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

BUESTS ESCAPE AS DEL MONTE IS DESTROYED Katnalis Hostelry ’ California Left in Ashes. - DEL MONTE, Calif., Sept. 27.—The Hotel Del Monte, center of a playground known internationally to tourists and sportsmen for its beauty and golf links, was destroyed by fire of undetermined origin which started in » tower in the front of the building at 3:30 this morning. and continued to burn at daybreak: » The fire alarm sent 600 ‘guests gathered at the hotel scurrying from the building in scant belongings to gather outside and witness the. de- struction ‘of the main structure val- ued- at ‘approximately $1,000,000 by ‘aril S. Stanley, the manage Art treasures valued at were saved’ by townspeople. The Monterey and Pacific grove bi departments .conibined efforts to the ee and west ies of the r. $75,000 SanFrancisco this morning at . the request of the hotel management to take the 600 guests aboard and bring them to San Francisco for accom- modations. PRAIRIE CUTS CRUDE PRICES INDEPENDENCE, Kan., Sept. 2 The Prairie Oll and Gas company today. announced a cut in the price of crude oil purchased by it at wells in’ Kansas,’ Oklahoma and’ Northern Texas. ‘The new prices: 30 degree oll cut 10 cents to 75 cents. barrel; to degree cut 10 ‘cents to 90 cents ‘a. 33 to 35.9 degree (new erade) 4110; -degree ‘and above $1.26. j 2 eee HEWS BRIEFS CHICAGO, Sept. 27.—(By The As- sociated Press).—Governor Bryan of Nebraska, democratic vice presi- dential candidate, arrived in Chica- go today to discuss with party man- sérs at. demoeratic western head- quarters the outline of the campaign to be Waged next month and the ar- rangement‘of itineraries for the ua- tional candidates and campaign peakers. BOSTON, Sept. 27.—Thomas Tag- «art, former senator from Indiana was operated*on” for appenillcitis to- day. A statement by the attending surgeon said: “An abscess about the appendix was drained under local anaesthesia. Conattion govd.”” WASHINGTON, Sept. 27.—One of the largest university lbraries in the country will be constructed as an addition to, Catholic University here with the use of a $750,000 do- nation to the institution by John K. Mullen Memorial Library, will have @ capacity of one million books. WASHINGTON, Sept. ,27.— The Northern Pacific ratlway company today applied to the Interstate Com- merce Commission for authority to construct 15 miles of main line in Mason county, Washington, at a cop? of approximately $500,000. —$—$$——__—_— MAN WOUNDED 1N FIGHT REMOVED 10 CITY JAIL Andrew Vassilus, who has been {ined to the county hospital since dnesday. because of a_ knife cund in hig side received in a fight ith Andrew Marcos. Wednesday ufficiently recovered Friday so the eats, Le removed to the city vat 6 the two men wi be hela shortly. aap Mem bey | of Audit Bureau f Circulation * MAN IS ILLION DOLLAR HOTEL LOST IN FIRF@=== BEATEN AND ROBBED CN HIGHWAY HERE Harry Smith, 30.years old and a biolermaker by. trade, was severely beaten about the head, knocked un- conscious and rob! of $150 in cash shortly after’ o'clock Friday ev: ning on the Yellowstone highway ust west of Evansville. Smith's version of the affair is that he was riding in a Ford road- ster with an acquaintance and that the latter suddenly stopped the car at the side of the road and slugged him over the head with some kind of a blackjack or sap. The man who he ‘charged with the attack is a boilermaker with whom he had been working recently on a bridge construction job near Riverton. The day before yesterday the two men dnd drove to Casper in the second man’s car. When the attack occurred, accord- ing to Smith, they were just taking & pleasure ride. Smith's Injuries consisted of ‘sev- eral cuts on the top of his head, a lacerated ear and a lump the size of a ‘hen’s_egg on the side of ‘his head. Smith believes that after he was knocked unconscious that the other man placed him beside the road. HENVEA TA Bank Robbery Said to Have Been Averted Early Today. DENVER, Colo., Sept man. James Cass of the. Denver ~Patro}- police department was shot. and seriously wounded Shortly after 10 o'clock this morning by three armed men seated in an automobile in front of . the . American tonal bank at Seventeenth and Lawrence streets... Following the