Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 27, 1924, Page 1

he Casp - ~~ +CASPER, WYO.,-SUNDAY, APRIL 27, 1924, ~ CE FIGHTS HEARING on OUSTER PETITION RESERVOIR IS |CRUELTY CASE HIT BY FLOOD /S CONTINUED CHEEK 1$ TORN OUT BY WATER Bridge Also Carried Out by Flood From Melting Snow: Swollen by the melting of mountain snows Bates Creek, a stream that has its source south of Casper and empties into the Platte river between here and Alcova, became an unleashed monster Thurs- day and tore out the Bates Creek bridge. The stream ndtmally span- ned by a bridge 40 feet in width was increased to three times that size. ‘The destruction of this bridge is but |. ‘wiother instance of havoc wrought by high waters this spring. Already the Schoonemaker, the Producers and Refiners, the Dry Creek, and the Tom Sun bridges which spanned the Sweetwater river had been torn out and the bridge at Independence rock partly taken awa The Bates. Creek reservoir oc- cupled about a section of land, and when full the water stood about 30 feet deep at the deepest point. It was built in 1901 by ‘a. stock pany composed. of practically all the ranchers on Bates creek. Practically all the hay meadows in the Bates Crek valley depended on trrigation from the,resevior. Sweetwater was the highest this year that it had been in half a cen- y. The Tom Sun residence which js on the banks of the stream was filled three feet deep with water. It the first .time that the Sun family had ever been forced to move because of the danger from a flood, and they haye lived in the same house there for more than 40 years. Together with this disappointing condition prospects for normal con- ditions in other parts of the state are brightening. The pile bridge across Wind River to replace the one torn out by high water was com- pleted Wednesday night, six daye ter the first pile had been driven. Traffic between Casper and Lander is consequently restored. The Mid- west bridge across Salt Creek was to be finished last night. For some time it has been necessary to detour above the point where Castle creek and Salt creek come’ together and to cross company bridges. Several small bridges are still out along the Rocky Mountain highway between Lander and Creek’s gap. Nine Mile Lake on the ‘Salt Creek highway was somewhat higher yes- terday and stands about four feet deep on the pavement. A barricade has been placed at each end of the water so that drivers will not run into it. BOILER BLAST \ INJURES FOUR WHITTIER, Calif, April 26.— Four off workers were possibly fat- ally scalded, two others were pain- fully burned while at least six more were slichtly injured when a boiler exploded this afternoon on a Stand- ard oll ley Suicide Superintendent of State Training School for mental defectives at Lan- der who bears an excellent, reputa- tion and whose conduct -has- not been challenged in action instituted against an attendant at the school for alleged brutal treatment of four| via, written by the matron, In them,’ boys, Weather Forecast pret HS . WYOMING—Generally fair Sun: day and Monday; rising temperature. MISSOURI—Partly cloudy Sun: day; cooler in extreme east portion; Monday fair with rising tempera- ture... id Daughter The: re Two Years. Lander state training school tended and sympathetically dealt with at the Lander institution, ac- cording to her mother and. father who were seen at their home last evening by a Tribune representative. Last summer the girl was here With her parents for three months. Though incapable of reading or writ- ing, she appears to be normal in every--other “respect, having the ready use of her tongue and, speech. No mention was made by her of mis- treatment of herself or other in- mates, the Wiloths declare. Had any intimation of cruelty to the. children who are to be pitied and who are confined at Lander, come to them, they surely would have sought to re- lease their own daughter from the place, ; Letters come frequently from Sy!