Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 30, 1923, Page 1

Che Casper VOLUME 33. MAIN NEWS SECTION. ARMS AND MUNITIONS SOLD MEXICO BY U. S. 4u@ WYOMING WEEKLY REVIEW WYO., SUNDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1923 Sunda Crihune NUMBER 23 ——<—<<<<$<—__. MAIN NEWS SECTION. FORTUNE SHOWERS PROSPERITY ON CASPER RICH MERCHANT SUICIDES AFTER KILLING BRIDE Infidelity Charged to Young Wife by| Wealthy Idaho Resident and Double Tragedy Follows VICTOR, Idaho, Dec. 29.—Adam Dolmadge, 72 years old, wealthy merchant and land owner, shot and killed his young and beautiful bride of three months, wrote two let- ters in which he indicated the disposal of his huge estate and committed suicide here early Friday. The tragedy climaxed a period of insane jealousy ‘which for five weeks led him to,in Victor, Iowa., and several large believe his wife had been making | farms in Iowa county. It was at trips to Chicago with other prom!-|Evanston that he met the young pent men, woman, while she was attending and written| school ‘there and married her last Sioad Sra denathy ontaken vy|Sebtember. Her home is in Ne- ‘painstakingly, Frank and Flora Dolmadge, two of Dolmadge's nine children, all of whom have refused to live in his VALUATION IS home since his second marriage at Evanston, Ill,, on Sept. 30. Flora, one of his daughters has been principal of the public schools in Victoria for a number of years. Ray Fessler, county coroner, to- night gave the United Press the de ‘The assessed valuation of Natrona county for the year 1923 as recently fixed by the Wyoming State Board of Equalization is $73,299,454, or approximately double that of Sweet- water county, which returned the next highest valuation in the state, RIGHT-OF-WAY ho read at the Dolmadge home Fri- day morning. “Dolmadge accused his 30 year old wife of making several trips east with young men,” the coroner said. “He did not name the men impli- cated in the letters. “The first I read was addressed to Frank and Fiora, in it he tol them to go to his.attorney at Davenport, Iowa, for money when they needed ft He also intimated that his will had been drawn up in prepara- tion, for his deed. “The aged father directed Frank Dolmadge to manage his business interests until his will had been pro- bated. The homestead farm in Iowa county will go to a married daughter. “In this letter was a denunciation of the young wife's attitude toward him since their first few days of married fe, He charged that she had been untrue, had sought the company of younger men and had refused to loye him as a wife} should.” | The elder Dolmadge held a con- ference with his banker here Thurs day. Later he wrote a postal card to hig son Frank, directing him to come to the home immediately. The son received the card Friday ard} went to his father's home and found the bodies . | At the home the doors were open, the furnace out and the bodies had stiffened, Mrs. Dolmadge’s body | was found wedged between the bath tub and wall, a great gaping hole} Race Open New Year in Full Blast; Demos Active BY LAWRENCE MARTIN (United Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.—With' the coming of the New Year, and the reconvening of congress, presidential politics will have the right of way. ~ Even the activities of congress, which promise to be blown through her breast with a meager in a legislative way, will bear directly upon the | .12 gauge shotgur.. The murderer and suicide was found lying on the basement floor in a pool of blood with a shotgun charge through his boay. Dolmadge owns a home at Evans- presidential contest. For one thing, the New year will be marked by an increase in dem- jocratic activity. Up to this time. jrepublican campaigners have been much more in the public eye than January 15 when their national committee meets here to select the convention city and fix the date. That meeting will afford an oppo tunity for the supporters riou! of vi ton, Ill, several business buildings! +4. democrats. The republican| candidates to do. some “scouting” jcampaign was given its formal send|and may cause a test of strength, COMPROMISE REACHED joff when the republican national] just as the republican meeting did, IN BURKE TAX CASE! committee met here and selected| by showing that the Coolidge forces CHEYENNE, Wyo., Dec. 29.