Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 14, 1924, Page 9

BY M. D. TRACY (Copyrighted, 1924 by United Press- CHAPTER II FRANCISCO, Feb. 14— (United Press).—An old battle on an old battle ground, between old foes— that's the story of the present fight over California Naval Reserve No. 1, leased by the government to the E. SAN L. Doheney interests. The fight—sometimes, as in this the people as a whole and, rormftimes, individuals or groups of individuals, struggling to retain the land, the products of the land, oil or water—is almost as old as Call, history under the American It has been the fight of the home- steader against the big land owner: of the small farmer against the men who controlled the water for trriga- tlon; the wheat grower against the transportation companies; the gov- ernment, representing the Interests of the country, against the ofl com- case, fornia’ fag. panies. The story is almost too long to re. rord. Frank Morr's, when he wrote “The Octopus" could but crowd a picture of a single phase of it be- twen the covers of a lengthy novel. It runs the gamut of.romance, in- trigue and politics, Men have died in the fight; fields have been burn- cor ed; fortunes ruined; rupted, It's been fought on the ground, at the polls, in homes and even in families, in the legislature, officials world and on the streets. Still it seems unsettled. Up to the time of the Mexican war, the Spaniards, traders and ad- yenturers who peopled California paid little heed to the vast territory lying east of the coast range moun- tain: Some cattle roamed 1. Now and then a padre from a mission would penetrate it seeking converts. to Christianity; now and then a few soldiers from one of the Spanish Presidios would traverse it in search of some renegade. Mainly it was left to the Indians. The Battle Starts But with the coming of thousands to California, during the gold rushes, the battle still going on was started. This fight has had five main phases. First, was that In which the name of Henry Miller of the firm of Miller & Lux figured most prominently. He was the first to cae the value of this territory from an agricultural stand point, and he began acquiring it, section by section, from the govern: ment. It was sald that Henry Mil- jer could travel from Mexico to Oregon on horseback and sleep every night on his own land. It was also told that much of this he acquired by placing a row-boat on a wagon, sitting in the wagon and driving it through the country and then taking oath that he had traver- sed {t all in a boat—thereby secur- ing {t under favorabl rms s swmp land. Amassing of his great hold- ing and the holdings of other, though possibly less famous, “land barons,” was not accomplished with- out the crowding from the country of the small homesteader and settler and there began the first battle— the fight of the homesteader against the large land owner. It has been Market Gossip ani On Operations in Oil Stockholders Met, Buck Creek Ofl company stock- holders met recently at Lusk, trans- acting affairs that come up annual- ly. Election of officers resulted. in ® naming of the following as directors: A. E, de Riogles, W. H. Fergerson, C, E. Strong, James D. Grant, Louis Nohle, E.-T. Wilson and R. 8, Shannon. Billy Creek Test Well No, 8 at Billy Creek heading for the Muddy sand at around 4,100 feet, was reported to be down 4,078 feet this morning. Not Petroleam Gas The small steady flow of gas com- ing from the Fort Collins, Colo., test Oil : Finance FIGHT FOR OIL LAND OF LONG STANDING U. S. Flag First Floated Over State; Guns and Lawbooks Both Used. the courts, in the banks and the business waged down to the present day, with with the firm of Miller & Lux still figuring prominently. The Fight for Water Second came the struggle for water, Small farmers with land lying back from the great San Joa- quin river and its tributaries, found owners of land touching the river— oftimes Miller & Lux—forbidding them use of the river water for ir- sigation on which their fortunes de- pended. ‘They began the battle for the right to use the