Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 28, 1923, Page 6

PAGE SIX TE } ng), Post- err s Mat No B Bra ® & Rs _hews Ing Re} 5 4 ic r > en Member 2 Circul: = Member of the ~ SUBSCRIPTION RATE By Carrier or By Mail | sae _-$9.00 —— lt >| the town. CASPER TRIBUNE'S PROGRAM THE ft Casper ted at pools for the Garden Croek E Better roads for county highways for Wyoming. uitable f es for he Ro n trec n train * AMERICAN PEONAGE © According to testimony before the Florida legislative committee in the now celebrated peonage case, the officials in one county, at least. did a thriving business in prisoners. Z The sheriff and his deputies Would round up a couple of auto- Mobile loads of transients nearly @very day and bring them before fhe court late in the evening. At that court, a former jailer testified @most everybod pt the pr @ers was usually drunk. The pris- @mers would be tried for vagrancy | @ riding freight trains. » Every one of them would be warned, by the sheriff or his{ deputies, that if he demanded trial! Re would get six months, but if he Pleaded guilty he would get only three months. Naturally th Would plead guilty. Then the sheriff would turn them over to a Yamber company, in pursuance of a epniract he had with the company Whereby ho would get $20 apiece for the prisoners, and the jailer would get a rakeoff as a “witness} fee.” After that, what became of the prisonerr w up t. the com-| rainy ¥ cased” them What Happened in one case ‘8 only too| Well known. Ameri have long pointed the finger of scorn at Mexico as a land ft peo! Here is prcof of revolt- ing peonage in our own land. Flor- ia will do well to apply a little of that widely publicized “100 per cgnt Americanism” where it will do the most good — ALIENS BEARING GIFTS | erally trained in public school and Che Casper Daily Cribune 4 country would want to do would al ete as Saat Z be to cast everybody, nacive or Aunt Eppie Hogg, the Fattest Woman in Three Counties. foreign-born, into exactly the same mold. As a matter of fact, there is no definitely recognizable American type. And if Americans became all GREATLY 1S To HAVE. ONE of THE LARGER Bos exactl like, hinking, king and EeineTeUeatHay Cont cee SNATCH A BUNCH oF CAPS AND HATS AND Americans eVaEEUIAY Ge Tudlty dnt serene THROW “THEM UP ON HER BACK WHERE tia’ that is what icanis fe nke Sol ea, SHE CANT REACH THEM. kes for granted difference in non- sentials. It mig be said y to make life worth living. aig JUBILEES AND CLEAN STREETS Hylan of N busy promotin Of cours wered with s one of the most the most flattering, was that we have the streets of the city cleaned just before the arrival of the jubilating visitors. ot content with th r went “There must st Ma y York has gz a city he has been stion: Per- pertinent, if not DONT LETIM SEE Tou mere sug- on to r r castically; be men in the department w know how to do it. The achiev ment would also supply to the citi zens themselves a cause for juliee. is a suggestion which would be| applicable in many cites. Clean| streets seem to be one of the forms | housekeeping most neg-| Yet there is nothing more 11 not only to the appearance t to the comfort and health of It of civic lected. Big civic celebrations are good in their way. They have their uses in promoting civic pride and at tr * interest in the town. But whether it be in ork or else- where, they should not be promoted 2 at the expense, or to the exclusion, of necessary public work. ‘ STARVING RUSSIA ONE oF THE “THINGS WHICH ANNOYS AUNT EPPIE. und were present when Mr, Wilson drank some of the liquor. Mr. Wilson finally rode away on his horse but returned after the de- parture of the Flemings. Mr. Mc- Connel heard the horse coming, and stood at the side of the house waiting for the rider to approach. When with- in about thirty steps from the house, the rider pitched from the saddle to | the ground. He was unable to speak. Mr. McConnel took him to the house and put him to bed. Feeling that the situation was serious Mr. McConnell then went for assistance. Upon his’ return to the house after an absence of about thirty minutes, Wilson was | dead. Word was sent to Moorcroft and from there Sheriff Dick Jarvis {and Coroner Brown were notified. | These officers drove up to the north country and brought the remains back with them