Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 18, 1923, Page 1

Weather Forecast res Generally fair tonight and | Friday; colder tonight in east and south portions. Vil. GERMAN COA Senate Committee Heads off Teapot QPERATORS AND) pomp MINERS MEET TO DISCUSS WAGES Basis for New Scale Is’ Sought in Parley at New York. NEW YORK, Jan. 18. — (By The Associated Press.)—Conl operators and union miner chiefs are prepar- ing to enter conferences today, which they hoped would provide a basis for negotiating peaceful wage scales for 1923, were mutually agreed that “a| strike this year Both the miners’ representatives and the mine owners declared today | they would exert every effort to agree speedily upon a basis for fix- ing wages and working conditions in the bituminous fields before April 1. ‘The workers deiegation from Ohio went so far as to declare “there will | be no strike this year.” ' John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, is here to head the delegation of union officials. ONE PERISHES _ IN WAREHOUSE FIRE ON COAST 108 ANGTLES, Jan, 18.—Investt- gation was atarted today into the fire last night which gtitted the ware- house of the Barker Brothers Furni- ture company here and caused the death of @ watchman. Firemen after extinguishing the blaz§ found the body of J. E. Koch, 50 years of age, on the fourth floor of the ware- house. Death had been due to suf- focation. Lawrence Barker, member of the firm, estimated the damage as reaching $1,000,000, covered by in- surance. . Reservation Police Chief Takes Proof | To Federal Court John McAdam, chief of the police on the Wind River Indian reservation, with headquarters at Fort Washakle, was an interested per visitor "to- | @ay inasmuch as he will have charge of the Indian riders wHo will appear in the Casper Rodeo noxt August. Chief McAdam is one of the best known men in Wyoming, having been in government service for many years 4 chief of police on the reservation for the last three years. He is on his way from Cheyenne to his home, having six witnesses with him who testified in a federal case of lquor| violation on the reservation, | | | as he testified that he seen Dr. B. M. McKoin fire the the back of his car that led to t! reign of terror and F. Watt Daniel and T. Phone 15 Now} Have you ordered your extra copies of the Trib- une’s Industrial Edition to be published January 28? It is the easiest and best way to tell your friends about the wonderful re- sources and possibilities of Casper and Wyoming. PROBE ORDERED | SCORE ACCUSED Bridge Burnings on Rail- roads and Lynching Are Investigated. — HARRISON, Ark. Jan. 18,—Fol- lowing the indictment of 25 former employes of a Boon county grand jury yesterday, investigation was to ‘be continued today by county offi- clals, assisted by the citizens court, |into bridge burnings and other dep-| |redations on the Missourl and North | Arkansas railway and the tynching of E. C, Gregor, an alleged striker. Judge J. M. Shinn, of circuit court, Anpounced last night that 25 indict: ments had been returned and war- rants were in the hands of the sheriff \for service. Only two arrests had) [been made this morning. The so-called “citizens court’ now | holding: sessions here, while not: leg- jally constituted, is working in con- ‘Junction with the circuit court grand jdury, it was alleged. ‘This se'f-ap- | pointed tribunal is composed of men who. were selected by. citizens from counties along the entire line of the Missour! and North Arkansas rail- way. INTO TERRORISM e Casper Daily Cribune CASPER, WYO., THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1923. ‘Harry Sinclair Told That Probers Are | Ready to Go Into Broad Discussion of Wyoming Lease Features | | | | | . WASHINGTON, Jan. 18.