Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 24, 1926, Page 1

bly snow north partion; colder northeast portion Sunday. he Casper VOL, XXXV THIRTY-FOUR PAGES TODAY F WEATHER | WYOMING — Unsettled | Sunday and Monday, proba A Cowardly Tax. The Mojave Desert. See It, Before You Die. a Argentine Ants. NHIS congress should change the unwise inheritance tax that dis- courages effort. A punitive inheritance tax is cow- ardly, because it takes money from a dead man. Why not take it from him while he is alive, iastead of waiting to take it from his widow and children? It is an unwise tax, because by such a tax business men of middle - age atthe height of their constructive 4 ability but facing possibility of death | | dread new undertakings. The death tax collectors might find their affairs too much “spread out,” and destroy their estate by excessiv tax collecting. To tuke taxes from the ing and Jet the dead alone would be a good plan. Mr. Mellon and President Coolidge recommend A particularly vicious _ proposal which would make the inheritance tax worse than it is now, is that the natioral government would diserim- inate against states like Florida, that that collect no inheritance tax. The plan would be to give a» dead man credit for his local state inheritance tax, the nation ec -eting only as much as he state failed to collect, of the total federal tax. In other words, as Col. Peter 0. Knight, of Tampa, points out, the Scheme would be for the federal gov ernment to collect from a man dying ‘in Florida five times as much as from a man dying in New York state. Even if such a tax con Stitutional it would be xtremely stupid. To punish the citizens of Flori or of any other state, because their local government has the dece to leave its hands off the property of a dead man, is a strange suggestion. \HIS is written in Fred Harvey's hot™ at Barstow, Calif, on the Mojave Desert. W, T. Koster of Pasadena brings you here from Pasa- dena driving a high powered car, in three hours and a half, over a road that runs along the base of giant mountains, up over the Cajon Pass, 4,000 feet high, then down upon the floor of this desert, which is 2,000 feet above the level of the Pacific. No matter where you live in the inited States, make up your mind to this country as soon as you car {all the country that lies between F the two oceans. Whoever will can . FA do it, expensively and grandly, or Y economically, and with infinitely greater enjoyment. One man in Ch'cago read about the Hodge brothers alfalfa ranch, near the Hodge postoffice and rail- Way station just west of Barstow Te Je up his mind to see the lesert land on which you can raise even crops of alfalfa per year, by giving water to the marvelously fer: ile land. He boucht a second-hand Ford dar for $35, fixed the car up « ittle, and sold it for $55. Now he js living hers and getting rea! alley, or «i the like the library. topend far from being a as the Nile This land, desert, is as fertile lacking only the Nile wa urface, The deep soil ‘ows of books in a great What you get ont of them mn what th s in you. 5, Here t ater, a gr a Sble riv s just helo and the electricity to brought down from wate ountains, is cheap at inexhaust the surface pump it, alls in the v For instance, it takes 509 pounds f we‘er to preduce one pound of al- PM fulfa. On 17 acres, the Hodge broth a raised this season 150 tons o mumped 150,000,000 pounds of w The power cost for the sea: just $260, no worry about r onstant sunshine, rip 22 days. iet your car, big or little, start for te Pacific coast, keep going until fou get there, stop Hod, just rest of Barstow, and get thy Hodge rothers to tell you about this des The Casper Sunday Tribune and The Casper Herald r Crilnm e-Hivralp CASPER, WYOMING, SUNDAY, JANUARY 24, 1926 THIRTY-FOUR PAGES WAR THREAT IN to Release Russian Railway Chief. MOSCOW, Jan. 23.