Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 8, 1922, Page 1

--— Thousands CLOTHES BLAZE, Slightly more than $51,000 Casper tourist camp during the cars Alaska, Korea, New Zea <u | were from jand and Canada. Leads to Near Tragec for Albert Clarkson. contracts being Iet at potual cost of labor and boa hey The first rum- rasoling soaked clothing caught fi@| CAP being opened from June i to from sage brush which he had lighted | September 15. trom the F. L. Ranch, The feed line toe ee ch, The feod line | equipment and a:necond man who is The tourist camp was built.in the spring of 1971 at a cost of approxt Burns about the arnie and back | Mer there were 2,840 visiting ‘guto: of hia hands .were suffered by Atbert | Mobiles registered. The Bee to ‘Three persons are employed at the warm hinvelf. camp all summer, a man and his stopped to fix tt: clothing get covered ‘with gasoline Effori. to Warm Himself} ware, 7+ fovete mately $6,000, the.majority of ths erage Clarkson lato yesterday when » his} Upkeep m season is —$1,500, the wit Clarkson was coming into Casper|+> take care of the buildings and turing the process of the work. that 43 per cen! with the cold. and ‘endeavored to} one day, 8 warm himself by pouring gasoline | cent three on somé page brush and lgkting {t.| and 6 per The biaze fired his clothes. Clarkson, was found ‘by ‘Xobert| five cars that pass throu; Grieve at the critical moment when | on touring trips me he was trying to extinguish his burn- ing clothing. Grieve brought the man {nto Casper and took him tot Casper Private hospital where he is recuperating from the injuries - re- cebved. AEF INERY MEN = HEALTH SEALS} ss = Seals Are Left wil Don} shies Lobdell for Sale to | ¢<e" Casper Workers. “Three thousand, eighty-five cats stopped at the Cas- per ‘Tour'et Camp during, 242 a 156 187 126 Tilinois § ----------—. Oklahoma ee Wisconsin Pennsylvania South Dakota Solicitation of funds to make up| Arkansas Natrona county's quota for the| Minnesota Wyoming Children's Home soclety| North Dakota -------.-—.. was continued today. in Casper Arizona through the sale of Christmas. seals|New Jerkey - and health bonds but announcement] Utah was made of a chang) in policy tn New-Mexico - connection with the cunvass of the Lou'siana refinery employes. | Kentucky Instead of going through the plant Massachusetts and making personal _ solicitations, Tennessee the committee of women who. visited “lebama the plant Thursday afternoon decided Al@ska. ~ to leave the seals with Don L, Lo-, Connecticut bell of the Industrial Relations de-' Maine partment. Voluntary purchases on tHe part of the men are ‘anked ™ through Mr. Lobdell, The method, it Vireinia ts believed; “Will meet with favor, Georgia among the rien and is expected to) Nevads net apyroximately the same returns. fee BS Sead The campaign in Casper will con-| Pita? tinue for one more day, being #ché-| so sti duled to come to a cluse Saturday New Hampshire evening. It is probable, however, is. taiend that numerous sales of sales will be fol, 1 mate supe Cictetmiag, | from the twenty-seven densely _pop- the pley-grounds of Americ: | Vermont rulated states east of the Mississippi, Registration by Months fs Canada j Korea DEFEATED IN ‘and only. one-half of one per cent were few Zealand “Our records show that only 17 per that the Big Horns, Rockies and ¥ lowstone pax« should be more exten- NEW YORK, Dec. 8.—Rodolph Valentino, motion picture actor, must cent 6f the total cars registered were svely advertised through.the east ag abide by the terms of bis contract June z: He bis tg with the Famons Players-Lasky com-} July eH ws pany, it was decided today by the;Ausust - vy > axe appellate division of the supre«ae| September 402 cars court. Valentino, through this, ¢e- The figures show that people of 4 cision ts enjoined from appearing| practically every financial status an with any other film corporation dur-| walk “in Ife, camp-in ths open and ing the life of the contract, drive nt least 77 different makes of PLANE MISSING HUNT PLANNED to Tucson from San Diego, ‘The squadron is waiting radio orders to gocto hunt the missing plane from eighth corps area head- quarters at San Antonio; expected, the officers said, momentarily, EL PASO, Texas, Deo, 8—Tho 12th observation squadron at Fort Bliss with six airplanes and nine Dilots, isin readiness to. search for Colonel rshall and» Lieutenant | Webber, reporied lost on their wey | $28 otor Club Reports Show Aggregate of $51,000 Left in Casper by People Who Traveled in 3,385 Cars was spent by the visitors at the season of 1922, according to a detailed report of activities of that organization issued teday. A total of 3,385 care stopped at the camp during the summer months, regittered: from: every’ state in the union except Vermont and Dela- Tepresented Cars to or from ‘Yellowstone purk over the ‘Yellowstone highway. The offic'al census of 1920 gives Casper a population of 11,447. The present population is conservatively estimated at 21,497. ‘There are more than 100 peopla living in Casper today. who have located here after having passed through as tourists Caspers population has 600 per cent in