Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 2, 1923, Page 1

‘ fe Weather Forecast tonight, strong northerly winds. , General fair tonight and Saturday, except snow in south portion; colder a3 oe vid}sr aig BOOTLEGGER SOUGH | FOR LATE KILLING ~ AT OKLAHOMA CITY Police Hunt Floyd Felts Who Drove Automobile for Four Days With Corpse of Pal-as Only Companion; Mystery of Crime Not Yet Solved by Oklahoma Officials ’ \ OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Feb. 2. days, with his owh companion, day by authorities in their endeavor to solve the m: socially prominent here, but said by St. Joseph, ing between) Mexico and the Missouri city. —Floyd Felts, said to have driven an automobile four the corpse of a pal, who had been shot, was being sought to- ysterious death of Riviere Horner, 24, Mo., authorities to‘be a bootlegger operat- Members of the dead man’s family just before dawn yesterday were awakened and SNOWSTORM IN EASTEAIN SLOPE RESION GENERAL Atmospheric Conditions Unusual: Cold Wave Sweeps South: + DENVER, Clo. Feb. 2.—The east- ern #lone of ths Rocky Mountain re- sion today wag the center of 2 mod- efate snow stctrm which began early today, according to the Unilted tates weat) bureay, “herp... shite: he extreme sfhuthwest part particu- larly Arizona tind western Texas, was experiencing {fe coldest weather of the winter, ~ ‘ Pecullar cllanges tm the atmos- Pheric condititms in the region Inci- dent to the cca wave in the south- west drew the attention weather bureau of off'rials. Temperatures in northern Arttona approached the zero mark, as~was likewise the case -in southwesteith Colorado and north- ern New and northern farts of the region. :o,, compared with the |. Summoned to the door by a man who. dragged from an automobile, Horn- er's blood: soaked body wrapped in Automobile robes and placed it with ® buitcase on the lawn white the fam- ily stood on the veranda. The elder Horner {¢entified Felts as the bearer of the body. Horner said he acknowledged the man's knock at the front door from fn upper window and was told that “Riviere ts here.” 4 Upon being asked to send him in the house, the man réplied, “he can't come. He dead. He was killed ina battle with high Jackers and D'vo had him since Sunday," whereupon the mysterious caller slipped his machine into gear and spea away. Police and deputy sheriffs invest}-| gating the case are broceeding on the theory that Horner was slain when he and Felts were attacked by agents searching for rum ruanera near the Missouri state line. Belief was ex- Pressed that the gun fight occured either last Friday or Saturday and that Horner lyed several hours after “Officine “are “also “attempting to trace. an° anonymous telephone call which Horner's brother i:- Okmul- gee, Okla., received Wednesday night during which he was informed that Horner's boty would be in Oklahoma City “by midnight."" Horner was last an automobile for Mexico with Felts, His family here express belief that fnting ‘to the fact that a diamond ring which ke moderate temriratures in the central | Horner was robbed, po It was! four “degrees below zero at Flagstaff, Arf, early today, the weather buredy: reported, ‘while at Durango, Coley. it was two below. Be- low zero weather also was reported 4n the extren northern part of the Rocky Mounthins, “including north- eastern Mont:jna. Snow fell ting the last 24 hours in nortl Arizona, western Utah, Idaho.) Montana, northern’ ‘Wyoming anc}parts of Colorado. The cold wave reported to be prevailing in tho southwest extended northeast to the Great “Lakes, it was reported while a warrh wave moved over the north Pacific states to the Dakotas. FOUR MELA ARRESTED ON CHATIE OF GAMBLING Frank Lieshton and Barney Mc- Nalley were sted by the police department esterday charggd with gambling an.} also with violating the drug ordinan’e. Sam Harrison and W. E. Brown were arrested for alleged gambling, /|I1 these defendants are Wut on bonds! for their appearance, ST. PAUL}-Officers of the Equity Cooperative exchange were * enjoin- ed from dis posing ‘of several grain elevators pbnding outcome of re-‘ ceivership p roc ings, wore was missing. Authorities said they discounted the robbery theory. A coroner's inquest will not be held because of the desire of the. family to avold further publicity. ——_————. TOLEDO.