Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 12, 1923, Page 1

Weather Forecast Unsettled weather» with probably thunder showers tonight or Wednes- day. Warmer {in south east and colder extreme west portions tonight; colder Wednesday*in west and north portions. VOLUME VII. Ghe PEASANTS REVOLT: BULGAR TROOPS MOBILIZE CASPER, WYO., TUESDAY, JUNE 12, 1923. v Daily Cribune es CONGRESSMAN AND MRS. WINTER RETURN, REPRESENTATIVE WILL STUBY STATE DURING SU Mr. Winter Plans to Visit Many Points Inquiring Into Reclamation, Forest and Indian Conditions as Well as Roads Pf Congressman and Mrs. Charles E. Winter returned yester- day afternoon from Washington, D. C. The congressman will spend the summer visiting different points within the state and inquiring into the conditions of settlers on reclama- tion projects, and into the problems of Indian reservations, forest reserves, roads, and highways, according to his state- PAST, DAMAGE THREE MILLION 4. his office had been kept busy at- tending to the desires of Wyoming Thousands Made Homeless In Kansas and Northern people in the different departments but that this matter had been large- ly caught up with now and the office force there would be ab’e to carry out the routine work without — his presence during the summer months. He recently received a letter fron: Superintendent Allbright of thi Yellowstone National Park, request- ing that the congressman pay the park a visit so that Mr, Allbright might go over the scenic resort with him and explain plans and needs o that department. This will be in cluded in Mr, Winter's journeys thi» Oklahoma by Waters The prospects for new _ trrigation projects including the Casper unit of the Pathfinder project are favor wble in arnera: as a certainty in the future, but no cesrrance of immedi ace eEpropriations or applications of money for this purpose can be given KANSAS CITY, Mo., June 12.— The crest of the flood waters that for four days have covered the east- ern half of Kansas and Northern Ok- lahoma had virtually passed today. Seven are dead, many missing and property damage aggregates several million dollars. Thousands of per- sons were made homeless. Arkansas City was under martial law today. It was estimated that more than 3,000 persons were made homeless there. Damage was placed at $3,000,000. Winfield, Kansas, almost entirely cut off from tha outside veorld, sus tained an estimated damage of be- tween one and one half millions. Many are homeless, Conditions in Wichita, Kans where four square miles of the city was flooded to a depth of three feet, were improving rapidly. Property damage there was estimcted at more than $1,000,000. Tt Lus been the t} cory of doing such things that they should be taken up in their natural order, and support has been given the Guernsey project first since it 1s a prior step to the Casper project. It is the general policy of Secre- tary Hubert Work to favor the ex: tension of reclamation to all lands capable of irrigation, so there is strong assurance for the future of projécts now pending according to the congressman, “A readjustment of the reclamation law will doubtless have to precede any extension of reclamation since the argument is used by ‘eastern congressmen that help shouldj be ex- tended settlers already on lands as their problems an dthose of the gov ernment should be worked out suc: ‘was known to him in Northampton Damage esaki to reach $2,000,000 cessfully before proceeding to new was caused in Kay county, Oklaho- areas and new éettlers, said Mr. ma, to crops, property and livestock| winter, oa Regarding the Casper _postoffice. Six feet of water flowed down the/ mir. Winter stated that this matter main business street of Kaw City, Oklahoma, yesterday while citizens huddled on a hill south of the town. Citizens of Autwine took refuge iin elevator lofts. Six hundred persons attending the Epworth institute at Winfleld were marooned on a hill. Mrs. Croker Was Known as Wite Of Marone,Claim is practically cleaned up and that there is no difficulty now in obtain- ing the last item of rellef which 1s the arranging of more convenient writing desks for patrons. peaking concerning Senator Francis E. Warren, Congressman Winter remarked that the senator was now on a trip to Alaska with Secretary of War Weeks and that he will return in July. Congress: man Mondell, he said, is busy with his new duties as a member of the War Finance corporation. The judge sald that Mrs. Winter and the family would probably return to Washington in