Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 16, 1923, Page 1

FSR! OS i ‘ Weather Forecast Generally fair tonight and Wednesday; warmer tonight FINAL in east and south portions. —$_—_________! » VOLUME VI. ba BULLETS SWEEP DUBLIN STREETS AG WAREGUEARS © BATTLE STATERS *! Fighting Breaks Out Sud- 4, % denly Sending Citizens Scurrying to Shelter in Hysterical Panic DUBLIN, Jan. 18—(By The Asso- ciated Press}—Dublin today was _re- covering from the most intense fight- ing ‘within the city sinco the siege of the Four Courts, Irregular forces launched a sudden attack on ‘several strategic points Jast night and al- though driven off by the Free State troops, they continued intermittent fighting until early today. The suddenness with which the fighting broke out threw the city into \& state of excitement bordering on ‘hysteria and for a short time the citizens caught on the streets fled in all directions seeking refuge from the hail of bullets.. Motormen abandoned their trams and passengers Iay on the floors to avold being hit. The heay- fest onslaught of tho trregulara was against the city hall, upon which they concentrated a heavy fire from all aides. One of the sentries was wound- ed.by the first volley and the windows of a passing tram car were shattered. Almost simultaneously fire broke out tn other-parta.of--the-clty and for half an hour’ the tattoo of ma- chine gun and rifle firing and the louder explosions of homby could be heard. Free Staters replied vigorous- ly and in no case did the irregulars succeed in capturing their objectives. The points attacked, besides the city hall, included the Broadstone Railway terminus, the telephone ex- change, Portobello barracks, Collins barracks, Keough barracks, Mount Joy prison, Kings inn, Thompson's garage and the offices of the Free- // man's Journal. A bomb was thrown into the newspaper plant but failed to explode, Early this morning a number of the irregulars were discovered while leav- ing the city. They were hidden in“a lorry where they lay covered with blankets and upon thelr discovery by the vigilant free State troops, opened fire with revolvers, Their driver ac- celerated his speed and the party escaped. aR: SEES 9 12 INJURED IN BIG EXPLOSION CROWLEY, La. Jan. 16.—Twelve persons were reported ‘injured and a number of butldings wrecked at Scott, La., 20 miles from here, last night as & result of an explosion of dynamite. Details are iacking, but according to reports here, 700 pounds of dyna- mite blasted in a garage where it was stored with gasoline, Some one en- % tered the garage with a lantern last night, igniting the gasoline which caused an explosion, setting off the ¢@ynamite. ‘The blast was felt here and also at Gueydam, 20 miles south of here, ——a. Greece Closing Doors to Typhus Victims of Asia ATHENS, Jan. 16—(By The Asso- elated Press.)—Epidemic of typhus, smallpox and cholera have reached much. alarming. proportions in the refuge centers throughout Greece that the government today forbade the admission of more unfortunates from .Asia Minor until the cris's Is brought under control. WR STRIKER DEAD; CITIZENS ARM: HELP SOUGHT HARRISON, Ark., Jan. 16—The body of BD. C. Gregor, a Missourt and North Arkansas striker, was found hanging from a bridge near the rall- road yards today. Gregor is said by the authorities to be the man who opened fire on officers and citizens Who searched his home yesterday af- ternoon, according to the Arkansas Democrat correspondent. It is sald here that Gregor was called before the vigilance committee last night and that he defied them, avowing tha: “m day of reckoning would come. A coroner's jury {s being ‘mpaneled to investigate the killing. Several hundred armed citizens who. began “house cleaning” yesterday still wero walking the streets this morning searching for strikers whom they were “grilling” before a commit- tee, it 8 said, in an effort to find clues as to who im responaib'e for the destruction of raflroad property. A well-known capitalist and hotel owner, the Arkansas Democrat's cor- respondent states, was publicly whip- ped on the streets today and then ta- ken before the citizens’ committee. He is said to have g!gned the bond of A. P. Stephens, accused of the bridge burning. The circuit court adjourned today until January 29. The committee this afternoon has not requested the resignation of Mayor Clute nor of any members of the efty council ,!t wag announced. A Police officer however} has been or- dered to leave town by nightfall, it was said. The mayor this afternoon announc- ed he bad asked Governor McRae for troops and had received a reply that troops. were not available, Reports were current that the citlz- ens’ committee would leave Harriso:, tonight. 