—Mrs. Hattie, McCree was granted $100,000 damages by a jury in her case {n federal court against the director general of rail- roads for compensation for injuries Fécelved when the train of the circus, with which she was a trick rider, was wrecked. CLEVELAND. — Edward Roder- ick, formerly a wealthy ‘Toronto broker was arrested on a charge of illegal entry into the United States. WASHINGTON. —A noticeable movement of unskilled negro labor from the south to the northern in- dustrial centers was reported to the department of labor. NEW YORK.—Senator Kips, of Utah, in an address before the So- ciety. of Military and -Naval oOft- cers of the World War, predicted ' the ship sibsidy measuré would not pass the senate and appealed to the United States to take the moral Jeadership of the world. Increase: of 10 Cents a Barrel Authorized by Miiwest Refining Company; Ohio Expected to Meet Prices MOUNTAIN. PARK [i PURCHASED BY CHAMBER HERE 440 Actes Near Bear Trap Secured Today from J. C. Peryan. Casper's Mountain Park became an actuality th's morning when the loca) Chamber of Comerce purchased 440 acres of state land on the top cf Cas- Auction sale. J. c. Peryan represent: ed the Iand department and the pur. chase price was $4,400, s The land is located inthe Beartrap region in section 16, townsh!p 32 north, range 79 west, The chamber of commerce officials have been working on the proposition for two years\with thes idea of pro- viding © playgrouna tof the city on top of the mountain. The committee seen in Bt. Joseph|in charge is not in 2 position at pres. raper D per mountain at the state land public |" aily Crit iS FINAL DITION CASPER, WYO., Y, FEBRUARY 2, 1923. Four Slayers Pay Death Penalty In Electric Chair for Arkansas Crimes \Justice Exacts Big | Toll in Execution Today of MenWho Murdered Three . LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Feb. 2.—Four men _ convicted — of murder were electrocuted at the Arkansas penitentiary early today. All faced death | calm}; The men went to} the electric chair in the following order: Duncan Richardson, Ben Richardson, F. G. Bullen, all con- - Solitary vieted of the murder of Mr. and Mrs M, wW. kang Duncan Richardson Silsby, in Stone county, Ar- stepped into the chafr at 7 o'clock. Debord was executed at 81 Duncan. ftichardson; aged 29, was po eon me t taken in the death chamber several EP HIM IN minutes before the apparatus was ready, “Good morhing gentlemen,” he smiled to the witnesses and attend- ants. He displayed no nervousness. He walked about the chair looking at it and started toward the switchboard where the executioner was at work. The executioner moved quickly away. “Don't be afraid of me,” son, who was not “I would as soon have any one.” When the appartus was ready, he entered the cha'r voluntarily, He was pronounced dead in three min- utes. # Ben Riehardson, 18, was pale’ but ca’m. He sald nothing. The body of Bullen after being in the chair five minutes, was removed and placed in a casket. The under- taker noticed he appeared to be breathing slightly and refused to take the body. The body was removed, re- placed .in the chair and the current reapplied. louffed, said. you do {t as about three weeks ago, according toj/sent to state just what proyis'ons ‘advices from authorities there. At/will be made this summer for amuse- that time, he was sald to have left in|ent for Casper people. NEW RAILROAD WILL CONNECT FIVE OF THE LARGE SYSTEMS Y. W. C. A. DRIVE FUND OF $10,000 NEEDED IH LOCAL WORK A Y. W. C.'A. drive for $10,000, needed in carrying out various charitable activities, will be launched on February 19, | Mrs. B. B. Brooks, president of the organization, announced yesterday. It is hoped that amount will be collected early In addition to caring for many widows and conducting a club for young business girls, “the ¥. W. C. A. cooperates with the Travelers’ Aid sociéty in taking care of young women who have just arrived in Casper. It obtains rooms for girls, and ts home where they can give parties and meet friends, Rest rooms and a cafeteria are located below the Smith-Turner bulld- me * Passenger and freight service wi!l| | benefit enormously by these connec: | * P M tions. “Not only will shipments be} 4 yband’ed more directiy but there will] As Debord was being strapped in the chair, he shouted to an attendant: “Look out there, fellow, you're mashing my hand.” None of the men showed much emotion and all were able to walk unassisted to the chair. The execution of the four marked the largest toll exacted by justice on a single day in Arkansas history. COLUMBIA, ®. C.. Johnson, a young . Feb. negro Thomas who last {month was taken from the Olar jail by a crowd of men and later was turn- Jed over to the sheriff and brought { * |here for safo keeping, was Gaieag Shipping Facilities Here Would Be Great-| 2. 