Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 4, 1922, Page 1

THIRTEEN DEAD, SIX INJURED IN RAIL CRASH POWER PROJECT 5 INGLUDED IN BIG GOAL MINE PLANS, REPORT Casper Men Head Con- cem Which Plans De- velopment of Huge De- posits Near Glenrock Included in plans of the Blue Diamond Coal company, headed by prominent Casper men, for the development of extensive coal deposits 15 miles north of Glenrock is a project to generate electricity for pow- er on & mammoth scale and transmis- sion of this juice to Casper is under- stood to be in mind. The electricity, it is set forth in further announcement of the company's plans made today, would be sold to the Natrona Power conpany and distributed by the latter. Power would elso be made available im Salt Creek. ‘The vein of coal to he developed by this company ig estimmted to be over 30 feet in thickness and to cover an area of over 10,000 acres. The coal is what is known 4s a sub-bituminous coal, exhaustive tests and analysis which have been made for the com- pany are said prove it to contain a very high percentage of combustible matter. ‘The commercial value ‘of coal is baked upon its heat contents and sci- entifically expressed as British Ther mal Units. Samples taken from the outcropping of this vein have shown by analysis to contain about 10,000 British Thermal units and it is be- Ueved that the quality of'coal will ma- terially increase in value when an en- try has been driyen far enough to get away from the weathered coal. The chemists who have made the analysis necting the mines with the trank lines of the C. & NW. and the C. B. & 2. ‘The princiyal market for this coal mine will be found in Nebraska and South Dakota, which do not have with- in their bounderies any great deposits and it is evtimated that these states import something over 25,000,000 tons of coal annually for steam and‘ do- mestio prrposes. ‘The state of Wyoming on account of its fortunate geographical location naturally supplies the majority of the eoal imposted into these states, and the mines of the Blue Diamond Coal company are located nearty 200 miles closer to this market than any other big mino in Wyoming, thus meaning a saving to the’ consumer of from 30 cents to $1.50 per ton freight. In addition to the coal mine com- pany, its officers intend to incorpor- ate an electric power company and build a plant as close as possible to the tipple of one of its mines. This power plant will consume all of the slack coal, which is produced in the ordinary course of mining and usually hard to market. The power company intends to serve Salt Creek, Casper (Continued on Page Four) Che Casper Daily Weather Forecast Fair tonight and Saturday. Rising temperature. vac Orthine | & | CASPER, WYO., SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1922. - VOLUME VI MISSIONARY IN | THIBET CABLE REPORTS Medical Worker of Christian Church Siain| by Robbers After Being Held for Sixty Days for Ransom, Claim ST. LOUIS,.March 4.—The Rev. Dr. A. L. Shelton, medi- cal missionary of the Disciples of Christ (Christian church) in Thibet_ was murdered by robbers near Batang February 17, aecording to a cablegram tian missionary society here today. Dr. Shelton escaped from SLAIN received by the United Chris- Girl “Sticks Up” Escort on Journey Home LOS ANGELES, March 4.—W. T. Taylor, at a public dance hall early today requested the pleasure of es- | corting two comely girls home, and | they Several blocks away, at a dark corner, one of the girls softly said: ‘Stick ‘em =p honey, and hold ‘em high,” punc- funting her recishen Win DEE: The other girl caressingly removed haired woman who relicved him of $19 in cash, $250 in postal savings certificates and $12 in checks while a brigand camp in China in January in 1920 after having! menacing him with a revolver. been kidnaped and held for ransom for 60 days. ‘The cablegram came from the Rev. Dr, W. M. Harty, also a medical mis- sionary in China and read: “Robbers killed Shelton near Ba- Notify giris.” ‘The gtris referred to are Dr. Shel- ton'’s daughters, Dorothy, 17, and Dorris, 15, who are attending in Pomona, Calif. Dr. Shelton's headquarters were 1. Batang, near the Thibet border, and Dr, Hardy's cablegram was from Liakiang, the nearest telegraph sta- tion, a 15 day’s journey and this, it was explained, is responsible for the delay in news of the murder. Although Thibet has not been open to missionaries, Dr. Shelton departed from Vancouver last August to open @ hospital st Lhassa. He had re ceived a written invitation from the Dalai Lama, the supreme power of the Mohammedan church in the prov- ince, to establish the church, in recog- nition of his work among Thibetan soldiers. ‘The Inst word reeetred from Dr. Bhelton was when he was 15 days journey out of Batang, which he said he expected to reach December 23. ‘The theory of the missionary Langa’ here is that he reached schedule time. Lhassa is a 35 days’ trip by caravan from Batang ond it is not thought the time betweer. Decem- ber 23 and February 17 was sufficient to allow him to organize the caravan. mission field. &fter a four year course in the medi- cal department of the University of Kentucky, he received an appointment from the United Christian Missionary (Continued on Page Four) THREE PERISH IN FIRE, HOUSE DESTROYED IN NORFOLK, Va., March 4.