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oe ee wo sits] The Casper Baily Tritun BRITISH U NABLE TO n Today SOSAYSBONAR (Ou Investigatio LAWINSPEEGH Zs Continued the oil industry generally was resumed today after an inter- mission of three months with Walter C. Teagle, president of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey as the initial wit- For Conference LONDON, Dec. 14.—(By The Associated Press.) — Prime Minister Bonar ‘Law emphatically argued in the house of commons today the impossibility of Great Brita‘ from sald ~*~ pee age WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W. ‘the major | VA-. Dec. 14.— Numerous questions prribar Hrs of national and state impoctance were asked by Mr.| Usted for discusaton in addresses by common stock of | te executives here for the openinx owned by “about | %ssion todey of/'the “fourteenth an- ix intercate,” he replied nual conference, of governors. Activ- ‘Ae of June 80, ities of the Ku dtux'’Kian formed one Germany, he was con: France or Italy. He LONDON, Dec. 14—(By The Asso: clated Press.)—Germany {a very near to complete colapse, Prime Minister Bonar Lav to'd mons toda: was the only give the house arations, 2. by -Governor egisia. of the common stock aro philan-|tion and@.the-tarmer,” and a discos: thropic institutions. John D. Rocke-|s'on by Govern~ 2reur, of Minne ‘feller, Sr., has not been a share|sote, from the viewpoint of the west, sholder in the company sice 1920 andjof the Lawrence water- Rockefelter owned be NL of Arizona on. fintiona] and state subjects. on eae UNDER CONTROL === === WEN ASA INDENVER, SAID Vaccination Stations in City Closed, Fewer © Cases Reported. DENVER, Golo.,| Dec. 14.—Small. pox no longer exists in Denver in epidemic form, according to a joint statement issued here today by Dr. ‘Thomas. Parran' of ‘the United ‘States public health service, Dr, William H. Sharpley, Denver's commiss'‘oner of healthy and Dr, J. W. Amesse,:chief adviser of, the health department in its successful fight against the disease. Lal From a high record of &7 new cases reported during the third week of November, the number of new cases during the last. seven days has dropped to 15, several of these coming from out of the city, the statement said. Ninety-five persons die@ of the dis- ease in November, while only 13 have died {n December, most of the deaths being due to attack. of black smallpox “that developed last month, the state- ment asserts. Curbing of the- epidemic, according to“the statement, has been due to the fact that practically the entire. popu- lation of Denver has been vaccinated. including the pupils of all schools and colleges. All pubjic vaccination sta- tions were closed here today, as these no longer are needed. ‘The statement asserts Denver and the state of Colorado will be entirely freeof the disease within two weeks. Twenty cases now are being treated in various towns in the state. Union Pacific Places Embargo On Shipments OMAHA, Neb., Dec. 14.—The Union Pacific railroed has. declared an embargo against loading of wheat consigned to certain milling .com- panies at Salina; Abilene, Russell and Hayes, Kans., on the main line of that road in Kansas, because of the fact those .milling companies have cars of grain which have not been unloaded, it was sald today at Union Pacific neadquarters hers. The Union PAcifis, it was sald, will refuse’ fur- ther_consignments ‘of wheat to these companies until the mills unload grain already standing on their sidings and release the cara. ‘There is no tleup in wheat move- ments tn Kansas, it was stated by Union Pacific offictals, and the em- vargo affects only certain milling companies’ in tha cities mentioned. a 2 )anked if the half a lozen. persons or interests . owning about thirty per cent of the New lersey “ol replied “I can't testify qs to cher compantes. Mr. Teagle denied Yast’ the halt lozen large stocicholdern controlled che company, asserting “that the hosrd of directors is running the cor-}signed at. Lausanne, Ismet Doration and not/the stockholders,” _ nfefence tod: “What ia the Rockefeller Founda: ce i Ismet said ‘Turkey was ready to a0- cord the same treatment to minorities as provided