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A Newspaper for All the Family, Clean, Unbiased, and a Booster for City, County and State -2=+| Che Casper Daily Critune FR : Wp by ita 655 ca erage eae betes See al ee OLUME Vin. CASPER, WYO., THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1924 NUMBER 66 OMING CRUDE PRICES SOAR: ALT CREEK IS UP 40 CENTS SENATE DEADLOCK BROKENSAFET Y CAMPAIGN ISG MADE BY DEMOCRATS ELECTIONPROJECTED BY CITY'W Alf BUYERS IK SURGENT Pron Yewret EUROPE IS SWEPT BY "28s roic co ea : EPUBLIGANS IN Ee papery Ss T oO R Ni D i Ss A ST E rR s Second Street Extension i | e ¥ A large volume of business was undertaken last night SAN Francisco. cat. Jax. | Taq Vessels Reported Lost With Intense Cold and Snow at the special meeting of the city council. Much of this|/Mcreases of 25 to 50 Calif., clubman, mourned by his ° ° ° ° pertained to matters which had been started or had been Cents Au 7 wife and friends as dead since Adding to Grief; Volcanic and Earthquake Disturb- under discussion by the old council while some new sub- thorized To- November, 1919, is allve and em- day Means Millions to 5 |jects were also brough tup. A safety campaign having OTE T0 MIT H Becttle, "Awash. “dag westitecd ances Reported In Some Regions |as its object the education of the public on traffic rules, a The Prédistichs newspapers said today. proposal to permit the White Eagle ews ( Simons’ clothes were found in NDON. J 10 U; i i a b i ne ld r and Texas refineries to improve the Bem LO) an. 10.—-Unusually severe storms, accompanied by intense cold and roaa which !s a contiguation of Fast ST PA VICTIM e St hi mead ae Sinaerase cecgt heavy snow, are sweeping Europe. Second street so that traffic may be Midwest Refining com- ry : vi AM tne pany paid $5,000 under bond to Off the coast of Spain and France the disturbances have proved a serious MONA) ues Over, “Whee Righweys Teyhee Fs sows” th rs Pedi 3 rts - J than over the Yellowstone as at pres- pany and the Ohio Oil com- ight on Cummins Not fle tag BY aici ot tis [t@ shipping, while in the North Sea and in Scandinavian waters the ice floes are so| ent, a proposal to purchase an auxil pany, the largest purchasers @isappearance Mrs. Simons was |heavy that navigation in many places is difficult. ; 4 jlary Bown te, a city. serena Bs f sare in the Wyoming Ended in His Defeat in Ontario, Canada, attending the Not in many years haye there been so many casualties from avalanches in the Swiss SeARianie aeeotene miipeitiitte, cesta ields, today announced ad- < - wedding of her sister. and French Alps. frequent earth shocks add to the that ravaged the Atlantic coast of Feces “a ia bt REE gad Fate Gonalice OMAHA, Neb., Jan. 10.--Death of] vances in the prices of prac- For Chairmanshi fe) The insurance is being repaid —_—_— distress of the population, and in-] France yesterday is believed to have |r. Soaaie of “C” street from Cen. 22 Unidentified man whose body was] tically all grade: amounting to. be Ip to the company, according to F. LONDON, Jan. 10.—(By The Asso-| crease the damage to property. heen of volcanic origin, since tt the opening of Improvement of {£2UPd_ buried under snow on the 25 and 50 cents a barrel. Tm rtant C itt Somers Peterson, a cousin of | ciated Press.)—An admiralty mes- ee ‘was accompanied in many places by |r 0 Wore "establishing inter-|%2ing dock of a plow company to- Creek crude. which repre portan OMMIULEE. | Simons. Simons’ was traced by |sage says the British submarine} PARIS, Jan. 10.—The tidal wave} a slight earthquake. EN pee day was attributed to a snow storm that prevailed in Nebeuska, follow- ing sleet yesterday waica erlp- pled telephone and telegranh w and slowed up railrcad traffic A note book, containing a fication card and the nama Conkling, 45, Telluride, was found on the body. ever, do not bell detectives after he was recognized ‘ASHINGTON, Jan. 10,| 1" Settle by an acquaintance gee Reverberations from the onth’s battle in the senate hich resulted in the elec- jon yesterday of Senator mith, Democrat, South ONE CHANGE 10) olina, as chairman of the Inter- te commerce committee over Sen- O ler Cummins, Republican, Iowa, L-24 has been lost off Portland, in 4 collision. It is feared the entire MADRID, Jan. 10.