Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 31, 1922, Page 1

if i 4 Weather Forecast | Partly cloufy and somewhs: unse:.|i tied tonight and Tuesday; not much jJonense im temperature, |! VOLUME Vi —$_$__.. LEADERS PROMISE SUPPORT FOR STRIKE PEACE Coal Distribution Mae MARINES ON WAY T OUST OIL DRILLERS Captain and Four Enlisted Men Leave Washington for Teapot Dome to Carry Oat Mandate Against Mutual Oil; Com- pany Officials State Position Washington advices state that Capt. George Shuler and four enlisted men of the marine corps left there last night for Casper and will continue from here to the Teapot reserve, 40 miles north of this city, carrying orders to forcibly eject if necessary, representatives of the Mutual Oil company, who are now drilling a woll. Drilling on this well was started early in the month by the Mutual on the southeast quar- ter of section 20-39-78, and has attained a depth of approximately 2,300 feet. Title to this Iand dates back to 1890 and was, granted by the government under the Placer Jaws and is said by Mutual of- ficlals to be the same as those ac-| quired by Sinclair and quit claimed to the government ‘n order to obtain| the Teapot lease. It ts their conten-/ tion that this title is valid and it is! stated that they will fight the case erty. S. D. Keoughan, vice president of the company, has telegraphed a pro- e test to Washington and in ro @) tion with this has given out the fol-| rien da ve d lowing statement. | “Our title fs valid unt! the courts! Mr. Keoughan declared thar ceauee ots ee the fae Clear, vibrant and mellow, the beautiful soprano Voice of We can't resist the force of the ma-|Theo Pennington was again a major charm in the presenta- ries, but every available legal weap-| i ; “ ” ‘on will be employed to block this baia.|0 of the old comic opera of oriental love, “The Mikado, faced ke our >reperty| by the Brandon Light Opera company, who now hold full thas act eet eo sway over the footlights of the Iris theater. ocean of taw. determine the validity of our claim, did the fiery love born for Yum Yum, but our offer has not been accepted.|tho ward of the lord high executioner, Secretary Fall is now invested with|by Nanky Poo, son of the mikado, the power to declare land titles valid) disguised as a strolling minstrel, or invalid, The United States govern-| triumph against all odds though death ment cannot lease to a private ind!" stalked at €very turn. vidual land’ which {t does not own.! ajthough the thenie of the opéra And until the courts say our title to! might well"be treated in a tragic light. that quarter section is not good, it 18'tne humorous vein. which courses our. property. throughout the entire production 1s “If Harry Sinclair wants to never forgotten, and even when the off, he should apeal to the onlookera are incited to a point of How can the force of the United! tears, some incident obcurs which States marines be employed to en- changes the tears to laughter a9 foros the claims of an individual? The | though the opera stars are possessed! navy department has leused him cer- of maxic wands. » tain lands in Teapot dome. It couid ajthough orlental in costume and only lease the lands it owned. How/ setting, the production is extremely can it justify this attempt to use! American and modern in theme, ‘In, United States troops to pull Harry! fact, the entire story binges upon the Sinclair’s private chestnut out of the/ract’ that the law of Japan makes it fire?" a crime punishable by death for mem-| “In Sinclair's published agreement bers of either sex to engage in the with the naval department, he said: / gentle art of flirting. Who ever voice ts heard perhaps more than that of any other cast member. His ex- treme height, and singular make-up, jare responsible for a commandeering appearance, and @ peld_front on- all occasions. Miss Pennington is a marked suc- cess in the role of Yum Yum, the beautiful ward ‘of Ko Ko, who al- though betrothed to marry her guard- jan, is finally won by the clever plan- ning of her true lover Nanky Poa, {played by Harry Pfeil. Ray Goerler is impressive in the role of the great mikado, father of Nanky Poo, and Ed Andrews scores a distinct hit as the poor little lord (Continued on Page Six) put us courts. “I will further undertake to quiet/heard of such a thing? This is the| ajl. outstanding claimant's titles on/| prevalent question, and yet where) this reserve No. 8, thereby enabling| Woull the laughs and entertainment, disappear to were it not for situations, jsuch as these? | Second only to the prima donna is| Paula Ayers, who takes upon herself} the extremely difficult role of Katis. ha, an elderly court maiden, whose! the government to make a contract new which will be free from contro. versy.’ “Sinclair has not done this thing which hé promised too, He has not auieted the claim of the Mutual Oil company, nor of many other claim-|appearance is most repulsive, but ants. He bought up a few claims and| Whose emotional acting {s almost in-{ now he {s trying to freeze out the|spirational in its magnitude. Her love others, and United States marines are|for Nanky Poo, although repulsed| pablerea: to” heli Hien ote: time and again, never dies until her} Despondency Over Opera Singers Score True love will ever find a way against all odds, and thus/ CASPER, WYO., MONDAY, JULY 31, 1922. hine 1 ‘Allocations Being | Made to Regions | Most ‘Affected by Growing Shortage: WASHINGTON, July 31. —! The government machinery |for emergency distribution of -oal swung imto gear today a8 | coal swung |the central committee here, | with Henry B. Spencer, fed- | eral fuel distributor, as administrative head, began active functioning under the program devised to supply coal to | the industries and localities where it is most needed and to maintain fair | price levels at the mines. The cen-/ The Casper Daily Trimaw “S| NUMBER 249: ry Is Fw. -tionine Smoothly BALL SCORES NATIONAL LEAGUE At Boston— R. LE. Oincimati _ O1201LOL1—6 12 1 Boston . — 000201 000—3 10 3 Ratteries—Luque and Wingo; Miller and Gordy. At Philadelphia — Chicago - 630 000 004—13 Philadelphia _ _.000 001 004— 5 Batteries—Stucland, O'Farrell, Wirth; Hubbell and Hentine. R. H. E. 4 50 and At Brooklyn— St. Louis -. 103010100 6 9 0 Brooklyn — -.-.000001001— 2 11 1 Batterics—Sherdel and Alusmith; Ruether, Maumaux, Shrive, Smith, R. H. E. tral control organization was rapidiy|*"d Deberry. | being perfected, {t was said, with the lorganization of an adequate staff to! handle the rush reports and orders| expected to flow through Washing-! ton. Accepting only the responsibility of | keeping the railroads and interstate | publio utilities supplied with coal and) directing a proper distribution as be-/ twken states. at the same time through car allocations holding mine! |prices at a fair level jagency looked to the various states |to control distribution and prices for jconsumers within their borders. In, many atates creation of the necessary | has been reported to the central com: | mittee. main at “practically zero.” Stating| {there was “no indication of increased | prodvetion in response to the invita. tion’.to rvopen mines in any of the | Strongly organized districta, port ~aid more coal, however, wa: |fields of Pennsylvania with slight in- (creases in severat other districts. ST. PAUL, Minn., July 31—De-| claring that the oval situation in the| northwest is far more threatening| jthan at any, time previous, Governor |J. A. O. Preus today called a confer-| ence of executives of Iowa, Wisconsin ana North and South Dakota to meet “here August 10 to discuss the fuel | problem. MAN TAKES OWN LIFE ON EVE HUNTING TRIP Ill Health Believed Cause of Tragedy.in Which Milton MEinclair also etated, is. fla: earee-|Hestt is wonky Xo ma, the lord high| Heald Shot Himself Yesterday ment with the navy department that | executioner, who sings of the love of| “it is my. understanding that existing|® little bird for its mate, and of tha} outstanding claims have as great|tragic ending to the story when the merit as some of those by reason of| heartbroken feathered creature flings lfeeling that life held nothing Despondency over a lingering illness, and an oft expressed for him, so preyed upon the ‘hich. the department has recognized | itself into the water to die by drown-| pind of Milton Heald, 1118 Willow street, that he shot him- equities and granted rights.” In| ins. | sented by Carl Bundschu, whose deep|the Big Horn mountains. | At the coroner's inquest, held this TARIFF DUTIES “-: | Heald is said to have told his wife A R E F | E BD Oo | | custipitn Untenaasiio, lacbe baw done |hunting trip Sunday morning. The {fact that he may have meant these Will Range from 20 to 40 Cents Pound as #** §| His wite was awakaned by a single il gaged tut 0. ents round a. |shot, and upon arriving at her hus- other words, he admitted the validity] The majestic Poo Bah, lord high} imorning in the office of the county j words to convey # hidden meaning of |his intentions to his wife was not i, . ; band's room found him already dead. Decided by Senate; Lenroot Amend- self through the head with a of claims which he now seeks to de-|everything in the kingdom, day morning, while jattorney, a jury of three rendered a taken into consideration by the jury | Physicians who examined the body ment Defeated by Vote is pre-| pare) stroy by force of arms.” | verdict of suicide, with despondency as having any bearing upon the final Pronounced death as instantancous through _a gaping wound in the tem- ple. Heald’s health had been poor for 3 7 . ry several years. Many times before he WASHINGTON, July 31.