8,52! Pomantian’ tony | ly Extended and Improved by Coming et of North and South Railroad TO COLLECT near Govan, Bamberg county. wait nae dE De) Nail Carried In Lung Many Years Found GREEN BAY, Wis., Feb. After having a brass nall in her left lung 13 years, Miss Rose Wendrick, STARTS FEB. 19 REALTORS ENDORSE NEW RAILROAD ‘The Casper Realtors association in regular meet’ng today noon went on record unanimously in favor of support toward bringing the Wyoming North and South ratiroad to Casper. Sentiment expressed by the mem- bers, who include a great majority of real estate operaters of the city. was to the effect that the railroad company should receive both moral and financial support from the Casje public and the endorsement given by the assockttion calls for th» unted co-operation of the realtors as .an organization. a lurge percéntage of this: in the campaign. here. a 17, submitted tovan operation by The meeting today was addressed by Charles B. Stafford, secretary d Dog | of the Casper Chamber of Commerce, who discussed the raliroad project DriJout Minahan, with s Success’ | ing, ‘The ¥. W: C. A. aleo aie |} and the benefits that would accrus fo the. city from direct connections ful result. During the operation it | ig; . W. C. A, also conducts | was reported that the girl's heart was moved slightly and even stop- ped. According to Dr. Minahan it was necessary to Wever several ribs a high school club for girls which ] meets bimonthly. Social and 1}! ————— lectual activities as well as health is One of the important features of the Wyoming North &| the object of this class, Gir's from South railroad, which has not been’ sufficiently stressed in| twelve to eighteen yea: of age are and an active co-operation with th. nections from Casper with five transcontinental yailroads. | SALMA Cost aS nee | various Sunday schools churches. . jot the city's The road will connect directly with the Union Pacific, the} | Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, the Chicago & North Western, clared, the orga: was so regulated 80 as to not affect its action, there- Richard: | NUMBER 99. H OF HUNGER FOOD oUPPLIES RUNNING LOW IN Blé INDUSTRIAL REGION, REPORT Congestion of Railroads Blamed by Germans for New Crisis in Occupa- tion by the French. By The Associated Press. While the grip of France- Belgian industrial control of the Ruhr is being felt in un- occupied Germany, to which coal and coke shipments have been completely cut off, the pinch of hunger is beginning to threaten the Ruhr {tself, according to German authorities. Food supplies are getting low in many towns, and consultations of government f@od officials. are in Progress in Berliz, The authorities uf occupation have indicated thelr intention not to inter- fere with food shipments, but the Germans contend the congestion of rolling stock at the frontiers is in- itably causing such interference. 1 train service the occupied s nothing Resumption of par from reported While the | show the ares definite to iiroad settlement reported night has been made effec- 1out the Rubr the strikers appear to have gone back toa large hexténe th the Cologne area, as fore- cast nd on ma y of the interio he Rubr the German ported again at work. Some trains began operating in and out cf Duesseldorf, where the station was reopened after being closed a week. ‘The appeal of German labor to the American congress asking American help to “save Europe and the world from inevitable disaster” is declared in Berlin messages to have been made in entire independence of German official circles. An appeal sent by the archbishop and bishops of Sweden to President Harding points te the serious condi- tions iit central Europe and asks American assistance for obtaining 2 straight-forward agreement between the pov ve the tension. BLOCKADE MAD) = TODAY DORP, Feb. 2.—(By The Associated Press.}—The blockade of the Ruhr valley from within was ab- solutely complete today. Not a single ton of coal or coke has entered Ger- many ‘from the Ruhr in the last 36 hours, the French authorities an- a that the m ree at mid-nigi lly effective. n ht nesday ¢ The mans show no disposition to contramet the French as to tne general effectiveness of the blockade but they relate how ohe train of forty- six loaded coal cars, disregarding all signals, ran the blockade at Horde near Dortmund yesterday afternoon and escaped into interior Germany. The French have 75's. commanding line in Germany and the df rectors of the railroads have been in- formed that any locomotive attempt: ing to escape will be fired upon, Ins | quirfes addressed to the French auth- orities as to wny they have not re- sorted to the simpler way of tearing | Up a few hundred yards of track long the occupied front, elicited the reply that they did not wish to inter. fere wth other traffic other than ex- ports of coal and coke and were de- sirous of gi ing the rail y men full | the Northern Pacific and the Chicago, stantial guarantees to the road if it] by making the necessary incision y to resume work, Milwaukee & St. Paul. }}witt come in to thelr particular town. | possible. allway workers show- It cs popularly agreed by the pub-! ‘The girl ts reported to be recov- on today’ go resume (Continued on Page Ten) ering. . basis | be a materia! saving in time and c |The same xtatement applies to senger traffic’ in a lesser | Freight that otherwise would me around through Billing jeyenne can be routed direct sper through the points’ at IS MARKED BY wh This raise is in lino with those an nounced during the past few days in the Pennsylvani® ané Mid-Continent fields and has been expected. Owing to the upward tend of the markets in the east where it is stated that Premiums of from 10 to 20 cents aro being paid by Jndependemts above Another ‘raiseof 10 cents a barrel in the price of crude| the posted prices, it is expected that oil at the wll was posted by the Midwest Refining company, effective wiJh the opening of applies to 411 fields in Wyoming and Montana where this company pu rchases oil. he local offices of the Ohio ¢ but (ls custo: tion any tog) nest ary raise posted) business this morning which Notice has not yet been received at| mer are being fr: dil. company, which purchases {t is probable tha ved to that tomorrow. offect- not later tha further mdvances here will. be an: nounced in tho near future and pre: dictions that Salt Creek crudo will be bringing $2 a barrel by midsum-| y made The ¢ pri Howing table ows ra those the opening business t » North & South railroad con with the transcontinental syste | In the course of several. years the saving will run into millions of dol- | Jara saving for Casper merchants and | manufacturers on freight which they | change is mace in Rock Creek, Mule} Creek, and Sunburst in the following | aa notificatton to that effect has not been given by the Ohio. DEBATE IN LECGI Underwood and Shrum Match Words and| --Biled— --.. ~~! Old Price New Price] are either shipping out or receiving: HamiYon $1.45| Cities on the northern end of the * : . arog sl 1.95] proposed tino realize the great vene-| Wit When Measures Affecting Mine Mule Creek fits which the railroad will mean and) j Ble Muday 1.45, have acted accordingly. Sheridan, a| Labor Come Up in the House Balt. Cree 1.45 |, ¢'ty. Whose population is aproximate’ | Rack Cheek fly half that of Casper, is.on the job “4 |and has guaranteed thy North & SVENNE. we , : “See ben | pereatpeccer | South railroad $100,000 in the form|_ CHEYENNE, Wyo., Feb. 2.—(Special to The Tribune.) — ance Creek | of a-cash bonus and 400 acres of lana! Spokesmen for organi ed labor heuse of the Wyoming legislatur : defense of Repre: t ng that operators 8 lasts in their mines. were militant in the lower again Thursda tive Willsor bill 2 hall employ expert shot firer The same measure had been the thou 1.99 19 1 LABOR BILL DISCUSSION LIVELY SLATURE of a hot flare-up earlier in the ses- sion, Thursday when it came before | the committee of the whole house it precipitated a heated ate, then was lald over another day ithout pre. Judice Thuradi battle was | caused by t offered by I R presentat publican fi ader the