Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 24, 1923, Page 1

~, Weather Forecast Friday. Not much change in | temperature. yOLUME VII. PREMI FRANCE QUITS Refusal of French Senate to Prosecute Communists Traitors Leads to Resig- | nation Today of Premier Poincare PARIS, May 24.—(By The Associated Press.)—Premier Poincare resigned this evening. M. Poincare decided to withdraw when the senate, sit- 5 GRANTED. BY THEE. 0 Sa Hundred Men on the | other employes. understood, will be affected by the new wage rniing. fame - ES OVERLONOMRG OF TRUCKS RESULTS IN MANY BEING TORNED BAGK BY POLICE Along with the efforts of the state | highway department to prevent trat- Partly cloudy tonight and 340.000 SCHOOL ER OF GONTRAGT LET Banned In Ohio COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 24—RBase- ball pool and lottery, punchboard and SIX KIL Texas and Pacific TRAIN WRECKERS IN TEXAS Bloodhounds to Be Placed on Trail; Several Injured in Tragedy DALLAS, Texas, May 24.—Texas & Pacific officials at AN CASPER, WYO., THURSDAY, MAY 24; 1923. vmoriAL org | $98,000 PROJECT FOR THE SALT $975 CREEK HIGHWAY HEADS LIST OF CONTRACTS AWARDED BY STATE CHEYENNE,, Wyo., May 24.—The Wyoming State Highway commission late Wednesday announced the let-| ting-of contracts:for federal aid road} building approximating $290,000. The} most.important of the contracts let is that fer the reconstruction of five| miles-of*the-Casper-Salt Creek high-| way tn-Natrona county at a cost of $98,000. ‘This contract was awarded to the Warren Construction company of Porttand, Ore. The work is known struction company of Denver, $39.-| 800. No.-108B—Construction of 7.6 miles county; James .F. Turpin of Wheat- Iand, $23,732. No. 144—Eight-mftes of the Yellow- stone highway north of Cheyenne, in Laramjo county; grading and surfac-| ing, Tyler & Baker Construction com-| pany of Rock River, $44,981; bridges, Construction company of Den- Levy ver, $12,963. No. 160—Five and one-half miles north of Lingle, in Goshen county; grading and surfacing, Connélly & Randolph of Lingle, $25,115; bridges. Levy Construction company of Den- ver, $7,286. ‘The project hefi up was 152, for eight and one-half miles of grading considered, but the representatives of those two towns got stuck in the LED BY CRASH Rail Officials Ask’ OOOBOND ELECTION TO BE HELD JUNE. 25 Council Sets Date for To Casper Voters. mud enroute, and wi? be heard later, probably June 4. It was announced that the matter of the Clearmont highway, over which there has been much contro- versy in Sheridan and elsewhere, was still awaiting the approval of the) Federal Bureau of Public Roads. Reconstruction of the Casper-Salt Creek stretch is necessitated by the fact that the heavy trucking over the concrete roadway since it was built! five years ago has worn it to 3) The Casper Daily Tritrune RUGR GE FINAL EDITION | ~ NUMBER 195. | | HOIST RED FLAG Bandit Situation in Shantune Is Complicated by Chinese Politics FRENCH FORCES IGNORE REVOLT Factions Hostile to Government Using Ab P OLIGE LOSE Crisis for Propaganda; ‘Action by International Commission Seen | BULLETIN PEKING, May 24—(By The Aww ciated Prees)—Brigadier Gemeral | Wiliam D. Cowmor, conmmsméar of | the American troops statiesed af Tiontain will head the international comminston whick will proceed tm- inedlatety te Tsaochwang te invests gate the beméit situation, it was an- mounced bere today. BULLETIN | SHANGNAIL, May 24.—(By The | Press.—Panie soleed the bandHs of Paotauku today as Chi wees government troops Leunched a @etermined advance against the ow- lawn in an offort te break up their communications and force an imue | in the international problem revoty- ing about the kidneping of forsign- ors frem the ShanghalPebing «x- prem May 6. WASHINGTON, May 24.—A delayed message from Min- frazzie. The work on the Yellow- stone north of Cheyenne will begin where the present five and one-half miles project leaves off. — The question of a $275,000 water | and sewer bond issue will be put to | @ vote of the people June 26, accord. ing to action taken by the city cown-| cil in a special meeting last ntght.! ‘The council itself approved the float- ing of the bonds. ister Schurman in Peking, received today by the state de-| partment, expressed Mr. Schurman’s belief that the task of| obtaining the release of American and other foreign captives| Bee Chinese bandits was “now complicated by Chinese ics.” Pe rhe minister mid that “certam “Pe mtrister hes suggests? that’! CONTROL OF MOB Blood Spilled Freely in Communist Uprising at Gelsenkirchen Backed By Russian Soviet. ESSEN, May 24.