Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 1, 1923, Page 11

CRUDE OIL NEW YORK, Nov. 1.—The daily averege gross crude of] production of the United States increased 2,450 barrels for the week ending October 27, totalling 2,205,900 barrels, ac- cording to the weekly summary of the American Petroleum Institute An increase of 47 barrels in the daily average production of the Powell field in Texas virtually was offset by decrenses in other fields. The daily average production east of the Rock Mountains was 1,464,900 barrels, an increase of 21,950 bar- rels. California production was 801,000 barrels, a decrease of 19,500 barrels. Oklahoma showed a daily average Production of 393,700 barrels, a de crease of 5,950; Kansas 72,550, do- north Texas 66,050, de- 56,750, 1,200; OUTPUT 129,200, decrease 3,900; Gulf 93,600, decrease 1,450; eastern 107.- 500, increase 500, and Wyoming and Montana 145,250, decrease 13,800 barrels. Daily average imports of petro- leum at principal ports were 192,714 barrels, compared with 242,143 for the previous week. Daily average receipts of California ol! at Atlantic and Gulf coast ports were 181,143 barrels, compared with 157,286 for the previous week. ‘There were no changes reported rin crude oll prices for the major!Cnie Copper _.- Chino Copper ~~. Consolidated Gas districte—Midcontinent being quoted from 90 cents to $1.75 a barrel, according to the gravity of the oll, although some purchasing com- panies have made further reduc- tions; Pennsylvania crude, Bradford district, $2.75 a barrel and all other grades $2.50 and Gulf Coast $1 a barrel. _ Market Gossip and Briefs © On Operations in Oil Fields Elko Well Gassing. Gas of considerable flow encoun- tered in a sandy grey formation at 2,415 feet by the Elko Oll Develop- ment & Development company re cently, will be cased off at once. Utah Test in Gas Sand. - At @ depth of 2,280 feet the test of the Crescent Eagle Ol] company in Grand county, Utah, has pushed into a rapidly increasing amount ot gas pressure. Favorable showings of of] are also being picked up. ‘Nearing Sheldon Dome Production. ‘The well of the Marine Ol! com- pany on Sheldon dome has 10-inch casing set at 3,100 feet and ts drill. ing ahead. It is belleved off sands are now being neared. The present hole {s about $00 feet deeper than the final depth of the first hole. eral ths After fishing for sev mon’ for lost tools and a telescoped string of six and fiyeeighths casing the Guernsey test is now drilling. There are still a few lengths of pipe un- covered. ‘The hole has been filled Routine Op back 1,600 feet in-an attempt to straighten {t out and it is believed| that these joints willbe passed|Tfma Locoomtive -— without difficulty. Stock Exchange Sued NEW YORK, Nov, tae rie 100,000 damages will be filed in the areal court at Mineola against the New York Stock Exchange, the Clearing House corporation and several affiliated firms by Frank C. Milton and Walter L. Memphis, Tennessee, in connection legal firm of Ewing, Alley and Voorh Papers have been served on some of the defendants, bers of the firm said. Th action will be based on the failure of three defendants to check exchange firms—James Bennett and company of Chicago; Clark, Childs and company and A. A. Houseman and company, both of New York— to deliver a block of 500 shares of Piggly-Wiggly stock purchased on March 20 before 2.15 p. m. on the following day as per alleged con- tract. erations Only Reported by the P. & R. Several weéks have passed with- out any completions being made by the Producers and 3 ee yee . During the past Peete coecations have been carried on at its 21 drilling wells in Wyom- ing. Following is given the status of these various activities: yi Salt Creek—No. 1, 25-40-97, 2,627; cleaning out, production 375 barrels. No. 4, 16-40-97, 2,343; cleaning out, No. 7, 1540-97, 2,436; rigging up to run casing. No, 2, 18-40-97, 2,590; standing cemented. Enos Creek—No. 1, 18-40-97, 8,450; 1 blue shale, dritling. 