Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 14, 1922, Page 14

Weather Forecast Generally fair tonight and Friday, preceded by snow southeast” porti tonight. Colder tonight. Stroug winds in southeast portion. tAS ASSASSINATION OF SECRETARY, IS FRUSTRATED Poisoned Chocolates Sent to British Home Secretary Through Mails Are Inter cepted; Others Warned = LONDON, Dec. 14.—(By The Associated Press.) —An at- tempt has been made to assassinate Home Secretary W. C. Bridgeman by means of poisoned chocolates sent through the mails. The candy arrived at the home office yesterday and the police found it contained arsenic. It is understood the police attribute the act to the same who recently poisoned Sir Horwood, head of Scotlagd person William Yard. have led the p the work was unbalanced wor al or fancied Scotland Yard way Thirteen Club said, today probably that of an wo has some grienvs.ce against and the home. office. an Tempts Jinx, Nothing Doing All the other ministers of the goy- ernment e been warned ‘against Rater pacts atmilar attempts NEW YORK, Dec. 14,—AYter de- Mr. Brifgeman, formerly a union- fying the jinx in every conceivable | ist whip iater a junior lord of the way, the Thirteen club started on | treasury and ¢érector of the war de- ite fourteenth year of existence. The 3 , ce. The | partment early in the war, was par- club held its 13th annual @ancr<3 |yamentary secretary to the ministry the 13th of December. The dinner € labor from 1916 to 1919 when ho vegan at 13 minutes to'® and ended |recame parliamentary secretary to at 13 minutes after 12. Thirteen | the board of trade. He was appointed tables‘ of diners with 12 at each etary for home affeirs in the table and 13 at the sneakers table, | ponar Law cabinet when that minis 13 courses, served by 13 wa: was formed. hore ndon the the postmark suburb, where Horwoc The diners entered hall by w: with 1 etons the banquet king under a ladder and open umbrellas and 19 in the room. member tempted fate in | + 0% Svery possible super. | "crwood chocolates s given « try out from nthe new 4 un arrest Tt was said today which he Bridger urchased was km The attempt on fe, com'nx sunt a mirror to tipping over and then the banquet two members took chairs nd waited for jinxes to appear and accept the challenges. 7 At daybreak the d’sgusted tempt- ers; tired but happy, snapped their re Singers at fate and left for home. | gtarm, BRUNEN SLAYER I$ GRILLED ON WITNESS STAND that he shop In anschocolates were own. Mr. hetore when all officials may expect to re- as ended, Bridgeman's Christmas parceis has caus d considerable (aaa Sige Trio Escape From Children’s Home, Police on Hunt Wyo., Der. 14. Peterson, Hazel Smith and MOUNT HOLLY, N. ¥., Dec. 14.—]} Katherine Tolman, age 13, 14 and Charlies M. Powell, confessed slayer of| 15 years, respectively, are miss- “Honest” John T. Brunen, circus| ing after their second escape with- owner, took the stand again and| in 12 hours from the state chi!- was subjected to a cross exami-| dren’s hom: here, where they had nation by the defense. Powell, who] been placed ptnding the finding of said yesterday he shot the chow man for them. The police believe at the instigation of Harry C. Mohr are hiding somewhere In the city. When the trio first escaped th were picked up dy an officer in the ayd his sister, Mrs. Doris Brunen, as cuestioned as to whether he had been promised immunity for his con- fession. Powell again declared that} downtown district, he committed the crime to please} “It's no use taking us back to , Mohr that place," defiantly said one of | ors them, ‘for we'll just get away R 7 Is A again. eprisats Are They were returned +o the home, the intention being to | » them there for a few hours before send- Discouraged By O’Connor Family them to a Denver institution. When it came t'me for the departure of the Denver train, however, they again were missing and they still are missing. Caliph Receives Charles R. Crane CONSTANTINOPLE. Dec. Charles R. Crane, former States minister to China, was received n audience by the Caliph yesterday. Abgul Medjid said that ‘Turkey locked | Dec. 14.—(By Press.)\—The parents of Rory O'Connor, who was executed by the Free State government last ‘week, wrote to the newspapers as follows: “We abhor anything in the nature of a reprisal for the death of our son, Rory O'Connor. Our grief is not soft ened by the thought of the sufferings oi others. In his jast letter, written to younger brother on December & (the day of the execution), the fol- lowing passage occurs: ‘I could not continue with my former comrades. DUBLIN, ciated The Asso- 14.