New Depot Probable LARAMIE, Wyo., April 28,— Rumors are afloat that the Union Pacific officials have ordered renters in the shacks on First street between | Garfield and Grand avenues, to va- cate before sixty days. There are | many. vacant houses in this section | at present and it is said the railway company has refused to rent them again. | With the rumors comes the antict- | pation of immediate construction on \the new Union Pacific depot or the | much discussed viaduct. The proper- |ty is the site set aside for the new | depot. Attempts to confirm the story this morning brought out the fact that | local officials who have the renting jot the houses in charge, know noth- ing of the order or of any plans for immediate construction of raflway improvements here. ‘The viaduct across the U. P. tracks in estimated to cost in the nelghbor- hood of $500,000 and according to the state laws, the city where a viaduct | NORMA’S NEW PICTURE The radical nes are still an aen ee kie carrying advertisements which plead for subscripitions to various Rus- sian relief funds, urging their readers to forget any possible po- litical or economic prejudices they might entertain and to pour out their money to save the lives of women and small children. The ap- peals are touching, and since the space is valuable, there must be some response. Here is one. The Department of Agriculture has received a radio- am to the effect that Russia ha sold 150,000 tons of grain to; The amount is partic He had a half gallon fruit jar moonshine. He jar {nto the house and Seek Check Artist Wyo., April ning. ¥ h contained Gas ought the any. 28,—Sheritt | ! larly interesting inasmuch as the|C r d from a week's|Tequested Mr, McConnel to lend him Department's experts, after a care-| tr astern Nebraska seeking|® bottle for better convenience in ful sizing up of last year’s crop,| the pe mer Petty, who Is He poured the lHquor into estimated that something like 10,-|W2nted here war nt chargin je, stating that he hadi came 000 tons would be available for ex-|/\™ PA pred Sacae se port, and that even were this small saiiaoe boned ibe7 been quantity sold beyond the Soviet) Be of = Weomitier fend borders, the nation’s grain supplies | n at Lincon. would be dangerously near the fam-| ‘The defendant made quite a fight ine line. |before Governor Bryan and when the The grain that goes to Germany, latter decided to honor the extradi. by the way, represents a part of |t!0n papers, the defendant brought sgh bas 4 habeas corpus pro lings in the dis the “single food tax,” devised to|tricr court af Cedar County, Nob ppropriate what the peasants A bond was given Niobrara county raised, and levied ruthlessly. One|and the district court of Cedar coun- cannot but wonder where the|ty will decide sometime in June money from that 150,000 tons is| whether or not Petty shall be re- turned here for prosecution. County Attorney F. A. Barrett and | Sheriff Chris Joss state that issuing | of short checks must come to ‘a stop going. eee SUCCESS IN THE EAST When Frank A. Vanderlip, prom- a insist upon the prosecution of inent New Yorker, speaks on finan- “short check artists’’ here after. : ——_— > cial matters there are few to qv tion the accuracy of his statement 5 or the soundness of his judgment Trouble Piles Up But when he begins to make com- parisons between eastern and west-| SHERIDAN, April Every ern college graduates, he is at least ee J Pet Brit letting himself in for a lot of |< heated argument. rougher and rougher 0 j 7 weeks ago she was arrested Mr. Vanderlip is quoted as say-! ana placed in t Jail on a ing: “I am a great believer in the| charge of sed ‘worthless college man in business. My ex-| checks on merchants fe is y | perience proves to mo that a larger | $1,945. She v able to obtain | per centage of western men, gen-| bond and is st he county fai Now M. P. man has filed a| state universities, succeed in New| Crmine) complain’ a hte York than eastern graduates. | tegir nt'on’ or mate “While most of them suffer from} Mrs. Alburn sold to én Roush | inferiority complex when they ged Ford au .. | mingle with Harvard, Yale and| When quizzed about the alleged Princeton graduates, that soon|criminal action Mrs. Alburn is said wears off because of their eizong| to have told the officers that if the characters.”” car