water which poured from the skies‘ or flowed from the melting Sierra snows. Guns, fists, money, courts and law- yers all played their parts in this fight during the last $5 years. From it has developed some of the hardest fought cases in California court his- tory and it has led to the interpre. tation of complicated laws of ripar- fan rights. The fight still goes on with the rules possibly a little more clearly defined, but with the strug- gle just as fierce. Third came the era of Southern Pacific domination of California politics and the battle of the wheat grower to save himself from ruin— largely revent hisotry and the story told by Frank Norris in “The Oc- topus.”. This was the fight of the farmer and the wheat growers— small and sometimes large—to save himself from death by strangulation. The Era of Oil Fourth, was the first epoch of the era of oll, It came when the first oll well tapped the hidden treasures beneath the soil in the lower end of the San Joaquin valley some 20 years ago. There was a rush of the speculator, the man of moderate means—in fact, of all seeking sud- den wealth—into the new oll fields. The story which followed was that of fortunes made and fortunes lost overnight; towns buflt in a day; al the romantic excitement of an oil boom. The government urged by demand of the conservationists that some of this wealth be saved for the Peop'e, created the ofl reserves of which Naval Reserve No. 1, involved in the present investigation, was one of the.Jargest.. There followed years of litigation, known generally as the “California Oil Land Cases” in which the government disputed with large ofl companies and the title to hundreds of acres of valuable oil lands. For years these cases were fought in the courts—the cases of the people of the United State: against the private corporations. Mostly the government lost. Fifth, comes the present contro. versy, the fight of the people to regain from private control more these same lands and the riches lying beneath them. In not all of these struggles have the same actual acres been involved. ‘In the fight for water the land was that nearere the rivers. In the batt'e| —or the romance—of the wheat the land lay away from the foothills on the flat plains of the valley. But always it has been the same great battle ground with now one position and again another at stake. And whether it was acres or water or wheat or oil, opposing forces have been the same—and the issues the and Briefs Fields well being-drilled by the Union Oil company of California,’is marsh gas instead of petroleum gas, according to company officials. The hole is now down 800 feet. It has been necessary to erect a barbed wire fence. around the well in order to keep the crowding public at a safe distance. Wyoming Oils NEW YORK, Feb. 14.—Prices of ‘Wyoming oils at 2 p, m. were Usted on the New York Curb as follows: Standard O!l (Ind) 60; Boston Wyo- ming 1; Mountain Producers 16%; Mutual 124%; New York 114%; Omar 60; Salt Creek 19%. z Four Shares of Mutual for One of Continental, Basis KANSAS CITY, Feb. 14, — The Mutual Ol] company of Kansas City it was announced today, ‘has com- Dieted negotiations for taking over the Continental Oil company of Den- ver through an exchange of four shares of Mutual stock for one of Continental, When the exchange {s* completed, the en’arged Mutual company will have a capital of thirty million dol- lars, making it one of the largest independent oll concerns, The par value of Mutual stock is $5 anc Continental $25. The Continental O11 company, Principally a marketing concern op- erates 750 tank and service sta: one in the Rocky Mountain re- ion. It operates a refinery at Flor- ence, Cole, ‘The Mutual Oll company has re- fineries at Glenrock, Wyo.; Cowley, Wyo.; and Chanute, Kan, It has a daily production of 21,000 barrels of crude oil from acreage in Mon: tana, Wyoming, Oklahoma and The combined companies will ep- erate more than a thousand tank and service stations in the middle west and Rocky Mountain region. S. H. Keoughan of Denver will succeed O, H. Williams of Kansas ‘City as president. Mr. Williams. who resigned because of ill health, retains much of his stock and w!'