Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 12, 1922, Page 1

: | : | | ——- Che Casper Daily Crihune | =, | CASPER, WYO., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 1922. Weather Forecast Somewhat unsettled tonight and Thurstiy; possibly snow in extreme southeast portion; not much change in temperature. VOLUME Vi INDIAN BACKS UP CLAIMS OF | DEATH PENALTY IS DISPUTED IN TRIAL OF BURCH LOS ANGELES, Cal., April 12, —| CITY IMPROVEMENT TAX TO STAND District Court Decision Granting Injunc- tion Against Collection of City Assess- ments for Improvement Work Reversed in Supreme Court Ruling Assessments amounting to approximately $145,500 against Casper property for city grading and other improve- ments work must stand, according to a decision handed down by the supreme court at Cheyenne reversing a decision by Judge C. O. Brown in district court here under which an in- NUMBER 157.! junction was issued Walter L. Bass preventing. the city from to mark the end of litigation over jcollecting assessments for improve- TR CT | ET ments in District No. 4. Eight other E : I | payments, | In some instances the asseasmenta made for improvement work were confiscatory, according to charges of the taxpayers. The ruling, according |cases now pending which involve an | immegse sum are affected by the su- to City Attorney R. M. Boeke, is one story | Preme court ruling, which ts expected GENERAL CUT IN ARMIES OF EUROPE SEEN Genoa Conference Expected to Approve Holiday for Limitation of Land Arma- ments on Line Adopted for Navies; Ge April 12.—(By The As. s ‘vess}—Prime Minister Lioyd \ of Great Britain, is expected, pose at the eartiest opportunity’, ably at tomorrow's sitting of ct” > GENOA, 2 Minister Lloyt% ‘on No, 1, of the 'oyd George First With Suggestion teonomic conference, a pact or wa dertaking that no action shall at tack another, thus abolishing the possibility of war for the duration of the pact, Renters’ correspondent today says he has learned. 12.—(By The Associated Press.) Prime orge of Great Britain contemplates sug- gesting an agré iment for limitation of land armaments in Europe for a definite period, according to an unverified re- ; | | Opposition to the infliction of Je |death penalty is delaying the selec-| thy e tion of a jury for the second trial of | Arthur C. Burch for murder of J. Relton Kennedy, in which examina- tion of more talesmen was expect- ed to continue at the opening of court today. Another dearth of ventremen seem- ea probable today, Only six names remained on the roll in Judge Sidney N. Reeves’ court where, however, a ew panel of 100 was due to report to- Conduct of Banker’s Wife and Lover Is Defended hy Father of Beauvais; Cross-Examination Renewed MONTREAL, April 12.—(By The Associated Press.) — |of the most important in the of the stato as affecting city asscss- ments {or improvement work. The case had its origin when grad- Ing district No. 4 was created by a Lloyd Building Company Lands Work at Price $5,299 Higher Than Shoblom as Result of Latter’s Error Because of a technical irregularity in the bid which he Severe cross-examination awaited the full-blooded Indian, Louis Beauvais, father of the guide, Fred Beauvais, when trial of the Stillman divorce case was resumed here today. Yesterday the Indian parerts defended their son and Mrs. Anne U. Stillman against the charges of misconduct, made by James A. Stillman, Now York bank- er, who alleged in suing for divorce that they had misbehaved in the Qnebec woods and that Fred Beau- vais was the father of lttle Guy Suliman. TEAM WORKERS By their pas steed 5% and moth¢ sous’ would have. been impossible workmen at the. Stillman summer camp near Grande Anse, Quebec, to have drawn aside . roller curtains and peeped at’ Beauvis and Mrs. Stillman in the bed rooms of the lodge. They said there were no rol- ler curtains on the windows at that time, the summer of 1918. Mrs. Beau~ vais, however, was declared to have been uncertain on this point. There were other points of dif- ference between thefr statements and those of neighbors who more than @ year ago testified agaonst