- of course, there can be,no mention of any severity, in conducting the school or disciplining the children. Mrs. Wiloth hi Jones, ‘ tailew . though, she visited the institution. Nelther was she invited to look. beyond.the. par- ticular’ place in which her daughter ordinarily stayed. She has never had the opportunity of) explaining first hand the eceentricities of CITIZENS TO GATHER HERE IN MEETING Call Issued by Committee Headed by J. E. Frisby for Mass Meeting At Arkeon Monday Night Call for a mass meeting of Casper citizens to be held at the Arkeon theater at 7 issued last evening by J. E. mittee of interested citizens. o’clock tomorrow night was Frisby, chairman of a com- The purpose of the gather- ing is set forth in the following official call: “A meeting of the citizens of Casper is called for the Arkeon Academy Monday evening, April 28th, at the hour of 7 o'clock. The name of our city has been mall- gned under the guise of so-called business, therefore an appeal is made to all citizens to turn out and by their presence show’ that they resent this slander against the fair name and standing of our com- munity from such source. The speeches will be optimistic and con- structive. The lady who was denied the right to defend the lddies of Cas- per wili be given an opportunity to make the speech which she attempt- Ends Love Tragedy “Little Bohemia” Mourns Favorite Who Shot One to Death and Took Her Own Life in Detroit Hotel BY JAMES T. KOLBERT (United Press ,_ CHICAGO, April 26,—I dead tonight. Staff Correspondent) sittle Bohemi& mourned its Lights were dimmed in the bizarre, colorful studios, while sombre groups of artists whispered of the.tragic ter- mination of the love affair o: f Wanda Stopa. All that is mortal of the youthful, pretty, brilliant but excessively emotional girl slayer, is homeward bound from Detrolt—in a coffin. For y some three years. Wanda Disyed @ leading part in the affairs of the colony. She was much Pought after, for aside from her exotic beauty, Wanda had intellect. At the age of 20 she was a full- fledged member of the Illinois bar. At the age of 21 she was an assist- ant district attorney of Chicago. (Continued on. Page Two) ed to deliver at the “free-speech con- vention” Friday evening. “The recent financial map of the country shows Casper to be the only white spot in the Reacky Mountain region, and let's keep ‘it white. The meeting from the opening to the closing will be a boosters’ gathering. Leave your hammers at home, There is nothing wrong with Cas- per. She is just casting off some of the weights which have been a burden, and the operation {ts slight. ly painful to some. Come with a smile and chate away your gloom by hearing Casper boosters tell of her future. Come early and be sure that you get inside the hall. “J. BE, FRISBY, chairman,” Woman, 82, Is Buried With Old Gift Doll DENVER, Coyo.,, April 26,— When Mrs, Matilda Needles, was buried here today, there was placed in her coffin ‘a’ doll given to hee on her fifth birthday.» It was the aged woman's dying re- quest that her chiidhood plaything be bur 4 with her. = a Ss Former Cabinet Officer Dead TOKIO, April 26.—Baron Ijuin, former minister in the cabinet of never met Dr, Ci sof the PARENTS OF GIRL IN SCHOOL AT LANDER HEAR NO UGLY RUMORS Mr. and Mrs. Lee Wiloth Ignorant of All Reports Regarding Mistreatment of Pupils With Has 16-year-old Sylvia Wiloth been mistreated at the for mental defectives where she has been an inmate for more than two years? If she has her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leo Wiloth of 1235 South Jackson street, have not heard about it. Seemingly she has been very well cared for, well at- 3: as the mother, would probably be best and a matter which to the outsider would seem of vital and necessary importance to Dr. Jones if he were to be active in Ivia—peculiarities which she, qualified to explain, dicating the defection. ports-of wilippings at have created, the (Continued on Page Two) Burth resounds to the th the good olil reliable second field: ened “ Skyline leaps story after, for a bright outlook. homes everywhere. down that. lists and population grow. Refineries tax themselves shift after shift, full blast—all of refined oils up to swelling Dust blots the eastern ho tourists begins the summer pil headed toward Casper. And so on—indefinitely ax " Who's got 2 kick coming? Casper today is like the ol D don’t ky, spel), waiting for the “darn” w out for. good, roads to get duts, here. That’s what. we are here 100,000 population. nity and prosperity in Casper With all the stir that recent. re- school the Wiloths are na- turally disturbed and somewhat an- GIVE CASPER A CHANCE Drag down the clouds—you can’t kid Casper any longer. Banks bulge with mazuma. ness block, those store buildings pushing up into the ozone City spreads with homes here, homes there—tiomes, liomes, Streets dash by