—An attempt by Harry F. Sin- ‘clair, chairman of the board of the Sinclair Consolidated Oil jeorporation, in testifying today at the senate oll investiga- tion to go into the broad features of the Teapot Dome con- \troversy was cut short by announcement by Senator Brook- jheart, Republcan, Iowa, a committee member, that “‘the com- mittee had decided not to @O-into that subject."" The announcement by | Senator Brookhart, made with the Consent of Chairman La Follette, who has been one of the leading critics of the ad. ministration’s action in granting a lease to Sinclair interests to develop the Teapot Domo nayal ol! reserve wher Mr, Sinclair endeayored to pre- sent the obligations assumed by him under the lease. Mr. Sinclair before belng Interrupt: ed, however, ald get intothe record estimates that his obligations under the contract amounted fo 60 or 70 millions of dollars and that his hold- ings in the Mammoth company, the Teapot Dome operating concern, probably had a curb market value of about $100,000,000 a'though he empha- sized “it is very doubtful whether that much could be realized on the stock.” The brief testimony gs which Mr. Sinclair made these statements ‘Was generally believed to be the near- est the Teapot~ Dome qiestion the committee would get during its in- quiry as Senator Brookhart sald it had been decided to leave that line WYOMING CRUDE PRICES Jackie Coogan To Pay Great Tax on Bonus LOS ANGELES, Jan. 18.—Of the $500,000 which Jackie Coogan, child film actor, 1s said recently to have received as a bonus for signing a contract with Metro Pictures cor- poration, $260,720 will go to the government in the form of income tax, according to figures made pub- lic by Rex B. Goodcel!, collector of internal revenue. The collector explained that his estimate did not include the tax on Jackie's reported salary. of $1,250 a week, that of his father of $1,000 = week, or his sixty per cent share of the net. profits of films in which he is to be starred. ee PARIS WOULD CHANGE WASHINGTON AGREEMENT PARIS, Jan. 18—{By The Asso- ciated Press.\—The. commission on foreign affairs of the chamber of deputies today adopted tho report sub- mitted by Depyty Raynaldy to: the sub-commission yesterday in favor of ratification of the Washington con- ference agreement coneerning the Pacific, PRINCIPAL IN KIDNAPING IS NAMED AGAIN Witness in Mer Rouge Murder Investiga- tion Names Newt Gray as One of — Band Who Seized Victims BASTROP, La., Jan. 18.—(By The Associated Press.) — Newt Gray was a member of the masked party which on August 24 held up Watt Daniel, T. F. Richard and several others on the highway between Bastrop and Mer Rouge, ac- cording to Fred Eubanks, testifying today at the open hear- ing here Anto the kidnaping and mur- Ger of Daniel and Richard. Counsel for Gray, who was on the stand yesterday, objected to certain questions put to Gray by the state on the ground they were of the “third @egree” variety and Judge Odom riled that the witness would not be “Returning to your home that day were you held up?" “Yes sir. Men masks,” “Did you recognize any one?’’ “Yes, sir, Newt Gray.” “After that were you permitted to wearing blacked required to answer interrogations | go home?’ that might involve statements of a} “Yes air, I went home and later possible incriminating nature went to chureh Eubanks said ho resided near Newt} “Mr. Gray was a member of that Gray's home and was a Visitor in| church.” Bastrop oo Auguat 24 (Continued on ¥ Seven) | ADVANCED TEN CENTS AT | OPENING THIS MORNING Second Increase This'Week and Third Jump of Winter Is Announced by Oil Purchasing Companies Following the raise in price of 10 cents a barrel announced in the Mid-Continent fields on Wednesday, the Midwest Re- fining company this morning announced a similar raise in the price of crude oil in all fields in Wyomng and Montana. The increases were concurred in by the Ohio Oil company. This raise affects all grades in this district with the excep- i i ct alle a at tion of those in the Lander district which are heavy crudes and: which are purchased on a flat contract and is the second for the week, the pre-| vious boost of the same amount hay-| ing become effective on Monday . Another.boost of 10 cents was an- nounced in Pennsylvania this morn- ing, which if the usual method of pro- cedure is followed, should become ef-) fective in the Mid-Continent fields to- morrow and here the last of the pres: ent week, ‘The following table shows the new prices posted this morning and those in effect sinco the last previous rais Field Old Price New Prico Hamilton “ $1.25 Cat Creek =. * 1 Mule Creek s 1,15 Big Muddy 1.15 Salt. Creek ~ ~ 1.15 Rock Creek - 1.60 Osage ----. - 1.60 Lance Creek - - 1.60 Z Grass Creek - 1.60 1.70 Torchlight - 1.60 1.70) Sunburst -. -70-1.00 80-1.10) x Basin 1.70; Greybull 1,70 PITTSBURGH, Pa., Jan. 18.