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

The Weather WYOMING. Generally fair tonight and Wednesday except somewhat unsettled extreme northwest por- tion. Not much change in tempera- ture. VOLUME VIL. F CONTRACT WITH BURLINGTON TOR SUBWAY PROJECT 10 BE REVIOED, City Attorney Points Out Defects in First Draft; Paving Petition Is Presented; Gambler Asks Return of Money. Irregularities in the contract between the city of Cas- per and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad for) the construction of the McKinley Street Subway are such that the contract would not be. binding on the railroad company if that organization chose to disregard it, ac- cording to City Attorney Robert M. Ogden, who gave his jegal opinion about the paper to the] confiscate the money. This ques-} members of the city council in reg-|tion bas not been settled. ular session last night. W. F. Dun presentea a claim for hat first | hay and grain used in feeding the PP 2 OT EK ae ae ee the| horses of Holland Brothers when city had the right to enter into a (Continued on Page Nine) contract with the Burlington for work of that nature unless bids were advertised for and the railroad com- pany proved to be the lowest respon- sible bidder. Furthermore the con- tract had not been migned by the board of directors of the Burlington nor by an attorney appointed. by them, and there had been no place on the contract for the signature of the mayor of the city. Also the con- tract would not be binding on any future organization that chose . to absorb the present Burlington and the city would have “no more con- tract than a rabbit. The contract Mr. Ogden said, was = part of the city ordinance -and would therefore have to be in full. A fraft of th in red, yellow, and white lines, was a part of the contract and would have to be published according to the state law, a physical tm} 7% The counci! advised its attorney to make such changes in the contract as would bring it up to a compliance with the Wyoming statutes. It will then be reconsidered at a special meeting held Wednesday night. A paving petition was presented No the city last night asking for re- inforced concrete on Oak Crest ave- nue between Lind and Kirk and on Kirk between Oak Crest and the al- ley between Lind and Oak Crest. ‘The petition was accepted and filed and will be acted on by the new council. There was some discussion on re- ferring the matter to the street and alley committge, but Councilman Hancock said hat there was little use in starting a number of things which would have to be duplicated by the incoming council. The East Burlington” question came up again last night, and a cit- izen of the addition pleaded for a disregard of the protests which had been filed against bringing the su- burb Into the city limits. No action was taken. Acting for A. L. Culbertson, re cently convicted for gambling, M. F. Ryan presented a claim to the coun cil for $115 alleged to have been con fiscated by the city when Mayor Whisenhunt led a successful raid on Culbertson’s establishment. — It was pointed out to Mr. Ryan that the amount of money confiscated was 101.75 and that it had been placat the city treasury from which it would be very inconvenient to ex- tract it again. He also was shown that Culbertson had been treated very fairly and had not even been siven a jaf! sentence for his offense owing to his ill health. Attorney Ryan raised the legal question of whether the city had the right to HOTEL PROPRIETOR AND NEGRO SHOT BY MOB IN UPHOLDING TRADITION Robert Jernigan, the negro, here to serve as a porter in his hotel. A few hours later he received an anonymous communication ordering him to dismiss the porter at once and drive him from the city. Birch ignored the letter. | The mob went to the hotel early last evening, its members calling loudly for the negro and announcing | their intention of hanging him on fight. While the United States army has been preparing for its dash around the globe for several months, the navy has been preparing its plans but no inkling of the greatest race in the history of flight became pub; Me until yesterday. According to Washington advices the navy's round the world squadron will be commanded by Licutenant Commander Charles P. Mason, who plane squadron that flew from San Diego to Panama 1wo years ago. ATTORNEY AND DANCER DEAD, SEATTLE SEATTLE, Wash., Dec, 18—Au- therities today are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death yesterday of Eugene A. Childe, a