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

Pe y. NG Read the Full Page Review of 1922 in the Sunday Che Casper Daily Tribune | synpa VOLUME VII. EIGHT Many Courthouse Changes Are A. HOUAN, EARLY | PIONEER, DIES KT HOME HERE Resident of County for 40 Years to Be Laid at Rest Sunday. Raymond Rouan, years oid, a Natrona county pioneer, died at his home here Fritsy afternoon at 5:50 @eclock of cance of the stomach, from. which he “sad been a suffercy for mnay years Mr, Rovan wa: a native of France f@nd came to the ‘Inited Siaiss almost forty years aro, and had been a res!- dent of “Natrona county since that time. For a time he was engaged in the sheep business, and afterward be- came interested in Casper real es- tate, owning valuable business prop- ertiox in Casper real estate, owning valuable business properties in the downtown section of the city. At the time of bis ath he was living a retired. life. Mr. Rovian ts survived by one son, Edward F. Rouan of Casper, five daughters, Mrs. Mary Ellzabeth ‘Wiheeler, Miss Katherine M. Rouan, a Natrona High school student. and the Misses Dorothy M. Routn. Ida M. Rouan, and Rose V. Rouan, all « in and around Casper, and one broth: er, Jean Rouan, of Eacourt, Santon a’ Oloren Bosses, Pyrennees, France. Funeral services wil be y:eld at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon from the Shaffer-Gay chapel, the Woodmen of) the World having charge of the POLICEMAN IS SLAIN IN GUN FIGHT CHICAGO CHICAGO, Dec. 80.—A policeman was killed and one of three men, who accosted and fired upon-a party. of high school students slightly wound- ing a girl, was fatally shot here car! today in the ensuing pistol fight with police. ‘Yhe high school students were r turning home from a dance at their school ben the three men set upon them. Cno of the trio was said to have accosted Minnic Finkelstein, 17 the wounded girl, who resented his remarka When the girl remonstrated man’s two. companions joined him and he then was reported to uave be- gun firing. Miss Finkelstein was struck in the hip. Then the trio fied. x William J, O'Malley, probationary policemen, was shot as he gave chase to the men. A companion officer, fir- ing at the running man, succeeded in halting him with a bullet. At the hospital the man said he was John Reeves of Harvey, Ill. He was shot in the chest. Rasves. or Reese, the mame ¢f the fami at the address given by the ywounded man, died in the, hospital. WALL LEAVES , STATE OFFICE CHEYENNE, Wyo., Dec. 30.—At- terney General W. L. Walls, Satur- ! the lagazine Section--You CASPER, WYO., SUNDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1922 Will Want to Save It MAIL NUMBER 71 HAYWOOD GANG PARDONED |New ‘Administration to Be Ushered in } P, Next Week; Many Deputies Already Chosen by New County Officers Today will mark the last day of official] work for a large) part of the couzty officials and employes as the officials elected last November go into office the first of the year. Monday, New Year’s day being a holiday, they will actually take office Tuesday in the great majority of cases. The new board of county commissioners, composed of T. A. Hall, J. E. Scott and Dr. G. T, — Morgan, will hold its first meeting; early next week, the exact day not) having been announced. At this time the appointment of deputies by the! Storm Breaks various county officiats will be taken * up. The appointees have to be con-| Fair Weather Record Here formed by the commissioners The first meeting Is alno expected to result in the customary estimates of county expenses betng drawn up, approprtiations being made for the! operation of county offices for the year and the announcement of the ap- pointment of a superintedent of roads for the county. Sheriff Joe Marquis and his depu- ties will relinquish the office to Perry Morris the early part of next week, the exact date having not been de- termined. Mr. Morris announced this morning the appointment of -Eart Cantiin ao his under-sheriff. Cantlin is a long time resident of Natrona former sheriffs Scheffner and Royce. county and worked as a deputy uder He has lately been employed by the Standard Ofl company of Indiana at its No. 3 plant of the local refinery. The two deputy sheriffs who will work under Sheriff Morris, announced | this morning, are James Hibbard