2480s, 8490; iton—No. Garland— 30-56-97, 1,517; standing with 12% inch casing © Rreater Basin—No. 1, sec. 26, 2,400; preparing to run 8%-inch casi 1 CAPITAL IS TO GEORGE ALEXANDRIA, V A plea for the nation’s re-dedica- tion to theose principles of unsel- fish devotion to Uberty and hu- man brotherhood of which he call- ed Washington the “great exemr plar’ was voiced by the Right Rev. James B. Freeman, Episco- pal bishop of Washington, in de livering the principal oration at the laying of the cornerstone to day of the George Washington National Masonic Memorial. The bishop warned against influences which tend to create racial and religious hatreds within the ne- tion and those which would altar the fundamental! basis of its rela- tions fith other peoples. “We are mev here today,” he said, “not so much to think of Washington the patriot, the so’- dler, the commander and chief and ultimately the president of the republic, as of Washington, the high exemplar of those spten- did ideals for which this ancient order stands.” Among influences which have helped shape the destiny of the republic, Bishop Freeman said, none has had more far reaching effect than that resulting from the prinicples for which free ma- sonry has ever stood, namely the fatherhood of God and the broth- erhood of man. The bishop decried that form of individualism today which ‘'s, so ‘selfishly insular” that it consti- tutes “a menace ty our ideals and MASONIC MEMORIAL IN Sand Draw—No. 2, sec. 9, 2,012) shut down. No. 3, seo. 15, 2,422; lubricating with mud. Ferris—No. sec, 25, 1,855; shut down waiting on crew from other well. No. 23, sec, 27, 60; shut down. Mahoney Dome—No. 2, sec. 4, 2,883; reparing water lines. No. 1, sec. 29, 2,085; sand shale; drilling. No. 1, sec. 88, 2,360; drilling by casing at 2,271. No. 3, sec. 35, 2,450; cleaning out. Wertz—No. 3, sec. 7, 2,908; fishing for tools, No. 1, 1,910; shale;) Bell 8. D. waiting for bo! Sherard No. 1, 2,845; blue shale; drilling. Ridge—No. 1, sec. 16, sec. 14, 605; shut down on account of snow. Nor Pipe No. 1, sec. 20, 3,305; gray sandy) shale. DEDICATED WASHINGTO institutio. and those who “in their over-weening desire to see use promote what they call an in- ternational spirit, would have us forget the rock from whence we are hewn and the purpose for which we were born.” America, he maid, would always discharge its Just obligations to the world but it must be “permitted to do so in accomlance with those judgments and practices that have grown out | of our experience as a people.” Cody-Yellowstone Park Highway to Be Improved CHEYENNE, Nov. 1.—The United States Bureau of Roads has finally approved the plans of the Wyoming State Highway department for joint will be done in accordance with the State's desire. fire for somo time because of objec- rerouting of the highway that would have made it less scenic. ee and remain standing ur til it is ended mem:} Att, Gulf and W. Indies -—_ Baldwin Locomotive Baltimore and Ohio --._-. Bethlehem Steel --.—. California Petroleum —_. Canadian Pacific Central Leather - Allied Chemical & Dye -...-. American American American American Cah Car and Foundry . | New York Stocks INCREASED IN WEEK Imports Fall Off in Comparison with Previous Seven. Day Period, According to Figures of Amer- ican Petroleum Institute 63% 95% 160% 19% Cerro de Pasco Copper .. Chandler Motors ~~~... Chesapeake and Ohio -. Chicago and Northwestern -- Chicago, Mil and St. Paul pfd. 25% Chicago, R. I. and Pac. - 21% Corn Products Cosden Oil - Loutnville and Nashville -.. |Mack Truck Marland Oi) ----..--.-—...— Maxweil Motors - | Middle States Oi! -.. M'ssourt Pacific pfd. -. New York Central -. N.Y. N. H., and Hartford Smith of|Norfolk and Western —-.. Northern Pacific with the recent corner in Pigsly-|Pacific Off --------.. — Wiggly stock, it was admitted by the) pan American Petroleum B -- |Crucible Steel -. Cuba Cane Sugar pfd Erie — —_ Famous Players Lasky --.