Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 29, 1923, Page 1

Weather Forecast Unsettled tonight and Tuesday, probab'y snow; colder tonight with old wave in south portion. Che Casper Daily Tritme (6, CASPER, WYO., MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 1923. NUMBER 95. ~ GET STATE CAPITOL Peace-Makine Situation Is BL 10 SURMIT Lense as Turks Get Treaty hlPusitin 10 RAILROAD IS | O#aman Expected to Sign Despite re UATE S VOTERS | ported Military Alliance With the | Russian Soviet in Case of War ”, INTRODUCED Natrona’s Delegation in Legislature Springs a Surprise in Proposal to EX-SOLON INDICTED IN CONNECTION WITH INSURANCE SCANDAL Twenty-Three Others Named in Accusations Returned Today Against Fred Lundin, Thompson Machine Boss, Follow- ing Investigation of School Board Operations CHICAGO, Jan. 29.—Fred Lundin, former congressman and known as the silent power ee ale See eee William Hale Thompson, and twenty-three Hae 7 indictme i i jury Which is invemtiontig senbol bone pene in court today by the special grand jury Virtus Bohm, Lundin’s nephew, also was among the indicted men who included several LAUSANNE, Jan. 29.—(By The Associated Press.) —A ‘, indicted previously by the same gr: school funds and property. The indictment contains a blanket conspiracy charge and contains 24 * counts. ‘The true bill was returned before Chief Justite Michael L. McKinley, of the criminal court who set the bonds of the defendants at $10,000 each. Mr. Lundin was reported to be in Cuba an Mr. Rohm was recently re- ported to be in Los Angeles. Rohm ts in the insurance business and’ it was reportea that he and Lundin were partners for a time and @i@ an enormous business in school insurance. It was reported that this insurance business was bared before the special grand jury and that it was in connection with the Insurance deals that the grand jury acted in connec- tion with the case of Lundin and his nephew. Many of the others named in the Indictmfnt were past or present of- ficers members and employes of the school board. During the eight years of the ad- ministration of Mayor Thompson, who Feoently announced that he would not be & candidate for re-election, Lundin has been known as the “silent boss’’ of thé Thompson political- organiza. tion, although for nearly as man years he has steadfastly declared that he was “out of politics.” Lundin has, so far as known, in late years never admit! any part in the activities of the Thompson faction of the re- publican party but he long has been credited with being the “power be- hing the throne,” and as an associate of the mayor and presumably of Governor Small has been reputed to wield ao strong influence in state affairs. Lundin, who referred to himself as “the poor Swede,” 1s credited with having been the genius of the Thomp- gon organization which any poll- ticlans believe was the greatest political machine ever established in Chicago and Illinois. With the re- tirement of the mayor and tho ab- gence and indictment of Lundin and other changes in political alignment, the machine now is reported to be breaking up. At the height of his power “the poor Swede,” who by silence and Genial that he harbored any political ambitions for himself, was reputed to be the dictator of an organization that controlled $78,000,000 a year in patronage and 30,000 political jobs ‘n Chicago alone. ‘The beginning of the break up of the machine started a year ago when every candidate in the Lundin-Thomp- gon slate was defeated in the Cook county judicial elections. When the Chicago Tribune sued five “wheel horses’ of the organization in an effort to recoyer millions which, the newspaper charged, had been ilegal- fy expended to “experts” in connec: tion with publio Lononh (tout ze aa 4 jury began investigation Peas stone graft in the expenditure et school funds and that inquiry has been under way since August. An- other grand jury more recently began Investigating charges of protected vice. Factions opposed to the Thomp- fon organization united on Arthur C. (Continued on Page Four) DEMURRER IS FRAMED IN DEFENSE OF NINE TO BE TRIED FOR MOB MURDER Trial of Eleven in Connection With Slay- ings by Masked Band Near Wilson, Okla., Launched Today ARDMORE, Okla., Jan. 29.—(By The Associated Press.) +A demurrer to the sufficiency of the evidence against nine of the eleven Carter county citizens chargtd with murder as) a result of the alleged operations of a masked band in De- cember, 1931, is expected to be the first move of the defense when the trial starts today in district court here. The charges followed the killing of Joe Carroll at his home near Wilson. Carroll was called to the door of his house on December 15 and shot down, Members of his family fired on the maarauders and later neighbors found Jeha Smith of Wilson mortally ‘and jury in connection with the administration of the | HEADS OF CZAR ARE PRESERVED IN ALCOHOL MANILA, Jan. 28.—{By the Asso- ciated Press.)