Mrs. Stillman. The neighbors swore that Mrs. Stifiman and arr lied per rey: adjoining rooms in t! lodge the Btillman children, Anne, Alexan~ der and James, slept in tents outside. Mr. and Mrs. Beauvais sald there ‘were no tents on the place at that time. The children and Mrs, Still- man occupied rooms on the ground floor, they said, and Beauvais slept upstairs. Mrs. Beaufais' after {dentifying Fred’s handwriting on three insignif- icant notes, however, was sald to have Iso identified a letter in which Fred | told of the tents being on the place. Counsel for Mrs. Stillman called several French-Canadians today to batter down evidence alleged to show she miscondncted herself in various places along the St. Maurice valley. Others were summoned to support charges that attempts to bribe wit- nesses to tell of such improprieties were made by J. Albert Lafontaine, jalleged representative of Mr, Still- man. Sheaf Miand testified that he over- heard Lafontaine offer $5,000 to two workmen if they would swear they had seen wrongful conduct by. Mrs. Stillman and Beauvais. This offer was alleged to have been made in June, 1920, just before Mr. Stillman filed his charges. Both testified in New York that they had peeped through windows and key holes at the Stillman camip and seen Mrs. Stillman improperly conducting her- self with Beauvais. VACATION TOMORROW 10 REPLAGE “SNEAK” DAY ‘There will be no school at the high school Thursday and Friday. All hands are prepared for a vacation. ‘This vacation is given in place of the regular “‘sneak” day, that has usually been enjoyed by the students rather than by the faculty. This promises to be enjoyed by both. ERIN PEACE HOPES RAISED BY TRUCE TONIGHT IN PREPARATION FOR CHAMBER OF COMMERCE DRIVE| The stage is all set for the second annual recruiting mem- morrow. Already sixty eight talesmen have been examined and only twelve! have been passed for duty. Mrs. J. D. Kennedy, mother of the slain broker, is reported critically ill. WILL BANQUET submitted in an effort to secure the contract for paving dis- trict No. 17, Charles Shoblom, local contractor, was deprived of the contract although the official check of City Engineer His bid was $104,416.25 for cash and $116,024.37 for bonds. ‘When Mr. Shoblom’s bid was re-|service instead of his indicated intent jected the contract was awarded to | of lumping the cost of the items the Lloyd Building company on & | listed. 5 cash bid of $110,867.55 anda bond) Yengthy argument was presented to bid_of $121,323.53. the city council by Attorneys A. E. Frank S. Knittle, showed that he was low bidder by $5,299.} resolution of the city council, August 5, 1919. This district embraces nenr- y all the southwest portion of the city from the Chicago and Northwest- ern tracks south and from David | Street west, The improvement consisted of grad- jing, cross walks, culverts, curbs and |drains. The estimated cost was $14! nm and the actual cost about $145,500. Bass and others who live in the district based their contentions on the alleged fact that: (1) The kind and character of the improvement was not suffictently de- | Seribed in detail. (2) The Improvement law of Wyo- | ming (1915) was unconstitutional. | @) Engineer's plans and specifica- | tions were defective. ‘The defense of the city was that: (1) The taxpayers had notice of hearings on creation of the district and on confirmation of assessment The irregularity creeped into Mr-|stirrett and D. W. Ogilbee who ap-!roll, but they made no protests until Shoblom’s bid in items 20 to 26 in his proposal, covering water service con- nections. The city specifications call- ed for indicating the cost by the foot. Mr. Shoblom's bid lumped all the items and was $40.50, which the coun-| cil interpreted as the cost per foot as| required under city specifications, | "The council based its rejection of peared for Mr. Shoblom and the Lioyd Building company respectively. With the alleged error creeping into his bid Mr. Shoblom submitted a let- ter of interpretation, which mater- ially eltered his bid. It was on this letter that the fight was waged. Under the original