in the treaty exchanged between the various Buropean coun- tries. This, Ismet declared, was not be- cause of the menacing words yester- @ay of Lord Curzon, the British for- eign secfetary, but because the Turk- ish national ‘pest required {t. Iemet said ‘Turkey accepted the ‘granting of general amnesty to politi- cal prissters. She would docline, lnowever, to establish a national home jfor the Armenian: ONE DEAD, TWO HURT IN WRECK THORP,’ Wis., Dec. 14—One train- man was killed and two others were {badly injured and about 15 passengers more or less seriously hurt early to- day when Minneapolis, St. Paul and Bault Ste Marie passenger train No. 8 Chicago to Minneapolis, collided head= on with a freight train near here, but outside of thet I know nothing of it,” Mr. Teagle answered, a FIRE RELIEF IS PROPOSED WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.—A mil- ton dollars for relief of the Astoria Oregon, *fire, sufferers would be. ap- propriated under a bill “introduced today by Representative Hawley, re- publican, Oregon. a RECORD SNOW HITS DETROIT DETROIT, Mich. Dec. 14.—All snowfall records for similar period in December were broken here between the hours of 11 o'clock last night bape | 8 a. m. today when 8.8 inches of snow fell. The storm hampered street car and interurban service. to the rehabilitation service of the federal government unless is cured of his insanity -he will be returned to the custody mie of uxorcide ‘and sentenced to life imprisonment, but was sent to the asylum instead of the penitentiary when he developed insanity. His men+ tal condition is said to be the result of wounds received in Fran Sea- ‘ator LaFolistte of Wisconsin has be- ‘The federal government . recently awarded Bergstrom a disabled sol- ‘ier’s allowance and announced that it would transfer him trom the Wyo mining asylum to the federal rehabill- tation hospital’ et Sheridan. ~~ ISSIGNED, ISMET Acceptance of Supervision Over Christian Peoples as Set Forth in the Leagiie Covenant Is Indicated LAUSANNE, Dec. i4.—(By The Associated Press.) — Turkey will join the league of nations as soon as peace is As the league exercises’general supervi- opulations Ismet’s announcement was in- layer Must Be Returned If Given Release for Treatment CHEYENNE, Wyo., Dec. 14.—(Special to The Tribune.)—-Announcement was made at the office of Governor Carey this morning that Roy Bergstrom, insane wife murderer of Laramie who now is confined in the Wyoming asylum at Evanston, will not be turned over procedure regarding punishment for his crime as is regarded as advisable. CASPER, WYO., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1922. S PORTS | T0 BACK CHARGES ALLEGED SLAYER Waris das HELD GUILTY. IN} “cece, SHERIDAN COURT \Sedond Degrée Murder Is ! Verdict Returned in Killing of Boy. GREAT FALLS, verdict for $3,450 was awarded Mrs. Dec. 14.—Jury arrie Krafft from the Great Northern railway company and Rey Charnock this morning when the sealed verdict reached by the jury Wednesday even'hg was submitted. | Of this amount $450 was for doctors, special damages and hospital bills incurred ‘by Krafft following his being shot by Ray Charnock, spe cla] agent of the Great Northera on ; March 23, 1921, an $8,000 are for | general damages. [_SHBRIDAN, Wyre. Dec” 14—Joe} “ krarnt, a negro porter on’ the Tamburello, a miner of Kleenburn. Wyo.! today was found guilty by o jury in. district court here of second degree murder growing out of the \phooting to death of Fred Hoffman 19 years old, at Kieenburn on Septem- {Ber 38. Tamburello testified that he {Rad eccosteA the Hoffman boy and acoused him of raiding his melon ‘patch and that he shot the boy twice but he declared it was accidental as he merely bad fired, to frighten the bey. Sentence “has not | been pro- Great Northern was alleged. short im remittance of funds to the Great Northern company’s headquarters im St. Paul from collections made as porter and buffet: car conductor and was being sought for arrest, when shot by Charnock, ‘company detec- tive while arrest’ng him. He died at a howpital on April 23, 1921, from pneumonia, which plain- tiffs counse! coniended was apecin!