Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 7, 1925, Page 1

Che Casper Sunday Trime VoeeuMie $4 MAIN NEWS SECTION CASPER, WYOMING, SUNDAY JUNE 7, 1925 J. D. Woodruff, Wyoming Pioneer and Veteran Legislator, Dies at Shoshoni DICKIE LOEB, MILLIONAIRE SLAYER, IS GOING INSANE FUNERAL TO BE IN HOME TOWN Paralytic Stroke Last | Thursday Sounded | Final Waming. | J. D. Woodruff, 81 years old, one of the last of the} early pioneers of Wyoming, | died at his home in Shoshoni, Saturday afternoon a 3 o'clock, of a complication of | diseases incident to his advanced age. | Up until a few months ago Mr, Woodruff had been in ellent health, and took an active part in | all business and social activities in | Fremont county. Last month he « tracted a severe case of influenz from which he never completely re covered. Thursday of last suffered a stroke of para from that gradually grew worse til the end came. The funeral services will be held from the Congregational church tn Shoshoni Tuesday afternoon, under | the auspices of the Masonic lodge of which he had been a life-long mem ber. wer After the services’ in Shoshoni, tho | body will be shipped to Ogden, Utah, | where he will be laid to rest be-| side his wife and two 5 ed away some years . who pass- | Woodruff are his only son, Dwight Woodruff of Cas- per and four grandchildren, Two others sons, Leone and Fred Wood- ruff, have been dead for many years, and an adopted daughter, Besgie Woodruff Casteel, died three years ago. His wife, Mrs, Josephine Wood- ruff, died four years ago. Because of his rugged constitution and phy- sical activity it had often. been Mr. Woodruff's boast that he “would Surviving Mr, outlive all his tribe,” and had he not contracted the influenza wita | resulting complications it ts prob- | ent immigration act, proposes to | simplify | shall able that he boast good,. J. D. Woodruf was born in De cember of 1844 at Bonus, Lilinols, near Chicago, the son of John and Lucinda Woodruff. Shortly after the Civil war he came west to what was then the territory of Wyoming, and would ye made his was engaged {n several campaigne against the hostile Indian tribes. He lived the rugged life of a ‘pros pector and has prospected over much of the territory in what is now Fremont county. He {s believed to have been the first white wm discover Wind [iver through which the Burlington rail road and the Yellowstone highway have been built, while prospecting in what is now known as Copper mountain, In company with Tom Hood, now of Casper, Mr. Woodruff brought the first band of sheep into Wyoming and is considered by all the ploneer ne the father of th industry | | | | | in this the greatest wool st th the vnion, been w business 1 fal life of Wyoming H+ was a senator in the first s legirlature, being elected to nm sent Fremont county in tl ute first Jawmaking body. He has since | s_rved xeveral terms in the lower house, where his good judgment and | homely philosophy on the things of Ufe made him an outstanding figure. During the 1923 session he created | nation-wide interest by introducing | (Continued on Page Two) QUSTER PROCEEDINGS Tu cc FILED MONDAY MAIN NEWS SECTION NO. 45 Offers to Help . Find Amundsen Alien Act Author Seeks Amendmeni| Mother Finds Son in Hunt Of 21 Years DENVER, Colo., June 6.—(Unit- ed Press}—Twenty-one years ago Mrs. Frank Brann, Watonga, Okla, | started» searching for ber stolen from her at that time by her | divorced husband. Today she found him in Denve The son, Fr bore nk Brann, q day la » Was located b a detective ugency through a receipt made out to him by the Public Service com- pany, —————_—___ MAN IN JAIL TRIES SUICIDE DENVER, Colo., June 6.—(United Press}—The second attempt of John White. 21, Colorado Springs, held In the county jail here on narcotic charges, to end his life was a fafl- Rep. Albert Johnson, Wash- ington state, author of-the pres- it by inserting an amendment providing that per- sons who cannot become citizens not be admitted. This would make a number of ; \ouses in the present act unnecessary, a ure. White slashed his arm and wrist Thursday night with a razor WEATHER \ | blade, and last night tried to-hang Mosty unsettled Sunday,and Mon-| himself. with some silk underwear. day, probably local showers; not so| He was unconscious whon found, Monday but will recover, Freight Rate Victory Here Is Confirmed Message to Chamber of Commerce on Saturday Brings Copy of Order Denying Rail Petition Confirmation of announcement in yesterday's Tribune that the Interstate Commerce Commission had denied the petition of the railroads for postponement of the Casper freight rate reductions, thereby making more secure the victory won by the Casper Chamber of Commerce, is con- tained in