—Seyere storms | sre raging of the northwest: coast. corners for motorists who violated The loss of an unnamed steamer 4 the important traffic rules such as with her crew of nine men is re-| ted f San Sebasti: cutting corners, passing other cars Ported from San ian. at intersections, and not giving the A | right of way. The offending drivers BERGAMO, Italy, Jan. 10—| DENVER, Colo., Jan. 10.—Edwin! worth, with a revolver in each han@ would then be hailed into court. The fe, Villages in the province of| Young, 70 years old, a tamale ped-| walked two blocks down the street{council passed the motion and potiaied \ ronay 18. fhe | Tore tr re Soran See iecortet bliriéa dng lox! ou tye sasveatar ces Danwae “upc Ettin pecrtiocuonaly on ne Cont, |will as a result start « safety cam- mblin gs 2s ~presaged a some: ; " Rodrigo Martinez, 30 years oid, are| Yoying and Martinez were wounded paign and attempt to educate the hat simifar fight “over © ri : i os ~~~ “\dead today ahd Charles Bosworth,| duping the shooting. the former publié” It is felt that*many “tragic pn by. the Iowa-senator of, the of: q negro, 18 held) in Jilin connection | dying in the county hospital at 3:30 accidents have occurred in the past bak heey ctek vel hg ‘ ne ANCONA, Italy, Jan. 10.—In con-| with their slaying as a result of Bos-| o'clock, this morning and Martinea due to such violations. The house, meanwhile, began. wor! : s d Q} sequence .of the. torrential. rains | worth’s reign of terror in the lower| at 8:50 o'clock this morning. |. The White Eagle and Texas com p the first big appropriation meas-| [tah ‘Pardon Boar ROS ates invewe village ot Mon-|downtown business district last} Bosworth’ today disclaimed any| panies have agreed to spend as much Of $e ‘apesion—the |interton“de- B dolfo are becoming unsafe, wh‘le/night. According to witnesses Bos-| knowledge of the shooting. (Continued on Page Eleven.) nent supply bill—which was ze-1 Hear Claims of Sen- orted yésterday by the appropria- ons committee with the total cut EE © $267,727,965, which 1s $35,792,044 tenced Man. 6s than allotted to the department Sa Pik ake SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Jan. 10. ; Senator Cummins was defeated for |__Cconvicted of wife murder and sen- he,interstate commerce chairman-|tenced to be shot on January 18, fp on the thirty-second bal'ot, re-|Qmer R. Woods, who yesterday fil- iving only 29 votes against 39 for|eq an affidavit with Governor pmith, which included six cast by| Charles R. Mabey ‘will today be departmental accounting, ané creat- jing a juvenile court, were among the things talked of. uncilman Pelton moved that at least four policemen be delegated February 1, to watch at the street sents the bulk of the state's pro- duction, was increased from 60 cents a barrel to a new price of $1 by the Midwest, which added 45 cents to the prices paid for Cat Creek (Mont.), Grass Creek, Osage and Elk B: 2 The Ohlo company increased Big fuddy crude 40 cer Mule Creek. ; cents; Lance Creek, 45 cents, at An envelupe in his p: et addressed , % bs to Edmund Freimuth, care ut s. x.| HOCK Creel. 60 ake Sapir Channel Camp, Boneville, Wyoming, |~ °W Prices follow: Sastatio eek Midwest Ofl company—Salt Creek, Spee: $1; Cat Creek, Grass Creek, Elk Basin, $1.4 BURLINGTON”. OFFICIALS esc cn: IN SHERIDAN TONIGHT .."siz: sizes owns mann FOR “GOOD WILL” MEET ef dollars to the operators in the SHERIDAN, Wyo., Jan. 10— Wyoming fields, and followed in- Establishment of a more complete creases in the price of Midcontinent grades which called for an adjut harmony between Sheridan shippers and the Burlington ratlrond than ment of the differential between the now exists will be the principal two districts. With pipeline runs for the country showing a steady decline from week to week as re- flected In the statistics compiled by the American Petroleum Institute, it is believed that crude prices are 1 500 TONS object of the local commercial c permanently on the upgrade, the ait aired te gz} peak of production having passed nator LaFollette, Republican, | given a persona! hearing before the a and business men in meeting | Pea iateaiss guditive sasrabere‘ot the [She eee rk cteee elee The Great Seventeen Thousand Troops Thrown In-|1, Geisha otticialaseethe reircet