Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 11, 1924, Page 1

The Weather WYOMING: Unsettled tonight and Saturday, snow probable. Colder tonight and in south portion Satur- day. VOLUME Vill. HUSBAND’S CLOTHES REEKED OF RIVAL’S PERFUME, IS CHARGE BALLSTON SPA, ¥., Jan 11.—Mrs. Ernest Ballou, who is suing Mrs. Leland Sterry, widow of a Palm Beach hotel proprietor for $5000, charging alienation of her husband’s affections, is ex- pected to resume the witness stand today at the trial here. She testidied yesterday in re gard to changes in her husband's habits after he became Mrs. Sterry's. chauffeur. She said he MAN FATALLY. HURT BY BLAST An explosion of a gasoline torch on top of a 250 barrel water tank in the Mammoth camp, Salt Creel EARLY ACTION Mellon Bill Ordered Reported Out by February 11. WASHINGTON, Jan. 11. —Instructions have been given the house ways and means committee to report the tax bill on or before Feb. 11. After that date it is to take up soldiers bonus legisla- tion to determine whether an adjust- shall ed compensation bi ported. This program was be re- decided upon field, knocked 8. J. Turner and Jast night at a conference of house] yames McGrath off the tank today publicans who refused, however.| noon, causing a fall of 15 or 20 to pledge themselves to the passage nt this session of congress of either ax or bonus legislation, At the outset of the meeting, which vas behind closed doors, Representa- ive Longworth, party leader, pro- osed that the ways and means com- ittee be instructed to continue con- ‘deration 6f the tux bill “to the ex- lusion of gl other general legislative propesitions’® swith a. view to mak. ngs a report by Feb. 11, after-which ime it should proceed to considera- jon of bonus legislation. Two amendments were offered to he Lo vth- resolution and beth vere rejected. Representative Falrchild of New ‘ork, proposed a stipulation that a bonus bill be reported “as soon as ible.) This proposal was re ected, 100 to 87. The other amend- ment, offered by Representattve Fish f New jYork, a war veteran, fixed ‘ebr 25, ag the latest date for a Poyort bonus legislation. On a oll call the Amendment lost, 109 fo 87. The’ Longworth resolution then as adopted by viva voce vote; but he soldier bloc made one more ef- ort to insure favorable action on he bonus. Mr. Fish proposed thar he jconference record itself in favor f enactment at this session of con- réss of both a “re: le” tax re- uction bill and a bonus measure. On| tion of Representative Lehlback, New Jersey, however, this pro-| sal was tabled, 97 to 94. Routed in the conference, members f the former service men’s group eclared they would take their fight © the floor of the house and woula ttempt to have the ways and means ommittee discharged from con- lideration of the bonus bill. This, ey pointed out, would bring about record vote which would include Pemocrats as well as Republicans, feet which may result in the death of McGrath, He suffered a frac ture of the right leg between the hip-and the knee and a fracture of the spine. The spinal fracture is considered very dangeroys. Turner was badly bruised and shaken up but seems to have no injuries that will prove serious. ‘The men were taken to the Union afterwards brouglit.into Casper t¢ the Caspe® Private hospital bys member of the Lathrop’ staff. , The water had frozen over th» top in the tank and the men were attempting to thaw it out with the torch. The torch at first went out and in the second instance exploded. GREER-DINES CASE DELAYED LOS ANGELES, Jan. Horace A. Greer, c Mable Normand, film actress aD» peared in court for arraignment day on the charge of having shot and wounded Courtland 8. Dines, Denver oll operator, New Year's night, ana there was nothing definite to show when either Miss Normand, recently operated on for, appendicitis, or Dines would be able to testify, Jus- tice J. Walter Hanby demanded precise information on this point. He said that if necessary he would move his court to the hospital bedsides of these two materif] witnesses. Greer’s arraignment was continued until January 18. _> $70,000 Fire In Sioux Falls » Jan. 11.—The mmittee method of translating S x FP >. ‘a — gislative policies into legislation | _,S10UX FALLS, S. D., Jan. 11. Fire of undetermined origin today destroyed the warehouse * of the Kempter Milling company here, dealers in farm machinery. loss is estimated at $70,000, The stock on hand was covered by insur- ance. ‘cupied today the almost undivided tention of congress. In a dozen committee rooms, sena- prs and representatives scratched their “heads over dry statistical fables or listened to advice on every lubject from: lightening the burden pf the taxpayer to. providing pin- honey for the bureau of entomolo; The senate chamber was siient nd will remain so’ tomorrow under et ba SNOW IN SHERIDAN. SHERIDAN, Jan. 11.—Snow fe here last night to a depth of t IFE Novelist When He Resigns Job and MADISON, Conn., Jan. 11.—Ellsworth Bassett, house inter, chauffeur and orange grower, has failed-in his st efforts to become reconciled to his wife, basketball hospital. in Salt Creek and were} never drank nor smoked and al- ‘ways came home, until May, 1922, when he begin staying out late. Sbe found his pajamas in the Sterry garage she said; scented Mrs, Sterry's perfume on his clothing and heard him, awake and asleep, talk of “his When she wrote him letters a ing him to support his family testified, Sterry telepho: saying: ‘Stop interfering with my chauf. feur.” PHILADELPHIA RAIDS GO 0 PHILADELPHIA, Jan. adier General Smedley A Newspaper for All the Family, Clean, Unb Che Casper COURTHOUSE BON a’ AX LEGISLATION GETS RIGHT OF WAY GROPER REAL ESTATE RICH IN OPPORTUNITY FOR CUERY INVESTOR WITH BIG METROPOLIS ASSURED Mayor Lends His Endorsement to Home Owner- ship Here Mayor S. K. Loy and his jcouncilmen were guests at |the luncheon today. The |mayor spoke a few words of ‘greeting in which he com- | mended the attitude taken lon the mat tate in Cas “T am inced,” of owning real es- c he said that 11.—Brig-| any person With any stability about D. Butler to-|him whagever wi! want to own a day expressed satisfaction with con-| home here if he is going to live in ditions as he had found them at the the city,” pagn to rid the crime “We shall drive right alohg,” eut so that it will run smoothly. of the city and that the big job aow was to) keep them out. MONTEVALLO, Ala., Jan: 11.— Sixty-six convicts employed on the day shift at the Thomas-Weller coal mine at Aldrich, near here, are in mutiny and in control of the pit. it was reported here today. Stern measures are being used to oust the end of the fourth Cay of his cam-| eferring to a letter sent him city of vice and'by the board requesting that the ap- | bointees of the city be selected from said|citizens who own property here. he jenera! Butler, “Any knock that ap-/said that his appointments had been years In the machinery wil be taken decided on before the letter was ro- jcelved, but that in practically all in. He said he believed that most of /stances that policy was followed. the law breakers had been run out | Members of different building and jloan. agsociations will be guests of the Realtors next Friday.” : ee ALABAMA PIT men, who are said to be strongly entrenched. Fifty-four of the alleged mutiners are negroes and two of the white convicts are said to have been among the number that participate. in a mutiny at Banner mines, Jef. ferson county, last fall. iased, and a Booster for City, County and State md : FINAL HOME Criine Howard Baker, Realtor, Finds Optimism Among Casper Business Interests for Develop- ment of Great City in Few Years. Casper real estate offers equally as good if not better Opportunities for investment today than at any time in the city’s history, Howard Baker of the Baker-Grude Invest- ment company, declared before the Casper Realtors at their weekly luncheon gathering today at the Henning. “On interviewing a number of prominent business men, Most of them old residents here.1 000, and that the value of the hay they gave me so many reasons why crop alone for the year was $16,569,- they considered Casper real estate| 999% bo you know corn can be S pwd investment that I became} iisea in Wyoming and that last about 8 per cent more entnusiastic | Torr there wore 160000 acres? That “a ‘4 re ee Faas ahs ae, i was an increase of 92,000 acres over Speaays oni 1. The number of bushels of Booster for Caape prc rs ea) corn for 1923 was 4,050,000, and Powe soins into the details regard |'t15+ was twice the. amount ‘of two ing the immediate territory known years previous, There were 2,78 Be ears: et Us see: WORE WO BAYS ep -tmshele of wheat grown | pistes state: to warsant. ‘the Daul- lea) and it had’ a ‘value’ of 38, ing of a city such as we have here 000 Why, Wyoming grew 5,934,000 and which every one considers as bushels of spuds Sn" thet kat? fone merely a inning ‘of what Casper ars valued at $5,093,000, and oats ‘fein pertna om pene the last three years amounted to Op, talking: with Mr. TAndeny 16,267,000 bushels valued at $7,028. rtment store NUMBER 67 CTION SET FOR MARCH Teachers Lose ‘3000,000 SSUE TO BE VOTED ON BY TAXPAYERS FOR BUILDING Valuables in House Robbery The thief that works in the night has nothing on the one that works in the daytime thinks three Casper school teachers who arrived home ut 4:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon only to find that thelr apartment at 345 South Park street had been rifled of a number of valuables. The teachers arg the Misses Clara Olds, Nora Eckram « Margaret Aftelia A new hand bag. a traveling case, @ pleated skirt, a silk dress, a coat . with grey fox trimming. end two| Location Just West of handsome wrist watches were among the things taken. BANDITS GET $44,500 CASH KANSAS CITY, Mo.; Jan. 11 Several negroes held up a teller of the Main Street Bank at the door of the bank shortly before noon to- day and escaped with $44,500 “abies eT aie GAS PAC INCREASED CHICAGO, Jan. 11.—The price ot gasoline will be advanced two cents over the present market prices ef- fective tom ow morning, ording Present Site Chosen; Congested Condition Would Be Relieved. March 4, the property owners of Natrona county will be asked to vote on a special $500,000 bond issue for a new county courthouse according to a decision of the county commissioners ft thetr meet{ng Friday afternoon. The mat- ter has been up for discussion inter. mittently for several months past but a decision was del: yed owing to the possibility of erecting a combine: tion county-clty building. This lat. ter idea has been rejected and the bond issue w§} be for th Alone. irt house Garbutt, Weldener & Sweeney, the Golden Rule De; 000. So much for the product of the his aést remark was, ‘Real estate 181 201 of wyoming, which: only.a few, Mace geo sine Woes nabe nia short years ago was considered fit ves pec : re greater amount of ‘undeveloped re- Soetyesies Vase: Mevend sources than any other state in the union, and Casper is the logical for .all_dexelopmont. head: quartets such as jobbing houses, wholesalé houses and industries.” Not only has Wyoming a vast amount of undeveloped resources but she has many resources now in the process of developing, among these is farming. A few figures may| HERRIN, Ill, Jan. 11.-- Peace astound you as they did me when{will return to, Williamson county I read them. Do you know the value of the crops last year in this state were $30,500,000? That was an increase of $6,000,000 over the year 1922. and $8,000,000 over 1921 Do you know the number of acres of land farmed last year was 1,635- only when citizens co-operate with Sheriff George Galligan in the en- forcement of laws, the sheriff as- serted today. “Peace will said, and Williamson return to stay county co-operate Seed Time and Harvest Consider the imagination, vision and faith of the farmer. plants his seeds and carefully cult: Resolution yesterday, is lying thirty fathoms deep about) confl- eleven miles south of Portland Bill, according to the latest reports from Weymouth. There is nothing to indicate that! her crew of 45 men have not perished. | All the men were below when the the scene of vates the growing plants, dent of the harvest. The same. energy and foresight and faith are necessary for the merchant. Efficient advertising not only produces immediate fruitage but it dows seeds of good will and con- fidence in the minds of readers, | Seed thus sown will germinate and grow into permanent patron- age and friendship. No condition justifies letting up in sowing the seeds which bear the fruit of favorable public opin- week-end recess. Technically the | inches, accompanied by a warm | pouse devoted the day to debate on} wind. The storm continued atj (Continued on Page Nine) ntervals this morning. i BASSETT IS SPURNED BY IN ATTEMPT TO FFECT RECONCILIATION | ife Ignores Friend and Employe of ion. jthe L-24 ] | ‘No Hope Held for Crew Imprisoned On| Diver Rammed and Sunk-by Battle- ship Off the Coast of England LONDON, Jan. 11.—(By The Associated Press).—| The farmer prepares his soil and |The British submarine L-24 rammed by the Dreadnaught} boat left Portland’ for the maneu vers, in which she was to take part, as the weather was too heavy to al- low them to remain on «deck, it was said. Until further investigation has been made it is impossible to tell just how the disaster happened, however, the latest report Says that rose beneath the dread- naught and struck the latter's bows. Last night was unusually dark There are many thousands ‘of |and despite the numerous search- people in the. field. which may be cultivated through the Tribune. t night at the postoffice where she was working.’ He went straight to the postoffice after visiting Mra. nderson in New York and resign- ing his Job. He explained hig rest-| gnation was due to unfortunate pub- licity which has been given him and Mrs. Sanderson. The novelist ‘had telegraphed him to go home and ar- range his domestic affairs. He told townspeople that Mrs, Bas- sett was mistaken in her views of lights brought into play, little could be done until daylight, but the Sal- vage craft kept busy while special boats. equipped with hydrophones tried. vainly to catch any sound that might be made by the imprisoned men. Hope of the crew's safety has not been entirely abandoned, experts think it will be ig the men are rescued. It is reported but not confirmed that the submarine K-12, badly dam- aged in @ collision with ‘the K-2 near PROPERTY DIVISION 1S SOUGHT IN DIVORGE Clare Richardson is suing Ray Richardson for divorce on the grounds of cruelty.. She asks for a] Monument Works for a large bronze division of their property including a ranch valucd at $10,000 in Colo- rado, Casper real estate, the value yet most|cording to miraculous | ments. layer and postal clerk, from whom he became estranged | Js retatic a ea eae ane hare Ret Le opeaa penta hen he went to work for Nina Wilcox Putnam Sanderson, | pe ae idl te fhesthe -custody- ‘of | velist, whose unsuccessful efforts to obtain a divorce in }%t has been sald by her lawye Evelyn, aged 10 node Island sre being investigated|doreon from ker Fiorlda orange} she contemplates no legal " ! the attorney general of that gtate.| grove, wiiich be had been managing,|\ngs of any kind involving +] The couple woze married Decem-| Bassett, summoned by Mrs, San-| wus isnored by his wife as he called! band, <i ber 22, 1911, at St. Louls, Mo, HERRIN PEACE POSSIBLE WHEN PUBLIC AIDS LAW ENFORCEMENT lly meant S. Glenn Young, dry work- he |to the sencing of three companies of ‘when the people of Marion|national guardsmen to Marion and to an announcement made by the| architects, are working out tempow Standard Oil company of Indiana] ary plans for the proposed bullding. here The advance will be} he pia . lans call fo ct 2 effecti ven central states, ¥ . mS . Bernctiies (28 y 140 fect, outside dimensions, to he located just west of the present court house, adjacent to the Arkeon buil@ ing and facing east. The front of the building is proposed to be stone with the remainder of brick construs- tion. ‘Tentative plans call for a three ste structure, the p story to be given over to the jail with the jaif with me in law enforcement as they | PToper set back 15 fect for an exer: Nailcobasatndewith xewihe cise promenade enclosed by a brick | His refernce to “Young” apparent-| Wl. The two lower stories will be given over to the district court room, jury room, the judge's offices, and offices for the sheriff, the assessor, the county clerk, county engineer the clerk of the court, county treap urer, county school superititendent, er, and one of the leading figures In the present controversy which led Herrin. 