Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 9, 1924, Page 1

The Weather \YOMING—Fair north, mostly ‘oudy south portion tonight and Sunday with snow extreme south portion. Colder~ south night. portion VOLUME VIII. CON to- IN TEAPOT CASPER, PIRACY OF OIL A Newspaper for All the Family, Clean, Unbiased, and a Booster for Che Casper oo Daily “AWARD City, County and State Crihune COMPANIES | NUMBER 92 IS CHARGED ERRIN PATROLLED BY TWO OFFICERS DEAD IN REVWAL tore stow 15 OF WAR MADE ON BOOTLEGGERS Anti-Klan Element Organizes When Ku Klux Leaders Launch Wholesale Raids; State . Troops Take Over Control. HERRIN, Iis., Herrin, by state Feb. 9.—(By The Associated Press) .— scene of the miners’ riot of 1922, was taken over troops today as a result of a between “wets” and “drys,” in whisk killed and a deputy sheriff wounded se near riot last night a constable was ously. The trouble is a result of the wholesale dry raids which ais eS naTE FIVE NEGROES ARE HELD FOR LATE MURDER JACKSON, Miss., Feb. 9.—On tn- structions from Governor Whitfield, five negroes held in jail at Riy mond fn connection with the killing of Mrs, Nelle Mardiss, formerly of Chicago, at Smith station’ Wednes day night were brought to Jackson jJate last night and placed in jail, This action, it was announced, was taken as a@ precautionary measure to insure their safety Authorities believe Phillip Oberry, one of the prisoners, was the slayer of the woman and that one or more of the negroes in custody aided him. Mrs. Mardiss was stabbed to death, her body being found by her brother in a small store which she operated. A large knife was lying ar the body and bloody hand prints were found in the store. sat Ba Rr clell SUMMARY OF NIGHT NEWS CHICAGO—The Santa Fe has abandoned for the time being the Proposed construction of a ‘new lie between Farmington and Gallup, New Mexico, it was announced. It Was decided that the traffic of the new territc would not justify the $8,000,000 outtay. SAN DIEGO—E. Drew Clark was indicted by the San Diego county &rand jury charged with the mur- der of George E. Schick February 7 last year. WASHINGTON — Chief Justice Taft has recovered from his recent Attack of indigestion and was at his best attending to correspondence. VERA CRUZ—Orizaba, Cordoba nd Vera Cruz, have been reoccupled by revolutionary forces. Martial law was declared in Vera Cruz by order of the revolutionary general, Eduardo Loyo, WASHINGTON—The house de- feated a resolution’ proposing a con- stitutlonal amendment to, prohibit is: Suance of tax exempt securities. The vote was 247 to 133, or seven less than the required two thirds. BLOODHOUNDS TRAIL SLAYER TWO OFFICERS ROCKWOOD, ‘Tenn., Feb. 9.— Possemen, aided by bloodhounas, Mere today scouring the country- de near Emory Gap, Tennessee, for ter Newport, wanted for the slaying of Deputy Sheriff John Swan, and Constable’J. A. Jett of South Harrison, Tenn., while the of- ficers were in an act of raiding a still sald to have been the property of Newport. Bodles of the slain men were found buried near the still. ‘The tying of the officers was reported y » who de- on making an after hearing heavy rifle fire, they investigation an Newport at the’ partially de- eyed still and they were fired ‘on. A coroner's jury held New- ort responsible for the dkath of the Wo other men. have been conducted in this (Wil- Mameson) county recently, by reputed members of the Ku Klux Klan, led by S, Glenn Young, paid employe of the Klan. A meeting of the Flaming Circle, an anti-klan organi- zation, was in session when a crowd stormed the hall. The shooting followed. Caesar Cagle, a constable, who had been issuing the warrants on which the “drys” conducted the raids, was shot dead. Jolin Layman, deputy sheriff, who with Sheriff George Galligan. went to the anti. Klan meeting to remonstrate with the reea to disperse and go to their homes in tho interest of peace, was shot. He was taken to a°local hospital by Mayor C. E. Anderson and Ora Thomas, an anti-klansman, and the trio ts being guarded at the hospital by national guardsmen. es lately a crowd outside the hospital and began firing into the institution. Persons inside the hospital responded. to the fire, anda minature battle waged for a short while. The first juardsmen arrived from Carbondaie at 4 a. m., and the “drys” then established» headquart- ers at the city hall, several blocks from the hospital. The guardsmen “re patrolling the hospital to pro- tect the mayor, Layman and | Thomas, Five compantes of troops had ar- rived this forenoon. The crowd which visited the meet- ing hall of the anti-klansmen were