! remain a director. E. T. Wilson of Denver, who has been president of the Continental company, will be chairman of the new hoard. Mutual offices here will be retained, 8. P. Ol Ss. O. Ind. -_--. Atl, Gulf and West Indies .. Baldwin Locomotive ~~... Baltimore and Ohio -.—.___ Bethiehem Stee! Eri Cuba Cane Sugar pfd ....-. Famous Players Lasky General Aspha’t General Electria General Motors Great Northern pf Gulf States Steel Tiino's Central — Inspiratidn Copper International Harvester —.. Int. Mer. Marine pfd. -..... International Invincible Oil Paper -. Kelly Springfield Tire Kpnnetott Copper — Lima Locomptive — Louisville and Nashville Mack Truck Mar'and Ot) Maxwell Sinclair Con, Southern Pac'fic Southern Railway Standard Oil of N. J. ---.-2.2 Studebaker. Gorporation ors Middle States Ol Missouri, Kan.. & Téxas new Missouri Pacific pfd -. New York Central = N. ¥., N. H., and Hartford Pacific Oil -. Pan American Petroleum B Pennsylvania, --.----.___.. U. 8. Ind. Alcohol ~.------. United States Steel --._-.-.. Utah Copper 24% LT 92% 21% 88% 103% 434 Westinghouse BHvectric ----.. Willys Overland American Zino Lead and Sm Butte and Superior Colarod Fuel and Iron --... Montana Power National Lead -. Shattuck Arizona Anglo Buckeye Continental Cumberland Galena. Ilinols Indiang Nat. Tran, N.Y. 820, Ohio + Vacuum Cat Creek hr sre ragy eS noe ea AT Tran. ~------.-- CRUDE MARKET 16% 17 1% 72 49% 50 135 67 im ane 74% TAR _ 235 43% 43% 315 820 61% 62 155 160 61% 61% mo $1.80 Lance Creek ---~--~-~-----~-- 1.75 Osage - Torchlight Elk Basin Greybull - Sunburst Byron . Notches Pilot Butte Lander NEW DULUTH, Minn., February $2.60%; July $2.57%. flax: Rock Creek Salt Creek ----------2-------- Bg Muddy qe eee cer peweewe Mule Creek Hamilton Dome -----~- Ferris . ---.----~-------------- COTTON YORK, Feb. spot qwet; middling 52.15. pd iia) steel —enmeswnceneneenansw 1.75 Grass Creek, Hght ~---------- Grass Creek, teavy ----.---.- 1.80 ed FLAX, Fpb. 14- totey 45% 38% 14.—Cotton = secenns-= -18 Central Pipe Line. 2.20 Cons! \dateq Royalty. 1.35 Cow Gulch ~.....-.. .03 Domino . .-—~--.--~ .09 Elkhorn . ---..----... .04 E. T. Williams --.. .50 Frantz . -..--—~-.-.6.50 02% Lance Creek Royalty - Marine 4.25 o------- == 4.00 Mike Henry -..----.. .00% .01 Mountain & Gulf --.--1.55 1.58 New York Oil -.-.--12.00 12.50 Picardy = 04 05 Sunset . ..-.---c-<. 01% = .02 Tom Bell Royalty -.... .02 03 Western Exploration. 3.80 3.90 eoa-e wees 275 80 22 24 aL 13 NEW YORK CURB CLOSING Bia Ask Mountain Producers 16.50 16.62 Glenrock O11 . -60 19.50 19.75 - 860 9.25 - 12.60 2 61.37 61.50 Cities Service Com 154.00 155.00 Chicago Prices, CHICAGO, Feb. 14—(U. 8. De partment of Agrigulture).—Hogs— shippers and yard traders mostly le to 15c higher, packers gener- ally inactive. talking steady; early trading good and cho'ce 250 to 325 pound butchers $7.30@7.35; top at better grades 170 to 325 pound averages most'y $7.10@7.25; desir- able 150 to 160 pound averages $6.90 @7.05; bulk packing sows $6@6.20- killing p'gs unchanged; bulk strony ‘veight $6@6,.25; he vyweights $7.15 @7.35. medium $7.10@7.30; $6.85@7.35; ght ight light slaughter pigs $4.50@6.50. Cattle—Receipts 9,000; beef steers and fat she, stock active; mostly 10c to 1$¢ “higher; liberal“ propor- ton beef steers run lfc to 25c up spots more on well condition handy weight and we'ghty steers on ship- pihg--account; top matured steers $11.60; highest price of the year: mixed yearlings’ averaging’ 727 Pounds, $11.50; numerous loads handy and heavy steers $10. 75@ 11.25; several loads long year'ings $10@10.75; bulk fat steers $7.75@ 10.25; kind *selling at © $7.70@8.26. sharing upward. Most fat» cow $4.75@6; beef heifers $5.50@7; good logna bulls steady to strong: large ly $4.75@5; vealers in ‘beral sup ply 250 to 50c lower; packers pay- ‘ng $8.50@9.60. mostly outsiders se lecting a few handyweight upward to $12 and above; stockers and feed ers about steady; meaty feeders get- ting best action. Sheep—Receipts 12,000; fairly ac tive; kf'ling classes generally strong feeding !ambs steady; bulk fat wooled lambs -$14.50@14.85; top $15 good medium and handyweight, fat ewes, $8.50@9. few medium to good feeding lambs $13. Omaha Quotations OMAHA, Neb., Feb. 14.