Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 19, 1922, Page 1

7 2 GAYS HE NEEDED AIFLE. INSTEAD F A REVOLNE Wounded Outlaw Tells Story of Escapades in ing Law RAWLINS, Wyo., June 19. —/(Special to The Tribune.) —Omaha’s wild man today answered questions propound- ed to him in the first interview he has*“granted” since his movie thriller through the mountains of Wyoming last week and his sub- sequent capture north of Medicine Bow earty Saturday. On the eve of his departure for Omaha.in the custody of Nebraska, State Sheriff Gus Hyers, where he will face a charge of having bound two women with a log chain, asseulted them, amd kept them in cellars for two days. Fred Brown alias Gus Grimes, alias Ernest Busch lay on his cot in the Wyoming State Peni- tentiary here and tolM officers part but not all of the story of his escape from Omaha, his eventful trip to Lin- coin and back again, his wounding of a in the Nebraska metrop- olis, his’ flight to. Sidney, Neb., his outwitting of officers there, and fin- ally his dash for the Box Elder can- yon country, where he once worked as a sheepherder under what ts be- lieved to be his right name, Ernest Busch, and where he hoped to remain in hiding for three weeks, ard pos- sible longer. He was moro than wiil- ing to tell how he had discomfited and gotten around authoritiés, but when he was asked concerning a series of crimes for which he will be held as a suspect, Including three murders, for the most part he merely shrugged his shoulder. He admitted nothing and denied nothing. Brown had so far recovered last night that Hyers plans to leave with hin early Tuesday arriving in Omaha Wednesday -morning. And as he grew better he also grew taikative. “You can’t kid me, partner. I have been kidded by experts. You are just kidding yourself, that is all," was the bandits reply to several of the queries shot at hin by Sheriffs Hyers, San- ders and Carroll, and Cheyenne and Rawlins newspapermen. Throughout a half hour's running fire of ques- tions and answers, he maintained a half-defiant, half-amused attitude, He admitted tying up thy Omaha women, whom he characterized as a “couple of street walkers;” but he re- fused to tell why he did it. Asked if it was because they had asked for his diamonds, and had threntened to “Squeel” when he turned them down, he gave a shrug of his shoulders. He dented &ll knowledge of the Sif- kin. murder committed in Omaha a short time before his affair with the women, and he would not discuss the report that at the age of 17 he “got his man” in Towa. He gloried in his work in leaving two Sidney officers bound up in thetr own suspenders and coming on west in possession of their rifle, jail keys and money. He reviewed his trip along the Lincoln highway all the way from Omaha to Rock River, Wyo., and gave exact details of es- capades at various points along the route. He let slip the fact that he sup- posed he would get a life sentence, following his forthcoming conviction. But he was tight lipped when it came to confessing to anything more ser- ious than robberies and holdups. = He owned up to the fact that some 15 years ago he was Ernest Busch, a sheepherder, and later got out of this state when accused of being a horse thief. 3 He said he would not talk of where he was raised or who his folks were, and he merely waved his hands when tsked if it were not true that his father was. living in California, under his own correct name of Busch. “That is a hell of a question to ask a mad man,” he said in response to one of- fiver, and as he sald it his eyes gleamed with laughter over reports! spread countrywide that he was “in- sane.” “If I'd only had ammunition for that rifle I took off the Sidney marshall I'd be sympathizing with (Continued on Page Eight) OPEN SHOP MINING BEGINS IN KANSAS ” State Program for Breaking Strike of Che Caz Weather Forecast VOLUME VI CASPER. WYO.. MONDAY. JUNE 19, 1922. : HARDING IS ASKED TO | | | a] NUMBER 214. | ACT IN The electrical storm that \ period yesterday afternoon h eonugh to fire one 55,000 ana . 3, merly the Midwest Refining comt This fire brings the total numbe. tank, the property of plant No. BRINGING COAL STRIKE TO AN END RAIL BOARD CHAIRMAN THINKS BiG STRIKE WILL BE AVERTED, UNION CHIEFS TO BACK MEN CHICAGO, June 19.—Railroad chiefs were marking time today while employes of the roads were marking strike bal- lots. By July 1, the date $136,000,000 in wage cuts, ordered by the United States railroad labor board become effective, the strike referendum will be completed and the nation will prob- ably know whether it faces an actual rail strike and a threatened transpor- tation war. Developments of the -last-24 hours included: “A statement by Ben W. Hooper, chairman of the railroad labor board, predicting an adjustment of the rail- road situation without a strike and Peace on the roads by next ‘all, Statements to the board by leaders of the rail unions condemning the wage reductions and serving notice that a strike, if favored in the refer- BALL SCORES , CLEVELAND, Ohio, Juno 19.