a copy of the commission's order received by telegraph. First advices regard-| entered therein it is ordered that ing the sion were given to the} the order entered in number fit- chamber of commerce’in.a long dis-| teen two hundred on April 9, telephone conversation with| 1925, which was by its terms al Freight Service associa-| made effective on July 10, 1925 be and it is hereby modified so request | that it will become effective ’ on 4 : August 25, 1925 instead of on sald postpone: | Is denied | 10, 1925 only in so far as it hea that a sy rtional rates from Gid-Grlar Wala ed the Upper Mississippi river ere rates fron 'p ngs to Casper, W It fur r tl the said petitions in so far us they request effectiy postponement of | the date of the” orders Chamber entered in these proceedings be CharleaB, and they are h dented,”* Dockets Fifteen Hundred and BSR Ninteen Highty-Three | ‘ED IN COURT, “Upon further consideration of Jerry Smith, arrested at 11:15 the ‘ord in the above entitled | o'clock on Friday night at the cor- proceedings and petitions tiled by | ner cf Midwest and Wolcott streets defendants for postponement of | by Officer Trantham, was fined $15 the effective date of the orders | for being drunk. WILL HE DENY? Will J. E. Scott, county commissioner, deny that he received twelve town lots in Salt Creek for which he paid nothing, but for which he was to do certain things in the way of road improvement as county com- missioner, before the town of Salt Creekf was incorpo- rated? Will J. E. Scott, county commissioner, deny that he violated an agreement made under the circum- stances, with the people of Salt Creek, in graveling the Main street of the town by extending the route seven blocks out of the way and over a hill in order that it might go by the city lots presented to him and connect with the county road by a circuitous route, instead of on the streets agreed to which formed a more direct and level route? Will J. E. Scott, county commissioner, deny that he built a building on one of said lots so presented to him and graveled the road around said !ot at county expense, and that said building has been and still is being used for the purpose of the manufacture and sale of liquor, contrary to law? And that said liquor joint is operated by one, Marshall? Will J. E. Scott, county commissioner, deny that he has full knowledge of numerous places in the Salt Creek oil field where liquor is sold openly, where gam- bling is wide open and where immoral conditions pre- vail, all of which are contrary to law? Will J. E. Scott, county commissioner, deny that he has never lifted his hand to discourage such law violation and is even now engaged in building a large public dance hall to enlarge the immoral activities prevalent in the oil field? We submit, that J, E. Scott is‘not a proper person to conduct the.-publie<business as chairman of the board of county commissioners. FORMER GOVERNOR BROOKS IS MADE CHAIRMAN OF ANNUAL C. OF C. RECRUITING CAMPAIGN The Chamber of Commerce membership recruiting cam- paign, with former Goy. B. B. Brooks as manager, will start Tuesday, June 16, on the most important campaign in the history of the local chamber. Beginning next Monday, June 8, the board of directors, who have assumed the responsibilities of the campaign committee, will begin bullding the team organization for the important mpaign and jt is hoped that the largest working organization in the history of this chamber will enroll NEW c URC Mr. Brooks issued his first letter} Ca to the general membership yester- The building committee of the day and the clerical department of| First Presbyterian chuch in meeting for this important undertaking. The forum meeting scheduled for Tuesday, June 9th, at the Henning | hotel will be given over ‘o prelim. | inary plans for the campaign and the meeting will be addressed by Mr. Brooks, the campaign manager. the chamber has been mailing out| /@*terday afternoon approved plans | coples of the letter and annual rej for the new edifice to be erected at port to the membership j Highth and W : ean tactng re sending 3 nm copy of] ; of 1 i f rr ' € i « it ery member of the Caspe ham ur of t uilding will be let ber of commerce will do well to rend] within » reasonable time Plans this report very carefully, setting | call for the erection of a handsome out an it does the many accomplish-| edifice. Basement and foundations ments of the past year and suggest ing a progrem of work for this year, Having this opportunity, I desire to call your attention to a subject which is upon my mind almost con- stantly now and that is the mem. were completed Inst year and a cam: paign last winter to finance the com pletion of the church was successful. The church will