—(By The Associated Preas)—The com. munists have taken posses- sion of police headquarters at Gelsenkirchen and have hoisted the red flag over the building. Reports from German sources say that five persons wers killed and 61 wounded in the fighting for the pos seaston of the building. The struggle ‘SWISS SEIZED ose eons | disposing of the bonds at a low rate, of interest, since the market at this } time is very favorable to munictpal securities, especially those of a grow. | ing town Ike Casper. COPENHAGEN, May 24—A Mos| The money reised from the bonds cow report by way of Berlin says) will go toward the construction of that the Soviet authorities at Petro-! $75,000 reservoir, the extension of grad, Moscow end Kiev have arrested water mains to new additions and o several Swiss citizens, A number of| points alrendy within the city limits | Swiss shops have been wrecked at| which need thém, and the extension | Petrograd, while at Odessa three, of §75,000 worth of sewer linea, as Swiss have been attacked. The Soviet) well as the payment for about $30,009 government is said to have prohibited) worth of pipe borrowed by the city visas for Swiss passports. recently from private corporations psa B | WHE the sib.wpe notable. to. pay. Vet Is Dead have seen Casper grow too large for its bottle. The present pumps an! CHICAGO, May 24.—Edward F.| reservoirs are insdequate for th»/ Leland, 61, a veteran member of the} needs of the community. The new! Chicago board of trade who rettred| reservoir will have a capacity of! last August, died suddenly today. 1,000,000 gallons. time and again by thinking men who The great need of the increass!| negotiations with the bandits, and | water supply that the bonds will| {ghttng. although there has been make possible has been brought cut|ces'onal firing, which hostile factions were using the} that the matter ts com- Indications, bandit outrage to dlscredit the Chfati| piicated by Chinese polities. The | degen tate Inst night and continued | Until early this morning. party, the Peking government and) politiciams were quick to see in the) The builiing is said to have been ndidate for the presidency.” The message sald it did not “seem probable that the bandits would kif the foreign captives,” but that there wos danger that during the pro- longed negotiations and compromises some of the prisoners might die of; exposure, starvation or disease. ‘The state departments summary | of Mr. Schurman’s delayed | which bore the date of May 23, enys:| “The minister's evttmate ef the, | present situation is as follows. For some Gaya-there have bem ze matic bodies on May to the Chinese government its failure to withdraw the accordance with the down by the bandits as to negotiations and previousty accept- ed by ¢he government. ‘THEY AL ALIKE’ D | ‘Any of Them,” He to Challenge of L LOOK EMPSEY TELLS THE FANS |Heavyweight Champion Ready to “Fight, Declares in Reply Italian Heavy GREAT FALLS, Mont, May 24.—“I will fight any of their general offices here today requested Sheriff Dan Har- ston to send bloodhounds to Dothan to pick up the -trail of persons alleged to have tampered with a switch at the! Dothan siding, causing a collision between two passenger | At Pittebargh— BEE St. Louis _____002 000 200— 410 2) Pitteburgh 000 331 40x—11 15 1) Batterieo—Sherdell, Slu, North and them,” remarked Jack Dempsey, heavyweight champion of the world, when shown the challenge sent him by Ermtno| Italy, “but just now I have about all the fighting on hand| Spalla of Italy, holder of the heavyweight boxing title of | trains with the loss of at least as known there are no bloodhound available here. ABILENE, Texas, Mny 24.