Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 19, 1923, Page 9

FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1923. a he Casner Daily Tribune J GRAINS CLIMB, ~ THEN DECLINE Morning Rally Is Not Main- tained in Chicago Fu- tures Exchange. NEW YORK, Jan. 19.—Prices moved to higher ground in the early part of today’s stock market, chief Interest again bein; centered in shares of companies concerning which favorab‘e news on dividend de- velopments are expected. Gains in the Industrial list were substantially reduced or wiped out in the late aft noon on realizing sales which were conducted under cover of a rally in the rails. Sales approximated 950, 000 shares. NEW YORK, Sen. 19—Further recovery in prices \ook place at the »pening of today’s stock market. The temand was particularly effective In the steel, of] and equipment shares uthough specialties continued to re vord the greatest gains. Eastman Kodak was pushed up 1%0 and Du- pont one. United States Steel com- mon opened %c higher and was fol- lowed into h'gher ground by Crucible Midvale and Gulf States Steel. Barly losses were limited to very small traction! ‘The gains were extended as trad ‘ng progressed. New York Air Brake, Drucibl Pan-Amer'can, Baldwin, Peop’e’s Gas, Mack Truck, United States Rubber, Public Service of New Yersey, Timken Roller Bearing, Good- fich and California Petroleum ad- vanced 1 to 1% points. Foreign ex- changes opened firm, demand stcr- ing be'ng quoted at $4.66% or nearly bne cent above last night's close. French, Belgian and -Itaian rates uso stiffened while marks ra'iied to 9054 cents as against yesterday's extreme low of .0042, Advances in a number of special- Ses some of which are controlled by pool operations imparted a strone tone to the forenoon market. Shares pf companies which show large cur- tent earnings !n which there is a possibility of more favorable divi- fend action were in good demand by operators on the long side? Short Interests showed signs of, nervous- hess when the free selling of ‘several {ssues fa'led to arrest the upward trend. Famous Players was partic: ularly weak, falling three points to the lowest price of the year, while Anaconda, American Can and Bald- win also yie'ded a po'nt or more un- der‘yesterdmy’s final figures, A good inqu'ry was noted for certain of the indepindent steels. equir ments, public utilities, rubbers, mo- tor accessories, tobacco and a lone Hst of miscellaneous issues, which advanced one to four points. Ra’ toad shares were virtually neg'ected except for edvances of 1 points In St. Paul preferred, preferred and New Orleans, and Mexico. Call money opened at four per cent, Speculation was quiet in the after- noon, but pr'ces made further head- way on the basis of the liquidated condition of the market and the in- ability of the bears to halt the rise of selling special stocks. Baldwin, one of the early wenk features, re- bounded to a po'nt above yesterday's tose, while American Can and An- tconda “also recovered fully. A taried ist of industrials participated In the afternoon advance. Tide water Ol! ris'ng five points, Kelsey Wheel four; Sloss Sheffield Steel 3%. and Allied Chemical 2 points but Consolidated Cigar and Stewart- ‘Warner Speedometer dropped each. ’ The closing was irregular. Ral. road stocks were taken tn hand inf qr lete dealings and a number of low bition of strength was utilized for profit-taking in other quarters with the o'ls, Baldwin and Studebaker of- fered freely. changes firm: quotationg in cents: Groat Britain deinand 4.66%; cab.es 4. 60 day bills on banks 4.64 mand 15.61; Greece demant 1.28; Po- land deand .0031; Czecho-S'oxakla de- mand 2.78; Argentine demand 27.37; Brasil demand 11.62; Montreal 98 15-16, SUGAR NEW YORK, Jan. 19.—Sugar closed firm; approximate sales 21,000 tons. ‘The market for refined was 10 points lower. Fine granulated is now listed at $6.80. Business was light. WAN UNDERREAME & YOUR STORE SORT | AT SUPPL nai: STOCK PRIGES ARE STRONGER Special Issues Lead Way to Higher Level in New York Trading. CHICAGO, Jan. 19.