— United friendly guidance and commercial sup- I am to meet death at thelr hands. I}port, and asserted that America’s! forgive them all. The will of God be| participation in the Lausanne con dene and may the honor of Ireland| ference. was a good augury for peace he preserved, Mr. Crane leaves for Cairo today. Here ioe hi ‘i is 9 man with Hee tu the conclusion | and the scene shows him I: in his position with Ertegrul Effendi. FOURTEEN DEAD, MANY HURT [IN TEXAS RAILROAD WRECK Death Toll of Crash Last Night at Humble} at the te’ 150 wives and is afl he has loft of the funil What Does a Sultan With 150 Wives Think About? 150 wives, whom he has just deserted, all in one heap. + ding at Malta from. the Br itivh warship Malaya. Look ct his face and put yourself S004 faith both in letter and spirit,” | any one of them again, The ten year old Prince adding: . & ship's officer is at the right. small chance of ever Increased by Four Early Today; Investigation to Be Launched HOUSTON, Texas, Dec. 14.—-The death of four more per- sons today brought the tol) from last night’s Southern Pacific wreck at Humble, 17 miles from here, to 14, revised figures placing last night’s death list at ten. All were scalded by es- caping steam. Only only of the four who died today is known to have been a white man, but others have not been identified. Investigations were started by the}on the side track it was too:late to railway company aia county peace|@Vold the erash. officers aided in the preparations ‘for a thorough investigation. SHREVEPOR’ report 1 when the passenger tvain. sid iped a switch er official yards Engincer Holland of the /passenger train, reported that the headlight on the engine struck was not burning ar La, said by nd that by the time the passenger train engine's headlight had served to outline the Dec. the wreck o ne ir the Humble the passeug: her engine The cylinder heads of the two loco- motives struck, that on the: right side of the passenger train and that on the left side of the freight locomotive 14.—An | belng ripped away. All the cylinder heads ripped loose. a two-inch steam pipe on’ the freight engine, which ran from the cylinder the ‘steara chest, tore loose and crashed into the window of the smok: ing car—the first coach of the pas: senger._. train—literally cooking —its passengers with live steam and scald. ing water. Conductor Kempsey of Houston, for | to | Che Cazper Daily Tritune BY He is the Sultan of Turkce: Tribune blankets: the city with This édition contains all the the best paper in Wyoming. before ir homes, urday jeave/th be sure of insertion. on the read, was instantly kille]. The train news dealer died at his post. his body beng found underneath a pile of candy, newspapers ‘and. maga- {since the dissolution Gecree, with pai MIR. MERCHANT? Remember that the Saturday edition of the Tribune is de- livered in the homes of Casper—virtually every home, for the 1 O'CLOCK P. M. and the best number of features which go to make the Tribune It reaches the © SATURDAY SHOPPERS c ¢ editor will bring immediate results. Copy must be in the Tribune office Friday might in order to 19 years a familiar ‘igure to travelers | TEAGLE IN ‘PRESIDENT OF BIG NEW JERSEY "BRANCH SAYS ALL BUSINESS IS ~ BASED ON ACTIVE COMPETITION |Monopolistic Charges Denied in Address | Before Senate Probers; Dissolution Decree Observed in Good Faitk WASHINGTON, Dec, 14.—The Standard Oil Company of | New Jersey, construing the supreme court’s dissolution de- | cree by witich it was cut off from its former corporate hold- | ings asa final expression of the public will on the subject of | monoopolistic control “has conducted its business under the | conditions of free and active competition,” W. C. Teagle, | President cf the company, declarcd injthat the Standard Ol company of & statement 1jr shbmiesion to the |New Jersey is not a party to any ‘senate manufactures committee today /combination, agreement or arrange: | on resumption of its investigation of|ment to fix or maintain the selling | the qn industry loricka of fa ‘products | Going exhausively {nto conditions Mr, Teale sa!d he wanted to “pro- J which have arisen in the industry | tog: agains: the’ characterization of this company as one of the “Standard | ‘Ol group as if the old association of Standard Oil companies cxisted today as if this compeny constituted a part of any group of companies subject to jcommon control." | Discussing competitive conditions |in the industry today, Mr, Teagte stated that the “stragetic location” sn