Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 6, 1923, Page 1

ww Weather Forecast Generally fair tonight and Sunday: ‘warmer tonight in east, strong wind: in southeast portions. - ORTURE OF MURDER VICTIMS TESTIFIED BY DOCTORS aint) TURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1923. FFE IN AIL RE EHS HN ee SAE GA apes os Gs STANDARD-GULF OIL HOOVER REJECTS} P* ® INTERIOR POST TENDERED TODAY Ambition Is to Build Up Commerce Department, Secretary Says. WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.—Pres- ident, Harding today tendered Secretary of Commerce Hoover the place as secretary of the interior which Albert B. Fall will vacate on March 4, but after a eonference it was decided that Mr. Hoover would retain his present position. The president was said to have galled Secretary Hoover's attention to the fact that in point of seniority, that the interior department renks above the commerce department. Secretary Hoover, however, recalled that on en- tering the administration, he had de- 4 it his ambition to “make a real department” out of the commerce organization. To this purpose he told the president he intended to adhere. Snow, Colder Weather, Is -- In Prospec WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.—Weather outlook for the week beginning Monday: Northern Rocky mountain and Plateau regions: Local snows, nor- mal temperature, except much colder middle of the week. Southern Rocky mountain and plateau regions: Generally fair, normal temperature. Pacific state: Frequent rains, except generally fair in southern California. Temperature near or g@bove normal, RECEIVER FOR PROPERTY OF POWER FIRM CHEYENNE, Wyo., Jan. 6.—(Spe- fal to The Tribune.)—Judge Kennedy of the federal court for Wyoming late Friday appointed Thomas Hunter re- ceiver of a portion of the property of the Big Horn Power company, ovfning the Boysen dam in the. Big fiver, one of Wyoming's hydro-electric plant. John T. Clark of Mew York, a stockholder, ts seexing a receivership for the entire property. Opposing counsel contend that the Boysen dam, altho an improvement on realty, is personal property inasmuch as it ts in the bed of the Big Wind river, which is public land Eveiyn Nesbit largest Critically IU ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Jan. 6.— Evelyn Nesbit, former, wife of Harry K. Thaw, who in 1906 shot and killed Stanford White on the roof of Madi- won Square Garden, is in a private hospital “here, critically {11 with in- finenza, She was removed to th hospital Thursday suffering from Bevere cold contracted while attend- ing to her duties as manager of 2 board walk cabaret New Year's o and the following night. Her phyal-| clan sald her condition was so serious that no visitors, except her 12-year- old son, Russell Thaw, were allowed Horn | | 000,000; for property, |must not be allowed to to visit her. M. McKoin Laatest picture of the forme may- or of Mer Rouge, who arrived in| >y W. 1. Mellon, president. Louisiana to testify in- quiry into terriorism, kd Company Owning Great Refineries Here Said to Have Entered Giant Combine but ‘Confirmation Is Not Obtained CHICAGO, Jan. 6.—(By The Associated Press.) —W. M. Bur- ton, president of the Standard Oil company of Indiana, today refused either to affirm or deny reports circulated here today that a merger of his company with the Gulf Oil corporation, one of the richest petroleum-companies in the country, had been effected. Statements of either character, he stated, must come from Colonel Robert W. Stewart, chairman| The stumbling block at that. time of the board of directors who ts on| was declared to be the capitalization a trip-in eastern cities, of the two companies, With the re- . G. Boubert, secretary-treamurer,| cent increase of the Standard Oll from denied all knowledge of the reported, 140,000,000 to $260,000,000 nt $28 par transaction but admitted that such | Value a share and the recent increase negotiations might have been under, in the Gulf's capitalization, these consideration by Colonel Stewart. Poaaneer ae, ry aoe Lend Daved 2 _| the way for the amalagamation. Poeraienraces erreposed mer | While no official confirmation of the business deals cn. record, carrying Proposed merger haa been made, the ‘with it the amalgamation of two com:/ Conahiy would be arranged through Danies having a combined capitalize: / a1 exchange of stock, Standard Oil Bom sot. 39 T.000/000. giving four shares of its stock for three shares of the Gulf Ol 000,000 to $125,000,000 and reduced the par value from $100 to $25 a share. Twelve new shares were traded for each share of old. Net earnirigs of the corporation from 1916 to 1921 have ranged from $23,000,000 to $51,000,000 annually. The year just closed is sa'd to have beon the most profitable in the com- pany’s history. Earnings for the firat nine months have been estimated at $8.50 for each $25 share. Rumors which started more than a : IN.