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

A Newspaper das02) @r20); MARCH 11, 1924 LIDGE WANTS IMMED | 94 ENTOMBED MINERS BODIES DUG OU AEST SHOULD |Brennan May |SNGRIN |New Paving Is BE EXCAIATED| Be Arrested; | CHEENNEIN Decided on At BY MIDNIGHT) Fee Shortage! TEPOITSIN|\Council Meet Last of Bodies Found Mammoth Co. Head Henry F, Brennan, justice of the fice January 1, 1923, or in 14 months peace, owes the county of Natrona At its special meeting last night and Second was accepted and it was @ total of $4,011.15 has been grant- the city council declared its intention] decided to meet March 19 to dis. < i; Just $5,169." and if he fails to pay|ed him by the county to cover his Pi of creating a paving and sewer dis-| cuss the matter further. At that Were Horrbly Muti- up by tomorrow criminal action will] salaries and expense. In addition With Lawyers; Hope trict consisting of 14 blocks along McKinley street, looked favorably upon the extension of street lights in North Casper, granted the con- tract for the concrete work in the Proposed pumping station, accept- ed a report on traffic signals for the down town district as urged in the columns of the Tribune, discucsed further the possibility of erecting 2 new fire station in the eastern part of the city, and took up other mat- tera of importance. The American Legion was given permission to run the indoor circus now holding forth at the Arkeon until 1a, m, The request had been that it be allowed to run until 1:30 a. m. A petition from parties objecting to the erection of a filling station at Durbin street between Midwest 50 YEAR OLD MAN OFFERS TO SUBSTITUTE IN DEATH CHAIR time Jeremiah Mahoney will present the slide of the Aero Oll products company in the matter. The paving and sewer district which is to be created on McKinley will He between Fifth and Nineteenth streets. J. E. Crum was awarded the con- tract for the base of the pumping station. Mr. Crum's bid was $1,057 Other bidders were Garlson and Schultz, $1104; and C. E. Birdsell, $1507.50, A petition for street lights between “H” and “K” streets east to Craig was referred t the building and lights committee. It is thought that a favorable report will be re- ceived in the matter. The lighting district will cover about 20 blocks which are at present ‘entirely with- out lighting facilities. The fire committee suggested that funds with which to erect a fire sta- tion in East Casper be raised by a mortgage on the property. The station with equipment would cost about $20,000 it has been estimated. The first definite step toward the placing of traffic signals at four busy corners as suggested by the be brought against him on the charge of embezzlement, acbording to State Bank Examiner Byron 8. Hiule, who today held conference with E. H. Foster, ‘prosecuting a‘ torney. It is alleged that Brennan has fail€a to comply with state statutes which require that all fees on civil suits and criminal action costs in his court shall be paid into the county treasurer at the first of each month. For the past three weeks Assistant Examiner LeRoy Joyce has audited the books kept by Brennan. The re- sults of this audit show that fines recorded up to March 1, amount to $13,298.95; fines not recorded total $41 civil sult fees recorded §$2,- costs recorded $1,- 25; criminal costs not recorded $821.75. These amounts come to $18,840.22. The county treasurer has accounted for $13,670.45, which leaves Brennan owing the county $5,169.77. It is provided in the statutes, ac- cording to Mr. Hule, that justices of the peace.in districts of more than 1,500 population are to receive to this it to be considered the $5,. 169.77 shown as a shortage. These two amounts come to $9,19.92, show- ing the office it is declared, to be a lucrative one. In fact, Assistant Examiner Joyce is of the opinion that it is better to hold a job like Brennan's than to be governor of Wyoming. Sudge Brennan maintains that he is the victim of @ frame-up and de- clares that he will ght the matter to @ finish, and will promise the public a series of exposures if the charge against him {s pushed into the courts. The name of Brennan's clerk, Guy Morgan, son of Dr. G. T. Morgan, county commissioner, has also been involved in the findings of the bank examiner. It is said by Mr. Hule that young Morgan has within the Past three months received $200.20 in fees which rightfully belonged to the county or to’ the regularly elected constable, R. McDermott. A chance will be given to Judge Brennan to refund the large amount he has kept, but he must do so by tomorrow, it is stated. ‘The ju lated by Explosion. To Stop Injunction. BULLETIN. CASTLE GATE, Utah, March 11. four Were recovered CHEYENNE, Wyo. March 11.