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

te eile DAVID. STREET STRUCTURE. TO COST $172,000 Larsen. & Jourgensen Low Bidders-on:' Two Buildings. Larsen & Jourgensen, local contractors, were suc- cessful in the awarding of bids yesterday afternoon by the county commissioners on the new county jail and of- fice structure on David street and the annex to the county hospital. The Jocal firm's bid of $172,800 on the David street buflding was the lowest: of the five, submitted, the highest be!ng $230,140. Larsen & Jourgensen also had the low bid ‘om the hospital add'tion with a bid of $36,960. hete <» © a:‘ne bids on this contract. r E. J. Kane w trded the plumb- ing and heatin; n'ract for «the hospital with a bd of $17,819, .' plumbing and heating work cluded‘in the bid on the David building. The David t structure, house the she: pe and” jail By provide a garage for county cars and additional office roow Reading Between Lincs in the Day's News of Caspe Fourteen years ago this month Thermopolis celebrated the‘ coming of the railroad. Hundreds of people Were there to help carry on the fes- tivities. Next| week this beautiful hot Springs resort in the Big Horn ba- sin will again be en fete, this time -}t0 commemorate the formal open- ing of the Wind River canyon high- way. If the jubilee fourteen “years, ago attracted great crowds then this’ coming week will see mu! tudes of Wyomingites in Thermop- olis, The breaking of an excellent bein through the granite walls cf @ canyon which had previously. been a barrier, means more ‘to a resort city in this age of motor cars| than the coming of another raifroad. | This is true for the very simple rea- son that the great summer treks back and forth across the continent are-made by auto, John A. Baker, Civil war veteran, has gone over the Great Divide. His distinctive achievement was his ad- herence to his principles. picture eine Robert hosen until the war was won. , And wtih his death the new city-county building.” In the-im- mediate future it wili relleve court- house congestion. The addition io the hospital is a brick structure, 't-7o! stories that will enlarge the accom- odations already there and prov! laundry for the institution. Scien es Raieonaee BAND CONCERT PROGRAM FOR THIS EVENING The program for the weekly band concert\to be given at the city park this evening at 8 o'clock, is announc- ed by Director Compton as follows: March—Stars and Stripes—Sousa. Overture — Princess of India— be King. March—In Honor Bound—Keifer. Intermezzo—Sinfonica —Mascagri. ‘ Selected—Teddy Trombone—Kei- fer. Fox Trot—Crooning—Gibson. Operatic Selection—Bohemian Girl +Balfe. March—Special —Keifer. : <a EX-SOLDIER AGGUSED OF THEFT OF RING CHEYENNE, Wyo., June Dell King, ex-soldier at Fort has been returned from Lusk, Wyo., in custody of a federal @eputy marshal, on a charge that he stole a diamond rifig from Ser- geant Armstrong of Dort Russell, King ia alleged to have traded the diamond for an automobile and to way, with none of those who fought parading each year as living remin- ders to stir the heart. in the way of an agreement ide 2li, about to enter the millennium. Never in its history have so few live (Continued on Page Seven) c. A. R. VETERAN CLAIMED HERE Death Summons John A. Baker, 87, One of Four Surviving Men In Casper Who Helped to Save Union y The oldest of Casper’s Civil war Sora § died here last night in the person of John A. Baker, 77 years of age, a member of the 133rd Illinois infantry. Mr. Baker-had been ill at the home of his son, Howard W. Baker, 928 South Oak street, for some time, death stealing upon him gradually and not unexpected, He passed away. at 8:30 o'clock. His’ last wish had been that he be given a military. funeral BIG SEIZURES and this will be accorded him at 10:30. p'clock Saturday morning from the ShafferGay chapel. Tbe Spanish War ‘Veterans, of which he Was made any honorary member NEW YORK, June 27,—Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel for the anti-saloon Teague, declared today federal prohibition agents have seiz- after he came to Casper, will have charge of the ceremonies. Burial ed 5,200 cases of Hquor, 300 barrels of beer’ and 3,500 gallons of beverage will be made