Wyoming State Tribune (Newspaper) - February 10, 1921, Cheyenne, Wyoming Leading Albany County Republican Paper Favors Substitute for Kabell Primary Ejection SPACES TODAY WYOMING STATE TRIBUNE 27, NUMBER Leading Newspaper FEB. 10, 1921 Member Associated Press PRICE FIVE CENTS STATE MUST MEET ANOTHER EXPENSE HOUSE VOTES DOWN JENKINS PROVIDING FOR OIL CONTROL AT EXPENSE OF AND APPROVES OF FREE MAKING STATE PAY FOR WORK OF CONSERVATION I What appeared finally to resolve itself into a scrap be- VL een the Standard Oil company and the led the Union and the ended in a decision for fie former Thursday morning when the lower house voted flown the Jenkins for the conservation of the petroleum and resources of the state and forthwith gave its proval to the rival Free Th defeated which M ufh to levy a tax of 2 mills in order to pay for the i was opposed on the that it would tend to dis- the growth of the oil in- in and to keep both big and s m. it was defended BESIEGED MURDERER FINALLY CAPTURED Feb. 10. six-hour battle today be- tween a who had shot and killed a woman in the house where he was and nearly 100 policemen and resulted in his being and the injuring of four high pressure fire sulphur candles and other weapons were used to dislodge the who had barricaded self in the The siege began after the who was known as liam had shot Grace a and thrown her body out of the on thf Kro that it would pre- vent greatest natural exhausted and by all con- i pmed the Standard Oil it- The ion s inr i v as for the that it is wanted Oil and only In did an MARINES WRECK A NEWSPAPER OFFICE FOR STORIES USED 11 tin AV ASHING Feb. 10 Twenty-one marines at- to the legation guard at have been arrested by American military a result if the et mi un ana was ing of the of the newspaper o grounds that it L t TribunaT Secretary i to thp Daniels announced tod y. Captain t It would j commanding Die to t tro reported that the men at- used by these ked the newspaper plant .as j opposing the Of the publication of what used by the ti regarded as and IPH icv appeared regarding the tee the have i has articled 1 in 1 oaring f learned to they are o u t I i bf 1 Oi Oil IIP II thf V published by the nnn in its New All we're asking is a to pay the expense i the state's re- Hynds is reputed three or four didn't have a. thing before We now haAe the icle of beautiful Colorado built by Wyoming Yet these men would have the school children of cute robbed of their heritage an have 2 mill tax per barrel j on these rich oil com- I Beach to 1'int I said the state geologist a rrook and that the Standard is a bunch of said a broad statement on his 14" I trust them as much as f ihp or any of If I hadn't been g st this before I oppose it The real here is whether we want T persecute the oil companies or them to We want 1 them come into the state bring money to the state and i f p the grow rich and Finally Voted and Beach argued in ot the and Noblitt opposed It. motion that it be for passage was that it be postponed waa then Beach demanded a loll call on his motion to except from the committee of whole import that portion killing the The vote was and it 12 for no excepting and 29 In the meanwhile the Tree had been approved out discussion and with no one in the the entire morning was spent in consideration of the two u F. n g he special sr i in Central in to to M i. ri Like charge ot the i court nf ir 11 iM- and conn 11 probably Date of Election Set for March 16 and Polling Places Announced Will Replace a Former Laramie Paper Opposes Repeal of Primary Law The two measures introduced by Senator Oviatt in the senate with reference to the primary law have been and yesterday a third was sent in by Senator Kabell of Uinta which is simply an act to repeal the primary election law and to remove it entirely from the The Republican believes that this is going too It is understood that another measure is being introduced today which while amending the present law and seeking to remedy some of its the Republican believes that there things in the present law which need yet will not do away with the primary and will let it remain as a court of which of course is the essential idea underlying the present It IN to be hoped that the Kabell will not be but that the substitute measure will receive the attention and approval of both houses of the The primary principle is too valuable a one to be chucked over even if the present law has defects and needs Undoubtedly Senator views will be more near ly met by the substitute as his efforts were ly focused on trying to cure some of the tures of the present law rather than its CONSPIRACY UNIONS IS ALLEGED PETITION DENIED BY BOARD WYOMING EMPLOYES HIT BY REDUCTION Feb. wage out of 1 per cent 000 employees -ol the turing department of the dard Oil company of Indiana effective February 16 was an- formally today by R. W. chairman of the board of The board announces this reduces the wages to about the rate of