—(@)—Events ing to do with the Chinese East- ern railway difficulty between Rus- sia and China assumed a grave char- acter today with the dispatch of a note by M. Tchitcherin, soviet for- eign minister, to the soviet ambas- sador, M. Karakhan, at Peking, giv- Ing the Chin government 72 hours in which to release M. Ivan- off, Russian general manager of the railway, and restore order along the line. If the Chinese authorities are un- 1ble, with their forces, to restore normal conditions, the soviet gov- ernment seeks permission to employ its own troops, “to defend the reci- procal interests of both countries. Tehitcherin has directed Karakhan to transmit a copy of the note to Marshal Chang Tso-Lin, the Man- hurian dictator. The fact that 1 in his own Ivanoff was arrest- house in Harbin by order of the commander-in-chief of the Chinese troops gives the affair a particularly disagreeable character In the eyes of the soviet authori- ties, who assert that Chang Tso-Lin made no attempt to settle matters by a peaceful discussion. prior. to he arrest. OFFICERS SEIZE BiG STILL HERE Police officers Friday night raided 239 ‘West B street and confiscated a complete moonshine plant in full operation. At the time of the raid no one was around the distillory and officers have been unable to dis- cover the owner, One seventy-five gallon still was discovered operating from two gas stoves. Twenty five gallons of mash was found ready to be used besides fifteen gallons of completed -noon Six empty fifty gallon barrels were In the loot. All the equipment was taken to the police station awaiting the claims of the owner. POLICE NAB ASSORTMENT OF LIQUORS of the juor and local police found South David fiscated property included two rub. hot water bottles, one of which ‘ontained moonshine. Six pint bot- tles and a gallon jug containing moonshine. a pint bottle of beer, a quart of kimmel cordial also were included. ‘The ra'ders found several mpty kegs on the lot In the rear. he stuff was hau'ed to the police on in the patrol wagon. There was no one at the house when the raid was made, but short. y afterward a man who gave his One widest assortments of containers which brought to light ernoon at et. The con quor have str ber s Pete Hines reported at po iquarters and, it ts said, laimed t liquor. He was released inder bond S. R. Owens, head of the raiding quad, and Officers Berry, Williams, 8 SHLIOH Weun + (Continued on Page Four) Wright and Ideen made the raid. » OL c EXAS CO. SUED FOR $14,236 BY 1 aE. FE. WILLIAMS Sult has been instituted In the istrict. court fo: $14,286 to be ro- overed from the Texas Oll company y the &. T, Willlams company, th operating in sper, The petition states that April B, 1 a partnership contract was Drined between the two companies foviding that of! taken from the dings of the B. T, Williams was p be refined by the Texas company Ind the proceeds from che sale of ich oll eqaally divided vetween the © companies, This is only a part the stipulations in the agree ent, on The E. T, Williams now holds that ils refined {n part of the year 1925 amounted to $148,508, half of which according to the petition, or $74,254, was due to the Willlams company, it is further charged, however, that the Texas, in viola- Hon of the contract paid the &. '. Williams firm only $60,077, All the ofl was to be sold at current market prices. The B. T. Willams now asks that the court award the additional $14 236 and interest from August 1, 1 There was no mention that the contract might be cancelled, CHINESE CLASH 'Chang Given 72 Hours Conference to Be Convoked This Week at Plea of Miners But Operators ‘Are Cool Toward New Offer is. based is fundamentally unsound and does not affect a satisfactory basis for a conference. The call for the meeting will issued from Hazelton, Pa.. morning by Alvan Markle, ators and miners. it was said, fore the time fixed. he held in 3 Many Interest and place could w York next week President Lewis suggested any coal region city or New York, as the op- erators preferred. The request for the meeting was be Sunday chairman of the joint conference of the oper- had to be consulted be- be The conference probably will STRIKE PARLEY TO MEET AGAIN einen MOSCOW HUALS PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 23. —(?)—Anthracite miners and operators will meet again in joint conference in a few na for another battle to end the long coal strike. The meeting will be held at the request of John L.| Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, but the operators already have served notice that the plan on which the call for further .onference made by Lewis in a letter to Markle early in the day in which he stated that both W. W. Inglis, chairman of the operators’ negotiating com- mittee, and the miners had accept- ed by EB. J. Lynett, Scranton Times. Lewis notified Markle that “in principle’ the plan offered publisher of the the miners would move that the confer- ence be open to because “many the misleading state public press ments as to what actually transpired in the recent conference in New York have caused confusion and misunderstanding in the public mind.” » ‘The operators made public