Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 15, 1922, Page 1

CHICAGO FIRE WIPES OUT $15,000,000 BLOCK Che Casper Daily BUESTS FLEE TO ESCAPE FIRE IN BIG RENO HOTEL No Deaths or Serious In- juries in Destruction of Large Building RENO, Nev., March 15.— Scores of guests escaped from upper windows in their night clothes when the Riverside hotel, the largest hotel here. was destroyed by fire early this morning. At & o'clock the boafifing was still a furnace and‘the ruin could not be searched, but a check was started to learn if any guests were missing. No serious injuries were reported. The fire, believed to have started in the engine room, broke out shortly aftgr 2 o'clock. The flames spread upward quickly and the guests, aroused by the smoke, found the stair- ways cut off. Most of them were res cued by firemen with ladders. The firemen prevented the flames from spreading to other bufidings, but could not save the hotel Several thrilling recnes were re ported, among them that of two chil- dren frem a blazing room. Tho scanti- ly cla. guests were cared for in sur- rounding houses. A mild night saved them from much suffering from ex- posure. RENO, Nev., March 15.—The River- side hotel, Reno's chief hostelry, was estroyed by fire early today. The loss is estimated at $250,000 while the to. tal insurance 1s $100,000. ‘The fire started in the basement, presumably from defectiv: wiring and spread rapiily to the ctwvator shaft and to all parts of the building, preceded by dense clouds of suffocat- ing smoke. One hundred guests were in the building at the time and were rescued from the third and fourth floor windows by firemen and policemen. ‘The smoke was so denso that few of the guests attempted to save any of their personal effects. Se a SALE OF SHIP IS DEFENDED BY SECRETARY WASHINGTON, March 15.—Secre- tary Denby told the house naval com- mittee today that the steamship Great Northern, formerly the flagship Cotumbia of the Atiantic fleet, was sold by the shipping board prior to the date set for opening of bids, but with the distinct understgnding that any bidder offering more than the sale price would get the sbip. 'The secretary was called before the committee to give information con- cerning the turning back of the ves- sel to the shipping board and her sale to F. B. Alexander, president of the Pacific Steamship company. Tho transaction was brought up by Rep- resentative McClintock, Democrat, Oklahoma, who charged that the method of sale was “peculiar.” BIDS ON FLEET ARE RECEIVED WASHINGTON, March 15.—The| shipping board today had received 25! bids in response to the advertisement | offering virtually fts entire fleet for} sale. Opening of the bids which was/ set for today, has been postponed as result of the abeence of President Farley in charge of sales. One bid, opened inadverteritly (t| was improperly addressed) was from | ‘a man in North Dakota who offered | $22,000,000 for the entire fiect. Ho) failed, however, to enclose a certified check for per cent of the amount of his bid. ee ea 1,082 GALLONS OF WINE - SEIZED AT KEMMERER CHEYENNE, March 15—Operatives pf the state law enforcement depart-| ment during the last two days have seized 1,682 gallons of “Dago Red” wine at Kemmerer and in the sur- rounding coal camps, A number of ar- rests were made. THUG INFLICTS | Weather Forecast Generally fair tonight end Thursday, except probably rain in extreme west portion. Not much change in tem- perature. VOLUME VI AMENDMENT TO PACIFIC PACT IS LOST AGAIN Opponents of Treaty Persist in Effort and Will Propose Reservation as Resuki of Failure in Senate WASHINGTON, March 15.—For the third time the sen- ate defeated today an effort to amend the four-power treaty conferences over controversies arising in the Pacific. An amendment for that purpose by Senator Pittman, jected yesterday, was deafted 50 to 79 ever, that they would bring the pro Pacific would be posal forward again later in the form of a reservation in the hope that they might secure the support of a num- ber of senators who object to all| amendments as a matter of principle. ‘The party alignment on the amend- ments was virtually the same as that which yesterday defeated similar amendments. Except for a temporary absenteo the same few Republicans | and Democrats left the majority of their respective parties. | used and the part(cipating terests in the Pacific. WASHINGTON, March 15.