—(U. 5. De- partment of Agriculture}—Hogs— Receipts 14,000; mostly 10c higher; bulk 2.20 to 8,00 pound butchers 6.85 @7.00; top 7.00; desirable 180 to 210 pounds weight 6.60@6.75; mixed loads carrying packing sows and Bia Ask Receipts 40,000; slow, early sales to $6Q7.15; packing sows smooth $6.15@6.40° packing sows “ rough $5.80@0.15' , ‘ Eve Casper Daily Cridune Ge ene > Grain : Livestock RALLY CHECKS TOGK DECLINE Oils, Motors and Industrials Suffer Slump In Early Sales NEW YORK, Feb. 14.—Distribu- Uon of supporting orders and active short covering checked the reaction: ary tendency of today’s stock market after some sharp losses had been recorded by the oils, motors and other speculative industrials, On the rebound coppers, low priced rails and a number of specialties recorded brisk gains. Sales @pproximated 1,- 000,000 shares. NEW YORK, Feb. 14—Stock prices continued to sag at the open- ing, of today’s market under the weight of a large volume of selling orders. Bear pressure was again directed against the oils, most ot which yielded fractionally on initial sales, although Marland, Royal Dutch and Cosden met support and moved slightly higher. Losses were spread over a wide list. The market continued reactionary throughout the early dealings. Good buying support was in evidence however, st below last night's closing quotations so that losses were held to a point or so. Pan American Cosden preferref, Phillips Petroleum, Westinghouse Alrbrake, International Harvester, American Smelting and American Hide and Leather preferred were among the issues to drop a point or so, There were a few conspicuous exceptions to the downward trend, fisher Body continuing its remark- able advance by climbing 2% points 444, a new top, Foreign ex nges opened lower. = There are traders increasing their, offerings forcing the closing out of Several impaired margin accounts. Oil continued to bear the brush of the selling pressure, new low record for the year being established by the Pan-American issues and Stand- ard Oll of New Jersey which drop- ped 1 to 2 points togther with Texas company, Genéral Asphalt, Marland, White Eagle, Producers and Re finers and Sinclair. Lorillard Tobac- co "broke 6% points while Interna- tional Harvester, Beechnut Packing, Nash Motors, Continental Can, Corn Products and American Car and Foundry dropped 1% to 3% potnts. American Woolen and Otis Eleva- tor each advanced about a point. The market steadied somewhat around noon when the oils started to rally on short covering. Call money opened at 3% per cent. With the short position tn some of the speculative favorites ap- perently overcrowded for the time being, prices worked upward in the afternoon, with Baldwin, Studebaker and Pacific Oil making substantial headway, The coppers responded to another increase in the price of the red metal. The closing was irregular. Bullish demonstrations {in National Lead, Congoleum and other specialties gave impetus to the upward move ment of prices_in the late dealings. POTATOES CHICAGO, Feb. 14. — Potatoes trading moderate; market about steady; receipts 23 cars; total U. S. shipments 731 Wisconsin sacked round whites $1.20@1.35; bulk $1.30 @1.45; Minnesota and North Dakota sacked Red rivér Ohios $1.25@1.40; Idaho sacked Russets $1.90@2.25. foe vets ete tbs Flour : MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Feb. 14.— Flour unchanged to” 25c lower; family patents 6.40@6.45. Bran 24.50 @25.50. (ta eee ac th No, 4168 NOTICE In the District Court of the Eighth Ughts 6.60@6.85. Packing sows Judicial District of the State of mostly 6.25@6.35; average cost yes- Wyoming, in and for the County terday 6.65; weight 240. of Natrona. Cattle—Receipts 5,200; fed steers EFFIE A. BATSON, Plaintiff, vs. and yearlings moderately acti LEWIS E. BATSON, Defend- steady to strong; spots higher; top Steers 9.60; bulk steers and yearl- ings 7.75@8.85; she stock active, fully steady; bulls weak; vealers steady to 25¢ lower; stockers and feeders _slow to steady; bulk butcher cows and heifers 4.00@6.25; canners and cutters 2.25@3.50; bologna bulls 4.00@4.35; practical veal top 9.50; bulk stockers and feeders 6.00@7.25. Sheep—Recelpts 13,000; market slow; early sales fat lambs fully steady; wooled lambs 12.20@14.50; shep and feeders scarce, no early sales. Denver Prices. * DENVER, Colo., Feb. 14.