Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 1, 1922, Page 1

OIL ROYALTY BILL CU STATE MAY GET 5 PER GENT OF TEAPOT GRUDE Measure Introduced by Mondell Reported to. the House Today WASHINGTON, June 1.— The Mondel! bill that 25 per cent of sums re- ceived as rents, roya):- bonuses from lands within the /P naval petroleum reserves of o United Stetes be paid to the states Weather Forecast warmer tonight. VOLUME VI neawiding in which the reserves are located. was reperted today, by the house pub lands committee. The bill as originally drawn by Rep- resentative Mondell, Republican of Wyoming, one of the states affected, rtipulated that payment to the states AR DRIVEN BY YEG6O [9 SEEN AT BONNEVILLE Tire Tread May Help Detec- tives in Tracing Robbers Who Blew Bank Safe at Shoshoni. hould be 37% per cent. = Fall, to. whom it was submitted, recom. mended that the amount be reduced to After hearing Mr. Mon- however, the committee 0 per cent. ded today, ruck ® compromise and made it 25 per cent. ae COMPROMISE ON ROYALTY REACHED. WASHINGTON, June 1.—({Special to The Tribune)—After Hearing Con greseman Frank W. Mondell for an our this morning the committee on public lands authorized a favorable report on the Mondell bill granting a portion of rents and royalties to states In which nayal oil reserves are located. The committees had before it reports of the secretaries of the navy and interior referring to the policy un- der the leasing gct and stating that they’ would decline approval of the % per cent carried by the Mondell “Nout but would offer no objection tf he amount of the royalties was re duced to 20 per cent, pointing out that this was the amount granted to the states on impounded royalties when the leasing act was passed. ‘The house committee’ compromised by authorizing a favorable report on the Mondelt bill with the amount of} nly three miles from Shoshon!. the Royalty placed at 25 per cent. L, A. Shavrver, president of the & looted bank, spent Wednesday in Bin- * neville and was able to locate the dis- Mex Recogniz Le eis waereae oe New Guatemala Rule, Is Report The chance that the professional cracksmen who blew the safe of the Shoshoni State bank Memorial day morning, secured $3,500 in loot and dis- appeared without rousing the towns may be traced by the tread of an auto mobile tire looms as a possibility to- day. It was learned from Bonneville res- idents that a high-powered car drove through that place toward Shoshoni about midnight, a little more than two hours before the crime, and returned several hours later. Boaneville is mobile fs ‘not known, it is possible that the tire tread may offer valuxble evi- dente to the Fremont” county and American Bankers’ association oper. atives, While the theory that the three men who were seen circling Shoshon! on the afternoon of the crime, has not been entirely abandoned, it is not re MENIGO CITY, June 1—By The Associated Press.)—Mexico has ex- tended recognition to the new Guate- malan government. President Obr on, in a letter mads public by he foreign office, adéressed President Orellana and expressed wishes for cordial relations between the two na- tions, ‘The Mexican government's action did not come as a surprise, as ‘Preati- dent Obregon stated a few weeks ago that recognition would be extended “very shortly.” garded as the best clue available. The fact that clever and experienced bank robbers would appear in the vicinity of their contemplated “crime in broad daylight is not regarded as likely by the sheriff's office and the bank of- ficials. ‘The Ford car, which contained three men, all of them strangers, was par- ticularly noticed by a workman on the state highway near Birdseye pass. He described the driver as a slightly un- der 30, tall, slender and dark. The other two occupants of the Ford could not be described. , psalt nae! See Be SAN SALVADOR, Republic of Sal- vador, June 1—(By The Associated Press.)