prominent local attorney, former po- lice judge and state legislator and Mrs. Clara Lien, musician and danc- er of Vancouver, B. C., whose bod- ies were found in a gas filled house here yesterday. They apparently: had been dead about 12 hours. That they died accidentlly was in- dicated by the fact that Kenneth McRae, a law client of Childe’s who discovered the bodies, said that a gas jet in the kitchen of the residence was open, flooding the house with gas. Mrs. Lien’s body lay in the bath room of the house and Childe’s in a front room, he declared. Mrs. Winifred Childe, widow of the destroyed by frre today. had been burned to death. could not be made. $300,000. HOUSTON, Texas, Dec, 1 business district of Houston. health. BANKERS GET PRISON TERMS GREAT FALLS, Mont., Dec. 18.— Julius Peters and R. B. Noble, directora of the Commercial Nation- al bank, found guilty Saturday in the federal court of making false en- tries in the books of the bank were this morning sentenced by Judge George M. Bourquin to two and one- half years at Leavenworth and fin- ed $2,500 on the first count and the same time sentence on the other 24 counts, the sentences in the pen- itentiary to run concurrently. the Rice hotel, | structure. Numerous other large | buildings are in the immediate vi- cinity. $3,000,000 fire in the lumber district. | The affected district is several miles | from the shipping district. The flames spread rapidly into the building adjoining occupied by |W. C. Munn company, operators of a department store, and at 7 o'clock were still unchecked. Scores of guests were in the hotel |when the flames were discovered, many barely escaping to the street in their night clothes. Practically every piece of fire fighting apparatus in Houston is at the scene of the fire. By 7:30 firemen had halted the advance of the flames, but the hotel building and a part of the adjoin- Unwritten Law ‘Against Negro Being ‘Allowed In Town Over Night Leads to Tragedy at Marlow, Oklahoma MARLOW, Okla., Dec. 18.—Marlow’s unwritten law, ex- emplified by prominent publi¢ signs bearing the com-| the spot mand: “Negro, don’t let the sun go down on you here,”’| |The hotel propristor, with Jernt aused the death last night of A. W. Birch, prominent) {oy1, "to intercede, but was shot hotel owner, and the probable fatal wounding of. the) first negro who has stayed here more than a day in years. They were victims of a mob of. more than 15 men who went to the otel where the negro had been employed three days ago as a porter nd shot them down when Birch dead before he could speak. negro also fell, critically wounded. Their assailants then fled. Mrs, Birch who witnessed the shooting, said she thought she | recognized the man who killed her | husband, but authorities early to- day said they had no clues as to the identity of members of the mob. They were not masked. ‘Marlow, one of several towns in OKiahoma which has not allowed groes to settle in thelr vicinity for years, lias ablded by the custom attempted to persuade them to de fof permitting no members of that sist from their threat to lynch the] race to remain here after nightfall. negra, < ~~ , Last Saturday Birch brought commanded one division of the sea- He has been stationed at the naval Property damage ‘s estimated at "The Capitol hotel is a four story brick building in the heart of the attorney, is said to be spending the| downtown shopping district, Across winter in Los Angeles because of ill| the street 1s the ten story Jones of- fice building, and a block away is an eighteen story Houston in 1910 suffered a The} MEXICAN REBELS PUT 79 ARMY AND NAVY PILOT S(JHHGNNEL) Man Seriously AN MANO PLAN WORLD AIR DERBY\ii (Atti §\Hurt in Crashi\ONtINPORTAN Greatest Race of History Expected When Flyers Hop Off In Contest Planned to Circle the Globe SAN DIEGO, Calif., Dec. 18.—What promises to be the greatest race in history—virtually a complete circuit of the world—between army and navy aviators, became a prob- ability last night with the receipt by naval aviation offi- cials here of reports from Washington to the effect that naval flyers would be selected for the round-the-world air station at Pensacola, Florida, for the last two year: to Washington a few days ago to complete arrangements for the globe flight. , FOUR CREMATED IN HOUSTON HOTEL FIRE Bodies of Three Are Recovered From "Ruins of Blaze Which Threatened Main Business District HOUSTON, Tex., Dec, 18.