Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 18, 1923, Page 1

\ Weather Forecast WYOMING: _ change _ in Frost tonight. ~VOLUME Vil temperature. LEGION CONDEMNS THE KLAN IN RESOLUT! Teapot Loss Charged to Draina ! [OAPPEARAN Fair to- night and Friday. Not much { A Newspaper for All the Family, Clean, Unbiased, And a Booster for City, County and State: ‘Low Production to Have Bearing On DF RIGH BROKER Federal Probe STILL MYSTERY Grand Jury Probe of| Schick Case to Be Launched Soon. SAN DIEGO, Calif., Oct.| 18.—A grand jury T into the mysterious disap- pearance of George E.! Schick, wealthy San Diego real estate broker, will be started immediately officials an-| nounced today. As a first move to the inquiry, Mrs. Grace Lucille Mason, with whom the vanished man had many business deals was brought to San Diego from Calexico on a grand jury subpoena, No charges have been made against Mrs. Mason, but au- thorities are holding her as a wit- ness. 5 Representatives of a private de- tective agency announced last night! that they would start digging today| in several places where they be- Meved the body of Schick might have been buried. County officials also have arranged to open the grave of an unidentified man found! slain near the Mexican border about the time Schick disappeared. The)! exhumation will take place tomor- row morning. Schick vanished February 7. The next day, acording to detecttves, Mrs. Schick and E. Drew Clark, ‘ormer business partner of Schick, inquiry | F WASHINGTON, Oct. 18. —Results of a recent survey" of the celebrated. Teapot Dome naval oil reserve showing a loss attributed to drainage which has reduced the ‘indicated deposits to one fourth of the original estimate have been disclosed on the eve of the senate committee investigation of the lease of the property to the Sinclair Ol! interests. That this condition, reported by geologists of the Interior and navy departments after a study of the surprisingly low yield of wells al- dy drilled on the property will tly influence the trend of the gation, undertaken after a bitter row in congress over its leave, is regarded as certain. The leasing of the Wyoming reserve brought charges from Senator La- Follette, Republican, Wisconsin, and others that the interfor and navy departments had handed over to private control a government prop- erty of immensely rich petroleum deposits, A separate survey made by geo- logists for the senate public lands committees has not yet been latd before the commitee but executive department officia’s expect tt to be in general agreemnt with the survey just disclosed, which estimated the Probable yield of the property at only 50,000,000 barrels. aside for the navy it was estimated to contain upwards of 200,000,000 barrels, With the 80 wells thus far drilled out of 120 to be completed under contract and the lease we!ls yield- ing a dally average of only 40 bar- Tels apiece against a. minimum dally Production of 20,000 barrels ex- pected from the full number of. When set; CASPER, WYO., THURSDAY, Che Casper Daily Tribune Uys TE o BER 18, 1929 FINAL | (EDITION) NUMBER 319 mg e Boyhood Friend Mink From Tr With Check Who Stole ap. Makes Good Sent Dr. Dacken Dacken and his boyhood buddy were going to high school together in the little town of Harlan, Iowa, something happened that ever since has gnawed at the conscience of | that close friend. Not that Dacken once thought that a wrong had been dgne him, until just recently when he recetved a cashier’s check for $5, for he | didn't; but his buddy was miserable in secret for the secret misdeed he had committed against Victor. The two boys played on the same football team, were.in the same classes, and were always Jonathan |and David to each other. In winter they would set their traps in nearby woods and from the furs taken would increase thelr small allow- ances. It was early one snowy morning, a little before the regular hour the chums visited their traps, that Victor's friend made a lone trip to the woods. After he had re- turned and saw his pal