— Maude Gonne Mo- year ago have previously been denied) jpride, one of the leading women re- jecre- | publicans in Ireland, was repcrted arrested in Dublin. ewshatals dR ode SUMMARY OF ‘NIGHT NEWS tary of the Treasury Mellon's family control the company. SOFIA, Bulgarla.—An explosion of old shells killed 12 persons and injured. forty. _ HIGHWAY BOARD Depattment Needs Outlined in Report of State Commission Call Attention'to ~ Revenue Requirements CHEYENNE, Wyo., Jan. 5.—(Special to The Tribune.) —Wyo- 600,000 a year for the mainte- nance and construction of roads, according to the third biennial report of the-State Highway commission. To raise this sum State Highway Superintendent L. E. Laird recommends that the next legislature provide for a tax of 2 cents a gallon on all gasloine sold ming should provide at least $1 in the state, a tax of one mill on all property in the state, the application of al! automob le: license fees above $250,000 to maintenance of highways, and an immediate appropriation of $300,000 for the highway department. “The question of funds to finance the future work of the. department already has been presented. to the governor through the budget report,” says the commission's report, which ists the highway department's an- nual needs as follows: For mainten- ance, $450,000; for construction. $1,,- $150,000. ‘The report continues. The request for maintenance funds is based upon the minimum amount which will adequately maintain: the mileage of constructed projects, which deteriorate and which must be properly maintain- ed or lose the federal ald funds avali- able for further construction, and to maintain the sections of connect- Ing highways between constructed projects. “The reguest for construction funds ‘s based upon the amount neces- sary to carry on construction at a proximately the same rate as during the past two years, to meet federal ald funds avaflable and to permit the Present organization to continue in approximtately its present form of op- eration. The department organiza- tion as now constituted is operating suceessfully and economically and any mater‘al reduction in funds avail. ablé or requested would require a com- plete re-organization with a resulting decided increase in overhead expense. “It is highly desirable that the de- partment be placed on a permanent fi- PERISH IN WRECK AT SEA VICTORIA, B. C., Jan, 6.——Paraly- sis of telegraph service on the west coast of Vancouver! island was D’amed by shipping men here, today for fatalities, believed to number 13, from wrecking of the steamer Alas- kan near Pachena Point. Seach tn the Bush inland from where th Alaskan went upon the rocks failed to find any of. her men whose fate remains uncertain Copt for three bodies washed ashore. Arthur Gordon, keeper of the light at Pachens Point, reported Thursday as soon as he could estab- Ush wire communication with the ‘dominion department of marine that Tuesday evening he had seen distress fares. Twenty mites from ‘Gordon was the Bamfield life sav- ing station but he was unable to send any work to them, having no- body to dispatch over the tangled tral, e DUBLIN.—A writer in Freeman's Journal: proposed the republicans store ther arms and ammunAlon in three depots under a mixed guard of Free State men and republicans during a general truce while peace was negotiated. _ LAUBANNE.—The so-called irreg- ular Egyptian delegation sent a note to the Near Eastern conference demanding the complete withdrawal of British troops from Egypt. ‘ ROCKLAND, Me.—George War- fen Smith, who died recently, dis- Posed of an estate estimated at be- tween $50,000,000 and $100,000,000 in a will containing less than’ fifty words. NEW YORK. — Emile Coue, French physiologist, said he doesn’t say the phrase he coined “day by day in every way, I am getting better and better.” nancial basis at the Mext session of the leg’slature in order that the per- sonnel of the department may ‘feel! that this fs a “go’ng concern” and) that changes will not have to bo! made due to Inck of funds but on!y/ to secure greater efficiency. It Is WASHINGTON.—The director of the bureau of foreign and domestic New officers were elected at the meeting of the Casper Trades and Labor assembly held in the Labor temple last night. Alexander Ham. llton, representative of the, Cooks and) Waiters’ uriion,. No. 842, was put in the president’al chair for 1923. Others. officers ¢leeted= were LECION. Plain Speaking at A speaking which developed at the administration. important for the further reason that| commerce reported exports for 1922 | during the last, year by Harry L. construction work should be planned] Will probably show an increase of | Black. | some time in advance, due to the| ®Pproximately $400,000,000 over | Dissatisfaction with the recent! amount of time required to comp’ 1921. change of administration..was ex- surveys, prepare proper plans and specifications, allow the federal engl- neers to make thelr inspection and| radio communication between the review the plans and specifications.