Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 3, 1923, Page 1

‘e ™ Y yt Weather Forecast WYOMING: Generally fair ro- night and Tuesday except Mountain districts. Not much change in temperature, VOLUME VIII. POLICE. RECORD 5-969 ARRESTS THEFT CHARGE |from Scobey. Mont., within on hour after he had received infor-| Li Vi |: < M: mation to the effec: that the man quor Violators 1n Ma~} was wantea. James Gilmore was the man. He is charged with steal. ing a car in the Montana town. Ac- cording to his story to the police jority—-Narcotics Also 7 7 | he rode out of Scobey with anothe: is fh MMM Povo gerne at forgo —-—- and came on to Casper by train, He Two hundred fifty-two! ee¥i that Helhatl no ‘knowledge of 3 ; stolen car. more was not foun’ arrests were made by the |in possession of any machine when ae 3 gar ane during | arrested here. the mon 0} ovember. Drunks headed the _ list. There were nine cases of as-| sauh, eight of violating the drug) ordinance, four of narcotics, one of! forgery and one of murder, were among the arrests made. The re port follows. Hi Irvnk »-- lhterfering with officer 89 FORT COLLINS, Colo., Dec. 3.— 1/ Of men estimate that 150 barrels of % ofl a day is being thrown into the 5/air with the gas which ts flowing 48\¢rom the well fourteen miles north 4/of Fort Co'lins, at the rate of 82,- 4) 000,000 cubic feet a day as a result 17/ of an increase in the oil content of 8} the gas since Saturday. m4 The men are working with slickers | ‘teattie Driv'ns while intoxicated Speeding - ic ous bance nil¢s, misdemeanors ing girls Murder Forge Held o Larcen| Indecent exposure Solicit ‘Tres Gaml Wife ‘beatin, Held for out-of-town authorities. ~--252 | te ote Om te eee et oe Melodramatic dla! SeeeRS —-——— , CLOSED AUT AUTO~ SAVES LIFE OF CASPERWOMAN The fact that they were traveling in & closed car probobly preserved Mr. and Mrs. John C. Thompson and seven-year-old son, of Cheyenne, and Mrs, John Grieve of Casper. ‘Thompson's sister, from freezing when they were marocnea for eight hours ‘Sunday night and Monday morning in a sixty mile storm on Sherman Hill, thirty-six miles west of this city. While they were re- turning from Laramie their car skidded from the beaten path, stalled in fifteen inches of snow and it Was impossible to get back into the road without assistance. A rescue/ possible doubt and that it’ would be was effected at 4 o'clock Monday | impossible for the judicial authori- mornirig by a family relief expedi-} ties to do anything further unless tion that left Cheyenne after mid-] 16 made a charge against some def- PARIS, Dec. 3.—Not in cab. The newspapers of a had committed suicide, but royalist movement in France and father of Phillipe, is of the opinion that his son was murdered by “an atrocious plot” and has asked the public prosecutor to act on an arti- cle printed in Libertacie the anor- chist paper, in which a visit of Philippe to the newspaper office was described. Leon Daudet was told br the pro- curator general that the boy's cide had been established beyond 4 night. None of the marooned par-|inite or indefinite person, or could ty suffered any serious effects from| make a charge of corrupting a their . pha ES staves of crimnal bel against Lib- father refused to he pace charges. paras the. ote requiring clar- ere whether the ror Sent ese As days that elapsed between his disappearance from CAKE EATERS GIVEN AIR BY *TONST EATERS GLU ceceae ee Vidal, editor of the news- Des. 3—A Nation of| George 2 seer Tore is sought by the whext| Paper, who wrote the article de. council of the United States through| scribing the arrival of ipods is itd “eat more toast” «drive openedi | ls office on zoversne as today. Increased consumption of| ©xtensively interviews wheat is expected by the council to] The newspaper story asserted that result from its concerted mov the lad described himself as an an- DAUDET. C Taxicab Death of 14- Year-Old Boy Creates Sensation Unequalled In Years CASPER, WYO., ,| put. wells, the committee will attempt to carry out its limitations on the drilling of more wells. Just what the field test of Novem: \ber will reveal is still a matter of guessing. Estimates vary between 135.000 and 155,000 barrels. The opinion of the majority is that Salt Creek is now doing around 148,000 barrels daily. The figures from the OIL CONTENT INCREASES IN GASSER NEAR FORT COLLINS and gas masks, the latter brought from Fort D. A. Russell, as a result of trouble with the gas settling at the mouth of the well. Officials