shooting, which was witnessed by dozens of pedestrians the men abandoned their car and escaped on foot. The men, according .to a police theory, were seated in their auto- mobile awaiting a favorable oppor- tunity to rob the bank. According to -persons who. wit- nessed the shooting Patrolman Cass approached the car in which the men were seated, apparently to-investi- gate“fhem. As he -aproached the car, witnesses heard one’ of the men in the car utter a command to th policeman to “stick up your hands. With this all three of the men are declared to have drawn revolvers and started firing. Cass endeavored to draw his gun but one of the bullets fired in the first volley by the three men struck him in the neck and he fell to the pavement. The men, :ccording, to pedestrians who witnessed the shoot- ng. continued to fire their revolvers as they emerged from their car and started to run toward Curtis street. Floyd Shaffer, athletic manager at Regis college, who was passing in hfs car witnessed the shooting, one of the bullets from the policeman's assailants’ guns striking the top of his car. The car in which the men were seated was double parked in front of the bank when the officer ap- proached and it is believed that he merely sought to caution them of their traffic violation. Some. time later he regained con- sciousness and walked into Evans- ville. Later he was taken to a local hospital for treatment. Sheriff's officers were this morn- ing searching for the man who at- tacked Smith but up to noon- had not succeeded in capturing him. a BILL HART IS INJURED LOS ANGELES, Calif., Sept. 27. —William 8. Hart, hard riding hero of_west films,“had one of his feet in a plaster cast today as a result of an accident ®n the Hart ranch, about 30 miles from here. Hart, in an atempt to help his dog up a steep declivity,.elipped and fell 20 feet onfo some rocks. Physicians pronounced it a aie fracture of the ankle. QUAKE FELT IN WALES SWANSEA, Wales, Sept. 27.—An earthquake shock was felt in the roofs” spread alarm aac the miners who thought an explosion pecurred. GLOBE FLIERS NEARING GOAL AR NORTHWEST SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., around the world Sept. filers Society CINCINNATI, O., Sept. tial home here last night. Perin, 50 year peared. Miss Nina Rawson, ously injured. LENINGRAD, Sept.. 27.—Spotted typhus has broken out in this storm Swept city, adding horrors to the flood. Over a hundred cases of the disease are being registered daily and. doctors anda nurses are over- whelmed in the work of caring for the patients. One of the most grewsome aspects of the flood was the havoc wrought in the cemeteries, where newly made graves were washed out by the aval, anche of water and bodies floated | in the streets. ‘The dangers* So cote Se amet thé authorities are taking stringent measures to check the spread of the disease. Although the population is_ still Theddore Wanerus, Democratic andidate for congressman, was the principal speaker atthe banquet Bugene, Ore, a few minutes after 9 a. today. Lieutenant Lowell H, Smith rose first, He was fol- lowed @ few seconds later’ by. Lieu- tenant, Leigh Wade and Lieutenant Erik Nelson successivel: held by the Jeffersonian club in the Henning hotel last night. Other speakers who dwelt at length on the political situation were Vincent Mul- vaney and W. W. Lacey. W. W. Sproul was chairman of the meet: ing. er Dai MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRES: CASPER, WYO., SATUR™4Y, SEPTEMBER wih Ny LET Se Was 1924. ER TO CROSS nationally known pork packer treets Woman Slain; 27.—Mrs. Francis D. Rawson, and prominent in society, w. daughter of the dead woman TYPHUS EPIDEMIC ADDING TO HORRORS OF RUSSIAN FLOODS sufering from the effects of last Tuesday's storm the city is gradual- ly returning to normal. Seventy four of 103 state factories haye resumed operations. The, museums of the city suffered greater losses than any other insti- tutions in the flood. A great part of the priceless collections of paint- ings, tapestry and antiquities of the museum Alexander “III, was destroy- ed, 250 cases: of art: objectsyhaving beon reito from the water while 5Q cases are; still soakin; irgeparably, damaged. : 1 * Tn the famed academy of sclences 59. salons were flooded, causing a