—Harry F. Sinclair, to whom the lease on the Tea- pot Dome naval reserve now held by the Mammoth Oil company originally was granted by Albert B. Fall, then sec- retary of the interior department, arrived in Cheyenne at 2:10 o%clock Tuesday afternoon, prepared to fight the impending suit by the fea- eral government for annulment of the lease on the ground that it wag obtained through fraud. He was (Continued on. Page Seven) CASTLE GATE, Utah, March 11.—Castle Gate Mine number 2, gave up its dead in ever increasing numbers as rescue crews pushed their way into the inner recesses of the huge mine during the night. drink ateaming hot ‘coffee dispatched into the mine by helpers, four rescue crews from the Columbia, Kenit- worth, Sunnyside and Hiawatha mines recovered 16 bodies during their four hour shift beginning at ? fests eae am we} te er ssoomerat a d Tribune was taken when J. M. over bond ,600 which may Lowndes, chairman of the police 2, o'clock this morning. Of ths 173 fees, criminal costs and fines. In seized and applied against deficit PAYING HIS WAY TFOCAPITAL ‘chal Yniners entombed in the mine] districts of less than 1,500 popula- i ved z committee, presented the report of committee. The corners are Second and Center, Second and Wolcott, Midwest and Center, and Midwest and Wolcott. The signals will be regulated so that they will change every 30 seconds according to the pla: A representative of ths Tribune will meet with the streets and alleys committee Wednesday. A public hearing of the water sup- ply question will be held at the city hall this evening at which time the Midwest engineers, the council, the water commissioner, and N. A. Veatch of the firm of Black and Veatch Avill be present to let the public know just what {s proposed. The report of the finance commit- tee was accepted last night and a bill of Black and Veatch for consult- ing serviced on the water supply problem was authorized to be paid. Paving was requested by property owners of Block 118 in the Sheridan Heights addition. The matter was referred to the city engineer and at- torney afd to proper committees. SENATE BUSY AGAIN TODAY ON OIL PROBE McLean’s Agent Ex- amined on_ Visit to Fall in December. WASHINGTON, March 11—Under Pressure of a hard hitting cross ex- amination, John F. Major, confiden- tion man to Edward B. McLean, explained to the oll committee today some of the mysteries of the Mc- Lean. telegrams, One of these referred to without name in the messages, he said was C. Bascom Slemp, with whom he d« clared he had returned trom Florida and upon whom he had called sever- al times since at Mr. Slemp’s invita- tion. He insisted the calls were “purely social.”* The code word “Eyed,” the w ness explained as referring to E. S Rochester, attached to the office of Attorney General Dougherty. He said Rochester on one occasion had asked him to come to the department and had indicated that “something” might be expected soon, but he was too hazy as to details. “The mysterious “Willis” referred to repeatedly in the telegrams as looking after McLean's interes‘s, finally was {dentifiel by Ma/‘or as Wilton J. Lambert, the publisher's attorney. Colonel Robert W. Stewart, chair- man of the board of directors of the Standard O!ll Company of Indi. whose name was mentioned today by members of the senate publis shonld he fall to raise the total sum In case Brennan does not reimburse the county the only course remain- ing is to institute -criminal proceed- ings on the charge of embezzlement; ecconting: to the requirements of the w. No attempt has been made at any time by Judge Brennan to conceal the fact that he has kept) the civil sult fees’ and the criminal action costs. He declares that he is fully entitled to them, citing that all other justices in this county now and always have recetyed these money: (Continued on Page Séven) by three terrific explosions early last Saturday morning but 95 ‘re mained to be removed. If the rescue work continues throughout today with the display of speed. as that shown during the night, com- pany are confident that the last body will be removed by mid- night. Penetrating to the farthermost recesses of the mine, approximately 7,000 feet from the escape way the éntrance by which the bodies are being removed, the rescue crews during the night encountered their most disheartening experience of the hunt so far. Eight of the 161 bodies taken from the mine during the night were so badily muti- lated by the force of the blasts that they were unrecognizable. The last four bodies brought to the sur- face by the night rescue crews were Usted at the mine identification bureau and at the downtown morgue as “unidentified.” Sixteen bodies now are classed in this man- ner and the’ fear is expressed that as the rescue crews continue their operations throughout the mine