Casper Star-Tribune from Casper, Wyoming • 1

1 ywij ij La mil JffiST-j I 1 1 i LIU WITNESS TELLS DETAILS BEFORE THE COMMITTEE a if'Pi'n amram ATI Minimum Reading at Casper 10 Below While Mercury Drops tc Weather Forecast Fair and continued cold tonight; Thursday fair with rising temperature by noon. VOLUME VI CASPER, THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1922. 48 at Worland; Train Behind Schedule on Most Roads; 1 Report of Freezing Tragedy Not Confirmed Ten degrees below zero, aggravated by a stiff wind which subtarcted several more digits from the temperature insofar as personal comfort is concerned, was the minimum reading here last night as the culmination of a cold wave that swept the western region from north to south during the last 24 hours. The temperature moderated greatly here this morning. Snowfall here was comparatively light, amounting to less than three inches, but it drifted before the wind.

Trains were running slightly behind schedule today, northbound passenger No. 29 on the flOliPY LABS OWE LUES TO fflSSMG, DEATH1 NOT REPORTED CHEYENNE, Jan. 19. Capture of four runaway Denver boys by a railroad special agent last night, after the youngsters with a single .22 rifle had held off a gang of pursuing foreigners armed' with shotguns during a running fight covering five miles, undoubtedly saved the boys from death from freezing in a 10-below zero temperature. The capture took place after the youngsters, Ernest the defiant boys by surprise and dis- NUMBER 86.

armed Lindenmeier. Nobody was wounded. The boys say they ran away from ho'me last Monday because they were displeased with their treatment there. They headed for Fort Laramie, where a friend of one resides, and left the train at Gleason, expecting to be able to reach Fort Laramie on foot before nightfall. Fort Laramie is 150 miles from Gleason.

The youngsters had only a single blanket and undoubtedly would have frozen to death had they not been captured. WYOMING LEADS NATION IN U. SlU BUSINESS CHEYENNE, Jan. 19. Wyoming leads in the handling of homestead land entries and applications for federal oil and gas prospectors' permits, according to a statement from the general land office received today at the land office here.

This statement shows that during the period covered Wyoming land offices handled Fir Suffering From Frozen Hands and Feet as Result of Extreme Exposure to Zero Cold on Highway Reports prevalent here today that two men had been frozen to death in the Salt Creek country are unfounded according to the findings resulting from extensive investigation by many Casper agencies. The reports are thought to have arisen from the fact that 0. J. Gerry and Ralph Pitt, two truck drivers in the employ of the Midwest Refining company, who left Salt E'S eonomoi! no? IS ORDERED TO mm 1H. BED TODAY CONGRESS ILL HNISH WORK BY JUNE 1.

REPORT Mondell Lines Up Legislation That Must Be Enacted Before Adjournment Next Summer Is Taken. WASHINGTON, Jan. 19. Expressing the earnest hope that congress might adjourn by June 1 and predicting that. the house would be through with its program in ample time to do this.

Floor Leader Mondell has outlined the more important legilative matters contemplated for the balance of the session. "There are a number of measures now well along on their legislative way which we expect to see completed during the session," the congressman said, "the moat important of which is the tariff bill. Its reasonably early enactment is highly important and earnestly hoped for. Other measures of importance which we hope to see enacted during the session, are the bill for refunding the foreign debt and that for the classification of federal em ployes. "I think it is now generally under stood that we shall proceed to the early consideration of, and in due time in this session enact, an adjusted compensation act for veterans of the world war.

It is highly important that that we shall before the close of the 'session outline a program of national participation in highway construction, covering a period of two and perhaps three years. It is. in my opinion, im portant and desirable that congress fehall at this session enact proper legis lation for the apportionment of repre sentation in congress under tha last census. "Other legislation that will be sched uled for consideration during the ses sion includes a permanent policy touching our merchant marine, and legislation making further provision for the establishment of more favor able conditions in agriculture. "For the first time in we shall be working in the matter of ap propriations under-a completely functioning federal budget system.

All of these things can ge accomplished, as far as the house is concerned, bv the first of June, and if the two bodies shall reasonably co-operate, as I feel confident they will, it 6eems altogether possible that we may complete the necessary program and adjourn sine die five months hence." BUFFALO, N. Jan. 19. Collusion between car thieves and railroad detectives was charged following the arrest here of five New York Central officers. The men arrested include Sgt.

John J. Walsh and William Jones. Both wore the uniform of the New York Central police force when they were captured. Twenty barrels ol alcohol, alleged to have been stolen on an earlier trip to the car was later found in a downtown warehouse. Mail Order Catalogues Again.

