Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 30, 1925, Page 1

WEAIHER | Generally fair tonight and Thurs day, No decided change perature. in tem- VOL. X NO. 62 The Casp er Daily MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS _______ CASPER, WYOMING, WEDNESDAY, DE! WYOMING, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1925 Crihiune Ueliverea py Carrie: ib On Streets or at News SOM M ern tan RENEE re *® month 6 ante rr Pubiloation Uffice bone Ride ARBITRATION MADE ISSUE OF MINE PARLEY CASPER TOTAL IN SEAL OALE REACHES 31, Excellent Work Done by School Children | Builds Fund. Headquarters of the Christmas seal drive for the state, located at Cheyenne have been profuse {n their | praise of the success of the_seal drive in Casp Casper with a total of $1,513 this year collected $412 67 more than last year. A great deal of the increase was due, however, to the success of the drive in the Salt Creek field, which was under the dfre n of* the Casper workers. Salt creek, Inst year with only a lite aBove $80, this year made 8860.05. a wonderful increase. The difficulty of putting over a driye in the field {s the reason that the drive was not even greater, The Casper business district bought approxt- imately the same number of seals as last year. A total of $404.38 was collected in the business di: Casper schools were very success: ful in their drives. ‘The co-opera tlon-of the: principals, students, par ents and members of the board made t possible for them to report $748.88 as their share of the seal fund, It would be unfair to class all of the. schools as to their respective drives, as in many cases the schools are located. in more prosperous districts and also larger numbers of students @ registered at the various schools n at others. Washington school leads the grade schools with a sale of $121 worth of seals. Jefferson, follows with $110.43. ‘Third in the number of sales is°Mc- Kinley with $102.09. The other schools in order of their sales fol- low: Park, $94.55; Grant, $50.16; Willard, $43.6 Roosevelt, $38.93: Lincoln, $37.05; Harding, $18; Mills, $15.40; Wilson, $10.09; | Mountain View, $9.01, and Evansville, $2. The high school and the junior high cannot hardly be classed with the sales in the grade schools. Mary of the students work fn the business district and their seals would be from that source. The high school sold $45.78 and the junior hich dis- posed of $48.27 worth of seals. The Casper drive was even more successful than had been planned, as it is a well known fact that money is tighter this year than be- fore and members of the sale drive committee with Mrs. R. W. Loucks as chairman were rather doubtful as to the outcome of the campaign. —_———<—.___ CARDINAL IS NOW BETTER BR tum, Dec, 30.— (#)—The phy attending Car dinal Mercier, aged primate Bel- } gium, who un nt an operat for a lesion of the stomach yester. day, found his condition so good this morning that they delayed their scheduled consultation until after- noon, meanwhile {ssuing no bulletin, It was said unofficially that the cardinal had spent a good night, and that he was able to get some sleep and that his general condition was the normal one following such an operation. Food Prices Up Over Year Ago The finds. CHICAGO, Dec. 26.— housewife, at the close of 19 most. of the {tems on her g shopping are more expensive t they were a year ago. Of 28 articles in the meat, vegetable and fruit line, wholesale prices of 12 are higher, nine are lower and two are unchang: ed from a year itd today. Ay Attempted F Re very in Minneapolis Cause of Trag- edy; 2 Wounded MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 30. —(#)—Two men are dead and two wounded seriously as a result of a gun fight here last night after an attempted holdup. Michael Lawrence, veteran police sergeant, was jot and killed by Stanley Sieban, 2 convict, who in turn was shot and mortally wounded by a patrolman. Bernard .Wynne, a patroiman re- celved four bullet wounds in the legs and A. H. Manchester, grocer, re- ceived a bullet in the abdomen and! another in the wrist. Both were shot! by Sleban. Sleban, who formerly lived at Ken-| osha, Wis., had been serving an In-| determinate term at the Minnesota | penitentiary for robbery. Several! ays ago he was released with the| stipulation that he be deported to his home in Manitoba, Canada. The fight started when Sieban at- tempted to hold up Mancherter's store. Manchester ran for his. revol- ver and wes greeted by two bullets, When the police gun squad stopped Steban's automobile, he fired, kill- ing Lawrence and wounding Wynne. Patrolman C. J. Zayne, stopped Sie ban’s flight with a bullet. ALLEGED SAFE ROBBERS GIVEN “Thank Goodness That’s Over!” 3 — re hey Ray Duboice and Robert Morton, ex-convicts, charged. with the-rob- bery of the Johnson’ Bros.: grocery) store on November. 