—Reports of an intended in- vasion of Mexico from Guatemala by Gen. Felix Diaz are without founda-/to use its street railways to trans- tion. according to a message from the|port coal direct from the ‘mines to Mexican charge d’affaires in Guate-|the factories and other consumers in mala City. the city. r ‘The English city of Leeds proposes Did You Ever Stop to Think--- ‘THAT the song that never grows old, is entitled—“LOVE YOUR THAT just as money supercedes bartering in commerce, so checks have replaced currency in almost every field of endeavor. KEEP YOUR MONEY IN 4 BANK OR IN SOME GOOD LOCAL IN- VESTMENT. ‘THAT optimism and common sense should be mingled in good’ pro- portions. THAT 2 home of your own is the best investment you can make, Buy or build a home and do it now. (HAT you can’t imagine any line of business which you can't ad- vertise profitably. . THAT advertising is ‘simply an extension of ability. THAT your chamber of commerce welcomes inquiries for specific information about your city’s supremacy for manufacturing, dis- tributing and as a residence city. ‘THAT you should have faith in your city, it helps. cry: THAT a city of united effort is always known as 4 growing city. E. R. WAITE, individual selling KNOW YOUR SHAWNEE OKLAHOMA BOARD OF COMMERCE ranged within a few weeks, there fs a tendency in some quarters to fear that the bankers will be unable to find a solution reconciling the economic and political elements of the problem. The bankers commit- tee meets this afternoon. WASHINGTON, June 1. The French government has been in- formed that the American govern- ment will receive a special mission of Frénch financial experts to dis- PARIS, June 1—(By The Asso ciated Press)—Approval by the rep- arations commission of the German reply to its ultimatum and the de cision to grant Germany a provision: al moratorium for the year 1922, have cleared the way for considera- tion of a loan by the international committee of bankers meeting here. While in repafations circles it is thought there will be no disagree- ment and that a loan of probably more than $1,000,000,000 will be ar- Fair tonight and Friday; | gathered to pay respect to the mem- Court Shadow Not Yet Lifted, How- -ever, by Ruling CARSON CITY, Nev., June 1.—Mary Pickford’s divorce from Owen Moore, validated! here yesterday when the state supreme court ruled the attor- ney-general had not the power to institute and maintain an annul ment action, had removed toda the legal shadow which was cast over the film star's marriage tc Douglas Fair- banks, shadowland's agile actor, who claimed her as his wife one week after she obtained a decree of divorce at Minden, Nev., in 1920. The main question involved in the decision is that of power of the at- torney general to bring an annulment action, the court held in its decision, passing over all other contentions set up by the defendants, except to hold that the lower court order annulling | and revoking the order for publication of summons is an appealable order. ‘The court concurs in the claim sct up by the attorney general that his office is clothed with all power grant- ed under the common law in addition to those provided by the statutes of Nevada, but the court adds that the office inherited no power to bring an cree of divorce. The, opinion was written by Justice Ducker and is con- Continued on Page Four.) ALE. OTAPLETON LAID AT REST AT CHEYENNE Funeral services were held in Chey. enne yesterday for the late Robert Emmett Stapleton, former Tribune re- porter, whose sad death resulted from an accident in Casper last week. The remains were laid at’ rest in Mount Olivet cemetery there. ‘The following regarding the funeral is from the Wyoming State Tribune: “From a gray cottage on Thomas ton were taken this morning to the fmposing cathedral on Capital avenue, {I where the last rites were said over a} young man who had grown up in | Cheyenne, who had made his mark in| |the professional world and whose sud-| den death brought sorrow to dreds of people in this city and state. “A crowd that filled the cathedral ory of the young man. mass had been celebrated, Father Hartmann delivered, an eloquent ser- mon, in which he comforted the Sta- pleton family, and the many intimate friends of the deceased, by pointing {out that it is Goa’s will that all shall} suffer tribulation and that through it \they sha.l gain their eternal reward. | “At the grave in Olivet there was a profusion of flowers, of which a large number came from friends in Casper. Pall bearers were Kenneth Bell, Will