CHEYENNE. Jan. 19. The first of several carloads cf mall-order catalogues, consigned to Cheyenne for distribution in the tributary regions 6f Wyoming, Nebraska and Colorado, was received by the postofflce here today. ROME, Jan.

19. (By The Associated Press) The condition of Pope Benedict, who Is suffering from a cold, is not considered serious but he will be forced to remain In bed five or six days, it was said at the Vatican today. The cold has settled in the bronchial tubes. The correspondent was informed this morning that the pope's tern-, perature had subsided to almost normal. His Holiness is eating 1,377 entries and applications.

Mon-j forwarded to the Union Pacific Rail-tana was seccmd in the list, with 1,250, road company a petition urging ex-the business done by the offices in tension of the company's recently these two states comprising a very completed Yoder line to a connection large percentage done by that of the with the main line at or near Chey-99 United States land offices. jenne. Burlington being an' hour late this morning due to intense cold. Minimum temperatures of 32 below at Wendover and 48 below at Worland" were reported the railroad authori ties here. Northwestern train schedules were slightly interrupted by the cold.

The coldest points on the line were at Sho-shoni and Riverton, which reported 35 below today. At Chadron it was 20 below zero. Trains on southern Wyoming rail roads were reported to be running behind today, but all points reported the temperature to be rising rapidly today. Temperatures at several points fol- low. Lander, 34 below; Green River, 30; Cheyenne and Yellowstone park, 22.

Reports that two truck drivers had frozen to death on the Salt Creek road could not be confirmed today. The sheriff's office sent ari officer to investigate the rumor without results'. DENVER, Jan. 10. The cold wave which yesterday and last night swept over the Rocky Mountain region setting low temperature records for the year Is moving southward today and is being followed by a moderation, in according to J.

M. weather forecaster. Lander, with a temperature during the night of 34 degrees below zero was the coldest point in the eastern Rocky Mountain region. Cheyenne with a minimum temperature of 22 below held second place but early morning reports frcm that city show a gradual moderation. Denver was the coldest point in Colorado last night, the temperature dropping to 10 below zero which was followed by a gradual climbing of the mercury.

Salmon Supply Being Depleted WASHINGTON, Jan. 19. The sal mon supply in Alaskan waters will be completely wiped out within a few years if trap fishing is not prohibited, William Paul, an Alaskan fisherman of Indian descent told the house merchant marine and fisheries committee. He said that native fishermen In southeastern Alaska had subscribed a fund to send him 4,000 miles to explain the situation to congress. Mr.

Paul asserted that a radical change in policy was necessary to prevent a complete collapse of the fishing industry in Alaska. Traps placed at advantageous points catch as many as 75,000 salmon a day, Paul said. He severely criticised the bureau of fisheries which he declared had "failed to perform its duty at all stages" In its supervision of Alaskan fisheries. BEEF FOUND III SEKH FNraGD I0ITS CUTTLE THEFT While searching for a still which was known to be in operation on the Salt Creek road north of Casper, operatives of the sheriff's offic. here vis ited the homestead of Ole Dickson and in making a serch of the place found considerable quantities of beef.

Upon questioning Dickson he is said to have admitted illegal killing of cat tie. Further examination of the pro perty is said to have revealed a coil ard other evidence of illicit liquor operations. Dickson is now in jail here await ing official action. He is said to have been the manufacturer of moonshine whiskey for the sale of which Lee Mor rill was recently arrested. FGSEKKDH FLfc yPiM TREATY iVothing Unlawful in Act So Far as Known, Is Evidence Given WASHINGTON.

Jan. 19. The shooting of a soldier by a firing squad in France, was described to senate investigating alleged illegal executions today by George W. Yarbrough. of Roanoke, who said he was an eyewitness.

"During heavy shell fire near Chateau Thierrj-." said Tarbrough. "I was going up the road with other men when we saw a soldier, hia hands tied behind him, being marched toward the woods. The sight was so unusual it distracted our attention. There was an officer, I judged to be a major, in charge of the aquad and when they started to shoot the soldier, white boy about 20 years of age, he. asked that he be not blindfolded." The witness said he waa 20 step away when the command wag given, to fire.

