Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 19, 1923, Page 1

Weather Forecast Partly cloudy ton! ‘eht and Tuesday; probably snow, West portion; not much change in temperature. | VOLUME VII. Che Cazper Daily Tribune FINAL EDITION CASPER, WYOMING, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1923 | LE 20 PERISH IN ASYLUM FIRE / NOMINATIONS IN $16,000 GIFT CAMPAIGN ARE GIVEN AGTIVE CANDIDATES ARE SLOW IN. MAKING. ENTRY Some in List Made Public for First Time Today Are Candidates in Name Only, Having Produced No No Votes. \ ns. Names with their idates en- omething” ; Today is appears—the first list of nom of nominees received up till noon tod; ze! nomination vote of 5,000 is printed today for tered in the Tribune’s great “Everybody Wins six automobiles and cash prizes campaign. Nominations are NOT closed. In fact,-today there are more prizes than there are activejvotes. And votes win, And subcrip- candidates. Opportunity without aj ticns m handicap 1s here today for new entries! With so few candidates entered, who will “carry on.” and so many of those not yet at least, This small Ust published today | manifesting any LIFE or ACTIVITY, must .not be misunderstood. The| the opportunity 1s here for some live names printed are just nominations. | ones to enter and ‘/ on” to win. The list only serves to show who is} In fact, the more candidates en- entered. It does not indicate the tered the less votes it will take to win. LIVED ACTIVE, | candidates: If two candidates are running for Many who have been nominated) office they must haye a'l the votes have failed, so far, to turn in One| between them. The winner must have sing‘e, solitary subscription to the|/_ majority—over half—of all the Tribune. Some have not even catled| votes cast. But if five candidates to get an official receipt book. They} seek the same office the winner only are, so far, candidates in name 0... | needs to have more votes than the nothing more. next higher candidate. Subscriptions Will Win: Then too, in this campaign, “every- Candidates who will not produce! body wins something.” There is the subscriptions can not hope to win,|new Buick sedan, the. new. Ricken- ‘The more subscriptions you can pro-| backer coupe, the new Chalmers duce the more votes you earn. The the new Hudson coach, the free coupons appearing in the Tri- and the new Essex ‘bune from day to day are valuable} cos only In the degree in which you’ en- hance your vote score by subscrip- tions. ‘There {s absolutely no hope in coupons alone. Coupons are printed primartty ‘to stimulate interest. Of course they do have some value, but it 1s question. able when one considers that one sub: scription alone off-sets a whole bun- dle of coupons. Nominations But Start Simple nomination of a candidate does not mean anything. The nomin ation is but the first step, the. start, ing point, Anyone content to rest after nomination can not get far in this election. Active effort, constant attention to the busi- ness in hand, and that alone can get DISTRICT NO. 1 District No. 1 includes all the territory in that part of the city of Casper south of Second street and east of Durbin street. One or two of the cars and as many cash prizes as there are active con- testants will be awarded in this district. Following is a list of those entered in this district: Miss Alice Barnett Miss Elizabeth Baugh Billy Capps *.. ‘ . Mrs. Florence M. Gaffes +... Mrs. C. F. Castleman Jesse J. Kear ......