with pavement galloping up tiis Families are on. the increase. Schools sie growing wings, L’s and M’s—are springing up right and Jeit, and still the birth We've had so much money, prosperity and good times that we ww what to do while edging in on a snappy breathing work, work and the greased lightning return on investments Like the gawky kid in high-water pants, Casper can’t keep up with itself. But what's that to’ be downhearted about? stretch, climb, leap and travel toward a 50,000, 60,000 and Getting your share of the generous offering of opportu- old grub call, “Come and get it!” Alleged Floggings of State Training School Inmates To Be ‘Aired Friday; Head of School in High Regard _ LANDER, Wyo., April 26.—Contiruance of the pre- liminary hearing involving Dain Frazier charged with hav- ing severely beaten. four boy inmates with a rubber hose while he was an attendant at the home for mental defec- tives here, was granted yesterday, date for resumption of the case being next Friday. John Dillon was appointed attorney for the defendant. notable success of its kind in the country, “I consider Dr, Jones a very con- sclentious and a very capable man,” said Superintencent Slade _yester- day when talking to a representa- tive of the Tribune. That one or several of the attend- ants who are not permanently at- tached té the training school, may have been guilty of cruelty toward the inmates without the fact being known to Dr. Jones, is a probabil- ity advanced by Mr. Slede and UTS AND LAWYERS” If responsibility for conditions of brutality alleged to have existed in the state training school for men- tal defectives at Lander is found to fall gn Dr. C. T. Jones, superin- tendent of the institution, then A. A, Slade, superintendent of schools here, will be mightily surprised. Five years ago when an opening occure@ at the training school Mr. Slade was among those at Cheyenne who considered thoroughly and passed on the credentials of Dr. Jones. Before coming to this_state to as chargé of the school at Lan. der, Dr. Jones headed the institu- tion for retention and study of the feeble minded at Pineland, N. J.— an asylum considered to be the one “COURTS AND WILL BE DISCUSSED BEFORE NEXT FORUM The chamber of commerze forum meeting scheduled for Tuesday noon at the Henning hotet will be ad- dressed by Judge William A. Riner of Cheyenne. The subject chosen by the distiaguished jurist for his address ‘s “Courts and Lawyers.” Judge iner is one of the pjoneer lawyers of Wyoming and has.a host ci friends in Casper. He will also adé@ress the Natroua County Bar association Tuesday evening, his address before the forum having been secured through the courtesy and co-operation of the County Bar association. CHILD ea steel pounding away for Went Sees wes » Salt Creek story with this hotel;’that busi- one and to capacity, run day and night, in che great race to keep supply demand, rizon’as a mighty calvacade of grimmpge westward to paradise, IN THE Ccnstitutional ‘Am by Great Majorit nd ad infinitum. 1 woman who lived in the shoe. eather to evaporate, sun to slide y, and the grand crash of work, WASHINGTON, April 2 and resourceful parliamenta the proposed child labor con through the house today by a Scores of attempts to limi tions and restrictions were re. s |adopted, the amendment em. powers congress to limit, regulate or forbid the labor of persons under for—to grow, expand, extend, is a lot like answering the good Many LEAVENWORTH, Kans., April 26.—Clemency was extended tonight by federal officials to many inmates of the feeral penitentiary convicted of various crimes while serving in the army during the world war. Sentences were commuted for some oft the men and others were pardoned and paroled. Senterices fo? several negro sol diers were reduced from 30 to 15 years. Hight prisoners involved in the murder of another inmate of tho prison and who were sentenced to death but later reprieved by Prosi dent Harding, were among those to whom clemency was granted The was taken by federal authorities after a military commis sion visited the prisom and reviewed ew of the “lost- legion’—former service men serving sentences for war time offenses, after all ‘politi cal’; prisoners, spies, draft evaders and. conscientious objectors had been released. Names of those’ effected by the commission's decisions will be made action premier Takahashi, whose govern: ment preceeded that of the present