—{U. 8. Department of Agriculture.}—Hogs —Receipts, 3,400; mostly 10 to 15¢ higher; early top, $6.90; best unsold, bid $7.00; most good 190 to 270 pound averages, $6.75@6,80; plainer kind, $6.40@6.55; packing sows, steady, $5.50 to § pigs, un- changed at $5.00-to $5.50. Cattle—Receipts, 700; calves, 100; quality plain; one load 137 pound beef steers, $8.00,-steady; undertone weak on available she stock; no strictly good cows or heifers offered; cows, $5.00 down; medium heifers, $6.25; calves, weak to lower; vealers, $8.00 to $9.00; other classes, steady: canners and cutters, $2.00 to $3.00; few feeder cows, $4.00. Sheep— Receipts, 4,50 slow; slightly lower on fat lambs; ono load 86 pound feeder lambs to shearer $13.65; one load 94 pound ewes, $8.50; fat lami around 10c higher. fied Ad, Tribune Want Ads bring results, Pub. Feb. 7, 14, 21,:28, Mar. 6, ant. To Lewis E. Batson, alias Eddie Delaney, whose ‘last known post office address is Post Offjce Box No. 142, Salmon, Idaho: You are hereby notified that on the 30th day of November, 1923, the above named plaintiff, Effie A. Batson, filed her petition and commenced an action against you in the above entitled Court where said action is now pending, being cause No. 4168, That the object and prayer of said petition is to obtain a divorce from you on the grounds that you have for the period of more than one year immediately preceding the commencement of ‘said action neglected to provide her with the common necessaries of life and that such neglect was not the re- sult of poverty on your part which you could have avoided by ordi- nary industry, and that during your married life with the plaint iff.you have offered such indig- nites to her as have rendered her condition intolerable. You are therefore notified that if you fail to answer said petition on or before the 29th day of March, A. D. 1924, the allegations in said petition.will be taken as true and judgment. rendered against you in favor of plaintiff as prayed for by her in said pe- tition. HAZEL CONWELL, Clerk of Court. (SEAL) E. E, ENTERLINE, Attorney for Plaintiff. PAGE NINE’ WHEAT GAINS ARE WIPED OUT Early Strength Followed by Decline On Profit Taking CHICAGO, Feb. 14.—Wheat prices developed an upward tendency today after an irregular opening. Likeli- hood that the United States import duty on wheat would soon be raised was the principal bullish influence The fact that cable quotations on wheat were firm and that buying was active here on price downturns counted also in strengthening values. The opening, which ranged from Sc there to Kc advance, May $1.10% to 1.10% and July $1.10%. to 1.10% was followed by a decided gain in some cases. Subsequently, a further advance resulted from the federal tariff com: mission report as to the relative cost of wheat production in Canada and this country. Profit taking sales, however, led to a reaction The close was unsettled at %c net lower to %c gnin, May $1.10%@% to $1.10% and July $1.10% to $1.10%. Offerings of corn © arrive were only fair, and the corn market as Well as oats sympathized with wheat strength. After opening at Y%o off to %c up. May .79% to 79% corn scored a slight general advances Opinions that the peak of the corn crop movement had been passed was a help later in upholding prices. The close was unsettled, %@c to %o higher, May 79%c to 80c. Oats started at %c decline to: Ke gain, May 48% to 48\%c and later . Czechos'ovak Rep. &s., Danish Municipal, Ss A Dominion of Cana: French Republic 7s Japanese 45 Kingdom of Kingdom of American American American Anaconda Copper Anaconda Copper 6s, At. T. and San. Fe. gen., 4s Baltimore and Ohio cv., 4%s Bethlehem Stee! con, 6s, ser adan Pacific deb., 46 chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul cv Chile Copper, 6x Goodyear Tire 8s, Great Northern 7s Montana Power Ss A . Northern Pacific ref., 6s B Northwestern Bell Tel., 7s Pacific Gas and Electric 5s Penn. R. R, Gen., 68 ~~ Sinclair Con. Ol! col., 7s Southern Pacific ev., 4s Usicn Pacific first 4s. U. §. Rubber 6s = Utah Power and Li Western Union 6% Westinghouse Electric Wilron and Co., ev.. 6s - : All Markets 116% 116% 115% 107% =—-107 107s 96 96 96 103% 103% 108% 108% 108 108 SUGAR NEW YORK, Feb. 14.