Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 22, 1923, Page 1

Weather Forecast Fair tonight and probably iy; warmer tonight in east portion. VOLUME VII. RMANS CASPER, WYO., MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 1923. | The Casper Daily Tribune FINAL ' EDITION NUMBER 89. |ARRY OUT STRIKE THREAT IN RUHR 79 BILLS BEFORE STATE SOLONS Ao OESGIONG REAGH THIRD WEEK Both Houses Go Into Committee of Whole to Work on Measures Already Reported Out; Visit to State University Scheduled for Tuesday. CHEYENNE, Wyo., Jan. 22.—(Special to The Tribune.) Seventy-eight measures—68 house bills and 11 senate files —had been introduced in the Seventeenth Wyoming legisla- ture as the legislature entered its third week today. Thir-! teen days remained of the period during which the introduc- lreapot Lease Owner Returns to Hear- ing on Subpoena from Committee WASHINGTO! » Jan. 22.—Exami- F. Sinclair was coneluded today by the senate ofl investigating committee without re- of the clash between the witness and the committee which last week resulted In senate sub- poenas for books and records of one of the Sinclair companies, the Hyva corporation, WASHINGTON, Jan. 22. —Examination of Harry F. Sinclair by the senate oil in- tion of bills is permissable under a joint rule adopted early in the session. At the end of Satur- day's session 15 bills had been passed by one house or the other, two by both houses and two had been killed, one in the house and one in the senate. ‘Today found both houses working in committee of the whole on meas- ures reported out by the standing committees. Tuesday there will be no sessions, the legislature having agreed to devote thet day to inspection of the University ‘of Wyoming at Lara- mie. We ps the real grind of the session will begin, it is antic! pated, and thereafter the ‘legislators will be very busy men until “Finis” 1g written some time the morning of Sunday, February 18th. Proposed legislation sponsored by organized labor is conspiclous among the bills brought in during the first fortnight of the session. The latest of these, House 63, is designed to pro- tect ex-employes from delay in the payment of their wages after their services has terminated. It provides for payment of wages to the ex- employe for the period after he has ceased to serve that payment of the wages due him is delayed. _Past_senates. have. been ,nated for the facility with which they gave thé legislative quietus to house billa of which they did mot approve. The present senate indicated that dispos!- tion Saturday when, with little delay, it indefinitely postponed House 4, the Hardin measure providing that prefer- ence should be given Wyoming resi- dents in employment on public works. Repeal of the act of the Sixteenth legislature exempting ex-service men and others who participated in the ‘World war from payment of taxes on $1,500 worth of property is being dis- cussed In the lobbies, but whether a bill with this intent will be brought in is problematical. Some school dis- tricts. are complaining strenuously that the exemption of soldier property makes it impossible for them to raise sufficient funds by taxation for the proper support of schools. An interesting measure is House 33, brought in by Representative William G. Johnson, which provides an ap- propriation of $2,000 for the rellet of Homer J. Booth, who lost his left arm from a gunshot wound sustained while he was acting as jailer of Fre- mont county and while attempting to recapture an escaped prisoner. The bill provides for relief for Booth “to the same extent he would have been compensated if he had been subject to the provisions of the Workmen's Compensation law.’’ Another Johnson bill makes slander maliciously by word, oral statement, speech or otherwise, accuse or impute to another the commission of any crime, felony or misdemeanor, or any infamous or degrading act, or impute: ‘to any female a want of chastity; and whoever publishes or knowingly alds in, or communicates by word, Orel statement, speech or otherwise, any slanderous words, remarks. statement, shall be guilty of and@ shall be fined not more than one thousand doliars, to which may be added imprisonment in the county jall for not more than six months.” The bill apparently does not regard im- putation of a lack of chastity to a Attorney Found Dead in Berth BILLINGS, Mont., Jan, 22.