to- day that this number will be greatly. increased. ‘Preparations were made by the gcompany construction forces during the night for the installation of horse drawn tram cars in’ the in- terior of the mine this morning to expedite the work of removal of the bodies. The work necessarily was slow throughout the greater part of the day yesterday due to the fact that many of the bodies were found from a mile to a mile and a yalf in the interior of the mine and M'were being removed by atretcher bearers. It, is believed by company officials that. with the installation of the tram) cars, the bodies can now be carried to the entrande of the mine, there “to be removed by stretcher crewif almost as rapidly as the crews can enter the mine. + All night long an augmented staff of undertakers worked in the tem- porary morgue established at the Knights of Pythias’ hall preparing the bodies for burial as rapidly as they were transported from the (Continued on Page Seven) ENFORCERS OF | BLUE LAWS TO STOP TRAINS would apply equally to the Centra Railroad of New Jersey, the Erie, the West Shore, the Lackawanna, the Lehigh Valley, the New York, On- tarfo and Western—all the lines that trave: northern New Jersey to reach a terminal in Manhattan, elth- er by ferry or tube. The law against Sunday trains is on the statute books and apparently 1s in good standing because amend- ments to this section of the code tion justices are awarded no salary but are permitted to retain fees ‘and court costs after turning over to the county treasurer all fines, Judge Brennan is allowed a salary of $60 a month ana clerk hire amounting to $150 a month. He also has been allowed office rent and in- cidental office expenema of other kinds. It is the contention of the bank examiner that if the law is fol- lowed out Judge Brennan is entitled to nothing in excess of these allow- ances by the county, Since Henry Brennan entered of- HARRISBURG, Pa., March 11. —Offering to go to the electric chair in place of Joseph Trinkle, convicted of murder, Walter J. Kirkwood, 50, of Philadelphia wrote to Governor Pinchot that | health, cannot hold down a real Trinkle should be given 10 to 15 | job, and did not see that he would years in‘prison as when he has | he of any more use on earth served his time he would be young whatever” his motive, he ex- enough to be of much use. The | plained, was to “startle humanity governor referred the odd request | to a keen realization” of what to the board of pardons which | capital punishment means. He informed Kirkwood that there is | offered to pay his own carfare to no law in this state to permit the | the place of execution. POWER CO. TO ERECT NEW 930,000. OFFICE BUILDING Cline Arrested Structure Will Be On Site of Present|Masonic Funeral For Second Time| Building—Pat Sullivan Re-elected as For John Grieve President of Directors substitution of an innocent volun- \teer ‘tp take the place of .a con- demned criminal., In making his request Kirk- ‘wood stated he was: “broken in Because he failed to appear at the fall term of the district court to which he had appealed a lquor charge filed against him by the city, Harold R. Cline was arrested at his home in the 1800 block on South Peoria street last night by the sher- iff's department and was again charged with liquor violation, this time with having a quantity of mash as well as liquor in his possession. When the officers visited the Place last night the mash was dis- covered so that Cline now has two counts against hi —— E. H. Hart of Kansas City is here for a short time-on business. ‘William Maurer of Jersey City, N. J., 1s attending to business affairs of importance here for several days. Impressive Masonic ceremonies marked the funeral of John Grieve yesterday afternoon. The services were held at the Masonic temple, a brief ceremony being observed at the grave. W. O; Wilson, master, A new $30,000 two-story brick office building to be erected on the site of the present one at Center street near the Northwestern right-of-way is planned by the Natrona | a. P. Wheeler senior warden, A. J Power company, it was announced today following the | Mokler, junior warden, and the Re annual meeting of the stockholders and board of directors. Chale (4p Wsia00;: chaplein, "oftt: The new board was elected at the meeting, Patrick Sulli- Pall bearers were Mark J. Davis, Yan, being re-elected to the position its present quarters and fs in need | s \<v Johnson, J. T. Scott, L. D. of president. 