—An| Cleveland, June 10, as the place and equity suit brought by.the United|date for the national convention States against Burke, et al, of Cas-| Furthermore,’ the fact that Mr. per, for collection of $9,000 of alleged | Coolidge, now president is. seeking unpaid taxes, was compromised Fri-|the nomination, has focused atten- day when the government accepted|tion on the republican side of the $1,000. Judgment was entered in the| contest. Federal court here. The democrats will get under way controlled the issue of southern rep- resentation. Before that meeting, James M. Cox, democratic nominee in 1920, is expected to apow himself in 1 is candidate, Cox is scheduled to speak Jackson day dinner in Colum- (Continued on Page Four) NM’CRAY INDICTED ON MORE COUNTS Larceny, Embezzlement and Forgery in tas. °° “sos 2 | 6.—That the governor forged the New Charges Made by Grand Jury jnote he gave the Marion tank. - ‘That he issued two checks to Against Indiana Governor. rion bank on the Kentland when. he knew he did not | have the funds to meet them. -——That he gave a check for INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Dec. 29.—Seven more indict-|*1. 00 tothe Farmers Dankicwyadee- me 7 i ; "| ville, Ind, on the Kentland bank ; nts were returned by the Marion county grand jury to. brchuce Mtangte bale thorad an Seainse Governor Warren T. McCray. Already | The additional indictments, Spe- c harged with larceny, embezzlement and forgery in eight} cial Prosecutor Nichols explained true bills returned November 30, after a probe of his fi- represented the last of the charges nancail manipulgtions. {on which McCray will be arrainged The latest indictments charge the wep ae ‘ governor with: McCray, since his indictment, has performing the duties ot 1.—Larceny of $155,000 from the {his office in defiance of a and Deposit bank, Kentland, of which‘ the govert Ina. or was formerly | president by the state board of agri-| fone ahead culture. f nds of the state board of agricu!- Isely swearing to a state. | ment in the Republican p: ture a to the amount of his in-|ursed his Immediate resignation. °.—Embezzlement of a check for | debtedness. ° The governor maintains he is In- $43,000 made out to the Discount! 4.—Depositing a “worthless note” nocent of the charges against him, ? Nomination Campaigns for Presidential | a, oS Natrona Owns} One Fourth of Wyoming Cars Expansion of the automobile business in Natrona county dur- ing the last year is best: illus- trated by the increase in motor registrations with the secretary of state. Out of about 35,400 passenger autos and 4,500 trucks registered in 1923 in Wyoming. 7,000 passenger cars and 1.400 trucks were recorded as owned in jatrona county, or nearly one- fourth the number in the entire state. This county. has more | than twice as many as any other county in Wyoming. | Casper dealers in general did a thriving business in automobiles and automobile accessories, the records indicating that sales of motor driven vehicles, including secondhand cars, will amount to nearly “3,000 during the year. pelea) i Sia | PARIS, Dec..29.—Gradua evidence of the dirigible Dix constructed tonight the final skies. {ing aimlessly over the Medi ‘10,000 COLLEGIANS IN S200 REWARD PAID FOR | STUDENT VOLUNTEERS CAPTURE OF CONVICTED ign mission field work has been taken up by more than 10,000 Amert- can college graduates through the Student Volunteer organization dur- ing its 22 years of activity, it was announced today at the ninth inter- | | } A $200 reward for the capture of Ray Miller, convicted forger is be- ing given by the Casper ing { House association to A. E. Chand at poche oun ropenos here. Jer of the Chand'er Filling station, lOfticors Olsen and Carter of the po lice department ,and B: gar- age. These parties were instrumen- tal in apprehending Mille FIRE LOSS The average fire 1c for 1923 was 38 cents Ices per cap ita than during 1922, according to figures obtained for this year up to and including Decomber 28. The loss wa $6,060 less in 1923 than in }192 In 1922 there were 112 fires with a loss of $27,850. This includes bath and says he will be vindicated when|insured and uninsured property.