Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 2, 1923, Page 1

Weather Forecast erally fair tonight and Wedn except unsettled east portion and tonight. QUNGIL DENIE NEW WARD FOR ORTH CASPER Four Points Are Made in Report by Judiciary Committee residents of North Casper to have a new ward created in that part of the city was the principal feature of a brief session of the city council last night. The petition was denied ™ a new ward as suggested woult qumean an inequitable distribution of ‘voting power in the council was the reason the committee gave for their recommendation. ‘Their communt- cation was as follows: half vote in the council, thus giving fn minority of the property owners cil, as against the other two wards’ 50 per cent of the vote witih 65 per cent of the area. This omits un- inhabjted portions of Ward No. 1. “Third, in point of population, North Casper claims 3,000 inhabi- tants which Is approximately one fr Fourth, there are portions of Casper that have been within the city limits for a term of years with- out being constituted in a separate ward, and if it 1s desirable to create more wards in the city, we believe equitable to all, We therefore recommend that this petition be denied and that when it seems proper to consider the matter the whole city be taken into consideration on a redivision. ‘The council agreed to employ the firm of Black and Veatch for the The surveyors to exceed 15 days. will make a report to the council Property damage in North Casper because of the recent storm was re- ferred to the city attorney, city en- home was in Mexico City. i tonight in south- Warmer Wednesday in extreme northwest portion the recommendation of the ju-| | No Disturbances In Oklahoma City or’ Tulsa as Polls Open; Few Counties Recognize Protest, Report OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Oct. 2.—(By The Associ-| CASPER, WYO., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1923. , OMAN’S E Oklahoma Defies Gov. ated Press).—Oklahoma’s special state election, at which} will be decided the question of whether the state legisla- ture shall meet to consider Impeachment charges against | Governor J. C. Walton, swung into full movement early today with reports indicating that polls were opened! throughout the state with the ex- ception of four full counties and a part of a fifth. Indications were | that an unusually heavy vote wasjernor Walton and barred the ele | being cast. In Bryan, Harper, Cimarron and/| junction agaist him late yesterday Denial of a_ petition by |Johnston counties all voting places |in the state district court at Durant | were closed, and in Jefferson county | failed. only six out of 28 were opened. Johnston county appeared to be the only place in the state where |the threat of governor Walton to |close the polls by force of arms had jbeen carried out. There armed Istate police held possession of all TULSA, Okla., Oct. 2.—(By Asso: ciated Press).—Voting began in Tulsa county at 7 o'clock this morn. ing, under guard of more than 1, |500 armed deputies under County | Sheriff R. D. Sanford, the balloting. R. R. Stevens, head of governor ference by representatives of the klan and the manipulation of the election supplies already has de- stroyed the integrity of the ballot.” Two men carrging commissions from the headquarters of Governor Walton's civilian guard were arrest- concealed weapons and lodged in the elty jall, Police Chief Moran an- nounced that every armed person without a deputy sheriff's warrant would be thrown into jail. ing of the polls here at sfx o'clock |this morning for the special state wide election. The voting was Nght at an early hour. Hundreds of deputies are in readiness to quell rioting or prevent any effort to stop voting, the county officers declared. county opened on time today and at many places persons were in line closed the election board offices to day announced that strict order will |be maintained and any persons at Amerca drew the interest of virtual- office of the county election board. | In Bryan county Sheriff John | Conn followed instructions of Gov- An effort to obtain an in- Cimarron and Harper counties state election board, and in Jeffer- have not been received from the were not voting because supplies son county a ballot shortage kept most of the polls closed. | From every point the reports in-| 'y the whole of Oklahoma to the| polls today. Rumblings of intimidation and violence were heard as thousands| of special deputies