of the Union Oil Company believe that if the flow can be stopped within two or three days the gas will be- come free from oll again. Some ex- press the opinion that the well might turn into an ofl gusher. many years has Paris had a sensation comparable with that afforded by the death of 14-year-old Philippe Daudet, eral days ago from the effects of wounds received in a taxi- who died in a hospital sev- week ago said that the boy Leon Daudet, leader of the archist, but refused to give any name except Philippe, handed Vidal a letter which was to be used in case anything happened to him. The editor opened this communica tion after he had learned of the mysterious taxicab suicide, and found that it was written to Mme Daudet. In the letter Philippe spoke of his secret adherence to the anarchist cause, asserting “now my cause summons me. _ I believe it is my duty to do what I am do- 1 ‘Action Francaise, admitting that (Continued on Page Seven) FINDING BODY ENDS SEARCH SCANTON, Pa., Dec. 8.—The find- ing of a boy's skeleton, together with evidence making identification positive, in a swamp near Greeley, Pike county, Pennsylvania, yester- day brought to an end a search of more than eight years for four year old Jimmy Glass, son of Mr, and Mrs. Charles Glass, of Jersey City, New Jersey. From now on pro rata restrictions on Salt Creep produc- tion are off, with the lid removed for 100 per cent out- This loosening of the reins results from the decision | reached in Denver Saturday at a meeting of the Salt Creek | Producers Conservative committee. permits the taking of capacity output from all present While this new ruling test of last July showed somew! more than 171,000 barrels. This decrease is due not so much to m shrinkage in the content of the oil pool, as to the great falling off in gas pressure which in the past has been sufficient to sustain flow- ing in most of the wells. Therefore it is safe to say there will Se a large number of pumping rigs installed tir the field next spring. Bids on 160 steel pumping rigs and irons were | ecently requested of the supply companies by one of the largest jalt Creek operators. Sines the conservation committee 148 nullified its 65 per cent pro rata ruling on production, it will be: un- necessary for the Producers and Refiners dorpommtion to go Wack for a test of its leases in the first four zones of the field which it miss td last month. Still, in order to det+ initely determine the present total output of the field, able that the company go ahead ts first planned. it will stand by its decision to ‘pre*}. vent more than one well being dril- led on every 36 acros, the big ques- tion arises as to whether or not it wil be able to continue this policy in good grace. wells of the field. Naturally opera-| tors in such sections will, wish get every barrel cf oil possible ‘fore 4t migrates up to the top of. the structure and is drawn out there. It is almost a certainty that there will be hundreds of new wells put down in Salt Creek next sum- mer, with little attention Deing given to the ruling of restriction. ‘There are many who estimate that there will be in excess of 1,600 wells in the Salt Creek field by the end of 1924. Predictions are that many standard rigs now used for pumping will be replaced by reg- ular pumping equipment and the standards used for drilling on new locations. Another point to con- sider is that as more holes are put down the gas pressure will further decrease, thus making necessary ad- ditional pumping units. It appears that the plans of the Midwest to completely electrify its pumping operations, are not prema- ture and that construction work on power plants and lines will go for- ward even more rapidly and will be more extensive than at first thought expedient for the coming year. While those having the authority to give out estimates of value on the potential production of Salt Creek, do not contemplate seeing the field break up within the next few years, |they declare that the cost of ex- tracting of! will be considerably in- creased in the future. Wel's included in the third gen- eral test of Salt Creek, which took Continued on Page Seven. Soto Rs Bn Bias FORD GOES TO CAPITAL TO TALK WITH COOLIDGE WASHINGTON, Dec, 8.