Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 15, 1923, Page 1

1923, ide: when er, his y ning Weather Forecast Fair tonight and Friday; warmer in north portion tonight and in east por. tion Friday. YSLUME VIL. LEASE GERMANS MAY {| PRESENT PEACE PLAN, IS RUMOR Guarantees to France and Supervision of Her Finances Would Be Allowed by Country Under Pending Plan LONDON, March 15.—(By The Associated Press for Many Years, )—The information printed by the diplomatic correspondent of the international supervision of he: able attention here today. The article, based on advices which; the newspaper says are thoroughly! rellable asserts that Germany is not prepared to bring the plan into light) until she is assurea that it will re- ceive more’ attention than did the proposals she had ready for the Lon- don and Paris premiers’ conference! Unofficial overtures were made re cently to the British cabinet by Ger-| many, the correspondent continues, as to whether Great Britain would) enter the opening wedge in peaco negotiations by suggest openly that a definite German offer would be con- sidered in London. These advances,| the article asserts did not draw out the British authorities and consé quently, Germany is reluctant to dis- close her hand. The writer declares that the Ger- can industrialists are prepared to! contribyte ® material guarantee. He learns” that Germany 1s. ready to} accept international financial control. | FRENCH BLAMED FOR GERMAN CRIMES. PARIS, March 15.—(By The Asso- elated Press.)\—German nationalists, wearing French uniforms and posing as French soldiers, are declared in French official advices from the Ruhr to haye been committing robberies and other outrages with their own eountrymen a» the victims. Their purpose, as interpreted here, is to excite the public against the) troops of occupation and stiffen the} German resistance. The French authorities are inve: gating thoroughly thto the extent of this and other new features of the opposition to the Franco Belglan| regime in the Ruhr. > | PEACE FORMULA PLANNED | | WASHINGTON, March 15,—For mulation of a constructive program on “how the United States can help| in the world crisis today,” was the| announced purpose of a conference} opened here today by the United States section of the Women's Inter-| national League for Peace and Free- dom. Daily Telegraph to the effect that Germany has up her sleeve a peace plan that includes guarantees to France as well as r finances, attracted consider- 17 CAGE FIVES ARE STILL IN THE RUNNING LARAMIE, Wyo., March 15.—Sev enteen teams were still in the running for titu’ar honors in the state high school basketball tournament today— the fourth day of the tournament. |Three teams must be eliminated in to- day's games. Undefeated teams in the tournament are Cheyenne, Rock Springs, Worland, Mount View, Evans- ton, Rawlins and Torrington. Twelve teams were eliminated in yesterday's games. LARAMIE, Wyo., March 15. — Cowley and Sunrise were eliminated from the state high school basketba]! tournament today. The University Preps beat’ Cowley 11 to 10, while Cheyenne defeated Sunrise 15 to 6. Evanston beat Mountain View 28 to 7. Laramie defeated Rawlins 20 to 14 BRITISH PAY FIRST MONEY. WASHINGTON, March 15.—The first payment by the British govern- ment under the recently negotiated debt refunding agreement will be made today at the ‘New ork federal reserve bank. Although the formal agreement has not yet actually been signed, the desire to make at once the $4,128,085) payment necessary to reduce the debt to an even $4,600,000,000, the figure} upon which the 62 year funding plan was calculated. NINE PERISH IN N. Y. FIRE Six Women in County ‘Alms House Near Angelica Are Cremated in Beds; Two Men Are A ANGELICA, N. ¥., March 15.