Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 31, 1923, Page 6

AGE SIX. Che Casper Daily Tribune The Carper Daily Tribune issued every evening and The Sunday Morning Tribune every Suncay, at Casper Wyoming. Publication offices. Tribune Bullding, oppo- site postoffi Entered at class matter, November 22 Casper (Wyoming) 1916, postoffice as second Business Telephones Branch Telephone Exchange Conn’ ~—---15 and 16 ting All Departments By J. E. HANWAY MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for pubiication of all news credited in this paper and also tho local news published herein. Advertising Representatives Prudden, King & Pruaden, Steger Bldg., Chi- cago, Ill; 286 Fifth Ave. New York City; Globe Bldg., Boston, ass., Suite 404, Sharon Bidg., 55 New Mont- gomery St n Fran 0, Cal. Copies of the Daily Trib- une are on file in the New York, Chicago, Boston and San Francisco offices and visitors are welcome. Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation (A. B. ©.) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier One Year, Daily and Sun One Year Suni Only Six Months, Daily and Sunday Three Months Dally and Sun One Month, Daily and Sunda; Per Copy One Year, Daily and Sunday One Year, Sunday Only Six Months, Dally and Sunday Three Months, Dafly and Sunday One Month, Daily and Sunday -—~~ : All subscriptions must be paid in advance and the Daily ‘Tribune will not insure delivery after subscription ecomes one month in arrears. a Re-enacting the Old West Casper is witnessing a renaissance of the wild and wolly of forty years ago in the performances being enacted at the rodeo grounds and the sights witnessed upon the public streets during the day and far into the night. The Indians from the near- by reservations with their gay trappings have brought back the days when such things were com- monplace in many portions of west, now recalled by none but the thinning ranks of the old timers. Local cowboys and professional performers from a distance are re-enacting old tricks and reproduc- ing old performances that occurred in the daily work of the puncher of the old school, now grow- ing scarcer and scarcer. To the reproduction of the old and real, many new and marvelous per- formances are added for the entertainment of the public, more in the nature of modern circus feats. The whole show finds an interested and enthusias- tic audience for every feature of the program, for Casper people are not home grown people, familiar with all of the stunts known on the old time cow vanch and on the wide ranges of the days before barbed wire became popular and the cedar post an article of commerce. The Casper audience is fairly new to wild west stuff. Our people are mostly east- erners and new comers and when it is said that they are interested, it only half expreses it. They fairly eat the show up. After this week there will bo fewer chaps and spurs and five gallon hats, and gaudy shirts and neckerchiefs and eagle feathers, elk teeth and bear's claws in evidence. We will return to the business of manufacturing oil and gasoline and other occupations and depend upon the children to keep our memories fresh as to details until another rodeo is pulled. A Fine Example Alvin M. Owsley, national commander of tht American Tegion is himself the best example of the fact that the old sectional antagonism between the people of the north and south engendered by the Civil war, has been wiped out and forgotten. The direct descendant of Confederate veterans he is today promulgating a higher quality of Americanism and unionism than many of his asso. ciates of the north, whose special inheritance this prerogative has been from yeterans of the Union cause. Commander Owsley who takes pride in proclaim- ing his personal adherence to the Democratic party, takes equal pride in the announcement that the American Legion is not now and never will become a political organization if he can prevent it. If he is a Democrat he is by no means on or thodox one, for in his Casper address a few days since he arraigned in merciless manner the lead- ers of t party for their inefficiency, grafting and general short-comings in the conduct of the war under the Wilson administration. That portion of the commander's address resem- bled nothing quite so much as it did a bitter par- tisan arraigument of Mr. Wilson’s administration fashionable in leading Republican newspapers back in the days of the 1920 presidential contest, Nevertheless the commander is honored for his expression candid opinion and histerical truth and more can be said for him and others like him. The best expression of Americanism and real pa- triotism in this day is coming from south of the Mason