—Henry Ford, who came to Washington to- day to appear before the interstate commerce commission at hearing af- fecting his railroad properties, had a brief conference with President Coolidge, discussing, it ia understood, the status and disposition of the administration toward his offer for Muscle Shoals, COLONIAL CLUB AND POOL HALL RAIDED BY SHERIFF Eleven In Toils Following Breaking Up Of “Baseball Crap” and Poker Games Sunday Morning Eleven men were being held on $1,000 bonds today as a result of raids made by the sheriff’s office early Sunday morning on two alleged gambling houses in the downtown district. As a result of the raids also County Attorney E. H. Foster said that in all probability he would institute abatement proceedings against D. W. Middleton’s pool hall, 264 South Center street, and |the Colonial club, Inc., 116 East Seconda. The raiders found that in Middle- ton’s p'ace there was a “baseball” crap game in progress and that a poker game was going equally strong at the Colonial club, Those arrested at the former place includ- ed Jim Gilden, B, W. Ritchie, C, BH, Leviere, J, H, Phelps, Roy Butcher, E. A. Broedow, Albert Jallo, and Middleton himself. Al Robbins, D. ‘W. Vance and Henry Galanza were arrested at the Colonial club, “Not a chance tn the world for a stranger to win," was the way one official expressed his opinion of Mid- dleton’s crap game this morning. The dice which were doniiscated were found in many cases to have been shaved and respotted, Double fives made it,possible to throw a ten" very casily, and the person who was not aware of the nature of the dice would have been willing to bet that such a number would net be thrown, ‘When the arrests were made the officers found Mr, Middleten busy. in the act of exchanging allver dollars for bills, The capacity of the safe in which he stored the bills ia thought to have been put toa severe test by the ever inereasing size of the contents, About $175 was on the card table at the Colonial club, Vance is waid to have been the dea’ pees Lites) ueriovsint aang it seems aavis:| Although the committee declares: putit up on the basis of five zones, wel MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1923 A Newspaper for All the Family, Clean, Unbiased, And a Booster for City, County and State: Trike EXPRESS COMPANY ORDERED 10 MAKE REDUCTIONS IN CHARGES: Food Stuff Rates Must Be Brought Down| From 10 to I] Per Cent Commission Rules tion of interstate express rates were laid down today by the Interstate Commerce Commission in a decision which refused the American Railway Express company the right to make general increases which it asked. Express com- panies were ordered to establish new schedules on or be- fore February 21 next, tncorporat-|the Mississippi river. In the recon- jing the changes. jeurustibns to be made on the basis f the zones the commission held Present interstate express rates |?) hat. th Ingaitiel to food articlen’of Wweerty all crane or Gere Beer eae iy clude a haulage factor charge of kinds, the commission held, are too 25 cents per 100 pounds os the jhigh and shonki be. reduced by /first 50 miles in the northeastern jamaunts ranging from ten to eleven section; a factor of 27.5 cents for per cerit. The companies were re- Iquired to make the reductions by \nstalling changes which will equal those in effect on October 12, 1920, when the increases to the present jlevels were made. In outlining the principles to gvv- ern the general revision the commis- \sion pointed out that rates are now the first 50 miles in the southeast- ern or second zone; and 30 cents for the same distance in the third zone. The general arrangement now fot lowed by blocking out the country in 50-mile squares for the purpose of fixing express charges. was maid to be satisfactory with the amend- ed zone arrangement and the ex- press companies were ordered to work out rate schedules for later submission to the commission. In dealing with two minor points lraised during the general rate stu(ty ‘one for the northeastern section of the country, one for the southeast, ‘one for Mississippi-Missouri ter tory, one for the Rocky Mountain jarea and one for the Pacific count. | The greatest de-\There are differences in the factors the commission ruled that hereafter crease has been noticed in the edgeiot rate between each gone and the jrates on fibre or reed furniture jon decided that these re- (Should be reduced to an equality sult in too great a discrepancy. An-|with like rates on wooden furniture. cordingly a one system was |Racing or homing pigeons, it was ‘ordered’ into one zone to take also said, should hereafter be hauled in generally the northeastern sec- at thé second class rate over dis: tion of the United States, the sec-|tances not exceeding 400 miles in- ond the southeast and the third to stead af the first class rates now include all of the territory west of ‘charged. WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—New bases for the applica-| Polar Ship Is In Ice Pack In Arctic Waters COPENHAGEN, Dec. 3.