—More favor- able political news from abroad to- gether with firmness in Liverpool quotations gave the wheat market steady undertone here today dwg the ear'y dealings. Strength in the cotton and stock markets also had some effect, as did Washington re- ports which expressed belief that the first of the farm credits bills would receive @ favorable vote today. Trad- ing, however, was of a local charac- ter at the start, and the market soon ran into selling orders with houses with eastern connections in the lead. The opening was varied from un- changed figures to %c higher, with May 1.18% to 1.19 and July 1.13% to 1.13%, was followed by a s‘ight eet- back then a moderate rally os all del veri Subsequently, enlarged commission house buying which was based on drought news and which found offer- ings ight brought about a material upturf in prices, but then the gains were lost as a result of renewed gen- eral selling. The close was easy at the same as yesterday's finish to %c lower, with May 1.18% to 1.18% and July 1.13 to 1.18%. Cern and oats were dull, with a light trade. After starting % to%@ eo off, with May 78% to 73%, the corn market underwent a slight gen- eral decline and later recovered a ‘ittle, Later, the market continued to be governed by wheat, but kept within a narrow range.. The close was weak, % to 4@%c net lower, May 72% @73 to 73. Oats started unchanged to %c up, May 45%, and later suffered a slight geseral sag. Higher quotations for hogs gave a lift to provisions. Cash Grans. CHICAGO, Jan. 19.—Wheat No. 2 hard 1.20% Corn No, 2 mixed 71@72; No. low 72@72%. Oats No, 2 white 4574 @46; white 43% @44%. Rye No. 2, 88@88\. Barley 68@64%. Timothy seed 6.00@6.50. Clover seed 13:50@20.50. Pork -nominal. Lard. 11.5 10.50@11.50. yel- No. 3 Open High Low Closo WHEAT— . May - - - 1.18% July - - - 1.13% a mo 1.09% 73% 73% 178% 1.20% 114% 111% 1.18% 1.18% 112% 1.13 1.09 1.09% 13% 173% 13% 45% 42% 12% 73 12% 45 AlN 45% 42% Sept. - - - LARD— Jan. - - - 31.62 11.65 10.95 11.00 10.95 11.05 11.05 11.09 ie canteens Butter and Eggs CHICAGO, Jan. 1 11.62 11.80 11.57 11.65 May — Butter steady; standards 48%c; firts 46@47c; seconds 44@45 4c. Eggs lower; receipts 9,144 case: firsts 86@36%c; ordinary firsts 32@ 33c; miscellaneous 34@35c. — POTATOES _| CHICAGO, Jan. 19,—Potatoes dull; receipts 54 cars! total United States shpments 650; Wisconsin eacked round whites 80@1.00 cwt; Minne- sota sacked Red river Ohios slightly frozen 90 owt; Idaho sacked round whites 1.00@1.10 cwt; poorer at 90 cwt; Idaho sacked russets branded 1.60 cwt; usbranded 1.15@1.25 cwt. [none J NEW YORK, Jan. 19.—Call money steady; high 4; low 4; ruling rate 4; closing bid 4; offered at 444; last loan 4; call loang against acceptances 3%. Time loans steady; mixed teral 60-90 days 4%@%; 4-6 months 4%4@ 4%; prime commercial paper 44 @ FAD SHOE AND CLOTHING TO DISPOSE OF Bg TOE One of the most sensational sales of eeasonable gents’ furnishings ever, | held in Casper opened yesterday morn- ing at the Fad Shoe and Clothing Co.. 220 South Center street, when the Boom Sales Service Co. took charge of the store and marked down the $30,000 stock to figures.that is attract- ing even the most conservative buyers. The Fad has the reputation of carrying a high-grade line of gents furnishings, and this, coupled with the unusually Iow prices on every article in the store, is attracting | crowds of buyers who thronged the store yesterday. The sale will con- tinue until one-half of the stock. is disposed of. Cotton. | cotton | NEW YORK? Jan. 19—Sbot ateady; middling $28. 4 New York Stocks Associnged Press Leased Wire Allied Chemical @ Dye -....-. 13% Allis Chalmers ---...--------- A6% American Beet Sugar 37% American Can ~...--------. 81% American Car & Foundry ...- 180 American Hide & Leather pfd — 68 Ameriran International Corp -. 26 American Locomotive .. 123% American Smelting & Refg. -- 54% American Sugar 16% American Sumatra Tobacco -. 