struction of hundreds of thousands of doliars,worth, of property. JEFFERSONIAN CLUB ADDRESSED BYWANERUS AT BANQUET ERE Criticism of Republican platform and .eulogy of the Democrats came in for principal attention of the speakers. Musical numbers were furn/shed by Mrs. Madeline Treber, vocalist, Mrs. Margaret: Kurtz, violinist, and E. A. Flinn, pianist. ‘The next meeting of the Jefferson- jan club will be held October 8, Son-i Liew is Sought Refusal of Money Said to Be Back of Murder of Mrs. Francis|‘ D. Rawson, Widow of Nationally Known Pork Packer, In Palatial Home at Cincinnati widow of Warren Rawaori! as shot and killed in her pala- Police immediately started search for her son-in-law, Vinton old flour miller, who ran from the house after the shooting and disap- was shot twice but not seri- Her ter, Josephine escaped f from the home. Mrs. on and her daughters were sitti n the dining room talk ing when entered. Without an: anded money. Rawson refused, according to Nina, and Perin asserted he auld start a scandal. Miss Rawson said he accused her mother and ister of attempting to make his ‘a s'ave to a bunch of bum e det wife college students. Without another word, Miss Raw: son told the police, he fired a shot at her which lodged in her neck and then turned the gun on her mother who was shot in the chest. The third bullet he sent through Miss Raw. son's shoulder. Her sister Josephine meanwhile. had fled through the house and out of the back door. Pe- tin followed immediately and ran in the opposite direction. HMUTIES OF CITIZENSHIP STRESSED BY PASTOR The duty that goes with the privi- lege of the ballot will be the sub- which Dr. Chas. W. Ject around Wilson will build his sermon at the First Presbyterlan church tqmorrow evenin| The sermon like othe exhortations of dts kind will take up the apparent apathy of the pub- Uc toward elections as reflenied! b figures which shew that 50 per-cent. of the qualified pepe a cast ballots. While a small per cent may be excused for legitimate reasons the burden of proof the United states. “REVEREND’ STRUCK FROM NAME OF PASTOR SLAYER CLOCKS TO LOSE HOUR OVERNIGHT. CHICAGO, Sept, ans who lost an estimated 2,700,000 hours of sleep five months ago when clocks were turned an hour forward for daylight savings time have an opportunity to regain them tonight. At 2 o'clock to- morrow morning, clocks officially revert to standard time. savings’ time will terminate tomorrow morning at 2 o'clock, when the hands of clocks wil be turned back an hour’ | to conform with eastern standard time. York Title Lost by Lawrence M. Hight In Church Trial on Murder Charge; Mrs. Sweetin Breaks Fast CARBONDALE, Ills., Sept. 27.—Lawrence M. Hight, 27—Chicago-e}of Ina, no longer bears the prefix reverend, for he was acpees of his title by the “select number” of the South- +n Illinois conference of the Methodist Episcopal church in session here yesterday. He lost his title after a church trial on a charge of mur- der, preferred in connection-with the poisoning of his wife and of Wilford Sweetin, a member of his , Who became the victims of confessed plot between the for- mer minister and Mrs. Elsie Sweet- in, in order that the survivors might be married. LEM Footbal! Season Opens Here This Afternoon Football will brea} light here today fc this fall when the Creek high school tean meet at the local athletic field. The game will: start promptly at 2:30 o'c!ock. Coach Morgan announced ‘at ‘the conclusion of practice last night that he-would probably use every man on the, squad in today’s game and that so far he had not chosen any first team lineup. Casper will. be shy of its regulars including Shi- y and Van Doren, linemen who into the lime: the first tim errand Salt and Stanko who, are ineligible be cause of being down in their class. room work. The rest of the men are in good condition and ready for th: whistle. Little or nothing is known of the ability of the Salt Creek team which is breaking into competition with the bigger schools for the first time this season. Last year was the first season for the oil field boys at the gridiron game and they developed into a creditable organization -by thé e-out with “injurtes and Brittain| ond of the scason, Tho Casper players . have. spent practically all their time to date on