—Ad. vices from Christiania say that Captain Raold Amundsen's ex- ploration ship. Maud, which ts believed to be drifting toward the north pole with the Arctic ice packs, established radio communication with Spitzbergen yesterday Captain Wisting re ported that Enginer Stevertsen died on July 10 last after an illness of several months, pre- sumably of inflammation of the brain. The Maud was tn communica- tion with ting March. 3 then about 300 miles northeast of Wrangell Island, he left Seattle in June, 1922, carrying Captain Amundsen and an ex- ploration party, but Amundsen later left the vessel to make pre- parations for his airplane flight across the north pole, which he subsequently abandoned bt which he is planning to carr out seat ptosis LE CHEST DINNER HELD TONIGHT This evening at 6:30 o'clock final preparations for the $54,000 Com- munity Chest drive to be waged in Casper December 4, 5, and 6, will be made at a dinner arranged for commanders, captains and work- ers at the Henning hotel. This banquet will be the last gathering before the campaign is started tomorrow. There are sev- eral brief talks by prominent citi zens included in the program. MRS. EUNICE HICKMAN DIES. Mrs. Buntce Hickman, 42 years of age, died at a loca! hospital last night. She is survived by a widow- er, Witttam” Hickman of Gilenrock and by, a gister, Mrs. William Shep- pard of tl city, The body i now at the Muck Funeral home. It will be sent to Seattle, Wash., tomorrow morning. DEATH TOLL PILES UP IN ITALIAN DISASTER Rescue Parties Recover 137 Bodies of 600 That Are Believed to Have Perished In Deluge BERGAMO, Italy, Dec. 3.—One hundred thirty-seven bodies have been recovered early today from the Bergamo valley country, 600 of whose inhabitants are believed to have been drowned when the great dike impounding the waters of Gleno Lake collapsed Saturday. Troops and civilian rescue parties worked throughout the night in the mud and water soaking tte’ victima ‘of, the Galuge| pooome. ®. vast, Take, and se bane over an area of fifty square miles| Water gradually subsides it leaves and endeavoring to gtve ald and|® waste of mud that has engulfed comfort to thousands made home-| innumerable cattle, less by the disaster, King Victor The torrential ratna of the past Emmanuel is expected to visit the) Week, reaching serious proportions scene today. last Friday and Saturday, made the pressure against the Gleno dike Hundreds of homes, including the) (iter than the four mile wall entire villages of Dezzo, Corna and Bueggio, were wiped out by the ten million cuble: yards of water that pwept from the artificial glacial lake. ‘The flood was ‘stopped at Lake Iz0, 15 miles away. The countryside near Darfo has could withstand and although ths masonry was 85 yards thick, the dike went out and the water thun- dered down the valley sweeping all before It, A cold wave has made relief work arduous, Meller Drammer Enacted Sunday Night In Hotel Real ole moller drammer {ft was that took place tn the Virginia hote! last night when Frank Katser, ¢0 the story goos, attacked his beloved with a knife in his hand, Ao- cording to the woman tn the ease, Ka.ser seems to have been tnfat- uated with her, but his infatuation affected her only as water affects a duok’s back, Spurned by one before whom he had burned the tn- cense of all his unearthly worship, threwn down by her In whom lived every ideal of his soul, the man de- termined to take a drastio course. ‘The woman states that Katser broke down the doar ef her roam, 80 far as known she received not even a seratch, ee aed James Little Run Wagon at Seco Injuries James Little was severely this morning at Second and trampled beneath the feet of to the Allan Dairy company Two broken collar bones, a back, and a bruised leg are according ta a report frem the Cas. per Private hospital where the in jured man was taken fer treatment The team had become frightened LEAD PRICE ADVANCED, NEW YORK, Deo, §.—The Amer!