even years. Task depos'ts have increased 150 pur’ Gent In stk years. Casper has 61 miles of water mains, 35 mileg of sewers, and 17 miles of coneroté and bitulithic pavement. Casper's educational system is tho. (Continued on Page Ten.) increased bed Sunday morning wit knees, returned & ‘Hardenbrook. Marts was about aixty years old and had Mved in this section for the past 25 oF 30 yea He was engaged in Pherdiag sheep and lived most of the time in a camp wagon gr a tepee. When’ the body. was found it was een that the tepeo had been burned from over htm. When the jury visited the scene his horne was found dead in a creek about a half mile distant. Marts had camp- ed Saturday in Alkali gulch, about a mile from ths Yellowstone high- ve Tho investigation of the case is be- ing continued by the sheriff's office. MORRIS DENIES ANY DEAL FOR PACKING PLANT CHICAGO, Dec, 8—An unexpected turn in the discugsed merger of the packing firms of Morris and company and Armour and company — became known today ‘when Nelson Morris, board chairman, and Edward Morris, president, issued a statement that “It is news, to us” thet Morris and com- pany Gesired to “be out of the pack- ing business.” “While we realize that Mr. Armour is very anxjousfie acquire our bus!- neas and our’organtization, up to the Present sime he has not made us an offer andi we have not put any price on it,” the statement sald. oe Bonus Issued to Beet Growers DENVER, Cole, Deo, #,—The Great Western Sugar company today announced the distribution of $3,000,- 900 bonus to six thousand sugar best growers of northern Colorado, west- ern Nebraske, Wyoming and Montana | | under. the terns of the’ 1922 sliding | i> scale contract adopted last yeas | THOUSAND No less than £4,000 will be turned into” the treasury of the Casper Wo-.an's Departmenfal elud from the net profits of the Tribune Pure Foog, Health and Household show which closed as a mammoth success at the Arkeon last night. While definite figures wilt qpt be available until Sunday, when all of the ex- pense accounts will have been turned fn, estimates are poss’ble which guarantee the club large returns. ‘The show closed last night at the very height of its triumph. Interest had in no way waned but had rather tnereased on each successive occasion until such a crowd packed the great dance ‘hall that {t was difficult to go from booth to booth wit! encounter’ng others who were held at the different counters W. ith Both His Legs Burned Off at Kne DOUGLAS, Wyo., Dec. 8.—The coroner's jury called to in- vestigate the death of John C. Marts, who was found dead in his h both legs burned burned off below the weycue: yesterday to the effect that his demise was caused by a blow on the right temple by parties unknown. The jury consisted of E. L. C. Schneider, Sater and W. B. DR. HL. HARVEY [5 PARTNER OF Dn. MC. -KENTH Prominent Casper Revistas Joined by Former Glenrock Doctor in Practice Here. Dr. Herbert 1. Harvey, who has en- Joyed a muccesafiul practice in Glen- rock for’ the Inst #four years, has moved to-Casper and will,be associat ed-with Dr. Marshall C. Keith in the later’s office and also tn the Kelth's Private hospital on South Durbin street. The opportunities for a wider field and hospital fretlities were the determining fac’ y's in the’ change made by Dr, Harvey, Dr. Harvey, whose former home was Chicago, {s a graduate of the Coll¢s of Physicians and Surgeons of &t, Touts, Mo., in the class of 1918, follow'ng, which he took his interne- ship in the Jénglewood: hosptia! of Chicago, BIG FUTURE IN. SIGHT OF RECEIPTS FROM BIG SHOW e ae CLUB TO GET RS AS SHARE QUT. the refreshments, games and jays thet were offered ‘One lady took occasion to express her amazement at the amount of free food which was given awa during the nights of the sk: Never before had the put been 80 feted by the merchants. Both young-and old came to the Arkeon and were able to enjay not only the food and the crowd, but the dancing as well, for when the music was started the dancing space was taken completely up by the merry makers. The Tribune pure food show was broad tn {ts scope. Educational and chant and wtih his products. it also held for them a mid-winter festival that fittingly preceded the coming holida JUTLINES WORK IN MESSAGE — of Important Subjects Covered by Harding Include Prohibition, Crediis and Child Labor WASHINGTON, Dec. §.—-President Harding in his annual message delivered today to congress in person deals with nearly a score of subjects, chief among them prohibition, farm credits, the pengoetion problem, child labor and immigration. ¢ executive announces his purpose to invite the governors of the oe and territories to an early conference with the federal telephone to the Portland bureau shortly after 11 o'clock, sald guthort fes had just learned there had been interesting throughout. It ave visifors an opportunity to becomo better acquainted with the mer- ‘the Associated Press, reporting by, Casper Daily Tribune [sors A‘D- WASTE BY FIRE including part of the old reside another fire fatality PORTS MARKETS NUMBER 52. 