| the whole story is told. jThe average lous per fire was | A_ showdown in the fight between |$248.75 and the average loss per| MoCray and Clyde A. Walb, Repub-| capita on a basis of 25,000 popu'a-| licar, state chairman, will come on | tion was $1,114. In 1923 the fire loss next Weednesday when the state|was $21,790, there. being | committee will meet to act. on|'This gave y Walb’s demand for McCray to step|and $00.7 down and out because he “betrayed jincrease of 5,000 in the p the party that elected him governor | and prostituted the high which he was chosen.” The figures for Decem office to}complete but it is ndt thought that |there will be any material change in are not going towards Augusta. _ sollision with an automob! AIR LINER STRUCK BY LIGHTNING, IS BELIEF Into Sea Between Sicily and Sardinia; Body of Com- mander Only One Recovered (United Press Staff Correspondent) WAR MATERIAL DENIED REBELS $4,000,000. 1s iE IPE BUILDING HERE DEAL ARMY March of Progress Hits Record Pace in Accorded Favorable City During 1923 and Prospects Reply by the State For New Year Are Great Department, Official. A four-million-dollar building program, oil industry ex-| WASHINGTON, Dec. 29. pansion and a 20 per cent increase in population profit-|_-Tphe United States govern- ably engaged in industrial, business and trade pursuits at ment has granted ny t wages and salaries that make up a payroll of $12,000,000 “© ae Spa annually are outstanding in Casper’s story of prosperity \°f the Obregon government for the year just ending. It has been the greatest year to sell it a “limited quanti- in Casper’s history but is only a fore | of $4,006,233. Referring to 1922, it is ty” of war material for runner of what may be expected In|seen that but 527 permits were! Gey pling the revolt of Adolfo De years to come with the blooming of| granted and these had a property uerta the cece Gane eet 5 new industries and the building of a metropolitan city over which the smoke of industrial prosperity will grow in volume and achievements improvement worth of only $935,096. There was a great deal more work going on in 1921, as was to be ex bring new] pected at a time such as that follc ing the war when the balloon of easy developed more ficially announced to: Hammers and saws and trowels|money had not yet i by the thousands have been than a sl ak. For the 969 (United Press Staff Correspon bright and shining in Casper this| mits tak out that ye 3,000} MEXICO CITY, Dec. 29. . year; the city has been extended in|in building “was done no, | retreated on the west front v every direction and the new and| there figu are but slightly more “bowing few signs of fight modern in structures has taken the|than half the ones given for 1923] of General B tn place of the old and ant!quated. This| which has not been a period of con-| *Y commander, ¢ ° push of progress in building opera-| sistent “boom” business and rosea! Yararca and retired befc ing federals Reports regarding Guadalajara are conflicting. Friday it was re- ported that federal advance guards had reached the elty; today, how- ever, there was no confirmation of | that Rebels under General Figueroa have been defeated at every point where they, have, come in »contact... with federals, cording to General Gomez, military commander of Mexico City. This morning the Figueroa rebels tions is clearly shown by way of comparison which marks up for 1923 more than four times the activity displayed in the preceding year of whose blooms have been unsullied by | contact with industrial depression. Not all the permits issued this! year covered residences, for there! has risen in the heart of the down- town district two large hotels and a business block, with numerous ‘warehouses and store buildings and garages distributed just off the main streets. (Continued on Page Four) 1,732 Building Permits A review of the records kept by the city building mspector {u~ the past 12 months reveals the issuance of 1,732 permits baying a tota) tax valuation for new construction work were defeated at Zacualpa, state Guerrero, and 53 prisoners were taken. A commission of citizens of the state of Guerrero is here conferring | with officials. The citizens report {that the rebels are without am- } munition and money and are ready to give up when the _ feder advance, fs | USE OF MATERIALS Dixmude Was Flaming Mass of Wreckage When It Plunged|"$MAPETEAIN. | sg ane American ggvernment has been ap- to by Dealed the Obregon govern- ment of Mexico for authority to purchase stores of arms and am- munition in the United States and {s understood to have agreed to the request, it was learned tonight This government frowr a similar request on the ps of De La Huerta, now in revolt against the Mexican government. The war supplies asked for by President Obregon through his rep- resentatives here are for use in BY WEBB MILLER lly as stories of simple Sicilian fisher folk and the mute mude’s dead commander were pieced together, France re- moments of the fateful flight of her lost queen of the Belief now exists in official circles that the Dixmude, harried by tempests and whirl-| {veiling the rebellion led by De La terranean, was struck by lightning shortly after 2 a. m.