—Six persons were killed, including a negro porter and five unidentified men said to have been riding the “blind” bag-| fic violations on the highways of the| gage, one engineman probably fatally | state, tho rule against overloading is being strictly enforced. Many trucks which operate out of Casper have been turned back by J. C. Glover, of ficer for District 3, becnuse tieir injured and two or three others less! seriously hurt, when twe Texas a>! Pacific passenger trains collided « today between Cisco and Putin Sroes tonnage was more than 25,000} Texas. pounds. passengers Such trucks will always be turned | slightly injured. Westbound train The back, according to Mr. Giover, expense necessitated by extra work] ber 16, which was standing on .a-sid- and extra delay can be avoided if truck drivers will wee to it before] nam. Ratlroad offictals at Bair raid leaving the city that thetr truce and its load are within the prescribed Umits of weight. The highway de- partment has two load meters on the road to test all trucks. EXCAVATION BEGINS FOR HOTEL BUILDING CONTRACT IS PENDING Excavating for the new $500,000 hotel to be erected by C. A. Smith and F. J, Turner at the corner of First and Center streets has beeo started and before its completion the contract for the six-story building will be let, according to announce: ment today by F. J. Turner. Nine contractors are said to be figuring on the project, which will probably be the iangest ceiorprise of its kind to Several of the were number 15 ran into east bound num- Ing at Dothan, six miles east of Put- the switch was open and may havo) been tampered with as the switch showed the green light of safety to) the engineer on number 15. Three bagenge cars burned after the wreck. be launched ‘here this year. E. W. Davies of South Eleventh street has the excavating contract, \61G BRIDGE Preparations of the site for the; structure necessfates the removal of | three small buildings located on the! corner lot : The men behind the project” are owners gf the Smith-Turner drug store and hotel building on Center street, lives, early today. So far ON SANTA FE IS DAMAGED FORT MADISON, Iowa, May %4— ro destroyed 200 fest of the At chlson, Topeka and Santa Fe mite long bridge over the Missiastppi rtver hero early today. The binzo was dis- eovered on the cast piling approach about midnight, At 4 a, m. the fire’ was under control, Tho main struc. ture, built of steol was not damaged. Crews wero started to work to re pair the damage early today. Moan- while Banta Fo trains will use tho Chicago, Burlington apd Quincy tracks from here to Galesburg, Ii, —»__—. Joe McGinnity | Turns In Win | WATERLOO, Iowa, May 24—| “Iron Man" Joe McGinnity, age 62,| who 25 years ago was the idol of tho New York baseball fans, yesterday| ended the losing streak of the Du-| buqne club in the Mississipp! Valloy league, of which he is manager, when ho held Marshalltown to four hits and Dubuque won, 1 to 0.” Mc Ginnity iasued ony one pass and only| i five men reached first base. that I can attend to. would be willing to take on the Buropean fighters. Fighting {s my business, and it ts the way I make my living and no one is barred if the terms are agreed to. I den't re member Spalia, and I havem’t heard of his battles, but fts all right with }me so far as the fighting pact is concerned, Upon the statement of Jens Willard in the Associated Press that Demp- McCurdy, Alnsmith; Adams and’ Schmidt. Bettericee—Bush Schang; Rom-| does the arranging and I do the mell and Perkins. fighting, and if Kearns aigna for ASPEN ‘Wits, it willbe Wills, They all look Detrof alike to me.” Detroit (000 100 oee—° ¢ ¢| hotel in-Great Pulls, with four other and Schalk; | business mon, have offered Kearns | |the same purse and conditions \given Dempsey and Gibbons to match Dempsey agatmst Wills | B.H.E.| Great Valls Labor Day, tf the Shelby 810 9°* en-8 ¢ ©) Nght proves | success as expected, 000 0° eea_e © ©/ The men offering the purse are re- Ratterico—Coveleakio smi Myatt;|spondible Great Falls business men.| Shocker and Boverv’d, § all at the head of big institutions, ONE KILLED IN GAS EXPLOSION ° bf ° 80,000-GALLON TANK WRECKED BIRMINGHAM, Alan, May 24. — One life was lost and for a time the entire community waa threntened when an explosion and fire wrecked an 80,000 gallon tank of gasoline in Qisveland Bt, Louls ae Two million gallons of gasoline and| crude ol! were stored within 150 foot of the tank that exploded was p'aced at $40,000. The loss | the center of the plant of the Wof.