pay of March 1, 1920, when an In- crease of 11.11 per cent based on increased living went into Tbe reduction will apply to employees of refineries ing those at and Colo. E. M. HEAD 0F RAILROAD WINS FIGHT BEFORE UNITED STATED LABOR ON WAGE AGREEMENT TION AFTER SCORING AN ACCEPTABLE SUBSTITUTE The naval secretary the Attack as and and declared that he had no patience with men in the uni- form who took the law into their own Band at Casper Asks City Funds Feb. Casper city band asked the city for funds with which to maintain its municipal musical tion during the coming year at the city council meeting last night at the city One member of the band suggested the sum of as being enough to the expenses of such an during the year The band was too late in asking i IT pal the M Ta t r i The introduced by Senators Skovgard and Sibley Wednesday which it is expected will be substituted for Senator primary election repeal is attracting favorable The does not alter or I ify the primary election in any essential vote on tue i provide that political parties may call worth of j state or county conventions at least forty days before the to build a I primary election as at present make nominations sewer or any ov au Offices to be voted for in the and v. on Marc i may convention nominations for a place upon the primary Other candidates may get upon the mary ballet in the same manner as they do The contains an important ment Those who are accepted as Kin g for the voters in the primary may be certified as duly registered passed by the entitled to vote in the general or issue a calling the City Clerk J. J. another the polling j city commissioners three weeks These bonds replace the bonds which were at a special election July 29, 1919, which bore so low a rate of interest that the market would not absorb them at near par The new bonds are redeemable after 10 and are due and payable at the end of twenty They bear Polls at the special election will open at 9 a. and remain open until 7 p. m. Following are the polling Ward one: Precinct 1, South Side Fire precinct 2. Eagles precinct Burlington Ward Two: Precinct 1, Dr. precinct 2, precinct 3, nor's precinct 4, Smalley's Ward Precinct 1, tral fire precinct 2, city court city and county ments this year through this for a special levy to secure any i 3, capitol money except by special precinct 4, Barlow transfer precinct 5, Corlett precinct 6, GEOLOGIST BECOMES INSANE AT CASPER Feb. prominent geologist employed by the Midwest Refining suffered a temporary case of in- sanity Sunday and has been placed under the care of cians at the Casper Private It is believed that it Is only a temporary REFUSES TO GIVE OUT INFORMATION ON PACT Colby refused today to transmit to the senate foreign re- lations committee information of negotiations with Japan looking to the framing of a new treaty to meet the situation created by the adoption of the California anti- alien Perry's Would Open Up Coal Lands of State A which is attracting con- of way over any such lands or attention and bringing adjacent lands sufficient to out the fire of the big ones is ble' such associations of lulls Just before noon the house MM. reached the measure sponsored by atOr Perry's File the Platte county delegation and j an act to amend section 4938 of designed to give the people an op- the Wyoming Compiled 1920> for the of eminent domain and the taking PETE GOT HE BUT THEN IT 1NMT you get what you want you don't want what you wanted at runs tHe refrain of a late popular Pete got what he and didn't want it at and wanted what he didn't want when he got what he you know what that Pete Johnson showed up before Justice of the Peace Housman yesterday afternoon on complaint of his wife who charged Pete with attempting to beat threatening to kill her and a few Judge after hearing Mrs. Johnson's and also a long on the rights of American the the manufacture of moonshine and other things from ordered him placed under a peace bond of don't want a peace I'll go to jail Pete we strive to said Justice Housman and Pete got what he cell In the city But somehow the cell wasn't as pleasant inside looking out as it was outside looking and Pete his He was re- leased today on a peace ter promising that he would don his caveman tactics of dealing with his Germans Battle Belgian Patrol Makes Appeal to Press of Nation Feb. appeal to the newspapers of the country to guard against ing as ex-service men holdup men and other criminals without definitely knowing the truth of their claims to be vice men was issued today by Secretary of War It is popular just now for criminals to plead that they ad in the or navy during the war in the hope of gaining said Secretary these people are so styled there is great injustice done Jn many to the great bojy of men who may be said properly to pride themselves in being service to vote on the Question of the location of the state cultural The discussion was resumed Thursday BURGESS IX