-+ Mrs, Blanche Davis .. Mrs. Anna Drazick Miss H. Ellis Miss Izetta Gibbs Mrs. H. T. Geiger. Mrs. L: E. Goodwin Jesse Hagerty ..... Mrs. A. W. Hobbs Miss Tazel I. Kuhns Miss Nellie McCash . Frank McCleary W. HH. Marks Mrs. ©, 1. Mrs. Mrs. Mrs, ones totaling thousands of dollars. And remember too, the cash commis- ston of 20 per cent paid all active non- winning participants. In an election for office, but one candidate wins. In the Tribune election “everybody wins —"XYOU WIN. To Copbbetares ‘The total vote count of each con- testant entered in the Tribune cam- paign will be made public Wednesday: There is any number of cortestants entered who so far have failed to make a single report, and this wilt | give those contestants an opportunity ‘to get in their count for Wednesday's issue. All subseriptions should | turned into campaign headquarters by Tuesday noon to appear in the count Wednesday, +. Meginity O, Wi. Meyer . M, M. Myer .. -Mrs. Bessie Nelson Mrs, Bob Peebles John Peach Jack Perry Mrs. H. B. Pearce be Mrs. Chas. Strickler Warren BE. Sauter .... Mike Stoltz E Mrs. C. E. Seroi Miss Mollie’ A. Sullt W. H. Thomas Mrs. Florence Ufheil (Continued on Page Four.) INQUEST INTO MURDER BECINS She has been hyster. 19.—The}be summoned. ‘eb. 4 since her husband's death an LOS ANGELES, Cal., : » ot{teal coroner’a inquest over the body of) fy Ml cian‘ care and unable! Earle Remington, electrical engineer.|+4 give the police as complete a state sia at his own doorw t Thure-|ment as they seek y night, was to be held here today.| The officers have a number of the Pollen detectives said they wou'dlories, which involve women, profes: call a large number of witnesses. In cluding pri very person they have quest’oned concerning the case. They did not state in advance, how-| veloped sufficiently ever, whether the widow, Mrs. sinia Lola Stone Remington, would|rounding the sional jealousy, Mex'can mines, finan clal d'fficuit'es, demented persons and bootleggers, but say none has been de fo indicate # paying. OLATIVE ) of gold-and 2 Theater Tickets Added Incentive For This Week Through the courstesy of the Wyo- ming thet contestants in ‘The Daily Tr.buno's Automobile Campatgn are offered an extra set of prizes, con- sisting of tickets to the Wyoming th vter to see Booth Tarkington's sp’ d'd production, “The Flirt.” which js showing at that theater, starting next Thursday. There will be ‘five separate sets of Pr'zes awarded, winners to be deter mined by po'nts which they will be alloted by subscriptions. secured to The Daily Tribune, Points In th’s con- test will be determined as follows: months’ subscriptions. % point. year subscription, 1 point. Years subscription, 2 po!nts. years’ subscript'on, 3 po'nts. 4 years’ subscription, 4 po'nts. 6 years’ subscription, 5 points. 6 years’ subscription. 6 points. The contestants securing the great est number of points will be given pr'zes an follows: First pr'ze—6 tickets. Second prize—5 tickets. Third prize—4 tickets. Fourth. prize—2 tickets, Fifth prize—2 tiekets. i Here is a two-fold Opportunity for all contescants, that of seeing this wonderful production absolutely free and at the same t'me increase your vols stand’ng toward the fine new closed cars which are soon to be awarded by The Dally Tribune. Wouldn't it be a wonderful treat for any contestant to give a dandy she- ater party for some of the true frieds who had helped them in their contest? The Wyoming theater, by the'r k'nd- nes, have made this a s'mple matter for any contestant. Those who are quick to take advantage of opportu- nities. were on the job early this morning in an effort to win one of these pr'zes. All contestants are starting on an equal bas's for this special campa'gn. wh'ch begins today, February 18, and closes Friday n'ght, February 22. Th’s is a wonderful opportunity for new contestants and those who start- ed ate to win a special prize, Let your slogan be “ ATheater Par- ty Saturday Night.” and a farger vote for the grand prizes. Determination wil win. going to see “Tire Flrt"? NEGOTIATIONS FOR SALE OF EDDIE COLLINS ARE DEMIED BY SOX OFFICER PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 19.—Den'al that there have been any further n gotiations in the proposed basehal deal whereby Edd’e Coilins, the Chi cago White Sox star, would be traded to the New York Yankees in exchange for a number of players and a money consideration, was made today by Harry Grab‘ner, secretary of the Chi: cago club. Grabiner, who is here al tending the spring meeting of the ‘American league, was reported to have been in conference with the owners of the Yankees in New York on the proposed deal, which {# sa’d to have been hanging fire for a year ead aati Ne Boca 6 1 3 Are you Professional Bouts Tabooed On Commodore CHICAGO, Feb. 19.