— Babe Ruth hit his seventh home run in“his first time at bat in to Batteries—Pfeffer and Ainsmith; Douglas, Caupsey, V. Barnes and Smith. ‘At Brooldyn—(Tied in ‘1ith) R. H. E. Pittsburgh 5 a ae at ae xx Brook}, —---000 100 00—x x x a} , Hamilton and Gooch; Vance Decatur and Deberry. AMERICAN LEAGUE At Detroit —-—---0f0 00—x x x Detroit _.-__-—-__--311 10—x_x x Batteries—Quinn, Fullerton, Hierch, and Ruel; Stoner and Bassler. Coal Workers Launched in Mine of Pittsburg District Today PITTSBURG, Kan., June 19.—Open shop mining by one of the large coal companies was begun in the Kansegs field the J. R. Crowe Coal and Mining company opened its No. 14 at Croweburg. Thirty-one men went down Company officials said they had assurance orce-of-125smen:wopld-besat work Wednesday. this naorning. into the mine. endum, will be sanctioned by the union chiefs. Word from Washington that Presi- action in an ‘industrial matter. dent Harding intends to back up the board, which has no power itself un-) President: der the transportation act, to enforce} To call a national coal conference; its decisions. Gradual abandonment by the car- riers of their system of putting shop work out at contract, a system which has been one of the barriers to peace, was predicted by Mr. Hooper. Follow- ing the lead of the Southern Pacific, other roads are expected to speedily do away with labor contracts, .he board chairman said. Referring to charges by » leading railroad periodical that the beard was completely dominated by the wishes of labor organizations, and to more re- cent accusations by the uniore that the wage reductions were a “‘miscar- riage of justice” Mr. Hooper asserted that “a discriminating public will find the truth at a point about half way between these two extremes.” National Church Councils Unite in Re-| quest for Government Intervention in | Threatened Fuel Shortage WASHINGTON, June 19.—President Harding was asked today to take steps to end the coal strike in a joint appeal presented to him by the commission on the church and social | service of the Federal Council of Churches, with which are) affiliated 30 great Protestant communions, the department of | social action of the National Catholic Welfare council and the Social Justice commission uf the minous coal industry to end the pres-| Central Conference of American Rab- ent strike. We believe that the ma-| bis. This is the first time, as far as] jority of the people of this country are! is known, that these representative or-| unwilling to have its vitally impor-) ganizations of Protestants, Roman/tant industries subject to economic | Catholics and Jews have taken joint |\Combat at a means of settling disputes. The| ‘Whenever either disputant in a con- churches in thelr appeal asked the|troversy declines to employ the meth-| ods of conference and arbitration, it becomes proper for the government to’ Intervene It is inconceivable that public action’ should wait until the! suffering of women and children in mining towns should have reached the Proportions of a national calamity.” ——— To get the facts of the coal indus- try through a government investiga- tien; ‘Not to wait until the suffering wom- en and children of the mining camps has become a national calamity, and; To end the coal strike now. DAIRYMAN IS TRAMPLED BY PRIZE BULL “Three broken ribs, many bad lacerations about the face and body, and torn clothes were suffered yes- terday by J. J. Allen of the Allen dairy company when he tried to face the rage of a mad bull witheonly a pitehford to protect him. M. P. Wheeler and Harry B. Hen- erson, who is connected with the Farm Loan bank at Cheyenne, were visiting the ranch. Mr. Allen, in showing them about the place, took them to the pen to exhibit his prize bovine. Allen crossed the fence. immediately the bull charged and knocked him down by etriking bim in the pit of his stomach. Allen lost his watch in the fracus. He made his exit without further The statement expresses gratifica- tion that th’ press, as a whole, has been success ‘ul in recording the facts in the. striky. The appeal of the churches in prt is as follows: “To the president of the United States: ‘ “We desire to express. to you, behalf of ine three great religious or- ganizations that we represent, our con victions that the time has arrived when our government should act to bring about a conference in the bitu- LEWIS KAYOES BURNS IN 11TH LONDON, June 19.4By The Asso: ciated Press.