—Harry L. Wilson, prominent: attorney of Billings and Great Falls and repub- Mean candidate for governor of Mon- tana in 1912, was found dead in his berth here this morning on his re- turn from Missoula where he attended the annual banquet of the Western Montana Fish and Game commission. male as coming within the definition of slander, nor does it carry the cus- tomary provision that before an ac- cused person shall be penalized the formality of convicting him shall be necessary, MOTIVE eters to be sathetueer ta in shooting to. ¢ 1 Ha: E. Brown, of Indianola, Ok train with the slayer, at Lanark, N. M., 23 miles from El Paso. The slayer was shot to death Sat- urday evening by Sheriff Domiciano Rodriquez, of Las Cruces, N. M., and deputies under him, after he had fought the posse for ten minutes. The slayer hid in a sand pile be- hind sage brushes in the desert 30 miles from where he committed the tripe murders. He fired first, care- fully aiming every shot, according to Sheriff Rodriquez. “Please give me a drink of water. Please give me drink and I'll tell you all about it,” the slayer pleaded as he lay in the sand in the desert. Sheriff Rodriquez told him he had no water, but that he would send for some, and asked him again why he killed the threes men. Then the slayer said. "I will not tell until T get the wa- ter, Give me the water and I will tell.” Then he became unconscious died before members of the posse had returned with water and a coroner. Sixteen dollars was found in the slayer’s shoes and some change In his pocket. In his pocket was a bank book which bore the name of W. M, Sprague. It was issue by a savings bank in Parts, Mo. In his pocket also was found a printed card which read: “I Jost my property in Pueblo Colo., June 3, 1921, in the flood. T tried to raise some money to start in business and falled. ‘The card was not signed. Officers working on the case say that although {t ts belleved the man was crazed, he showed signs of inte’- ligence at times after the shooting. He warned passengers not to. follow him. He calmly he'd them at tmy with his pistol until he was ready to run. A mysterious point in the case, the sheriff said, is that the man wore overshoes, and tossed them off afte: walking several! miles. After walking for several hours !n the desert sun. the slayer began to chew tobacco, probably to quench his thirst. Marks of expectoration in the sand helped the officers run him down, Officers are trying to find some one who heard the man say something about a woman. In the pante which followed onthe coach, some passen- gers, it was reported, sald they heard him say something about a woman. The slayer’s body was buried in Las Cruces, N. M., today. FIRE WIPES OUT TRAGEDY CLUES NEWPORT, R. 1, Jan. 22.—At a loss to establish a motive or to find trace of a third person In the house, police authorities here today were admittedly at sea in their efforts to necount for the deaths yesterday of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Frazer McLeish und the fire that almost wiped out ali signs of the mystery in the Uttle lodge which the victims occupied as caretakers of the estate, Harbour View. ‘The wounds on the heads, four on the man, a single crushing blow on the head of his wife, were still un- explained by any possible weapon in the place, . FOR KILLINGS Murder Maniac Dies While on Verge of Telling Sheriff Reasons for Slaying Three and Wounding Four EL PASO, Texas, Jan. 22.—Peace officers in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona today were trying to find out if aman Turner of la., and P. O. Cochran, of Joplin, Mo., last Saturday morning when they were passengers on a vestigation committee under he subpoena issued last week proceeded smoothly during the first hour today and it appeared that the expected clash between the ess and the committes would be erted. Chairman LaFotlette, who clashed with the witness last week, took little part in the questioning of the oil ma leaving the examination to Gilbert F Roe, the committee attorney. This examination had to do almost entirely with disposition through the Hyva corporation, a Sinclair owned invéstment company, of stock of the Mammoth O11 company, the concern operating the lease to the Teapot Dome naval oll reserve obtained from the government by Mr. Sincla ‘The questions were readily answered by nelair from his records as they a most entirely to matters about which he had said he would willingly testify. Mr. Sinclair appeared at the capito} 15 minutes before the hour the sul poena was retu ble. He was ac companied by Martin ‘W.