have a commanding site overlooking the park and be one of.the most modern in the west ibers of the (Continued on Page Two) building commit TRIBUNE EXPOSE OF ROAD DEAL AIDS IN BIG SAVING Commissioner Burwell Wins Fight on/| Apel Contract When Oil Money Is Paid Into Cou Through the efforts of Commissioner Earle G. Burwell and the Casper Tribune publicity exposing the Salt Creek- Lavoye road scandal and its enormous costs above contract price; Natrona county taxpayers have been saved $18,500. The Midwest Refining company, through its attorney, G. R. Hagens, yesterday submitted to the county treasurer a check for $2,500 In payment of the company's promised donation to the road. ‘The North & South Raflroad com paid into. the counts Setters $2,000 cash besides donat t ure Ty, A Ke. Reed, chairman; A, E. I secretary; O. L. Walker, John MoFadyen, Mrs, A. A, Slade. Mrs. John McFadyen and Mrs Chas. A. Wilse TUESOAY FORUM WILL other ofl companies will {n all prob: ability pay their donXtons to the county treasurer instead of to Ge » Apei direct contract had been let at -the price of $29,000 and when sey eral taxpayers were objecting on the grounds that even this price was too high, Commissioner Jack Seott explained that the road would be built unusually cheap so far as county funds were concerned be cause the ofl companies and the railroad had promised donations totaling over $14,000 which would be turned into the county treasurer, This would make the road cost the county only $15,000, he said, Then, after Apel had constructed nty Treasury $900 worth of hauling $1,100 to George Apel. and paying The Montana-Wyoming Invest:|the road apparently with ttle re ment company has paid $1,500, and| gard for contract speciileations and the Mutual Of company $500, and]at a cost of $36,000 cr $7,000 above it has been ascertained that the! the contract agreemeni, Commis HEAR DISCUSSION OF sioners Scott and Guy an | in an Aprilwession authorized him | 22) MEMRSH MPH and collect this mone which Scott. had promised would - reimburse the county sult in a cheap road, Had it not been for the efforts of Burwell and the expose of the in the Tribune it is probable the off companies would have heede the order and that Apel instead of fund and re = The forum luncheon of the Casper Chamber of Commerce scheduled for 12:10 o'clock Tuesday noon at the Henning Hotel, will be given over to a discussion of plans for the mem- bership recruiting campaign whieh the county would today ho the | will start Tuesday, June 16. money: Former Governor B. B. Brooka, It is well known that the road| campaign manager, will be the prin- elpal speaker, and will outline the p'an of the recrulting week program, The boa was constructed in haphazard man ner with ryparently little regard to Physician Believes| He Will End Days as Maniac JOLIET, Ill, Juhe 6.— Richard Loeb, youtleful mil- lionaire slayer, lay strapped to a cot in the prison hospital here tonight, babbling inco-} herently, and on the verge of | insan Capt. Anton Heinen, noted | airship commander, has offered his services to the government There is no danger of death at this time, but thery is a probability of) in. the event the Shenandoah or the handsome youth becoming per-l'the Los Angeles is sent to the manently insane, Dr. Herman N.| 3:4 O¢ Explorer Amund Adler, state criminologist, declared | %@ Of /xplorer = Amundscn, tonight. missing in the Arcti While apparently on the road to recovery from an attack of measles, Loeb suddenly suffered a mental collapse, attacking his guards, For 36 hours he has been strapped to his cot. Dr. Adler and other prison officials who thought Loeb was shamming now are convinced of the genuineness of the mental ailment Nathan Leopold, companion of Loeb in the murder of Bobby Franks, POLICEMEN IN DENVER TO BE is convalescing from an operation for appendicitis, and prison officials} DENVER, Colo., June ¢, —(United are keeping him in ignorance of|Press)—Date for the trial of six Dickie's condition. Denver ex-policemen on ch of Inability to accustom himself to| bribery and bootlegging were set to the prison fare, the surroundings|day for June The six men and the depressing knowledge that (Continued on Page Two) pleaded. not guilty to the charges in the west side court today. Population of Casper 25,029 Exclusion of Mills, Mountain View and Outlying ‘Additions Cuts Total to 23,288 for City Proper 2 The present population of Casper is 288. Counting the suburban towns of Mills, Mountain View, Englewood, Evansville and the country club settlement, the total popu- lation is 25,029. These facts were made known yesterday by Miss May Hamilton, county superintendent of schools, following a compilation in her office of the totals submitted re em