Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 29, 1925, Page 1

The circulation of The Tribune is greater than any other Wyoming newspaper. Crilnine Weather Forecast Partly cloudy tonight and Friday, probably snow in northwest portion. j No decided change in temperature. i | ——————$———————— —— VOL. IX. NO. 95 ee Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation COUNTY | WARRANTS HERE IS SUSPENDED SCHOOL FUND AMENDMENT WINS APPROVAL UNDER THE CAPITOL DOME SENATE. PASSES AGT AFFECTING STATE INCOME One Third of Earnings From. School Land to Be Made Available. LARAMIE, Wyo., Jan. 29— Governor Nellie T. Ross, state of- ficers and members of the Wyo- ming legislature arrived in Lara- mie from Cheyenne this after- noon for inspection of the state university. The new university gymnasium this evening will be he scene of a gigantic program by the students in formal opening of the building. CHEYENNE, Wyo., Jan. 29.—Carrying out the man- date of the people as ex- pressed at the last general election in a referendum vote, the senate of the Wyo- ming state legislature late yester- day approved for passage File 16, a constitutional ' amendment -author- izing’ application of one-third of the income from state school lands to current expenses of the schools. Ef- forts to amend the act by reducing the percentage of funds falied. Here- tofore the income from school lands has all gone into the permanent fund, only the income being avall- able for current expenses. Bills providing that candidates for offices of county surveyor, county school superintendent and county at tggney shall possess qualifications rescribed by law for incumbents of such offices met with lively debate before being approved for passage. Attention was called in debate to .ses where persons elected to office could not comply with legal require ments, With the exception of those in the standing committees, the house yes: terday cleaned its files of all bills. Whether notice of delinquent tax sale should be published four times, as required by the present law or only twice as provided by House Rill 43, evoked protracted debate in the house of the Wyoming legisla- ture this morning. ‘The majority of the house eventually went on record as favoring the two publica- tion plan, this expression coming op « motion which prevailed that th* bill be recommended for pas The senate this morning began reading of the longest bill that has been brought in’ during the ses jon, Senate 27, which provides a ew banking code. There+are 62 ages of the bill. The senate had aded through 37 F when it ad urned until tomorrow The house suspended its rules to ass five measures. Among them * House 44 which provides that a rson voting in a school district bond election shall be a holder of real estate in the district. Bills brought in today include one creating the office of state. real estate commissioner and establish- ing a real estate commission, a measure defining rights and Ha- Iitles of persons using public high- ‘ays and providing for the regula- (Continued on Page Seven. ‘Che Casper Daily MEMBER GF ASSOCIATED PRESS CASPER, WYOMING, THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1925 ‘BROKE’: By COL. W. H. HUNTLEY CHEYENNE, Wyo., Jan. 28.—(Special to The Tribune) —tarly in the forenoon session of the house Representa- tives Brough and Fagan, special committee, reported the following resolutions which were unanimously adopted: “Memorial and resolution dedicated to the memory of Ichabod S. Bartlette of Cheyenne, Wyoming. “Whereas, the eighteenth session of the Wyoming state legislature has been informed of the death of L 8. Bartlett who died January 26th at Cheyenne at the age of 86, a veteran of the Civil war under General U. 8S. Grant and descendant of Joseph Bartlett and one of the signers of the Declaration ‘of Independence and a lieutenant under George Washington in the Revoluntionary army, comes from one of America’s oldest famil- les—coming to Wyoming in 1878, be- came prominent in Wyoming public and industrial affairs until his death. “This distinguished citizen having been called by the Great Ruler of the Universe in His infinite wisdom, from our midst: "Therefore be it resolved, by the members of the eighteenth state leg- islature of the state of Wyoming that we do recognize the passing away of this esteemed and distin- guished citizen whose memory will always be cherished as long as life shall last among us and pause in silent devotion to his memory. “Trusting that our thought may tell the departed that ‘tough gone from our presence yet he is treas- ured in our hearts—though his earth- ly career is ended, his memory, vir- tues and good work will live and not go unrecorded and his integrity and honesty and public service and trust and ability as a private and public official shall go down in history as a pioneer