he did some- thing that for 14 years he has deeply regretted. Victor Dacken of Harlan, Towa, is today Dr. Dacken of the Dr. H. Lathrop clinic in this city. hood friend now lives in Bots! Idaho, from where he sent the cashier's check for $5 the other day d the letter, which follow: lector Dacken, ‘Harlan, Iowa. ‘Dear Victor: “No doubt you are surprised to receive this kind of a letter from me. “Do you remember when we used His boy- Fourteen years ago when Victor to gu trapping together w! mn we were going to high school? Well one morning I went to look at our traps early before you got down to my place and I looked at your traps as well as mine. I found a mink in one of your traps and I took it home with me and told you that I caught it in one of my traps. I don't know whether you ever doubted my word jor not, but I have always felt guilty about it ever since, | “If I remember correctly I think I got three dollars for the mink fur. I am sending you five dollars to pay for the fur and as interest on the |three dollars. I want to make it right with you and it will make me feel better about it. “TI am sorry that I did ‘it and hope that you will forgive me for the wrong that I did you. “Wishing you the best of success, T am, “Sincerely yours, “E. ¥. H.” ‘PLANE THIEF >, IS CAUGHT LOS ANGELES, Oct. 18.—The city Jail housed its first alleged air- plane thief today when Pau! Sparks, aviator, was booked on « charge of stealing a flying machine from a local uir port. According to the Sparks stole the plane and flew it to Yuma, Arizona, where he was arrested. RETAIL PRICES FOR F000 TIKE JUMP IN MONTE Two Per Cent Increase Reported in Month Ended Sept. 15. WASHINGTON, Oct. 18. —Retail food prices, on the average of reports from 51 cities to the bureau of labor statistics, crawled up an- other two percent during the month from August 15 to Septem. ber 15. Los Angeles, Louisville and St Louis, with four per cent, were the high group out of 46 cities showing an increase. The list ine!uded: Portland, Oregon, * San Francisco and Seattle, three per cent; Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Kansas City, New York, Norfolk, Omaha, Pittsburgh, two per cent; Atlanta, Denver, Houston, Indianapolis, Salt Lake City, Utah, and Washington one per cent. - No change was reported at Boston and Butte, Montana, Retail food price increases for the 51 cities during the year ending September 15 ranged from 11 per cent at Cle and to three per cent WOMAN SURVIVOR OF NIPPON BIC CONIF QUAKE DESCRIBES HORROR OF | nine bsASTER OW visit To etry] HD a Casper has no oriental gardens of indigenous hydran- gea, chrysanthemums, and lilies, no quiet, obscuring groves where stand the artistic temples of the Shintoists and the Confucianists, no clumps of bamboo, no low-grown palms, no radiant expanse of cherry blossoms—and yet Casper in TION EabL ld its surroundings of sagebrush and semi-barren land: of PUT I] h WATE jountain and plain looks mig’ the twisted stairw With our rood and feels reassuringly solid to| servant we ran for the hillside but ies Mrs. Frank D. Kant of Tokyo. soon turned away because of the Mrs. Kant and her two children] rocks that came tumbling toward . ° ° unk, Jf, 6 and Clara’ 9; arrived| us and tho trees which were ail tair.| Bitter Denunciation of four days ago and are now vis-|ing. I prayed—we all did for the — i ng h Mrs, Kant’s sister, Mrs.| it seemed, the world was near its K sh : \ d D. . regor of 504 East L| predicted end. | nights Vote own t. On the ninth of this month} “But we could not stay In one A Cl : f Mild the Kant family landed in | San | place and pray because pity ee S ause oO lider Francisco from the 8, 8. President} mors that kept bringing the houses Ti I Ad d Lincoln with some half a hundred| iow. Our a heuser firet ahooh one Is / opte 5 other American refugees from strick-| from one side to the other, then pA @n Japan started to heave up and down as A realistic description of the Jap-| though it were on the ocean, It anese disaster 1s grven by Mrs-|scemed that it would