—Professional bouts aboard the U. 8. 8. Commodore here will be taboo and in their place will be amateur exhibitions, Captain B, A. Evers, United States naval re- serve announced in a statement made public today upon his return from Washington, D. C., after a conte: we'l, president of the Chicago Law and Order league. Among the Maorix, or natives of New Zealand, the woman do not tat too any part of tholr faces excepting Vir-|mpeedy solution of the mystery sur-|!t in considered 0. jan to have red lips. ence with Assistant Secretary of the vy Roosevelt regarding complaints against professional bouts aboard the ship, made by Arthur Burrage Far. the Ips, whieh thus become blue, fr werace for a wom: i NUMBER 113 DRAGS BEYOND RECORD Capital Removal Bill. One of Many Bills Smothered Kidnaped Fhoto shows Convent of Notre Dame of Frods:ick, Md. She tells a wierd story of ha jag been spirited away by a man « # woman but since her retarm has been unable to furnish any informa- fete met lead Pas the appre tion that hension of GRANTING OF SA ENDORSED BY railroad, ate familiar with the conditions sur- rounding the enterprise. again that the building of such a rail- ron@ az planned into the vast state of Wyoming js an undertaking of ex- treme hazasd and for that reason that cireumstances toward {ts successful development should be made as favor- able as possible, It is also of interest to note that in granting a favorable lease to the Haskell interests, the state land board would not be breaking a precedent and therefore is not vO@ting any obligation to the constituency which it represents. The Midwest company HOUSE Trade Rumors Rife as Ball Magnates Meet PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Feb. 19.— As the owners and officials of the American baseball league gathered to- day for the annual schedule mveting| of the league, rumors of important trades gained wide circulation in| local baseball circles. All, however, ved confirmation, The most important dea! said to be impending was that which would send Eddie Collins from the Chicago, White Sox to the New York Yankees. “THE FLIRT’ COMING 10 THE WYOMING THURSDAY “The Furt," Booth Tarkington's v!- vid cross-section of American home- life, wil be shown at the Wyoming; theater beginning Thursday. ‘It is of. fered by Carl Laemmi a Universal Jewel dramatization of famous novel, Hobart Henloy directed !t at Untversal City, Dileen, Percy, Helen) Jerome Eddy, George Nicho’s and ten| other notable players give a power-| ful characterization of this master- piece, BASTROP JURY HOLDS PROBLEM BHREVEPORT, La, Feb, 19.—At torney General A, V, Coco, and Spe fal Ans’stant Attorney Gen How ard B. Warren of Louls'ann day for Bastrop, where they will in vontigate the personne! of the pan from which m grand jury will be sa lected March 5 to act on evidence dt iter Cecclia ef tho LEASE TO RAILROAD COMPANY That the request dow the officials of the Wyoming North and South rail- road for a lease on Section No. 36 of the Salt Creek field when the present lease held by the Midwest Refining company exvires is entirely fair and that it will résult in great benefit to the peop’e of this part of the state and therefore should be granted the is the opinion of those wha It has been brought out again and YIELDS UP BOOZE EVIDENCE Precedents Broken as Final Session Lasts Into Second Day’s Overtime CHEYENNE, Wyo., 19.—(Special to une.)