20, last, and be- Ueved guilty of a succession. of sim- flar burglaries here, pleaded not guilty when-arraigned ‘in’ Justice Brennan's court this afternoon, for preliminary hearing. Morton’ was still Hmping from injuries _recelved when he jumped. froma three-story window at tock Springs, and both men were unshaven and unkempt. Opposition raised by defense coun. sel, Attorneys Alec B. King and C. G. Cypreanson, to the complaint filed against the pair was overruled by the court ind the taking of testi- mony was under way at 2:30°o'ciock. Edgar M. Johnson, one of the pro prietors of the store, testified to con- ditions at the store after the robbery and related the finding of an tron bar sald to have been provided Du- boice and Mocton by Jack (Heavy) Hill, one of the witnesses lor the state. This bar was found in the ashes of papers taken from the safe and burned near the city. Some $580 and valuable papers were taken from the safe, which had been jimmied open by the use of a heavy*bar. poner ache ie Ef RID STAR DEAD. | YORK, Dec. 20.—(P)—A cial dispatch to the Evening World Pines, N, C. today « widely known college football player DEAD Ruling Against Limit on FIGHT Oil Permits Is Important |\Western Interests Find Satisfaction in| Decision Handed Down Tuesday by District of Columbia Court WASHINGTON, Dec. ern states viewed today with the District of Columbia Supreme court in the Wheeler case holding that the interior c 30—()—Senators from far west- satisfaction the decision of lepartment is without author- ity under the land grant act, to limit the number of oil and gas land permits that any one prospector may take out. The effect of the decision, they would be to encourage develop: say, ment of oil and gas lands in a num-| ber of states. Limitation of pros: pecting permits, they added, has had the effect of discouraging pros pectors since prospecting for oll and gas is rather expensive undertaking Members of the public lands com: mittee, who toured the “west last summer, expressed the opinion that this was only one of a number of cases where the department prob- ably has’ gone outside the law In issuing restrictive regulations. They are prepared to press the question at this session of congress. Senator Oddie, republican, Nevada, once a prospector and developer of mining pfoperti is one of those who will make a fight against what 1s described as “gw by bureaucracy” ho declared that the public lands committee had found a “great deal) of bungling” by the interior depart: ment in, the administration of Iand and other laws, and that the d¢velop- retarded as a result. Forestry service {x to be brought intd ‘the “fight, Oddie 89 adding that hjs committee disag with some “of: the policies Chief Forester Greeley. Edward 'C.' Finney, first assistant seéretary of the interior, made this lAatement: Phe general leasing law does not pecisics ny" prohibit holding at one 08 of i the. state, but section 2 F fiotvthe agt which relates to leas ‘provides specifically that no individ- ual or corporation may hold at one time *more than one’ lease on a geological structure containing oll, nor moe than three leases in the state. “The part of the law relating to MYSTERIOUS ‘SENATOR’ MARKED FOR DEATH IN POISON PLOT IS SOUGHT NEW YORK, Dec. 30.—(?)—Po- lice today are seeking a myster- jous “Senato- A. B. Lewis,” who was to have been the victim of a $100,000 prison plot. The plot was revealed whe ry W. Cowan: kil Miss Burto! 2 stenograph whom he was infatuated, and. se rlously wounded If, Monda night . “Senator Lewis,” who checked of Yale university, thirty years ago, died in Southern Pines today after a long illness, out of the Hotel Astor the night of the shooting, is wanted for questioning. He is described at —words hot | Select the style Classifi —hbold, daring, “knock ’em over” “Paint the Picture With Words” —refreshing, eager and full of meaning * —gentle, inviting and colorful | —flowery with a touch of magnificence | —thin piercing words 73 years old and a persistent sult- or of Miss Burton, who was 28, He registered at tho hotel as nator A, B. Lewis of Carson City, Nevada.” A warning letter to Lewis was found in Cowan's rooms. It