respect to transportation facilities which every Sandard Oj plant was given in the economic dev+Lspmeit of the orlginal company was now “the barrier to general competition among the separated units.” ; Geographical considerations, «he said, “limited the extent” to which the New. Jersey, company may, com- pete with fts former subsidiaries. The competition open to this company, with its “former subsidiaries; Mr. Teage < wus limited by the factor of transportation to three compantes— the Satndard Oi] company of ew York, the Atlantic Refining compauy, and the Standard Ol Company of Kentucky. In yegard to prices on refined prod ucts, Mr, Teagle said that the domi- ticular relation to the New Jersey! company, Mr. Teagle declared his ‘company had obéerved the décree “in | “I want to say with alj en:phaain The Casper Tribune Two editions dafty; largest cmcuta- PROBE NEXT GOVERNOR SPENT NOTHING T GARFARE ON LATE ELECTION John W. Hay Puts Cost of Defeat at $1,000; Other Candidates State List Expenses. in CHEYENNE, Wyo., Dec. 14.— (Special to The Trib. une.)——-William B. Ross, suc. cessful Democratic candidate fro governor in the recent Wyoming election, spent noth. ing off bis campaign expept traveliz.g he his report of campaign expenditures filed with the secretary of state. John W. Hay, defeated Republi candidate, states. in his report that he contributed $1,000 to the Repub can state comm'‘ttees No other ex- penditures are listed, but the repo} of P. C. Spencer, Republican sate chajrman, relates that Mrs. Hay gavo the committee $1,500, and that Harry R. Weston, who is associated with Hay In the banking busines®, con. tributed 92,500. The report of ‘fobn B. R<sxdrick, successful Demorratic cand'date for the Untted States senate, #ets expend. itures of $1,418, 50, of whieh 1,250 was given to the Demoeratic state committee and $168.60 was: expended for halftone cuts. ‘The report of Wrank W. Mondell, defeated Republi. expenses, states in nant factor in the doiestic market. ing situation was the shipments of refiners in the mid-continent produc- ing field—Oxlmhoma, Kansas and Texas, ‘Titis preduction, he said, con- stituted an “enormous floating sup- ply,” which was not tled to any mar-, ket but shipped to territories where focal prices would yield the best re- turn. “It qwas this competition, he j added, with which eyery one engaged im marketing line must reckon= “Our domestic marketing at all) .points. is. qonducted under condition: of tho: keqnest competition locally."’} Mr. Teagle said, “as in addition to) the large number of jobbers drawing their supp’les“from tinte to time from the cheapewt source. the Guif, Texas und other large companies maintain and operate extensive marketing and distributing, facilities in the states in} which we sre operating. Mr. ‘Teagle stated that in these states of n: total of 4,810 marketing and distributing stations, his com-/ paid circulation—by latest wire news, market reports Your advertisement in the Sat- Try it-and see. zines. The dead and many of the injured were had?y scalded. Passenger’ Con- ductcr Kempsey | f.Houston , was among the first identified. MAN BEATEN WITH WRENCH HAILS FROM BROOKLYN N.Y. Cemetery Lot Ordered Sold For Alimony LOS AN arles Mannell married, he bought ace for two in a cem: fide, intending that he and his wife when they had Cc st cuid rest Journeyed ‘Today perior court he there to to ADELPHIA, Dec. 14.— _ spects. Never before was here such of persons, representing | ® throng. tn the modest neighbor. acy fe, aia | 2004 in South Philedelphia where ihe iat Be Seca ioe aid | the church is situated oday “at the bier of John Many celebrated persons, includ- aker whose body lay in state | ing high repreacntatives of the offi- from 9 o'clock until noon in Beth: any Presbyterian church, where the merchant had worshipped cial ife of the na’ officiate as honor: to attend the fu The and at joa, Were here to pallbearers or al services thi the namaker yoyhood and where he was a ar figure in the Sunday school the und other religious work. in the ce ry of St Iine of persons formed Less were private, In adjacent to the vero issued commensu: ng turns to pay their 1 seating of ! , Dec. the was directed by the su- lots and instinctively to the United States for|*clear up his arrears of allmony to his wife, Hi sell 14.—When etery, side by end “together. the rel Mannell. You wouldn't want to be buried side by side now anyway,” the court id yesterday. WANAMAKER iS BURIED THOUSANDS PAY TRIBUTE church which is estimated at slight- ly in-exceas of 2,000. Simplicity marked the last rites for the merchant prince, Three hymns that were his life Jong favorites were his musical requiem. They are ‘Jesus, Saviour, Pilot Me," “Jesus Lover of My Soul, and “Nearer My God to Thee.”