—Business in refined sugar was light and prices were unchanged at 8.90 to 9.00 for fine granulated. Refined futures nominal. held near to the initial figures, Provisions refected an advance in the hog market. Open High Low Close WHEAT: 1.10% 1.11% 1.10% 1.10% 1.10% 1.11% 1.10% 1.10% 1.10% 1.11% 1.10% 1.10% 79% 80% .79% .79% +80 80% .80 80 80% 80% 80% 80% AB = 4AB% 4T% 484% A5% 46% 45% 46% 43 AB% 43 43% 11.45 11.36 11.40 11,62 11.62 11.67 RIBS: 5" 9.87 9.87 10.10 -10.10 10.00 9.95 9.95 - 10.25 - 10.50 CHICAGO, Feb. 14.—What No. 2 hard, $1.13; No. 3 hard, $1.09%@ 1.10%. Corn—No. 3 mixed 17% @77%c; No. 2 yellow 80% @8ic. Oats—No. 2 white 48% @49c; No. 3 white 47% @48%oc. Rye.—No. 2 72%c. Barley, 64@ 78e, Timothy seed, $7.00@8.25. Cover seed, — $18.00@24.00. Lard, $11.10, Ribs $9.50. Bellies $9.87. Foreign Exchange NEW YORK, Feb. 14.—Foreign exchanges irregular; quotations in cents: : Great Britain, demand, 430%; cables, 430%; 60-day bills on banks 428%. France, demand, 446%; cables 4.47; Italy demand 4.34 cables 4.35, Belgium demand 3.83%; cables, 3.84. Germany, demand, -000000000022; cable: 100000000022. Ho'land defand, 7.39; Norway, 13.38; Sweden, 26.16; Denmark, 15.82; Switzerland, 17.38; Spain, 14.74; Greece, 1.70; Poland, .000012; Czecho SJovakia 2.90%; Jugo Slavia, 1.21%; Austria, .0014; Rumania, .61%; Ar- gentine 33.50; Brazil, 12.10; Tokio, 45%; Montreal, 97 1-32. Butter and Eggs CHICAGO, Feb. 14.—Butter lower: creamery extras 50%c standards 50 Yo; extra firsts 49@50c; firsts 48 @48%c seconds 46% @47%. Eggs easy; receipts 12,506 cases; firsts 34% @35%c ordinary firsts 31@32c. METALS NEW YORK, Feb. 14.—Copper strong: electro'ytic spot and nearby 12% @12; futures 1313%. i Tin strong and steady; spot and nen £6.00@55.50. Futures, 54.50. Iron steady; prises unchanged, Tend firm, 8,.50@%,00. Zine firm; East St. Louis spot and futuron, 6.60@6.65, Antimony spot, 10.60. ——————_—— LIBERTY BONDS NEW YORK, Feb, 14.—Liberty bonds closed: 3%s, 99.5; first 4s, 99.6; first 4%s, 99.7; second 4s, 99.6; third 4%s, 99.11; fourth 4\s, 99.9; U, S. Government 4%s 100.5. | MONEY ' NEW YORK, Feb. 14.—Call money firmer; high 4%; low 4%; ruling rate 4%; clos’ bid 4%; offered at last 1 call ast acceptan: mixed ¢ Sugar futures closed steady; ap- proximated sales 37,000 tons. March, 5.50; May, 5.59; Juiy, 5.63; Septem. her, 6.63. pees MASKED CARNIVAL BALL AT ARKEON TONIGHT The, Arkeon tonight, will stage ts finua! St. Valentine's Day dance in the form of a masked ball with $§0 In prizea to the most attractive costumed dancers, both men and women. , The novelties far carnival dances which Manager McKeon recently received from San Francisco) will be used for the first time at the enter- tainment this evening. Thero will be confetti, streamers noise mak- ers galore and all those who attend are assured ef having a good t.me that will be remembered for a long time. Germination Tests For Corn Planted This Year Advised CHEYENNE, Wyo., Feb. ‘14.—A. R. Smith, in charge of the dairy, food and bil division of the Wyoming Department of Agriculture, advises all farmers to test for germination al corn that {s to be used for spring planting. Wet weather at harvest .time and early frosts tended to low- er the germination ratio of Wyom- ing corn, Smith states. Corn and other seed will be tested fre by the Wyoming Department of Agriculture for all persons applying fér such service, APPROPRIATION FOR AIR MAIL EXPECTED CHEYENNE, Wyo., Feb. 14. — No concern is felt here, a division point of the air mail service, be- cause of the action of the lower house of congress in’striking from the portoffice appropriation bill the prdyision of $1,500,000 for financ- ing the air mail during the next fiscal year. The same action was taken tn the house a year ago but the provision was reinserted in the senate and accepted by the house conference, and there will be sim ilar action this year, it {is antici pated here,’~ Paving Protest In Cheyenne Is Cut CHEYENNE, Wyo., Feb, 14.