}—The head of the late FRAUD CHARGED IN PROMOTION OF COAL MINES G. H. L. Middleton Brought Back from Pennsylvania by Steed G. H. L. Middleton, promoter, who has been {dentified with several proj: ects in Casper in recent months, was returned to Casper this morning from Harrisburg, Pa., on extradition on the charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. The complaint, filed with BH. H. Foster, prosecuting attor- ney, was made by Thomas C. Prickett of West Yellowstone avenue. Middleton is sald to have sold Mr. Prickett 200 shares of stock in the Blue Diamond Coal company, which has extensive ‘holdings north of. Gienrock, in €onverse county. The stock was sold at, $2 per share and Middleton is sa'd to have misrepre- sented the status of the company in his position as fiscal agent. “Dogy” Steed, special deputy and old-time Wyoming cattleman, made the trip to return Middleton to Cas- per. Mr. Steed was given sev at umns of publicity in the Harrisburg papers as being one of the fow west- ern deputies and the first one from Wyoming to appear in Harrisburg for a prisoner. STATE LEGISLATION 10 BE FORUM TOPIC TWESDAY ‘The Chamber of Commerce forum meeting scheduled for Tuesday noon at the Henning hotel will be given largely to the subject of legislative matters. A. A. Slade, superintendent of schools, will discuss legislation af- fecting the schools of the state. Tax matters will also come up for discus- sion. The next morning the body of C. Sims, Ardmore police de- tective, was found near Joier City A roundup cf suspects was insti- tuted and 17 men were placed in Jail. All but 11 were later’ released and a preliminary hearing broke up sud- wounded. | seek to prove that the ma | tended to overpower Carroll and take AND FAMILY Czar Nicholas of Russia and those of his family who met death with him at Ekaterinberg at the hands of revolutionists, are being pre- served in alcohol in the Kremlin at Moscow, according to Captain Firmin, chief of staff of the Russian refugeo fleet anchored at the Mariveles quarantine station near here. Captain Firmin, who served with Admiral Kolchak's _anti-bolshevik army in Stheria, asserted that docu- ments captured by Kolchak troops at Ekaterinberg revealed that the heads of the murdered members of the Russian royal family were cut off and preserved in alcohol and the trunks of the bodies burned. chases crude oil at the well- here, there have been three increases, each of 10 cents a barrel in the price of Pennsylvania crude, including that announced this morning, which is the | basis for crude oil prices of the coun- try and {t ts highly probable that other advances will soon be announc- ed in order to maintain v1e differen- tial in prices between this district and those of the Mid-Continent field. Gas Burns Fatal To Grass Creek Girl THERMOPOLIS, Wyo. Jan. 29.— Heler; Moore, an eighth grade pupil at the town of Midwest in the Grass Creck off field, west of Thermopolis, died at her home following severe burns which she sustained in a gas explosion. The girl lit a match in a vegetable cellar in which there must have been a gas leak, In the ex- plosion which followed the girl was burned severely from head to foct. denly #p January, 1922, when a wit ness refused to answer questions re- lating to the Ku Klux Klan, The prosecution is expected ed men, numbering about half a dozen, in: hime to a meeting grounds where Sim’s body was found and where a number of other men had gathered, presumably, investigators said, to tar nd feather him for al‘eged bootle ging activities. © Carrpll had rece several warnings to cease his re; Hquor traffic. He received one several weeks before his death warn ing him to leave town within 24 hours, It was signed “K. K. K. No.! 18." Ku Klux Klan officials denied that it was a Ku Klux Klan com munication and sald it was not writ fen on its stutionery. els, went an operation for appendicities |today at Roosevelt hospit: | Effective at the opening of business this morning, the Mid- west Refining company increased its posted field price 10 cents a barrel in Wyoming and Montana fields where it pur- This is the third raise in prices during the past month and the fourth for the winter season. Since the last raise effective | N draft of the proposed treaty of peace which is to be submit- \ted to the Turks on Wednesday, was distributed semi-offi- |cially to all delegations today. The document contains 160 jarticles to which eight conventions are annexed. There were no developments today to show that the Turks CHEYENNE, Wyo., Jan. 29.—(Special to The Trihune)—| C. N. Haskell, former Governor of Oklahoma, late Monday filed in the office of the Wyoming secretary of sttate o)< Lie3 of incorporation of the Wyoming North and South Railroad Company with a captial stock of $7,000,000. The incor- poration papers state the proposed railroad will run through Carbon, Natrona, Johnson and ming office will be at Bucknum, Natrona county. Bebe Daniels Has Operation NEW YORK, Jan. 29.—Bebe Dan-| motion picture actress, under-| Dr. John F, Erdmann, who per-| formed the operation, sald Miss Dan-| fels" tory.” pevernl weeks, WYOMING CRUDE UP 10 CENTS ‘Fourth Increase for Winter Season Is An- nounced by Midwest Refining Co.; Other Advances in Prospect ‘ “most satisfac-| had been ‘ill fer condition was The actress Negri-Chaplin Engagement at Last Admitted, DEL MONTE, Cal., Jan. 29.