and builder of this, our great state. “Rerolved further, that this Hon- otable Body; the House and Senate concurring extend its sympathy and expression of friendship to the be- reaved family in their hour of grief and pray the “Divine Creator to soften the: pangs of sorrow by the assurance that he-has only preceded them to the realms of a fairer and better land. “Resolved, that a copy of these sesolutions be spread upon the jour- nal of this house and a copy sent to the bereaved family.” “Memorial and resolution dedicat- ed to the memory of Mrs. Alice Downs Clark of Evanston, Wyo. “Whereas, the eighteenth session of the Wyoming state legislature has been informed of the death of. Mrs. Alice Downs Clark, the wife of Sen- ator Clarence D, Clark, for twenty- one years representative of Wyo- ming in the senate of the United States and whose death occurred on board the Adriatic in mid-ocean on the Mediterranean ‘Sea, January 22, 1925, while accompanying her hus- pand on official duties of the United States. , “This distinguished citizen having been called by the Great Ruler of the Universe in His infinite wisdom, from our midst: “Therefore be it resolved, by the members of the eighteenth state leg- islature of the state of Wyoming that we do recOgnize the passing (Continued on Page Four.) Woman Makes Fortune in Pit CHICAGO, Jar. 29, — Strangely enough in one of the most hectic days in the wheat pit in fifty years, a woman, Mrs. Scott Durand, who refers to herself as a dirt farmer, is reported to have made a fortune running close to or into eix figures. While the giants of the wheat Battle Ground By NEA Airmail Service— A closeup view of the Bione cigar store at Herrin, Il, where 8. Glenn Young, Klan leader and liquor raider, Deputy Sheriff Thomas, Homer War: ren and Gearge Forbes were killed in y gun battle, Guardsmen are on duty at the store, which is said to be a gathering place for Klansmen. A bullet hole can be seen in the window. or at New d by Carrier On Strects . Del'yv ands cents cents a month Tribune E cation Offices idg., 216 B. Second St. Gere) MEHO TET 9, IS SUANCE Ellingson Case In High Court Juvenile Court Judge Says Murder of Mother by Girl Involves Too Grave a Crime for His Jurisdiction SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 29.—Dorothy Ellingson, the 16-year-old matricide, is to be tried by the criminal and not the juvenild courts, it was decided today by Superior Judge Frank R. Murasky, juvenile court judge, when the girl w brought before ‘him for arraignment. Judge Murasky said that the case was so extreme and grave in {its nature that it was not| night in «a lodging house some dis one that’could be tried in his juris diction. he would sit Ister as a committing | magistrate in order that the could “be legally transferred from the juvenile to the criminal dockets. | |tance from her home. | In a criminal trial she would face | an indeterminate in with life as the maximum sentence. In a trial before the juventle court The judge announced that term prison, | case | she would simply be sentenced to a No arguments were heard, prelim-|reform school for a few years upon inary to his decision, although the | conviction defense’ had hoped that the trial Ri, NES might be held before Judge Murasky The git abot and. kitted ner| VEY W LANDING mother, according to her 6wn ad missions, because of a maternal pro hibition against a “jazz” party which she expected to attend that night. The girl attended the party and was arrested on the following FOR U.S. AIR MAIL READY as the flood of wheat prices rolled higher and higher, the public rushed in pell mell, The excitement appar. 2 ently knew no bounds as shorts were and shrewd operators were reported | rushing to cover.and amateur buy out of the wheat futures market. Old were urging their brokers to General Public got into the market. | buy, foreing the price to $2.05%; at And while these experts were ly-| the high spot yeste for May de ing back on their oars, so to sr livery trade, among them James A. Patten, who at one time was r the “wheat King’? of the Arthur Cutten, now one of thi ers N FRANCISCO, Jan. 29.