September to place the boys in school there, but that he would remain here until the mid dle of Octoe: poe ES ys DUBLIN June 12—({By Associated Press)—A point of tense interest was reported in the Croker will case this ASKS SHERIFF HERE TO LOCATE H. E. MILLER morning when Richard Davies, of] Mrs. Margaret Brown, Box 37871, Northhampton, Mass., took the stand| San Quentin, has written th sheriff asking him to locate if pos: and testified that the woman pointed eut to him in court as Mrs. Bula Croker, widow of Richard Croker, sible, Harry E. Miller, who when last heard of was in Casper Any information regarding Miller's Ss the wife of Guy R. Marone whereabouts should be forwarded to The Marones had lived at his house ares gd ie oi fee ha das he declared. ae coe Mrs. Richard Croker Jr., testified that Mrs, Bula Croker at a family! _ROCKFORD—Henry N. Benson of conferences. prior to Richard Croker's| St. Paul, was elected president of the death, had cal'ed Richard a lar. BANDIT RELEASE ENDS TROUBLE TSAOCHWANG, June 1 Associated Press.-— News Augustana Synod. (By The land W. Pinger, U. 8. A. ordnance today of|corps, Manila; Home, Berkeley, Cal the release of the eight foreign cap-;Leon Friedman of Chicago and tives remaining in the Paotsuku/Shanghal; John B. Powell, Shanghai mountain stronghold of the Shantung|newspaper publisher; Lee Solomon bandits promised to relieve the tense |S nghal agent for a San Francisco atmosphere enveloping China’s for- | firm eign relations since May 6, when the| ‘There two British subjects, Shanghai. Peking express train was|Fred, E Shanghai, broker and ferailed near Suchow and the pas-| Reginald W. Rowlatt, of Birmingham, /wengers made prisoners EnglanG and Tientsin; one French The score or more foreigners first/man, Emile Gensburger, Shanghai talcen ’ into the hills diminished grad- ually as the bandits released them one or two at a time, until only the eight were held. The eight were the final hostages cetained until the Chonese government should have ful- ed the last of the outlaws’ de |broker, and one Italian G, D, Musao, Shanghai lawyer, capitalist and ad viser to the Chinese government. WASHINGTON, June 12,—Reloane, today of the Americans and other foreign captives held by Chinese ban- mands. The bandits did not ask for|dits brings to an end the emergency money, but their principal condition | which has kept the diplomatic corps was that they be enrolled in the|in Peking busy since the raid in regular army the representatives of| which the captures were made al:| the Peking government began muster-| most to the exclusion of the deeper © in the bandits more than a week | question of preventing fture out ago. | rages of the same character, ‘There The eight foreigners relenaed today | is every indication here however tnolae4 four Americans: Major Ro | (Continued on Page Nine.) [this time, — 13 Lo woe ff Tan HOI orgs Samar Typ THE EQUILIBRIST SUGAR PRICES WILL STAY UP TILL FALL WESTERN UNION TO LEASE NEW OFFICE SPACE Likely to Take Place Now Oc- cupied on Center by Palace Inn Probabilities of the Western Union taking a long lease on the building at 138 North Center Street where the Palace Inn is now located is indicated with the recording of an option in the county clerk's office, In return for a stipulated payment the Lukis Candy company owners of| available, Americans during 192 the building agree to an optfon on ground floor space in this building, 40 feet in frontage and 80 feet in depth. The option is on a 10 yea lease at the rate of $425 per month with the privilege of a five year. re- newal, the option to be taken up be- fore September 1. It is known that the Western Union has been looking for the last several years for a new location. ent space which {t ovcupies in the Henning hotel has proven inadequate for the immense amount of business which the company handles in Casper. Three Killed Several Hurt in Train Wreck. GRAYLING, Michigan, June 12.— Three men killed and at le three others are believed to have t buried In the wreck of a mixed train were it known as the “Cannon Ba'l” which a'de-swiped a frieght train in the Michigan Central yards here shortly before noon today The pres-| en Head of Association Blames Prohibition, | Not Taniff COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., June 12.