—Tariff duties on woolen blan-|(°'Sy to"have been cette maint kets ranging from 20 cents per pound and 30 per cent ad Va- of taking his life, but kind persuasion lorem to 40 cents per pound and 40 per cent ad valorem and reasoning prevented the event. were approved today by the senate by a vote of 33 to 24. PIE Se The Underwood law rate was 26 per cenf ad valorem. [ee eee sae ere eee high-power rifle early yester- to leave for a hunting trip in the federal! coming out of the former fion.umion f At New York— R. Pittsburgh — __.020 505 000—12 New York .. 00 100110-— 5 8 Batteries—Hamilton and Gooch; J. Barnes, V. Barnes Jonnaré and Sny- der. wn ———.———$£_. AMERICAN LEAGUE At Chicago— RH. E. New York .-100 000 CI— xx x Chicago .. 100 0038 00— x x x Batteries—Shawkey, Murray and Schang; Robertson, Leverette and administration for this work at oony |Behali. At Cleveland— R. ILE. As the distribution program went ‘Washington Te |into effect slow recovery in produt-} Qloveland . ex tion was shown in reports of the) Battories chary, Brillhart and geologeal survey fér the week ending! picinich, Gharrity; Morton and Saturday, the estimated total being (O'Neill, 8,900,000 tons as compared with} 8,700,000 tons the week previous. Pro-} at potroit— R. H. EB |duction of anthracite was said to re-rphitadelphia ..000 010 000— 1. 7 4 Detroit . 14 O11 12x—11 Batteries—Rettig, Weimach, Eckert Sullivan and Perkins; Oldham and fanion. At St. H. E. Boston . ‘ eck St: Louis o0o—.x x x Batteries — Quinn and Ruel; Van- \Gilder and Collin: pal sn LOS ANGELPS.—Marilynn Mil- ler of the stage became the bride of Jack Pickford of the screen at the residence of the groom's sister, Mary Pickford, and brother-in-law, Douglas Fairbanks, at Beverly Hills, a suburb. Greybull May Bond For Swimming Hole GREYBULL, Wyo., July 31.—Pet!- tions to the elty council to call an election to vote on $20,000 worth of bonds for the construction of a swim- ying pool, the purchase of tourist ark land and rip-rapping improve ments fo rthe river are being circu- lated here. Of the $20,000 asked, $15, 000 would be applied to the swimming pool. CHIEF ENGINEER OF RATION’S — RECLAMATION SERVICE PLANS VISIT TO THE CASPER PROJEC Another tmportant step toward the important Casper project which will call for the irrigation of thou sands of acres of land in the Platte basin near this city will be in the visit to this region of F. E. Wey- mouth, ‘chief engineer for the United States reclamation service; Frank C. Emerson, st egineer; A. Weiss, project manager; and A. T. Stra- horn, soil expert. . e party will leave Casper on Au- gust 1 and will travel over the proj, ect now under survey., This project includes the building of a dam above ‘Alcova on the North Platte river so to show that electricity makes seeds The amendment by Senator Lenroot, Republican, Wiscon-! sprout any faster. sin, to reduce the protective duty by approximately five per cent which was ending when the senate recessed Sat- urday was rejected 30 to 27. Nine Republicans supportted and two Democrats, Broussard and Ransdell, yoted against it. Tho Republicans} Although the inquest into the | second degree. He is now in soll- were Borah, Capper, Cummins, Jones ae tary confinement in the county jail, a death of Matt Fember has not yet of Washington, Kellogg, lenrot:, Nel f habe chal waatteken’ tromcther cay sen, Norbeck and Sterling. been held, there is no doubt in the “ ‘On the motion to appreve the com-| minds of authorities but that the | Jatt following the announcement cnittes rates, Senators. Sterling. and| charge agqinst Mike Grow, gun- | Saturday afternoon of the death of Nerbeck voted fn the affirmative, but} 14, wnose billet causbd the death, | H's victim : the ether seven Republicens voted . OCA ERATE 4 The wounded man died late Sat- the negative, in the first or | urday afternoon following a night that the arid region below there may and a day of extreme suffering from the presence of a bullet in his upper abdomen. Upon at the hospital following the affair Friday night, his condition was pro- nounced most hopeful, and it | only when complications set In | following morning, that his arrival the | little | receive irrigation and may become what it is capable of becominy—one of the most fertile fields of the west. The great enterprise has been un- der consideration for years and pre- liminary surveys were recently re- checked. The land has been sur- veyed by the state and national gov ernments co-operatively and an esti- mate of the cost is being made. The visit of the mfen above re ferred to is looked on as a sign of encouragement by those who are tn- terested in the reclamation of the iand surrounding Casper. Members of the Casper chamber of commerce irrigation committee will accumpany the experts on their inspection trip. |Harding 1% osals to Be Acce,*. * at Conference .