—- General Asphalt General Electric General Great Northern pfa |Gulf States Steel |Illinols Central - Inspiration Copper --—--—. |International Harvester Int. Mer. Marine pfa - International Paper -.. Iny’neible Of) .2---—-_-_-__. Kelly Springfield Tire --__ Kennecott Copper Motors |Missouri Kan and Tex. new_— anc 38 53% Pennsylvania ex div - 41% People's Gas ---.-.- - 89% Producers and Refiners aT Pure Of -. | Reading Tobacco Praducts A ex div — Transcontinental Oi ~ Union Pacific ------ United Retail Stores -.--_ U. 8. Ind Aloohol ...—-----. United States Rubber -——. United States Steel ---_-___ Utah Copper Westinghoune Electric Wilys Overland ~..-.---— American Zinc, Lead and Sm. Butte and Superior -- Colorado Fuel and Iron |Montana Power -----.__.. |National Lead a ee |Shattuck Arizona ----___ Republic Iron and Steel ~-.._ |Sears Roebuck —. , Sinclair Con Of, ex Southern Pacific - Southern Railway Standard Ol] of N. J. Studebaker Corporation ~ | Texas Co. Standard Oil Stocks Bid Asked Anglo Buckeye Contnental |Cumberland ~.—~------. 112 116 Calenai Minois - Indiana Nat. Tren... ——.1-<~. 21) 1%: N. Y. Tran ------—.-- 93 chy senecemen === 301 103 Ohio Ol -. rome one 56% 56% Prairie Ol -—-——-—-— 177% 178 Prairie Pipe 98 98% Solar Ref. -. 165 «175 Sou Pipe -. 91 92 8. O. Kan -—.------ 39 40 Oo. Ky 92% 93% tion to the Federal proposal for | c . QO. NED. mannan 218 Crude Market Cat Creek ~~~. .----...----——~$1.85 Lance Creek Osage Grass Creek ~------2 Torehlight Elk Basin |Greybull Rock Creek | salt Creek Big Muddy | Hamilton |Mule Creek |Bunburst improvement of the Cody-Yellow-| Higher; 49%6e; The project hung | 42@43- Butter and Eggs CHICAGO, creamery Nov. 1.—Butter— extras, 60%c; stone Park highway, and the work| standards, 48e; extra firsts, 48@ 45@46%c; seconds, receipts, 3,141 ¢; ordinary firsts, it is customary for an audience to rise at the beginning of] MINNE Tujah Chorus” of Handel's! Flow to [Central Pipe Line | Jupiter Securities Creamer & Oil @y Wilson, 1 Contplidated Royalty « 1. Cow Gulch ~..--.-.--. Domino Elkhorn ~.------------ BE. T, Williams PRESS) Sark nena Frantz Gates 4% 1.15% 04 10 4 AT 21 5.00 08 3 Kinney Coastal -... Lance Creek Royalty. .01% Marnie . ~.--...—-—.3.00 ‘like Henry 0% Mountain & Guilt 14 New York Of -.. 0 21 02 4.00 1 1.16 9.00 — 04 05 aa---- == —— «00% 01% =- 2.00 3.00 Royalty & Producers -. .05 Sunset 01% 0; 06 02 NEW YORK CURB CLOSING Bid Asked 13.87 Mountain Producers Glenrock Ol] -.. Salt Creek Pris. Salt Creek Cons -.... Mutual = ..2--2c--ce. Cities Service Com 14.00 Chicago Prices. CHICAGO, Nov, 1—] ceipts, 49,000; mostly 10 to 160 lower; bulk desirable. 200 to 325 pound butcher: welghty slaughter pigs, largely $5.75 @6.25; heavy weights, $7.05@7.70 medium weights, §7.15@7.65; light weights, $6.75@7.65; ght light, $6.15 @7.20; packing sows, smooth, $6.60 i 4 laughter pigs, $5.50@6.50, Cattle—Receipts, 12,000; most kill ing classes steady; stockers and feeders, 10 to 15 higher; fed i lings and heavy weight steers get Ung best action; heavy kinds, espe- cially short, feds slow; several load» fed yearlitigs, early, $10.00@11.50, strictly choice kinds held at $12.50; $10.50@11.60; best heavy, early, $11.75; no strictly choice kinds here; bulk weighty bolognas, $4.26@4.50; rest bulls, $4.00 and below; beet bulls, $4 ; bulk vealers to packers, $9.50@10,00; selected kinds upward to $11.00; feeder steers aver- aging above 1,000 pound on country account late yesterday, $7. Sheep—Receipts, 21,000; killing classes fairly active; feeders, slow; market generally stead: to choice fat lambs, mostly $12.75@ 13.00; few to city butchers, upward to $13.40; cull natives, largely $9.50 @10.00; medium to good native year- ling ‘wethers around 20 pounds, $9.00. Omaha Quotations. ~ OMAHA, Neb., Nov. 1.—{U. 8. De- partment of Agriculture,}—Hogs— Receipts, 10,000; very slow, 15@25c carrying packing sows and lights, $6,80@6.95; packng sows, $6.60@6,80; average cost yesterday, $7.04; weight, 270. Cattle—Receipts, 4,700; beef steers, steady; yearlings, strong; top, long yearlings, $11.50; bulk fed offerings $8.25@10.50; all other classes gen erally steady; bulk grass cows and heifers, § canners and cutters, $2.25@ bologna bulls. $3,00@8.60; bulk selected light veals, $9.00@10.00; practical top, $10.50: stockers and feeders, largely $5.50@ 7.00, Sheep—Receipts, weak; western lambs, natives, $12.50@13.00; fed clipped, sheep, steady; ewes, top, -75; feeders, weak; no choice feed- ing lambs here; breedizig ewes, $6.25. 