mate n ent group he heads, Senw tor Couzens, Republican, Michigan, | ency. celved six votes on the final bal-| Jn his affidavit, Woods, convicted ot. in 1922 for having slain his invalid The Ukelihood of an effort to un-| wife as she lay in bed and-then to eat the Iowa senator as president | nave attempted to burn the bed, said ro tem, now that the chairman-|he believed A. C. Vadney of Council, hip fight is out of the way, has|tdaho, was one of two robbers who fought out suggestions in some| xilled Mrs. Woods, He further juarters that certain of Republi-| charged that his attorney, Thomas n insurgents and the Farmer-La-| Rammage, forged his name to in- or senators comprising the LaFol-jsanity papers. tte group might throw their sup-| Woods, a former resident of Idaho ort to Senator Pittsman, Democrat,]}andq a native of Tennessee, hi fevada. The insurgents have been | always maintained that robbers kitl- escribed as willing to vote for Sen-| eq nis wife and that he did not, as or Cummins for office if the Dem-|the state alleged at his trial, mur- ats precipitated a contest, but!ger her that he might collect in- amosities developed during the in-| surance. Prstate commerce committee uead-| ‘The Woods murder case had been in certain large outputters which Ura Noard of pardons which on J carried last year's production to a record point. tonight, it was decided last night at & meeting of a score of Sheridan's most important shippers. ied, however, | PENNSYLVANIA will include the equalizing of Sheri-| QUOTATIONS JUMP, dan rates with those at Billings and| pyrrsBURGH, Pa., Jan. 10. eS Miles City, Mont., the designation ranci 25 cer See 7 eee dag 5 N | advance of 25 cents a barrel in the price of six grades of crude oil, on | Burlington’ passenger | tickets, |quoted here, and tncrense cf frovt and ‘the designation of Sheridan as|i¢ cents. to 19 cents o becer en “common point” in the setting of 2 “ freight tariffs, it was indicated. teaey, per Erades, was announced The common point designation, it was declared, will be the automatic result of the completion of the North and South railroad through to Action On Vera Cruz Front DYNAMITE IN Win Preliminary Battle ONE BLAST MEXICO, CITY, Jan. 9, Via Radio to Fort Worth Star-| oGpEN, Utah, Jan. 10.—About Telegram—(By The Associated Press).—The federal ad- ates pounds of a: Srey eee be vance on rebel troops in the state of Vera Cruz, has begun, fahrosg anout sansecy oe at oe according to unofficial information obtained at the war University Many students of history and world affairs have to delve into the times of Caesar and Hannibal and Charlemagne. The great period of history is the history of the Twentieth Cen. tury—particularly the year 1923. Tho new prices are: Pennaylvania grade oll in New York Transit com- pany lines and Bradford District here, expected this year, since rates | 118 National Pua. Sompeny then must be revised to meet com-| ines. $3.05; Pennsylvania Pipe een |Lines, in Bureka. Pipe Line com. etition and route changes between tneiewatsaaay = Pany lines and in Buckeye Pipe Line BAN PLACED) Cabell Grade O! in Fureka Pipe |Line com ON NORMAND |" sivcrsct. seatim on, in cumper. | land Pipe Line company lines, $1.60, company lines, $1.80, an increa of 19 cents. Normand appears have been barred /|85 cents and Corning Grade Oll in in Ohfo, according to announcement | Buckeye Pipe company lines. st jase department the Ohio board of film| LOS ANGELES, Calif. Jan. ¥0.— censorship operate: | Two unmasked robbers held up the not to show films in which Miss | with an amount estimated at Normand appears. $5,000. Four men who were sentenced last week by Judge R. R, Rose to terms in the state penitentiary were taken to Rawlins Wednesday night jcompany line, $3.25, an increase of ny lines, $1.60, an tr.- FILMS, OHIO}? 2°" of 14 cents, COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 10—| Ragland Grade Oil, in Cumber- today of Vernon M. Riegel, state | $1.55, were unchanged. Instructions were being sent to| First National Bank at ‘Tustin, |25 cents each, lcrease of 15 cents, t light off tn Cumberland Pipe Lin Motion picture films in which Mabel | land Pipe Line company lines, at director of education under whose | all motion picture theaters in Ohio | Orange county, today and escaped WEST PALM BEACH, Fia., Jan. , ordered to throw up his hands but (By The Associated Press.)