2. P. Bacon was re-yot added facilities... ‘Tho building Scott, George B, Nelson, Fred Place, elected vice-president and general] which is Proposed will take care of Chester Johnson and A. L. Spurlock. manager, W. L. Blersach treasurer,| present needs and of growth for} Mr. Grieve who is one of Wyo- and H. R. Waldo secretary. These} sbmetime to come. ming’s pioneer ranchers died in ae fe ea scrip uae Av atigekt The Natrona Power company now| Denver Friday following an opera- G. R. Hagens, HB, Darham Fra | MPloyes 100 persons in Casper. tion for appendicitis. Pegi ga ge ee Senate R eady For Probing Of Daugherty has spent more than a quarter of a WASHINGTON, March 11—Sen- million, dollars in improvements in Casper during the lust year. These ator Wheele-, Democrat, Montana in his role of “prosecutor,” plunged consist of a new steam plant and of extension of lines, The board visited the new plant and was well Pleased with it. The decision to construct a new office building ‘is in keeping with into final preparations: today for opening of the senate investigation of Attorney General Daugherty's administration. Knowledge that the various elig- bles have been sounded out as to the faith which the officials of the their willingness to accept appoint- company have in the future of Cas- per. The company has outgrown BY ROBERT T. SMALL (Copyright 1924, Casper Tribune) NEW YORK, March 11—Railroad officials of the lines centering here refused today to take seriously the thrtat of northern New Jersey au- thorities to enforce the blue laws against the running of trains on Sunday. If the letter of the law is lived up to the Pennsylvania rail- road would be prevented from run- ning more than one train a day into Denver Woman Seeks Husband Anyone knowing the whereabouts of John G. Brannin, who was until recently in Casper, is'asked to com- municate with Mrs. Brannin at 1166 Stout street, Denver, Colo, Mr. Brannin {is thought by of calm that overspread fhat phase of the situation immediately after his unerpected trip from Miami, Florida. Chairman Brookhart of the spec- fal investivating committee, {s plan- ning to open the inquiry Thursday with consideration of chatges in- volving the Cantu revolution in low- er California ‘in 1821. | The chatr- man and Senator Wheeler have re- his lands committee with those of others se hee: 20 w ; ve jork in the/ ment as attorney general has sus-| ceived many documents and are|said to have been in Three Iivers New City. Just} have been made as as 1920 with| wife to have gone to work 3 stekaiions stints trai’ wouta| no. attempt to. obliterate ‘the’ ayats| pall. Creek ea ent! tained the opinion of many admin-| holding numerous conferences with|N. M., in 1921, in a statement today, pkey ie om no one seems to| provisions of the act. The law it- ORT ig aS istration leaders that Mr. Daugh-| witnesses and others relating to the| declared that ho was not there in run to or i self dates back to 1798 when it seems (Continued on Page Hight) F. J. Mang ie a business visitor here from ch de this week, know. The same rule of one train = day erty’s retirement is imminent but Mexican and other matters listed they cannot explain the persistence that year and the only time he was for investization, thare was in 1922, for All the Family, Clean, Unbiased, and a Booster for City, County and State sper Daily Crime TOURNAMENT RESULTS LARAMIE, Wyo., March 11—This morning’s play finished up four more games of the first series of the Wyoming State basketball tour- nament, with four more to play this n, which will be followed by the first two games of series two, and six more of the same to- night. Interest this morning cen- tered in the Rawlins-Greybull con- test which was a thriller from start to finish, Rawlins with its wonder. ful pre-tournament record was looked upon as an easy winner, but only nosed out a victory by three points In 2 15 to 12 score. The en- tire tournament so far is character- ized by unusually clean play and dis- play of finest sportsmanlike spirit. Drawings in second series with gumes in two classes alternating fol- low: Class A. Guernsey and Lander, Glenrock and Fort Laramie, Gillette and Cody, Kemmerer and Douglas, Thermopolis and Rock Springs, Car- penter and Cowley, Wheatland and Salt Creek, Powell’ and Sheridan, Basin and Chugwater. Class B— Lingle and Worland, Egbert and Hillsdale, Preps and Riverton, Pine Bluffs ang Sunrise, Mountainview and Greybull, Green River and Lar- amie, Lyman and Cheyenne, Hanna and Evanston, Burns and Rawlins. Monday's Games Powell 9—Cody 8 Worland 13—Egbert 3. Guernsey 28—Carpenter 12 Lingle 32—Hinsdale 10. Kemmerer 26—Landey 13 Laramie 18—Pine Bluffs 5. Sunrise 12-—Univ. Preps 8 Fort Laramle 12—Chugwater 8 Mountain View 26—Riverton 15 Rock Springs 21—Glenrock 19 Today's Games Douglas 18—Gillette 5 Thermopolis 17—Wheatland 8 Rawlins 15—Greybull 12 Evanston 28—Lyman 12. Cheyenne 30—Green River 12, FOUR DEATHS REPORTED IN HERE TODAY The infant daughter of Edgar Laton‘ died this morning at the home, 560 East K street. The funeral was held