through the Associated Press their reaction to the mine leaders’ call in a letter. to Chairman Markle, signed by In- lis. on behalf of the This letter ended as follows: negotiators. “We do not want to be accused of reentering negotiations under false CARDINAL MERCIER, BELGIAN | } colors, and we, therefore. ask to advise Lewis In advance of any meeting of our position with refer-‘ ence to the Lynett plan,” | The letter was telephoned to Mar- kle and also taken to Hazelton by special messenger. Markle, got in touch with President Lewis 6nd ap- prised him of its contents. Lewis, it is understood, did not change his position for a conference. It was made known late tonight by James A. Gorman, secretary of the joint conference that Chairman Markle would defer announcement of the time and place until tomor- row mornin, CREW SAVED WHEN PLANE TAKES DIVE ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla., Jan. 23.— (#)—Little the worse for their ex- nerience, the three men composing the crew of the naval seaplane 1-8-8, which gank today. {n the At- lantic ocean, twelve miles north of here, are receiving medical attention in_a local hospital tonight, When the plane was forced down, the struts of ‘the pontoons were broken, ‘Che ship sank within twen- ty-five minutes but the crew man- you aged to maneuver the pontoons, ashore, ‘. They are receiving attention for numbed muscles sustained {n their battle with the rough seas, ‘ARDNAL MERCIER ENGINEERS TOUR CITY TODAY Nelson of Laramie Elected President, Newell, Casper, Vice-President; Business Sessions Concluded A tour of inspection today of the oil refineries, water system, streets and pavements, showing the part the engi- neers have played in the development of the city, was the | °c” final event on the three-day program of the annual con- vention of the Wyoming Engineering society held here at the city hall. The final business of the conven- tion.was taken up at the banquet it the Henning hotel last night at which J. Q. Naret, secretary of the society, presided as toastmaster. Frank C. Emerson, state engineer, ind Dean Hay, of the engine department of the University of Wyoming, were the principal speak ers on the banquet program mer K. Nelson of Laramie elegted president of the society for the ensuing year, W. C. Newell of asper was elected vice president and J. Q. Naret of Cheyenne was re- elected secretary-treasurer. ‘The next annual convention of the so- clety will be held at Chéyenne. The casper-Alcoya project, was the Riverton and Saratoga projects are fu- three important factors in the ture development of the water sources of the state and should be considered as one big project with the entire citizenship co-operating, according to Frank C. Emerson, in a discusison of the water resourc of Wyoming, merson pointed. out that ming has a potential 1,300,000 » power in water and of this amount only 10,000 horse power has been utilized. braska does not haye all of our water yet, but it isacase of ham: mering away to keep it for bene- fielal ws merson declared in an appeal to the citizenship of the state to, co-operate in every possible way to preserve and utllise the water re sources. Dean Hay gaye t. talk on the ten- dencies of engineering education, at the present time and used a number of motion. pleturé slides showing statistics compiled from the records of colleges in the United States and Canada. Out of each 100 students entering college, only twenty-nine graduate, and the public high school turns out 77 per cent of the students who en- ter college, according to these statistics, “There is more opportunit for the graduate engineer in Wyoming than any other part of the country, and we urge our engineers to con- tribute their share tq the vast de- BURBANK MODIFIES HIS ATHEIST MANIFESTO TO PLEASE FELLOW MASONS adn. SANTA ROSA, Calif., (®)—As an“ aftermath of his , nouncement that be did not believe in the God of Moses and Isaih, the is and dogmas of revealed re- Ming and Ambrose Hemingway ell of Casper, and Ben C. engineer of Laramie. Because the state of Wyoming has no sanitary engineer to work in connection with various cities in the state in construction and operation of thelr water supply systems, the Federal government has an igion, or in the persistence of per: sonal identity after death, Luther Burbank, noted plant culturist, was ked today. by Masonic friends how velopment necessary in this state,”| he “squared” his belief with his Dean Hay said in his talk. membership in that froternity. Bur A number of’ extemporaneous | bank recently had conferred on him talks and tonsts were given at the| the thirty-third degree (honorary) of close of the banquet by EB. C. Gwil.