27% American T. and T. -—.. american Tobacco - American Woojien ~ imaconda. Copper Atchison Atl, Gulf and West Indies - saldwin Locomotive Baltimore and Ohio altimore Steel “B" Canadian Pacific Central Leather Chancler Motors Chesapeake and Ohio Chicago, MBI] and St. Paul - *hicago, R. I. and Pac. Chino Copper ‘olorado Fuel and Iron -.~--. Corn Products ‘rucible Steel Br amous Players Lasky -. General Uiectric - Jenueral Asphalt jeneral Motors Goodrich Co. Jreat Northern pfd. SHnols Central Inspiration Copper - International Harvester Int. Mer. Marine pfd. nternational Paper Invincible O11 Kelly Springfield Tire Kennecott Copper Louisville and Nashville Mexican Petroleum MiamJ Copper - Middle States O!l Midvale Steel Missourt Pacific New York Central . ¥., NH. and Hart! Nrofolk and Western Northern Pacifle Ok'ahoma Prod, and Ref. Pacific Gil Pun American Petroleum Pennsyivania People's Gas Pure Oil 0. Ray Consolidated Copper Reading 3 Rep. Iron and St Royal Dutch. N. Soars Roebuck S'nclair Con Oil ex div. Southern Pacific --. outhern Railway ndard Oll of N. J. Studebaker . Corporation ‘Tennessee Copper -~. Texas Co. Texas Tobacco Products Transcontinental Oil Union Pacific - United Retail Stores U, 8. Ind. Alcohol United States Steel - Utah Copper Westinghouse EI ¥ eel %: American Zinc, Lead and Sm. Butte and Superior -. Cala Petroleum Montana Power Bhattuck Arizona Great Northern Ore Chicago Northwestern -. Consojidated Gas Maxwell Motors B American Linseed O!l - SCREEN WORLD MOURNS LOSS (Continued from Page One) music rooms and business offices, for few men eo young had so many friends and admirers as Wallace Reid. His life was a virile, well filled life, an experience far beyond that -ordi- nary to even twice the thirty years of his, The music room in the Holly wood home is silent and even the In- animate saxaphone, the violin an stringed instruments which vibrated to jazz or swayed in his hands to be refinements of higher music, seemed jin their stillness to emanate sadness The swimming pool without a ripple and the collection of physical development apparatus that brought the six foot actor in a physical class that not only was admired by Jack Dempsey, but was pronounced by physical trainers a form giving prospects of development into n healthy contefder against the cham- pion, were silent reminders of another activity. 1 METALS NEW YORK, Jan. 1%—Copper quiet; electrolytic spot and nearby 14%@%c; later 14%c. Tin firmer; spot and nearby $38. futures $39.12@39.25. | Iron steady; prices unchanged. Lead steady: spot $7.50@7.76 Zinc quiet; East St. Louis spot and nearby delivery $6.85 @6.90. ; Antimony spot $6.86. t NEW YORK, Jan. 19.—Price Wyoming oils at 2 p. m. teday were Usted o nthe New York curb as fol low Boston-Wyoming 1 1-16; Fensland 16%; Glenrock 1%; Merritt 9%; Mountain Producers 17; Mutual 12%; New York 16; Omar 1 1-16; Salt Creek — AND QUOTATIONS BY LEASED | Oil Securities [_Pumished by Taylor and Clay. =——— SS Black Tail Cheppell Columbine Coysolidated Royalty_ Capitol Pete -.- ino Bighorn E. T. Wiliams — Kinney oCastal Preston -. 00% Royalty & Producers — .13% Tom Bell Hoyalty 1 Western Exploration. 2.35 14% 08's 2.45 Mountain Producers -$ 17.00 § 17.25 Merritt 9.12 Glenrock 1.62 Salt Creek Prds, 21.00 Salt Creek Cons 10.60 Marine new 5.00 Mutual Oi 12.62 Producers & Refiners 9.00 3 O, Indiana -_ 62.87 Citles Service Com. 179.00 Tensiand -- 16.62 Mammoth Ctl 52.00 New York O!1 16.00 LIBERTY ci 3%s First 4s jecond 4s First 4%s 3econd 4% Thurd 44s Fourth 4%s Victory 4% 98.88 = 98:48 100, Hamilton vat Creek Mule Creek 3ig Muddy Creek Rock --Creek Orage Lance Creek -—. Grass Creek ‘Torchlight Sunburst Sk Basin Greybull 80 to 1.10 CHICAGO, Jan. . 8. Depart: ment of Agriculture.)—Hogs receipts 24,000; market 10 to 15¢ higher; ighter weight strong; bulk 140 to 130 round averages 8.65@8.75; top 8.80; ulk 200 to 225 pound butchers 8.45@ .60; bulk 240 to 300 pound butchers 3.20@8.80; packing sows mostly 7.00 @7.40; desirable p'gs 8.00@8.60; heavy veight hogs 8.15@8.35; medium 8. 