in..the Highland alcohol in New York since the Demo- cemetery, Mr. Baker was born November 6, 1836 in McLean county Ky. He mar- ried Antojnette Vickers, October 13, 1867. From this union there were born nine children, six of whom are now living. They are Horace A, Baker, the eldest, La Junta, Colo.; Paul Baker, Durango, Colo.; David 21 have been touring in the car when| cratic national convention crowd be-| Bayer’ Chlcagh eas aid Lea arrested at Lusk. gan to arrive last Saturday. Baker, Casper; and Mrs. Pearl Burns, survives. ‘The deceased was always a Union sympathizer. When the Civil war broke out in 1861 hp was in™hbouls- lana. The Confederates drafted him into service a# a laborer and kept him at this work for two years at the end of which time he succeeded in. making his escape and entered the northern lines. © After te had convinced the army officials that he was not a Confederate spy but really desired to fight for the northern cause he was admitted to service and he fought valiantly un- til the end of the war. Out of that service the soldier car- Casper. The widow - also Giant. Beacons To Light Way For Nir Mail CHICAGO, June 27.—The 1,460 ; /460 mile stretch between |e fl +} fh Cleveland, Ohio, and Rock Springs, Wyo., will be | [24> meas which he kent until oe drenched with overlapping pools’ of light and beacons | session of the widow. The medal was made from a plece of brasa | nhon, which was brought to th colonies by Lord Cornwallis in 1776 to use in fighting the colonisis dur- ing the Revolutionary war. It was captured by Washington's army and was taken to Washington, D. C., when that city Was made the capital (Continued ¥ Poge Four) circling horizons which intercept’ one another, combining to produce a total of 5,279,000,000 candle power when the day and night air mail service starts on: regular schedule July 1. once. ‘The east and west wings will The night flying section has been| be utilized’ as summer wanes and @ivided into three units and that be-| days grow shorfer. tweeh Chicago and Cheyenne, méas-| In the central division main sta- uring 885 milles will be lighted at (Continued on Page Fourteen) wing Wyoming. 4 ‘MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS and Carl H. Pforzheimer. among the Democratic platform. builders. Edmond’ H, Moore, national com- mittecman) ffom Ohio, charged to- day that -the McAdoo forces were attempting to delay the report of the platform. committee in order, if possiblepto try to have their candi date nominated for the presidency before the adoption of a platform, Moore declared that if suc sful of nomination, McAdoo’ would then be in a’ strong: position to dictate the platform. The, Ohio ‘leader and his friends promised to wage a desperate battle on the floor of the convention today should an attempt be made co begin balloting before the adoption of the platform, . “McAdoo forces on the resolutions committee," said Moore, ‘appear to (Continued on Page Thirteen.) THREE BIG PICTURES IN ‘SCOOP’ The Tribune again scores a re- cord beat today im presenting three big pictures. One is that of the Wyoming delegation at the Demo- cratic convention at New York, an- other shows photograph of I tenant Maughan landing tis og record breaking flight across country, ahd the other pictures the great convention which fills the news columns, These pfletures represent only a small part of the WHITE SLATER CAUGHT HERE (3 SENTENCED Wyo., June - 27.— on trial on an in ing two courts of was convicted on art’ and CHEYEN Charles W dictment con! “white *slavery one count in Feder acquitted on the ot He was sen- tenced by Judge T, B. Kennedy to serve two years in the Leavenworth penitentiary, J. Dreher and P. Ziemens, charged with unlawfully distributing opium, pleaded guilty and were sentenced to five months in the Laramie county Jail. Charles Warren was arrested by the Casper police last winter on a charge of violating the Mann Act service Tribune readers enjoy, all | and on information recelved from having been delivered from the} Wisconsin, Hlsle VLeudtke, a 16 Atlantic and Pacific coasts in two | year-old girl, was taken and held as days time. a witness and it developed that War “Scoops” will also be found in today’s news