Judge J. A. Burgess of dan is a Cheyenne and using of private property for ways of Friends of the say that it The Bear Sez is one of the most important for the people of Wyoming that has been It simply means the opening up of coal lands in various parts of the state which 11 are now shut out from operation companies or to use and maintain any such electric power transmission railroad spur track or tramway upon the line of the cation or That the land so and appropriated otherwise than by the consent of the owner shall not exceed one hundred feet in width on each side of the outer sides or marginal lines of any in For Cheyenne and Fair tonight and Nod much change in est tonight about 23. For Fair night and Not much or railroad transportation by the such electric power transmission railroad spur track or tramway unless a holdings of existing coal 1 Ohio Also Probes Highway Matters Feb. reorganization and in- of the state department is expected to keep legislators busy most this week following the return of the solons to the house and senate chambers late Governor Davis will probably put his shoulder to the wheels in both projects and see that they move as quickly as possible thru their proper A tee of three senators and three representatives may be ed today to start the highways investigation ball the They say while instances in Sheridan in which greater width is necessary for owned coal lands embankment or now lying idle for lack of right tory for waste and in no a way brought the case shall the area taken exceed the sarao conditions in oilier the actual of the work parts of the and that the Provided I stato of Wyoming has coal areas that no appropriation of private land which be developed under properly for thf any such existing of The contemplates railroad company or corporation shall bo fighting between the German providing for population and a Belgian patrol having been passed in Aix la Chappelle is reported in an Exchange telegram from Amsterdam The quoting a sage from Aix la Chappelle In the Belgian occupation said a number of inhabitants of the town refused to obey police tions regarding a carnival bration and remained in the streets after the closing This resulted In patrol firing on a crowd wounding eral the by probe both GEDDES ARMED WITH PROPOSALS TO DISARM KNEW ARCH SLACKER FLED TO GERMANY or made until compensation therefor lit to be made to the owner pp owners on 8) Feb. British ambassador to the United is returning to armed with full powers to press forward Great he and bis world conference of record and memory are in no D. Feb. 10. of justice officials knew as early as last October that G rover C. Bergdoll had escaped to the house military com- was told today by Charles B. district attorney at Represen t a t i v o democrat of New suggested that Bergdoll be put In committee records as Cleveland waa a to reports affected by the conduct war Approves of Job Done Department By Feb. federal railroad board request of the American Association of Railway executives for the abrogation of the national wage ment with the brotherhoods and the establishment a new basic rate for unskilled predicated on local t Asks for Its Continuance REPUBLICAN ARMY THREATENS ATTACK Feb. Irish republican army several hundred strong is marching on according to reports from T lany says a Central News One hundred Sinn entered and occupied a position near the police It. Debates About Work of the highway ment for the past two in- sofar as the special joint gating committee had been able to look into that was and recommendation was made that a reasonable tion be made for continuing the inasmuch as it would be folly to discontinue it at this in the report of the made to both houses The report was signed by tors Dillon and Fonda and Smith and It covered at some length the tions of the department since the reorganization of 1919, and and Mrs. went into the matter of employes The Sinn cleared trians from the streets and then fired several The few police on duty paid no attention and the Sinn withdrew declaring their intention of re- turning Crown forces arrived soon after their al. C. W. RETURNS FROM nm Charles W. has returned from Panama where he has spent three months as the guest of his Mrs. using autos for their own benefit and of contractors the projects at a price alleged to have far below that which the bidders were getting for it. It related that the committee had been assured by dent that he had been trying to overcome the evil of private use of autos and that he hoped he would be able to achieve this end within a short Senate Reading of the report in the senate was followed by a lengthy Lee read a sheaf of telegrams sent from various parts of the state and commending the work of the Dillon said generally the committee had found that the job had been extraordinarily well Sibley said he knew who had inspired the telegrams and that they were a part of a state-wide He declared the