—Three persons were burned to death and are: Helen White South Norfolk. - Lem McKinsley, Cradock. NORFOLK BLAZE U. S. SLEUTHS OF TERRORIS ““}RESNO, Cal. INTO ACTIVITY TS IH OIL FIELDS March 4.—Federal investigation of a series of actions on the part of groups of masked and hooded men in the central California oil fields, many of which involved viblence, had commenced, it was announced here last night y J. R. Dorsey district attorney of Kern county. The fed- NUMBER 124. | pit inquiry commenced soon after warnings of impending ‘ARGUMENTS IN RATE HEARIN ARE CONCLUDE Public Service Commission Takes Claim Under Advisement at Close of Two- Day Conference at Cheyenne | attacks. were sent through the mails. Many warnings also have been de. | livered to many citizens in person | Virtually all of them have been on | pages bearing the printed characters “K. K. K.” as the top. Some bore i print of a hand in black. In a few cases repudiations of the warnings | have been sent out over the signature Bll Andrews, a rent car driver of ‘aft, has dropped out of sight. He @ vorted not long ago that be had been % ten by masked men. Dr. A. D. om was beaten by another group. rently, according to a physician xamined him, with a spiked club. 2% | N. Bowman, a druggist, was & and warned to leave town. He *P ‘nesday, the last day of grace vosing of his business in Mari Some of those beaten were cov %e oe t le jaf copa. CHEYENNE, Wyo. March 4.—The Wyoming state public |erea with tar, or oil, and feathers aft service commission has taken under advisement arguments made at a two-day hearing concluded Friday, regarding pro- posed reductions in in te freight rates. Numerous representatives of Wyoming communities ar- gued ‘before the commission.in favor of reductions. Dr. Hubert Work Installed Postmaster General Of U. S. WASHINGTON. March 4.—Dr.. Hubert Work took the cath of office today as post- master general, succeeding Will H. Hays who had been a member of the cabinet for one year to the day. Dr. Work, whose home state is Colorado, had been first asnistatit postmaster general under Mr. Hays. In a statement addressed to the personr®! of the postal service the new cabinet official said Mr. Hays had “set up new ideals for a postal service.’’ RESIGNATION OF BRITISH PREMIER IS HELD CERTAIN such ideals had been approved by the American people, Dr. Work said tt was his purpose “to give substance to his vision.” The oath of office was administer- ed by Rush Holland of Colorado, as- sistant attorney general, in the pres- ence of = group of friends of both pa are ane Dr. Work and a num- postal employes. Secretary Wallace, George B. Christian, secretary to the president, and Brig. Gen. Sawyer, President’ Harding’s physician, . also attended the: ceremony. After Dr. Work had been sworn in Mr. Hays told him that “all the re- gret over leaving the cabinet is com- Pletely and absofutety antidoted by the happiness in turning the postof- fice department over to you, the in- dividual.” Replying, Dr. Work informed the retiring postmaster general that it] was “not possible to assuage the re-| gret in this department over your de- parture.”” The statement issued by the new postmaster general follows: and will retire as head of the post- office department. “The impression his personality has made on the morale af the postal em- ployes has been unprecedented and it has ‘been altogether for good. “‘Humanizing the service’ was merely the voicing of a wish and the Kindliness which is in all of us to some degree responded to it, It was) the impulse of a kind heart, an ex- pression of that intangible thing called the common touch which makes the world akin and ‘the Yetter is now put in the box and not threwn at the door.” “He will travel far but will not be- come a wanderer. He may live among the pictures but he will not become confused, for nature has en- dowed him with the intuition of a woman, the initiative of the inventor, the heart of a wholesome boy and the judgment of a man—traits that have endeared him to all of us who (Continued on Page Four) of senators, representatives and ‘Debate on Pit Speculation to Hold Interest LEXINGTON, Neb., March 4.