and Dixon's line. To Insure Water Supply The people of Casper are face to face with a water supply problem. The present water facilities provide only a few hours excess supply. If any accident should occur occasioning a shut down of the pumping plant for a half day, the people would be without water for domestic purposes and the| property of the city would be at the mercy of any fire that might occur 5 This is not information for scare purposes. It is a plain statement of existing facts, The growth of the city has been so phenomenal that the city! authorities could not meet present demands and proyide for the future as they would like in the water department. The council has prepared and submitted to the voters of the city a proposition for bonding the city in a sufficient sum to provide! the necssary enlargements to the city plant to in- sure a sufficient supply for the ensuing few years, let the population be what it may, 4 | There can be no two opionions respecting such| a contingency, The people must have water. Tho| people's property must be protected from loss by fire. The people themselves must come forward anil vote for the bonds tk will insure adequate water supply. jcurs it will extend only to employments in which ‘their confines and caused enormous loss to rail A Revolutionary Proposal Magnus Johnson the new senator from Minne- sota tells the world that he is taking to congress / with him a goodly supply of horse sense an article which he also tells the world congress has every- thing else but. Possibly the senator is right. It) has been a long time since anyone charged congress with having horse sense, and even then the person |so charging might have been in error. Being fresh from the farm and a district where such animals are still used Mr. Johnson ought to be tolerably familiar with the article he pro- poses to take with him to Washington to leayen a | hard boiled congress. | Just how he proposes to go about injecting horse } sense into the systems of congressmen already) cluttered up with so many and so various other ba-| cilli, with any hope of favorable reaction to the} |serum of horse sense Mr. Johnson does not vouch- safe explanation or elucidation. It is feared he is speechifying for home consump-} tion. When he actually reaches the senate it may! be different. It is said that congress has a way| all its own of taming any new member who joins with revolutionary and-ambitious schemes of re-| form and the overturning of moss-encrusted pre-| cedents, Mr. Johnson’s proposal is basically revolu- tionary. It could never become popular in con- |gress. It is all right to tell the home folks, but once he looks congress over he will abandon his project. No Buyers’ Strike The fear, on the part of manufacturers and wholesalers, that a buyers’ strike will ensue at new prices when new goods have passed into the hands of retailers and are offered for sale, would seem unfounded. The needs of the country for al- most all lines of commodities are still large. The} ability to purchase is governed to great extent by wages paid. While equitable wage readjustment} has not reached all employments it is gradually doing so, and if a so-called buyers’ strike ever oc- the employed receive less than sufficient to provide commodities other than the necessities. The people seem still to desire more things and better things than they enjoyed in pre-war times, and the buyers’ strike of a few years since was not aimed so much at the price of goods as at their quality. The war brought a vast amount of shoddy stuff at high prices. When it was attempted to in duce the people to absorb these goods, they re- belled. And they were right. When the people are offered honest goods at even what they deem a high price, they will buy the honest goods in preference to the shoddy stuff. There is slight danger of 4 buyers’ strike. The buyers, meaning the ultimate consumers, have a long list of unsatisfied wants and the majority can find the money to gratify them. ‘The President's Illness The country hears with great regret of the illness of President Harding following a_ strenuous speech-making trip across the country and a jour- ney through Alaska. Stripped of the mystery with which physicians always invest the ailments of those occupying high place, the president appears to be really a sick man. His illness in the first i stance, on landing from Alaska was caused by ptomaine poisoning. It now develops that he cyer- taxed his strength in both speech-making and travel and as a result a weakness in the functioning of the heart is manifest. Just how serious this weakness is and its cliar- acter is not reported in the bulletins issued by those in charge. The hope