28.65; light ight 3.60@8.75; packing sows smooth 7.25 @7.60; packing sows rough 7.00@7,80; killing pigs 8.00@8.60 Cattle receipts 4,500; slow, uneven eef steers and butcher she stock teady to weak; killing quality plan bulk beef steers 8.00@9.00; canners and cutters about steady; veal calves and bulls teak to 25c lower; heavy beet bulls showing most decline; stockers and feeders about steady; ulk veal calves to packers 10.0v@ 10.50; best kind upward to 11.99; ship- vers hand picking upward to 12.00 and above Sheep recetpts 11,900; opening slow: few early sales fat lamb< steady, ly top 14.76 to packers; many held higher; clipped lambs = 12.76:712.90: foedsts firm; sheep scarce, around steady. Omaha Quotations, OMAHA, Neb., Jan. 19.—{U. 8. De- partment of Agriculture,)—Hogs—Re- ceipis 12,000; mostly 10c higher; bulk packing grades $7.00@7.25, bulk butchers $7.95@8.10; top $8.15. Cattle—Receipts 2,700; beet steers and she stock fairly active; steady to strong; best steers $9.40; bulk fed steers $7.50@9.00; bulk killing cows and heifers $4.25@6,.00; all other classes generally steady. Sheep—Receipts 8,000; killing classes steady to strong; bulk lambs $14.30@ 0; top $14.75; yearlings $1 wethers $9.00; best ewes here $ feeders 250 higher; $14.65 paid choice light feeding lambs. 7.80; for Denver Prices. DENVER, Colo., Jan. 19,—Cattle receipts 900; makret steady; beef steers 4.50@8.75; cows and heifers 3.50@8.26; calves 6-00@9.50; stockers 3.50 @8.76. Hogs receipts 300; market steady; top 8.15; bu'k 7,00@8.15. Sheep receipts 1,600; market 25 higher; lambs 12.50@13.75; ewes 4.00 @6.75; feeder Inmbs 12.00@13.50. tel eione Oll Tenses, reat estate, owners of Teapot townsite, Kepresentatives wanted. Call or write us. Teapot Development Co., 218 Midwest Bldg., Casper, Wvo, ‘ Lt Men's Heavy Fleece Lined Two- Piece Underwear, $1.50 Valuo at 750 JESSEN BROS. CO. 115 Kast Second. ‘ 1-19-2t LONDON. J 19.—-Bar silver NEW YORK, Jan. 19.—Ferelgn bar allver 65%; MeMlean dollars 4)%7 S1%;d per copes, Money.2‘y per cent. % | s'cep be into the sand. | MARKET GOSSIP AND FIELD NEWS PINE MOUNTAIN OIL 1 HIGH GRADE A test just made of the oil from the Pine Mountain well of the Alaska Development company now being drilled, shows that product to be 28.6 gravity, which proves it to be a very desirable product. The oil is light, of an amber color and is heavy in gasoline and kerosene content, a distillation test of which is now being made to determine percentages. This ofl was taken from a stray)Castle at its location on section 11- sand which it is estimated could be/ 45-64 and !s now at below 200 feet. developed to produce at least 50 bar-| The drilling is being done with » rels a day and came from approx!-/Star machine but material is on “ mately 2300 feet. ‘Tho company has/ground for a standard rig which will competed setting {ts casing and has|be erected in the spring for the con- resumed drilling toward the Ten-jtinuation of the operation. This test sleep wh'ch {t expects to pick up|will be drilled to the Muddy sand within the next 75 to 100 feet. wh'ch is expected at approximately The outcome of this test ts beins|3,000 feet. The proving of this dome watched as the finding of the Ten-|will mean a large extens'on to the in place and carrying a high|o!l producing territory of that dis- saturation as it does in other felds'trict and the outcome will be watch- will mean the opening of a largs|ed with interest. field within a short distance of Cas- — per. 7 “Poor Lo” Wants Increase. The Cal'fornia Of company A delegat'on of Osage Ind ans has arranged to continue dr ‘ling called on President Harding to urge test on land of the Evans Oil Cor-ja revision of the present law where- poration and as this operation has |by each member of the tribe should lattained a depth alfhost to the .top recefve allowances from their leases ‘of he Tens‘eep. his also should soon|on Oklahoma oi! lands. Chief Bacon Rind asked the president for hin a 4 No Completions By P. & R. in furthering protection of the !n No completions have been made!terests of the tribal members. The during the past, week by Producers Osages are the richest Indians in the & Refiners corporation although two country and their royalties from Ok wells 'n Salt Creek are nearing the lahoma o!l lands since 1915 have secon Wa'l Creek. Operations have agsregated more than §110..000 000. ‘heen closed down in the Ferris field Each member of the tribe receives. for the winter a crew being main-| yearly allowance of $10,000 or morc. tain only to care for production. — | —_—— No. 1 on section 14-39-78, Sait| Standard Pays Large Fee. Creek is running tubing at 2625 feet.) CHEYENNE, Wyo., Jan. 19.