30 BLOCKS WIPED TWO DEATHS |Conflagration Today at Astoria, Oregon, Rages Uncontrolled Until Busixess District Is Obliterated and Residence District Burned; Property Loss Near $15,000,000 PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 8.—(By the Associated Press.)—More than 30 square blocks of the business district vf Astoria, Ore., | business houses and banks, and the buildings of the two newspapers, had been swept by a fire which | started early today and got out of control by c=ting beneath the piling upon which the city had been built on the bank of the Columbia river, about 100 miles from here. One death had been reported, and there were rumors of many injured. in addition to the nce district, most of the leading The correspondent of to quarters at San Francisco make death of Morris Staples, business man/an investigation of the fire at Astoria, and banker, who dropped dead of Oregon, with the view of giving relief, heart failure. Chief of Police EB. J. if found necessary, Carlson said he had heard a man — hanged himself whhe the fire was SEATTLE, Wash., Dee. 8—A dea- raging but he had not learned the patch received the United States man's name. naval radio station at Bremerton, Some unof‘icial estimates placed Wash., dnted from Astoria, Ore., at @ the loss as high as $15,000,000. The a. m. said Associated Preas correspdndent said “The fire ‘ry e: tremely out of contra! the assessed value of Astoria was and fanned by a westerly breeze:8 {about $12,000,000 and added “the resl- sweeping rapidly over the unburned dence district has not been touched." area, Several the and numerous — injuries have resulted’ from the ,con- WASMINGTON, Dec. 8.—The Am- flagation and dynamiting is teing re- erican Red Cross today telegrapied sorted to in an effort to check the Colonel George Filmer, its Pacific) flames. The en y in in immin- egast/ division manager with head-! ent danger of destru + ASTORIA, Ora Dec. 8.(By the Associated Press.)—The Tiiseimees’ diskcich of Astoria was laid in rains by a fite which broke out shortly after 2a. m., and despite efforts of the local fire de- partment od reinforcements from Portland swept sixteen blocks, causing a foss estimated carly at between $10,000,000 and $15,060,000. destroyed by the flames. Other ‘The entire buillings destroyed include Bee Hive trict trom the river front five blocks south tu: Exchange cage Dery eae Hoeffiera Contec. street and east and west between Wanna fi En sea company, the Fourteenth and Tenth street had art hotel, the: lendiie Raper, te Astoria Budget, Astoria theater and been w: 7. been w.ped out At: 7.30 andthe fecewly 5: '5 a hall. Ten blocks of the had extended beyond Exchange street at that hour, Nearly all of the bust ness houses of the city. were Jocated in that area, there being about 12 buildings te the block. “|e the 1920 census. According to reports from the fire! main business district are said to have been consumed by the flames. Astoria had a popiiation of 14,0%3 Its séaguing com. in lumber. merce {prin pally execufive authority, with a view to Mr. Harding suggests as ways of In- creased economy and efficiency there be a merger of lines into systems, in- terchange of freight cars, the consoli- lation of facilites and the economic use of terminals, He declared that the managers of the Ines are without that Inter-car- rier, co-operative relatiohship, ‘'so highly essential to the most and best economical operation” adding that they could not function in harmony when the recent strike threatened the paralysis of all railway transpor tation. adopting final policies of national and state co-opera: in administer- ing the prohibition faws. He the day is unlikely to come when the Prohibition amendment will be re peated and that the nation should adopt its course accordingly. President Harding tells congress that if the statutory provisions for prohibition enforcement, are con: trary to deliberate public opinion, which he does not believe, the rigof- ous ssid Iteral enfortement will con centrate public attention an any re quisite modification. “Such a course,” he adds, forms with the Iaw and saves humiliation of the government the humilitation of our. people fore the” world and@ challenges destrictive forces engaged in spread violation, offfcial corrupt! “coh the and be. the wide- in and individual demoralization,” With regard to the transportation problem, Mr. Harding proposes that |the railroad labor hoard be abolished with the substitution of a labor, diy! sion in the interstate commerce com- merce commissfon with ample power to require its to be accepted by both parties to a disputed question. The executive also proposes that the law require the carriers and their ¢m- ployes to. institute means and meth- ode to negotiate between themselves their constantly arising differences, Umiting appeals to. the govarnment body to disputes of such character as are likely to affect the public wel- fare. Coordination of ail transportation facilities is urged by the president. These would include not only inland waterways Wut motor truck traned portation as. well. He inveighs against the: system of pralleling the rafiroads with truck roads thus drawing freight from the steam lines instead of mak- ing the motor truck a feeder for theme As te the carriers themselves FOR OIL BT. LOUIS, Mo.,: Deo, 8&—In- stead of exhaustion, the world’s ol} Industry, inw hich) the United States plays al eading part, is on the threshold of a glorious future, A. ©. Veatch, chief geologist of the Sinclair Conosiidated il. corpora- tion declared here jeday belora the American Petroleum Institnie. But to prevent a serious short- ago of oll in the future, he asserted, foreign fisida shoyld be Cevolped more thoroughly. 