fundamentals and have been given cnly a small number of p. and formations to be used tod The high school field has been re sanded this fall and while the-new covering will be a great adjunct in eliminating, a muddy and wet sv face it has slowed the fied up con- siderably. When ‘it has been rolled several more times and given time to’ get packed down {t should make the best field that the Casper team has ever had to work o for the improvement of the physical condition of Mrs. Elsie Sweetin, held in Jail here on @ charge of haying poisoned her husband, Wilford Sweetin, were considered ominous today due to ler abanddnment of a omplete fast last night, when she ate her first solid food since last Tuesday, A glass and one-half of milk was all the prisoner had taken since she had peen arrested. Joy permeated her mind today, for to- morrow she was to have with her three boys whose future has been her greatest cause of worry. GRID SEASON OPENS TODAY DENVER, ‘Colo., Sept. 27 4 football season will be official ushered in here today, when teams representing the Colorado School of Mines and Regis College will clash in the first’ game in the New Regis stadium at Foderal Boulevard and Fiftleth. Avenue. Both teams have new coaches thix year i to be dls. n unusual The 2 Showers Are Forecast for Coming Week WASHINGTON, Sept. 27—Weath- er outlook for the week beginning Monday: Northern Rocky Mountain and Plateau regions: Showers first half and again at end: moderate temper. atures at beginning of the week, fol lowed by. cool about the middle. Southern Roc Mountain and pia teau regions: normal warmer : ter half. Tunnel out middle and cool lat WASHINGTON, Sept. “baffling mystery of undre ound assageways discov Wednesday in ve residential section of ital, a neighborhood of and costly mansions, ed. Harrison D. Dyar, unassuming entomologist in the Smiths¢nian Institute, put an end to feverish speculations that can ga- mut from German sples to bootleg gers, con: ratora and what not, when he told a newspaper reporter he dug the passageways for recre- ation after office hours. “Digging tunne!s 1 of the labyrinth ered last an exclu the cap embassies been solv quiet and work Is is against the electorate and the pastor will outline regponsioilities that go with citizenship in a republic like 27. — The ly Tribune or_at News’ stan: ered. by Carrier 75 cents a Sonn WESTBURY, N. Y., Sept. 27.— The struggle for the American open 0 championship today on interna- uonal field between the Midwicks, of California,a tnedhmA shr cmfw of California, and the Wanderers, seatures a doubleheader in the Mon- Waterbury cup tournament in which the Hurricanes and Middle Neck Farm four also will cross ma! lets. DES MOINE The Drake University football squad which plays the University of Utah in an interesting game at Salt Luke City, on October 4, will leave Des Moines next Tuesday evening, it was announced today, Twenty-fve men. probably wll be taken on the trp. Coach Solem plans to reach Colorado Springs with his squad next Wednesday, where the Drake team will work out on the Broadmoor polo field. A practl will be held in ‘some western Colo- rado city on Thursday. On Friday the Bull Dogs will reach Salt Lake City, where they will Iimber up on the University of Utah field. Iowa, Sept. ARDMORE, Penn., Jones of Atlanta, was progresing steadily toward his first, national amateur golf title today. He was four up after playing 18 holes of his 36 hole match with George Von Elm of Los An MAN (3 FINED FOR STABBING Andrew Markos, a Greek, was fined $100 and ‘sentenced to -serve 30 days in the city jail ,yesterday. when he was arraigned before Judge John A. Murray cn « charge of hav- ing stabbed Andrew. Vasrelus,, an- other Greek. The pair: had got vet an altercation in a cafe on ‘Wet; First street, Wednesday and si had taken a butcher knife to Vas; selus, wounding him in the. side. Markos had also received a wound: n the leg. The argument arose over an alleged debt. A fino of $200 was assessed against Mary Chavez who was arrested on Thursday/ night on a charge of vio- ting the Hauor ordinance. Kai llams, and Hazel Milér were fine $10 each for drunkenness and Sept. 27—,Bob- ed | Bane Wilidms was fined $25 for cre- ating a, disturbance. were arrested All the women MAE AUET: West B