4,000; lambs, $18,00@13.15; Denver Prices. DENVER, Colo., Noy. 1.—{U. 8. Department of Agriculture.}—Hogs —Receipts 2/800; bulk of run back; uneven; mostly 15c lower; early top 7.50 paid for desirable 240-pound averages and few drive ins. Bulk of desirable butchers 7.25 to 7.49; few odd‘lots 7.00 to 7.15; few light Ughts 7.15; packing ows steady, mostly 5.75, few 5.50; stockers most- ly 4.50. Cattle—Receipts 3,800; calves 5.00; slow; stockers and feeders steady to 15c lower; early sales 5.00 to 6.65; other classes around steady with undertone weak; cows 415 down; heifers 4.00 to 5.00; bologna bulls 2,50 to 2.75; feeder cows 2.75 to 3.50; poor feeder heifers 5.00; fnirly good stock calves 6,00; few killing steers 7.25. Sheep—Receipts 10,000; around steady; some choice $1-pound Colo- rado fat lambs 12.60; one string 30 per cent feeders 12.25; freight paid: few 97-pound ki‘lirg ewes 5.35: thrse cars Wyoming feeder ewes 4.00; no strings feeders sold early, Vi. Chagoo) Silver SEW YORK, Nov. 63%; 1.—Bar silver, Mexican dollars, 48%. Company) [| SOCK PRICES Sharp Upward Trend Gains Momentum In New York Trading Today NEW YORK, Nov. 1.—Speculators| for the advance retained control of| today’s stock market which con- tinued to move to higher ground desipte intermittent profit taking in and short selling of the usual in- dustrial leaders. When heaviness cropped out at various spots, new leaders were brought forward by the operators on the long side. Chesapeake and Ohio, up five points, being one of the conspicuous strong spots, Sales. approximated 1,100,000 shares. NEW YORK, Nov. 1.—Having succeeded in turning the recent course of prices by yesterday's re- markable dit y of strength, opera- tors for the advance again were in control of movements at the open- ing of today's stock market. Gains nm most instances, howev were Umited to moderate fractions with a few of the usual leaders falling ck on realizing sales, including American Can, United States Steel and Baldwin, the last mentioned yielding a point, Having absorbed th les in somé of yesterday’s strong atures, including _ Studebaker, which fell a point, the market con- tinued to sweep upward at a rapid pace, Baldwin, United States Steel, American Can and Studebaker reaching higher figures than ruled yesterday. Some of the noteworthy advances were Bayuk, 3%, Strom- berg Carburetor 3%, Woolworth 3, and General Electric 2. Foreign ex changes opened frregular with marks establishing a new low at half a cent a bi'lion. ‘Transactions during the first hour exceeded 400,000 shares. Prices of the leading industrials and rails were pushed up 1 to 8 points above yesterday’s final figure, with the shorts again supplying much of the buying power. Olls failed to make much headway, Texas company fall- ng two points to a new low level for the year. Around the end of he first hour, profit taking started by the floor traders brought the general upward movement to a halt. United States Steel, Baldwin, Stude- baker and American Can fell one to aearly two points below their earlier -op figures. Two of the biggest in- dividual strong spots during the morning session were Foundation Company and Market Street Rail- way, which soared 6% and 5% points respectively. Call money opened at 4% per cent. After several industrials and spe- cialiles had been driven a point or so under yesterday's final prices under the weight of realizing and short selling the market swung up- ward again, under the leadership of the coalers. Chesapeake and Ohio jumped four points; C. C. ©, a St. Louls 3%, and Atchison and Goulsville and Nashville 2. Pivotal ndustria) shares did not, as a rule, realizing morning, excepting American Can which climbed to 99%. Congoleum /umped 5% to 155, a new to The closing was strong. The ship- ings assumed the leadership of the tate advance, Marine preferred ris- ing 3 points to .34%, Metals NEW YORK, Nov. 1.