3: MAGNATES WALK DUT ON PREXY PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 16—The meeting of the Pacific coast baseball league broke up here today when di- vectors representing the Oakland, Los Angeles, Salt Lake City and Port- land clubs walked out aftor their re- fusal to yote on a resolution grant- tng the Vernon club equal territorial rights with the Los Angeles club at Lon Angeles. When President W. H, McCarthy put the resolution to a vote Vernon, San Francisco, Seattle and Sacramen- to voted for it, but the other four clubs refused to vote. President McCarthy announced it had been carried, five to four, then corrected himself, saying five to nothing, his own vote making the fifth affirma- tv J. Cal Ewing of the Oakland club then said: “As long as you are adopting these high handed methods you had better run tho league your- self. Aner this declaration the repre sentatives of the four objecting clubs walked out and after thelr’ depart: ure the meeting formally ad- fourned. Irish Women to Get Equal Right --To Be Frisked LONDON, Jan. 16—The Irish Free State government has decided to put women Republicans on the some footing as men, according to a Dublin dispatch to the Daily Mall, abandoning the ‘chivalry which heretofore exempted them from search for arms and deten- tion when found in possession of them, The correspondent reports a riot of 60 women prisoners in Mount Joy. The women destroyed every- thing breakable and considerable force was necessary to restore order, ACTION TAKEN ON SIDEWALKS ~ BY COUNCILMEN |\May_ Divide City Into Two Districts So as to Do Job Faster. Sidewalk construction in Casper | WHl begin at an early date in the spring so that it may be completed before ecold weather and bids will be asked for this as soon as possibi ~ cording to action taken at the meet ing of city council last night. F. 8. Knittle. city engineer, witt next meeting which will arrange fo: the laying out of this work. It is! quite possible that the city will he} divided into two districts so that th, job may be done faster. A four inch walk will be constructed and steel! forma will-be required if the recom-| mendations of the engineer are fol- lowed. Plumbers will not be permitted to tap water mains in Casper if an or- dinance which {a now pending is passed. It was brought out last night at the meeting that the city can do this work more cheaply for the prop- erty owners than can private con- cerns. £ A protest was made last night by Prepare plans to de presented at the) CASPER, TAX! MAN IS | BEATEN WITH Farl Mathews, taxi-driver for the "77" Taxi company, whose office is in the American billiard parlors on Center street, was badly beaten in the head at 1 o'clock this afternoon with ‘The ilatter was arrested a few minutes after the trouble. According to an Incomplete report received at the police station, Mrs. Mathews had just concluded an al tereation with another woman, whose name has not yet been learned, when her husband arrived on the scene at their home, 216 West Fifth street. Mathews was beaten with a shoe maker's hammer and received three lacerations of the skull and a slight concussion of the bri®n. Ho was at- tended by Dr. J. R. Hansard. DUKE OF YORK IS ENGAGED, ANNOUNCEMENT LONDON, Jan. 16,—(By The Asso- ciated Press}—The engagement ot Prince Albert, the Duke of York, second son of King George and Queen Mary, to Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon John Hancock against the requiring (Continued on Page Four.) } (LATE FLASHES KEY WEST, Fla.