}—Ted id” Lewis, Eng lish middleweight champion, knocked out Frankie Burns, Australian middle weight champion in the eleventh round of their bout here tonight. mishap, however. Armed with a Pitchford he went back into .the corral to regain the watch. Again the bull charged, this time more madly than before. Allan was bad!y trampled and was tossed into the | wires of the fence, from which he | was extricated only by the efforts |) of his zriends. | No serious complications have re- sulted from his injuries. The ribs did not pierce the lungs, as was | feared, and there were no abdominal | injurtes FIRE FOAM SAVES HEAVY LOSS WHER LIGHTNING IGNITES TWO BIG OIL TANS HERE SUNDAY sed over Casper for a brief ‘ed on its way just long %, 85,000-barrel crade oil % ‘dard Oil company, for- 2 ™, anks struck by light- ning a % ber 3 plant to fourtgen, } three % ‘struck this year and jsleven fi «i. The total number of |tanks or the tank farm is 22, so Jeight of the total have escaped un: scratched to date. | The fiash of lightning yesterday feame just ax the sky was becoming jowercast by storm clow Smoke }from the direction of the tank farm told the familiar story—the lightning had struck its target once more. To observers it seemed that only one jtank had become ignited, this being |because the roof of the other tank was not blown off an dthe flames |was not blown off and the flames | Foamite was u@ed to extinglish the flames within the latter tank first {and then the brighter burning tank ‘was attacked. Within en hour it had been extinguished, with a loss of robably 1,000 barrels of ofl. The to- |tal loss yesterday was about $10,000, including both the oil lost and the roofs destroyed. . | Steel roofs, air-tight, will be buft lon the tanks ignited yesterday and six-inch breathers will be connected up with them. Thus !t ts felt that the hazard of lghtning will be re duced materially. Thess steel roofs, which have been put on all tanks datinaged since Inst year, cost about $9,600. It was just a year and a day almost to the minute since the seven storage tanks at the Midwest were fired si- nrultaneously, with the result that Casper wtinessed the greatest oil fire in its history. The theory advanced by an official of the Standard is that the wooden roofs of the tanks be- come surcharged with thereby rendering them particularly susceptible to lightning. Airtight steel roofs with the breathers wil! lessen the escaping inflammable va- por, thereby reducing both the poe- sibility of having the tanks struck as well as increasing the ease with which the flames may be extinguished should tie tank catch fire. Canoeing as 4 sport dates trom 1865 when John McGregor of England de signed the “Rob Roy” for long jour neys. 4 TARIFF BILL IS GIVEN RIGHT-OF-WAY Disposition of Soldier Bonus Bill at This Session of Congress Is Also Voted by Big Majority but Tariff Act Is Given Preference by Republicans of the Senate WASHINGTON, June 19.—Senate Republicans in conference today voted thirty to nine against laying aside the tariff A resolution favoring final this session and before any recess then was adopted, 27 to 11. be made the unfinished business after a final vote on the tariff. Senator Walsh, Democrat, can conference, said a move to bring up the bonus would be made in the senate after the passage of the pend- ing naval appropriation bill. Chairman McCumber of the finance committee, who has charge of both pieces of legislation, made a final ef- fort to put the Wonus ahead, but his motion mustered only nine votes. He also was author of the resolution pro- posing final disposition of the tariff with the bonus then to be made the unfinished business of the semate. ‘This resolution was opposed by eleven Republicans, counted ag opponents of the adjusted compensation measure. A number of Republican senators including Johnson of California, and LaFollette of Wisconsin, who favor speedy action on the bonus, absent themselves from the conference. A desire early disposition of the bonus and it may be that a mov® will be made on the floor to override the program of the Republicans, which has the approval of President Hard ing. e The scale accepted by the men who went to work is four dollars a day for the way work and 90 cents & ton i diggers, | All of the mines of the Sheridan pany were reported at work this morning on the co-operative plan. In the co-operative system~ insti- tuted by the Sheridan company, the mines are leased to the men who are working there. The men put coal on cars at a certain price and the com- pany attends to