took their stations | at precinct booths throughout the ity to convene on their own call and investigate the official acts of the Pes er od The upended chairear be Ella Seales of Lander, car, designated by X, whicn was still embedded in the sand this morning, body was found. Guo ws oy; alton at Polls te ih oe (foreground) the coach Wyo., was recovered at ( CASUALTY LIST expressman, Casper, Nicholas Schmetz. Douglas, Wyo. | drowned, E. J. Klove. brakeman. Casper. W. J. Nource, Gunnison, Colo. Albert Hill, colored, Dodge City, M. D. Montgomery, Denver G, R. Neill, Denver. Mrs. Minnie Owens, Casper. W. Martin, Casper. R. T. Gierhart, Denver. W. 8S. Wilson, International Or- | ganizer for Painters Union, Denver. MISS ING (Not Confirmed) iy of a woman believed to The submerged end of the is the point where the PERMIT ISSUED FOR BUSINESS BUILDING day by J. E. Lindlah! for a $6,000 | business block on A street between Beech and Durbin. The structure will be 80 feet times 36 feet. Efraim Anderson took out aj} $2,000 permit for a frame residence Inquiry was received in Casper to- day from Graham, Texas, seeking RIVER SEARCHED BY The place the daily newspaper holds in the business and social life of any community was never more fully emphasized than in the recent strike of the pressmen in the city of New all-other advertising devices. It has brought to light the de- pendence to buyers ag well as sellers upon the advertising columns of the daily dinarily crowded wit. apers, New York city’s great stores, or- shoppers in this season, have been al- most empty, because they. were unable to reach the buying public with the customary daily announcements of their wares and prices, the morning editions ordinarily noon papers would wind up the day. of reference to the newspaper would make their appea pages in the day’s bt ible t a great vacancy in the lives of the people. It began when ance The countless purposes siness WORK WITH LATE ARREST 20 Volunteers to jand friends have turned sad found beneath the debris of be accounted for otherwise. In or- der that the river may give up whatever of humanity it now holds, the stream. Sheriff Albert W. Payton started eling down stream in boats. They will be met at Rigley island near ‘etterman by a party of 20 caval! National League At Chicago— GUARD Patrol Platte for Victims of Disaster been washed down the Platte river sorrowing relatives| eyes toward the stream that ‘is supposed to hold the bodies of those who will not be the wreck and who cannot address communications to the mayors of Casper and Douglas ask- ing suggestions on a feasible plan tion of Captain Nordgren in secur- |ing volunteer guardsmen for patrol OUR VIOLATORS ARE A Newspaper for All the Family, Clean, Unbiased, And a Booster for City, County and State: Chr Casper Daily Crihune Y IS FOUND OUT OF First to Be Given Begin In Douglas Lander, Wyo., who was on her way to Laramie, Wyo., to visit the fam- ily of Gus J. Dittner. According to Coroner Hofmann at Douglas the body conforms in many details to the description of Miss |had stopped in Casper on her way BODY WEDGED IN TWO WINDOWS Head and arms of the woman vic- tim protruded from one window and legs from the window adjoining, the discovery being made at 2:30 o'clock noticed, after a great volume of water had been pumped away, ex posed portions of a human body in both the first and second windows on the west side of the coach. was thought at the time that there the embedded rear end of the car, the big pumps were again put in action and a crew of men under di- rection of the county coroner of Converse began pulling away roots and shoveling sand from around the body. slowly taken away the corpse was discovered to be that of a woman since near her body was a corset stays broken away, and other pie of torn dress. FINAL EDITION to Laramie and it was not known | It} ~~ NUMBER 304. VICTIM TAKEN COACH HELD IN SAND Remains of Ella Seals of Lander are Up by Chair Car of Train No. 30; Inquest Scheduled to Late Today With one additional body—that of a woman—recow ered but not positively identified and an inquest into the |cause of her death ordered by Coroner Chris Hoffmann of |Douglas, Burlington officials today were redoubling their efforts to clear away the debris and recover more bodies from the wrecked cars of a passenger train w hich piled up tab d in Cole Creek during the flood last;man and because no other misst diclary. committee composed of , lection supplies and would not