— Efforts of Walter H. Yeager, in- terested property holder, to prevent paving In the Cheyenne business dis- trict under a contract entered into by the City with the A. H. Read company, Were reduced when Judge W. A. Riner of the District court susta:ned motions to strike from Yeager’s application for a restrain: ing order ail except two contentions Argum6nts on the remaining two contentions will be heard at a later date. Meanwhile no order has been issued and the city and contractor are at Mberty to proceed —_—— HARRY BRAMER TO MEET FONTANA, AT GHEYENNE CHEY YE, “Wyo, Feb. 14.— larry Bramer of Denver and Soldier ntana of ¢ L \tched fo. bout,: 10 10 feature 13, 1924, nths 4 months 4%. tag uaty 20. | nds, of a boxing card to be | the Elks here Febr POWERT FIRED BY GHIEF YOnE (Continued from Page One) and social life. The ruling of Judge Rose ordered the evidence suppress- ed and it cannot be used in the Prosecution of the cases, John Powert lost his job on the Police force because of a poorly timed social call at the establish. ment of John Sanders and W. A. Harper in the rear of 241 West B street Monday night. These men were later fined $100 each and sen- tenced to 30 days in jail for viola- tion of the lMquor ordinance, and Chief of Police Bert S. Yohe ad- mitted this morning that the dismis- sal of Powert had ben hastened by the fact that the office? had called at the house while the police were making a raid. , Chief Yohe and other members of the police force visited the establish ment at 9:30 o'clock Monday night. In additjon to arresting Sanders and Harper they also arrested George Myers, Casper attorney, G. M. Rose, and Ernest Schulk. Myers; Rose, and Schulk were dismissed when their case came up before Judge John A. Murray because there was no law to convict'a man for being found in a bootlegging establish. ment. The officers had made their ar- rests and had called for the patrol wagon when the back door opened and one of Casper’s budding at- torneys entered the place. He was followed by Powert. Both men turned on thelr heel and walked out when they discovered the status of affairs. When Officer Powert reported at Police headquarters the next morn- he found a check waiting for im. In discussing the case today Chief Yohe made no insinuation that Powert had been connected with the institution which he had visited, but his presence there except in a busi- ness way was considered more or jess criminating, PERMIT FOR PASSENGER BUS OPERATION BETWEEN TOWNS NOT YET ISSUED CHEYENNE, Wyo., Feb. 14. The Wyoming Public Service commis- sion, has taken under advisement the application of A. A. Spaugh for a permit to operate automobile passenger busses between Cheyenne and Casper, Casper and Yellowstone Park, Cheyenne and Fort Collins, Colo., and points on the Ch Casper route and Wyoming and Ne braska potnts east of this route. Protest against gaining the per- mit were lodged with the commis sion by the Colorado and Southern Union Pacific, Chicago, Burlington and-Quincy and Chicago and North- weetern ral'roads. The railroad spokesmen contended that such a passenger-carrying service was not needed, and challenged Spaugh's fi- nancial ability to provide the serv- ice, SOUT FETE 15 QUE TONIGHT he effort 1 tow making real men for the future from the boys of today in Casper, wil’ be exhibited tonight in the great Boy Scout Jamboree to be held at the Elks auditorium. Those All thet has been dl. who are conc with the welfare of the boys in this city ehould not fail to attend. The entertainment > db: ys them- 1 we { under event 0 o'clock. 18 We he—"L wl of