— By saying “we're engaged,” Charile Chaplin, film comedian and Pola Negri, Polish screen star, confirmed persistent rumors that they were to be married, although rumors cur- rept in film and newspaper circles indicate the wedding will be within & short time, When the film stars granted an interview to newspaper men Chap- In bluntly said “we're engaged.” whereupon Miss Negri affirmed Chaplin's announcement. ‘Then ac- cording to co-respondents, they ter- minated the Interview in a typical | “close up and fadeaway.” Wheat Exports Show Decline} WASHINGTOD an, 29.—Exports of wheat from the United States dlr. ing the week ending January 27 amounted to 2,269,000 bushels, the department of commerce reported to- day,’ compared to 3,010,000 the prev. fous week, making a total for the to@. since January 1, of 10,890,000 bushels, jand th Sheridan counties. The Wyo-' were more favorably disposed toward signing. The eight conventions deal respec: tively with the straits, the frontiers of Thrace, the status of fore’gners in Turkey, the Albanian declaration re- garding payment of the Ottoman debt, the. commercial regime with Turkey, ‘the .armistice declaration, exchange of populations and - se of prisoners of war between and Greece, which last two will be signed tomorrow by these two | powers The nozsphere about the confer. » was tense today, the chiefs of Vied delagation holding lengthy ations em the eensul LAUSANNE, Jan. 29.—"The situa tions” that have hounded the Near East conference since soon after its conyocation than two months ago still pursue it as the time draws near for officially presenting the allied treaty to the Turks. A new cris's arose oyer the week end through the insistence of Ismet Pasha and Riza Nur Bey, that the more INDUSTRIAL EDITION OF TRIBUNE WILL CONTAIN MANY GREAT FEATURES The annual Industrial Edition of the Casper Tribune—the only issue of its kind which covers Wyoming, her Hfe and industries in a com- prehensive manner—will be pub- lished on February 11. While St was originally intended to put the number out earlier than this, sev- eral articles and not a little of vital statistics were unavailable, and rather than turn out any less than the best, postponement was deemed advisable, If you are interested In oll, min- ing, railroads, sheep, cattle, dairy produce, dry farming, irrigation, recreation, education—in fact if you are interested in any subject from public utilities to the manufacture of cheese you will find Wyoming’ share in {it fully described by ex- perts best qualified to write on such subjects, State, county and city officials as well as many prominent citizens are contributing to make this Issue a success. Some of the most beautiful photo- graphs that ever ay in a newspaper will go to make the an- nual Industrial Edition notable. Alrplane views of Casper, Salt Creek, the refinery district, pano- ramas of the city and surrounding country, wonderful pictures of scenic marvels in the Yellowstone, Jackson Hole country, Thermopolis, The Tribune’s Annual Industrial Edition The most complete, informative and authoritative col- lection of facts, figures and stories about Wyoming, will appear on Sunday, February 11. It is kept throughout the state as a reference work, and advertisers who take space in it are making a valuable all-year investment for their business. ‘Orders for this great state-wide edition are pouring in rapidly. If you have not ordered your copy, or the copies you want to send away to friends, do so now. Later we may not be able to fill the order. Requests for last year’s edition are still coming in to this office, and have had to refuse some of these because of the shortage of copies. Look for the Annual Indus It will be wort es UU h your while, ONE $ and other garden spots, and many other illustrations havo been ob- tained, You can not afford to miss this number. If you have not ordered your copy now, or the copies you will want to md away to your friends as souvenirs of Wyoming, do so immediately, —s INIR IRISH AMBUSH e DUBLIN, Jan. 29.—(By the Asso- clated Press.)—Captain.Coyne of the national army was shot dend and three soldiers were wounded when a party of troops was ambushed by irregulars between Abbeyfeale and Brosna, on the Limerick-Kerry border Saturday, it became known today, The attacking party {s sald to have left the captain’s body at the road side, stripped of all clothing. At about the same time a party of eight soldiers was ambushed at Cast'e Maine, county Kerry, but reinforcements arrived and the Irreg- ulars were scattered with the loss of one killed and several wounded. ess or failure of the conference ended on whether the allies would recognize the complete sovereignty of Turkey. abolishing the capitutattons and agreeing upon an equitable dis tribulation of the Ottoman debt. The week-end saw the Armenian acceptance of Russia’s offer of asy lum, thus removing a troublesome item. The proposal of the Moscow government, regarded here as a shrewd piece of diplomacy, contem- plates giving some 25,000 Armenians homes in the Don and Kuban valleys of Southwestern Russ In return the Armenians must become Russian subjects and must provide their own transportation. They will not own the land on which they settle, for that be'ongs to the state; neither will they be perraitted to have an autonomous government. The satisfaction of the Armen‘an delegation over the solution of their problem {s not measured by the feel- ings Of the representatives of the other nations, particularty Great Britain and Turkey, over the turn af- fa'rs have