per-| dicated the election was proceeding : oinataetaee Councilmen Sylvester Pelton, John ,mit them to be removed from the | quietly. KNOWN DEAD: | Ollie Mallon, mailman. bef i tg the ltok een ee es bape Stee efforts ‘ere made at once to jeterm: Hancock and John Jones. That D. E. Schultz, baggageman and) Jay Griswold, Casper. A permit was taken out yester-|today is that of Miss Ella Seales of a whether the body was that of Mrs. Minnie Owens of Casper, who was probably in the same car. Reports that it was Mrs. Owens were set at rest when a son of the woman failed |to identity the remains as those of his mother. Pirst, if this ward were created | 4+ 7:39 a, m. upward of 300 depu- . cl an. | W. R. Dougias, Denver. on Washington street between |Seals recetved by rallroad officials | MRS yEN! ‘ as petitioned, it in conjunction with | tie, were assembled at the court Pergeis wich teaentetion gad = : William Hines, homesteader, Ogal-| righth and Tenth. from Mr. Datthae te Laramie. HEnE Nome, lnanee Ward No. 1, representing less than | pose gteps to hold themselves in|ernor opened his warfare on the Ka| DoE, MISSING: lala. Wyo. Miss Seals was not one of the| Mrs. Minnie Owens lived in Cas: one fifth of the taxable property tn | -eaqiness for service anywhere in| itux Klan, the question of veating| Charles A. Guenther, Dougias,) Ela Seales, Lander, enroute to INQUIRES FOR BROTHER. passengers listed as missing im-|per intermittently Yor the past three the City of Casper would have one | tne county to rout interference with] in the state legisiature the author.| ¥%? Laramie. x m mediately after the wreck... She|or four years. Bhe wee pects | of rooms over the Fad Clothing com- pany on Center street. Last Thurs- Sowan Ut taxation lover avatge Inds] i ee deych : 4 0. Gate. Denver: Lester M. Buckley. 711 Terminal] word of Jack Christy who, it 1s pos-| ‘ jority. Meee eee hat oThe svectal |Cxecutve, will be voted on. Im-| 44. Watuins, negro porter, Casper |Bldg., Lincoln, Neb. sible, may have been a ‘passenger |*h® Was aboard the train until the |day night she was on her way. to “Second, in aren the different |Cnuniy. Decision on by the kian."' | yqecnable offenses have been charg-| Gay AV. Goff, conductor, Chey-| Marshall Bower, home address un-|on the train wrecked last ‘Thursday |(ueTy Was Fecelved from Mr. Dett-| Denver with J. Griswold, boiler- wards would be constituted about |°"\0) oncede we are beaten before | enne._ |knewn; father resides at 181 Hill) night: Word shouldbe sent to’. B/C. hetonging to Miss Senia Lome wnee tn pute Greeks where the is” fOlfows: North Casper 15. per! +).~etection is held, We have re Early indications were that in se K.-d. Spangler, engineer, Casper.| street, Lansing, Mich. Christy had been working, ha been | 44 hel Ais ial Phage ne Seon to have been married. cent; Ward No. 1, 20 per cent; Ward | (be SPCR ot Denorta that. ballot | Mty-tWo counties, at least, tho go W. B. Hendricks, mailman. | Christian Goke, home address un-| munication with Salt Creek, where! to, Gunerintendent Grisalnger of (lec Gwenn ta ne ne smoker and No, 2, 26 per cont; Ward NO 2B, 40 poe eee ieen ptufted. As the | °MOr's stratesic jockeying in elev-| J.P, Jensen, Boise. Idaho, recent-| known, sister resides at Platteville, | Christy had been working, have been| {nn Surlington hore #ald this ater | stale one thee te pete a J 2) 2 ents x bi . ne Met hg * baat ie e er | r car at the time of the wreck. oe gent Beal One. boxes are in charge of the sheritf's Continued on Page Seven. ly of Glenrock, Wyo. V interrupted by the storm. |nool. Coroner Hofmann ia. at-|'The widow is survived: uy ‘tees lasper ani No. 1, 4 » have not n able to emptl feate with Mr.| children, Mrs m. Piers: . |gunmen, we hav tempting to commun! hildren, Mr C. BE. Plersall of Salt ing by area 35 per cent of the city. |i vestigate the reports. Dettner to confirm the {dentifica-|Creek, Evelyn and Ralph Owens in 50 per cent of the vote with 65 per| «te is apparent that armed inter- tion. | Denver. J. H. Peters of Douglas this morn- ing gave the most accurate infor- mation that has yet been available regarding the possible casualties in |the chalr car. Mr, Peters said that when the wreck occurred there were not less than 12 nor more than 14 tenth of the population of the elty| (4 within a block of the court house ° : |this morning. inal nae Ni and thin ereation would sive them |o@ Within a blo The Indis ensable Newspaper Captain Nordgren of Douglas Gets Out). towara miantgnt veateraay work| 1106 oar. Nine of thene, Including one fourth the vote in the council. ‘They were charged with carrying [ers excavating around the chair car) 70). 