—The bodies of three men were recovered by firemen from the ruins of the Capi- tol hotel, in the center of the business section, which was The bodies were burned virtually beyond recognition. Firemen continued their search through the ruins. was believed that another person] ing ‘A check of the guests of the hotel} housed on the ground floor of the —Fire which broke out in the Capitol hotel, Main street and Capitol avenue, this morning at 6:30 o'clock, was placed ‘under control after threatening the son in the nav; army for worl tenant Frank Wead, commander of the nav to England |: the Schneider own behalf during his trial here on associated with the defense. paranoid condition. As Party Favors A Newspaper for All the Family, Clean, Unbiased, and a Booster for City, County and State ====| Che Casper Daily Critanw AGN CASPER, WYO., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1923 FO Us Fy wg Pete Kelpick ts at the County] Mr. Kelpick was coming into Cas hospital with four fractured ribs, a ney at me sae = eet of Ae . "| the steering wheel, and the car fractured hip and severe concus-| titaca turtle. Two eine sion of the chest as a result of were with him but they sustained automobile accident which occurre: y minor bruises on the Salt Creek highway last | s were being taken 1 night when the Ford coupe Mr.| this morning to determine whether Keipick was driving turned over! more serious tnju had been su und pinned him beneath it. | fered by the victim _ Great Increase in En- rollment Shown for Last Year in Report Of Executive Bartle. Three times as large and more than three times as ac- tive as it was at the begin- ning of 1923, the local coun- cil of Boy Scouts met last night at the court house for an election of officers and the pre paration of an aggressive progran) for the coming year of I State Senator J. W. Johnson was made president of the counci}. with Earl G. Burwell as commissianer Mr. Johnson succeeded W. 0. Wil son and Mr. Burwell was given the position formerly held by Mr. John- TWO KILLED BY ENCINE BLAST KIRBY, Sehultz, and was ordered The two men were in the engine whirh , Wyo., Dec. 18—A. W. 4 years old, engineer and a vis, 24, fireman, were killed at noon here Monday when a switch engine on which they were working in the Chicago, Bur- lington and Quincy railroad yards blew up. Davis was killed in- stantly and Schultz died at 4 o'clock in the afternoon in the hos- pital from the burns he received. RICH FLAG IS (GIVEN CADETS Impressive Ceremony Carried Out This Morning at Athletic Field Is Witnessed by Great Crowd was moving slowly, when 0. lent has termined although it that the amount of water in th er had bec through the clocks failing to register. No other persons were very close to the locomotive when the tragedy occurred. Associated with Commander Ma- r& attempt to beat the honors will be Lieu- The cause ‘s flight forces which went it October and captured cup trophy races; Lieutenant John Price and Lieutenant B. H. Wyatt. Wyatt and Price are to leave San (Continued on Page Nine) son. Other officers lected were: George Jarvis, first vice president Henry E. Perkins, second vice presi- P. Bacon, third vice presi dent: Ben T. Cullen, fourth vice President; Carl Shumaker, treasurer. New executive board members are Sam Conwell, Emmett Fuller, W. 0. ge B. Nelson, Frank B. » A. Reed. Featuring the annual meeting was ithe discussion of the need of a per- Maneht summer camp for the} © neouts. Practically every speaker on the program stressed this necessary measure for increasing interest and efficiency in scouting. A report from Frank Taylor as chairman with A’ Parks and Henry Perkins as mem bers of the camp survey committee mentioned several likely prospects for the camp site. Among the sug- gestions were places on Casper mountain, the foothills of the Ferris mountains, one near Pathfinder dam, Deer Creek and Box Elder val ley . One of the most impressive ceremonials of the year in the Natrona Ceunty High school occurred at 10 o’clock this morning at the athletic field when the school board presented a flag to the school cadet corps. The entire enrollment of the two high schools was present in addi- tion to many parents and friends. Preceeding the presentation the \Four Hurt in It. structures were sti'l burning. Three large clothing stores are tatallion of five companies, accom- panied by the band, put on a brief iad nat ehh tata bcd oat yer drill and marched in review. In) Capitol, was particularly interested in thi* | the reviewing stand where the school * ae eee Me YOR 1ead Rha itachked inet be | Cee ao bite enel -Deraiument:-otf was ready to be of assistance in} made the pr ation speech and procuring a suitable site. Probably | ¢, 1. Reimerth, Harry Muck and B.