—At 8 0 rel k this after- noon the seventeenth Wyo- ming lepielature was still in session although the legal ex- Piration of its forty-Cay session was st midnight Saturday after a “for- tleth-day” sitting, 53 hours in dur, tion, the two houses Monday afte noon Were awaiting comp'etion of the enrollment of bil's before adjourn:ng sine die, The final adjournment prob: ably will take vlace before 5 o'clock There will be no new game and fish law. So many senators have de parted for home that there remain here an insufficient number cif senate friends of senate 116 to adopt a con- ference agreement on the measure, should such an agreement be reached. Final agreement between the sen- ate and house on the budget bill left the measure $116,009 greater in its total of appropriations than when it was passed by the house and in its enacted form It carrles approximately $2,500,000. ‘There is gosstp in the lobbies that Governor Ross is considering calling a special session to consider a mineral severance tax but no confirmation is available at the governor's office. Among the bills that died a natural death in the closing hours, were the ones to give the people an opportu nity to vote on capital removal, the one proposing a state bank guarantee law, the one to create the office of poet laureate and the one to place parochial and private schools under the -jur'sdiction of the state depart ment of education. Several times between Saturday mid. night and Monday morning the two houses “stood at ease” while the mm ‘Went downtown for food and PROBE BEGINS if | Eight Inquiries Launched Into Origin of Tragic Blaze at Manhattan State Hospital; Tenement Negroes Dead Feb. The Trib- NEW YORK, Feb. 19.—(By The Associated Press.) — Eight inquiries were under way today in the tragedy on Ward’s island, a little jutting rock in the swirling waters of the Hell Gate where yesterday fire swept a ward of the Man- hattan State hospital for the insane, killing 22 patients and three male attendants. N'neteen bodies had been recovered | during the night. The bedlam of before dusk and removed to the city/cries and ravings which ordinarily {morgue but six more remained in tho|might have been expected was entire- iee-covered ruins, These, it was!ly lacking. The whole population of feared, had been cremated, and Su-|the state's asylum presented a phleg- perintendent Marcus B, Heyman ex-|mat'c caim after the day of sorrow, a pressed doubt whether more thanjday on which the insane acted most arred bones would be recovered. sanely. ‘The blaze was believed to have! The one unit of the 75 on the island been started by a terrific blast In|that was attacked by flames housed He!l Gate which broke the insulation |the most violently insane—men of ho- on electric wirlng, causing a short|Micidal tendencies, who at any mo- creat: ment might have leaped at the throats of their rescuers. But leap they did A curious hush pervaded the not CA tUW olcdigied aac grants frist to push thelr way to safety through the smoke and flames, but not a single attack upon an attendant was reported. James R. Hines, a pattent, who per- ‘shed, was a veteran of the wor'd war. Several other world war veterans per- lished in the flames. Yesterday's blaze destroyed but a part of the great building, which over- crowded as it is, sometimes shelters 2.200. The building is 50 years old. The perll in which inmates of the Is!ands Ive has been brought to the attent'on of public officials in the last twenty-six years by six fires be- sides that of yesterday. FOUR NEGROES PERISH IN TENEMENT. NEW YORK, Feb. 19.—Four ne- groes—a grandmother, daughter and two’ grandsons—perished in a Brooke lyn ‘tenement fire today, bringing to 31 the total of fire fataliles in Greater New York during the coldest weekend of the winter. Twenty-five perished at the Man- hattan State Hosp'al for the Insane on Ward's island. A woman dropped dead from heart disease in her Bronx residen A Syearold child lost {ts life in a fivestory tenement fire on the upper: east side. The charred body was found in a crib. —— CANNES—Suzanne Lenglen, the| tance tax. French Jawn tennis champion, de-| There was an outbreak of fiery ora: feated Elizabeth Ryan, 6-3 and 6-1. (Continued on Page Ten.) OWNED BY CITY DAD i LT CREEK OIL PROMINENT MEN was granted a lease of this nature on| the company’s promise to donate| money for the completion of the Salt Creek road paving. | A lease by the ratlroad on section 36 will mean a considerable lessening of the burden of, reimbursing | the ‘compitny“ilG- Der Cent -of. the-capital invested, which bas been asked of the