- lyinducéd from the gunshot in his right arm, The trial took 16 days in Judge J. B. Lorke's court, being one of the longest civit cases in local court history. Mrs. Carrie Ra. tft as administral- vie of the estate of her ow band, Homer W. Krafft of Great Fails sought $25,000 general and $1,000 special damages in the original com- plaint, > a TAXPAYERS MEET { WBILIAINGS, Mow. Dec. i4.—-The econd-annual mecting of the state taxpayer's association . convened’ at the Commercial club building here this morning, The delegnten were ‘Welcomed by. Mayor Wiha V. Beers, who sketched brife:y sonie ways. in which taxes might ve reduced. Lees ‘than fifty : delegates attended the ‘oponitg seasion. ee BIG. GASSER IN TEAPOT FIELD [3 GRILLED IN With-the bit 20 feet in the sec- ond Wall Creek sand and the well of the Mammy-; Oil company on the northeast corner of the southwest quarter of section 3-88-78, ‘Teapot dome, ‘was pouring forth a volume of Ban eatimated at 15,000,000 cubte feet when drilling operations were closed down tor the night on Wodnesday. PASHA SAYS War Bride In France, Vet Is After Divorce WILL IRWIN TO LECTURE HER Creek of] field Record Crowd Expected Richy to Hear Noted Author * ‘e,8*"° 8. while of Uncle Sam. He ¢ and Correspondent. diecharge in France in M : ——- | and went to work for the Red | Créss in the rehabilitation depart le of Casper wi have an} ment. In the fall of that year the 7 tonight at $ o’clook to! work playit ot and Wolf had to hear Wil Irwin give one of hix famous} return to his native try lectures in the Presbyterian Wolfe returned to visit his wife nacle. Irwin hhs been ace! in’ the spring of 1920 but could many ax the greatest correspondent! gay only a few months aa he could ot h's time, As @ Journalist during] fing no employment in his trade the World war, as an author after it) jr. came back to the United States writing “The Next War.” and as @) ana returned to his wife again the lyceum lecturer, the man who is in «pring of 1821 for a short visit Casper today has reached the highest) “Lyte, wife, whose name is notch of fan ' Irwin's v fa in accord.) D&#Y, has refused, according to the unce with un agreement reached, by| Complaint, to leave France and many of the most Influent’al citizens} COM® to this c i hit. Her last known = residence ot Casper to bring here four numbers of winter lyceum course. “Tainted Truth" the lecture which will be given tonight, is the second of that series. It probably hold« 2s wide an interest was 9 Bis Rue Sartoris, La Garen ne. They have one child, Robert, aged two years A peculiar situation afises in the complaint for divorce, which ts as any number could hold, because of the reputation of the spe-ker| Wased on the charge of desertion, in coupled with his picturesque Ife and} that Judge. C. C. Brown, before its close contact with the things for| Whom the case will have to be brought, will have to decide wheth- er refusal fo aécompany her hus Band to a foreign country: to: live, canstitutes desertion "oD. W. Ogilbeo ta the attorney for the complainantin the suit. CLEMENCEAU AN IMPERIALIST IN. PROTECTION POLICY, WILL IRWIN SAYS IN ADDRESS HERE TODAY Noted War Correspondent Warns Against Acreptance of Tiger’s Creed as Preached to American Public which America fought #0 long. Anyone. who misses the lecture by Will Irwin will have missed one of the most gainful evenings of -enter- tainment that it ls possible to bring to) Cazper. announced atthe Near East} 4 yepor: froin the field today ts ‘that the flow is ‘increasing greatly with depth and that it is expectec to make a large producer when com- pleted. ‘This is the first well in the field that has shown any large amount of gas, those having been drilled © in further north in. mort cases not hav- img enough jreasure to lift the oil to the top of the casing and should Peneration-of the sand fail to~ fist oll it would mean that tits location in on top of % structure which may Produce both cil and gas in unus- uly large quan:ities and spread over a larger territory than has here- tofore been suppored. NEGROES TAKEN FROM CITY JAIL, WARNING LEFT PILOT POINT, Texas, Dec, 14.