—-The | on sect'on 18-40-78 {is under-|largest corporation fil'ng fee pald ut ‘reaming at 2440 feet. the office of the Wyom!ng secretary ‘No. 2 on section 7-26-29 in they state th's year 1s that collected Wertz fied is preparing to mud off|*rom the Standard Oil company of Indiana for fil'ng cerification of n- crease of its cap'tal stock from $140.- 000,000 to $250,000,000. ‘The fee was $22,005. | has in its ‘0. 1 on section 33-26-88, Mahoney dome, is swedging pipe at 2860 fert. No. 1 on section 26-46-100, Enos , Creek, has completed sett'ng 12% \inch at 860 feet and dr-lling has been > Dom. of Can., 5% per cent notes, 1920 French Republic. 8s French Republic, 7%s American Tel and Te 5 American Tel and Tel., col., t Armour and Co,. 4%s Battimore’and Ohio cv Bethlehem Steel, p. Canadian Pacific deb., ‘hi. Burl. & Quincy ref., 5s Chi. Mi and St. Paul cv. Goofyear Tire, 8s, 1931 1941 Great > den: Mo. Kan., and Texas new, adj., 68 A Missourt Pacific gen., 4s Montana Power 5s A ~ Northern Pacific Oregon Short Oregon Short Pacific Gas ani E! Penn, R. R. gen., 648 ~. Penn R. R. gen., 58 - Standard Oil of Cal.. deb., Union Pacific first 4s U. 3. Rubber 7%s - U. 8, Rubber, 5s - ac Utah Power and Light, 6s -.. Western Union, 6%s8 -~ Vestinghouse Electric, pr. ‘ne gtd., 81% 110% 108% BARNSDALL CORPORATION AND LUCEY TO DEVELOP BAKU FIELD Confirming press dispatches of an interview with Mason Day, president of the Internationa] Barnsdall corporation, that his company had arranged with the Russian government for development of the Baku oil fields and that the Lucey Manufacturing corporation had become a partner in the en- ‘erprise, a telegram was received today by John H. Moran, ‘ocal manager of the General Supply company, a subsidiary 1s 9 Ol 179 section resumed. Montana O07 Notes. Baker well on section 4-35-2W, inburst structure was drilled yon Thursday at a depth of 1,675 feet. The bit was only 5 feet in the sand and as yet no estimate has been made of production. ‘According to report from Lewistown Mosby Oil company has completed 11 on section 2115-30, Cat Creek coming from the first sand at a depth of 900 feet and tho well 1s satd to have a capacity of 75 barrels a day. Inland Empire Oil company well on 23-34-1W, Kevin-Sunburst field has a very strong flow of gas at a depth of 1,280 feet. The company may ‘rill this well through to the Ell.s sand. % Sunburst-O) On! Kevin: hio-Thornton No. 1 well has been spudded in on section 18-35 cW, KevinSunburst structure. ‘This 3 an offset of the Gladys-Belle well. Texas company will make its Mon tana headquarters in the Hart-Albin Iding at Billings. ee ieittana-Genou Oil company of Spo- kane expects to spud in a well on. the Genou structure in the near future. Republic well on Brush Creek struc’ ture is down close to 2,800 feet and expects to strie ofl sands at 2,400 feet. ‘Magnolia Oil and Refining company has been incorpdrated with 1,000,000 hares par value, $1 by K. G. Bervelin, 1. L. Fischer and BE. M. Hedge o Great Falls. Scott Oll company has been porated for $200,000 by W. L. Mal perne, L. E. Malberne and R. G. Wil ‘son of Grent Falls and A. I. Scott and H. W. Kaffer of Sacramento, Cal. Hager-Stevenson company 18 pre. paring to drill a well on the Thorn fome 18 miles east of Benton. ‘The company controls 19,000 acres on this dome. n incor Price Raise In Southern Crude. The Standard O'] company of Lou's'ana this morning posted an In: crease of 10 cents @ barrel on a! grades of northern Lousiana an’ Southern Arkansas: crude o'ls. The Texas Company, Gulf Refining com pany, Invincibie Oil Gorporation and other pipeline companies immediate: ly followed. The top price of Caddo. Homer, Haynesv.lle tand El Dorado ol testing 39 degrees and above 's raised to $1.90,a barrel and Buil Bayou $1.25; Smackover, 26) and above, and Bel‘evue, 85 — cents; Smackover below 26 degrees 10 cents; De Soto, $1.35; Critchton, $1.10. The new schedule establishes the first posted quotations and Smeckover light oll since the west- ern extension of tho field’ was opened. Cont'nental Reduces Par. DENVER, Jan, 19.