ployed to take the census This population count shows t despite a de payroll depre rease in the number o em and a fon in temporar Willian iquor in t » the Thon nd 1 20 gallons of ched bes Wittle ‘ ad | ol as 3 gallon kegs cn TRIED JUNE 22 Census Shows PETITIONS IN ‘SGOT - MORGAN CAoE HERE TQ ‘BE SEPARATE | County Attorney’s * Of- fice Working Night And Day to Perfect Charges for Court. The petitions to oust Coun- |ty Commissioners Jack Scott and Guy T. Morgan from their offices will not be filed until Monday morning, it was announced late last night by sistant County Att ain H. Sennett lities 1 for and essary in preparing such petitions, it was a physical impossibility to file them Saturday we intended,” Sennett said I have been working 14 hours a day since the matter was turned over to me Friday r t 1 worked until midnight 1 tonight until al most that late. Mrs. G. B Allen, the county attorney's stenographer had time but for two hurried meals yes terday a al has been work until midnight Tho result of this work Is that two separate petitions, one against Scott and the other against Mor- | gan, each more than 50 typewritten | pag in len were »mpleted last night except for checking for typogray 1 errors. The assistant pre tor will work on the petition today In order to bring a large number of charges, Sennett not only used the most outstanding of those in ts of thr e d of the Taxpaye sut he and Mrs, Allen also copied fromthe county records 169 separate pieces of evidence not con- tained in either audit report wh according to Sennett, furnish abso- lute proof of misconduct and mal- feasance in office “I positively will not file the petition until Tam absolutely sure that ssible errors are cor- rected, nnett said, “This means that every fi ¢, every word and every paragraph must be carefully read for mistakes.” y that the petitions might t night led Sennett to Maybe . cleric let court, to be where she could be ached by telephone until 10 o'cloc that she could open her office and receive the ns at such time as they would e completed. The office ng on them until later In view of the fact that Governer Ross when called upon f instructions regardir lings stated that {t had to that Scott was work- H in however more Morga & malfeasance upon the petitions i sult in the susper were ity misconduct office, hearing expected to re ion of both om 8 in her recent missioners, Mrs. R letter instructed the prosecutor to | institute immediate steps looking to thelr rer w offi ‘DOING WELL’ in compe with some empty gaso-| The populat th line barrels some distance out on a| the outskirts Of Casper fu country highy yesterday, Mountain View and Midwest H It is believed the moonshiner saw Englewood, 85; Dvaneville the officers coming and .that he| Country Club settlement, 199 “ditched” his illicit cargo.” Half of| Tho consus, was taken the Hquor was destroyed on | the | Casp and school district » grounds and the other half was |’ reports from the oll field t brought to the sheriff's office (Continued on Page Iwo) UNCHECKED | Relief Held Possible Within 48 Hours by Weather Bureau as Fatalities Multiply in Large Cities By United Press in a few places by wind and rain, towering temperatures continue to claim their victims, and late tonight, after six days of merciless heat and smothering humidity, the ne tion’s dead numbered at least 264. Electrical storms have brought relief to western Ohio either standard road or contract 1 of directors of the Com-|and western. Pennsylvanian and welve more deaths have 0 specifications, merce Chamber will constitute the | cooler weather has been predicted | « 1 in the vieinity ¢ The order ta collect. from the oll} campaign committee this year and|for other affected districts within| Haven, Conn., five In. Ne 0 view wag given when Apel re-| they will co-ope h the forum | 48 to 72 hours. But tonight Atlantic | and two in Pittsburg ng the ‘ cortificater of leommittes in ng. the. pro-| senboard atates continued to swelter,| 24 hour t to (ConUnued on Uy ! gram, [following a torrid, breathless week. |. Nelief trom I Though the disastrous heat wave has been interrupted | June 6,—(United ) nvaleseing here from an operation for removal of gallstones, | nigh | natisfact ‘trom this tin e bulletin added HEAT WAVE TOLL IS N EAST c y | shir | There is a | ' r | ly and > uther bureau stated The same may be expected in the Ohio valley, the lower lake regions nd the middle Atlantic states Mon- | day or Tuesday, the weather experts added Relief also wos promised in the er an er Mississippi valley lay and south of on Tuesday or Cooler weather will end a period f heat unequalled for June in the ' y of the weather bureau | The air blockade which swept er the from t hot (Cor e Page s