—Sugar prices | which prevail at the present | time are likely to continue un- til the advent of the new crop of beet sugar next September and November, Stephen Love, of Salt | Lake City declared in his annual re port as president of the United States Sugar Manufacturers. Associa tion at the opening of the annual con- vention here today. It is a case @ much larger demand than supply, according to Mr. Love, and he de- clared that from the best figures pur- | chased 5,000,000 tons of sugar, an in- crease of 20 per cent over previous European sales also are on | the increase, he stated. 4 “Many and various reasons have| been assigned for the increased sugar consumption,” Mr. Love said. “'The| most notable of these, so far as the United States is concerned, is prohi-| bition. Personally I believe that a} combination of causes would ‘come nearer being right than to attribu the increase to any particul thing. That prohibition has added to sug ar consumption no one will deny, but to what extent we cannot defi nitely say since accurate figures are not obtainable.” Referring to the recent rise in sug- ar prices Mr. Love said that the as- sociation had canvassed the situation| and had warned dealers and hand- lers of sugar that a shortage was at one CONGRESS MAY: BE ASKED T0 TRIM DRY LAW Indications Are That Presi- dent Harding Will Request Ship Modification WASHINGTON, June 12.—There were increasing indications in high official circles here today that presi- dent Harding might ask congress when {t reassembles next fall to mod- ify the prohibition law as it affects the carrying of Nquor on board for. eign vessels in Americ:n waters, The president was said to believe that congress never intended the gov- ernment to be confronted with the situation it now {s called upon to-meet by the objections of foreign powers in regard to the new rigorous ship liquor ban. In the present circumstances, it was added, Mr. Harding sees no pos sible course open to him but to en force to the letter the Volstead act as it recently was interpreted by the supreme ourt. He believes that no executive regulation he could issue could properly modify application of the court’s opinion.and that only an act of congress would be sufficient Should the administration decide to make such a recommendation when congress re-assembles in December, it is regarded as certain that one of the most vigorous fights in the history of the prohibition movement would re- sult. Since the supreme court hand hand. He denied that the sugar/ manufacturers were responsible for| the “runaway market, as unfortun ately, many uninformed people im agine." : Mr. Love declared the Fordne: (Continued on Page Nine.) \ ed down !ts opinion extendhg the Vol- stead law to foreign ships in Amer ican ports, both wets and drys have been canvassing the situation with a view to possible effort to change the and both have declared them ves encouraged over the outlook faw PUT OFF ‘The injured are Frank Ayers, Engin:| DRY CONFERENCE eer, and Frank Flack, fireman on the Cannon Ball and Bernard Conklin, a brakeman on the freight train. Spanish War Vets Meet This Evening The United Spanish War Veterans hall this evening been requested to attend legates from campment All members have the en s'nes department will render thelr report at the | STATE WASHINGTON, June 12.—Postponement of the proposed conference of state governors on state prohibition enforce- ment until after President Harding returns from his western trip was announced at the White House. Meeting of several state legislatures and the unsettled will meet in the Knights of Pythias| question of using the army und navy in enforcing prohibition |were said by offi! causing the clsion ala to be factors, postponement, ‘The de it was naid, was not intended erpeny conference would be that advice of held ation not later, 0 fullest co and ing the prohibitven 1aws would not be} to bo interpreted as meaning that thel sought, all Large Area Laid Waste. Survivors Subsist On Nuts and Leaves MANILLA, June 12. — Thirteen lives were lost and a large area was laid waste by a typhoon on the island of Samar, according to tele- grams received today from constabulary headquarters there. The reports said that in seven towns 95 per cent of the houses were blown down, and that the homeless thousands were threatened with fa mine. Those in. the devastated region were subsisting today on unripe coanuts fod green palm leaves. Telegraph and telephone lines were down. Six boats were sunk in Samar Province, according to advices at the co: executive bureau in Manila. In Al bay province 500 house are down, bridges have been destroyed and twenty miles of road are under water. Wharves and cocoanut plantations were badly damaged. All