and [W, C. Irving, Hibbard, has been on the pulice fores and a spectal officer }ror the idst few years. Irving has been a claim agent with the Chicago & Northy-estern railroad in Casper. Agnes’ Clere, newly. elected: county treasurer, has announced the appoint- ment of Mary Long us her deputy treasurer. “Miss Long, a former. resi- | dent of Casper, returned Monday morning from Houaton, Tex.,. where she has been employed by a building | and Ioan: association. Previous to-her departure for Texas she was connect- ed with the Citizens’ National bank here. Hazel Conwell, re-elected as clerk of the court, will have as her deputy Alice Mooring who has filled the same position for the last four years. The deputy clerk of the court appointment | does not have to recetve the approval Ten days of unustally warm and fair weather for this seuson of the year in Casper was broken Friday afternoon by. wet snow which promises to bianket the city before morning. The belated storm prog- nost'cates’ a white New Year's to even up*for Christmas, the first in several years here wher the ground has been bare, BANDITS MAKE $20,000 HAUL CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. 30.—| Armed handits today held up the pay- | mastor of the Ferry Cap and Screw company and eseaped with the $20, 000 weekly pafroll. The paymaster, just returned from a bank’ with the money, heavily guarded by an armed escort, was caught off hia-guard: by: the nudden raid. FINANCE i of the county commissioners, the matter being left to Judge C. 0. f extras yesterday to be used as , Brown. = “audience” in the filming of a pr ‘OWN. ay, reelected as county ae} 2UStry Carries Stocks and Bonds to Agere sessor, will have nine deputy asses- 2 In the excitement of the make Higher Levels, Outlook Good 1 seuave creenigite: Geakateteeice as Is Retu jnors during the few weeks in which the actual levying of assessments is |made— The names of these deputies will be presented to the commission- jers by Mr. Jay at a February meet- jing. Stock and bond t prices generally high levels whic. IS OPTIMISTIC Marked Improvement in Business and In-} NEW YORK, Dec, 20.—{By The Asscciated Press.) — is not only a reflection of the marked im- provement that has taken place in business and industry durl ing the last 12 months but also construed by conservative New York banking interests as an indication of still further ) Due Tuesday summary oF | ALL MUST LEAVE niGHT NEWS} AND NEVER =| RETURN, AULING Un Sentence Commutations Authorized Today by President Harding. RAL TIMO! | WASHINGTON sentences of eight | members of the Industrial % Workers the World, con- ni | Victed in the Haywood case of nspiracy and violation of wa v vs, Ww mmuted tayo es and ‘@ com- Aauara, Bourg. 000,000 died WASHINGTON The United nes and othe De Before rourt a bi J Pres'dent Hard they claimed the right ng expects to extend New Year greet ating beverages t the h seas. NEW YORK.—A f : coal mines was made committes of the I Mine Workers of America. FP chase cf al! mines by the t would involve an Imated at $4,500,000,000 —_—— The annual, out! nthe South 000,000 pounds: allzating put t ur goverr me Aiture to HAW PERISHES Free-for-All Is Staged By Mob In Movie WORLD LOS ANGELES, Cal., Dec., 30 = | A motion picture director at Unl- versal City,, near here, hired hired and came to blows. The fight quick- | ad to the cther 798 members “audience” and after the dust settled and a hu edly summoned squadron of police had her th combatants nto the street was spectators forgot themselves LOS ANGELES ly sp of th close the year at materially Angeles county jail for tt found that the arena was wrecked. Snow and Ra LUV J) progress in tie coming year. The year closes with conditions favorable for a further appreciation of commodity and security prices in Forecast For the opinion of the financial communi- The Next Week}\*. Unfavorable and unexpected de- ¥elopments in the political and econ- omic aituation abroad are’ generally ccnsidered as the only problem ob- stecles to arrest the improvement in the business and financial world WASHINGTON, Dec. 30. Weather outlook for the week be- sinning Monday: Upper Mississipp! and lower Mis- REVIEW OF YEAR: NEW SERIAL THE SUNDAY TRISY taken into custody ab:.ut two we Mrs. Phillipa. Mrs. Buxton was a prisoner {n county jail during much of the t Mrs. Phillips was there but was AND MANY OTHER FEATURES IN NE TOMORROW |near here, Thursday afternoon, 0! mer murder Des. said they belie friendly while fellow prisoners. PEGGY BUXTON HELD ON COAST Former Cdguad Wikates Je Suspected of SPEED RECORD Partin Escape of Hammer Slayer and | Cal., Dec. 30.