Lynch, Edwin Bon, Al Les- lie Jr., Ed Lawler and F. L. Babcock EUTON REPLY ACCEPTED REFUNDING PLAN TALKED cuss the nation’s war debt, it was stated today after the second meet- ing of the allied debt funding com- mission. No definite date for the discussion has been set. WASHINGTON, June 1—The al- lied debt funding commission met today for its second meeting since its creation by congress to negotiate the funding of the eleven billion dol- lars owed this country abroad. independent action to set aide a de-| CIVIL WAR street the remains. of Emmet Staple-} hun-/ After high |Gition. A rime |S: | CASPER, WYO., THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 1922. PICKFORD DIVORCE DECREE IS LEGAL NUMBER 199. JUDICIAL PROBE; MRS. TAKE APPEAL IF HER a | Wedding Decision Is Left to Father of Girl CHICAGO, June 1.—Ju- dicial investigation of Max Oser’s eligibility and qualifi-| cations as a husband for Ma- thilde McCormick is the next} step in the international ro-| mance of John D. Rockefeller's 17: year-old granddaughter and the fric- tion between her parents } | Today Mathilde has a guardian, | [who is said to be ready to sive his) jeonsent, to her marriage to the Swiss | Battle Chant Author Dies Pauper, N.Y. NEW YORK, June 1.—That the Paul Burne« who died in Manhattan state hospital, Ward's Island, May 8, insane, blind and @ pauper, was the author 6f “Goud Bye, Dolly Gray,” the battle chant of American sol- diers and sailors in the war against Spain, became known today. ‘Barnes also was the author of many other songs once, popular. | Among some 59 are “Josephine, My | Joe,” “Down by the Riverside, | “Dreaming,” “Venetian Moon,” and | horseman, who was her riding master | | ‘fammy Jenny's Lullaby." Dan during her girlhood days in the Alps. Daly, a noted variety actor, sang |Her father, Harold F. McCormick, tit | himself to fame lute in the nineties through a song entitled “You Won't Do" that Barnes composed for him while the two men walked 12 blocks down Broadway one afternoon. The iast appearance of Paul Barnes was in English music halls ular head of the International Har-| vester company millions, was accept- ed by his divorced wife as a suitable \suardain for their daughter with one lexception. The horseman of Zurich’ ts| ithe exception, and Saturday Judge |Henry Horner of the probate court is just at the outbreak of the war. /expected to decide whether Max’s 27 | When he and his wife, who |years’ seninrity over his prospective worked with him, returned to |bride and his comparative poverty | Broadway they found themselves |furnish sufficient grounds to grant) | forgotten and soon, through worry, | Barnes became insane. mick from giving his consent to the | He had been in the hospitat about | marriage. two years when he died. The Ma- |. Mrs. Edith | sonic order and vaudeville friends had-been paying small sums to give [that there were mercenary) motives in him all the comforts possible to one | Max’s courtship of her daughter, who in his condition. | (Continued op Page Four) an injunction restraining Mr. McCor Rocks GUN DUEL WILL | feller McCormick, | Mathilde's mother, exprcssed the fear | Elimination of Steam Plant at Gorgas Is Made Basis of Refusal Delivered to House Committee; Other Changes in Original Offer Are ~ WASHINGTON, June 1.—Henry Ford’s reply to the counter proposal drafted by the house military committee for development of the government projects at Muscle Shoals, Ala., was presented today to the committee by J. W. Worthington, a representative of Mr. Ford, immediately upon arrival here from Degcoit where he conferred with the INTERNATIONAL ROMANCE HINGES UPON M’CORMICK TO PLEA IS DENIED DEPUTY SHOT IN RECOVER, GLAIM Steady Improvement. Noted in Condition of Fred Northern, Principal in Shoshoni Shooting Fred Northern, the game deputy sheriff of Fremont county, who wheeled in a darkened hallway and shot to death his assailant, George Heard, after the latter had wounded him in three places, is slowly recover ing from the effects of his wounds, according to advices received this noon from Shoshoni, the scbne of the shoot- ASSAILANTS OF HEADERS, SENED BY OFFIGERS AT OIL FIELD CAMP Jeputies En Route Here With Pair Accused of Mistreating Men at the McPherson