columns, including contracts let by the county for two new structures involving over $222,000. ren had. brought the girl from Wis- eonsin, had- taken her to Denver, thence to Cheyenne and up to Cam per. He was sald to have a wife and several children in Wisconsin, Shop in the Sunday Tribune Reading the Sunday Tribune should save you conblie able money. The majority of the Casper merchants. advertise In the Sunday Tribune and they usually have money saving offers for ee customer who is ready to take adyantage of the opportu. nity. The advertising columns of the Sunday Tribune will con tain, something that will interest every nian woman and child in the city, Read these columns and save correspondingly All the news, local and national, will be covered in the usual excellent manner in the Sunday Tribune. In addition there will be a large number of featuré articles, the automobile secdiany the colored comics and features too numerous to men tion, Tf it's news you'll find it in the Tribune, Wide World Photo. delegation at their headquarters at the Hotel Pennsylvania, New York City. The tadies in the Hawley of Dougias (left), national committeewoman, and Mrs. P. J. Quealey, delegate. P. J. O'Connor, ‘left. Senator John B Kendrick is in the center and at his right Governor William B. Ross, 't and Dr. J. R. Hylton, Douglas, Democratic state chairman, is the tall man in rear. The pe oss The. Tribune is greater than any other Wyoming newspaper, . a = Baty Cribune Joseph C, “NEW YORK, June 27: hie: Ku- Klux Klan Bhd the league of nations remained today the only stumbling blocks On all other planks, including even-those dealing with prohibition, agriculture and transportation, the platform Wheatland-ts of the belief that it commiittee. of the Democratic national convention was in accord. -On the Klan and the league, however, the diver- gence of opinion had defied more than 20 hours of deliberation in sub-ccmmittee and many more hours of. argu- ment last night in the full-committee. .. . J — DEMO CONVENTIO BALL SCORES AMERICAN LEAGUE. At Chicago— R. H.E. St. Louis -....010 001 0**-—* * * Chicago -. ~001 401 3e*—* © & Batteries—Wingard and Severeld; Lyons and Crouse. At Cleveland— Detroit ~-. Cleveland — Batteries—Whitehall and Bassler; Shaute and L. Sewell. First Game. At Boston— New York R.H.E. 300 004 500—12 14 0 Boston 001 004 101— 712 1 Batteri hawkey, Jones and Schang; Murray, Fullerton, Fuhr and Workman. Second Game, At Boston— New York A Boston --. -003 000 2°*—* Batteries—Hoyt and Hofmann; Ross and Worknuin, O'Neill. At Philadelphia—W ashington- Philadelphia game postponed; rain. NATIONAL LEAGUE. At Pittsburgh— R.H. E. Chicago -.. 000 000 000—0 2 3 Pittsburgh —~..500 000 22*—9 17 0 Batteries—Jacobs, Blake, Milstead and Hartnett; Cooper and Gooch. First Game. At St. Louis— Cincinnati 302 000 000—5 11 2 St. Louis 2 Batteries—Luque and Hargrave; Sherdel, Dickerman and Gonzales. At New York—Boston-New York game postponed; rain. At Philadelphia — gaa ‘Phila- delphia ame posteomets sa! pos! SPINISH AND FOREIGN [ETE Ise ATTEN Hy Members of Casper camp, Spanish- American ‘War veterans, id Powder River post, Veterans of Féreign Wars, are requested to meet at the K. of P. hall at 9:30 o'clock Satur- day, morning to attend the funeral/of the late John A. Baker, G. A. PR, veteran, who will be laid,at rest with military honors. TOWNSITE PLAN FOUCHT BY TWO OiL COMPANIES Many Defendants Named In ‘Applica- tion for Injunction Filed In Feder- CHEYENNE, Wyo., June al Court Involving Oil Lands 27.—“John »Doe” and “Richard Roe” are among defendants named in an action for a restraining order filed in the United States court here by the fede ral government, in an effort to prevent settlement of townsites in the Salt Creek oil field on lands Te Production company. “John Doe" and “Richard. Roe” represent ull who have purchased or agreed to purchase lots in the townsites affected by the action. . Other de fendants, dition: to the: cor. porations einbefore named, are Michael F. Keiffer, Orpha M. Keif fer, Herbert Leaming, Harvard Burgess, Kathleen Kuntz and Alma controlled by the Kinney Coastal Oil company and the HAGAN WINS OPEN TITLE HOY LAK ong., June 27.