| . no layman in Wyoming is taking | o Westover, representing the George CG: & N. Ww. Train a more active part in scouting than] \\-, Vroman post of thé Amer!can| | “Bob” Carey who is this stat | Legion. | The flag was officially presented] by C. H. Townsend, chairman of the school board, who introduced Cap- in Plummer. Captain Plummer explained briefly the ideals for which| the flag stands and urged the mem- bers of the corps to guard it with) the same fidelity as had the Ame: cans who had served in the coun-| try'’s great wers. Major John Murray made the ac- ceptance speech. thanking the school rd foc its gift and pledging the cadets to service to and reve for the f TWO DEAD IN PLANE CRASH SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Dec. 18.— ‘aptain Harold E. Stureken, com-| mander of the 47th school squadron, member of the national executive committee. Sincere'y impressed with the re- markable growth of the scout organ ization In this city, John H. Piper regional executive of the centra! western states from Omaha, sal that Casper was a city that was held as the criterion in Boy Scout work by hundreds of municipalities ul over the country. A strong effort will be made to nerease the scout enrollment in Casper by 25 per cent betwee now and the first of January, said H. f. (Conti ‘age Nine) acto Soe etl William Gordon was sentenced to 10 days in jail last night by Judge John A. Murray for stealing some NOT 10 GO ON STAND, REPORT ATLANTA, Ga., Des. 18.—(By The Associated Press.)—Philip E. Fox. former Ku Klux Klan editor, wil! not take the stand to testify in his CHICAGO, Dec. 18—Four railway employes were injured but no pas- sengers were hurt today when east bound Chicago and Northwestern! passenger train number 700, known as the Freeport-Chicago train, was derailed at Winnebago, Illinois. Rail-| road reports said a broken rail de. railed the smoker, two coaches and| the observation parlor car. pia seen | WAR VET IN NEED OF a charge of murder of William S Coburn, a klan attorney, it was an nounced today by @ party closely Fox has entered an insanity plea ond alien ists have testified he is in a chronic ATLANTA, Ga, Dec. 18.—(By The Associated Press.}—The defense in the case of Philip E. Fox. on trial here for the murder of Wi!- liam S. Coburn, rested its case today. The defense rested at the con- clusion of the expert testimony of Incapacitated for heavy work by} service overseas during the war, O.| K. Friel has been dependent upon! government compensation. He has) now been notified trat this means of| support has been cut off. It is necessary that F: 1 find some Dr. J. N. Brawner, one of the three | *' *| Brookfield, and Sergeant C. £.|kind of Mght' work at once. For alientats who declared Fox to be a/ carpenter tools: | The complaint tht"! Ryals, were killed today when their sometime past he taught school in| paranolac. ‘The defense has entered | ‘Re tools had Deen lost was mac’ My) ship crashed at Pendleton, Texas.|South Dakota. Any concern having a plea of insanity. bathe na naires bs “eS erston ot} They were enroute to Dallas. suitable employment for this ex posite prpe sets poses ain Sturcken’s home was in| service man is asked to call George! 25 r cit Se Is’ | Se! ge one 767 Veter: Hiram Warden for being drunk oe rgeant Ry esichie ide Mies phone 767, Veter-| and creating a disturbance was finea LIGHT WORK IN CITY F | ing w NUMBER 4 QUT IN BATTLE [3 POINT TIKEN IN FEDERAL DAINE Puebla “Also Occupied By Government Army After Victory Over Revolutionary Force. EL PASO, Tex., Dec. 18.— Federal troops have taken San Marcos, the important strategic point between Vera Cruz and Mexico City, and are advancing steadily to- ward the seaport stronghold of the rebels, according to advices received today b; ican Consul General Enrique D, Ruiz, Fighting for the possession of San Marcos h been under way more than 16 hours before the ebels were forced to retreat, Mr. Rulz was advised. The federals captured an immense amount of ammunition, small arms, a number of cannon and several trains used by the rebel forces for transporta+ tion, Mr, Rulz was informed. President Obregon himself is di- recting the federal troops and is commanding the pursuit of the rebel forces in an effort to make th victory even more complete. The message was from General Francisco Serrano, secretary of war, who expressed confidence that thé ‘rebellion-would end shortly. MEXICO CITY, Dec. 18.