taken. Temporary ad- Journment on Wednesday after pre- sentation of the treaty ts the pro: gram as it now stands. Tho allies will ask the Turks to accept the basic Principles of an agreement awhere- upon the conference will adjourn, lnaving exports here to work out the Aetai's, If diplomatic channels are able to effect an accord with Angora, the heads of the delegefions will turn to Lausanne and sign the treaty. The Turkish representatives said the situation was so critical and dif- ficult that they would make no state- ment, although one of the secretaries expressed the hope that the speeches brought out by the presentation of the draft in the conference Wednes. day would be of such a conciliatory nature that a rupture would be avoid ed. a ot q BRITISH SEND si TROOPS TO MOSUL LONDON, Jan. 29.—(By The Asso- ciated Press.)—In view of the Turkish attitude at Lausanne regarding the Mosul district the British military authorities in the Irak have des patched a battalion of troops and a'so a few airplanes to the area between Mosul and Sherghat (65 miles south of Mosul) as a precautionary measure. ALLIANCE BETWEEN SOVIET AND TURKS. BELGRADE, Jan. 29.—The govern- ment newspaper Tribuna says today that Forelgn Minister Tehitcherin of Russia and Ismet Pasha have made a secret agreement at Lausanne by which Russia and Turkey will give ach other military support in the Near East in case hostilities are re sumed. ‘The agreement which 1s sald to have been accepted by both the Soviet and Turkish governments, stipulates that Russia will send se eral divisions into Mesopotamia should the British and the Turks take up arms. The newspaper also asserts that under the terms of a special arrange- ment mado at Lausanne between (Continued on Page Fouy). Move Statehouse. CHEYENNE, Wyo., Jan. 29 —Casper’s delegation in the lower house of the Wyoming legislature sprung a surprise today by offering a bill pro- viding for the removal of the state capitol from Cheyenne to their city. If passed, the measure will put the question up to the voters in 1924. Amendment of the Wyoming state constitution is involved At the close of a prolonged discus- sion the sénate today approved, with- out a distenting voice, the bill te ratify the Co'orado river compact without reservations, - Several sena- tors thought further consideration should be given, but on tho other hand it was sued that nothing would be gained by delay, and that Wyoming would get » square deal under tho provisions of tho treaty, and this view finally prevafled. Introduction tofay in the state leg. ‘slature of a measure designed to bring about a popular vote. on a change ih the location of the state capitol marks the opening gun in » battle that will not be downed until the voters of Wyoming express their decision, is is reliably reported. For several years Casper has beon asked by organizations in the Basin coun: try’ and elsewhere to make a fight to secure the capitol but on every occas sion the movement has been dis- couraged until such m time as this clty would be able to hold forth in- ducements to the state at large. Throughout the state there is « general sentiment that the capitol should be more centrally located, so as to be more accessible to all points. Railroad connéctions here already of: fer the best advantages and with as: surance that a north and south ling from Sherjfan through Casper will be built at a future date, the o!l met: ropolis will become the hub of mora lines and any other point in the state: There 1s available an excellent sité for the capitol just south of the city on land purchased from the state by the Community Extension corpora- tion and an elaborate park system for this district already has been mapped out. Cheyenne has been the capital of Wyoming since the state was organ- ized and owes much of its political and material affluence to this fact. The benefits to Casper from such @ change would be far-reaching and a determined campaign to bring the state house here may be expected two years hence if the measure before the state legisalture is adopted. sedey (iat valncntd NAVAL BASE POSTPONED WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—Action |by the house naval committee on the offer of the city of Alameda, Cal., of a tract of land to be used as a naval base, was put over today until the next congress. FRENCH SEIZE SCORES T Wholesale Arrests and Expulsions in| Duesseldorf Region Begin; General Strike on Railroads Ordered JESSELDORF, Jan. 29.—(By The Associated Press.) — The F wholesale arr officials, chiefs for refusal to obey orders, DORF 29. lated Press.) railroad wo: Jan The strike ughout th DU rh Asso man rs thr phonépand postal rench occupational authorities today began a series of and expulsions of the highest German state of bureaus and municipal heads of the As the —(By clated Press.)—Rallroad traffic 1 Rhineland was brought standstill at 4 ck this when the partial strike almost t afternoon which hea ODAY been in progress the last few days suddenly became general. Buporvision of press dispatches from the Ruhr valley and the other parts of German territory occupied by the F n has been established by the French government. © D's. patches regarded by the super an U ue and ikely to cause m chief are referred to the minister of the interior ports wer