was written before Cowan bec enra at the girl 1 kille r The le told 8 Burton . planned marry him to get control of his $100,000, . If he did not die soon, she would admin ister a slow polson and the mon would be used in part to get Cow- an out of financial trruble, Cowan wrote, Cowan was wanted for ab- sconding with $12,000 from the Hotel Latham two years ago. The mother of the dead girl de- nied that her daughter was en- ed to “Senator Lewis,” who was a “benevolent old gentleman, who joined us at dinner frequent ly.” Mrs. Burton sald her daugh- ter did not intend to marry Cow- tter stuff 1 off the fire | —thundering, vibrating phrases | They all can work for you. you like and phone us that ed Ad | an, whom she described as a “gen- tleman and friend of the family.” Cowan, howeyer, described) Miss rton as his common law wife weft Bact tas tah REAR ADMIRAL DEAD YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Dec, 30.— (#)—Read Admiral Giles’ Bates Har- her, retired, dled here last night, of Inflammation of the »_ binder, THREE RELEASED IN THEFT CASE PROSECUTION OF TWO ORDERED Fred Goodstein, who was arrested a short time ago on a charge of re- celving stolen property, was exoner- ated Tuesday when a preliminary hearing was given him in the court of Justice George A. Layman. The dismissal of the charge against Goodstein at the prosecutor's re quest, was the last work done by the county {n clearing up details regard- ing box-car and warehouse thefts perpetrated here. Hurbert Hill and Charles Miller, who were arrested about the same time as Goodstein, also have been released, There was no evidence to show that any of the trio had knowl- edge that the goods which they pur chased had been stolen. Goodstein, {t was shown, acted In good faith and always examined as carofully as possible the title to poperty which he bought. A type- writer which he purchased from Tony Lenflien and Lawrence Deputy resulted in the charge against him. The typewriter {t was later found, had been stolen by Denhen and Dep- uty from the Burlington railroad, ac- cording to authorities. Goodstein has returned it to the railroad. As the situation now stands one man has been convicted of theft charges in connection with raids on box-cars and warehouses. He {!s Wil- llan Sherrod who is serving a sen- tence of from Jgne to elghteen months in the state penitentiary. Lenhen and Deputy have been turn: ed over to federal authorities to an: swer to charges of violating the tn-|408 to be used in the pu terstate commerce act by bréaking into cars. NERAL IS SLAIN in Europe and The asse festo, was Lu Cheng-Wu, a whom Hsu ed’ his act was a re for his father’s murder Lu is a cousin Yu-Hs formerly COLD WAVE IN MANY REGIONS IS DISSIPATED WASHINGTON, De PA gradual petering out the Intense cold wave is belng evidenced’ tn " th lay pred! hours 1s, and the ted tha weather uring the deration in next temper will continue in. nore thern paction on east of tho Mississipp! In ‘Tenness the east It states and Floride ever very little chance Is fore t Although the temper't still is | considerably below normal in most sections east of the “Ragky Moun- tains, it has tead!ly been mounting from the Dakotas and M'nnesota southeastward to the south Atlantic and east gulf coasts, Since Tuesday morning, reports to the weather burezu sald the rise tn the greater part of this area has amounted to ten degrees MEXICO CIT 30.—-P— There, have been numerous deaths through the country recently due to Hsu Shu-Cheng Shot to Death by Assas- sin on Return from Study of Economics United States PEKING, Dec. 30.—()—General Hsu Shu-Cheng, pop- ularly known as “Little Hsu,” railway station platform at Langfang last night. ssin, self proclaimed in a country-wide mani- | was shot and killed on the captain in the Kuominchun (national people’s army), and son of General Lu Chien- | Chrirt the United if rope States, and Japan where he studied political, eco: nomic and military affairs for the Peking government. He had report ed to the chief cxecutive and left Peking yestetday to visit General Sun Chuan-Fang, governor of Che kiang and other military leaders at Tientsin, Hsu was at one time prjva tary to Tuan Chi-Jul, the chiet executive Lu Chien-Chang, fat assin, had been appo prese as commissioner to the « ern pro {nges when Hsu shot him, and was generally declared to have been the | victim of a itical intrigue His murder at Tientsin created a widespread indighation but Hsu's litical infiuen h kept him for tw ge post in ¢ r defen: f In