—(By F. Hawley, the latter as county | rhe Associated Press}—Walter Hag- clerk of Natrona county, the Edger-| on, star American profeasional, won ton Public Utilities company and]tne British open golf championship the Casper National bank. hath today. 7 etheed Coantiewt” tha The: gover t complains that) title by a single stroke with an ag- the defendants have proceeded with| gregate of 301 for the 72 holes of plans for occupation of the lands| medal play against 302 made by for townsite purposes without au-| yt. Whitcombe, the British profes: thorization to make such use of the] sional performer. lard Th unty clerk Of Natrone | ——— county is named as a defendant cause she is the recorder of lots in the townsite, the bank because it is excrow agent for the defendants and the Edgerton company because It proposes to lay water supply lines to he townsites The Wyoming Public Service commission is drawn In a8 a ¢ defendant because the Edgerton authority for service, y applied to it to provide water MORE BONUS BLANKS AT GEO, VROMAN POST bonus for late war in the bas building on We ‘The blanks will be of blani men The post’ club rooms are of th man nd street asking for them as long as the sup: ‘ply lasts, at en to those taking him at his word. The effort to wean away n in earnest, and some head is being made, ‘Trades and bargains ooking to the accumulation of second’ choice Pu oft ‘Tribune Bide, Bo E. OPEN FIGHT IN CONVENTION ON LAN SaUE NOT TD GE AVOIDED So Say Leaders. After Failure in Committee To Reach Agreement On Platform Plank. BULLETIN. NEW YORK, June 27.—(By The Associated Press.\—An open fight in the Democratic national conve tion on the Ku Klux Klan iss o was forecast today by the platform builders after they had spent three more hours in an effort to come to an agreement on this subject and the declaration with. re; league of nations, MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, NEW . YORK, June 27.—The undercur- rents of feeling on the Klan question became so strong in the convention today that the McAdoo campaign managers took measures openly to disavow before the delegates any sympathy on the part of McAdoo for religious intolerance. As a result, a tedious succession of nominating and seconding speeches was broken into by @ demonstration by the McAdoo peo- ple in, an. aie to convince the re mat: ‘ath je conyention that the issue of igious liberty could not sueceasfully be raised against their candidat>. MADISON SQUARB gard to the “GARDEN, NEW YORK, June 27.—Pausing in the midst of the bitter conten- tions of its favorites of the hour, the Democratic na- tional convention united today in a ite colorful tribute to leadership of the past. While a band in a y plays ed. “Auld Lang Syn ates from every state stood on their chairs and cheered the name of James M. Cox of Ohio, the party's standard bearer in the disastrous battle of four years ago. fighting It was a personal tribute, unors ganized and unguided, conveying the democracy for the DRIVER INJURED Aa ENGINE HITS A Burlington switch eng pulls ing four freight cars crast big gravel truck driven t Creighton near the old brewery at 4 o'clock this afternoon and wrecked the truck completely, causing a sicull injury and other injuries to the er who ts now at the Casper Private hospital and in a crit condition, The surg attending him had not made a complete examination of tha ease at the time of going to presd and was unable to say whether any bones had been broken. ight Apparently © 1 did not see éhd approaching locomotive, blinded prot» ably by dust carried by the strong wind today and he yas on the tracks before the engineer able to stop, Creighton lives at North Linc street and is employed by the Reta Motor company which gravel pit negtheast of the cit is 47 years Pe age re Delegates Are Being Weaned from McAdoo By DAVID LAWRENCE. | (Copyright, 1924, The Casper Tribune.) MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, NEW YORK, June 27 Strategy is no sin, said Senator Pat Harrison in hia m-|keynote speech, and the managers for the fifteen or mora andidates aspiring to the presidential nomination, ara delegates from McAdoo haa ig consummated om pledaes Ot the “dark horses,” Newton Ik (Continued op Page Four) ee er