be best to get PLUMMER BOOMED Kant, who is staying here until her|on open ground but the Japanese SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 18— husband finds a business ®éation in| told us to get on some house roof With one « for actién at Chicago. She says because otherwise we mix be | the Amer Legion convention My husband, a mechanical and| swallowed up by the cracking earth se ng with electrical engineer who built three “We had no peace during the first rnal pe ative to the jarge factories near Tokyo, was in| three days, when 1,300 distinct | 1 of officers to be selected the downtown district of the city on| shocks were recorded. The earth | ®t the final session tomorrow. the day the big earthquake came./ would be torn apart and cracks six | © P. Plummer of Wyoming, Jo- He was in an office building making| feet deep were on all sides. Nat seph H. T. Thompson of Pennsyl- final plans for the establishment of| urally there was no water or lights, |. V®" wm an of Ww a die-casting plant. Just at noon| For food we had a poor quality of | York; Jame uin of the Dis- the first shock was felt He man-| brown rice, and on this we subsisted | trict of ¢ a; Clarence R. aged to escape the building but for] for several days. Edwards fassact ts, and some hours after was not able to| “After five hours walking my hus- n of California were make his way to our home in the|/ band managed to reach us on the | Prominently mentioned as pos suburban district called Omor!, night of the first day’s quakes. We manders for 1924, while “At the time I was on the ground] placed a tent in a woods after the ons of Minnesota floor of our house doing some sew-| real danger had passed and lived ‘he! candidacy for the ing, and the children were playing | there for two weeks. It was neces c > n nal c Jain, upstairs. I ran to the door, which | sary for those who valued their lives Wd is always the safest place when an| or had any property to be constantly at Seattle. earthquake is felt, and called tolon guard. We had succeeded in SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. Frankie and Clara, They too, ran| saving only one trunk from our 18.—A bitter anti-Ku Klux to a doorway where they stood unt!!| house, wid really had to have) K]y resoluti subimitted the fir#t dreadful rumbling had sub-| that trunk because all of our warm ole? gutton, , submitted sided. Then they almost fell down| clothing was stored in it by Chas. Kendrick of San OKES SCORES IN HEARING ‘An everyone knows, me Koreans| francisco and a pro-Ku Klux Mterally hate the Japanese. When Klan resolution, submitted that awful series of eurthquakes| by E. W. Whitne of Oklahoma, came” they immiediately’ wét” out to | Were both lost when put to a plunder property and murder thelr at the fifth annual convention of the vote wells, the navy’s royal fi > enemies. A great number had been| American Legion here today after went to El Cajon, near here, to re-| duction for the onthe wee working in a tunnel then under con-/one of the 1 bitterest fights in side. Mrs. Schick ts alleged to, ber was less than 25 per cent of Struction, ‘From this tunnel they| the history of the legion have used forged papers to obtain|the contract minimum. ALES obtalned dynamite and set out to The res i of Michigan dele- possession of her husband's prop- A project ‘to bufld a. raf! ris . Hate caenie as weet re-| Bt the klan in as mitbeiota ce road ° : ° ‘ : hey and the milder was almost unani Mira Sohice and cide are tnder| Taig Eng UME throu the Former ‘Attache of Diplomatic Service) seum or tie tnvancce,” pitt srried Before adjournment arrest here charged with forgery. | tron Miles Clin, Mentone eomins bad pillaged wherever they could.