expl: sassin v “I waited seve y ye t avenge hooting of my fatl By the h of his « it, Heu ha not escape my hand,” ment of the: public domain had been} olh. pangaanny permits provides tl! who di ofl wi thereon. c siderin of the law and the limitation as to| the number of leases, the interior departmer 1 promulgating r lations. under the law and in ad-| ministering the me, has tled at lin ation as to the number of € hich may be held at one time by “necessary implication, ap-| | plicable to the number of permits which may be held at any one time. That is, no person or corporation can hold more than three permits in state nor more than one on a it the geological oil structure, b he held more and discovered of! would apparently be entitled to more leases than the act permits.” Assistant Secretary Finney added that he pérsonally favored a change in the law which would regulate leases on an acreage basis rather} than by the number of permits leases Re! aii be SSCs cTY FOUNDER'S DEATHMOURNED AT KEMMERER Man After Whom Town Was Named Drops Dead in East. KEMMPRER, Wyo., Dec. M.S. Kemmer, after whom this city was named and who with P. J Quealy of this city lafd out the town of Kemmerer one afternoon 30 years ago in Central Park, New Yor early Tuesday at Atlantic Cit J. ports received here he dropped dead of heart failure as he started to board a private car for Florida. He had been in fl!) health for two years following roke of parlysis. Mr. Kemmerer was 82 years nce that time they had been ted together in extensive min Ing operations in southwestern Wyo- assoc | ming. Mr. Kemmerer is sai left a vast estate, and his named partner, MINERS INSIST OAL PRICE Bt INCLUDED WITH WAGE PARLEY Program Favored by Operators for Peace Negotiations Is Not Liked by Workers. NEW YORK, Dee. 30.—)—An thr miners and operator to day expressed themselves deter- mined to remain in New York re gardless of the new holiday, until an agreement is signed wh will send 158,000 idle nm to work as quickly ye and boys as pos at stake on each the holi Inglis, ws ch is © take a rec said Major W. chairman of the ope negotiating committee, ing into joint wage conference the ‘The miners today reiterated their statement made in conference yes- terday that they were as much op: at Union League this afternoon. posed to arbitration now as they were four months ago. NEW YORK, “Dec 30. (®)—The question of arbi- tration appeared today to be the chief obstacle in the way of a settlement of the anthracite strike. Miners and op s ‘erence. yesterday with discussion in which issue 1 largel, argued it was tate wages and not A new pence prop with operators. byt the miners. The plan wa Markle, cha present xy Alvan rman. of .thW joint. con- feren Mr kle, who is minority er in a la ny near no yote-in the The plan calls f ment by President ¢ impartial eltizens to mendations to a joint committee of miners and operators, three representatives of each. event of a deadlock in the mittee of the industry, would have power votes, In reply to the miners’ Mr. Markle contend does ndt provide f sets up machiner the by Hazleton, conference Pa, the appoint- dge of three ubmit recom- joint com the citizens deciding arguments 1 that his plan arbitration but simi to that of onciiiation board created in 1903 th E n TEXAS C0. 1S _ MERGER TALK jeneral Pe Texas compan Oil compa t the ALL ed cold. wea- As a conseque a bt bas been Introduced In congre: ing the appropriation of hase of clothing and providing warm quar- ters for the poor, Only six automobiles which were reported stolen in Natrona county during 1926 have not been recovered, It was announced at the #heriff's of fice Tuesday night. Wifty three ma chines wete stolen during ear forty-seven were recoveted. This record revealg a decrease of 73 per cent from the total theft tw In at The pansiaeretis ‘1 In 1924 there x taken, “MENTIONEDIN anthracite coal strike co: mission appointed by President Roosevelt The conciliation board is composed of three miners and three operators. It settles matters of interpretation of the wage contracts that cannot be a at the mines between men nd management. When the mer of the rd ¢ t ag na muted point it is r 1 to an xpire appointed + l 1 T F a 1 . 1 sell ing f i ark plied t fa 1g committee could not go beyond imit ations of t and that'it woul iMAN 1S) HELD IF OR ASSAULT ON WOMAN ‘BUT 6 RECOVERED enting eftfor thorities here a the reduction in losses nS 18M Second St ‘ independent consisting of In the ~“ —w wie ie } wr we we ww we ue wow us use