street, JUDGE DENIES RELEASE HERE Judge V. J. ‘Tidball, sitting ts dis- trict court, yesterday afternoon de- nied a writ of habeas corpys demand- ing the release of Trixie Martin who 1s being held by Dr. R. J. Malott, city-county health officer, for treat- ment at the city clinfc. The woman has been held in quarantine at the city jail since her arrest September 24, last Wednesday. D. Malott, as a witnes in the case, testified that the woman had been an inmate of house of ill fame and that at the present time she is suf- foring from .venereal disease. Ambrose Hemingway, city -attor- ney, assisted by Kenneth McDonald, represented the city and BE. Paul Bacheller appeared for the Martin woman. DEAD IN RUSS WRECK ODESSA, Sept clated P: 27.—(By The Anso- )—Fifteen p killed, mortally injure serlouely hurt today when th cow to Odessa express train was railed by bandits’about 300 mil from Moscow, Gossip Is Cleared Up tery about it,” Mr. Dys a8 saying when } h told the story to of the imaginatly filling the loca! pre wheels of a mc through a crust vealed the tunnels, The scientist explained found cave digging a helpful form of exercise as well as an entertain- ment for his young fon. The pass #, of which he worked for rs, was quoted r reluctantly {tations which havo b ® ever since or truck earth sank and re that he a pe now nearly having been ue owned on : he sutd conetructed on prop. the rear of a hou were} ministration of Publication Offices Tribune Bldg., 216 BE. Second St. OCEAN SOON DATE FOR TRIP TOU. 9. OF Ble LINER SET FOR EARLY OCTOBER U. S. Navy Vessel to Be Stationed Over Atlantic for Crossing Of the ZR-3. F RIE DERICHSHAFEN, Sept. 26.—(By. The Asso- ciated Press)—The ZR-3 will start on its trans-Atlan- tic trip to Lakehurst, New Jersey, on October 5 or 6, provided that the Weather over the Atlantic 1s favorable at that time Dr. Hugo Eck: director, of the Zeppelin company, announced to- a Lieutenant Commander Garland Fulton, American naval officer who has been observing the construction of the Giant dirigible by the Zeppe- lin company for the United States navy, has advised Washington that the airship will start for America within seven or eight days. The American navy department it is stated, is sending three vessels to ‘take up stations at different points on the Atlantic: for the pur- pose of keeping Dr. Eckner advised of weather conditions. HARTFORD, Conn., Sept, 927. The American radio league, whicl. ig making plans to keep navy offi- clas dndthe public in contact with the dirigible Shenandoah on its flight-acrdss the Continent and re- turn, ‘was advised today that the airship would leave Lakehurst, N, J. on Oct. 3, for: Seattle by) way. of Fort Worth, Texas, and San Diego, California. KLAN-ITALIAN RIOT FEARED; POLICE WATCH STEUBENVILLE, Ohio, Sept. 27. — With disorders between klansmen and sons of Italy threatened at Follensbee, W. Va., across the Ohio river from this city, forty special police sworn in early today by Major Le A. Dillar and -twénty deputy sheriffs headed by Sheriff J. W. Stephens of Brooke county, West Virginia, are patrolling the streets of the mill town. SEARCH MADE FOR BODIES LARAMIE, Wyo., Sept. 27.—None of the bodies of the four men drown ed in Lake Hattie Sunday had been recovered up to early this morninix, nd* Indian. John Jeremy of Stil> water, Minn., is skeptical of the re- sults of his search. The cold weather at the lake interfered somewhat. He came to town yesterday’ afternoon and returned to the lake this morn- ing. The weather is fair today, with ttle wind, and some hope ts ex pretsed that the bodies may be found today. HILL HEIRS FILE SUIT NEW YORK, the nine surviving late James J. . Hill, northwest. “empire builder,” today filed suit against one of their brothers, Louls William Hill, for the return of prop erty which they claimed he obtained from their late mother, through “fraud and undue influence.” aes ot Naa a Administration Of Bonus Law Is Progressing chidren of the WASHINGTON spection he offivers cl administration of the act was on today's President Coolidge. Issuing the invitation, Adjutant General Robert C. Davis, in charge of the bonus wo! reported the ad. new law “was Progressing mc tisfactorily de —In- arged with soldier bonus program ‘for spite the handicap met at the gut-