| Scottish Rite Masonry lum. of Sheridany W Newell, | Burban ive was", that =the Lloyd Smith, Frank Knittle, city en-| ea of & supreme being as expressed ineer; C. B. afford, Jesse Spelt ae n, C. H, Bowman, John Smith Bellamy, made Investigation of the situation and| ‘phe will of J. 8. Mechling, Casper condemned the system of almost) 41115 ho "algae De : everyitownrin' the state,) Dr. GM. |S rome. mena who died” December Anderson of the state health ¢e-| 12, 1925, has been admitted to pro partment told the engineers in an| bate by Judge Bryant S. Cromer on address Saturday morning, Dr. Anderson pointed out that the Federal government could not force petition of Mrs. ministrix of the es' of the estate is not stat fola Mechiin eh the people of the state not to drink| it Is believed it will be Ia Mr water from these sources, but that | Mechling having been a large stock railrohds as interstate carriers were | holder !n several oll companies and seriously affected by this condition,| the Peoples’ Finance and ‘Vhrift and urged the Wyoming Engineer-| company. ing society to get behind the mat Beneficiaries of the will are er of the appointment of a state| as the widow, Mrs. J. S M sanitary engineer, and the two sons, John) Y. and (Continued on Page Four) and two daughters, Julia, Allee and \Big Industrial Edition to. Place | All State at Your Finger Tips| Wyoming at your finger tips. The Industrial edition of the Casper Tribune-H. next Sunday morning. will include all the vital inforn to city, county and state Authorities in Id, to be issued ion pertaining the agricultural, mining, stock raising and other industrial and non-industrial pursuits that are important to the people of this community have been enlisted in the edition to make a con prehensive review of the last year in Wyoming Information on the Tasper-Alcova project, which to many !# as difficult as the Einsteln theory, will be covered in a complete manner, among other Items of interest The Casper Tribune-Herald the Wotld’ Almanac ts to the Industrial nation will be to Wyoming what a ESTATE LEFT TO HIS FARILY | in Masonry was ni accords his beliefs and ideals. believed [n a supreme Lind but that } was spivitual-and phic in any sense he “plant wiz: 1 great ers in sor nee with He said he power of some {dea was that It not anthropomor- ard” said that vir. reformers had been of the accepted tual dist tenets of religion. “Why was Christ he taught a which the Jews hk been the ¢ The ¢ crueific Be new trine id not approve. It ut » time, ‘Advatial Laden British Vessel to Be Released E DE OTEL FIRE Ge. Gey pK 12 Bodies ee from Ruins and 5 are Still Missing in Pennsylvania ALLENTOWN, Pa., Jan. 23—(#)—Twelve bodi been recovered tonight from the ruins of the Lafayette hotel, the city’s oldest hos- telry, which w destroyed by flames At le mr unaccounted and.were t The walls, dynamited task of the se Nine of tho fied. They wei Alexander ‘Troup, Boardman, Clearfield count Vennsylve ania Willle Sha James McKeever, James M. Wel Mrs. © Anna Meadow, George ly today. for tho ruins. will be the chers less dangerous. identi sons were still ught to be ir still standing, tomorrow to make bodies were Allentown. votnak, Beaver Levan, Allentown John Pelchan, Allentown. John A, Schiffert, former police serg Allentown, Schnecksvi! are in hospitals. Mrs, Ida Hansen Thirteen person: The cause of the blaze was still undetermined tonight. Herbert W uth, director of public safety, sa e wold be a thore gation of a report that, just befor the first cry of fire there explosion in a room on fidor. Guests on the fourth and fifth (top) floors, u » to escape through by the hallways, were hanging from windows. when the firemen ar- rived. Nets were of little use be- cause of an old-time narrow roofed poreh that extended the whole width 02 the first floor. One aged man, until fire sh inve: an per unable to hold on nen could reach him with . ladder, dropped with a ery of ter- ror, landing on the roof of the porch He was dead when reached. THREE KILLED IN COLORADO ‘MINE TRAGEDY st five } s an| ig OF GREAT WAR SLINGS FTE VALIONT FIGHT, AGED 74 Firm Stand for Rights of People in Face of Invader’s Threats Won World Fame. BRUSSELS, Jan. —(P) —Cardinal Mercier, primate of Belgium, died at 3 o'clock this afternoon and the pass ing of the great patriof and great churchman was an- yunced by the