the selling of the product. The men are paid and the division. of-the~pr . t bill to consider the soldiers” benus. : disposition of both the tariff bill and the bonus measure at The bonus measure would Massachusetts, after learning of the action of the Republi- BODIES OF M’INTOSH TWINS DROWNED IN RIVER RECOVERED The bodies of Gladys and Alice Me- Intosh, two-year-old twin daughters of Mr. and Mrs. William McIntosh, were found by searchers last week, three weeks after they were drowned in the Sweetwater river. The body of one of the little girls was discovered on an island three miles down stream from the scene of the accident, June 12. This is- land was submerged under the sur- face of the river during the recent high water and it was only after the water of the river lowered about 18 inches that the body was visible. The body of the other twin was found floating last Friday on the surface of the water about four miles below where the automobile belong- ing to. the McIntosh family over- turned May 22. The McIntosh ranch is 82 miles west of Casper in the Sweetwater country. Separate funerals for the children were held at Rawlins following the discovery of the bodies. J. W. Lafferty, Trainman, Wins _ Carnival Auto Who was the happiest man in Casper this morning? “That's easy,” says J. W. Lat. SCHEDULED The annual drive for funds with which to finance the worthy activ- ities of the Satvation Army in Cas- per will begin with a city-wide drive next Friday, when the American Legion, the Elks, the Rotary, Ki- Wanis and Lions clubs divide the city into different sections and make @ thorough canvass, The goal set is $5,000. This sum, by close management and expendi- ture, is expected to take care of the work which the Salvation Army will do in Casper during the next 12 months. Realizing the effective work done by the Salvation Army, the different clubs in the city have banded themselves together to put across the drive. Committees for the different so- cieties will meet tonight at 6:15 at the’ Henning. hotel for a’ dinner, after which the plans for the drive ferty, a trainman on the Northwest* ern road. “I am. Because I onty | paid 25 cents for a brand new Max- well touring car.” Lafferty, with number 2302 B, and only one chance to win, came to American Legion headquarters this morning and drove away in the Maxwell which was SALVATION ARMY DRIVE CLUBS WILL TAKE LEAD Defendant Concerns Discount Signifi- FOR FRIDAY, } Will be discussed and decided in de- tail. Saturday a tag day will be held,- under the direction of Mrs. Alfred R. Lowey, at which the general pub- lic will have an opportunity to eon- tribute to Casper’s diligent Chris- | tian crusaders. The committees in charge of the work follow: Lions club, J, BE. Rocheford, J. P,. Sweeney, Joe Lowndes; Kiwanis club, . Cul- len, Q. K. Deaver and Rey. C. M Thompson; Rotary club, W. S. Kim- ball, E. P. Bacon and Karl Jougen- sen; American Legion, Harry Black, J. C. Neilson, and Dr. Snoddy; Elks, | to be announced. | er MANUFACTURER HELD, SENDING ARMS TO IRIS Bandit Bemoans His Failure to Shoot Up Possemen\imiun WW per Daily (3 VIOLATED BY NEW YORK FRM M. H. Thompson, Head of Company, Is Placed Under Arrest TRENTON, N. J., June 19. —Col. Marcellus H. Thomp- son, vice president and active head of the Auto-Ordnance company of New York, has been indicted by the federal grand jury here on the charge of con- sPiracy to ship arms to Ireland in-vio- lation of the neutrality laws. The an nouncement was made toddy by As- sistant United States District Atto ene Thomas V. Arrowsmith. ” Indictments also have been ret against the Auto-Ordnance enpaey and seven other individuals on the same charge, as the result of the seiz. ure at Hoboken last June of the Cos- mopolitan ?ine freighter East Side. in the coal bunkers of which were found 459 machine guns. The guns were al- leged to bave been destined for use by Sinn Fein in Ireland, ‘The other individuals are: Frank Williams atias Lawrence De Lacy, alias Lawrenos Pierce, who in alleged to have paid for the shipment of guns, and his brother, Fred Wil. Hams, alias Edward De Lacy, who 1s alleged to have been implicated in the purchase of the guns. Both are be eved now to be in Ireland, George Gordon Rorke, 2 nal; Washington, who is alleged to nee Placed an order for the guns with the ‘Auto-Ordnance company Frank J. Merkiin; Ato-Ontance company. *h Frank B. Ochsenryter, of New York and Washington, who is accused of nlacing the first order for some af the guns with the Auto-Ordnance com. electreity, | P®7- John Cuthane, a track man of York who is alleged to have cartes tne guns from the American Railway Press company in New York to hi rehouse in