—The government air mail service will open a new landing field today at Concord, Contra Costa county, across the bay from here, from which east Mrs, Durand would only smile and bound planes will be dispatched for admit that she had “dabbled in|® period of thirty days, it was an wheat" but refused to confirm or | uneed today by P. D. Bush, the ake. ieee ae 4 ’ chief mechanic. The new service will ny the story of her winnings. She | pe jn the nature of an experiment and her husband ‘wwn the, Model|in an effort to avold bay fogs that Crab Tree Dairy Farm at Lake Bluff} now hamper the flyers, it was sald. and are among the wealthy North! No change in the transcontinental Shore social circle s¢ ule will be made FORBES CONSPIRACY CASE NEW ORDINANCE (OINVOKED 10 "FINE ACCOMPLICES IN GRIME The new city ordinance, making persons found in a building where law breaking activities are in prog- ress subject to fine, and which pass- ed third reading in Monday evening's council meeting, was used for the first time last night by Judge Mur- ray when he fined four men $25 and corts each. They were arrested in a raid on the coffee shop over the Saddle Rock cafe on West First street Tuesday evening and gave the names of Joes Estebes, Harry Kap- les, Mareling Arminto and George Kamboris, Joe Thell, alleged proprietor of the establishment, pald a fine of $50 and costs. ‘Traffic violation cases have grown less numerous in the preceeding few days, there being only eight cased on the docket yesterday. Cail Gor- such paid $15' for speeding and the others $5 for no light, illegal park ing and minor infringements. ‘They included Roger Luxford, Oscar Bey- er, Elmer Anderson, R. J. Archi- bald) R. A. Schmidt, Archibald Barr A. Samara, ‘ ‘Two jail sentences wer handed out by the judge, one of thirty days to Fay Edgar for soliciting and one of 15 days to Henry Wise, colored, who was unable to pay his fine for drunk enness. THREE HURT AS TRAIN DEMOLISHES AUTO AT FETTERMAN C Wenzinger Family North of- Glenrock Victims of Near Tragedy; Injured Brought Here on Passenger . Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Wenzinger, who live on a home- ead 15 miles north of Glenrock, and their daughter, Paul- he, aged 6 years, were all injured, to an extent not yet de- trmined, when their sedan was demolished by the Chi- go & Northwestern passenger train this afternoon on a ivate crossing near Fort Fetterman. the trio of injured an# a three nths old baby, Caroline, who was ‘urtand brought Qiem to the hes Sin Caspeii The train picked At 8 o'clock this afternoon Mr. and Mrs, Wenzinger and thelr daugh- ter wore belng X-rayed to determine the extewt gf thelr injuries. Indi- ROSSING cations were that Mr. Wenzinger’s hurts would not prove serious. His daughter had injuries about the head and back. , Details of the accident were un- available as none of the patients were in condition to make a state- ment. The train involved is number 603, passenger westbound. WINNIPEG, Man., Jan. 29,.—With a slump during the first few min- utes of trading approaching the pan- ick stage, wheat prices here declined ten cents in the early trading today, the May future dropping to $2.10 after opening fairly gteady around yesterday's close of GULF COAST CRUDE UP BEAUMONT, Tex., Jan. 29.—Ad:| vances of 26 cents a barrel on Guit| ‘Coast crude ofl osted toda CHICAGO, Jan. the Gulf Pipe soi John W. H. Crim began the Ing grade A to $1.75 and grade B| to $1.50 conspiracy trial today. DIRECTORS OF RUM RUNNER IS CAPTURED CHEST FUND IN CASPER NAMED L. A. Reed Made Chair- man of Board in Annual Meet. Wash., Jan. 29.—Cow 1d one pounder SEATTLE, ed by machine gun ¢ fire, from two government rum chas ers off Bush Point, on the west shore of Whidby Island, West Central Is and county, Peter Marinoff, reputed | Puget Sound HMquor runner of Ta More than « hundred citizens last) (OTS and his engineer, C. Hen night attended the first annual iricks, surrendered th craft, the ing of Casper's Communit t NHH-5 after a fifteen mile chase yes: fund organization at the court house, The men’ were taken to Port Matters! of routine consideration ixohdiich a’ checks) clte tant gave place to an election of a ard | navination lance of directors, the following persons ation laws. being named f BE, P. on, W. 0. Wilson, Mrs b] C. Chappell, Earl Burwell, Mrs. C D. Murane, C. A. Cullen, Mrs. B. B. Kimball IS CONFESSED Brooks, L. A. Reed, W. 8 and George Jarvis. Later in the evening the newly lected board met and chose the fol East Yellowstone near Park street . ry | eine officers for the ensuing BY SOLDIER at 9:30 Wednesday evening, his pnwen, according to a state year: L. A. Reed, chairman of the principal injury being a slight frac- an leader here today. H. ©. Chappell, vice prest: | a 4 ture of the skull. He is recovering P. Bacon, treasurer; Frank nicely under hospital treatment. because there {s reason ‘ B. Taylor, secretary PROVIL CE, I, Jan, 2%—] ‘The lad was making alate paper| that the vault will be disturb ‘Announcement was made of the] Private George Carmark Cordy, 22, | delivery on, hia bicycle and had stop-| said, but one of re | resignation of Mrs. G, Davis, e-| stationed at Fe Adams, Newport, | ped in the middle of the street to fix|as long as there rer e silg tary of the organization. Mrs. I. G.| today confesred, according to the po- | {t. est possibility of such a thing hap Rush was appointed to take her| ice, that the killed Mary (leason,| ©. F. Burdick, of 19% North Grant | pening place temporarily whose body was found In a deep|street, the driver of the car, could eee ‘An audit of the fund's accounts| mogt ut the reservation of Fortnot seo'the boy because of the lights ILERRIN, Tis, Jan. 29.