— Large numbers of farmers are expect- ed to attend a debate here tonight between Ralph J. Pickell, Chicago edl- tor of The Round Up, a trade paper end George C. Jewett, of Portland, Ore. president of the Northwest ‘Wheat Growers’ association on the ‘subject “Resolved That Speculation, Commonly Called Gambling, is a Menace to the Marketing of Grain.” Mr. Pickell will defend grain specu- lation While Des sewett Mr, Jewett will oppose it QUESTIONS ON DEPOSITIONS ARE APPROVED SAN FRANCISCO, March 4.—Su: perior Judge Harold Louderbeck ap proved today questions to be asked five persons in Chicago concerning the health of Miss Virginia Rappe, to be introduced as defense testimony at the third manslaughter trial of Ros- coe C. (Fatty) Arbuckle, set for March 13. The depositions will be taken by @ commission appointed by the IIli- nois courts. ITALY CALLED TO THE AID OF FIUME Government of President Zanella Over- Sorc sale vein mumnes som thrown by National Defense Commit- tee and Administration Sought ROME, March 4.—(By The Associated Press.)—The council of ministers today discussed at length the crisis in Fiume which has complicated confronting the new cabinet. The attitude of President Zanella, who has been forced to hand over the government fiefenst, does not appear” quite clear here. Shortly after he assumed power In October last, he came to Home and obtained a loan of 200,000,000 lire. He then expressed a great belief in the Italian aspirations in Fiume, but upon his return to that place almost im- mediately incurred the enmity of thé Italian element. Since early. yesterday forces of Fas- the already difficult situation to the national committee of cisti, legionaires and republicans have been in possession of the city. They captured the posts and telegraphs, and before their;advance the police or- ganized by Zanella retired to the gov- ernment . The government forces had as their first Jine of defense a wall enclosing the small park in which the palace atands. They -were| Zanella’s forces placed machine guns on the rvof of the palace which for some time checked the progress of their assailants. the Italian navy in the neighboring bay of Aboazia and with its guns open- Italian torpedo boats in Fiume har- ber captured the itorboat, but the latter was again seized by the Fascisti who resumed thelr bombardment of the palace. The defenders then served a white flag. ‘The report that Zanella fled from the city is denied. According to latest reports he was still inside the palace, in the same room in which Gabricie d’Annunzio was slightly wounded by the fire of the troops sent against him hy former Premier Giolitti in 1920. Zanella, has signed_a statement agree. ing to retire forever from public life in Fiume and renouncing any aspira- tion of a political character. The comrgittes of national defense has in- vited the Italian government to. as- sume the administration of the city. The Zanella police force escaped to the neighboring. village of Grenova, where, according to reports, it is en- rolling croats for an attempt to re capture Fiume. The Fascisti and leginairies aré re- maining under arms and have formed a national guard of honor so as to be ready for any attack. One account places the losses of the Zanella forces as threo killed and fifty wounded. Another account gives the Zanella losses at six dead with two fatalities in addition to many wounded in the (Continued on Page Four) The attitude of the railroads per haps was best voiced by F. W. Robin- son, freight traffic manager of the Union Pacific, in commenting specifi cally on complaints that rates on agri cultural products were so high that farmers could not! ship profitably, when ho acknowledged that there was need for an all-round readjustment of freight rates, but insisted that the |railroads were not to blame for all the difficnities of the farmers.” “Railroad rates are not responsible for the present depression in the agri- cultural industry,” he said. The farm ers have not been sacrificed, ruined on the altar of the greed, the avarice of the publia arriers. Transportation costs are merely one factor in the dif- ficul situation.” A decision by the public service com misson is not expected for several Adding that weeks. estate 'Wife On Hunt For Husband And Children DETROIT, March 4—At the request of Mrs. Barbara Besse, police early today began 2 search for her hus- band, Ray Besse, and their two chil dren, Raiburn, 8, and Lieudonie, 6, who disappeared last night after Besse is alleged to have threatened to “do away with the boys.” Besse was last seen, so far as the police could learn, walking hand in hand with the children toward the Detroit river. Near the water's edge at Orleans street, the officers reported. they found the footprints of two small children and a man. Organization of Wen New Par Party Out of Mod-| JAGK OFFERED erate Conservatives and Liberals to Bring Change in Britain LONDON, March 4.