—Seven women and two, men perished when the Allegany county alms house on the} outskirts of this village was burned early today. started from a gas explosion in lso Victims The- fire the basement of the two-story wooden structure where 24 women patients were quartered and quickly spread to the administration building. lost his life in an effort to rescue the wotnen inmates. The night fireman Was killed by the explosion. Six women were cremated in thelr beds and another was killed when she| leaped from the upper window of the/ Dlazing building. | Sanborn made his way into the| Diazing structure three times and) @mch time carried out one of the Women. On his fourth trip Into tho} building the floor caved in and he) ‘was burned to death. | Several of the rescued women were | badly burned but all are expected to tecover. The loss to the hurned buildings is estimated at $100,C)). pi MANUFACTURER DEAD ROCHESTER, N. Y nh Arthur L. Ste'n, known cl ing manufacturer, died today. Charles Sanborn, head stable S| | | oth: | wide'y ° ° CASPER, WYO., THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1923. ! Sam Covington, Terror of Stock Interests Plans to “Rot in Prison” Than Involve Others BY WALTER C. HAWES WHEATLAND, Wyo., March 14.—The shades of the great state prison house at Rawlins are descending darkly over the man who, for more than a dozen years has been the terror of large and small stockmen as well in Platte county, for the seemingly impossible law has got Sam Covington. For less than two weeks ago the prophecies of those who maintained that the meshes of the law were too large to holé the wily and adroit kingpin of the rustling gang came to naught, and a jury turned in a ver- dict of guilty. And now a dazed and elderly man, already pale with unwonted imprison- ment, lies in the Platte county fail awaiting the sentence of # judge which will tell him how many cf his few remaining years are to be claim- has been accomplished—the ed by vengeance, and how many may be his. | “I didn't think they could ever pull it," he ejaculated to the officer who led him from the court room, after he had heard the fateful vercict. And once before indeed. the dragnet had closed in upon him, and shut—and found him escaped. But that time Sam had been left at large on bond, and two weeks before the trial the evidence ‘had ean stolen, And ever since the verdict of guilty (Continued on Page Five.) Wheatland Stockmen Resting Easier After Conviction of King of Rustlers The Circulation of the CASPER DAILY TRIBUNE Yesterday was 9,780 Casper Daily Cribune [fn] by all contestants who wish to PERIOD will soon be over. Only if th per y were year prov.ding million mark Monday ness cast at election PERIOD which closes April ONLY TWO WEEKS OF BIG VOTE CONCERTED ACTION IS NEEDED Hustle is the keynote. More concerted action should be manifested participa prizes soon to be awarded live hustlers by two more w testants ca nsecure the maximum number of votes for their subscri One subscription now js worth three subscriptions later in the race. Your ultimate success, depends on what you accomp]ish these two weeks. Don't overlook the second subscriptions your extensions will play a prominent part in your ullmate success. The second year counts you 24,000 votes. A five year extension will count you 348,000. Then too, new subseriber, you would also get an extra 2 the subscription was Remember the goal set for this week. vote count each day with interest, are expecting sume one to pass the The count for Monday is made up from all bust- headquarters up to and incluCdng Saturday night. Let's make Saturday a real VOTE DAY and increase our these extraordinary prizes soon to be given away by The T: A cash report from every ACTIVE contestant Saturda: a firm foundation in the vote count for the last lap of the BI dat 10 p, m. the in the splendid array Tribune. The BIG VO remain in which con tons, 000 votes April 2nd. turned in before Those who are watching the neces toward bune. Let's secu ? VOTE EMERSON IS EJECTED FROM STATE ENGINEER'S OFFICE George J. Carroll. | Candidate For Mayor Charges For His Talks CHICAGO, March 15.