* firet named sung by the girls’ quartette’ of Bethany thany choir the B The services w the Rev. A sisted by the Rev ° ofdon Mag! E the others by Rite | ‘Father Is D Store, Gregory~ “Blackie” W. |of the man who was beaten a) iamond Cutter in Tiffany Peterson, Alias illiams, says From the lap of respectability in the. staid-old city of) Chiet Justicd Tatt, has ‘Brooklyn to a cot in-a hospital in Casper with his head bat-|new record for expedition in render- |tered in-as the result of a brawl on the Sandbar, is the fate) Imost to death with a monkey i wrench early Wednesday morning. a mistake in identity, and who fs the yictim_ cf a gang assault, admitted |whobds: attending him, that his right his home is in the “metropolia at the’ east end of the famous — Brooklyn bridge. Hie father, he says. is Charles Peterson, close to 60 years old, @ re- ‘Tiffany a diamond cutter in. the jewelry store in Brooklyn. According to Peterson's ‘story,’ he jcame to"Casper only a short time ago jand. was known by the “Sandbar coterle as “Kansas City Blackie. had been sojourning in.a boxcar north jot the Burlington tracks until Satur- laay night, when he changed his resl- dence'to a hut on the Sandbar. Peter- son also admitted that for some time he had beer traveling under the nome, laepiume of Hayden. Peterson appeared considerably im- proved this morning, according to Dr, Hansard. Although bjs. ‘brain “has ltlon of his skull jarred loose, he has; recovered from the paralysis which The |nffected the left side of his body and) fs alde to move his leg and crm freely. {It meningitis does not set in with: |the next few days the doctor believes” that he has a fair euance to recover. ‘The adiiity of the man to stand sdch a vicious beating with: } with “2} this morning to Dr. J. R. Hansard. ; name ts Gregory Pettgson. and that) 3 He’ been crushed in two places and a por} The man who has been called “Blackie”? Williams, through heavy iron wrench, according to Dr.) Hansard, js that he was full of when “he was attacked and quently did not suffer the shock to bis nervous system which ordinarily accompantes such cas: | Until this “morning Peterson had ‘been mistaken for Blackie Williams, a notorious character of the Sandbar. Vaquor ‘pected citizen of the community and|It- has developed” that )Williams left here some time for his) former haunts in’ Miles City, Mont., and has |not Feturnéd. Williams was in ‘trouble |with the authorities early last sum- mer when he was arrested in connec: tion with the operation of a still near ithe Brooks ranch souheast of the city. At the same time the sheriff's office {picked up “Cactus Kate," a’ well known character of the Sandbar and ja forfher resident of Miles City. Wil- of the sheriff’ nimost ‘all summer, |where “Cactus Kate” plied on her ia- jdividuatity by refusing to wear any- ithing’ but overalls: during the term of ther Incarceration. © Walter Withers, the man who was shot through the stomach in the same fracas, ‘is getting along nicely and as his wound is 2 clesn one, he is ex- 'hected to recover. M. -W: Purcell ne is withhold gutcome of Pe (Continued on Pag action pending the rson’s case.” If ‘our.) conse: | prosecuting attor-| the! pany maintained only 776 or 16.1 per) cent, which it supplied, however, he said, a little more than a third of the total consumption in thé ares. Turning to profits of the New Jer- sey company, Mr. Teagle testiifed that its earning#, including those of sub- sidfary gompanies, during the ye: 1920 and’ 921 and the first. six months of the present year were at| the rate of 9.6 per.cent per annum on/ “net assets'’ and aggregated $213,- 720,213. ‘The dividend return to stockholders. the committee was told, has net changed since the dissclution and. tk=| business simce then has paid them an average of 4.4 per cent per annum on} the net assets. In the two and one- half years ‘ended last June 30, Mr. Teagle said, common dividends aggre gating $49,274,812.50, or an_ average of 2,83 per‘ cent per annum on neét assets over ithis period, were paid. Net earnings of the company. and affiliated organizations for 1920 and 1923, and the estfmated earnings for} the first six months of 1922 were grouped by Mr. Teagle as fol'ow: From foreign business $87,819,585; from collateral business $72,470,149 and from dctmestic of] $53,930,479, “The Standard Ol! company of New Jersey, Mr‘ Teagle continued, “has earned during the two and ‘one-half Fears ended June 3, 1922, a total of HIGH COURT | HITS RECORD | | WASHINGTON, 14.