—Ten cents a barre! was added to the pur-| oil by the principal purchasing agen? cies here at the opening of the mar-) ket today, making the price $3.45.) This {s the second advance this week. Other new quotations announced were Cabel, $2.81, Somerset, $2.10; Somer- set light, $2 Bo alee EMR GT, WYOMING COAL RATES TO BE CHEYENNE, Wyo., Jan. 18,—The Wyoming Public Service commission today on {ts own motion ordered n hearing on intrastate rates on coal, to establish whether they are “un- | unjustly discriminatory undu) ‘ejudic or otherwise | violation of the public utilities ac The hea the date which w wil e first on hetd ulng. be xe | coal x ta W MAIL PILOTS ARE KILLED AT CHEYENNE CHEYENNE, ¥ H, 8. Oakes and Mechanician William Acor were killed when an air mail plane ‘they were testing crashed at the local fleld at 2:15 o'clock this afternoon. The airplaz fell 600 feet and instantly burst into flames. Both bodies were burned. + Jan, 18.—Pilot of investigation “to another senate committee.” ‘The public lands com- mittee already has been charged with such an investigation but which has| not as yet active'y begun it. Senator Brookhart interjected the Teapot Dome matter into the heam ing by saying: “Now with refererice to this Mam-| moth Oil company, originally you put into that your personal contract with reference to this Teapot Dome propo- sition.” “I gave to the committee an offer made by me to the company for the record yesterday,” replied Mr. Sin- clair. “Well, what did you subscribe or pay into the Mammoth Oj] company in the way of property or money or anything?” asked Senator Brookhart. | “I put inthe contract.” “Just the’contract? What did that contract cost you?” “In dollars?” “Yes. “It did not cost me any money. You will find In reading that contract that we were obligated to bulld a pipe Une under certain conditions: if we created a certain amount of pro- duction on that property, That pipe line would cost, we estimated, some $21,000,000."" “That belonged to you after you built it, did tt no?” "Yes sir, We, a’so had other ob!t- gations, For instance the drilling of some hundred welle—I think the. full obligation ts 120 or 130. wells.” “They «'so belonged to you after they were built?’ Well, #€ they were dry wells, I do not think We would want’ them very badly.”* “They would not be valuable to you, but you would still have them.” “We can’ not realize them after drilling them. In addition, senator, we wore required, if you will study the contract, to produce oll from that property—." We do not particularly care to go into that phase of the contract,” broke in Senator Brookhart, “because that ‘s to be invesigated by another committee.” “I thought you wanted the consid- eration of the contract,” replied Mv. Sinclair. “What I wanted to get at, as near as I could,” Senator Brookhart ex: Piained, “was the financial va'ue of| the transaction.” “I would say at the time we took the contract the value of that prop- erty was potenti | | | | } moth Oil company, in consideration! of that, what was it’ you receive “I received the shares of the M moth O!l company. “Was the par value of this put into the record The witness replied in the affirma-| tive. “What stock out of that tion do you ho!d personally?" ‘The witness said he had furnished the committee with that information yesterday. He was naked concerning the division of the stock corporation (Continued on Page Seven) lam- transac- b: planted rose bushes along a accidents. Wags insisted he might better have planted lilies. He is no longer policy was wrong, as hi chasing price of Pennsylvania crudc|/parture the road has prospered; accidents are fewer; serv- y investigators and reporters, ice sav president of a great_eastern railroad. H instincts were wrong. The president of a great eastern railroad once said, baited | “The public be damned.” He right of way notorious for i j better; thousands of widows no longer lose their small ings in the watered stock of the company. He was not a man who built railroads. He was merely an “In the organization of this Mam-| Since his de-| INVESTIGATED -: unwise executive. To the man who built goes the glory and |honor of opening up the country. Their motto is “The public served.” | Governor Haskell, who plans to put through the north- {south