premier. Kloura, dieg,here today, were passed on, he said, public Sunday, Warden Biddle said One hundred and eighty nine cases Former Service Men Win Pardons 18 years of age. It now goes to the senate. An amendment by Representative MacLafferty, California, to reduce the age limit to 16 years, was passed in committee of the whole but was rejected on a roll call in the house Other amendments to exempt the children of farmers, to exempt labor of children in the house or on the farms of their parent, and to provide for ratification by conven tions instead of state legislatures, were rejected. he resolution will become the 20th amendment if passed by the senate and adopted by three fourths of the state Seven former soldiers were granted] A__ protr: and determined de full pardons. Among them was|fenso of the principle of states’ one overseas veteran. Clemency patti bts ne a fou aerial was refused 74 and: 115 received| Pabtekentative Foster, Ohio, au commutations. thor of the resolution, led the de In a long > Sentences of 28 prisoners serving life terms were mmuted to thirty years, twenty to 20 years, seven to 25 years, one to 24 years, one to years and’ three months, three to 23 years, two to 22 years and thr months, three to rs and six months, and two to 15 years. Warden Biddle said the men in- te in its support NEWSIES ENJOY TREAT IN FREE SHOWING OF Millard Bowers, William Cook, Dor 1 Fisher, Alexander Kah ae ccoq, William Peter and So r zy W, deruc. ‘Their home addresses} The newsboys of Casper pack 1 were not available, Biddle sald. the Wyoming theater Saturday Tho men were sentenced to h morning to view “The Hune joann for slaying Sholby Hisle in the fed-]of Notre Dame" which was a treat 1 disciplinary barracks in July,{arranged by tho Tribune in cé 1919. Hisle, Biddle was re-|operation with the management of garded by the other prisoners as a|the show house and the Univers al “stool pigeon.” He was gag Film tion The plotur und beaten to death. proved an appealing one to ‘The eight were found guilty by| the . youthful audience. and scorec court martial and sentenced to hang. MAIN NEWS SECTION. NEW HOTEL NAMED THE GLADSTONE Out of 4,200 possible names sub- mitted by persons in Casper and “throughout the United States that of “Gladstone” was chosen last week as the name by which Smith and Turner's hotel which is now building at First and Center streets shall be known. Miss Mar- gacet Spiller, 340 South Washing- ton street, suggested the name and she will receive the $50 to be given as a prize. Twelve judges were employed to decide upon the winner, The contest was one of more than ordinar: interest. It was conducted by exclusiy2 publicity in the Tribune. That names were received from New York, Wash- ington, California, and other parts of the country {s significant of the widespread circulation of the news of the contest. Most of the sug: gestions coming from the state of Washington included the name of ‘eapot,” proof that Casper's re- fon to this dome is not un- known. ‘The state of Illinois was Well represented. There were be- tween 3,000 and 4,000 contestants. ‘The number of names to be sub- mitted by a contestant was un- he contest began March at closed last week. “Gladstone’’ submitted only by Miss Spiller but there were many names ending in “stcne.”* Whitestone, Blackstone, Gray- stone, Yellowstone, and others were receive: ‘Tho judges ac; cepted the name of Gladstone be- cause of ite cheering significance. After it_had been seriously ‘con- sider.d the judges went to the reread station and a man was employed to call out the names of various hotels including that of Gladstone. Always that name seemed to resound above tho rest, no small item in itself. The owners of the new hotel received a wire yesterday from the Anirews hotel in Minneapolis complimenting them upon the selection. The managernent of the Andrews had heard of it throngh one “of the judges ‘who was # Minneapolis man and had just re- turned there after spending some time in Casper. The Gladstone hotel will opened to ‘the public about middle of June if nothing o be the urs LABOR FOES WIN OUT HOUSE endment ‘Approved y and Measure Is Sent to the Senate 6.