| United States and China was re- and allow ample time for advertising| ported established. Stations have the work and securing bids. been located at Hillsboro, Oregon, “The following financial program is| #24 Shanghai. je tan a ea i Es therefore, submitted for recommenda- DYNAMITE TO SAN FRANCISCO, — Commercial tion to the logisiature: “(1) License fees on motor ye hicle passenger cars to be fixed as follows: “On cars weighing 2,000 pounds or less; $10.00; on cars weighing 2,000 uinds to 2,400 pounds, $12.00; on “ Same shop rietcns roee KELSO, Wash., Jan. 6,—Dynamite pounds, $13.00; on cars weighing 2,.| Will be used in an effort to raise to ds yountdto 2400 pounaan shar iee uurface of the Cowlitz river bodies cars weighing 2.800 pounds to 3,000] f Victims of the collapse of the old pounds, $15; on cars weighing 8,000 8uspension bridge which crashed Wed- pounds to 3400 pounds to 4,000 | Reday evening, accérding to plans an- Pounds, $20; on ears weighing 4.000 | Nounced today by the searchers. pounds to 6,000 pounds, $25: on cara| Th® missing list was further re- eliing ovr! 6,006 potitidey.$20, duced early today by the fidink alive “(@) ‘That fection 5. Chay ree 69, | Of Leslie Seimer of. Davenport, Wash. Seesion Lawn 1921, be amended to] He Was ilooated by American eS 2 , investigators, This balanced the Capo buena beynyytin baer addition of another name to the mins 4 “ «| ing Met last night and left the total eee a Um be held, by the star | unaccounted for earls today at twen- rhe babies paving. the state, high, |: Theliat of known dead stood at way bonds, and that all {® excess of |‘? pressed by some of the officers of 1922, while thone who were in support ot the new officers used their. elo- quence in criticizing the Inefficlency of the career of the Legion in the | past. ! No personal bitterness was mant- fested, each speaker claiming to repre: sent on'y his ideas of what was th best policy for the local Legion to| follow. Whether another post of the American Legion will be organized in| this city 1s as yet a mooted question. | None of the reactionary members who | stated any intention of starting such a post, but some of them said plainly that they would join it {f it were organized, Judge C. E, Winter was the honored nd delivered the ideals of the American Legion. Harry L. Black, post commander for 1922, threw the first ‘bomb into the air that burst with astonishing sharpness before his audience, when| he announced that the result of the, election had been to him like a per-! \sonal “slap in the face. intimating jthat it had been a repudiation of hin administration * Captain Black stated that he was Highway fund, to be expended by the State Highway commission for the maintenance of highways. ‘(3) ‘That there be levied and col- lected a tax of two cents per gallon on all gasoline sold or consumed for the operation of motor vehicles in the state, such funds to be credited to the to the state highway fund for a main tenance, $250,000 be credited to the State ROSEWOOD, Fila., Jan. 6.—With @ large posse pressing on what is "(@) That there be levied annually a tax of one mill on all the assessabie| Pelleved to be the trail of Jesse property of the state, to be credite1| Hunter, negro, wanted for an attack RAILED, | TOWN IS QUIET saulted woman, to bury the bodies ALEXANDER HAMILTON TO ' HEAD TRADES ASSEMBLY j the filled with the MERGER NOT DENIED as follows: ‘Vice president, recording secretary, fmancial secretary, C. Howard; sergeant at arms, Thomas Freshney; trustees, C..S. Thompson, CeShelvick, and J. 8, Hey. ‘Various things of importance to the focals came up for dscussion. NEW POST FOR iS HELD POSSIBLE HERE nnual Banquet Last Night, However, May Bring. About Harmony Among Old Members A split in the American Legion ranks of Casper which may re- sult in the organization of a new post is imminent if the plain annual dinner of .the. George Vroman post last night holds prophecy of reaction against the new The function marked the installation of officers, iC: H. Reimerth succeeding to post commander, a position held dissatisfied with the support which had been accordef him throughout the year from members and that he and his fellow officers had ~been- handi- capped in their work through this lack of support. He said that at the beginning of last year Vroman post had been of Wyoming” and that during the course of events and by dint of much ffort it had improved