4 . chmetz of Douglas and W. | D. Bellrose of Denver, jumped in the jriver. Seven went over the cable to the shore. The casualties }could not in the thair car have totalled more than five and the real number was prob- all sections of the city should be ‘ .| York. . ? was a body In each window. : OKLAHOMA CITY, Oct. 2—(By . With the announcemen 7 |ably four. according to Mr. Peters. Visa ee Legare pe & lone Associated Press)—No disturb The strike has removed any doubts that may have existed {victims of the Burlington of thetbeller tat bgt pos ene After final attempts had been TOF VICTIMS yisine: maaden tists Won more | ince or disorder marked the open-| of the valuo of newspaper advertising and its superiority over at Cole Creek have} made py the 65-ton crane to lft 13 INCREASED. | The identification lst of probable | victims of the wreck was increased |today by the addition of the names of Lester M. Buckley of Lincoln, ‘arshall Bower and Christian Goke, he two last named had been em- ployed in the Salt Creek field by \the Miawe: é esarc f A Refining company and e! ter possibilities for a search is being made under the|for searching out and veri z = pany an Caster rene firm will be employed | McALESTER, Okla., Oct. 2.—All The theaters of the city and the places of amusement and, | direction of the national guard sta-|hodies of wreck vietinie | Waaiina {Continued on Page Seven.) : time limit not ;POl8 in McAlester and Pittsburg! public entertainment remained practically deserted. There | tioned at Douglas for bodies all along|down stream. He endorsed the ac-| AS5 the sand and grasses were Rail S ervice fficials to hand out : 2 5 ; on what they consider the best | Wutne sBtecee | “Will Anderson) at breakfast time, and continued throughout the day, when the |from Psrkerton yesterday with a| duty and expressed the deepest sym- Snet panibiately | Gisrobed pare | method for securing an adequate | to nt) hom restraining orders| etrly afternoon editions would under normal circumstances |°°™Panion. These men are acouring|Pathy for relatives and friends of! 1 little doubt but thas ot the time of Establi hed supply for this city. tore issued yesterday after he had] appear on the streets, on to dinner time when the final after- | *°h bank of the river and aro trav-|the wreck victims. : stablished To Lander Today > soliine! . could not be answered, and it was practically impos o . ug “ More than an hour was spent in gineer, and council for investiga many) 5 , 4 P iy impo: : men from Douglas under the super } IP tion before anything {s done in the aene to interfere will be er} tut over the business day with any degree of satisfaction. |viston of J. G. Nordgren, captain prying the body away from the way of repairing the damage. pean The reading public and the business public were lost. of the national guard at Douglas.| |panel between the two windows sc as OKLAHOMA CITY, Ok Bond and brokerage houses, investment bankers and stock a ihe ane pis Pah scout) ] NT BONNEVILLE gee ae Chet si pri ad Misi Railway comunication from Cas- EMBEZZLER |The polls opened and and mercantile exchanges were also hard hit by this interrup- |{)0PE either bank of the river at) TeURaGeHAll pomoE Krdtues Ghn ces Ihe a ee ones aan being cast in the special election in] tion of full newspaper service. In fact its effects have been felt |ing so that the work san. be then i hank Meitaxcim the mecrag waa tn lex'| shen anatWarticcccine cae Ets Is AP URED two counties Nowata and Murry] in every range of mercantile, financial and social activiti oughly covered. Another party will] In a raid at Bonneville conducted| ‘ellent condition. left at 3.30 o'clock. The Northwes- F rAA Be ipaemniteed today. nocortitig It has been a remarkable demonstration of the power of news- |go from Douglas south for a few|by federal authorities, assisted by| Nearly a dozen men were re-|tern office announced this morning : ‘a "the okla,| Paper advertising as a promoter of business and no less a_ | miles. A. K. Lee of the Chicago, Burling-| quired to carry away the victim|that regular train service would be NEW YORK, 0c Ralph Dong: |to telephonic reports to the Okla- ‘ t ee feat rae Adjutant Ge: D. vat Gey 1g : = 5 tained } f , . ire resident of a|homa City Tim | demonstration of the complete dependence for a wide variety