headed by three of the four Police. men of Herrin and when shouts of “lynch them,” “string 'em up” were heard, Sheriff Gallighan —com- mandeered an automobile and rush- ed the trio to Murphysboro to pro- tect them. The three are: Chief of Police John Ford. and policemen Before the arrival of the troops, the raiders, armed with revolvers and shotguns, patrolled the streets of Herrin denying anyone they con- sidered “suspicious” to pass. All unable to give the klan Password Were searched for weapons, Before attacking the hespital, the mob shot out the street ghts so those within the institution could not see where to aim. A number of the patients tn the hospital became panic stricken, and Were reported as highly nervous to- day. A number of windows in the hospital were shot out and the build- ing showed other “battle scars” such as bullet punctured drain pipes and wainscoting. Just as the trouble in Herrin was. at its height, Leonard Sterns, de- puty circuit clerk and son of Cy- clops Sam Sterns, was fired on as he was riding in an automobile in Marion, the county seat. A bullet grazed his back but he was not in- jured sériously. He is the klan can- (Continued on Page Five.) Lethal Forecast for Coming Week WASHINGTON, Feb. et Weather outlook for the week be- ginning Monday: Northern Rocky Mountain and plateau region: _ Considerable cloudiness with occasional snows and frequent alternations in tem- perature east, and rains or snows and normal temperature west of the divide. Southern Rocky Mountain and plateau regions: Occasional snows or rains with temperature near normal much of the week. Pacific states: Frequent rains with temperature near normal. Two inches of snow fell at Cas- per early today as part of a storm which extended to the Colorado line. Moderate temperatures pre- vailed but colder weather is fore- cast for tonight and tomorrow. LARAMIE, Wyo., Feb. 9.—Snow is falling here. Temperature at 7:30, 28 degrees abo: Mexicans Hold American for _ Ransom, Claim EL PASO, Tex., Feb. 9—Paul Ginther, prominent mining man of El Paso and Chihuahua has been taken prisoner by revolutionists under the command of Hipolito Villa and Manuel Chao and is being held for ransom, according ‘to word received in El Paso today from Chi- huahua. 4 BIG OIL MERGER REVEALED Western Oil Company Formed to Take Over Marine, Wyo- Kans, Royalty & Producers, Glenrock, Domino-Wyo- ming and the Bessemer Oil Company Control of the stock Ball of the Marine Oil by him at this time, it is and Producers corporation, no-Wyoming Oil company operating in the Salt Creek field will mark a transfer of holdings to @ new company to be known as the Western Oil company. It is said that Mr. Ball, after he has com- pletely lined up the companies he {s after, will sell out to the Western Oil company. Max W. Ball and R. G. Taylor, the fatter prominently {dentified with several of the companies inter. ested, this morning issued a flat denial of the report that negotia- tions had been concluded for other companies than the Wyo-Kans syn- dicate. The reports are based on other reliable sources. Wyo-Kans stock is be!ng bought in at $1.07 it is said, with the basis for pending control of the other Gas is Most Humane CARSON CITY, Nev. Feb. 9.— From the ancient days when con- demned men were broken on the wheel or burned, to the time a man was executed by drifting Instantly and painléssly into a sleep leading to death, the cycle in capital punish. ment had widened in mercy today as the record was closed in the Chinese tong slayer whose life was taken by lethal gas at the state prison here yesterday. The foyr official physicians, the chemists in charge of the execution, and Warden Denver 8. Dickerson were agreed that lethal gas had proven the swiftest and most hu- mane form of death yet inflicted. sical Gee Jon, the condemned man, sat strapped in a chair fn the stone death chamber facing them, his fea- tures unhooded as~ he died. The physicians expressed the belief that he did not suffer, but that he lapsed into unconsciouness with the first breath of the gas. They hesitated to recommend lethal gas as a per- manent form of execution only be- 2 of the danger attendant to in the presence of large ntitles of the f They pr 1 it less harrowing and less painful than electrocution, hanging or shooting. Gee Jon seemed to be dead six| (Continued on Page Three) ‘ OOPS INQUEST IN MIKLOS! SHOOTING TOBE HELD THIS AFTERNOON Authorities Cling to Sui cide Theory in Case of Man Found Dying From Bullet Wound But Investigation Is Ordered. An inquest will be held at 2 E. H. Foster, prosecuting attorney, o’clock this afternoon