—Copper quiet; electrolytic spot and futures -12%@.12. Tin steady, spot and futures 42.00. Iron steady; num- ber 2 Northern 21.50@.22.50. Lead steady; spot 6.75. Zinc quiet, East St. Louis, spot and nearby 6.30@ 6.35. Antimony spot 8.65@38.75. a NEW. YORK, Nov. 1—Call money steady; high 4%; low 4%; ruling rate 4%; closing bid 4%; offered at 4%; last loan 4%4; call loans against acceptances 4%; time loans easy; mixed collateral 60-90 days 5; 4.6 months 6; prime commercial paper 5@5%. BOY SCOUT COURT OF HONOR TO CONSIDER | MERIT BADGE AWARDS The Officers Court of Honor of the Casper Boy Scouts will meet | this evening at scout headquarters | for the purpose of conducting ex-| aminations among 10 applicants for merit badges. This marks the first time in the history of Casper scout- ing that merit badges are to be awarded to commissioned officers. The officers who will take their | examinations are assistant scout- |:nasters, scoutmasters and deputy commissioners. ‘The tests will be the same as for scouts who apply for merit badges. The Court of Honor consists of D. W. Ogilbeo, chairman; C. K. | Fletcher, secretary; C. H. Retmerth and W. J. Wehrii. | get back to their high figures of the Grain :: Livestock AND QUOTATIONS BY LEASED |GRAIN NEWS 13 QOAR IN MART BEARISH AGAIN Import Rumors and Report of Refusal of Freight Cut Are Factors CHICAGO, Nov. 1.—Although wheat had an upward turn at the outset today, prices soon showed Something of a setback. The mar- ket was two sided, with selling on bulges and with buying on declines. Bears emphasized new that Min. neapolis milis were continuing to import wheat from Canada, duty paid. The opening here which ranged from the same ag yesterday's finish to %c higher, December 1.07% to 1.07%, and May 1.12 1,12%, was followed by a slight gen eral advance and then a drop al’ around to below yesterday's Iatest figures, Rallies ensued, but near the end of the day the market was again depresséd by word that a voluntary reduction in railroad freight rates on export grain had been refused. The close was unsettled, % to %c net lower, with December $1.07 to $1.07% and May $1.11%@1.12. Disappointing husking returns to. gether with a forecast of unfavor- able weather gave firmness to corn and oats. After opening unchanged to half cent higher, December 73% @.73%, the corn market scored decided general gains before begin- ning to react. Later, despite bullish estimates of corn yield, the market declined with wheat. Corn closed unsett! Me Oats started unchanged to \%c higher, December .41%@.41%. Later the market gave down a trifle. Firmness of hog values upheld the provision mar! Wheat— Open High Low Close Dec, ~~ 1.07% 1.08 1.07 1.07% May 1.12% 1.12% 111% 1.12 July 1.08 1.08% 1.07% 1.07% Corn— Dec. —— .78% .74% .72% .72% May ---. .71% .72% .71% .71% July ... 12% 12% 12% 172% Oats— Dec. ---- 41% 41% .41% . 41% May -—. 44% .44%- 44 Ath Jay .—. a 43% Lard— A Jan. 11.42 11.60 11.43 11.50 Mar. 11.40 11.42 11.40 11.42 Ribs— Jan. ---. 9.27 9.30 9.25 9.30 Cash Grains and Provisions, CHICAGO, Nov. 3 red, $1.07% @1. $1.09%5 @1.09%. Corn—No, 2 mixed, 88@92c; No. 2 yellow, 94@94%c. Oats—No. 2 white, 48@44%c; No. white, 42@43%c. Rye—Nominal. Barley—60@67c, Timothy seed—$6.85@7.75. Clover seed—$15.00@23.00. Lard—$12.75. Ribs—$9.27@10.75, — 1 — Foreign Exchange NEW YORK, Nov. 1—Foreign exchanges easy. Quotations in Great Britain, demand, cables, 448; 60-day bills on banks, 445%. France, demand, cables, 5.86%. italy, demand, of cables, 4.49%. Belgium, de- mand, 6.01; cables, 5.01%. Ger- many, demand, 0000000002%; cables. 0000000002 %. Holland, demand, 88.75; cables, 38. Norway, demand, 14.98. Sweden, demana, 26.32. Den- mark, demand, 17.10. Switzerland, demand, 17.80%. Spain, demand, 13.384. Greece, demand, 1.58. Poland, demand, .0000%. Czecho Slovakia, demand, 2.93. Jugo Slavia, demand, 1.18. Austria, demand, .0014. Ru- mania, demand, .4~ Argentine, de- mand, 32.25. Brazil, demand, 9.10. Montreal, 98 21-32. Potatoes CHICAGO, Nov. 1.