> Littleton, New York lawyer, whom, it was un- derstood, he bad retained as special counsel andthree other attorneys, Chairman LaFo'lette, arriving ot the committee room ten minutes after ‘the hour of convening instructed Mr. Toe to~proceed. After Mr. Sinclair had agreed he was “here under subpoena,” Mr. Roe started to question him as to the owners of stock of the Mammoth Oi company. The witness said records showed he owned 1,049,490 shares of Mammoth stock but in reality he owned only 808,790 class A and 3,500 class B shares. Records also showed, he added, that H. W. Kenweill owned 370,000 shares but in reality they were held by Mr. Kenwell for other persons “as is cus tomary in the street.” The witness said he had been in error to previous testimony that the Hyva corporation held 240,700 shares of Mammoth stock. He presented o statement which showed that 1,000,000 class “A” and 1,500 class “B" share of Mammoth stock were exchanged by the Mammoth company for 80,000 shares of Hyva stock last Octol It added that at the same time t the Hyva corporation 2 $3,250,000 a block uf 191,200 shares of Mammoth stock which Mr. Sinclair had received from the Mammoth com pany but had donated back to the company. Discussion of Mine Wage Is Resumed Today August Tyooen, German coal nate, one of several industrial be court martialed by the French. OUGHT of Paris,"Mo., had any motive eson, Ariz., Herbert RUSSIA READY TO MOBILIZE MORE TROOPS MOSCOW, Jan. 22.—(By The Asso- elated Press.—Although Russia has reduced her® ve army to 690,000 men, she has not shut her eyes to possible military danger and it is understood that-the government has taken a number of measures to create at the necessary moment a force able to repulse any attack, writes M Steckloff, editor of Izestia. He ex presses the opinion that there are more war possibilities in the Euro- pean situation today than in 1914, He revives the theory of the old quarrel between America and Japan anG finds that the commercial ri: valry of America and England and the growing differences between the latter country. and France are full of war possibilities at a time when Memel, the Petkans an dthe Ruhr threaten to set of the powder maga- zines. Bodies of 400 Chinese Taken Home for Burial LOS ANGELES, Jan, 22.—The bod jes of 400 Chinese who died fn the eastern part of the United States and who friends and relatives are sending them to China for burial, arrived here today aboard the British steamer Esther Dollar, which ts expected to sail for the orfent tomorrow. FREE TRIBUNE WANT ADS FOR THOSE OUT OF JOB Are you out of work? If so, the Tribune will help you. If you have no job, the Tribune will undertake to find you one, through the quickest and most efficient method—its Want Ad columns. IT WILL NOT COST YOU A CENT. A two-line want ad will be run absolutely free for anyone who is out of employ- ment. There are no strings attached to this offer. It is made with the hope that where unemployment or suffering exists, a job may be obtained for the individual and the suffering alleviated. All. you have to do is to call at the Tribune office in per. son and the ad will be inserted. The Tribune is the sincere friend of the workingman. wants to do all in its power to help him, and to make Caspe a model city, of industrial life, NEW YORK, Jan. 22.—The joint sub-committee of the bituminous on- erators and union miners today re- seales to become effective Apri Before entering the conference, Phil H. Perna, Indiana operator, issued qj statement in which he renewed assur- ances of his fellow operators that there would be no strike in the bi- tuminous industry this year. John TL. Lewis, president of the United Mina Workers of America, and other labor members of the sub- committee of 17, were equa‘ly opti- mistic. It 0 Develop at Sinclair Hearing STATE MINES IN n attitude toward ail master minds, Left to right Hugo Stinnes, great industrial magnate: prletor of the great munition factories. Dictate German Attitude peration was iargely decided by Von Uindenburg and Bertha Krupp, pro- OCCUPIED AREA ARE ONLY ONES BEING OPERATED Railroad Workers Also Walk Out in Protest to Policies Adopted by the French Army. these three OMAHA SUICIDE SAID TO HAVE LIVED HERE Description Tallies With That of T. J. Lee, Former Oil Field Employe, but Iden- tification Is Not Definite J. T. Lee