cities along the line of the project. It will take some time, however, to se- cure the lease, and in caso that it may fail, citizens in this part of the state should not Jay @own their oars in the fight for the railroad. C. A. Owens, vice president of the Wyoming North & South Ratlroad returned to Casper today from Chey- enne where he accompanied Scott Ferris, personal representative of Ex-Governor C. N. Haske'l, and the delegation of Sheridan, Buffalo and Casper citizens that journeyed south to the capital to solicit official and state assistance for the new road. According to Mr, Owens, Scott Fer- ris, left Cheyenne this morning for Continued on Page Three) Weary solons snatched a few hours of sleep. Interested galleries re- mained at the capitol until 8 o'clock Sundsy morn'hg and until 5 o'clock Monday morning. Among the !mportant measures passed on the t day” were house 230, creating the state department of agriculture; house 284, creating a state tax factfind'ng commiss'on; house 259, exempting sugar factories from taxation for a perlod of ten years after their institution; house 120, levying a oneelghth mill tax levy for the state tuberculosis sant- tartum to be built in Big Horn eoun- ty: house 172, increasing the inheri- John M. Whisenhunt Owner of House on South Walnut Where Two Are Seized as Violators and Councilman Walter Royce Signs Bond for Release of Accused Pair Three liquor and gambling raids late Saturday night by Sheriff Perry Morris and his | deputies, one of which was on a house at 1022 S. Walnut street, said to be owned ‘by John | Whisenhunt, councilman from the first ward, netted 11 prisoners, considerable liquor and some gaitbling paraphernalia. The city council seemingly takes considerable interest in the |house on South Walnut street as another councilman, Walter Royce, from the second ward, |signed the bond which released Frank Austin and his wife, occupants of the place. | DR. JACOBS T0 aoe eats ey ue hones ue spoil Biden BE TRIED SOON n Initiation\: search {m said to have uncovered sey- eral gallons of liquor, numerous cases of empty beer bottles, cappers, jugs and jars, Sunday morning the sher- iff went back to the residence and ar- rested Mr. and Mrs. Austin and G. G. Rennet. | The Sandbar was considerably} LOS ANGELES, Cal., seb. 19—The SAN DIEGO, Cal., Feb. 19—The jatirred up by two raids tn quick suc-| skull of Thomas J, Harrigan was frac- trial of Dr. Louls L. Jacobs, Camp| cession there Saturday evening when|tured during initiation into a frater- the sheriff's deputies pounced on the Atlas hotel at 251 West B street and on the establishment run by “Jew"’ Morr!s, whose real name is Morria ’ >, erward, when he became !!l an Blobis, at 283 Weat B street, Jmought the al dof police surgeons, to ‘Tho house at 251 Weat B netted stx/ whom he explained that during tho prisoners including Blebia, Florence initiation an electric shock was ad Blebis, Cora Reed, Lela Willlamaon.| ministered, startling him #o that he Fred Moesteller and Edward Snuges.|¢ol1 backward, striling Nand: cat At the Atlas, Cal Tinabloom and Pl-|¢he foo mer Adama were taken into custody, Liquor was found in both places, ao: cording to the sheriff, All of the people taken tn the raids on the bar were released on bonds of $1,000 each, ———>_—__ The ight and heat that make life possible are flashed to us in etght and one-half minutes over the 90,000,- nal order, according to r pital records. He did not know {t for a week aft: Kearney physic'an, held at the coun- ving hos- |ty Jail on the charge of having mur- dered M'ss Fritz} Mann, pretty local| lancer, whose body was found on the| Torrey Pines beach January 15, will be heid within the next s!x weeks. ac- cord! ing to.a statement made today | by his attorney. ‘The Port of Lon@on autnority is to spond $70,000 000 on modernizing the port and works, FIGHT David Struck, sheriff of Taos coun- 100 0 . | Kmart eae Aaae.ceaiger Prapleboral Py Te ‘Mexico, and hie deputy Juan ; |the nun, Hut the nearest of the ntarn| {7 7 teeceaper’ Aha [closed in the recent open