He was positive the execution was in July, 1918. Yarbrough said he did not know whether there had been a trial and that he knew of no other execution. He testified that he had heard the soldier was 6hot for neglect of duty. He did not know to what command the man shot waa attached but said he understood the officer in charge of the firing squad was with an infantry regiment of the Third division. "I was close to the aquad.

all members of which fired at the command." Tarbrough said. "The soldier fell and the officer walked over, felt hia puis for a moment, and turned away. Then he ordered the squad to move on." "Was there anything about tha execution to make you believe it an abuse of power Chairman Bran-degee asked. "Nothing whatever, but I felt that if they had detailed a aquad to kill a man they hav detailed a squad to bury him." T. A.

Sinclair of Westville, Okla. testified that he saw three public executions at Is-Sur-Tille, or on more than shown there by the war department's record. Sinclair, who said his name had been sent to Senator Watson by the commander of a a American Legion poet at West villa, knew of no Illegal execution. Robert E. O'Brien of Des Moine Iowa, corroborated the testimony of Sinclair as to three executions at Ja-Sur-Tille.

"Hardbolled" Smith again crept Into the inquiry. Charles Leslie of Rochester. N. a lieutenant at the camj with Smith testifying that he never heard of a soldier being killed ther with clubs. RESIDENT EXGfTEO BY -MOONSHINE THREATENS TO SHOOT UP FAMILY Dire destruction was about to be visited upon Jthe family of a man who is listed at police headquarters as E.

Deshay, a resident of a section of Casper, when Detective Schmidt and McCrew having been called by neighbors interfered. According to information obtained at police headquarters today Deshay. apparently under the influence of quantity of bad moonshine, riled at some fancied offense threatened to take the life cf his wife and their son and then commit suicide. His intentions miscarried, however, due to the early arrival of the poiico representatives. Deshay was disarmed of caliber revolver, in police vernacular termed a suicide gun because of the fact that the person firing the gun generally euffera worao than the person fired upon.

Deshay was fined $25 by Judge P. A. Morris last nhfht, the only charge pushed against him being carrying concealed weapons. Seven gamblers, said to have been taken from a notorious place on th Sandbar were taken in cuntody by the police last night and will be given a hearing tonight. since, at was In 1909 that Dr.

Cook came out of tbe north with the claim to discovery of the pole on April 21. 1308, caused heated controversy with Admiral Peary who characterized Cook's claim as a "gold The Eskimo said he was aoout ready to end hia wanderings and to turn toward his home Igloo further north, trusting to his spear and knife to supply him with food on the way. The pork and coffee supplied by the timber cruiser were mo much to hia liking however, that he attached himself to him as official game killer. Clark 'wrote that fc was bringing ha notebook back to civilization. Premier Poincare Sets Forth National Aims In Presenting Platform to the Chamber of Deputies OO0ZE PROFIT WOULD PfiY DEDT GAQADIAH PREFER TELLS FAGli 'reek yesterday afternoon aro report-fd to still be missing.

Two men -who left Salt Creek for Kaycee yesterday afternoon are also i (-ported to be missing- These men, imported to either be government hank examiners or having other banking connections left Salt -Creek yesterday shortly before low temperatures set In followed by la gale of wind. The machine In which they left Salt Is said to have been located on I he road, apparently having been abandoned after som mechanical troubles were encountered. No trace of the missing men has been found. It ia also reported that they later reported at Salt Creek but telephonic communication with the field today failed to. establish this fact.

C. M. Cowan and R. Antrim. Midwest truck drivers, jrrlved here late lat night after having spent several hours on the Salt Creek road.

They had suffered Intensely from the cold find are said to have suffered either from frozen hands or feet. Mike Krepan also a Midwest employe. Is In a local hospital here suffering from the result of exposure to the low He Is said to have both hands and feet badly ri zen. The temperature dropped to 22 degree below at Salt Creek at 11 o'clock last night. Higher temperatures were recorded today but the wind la said to be blowing a gale today with the result that snow Is drifting badly.

IS CAPTAIN OF POLICE William Clayton, for many years a trsiilont of Camper, assumed the du-ti -s of captain of police this morn-1ng. sin-r ceding Sam L. Gaston, who iiHw nerved in this capacity for sev- I nl years. ornent of Mr. Gaston repre-f thf first change in management he police department ainca Chief -Alexander Nlsbet took charge.

A ppropriation For Air Service Seen HRVENNE, Jan. 19. Mondell of Wyoming from Washington that an appropriation for the transcontinental mail service would be Inserted In postofflce appropriation bill in- the f- date and that if it were so inserted ke 'lid "not anticipate any serious difficulty in conference." WILLIAM WITNESS FAILS TO PUT IN APPEARANCE, SHAW ACQUITTED BY COURT CHEYENNE, Jan. 19. A jury in the United States district court here was directed 'by Judge T.