djutant General D. J. Howell|ton & Quincy, four arrests were| from the chair car. In all proba-| maintained hereafter Ee ee Shox ago, ras wate | of service, which no other single agency could provide except |®nnounced Inst night that he would|made for violation of the liquor laws,| bility the enormtty of the welght| ‘The Burlington i» still routing tts wa Se cated easy, as a fugitive | INTIMIDATION AND at a cost that would be prohibitive. | \_f. A. Wright, W. C. Bancroft,| was caused by sand and water in-jeastbound trains over the Northwes- r IOLENC R 7 i |John Wri le body. trac runnin , ‘ from justice at San Francisco where | VIOLENCE ARE SEEN. What is true of the great metropolis is true in degree of pha We ight and John Guist wero] side the body. tern tracks, running at apf roximate he is| OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Oct. 2. a i ¢ 1 J ail released for appearance in court) No one at the scene of the wreck | schedule 123 no west bound according to local police he Q cities of lesser size, of towns, villages and small communities. under $500 bonds. this’ morning could identity the wo-| tr present charged with misappropriation of ay. The pannciated | Ereee ya The modern newspaper occupies a place in the scheme of | - $17,000. The). ‘peiagner ¢/aAld' =, 18 | Sigotion: unsere ee aoe things for which no substitute can be supplied. \ CHAMBER OF COMMERCE nl a RM A he ae ae A Lae ee At Boston— i . |Brooklyn — ...000 000 140-8 8 0 / | Boston 000 010 00I— 2 5 2 RP E Cd Batteries—Grimes and Hargreaves | Cooney, Genewich,. Batcelor. and Smith, BUILDING IN MEETING Detroit = \— ? | | Chicago — es the bunco men reported tn the toils Indictments charging the break r eon today which ended tn a motion | Batteres—Dauss and Bassler; | iq (Oj Commission ‘A ked ‘i ak a Fa n f the law. ing of the narcotic laws caused the - . Tia un by es Anda hat the ch be M.! . Hunt of Salt L e L st to Ul I to| M. P. Hunt, a salesman of this jarrest of M. P. Hunt on September 1¥0M8 and Crouse, Schall. tro o ty 0 issioners Ske aie this cediiaet at «ev oornatin: sioners. The ehamber of commerce also to Withdraw Bond Proposal In adopted the report of the committee Toils; Man Who Brought Big Ring i Favor of Joint Meeting Jon a city-county building, ‘This re- to Justice Gets Rest SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 2.—J. Frank Norfleet, of Hale | port was to t ct that the com- Ine consi mbined build jcity. just_at present, but formerly | 20. While Hunt was in custody, known as W. B. Spencer, of Texas, |Mr, Chase, of the identification bur. fs the man identified by Norfleet as |eau, comparing Hunt with a pic-/ American "Langpe | \the last of the bunco men, He {ature and an fdentification card sent! At Philadelphia held here by the government on [out by Norfleet decided that Hunt |Washington 000 000 010-1 7 1/ three narcotic charges and will have |and Spencer were the same men and Philadelphia ~-000 002 O4x— 610 1 to stand trial on these charges. |notified Norfleet of his discov Batteries—Mogridge, Russell and Hunt, or Spencer, “had quite « chat |Norfleet arrived here yesterday Ruel; Burns and Perkins, | y ing tho best no enlarge: ment to the present The board of county commissioners will be requested pl an should Center, Texas, who for the last four years has devoted |with Norfleet today and admitted |immediately identified Hunt as tt AS A as |by the Casper Chamber of Commerce to withdraw their | court house that a new court ractically, hi i i to seeking out the men who/he was one of the men who got|}man who was known in Texas os| At St. Louis | i i plecti r $5C 0 "4 | house was needed, that the p y,his entire time g jthat $40,000," according to a state-/Spencer and who was one of the | Cleveland 300 2 -_ publication of a bond election to vote on $500,000 worth | hose wey sent court house fleeced him out of $40,000 in Forth Worth, Texas in| ae by c Novembeg, 1919, slept soundly and peaceably in Salt Lake jintendent of the City last night—his chase said to be over and the last of\eau here. i etuPoc jof county bonds for the purpose of constructing a new | | county building. The chamber of commerce again went |, into the discussion of a city-county building at its lunch- rge Chase, sup identification bur group who fleeced Norfleet out the $40,000 | Continued on Page Seven, Louis ~ 101 1 Batteries—Smith and Myatt; Van | gilder and Collins, id t «cs on as a street WHS @ good Page Seven) bo thrown o ntinued ty hal on ee