—Sher today were trying to confirm their belief that h Buxton, formerly of Casper, Wyo., and December 5 of Mrs. Clara Phillips, was an-acquaintance, if not a friend, o ceks ~ fo at Casper, on suspicion of being | [leased » few days tbrfore the “ham Offic od the women became Mrs Buxton was arrested at Long Beach, IN OKLA. FIRE | ARDMORE, Okla... I 30. — Jaged man believed ot, be A of Foc ie, Gicle., was burned | death and property estimated at $100,- | 000 was lost in a fire in the business BROKEN AGAIN aoa ff’s deputies early | panos ae firs. Peggy | t detained in the Los} estioning concerning the escape “hammer murderess,”’ f Mrs, Beatrice Craig, rned to Cell asm 30 it e previous re tor miles) n KLAN ORDERS KILLING PROBE NEW The v 308 the} ime re Corporations File Articles in Office Of State Secretary cers ORI Lou: NS, La na rganiza souri valleys: generally fair except | Which began in the summer of 1921) Edward W. Packard, historian | Who” will us be This is the | charge of violating her parole. Ku Klux Kiar pwn] cre rain or snow about middle of week, | 7d has continued, with few tempor! ang journalist of note, has written ond of the Tribune's great ser ort t e divuted' bed i ; Sa Temperature normal or above first | #ry interruptions, untit ths ‘present | So" sntereating review of the big | 10%, of merials, which will tnclude. | rormafion, if any, they have obtained |\yeatigate th : noe ; pPicpetgertoy Sx halt: then Golder. sme. Pie $9 aN | before it is completed, the work of | 1 Yast Capt vj Yoatigate th tock Springs. capital stock $900,000. Neucthem Rocky Mountain and | The prediction of further business bgeaarapaa eg sill appear in | gimost every prominent literary hoes So Neg aa what ee | Watt Dar a8 filed articles of incorporation in plateau regione: generally fair first | prosperity is based on successful well, | “4 Sunday | light in the country. No such series | "00" oy co oained their efforts to|st August fice of the Wyoming secretary, part with: témperature ‘above’ nom fkniwn facts.” Forerdost, among these| TrDune. tomorrow. It. takes up in- | of fiction ‘stories liitoee! Mca. Tustat ‘ahd Mrs. Craig | nounon TE dy Vv: Weck mal and unsettled and colder, prob: |is the easiness of the money market| ternational relations, domestic af. | to newspaper readers, in 7th) ce Weast ‘snaGalhtancea;’ 5 3 r Chambers; John Barts 2s ably occasional snow or rains after |and the huge sums available for com-| fairs, Labor and incustrial condi- | largest cities of the country. Don’t |” x3 ati oy 7 1% O. te Rate eae Tuesday or Wednesday. iieccial’ ereait.” tn adAition, nowt! sions, the great esaniere Of the ‘ova |. 7S Anyone of these stories -_— Pei Is 5 Frank Yates. Pacific states: occasional rains. | stocks of mrchandise are low. railroad! year, sports, and the list of the | The Sunday Tribune will have its } .The s. Buxton reported in the|devele A indivic ual ies 7 re pan Ine, Temperature near normal. traffic is close to record levels, ex-/ prominent men who have died dur- | Usual axy of other unequalled | above dispatch 4 having been a UF Abe Klan itp Moi house parish had | capit 9 s fMed BR ees ss ee perts are increas'ng, the, principal! sng 1922. It is an. authoritative ; feat sport articles by Walter {friend of Mrs. Phillips left Casper for | "0" 7 pth seek a he board of IMPORTS INCREASE. Buropean exchanges are heading back! and vital page of information which | Eckersall, Senborn, and other au- | California lest J She left her hus-|Would be. outlawed an band while there and ran away with a| Would assis obtaint to par and the Buropean economic you can ill afford to be without As | thorities. one of an absorbing series the crimt day submitted his resignation to Go WASHINGTON, Dec. 3).—Canadian ‘ tes yi ie a Eg ee ernor Carey, effective next Moncny.| exports to the United States for Octo {Situation shows sins of improvement.) the new year comes in, it will be | of stories on great old time fight- | sailor from a U, 8. battle ship, accord:|¥¥ Seay He will be. sicceedet-b: David J.