— Two negroes, detained yesterday in connection with theft of two horses, Were missing from the jail here to- day, A notice, written on plain’ pa- per ahd unsigned, was found on the @oors of a local newspaper reading: “Both negroes got what they had coming. Let this be @ warning to all negro loafers. Negroes get a job or leave tow Delays Search NOGALES, Artz, Deo. 14.—Pians to send eight planes over the Banta Rita mountain region, south of Tucson in wearch of Col. Francis G. Marshall and Lieut. C. L. Webber, whose plane Was reported ‘to have been seen in that vicinity by a rancher were wbandoned this morning due to bad ‘Weather. Appropriation Bill Is Passed WASHINGTON, Deo. 14.—After little more than an bour's consdera- tion the senate today passed the sec- ond annual appropriation of the pres- ent session for the state and justice departments. It carried about $33,- 500,000. Santa Claus to Walk Streets Of . City Saturday Santa Claus wil b&@ seen on the | streets. of Casper Saturday, accord- [agete. Satermnelten ‘frost the. Salva: | tion Army headquarters. Kiddies | who pass the kettles which have | been j | a guaranty is given that if he of the state of Wyoming for placed for the receiving of ail receive a stick of jcome interested in his case. donations candy from their old friend. The attitude of the state govern- ment in Bergstrom’s case is designed! Anyone who knows of a to. circumvent any effort’ to thwart| family has been requested to justice should the prisoner’s reason) the Salvation Army, phone 2108 in be restored. | order that a Christmas may be pro- | Bergstrom was conticted’at Lara-| vided for such families. poor call Declaring that the United States is the dominant nation of today and that she will have to make any sensible adjust- ment of European affairs that is to be made, that Georges Clemenceau, who has recently been speaking in America, misrepresents France, and that the security of France is, however, the greatest problem in European affairs at the present time, Will Irwin spoke before that the hatred of German people a large assembly of Kiwantans and; toward another country was largely thelr guests at the Henning today. % matter of the propaganda put to ‘The lecturer was the headliner on| them by their dictators, and that sho the entertainment program and came would not hate France forever. va up to all expectations in that regard. | tional hatreds are impermanent,” said Mr. Irwin stated that the great fear | 7W!D-. of France is “the peril from the Frank L. Olson, director of the bu- north” and that they desire fo “take eau of municipal research; was also Germuny ‘to the Rhine.” ‘This taxing | speaker at the luncheon. Mr, Otson Germany to the Rhine would be aj said some very interesting things re- i garding his work in this regard. Mr. false move, according th the corres- . pondent, who said that such action | CMO" ‘# an enlightening talker In re- would bring many thousands of Ger-| gard to city government. mans under French government, — | =a “ a i ereaaracel Will Irwin described Clemenceau as | an old fashioned imperialist, a fighter surely, whom the world could not have | done without during the war, but a! man who was of the class “which had | NEW YORK, Dec, 1 snow storm in lower the Ward Liner Mexico, bound out better be under the eart! the pres said Irwin. “Whether or not France| from Havana, Cuba, with 119 passen. eventualiy attain it. He also stated sent out a w:reless call for assistance. as Christmas approaches. Action taken by the new senate ent time, He said that Clemenceau | ig secure depends on who is in’ power | gers, today collided with’ the Hamil — Irish to Get P. of the Free State Tuesday in appointing a committee to work In a driving lew York bay, since he had been in America was! seeing things at night “France does need some security,” in Germay.” He said that the Ger-| ton, of the Old Dominion Mne, coming man working class are staunch in|in from Norfolk, Va. The Mexico, the their desire for a republic and would! portside of which was badly damaged, e ® ids ristmads ft DUBLIN, Dec. 14.