its, tone be- fore the public of ,Casper. The former» commander spoke of the movement to organize a new post and said that he believed there was addressed their comrades last night/Toom in Casper for two posts and} ® resi that. he would make application to become a member ff it were organized. C. H. Reimerth, the newly elected commander, justified his election and denied that it was any repudiation of previous administration. He! brought out that it was merely the placing in office of a man who had as yet no organized, enemies and who could for that reason consolidate the different factions and work in har- mony with them for the betterment of the organization. Having been charged with the lack! past! not! of active support during the year, he replied that he had volunteered his services although he had always willingly responded when! called upon for work because he had not believed in the policy which the officers were following. Mr. Relmerth said that the Amer- fean Legion in Caaper would haye to get over the continual recélving of benefits from the public and would haye to start giving something in return, That the overhead had been too great during 1922 and that the tme of the executive necretary for Hearing at Bastrop Is Continued With Doctors’ Reports on Death Method BASTROP, La., Jan. 6.—Dr. Charles W. Duval and Dr. John A. Langford, pathologists, in a report submitted at today's ses- sion of the open hearing of masked band depredations in Morehouse parish expressed the opin. ton that the bodies of Watt Daniels and Thomas F. Richards were sub- Jected to some “specially constructed device designed for inflicting punis! ment.” yi BASTROP, La.,. Jan. 6.—Investiga tion into masked band operations in Morehouse parish and the slaying ot Watt Daniels and Thomas F. Rich. ards went into the second day with the testimony of several witnesses re cording identification of the decapl- tated bodies found in Lake La Fourche, two weeks ago am those oi Daniels’and Richards and reports ot the pathologists who examined the bedies awaited to establish the man- ner of death and complete the founda- tion of the inquiry. Dr. Charles Duvalle and Dr. John Lanford, New Orleans pathologists, Were expected to testify today. No official announcement has been made to the findings of the two physicians, but unofficial reports indicated that examination of the bodies showed mutiliations. Precautionary measures were taken again today to preclude the possibility of any disorder during the hearing, Sheriff's deputies stood guard at. the entrance to tho court, searching spec- tatora as they entered for firearms. J. L. Daniels, father of Watt Dan fels, yesterday {identified articles of clothing and a watch found on one of the bodfes as those worn by bis son when he was kidnaped. MONROE, La. Jan. 6— B. M, McKoin, former, Mer Rouge mayor, who returned to Monroe ‘from.Balt{- moré today. »At Bastrop last night he mage bond for $5,000 with. the under- stahding he would remain within the Jurisdiction of the court while his case was pending. ‘The original mur- @er charge against the physician re- mained effective. Dr. McKoin is no longer accom- by representatives of the state, but has personal friends with him at all times in the’ belle that threats which he declares have been Dr. “Elusive’’ Lad Escapes Jail At Tulsa, Okla. LONG BEACH, Cal., ‘William Richards, 13 Jan. 6.— yéars old, wanted by his parents in Tulsa, Okla., from, whose home he was said to ha’ into custody here yesterday by the police and put in the city jail for safe keeping. His mother was not!- fied and she telegraphed . back, “look out for Willie; he is elusive and needs constant watching An hour after the telegram was received Willie was missing. He had eluded the jailers and the ma- tron of the women’s ward and rush- ed into the matron’s quarters, on the second floor, unhooked a screen and escaped through a window, Then he reached the ground by way of the roof of the identification bu- reau. Officers finally found him two miles away, playing in the yard of mee and locked him in a cell, pending the arrival of his mother. pk ede oa cca Crissinger to Head Federal Reserve Board WASHINGTON, Jan. 6—D. 2. Crinsinger, the present coniptroller of the currency will be nominated as Bovernor of the federal reserve bonrd within a few days, according to in formation in high administration cir cles today. Mr. Crissinger will suc ceed to the place made vacant by re- tirement of former Governor W. P. G | Harding. FINAL DITION NUMBER 76. NEW TRIAL FOR HENRY JOHNSON. AUTHORIZED May Go Free After Sery- ing Two Years for Wales Murder. CHEYENNE, Wyo., Jan. 6.