—The at- tempt to amend the four-power treaty so that outside nations would be call- ed into consultation regarding Pacific controversies was renewed in the sen- ate today despite the defeat yesterday of two amendments for that purpose. A new amendment, more limited in scope was presented by Senator Pitt- man, Democrat, Nevada. It provided | | Five Arrested For Effort To Auction Booze Five men were in custody today as a result of an attempt to hold a public liquor auction in Lennox avenue last night. More than 100 quarts of liquor were confiscated when the of- ficers descended on the scene and scattered several scores of the bid- ders. Few provisions for secrecy had been made, the auctioneer standing on the footboard of an au- tomobile in which the liquor was transported. Lively bidding was in progress when the police interrupted the sale, they reported. NEGRO VIOLATOR 1S PLACED ON CHAIN GANG Curtis Heddy, negro who’ has feat- ured in numerous escapades here is back in police toils and this time must serve a 30 day sentence on the chain | gang imposed by Judge Perry A. Mor- ris several weeks ago. Heddy’s sen- tence was suspended when he agreed to leave town. When he appeared) here yesterday he-was promptly placed | under arrest and is now serving on} the city labor gang. ! OKEH STAMPED ON WOOL RATES WASHINGTON, March 15.—Existing rates of raw wool from the west destined to manufacturing points around Bos- ton were held reasonable today by an interstate commerce commission examiner who reported to the commission his recommendations after investigating the complaint of the Boston Wool Trade association. The rates attacked by the associa- | tion were chiefly the charges for | wool produced in the west and moved to the Pacific const for transportation via. the Panama Canal. ‘Though holding the present charges combination rail and water hauls on| FATAL INJURIES LONDON, March 15.—laty White, widow of Sir Edward” White, late chairman of the London county ‘council during a moment of con- sciousness made a brief statement before her death this morning. She asserted that a burglar had entered her room through a window and struck her. A woman occupant of a @ scream after Lady White retired Monday night and the assumption is that when she shouted for help, the burgiar struck her on the head. The police reported nothing had been disturbed’ in the room, Lady ‘White had given a bridge party in the hotel Monday evening, retiring | about eleven o'clock. She was be- nearby room reported having heard | tween fifty and sixty years old. reasonable, the examiner declared that the railroad practice of refusing to halt cars moving to the Pacific coast at various points along the lines to pick up small wool shtpments, which privilege is given to cars moving east constituted a discrimination against |the rail and water traffic. Phis, it was suggested, the railroads should be required to remove. The report will not be made effective until ap- [proved by the commission itself. with an all rail haul of wool in view, j CASPER, WYO., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 1922. | Crihumne NUMBER 133. | } | | | FEAR OF WIFE | RIVERSIDE, N. J., Mare were in £6: John T. Brunen, circus propri day, in which he told of the his wife, Mrs. Doris Brunen, a will cutting her off with on been living in fear of his life and ex. pressed “framed” by his own household. addiessea to Brunen’ Elizabeth Jaesche, was turned over to the euthorities by her brother’: Jonathan Ki funeral. more would be made today. “And,” she declared, Harry Mohr of Pittsburgh, brotherbecome normal.” Frank G. Curtis of Casper and Jamestown, N. Y., president of the New York Oil company, who died suddenly today at his home in Jamestown. Moor Campaign Is Successtul MADRID, March 15.—Spantsh forces continue their successes against the Moroccoan rebels despite stiff resis ance, the latest official statement says, describing the occupation of Ichti |Sidi Salam. Spanish warships bom- \barded the coast between the mouth of the river Kert and Afrau. SLAIN CIRCUS MAN LIVED IN KILL HIM, LETTER REVEALS the belief that he was deing|from occasional her yesterday after she had attended! Prosecutor a a a sey said that as a result! to permit participation of outside nations in international |of the letter one warrant and possibly “I think Dotty (Mrs. Brunen) fs fig-) . f juring ot do away with me,” said the/ continued financial stringency unless Democrat, Nevada, similar to two on the same subject re-|ietter. “She wants to get money, for|the government acts in their behalf, that in any future controversy out-'all sho cares for is a good time.” The treaty opponents indicated, how- side nations having interests in the Mrs. Jaesche expressed tho belief| council of agriculture today asked the called into conference that her brother had been killed by| dominion government to reinstate the “ for decision and adjustment” were ‘hired assassins. powers were not limited to’ those having in-| know who hired them and why.” WHO TRIED T0 h 15.