committee had not had time to make a well-founded that he fellow citizens had been before the highway sion and had not even been ed with common If a new highway bond issue were to be submitted to the voters at this he it would not get ten votes at on Page 8) husbands are whose officers in the United States army in the Canal Mr. Riner returns feeling very much rested and improved in general To a Tribune man he my and I get more satisfaction out of Ing the Wyoming State Tribune than any New York It not only gives us the news from but the news of the world in a condensed Plane Traveling Cheap as Taxis It about as much to take an airplane in London as it does to ride in a New York That's the calculation of Prof. E. P. Warner of the setts Institute of Technology and a member of the national ory committee for charge in England for an air says 44 cents a mile for two and an airplane can usually be had at an hour's is approximately the same as riding by taxi in New Harding Turns Hand to Task of Cabinet Making ST. at work today after a three President-elect Harding day waded into a vast accumulation of correspondence and other miscellaneous business that must be cleared away be- fore he can give serious final decisions on the personnel of his cabinet and other major Mr. Harding returned to St. of whose name gustine from his houseboat cruise so is linked with the portfolios of ilong the Florida coast and offices the which will his home til he leaves for Washington for ills The cabinet appointments which are believed to be virtually nettled are confined to the folios of postoffice and Charles Evans Hughes of New for secretary of Harry M. Daughtery for Ohio attorney Will H. Hays of Indiana for postmaster and Henry Wallace of Iowa for secretary of agriculture are selections who those in a position to know regard as practically Yet even in respect to those it Is realized there may be many a slip between now and the fourth of secretary of war several men are the navy and the Frank 0. Lowden of Illinois is another mentioned for secretary of the and friends of W. Mellon of Pennsylvania still are urging his qualifications for tary of the Senator A. B. Fall of New ico Is believed to be under serious consideration for secretary of the and whether he goes in- to that place is said to depend largely on his own For the same place John Hays Hammond of New York Is ly recommended by some It is in regard to the ships of labor and commerce that Mr. Harding's mind Is believed to be farthest from a It is that any wilt be announced un- til a day ot two before the The decision came help i president of the Department American Federation or I had started his reply to state ment made by W. W. for the executives last w decision came as a Re- prise to both and Jew ell advised the board statement would be records without rearms Thr board held it had no over questions n' operations and neither side Interrupt pent M- d the Ing hearing on and working unwarranted Conspiracy A Mr. Jewell's the request for tion of the agreement iif a conspiracy to disrupt He said this movement -n fir the railroads were engineered by financial and from his h majority of the men active railroad f erring to the Jan. 31 by Mr. Jewell courtesy of the board ui him an opportunity to using that privilege in at tempting to coerce tn threatening them with a If the ultimatum he laid dowr not He added that through the which the Atterbury state ment attained the ployes already face with a virtual The present hearing by agreement rules and conditions from Thf cision on wages was last July and the rules convened January 10. any of these and working conditions are said the they an unwarranted burden on railroads and It is fore the duty of this board to the utmost practicable expeditior consistent with necessary time hearing and in de- termining whether any rules and working conditions now in are The board endeavoring to meet its obligation and will be better able to do if It Is not further interrupted the introduction of demands by either ARRESTED AS spy IN RUSSIA is REDS Feb. M. Marguerite E. Harrison of newspaper correspond T imprisoned as a spy by the vikl at been according to a letter received j CL by Dr. Hugh the secretary of Lord owner of the Daily of Her release from prison does not mean necessarily that she immediately leave thout this is the hope of her friends Mrs. Harrison entered about eleven months Soo after reaching Moscow she but was released ar 1 for a time was reported as In high favor with the Her efforts to leave the were frustrated a- she was arrested on r 24 and imprisoned on a charge having tried to bribe her of Later an official charged her with beins spy for the American state d Although this flatly denied by efforts to obtain her release been Mrs. Harrison is a the late Bernard N. was a leading figure in stc i1 ship world for many NAB CHECK AP I r John W. u. forging checks on has been arrest and will be return ed to tor