<. %e Held Tuesday WASHINGTON, July 31.— (By The Associated Press.) — today by close personal friends and advisers to have teceived assurances from Chairman Cuyler of the Association of Railway Executives, Vice President Atterbury of the Pennsylvania rail road and B. M, Jewell, head of the striking shopmen's organizations, that they would support fils proposals for immediate ending of the strike These assurances were understood to be the basis of the president's hope for successful termination of his ar Mtration efforts, They have been th of discussion, {t was report between the president and his including ed, immediate advisers, members of the senate. The president has been told some it wan suid, that Mr. Jewell would In the union conference to be held tomor. row at Chicago, give his endorsement to the settlement proposal Mr. Cuyler and Mr. Atterbury, It was said, did not go so far as the union head, but were said to have ad. vised the president that they would at least vote for its acceptance. * It was said’that Mr. Cuyler told the president he would agree to present the executive's proporals to the rail way heads conference tomorrow at New York and in doing so express the personai belief that they ought to be adopted. The influence of Mr. Cuy- ler and Mr. Atterbury is counted upon by the administration, to have a large influence at the railway executives meeting. PHILADELPHIA, July 31.—T. De Witt Cuyler, head of the railroad ex: eoutives organization, said today tha “it is not true,” that the railroad em ployers had given assurances they would upport President Harding's Proposals for an immediate ending of the strike. Mr. Cuyler said that there has been “no commitment of any kind.” He added that the understanding was to await the president's proposal which had not yet been received. STRIKE LEADERS ARE ASSEMBLING. : CHICAGO, July 31.—4By The Asso ciated Press.)—With strike leaders ar riving from cl parts of the country today for Tuesday’s meeting called t consider President Harding's plan for a settlement of the railway shopmen’s strike hopes were expressed that the men would be back at work before the end of the week. The position of the striking shop employes were expressed by A. 0. Wharton, labor member of the United States railroad labor board, who de clared: “If either the railroad execu tives meeting in Chicego should re. ject Mr. Harding’s peace proposal, the group that rejects it will face full re sponsibility for continuation of the rail strike and all that may result therefrom.” The union leaders, however, ex pressed the belief that the peace plan ‘would meet with the strongest pos. sible opposition from rallroad execu tives attending Tuesday's meeting in New York at the call of T. Dewitt Cuyler. They expressed the belief that the president's plan would be accepted finally, but only after a bitter struggle based on the refusal of many roads to consent to the restoration of serior- Ity privileges to the strikers. A member of the labor board, how ever, that the general outlines of o settlement had been agreed to last week at conferences between Presi, dent Harding and Mr. Cuyler and Bert M. Jewell, head of the striking shop ‘men. “If peace had not been in sight on both sides,” he declared, “neithe ‘would have consented to the separate ‘meeting to consider a peace proposal ‘submitted by the president of the United States because neither could afford to be placed in the position be fore the public of bearing the respon sibility for a continuation of the walk out through rejecting the president's plan.” The seniority ue which arose after the beginning of the strike he declared, was not as formidable an is sue as it appeared at first sight. He asserted that a satisfactory solution of the difficulty would be found. see aL Sac e The London stock exchange, found ed In 1801 with 500 members, now has a membership of some 4,000, President Harding was said| DRILLER DIES “IN GAS FIRE Chris Vannett Burned to Death at Salt | Creek and Louis Putnam Suffers Injuries by Gas Ignition Striking a heavy gas fiow unexpectedly in a well of the Midwest Refining company on the northwest quarter of sec- tion 2-39-79, Salt Creek, at two o’clock on Saturday after- noon, resulted in the death of the driller, Chris Vannett, and the painful but not serious burning of Louis Putnam, tool dresser, and the total loss of the rig. As the bit unloosed a large flow of| Efforts of the Midweat field force gas which came from a pocket, it was|were successful in getting the blaze ignited hy fire from the bojler and|under control late Saturday evening the entire rig was enveloped in a mass|and at * o'clock this morning it was of flame almost instantly. Vannett | completely extinguished. The rig will was so seriously burned that he died|be rebuilt and drilling continued by shortly after being removed from the|the company. scene of the fire, but Iate reports from| Vannett was 26 years of age and the “hospital are to the effect that{/unmarried. He was first connected Putnam will recover. with drilling operations in Fremont county three years ago and after re- Trucks Needed turning to the Pacific coast, returned last spring and took a position with the Midwest in Salt Creek, The de- ceaged was a Shriner and a member A of the Caspér Elks lodge ] For Salvation The body was brought to Casper ; and is being held at the Bowman mortuary pending shipment tomorrow in care of a brother, John Vannett, to Hillsboro, Ore., for burial. WOMAN DRINKS WOOD ALCOHOL IN MOONSHINE Suffering from wood alcohol polson- ing received in “moonshine” liquor, Mrs. James Davis, wife of the pro- prietor of a West B street rooming house, was removed to the Casper pri- vate hospital this morning, where |paratysis which was slowly overcom- ing her was checked by the use of a stomach pump and other remedies. Yr. Victor Dacken stated today that her recovery was probable. Picnic Tuesday Saivation Army workers today is sued a call for trucks to transport children to the pienic planned for to- morrow oh Garden Crevi and those willing to donate the services of a machine for an hour in the morning and evening are asked to communi- cate with army headquarters, phone 1517M. The trucks leave here at 9 o'clock ahd will return to the ple- nic grounds in the evening for the children ae eee eel 7,000 ATTEND CIRCUS HERE Seven thousand people, it was est!- mated by circus officials, attended the ig spectacle staged her® Saturday night by the Sells-Floto circus, prac. | tically all of whom voted ‘t the best L My M t ntertainment of its kind ever wit egton Wee nessed in this state. The production axcelled press notices in some respects and was a-super-presentation in all respects. Four thousand Here Tonight Is Importan people attended at Thermopolis yesterday, according to s from the Hot Springs town— t nanbery batng: Rod ie Dona: Reports of the American Legion pa) OL SY Pe sin reas from! convention at Torrington will be other ns of the basin country were made by delegates at the meeting present, bal ho tonight at George Vroman poat to Heaaaee be held in the Becklinger buflding. CONSTANTINOPLE. — A move- | Several are scheduled to taik and ment of British troop on the matters of interest to the formes Asiatic side toward Tchatalfa be- | service men will be held. gan. A few shots were exchanged Other business © the meeting between Turkish gendarmerie and a Greek patrol, three men side being wounded. concerns organization for the big membership drive scheduled to start this week. SCORE INJURED | IN TANK BLAZE “FIRE, CHICAGO Many Overcome by Fumes and Over Dozen Houses Fired When Storage Supply of Gas Is Ignited CHICAGO, July 31.-—A tank sixty feet Wide and one hun: dred feet high containing thousands of cubic feet of gas blew up today at 25th and Throop streets, a section inhabited mostly by laborers, injured more than a score of persons, set fire to a dozen houses and caused many persons within an prea of several blocks to be overcome by the fumes. The flames were }rought under control by, known. The top of the tank blew off the fire department. and witnesses said that simultaneous- The cause of the explosion ly a tremendous sheet of flame shot on each is un [VICTIM DIES, CUNMAN IS FACING MUR chance was ‘held out covery. A ‘serious condition of peritonitis which resulted in the abdomen from the presence of the bullet is named by Dr. Keith, attending physician, as the probable cause of death. ember war an employe of the andard Oil company, and came to for his re- this country from Austria several years ago. As far as can be deter- mined by frienda in Casper, no rel- atives in this count survive him, but he is known to have a family in Austria, his native country. The inquest will disclose no new facts, as far as authorities can de. termine, as eye witnesses to the af- houses were burning and scores’ of Persons were fleeing. A dock at the Chicago river caught fire and for some time several large upwards. Within e few seconds lumber yards were threatened. fair are ready to swear to the guilt | Within 80 minutes after the ex- Grow in the shooting, and the | plosion 25 injured persons had been n’s death has already been pro- {taken hospitals and dozens of nounced by physicians to have been |athers were said to be recaiving at caused directly by the shooting. pegres in private homes. The tank } attr n the body was owned by the People’s Gas Light the Jand Coke co which ar funeral arrang that contained 4,200,000 ve been made. lof gas.