—Search for the bodies of Edwin F. Atkins Jr., his two children end Miss Grace McDonald, all of New York, victims of the sea- Plane Columbus’ acoldent 21 miles from Havana, Saturday afternoon was abandoned. BARAGOSSA, Spain—Groups of un- employed workmen today raided gro- cery stores and butcher shops and jearried off quantities of foodstuffs. | LonpoN—The French authorities |at Essen have ordered the Germa Police to arrest the instigators of a 4emonstration at the Kaiserhot hotel yesterday, a Reuter dispatch f:om Berlin says. CHICAGO—H,. W. Loveday, a re- {tired business man, died from heart isease while expla’ning to his attor- ney changes he wished made in his will, PHILADELPPHIA—Dr. Josiah H. Penniman became sole administrator of the University of Pennsylvania, at least temporarily, when the board of trustees failed to take action provid- ing for a dual headship. CHICAGO—M'ss Anna A. |national. president of the Women’ | Christian Temperance Union, an- |nounced the program of the organ- ization for 1923 included efforts to elect a dry congres for 1924 and to | raise the membership of the union to! | 1,000,000. i | . — |_ NEW YORK—Mrs. Edith Kermit Roosevelt, widow of former President | Roosevelt, announced today that she [would sail Saturd for a two} months’ visit at Yguanso Falls, Brazil, ; where Colonel Roosevelt's famous ex: edition on which he discovered the River of Doubt, was begun. | Gordon, WASHINGTON—Benjamin Frank- lin, first postmaster general, will be honored: tomorrow by the toffice | department which Will observe the |217the anniversary of his birth at | Boston and the first day of “thrift | week” by by the issuance of the new )one cent stamp bearing a portrait of | Franklin different from that on the Present elght cent stamp. “ENFORCEMENT IS SCORED is announced in a court circular jssued today WYO., TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1923. BERMAN TROOPS REPORT 28,000 GONGENTRATION | hammer said by the police to have) , been wielded by his wife, Bell Math- | ews. Old Battle Songs Sung— French Fire on Teuton Mob-Excitement Run- ning High DORTMUND, Jan. 16.— (By The Associated Press.) — French general headquarters has information that 25,000 men of the German reichs-| jWehr are concentrated south of Meunster, less than 25 miles north of Luenen to the north ef Dortmund. The French have advanced to both Dortmund and Luenen and the out- posts of the French and German Single Sheet of Scented Pepe forces at some points are only from eight to ten miles apart. The French, by advancing to Dort- (Continued on Page Jevcn) t ! r First Clue to Identity of Daring Robber; Police in Omaha Hot on Trail DENVER, Colo., Jan, 16.—Denver police announced to- day the supposed wife of John C. Sloan, who lies in a morgue as a result of his daring robbery of a federal reserve bank truck in front of the Denver mint, is Mrs. Florence Thomp- son, 20, wife of Philip Thompson of St. Joseph, Mo., and daughter of an Omaha boilermaker. made to apprehend her, The police also announced they aro searching for Howard G. Burns, acd @ woman known as Burns’ wife, ull of whom were but a few minutes ahead of arrest in Omaha a week or more ago. Burns and his wife came here from California in November. The police announced their first def- in:te clue to the identity of Sloa came three days after the $200,000 robbery when a baby blue envelope and a single sheet of scented paper carrying a message from the | sup- posed Mrs. Sloan was found in a waste basket in the hotel room where Sloan had been living. The police pieced the torn letter together and from the evidence therein began thelr ‘earch for Sloan, which ended last Sunday night when the bandit lead- er's frozen body was found in a pri- vate garage ‘1 the residence district here. Tho letter gave the police the names of three men and two women most active in the robbery of the re serve bank truck and the slaying of Charles T. Linton, guard. -They also asserted that a fourth person was bes ing sought in connection with the mint robbery, but declined to divulge the name, intimating that the person Was expected to be arrested soon Shortly before the robbery, police sald, the sla'n bandit, J. C. S'oan, ind Every effort is being is purported wife left Denver for Casper, Wyoming, whero he was known as Peter Tobin. Their purpose in going to that city was unknown to the police, who an-| nounced that they returned to Den- ver from Casper a few days before the robbery. The Burns’ couple came to Denver ‘m in autombile from San Franciace according to the police. After che Che Casper Daily Triume RUM FLEET OFF | SHORE CROWDS _ OCEAN TRAFFIC HIGHLAND, N, J., Jan. 16.—(By The Associated Press.) — The rum fleet standing off shore today has Increased. Experienced observers reported sighting 14 vessels south of Ambrose Ughtship. The squadron comprised jone tank steamer, a smaller steamer | resombling trawler, one three masted schooner and 11 two masted schoon ‘ers. { No buyers were observed putting off from shore where everything was |qulet indicating that maritime boot- |leggers were adhering to thelr re: jolution to lay low after the heavy |rum running last Thursday night, The steamship Fort Victoria arriv- ‘ing in New York last night reported having sighted yesterday only one steamer and seyen schooners. NEW YORK, Jan, 16.