—| instead of obeying, he whipped out cers and possemen followed three | his revolver and fired. He leaped ails early today in pursuit of mem- | into a depression in the ground as ers of the famous Ashley gang | the officers opened fire and escaped. vyho escaped following a gun fight] At the home of John Rogers, near- ith officers yesterday, in which| by, the officers learned that Albert ne outlaw and Deputy Sheriff| Miller, alleged slayer of Deputy side, Utah, to blast from a mountain The daily newspaper is the Uni- 7 5 1 . t General Eugenio Martinez and inyolves more than 17,000 Prbsayrte had eho ee one of this pies of se tthe hee A column of federal trocps under|west of here, according to announce. we ea Te whthe arene | The troops under General Mart-]General Perez, chief of Military op- daily newspaper are he great erations in the state of Coahuila, de. | work is being done preliminary to 200 rebe cer V: ; the world of business. ing from San Marcos, in the state of See ae ; Sata NI nCewES the Baas a Jug dade ck have raised hopes on the part] one of the most sensational in Utah The advertising columns are for {Vera Crug along the Mexican and , : vet ; Your canostion in the development: linteroceanic Rallway. Another col-\the war depactmet cna given c=! LIQUOR VIOLATOR I$ Priore.) that thelr. votes can be appeal to, the state supreme court) htm in tue bent. things tee, in an official bulletin. The rebe's| Pepa on in an effort to elect him. | and until yesterdays turn of events, Shae’ ana the fair price Tehuacan, in the state of Puebla. publican organization senators|apparently had exhausted every Bigcheese CP ie eetaany, ins retains the senate presidency ing the supreme penalty. 7 ae RR Oe STA MEDC mins Fe e cape paying g in The Tribune before shop- y virtue of his election at the last] Publication of the Woods affidavit bet ihe ghicade SoanoP-}and loyal troops trom the garrisons | RICH MINE IS Fred. Jackson. whol iea/ beenyart ssion of congress and they have|and Governor Mabey’s action inj ”!™ tol on the Isthmus of Tehuanter, under! REPORTED AFIRE. rested at his place on South David General Juan Dominguez and Gen- lection. \jfore the pardons board created a 10.—A special train left here early | ‘Tuesday night, was fined $100 and In the house, Republican confer-| near sensation. General Pedro Gaday has been en-| today for Custhutrachic, a mining | sentenced to 30 days in jail by Judgo nce tonight on tax and bonus legis-| Prosecuting Attorney E. A. Rogers trusted with the task of climinating| center, where the mine “Promon-!John A. Murray last night. ‘The lation overshadowed other activities | of Salt Lake City, who led the fight the rebel General Romulo Figueroa 0 some extent, but the Dyer antt-| in the state in the Woods trial has is- gold and silver ore in the state, was| Frank Kelly who had also been ar- lynching bill, the Mexican situation | sued a statement to the effect that rebels stand against the advance of reported afire. Cusihuirachic was] rested in the raid were dismissed. eee the Obergon troops, according to cf-| the scene of the death of 19 Amert- ——>_—_ share of committee attention with | one last attempt for his life by plac- f'clals in the war department. Fig- h 1 hs wraps and Yeates Committee pou:| ne the, Cine for hie cerimee Sone wrecked and its occupants mas | Change Value nuing {ts work on revenue legis-kanother. Vadney, whom Woods ac- part of the state of Morelos, sacred by rebels under the direction ial of Pablo Lopez. Estimated loss {Continued on Page Nine) tion at the 1922 trial, nnn | by two deputy wardens. dio Via the Fort Worth Star Tele-] reach 500,000 pesos, Chihuahua of- The men and their sentences in- e 2 gram, By the Associated Press.) — (Continned on Page Nine) Ja an Worried Robert Brenna, two and a half. to Peseta ts four years for theft of an automo- a TOKIO, Jan. 10.—(By The As- bile; Harry Cain, two to four years slated Press)—The yen is causing anxiety’ among the business men of Japan, especially crimes for which they were sen- the foreigners and Japanese import. pects a halt in its de- pleaded guilty before Judge Rose. scent until it at least reaches forty. —_——___ pale § The drop already Js affocting im- MOBILE, Ala, Jan. 10.