wad connecting Casper with Salt Creek, Buffalo, Sher j\dan and the main line of the Northern Pacific, is of the school of empire builders which bred such men as J. J. Hill and. E. H. Harriman. Casper, which will profit the most by the acquisition of this new line, must work the most to make ions favorable for the completion of this great project. or The north-south line, beside opening up virgin territory |with its great natural resources, will mean to Casper an ai- ;most overnight leap in population undreamed of a year ago. It will mean, among other things: Good transportation, adequate to the sound industrial growth of the city. ' sheep and cattle men, real estate men and merchants. Industria! anc manufacturing activity | And first, Inst and always, it will mean “The public be served.” Rie | FINAL | estimony WALLY REID LOSES FIGHT LOS ANGELES, Jan. 1 actor, died here today. 8.—Wallace Reid, motion picture Last reports from the bedside of Wallace Reid indicated that his health, undermined by the use of drugs and drink, was improving and that he was winning his fight against ex- cesses which dragged him to the brink of the grave. Mrs. Reid, in an interview published at the time of her serious illness first became known, admitted that his desire to be a good fellow among his friends had caused his breakdown. He was confined to a Hollywood sanitarium. Reid was rated as one of the hardest workers among the stars of the silver screen. He appeared in ten big pictures a year. Overwork was a big factor in his breakdown, which reached a climax when insomnia forced him to seek rest. COLORED POSTAL WORKER SEIZED FOR EMBEZZLING Preacher-Mail Carrier Shor t$800 and Escaped Arrest-by Delay in Remit- ting for C.O. D. Packages government, James O. Minor, colored special delivery man United States Commissioner M. P. Wheeler, who released the federal court which wil! convene in Cheyenne on May 1. Minor’s methods were unique, the ered entirely faithful and reliable. charges show. Previously he had been a preacher. For several weeks complaints had! Since he had an income that should been coming in from persons who had have been sufficient to keep up. his sent C, O. D. packages to be delivered @xpenses, authorities are speculating from the Casper office that the send-,8% to the way he spent the money. ers dd not receive their money al-} ie though the packages had plenty of PMtettation te RIVER TREATY Investigation by C. T. Hansen and ©. D, Lowe, post office inspectors at- tached to the Denver division, showed that most of the packages complained about were special delivery packages. Very often the money would be turned in within six or eight weeks from the time the parcel should haye been delivered. ‘The inference wa: that the special delivery carrier was intentions, had needed $59 which he} collected with the probable hope of replacing it soon. Holding out $30 was only a starter, for when arrested he was in arrears $800 with no visible way of making it good. It seems that Minor would hold out money until about time for a com- plaint an4 would then turn it in, making up through sums collected at the time of making good what lie had states, including Colorado and Wyo- ming, for thelr own protection, State Engineer Frank C, Emerson, Wyom- ing'’s member of the river commis. sion, told the legislature in joint ses- sion this afternoon. Emerson re- plied to the attack made on the treaty last week by N. Corthe'l, irrigation lawyer of Laramie, In line with the national movement Charged with embezzling $800 from the United States for the local postoffice, was arrested today and examined by him on $1,000 bond for appearance before the grand jury of NUMBER 86. TO BE COURTMARTIALED RECEIPTS FAO ALL CUSTOMS IN THE AHINELAND ORDERED SEIZED \French and Inter-Allied | Leaders Handle Ruhr | Affairs in Stern Man- | ner, Dispatches State. | | ESSEN, Jan. 18.—(By“The Associated Press.) — French military authorities today in- stituted court-martial pro- ceedings against six Ruhr coal magnates whose names were withheld. They were charged with “refusing to obey the orders of the military authorities in the territory under state of stege.”* The magnates have not been taken into custody, COBLENZ, Jan. 18. —(By The As- sociated Press.)