—(By The Associated Press.) — Revolutionary forces evacuated Puebla tonight and federal troops have occupied the city, according to a war department announcement, COMPLETE ROUT OF REBE! x ‘AST, + Dec, 18.—(By The ed Press}—Complete rout of tionary forces in Vera Cruz is expected momentarily, said a mes- sage received here today by Colonel Roman Lopez, garrison com- mander, from General A. R. Quijano, nder of the adquarters A big northern zone, at Chihuahua nst the revolu- Puebla, 160 miles from probably would be under way today, accord- ing to another telegram from Gen- eral Francisco Serrano, secretary of war and marine, ‘Ten men were killed In engaga- ments in the vicinity of Guadalupe unday in a clash with Fiscal gen- darmes, officers here were advised unofficially, At San Ignacio, whence a party of the insurrectionists fled, eight men, including fiscal guards and soldiers, were killed, the report ndded. The rebels Ver en concentrating th San Marcos, General 1, with the of defe inst the advance of th which will be at the first We havo ¢ we will triumph eration the el that anima tinued. Cruz have best troops Serrano ding it federals launched tomorrow nic view confidence that taking into consid- ments and bigh spirits 8 our soldiers,” he con- REBEL HEADQUARTERS LACK INFORMATION VERA CRUZ, Dec. 18—Rebel head- quarters at an early hour this morn- re still without information as to the prog of the battles of Apizaco and San Marcos, two im- (Continued on Page Wine) Janitor’s Guests Carry Off Razors $25. Franka Garda, Andrew Gar den and George Canavan were each fined $25 for the illegal possession of liquor, Blackie Martin, an old offender, was sentenced to 30 day in jail for being drun' What would you do if you were a barber and you came down to the shop prepared for a big day’s work only. to find that there wasn't a razor to be found but that someone had spirited the blades away during the night? You'd go out and buy some more of course. That's just what Sam ‘W. Cooner, proprietor of the Becklinger barber shop was forced to do yesterday. The Ambitious Removal of Dynasty Regarded Neces- sary to National Peace by Military; Every real advance, every really worth while impro’ ent in the situation of the al is first worked out in the mind--in the will Asa result of Mr. Cooner's toss |" ‘The forerunner + ever advar Regent Will Be Appointed there has been made a change in |is aroused desire and ambition. | Janitors of the building. From Advertising wants—de. tae oe the sto that has leaked out, | sires. Desire stimu es ambition. - | there was a party,a stag party | Legitimate ambition brings on| LONDON, Dec. 18.—An agency dispatch from which was more or less a stagger- | struggle for better things and thus|5S8y8 that King Georg: and Queen abeth are v ng affair, The janitor having |the average of the race mounts/for Rumania tonight without signing any decrees and that} ssed the keys to the barber | higher. Admiral Koundouriotis will be appointed regent. , Another telegram reports that a delegation represent- ing the army and navy last evening informed Colonel Read the advertising. Think about the better things offered. Picture shop is alleged to have held open house for the friends who were with him and whose identity he | your changed, improved surround as refused to reveal. Not only | ings. Go to work to have these bet-| Plastiras that the officers of both ciated Press)—The government last were all tho razors in the shop | ter things and credit yourself with a| services regarded the removal of|night informed King George in writ taken but also about $25 worth of | distinct advance. the dynasty as a national necessity.| ing that {t considered it advisable articles from Betty’s Beauty par- | Shop in the Tribune before shop for him to leave Greece until the lor were a'so found missing. ping in the shops, 18,—(By the Asso-| national assembly haw decided on ATHENS, De: KING GEORGE TO QUIT : GREECE AT OFFICIAL REQUEST, SAY REPORTS the regime best befitting the coun- try. The king reserved his reply until today. the official communique issued the cabinet meeting sald: “As the constituted assembly to the debate o: quest to his majesty the king, that he should leave until such time as a has 2) reached re- regime portant the opinion the country final decision garding the his opinion has b commun- ieated to the king, w wil make known his reply tomorrow, ' en