—(By ‘Tho As- sociated Press.) — Captain Berry, attached to coast guard headquarters in this ctly, announced today that the commander of a vessel arrlying trom the West Indies had reporter difficulty in crowding its way through the rum fleet standing off the Jersey coast. Complaint was mado that the fleet constituted a menace to navigatio’ DEAD BANDIT LIVED HERE UNDER NAME ‘OF “TOBIN,” POLICE CLAIM SURIMARY OF NIGHT NEWS NEW YORK—John D. Ryan of the Anaconda Copper Mining com- pany, announcsd his organization Was negotiating for control of the Chile Copper company in a deal involving $150,000,000. WASHINGTUN—Thoe reporp of Rear Admiral Rodman places de- velopment of an adequate advance fleet base on Oahu, Hawalian is- land, first among shore projects, for the navy. ROME—Premier Mussolini his cabinet that Italy had advised France to limit her actions in the | EDITION NUMBER 84, D SEEMS SURE German Troops Mass CAREY, BROOKS AND OTHERS TO SUPPORT LINE Enthusiastic Demonstration at Chamber of Commerce Meeting, Where C. S. Lake Reviews Situation An enthusiastic demonstration met the announcement at today's chamber of commerce meeting that a railroad would be built from Casper to Buffalo and into Montana if the proper support were forthcoming from the people of Casper. C.S. Lake, chairman of the board of transportation units, Middle States Oil corporation of New York, was the principal 8) ker of the occasion. of the former Governor Haskell of Casper itself, as represented by) Oklahoma, who ts a well known rall- some of Its most prominent citizens, welcomed the news of the probable advent of the road as the parched | throat of a raft-bourne mariner wel-| comes a trople rain. Former Governor Carey and Gov- ernor B, B, Brooks, speaking for the businens men of thia community and! of Wyoming, declared there was no question but that Casper would sup-) ‘port. the project, which means #0 much to it, with’ all the material and moral ald in Its power. That the north and south railroad will open up the state and mean more to Casper than any one event in its career, was the consensus of opinion | at the luncheon. It will outlast the| oll, even though that mineral should be pouring from the earth fifty years hence. The Ife of any city. is gov-| erne’, nidterated anil accdlerated bx) the number of etek. ribbons when | bind it to a’nation-wide commerce; and in ute present’ state of develop- ineht nothing could be a greatys boost for the city than the projeci™ toad, ‘Thiy was the universal thought In the minds of those who attended | the gathering, Mr. Lake is, here in t DISPATCHER IN INL FOR THEFT he interests Charged with absconding $786.51 from the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad, a man with halt dozen aliases js now in the Big Horn county jail awaiting trial. | J. B. King, which Js as close as any | authority will hazard in the way of a guess regarding the real name of the man, arrived in Casper on December 30, 1922, and passed with high honors! fan examination for dispatcher un-| robbery, on December 19 or 20, the| Ruhr valley and not shut the door |@or the name of R. L. Maxwell. He! police said, they left by train for| “Pom the posstble agreement, |was sent up the line to Worlena 2 Omaha, where they still are believed arene ta |take @ posit! which he did to be. ; WASHINGTON — Representa: jon the he year Officials were thrown upon their| tives of independent off oompanies.| On tho first day of the following tra'l December 21 when detectives| Charged that the standard group discovered four trunks in a rooming of companies controlled the prices house, through which, according to the police, the identity of the quartet became known. of oil, at the senate oil investiga- ton. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.