—(By The Associated Press.) —Fur- ther talk of peace between the factions in Ireland is heard some indications that a considerable section of the Republi- can party is willing to treat for peace] to debate the question is pointed to and that the rank and file {s moving | 48 significant, especially as, although im that direction. the clubs are composed of both treaty supporters and republicans, ft is the {othe republicans w} the press Fein ations lays meeting. summoniny of lubs in Dublir all nd count for the immediate cessation of hostilities has developed | CHARGES VOICED AND DEMED AT HEARING TODAY FOR DAUGHERTY |Attorney General’s Own Operatives Detailed to Watch Solons Who Seek Impeachment. WASHINGTON, Dec, 14.—Rep- resentative Keller, Republican, Mir. nesota, refused Inte today beforr the house judiciary committes to pro- ceed with his impeachment charges against Attorncy General Daugh= erty The refusal came after the com- mittee had refused to pern't him ¢o read a long prepared statement, the nature of which he declined to dis- | close under repeated questions as to whether it was his purpose to lec: ture the committee. Under instructions from Kelor; Jackson H. Ralston, counsel for the Minnesota ropresentative, announce ed hiv withdrawal from the proceed: ings, thanking the committee for the courtsies which had been shown im. Mr. Keller Inft the committee room, but by # voie the committee deciled to proceed with the hear- ings and to suminon Mr. Koller for examination rc his oath as te the basis for the 14 charges he filed in the house against Mr, Daugherty. Paul Howland, personal counsel for the attorney general, previously bad inslstea that tie proceedings go ahead, jiclaving that the attorney genoral had right to demand that this be done. A subpoena for Mr. Koiler was issued and the committee adjourned until tomorrow at 10:30 a. m., at which time it is planned to swear him for examination. WASHINGTON, Dec. 14— Charges that operatives of the department of justice had shadowed members of con- gress who attacked Attorney General Daugherty were made ana denied today at the hearing betore the house judiciary committee on iro: peachment charges against tr. Daugherty. Asserting that Senator Caraway. Democrat, Arkansas. and Representa: tives Woodrutf.of Michigan and Jobn= son of South Dakota, Republicans, had been “shadowed by such opera- tives, Jackson H. Ralston, counsel for Representative Keller, author of the impsachment charges, asked the com- mittee to obtain from the justice db- partment the names and the dally 2 ports of the cperstives. = “How Impossible in the face of our Genial that anything lke that was done, to produce any such papers,” said Paul Howland, counsel far Mr. Daugherty, When Mr, Ratston de clared. that the accuracy of the d& nial would be the subject of futu®S discussion, Mr. Howlang replied thst if proof were offered before the com- mittee any document and papers re lating to it would be produced if they existed. It veloped toda: papers relating to William J. Burng, rent to Lresident Harding by A. F MecAuley, an American living at To} pronto, Canada, had been mislaid ov | night Thomas Stephenson counsel for t that the file of of Ctevetatil BrothePhood of Loconié- Firemen and Enginemen resurg- testimony today relating to tie ation charging @ failure to en: railroad safety appliance layed tive He detailed ts to the Cepartmemt of justice for conferences on the may. ter and presented additional letters on the subject written to Mr, Daugh+ erty. = The at-orney general had the samp jKnowledge of this situation, with re |Spect to raflroad equipment as he hay |wit hrespect to !abor before the ap gr 3 » | Plcation for the mnction against Mr. Ralston said, when Chat~ 7 }man Volstead in objected to testh | mo relative events which oe- 63 | curred impeachment — {charges w in the house, | ‘sto Mn | Daugh ed What was de- q a | claned grave danger’ to } traveling public and the raflroad workers catised by the continuing of | defective locomotives. in service. Ai: so he charged that the reads were “frustrating the efforts of the Imspes. 7 | tors.” | oe | WASHINGTON, Dec, 14.—Hell's Half Acre was located today and located officially. It is In Wyoming, and would be given to Natrona county for parle ¥ s ¥ purposes under a bill Infreduced by 7 tative ader Represe Mondell, the yepub- who hails* from that ce rs 4