—Potatoes steady; receipts 118 car total United States shipments 1,021; Wis- consin sacked round whites United States number 1, .90@1.10 cwt.; few 1.15 cwt.; ‘bulk 1.00@1.15 cwt. nesota and North Dakota sacked round whites United States number 1, and partly graded .85@1.00 cwt., bulk fair quality 75@.90 cwt.; few low as .60 cwt.; Minnesota and river -85@.95 cwt.; bulk .80@.95 South Dakota sacked early number 1, .80@.90 cwt.; sack- ed round whites .80@.95 cwt.; Idaho sacked russets number 1, 2.00 ewt. : North Dakota sacked Red Ohlos Sugar NEW YORK, Nov. 1.—With bus! hess atill ight, refined sugar con- tinued to decline and list prices were reduced 10 points by most of the leading refiners, making fine granulated 8.70@8.90. Refined futures nominal. Bugar futures cloved barely steady approximate sales 11,000 tons, De- cember 4.84; March 3.88; May 3.95; July 4.03. ———— Flax. 1.—Close December, Fact vs. Fiction }2 The suggestion that war must be outlawed meets up with the stern fact that war always outlaws law.— | ‘Omaha Bee 12,320; Fensland Oil Compan. Bywater No. 9, section blue shale, drilling. Liberty 3%s -_ . Liberty First Liberty Fourth 4 U. 8. Government 4 Danish Municipal &s A Dominion of Can: French Republic Japanese 4s Kingdom of Belgium Kingdom of Norway 6s Rep. of Chile 8s, 1946 _. of Queensiand 68 of G. B. and I., ‘%@| American Tel and col., te» 5s 93 Anaconda Copper 7 Anaconda Copper 61 At. T. and San Fr‘ Baltimore and Ohio cv., Bethlehem Steel con 6s. Series A - Canadain Pacific deb., 49 OE cece nnnensecnenaseses UNITED STATES BONDS Chicago Burlington and Quincy ref., 5s Chicago, Mil and St. Paul cv, Chile Copper 6s -. Goodyear Tire 8», 1941 Great Northern 7s A . Montana Power Gs A. Northern Pacific ref., 6s B Northwestern Bell Tel., 7s — Pann. R. R. gen., 5a Sinclair Con Oil col 7s Southern Pacific cv., 4s Union Pacific First 4s -. U. 8. Rubber 5s Utah Power and Lig Western Union 6% .«. Westinghouse Electrio Wilson anc Co., cv., 6s TRAGK IS TORN UPBY TRAIN Continued from Page One, dent is of the opinion that switch was locked open. Running 20 minutes behind sched- ule, the Denver-Billings passenger train came along a quarter of an hour after the mishap. It was im- possible for {t to proceed into Cas- per this morning because of the clutter of engines blocking the way. A stub train was run to the White Eagle refinery and all passengers were brought into the city. Many had already been conveyed to town by taxis. It {s expected that traffic. will be restored sometime today, To handle the situation temporarily until the engines can be removed and the track repatred, a shoofly will be thrown around the torn-up section. A train was put in service here this morning at 11:30 o'clock to care for passengers bound for points west and north. Being « little late and probably trying to make up lost time, it is not unlikely that No. 29 might have had a very serious disaster at the White Eagle refinery switch had the four engine-tank car combination not been ahead of it to disclose the neg- lect in carefully closing the trask for through traffie, GOV. WALTON ON TAIL TODAY Continued from Page One counsel to quash all house impeach- ment charges. None of the 22 charges was found and presented as required by law, the defense declared. The evidence on which the charges were made was branded “not competent.” Governor Walton also charged the house was without authority to consider im peachment charges, being called for the express purpose” of considering antl-klan legislation. The governor charged that sixty seven members of the house were klan members, and renewed his re- cent allegations that impeachment charges were the outcome of a “frame up" by which the ku klux klan had conspired to oust him from office, WALTON TURNED DOWN KLAN MEMBERSHIP OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Nov. 1. —(By the Associated Press.)