this afternoon from the Shaffer-Gay chapel. Albert J. Ross, 66 years of age, died at the home of his son, James A. Ross, 104 East F street, this morning. ‘The deceased was em- ployed for about six years here by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad, The body is now at the Shaffer- Gay chapel and will be shipped to Chillicoth, Ii, for burial. Mrs. Katherine Cronin, 80 years of age, and for some time a resident of Cheyenne, died here this morn- ing at the home of her daughter, Mrs. William Fisher, 704 South Ash street. The body will be shipped to Cheyenne for burial. It ts now at the Shaffer-Gay chapel, Lawrence Burke, three weeks’ old son of Mr. and Mrs. John Burke, died at the family home at 1143 North Washington street this morn- ing. The funeral will be held at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning at the Muck Funeral Home with Rev. Cc. G. Stout of the North Casper Christian church in charge, erage Newspaper Man’s Pardon Refused WASHINGT March 11.—An application for pardon of Edward A. Rumly, former editor of the New York Mail, convicted of violation of the espionage act, has been refused by President Coolidge. RADIO P VOTING marked the first 24 hours of the straw vote in light wine and beer issue Initiated by the Zenith-Edge- water Beach broadcasting station. Results thys far would seem to indi that those in favor of modifying the Volstead law are not in as great a minority as the drys seem to think. Final tabulation of the votes may prove the reverse. in the meantime, the significant President Says All Inter- ests in Country Would Be Greatly Benefited By Legislation. WASHINGTON, March 11.—President Coolidge to- day sent a special message to congress recommending a reduction of 25 per cent on income taxes for 1923 be authorized before March 15. The president believes that the importance of the reduction would justify the laying aside of all oth- er legislative business for its cot sideration. The text of the message follows? “It had been my earnest hope that a 25 per cent reduction in taxes to. be paid for the current year might be provided by law before the 13th of March current. : “Many people have been expect- ing that such would be the case and deferred thelr tax returns according. ly. It is a matter of such imminent importance that I have no hestitation In recommending that the welfare would be much advanced by tempo- rarily laying aside all other legis lation and enacting a resolution for this purpose, which ought-to be by unanimous consent. “The taxpayers, ethe business in- terests, agriculture, industry, fi- nance; in fact, all the elements that go to make up the economic welfare of the people of America would be greatly benefited by such action. “It would remove an element of uncertainty from the current finan- clal year at once, which would be @ strong stimulant to business with its resultant benefit to the wage earner and the agriculture of our country. It is impossible to see that any harm could accrue from this ac- tion, and there is every prospect of resulting benefits which would be very great. “It would be a positive step in the right direction, which is mors need- ed at this time to justify the cori- fidence of the people that the gov- ernment is intent solely on the pro- motion of the public welfare without regard to any collateral objects.” es Edhar cat COLD BLAST HITS SOUTH ATLANTA, Ga, March 11.—An icy blast today held the south in a tight grip with temperatures report- ¢d_below freezing in many sections. Extreme cold weather was report- ed in Virginia and the Carolinas and the freezing mark was registereg in Georgia as far south as the Flor- ida line. Low temperatures were reported in Alabama, Louisiana and Mississ- ippl. Tho thermometer at 7 o'clock re- corded 24 degrebs. North & South * Has New Office The North and South Rallroaa company has moved its offices from the Consolidated Royalty butlding to the new Cottman building. on West Second street. It occupies Sultes 217, 218, 219 and 220 in the new structur ROVES USE IN WET-DRY FICHT By J. P. YODER. phase of this, contest, aside from (Copyright, 1924, Casper Tribune.)|the question at, issues les in this CHICA! March 11.—An ava-| demonstration of the practicability lanche of votes flowing in from] 0f the radio as a means of public state in the union, from| referendum, And it is believed that Canada, Cuba and ships at sea|the future will seo a far wider use of the radio for similar purposes and along many lines. Poljticians, for example, will in- evitably be impressed by this method obtain prompt} precisely the pu s of the countr. Following a radio argument on the question of whether or not the existing prohibition ect should be So modified as to permit the sale of (Continued on Page Hight)