the towns have not yet report ed. The governor of Samar asked aid from the “calamity fund” but the department of the interior advised him to allot $1,000 from the provin cial funds for the purchase of rice. stb eat hoont BOND laoUE fa ASKED FOR NEW WATER SUPPLY Chamber of Commerce Forum Hears Protest Against Sar- atoga Refinery A plea for the support of the city council in arousing interest in a bond (issue with which to construct among other things a 10,000,000 gallon res. ervolr was made at the meeting of the Casper Chamber of Commerce to day by Sylvester F. Pelton, chairman of the water committee of the city council. Mr. Pelton stated that Cas- per is now using 4,000,000 gallons of. water a day which is more than the combined capacity of the two pump: ng stations, ‘The source of the water supply for this reservoir was also discussed by ithe alderman. Word has ben received according to the speaker that a re. finery is being bullt below Saratoga on the Platte river. This would con. taminate the supply at present being received from the river, beyond rem. dy. A motion was pased following Mr. Pelton’s talk authorizing the chamber of commerce to communicate with Governor Ross and protest such con tamination. Lieutenant Colonel S. D. Smith of the U. S. Cavalry stationed at Ft Russell, talked to the members of the chamber regarding the Citizens’ Military training camp to be held at Ft. Douglas, Utah July 26 to August 24. ‘The chamber of commerce en: dorsed this camp. Announcement was made that all stores will be expected to close from 10 a, m, until 12 o'clock, Flag Day. June 14. The Denver men who are on a good will tour through Nebraska and Wyo ming will be shown the city between 4 and 6 o'clock on the afternoon of June 18 by members of the chamber of commerce, acc Hing to an i nouncement by sey tary Stafford. Men with cars should be at the Bur: lington train to meet them, ‘Tod ‘8 meeting was the last regu lar luncheon of the Casper chamber of commerce until the first Tuesday in September, Attendance alws drops off during the hot summer months and for that reason It is cus tomary to declare a vacation Cody Entrance To Park Open, FINAL | EDITION NUMBER 211, ORCE OF 10,000 SAID T0 BE SURROUNDED IN BALKAN TROUSLE Former Premier Stamboulisky Is Preparing March On Capital at Head of 20,000 of Agrarian Party, Is Report From Sofia PARIS, June 12.— (By The Asso- Bulgarian legation here’ today, sum+ ciated Press.)—A Bulgarian ‘“volun-| ngarizing jan‘ Pffickl dispatch from teer army” now numbering 100,000|M. Daskaloff, Bulgarian minister at men and steadily increasing in size,|Prague. The statement adds thas is “preparing to punish the usurpers” these troops are guarding the frons says a statement given out by the tiers and the suburbs of Sofia. BELGRADE, June 12.—Peasant revolts against the new Bulgarian regime are reported throughout the country dis- patches from Sofia say. Near Plevna the revolt has assumed serious proportions, it is declared, and a force of 10,000 is said to have been surrounded. French troops have been dispatched there. Dispatches say that the new gov- ernment has ordered the mobilization of ull reserve officers and of several young classes. Volunte re being }, armed. The dispatches confirm that Former Premier Stamboulisky {s not under arrest but add that there Is no news of his whereabout Mesasgea to newspapers here say the peasant revolt has been started by Alexander Boteff, former profess sor of the Sobranje, and Nedelka An+ thanasoff, former minister of com- munications, who fled from the cap- ital and raised a force of 70,000 peas ants near Radomir where fighting has troops. A rising among the inhab itants of villages east of the capital has been organized by Deputy Tom- Amercan League. At Boston— Chicago R. H. E. -010 000 300— 411 2 Boston ~_. 060 604 00x—-10 9 1 Batteries — Faver, Thurston and Graham, Ehmke and Devormer. At New York— Cleveland .. 000 100 52— xx x New York 300 000 10— x x x Batteries — Uhle, Coveleskie and O'Neill; Shawkey, Mays and Hoff- R. H. E. man, At Philadelphia— Detroit _ 010 003 000— 3 8 2 Philadelphia .__000 004 03x— 711 3 Batteries — Pellette and Bassler; Harris, Hasty and Perkins, R. H. E. At Washington— R. H. E. fanoff, It is rumored here that the Bulgar fan minister at Prague, M. Baskaloff is preparing to return to Bulgaria to help the agrarian party against the new government; also that Former Premier Stamboulisky is preparing to march on the capital at the head of 20,000 peasants, St. Louis ---..-:.