—Wi'Vam A. | Cunnea, socialist candidate for mayor of Chicago, charges his hearers twenty-five cents to listen | to his campaign speeches and that | of his political assistant, Hugene V. Debs. Cunnea takes up a collection during each session and still draws crowds at every meeting. He made the statement last night that the socialist party had estab-| lished a precedent “something never heard of by any other political party.” Debs, at a meeting last night, where numbers were turned away, spoke about the war, asserting it was started by capitalists, for cap- italists and carried on by capita‘ists, but fought by the workers, “We are holding these meetings all over the city and the capitalist press will not even mention us in their columns," he said. pater ax oe UNION LEADER ILL BALTIMORE, Md., March 15—The | condition of William 8. Carter, for- mer president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen,| ill with Bright's disease, was reported} as unchanged today, BANK SHORTAGE IS DISCOVERED INVOLVED BY SUICIDE, BELIEF GILLETTE, Wyo. March 15.— (Special to The Tribune.}—State Ex- aminer Byron 8, Hule Thursday con- t'nued his investigation of the affairs of the Bank of Gillette, closed several days ago after the suicide of its pres. ident, Mark H. Shields. Commenting on the situation in the bank, Examin- er Hule said. A superficial examination discloses discrepancies in the acts of the bank of such nature as to make necessary | & complete examination of all acts) and records, Pending the completion of such an examination the bank will remain closed. A definite statement | probably can be made within a week jor ten days.” | It is said that large notes in the bank are d'sclatmed by prominent men whose names appear upon them, |and that a shortage of at least $80,-| | 000 in the bank's resources may Veventually be shown. ie) > | by the arm and led him out of the [Jy to establish a physical resistance. | adjournment of the fovernor was without authority to remove him. Shawver, after he had taken the! oath of office, went to the engineer’s| office accompanied by Tracy Mc- Craken, the governor's private sec retary, and informed Emerson he had been appointed engineer and had come to take over the office. Emer | son declined to relinquish the office! whereupon Sheriff Carroll was called| by Shawver. The sheriff informed! Emerson that Shawver was the duly| appointed engineer and requested ! Emerson to leave the office. Emerson, after conferring by tele: Phone with his counsel, former Attor- ney General W. L. Walls and W. 5. Mullen, said that he would not leave unless forced to do 80. ‘Thereupon Carroll took Emerson office. Emerson held back suffictent-| Copies of Governor Ross’ letter dis missing Emerson and the state engi- neer's reply follow in full: Governor Ross’ letter of removal: “Hon. Frank C. Emerson, State Engineer, Bullding—My dear Sir. Under and by virtue of the authority | vested in the Governor of the State of Wyoming by Section 318, Wyoming Compiled Statutes of 1920, I hereby remove you from the office of state engineer. “This action {s taken because, con-| trary to the dignity of the offica to which you were appointed after the) Sixteenth State legis‘ature, and in the violation of the comity which shoud exist between| any appointive state officers and the} chief executive, in whom In vested the| appointive power. you participated {1:| and attempted an usurpation of the| f..rctions of the governerby allow:ng| an ad inter‘m commission as_ state er gineer issued to you im 1921 by my} predecessor after the adjournment of| the Sixteenth State legislaturo, to be presented to the Senate cf the Seven | tcenth State leg'sleture fer confirma tion without the consent or knowledge of the povernor. “Witnout the governor having suo (Continued on Page Four.) | fe. Tak ae FINES ASSESSED IN COURT. Leo Raich was fined $25 tn police! court last night for beating up his! wife. | Thomas G. Nesbit was also assessed | ® fine of $25 for driving a car while! in an intoxicated condition. Dan Mc-| Pherson who had imbibed of some of| the lquor and who was in the car| paid a fine of $12.50. CHEYENNE, Wyo., March 15.— (Special to The Tribune.) —Frank C. Emerson, removed as Wyoming state engineer by Gov. William B. Ross Tuesday but who declined to relinquish possession of the office, was ejected from the office at 9:30 o’clock this morning by Sheriff} Casper D. Shawver of Cheyenne, who had just qualified as engineer un- der appointment by Governor ‘Ross, assumed possession of the office. Emerson, it is forecast, will resort to legal proceedings in'an effort to establish that the NEGRO SLAYER WACO, Tex., March 15.