is that the president's incapacitation is only temporary. He is ordinarily in robust health. He has lead a plain, clean und wholesome life and n6 organic ailment is likely to exist. Once he returns to Washington and enjoys a completé rest his restoration to his wonted vigor will be rapid. Our Rainy Summer Not in many years has Wyoming known such a continuous rainy season so late in the summer. Rain has visited almost every section of the state frequently since late in the spring. In many local- ities the rainfall has been away above the aver- age and in consequence streams have overflowed roads and mach damage to ranch and town prop- erty along such water courses. It formerly was a prond boast of certain sections of the state that the annual rainfall amounted to thirteen to fourteen inches. It is not doubted that such districts have experienced that amount of rainfall in the past ninety days. As a consequence of the unusual amonnt of rain Wyoming landscapes are beautiful to behold. The usual dry and brown hills of late July are green and smiling today, while crops of all sorts promise an abundant harvest. ‘An Old Controversy In the current discussion of “rich men’s sons"— a discussion often carried on before and started anew by Charles M. Schwab’s humorous character- ization of them while testifying in the Morse case —it has been remarked that a young man is not necessarily open to censure because he enters his father’s factory or shop or store with reluctance and shows no great heart in his work after he gets there. If he should prefer activities of some other sort, and even if the activities were not what the father would call profitable, he may have his rea- sons, and the reasons may be good ones. The education and training of this rich man’s son have been quite different from the father’s, and especially from those of fathers called “self- made.” That his tastes in many cases should be dif- ferent is not criminal. The alternative to follow- ing in a rich father’s footsteps and continuing or enlarging a rich father’s business is not to be come a waster and a wastrel. It may be the doing of things quite as admirable and virtuous as is the making of money—eyen more admirable and) virtuous than is the making of more money than sny man really needs, Work is all right, of course, and idleness is bad, with dissipation and loose living still worse, for} anybody, but the young man whose labors would) not be to Mr. Schwab's liking in a steel mill might| be better as well as worse employed than there. And if one is not obliged to “make a living,” as the phrase goes, why not employ one’s intelligence and time in ways which though unprodnctive of money, yet are not without results of some value to those who value them? There is significance, too often unnoted, in the! fact that but few sons of rich men, much as they | are criticised, ever go to jail. Those institutions| | It is the people’s business and they must per. form their duty. | those who hawe enjoyed the imaginary iste gel a great majority of their inmates from among | of poverty aud hardship in their youth, Che Casper Daily Cribune The Toonerville Trolley Has a TrickRear Platform— By Fox © wes is WHE THe CAR, - war cA NT ABU LL ALL ZOFLTHE fabs, Bur i wiorsson © GHE™ BACK PLATFORM” * (AINT#A GONNA ‘RIDE CoLLECTED<THE*FARES THEM cers & Refiners Corporation at Parco, east of this city, attempted suicide by taking a bichloride of mercury | tablet. The young man was rushed to the Memorial hospital at this city where he is betng treated by Dr. Kell and is getting along as well as could be expected. It witli be a couple of days before it can be determined what effect the poison will have on the patient. The only reason given for the at- tempt at suicide was that he had been drinking considerable moonshine, wes | despondent, and decided to end it all. Since being taken to the hospital he has decided that he prefers to live awhile. Blast Releases Toad RIVERTON, Wyo., July 31.—Work- men engaged in removing coal from the Goodman mine at Alkali Butte last week unearthed a peculiar look- ing toad over two hundred feet under the surface imprisoned in a small | pocket about eight inches in diameter. The toad was removed from the cav- ity and taken to one of the bunk houses where it is claimed it came to life. While it seems incredible that a toad or any other creature could exist in a comatose state for per- haps thousands of years, nothing is entirely impossible these days, and it may yet be that the little creature will confess it as a fact that he was one of King Tut's favorite pets. The toad is described as being dit FROMT-THEM UFosey Items and Articles About Men and Events Throughout the State Catch Bank Bandit COKEVILLE, Wyo., July 31,.