| ber, the first complete month in which| exports are increasing and unfilled) wel! to review the things that have | 07. by a man who knew them all, {}ing to a telegram received by the po- te. oi a v's} arters Howell, who will be appointed by|the new tariff law was. effective | orders for railroad equipment are tho} made the o!d year notable. After | financial predictions for the sew | lee here from the fr at Los An | — Governor Ross immediately after the} totalled $32,885,109 compared to $26, | largest in years. Other ‘fayorab’e} you" have read this full page stot... j Feat by Roger W Babson: cartetnk. | geles. Jatter is sworn in at noon Monday. 1 016,476 in October, 1921. signs are scen in the facts that v0] you will want to tear it out and | comic strips, four pages of ceiured | ne telegram also stated that she | big strikes are threatened or pending,| file it away as a reference article. | comics, and all live news of | gerved 30 days for vagrangy in the} a freat amount of construct’on work The concluding installment. of | the dar. Los Angeles jail and that she was re-| js still in atreats despite a record) Robert W. Chambers’ “Little Red The demand for the Sunday Trit: ased December ?. be Woman,was't breaking Year of activity in the build-! Foot” will appear in tomiorrow’s | une is such that on sev nown to have been very | ing industry, while gasoline consump-| paper, and in tho same issue a | sions we have-run short If you | with Clara Phillips and she was sus-/ TURK FORCES | GO TO MOSUL tion has been the highest in history| compelling new mystery serial by | not a subscriber, reserve your copy | pected of having been jast year, 223,000,000 in 1920 and 307,- $00,000 in “the record breaking year, of 1919 when post-war inflation was at its height. Bond sales this year reported the tnprocedented total of approximately $4,155.000,000 us against $3,305,000,000 in 1921, $3,945.- and electric companies are doing a) Harold MacGrath, entitled “Madam at this office now. renord business. i oa $ 50000bebooesees | *% Aho had loitered in the vicinity Sales of stocks during the year PEHISECOSOC SCOTS OPOSS POO VO COO OES | the jail for several days. totaled spproximately 260,000,000 shares as compared with 171,000,000 n Casper, Drawing of $500.00 In merchandise prizes offered by the Casper Daily Tribune ll take place at their office at 9 o’clock Saturday evening, December 30th. Those holding tickets are requested to be present, but her, thinking that Peggy Buxton. ftrent persons. Pe eae BANK RESERVES UP she herself was An investigation dis. closed that the two were entirely dif. e instrumental | In the escape of the latter inasmuch | | When Beatrice Craig was arrested . i the Los Angeles author: | ities asked for information pscaee | WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—(By The Associated Press.) — Benedict Crowell, assistant secretary of war under the Wil- |son administration, and six “dollar-a-year” men associated with the Council of Naticnal Defense were indicted hure to- ATHENS, Dec. 30.—The Turks are sending reinforce- ments in the direction of Mosul, the rich oil district, the own- ership of which is in dispute at the Lausanne conference, ac- cording to advites to the Central News from a reliable source. A divi left Van for Mosul. : Sere at ion of 6,000 Turkish troops, it is stated, has already | |day by the special grand jury involving war frauds on The actual) charges of conspiracy to defraud the government in con- 1| struction of war-time army camps and cantonments. The others indicted are: William A. Sarrett, Merton C. 000,000 in 1920 and $3,775,000,009 tn 1919. The peak of bond prices of the! year was reached in the middle of September and the lowest level carly in case you are unable to attend a list of the winning numbers will. be published in the Sunday Morning Tribune. Winners not present are requested to call Dec clearing hi tor o P2PPOESITISOOSS OSLO ED In January. “ne of the f tes of - anies Kees > caw CaaS a 2 Tr ext Tuesday and receive the t $3 ; ee enbeneet was Wie SeSTe, 25% aA au ane Tete ee: 139 Tattle, Clemens W. Lundoff, Clair Foster, Jolin H: MeGie “Continued on Page Three) ghooegrseSsooresoos soe seser sss oooreee sesso oeooeoee | | bons, James A. Mears. : 4,