—With ‘Texas rangers and McLennan county Peace officers on guard, Roy Mitchell, negro, went to trial today charged with the murder of W. E. Holt near 19. Mrs, Ethel Den ramp, Holt's companion, was killed at the same time and Mitchell is charged with slaying her. The double killing was the latest of Waco's murder mysteries which baffled local Within less than a year five persons were slain in a mysterious and much Waco January | the same manner, four of the crimes occurring on highways near Waco. In four instances the slayer attacked his victims by jumping on the run- ning board of their automobile. One man, W. P. Driskell, was Killed with an axe after he had driven into his garage. eee GULF CRUDE IS ADVANCED HOUSTON, Tex, March 15.—The Humble Oi] and Refining company to day announced an increase in the price of Gulf Coast crude oil from $1.50 to $1.75. GOES ON TRIAL police and detectives. | | | Sheriff Leads Republican Appointee from Desk in Capitol Fol-- HELIUM GAS lowing Refusal to Abide by Governor’s Dismissal and Casper D.Shawver Succeeds Him in Office LIQUIFIED BY \NEW PROCESS TORONTO, Ont., March 15.—Pro- fessor John C. McClellan of the Unt!- versity of Toronto has discovered a | process for liquifying hellum gas. The new discovery, it is said, will open up big poxsibilities for the gas in the Industrial field. Hel'tm {s a non-combustible gas which {s nearly as light as hydrogen gas and can be used as a substitute for it. Its principal use up to the present time has been as a filling for dirigible balloons and other lighter than air craft, because of its non- inflammability. Many alr disasters due to the ignition of gas bags could have been avoided, it is said, if helium gas had been used, In its new lquified state helium will be particularly valuable in re- frigeration, since its temperature reaches within one degree of abso- lute zero. This pri rty of extreme temperature wi!l also make the Mquified gas especially useful in ack entific research, according to Pro- fessor McClellan. ® The value of helium as a commer- cial product 1s enhanced by its com- parative scarcity. The United States and Canada are the only countries in which it is found. During the war the United States took steps to ex- tract and conserve its hellum gas, and since the war it has prohibited its export from the country. Can- ada's source of helium is located at Bow Island, near Calgary, Alta. This field is said to be the largest in existence. SN ADMINISTRATI: PRAISED WASHINGTON, March 15.—Achieve- ments of the first two years of the present administration ‘“‘chal- lenge the record to produce another two years of accomplishments which will approach it,” Senator Fess of Ohio, declared today. CHEYENNE, Wyo., March 15.— A Cheyenne “mathemaniac” has taken his trusty pencil in hand, un- hobbled his tmagination and given birth to the following: Why all this ado about section 36-40-79? Why is the State of Wyo- ming so keenly interested in the problem of to whom it shall be leased that the State may derive the greatest benefit from the lease? Why are bids for a lease in terms of multiplied miliions of dollars? OIL WOULD FEED CAND ‘ANABA, M —Miss Evelyn Lyons, “fever girl." whose ingenious methods raised the temperature of dozens of clinical the limit for 21 ¢ny one of the strangest h countered by the me “My hoax first entered my when Dr, Harry Defnet turned back to me and I touched the of the instrument to the hot w bag.” she said in her confession “When he saw this, he was natur. ally overcome with surprise, and ho took the reading again and I again thought I would fool him. I waved my arms about my head and thus attracted his attention. I thought it a good joke on him but never thought thermometers ating en to perpet Axes eve al profession head his bulb of keeping it up. ‘Then came the newspaper stor the telegrams, hundreds of letters from _ so-called ‘nature healers’ from all parts of the nation." She kept {t up for 21 (mys and the trick was at last discovered. SRE a eas SUZANNE AND MOLLA DUE TO CLASH FRIDAY NICE, March 15.—(By The Assocl- ated Press.