of Casper, who committed suicide in a hotel in Omaha, Neb., yesterday by shooting himself through the head, is. helieved. to be T, J. Lee,.connection man.and.tool lresser who worked for various companies in the Salt Creek Geld in the last two years. Thomas Jemerson Lee, according to records here, kept by one of the companies for whom %3]to have put a woman and boy on the worked, was 33 years old, 6 feet tal’,|traln for Denver. we ghed 165 pounds and had dark ne complexion. This description, wired to Omaha by the Tribune this morn- ing, corresponds with the description of the man found dead there, accord ing to a dispatch received late ‘this afternoon. Lee was an ex-service man, having served 13 months dn the army during the late ¥ He was a baseball player of considerable ability, While sumed their discussions of 1923 wage | n the Salt Creek field he worked ‘at ay : V'fferent times for the Midwest Re-|, CHEYEN? Wyo. Jan At the request of the state highway de Ing company and Jerry West, von- Or, He wes 5 ens wed” ty partment, Representat D. C, Barks. be t date of Che tod ed in do Jo: t Bessemer Béenc Anderson & Jones at Bessemer Bend the sl a bill to 2 Reet and by pany in the Lance Creek Tield. nformation is ava‘lab'e on the after he left the employ of the the Western States 0'1 co: No man Mid- two cents per gallon on all gasoline distributed in Wyoming, the aszess. ments to be collected for the who'e he saers by the state tressurer and to west company February 3, 1922. be used for the building and mainte The Lee who restded here had ajnance of roads. wife, Ethel Hazel Lee, and a daugh:|. pr 3. 44, Joffrey, chiropractor of ter Marian, age 5 years, nS at) Casper, offered a measure to legalize Jefferson, Colo. the practice of chiropractic in this Omaha dispatches state that the|state. A similar proposal was Je. nan found shot to death tn a hote! room there with a pisol clutched in ais hand had registered at the hotei ander the name of C. Colyert of Cas- por, Wyo. Prior fom*ed two years ago, In the senate a committee was ap; pointed to work with a lke body from the house jn {nvestigating the to this ha Js sald uffairs. of the highway department. GOV. HASKELL RAILROAD DOES NOT HAVE 70 COME THROUGH CASPER; CITY MUST HUSTLE | This is, or rather it should be, a little allegory. iter of record, ii facts, Some years ago Sapulpa, Okla., was quite a little city. Tulsa, Okla., was no better known, and little larger. A railroad was contemplated. It was supposed that it would pass through Sapulpa. In fact, Sapulpa was so sure \that the railroad just couldn’t do without it that she sat back |and waited for the whistle cf the first train over the line, smugly satisfied with herself, dreaming her dreams of great- |ness without waking up - ng enough to turn a hand in her own behalf. The railroad did not come through Sapulpa. through Tulsa. Today Tulsa is a hustling metropolis of more than 80,000 inhabitants—72,000 odd, according to the 1920°census. It is famous all over the United States. Sapulpa is a town of about 11,000, virtually unknown. Railroads don’t have to go through any particular city— even Casper. They go where they are offered the best ad- Wanhtayes, aiid the cities ‘grow in their wake. Casper can not afford to idly wait the coming of the Gov- ernor Haskell line north and south, which will mean such a tremendous boom for this city, and Wyoming as a whole. If it is not to imitate the short-sighted, penny-wise-pound-fool- ish attitude of Sapulpa, it must get out and hustle for the road. Get behind this great movement—the biggest thing which has come to Casper since oil was discovered; the most en- |during thing which can come to any city, big or little. | The “ties that bind” are going to be laid somewhere along ja right of way. It is up to every individual who has Casper’s good, at lenst, and incidentally his own, to see that they are laid through Casper, As a mat- is simply a collection of a few ungarnished It came - a a a 9 ~ ow woe wm. day, The property loi Pg) 51,000 DIAMOND SOLD FOR $180, MAN “ARRESTED Pat Welch of Casper Is Seized at Rawlins on Suspicion. Pat Welch of Casper was arrested in Rawlins today, according to infor- Mmation received this afternoon hy Perry Morris, sheriff, on the suspte fon that the diamond, which he {s al leged to have sold for $150 in Rawlins, ad been stolen The diamond is more, according to the information from the Carbon county authorit