| Saturday, caught fire, flamed for) who had seen a wide glare, too su%-| Mexican government does not defi a minute in the storm torn night|t#ined to have been lightning, in| nitely state this. War supplies that and then broke in two and fel into| {he sky about a. m. ‘| Mexico needs and “may need in However, the request from the They attached no importance theze-| the future” were asked the sea betwi Sicily inta, r= » i - he sea between Sicily and Sardinta, | to, they knew nothing} It was made plain to the state ten kilometers off the coast. j about the Dixmude department, however, Obregon Somewhere on the bottom of the| Then two civilians rode in on sentatives making the request Mediterranean, off Cape San Marcos, | Mules to confirm the story of the material is needed for put- Salad? cereciodem Obs that | railroad men, They had seen what down the rev rs ag hi amous | they described as two huge balls of | arms and ammunition are dirigible still imprisons bodies of | fire hovering o the sea, to dis purchased the Mexican many of her hapless crew, the| appear Instant! ernment out of the surplus war ministry of marine belleves. Other | ‘The station master at Sclacia saw| supplies of the American war de- (Continued on Page Four.) (Continued on Page Four) bodies, besides that of her youthful commander, may yet be found afloat or dragged up in the nets of fishermen. Awe-struck Sicillans peering ‘from rude shelte the raging storm that made hideous the night of De- cember saw in the sky “two balls of fire’ that hung a moment and then fell into the white-capped Nhe time, they said, was} shortly after 2 o'clock. From the body of Captain Du Plexis de Greneda, pilot of the Dix mude, which was placed in a coffin this afternoon and guarded by an infantry patrol at the local bar racks, authorities took a watch that had stopped at 2:30. | This confirms the eye-witness story, according to marine officials, | who place the watery grave of the | jant air liner at a point ten miles from the Pantellera islands, tows acia, Tt was ‘at the latter fi village that natives, attract GIRL RIOTERS AT OHIO SCHOOL UNDER CONTROL sea. | Dozen Inmates of State Industrial Insti- tution Removed to Reformatory For Women in Ohio ' DELAWARE, Ohio, Dec. 29.—(United Pre situation at the girls industrial school -—_The by the weight of their net, found | SItug 7 near here where therein, the bruised, mutilated body |rioting has been in progress for more than twenty hours nt’ the. gallent young pommander was brought under control of school authorities early to- Up toa ls hour tonight no other ee bodies ‘Kalk Geen found night when twenty young girls, ring leaders in the re- them. ‘That of Captain de Greneda was | Volt, were tr sferred by automobile to the state reform- nee F, extricated reverently from the rude z men at ahryayile, : were discovered by Margaret Elkton, ZE K - . fishing nets and placed in a tiny wenty-five inmates remained in matran, as “the mast thoroughl SE ea Ob CRASH Five Firemen chapel, where a pea blessed it|the gymnasium whe they were| hard boiled” in the school i o and med the authorities. Then, | locked up by Dela and| Corporal punishment infraction COLUMBIA, S. C., Dec. 29. H rt GC; Jy} wnie French warships hurried to | deputies called to aid uards | of in r tly ban Three men and oné woman, tourists, urt ur ras vicinity to patrol the waters in| quell the outbreak. ¢ ned a Mrs, Elk: were killed instantly and another — the hope of finding other bodies, in- | ¢ € have t r ed the man was probably fatally injured] CLEVELAND, 0} Dec.” 2 quiries went out to inhabitants « it i of the when on the outskirts of Aiken | Five firemen A here | islands in the neighborhood of Sic hundred less t ‘ iopart this afternoon when their automo-| night when ¢ ashed into| as to whether anyone had seen any-| years old, are kept at and bile was struck by a southern train|a street.car in an ecort to. avold a thing of the lost dirigible more than 100 joir the riot at believe t foresaw the Some railroad workers were found| They are inmates of cottages and tinued cn Page Four) wwuRy Rdvance, Crean ee Trrenocany ue DUTChES COWE Bid hell io. me tHE Price: