Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 12, 1924, Page 1

The Weather WYOMING: rature. LUME Vill. DIE NE OF THREE CAPE FROM HUANING HOUSE ragedy Stalks in Fire Twelve Miles North Of Glenrock. GLENROCK, Wyo., Jan. 2.—Stricken with grief at a agedy that took from them heir two youngest children nd destroyed their home, fr. and Mrs. Lawrence vrentzinger homesteaders 12 miles porth of here, sought refuge with eighbors after returning home to ind that thelr ranch house was a ass of ruins and that of three y children whom they had ft in the house a short time re one had escaped to the open ind the other two had lost their ves penned among the blazing lis. The tragedy occurred at about f Both Mr, and Mrs. Wrent- ser had left thelr five-year-old ughter in charge of the two cunger children, one three years ¢ age and the other one year, while bey went to drive home the cowr the night. = How the fire was started is still tery. ‘The ttle girl evidently ecame frightened then she saw the irst flames leaping up for she ran de, innocently leaving her sis- s in a death trap, Another rancher who lived near ho ranch of the Wentzingers saw he flames but was not able to reach he place before the home had been ly destroyed and it was too pate to save the two children. re was a garage adjoining the peuse and in it was a new Chevro- et car which was destroyed, as was also about 100 bushels of corn jetored there. CPARATISTS IN VARIAN TOWN D CONTROL | Big Dye. Center Ruled By Rebel Group for Over a Month. LUDWIGSHAFEN, Bavarian, Pa- tinate, Jan. 3.—(By Courter to ris, by The Associated Press.)— rty men, including the green- niformed separatist guard in front f the main government building ‘ve been performing the functions whatever government there is— sides the army of occupation—in is industrial center, the home of © femous Badische analine dye tories. ‘These forty men include ot only government officials and ‘ce employes but also the police Pree, members of the street clean- department and public servants. Se separatist government of the utonomous palatinate’ was pro- aimed here with appropriate cere- ‘onies on November 25, but neither * beginning nor its ultimate effect People was ever made known P the outside world, owing partly dificult telegraphic communica- | ‘ons and partly to the pre-occupa on of most of the foreign corre- ndents with important develop- Pents in the Ruhr. S was the case in the Rhineland here the separatists were in con- ol and later ejected, all newspapers *e were suppressed from the be- Poning of the declaration of the Ee except those whose rprictors agreed to submit to the nsorghip of the new government. nsequently all but two stopped ation at once and these two f.\® now been forbidden because ’ bublished a proclamation a tew a0 against the separatist | | ——— Argentina has a railway which ‘tends for 175 miles in a perfectly Uzht line, Generally , tonight and Sunday. decided change in tem- Rain and Snow Forecast For Coming Week WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.— Weather outlock for the week be ginning Monday: Northern Rocky Mountain and WASHINGTON, Jan. plateau regions: Occasional rains |Couzens, Republican, or snows west of divide and gen- erally fair except probably snow about the middle of the week east of divide. Warmer first part and colder latter half. Southern Rocky Mountain and ance of tax-exempt securiti prise. Michigan, of reducing income surtaxes from CASPER, WYO., SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1924 MRS. J. E. HIGGINS FATALLY HURT IN CRASH WO CHILDRENM’LEA jes as a means of diverting Plateau regions: Generally fair except probably snows over north and rains or snows over south portion about Wednesday or Thursday; rising temperature at beginning of week; colder latter part. PORTO RICO TREASURER FOUND DEAD SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, Jan. 12.— Gy the Asociated Press}—J, W. Bon- ner, insular treasurer of Porto Rico was found dead at his desk today.| story in detail, forcefully and en- He leaves a widow here and a son tertainingly. The date of its and daughter at Ann Arbor, Michi-| issuance has been set tentatively gan. for January 27, but is subject to ehange by reason of the great volume of data that Is being gath- ered to make it more complete than those of preceding years. “The Industrial edition of the nized as an authority upon Wyo- ming development. - As“ such it constitutes a valuable advertising medium of the state’s resources and js equaliy as entertaining and instructive to non-residents as it ing industries during the last year, what they mean and what is in store for the future? Do You know of Casper’s opportuni- ties as shown by past achleve- ments and the great era of de- velopment just opening? If not, you will read it all in the Tribune's annual Industrial edition, which wil tell Wyoming's —_—_ -OLEARWATER;, Fla., Jan. 12— Charles H. Ebbetts, president of the Brooklyn baseball: club, report- ed) today he had signed up W, H. Ruether for another season, Stranded Ship | Attack on Mission Floated Again BALTIMORE, Md@,, Jan. 12—The freight steamship Esther Dollar, which stranded last Wednesday near the mouth of the Baltimore harbor, was refloated yesterday af- ter about 900 tons of cargo had been removed. The vessel which Was bound for Havana~and Los- Angeles, returned to this port to be urveyed and re-load cargo. can consul at Changsha. was injured, although bullets passed through the former's clothing. The soldiers claimed they were CHINESE SOLDIERS FIRE ON AMERICANS But Soldiers Claim. Officers Gave Them the Orders PEKING, Jan. 12.—(By The Associated Press.)— Chinese soldiers of the first division fired upon Flavian Mullens, an American, and Arthur Benson at the Passion- ist mission at Supu, Hunan, and then looted and wrecked the mission school, according to a report from the Ameri- Neither Mullens nor Benson TWO SLAIN IN acting under orders from their com- mander to wipe out the “foreign devils,” but it is believed that the affair was due to a mutiny. The consul’s report added that after the attack the mission was put under the guard of other troops. — In connection with the recent PARIS, Jan. 12—A communist| kidnapping of Mrs. Ju‘ina Kilen, 2 meeting last. evening at the head-|mirsionary of Northfield, Minn., by quarters of the extremist labor fed-| Chinese bandits, Major John ‘Ma- eration to protest against the highgruder, assistant military attache cost of lving and the occupation|of the United States embassy, and of the Ruhr was converted into a/capiain Woodrow Woodbridge, also riot in which two persons were!an attache of the embassy, have killed and a score injured:through| visited Wu Pel-Fu, inspector Gen- the dissensions of an anarchist fac-|eral of Chihl!, Shantung and. Honan. tion. Wu said that Mrs, Kilen had been The anarchista’ objected to the! reported near. Rushan, not for from use of the premises for political) Loyang,’ Honan, Wu's headquarters. meetings, Marcel Cachin and oth- er prominent communists were! SHANGHAI, Jan./12.—(By the As- pelted with all sorts of objects and sociated Press)—Band ts have seized hooted down when they, attempted four junks loaded with wood and oll to speak. Fists waved freely and belonging to the American firm of fina'ly some one started to shoot... G. Gillespie sons, on the upper This'causea a panic, | Yangtze river, and are holding them Convict Mutiny Is Investigated MONTEVALLO, Ala., Jan. 12.—, they had defied efforts of prison Officials of the state convict board| officials to induce them to suc- will begin an investigation today of | render and hurled dynamite in theie the mutiny of convicts at Aldrich | direction, mines near here yesterday which| Dynamite was used freely by tho ended with the surrender of the|convicts while in the mines and a mutineers to guards late last night.| part of the machinery wrecked. Sixty-six convicts participated in the outbre: When they entered days until repairs can be made. the mines they said there would be|The convicts ara said to, have “no coal mined today”. They came|mutinied in protest against alleged out shortly before midnight after] cruelties by Warden Jernigan. Mining will be suspended for a few | readers in Wyoming. Thousands | of copies are mailed out to all cor- | Mers of the country, and thus it achieves its primary purpose—to help build Wyoming. fanbn et VDEE Five Bitten By Mad Dogs, Town Is Quaranteed ‘ LONG BEACH, Calif., Jan. 13—. !'The county health comnpss oner has p'aced a quarantine on whe gid City, ngardere,a3 a result of an epidemic ‘of hydrophovta there. Five children have been bitten. by. dog# at Virginia City. during ‘the Jast four’ days, authorities say. Several dogs have been shot and residents have been © ordered to chain up their pets. Charged to Mutiny for a ransom of $16,000. The seiz- ure is reported to have taken place about 30 miles below Wanhsien, pro- vince of Szechuan. Will That Be All Today ? How many times have you had the obliging salesman, after you have made a purchase, ask you | the question at the head of this story? This oft-repeated question blocks the progress of the un-ad- vertjsed article. Many manufacturers and job- | bers of articles of merit undertake | to induce deaiers to mako up for {| lack, of advertising by “having | salespeople make direct sugges- tion of thelr products to the cus- tomer. it is impossible to achieve gen- eral distribution of a product by Cepending on the salesman. It is the business of advertis- ing to have the custamer " a! set”? to buy. Besides an articles or product should not be go'd on the unsup- ported endorsement of the saies- man. Advertising done right estab- ! Ushes a character for the prod- uct, and the buyer is entitled to this service and this gu dance. Shop in the Tribune before shop- ping in the shops $$ GREAT FALLS, Mont.—Arthur Davis, arrested recently in Sait ake City on the charge that he implicated in the robbery of a, ;bank at Valier, Mont., last April, | pleaded guilty before Judge J. J. | Greene at Conrad’ yesterday and aS sentenced to serve from 15 to 30 years in the state penitentiary. | following the request of Sheriif | Geo Galligan to Adjutant Gen- 12.—Secretary Mellon was challenged today by Senator to a joint debate on the question of the necessity fifty percent to 25 per cent and stopping the issu- capital to productive enter- Meantime, the house ways and means committee pressed forward to complete PRIMARY AIM OF INDUSTRIAL | EDITION IS TO BUILD STATE Do you know the outstanding is to the great family of Tribune developments of Wyoming's lead- , consideration of the administrative features of the Mellon tax bill so as to_open public hearings on the tax reduction pravisions next Monday. Republican leaders of the house in dealing with the tax subject gave further thought today to the extent to which the Mellon bill must be modified in order to command a ma- fJority vote in the house. A confer- ence on this subject was held yester- day but apparently the leaders got nowhere. In his letter to Secretary Mellon the third in a series of exchanges be- tween the treasury head and the Senator on the tax question, Mr. Couzens declared that the percent- age of tax-exempts on the market— $11,000,000 000—was so small com- pared with $120,000,000,000 to $125,- 000,000,000 of other securities, ‘as to give an appearance of the whole d’scussion as a tempest in a teapot.” Senator Couzens cited from treas- ury reports to support his contention that the receivers.of large incomes fe not escaping any such large amount of surtaxes. through the rship of tax-exempt securities, asgweuld make jt desirable for government to lower surtaxes in order to secure more revenue for it- sclf or to’ releasé capital for business investments.” The Michigan’ senator declared that statés and municipalities must have fun mn somesource for improve- ment and asked tho secretary if he conteNded that it was less produc. tive invest money in school houses, waterworks, lighting plants, state railway plants, good roads, collegés, sewerage systems and health-serving institut‘ons than it was in. theatres, office buildings, motion picture ‘houses, ball parks, distilleries, breweries, chewing gum and cosmetic factories and the like. Senator Couzens argued that to re- duce the surtax would result in a de- luge of dividends out of industry to private individuals and added that the mere transfer of ownership from one person to the other through the sale of stocks and other investments would “have no constructive force in the country's business.” On the other hand, he said, the distribution of cash dividends would | result in taking out of many tndustries large amounts of capital which they now hold in their treasury. Assassination Plot in Quito . Is Uncovered GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador, Jan. 12. —Advices from Quito say that the police of the capital have discovered a plot to assassinate the president of the republic, Dr. Tomayo ani other political leaders. Thirty-eight arrests, {t is sald have) been made, including the staff of the newspaper Humanidad, which has suspended ‘publication. The instigator of the plot was \ |Washington A Newspaper for All the Family, Clean, Unbiased, and a Booster for City, County a nd State Che Casper Daily Tria EDITION N’S CHECKS NOT IN FIRE) CASHED BY SECRETARY U GLENROL | MELLON CHALLENGED TO DEBATE ON BILL Publisher Confirms Report Of Loan to Fall But Says Latter Secured Money Elsewhere PALM BEACH, Fia., Jan. 12.—Senator Walsh of the senate Teapot Dome investigation committee today await- ed any further statement former Secretary of tre Interior A. B. Fall might wish to issue in connection with the sen- ate committee’s investigation of an alleged connection be- tween the leasing of the Teapot Dome lands in Wyoming to the S'nclair interests and a loan 80 FA NATICS of $100.000 obtained by Mr. Fall late in 1921. Senator Walsh arrived here yester- day and took the deposition of E. B. MANILA, Jan. 12.—{By The Asso- clated Press.)—Elghty members of the Colorum, a reigiious society. McLean, Washington newspaper were killed at Bucas Island last publisher, who stated that he had loaned Mr. Fall $100,000 but that the week in a clash in which a number of constabulary soldiers were slain, checks for the amount had later been returned to him unvashed by Mr. official advices from Surigao dis closed today. Fall and the former secretary in. formed him he had arranged to se- cure the money elsewhere, according to a record of Mr. McLean's testi- mony. After the meeting with Mr. Me- Lean. Senator Walsh sent a letter to | Mr. Fall, who ts also here, advising |him of the meeiing with Mr. Mo- | Lean. In a letter to Mr. Walsh yester- Veteran Pastor Critically Tl the source from-which he did obtain| the money, other than to state that it “was in no way connected with | Mr. Sinclair or in any way Involved NEW YORK, Jan. 12—The Rev. in any connection regarding the Tea- Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis, for 25 pot Dome. or any oll concession.” years pastor of the P'ymouth Con-| According to. Mr. McLean's deposi- Eregatioval church, where he suc-' tion, Mr. Fall wished to borrow the ceeded Dr. Lyman Abbott, collapsed $100 000 to purchase a ranch. Mr. last right from a cerebral hemorr- Fall took the note for $100,000 which hage after a meeting of the churchhe had given: Mr. MoLean-when he ecpicil and early today was consid- borrowed that sum from hini. when ered* to..be ina critical condition. he returned the checks, Mr..McLean He is sixty years old, said. REBEL FORCE LOSES CITY Capital of Hidalgo State Recaptured by Federal Army After Siege of Sev- eral Days, Says Report MEXICO CITY, Jan. 11.—Ry Radio via. The Fort Worth Telegram—(By The Associated Press) .—Pachuca, the capital of Hidalgo, is ugain in the hands of the Obre. gon troops. Meagre reports telling of the fighting there of the last few days and of the capture of the city by the rebels were followed today by a war department bulletin felling of the recapture of the clty when the robela attacked. ‘They by the federals. occupied the city after they had dis- The fighting started Wednesday. | j4aged seventy barricaded federal Yesterday federal _ reinforcements troops by dynamiting the building. 1,000 SALOONS PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 12.—With nearly 1,000 of the city's 1,200 saloons closed, every known dis- orderly house and gambling estab- lishment out of business and the bootleggers driven to cover as a re- sult of the intenstve police campaign for the elimination of vice and crime, frustrated in an attempt to take the life of Col. Juan Manuel Lasso, a candidate for the presidency. Other | prominent persons marked for as- sassination, the reports assert, were General Leonidas Plaza and Gonzalo Cardoba._ The latter is the presi- dential candidate of the liberal fac: | tion in the national ‘assembly. Brig General Smedley D. Butler, director of public safety, today turn- ed his attention to banditry and other forms of lawlessness.. Genera’ Butler said he was satisfied that at least eighty-five percent of the places where vice flourished before the drive started had been wiped out. CLOSED UP IN: Vof'ma arrived and attacked the rebels, re- taking the city, the war department bulletin said. Poison Liquor | Legger Caught LOS ANGELES, Calif., Jan.. 12. When E. L. Anderson called at th: home of E, E. Clemens late last night and, according to the police, demanded payment for two cases of liquor, he found his asserted cua- tomer had just dled from what was diagnosed as Uquor poisoning. Mer- bers of the household attempted to overpower Anderson but he fled. Later he was captured and con- fessed, police say, that he had sola the liquor to Clemens. He was booked at the city jail on suspicion ughter, Long Vigil Looms for Illinois Guard Troops MARION, IL, Jen. 12—(By The} Associated Press.)—State _ militia men stationed at Marion and Herrin eral Black to send aid in “main- taining protection of life and prop-| erty” in the recent trouble arising | from liquor raids’ of the last weeks have settled down for an itr definite stay in Williamson count according to their officers, © Thr peace conferences held within the last few days have apparently ac- complished little, according to statements by Sheriff Galligan and Sam Sterns, exalted cyclops of the Ku Klux K . which organization is alleged to have played a con- siderable part in the raids. Sam Sterns said last night that he did not expect “any voluntary dis armament of the kl inasmuch as they expect troubl hibition enforcement officer, who, it is alleged, deputized 8S, Glenn Young, dry worker, permitting him to make raids in the county, is to meet W. H. Anderson. Chicago, division chief of federal prohibition enforcement, in East St. Louis to- day to explain the entire situation When questioned as to knowl of the whereabouts of | Young, who ts reported mi ng, by Victor L. Armitage, federal pro-| declined to make any statement. NUMBER 68 WOMAN PIONEER NEAR DEATH AT HOSPITAL HERE Auto Accident Holds Tragic Consequences For Old Residents Well Known ‘Here. Still in an unconscious condition from injuries re- ceived late yesterday after- noon when the car in which she was riding turned turtle on the Yellowstone highway 10 miles east of Casper, Mrs. J, E. Higgins, 69 years of age, and Con- verse county pioneer, Iles in’ such & serious condition at the County hospital that the attending surgeons hold out practically no hope for he recovery. A fracture of the fore part of the skull, Y-shaped and ex- tending to the nose and across the Jeft side of the head and the loss of brain matter, combined with the day. Mr. Fall denied that he made| #4Vanced age of the injured woman use of the $100,000 loan to him by| ™ake recovery practically an im- Mr. McLean, but refused to disclose | Possibility. Mr. and Mrs. Higgins had been visiting with friends in Casper and on Thursday night had been enter- tained at the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Andrus. Yester¢ lay afternoon they started ‘back to thelr home in Glenrock, Mr. Higging driving the car. A slippery portion of the road caused the car to sk'd, striking a | bank on the opposite side and turn- |Jng completely over, catapulting the two Oceupents from the seat, Mr. Higgins was not injured beyond being badly bruised, but his wife fell in such a way as to strike her head, receiving a bad fracture, Mrs. W. C. Irving, wife of the under-sheriff, was coming into the elty from the Irving homestead. She saw the plight of the accident vic- tims and with the assistance of Mr. Higgins helped the injured woman into the car and brought her to the hosp'tal here, arriving about 4 p.m. Dr. H. L. Harvey was summoned, and X-Ray pictures were taken of the skull. About two hours later Dr. H. R. Lathrop of the Lathrop clinic, and Dr. B. B. McDermott of Glenrock were summoned for con- sultation, An operation was performed dur- ing the night. Dr. Harvey who attended the patient a'l night, reported this morn- ing that she was getting along as well as could be expected consid ing the seriousness of the injuries. wo nurses are kept in constant at. tendance upon Mrs. Higgins. Mr. and Mra. Higgins have ved in Glenrock for 37 years, where Mr. Higgins ts president of a number of companies among them being the H'ggins Real Estate firm, Higgins Sheep company, * Glenrock Invest- ment company, Glenrock State bani, and National Exploration company. He is also manager of the Glenrock Oi! and Gas company. They have been better known how- ever ag owners of the Hotel Higgins of Glenrock since it is through this medium that they have more often met the public. While Mrs. Higgins has always made her home in Glen- rock s’hee settling there she is well known in Casper and has been entertained at. some of the best homes in the city, and the Hotel Hig- gins has alwa: been a rendezvous for prominent Casperites who visited in Glenrock. Settlement of Thaw Damage Suit Admitted PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 12.—Con- firmation was had here today that the suit for $650,000 against Harry K. ‘Thaw, Fre¢erick Gump, J has been Private’ han $100,- 000. The suit. was the resul of charges that Thaw had whipped Gump in a New York hotel in 1917 and. had subjected him to. ‘gross and Savage indign:ties.” So far as can be learned there ts no change in the attitude of Thaw’s family which is opposed to him be ing released from the Pennsylvania hospital for mental and nervwus dis- eases. He was committed to this In- stitution by a Philadelphia court at the tme y Xe authorities was endeavoring to have him extradit- ed to r on the Gump | charges pa