| W n 30 o'clock this — Chicago, ‘Milwaukee and St. Pav Says He Saw Mrs, Stokes Going Te_was mainly because of the Kor- | aftern¢ railroad to Casper, Wyoming, wee j ke suse meen at it was) absolutely| | ‘The resolution of the | . ¥ rs necessar’ 0 be on the lookoy day ichigan e es condemni: the | tiled today wit od ae ng PROSECUTING WITNESS aes dhl Tatetaiate Com. to Bachelor’s Apartment an dnight. Our men and the na-|Ku Klux Klan reached the floor of ; i 3 d tives nearby armed themselves with| the American Legion convention as ) South railway company, a Wyoming| Weal Bee with 7) | ve 5 : bamboo spears, the points of which 2n official part of the resolutions F FFD MAN RELEASED sstortcatis, sakes the necossary _ NEW YORK, Oct. 18-—Horace G. Knowles, formerly | haa been sharpened and polsned:| committee ae toll 3 struction, Geclating reat con-| |in the diplomatic service of the United State in Rumania, | with knives, swords and guns. W th! ‘Whereas damental law : up. both arsiouituea ata abinee| In a large half-page display advertisement in this| Bulgaria, Bolivia and Peru, today testified at the re-trial Lene espcne a homes were | of our guarantees to all peo a s othe ’y 7 > . catiaatt Pa, ‘ a ‘rom. be! ed or blo’ »,| ples e¢ ts and equ »ppor- L. W. Burroughs, who has been|TS0urces. No estimate of costs, Week’s issue of the Douglas Enterprise is a call for several of W. E. D. Stokes’ suit for divorce from his wife, Mrs. | ona water welle ace eke Aatelg tant flea and? cap siene se nk ee held in the county fall sifice Augnet| Were siven |hundred volunteers to aid in the search for the body of |E elen Elwood Stokes, that he had seen Mrs. Stokes in 1914 | ing poison thrown inte thie God an they see fit, and 10, when he cut a Mexican at ate, Charles Guenther, prominent Douglas citizen and oil man, |°™ the stairs leading to the East 365th street apartment of | “Arter waiting three weeks we t it led that our Powder River so seriously that it MAN GOES ON TRIAL who, with two score others, lost his life in the Cole creek | @t#* T. Wallace, co-respondent i = = were able September 25 to sail for)laws shall be made and enforced by was necessary to send him to the wreck of the Burlington on the night of September 27.| Knowles. now a practicing law = : = merica on the President Lincoln , of our people, chosen hospital for treatment, was turned) tied ars ted pesca facta td NN . P Be adial | ¥eryiaald' be-dnew \Vatlace: and that aa I cannot begin to describe things as| under ) do #0, and 106bo this eaten: | ollowing is a condensed rep: johnson, Dougtas, at a prior da’ aire 5 SC they actually were. In Tokyo Whereas, as membership of t tion of the advertisement: Implements needed are long-handled |!" 1914 he had visited a man with WY LUN, ¢ Mp of the The Mexican who was stabbed reggie 6 : oe : tee’ | weheebd Wallace abate ait apactmane | . everything, with v w excep-| Ar an Legior made of those was the principal witness against | “VOLUNTEERS. WANTED! shovels and long bamboo poles 4 d ) tons, was leveled. ‘TI wh ntry veo apne | rill be vided |in 35th street. Asked whether he Thousands of intry fn time of Burroughs and he has since left the | “The bodies of the victims of the eee ia rand will be provide heAaCeaanAttas atnkeaa there: atiee | | a Ves dead were lying in heaps all over| sr r without ¢ country, leaving the prosecuting at — Cole Creek wreck on the Burling: | bY, : a RCV REARCAET Lem Bea coke toa one the city, where they had been either| tinction or, creed, o' tarhey ec octingy meee, Denctioaliy! cid a) Act -Baiah, charged with thie thett | ton Gus batinn. 21ec, manaliaramnet 11 GAvenay Mere ne OE ART | Oe tie court feo, whe wie | a crushed or burned to death, It was| class, and iar wal testimony on which to prosccute| of a Hudson touring car from Pete |¥et been found. Among them is the | cars wanted.’ hess answered Consider the imagination, vision | terrible thing Whereas American Legion ts the case Wray, proprietor of Wray's cafe, at|ody of our fellow townsman, Se ee 7 Fe ,| Snd faith of the farmer Little Frankie Kant seems to have| pleded » enforcement —>—___ the Casper Rodeo grounds June 8,| Charles Guenther. ©, B. & Q. COOK DROPS DEAD To the best of my knowledge and The farmer prepares his soll and | norne no terrible picture awa travel of ful agencies F M f went on trial for grand larceny this| “A systematic search of the Platte ©. L. Shidler, 40, Burlington rae dnetees heron any ey rs} plants his penis on carefully |the island of He laughs | 2 pitietinp-tn tha) aionent aMeeene lstveex bottorah anust ‘be'tnaliel “wets : eading to the ap ant and in/ cultivates the growing plants, | delightedly and has great fuse ; t esioeis Kaabii ormer anager o ir and Mare Sect Baie thorough search wil be made on| "@llroad clerk, dropped dead at | company with Wallace, confident of the harvest Qpingathe gente He learnes iE the | tr 1 ive ion pp yet D Hall Seized|*2 8%. !2%21¥e4 in the same’ case, Sunday, October 21. about 3-80 o'clock this afternoon. | Clarence A. Smith, process server | The same energy and foresight |far cust. Mra Kant end su 17th day of October, 1923, that ance a ELZEQA) are to be tried later in the term, “Volunteers are requested to re-| He had just stepped into the store /and Charles Murphy, deputy sheriff} and faith are necessary for the | ing from nerveus ahc She says | we « ler any 1al, group of 2 ke —<$<$<—__—_ |port at 8 o'clock on Sunday morn-| car for provisions when he was | told of having mado frequent and| merchant ; that she prefers to stay on the solid| individua r ations th For jing at the corner of Second and rn if unsuccessful visits to the tea room lclént advertising not only ! territory of the United States from | creates rs racial, re overcome. His wife found him cut { a » religtou: | Center streets, Douglas, and receive Si taianieg Lee a taunt | the house where Wallace had| produces immediate fruttage but ) now on The Kant family lvyed| or cla r peoples, or 3 assignments of territory and in-| ®me * ay a his apartment in an attempt to| it sows seeds of good will and con- | jn Rochester, ¥. before going to| which takes wn hands the Frank L. Robinson, better known structions on the method of search.| Under Judge Henry F. Brennan [serve a subpoenas on Mrs. M t re in the minds of readers. | Japan in 1920, enforegment of Jetermination of . among his acquaintances as If possible give your fames to A. A.| will be held at 10 o’clock tomor- | McNulty, head waitress of the tea : a tebe sown will germinate | ——___ gullt, ar inf c punishment, to “Robbie,” was picked up by the | row morning. room. and grow into permanent patron- 5 un-American, a menace to our Police department at 6 o'clock last | pa, or Justice Mahoney reserved decision| “8¢ and friendship, ber 1d fon of ou nigst ‘Cocthe eens tet Buisd | NEGRESS ARRESTED. {Seg gach Gt. Bascciel OR aEOYES | » condition justifies letting up Former Resident [eee ato Rane sertion and non-support. Robinson| A record was established in the| Mollie Helghtower, colored, was | chief defense counsel, to strike from| !" sowing the seeds which bear | | I ed, t nsider much is being held for Denver authorities, | eighth district court Wednesday at-| again called on by the police last | | the record testimony of th and| the fruit of favorable public opin- | Of Casper Dead tor ‘via groups se on whose advice he was arrested.|ternoon when Charles W. Crump| night and a pint of moonshine was Murphy. Jo} | tol. be site According to the telegram received | was tried and found guilty of liquor | found in her possession. Mollie’ was tes ag. a,” wikndal age There are more than one hun- | ae with the ideals and pur; here, Mrs. Robinson is in the Mercy | law violations in an hour and twen-| released on a bond of $100 for her Knowles, who (iid not appear at the| ‘fed thousand people in the field | Word has been received by friends |. cer hospital, Denver, and ts in a very | ty-two minutes. appearance in court tonight. first trail of the sult, came as sur-| Which may be cultivated through | here of the recent death of B. i The grea st of con- critical condition. Crump was fined $400 and given a| Billy Reid and Harriet Jackson Stine it Wan apparent trom the atti: | 25° Tribune Deets, former Casper resident. ‘The | v« FS Robinson was formerly manager | 40-day jail sentence by Judge R. R.