—County officials today asession of the letter said to have been written by etor, slain at his home last Fri- alleged attempt on his life by and of his intention of making e dollar. He said that he had -jof Mrs. Brunen, declared that aside “little family squab- bles,” the circus man’s home life ap- ‘Tho letter, dated February 20, was) Peared to be happy. sister, Mrs. | of Gary, Ill. and|worth more than $100,000 exclusive of Brunen’s estate is esttmated to be | life insurance. —._—_ CANADIAN FARMERS ASK AID. OTTAWA, March 15. — Declaring that farmers of western Canada face special delegation to the Canadian Canadian wheat board, “for the hand- “I think 4) ling of the 1922 wheat crop, and untf such times as world conditions again 21-STORY BURLINGTON BUILDING IS AMONG STRUCTURES WRECKEL | One Fireman Dead Conflagration Ne. of business buildings just outs’ $10,000,000 to $15,00%,900. ings bank and, un ot strong wind dipped over Van Buren street southward and burned nearly through another block to Harrison stroet. The flames were not brought under control until nearly 5 o'clock and even then firemen were fighting a dozen | different fires and others broke out intermittently as the wind wafted | sparks about. One fireman was killed, another seriously injured, ten or more slightly hurt and an unknown number of the} hundred thousand spectators. who thronged the burning district slightty hurt by falling bricks, burning timbers or sparks. The fire for a time threatened to assume virtually unlimited proportions and every piece of fire fighting ap- paratus within five miles was called | out in a series of ten alarms. “The rapidity with which the fire spread was astounding,” Marshall Buckley, assistant fire chief said. r burden FRANK G. CURTIS, PRESIDENT OF NEW YORK OIL, IS DEAD Died Today In Jamestown producing companies of Wyom in this city this afternoon. He is survived by his widow. Mr. Curtis had suffered for several days from a carbuncle on the neck. Death was unexpected. Frank G. Curtis was born on a| farm near Elbridge, Onondaga coun-| ty, New York, August 8, 1878. His ancestors were eai'y colonists in the United States and both paternal and maternal lines were established long) before the Revolution. All of the an-| cestors, nine in number, fought in| this war. Two were at Bunker H1i| | and one was with Washington at Val \ley Forge. | After such schooling as the local | district afforded Frank Curtis went to Jamestown at the age of 17 and worked in a furniture factory for a| year. He then entered the Jamen- | town high school from which he grad- | uated. He put in a year following} in the study of law but laid this aside | to complete his education at Cornell | university, from which institution he graduated with high honors in 1903. | Having completed his law course he |entered upon the practice of the pro. |fession at Jamestown. He abandoned Leaflets were dropped by the town was bombarded. CHEYENNE, Wyo., March 15. That the convention here of repre- sentatives of 58 locals of District 22, United Mine Workers of America, which district includes all Wyoming: and # few locals in adjoining states, has no especial significance in con- nection with the impending strike of coal miners throughout the coun- try, was stated today by district of- ficials. The convention is consider- ing a bl-ennial working agreement and the convention would have been held regardiess of the situation else- STRIKE MATTER NOT DISCUSSED where, it is explained, the working ing agreement with the Wyoming operators expiring next April 1 and it being necessary that a new agreement shall be reached before that time. The Wyoming miners, however, will follow whatever action is ordered by the international union April 1, regardless of the outcome of the negotiations in Wyoming, in- asmuch as in a recently comploted referendum the miners of this state voted overwhelmingly to obey a strike order should it be issued by the international officers. |Head of Prominent Wyoming Operator Is Claimed Suddenly at Jamestown Home; Was Prominent Here JAMESTOWN, N. Y., March 15.—Frank G. Curtis, presi- dent of the New York Oil company, one of the leading oil He was a former district attorney of Chautauqua county. | ly because of his legal ability, and tho | beginning of $2,000 borrowed ing, died suddenly at his home the Iaw in 1916 to devote his entire attention to the growing business of the New York Oil company. Mr, Curtis served as assistant dis- trict attorney of Chautauqua county, New York, and during his service of four years never lost a criminal case before the courts. In July, 1913, Mr. Curtts came to Casper, to engage in the production of oil. He founded the New York Oil company. The basis of the corpora-| tion was two 160-acre tracts deeply | involved in legal entanglements. He won straight through and consistent- justice of his cause. From the meagre to a} $10,000,000, extremely prosperous oil corporation in the space of eight years is the history of New York ofl. Frank Curtis did ft and largely un- aided. It is a business romance scarcely equalled in the history of oil in America. Deceased leaves a wife Dut no chil | dren and two brothers, Herman D. |Curtis of Thermopolis and Don Cur- | tis of Jamestown, Y. There are |numerous other relatives in western New York. GOVERMENT GAINS IN ~ REVOLT ARE EXTENDED JOHANNESBURG, March 1 airplanes warning the women | There was an immediate response, a steady stream of refugees proceeding | to a special camp outside the zone of| bombardment. Although the houses in Forsburs| had been deserted by the men, only women and children being found when| the government forces entered, snip-| ing at the government troops con-| tinued: One of the snipers, apparent-| ly a woman, was shot, but when the| body was recovered it was found to be that of a man woman's cloth. ing. Women oarrying white flags sheltered some of the rebels, according to the military reports, while groups} of children surrounded other rebeis| to facilitate their escape. ‘Transvaal Scottish forces took Dun-| swart on Sunday by a frontal attack| with tho bayonet, but the stretcher| jbearers were unable to remove the wounded, owing to continued firing from the houses, until reinforcements arrived in the afternoon, the reports jstate. Every house on the street | <2 CHICAGO, March 15.—A spectacular eal 2 and h ar Loop trict of W ide Chicago's “loo. ‘strict, The first started in vue center “The fire actually seemed to run fron ‘That the original blaze from which the conflagration grew possibly was of incendiary origin was the statement of Shirley High, city fire attorney, who early today announced the arrest of an unnamed man on Information |supplied by HL T. Schiff, president of the Confectionery Specialty company at 521 West Jackson Boulevard, where the fire started. Mr. High refused to divulge the name of the man arrested, but said that he wis being questioned regard. ing threatening letters Mr. Schiff said the man, a former employe, had sent to him. Mr. Sohiff told Mr. High the man was discharged when | he became incensed over refusal to permit him to purchase stock in the company, and within the past two months had nade a. series of threats. Mr. High summoned several of his ‘aides while the fire was at its height and sald an investigation would be be- gun immediately. He placed tho total loss at from $10,000,000 to $15,000,000. ‘Traversing the main burned area, the Metropolitan West Side Elevated line today was seriously handicapped in diverting its thousands of patrons to the downtown district, as was the Aurora and Elgin Electric Interurban line, which also used the four track structure which was caught in the midst of the fire. The huge Burlington office building, called a fire proot structure, held the fire from spreading westwart. Pro gress of the Mames to the south wus arrested by the facilities firemen were able to muster by flocking to the tops of the smalier buildings there—two to six stories high—and thus increasing the range of their water streams. A vacant lot, the site of the proposed now Union Station, kept the fire from spreading northward. The Chicago river runs a block east of the burned district but would have afforded but little protection had the wind veered the sweep of the flames toward the retail business section to the east. Heat from the burning bufldings across the street cracked out the win- dows of the Mercantile Trust and Savings bank before the Burlington building itself was afirea. A heavy police guard was thrown about the bank but was driven away quickly when the building caught fire. Cash and securities valued at approximately $6,000,000 are said to be in the bank's! vaults, and it may be several days be-| fore they can be examined. | The Burlington building caught fire| at about the eighth story and burned} up and down. No streams of water} were powerful enough to fight the fire; in the upper stories. ‘The flames, leaping high and puf- fod by the guests of wind, were visible for more than twenty miles. | ‘The Van Buren street tunnel of the| Chicago surface lines, under the Chteago river, debouches just at the| burned area and for hours a stream of water poured into the tunnel until | it was filled to street level. j The Union depot mail terminal was | not reached by the flames but postal} employes hurriedly removed all mail| when it appeared that the firm district could not be restricted. The Mercantile Trust (Continued on Yr and Savings} e Four) | | | —(By The Associated Press.)——Advices from Fordsburg, timed late yesterday, report that government infantry was then clearing the streets after the capture of the town from the rebels. Many prisoners had been taken, and the remainder were retiring on the Langlaagte river. and children to leave before| of Benoni, captured found fortified, and been placed in the streets. last week, was barricades had On Sun. |day night houses and shops were ran-|further now its demanc sacked and saloons were looted. ' | sacred college to elect h 1 Injured Fighting Spectaculc indy City; Rapid Spread of Blaze rm ‘es Equipment rning fire today destroyed a full squa with a loss estimated at fro of the block bounded by V: Buren, Canal and Clinton streets, and West Jackson boulevard, burned every structure that area, leaped north across Jackson and wrecked the 21-story Chicago, Burlington ar Quincy railroad’s general office building, which also houses the Mercantile Trust and Sa REPUDIATION 0 IRISH PEACE f D'VALERA PLAI DUBLIN, sociated P: {gsued a mar new Irish or, 1 The Vale nehing the objects — my I 1 nn which are to obt rnational re ognition of the Irish r pudiation of the proposed agreeme with Great E TEN JURORS IN ARBUCKLE BO) SAN FRANCISCO, ‘Progress in the examination of juror for the third manslaugh trial ¢ Roscoe C. (Fatty) Arbu ndicate today the lkelihood of bein completed in much less time than th preceding trials. Attorneys in the cas said they hoped the task would be fir ished today. At the noon recess there were te Marcn 15. Jurors temporarily the Lox, eigh of them subject to challe and tw subject to further questionix wel ‘Three of the ten were women. SLUMP IN TAX TOTAL IS SEEN WASHINGTON, March 15.—Treas ury officials expected the govern ment’s receipts of income and prof its taxes due today to show a decreas of more than $300,000,000 from the collections made during March of las year. While the shrinkage in business an¢ profits during the ear 1921 Mellon said today, maker ure somewhat uncertain, offi imate is that the first install ment of taxes for the year wil! amount to $469,000,000 as compared with $727,000,000 in 1920. POPE EXTENDS ELECTION TIME ROMMM, March 15.—(By The Asso- clated Press)—Officlal announcement was made from the vatican today that jendar Pope Pius has extended to 15 days the interval to elapse between the death of a pope and the session of the successor. (Unofficial but authorative an- nouncement that such a decree would be issued was made recently.) Recognition Of — U.S. Rights to Funds Is Asked WASHINGTON, March 15.—Recog- nition by other interested govern- ments of the rights of the United States in connection with distribution of Germany reparations was all that was sought at this time in the recent demand upon the allied finance min- isters for payment of $241,000,000 ex- penses of the American army of occu- pation, it was stated today by a high administration official. Having “established {ts case” it was aid, the United State will not press s for payment ¢ the bill GENERAL STRIKE IN INDIA LOOMS DURBAN, Natal, March 15.—Tho Indian congress of Natal, in protest against the arrest in India of Mo- handas Gandhi, the civil disobedience leader, has attempted to precipitate a general strike in Natal industries. The attempt, however, bas proved ‘The East Durban adopted a ing their grave.con- the arrest of Gandhi and only partially successful in Indians here resolution reco! cern over expressing be! largely instrume peace in India. he had been 1 preserving in ZANZIBAR, Island of Zanzibar, March 15.—T' ndians here declared a tal in pi test a, of Gandhi The amuse were closed in compliance. turbances, ‘© were no dis