'The United States he sald, should not be required to continue carrying a great part of the. world’s burden alone, He called attention to the ser! ousness of foreign sive. The time factor and distance from adequate tranaporiath|1 #re the chief drawhacks to evercome, he said, development, | asserting that it was very expen: | More extended credit era was,strongly urged by the | tive who declares that the very proof of helpfulness already given is the strongest argument for the perman- ent establishment of widened credits. He says the farm loan bureau may well have its powers enlarged to pro- vide ample farm productions credits as well as 2nlagged land credits. Two constitutional are proposed. ‘ne would give con gress authority for child por and the other would restrict the {ssues of tax exempt securities, clared to drying up the sources of federal~taxation and encouraging un productive and extravagant expend! tures by steico and municipalities.” Enactifent of foretgn legislation Providing for registration of allens and for more thorough examination of emigrants at the ports of embarkn- tion is urged, The president says there ts a “reerudescence of hyphen ated Americanism which we thought to have been stamped out when we committed the nation, fe and soul to the world war,” and adds that ad vocates of revolution are abusing the hospitality of American shores “find- ing thefr . deludeft followers among those who take on the habit elements of American without knowing Ameri: can soul.” | “Registration of altens, jadds, w'll enable the ‘ni |against abuses in emigration, |!gn the -andestrable whose irregular jcoming in his firat«vtoration of the law and at the rame time, will faciii- tate the needed Americantzing of be who take on the habitments Dealing with fore‘gn affairs, Mr, pare lis congress that Amert- can relations nte not only free from everythreatening cloud, but the vous try has ‘contributed its “larger Influ- jence’ ‘toward «making marked con- |flict less likely, “ft has been our fortune both.to execu check- each and promote international an- “he adds. “We are cog- the world's struggles for the farm-| amendments | which are de-| the president | tion to guard} Swept area early today, © Norris Staples, one of the leading automo: bile dea'=rs of tho city and president ot the Bank of Commerce, had drop- STANDARD WILL ped dead. Another report said Bren- nan Van Duzen, a business man, was missing. W. H. Fellman, furniture dealer, who had been reported dead earlier in the morning, later was found to be safe, a 5 BUILDING AARR [ ASTORI Ore.. Dec. 8,~~Ten ; blocks of the business district were ‘ - wiped out, two lives wers lost and| ° > property. damage estimated at $4.000.-/ Contracts to Deliver That 000 has been caused by a fire whic A broke out shortly after 3 o'clock th un! morning. Most of the big business | mount to Baton houses had heen. burned and firemen, | aided by forces from the Portland fire department. had dynarhited buildings in an effort to check the flames. The fire was caused by an explosio: in the Bee Hive apartments. this morning, the fire was from being under control, accord to the Spokane, Portland and railroad company’s agent at Act ‘Two men are reported dead. are Notris Staples, automobile Rouge for Export. dealer and president..of the merce, and W. H, Fellm: he first of the year. the largest furniture store, who ap. this contract as: parently dropped dead from exhats-|sures a mar the entire oytput tion. of plant 3 and with numbers one At 6:10 o'clock thé telephone opera-|an dtwo furnishing gasoline for do- tors in the telephone exchange were|mvestic consumption it will mean the ordered out of’ tle building and ajrunning of the local plants to capaé- temporary exchange is being set up auring in the city hall. : The. first report was received herc| Miss Mary Viola Browder became At 3:25 a. m. from the Astoria firo|the bride of B. G. Lemmers at & quiet department. which sent a frantic call) ceremony for all available Christian 3:23 a. m. the niay ing th iidebrand. ft an appeal for a fire} 1 ) 2nccompanied ticsting. equipment that eould be|by Mr. an: Hays of §43 spared from Portland | North Jacks All banks, including the Astorin| Mrs. Lem Sayings bank, Astoria National bank,|linois to ‘wed Columbia Trust and Savings bank | employed by the are reported! will and Bank of Conimerce, make BANDIT GCANCS MENACE YANKS TSINGTAO, BHANTU: —(By the Assoctkted Pre: Band'ts atill were moving about the city openly today, and it-was re- thelr hor water wor Japanese emp stopped work tod: ported that t were threatening to kidnap the {sh and American conaula to held them as Fresh ostages onuaed ra at wee te