—Members Detective Rinker said that the} of the executive committee of the Sloans had gone to Casper where| American legion passed resolutions they engaged in a “legitimate $1,500 transaction,” in which “she gave her approved the French action in the Ruhr valley, year he begged leave to go up to Ba- sin for a day. The leave was granted. The authorities woke up the next| morning without a dispatcher and without the family of the dispatcher’s. ‘They a’so woke up to the fact that $336.81 in cash was missing and that seven $50 money orders and one $10 money order were m'ssing. The only clue to his whereabouts name and address as Mrs, Peter which the alleged absconder had left| Tobin, Casper,” He said the police} MUMLIN—Fonr men were exe- | behind him was a record of his truni have no criminal records of either) cuted at Roscrea and one at Car- |check. he baggage was traced to Sloan, Burns or the two women, Jow by the Free State government | Billings, Mont., and from there to The description at police headquar- ters follow : J. C, Sloan—Allan Peter Tobin aR | 85; flv efeot 9 Inches; 180 pounds, dark | complexion, thick lips, wore a brown (Continued on Page Four.) Our Industrial Edition | ‘When a Casperite writes a letter to his friends or rejations in other states he must, perforce, confine himself to personal details, he has little ‘ope for elaborate information concerning his environment, the general | aspect of conditions, the outlook for the city, the county and {ts trib He can only speak briefly of the prevailing prosperity of the community and such opportunities fayorable to residence here or utary territory. the business prospects. In ald of the letter writer and for the convenience of all citizens who desire to advertise Casper and Wyoming far abroa¢, among those whom it would be desirable to have as neighbors, The Tribune will Jesue on January 28th an Industrial Edition containing facts, figures, reviews d general information concerning the city and state, This publication Is a compendium of everything essential to a comprehensive Knowledge of our activities, resources, progress and development as a description: | | | on charges of possessing arms. NEW YORK — Bandits lowered themselves 150 feet from the roof of an eleven story building and stole silks and dresses valued at $35,000. HONOLULU—A 55-milo gale, ac- companied by two earthquake shocks, swept and rocked Hawail. CHICAGO—Harry Pratt Judson, president of the University of Chi- cago aince 1907, resigned. | Butte, where the local police picked jup the man and he'd him for extradl-! tion papers. | Whon brought back to Wyoming the dispatcher-for-aday pleaded not) guilty and was bound over. King was rich in allases, He hire out under the name of Maxwell, zeg- istered at Butte as William King, gave his name when arrested as I? E. Hendereon, and received telegrams addressed to J. B. King. The ‘act jthat the telegrams came from his | }fathert in Reynolds, Ga., ieads to the s his real name. } ‘belief that | with Wyoming. road bullder and who has taken up the proposition of the north and south rallsoad. “If the people are disposed toward it,” Mr. Lake said, “I am quite sure that such a railroad will be entirely possible. In 40 years experience f have never seen anything 80 helpful toward the future maintenance of a railroad aa the sentiment shown In this section of the country.” Mr. Lake told how the matter had first been put hefore Governor Has: Kell and how that gentleman had sent out men to look over the situa: tion and to report back. The report was ent'rely favorable. As a result Imke studied the typography and re sources of the country as well as the Attitude of the people towards the enterprise, He concluded, that if the rejiroad eould come into the commu- nity with the support and lking of the people it would be both possible and profitable. Mr. Lake started In Montana where Haskel had already obtained a char- ter to incorporate the raiiroad, Miles City had donated a large tract of lind an woll as a substantial cash bonus for the profect. All the way down the ne from Montana to Casper the real- dents had boen found enthuslastic for the railroad. “For the railroad to come into Casper would seem to be the logical place,"’ sald the representative of the Haskell Interests, “Yet I am not cei tain. There are four possible routes between Casper and Miles City, Tha resources such as oll, trrigatior farming and coal mines, seem to jus ity a railroad, but we would have to ba assured fo obtaining a rightful share of the traffic going between these points," he stated. Going furth- er he sal “We will not come in here with © ‘Pub! be damned,” policy.’ We are making no demands, holding no clubs, but want to know if you want us and whetler such sites as will be needed and such privileges can be granted.” 