by into the death Friday of Joseph F. Miklosi, Standard Oil company employe, from a gunshot wound received in his home on Midwest Heights, Miklosi died last night at a local hospital, with a .22 calibre rifle bullet in his head, the bullet having entered the right temple, A thorough investigation was made of the case by both Lew Gay, the county coroner, and Perry, Mor- ris, sheriff, to determine if there was any, evidence of murder. The ‘con- clusion of both officials is that Onlya Few Yes, they’re: almost’ gane, va past years have continued for demand for this year’s issue. The last stack of the pape you have not yet mailed your 15 and they will be delivers! to of the Wyo-Kans Oil company is now in the hands of Max Ww. company, with deals being made companies reported said, for the taking over of Royalty Glenrock Oil company, Domi- and Bessemer Oil company. It is reported that this consolidation of companies CONSOLIDATION OF COMPANIES DENIED BY fi. 6. TAYLOR In the absence of Mr. Ball, President of the Marine Oil com- pany, who left for Denver last night, Mr. R. G. Taylor, vice President of the company and Mr. J. C, Lindsay, general man- ager, this morning denied the correctness of the consolidation of independent companies as ap- +Peared in the Herald Saturday morning. It is stated by these gentlemen that there has been pending negdtiations for consol- idating certain interests identi- fied with the Marine and Glen- rock Ol] companies on account of the close niliance of these com- panies and mingled properties in this field, but sald officers made @ denial of the correctness of the various companies mentioned in the consolidation. Absolutely no information has been given out concerning tho consolidation, as the parties interested have not agreed upon the terms of consol. idation nor valuo of properties cr stock. The article as printed in a Casper paper, Saturday morning is correct :n some re. spects but very mislead’ng in others, and will be corrected as || requested by theso officers of || the company. I the proposed consclidation of the Marine « panies whcre hould develop to a point it becomes a c the press will be given t hausted within the next few days, the edition will meet with disappointment. Miklos! shot himself and unless the inquest this afternoon brings out Some new angle there will be no Prosecution in the matter. Ni cause of suicide has been offered, it is said. Arrangements had not been com pleted for the funeral this morning. Copies Left The Tribune’s Annual Industrial Edition, sales of which in weeks and months, will be ex- due to the unprecedented Belated inquiries for ycopies of rs is now steadily lowering. If copies do it immediately. Call your address, ready for mailing. as follows. Marine $5; Glenrock $1; Royalty and Producers 18c; no quotations as yet from Domino-Wyoming and Bexse- mer companies, A gross capitalization of $16,500,- 000 i represented in the reported deal in which six companies are in- cluded. Heading the lst is the Glenrock which has a capital of $10,000,000. Royalty and Yrodu- cers corporation ty capitallaed ot $3,000,000 while Bessemer is the lowest at $500,000. The others are all in the $1,000,000 class. The Bessemer Oil company was in- corporated In Wyoming in 1916, with a capitalization of $500,000, stock having par value of $1 and al! is- sued. It holds 120 acres net inter- est In Salt Creek and 1,120 acres net interest In west Salt. Creek. The company’s interests range from 20 to 50 per cent in four wells averag- ing 700 barrels daily in Salt Creek. Officers are Glenn C. Littlefield, president; C. E. Littlefield, secretary, Minority Fight SINGNR NOE On Shoals Plan WASHINGTON, Feb, 9—The Me- Kenzie bill authorizing acceptance of Henry Ford's offer for the gov- ernment's war time project at Mus- cle Shoals, Alabama, is emphatically opposed in a minority report sub- mitted today, by members of the ary committee, ng the Ford offer with the Southern Power Com. without specifically en- y of the four proposals ve been made for opera- the Muscle Shoals plants, the report declares that acceptance of the Detroit manufacturer's bid would amount “to a gift of enor- mous property and industrial advan- tage to a private citizen from the resources of the United States.” The power companies’ proposal, as com- that of jes but tion o pared with the Ford bid, it says, offers “savings to the government” amountifig tq $34,218,000 for fifty years and $75,660,000 for 100 years. INJURY PROVES FATAL TO (MAN Suffering from an internal hem- orrhage used by part of an excava- tion caving in on him while he was at work