— The —_ inter-allied Rhineland commission this afternoon decided, in conformity with tnstruc- tions from the French, Belglan and Italian governments to take over the customs and forests of the Rhineland. An order was issued to salze tonight all the receipts in the customs of- tices, LONDON, Jan. 18—The French this morning took possession of all ra! road stations In the Ruhr area, say a Reuter's Essen despatch. It {s re- ported, but unconfirmed, that the French also seized the offices of the wavious coal companies, BERDEIN, Jan. 18.—(The Associated Press.)—-A general stiffoninz of Ger- man resistance in the face of French ultimatums is indicated by the Ber lin newspaper correspondents in the Ruhr. The mine operators, workers and labor leaders are represented as standing together. France and Belgium appear to be the oniy nations to which Germany refuses to make reparations deliver- les, for it is declared here that ship- méhts to Great Britain, Italy and Jugo Slavia will not be interfered with, GERMAN OPERATORS STILL HOLD MD . ESSEN, Jan, 18.—(By The Assoc ated Press.)—Ruhr valley coal opers ators, who thought for a time last night that the French were to take over the mines this morning, found themeelves still in possession of their properties today and learned that only coal mined and above ground came under the revised requisitioning order of the French. ‘The magnates also learned they face courtmartial instead of actual arrest as the result of their refusal to de- iver coal to France appropriating the money for at least] CHEYENNE, ‘Wyo, Jan. 18.—] ‘The economic commission in reach- that length of time. Suits of clothes! Rather than being negotiated for the|ing its final decision in the polley to were specialized in by the alleged) benefit of California and other lower|be followed concluded t because of | embezzi basin states, as charged in some|the shortage of technical experts, It A confession this afternoon revealed) quarters. the Colorado river compact| would be better to requisition ‘only that Minor had started out with {Was initiated by the upper basin] the coal ready for delivery and to re route to France all shipments intend: ed for German domestic consumption. It was also said that certhin nations, notably the United States and Great Britain, looked with) disfayor upon the term” “confiscations” as if had been applied to the French Ruhr policy by the P: press. What attitude labor would take tn event tho mines were seized occupied . the commission's serious ‘der held out weeks before. to bring about an end to child labor,|ation, for itis realized the In this way Minor was continually| Senator Stephen H. Sibley today in-| would be unde Ree a in debt to the government, continually| troduced in the Wyoming assembly| should the ¢ causing complaints, and -continually | bill to raise the minimum age limit] to do thelr worl its ‘encaping suspicion by remitting just! from fourteen to sixteen years and to] ‘The mission. i it was ane lin time. } widen the scope of prohibitions so as addition to trouble owithy | Mor had been appointed carrier!to include all hazardous and tnjur-| the coal deliveries, also faced the taal {in June, 1918, and had been consid-| ious occupations. (Continued on Page Teven) HERRIN CASE They Participated in Plot, Judge De- clares in Instructions given to the jury today after lengthy instructions had been read by Judge D, T. Hartwell. In his instructions to the jury, Judge Hartwell said: It Is not againet law ed Mne Wor Arner i be nber Were ass ieoal withou « i or tor Principals Tried for Murder Guilty if | MARION, IIl., Jan. 18.—(By The Associated Press)—The \faté of the five men charged with murder of Howard Hoff- ounda Lowes Paight rates values. yw tes. |man, one of the victims kill ri in ri y r Wealth to lived ~ lall; But pasticdlacly by ahees:| R e vi 3s killed during the Herrin riots, was} atctm no} “GOES TO JURY nt be justified b> other reason {t can cause they were not members of that organization Judge Hartwell instructed the jury at If it was convinced by the evi- dence that the defendans had engaged in a conspiracy to do an un'awful act which led to the killing of Howard Hoftman, they were of homi- elde whether or not ad actually taken part In the slayin one of the s nen com d the crime t and if the stood by crime, ft f | dofendants « n Atte