tollin it the lar He died peace with eye on the crucifix, and surrounded by his family. The funeral will take place at Malines on Thursday and the body was taken to that clty tonight. It will He in state In the Arch-E ‘opal residen The t ing of national funeral ser v be decided upon by the council of ministers. Half an hour before th: cardinal's mind, traordinartly « nd, the which had been ar and keen, t to fail. Breathing became diffi and at exactly 3 o'clock his head fell forward slighu In the last he 1 1 the har r A nun held e had placed other hand in whi ghted candle. ng Albert, and ame to St. Jean clinic when th learned of the passing of the car dinal and remained for utes silently ‘beside the bie the body lay clothed Prince ralm . Where in ceremonial robes. Prior to this, Burgomas Max came-personally to record tl nelent war-time all rdinal Mercier died as he had lived, at peace with men of will, but fighting grimly again: inroads of insidious diseases weeks with the same resolute and undaunted courag with which ho bad faced the enemies of his coun- try, during four long rs of ov- cupation. ‘This prince of the church, above all men, © of the Belg under the German m During was the ne the seven his well-filled life all the precepts ¢ was no passive martyr 0 scripture RIFLE, Colo., Jan. 28.—()—The] smitten on the Jett cheek boc of Ernest Otten, trapped fn the| turn the right,” he Harvey Gap mine, 16 miles north-| to F Whitlock, the American east of here, by an explosion this| minister {n the days of 1915, when morning, was found by workers late} the German General Von Bissing today, bringing the death toll of the} kept him virtually a prisoner ir blast to three. palace at Malines, “bnt it la The wo other jctims of the ex-|no r mut what we r plosion today were Dan Bracken, | thereafter.” lease holder, and operator of tl How the great in if mine, nd William Cook, six-year that omission all the wor kno on Frank Cook, a miner The cardinal’s prin t Bracken was pushing a of| life since the y been 1 ‘onl out of the mine when t 6 blast | ¥ » bring the | mur w 1 and his body and fragments | F 1 and th Ror i ’ I pa of bulldir him. Re: kers attributed the All the newspapers publishe cident to a flareback from a heavy | cial ditions — thi enin charge’ of blasting material nouncing the cardinal’s death, whi — Se provoked consternati general despi) the fact that everyone k Snow and Cold _ |i carainat's aava wore numveren Are Forecast in West This Week WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 outlook for the weel be Northern Ft mountain plateau regions—A period of ear ubout the middle and and | snows again BOSTON, Jan. 23.—(#)—The Brit ish schooner Oak-lee, seized uff Cape Cod on January 20, laden with 6,000 gallons of alco will be ased it was announc he de sion was reach nference by tween United Si ney Wil Hams and equ ‘or the owners of the ship, The vessel w nd from th nd, realed and re captain explained that eather had driven him off At the end of week ___ will avers cold for temperatures the week Belgium, throughout the length and breadth of the land Is in ¢ mol ing Desire Mercier Cardin M line Prince of ¢ ire nd “A striking figure before the world by the most ru less war {ttle known outside Vatician or beyond thi rder He glum prior to 1914 a1 t < (Continued on Pe se Four) HOT SPRINGS “HIJACK” CASE CLOSED BY JURY IN KELLY’S ACQUITTAL al to the ‘Tribune-Herald,) Mi RMOPOLIS, Wyo., Jan. 3 Hot Springs county's sensational “hijacking” ¢ close quittal of 8 brought night with alph A, Kelly on a charge of assaulting Arthur Gwyn, county commissioner with. the quent dismissal similar charge that had been placed against P, A. Tucker The case the jury at 3 n'olock yesterday afternoon and the jury delivered its verdict at 8 o'clock last night. toa the ac- went to Kelly furnished an alibi, offering evidence to prove that he was at with his family from 9 until lock the night of August: 6, the time at which the attack on Gwyn's ranch wag made. Tucker was to have been tried on imilar Aree, that ainst Kelly had been proved ay an sinc had been held | accomplice of Kelly's Norman 8, I wie, Hagens of ( case, The def sented by Lin I Ms and Enterlin A tr f Hquor long to Kelly was Watson ranch near of August 4, 1924, t Hale, Deputy Sherif on and others, ' Hquor was taken to the Gwyn ranch 1 lef In chargo of Hal On the next night the ranch house sur unded by several car A man ent up to the house and age Gvyn in conversation when the Int er stepped to the di (Continued on F —