—What was regarded in political cir- cles as seemingly a plain intimation of the early resignation of Prime Minister Lloyd George, with an endeavor to form a national centerist party out of the moderate conservatives and coalition liberals, was given by Winston Spencer Church- ill, secretary for the colonies in his address at Loughborough this afternoon. This party, as Mr. Churchill de- scribed it in the reports of his speech. received here, would be “liberal, pro- gressive and pacific in its outlook, at home and abroad, and resolute also to uphold and maintain the traditions of the state and the power and unity of the empire.” LOUGHBOROUGH, Engiand, March 4.—(By The Associated: Press,)—Win- ston Spencer Churchill, secretary for the colonies, in an address here this afternoon in support of Prime Minis- ter Lloyd George and the coalition government declared there was certain to be a political battel in England in the near future. “T look forward to the day when out of the coalition there shall arise a strong, untted and permanent national party,”” he declared. Alluding to the coming political con- flict, he said: “I think. we shall go into action when the time comes under our trust- ed leader with good comradeship and discipline.” During the course of his address, Mr. Churchill declared: *“We have a common opponent in the sociatistic or semi-socialistic party, whose doctrines are as hateful to the principles of fiberalism as they are pernicious to the empire's best inter- ests. meet tee WOMAN SEIZE AS EMBEZZLER BOSTON, March 4:—Miss Elizabeth Kenny, 50 years of age, who was housekeeper and bookkeeper for War- ren J. Wight, town reas of Northfield, was arrested here today with larceny of more than $19,000 of the towns funds. She disappeared on February 21. At that time, it was said, she had ad- mitted a shortage of about $10,000 in the accounts which she had kept for Wright, ee EDUCATOR. DEAD. BUCYRUS, Ohio, March 4.— Dean D. H. Hauslin, head of the Wittenberg Theological Seminary, Springfield, since 1911, and a leader in the Luther- 4n church in America, died here last night, following an attack of acute indigestion. He had come here to preach a funeral sermon for-an old iftiend and former parishioner, ROAD FUND FOR STATES ASKED WASHINGTON, March 4.—De yelopments of public roads in the west- ern states is the object of a bill intro- duced today by Senator Smoot, Re- publican, Utah, chairman of the senate Public lands committee osuthorizing the secretary of the interior to with- draw from entry 10 per cent of cer- tain lands in western states having more than 10,000 acres of such public domains, The lands to be withdrawn would be only such as are valuable chiefly for grazing ov raising forage crops and which are not susceptible of irrigation or containing merchant- able timber. ‘The withdrawn areas wou'd be sold} at $1.25 an acre and the proceeds de voted to a special fund for federal im- Ersvement and construction of public roads. Another bill by Senator Smoot would | authorize the secretary of the interior| to grant ten-year grazing permits on such public lands as cannot be irrigat- ed or are not valuable for other pur-| poses. The fee proposed would be from % cent to 1 cent per acre. —_—__—_ U. S. MINISTER NAMED. WASHINGTON, March 4.—Gerhard A. Bading, former mayor of Milwau- kee, Wis., was nominated today by President Harding to be minister to Ecuador. $350,000 TO BATTLE WILLS NEW YORK, March 4,—Harry Frazee, owner of the Boston American League Baseball club, announced late today that he had offered Jack’ Demp- sey $350,000 to defend his world's heavyweight boxing championship against Harry Wills, negro heavy- weight. Saturday, September 2, was mentioned as the date, the site to be selected later. In addition to the Dempsey-Wills bout, Frazee said that he was ready to make suitable offers for little bouts between Benny Leonard, world’s light- weight champion, and Lew Tendler of Philadelphia and between Johnny Buff, American flyweight champion, and Jimmy Wilde, premier English flyweight. No dates were mentioned. {INVESTIGATION LAUNCHED BY || RAIN CRASHES INTO BUS, SEVEN WOMEN VICTIMS REPORTED DEAD Investigation O Opened by New York Central into Crash; Four Injured in Wreck Dying, Belief CLEVELAND, March 4. Several officials of the New York Central railroad went to Painesville 25 milés east of here, early