—The _ stock- holders of the Continental Oil Co have ratified the p’an to reduce the par va'ue of the stock from $100 to 1$25 and to increase the number of \directors from five to seven. The new directors are W. H. Ferguson, general counsel and P. R. Naylor, traffic manager. Locomotive Order. ‘The Baldwin Logomotive Works has recetved an order from the Tl- I'nots Central for 85 locomotives, the order being valued at $2,000,000. In \the first half of January, the Ba'd- win company booked forty days business. Dividend Expected. With earnings for 1922 of 90 cents a share, ord ual to or greater than eapac'ty, and current earnings estimated “at $1.50 a share, it is ex pected that Cont'nental Motors de- clare a dividend at the rate of §1 a share. | | | Drilling Kesumed in Test. The Frederick Oil company has re sumed drilling jn its test of the Fid dier Creek structure — near New. FRENCH SEIZE AU MINES (@um eva wo0sz panuyw0D) ‘se to cont.nue work and obey the nstructions from Berlin. FORESTS, CUSTOMS AND BINGEN, Jan. 19—(By The Asso- clated Press.)—The state forest in this region has been se!zed by the occupy: ‘ng forces. The branch of the reichs hank here has been put under a French guerd. TANIEL FAMILY DOOMED, CLAIM (Continued trom Page One) Harp and us got to talking in his butcher shop about the kidnaping and he told me they should have killed ‘hem the night they taught Dantel, Andrews and Neelis on the Gallion ‘oad and they would not have had ‘ny more trouble with them,” (The Sallion road kidnaping occurred ugust 17.) “Jim Harp told you that?” “Yes, I let it be known to him how auch I approved of it and I added a w other words to make it mors ex! estified to having attended the ecue and baseball game in Bastrop m August 24. Owner of a saw mill ear Bastrop, Pratt was questioned it length about the plant and who re. ‘ded in its vicinity. Pratt admitted © was a klansman but said he did iot hear any discussion relative to the <dnaping and never had undertaken © regulate the conduct of the people n Mer Rouge. Henry Jones, of near Bastrop said he formerly was employed by the Southern Carbon company at Spyker and he knew many of the old em ployes. He was interrogated concern ng the disappearance of Harold Teog. erstrom, time keeper at the p’ant. who was reported to have been kid- naped and later to have escaped trom his captors. “Did you know Harold strom?” Yes, he left the plant on a Friday n‘ght and he came to my house on the Sunday vening. I was on the hack porch when I heard some ono in the house. I found Teegerstrom in the front. He said he had been bothered a great deal by Uni States detectives at the plant about the kidnaping. He said that on Fri day night a man called him out of the office and told him he wanted to talk to him. The man took h'm to an automobile which he said had several men inside and he grew suspicious and broke away and ran, That is the reason he gave me for hiding out He changed clothes, put on my hat shoes and overcoat to change his iden tty and teft in two hours. “Have you received anything from . t witness, bar- Teeger- , I got my watch which I loaned him because his watch had his initial on it It came in the mall Before he left he gave me his watch to bo sent to his brother and some 8 to be sent to the carbon plant “It appeared to you he was trying to make his get-away and waa trying to shield his identity?” “That's right.’” ZANESVILLE, Ohlo—Brieadier General William M. Van Horae re- tired, led. zi ‘t the Lucey Corporation, signed by J.F. Lucey, president of the concern. The Lucey corporation, which is one of the largest otf well supply manu- ‘acturing concerns in the