—(Ry The was authorized. Adams. of an approathing automobile, Associated Press)—The Qnal chapter | Quick Verdict Expected by Counsel in Case of Former Vet Bureau Director Accused of Fraud Against Govern- ment in Contract Consideration 29.—(By The Associated Press.)—As Following an hour of argument and the instructions of the court} he case will be presented to the jury soon after the opening of the afternoon session. A quick verdict is anticipated by counsel. IS NEAR JURY A stant Attorney final argument for the prosecution in the vete General ans’ bureau Crim. vigorously tacked the de fense argument t Ellas H. Mor timer, as chief prosecution witness had been accepted as a man of high social standing in Washington be cause of his professed friendship | with President Harding | Charles R. Forbe the ctor former a of United State . bureau Ithy before terans J. W. Thompson of Chi to tria w building contractor and St. Louis Federal Judge George A, ¢ penter, November 24, last, charg (Continued on Page Four.) “O! the sins that the friends Warren Harding visited up hiny. of OF ALL PAYMENTS WILL BE HELD UP FOR THREE WEEKS. LONGER Audit of Books Begun In Natrona County Is Welcomed by the Commissioners. By ROSS M. GRANT Suspension of the pays ment of all Natrona county warrants for at least three weeks and a private audit of Natrona county’s finances, paid for and insisted on by @ group of Casper taxpayers, was announced this morning by Stanley A. Brown, miner who arrive ed yesterday from Cheyenne “We started on the audit of Naw trona’ county's finances yesterday’ | said Mr. Brown, “and I have ordere ed suspension of issuance and paye ment of all warrants until this audi¢ is conipleted. It will take at leasg three weeks and possibly Jonger. That the county was involveg financially was revealed recently when the banks refused to advance funds, due to depletion of the county general and other funds ang an overdraft of considerable sizo, expenditures for the last year haye ing far exceeded the budget. “Reports have reached the state examiner's office that the county commissioners last year took funds from the high school bond tssue and transferred them to the general fund," sald. Mr. Brown. “Whether this ts true or not will be proven by the audit. If the commissioners did this they acted illegally. ‘Tha correct procedure would have been* to issue ‘certificates of indebtedness based on the taxation income of the county for 1925 and to havé used the money derived for general fund expenditures, “The bond {ssue for the new high school was a specific issue and the money can be used legally for only one purpose and that ts on the cons struction of that particular build. ing.” Jack Scott, chairman of the boar@ of county commissioners, in an in+ terview this afternoon, denied em: phatigally that any money had ever been transferred from the high school bond issue to the general fund “We welcome a private audit of the county finances,” said Mr. Scott, “because it will prove that there has been no transfer of funds. the only expenditure made last whose legality I question was ar the $1,000 we appropriated to pro- mote the recent poultry show ang that was at the instigation of tha hamber of commerce. “The board of cc issioners annot, with the time at thelr dis- posal, run around from department urtment and check up every expenditure Department : ‘ove those when the bills ire presented to_us and we trust to thelr honesty and efficiency to these “If a large number of responsible uxpayers favor an audit of the ounty books and do not trust either Seven.) (Continued on Pag “Ol that they had stayed away from Washington. O! his untimely death; that he might be alive today to tell how he was duped by his friends.” The prosecutor previously had re called testimony that Frances © Pope of Spokane, Wash., had beer visited inthe summer of 1922 to participates in a syndicate to pur chase the government's wooden fleet. TRIBUNE LAD MEETS INJURY Written Today KLANSMEN TO _ KEEP VIGIL AT YOUNC’S GRAVE Final Chapter in Life of Dry Raider With Burial of Victim of Herrin War Witliam McCann, 12-yearoia ‘tri.|,, HERRIN, Ill, Jan. 29.—(By The Associated Press. bune newdboy, was knocked down|T Wo Ku Klux Klansmen will stand guard at the grave of and run over by an automobile on|S, Glenn Young, slain liquor r aider, for a year and perhaps ment made by a prominent The precaution is to be taken not because of threats or n the life is story of 8. Glenn ‘Young, tux Klar vr was write dry rate | ten here today Thousands assembled to mourn at the last rites the over man whose body lay in state the Raptine church where It has been since the shooting aftr Saturday nigh (Continued on) Page Four.)