for the Midwest Refining company in the Salt Creek field, Andy G, Garban, 24 years of age, died at a hospital in-Salt Creek at 1;30 o'clock this morning. The body has been brought into per and is now at the ee! lsd chapel. Garban was working as a laborer in making an excavation when the wall of dirt broke away covering him almost completely and crushing him with great force. It was some time before fellow workers could remove the pi'e of dirt and get him to’a hospital, The deceased leawes a widow and small daughter in Lewiston, Mont, A mother also survives him ther having offices in the Smith butld- ng here, In 1917 the Domino-Wyoming O11 company was incorporated in this state, with a capital of $1,000,000 in stock of the par value of 25 cents, Of this amount $166,500 was issued in 1917. Holdings of the company are in Rock Creek, Powder River, Notches, North Casper Creek, Emi- grant Gap, Ferris, Osage and Salt Creek ficlds, in this state; 160 acres in Bowes structure in Montana. ‘The company has an interest in four producing wells in, Salt Creek, Of- ficers are Charles E. Winter, pres!- dent; A. B. Winter, secretary-treas- urer and general manager, Q. K. Deaver, treasurer. The Glenrock Ol company ts a holding concern for the stocks of the Glenrock Petroleum company, Su- perior Petroleum company, Hall Oil company, Pilot Butte Oll company, Mar-ne Ol company and Mosher Oil company. J Leases’ in various Wyoming fields are also held by the company in its own interest. The Glenrock is a Virginia corporation of 1917. Cap- Italization 1s shown at $10,000,000 of stock having par value of $10. Of this ‘amount $9,567,581 is outstand- ing. Officers are Max W. Ball, president; Robert G. Taylor, vice- president; B. F. Randolph, secretary- Representative Hull, Republican, Towa, who consistently has opposed the Ford offer, presented the minor- ity report, in which he was joined by Representative Moran and Rans- Pennsylvania, Hill, Marylan: Frothingham, Massachusetts and Wainwright, New York, all Repub licans, The feport crit'cises. the majority for attempting “to justify the violation by the Ford offer of every safeguard and principle of the federal water power, act,” and de clares that the McKenzie bill gives Mr. Ford a “loophole” to “quit” the manufacture of fertilizer if it should prove not profitable. Furthermore, it contends “‘no one is {n a position to know from any statement of Mr. Ford or any accredited representa- tive, whether he would accept the Properties on the terms offered him in thé pending bill, Asserting that under the bill as recommended by the majority, Mr. Ford’s company “would not be regu- lated as to rates, service, or issuance of securities by the federal govern ment or the Alabama public service cSmmission” the report states that “Mr. Ford proposes to pay 100,- 000 for the following properties: Nitrate plant number 2, costing $66,252,392.21; nitrate plant number 1, costing $12, 41.31; Waco quarry, costing $1,302,962.88, and cashing from the sale of the Gor gas plant $3,472,487.25—a total of $83,915,783.65, “The gift of property ts starger- ing,” it declares, “but that {is not all or nearly all, No individual and no corporation in the United States has the unregulated control of 900,000 horsepower, or anything approaching that figure.” Any of the other proposals sub- mitted Is better than the Ford offer, the minority holds, adding that the “poverty” of financial return to the government under his offer, com- pared with the “benefits he demands has led his supporters and apolo- gists to strange arithmetical gym- nastics.” —— (Continued on Page Six) RESIGNATION OF ANDERSON NOW ON FILE GLOVERSVILLE, N. Y., Feb. 9. —The resignation of William H. An derson us superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League of New York was accepted at a meeting of the league's board of directors in New York City last Tuesday. This an- nouncement was made today by the Rev. William C. Spicer, vice prest- dent of the league, and pastor of the Pirst’ Presbyterian church of Glo- versville, — _—___ SEVEN KILLED AS TRUCK IS HIT BY TRAIN MILWAUKEE, Wis., Feb. 9.