country, vill furnish engineers and equ pment for the development of the fields and ‘lessers Day and Lucey wi'l sail for Russja next month to make a survey of the fields, LIQUOR FATAL TO MEXICAN FOURD DEAD The body of Charles Argon, a Mex: lean, was found by the local police bout 7 o'clock this morning in the ard near 342 West “A” street. Alco tolic poisoning is given as the cause of his death by Dr. T. J. Riach, coun ty phys.clan, who examined the body later. There were marks of his having been dragged which indicated that some of Argon’s friends had tried to help him a ong while he was an in- toxfeated condition, but had given up. The body ts now at the’ Shaffer-Gay chape’ pend ng funéral ar.angements. Relatives of the deceased are said to be in Lander. RELIGIOUS CONFERENCES WILL BE HELO HERE 10 PROMOTE NEW TRAINING A series of conferences will be held in~Casper for the promotion of the Leadership Training schoel to be held in the First Christan church February 12 to 16. A. O. Kuhn, re‘igious education di- rector for the Rocky Mountain re- gion, arrived in Casper today. Mr. Kuhn wil! speak in the Christian church Sunday. He will probably re main for part of the institute, Mon day at the Methodist Episcopal chureh. A special meeting of all officers and teachers of the Christian churches ts cal'ed for this evening. Refreshments will be served. —— BOY SCOUTS LEAVE FOR HIKE 10 CAMP ROTARY Troop Four, under the leadership of Scoutmaster Frank Taylor wi'l ‘eave this evening for Camp Rotary where the boys will camp over the week-er4 and take trips up in the mountains. Troop Six had the cabin last week and other troops are to have ft for future hikes. The boys will meet at Scoutntaster Taylor's home this evening at 5 o'clock and then start for the cabin reaching the camp about 7 o'clock The scouts will spend Saturday hik ing up in the snows on the mounta n [and return Saturday evening. ———<————— \Alex Barber Will | Be Buried Monday Tho tunera' of Alex Barber who | ded Wetnesday of hemorrhage of the lungs wil! be held Monday after- {noon at 2 o'clock from the Shaffer Gay chapel. A Greek orthodox’ priest from Denver will officiate, This is perhaps the largest tran- saction in the history of the country, made by an American firm wth'a foreign government and furthermore is of great importance from the stand Point of being the first direct com. mercial negotiations concluded with the present government of Russta. It is also cons dered to be of great Do- litical and international importance. ‘LITTLE MISS NOBODY’ [5 EXCELLENT OAAMA A capacity house greeted the open- ing of “Little Miss Nobody” which was presented in three acts by the Styles and Smiles company last night under the direction of Lawrence Dem- ing. This bil, which is being repeated for two successive days, is one of the most pleasing melodram®& presente ¥ * the L. P. Walls company for some time. Miss Loretta Kidd as Little Miss Nobody plays her part with her cus. tomary charm and is sure to score throughout the run of the p'ay. The cast is as follows Hank Jordan Nat Webber ._ Jack Hamlin Judge Anna Teddy Bryan -Ted Chase Lawrence Deming 3 Lovetoddy....., Mickey Hanley -Lawrenco P. Wail Zenas Grimes Susie Smith Mra, Robie ~. -Deborah Deming Miss Loretta Kida as -.. SMITH DIVORCE DENIED BY JUDGE C. 0. BROWN’ Asserting that the pla‘ntiff in a Aivorce sult could not sue on the grounds of cruelty when he or she was gullty of the same offense, Judco C. 0. Brown in district court dis- missed the suit of Nettle Smith for a divorce from Joseph Smith. The plaintiff sought in addition to a divorce a settlement of the property on her but the judge ruled that..the evidence did not prove causa. -for action. ae an Sans MAN HAMMERED OVER | HEAD LEAVES HOSPITAL Earl Mathews, the man who was, according to statements, beaten over the head with a shoemaker's hammer wielded by his wife Tuesday aft noon, was taken to his home toda having sufficiently recovered to leave the hospital, Mrs, Mathews {s still in jail on charges of assault with intent to kill. SWAN UNDERREAMERS » AT: YOUR SUPPLY