnen » rane’ | Governor Convinced Wisconsin Man Who Goatees ie cheer, e ci . * . $ wi ivisi: y t and a banquet, is planned by| “we aseet tht ito lowing Conviction in Arkansas Court | Stmcca'sisratmet st hs'taie, | ~~ Pleaded Guilty Did. Not Kill Girl; | 837, division, believing that an emergency close to Juarez and El Paso no longer de- maris drastic attention, today issued demobilization orders. Soldiers under se orders need no tonger be held in amp Bliss, The troops were mobil- Inesday evening when repor! ton with the 54 Legion posts, will be|on the minofity in this city, on whose | life imprisonment. after ting threatened by Tubbs. |S¢Ven-year-old Annie Lemberger, a crime which Gov. J. 1 that rebels intended present for the meeting which will| behalf we speak.” Attorneys announced an appeal would b a | This charge, it is believed, resulted | Blaine is convinced Johnson did not commit. sion of Juarez. bers bis an’ waive online tbat oc Bia Oh akin cli wedichacged with e made. Hughes,| in the horsewhipping given Tubbs. Six months’ investigation into the probable circumstances Pa ough reapers hinartnsg in camp ; ound. thi atts "| trucks are still loaded with emergency. genisation.. ‘The .pecosttese throughs bate nein RED having employe’ Raymond Cole to kill Srrodnding the crime to whioh' Jou! ootiem, @nell tanks .are ioaied on automobile trailers and two armored railroad cars which were drawn from sidings, still remain in the center of the fort. Civilian government operatives an. nounced today that investigations cov. thirty lives. The only incident re-|he became intoxicated, offered him that is that Johnson did no! e 7 er, Gillette, U} \y hi m did not murder|ering several da: hi 4 everyth: po age Cheyenne, River. ted early today the firing of | $850 to kill Mrs. McKenron. Hughes, Annie Lemberg was quiet along the Terese ana New Sundance, is, Wor.|% Snot at a watchman in the Mills| Cole said, furnished the bribe. After 6) d Who did kill the young girl and| Mexico border and that there was no land, Powell, Rawlins, Rock Springs,|"*"% “strict. He escaped injury. | the killing, Cole said, he fled from the f later attempt to hide her body in Lake|sign of revolutionary activitiy. Their Newcastle, Salt Creck.| The local president of the transport | state without waiting to collect the Monona probably will never be defi-| report was made on the territory from and general workers union, in a letter | money. nitely established, it is said. the Big Bend of Texas to Hachita, New Mexicv. In addition to local represent&tives, idee: there Ban! hopped the a timony of Cole. See DON Wiss, Feb. 17.—E. A, In a letter to the Rev. E. S. Wor- pecially iny objection to his uniting [statute of limitations, causing tne _ ee oe the situation re- Mrs. Lowell F. Hobart of Cincinnatt,|% on or before iy, we SRBRES ORIEL a Birge, president of the University 3 m case to be nolle prossed. Hoe had been|™ained unchanged. General Eugenio Chin; deatiesrcd-oreaitiges tor. the yee conisder the withdrawal of all tram. Of Wisconsin, today replied to.asser- |i ns” PON Of the First Congrega- | religion to a ‘discredited acientific | | ousea of killing his daughter with|Martines, commander of troops in {ean Legion auxiliary, will attend the|W®¥ ‘en, motor drivers and carters ons of Wiliam J. Bryan, mode | #0?! church of which President | hypothesis.’ I think that the history |a beer bottle during a drinking party|northern Mexico, is there on an in- caucus and will arrive in Casper on |‘Tm the streets for their protection. here a year ago, and repeated re- |Birze has been an officer for forty] of the church gives good ground for jat his home, when she failed to obey} #pection trip. He declared his zone, Mrs. Hobart rer. cently, that he is an “atheist and | years, he reasserted expressions | my objection. In the fifteenth cen- | him as promptly as he wished. Chihuahua, Durango, and the La guna district of Coahuila, was quiet. MEXICO TRANQUIL, ’ SURVEY SHOWS. MEXICO. CITY, Feb. 17.—(By The Associated Press)—Mexico is tran quil, except a few places in the states of Michoacan and Jalisco, according ‘Tho meetings for business discus- his return ‘ndnet aire’ ioe Aas ae ka pagan in the provinces of} ‘discredit scientific hypothesis,” | the world,’ President..Birge said. reason ‘to think that Mr, Bryan will slater “ maintaining, ‘hia innocence|to reports from postmasters in ail sloti’ WIT Be7held hi he cotenet: eli eae eae Spencer Churchill, ep which oe is located, |~and “he had declared that “when | “I have believed that wisdom and | succeed where his predecessors have | caused Governor Blaine to say that “a| parts of the republic to Secretary of ber of the city hall. Representatives | secretary for colonies. and Chekiang and Anhwel, according} the people ef Wisconsin have might are God's an I have equal- | failed @ismalling during four cen- |man of ordinary strength of character|the Treasury De La Huerta in an- from the American. Legion post ly believe: sciénce reveals to | turies? Another thing that seems |Md prudence does not accuse himself] swer to his request for authentic in- will be jipabectts MHA ‘Watt. tallcs will cco Sir ey ee theca cedented floods which wiped out 20} a university. president, they expect | us how that might and that wisdom | to trouble Mr. Bryan is the fact |°f crime, but Johnson's type might| formation regarding reported rebel be made. from active speitpere 4ncton ees dager 5 4 ber cent of the rice crop in these dis-| to find someone who will not ridi- | are expressed in the operation of the | that I told him that his teachings |#°cuse himself falsely of crime/ lions against the central government, ited Mr. in oon and} tricts are blamed for the shortage of| cule the religion of the parents dnd | world. were ‘atheistic’ rather than the |threugh fear, hallucination, guilty] Disturbances in a few places were reported, but these were described as being directed against organized so- ciety in general her than against the Mexican government General Francisco Serrano has been officially notified of his appointment as head of the war department, with Mr. Collins last night sent a tele- Gen. Roberto Cruz, chief of garrison be served at 7 o'clock at the Henning| 4m to the British colonial secre- °. zon: ohie' forces in Mexico City as sub-secre by erred at tfc athe Heoning| gram tothe Hee colonial ware Refinery Work, | eco in Mosics ‘cir as eibooce next Wednesday, together with Miguel Alesso Roble, newly appointed secre tary of commerce, industry and labor. gates: Tate arama ENCAMPMENT PIONEER DEAD. CHEYENNE, Wyo., Feb. 17.— Dr. William C. Burke of Encampment, the interest of the Free State, to G ° : MEICO CITY, Feb . 17.(By The| Wyo. a pioneer physician of the up- reatan Tepromben talks wil con [counteract the Intiuence ot the =e] Riding Master sion of Legion Representative to Shot InG Asscclated Proes)—Tné Standard Oll| per Platte valley, died bere Sunday. ahuae thi hooniatae ad will com-| public of Ireland the organ of the otIn ame, company has definitely suspended all] Funeral services were held at the ute Ser oe De Valera party, will be established Conference on Bonus Plans work at its refineries near Tampico|Masonic temple this Tuesday after- noon and the remains shipped to Nor- walk, Conn. Dr. Burke was a brother of the late Timothy F. Burke, for six- teen years United States attorney for Wyoming. RESS IN INVESTIGATION MURDER Examination of Mabel Normand’s Chaut- way for the war department to com-|day after the amendment offered by| said in the published reports to f 2 Charles , leader of the| have obtained the. consent of her |¢d the debate. shot which the doctors said Bell B é Fate etetie tniteen ate | Geter Tor “Gtering the| father, Harold McCormick, to tho | In making his attack on the com- Ce pele | eek! ais feur Fails to' Throw Light on Coast Mystery; New Witness Is Found 17.—Following a two-hour re- chauffeur for Mabel Normand, yesterday, investigators, police detectives, deputy sheriffs and others assigned to the task of trying to solve the mystery surrounding the murder of William Desmond Taylor, motion i The dynamite packing house is an] ARDMORE, Okla, Feb. 17.—Buck I y 6 q said to have taken the position that} ieoiatea unit and was the only struc-|Garrett, suspended sheriff of Carter|picture director, resumed their duties today with the an- , ea since their organizations in convention} tire arrected. county was found guilty by a jury|nouncement that they had made prac-|former valet for Taylor, from any P 56 endorsed the five option bill which in- in district ‘court here today on the] tically.no further progress in the|connection with thé case, the search cludes cash payments it would be un- bb C t fifth count of ouster charges alleging} case a® a result of quizzing Davis. |for the missing man has not been : x 7 fair to the membership of either body Hu y Comes O | misponduct and ordered parmanently! ‘Though some of tho investigators| abandoned. Latest reports to the au- j ; 2 . fob as tetiyiacel, os Meir Spokeeman, removed from office. have eliminated Edward F. Sands,|thorities bere relating to him, came from Hartford, Conn., where Sands was said to have been known among navy sailors duri 1919 as “ Snyder. Another rep: police detectives working on the case was tha ing butler had fled to Mexi 1 been seen in Chi- huahua. | ROCKFORD, IL, F 17.—Mrn, WAUKEGAN, UL, Fet According to I a Marguerite Snyder, a private investi- the hungry ghost t he Beard the ghost all right: gator who resides here, and who has been reported as having a clue in the slaying of William Desmond Taylor said today she knew nothing direct- night looking for Lieutenant | now I have you" ¢ bearing on the Taylor killing, but Arnold Nolan, as veteran, | his throat. The State's Attorney offered his servi n running down | for the? pistol but | award Sands, th disturber. With his army pistol | grip on his throat r | Taylor's missing was in he entered the baseme turned on ts. Ti Chicago last She said and seated hi parted ed f as being where b } unsolyed, he movies, a