Welch is belnz held in the county there pending an Investigat! case. worth $1,000 or ion of the Neither the sheriff's office nor the police department here have received By The Associated Pre: Strikes of miners in the Ruhr valley, called yesterday by the labor conference at Es- Sen, were in progress at vari<- ous pits throughout the valley today. ol The strikes, complete or partial, were in the privately-controlled works ings whose directors were arrested by the French last week. Withdrawal of the occupying troops from the state‘owned mine properties that had been seized was followed by resumption of mining in these work- ings, although on a scale reported somewhat reduced. While no news of a general rati- road strike order has appeared, Dues- seldort advices report that only about 10 per cent of the trains running, thesa manned by French crews. ing situation seems to have been eased somewhat by the re. opening of the Duesseldorf branch of the Relchabank. The Essen branch and the private banka of that city remained closed. It was announced from that she courtmartial. trial of rite ‘Thysder Ad “the other industrial magnates arrested would be held Wed- nesday, with the Proceedings pleted in one day. Revival of the talk a Rhineland republic, form @ buffer state het and Germany, met with edi = ment from Roo that sein soe would not be tolerated by Germany's creditor nations. Germany took a further step in ab- staining from Versailles treaty co-op. eration with France by withdrawing her member from the mixed Franese German arbitration tribunal in Paris France again delayed presentation of her new reparations settlemer.¢ plan. This, it was believed, was due to the continued uncertainty of the German situation brought about by the Ruhr occupation. Germany ,offictally dented Ports that she was conte: renewal of compu‘sory No disorders any point Mayence com- of proclaiming which would ween France the re mplating the military serv. Were reported from in the Ruhr valley today, MINERS COMPL any compiaint in the last few daral WITH ORDERS. of the theft of a stone that would cor an —By Th respond to the one which Welch {a rens,)—Giriken,. either sees said to have dlsposed of. or complete. were in BrOereen tocar eee n all the Ruhr valley mines whose ; directors. had been arrested by the OA CARLYAN 10 ADDRESS French. The state resumed opera. ; tlons, the troops having been FORUM MEETING TUESDAY moved. > Warned by Berlin that they 1 y would be imprisoned {f they brought coal to the surface, the miners added their contribution to the nation’s policy of The Chamber of Commerce forum| P#S!ve resistance to the Bochum- meeting S&chedu for Tuesday, 12:10] DOTmound district, Inta plans for a, D. at the will be ad-| Tehresentative meeting at -Elberfeld tressed by Dr Jyan of Den-| tay to decide whether they, too, ver on the subject of Play in Rela reds.” Dr.) Carly speaker has made ‘© ability as him popular al over the ‘west, and the local chamber| is fortunate in securing him for chis| meeting. Members are requested plan thelr « al to tendance from this press| the central government in Berlin for- merican Fair} Should refuse to assist in transport- Old World Ha:.|'?% German coal to France, CANAL WORKER: a ‘| DENY SERVIC SP {By The Assoct- }—An orcer received from notice as it may be impossible to ca!!| 4% the canal employes in the oc- the m mbership by telephone NOT GUILTY, IS CROWELL PLEA Aass!s sec pleaded not ¢ in the D! trict of Columbia supreme court tod: tant iit cupled territory to tow any coal barges seized by the French, or to s for thelr passage. | DUESSELDORF, Jan. 22,—By The | Associate! Press.)—The ‘Duesseldorf branch of the Relchabank, the direc- j torate of which refused to continue ess last week while troops were the premises, was reopened to: | guard in the Retchsbank branch at Essen was lifted but the {bank falied to opsn FRENCH SUBMIT | NEW PROGRAM, PARIS, Jan, 22.—«By Assoct~ ed Press.)—The French repara- to the indictment recently arned | an. ready for submission to the against him and six others here charg-| reparations commission today, pro. ig conspiracy in connection with the! vides loan of ‘onstruction o amps, DEATH Pa, Jan Five burned to death in a fire which destroyed the Hotel in Homestead, near here to: was $15,000, Davies FIVE BURNED TO IN FIRE The dead are Mr John Wine aged six yenra, her daw Catherine, 13, Thomas W. | Davis, el propetetor. _ 4 her twin sons,