—Overcoming a sustained ry oppositien, supporters of stitutional amendment put it a vote of 297 to 69. it its scope by various exemp- jected by backers of the bill. pared sy h, he declared child labor had been scientifically proved to be @ vicious social evil. Representative Berger, Wisconsin, only Socialist member in congress, took the lead in proclaiming the virtue of amending the constitution “We need a new one—inatead of just occasional amendments,” de- clared Berger. “What's the con stitution? A document written by a few men in knee pants over a hundred years ago.” Sunday Trituwe NUMBER 40. WAIT FILED 1 BLOCK PUBL JEQUION DUE 0 TUESDAY NIGH Argument on Applica- tion for Permanent Wnit Set for Monday By Judge Rose. In an effort to prevent a public hearings on petitions requesting the removal of Councilman Walter W. Royce by the city ccuncil, attorneys for Royce at 5 o'clock yesterfay afternoon filet with the district court a writ of prohibition asking that Judge Robt. R. Rose prohibit the mayor and council “from calling up, voting upon, or considering’ the petition of the citizens “and prohibit them from interfering in any way with your petitioner (Royce) as such counciiIman until the further order of this court.” The attorneys for Royce also ask that a day be set at which time each of the defendants must answer and show cause why @ permanent writ of proh:bition should not be tssued. Judge Rose set the time for the hearing to be at 1:30 o'clock Mon- day afternoon. The counc!! met last night in the office of City Attorney « Ambrose Hemingway. It was the concensus of opinion. that the wording of Royee’s petition to the district court made several charges that were not accurate in that it alleged the coun- cil to have passed a “resolution” asking for Royce’s removal. What the council did was merely to accept and file a resolution presented by citizens. It took r action on that particular phase except that a motion was passed to hold a pub- He hearing on the petition and res- olution presented by the citizens and give Royce or his attorneys the op- portunity to voice his side of the question. “The right of petition 1s one of the primary rights of citizenship, said Attorney Hemingway last night in commenting upon the step which had been taken He re marked that a request for a writ of prohibition was an extreme measure and rarely used except in case of emergency. The council had set Tuesday even- ing as the date for the hearing on the petition it had recetyed calling for ouster proceedings. * The city Attorney was at that time also to deliver an opinion on the power of the council to get Royce out of of- flee. Royce and his attorneys state in thelr petition to the court that they fear the counci! will carry ou such proceedings at this Tuesday night meeting. It was for that reason that the request has been rushed The attorneys state that Royce ts at the present time qualified to act councilman and in thefr pet tion thy “t the council to be reque called forth to v er h writ should not be issu ee) uining them and each of them Individually and in thelr official capacity from entering, voting upon, or passing any resolution with the end in view of the removal of your petitioner as councilman of such city and pro- hibiting each of them from inter. fering in any way with such councll- man,” Councilman Royees ts represented by Attorneys EB. EB. Enterline and Frank Perkins Income (U; WASHINGTON, hitherto April seemed probable tonight. kept inviolably secret thrown open to public inspection if amendments offered to the income tax bill in the senate today a Taxes May Be Public By PAUL MALLON sal ited Press Staff Correspondent.) returns, will be tax law 26.—Income under the passed, as The amendments, offered from the. Democrat side by Senators Dill of Washington, and ugh’ when - they * are debated | McKellar of Tennessee, gained fay ‘ Othe ¢ . is mor re 4 r Mt 1 J " write t r r he bill.o the ¢ tion of ad The tax moeast t only a frag ministration leaders ment of the senate'’s time today, The movement Was started in the | pheing crowded aside by the naval belief that full publicity for all re) appropriation bill and the Daugh- turns, both corporation and indl-| erty contempt resolution. A large | vidual, Would lead to greater care| number of committee amendments |in making out the returns, mifmize | ynobjection to both sides, were, evasions and probably produce an| however, approved, clearing the way increase in tax revenues for consideration of the more im- ‘This argument may play a promi-| portant features of the bill beg’ another of a long‘erles of triumphs. nent part in putting the provisions! ning Monday, ‘ ——_