1. B. Durham, a membor of thé chamber of commerce w called upon to reply to the ratiroad man: Mr. Durham sald that he felt he could « for the members of the body an¢, say that they were greatly desirous of having the rat‘road and would be glad to do anything which would further its coming here. Robert D, Carey, ex-governor, was also called on for an address regard ing the railroad. Governor Carey stated that Casper was destined to become the largest city of Wyoming and that {t was the natural railroad center. The proposed lino was entire- ly necessary an¢ would also mean a line to the south connecting Colorado It would be the eas- fest way of connection. Business woud thus come to Casper. ‘The gov- ernor urged the people to get busy. Carey was welcomed by the members of the chamber’ with the wildest acels It was fully a minute be plause “"of greeting him Governor B. B. Brooks acted "as chairman for the meeting, Governor Brooks {s a man well posted on ¢on- ditions in Wyoming and gave his per: vonal endorsement of the enterprise: The words of both Carey and Brooks bore weight, coming as they ¢id from men acquainted with the situetior BOCHE WILFULLY DEFAU REPARATIONS COM. SAYS LT PARIS, Jan. 16.—(By The Associa- 24 hours. This was taken here as an, diate needs of the manufacturers. 5 |] cominercial and industrial center. | ted Press.-—The reparations commis-|{ndication that the mine owners are{ The hurried decis'on followed Ger The Industrial .*ition is intended primarily as an accurate and trust-]/ sion in a session lasting leas than half|ready to adopt a more reasonable at-|many’s refusal to make any more da- worthy advertisement i-* Carper and Wyoming—a gift to the oftizens for || an hour today rushed through a de-|titude toward the coal deliveries! liveries kind, including coal, wood, i |] distribution where they tak the information will do the most good for I! ciston declaring Germany in wiltul|which have been forbidden by the Ber-| cattle, dyes and building materials, IP content thie cumunity.§ Tho citisene should use! it for’ this purpose, to ti Gersuie in certain deliveries in-kind (lin government. }so long as the French remained in |} confirm the general opnion and to corroborate the facta of thelr own | i oa HARRISBURG, Pa, Jan. 16—Git-/ “If allowed to continue it will) loon, but also to make sure that the | jxters “back home.” The Industral edition at ‘The Teipuce at gem, || for the year 1928. Only this modification in Premier|the Rubr . mp : ford Pinchot, who was {naugurate¢:|@mount to @ serious charge against! government of this atate takes its | this purpose better. than any other medium, and every loyal citizen The reparation, block—France, Bel- Poincare's plans for going ahead with| President Barthou said ermany’e f Pennsylvania today de-|th® fitness of our people for genuine) 94) aia etfective part in such a | *0uld mail at least one copy to someone whom he would Ike to inter- || glum and Italy—voted in favor of de-|hin policy of seizing guarantees Was | refusal was “an open defiance of the eee oe bi ¥ self government,” he continued. ~'I At Be j] est in @ subject in which ho in himpelf no deeply interestec-—the future || c'aring the default and Kemball Cook, |evident tod allies” which must be met with in- tlared in his inaugural address he re-| share in the belief that no determin: | kovernment. |} Prosperity of the community based upon the most desirab’e citizenship |the British delegate, acting in place) It was thought here that stant stion. xards “the present fingra: failure} ed concerted effort to enforce the| ‘The movement which resulted In | Of an increasing population of Bir John Bradbury, who was indis-|tive policy of Chancellor < The American representat Re to enforce the Volstead Inw as a blot | jaw has yet been made, and I pro-| my election f* the direct descendant Be sure to make reservations for any axtra copies you will need. || posed, abstained from voting. inv and W. Boyden and ¢ N oh the good name. of Pennsylvania! pose not only to press with all my the Rooseve: ‘ogressive move-|} Phone 15 today ‘An citer ‘requisitioning the “tuhr| much as the application. of Lowen ware % ee and the United States.” ‘power for the abolition of the sa-| ment of 1912." LY been suspends? for|preasure is in opposition to the mt | valley, mines has [usenet biatta tae! teteuaart te snaonteaes ones