—Mrs. Molla Bjurstedt Mallory, American woman lawn ten. nis champion today qualified to meet | Suzanne Lenglen in the singles of the ice tournament tomorrow by defeat- |ing Miss Tobin and Mrs. O'Neill, Eng- | sh players, in the second and third | rounds, Miss Elizabeth Ryan, the California girl defeated Mrs. Beamish of Eng: and after a great uphill fight, thus reaching the semi-finals. The score of the match was 0-6, 6-3, 6-1. | The score of the Mallory-O'Neill | match was 8-6, 6-3. NUMBER 135. State Land Board Today Expected to Postpone Decision on Oil Lease Award, Latest Report BULLETIN CHEYENNE, Wyo., March 15.— The Wyoming state land board this afternoon announced that it had postponed until April 19 a decision on bids for lease on section 36-40-79, Salt Creek fleld, and that its decision regarding bids on the state's royalty oil celved this mornin, nounced April 19. which were re- would be an- CHEYENNE, Wyo., March (5—After listening to six bids for the purchase of royalty oil from the state school lands and oral arguments on behalf of these proposals, the Wyo- ming Jand board recessed at noon to- day,untll 2 p, m. when, It was an- nounced, tho. matter of leasing the stateowned. section 86 of the Salt Creek field might be taken up. The bids for the purchase of the ail were taken under advisement. They were: Patrick Sullivan of Casper, a price per barrel of Salt Creek crude equal to the Mid-continent price. The Mutual Oil company, 2f cents per barrel below the Mid coutinent prico on Salt Creek crude and 26 nts per barrel above the posted Midwest Refining company’s price on rass Creek but not to exceed the Mid-continent price, the oil to be re- fined in Wyoming. The Texas Oil company, posted Salt Creek price, the oll to be refined in Wyoming. The Midwest Refining company. Salt Creek price with minimum of $1.50, oll to be refined in Wyoming and the corporation to continue to cooperate with the state of Wyoming |1n constructing the Casper-Salt Creek concrete highway. The Ohio Oil company, posted mar- ket price, The Derrick Oll company, Mid- continent posted price plus two cents per barrel. At two o'clock the board expected to take up bids for the lease on tion 86, While no official expression | was available in advance, it was | rumored that neither of the two high bids, those of John W. Hay and the Midwest, would be accepted, and that bids would be advertised for at a time nearer the expiration of the Midwest company’s present lease, BELKNAP CASE MAY BE ‘The answer may be brief—section 86 contains enfolded and trapped within its strata perhaps 20,000,000 barrels of petroloum. That is 1,+ 000,000,000 gallons. At a price of $2 per barrel, the petroleum con- tent of the rection would sell for $40,000,000. On the basis of a roy. alty of 65 per cent bidders have offered such a royalty—the State of Wyoming wor $26,000,000 from sec Th two tion 36 ‘MATHEMANIAC’ DOPES OUT SECTION 36 STRIFE LE MILLIONS OF YEARS SOLVED ‘Man Under Surveillance in Connection With Disappearance of Fr. Vraniak May Be Wanted at Lead, S. D. VIRDEN, Ill., March 15.—(By The Associated Press.) Several new developments in the case of Father John A. Vraniak, pastor of the Sacred Heart Catholic church here who disappeared a week and a half ago, were day by George Miller, deputy sheriff of Macoupin county. Mrs. Johanna Vraniak, mother of the m announced to- sing rector, said she had received a letter from a woman in Dubuque, Iowa, who de- clared that her hrother, the Rev. Father Arthur B. Belknap, a priest at Lead, S. D., had been slain by a man whose description she supplied. Deput ff Miller declared the description of this alleged slayer of Belknap ather corresponds with that of a man who is being kept under surveillance in a town near here her un the au- Loula to niak was s of m fs so profoundly interested in the | leasing of section. 36; that is why rivalry for a lease is so keen. The average citizen readily may visualize one barrel of ofl, or mar barre oll, but how much oll ts 20,000,000 ba ? The mathemat feal symbol expressing what it i but the impression vague; the sum is too volume it expresses to (Continued on Page Four.) 1 Dut ‘ather A D,, who was 1921, at ur.) ‘ ss’) | | 7