—Wil Mam Joseph Simmons, emperor of the Ku Klux Klan, conferred a life membership in the klan upon Goyer nor J. C. Walton, “in just recogni tion of your constant Inyalty” ac- cording to a letter to Walton dated September 10, 1923, Governor Wa} ton declared in a statement issued today, The governor sald he re. quested the certificate of member ship be not mailed him as he was not in sympathy with klan ideals. Governor Walton reiterated that he had never applied for member. ship in the kian and denied the statement of Imperial Wizard Evans at Atlanta that he is a “klansman at large.” “I would rather be right and work in a ditch than to be the highest official of the invisible em- pire and dwell fn the palace of the king,” the governor declared. The governor said the life mem- bership offer, which was to be gratis, was “an utter surprise” to him, He quoted two alleged letters, one purporting to be that of Emperor Simmons and the other his reply to the membership offer. The an- 44a the swer was dated October 17. Emperor 107% 36 “after members of the klan were complained against and arrests made.” The ofter was character- ized as “a polite attempt of bribery.” The executive's statement follows in part: “1 bave been many times impor tuned to jon the Kian, The mera that control this super-government, ascertaining Chat they could not in- @uce me by persuasion, then at- Vempted by threats, even to the ex tent of taking my life, to force me to desist my efforts against their jawlessness. Jewett (N, C. Jewett, grand dragon of the klan in Okla: homa), also has asserted publicly and guve it wide circulation ‘that the head officers of the klan declined my membership. “My atterition has been called ta excerpts published in the press of yesterday, from the testimony of the imperial wizard, Evans, to the effect that I hold 4 membership at large in the klan. This also is fal: VOLSTEAD VIOLATOR 16 FINED $150 BY COURT CHEYENNE, Wyo. Nov, 1-— Matt Fatlont of Lincoln county, ar raigned in United States court here Tuesday, pleaded guilty of violation of the Volstead act and was een- tenced to pay a fine of $150. He was committed to the Lincoln county jail at Kemmerer, pending payment. An information was filed charging Alex 8, Duncan of Laramie with violation of the Federal liquor law. H. H. Price of Rock Springs, charged with using the mails with intent to defraud, was brought to Cheyenne, to await action by the November grand ju ee ti ae FRENCH FREE TWO GERMANS BSSEN, Nov. 1—The first intt- mation of an inclination by the French authorities to lift the sen- tences imposed on certain German industrialists {8 given in the an- nouncement that cCirectors Lattan and Heinrich of the Zollverein mine have been informed they can return to the occupied area. Jattan was ex- pelled and Heinrich was sentenced by default to imprisonment of five years, ——>—_— Blackstone Salt Creek. Harrison No. 2, section 10-40-79, 2,310; blue shale, drilling. em Cotton NEW YORK, Nov. ton quiet, middling 8 1—Spot cot- eee eng ieecioteet On Our Knees What a spectacle the world pre sents! Russia in ruins. Germany on the verge of disaster. France striving to safeguard her future and get reparations for her devastated area. England staggering under’ a burden of unemployment. Greece, Jugo-Slavia and Italy in a ferment. China torn by civil war. Japan lala waste by the double catastrophe of earthquake and fire. In contrast to these calamitous conditions, how minor, how: trivial are the evils that confront us in the United States! We are the posses- sors of a continent of vast resources, with a population small enough to be supported in comfort. We are protected by thousands of miles of ocean from possible rivals. We have no age-old heritage of hate. Our problems can be met with good heart. There ts not a worker in America, not a business or professional man, not a mother, not a child, who should not thank Ged for a lot cast Simmons’ letter was!in this favored land.—Kansas City written, Governor Walton said,Starn = - t od a: a MER RP RM ROR ERR re a ww K