-100-01— x x x| SOFTA, June 12.—(By the Associat- Wishington . 000 00— x x” x) et Press)—The Zanoff government Ratteries—Dantorth and Severeid;| 88 !ssued a mainfesto in which it Johnson and Ruel. olemnly declares it ts ready to exe ecute loyally the Versailles treaty f . stipulations with respect to the dig- NATIONAL LEAGUE nity-of the great powers.” Bulgaria At Pittsburgh R. H. FE. New York --.000 100 010—2 10 0 (Pittsburgh 10 010 OOx— 4 10 «1 Batteries—Mehlf, Jonnard and It adds, “is absolutely opposed to any sort of war-like ad * Snyder; Cooper, Schmidt and Gooch. MARTIAL LAW At Chicago— R. 1. E Boston ___. -.000 340 eee > * me tS") IN RHUR A Batteries—Miller, Benton and (O'Neill; Cheeves, Dumovich, Keen and sy tg ARE KILLED At St. Louis— R. H. E. Brooklyn .---20° se 72 + 5 ~ - jst. Louis o ee8 6 aae 2 DUISBURG, June 12.—(By The ‘As- Batteries—Grimes and Taylor; Sher- sociated Press.)—Three bombs were Aaland Chethond: exploded on the main line railroad frdm Dusseldorf to Duisburg, ‘near i ca Me R.BE|! hal, at midnight. North and pen tereerans7a 1. postponed, |®0Uth bound tracks were torn up for Retermoe einnat: several yards. A locomotive was de railed but nd lives were lost, aut Fy COLOGNE, June A bomb was Sheriff Shot in exploded on the railroad tracks neat Wellerwerth on the main line be J een Cologne and Kreuzkirchen aw By Robber jessiy woaay."% srviche train jumped the track but no fatalities resulted. | n Bs | BOCHUM, June 12—(By The A MEBAINS, Mont.,'June 12.—V. A. sociated Prose) Trench generis McKnight, a member of the sheriff’s|iast night arrested twenty’ mont posse hunting for the robber who es-|o¢ the local police aba ‘(nee ped with $1,500 from the Farmers'|fontmaining demonatretions hat ween ato Bank after locking President| considered lukewarm, Seven of tna . 8, Robinson in the vault, was shot|orrested men have been homo e in the lower jaw yesterday evening|ay former members of the dibenten i nh exchange of shots with a man security police who have bo tecea believed to be the robber. |the occupied zone after being expell- The duel took place on the head|ed waters of Henry between a here and Paradise, Montana. The DUESSELDORF, June 12, — (By sheriff's posse was being augmented) The Associated Press). x Germans today jn an effort to surround the|were killed and three wounded by sol robber on a divide between Henry|diers n Dortmund Sunday night: says c k and Camas creek. McKnight/an officia? bulletin issued at French was said not to be seriously injured. | headquarters. FIGHT PROMOTER HURT IN PLANE LIVINGSTON, Mont., June 12 : 2 When a seven-passenger Alb i ht S ,| airplane in taking off fro ma muddy field here this morn- 4 r g ays ing hit a telephone pole, Loy J. Molumby, state commander fia airplane in taking off from a muddy field here this morn- CODY, Wyo. June 12.—Horace m.| Pons &ght, and three others in the plane were injured. The Albright, superintendent of Yellow-|Plane was a wreck. Major T. E. Lane of Lewistown was Park, after an inspection of|the most seriously inj having | with very { ernal in Sylvan Pass, stated that the Cody| fractured ribs and internal injuries which Ww be deter entrance is now open and travel will] James Johnson, Jr., son of the|mined later. Both r will be cor: be admitted the morning of June} Mayor of Shelby, had both forearms) fined to the hospital for: some time at seveteenth. broken and his shoulder dislocated.|the best Road conditions are unusually good| Molumby sustained a dislocated| Major Lane ts of the best known great numbers from the south and|shoulder. Karl Vance, the pilot es-|men of the state, having the largest east, fourteen states being represent-|caped with a cut chin. | inaivi lumber s in Mon od. ‘Those in fe plane when {t fell were| tana. He a h in Shelby —_— Loy J. Molumby, Major J. E, Lane of|/and has the contract for f hing PASSIVE RESISTANCE TO Lewistown and Shelby, former state|lumber for the big figh rena He GO ON, CUNO INSISTS| senator from Fergus county, and the|is married and his home n Lewis ate man who has the contract for fur n BERLIN, June 12.—(By the Asso-| nishing lumber to the big fight arena} Th wa ciated Press)—Chancellor Cuno, in an|in Shelby; James A. Johnson, Jr. log-| tho I address at Karlseuhe y is|!on commander of the Too'e I and| M qu by the Tageblatt as «| Harl Vanco, Great Falls a said that once begun, passive resis Lane and Johnson are in tha , nt ein the Ruhr must be carried | pital at Livingston and the coniit the r take- din af the former {s considered very )