—The sensational capture of notorious bank robber and his companion, sin gle handed and without a weapon of any kind, Is the fearless feat of Dep- uty Sheriff W. W. Smalley of Coke- ville. * O. C. ("Shorty") Rochron, alleged bank robber, yegg and escaped con: vict, was recognized by Smalley, from a description of the man sent out by the Burns Detective Agency, when he, accompanied by Frank Wilson and a youth, Charles Taylor drove into Cokeville. a Smalley followed the car until it|bery at Moron, Utah, July 12 and walking up| ™ stopped at a garage, to the men placed them under arrest Evidently they expected no such pro- Gsdure, for although there were four| revolvers. concealed In the car, they had no firearms on their persons. otter, who was present was called to Sheriff Smailey’s assist-| ance and the three men*were lodged in the Cokevilie jail. Taylor, who said he joined them at Pocotello, proved to the satisfaction of the of-| ficers that he was merely an innocent passenger to Kemmerer, and was subsequently released. Th8 most recent “job” of Rochron, and for which, Utah authorities are now wanting him. is the bank rob-| upon ne iv said to ees: caped with $4500 of the bank's funds. Frank Wilson, who was at first be- lieved to be James Sullivan, pal of Rochron, claims he knows nothing at all of the latter's former esca- pades, that he knew him in Arizona, and just recently met him again in Pocatello. The contents of the car revealed about twenty pounds of burglar's tools, four revolvers, and a quantity of nitro-glycerine, known in the ver- macular of thugs and thieves as “soup.” Suicide Attempt Fails RAWLINS, Wyo., July 81.—W. E. Dalson, an_ employee of t ——— CASPER BUICK COMPANY 182 N. Wolcott Phones 1741-2260 Rodeo Special One hundred diamond rings, white gold mountings. all perfect diamonds, newest designs, 18 karat Prices ranging from .... -.$67.50 to $150.00 AT SPECIAL DISCOUNT OF 15 PER CENT A LOOK MEANS A SALE H. B. Kline Consolidated Royalty Building 135 South Center Street Produ-| ferent from the little fellow’s prog- enies of the present day in that he has a peculiar mottled skin, is odd shaped in body and has a large sac attached to his lower jaw. He will | be sent to an institute where he may | be examined, diagnosed and a name attached to him that will resemble a scrambled alphabet, sata ES Unknown Killed at Hanna HANNA, Wyo., July 31.—The body of an unidentified man, with his head badly crushed, was found between the Union Pacific tracks about three miles west of Hanna. It is surmised that the man either fell from the train or was struck by a passing loco- motive. Nothing leading to the man’s iden- TUESDAY, JULY 31, 1923. was about thifty years of age, 5 feet 9 inches tall and slender. He wore black overalls, low tan shoes, checked shirt, brown ‘khakt jacket and cap, The body was discovered by the head brakeman of an eastbound freight train. Summer School Opens GILLETTE, Wyo., July 31.—Stud- fes in the Teachers summer normal school commenced with an enroll ment of 68, and it is anticipated that this will be increased considerably by the end of this week. Washouts and bad roads caused by the recent rains have made travel disagreeable, An announcement was mada that they would be more lenient with the late registration due to these causes. | Mr, McWhinnie is here supervising the registration of students and also helped in organizing the school. He informs us that according to presi- dent Crane it is the policy of the university to continue this branch of summer school in this section of the state. Miss Ora Butler {s assisting in the registration. Conductor L. R. Foote addressed the students and gave a very {im- pressive talk on the conduct of the teacher, He said, “The conduct of a teacher {s not that of a lawyer or preacher or any other profession, ex: cept that of e teacher, and the ob- ject of this summer school is’ to teach that conduct and the students to learn it while here.” He express~ ed himself as very much pleased with the school building saying that he found it very suitable for ail needs of a summer scHool and thanked the people of Gillette for its use. salibsictee Riedie dt _ Rock Fall Fatal “ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo., Juty 31a Joe Hrebevnik, aged 54 years, mot death at the Quinn-Quealey mint Sweetwater, when in the act placing a piece of timber under some loose rock, one weighing 30,00€ pounds fell upon him. EXPERT watch an jewelry repair ing. Casper Jewelry Co., O'S Bldg. a ‘The new Chandler with the Pikes Peak Motor has demonstrated its out tification was found on his body. 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