| were picked up on investigation| Today js the last day.that Casper’s take Gf Aetehee: counsel Z <3 GOES I death of Mr. Deets occurred tn Los nvention of a dance hall here. Rose hare Prospective voters will have 1p Whe ee eee ieee am an ex Two Fined by Court Angeles, Cal., September 28. Denti | » gion by to register for the coming municipal! * e e A 4 “Cowboy Jack" and a man known| came following an operatio: f 2 1 . \election. The polls will be open un. | Porter and renrostntatiys oe the se only by the name of Lemmie, were | appendicitis. The deceased le peea a a r 1 that the |til @ p.m. and will then close for| {acto government of San T Peo | fined each and costs by Justice | widow in Lom Angeles. ‘ | n’ ba teken |an hour to reopen again from 7 p.m. ph Hog re cae Lon bint. the Peace “Henry F. Hrennan.| Mr. Deets will be remembered ? bled. . j until 9 p.m. Tnere are only four | On vollt! on to identify Mra, Stokes _20th men were picked up in recent| here as “Ben Deets, the happy W net s said that 1¢ may be made. They are the Davis| ‘° Ws! . p Pe eh + “aRE ‘ ee Sast|saw her he raid ‘as sure she Me rhage ask he re lie i Msonae 4 the woman he had seen in 35th jhigh school building, and the court | *'Teet- EAK DO U A Vot whould not fal) to register.) he was not sure of the date nby aweees| JAIL BY SAWING . t was on the opening day of the aes 3 z ) , Fire Marshal Brophy declared he D q b trial. Two Under ‘Arrest and Third Is Held as|,,2'"7,Morm! Bonny aocnrea me) Declaration by iui" 0" "© J’ Sofi seateta ate ae| Presi | ON OUTSIDE WIND Witness In Brooklyn Tragedy; snd his goniniaw was said to tave| President Upon | Cont 60 s d existed for several years, according | | ‘ 3 4 » Brophy, and Keim, it was under- a bape cae asm ee ontession of One Secure ne Dry L Asked | ° . . stood, was to have appeared in court ~ | stad: waa to hayelappeared tn’ court Ty Law Asked | MAN IS UNDER ARREST Prisoners Facing Terms at Rawlins, : case the day of his death. | 5 Fy : NEW YORK, Oct. 18.—A sensational aftermath of a|“Andcramn accordine to Brophy,} BUMFALO, NoaT oct, 18—wn- | Including Lusk Firebug and ‘Auto | fire which last Monday destroyed a Brooklyn home and |accused Ford and the unidentiied Mam D. Upshaw, congressman from a : | caused the death of six persons came today with the arrest |™an. also a stranger to him, of hay-| Georgia, in an address at latt night’s| Kaward Greggs was arrested yes Thief. Escape From Jail : “ : ing driven to Kelm's home early |session of the annual convention of | terday Salt ¢ by Les Snow, 3 . burr of William A. Ford, a real estate broker and son-in-law a terday at Salt k by Les Sn 1 of one of the fire victi d Ra d And Monday and with having fired tho) the state W. C. T. U. urged that | deputy sheriff, charged with having oe she ° e fire victims, an ymon NGerson, ON| house. Keim, three women and two| President Coolidge be called upon to] stolen tin valued at $ from the DOUGLAS, Wyo., Oct. .—Three prisoners made charges of murder and arson. ee j other men perished in the flames. | declare himself publicly for stringent | Duthie Oil company. He was ro-|their esc ape from the county jail here at 7 o'clock last ift's office A third man, James R. Lynch, an Ford is the son-in-law of George} Ford and his father-in-law, for | enforcement of the 18th amencment leased last night on bond of $1,000. hig ebb sa 4 ‘ i fee wil aie ic a a Keim, playwright, whose death in|merly partners in a Manhattan eonkch “Rusts taddlceicy x aietae (OF tkedone wit bar aes night afte sawing out two bars in a window of the build ° an e 1 Pi aR spats “| the fire came on the eve of the pro-| theatrical ¢ ise, were said tol WwW. ©. ‘ans came down yester-| ferred ng t G ag ing. The other eight prisoners in jail at the time did not 7 ba nh is being sought as an duction of bix first play, ssp | broken business relations after day on a business trip from Itiy he given a prelin caring this|®et away, all of them but three being locked in individual . accomplice, after years of endeavor. @ quarre) several years ago, ton. afternoon. icells at the time. The trio who made their escape were in | alld