B. Kennedy Tuesday to return a verdict of not guilty in the case of Leon Shaw, charged with having transported a stolen automobile from Billings, to Casper. The complaining witness failed to appear. Spencer Not Out for Secretary of State CHEYENNE, Jan. 19.

Percy C. Spencer, executive secretary of the Republican state committee, recently reported by northern Wyoming newspapers to be a candidate for the republican nomination for secretary of state, today depreciated the report stating that he was not at this time a candidate and that his political activity this year probably would confined to working for the success of. the Republican candidates for state and federal offices. KAIL CONNECTION ASKED. CHEYENNE, Jan.

19. The Cheyenne Chamber of Commerce has immediate discussion of inter King-Offers to Sell Menagerie, Cincy In Mart SOFIA. Jan. 19. King Boris of Bulgaria is the modern "man with an elephant on his hands" and he vvantsj to sell part of his private menagerie to an American park or a circus.

In particular ho would like to of txn and several fine wbich are now in -he grounls of the summer palace near Sofia, The menagerie was established by former Emperor Ferdinand and the appetites of the elephant and buffaloes are so great that King Boris is hard pressed to feed them out of his slender income. CINCINNATI. Jan. 19. When Sol Stephen, manager of the Cincinnati zoo was shown the Associated Press dispatch stating that King Boris, king of Bulgaria wishes to sell his private menagerie because of the expense of its upkeep, Stephen sent a cablegram to the king saying that he will buy the elephants and buffaloes if their 'afe landing in New York is i-Tun fin teed.

AUTO THIEF SENTENCED T0 18 MONTHS PEN CHEYENNE. Jan. 19. Clarence G. Brown, member of the so-called "Frederickso gang," of alleged Colorado-Wyoming automobile thieves Monday afternoon In the United States district court here pleaded guilty of transporting a.

stolen automobile from Colorado to Wyoming. He was sentenced by Judge Kennedy serve eighteen months in the Leavenworth penitentiary, PARIS, Jan. 19. (By The Associated Press). Firm treatment of Germany and strict execution of the peace treaties were demanded by Premier Poincare today in presenting his new cabinet to parliament and reading its statement of policy in the chamber of deputies.

Llndenmeir, 13, Marvin Maus, 13. Jim Mumpower, 14 and Christian Brandt, 14, are alleged to have burglarized the Colorado and Southern bunkhouse at Gleason. ten miles south of Cheyenne, occupied by a gang of foreign laborers. Tho foreigners observed the boys leaving the place and seizing shotguns gave chase. Opening fire when the youngsters refused to halt.

Llnden-meler replied with a .22 calibre rifle and an exchange of shots continued for five miles, the pursuit endingwhen the special railroad agent approaching in an automobile from the rear took very little and has been ordered to remain quiet. Cardinal Gasparri and other Vatican prelates are constantly near him. Pope Benedict has never known what it is to be really ill and it is difficult for him to remain in bed. He kept on conducting jthe affairs of the church after the first symptoms of illness appeared until Cardinal Gasparrl's urgings were successful in inducing him to take to his bed. i sumption of wine, rather than push the sale of spirits.

To that end a puchasing office will be established in Paris, to buy wines directly from the producers in France, Italy, Spain and Portugal. These supplies will be delivered to consumers in Quebec at HtUe mere than cost. JOSEPH M. CAREY GOES EAST WITH GOVERNOH CHEYENNE, Jan. 19 Former Governor Joseph M.

Carey, who has been in poor health for several months, Tuesday accompanied his son. Governor Robert D. Carey, on an eastern trip. The former gover- nor, who is accompanied by. Mrs.

M. Carey, will stop at Philadelphia, while Governor Carey will go to Washington to attend the agricultural conference called by Secretary Wallace. "Heretofore courses have been maintained for regular officers and for national guard officers," it says. "We are now inaugurating the systematic instruction of the third component of the army of the United States the organized reserves." Sufficient funds are available at the present time, the letter continues, for conducting a course of instruction in field artillery subjects at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, for a limited number of artillery reserve corps officers. The plans tentatively approved call for two officers from each corps area to attend the 10 weeks' course which begins March 1.