Camp Accepted motor manufacturer. Mr. Ford's answer, made in th: form of letter to Chairman Kahn definitely rejected the provision in th« committee plan whirh eliminated th: steam plant at Gorgns, Ala., from thc properties to be disposed of by the gov ernment with the Muscle Shoals prop erties. “I cannot consent Gorgas plant,” the cause it is necessary to the economi: operation of the uscle Shoals p erties. If my revised offer for Gor gas is rejected, then I must under stand ilial the acceptance of my offer for Muscle Shoals as a whole and nc in part is refused. Mr, Ford presented a virtual ult™ matum on the question, agreeing ¢ minor modifications of his offer, by insisting he wanted the committee, “ consider this proposal (presented t to e'tminate th Be letter said, Two men, alleged to be the »nes who held up, robbed and ruelly assaulted two sheep- herders employed by the Mc- Pherson Sheep company north of Casper, were arrested at talt Creek today by operatives from heriff Marquis’ office. Deputies Allen and Powert of Cas- day) os final and that no furthe | ¢f and Snow and Smith of Salt Croek changes should be expected.” ok the men into custody at the Request was made by the manufs outh camp pool hall. They denied eing the men wanted, but were un- able to give a satisfactory account of hemselves, Early today the two accused men were taken to Saddle Rock, where hey were positively identified as the two who passed there some time after the crime. In the early afternoon the leputies started for Casper with the men, but had not arrived at the time his edition goes to press. Sheriff Marquis said alte this afte noon that it is like'y that a stop was made at the McPherson sheep camp, © that the men who were robbed ulght have an opportunity to identify he pair. It was not possible to get turer that the committee send his fins! offer to the house for a vote on ac ceptance or rejection. “If congress votes acceptance © my offer,’ "Mr. Ford continued, will get on the job at Muscle Shouls at once; but if congress rejects. it that will’ be but the beginning of a more determined effort on my part to save Muscle Shoals for the benefit of the public.” Immediately upon receiving Mr. Ford's letter the house committee went into executive session to consider { Members would not forecas’, what ac tion would be taken but in some qua ters it was believed that the comm|i ing. Following the shooting, which was one of the most spectacular in the an- nals of Fremont county, it was thought that the deputy would succumb. With his wife as a faithful nurse, Northern began to rally and each day sees his condition improved. It will be some little time, however, before he regains his normal health and strength. George Heard, who maticiously and without cause aitempted to kil! North ern was quietly buried in Shoshonj on | the afternoon of May?20° His wife at- \tended the funeral services, but left ‘ihe pines. shently thereagter, HITS PARAGUAY fet Lode Meine HAS JHNPHILLIPS OF ALGO | Pewes ky TAKEN AWAY BY SUDDEN ILLNESS (By The Associated Press) —-| A 24-hour ultimatum demand- Mrs. Elizabeth S. Phillips, 82 years of age, wife of John ing the handing over of the) Phillips, well known ranchman of the Alcova region, died at \government has been deliv-|a local hospital at 4:55 Wedr @sday afternoon from sudden ered to President Ayala of,illness with which she was stricken while attending Mem- Paraguay by Col. Chirife, leader of,the| orial day exercises in Casper. |forces of former President Schaierer, says a dispatch to La Nacion from |Ascuncion today. j_ Should the ultimatum not be com-| plied with, Col. Chirife threatens to} take the capital and declare himself | | dictator. the supreme ave her life. No time has been set for funeral services and the body will rest at the Shaffer-Gay mortuary until relatives effort could be made to > tt Ss : fa distange are heard from. Burial pesliory: Ss ulane sme wsen,the xival, be made in Highland cemetery factions has occurred ‘at Encarnacion, | Wi) De mnade in Fightin erobably jon the Parama river, 180 miles south.