| A necro raid to have been working ford O11 company here early this|noar the tank was killed. His body morning, r il was not recovered, If we cleamup this side of the water I| and Mr. Tracy stated today that the offee wee a bemafiie ome. “If the July fourth fight tn Bremy between Deespsey ant Toremy Gibbens proves A wecceme as we expect, the meomey| goes, If Gibboms should be the mext champion the same offer gore fer him,” said Mr, Tracey, Dempecy refused to comment ween the offer further than that amy ar Tangements Kearns made he would carry out the fighting end, «xcept he thought it might be well to wait the result of the Shelby batts before taking on other offers, and jis eight sparring Partners and culibers madevan eight mile run this morntag up the Missouri river via, White Bear Ifiand, over the Lewis and Clark camp, and around by Mouth of Sand Coulee Creek, which is called a creek for lack of water, ‘The workout bexing bouts a the day were two rounds with Godfrey, the giant negra, ¢wo rounds with! Burke, the heayyweighty two with Harry Dranke, the BEinglish welter weight, preceded by one round at shadow boxing and ene round at the bag, Dempacy showed strong and quick ‘in the workouts, and h's sparring partners did not hold back a punch it being give and take fram the tap of the gong. His foot work shows particulary well, and his short arm left jaba, with either hand, sent his partners back every time they con-| nected, putting Godfrey down to his hams in the second roun Next week will be a layoff week at the Dempsey camp 1 the entire camp will go fishing, some in the Missouri river and some in tt mountain streams. Dempsey bought two bamboo fis rods today but (Continued on Page Two) for attaining their own purposes, Cer- tain hostile factions ave using the outrage for the purpose of discredit ing the Chihti party, the Peking -gov- ernment over which tt exercises. com- leader, hopstul with the bandits, and? for the ure of foretge-teoap te effect the-relenee ef the Mabed last Autumn in the case of} capture of certain minsiomaries cap-| ured tn Honen; bet in the present cose hes suggested that the commis. sion should be composod of the enm- mandwrs of the several foreiem nit tary forme which matntatn head quarters tn Peking for the purpess of keeping the raitwey from Pextax to the ma, In ancoriamne with the Boxer protoeel of F918, STANGHAY, May 7—(y The As sociated Preaa.)—J. B. Powell, Amer. jean newspaper publisher of Shang: hai, who has been held a prieer by the Chineso bandits at Paotewkca, hee boom pareied te-take part in new cen ferences for the releawe of the cap tives, scoosding te advices received bere Inte tenight, ARE WITHDRAWN, TTKINTSIN, May 24—(By-The A» wocinted Preos.)—Dispatches mailed from ‘Ywaochwang ‘Tuesday reported that the troops investing the moun- (Continued on Page Two.) Kun, who had been “a hopetul| work of the bandits a valuable means | defended by the ctrifian defense or. ganization which was finally forced | to quit when one wing was see on | fire hy the attacking mob. The fight- | ing was mot restricted to the buiki- }ine but spread throwgh tho streets }and ja i foodstuffs be cut In half. The house- who thought the military had come to expprees te demonstration but: thet Frenoh merely went to thetr yartous{ posts amd booked on, BEVRLY BINANCED BY RUSS SOVIET. DUEXSELDORY, Amociated Presa)—French official authorities hero declare they have kmowledse that Moscow has sent to the Ruhr valley more than 20,000,000 Swiss frames to further the effort to ereate a Soviet republic, In addition two ahiploads of wheat, they deciare, have been sent en Mos cow" initiative te the Ruhr fer they se of the communists, particularly at Bochum and Dortmund with prom-: twes-of more if needed. ‘This declaration was made today ast |@ reply to the recent German news- paper charges that thi communieg trouble was being fostered by tha Freneh, OKLAHOMA TOWN IS INUNDATED HIT BY FLOODS | OKLAHOMA CITY, May 24.—Vir) sald No lives were lost. |tualty every section of Paul's Valley, |Okla., with the exception of a emall| OMAHA, Neh, May 24—F en the eastern side was flooded | celved here today tald of th last night when waters from Rush/out of raitroad bridg n |creek broke through # cyke as a re-| western Nebraska, as a sult of heavy rains 1 ral|heavy rains and of other damage, days, according to a r elved|Two fect of water was reported run by the Western U ph/ning through the ess district of mpany » from its office man.|Dannebrog, last x At Ca'r Valle places sev ne at I The wate doom but have roceded today, the repost jewer, inches day f rain haa fa‘le No material tonses to crops, hows. are_reparted, —ii ‘ Ya