— Six boys and the driver were killed and another boy probably fatally in- jured when a Chicago and North- western train struck a truck filled with news boys at St. Francis, a suburb late last night. ‘The boys, had attended a meeting in the wu burb and were returning to Mil- waukee. The victims ranged from 14 to 16 years. BY STANDARD IN SECURING LAND, ‘BONFILS CLAIMS Sensational Testimony Develops Today in Inquiries Directed at Denver Publisher. WASHINGTON, Feb. 9. —A charge that Harry F. Sinclair, E. L, Doheny and the Standard Oil “allied companies” conspired to as- sure award of the Teapot Dome naval ol! w made before the mittee today lease to Sinclair enate oll con by Frederick G. Bon fils, publisher of the Denver Post. Continuing his swry of his con- nection with the group that held contesting claims in the Teapot re- serve and disposed of them to Sin- clair, the publisher asserted that in addition to the payments made to the group, the Midwest and Pioneer “tompanies, who also had interests in the district, received: $1,000,000 in ofl produced by the Sinclair com- pany from Teappt. Replying to questions by Senator Walsh, Democrat, Montana, Bonfils said that “there was a conspiracy between Doheny and Sinclair and the Standard Otl allied compantes to let Sinclair have the Teapot Dome as far as. they were con- cerned.” They having no antagonistic. in- terests in California,” he said, ‘they had no objection to letting Mr. Doheny have the naval reserve there and they went Into the agree- ment along these lines and the pases Were granted. ‘The Midwest and the Pioneer got a million dollars in oll produced by Sinclair company on the Teapot Dome. That I have confirmed. “The feeling with Sinclair was not friendly to Mr. Stack (J. Leo Stack) one of those associated with Bonfils. They treated him like an office boy and they thought they coujd settle with him on any terms agreeable to them. The Pioneer company kept telling him to settle with Sinclair and to take whatever he would give him, During his testimony yesterday Murder of Actress in New York is Unsolved SW YORK, Feb. fot police and detectiv stretched to all of the cit 9.—A dragnet known haunts of boo ers in an effort to find two men who visited the luxurious West 77th street apart- ment of Louise Lawson, pretty and 24 years old, shortly before the young woman was found yesterd: morning, found face dow bed, yard on angled her gagged and str to 1 the spirited assailants. Purr ¢) baxeg their contents which police learned included a platinum bracelet worth $8,000 and valuable gems. On a dresser stood a photograph of an army officer: and one of nard M. Dahl, chairman of the executive committee of the Brook: lyn-Manhattan Transit corporation lawyer 1 bro! who, police learned had been interested in the young woman. Thomas Kane, clevat r man, fu Police advanced the theory that they were bootleggers who had been attracted by jewels Miss Law- son wore and by other articles they 4 seen in her apartmen rob: they said, was the motive of the crime, The young woman came _ here from her home in Walnut Sprin Texas, six years ago to study mus and make her living as a mannequin and as a motion picture acti s 2 actress she played minor re in cinema productions. She friend of the late Angler B é as one of those at t e pa (Continued on Page Three) the witness had said that he and Stack, & Denver oil man, with H. H. Tammen, his partner, and S. H./ Schwartz, their attorney, negotiated a settlement with Sinclair, and the Proceeds of which were split four ways, This settlement, he said, took place after the Post had pub- Ushed an article attacking the Tea- pot Dome situation but had deferred publication of other stories on the same subject because of a fear df libel suits. Today Bonfils vigorously denied that the attitude of his paper toward Sinclair had anything to do vith the contract of settlement. At the out y's session the committee 1 the bill of complaint in Stack’s suit against the Pioneer Oil company and the Mammoh Oil company for $5,000,000 claimed under his conract with the Pioneer company to assist it in obtaining leases in the Teapot Dome fleld. Stack charged that the Pioneer company had entered into a con- cy with Sinclair by which it ‘aw practically all of its appil. cations for the leases; surrendered all its rights to Sinclair and allowed se, thereby de- rights under feat: his contrac It appeared that Stack originally had a contract with E. L. Doheny to get leases a double set of offset wells in the Salt River flelds adjoining Teapot Don that Doheny hi surrendered interests to the Pioneer com- pany. WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—Attore ney General Daugherty. returned to- day from a two weeks’ st in Florida and immediately went to the White House for a conference with President Coolidge. Prior to meeting the p nt, he refused to discuss the conference. He declared his return had not been hastened aithough at the time of his de- jparture from Washington jt was nounced that he planned to make to Florida He (ontigued on P Li | su a var ing of Pe $6) av e ac at } yp ed. 800