43 PERISH ON BRITISH SUBMARINE county agent and other accomoda- tions. The decision of the commissioner Was reached after’ an extensive study of the possibilities of making the present courthouse adequate to care for the county's business. At present the building is so overcrowded that it_is almost impossible to give the | NEW YORK, Jan. 11—American public proper service, it has beem $88 DOWN HEGEL DEMANDS FOR LOAN The county jail is almost always overcrowded and the prisoners have no opportunity for exercise. The jafl can comfortably house 20 prisoners while us many as 30 have been ‘in the jail day after day in the last year The vott, s a embargo agninst them {s also said oting hours have, been fixed for between 9 o'clock in the morn- Joil companies with property in the | to neve earaet Gertoralisa ton mie. Rid Bip!" ms TAM’ peseenecw ho Tuxpam district have no present in-|°70"S the rebelg. have been registered less than twe tention of complying with the man- F d e yours ee ae ae ergy ABE ia ag : 4 regular registration period for i __|date of Adolfo De La Huerta, leader Body oun m city or county election are eligible futon the L-24 dis has/of the Mexican revolutionary forces to vote. sunk in shallow wate that each company loan him 25,000 Ch l N t It further redut ahi # at és y 25, t is her required that eacly a Ee saree peers vty at annel Not | ,.toi% further, reauired_ tat eae F A y | HER OF spokesmen for the companies said at the voting polls a tax receipe | today. Fl er S err showing that the would-be voter is a MOVIE ST A R TAMPICO, Mexico, Jan @ trom ‘the”oounty clerk that he The Associated Press)—I —— is an owner of real estate in the ernment forces arrived here LONDO 11.—(By the As-| county. IS HI J N TE D\= their way to Huasteca to take| sociated F An agent’ of the| Otherwise, those desiring to vote |part in the attack on Tuxpam. Sperry company, sent to the Sussex! must be sworn in by the election The situation of the rebels at Vera! shore to view the body discovered cording to the state statute. cz | Cruz, their headquarters, is de-| there reported that he was unable to Iso are required to produce CHICAGO, Jan. 11.—A reward of|scribed as desperate through lack | identify it as that of Lawrence B $500 for the return of Charles Ap-|of funds. The action of the United pe!, father of Lila Lee, motion pic-! government in declaring an arms ture actress, was offered by E, M Rogers, investment ban one of Appel’s largest creditors. Appel is wanted on a charge of operating a confidence game, em bezzlement and grand larceny, ac the reward advertise urned to Chi leaving several months visit in Los Angeles. with his Caughtor Lander Lauds Man Who Spent Fortune On Public Schools LANDER, Wyo., Jan. ay with Robert li— has contract Simpson of the Casper tablet to be erected. on the Vc tional High School building n the thdin entrance. he tablet will geht i ort han iar ‘ed/ through train from Casper to ny the 5 : : trict and Philip Wisser, | October 1 next fall, according to Wyoming pioneer who J. J. Foley, general manager. Lander and. bequeathed ortun:! ©. f the first pieces of wo to the cduse of public educatior started this spring be here.” building of ne ,Casper station, \Completion of Line to Miles City Set for Next Fall; Expenditures at Casper : Will Be Enormous Work on the entire line of the Nerth & South railroad . betwene Salt Creek and Miles City will begin as soon as the frost is out of the ground this spring and the first | prox receipt, showing that they are owners of real property in Na \trona county, Sperry, the American aviator miss- ing since December 13. RAILROAD CONSTRUCTION WORK TO BE RUSHED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE HERE the I » standard re addition to the lir | per. to Salt Cr ACTOS th & South has id th | 11 be Miles City will be run about | ™ 1923 a statement today by eM |