compilation of the bids, consicering Mr. Shoblom'’s bid liter- bership campaign of the local chamber of commerce, which is to be inaugurated at a supper meeting of the sixty pledged team workers scheduled for the Henning hotel at 6:15 o’clock this evening. Mr. Shoblom’s bid on the fact that it ally his cash proposal was $121,337.33 desired to be freed of the chance of|and bond $194,825,26. This made his Utigation and to protect the city in/|titeral bid about $10,000 less than that that Mr. Shoblom could technically | submitted by Mr. Lioyd. today “The ten teams in charge are on their toes and ready to #0,”’ Chairman A. E.. Stirrett of the campaign organization announced this morning in commenting upon the plans for.the iwo aay rive which! opéns tomorrow. “We ‘are anticipating | @ cordial reception from the citizens whose support is to be solicited,” stat- ed Mr. Stirrett. “The chamber of commerce is no longer an experiment. It is a permanently established agency in the life of this community. Its rec- ord of accomplishment during tho past two years entitles it to the sup-| port of every forward-looking citizen | of Casper. Although the chamber now | has one of the largest per capita in-| comes of any similar organization in: the United States, there are still quite! a number of progresstve local citizens | who are not supporting its community Liquor Smellers Take Trail Of Student Tipplers building efforts! The purpose of this week's drive 1s to enlist the financial Backing and cooperation of these cit- izens in advancing the best interests of Casper through a still stronger chamber of commerce.” One of the features of the drive will be the friendly rivalry between Rotary club, Kiwanis club, real estate board and chamber teams which are out to get the silver loving cup to be award- ed to the winner, This prize is to be given the team scoring the greatest number of points. ‘The canvas is to start at 9:30 o’cleck Thurscay morning from the head- quarters of the chamber. Preliminary reports are to be turned in at a noon- day luncheon, when all teams will meet with the Kiwanis club members at their regular weekly meeting in the Henning hotel. The personnel of the ten teams who are out to make this year’s recruiting campaign a big success, follows. A._E, Stirrett, colonel of regiment, ‘Team No. 1—Members of the Ki-|y, 5. wanis club: Stanley Griebel, captain, A. M.. Gee, H. G. Summers, W. D. Weathers, J, D. Walker and M. C, Price. Team No. 2.—Members of Kiwanis club. R. C, Cather, captain; Q.” K. Deaver, A. E. Biglin, Rev, L. B. Car- ter, C. H. Bowman, and Oscar ‘Thomas. "Team No. 3.—Members of Kiwanis Continued on Page Four.) Ulster and Free State Opponents in ‘Agreement to Discontinue Fighting Pending Outcome of Conference BELFAST, April. 12.—(By The Associated Press.)—A truce has heen declared between the Ulster special constables and the Free State troops which have been in menacing proximity along the Fermanagh border between Ulster and south Jreland, it was announced today. Sir Basil Brooke, commanding the Fermanagh specials, ctussed into Free State territory = [ees Interview was harmonious and an Dlack Lion, nonr Belcoo, yesterday,| agreement, was, reached under which ‘@nd conferred. tly the riyal—lesder. j both - uitleeewill~ ~theie—forces: BERKELEY, Cal, April 12.— Students given to tippling have been warned to avoid a recently created squad of Student Affairs commit- tee of the University of California designated as the “liquor smeliers.” ‘They have been appointed to detect students suspected of violating the rule of drinking before or during campus social affairs. By warm and effusive greetings they seek a whiff of the forbidden spirits on a student's breath and if the odor of alcohol is present, the student is reported. Expulsion is the penalty for proof that a student has been drinking at the campus affairs, | Ark Builder Fails, Will Sail Anyway LOS ANGELES, Apr/l 12.—The Rev. Lewis, negro builder of “the ark of the living God,” which foun- dered at her launching hero June 7, 1921, announced today he had taken an option on the motor ship: Angel, and within two months would start for the west coast of Africa with a full passenger list of negro “pilgrims.” He had intended to attempt the vor- age in “the ark of the living God” and passed many months in the construc- tion of the craft. a short distance from the border line. Each commander agreed to punish infringers of the pact. ¥ ‘The pact does not bind the support- ers of Eamon De Valera, who are massing on the shores of Lough Levin,! near the town of Garrison, where they have erected a large telescope and are keeping constant watch upon the spe cials. Last evening a dozen motor cars brought reinforcements for the Repablicans. PEACE PARLEY TO OPEN THURSDAY. BELFAST, April 12.—(By The As} sociated Press).—Ths ‘peace confer- ence between leaders of the opposing! parties-of swillopen | proceed against the city to recover a| It {s expressed informally sum of $40.50 a foot for lead water (Continued on Page Ten) INTRASTATE RATES REDUCED All Commodities Except Coal Affected Under Grder Being Prepared by the State Public Service Commission CHEYENNE, Wyo., April 12.—(Special to The Tribune.) —The Wyoming public service ‘commission is preparing its order for a general reduction of freight rates on virtually all commodities except coal and this order will be promulgated as soon as the technical details of preparation have been com- pleted. The three chief railroads of the state—the Union ROBBER MAKES HAUL IN =esezermomse Sar otc BLENROCK POKER GME <<"2ce cere Chicago, Burlington & Quincy have in- formed commission that they will ac- cept the new schedules, which in some. |instances call for reduction approxi- will apply to shipments of less than carioad lots as well as to larger sh! ments. Short haul rates will be ré duced less than long haul rates, com: -| days" after the bonds were sold. @) By failure to protest, waived their rights to object. Work on the district was complet- ed in the fell of 1920, and the suit was brought during the following January. A decision was rendered dn favor of Bass, March 10, 1921.. It was appealed to the supreme court by the city, and was argue there January 10, 1922. The supreme court decided in favor of the city in a de- cision handed down yosterday. R. M. Boeke, city attorney, (Continued on Page Ten) they and ‘LECTURE SERIES CLOSED! AT CHRISTIAN CHURCH, Florence Carmaichel of Indianapolis, closed a series of lectures here last education among She has been giv ist in religious younger children. ing educational tectures in several of the western states, including, Cali |fornia, Washington, Oregon and Mon- tana. The series closed with the lec tures and conferences held for the last few days in Casper. She has gohe to Denver for a few rest. From there she will to St. Louis, where is located the Unit Jed Christian Missionary society, under GLENROCK, Wyo., April 12— A|parison with rates charged in other| whose auspices she has been sent out masked robber hela@ the winning hand in a poker game here whén he en-| tered a room lately under lease as a real estate office and ordered a group/ed against. states haying established that it is chiefly in long-haul tariffs that Wyo. ming shippers have been discriminat- seated around a table to “stick ‘em|Union P&cific wil be comparatively up.” No one refused and his haul amounted to over $300. No trace of the bandit has been found. BO | HUGHES HONORED. LONDON, April ‘The As- sociated Press).—Tho University ot ‘Wales has decided to confer the hon- orary degree of Doctor of Laws on} Charles E. Hughes, American secre-| tary of state, who is of Welsh origin for eminence as a statesman and for his services toward securing interna- tional peace, according to the London ‘Times. greater than those made by the two other chief railroads, for the reason tnat the Union Pacific rates have been \higher than those of the C. & N. W. and the C., B. & Q. Coax rates are not to be affected by the forthcoming order for the reason that the federal government {3 to con. duct a hearing on coal rgtes of the Rocky Mountain region soon. and it is desired to await the finding of the In- ter State Commerce commission befor undertaking to change coal rates. > TWO ARRAIGNED FOR ORDINANCE VIGLATION The first effort to uphold the city sanitary laws failed when four alleged offenders, said to be operating without | ‘The Christian church under the lead ership of Rev. C. H. Stout, announces that it is holding its pre-Easter cam. Reductions made »y the|paign in a series of evening mectings. Meetings are held at the Christian tab: ernacle every evening except Saturday. to the congregation have been re |ceived. The campaign will close Sun day. ¥ Rane LesNe A. Miller of Cheyenne is a business visitor in Casper. GOOD RESULTS ARE SEEN be patterned after the naval holid: completed at the Washington confer ence. ae: Disarmament most discussed question delegates here, formal consideration following the in: itial tilt between the French and Rus- sian delegations when M. Chitcherin, Soviet foreign minister, endeavored to bring it before the conference. The statement of Louts Barthou head of the French delegation, to The Associated Press yesterday, explain ing why France cannot discuss dis armament at Genoa probably will Te- main the basis of the French attitude on this question, despite the attempts of the Russian delegation or other na tional groups to raise the issue. “This is a purely economic confer+ ence,” sald the French leader last night, again emphasizing France's pos ition, “and we have simply got te stick to our agenda as America did at Washington; otherwise we will get no- where.” Asked if France would be disposed to discuss disarmament at somo later conference, Mf. Barthou replied “If I wanted to say tho easy, pleas ant thing, my answer would be yes, and yet the real answer of France Is, we don’t know. “Don't forget that we have befare us a great army in Russia, and. while Germ. certainly is not a menace at prescnt, we have a menace in the po: tentia'ly great,German army of the fu- ture. “You have perhaps observe? the anodyne texture of the German chan cellor’s speech before the Genoa epn- ference. We do not kn6w what Ger- many will do, but I can say thir my latest official reports from Paris do not indicate that Germany J8 in a tractable spiri€ coneersing the vital matters embodied in the Versailles treaty.” M Barthou emphasized that a dis- armament program is under consider ation by the league of nations, which he said it would doubtless give proper altenion. coutinues to be the among me BANK ROBBER CHEYENNE, Wyo., April 12. | Adolf Pfunder, charged with attempt- Jbank at Chugwater, Wyoming, last (fall, was found guilty by a jury in |the Laramie county district court. |The jury deliberated less than 20 min. jnutes, Herman J, Kusel, Pfunder’s \associate in the Chugwater incident, now will go on trial. The cases of the two were brought here on change of | venue from Platte county. | ——. ‘WOMAN FATILLY BURNED | IN FIRE AT NEWCASTLE OSAGE, Wyo., April 12. — Mrs. | At the present time 37 new additions! Grace Edwards, a local resident, was! | probably fatally burned when gaso- |line which she mistook for kerosene jin building a fire exploded and en. \‘veloped her in flames. Another wom: |an occupant of the house was slightly ‘ burned port, before the adjournment of the present international economic conference. The “army holiday,” it is thought, will (aaa although barred from NATIONAL LEAGUE 4 R. HE. Boston --000 100 000— 1 4 0 Philadelphin _..110 000 230— 7 8 0 Batteries— Ocschger and Gowdy; Meadows and Henline. At New York— R. i. E. Brooklyn 001 100 eer 6 New Yoric 000 010 tee + + + Batteries — Reuther and Deberry Nehf and Snyder. At Cincinnati— Chicago ++ .020 001 Cincinnati 010 000 Batteries—Alexander and Hartnett; Rixy, Couch and Wingo. At St. Louis— Pittsburg ......000 ** St. Louis 300 #98 eres ew Batteries—Cooper and Gooch; Sher- del and Clemons. pocemnats (EEL AMERICAN LEAGUE At Cleveland— Detroit _ ‘Ch veland 000 030 Batteries—Oldham and Bassler; Mor’ ton and Nunamaker. 