today to start an investigation into the c ollision there las; nicht of a New York Ces- tral ezyress tram and a motor bus hich resulted in the death of at least thirteen persons and injuries to atx others, four of whom may dic. Thirteen bodies had been accounted for, but there wers reports that at least one other person had been killed. Of the thirteen, seven of whom were women, only one has not been identi- fied. Three of the dead were found on the locomotive pilot when the train, in charge of Engineer F. S. Fernandes of Buffalo,” and Conductor G. Ernst, was brought from its 60 mfie an hour pace to a halt about three blocks from the scene of the collision. Most of those killed had left a dance hall in’ Painesville less than half an hour before the crash, while several others had attended a lodge meeting. An explosion of the gusoline tank of the machino set fire to the debris and several bodies were badly burned. The bus, which was operated be tween Painesville and Fairport, was making its last trip for the night. A. W. Barnes, crossing watchman, de- clared ho flagged the driver. -A declae ration by Chester Parrish, manager of the bus line, that a large oil tank ob- structed Driver Adams’ view of tha watchman’s lantern and the approach. ing train, was discounted by Carl Sul- livan, one of the injured. ‘ “I saw the train before we reached the tracks,” Sullivan said. ‘We had stopped to take on two passengers just south of the railroad or we would have been across. “People near me screamed as tha engine came on. I saw the driver teach down and pull something, I don’t know whether it speeded us up or slowed us down. Tt wai dark in the machine. I thought we had cleared the track. Then it hit us.” The train was composed of 20 ex- press coaches. It was made up here to go to Buffalo and does not stop at Painesville. “I blew the whistle just as we reached the limits of the town,” En- gineer Fernandez declared. “An in stant later I saw the automobile on the track fmmediately ahead of me. The space before we struck it was 80 brief I could not even know wheth- er the automobile was standing or in motion. “As I throw on the brakes, I felt the collision and fragments of the wreck- age flew past the engine cab. I am sure we stopped as quickly as possi- Ie." The story of Fireman Milo Cornett, also of Buffalo, coincided with that of the engineer. Following is a list of dead and in- jured, as announced by the Paines- ville police today: Gladys Lippilaksoud. } John Starms, E Max Sturms. Lillian Kelto. Hilda Praski. Mrs. Oscar Cooper. Mrs. John Bartish. Mrs. Frank Fridebaug... (Continued on Page Four) fled investigators. written by an educated man, was sent WOMEN RAWHIDED IN TERROR REIGN, POLICE START SEARCH MADISON, Wis., March 4.—Ef- forts of Madison people to locate the man who for three days has terrorized women on the west side with a heavy rawhide whip, had proved fruitless up to today. Men who have pursued the ficet- footed assailant assert that he wears a sailor mackinaw and a blue knit watch cap. His sprinting abil- ity thus far has taken him out of } reach of pursuers. The latest attack was made last night on Miss Vera Brower, an em- ploye of the stato banking depart- ment. She said that on approach- ing her home a man about 25 years old, approached ner and with a heavy whip began slashing her about the body. Her screams brought a number of men at once but the whipper es- caped. 2 CONFESSION IN TAYLOR CRIME IS ANONYMOUS Letter From Connecticut Says Writer -Killed Movie Director as Outgrowth of Feud and Is Leaving Country LOS ANGELES, March 4.—Capt. David Adams of the Los | Angeles police department announced today that he had re- jceived a letter from a man whose name he refused to dis- close, stating that the writer had killed William Desmond Taylor, motion picture director, whose recent death has baf- The letter, Captain Adams said, wasfrom a city in Connecticut, the name of which he declined to disclose, and made circumstantial statements that fitted in precisely with facts developed by the police. Captain Adams said he would not say definitely that the letter was a genuine confession, but he would say that the department put much cred- ence iff it, and was making a thor- ough and quick investigation. The letter expressed regret that he rould not collect the rewards offered for the arrest of the slayer, but an- nounced that the writer was leaving the country immediately. It gave re- venge for an old feud as the motive for the shooting. of Taylor, and was signed by a name that had not been connected with the. previous inves tigation. Captain Adams declined to give out any further detail a he would not show the letter at ent ogee: es