| Cre and tune arpa pam nk LAR inn. : will be conducted by Rev. Philip K. jeast of Ascuncion, the message states. | + - ‘The newspaper Juventud asserts | "Awards, rector of St. Mark's Epis: | serts| copel church, of which Mrs. Phillips that ex-President Schaierer has taken | refuge in the German legation at As-| was a member. Mrs. Phillips was born Elizabeth 8. cuncion. | —— ;Shrader on August 10, 1889, at»An A dispatch from Buenor.-Aires|f0ver, 8. D., and 1894 had lived Wednesday night announced that/!" Natrona county, having Been |brought here by her parents when President 5 casi pale ala orrees oy orf Sappag jfive years of age. On April 17, 1917 she was united in marriage to John Phillips and removed with him to the Alcova ranch. Surviving the deceased in addition to the husband are two small children. ‘Adelaide and Thomas; her mother, Mrs. Johannes Shrader, 132 South Lincoln; two sisters, Mrs. Truman Butler of Los Angeles and Mrs. A. D. Riley of Dwyer, Wyo., and one broth- er, Richard Shrader of Weston, Utah. lit is probable that several will come for the funeral. | Mrs. Phillips enjoyed a wide | in Casper and Na tigress a decree of martial law for 30 ys throughout the republic on ac-| count of the disturbed political con-| concentration of. several | thousand troops, the forces of former |President Schaierer was reported at; Paraguari, 33 miles southeast of As- cuncion by passengers arriving at the capitol. It was also reported that the Sehaierist deputies tad met at Para- guari and established a_ provisional government, with the intention of de- posing President Ayala. patos i li | {uaintance | las a shock-to friends, will be mourned "TOBE ARRAIGNED TODAY © "=== Officers C. J. Carter and Ted Me ‘ONE BALLOON Grew, who comprise.the raiding squad 1 RACE DOWN | of the city police department, arrested a man named McBride at his apart- MILWAUKEE, Wis., June 1,—The Captain JoJhn Ber- | ment 809 South Chestnut street this afternoon on the charge of bootleg- zing. | About three, gallons of moonshine| y.ticon piloted b: was discovered as well as two recently | 0% ; S raat emptied. five-galion jugs which gavel "7.0% St. Louls. came down at M pa indications of having recently con.|Cell Ill, this morning tearing into x telegraph wires, according to dis- Me- tained the forbidden beverage. Mc-| Latches reaching here this afternoon. Arrangements had been made \for an operation late yesterday but death intervened before PRESIDENT OF CHINA RESIGNS TOKIO, June 2.—{By The Associated Press).—President Hau Shih Chang of China has resigned and General 1) Yuan Hung, who. became president following the death of Yuan Shih Kai in 11916, has been restured to office according to official advices from Peking. —————— APPROPRIATION BILL REPORTED WASHINGTON, June 1.—The an nual war department appropriation bill carrying $333,972,000 was reported to the senate by [ts appropria- tions committee. The méasure as it is returned is~ $49,985,000 larger than as passed by the house, but approx!- mately $40,000,000 under the estimate for the coming ar’s expenditures, CHICAGO, June 1,—Delay in com- pilation of the minority report by the labor members of the board is all that withholds announcement of another slash of $50,000,000 from the wages of railway employes by the railroad labor board, it was said to. day: Details of the ion 400,000 shops crafts employes hay Rage ee ren ee Rat yet ce | Before landing the balloon bounded held. jacross a medow, for nearly a mile cece i | throwing the pilot and his aid on the | ground and then tore down a tele Ninety-five per cent of all the busi hone po It had been in the air ness done in the United States ‘0 hours and 28 minutes. Irving Rans transacted by check. i dell was the aide. been completed, it was said. This cut, which is to follow the $50,000 000 reduction in the wages of 400, 000 maintenance of way employes affecting | tee would vote to meet Mr. Ford's de mands as the purchase of the Gorgas plant. - AWERTON WELL SATISFIED. WITH BUSINESS, CLAIM nto communication with that camp. [BALL SCORES ] NATIONAL LEAGUE At Boston— RH. KE. New York 0 090 000— 0 5 2 Boston -000 020 Ox—2 7 0 Batteries — sDougias, Causey and Snyder; Fillingim and Gowdy. At Pittsburgh— R. H. E. . . Louis 100 000 200— 3 11 1 Times Good for All but Doc- Pittsburgh 000 002 000-2 7 0 tors and Lawyers, Says Batteries — Pfeffer, Barefoot and Booster on