001 100 00%—* Batteries—Naylor, Echert, Heimach and Perkins; Quinn and Ryel. “At Washington— New York —_ Washington 120 10 Batteries—Jones and Schang; sridge and Gharrity, —— Dr. Anna Jeffrey has returned to everal days ness. in Thermopolis on busi- Neel . iS NVI TE Ks offices in Casper after spending s ai Pe ae GOES TO JURY SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., April 124 Defense counsel will not be satisfied | with dismissal of the manstaughter charge against Roscoe Arbuckle in the event that the jury for the time {s unable to agree. This was the announcement of Gavn McNab, chief defense counsel, this morning. Nothing short of a definite verdict | will satisfy him, he said. McNab today was scheduled~ ta complete his argument seeking ac+ quittal for the film comedian of ft sponsibility for the death of Miss Vir. ginia Rappe, film actress. Leo Fried. man was expected to close the argu. ment for the prosecutitn and tt was |considered probable that the “case | would be in the hands of the jury by 5 o'clock this afternoon, Ways and Means Says HOUSE TO STAND PAT ON 4 AMERICAN VALUATION IN. PROPOSED TARIFF BILL ARE FREED BY GOURT Witt Never Yield to Senate Proposal for | torise's ihe prmivie aod the tore | European Basis, Fordney of House | Democratic conferees, two from the house and two from the senite, rre j counted against it. Chairman Fordney is outspoxen for | Aincrican uation. Chairman hfe. Cumber of the senate commiztce ant |spondent in Dublic that Stephen O”- K. having complied with the regulations | of the sanitary ordinance were dis missed when they were arraigned be-| fore Judge: Perry A. Morris in polige} Fordney, of the house way CouRgsiaae nent | house never would yield on / fn Dublin tomorrow afternoon, it was announced here today. Lord Mayor O'Neill of ,Dublin in- formed the Belfast Telegraph corre- Mara, lord mayor of Limer! also ¢ had been invited to the conference and| department on order of the city sani had accepted. Eamon De Valera,|tary and public health committec. Charles Barates, Michael Collins andj When the cases were brought before apgy ogre ‘Arthur Griffith accepted yesterday. |Judge Perry A. Morris they were) Chairman Fordney 1s of the opin- Lord Mayor O'Neill, who has been| Promptly dismissed. jon that the conferpes will. accept argely responsible for the move to] If this decision establishes the rul-| American but Senator Smooth ae bring the rival leaders together, was|ing law in cases of this kind the city| Utah, ranking Republican on asked as to the scope of the confer-| will be without the power of inflicting] senate. finance committee, does no ence whether it was called to discuss| penalties for violation of the sanitary! subscribe to this view. As tho sitva- the question of unity or only the best|Jaws, until such time as the state su-| tion now stands it would appear tha méans of restoring order. i preme court renders a decision on the| the conferees would be at lenst seven “You never know what will h en,"j|case that is now up fer hearing at ‘o three inst the was his somewhat enigmatic reply, Cheyenne, Senator Smooth who made the fight proposition. WASHINGTON, April 12.—The declaration by Chairman and means committee, that the |: merican valuation, has revived | The arrests were made by the police! qiscussion of that tariff question at the capitol with oppo- |nents and proponents estimating their possible strength when the bill gets to conference before the senate and house. Mepresentxt've Longworth of thir, tement as to their posities. smn nate committee majority deft= adopted foreign valuat: raters gener: were _st2 new toiff bil as reporisd e sencte in prepe the ting days of co at are uhead the senate fio nndments to rates 4 for forelsn valuation before the sen- ate committes majority says he will valuatioa in not vote for American Pave been offered the conference or anywhere can side while Dem Senator La Follette, of Wisconsin, re preparing to make a the second tanking Reput 2 the finance coramittee, voted against this|as separate attacks on many of the aluation in the committee bt--) rates. Democrats on the finance com. j sentative Green of Iowa, rank'ne .e-!1n have been given ten Anis" ta | pwuian cathe ways and meaus cum-| which te file-theiz minority re>a-t > the other two conferees, have mnfe | ;