—Mrs. and purchased large tracts of lands Robert Melton, that this holds disastrous possibilities | caro) B, Bourne filed suit in the|!n the southern part of the county circult court here yesterday for 9| Caro Theodore, and established the department. The main offensive is under the command of 700.000 cubic feet of rock to be used versity of the masses—the teacher |ment. About 3,000 feet of tunnel teachers of present-day history of |inez, the advices state, are advanc- according toa report he made to some of Senator Pittman’s sup-| history. He was unsuccessful in. an i aa of manufacturing and merchan- | TOTO" Pecoha die Gacaine te eaed Jost 17 dead, seven wounded and 1 ave contended that Senator Cum-|meuns of which he might hope to es- 7 ® suffered only four wounded. | it has been learned. are two thous Hot formally indorsed him for re-} granting him a personal hearing be- CHIHUAHUA CITY, Mex., Jan.| street by the police department Y eral Donato Bravo Izquerda. torio,” one of the richest bodies of | case was appealed. E. Dumont ara from any part he might take in the nd agriculture's problems received | he believes Woods is trying to stage cans in 1916, when a train was ueroa is operating in the southern ation. cuses, was a witness for the prosecu- Y Ss 1 MEXICO CITY, Jan, s—<By na-| ready incurred vy tte tamer wiilOf Yen Slumps cluded John Thursdy, four to seven dec! t \a 21 months to three years for decline of the exchange rate on the forge’ 4 All four of the men committed the inayat aula A? at ee Ra DIVO re E Ss U i r Ports and expert observers point out ‘ol Plantation, devoted ti thi Colored, Is Dead divorce and alimony from E: ; wiaay teeeatne cme MARION, Il]., Jan. 10.—The sertes ) participation of local citizens is of spectacular liquor raids in Wil-| Concerned. because the imports that are being An order delivered to Young ani| checked are necessaries, not uxuries, Perec conn erat pera ce Let Given obeiiial ofthe kind: yeateraay'|Tnis; tthen warn make nce recon. Senator growing of oranges, livestock and Ku Klux Klan under the leadership | prohibited’ any further activities | struction of the districts devastated | Jonathan L. Bourne of Oregon, who| nuts. The plantation was named for Te, paker Were killed, when the |Fred-Baker, had fled from the house | Robert Melton; colored, died here| of |S. Glenn Young, former® pro-| against manufacturers or sellers of by the earthquake and fire because| has a home in this county, it became} his bride, who was a widow, Mrs. cers sought to enter the camp to} when he heard the exchange of| yesterday. A short service will be} pibition enforcement officer and | lquor, except as the raids might be | of increased prices for lumber, steel| known today. Voluntary abandon-| Car Trest Joo Ashley on a charge of | shots. Miller was reported as badly at the “Muck funeral home| rdoratly deputized citizens which | COMducted by federal officers. and raachinery ment {s given as the grounds for the] 1 n he married Mrs ay robbery. wounded. at 7 p. m. after which the Hie Young was arrested separation. Spe age, and st before nightfall last night Late yesterday afternoon officers | remains will be shipped’ to Denver | resulted in» the creation. of a situa-|with five) warrants serve VICTORIA, The complaint, filed by Mrs. Bou 1s fe as 48. The sheriffs encountered Joln}and possemen brought to West|for burial. The decensed had been | tion necessitating the calling cut of | him charging 9 that the smalipo rne, is very brief, and states that| wedding w 2 , happy hiey, son of Joe Ashley, near] Palm Beach men and women al-|a resident of Casper for many companies of the Tilinois national|a deadly weapon and assault and Hongkong and Kowloc the wealthy ex-Oregon senator vo r It : and exchanged shots | leged to have been connected with }and had been a member of a I guard: by request of Sheriff George | battery. HI was set forby the Yokohama Maru, which ar- | tarily left her more than a year ago.| Tho court will pass o He halted and was| the Ashicy gang. labor union. Galligan are at an end, as far asl January 26. rived here today from. Far. East, Senator Bourne came to: Mobile| divorce s ume this