hearing OF) 4. aq tar nway that tts light needs a arohuteta and nto hooded mob activities tm More-| on nan four yenrw to reach tid as te | house parint " dupa bholdaN sibs Juan DL Archuleta, back Tho attoruey general #a'd he y Mexico on the charge of hav ween told five of the par were Lelleved to be the firat|ing murdered Antonio D'Vargos, there known Klanamen, five known a publ. n in the on July 17, D'Vargos was very | th y kianamen and the other ten suspect-|world exclusively having been ed of being k'anamen, but this infor-'women has just made its appearance| the representat! Rio Arrita mation was unofficial, in Paris. county in the state legislature at the | twice they “‘stood at ease” while the MEX BROTHERS LTHUANTANS IN NEUTRAL REGION AGAINST. POLES REPEAT ATTACKS Polish Army Is Occupying More: Than Zone Allota ed to It. Lithuanian Rep- resentative Declares WARSAW, Feb. 19.—(By The Associated Press.) —+ Fresh attacks by the A aes aniang on the Polish fords in the neutral zone allotted to Poland are reported here to- day. It is also sald the class of 1923 has been mobilized in Lithuania, Despatches last night from both Potlsh and Lithuanian sources re- ported collisions between forces of the two countries. The Lithuantan legation in Paris made public a des- patch from Kovno asserting that Pol- ish forces had invaded Lithuania, after occupying the neutral zone near Orany and attacked the Lithuanian troops with heavy casualties. The despatch added that the Lithuanian government had reported the facts to the league of nation requesting that steps be taken to prevent an exten- sion of the conflic PARIS, Feb. 19.—(By The Associat- ed Press.)—Mengre details of the oc- cupation of the neutral zone between Poland and Lithuania, received in official circles in Paris, indicate there has "been action on both sides. Dis- patches from Potish sources to the foreign office say that as soon as the Poles completed the occupation of that part of the zone given them by the council of the league of nations, the Lithuanians began firing with ar- tillery upon the points occupled. { At the Lithuanian legation here it was declared the Poles had nov only occupled their own part of the neu- tral zone but had crowded over into the part assigned to the Lithuanians by the league. It also was averred that the Polish frontier guards and officia’s needed for the administra: tion of the regulation were accom: panied by troops of all arms, con, trary to the decision of the league council, which while allowing tha claimants each to administer a part of the zone, intended the zone should remain as far as military operations were concerned. The impression voiced in French offical circles is that the Lithuanians are carrying out the threat they made in the league co tO £e6int Lie ox. cupation of any part of the zone hy the Poles. Lithuania has an army of BORO: lees Et OCT eg THE NINETY AND INE?” [5 GRIPPING PHOTOPLAY. Audiences at the America theater have often been thriled by many of the pictures which have been shown there, but rarely bas a photodrama so gripped them with its gradually ris- ing to climax as “The Ninety and Nine,” an inspiring production featur- ing Collen Moore and Warner Bax: ter. “The Ninety and Nine," ts the story of a man who had been d'sappointed with everything through the aj parent Insincerity of those who were closest to him. He rapidly goes down hill, becomes known as one who is worse than worthless, but through the hands of the girl played by the beautiful Colleen Moore is brought back. ' There ts a thread of mystery tn the play, a murder mystery that remains junsolved until the end. There {a als the thrill of adventure, and ho saving of a whole vilage of people trom @ | forest fire ‘s the high ght of the play from this standpoint. ‘The Ninety and Nino” ts being re peated today, RETURN ime he was killed. Archi | ers wore cans 4 in . ter nearch, oxt re weat, had t m | Alex King insel for oe two adition Jand a formal hearing will be din Cheyénne tomorrow on the matter. of taking the men back to New Mexico. '