QOKJ GiWEIil QUEBEC, Jan. 19. (By The Associated Press.) Profits from liquor sales in the province of Quebec will pay off the public debt in 20 years, maintain roads and provide funds for education, according to a report prepared by Premier Tascherau for submission to the legislature in its present Premier Poincare accepted an pellations, thus delaying the appeal to the chamber for a vote of confidence. The ministerial declaration declared that the problem of reparations dominates all others and that if Germany fails to fulfill her undertakings upon such a capital the French parliament must, after consultation with the reparations commission, examine measures to be adopted to enforce fulfillment. The flrest of these measures, the premier declared, will be the establishment of serious and effacious control of Germany's budget, hei issuance of paper money and her exports.

The declaration emphasized that other clauses of the treaty of Versailles, such as disarmament and pun- ishment of those guilty of war crimes, must be fulfilled. Healing- with the proposed Anglo-French treaty, the premier declared: ''We would be very happy if a pact destined to consolidate the peace could soon be signed between England and France-, and we do not doubt that, inasmuch as both countries will be benefited, that one would be concluded between them on a basis of perfect equality. Neither do we doubt that the guarantees present or future, that the treaties accord us would be integrally maintained." The' statement refers to the relations between France and the United States in a paragraph reading: "We do not need aid. We seek to maintain the strongest and most friendly relations with all the peoples who fought on our side for the rights of humanity, and especially with the United States, whose co-operation contributed greatly it tue common vic-o-y and who has jupt us at the Wafrhrngton conference such striking proofs of her noble sentiments." TWINS ARRIVE. Casper's first set of twins in many months arrived here Tuesday right and are now comfortably housed in the home of Mr.

and Mrs. C. L. Goughler, 910 South Jackson street. The youngsters, one a boy and the other a girl, and the mother are getting along nicely.

session Basing his finding on the business done since May, 1921, when the liquor trade became a government monopoly, the premier estimated that the yearly profit would be $4,000,000. Besides $28,000,000 loarr municipalities for road building and provided for by sinking fund. Quebec's debt ia $23,000,000. The governmmt sold $9,325,727 worth of liquor from May 1 to December 31, 1921. "Much of the liquor," he explained, "was sold to outsiders, hundreds of thousands of visitors coining into the province to enjoy a little liberty," From the moral, as well as financial standpoint, Quebec liquor laws have proved successful, Mr.

Tascherau claims. No doubt," he admits, "some drunken men are to be found. They will always be found, and there are more of them In prohibition communities New York for example." The premier announced the government planned to encourage the con States with the French guns. They have been accepted as the standard light gun for the regular army and the national guard, and In time of national emergency would be issued to the organized reserves. "The American 75 millimeter gun," says an official communication issued by the office of the chief of field, artillery, "la an experimental split trail gun, with which several regiments have heretofore been equipped.

The shortage of Avid artillery troops makes It Inadvisable to continue further experimental work with this gun." In extending the instruction to organized reserve officers, the' letter says, a new departure in army train-lug haa boen made, FIMEIivIGIKI ge jOh 15 COOK FOU1M RECORDS OTGLLEEIMY WOTES CPLORER WASHINGTON, Jan. 19-(By Tli Assoriatod Press) Training of rttulHr army troops with American modeled 73 millimeter guns will be "iifoontlnued and training with the FTioh 73's will be extended to ar-tiiWy units of the regular the national guard and of-irs of the organized reserves. Or-ler already have been issued by, rhlef of field artillery, it was Ju ried today, directing organiza-'-na In tha regular army equipped "'1'h the American models to turn In for tha French type re-P ofrnenta. ft is tha policy cf the field artll-- chf to equip artil-brigade atatioued la tha United- A. Cook.

The pages contained notes on weather, conditions of ice floes and other memorandum. Eighty-nine degrees latitude waa the artheet north position decipherable, Clark wrote. Clark said he learned that the lone occupant of the igloo was a wanderer of the wilderness. He had been with the Cook expedition, he Indicated one of the few who stayed with the explorer after his party had been split by blizzards, thinned by scanty provisions and forced to turn back when the dogs went mad. Before leaving, the man said he took the notebook and other article and had been carrying them OLD TOWN, Maine.

Jan. 19. A hobo on Arctic traits who had with him a notebook and other relics of Dr. Cook's expedition of 14 years ago is described in a letter received here from Kenneth M. Clark, a Harvard graduate, who is in the tlm-berlands in the northern Quebec wilderness.

Exploring a strange trail with a guide, Clark wrote he found a rough igloo, nearly buried in enow. was a lone Eskimo or half breed, "Ylothed in furs. A notebook in a corner of the hut, together with papers and bits of metal apparently parts of a sextant, caught Clark's eye and examination of the book disclosed ih name of Dr. Frederick.