Trip to \insmith; Carlson, Cooper and Casper. Gooch, Jonnard. No one but doctors, undertakers and} At Chicago— , R. HH. E. awyers have reason to complain of | Cincinnati 004 002 000— 6 10 1 voor business in Riverton,.the thriv-| Chicago 000 000 010— 1 7 1 ng metropolis of a rich valley in Fre-] Batteries -——- Luque and Wingo; mont count, according to B. T. Glenn | Alexander, Osborne, Freeman and member of the legislature from there,| 'Farrell, Hartnett. jsccengakns 1 80d SEES AMERICAN LEAGUE who was in Casper today on business. The town is too healthy for doctors, said Glenn, and everyone is at peace. Mr, Glenn sets forth many contrib uting factors to healthy business con-"At New York— fs R. H. E. ditions there and prospects for a ban- Boston —. -010 300000—4 10 1 ner year. Among these is the recla--New York — -000 210 20x—5 11 1 mation and drainage work now in, Batteries—Collins and Ruel; Bush progress, the first on the big Riverton and Schang. project and the last named on a dis-| os trict organized for draining hundreds’ At Cleveland— R. H. E. of acres of rich farm lands in immedi- Detroit —_ -100001000—2 11 1 ate proximity to the town. Cleveland -010 200 20x59 0 The tie drive on the Wind river this! Batteires—Olsen, Stoner and Bass- r will break all previous records. ler; Uhle and O'Neill. an aggregate of 700,000 timbers hav eh ae ng been cut ready for floating down At St. Louis— R. H. E. the river to the treating plant at Chicago --.. xx Riverton. Many men will be employed |S¢. Louis —__. x x in this work. | Basteries—Faber and Schalk; Davis Oil field activity is on the increase.' anid Severeid. Riverton is the base of operations in the Maverick Springs field, where the Union company has completed six pro: jucers and is drilling more. The My- rin company is drilling at Alkali Butte| the Producers and Refiners in Big} Sand draw, the Ohio on the Muskrat! dome and the Connelly Oil and Land| company in the Riverton valley | Produce growers of the Riverton district have banded together this year in an association which will sup-| ply a large part of produce consumed| fanae n HIGH SCHOOL BAND 15 ASKED 10 PLAY FOR STATE ERI THIS YEAR in Casper. Connections already have) been established here. The excellent quality of the con- As evidence of increasing travel the'cert given by the high school band Teton hotel,’ one of the most modern has made ‘t an institution well known hosteries in the west, is full of peo-!by music lovers of Casper and its ple and enjoying an excellent business.|name has even extended throughout Prospects for increased tourist busi-|/the state. It is the intention of H. W. ness were never brighter. The town|/Compton, director of the organization, maintains a camp equipped with ato continue practice through the sum- community kitchen in the city park)mer months and to give regular con- and with the improvement of the Du-,certs. A letter received from Otto bois road and avenues leading to the Bolln, secretary of the state fair as- south entrance of the Yellowstone Na- sociation, requests that the band come | tional park. more visitors are expected to Douglas next fall and give perform- than ev r before. ances du ing air WAGE RULING IS DELAYED MINORITY PLANS REPORT who are threatening a strike as a CINCINNATI, June 1—Edward result, will affect all blacksmiths, maechintsts, bollermakers, sheet | 5” ©1t#8*rald, grand president of the | metal wrkers, electrical workers, | Brotherhood .of Railway Clerks, | carmen and helpers in the service of | Freight Handlers, Express and Sta- the nation’s railroads. tion Employes, announced today that 16 chiefs of the railroad broth- | ran m 5 to 9 cel he ce fro cents an jour. |. BS. a Among the decreases in the impend | | | | The scale of reductions is said to | | | ing decision are sald to be the fol- | Of the railroad unions will meet in | lowing! Cincinnati next Tuesday to take up Apprentices, 5 cents; helpers. matters vital to the common wel- cents; mechanics, 7 cents; passenger | fare of all railroad workers. Some car men, 7 cents; freight carmen, 9 } 49 executives are expected to attend | cents. the meeting. a EE i : FORD TURNS DOWN COUNTER T IN COMMITTEE PROPOSAL ON U. S. PROJECTS Che Casper Daily ON i MOOT mM ORT e oe