th, kc storabous e Bronx for Frank A Mr. Brophy, whose first n: unknown to the federal authorities who ia alleged to have carted the ship- ent from Culhane's store! Dade ante storehouse wer the The guns were manufactur h Colt Patent Arms company “ot Hare ford, Conn., and are alleged to have been sold by the Auto-Ordnance com. pany. ir inventors sald to be Gen John T. Thompson, father of Colonel Thompson. ‘The latter is a son-in-law of Colonel George Harvey, American ambassador to Great Britain. There was considerable mystery about the guns after their seizure and an investigation was started by the United States shipping board and the department of justice. Frank Wit. lama claimed ownership of the guns after seizure. Ho declared he had pur. chased a number of guns through the Auto-Ordnance company and stored them in a warehouse. Hoe said they had been stolen from the warehouse and asserted he did not know how they got on the ship. Rorke later was arrested and was ‘said to have admitted that he sold the guns to group of strange men. The indictments were returned by the Jan. juary federal grand jury, which con- cluded its work in April.’ Information concerning the indtcements was with- hela, tt Was idicated, because of the inal to Apabtity reach some of those in- The technical Indictment against the men asa body charged them with “conspiracy to set on foot and pre vide the means for military enterprisn to be carried on against the territory of « foreign prince with whom the United States was at peace.” a ees = ‘ COURT POSTPONED. District court, which was to be tn- a@ugurated here today, will not be started until next Monday. Judge Cc. the educational work being done by]0. Brown will remain at Lander for Miss Abel in China. | vitea. 1 cance of Claims Said to Predate Fitz- hugh and Henshaw Rights Casper representatives of oil companies and other defend- ants named in a suit filed at C heyenne by two attorneys con- the men themselves. The company retains general supervision of the, property. TOPEKA, Kan., June 19.—Opening of the Crow mines in the southeast Kansas coal fields ‘s the beginning of the state’s program for resuming coal production, state officials said today. Although no order had been given by. the state to open the mines, Gov. Allen said a demand for coal appar- ently has appeared and the operators are carrying outetheit agreement with the, industrial_court, given away during carnival week. He did not know of bis good fortune until 10 o'clock, when the legion secretary called him at his home and told him that the car was waiting for him. The total sale as announced at the completion, of the drawing Sat- urday night was 5,500 tickets. This number gives the legion a profit of approximately $275 on the car. gases hs tees oe Venus afd Mercury the only Janets /having surface conditions like that-of’the- earth. . testing title to some $40,000,000 worth of oil lands in the Salt Creek field discount the significance of the action and jexpress confidence that the present holders have nothing to ‘fear from the court litigation just instituted. Extensive de |velopment. of much of the land is junder way. | |brought by Henry A. Miller of Lusk, \Charies- Linn and. James. McFarland,‘ drawal order by the president These five men are said to have made original filings in 1887, on lands afterward filed on by Fitzhugh and Henshaw. Many of the Midwest leases in Salt Creek field are said to brought suits against that company have been from Fitzhugh, who has for royalties he declares unpaid. The complaint recites that a with pre The suit is an action in equity Wyo., and John T. Bolton of Denver. According to the complaint the ac- tion is brought on the filings of An drew and Anen Simmons, Peter Milan, | The puviic is in-|another week owing to the rush of business there, $40,000,000 WORTH OF OIL LAND INVOLVED IN ACTION JUST STARTED | vented the original locator from de veloping the property and that tt was not through any lapse on their part but because of official interference. that they did not get the chance to complete their ownership. The con tention is that they have never lost their rights. The two attorneys named have gathered papers transferring to them these rights upon which they now use. The defendants mentioned in the complaint are The Midwest Oil com- pany, the Wyoming Associated Oil corporation, the Central Wyoming Oll and Development company, the Wyoming Oil Fields company, the Federal .Oi1 and Development com- pany, the Midwest Refining com- pany, Emile Richardson, Charles W. Carlisle, Henry H. Patterson, Ger. trude Baker ® ips, the New York D. Hammond, 1 Paul Stock, company ; alsy Cl company, Kete ¥ Stock an )