—The su- leadership of established a Dec. | preme court, under the ing opin‘ons and otherwise disposing jot cases. When it took a recess last | Monday it had at the present term | disposed of 243 cases, compared with 192 disposed of during the correspond- | ing period last year. This speeding up was in the face of the total incapucttation of Justice jPitney who had been in previous years one of the most active members of the court in the preparation of opinions, and the resignations of Jus- tices Day and Clark, who had estab- | state auditor, $530; Fred H. Bluime, | Keoughan, | 901 | $2500; can candidate for the United States sénato, has not been filed. Campaign expenditures I’ated with the secretary of state include the fol- lowing: Charles E. Wintet, suncess- ful Republican candidate for congress, $1,500; V. J. Tidball, defeated candi: date for associate justice of the atate supreme court, $544.39; Ed P. Taylor, defeated. Democratic candidate. for secretary of state, $55.06; John M. Snyder, successful Republican cand\- date for state treasurer, $517\60; Frank -F. Lucas, syecessto! Repybi can candidate for secretary of aoe $647.50; Mrs. Katherine A. Morton successful Republican candidate for state superintendent of public instruc- tion, $5.25; G. H. Little, defeated Dem- ceratic candidate for state auditor, $31; Mrs. Cee'lia H. Hendricks, defeat. ed Demperatic. candidate for state superintendent of public instruction. $50; H. V. 8. Groesbeck, defeited can didate for associate justice of the state supreme court, $55; Vincent Carter, suceeseful- Republican candidate for suecéssful candidate for assoc’ate justice of the state supreine court, $1,346.58. Larger donations Usted by the re- rt of the Democratic state chair man fnelude the following: John P Kendrick, $1,150; Edward L. Burke, J. Quealy. $978; x $500; A. E. De Riequies and T. W. Tomitlson, officers of tha American National Live Stack associ- ation, $300 and™$50, respectively The larger contributions listed b: the chairman ofthe Rapy>i2n state c.mmittee — include followin, eorge 1, Br-mmer, “\. and J. M. Snyder, 2 3ohn W. Hay, $1,500; Mrs. Kathe! A. Mortou, $500. Vi Charles ¥. "V'nter. $1,540; Republican ecngraéslonal committer, $5.400; H. P- Hynds and F. BE. Wa-rex. $500 ear arbon Co-mity Republican club, $2. Big ‘orn County Mepulidican “cmumittee, Fremor: County Re publican cs.rmittee, $735: W. FR. Cos, H. 0, Barbee, $500! “Hot Springs Repriilcan committee; $1.- 160; John W, Hay, $1010; H.R. Wes ton, $2,200; Republic ator:al mmittee, $2000; Poter lool, G. rpel, Heiry Syley, John Wittiams. If. MeVickas, Hugh L. Patton, Carl Jackson and T. K. Bis $500 cacl $1,100; P. Ine lished high ecdrds for the number of op'nions written: $52,930,479 from its domestic oli busi-! (Continued’ from Page Four.) Aibert D. Watton, $70 A. Ande! Ron, $1,000. A MEXICO CITY, Dec. 14.—(@y The {Associated Press.}—A resolution pro- (testing againat the exclusion of Mex- feo from the Central American con- j ference at Washington and declaring Mexico's opposition to the ‘establisti- ment of United States naval bases on any Latin-American coast, was with- held from the chamber of deputies liast night through the intervention of | the Cooperistas “party leader. The latter induced the farmers of the reso- | lution, wh@ fort: a considerable gr- In’ the chamber, to postpone their a tion for a few days. As originally framed the resoluton points out that Mexico was in reality the moving spirit in the conference of 1906 which “culminated in the treaty of 1907, to which “Guatemala, N'car- agua, San Salvador, Costa Rica and Honduras were signatories. In view lof this fact the protesting deputies assert that Mexico as “the neighbor and brother of all the’ Central Ameri- can republics is vitally interested~in all questioris affecting their welfare” and should be included in eny gress in> wh these nations pate. con par. MEX PROTEST EXCLUSION RESOLUTION iS PENDING. isms (and “Cactus Kate’ were guests| Protest js also made aga’st “change to Mexican independence in. the es }tablishments by ‘the Untted States of naval bases on Littin:American onasts the creation of financial ‘guard’: ships, the maintenance of armed fo’ e’en forces in the Latin-American r: publics and in general, diplomatt finan’ cat or “militiery in| vention by the United: States any Tatin country wh'ch hag «is its. ob- Ject the extension of Ncith Ameri impei M of which is not beinz hington confer-