- can Smelting and Refining company today advanced the price of frem lead 85 to 7.00 per hundred, at Second and Jackson streets when one ef the busses belonging to the Casper Meter Bus tine cut in ahead eof it. The herses started on their Scout Whistle Tonight Means Free Picture Scout whistle blows at 6 o'clock this evening When the Boy {t means that all scouts who wish to attend the moving pic- ture “The Knights of the Square Table" free, should assemble at the Chamber of Commerce bulld- ing. The picture will be shown at the Iris theater instead of at the Christian dhurch, The theater haa been donated from 6:80 to & o'clock to the Boy Scouts by George Stewart, manager of the America and the Iris, “The Knights of the Square Table’, the greatest soout pto- ture ever produced {ys supple- mented by “The Days of Real Sport."* “NUMBER 34 PRO-RATING IN SALT CREEK AT END POLICE PLUCK ‘Decline In Gas Cause Production to' Drop From 172,000 to 148,000 Barrels BITTER BATTLE MARKS FAILURE IN VOTING FOR HOUSE SPEAKER Progressive Group Block | Attempts to Put Gill- ett in Chairmanship for Second Time. | WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—When It j became apparent during taking of the fourth ballot that no candidate i would receive a majority, republican organization leaders decided to de fer the fifth batlot until tomorrow On motion of Representative Lonz worth, who declared it was evident the house could not agree on the election of a speaker today, adjourn- ment was taken un noon tomor- row. Democrats continued to vote solid ly for Garrett while Cooper still 1 the support of the original 17 Madden of the five who had voted for him from the first. Berger Cooper and Garrett con: tinued to vo present. With 413 votes cast, Garrett tacked 11 of having a majority. WASHINGTON, Dec. 3. —The new congress began its first session today and before iqt was an hour old the house was in the throes of a spectacular fight over the election of a speaker. ‘The little progressive bloc, mado up of followers of Senator LaFo!s lette’ ‘of Wisconsin, refused to sup- Port speaker Gillett for re-election and precipitated a deadlock block- Ing all other business. Mr. Gillett had the support of the republican organization but his strength fell short of the majority over all necessary to elect. ‘The de- mocrats voted solidly for representa- | tive Garrett of Tennessee, and the | bulk of the progressive bloc strength went to representative Cooper of Wisconsin. Compromise negotiations to per- mit of an election within a day or two were expected by the republi- can chiefs, but as the voting went on there were no Indications of capitulation to the progressive bloo demand for concessions in commites assignments and changes the house rules. On the senate side, things went much more smoothly. By pre arrangement a truce was declared in the fight over senate reorganization, and after a session of three quarters of an hour adjournment was taken until tomorrow out of respect for Senators who have died during the nine month recess. On the first ballot in the house |speakership fight, Speaker Gillett (Continued on Page Seven.) FALLING PLANK ~ INJURES PAIR in | George EB. Powers and Georg | Moats, employes of the American | Bridge Works, recetved injuries | about the head and face at 2:30 this | afternoon when they were struck | by a falling plant, Both men are at the county hos: | pital and are progressing favorab’ | according to Dr, T. J. Riach who attended them, Over by Delivery nd and Center Serious injured about 10:80 o'clock Center streeta when he was arun-away team belonging and driven by Earl Gray, lacerated scalp, a sprained among the injurles to Little, mad gareey (own fecond street Many times the driver attempted to turn them inte a pide street but was unable to mplish the feat, | The wagon was joaded with eases of milk bottles piled rather high, Gray was bruised by these as he con. tinued to clutch the reins and made PEDESTRIAN HURT BY RUNAWAY TEAM a futile attempt to stop the antmals, As the horses neared the business heart of the elty they were checke-t a little by the wagon swingtnug against several cara which we: parked at the curb, Consiceret damage was done te the cara, Px vons hurried eut ef the street we nn they saw the approaching danger in order that they might get out ot |the way, Little was knocked to | the payement just as he was cross tng Becand street, He was struck: several times hy the berses hoofs but the wheels ef the vehicle did not pass oyer him, He was picked up aa soon ag posethie hy persons who witnessed the accident The harees were'stopped on West | Second just after they had passed Center street, James Little is 31 years of age ang an employe of the Standard Oil com, pa He yesides at 1168 ~ Boutty Gottanwood