—Henry Johnson, who has served two years in the Wyoming penitentiary for the murder of Nancy Wales, eccentric ranch-woman of the Splitrock section of Fremont, conty, may go free as the result of the action of the su- Preme court in order that he be given . new trial. Rather than-go to the expense of the second trial, and be- cause of features of the case that wve arisen since Johnson was con- pted and sentenced to life imprison- ment, it is helleved that Fremont county Will nolle the case against him. Mra, Wales was shot from ambush August 21, 1920, while she was sery- ng supper her: home. A bullet tired from a point some distance out- side the housé went through a win: low and shattered her thigh. She led several days Inter at a Lander hospital, Johnson and Charles and Robert Coleman were arrested. Johnson was tried first and convicted. © Charles Coleman then was tried and acquitted, whereupon the case against Robert Coleman was dismissed. It is contended by counsel and friends of Johnson that if he were guilty, then the Colemans were guilty; that if the Colemans were innocent, then Johnson was innocent, the evi- dence against all three being ident!- cal. The imprisonment of Johnson, therefore, they contend, has been an Injustice. The supreme court © ordered re trial of the Johnson case on the ground that the evidence at his trial purely circumstantial, failed to con- nect him directly with the homicide. Governor Carey about a year ago declined to pardon Johnson, contend. ing that the matter was one for court action, not for executive interference. At that time there were laid before the chief’ executive certain allegations in the case of an unprintable descrip- tion. a EES COAL MEETING : BREAKS UP IN | FAILURE, SAID CHICAGO, Jan. 6.—(By The. Aaso- ciated Press.)—The joint conference of bituminous coal operators and repre- sentatives of the union miners of the nation broke up late Friday in failure. A telegram informing John Hays Hammond, chairman of Presi- dent Harding's fact finding coal com mission, of the situation was dis- patched to Washington. The telegram was said to have stated that the operators had done everything in their power to reach an agreement with the mine workers’ leaders but that all efforts had ended in’ disagreement. t Phil H. Penna, Terre Haute, In operator, and chairman of the con: ference, that a strike next April 1 was improbable, WIDOW’S BOND CUT TO $5,000 SAN AUGUSTINE, Texas., Jan. 6, —Permanent bond of $6,000, pending the meeting of the grand fury in March, agreed upon today for Mrs. Lillian Knox, pretty 38-year old widow of Hiram Knox, miliionatre lumber- man, whom she is charged with sla ing. The fixing of the bond ends the habeas corpus hearing before Judge H, V. Stark in‘ the first district eourt here. NORTHCLIFFE ESTATE LARGE. LONDON, Jan. 6.—The Daily, Ex- press understands that the estate of the late Lord theliffe is valued at 5,500,000 pounds sterling TRAIN DITCHED, | t Sumner, the home of the alleged as- | that reason had been taken up in the! NO oO N le, I iN J U ie E D ! | of the two white men, 0. P. Wilker- son, & merchant, and Henry An- drews, mil superintendent, slain to the. stae h'ghway fund for con-| on s young white woman, the racial | Thursday night in the clash be- srucion nd minennce. situation here was reported quiet | tween negroes barricaded in the “@) That Section 4, Chapter 51 | during last night and early today. | house of Sylvester Carrier and a Session Laws, 1921. be amended ty| Sheriff Elina . in reporting | posse of white men who attempted provide that distribution, of the gov-| to rnor Hardee at Tallahassee.| to search the house for Hunter ernment oll royalty fund aball be} last night said he feaed no further The four white men wounded dur- made by the state treasurer within 20] disorder, at least for tho time being! | ing the fighting are reported to be (Continugd-on Page-Two.) Preparations were made today: at | resting easity, lobtaining of money for meeting t instead of in serving the ex-servic: man jn more necessary ways was one of the points of the speaker. The Legion should take an interest PONCA CITY, Okla, Jan. 6— South bound Santa. Fe passenger train No. 11, Kansas Cit yto Gal- jin and should further other civie in- terests, according to Mr. Retmerth Among the things which he outline an ble outjets within the org zation for a ty during 1923 he placed a per ent home program, a i Continued on Page Two) Yeston, wax derailed four miles | north of Orlando, Okla., at 7 o'clock th’s morning No one v injured serious'y. All but one car left the tracks but remained upright. . The * eugine tender was damaged and the | markable that no one was killed, track for m quarter of a mile was torn up. The cause of the accident hax not been ascertained. Arrangements nearby farm house to care for the women and children until another in can be operated. veral of the cars were sn railroad sald ic were shed Was re made at a, .