wa. ne it must have been ri stolen that the last she knew 1G; presents 8 |e soestigns| about the car it was in her garage and one to which a lot of good col-) “sno aaded that she hadn't thought 1 universities in various! it worth while to report the supposed leges and parts of the country will add their] thett to the c tled for you as «drunk the rest of the booze that had been contained in the fruit jar. Mr. Wilson was 80 much under the influ- ence of the liquor that he had <éffi- cutly in talking clearly. About 8:30, the Fleming brothers Here’s to a Uong Life, and a Merry One! Drink HILL CREST Water Clear, Clean, Sparkling Water IS THE GREATEST OF ALL TONICS Hill Crest Water is as pure as the morning dew, bot- it comes direct from a bubbling EVANS OIL CORPORATION Is Your One Best Bet. Auto Wrecking Co We tear ’em down; everything saved but the honk. THIRTY DIFFERENT MAKES OF CARS SALVAGED NOW 1117 East Yellowstone over to the McConnel ranch At Scoop’s Garage And You Will Have Both. Is the acme of compactness, durability and perfection. SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1923. is built, must furnish half of the cost, | city bonds before any work could be which would mean voting of $250,000| started on a viaduct. Rich as Butter—Sweet as a Nut? Wyoming Baking Co Casper, Wyo, Phone 1732 Look This Over HE Durant Tubular Back- bone keeps all the frame members of the Durant car always parallel under all strain, a rigid foundation which protects every working part and the body of your car from constant distortions and consequent wear. CASPER PRICES Standard touring Standard roadster — Business coupe — -$1090 -$1090 Good Car THE YELLOWSTONE MOTOR SALES Second and Yellowstone Phone 1881 The New Portable Corona Typewriter : own, “And what about us?” EE spring. Delivered to your home or office in half gal- Lig : 7 pa ee TWH eae fobeitor. everyman Victim of Alcohol | lon or five-gallon bottles. A 2 Sooan aie Yland employers bidding up wages. | —— | Bh " ‘S “| America, at least, Seems moderately! GILLETTH, Wyo., April 28. riation are 50 y intent on| Peon’ deracceany. |3ames G, Witson, a sheepherder of SPECIAL COOLERS FOR THE OFFICE. 4mmerlcanising e an, woman| ote: | the Empire Sheep company, fell from and chi ld that c % here When President Harding gets to|h!s horse at the ranch of F. L. Mc Seni es eay war tne Led Alaska and runs his eye over its|Connel on Duck creek and died with- | witha pink and white boy in the subway |##¢ , | nel ranch about 8 a'clock in the eve-| ‘an ice-boxes. sis ces all Turkey is getting so cock; wouldn’t be surprised any als? And we want to do it to their souls and hearts and passions, too. “There's something the European, | the Asiatic, can bring us, does! hear that Mustapha Kemal had sent bring us,” she urges. ‘But for the| ven a batch of Mohammedan mis miost part we shove it aside or,|sionaries to civilize America. what is worse, g ~—_ and poke shy, snobb Soviet officials boast that Russia | into it and Jabel is settling dow Now the rest of teresting.” i the world wants to know when it in. the fore population to| will settle up admire and wonder at - - This point of view, extreme as it} Students in the University of is, represents a wholesome reaction|Kentucky have been forbidden to from the impossible al of turn-| carry revolvers. And that’s the col ing every immigrant into a “100!lege where they don’t recognize per cent Americar Even if that] evolution. could be done ould it be al-| togeth desirable A dispat © Suppose f r ge were| headlined es U made a little more mode nd the/S. as His Fri riend immigrant were giyen credit for,|1 wil] only content himself with say, 10 or 20 per cer qual strutting, American cor onaries admirable in themselves and tend-| will do all the gobbling ing, just because they were differ. — ent, to add richness and var >| 1 have a bobbe girl America fe? a idge in Mos NORMA’S NEW PICTURE 426 East Second St. Phone 1151 NORMA, (@) TALMADGE® “WITHIN THE Se LAW" THE NICOLAYSEN LUMBER CO. | Everything in Building Material |America, Tues., Wed., Thurs. NOTICE | Office changed to 610 BE. Second St., Phone 718. WM. E. PRATT | Contractor and Builder RIG TIMBERS A SPECIALTY FARM MACHINERY, WAGONS Monuments CASPER MONUME | 505 E. 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