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Newspaper
Casper Daily Tribune
Location
Casper, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1920
Page
1
Interior Secretary Payne rules that hundreds of conflicting land locations filed on the act’s signing day will be treated as simultaneous. Locations may be split up and some filings thrown out unless precise signing time is proven. The ruling follows a rush of locators on the tenth day after the bill reached the president.
Wyoming jurist Judge Charles E. Winter praises Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, urging Republicans to unite. He extols Harding as presidential timber with steady character and leadership, and criticizes Democratic claims while urging support in 1920.
Taxpayers from Districts No 1 and 2 met at the courthouse to discuss aiding District No 3, called confiscatory. A representative committee was appointed by about 160 residents to settle 30 to 40 questions, with legal advice and cooperation from District No 3’s graders planned for early next week.
Bert H. Ivins of Red Bank New Jersey won the grand American handicap at the International Trapshooting tournament in Cleveland Ohio shooting from the 1 odd yard line he broke 99 of 100 targets for the victory The Associated Press report states Ivins clinched the erasale event with the high score on August 28.
Two deputy sheriffs and a Negro are killed and another wounded in a revolver battle during an attempted arrest of a moonshiner in Arcadia Ohio. United Press reports the incident occurred as officers confronted the suspect on moon shining charges.
Secretary of the Navy Daniels announced the cruiser Pittsburg would be moved from Reval to Danzig to protect Americans. British officials await a Russian reply to the Anglo Italian ultimatum as Polish forces claim Reds defeat. A wireless Russia Poland peace note mentions Minsk transfer to a neutral country.
D Palma held the lead near the eighteenth lap of the Elgin road race in Elgin Montana on August 28 covering about 160 miles. His average set a new course record at 1.25 miles per hour and he completed the nineteenth lap in six minutes eleven seconds breaking a five year old mark. The prior record of six minutes 18 seconds was set by Spencer Wishart in a 460 cubic inch car. De Palma’s car is 183 cubic inches under the rules. He ran off the road on the 21st lap but rejoined and continued, with no evident damage.
A string of gunfights across New Mexico and West Virginia ends with multiple deaths. In New Mexico, J. M. Archuleta Sr. and J. M. Salazar along with a third man die after Salazar allegedly opens fire. a deputy sheriff also reportedly shoots a fourth man. In West Virginia, Baldwin-Felts detective Pee is wounded during clashes between striking miners and mine guards at Wills Branch Coal Company in Raleigh County. An Oklahoma incident near Arcadia leaves deputy sheriffs and a deputy county sheriff wounded in a raid on a moonshiner’s operation.
American and British subjects held by Pedro Zamora the Jalisco bandit at Cualo on August 20 have escaped from the outlaws during the escape attempt near Guadalajara state of Jalisco.
Governor Cox denounces Republican campaign funding as bold brazen or foolish on his first New York trip. He delivers two speeches at the National Democratic Club luncheon and Gravesend police field day, charging conspiracies to buy the presidency and calling Republican leadership mad.
Mexico City August 28 The work of mustering out Francisco Villa's followers was completed this afternoon at Tlahalilo with the dispersal of Villa's men and end of the operation.
London reports say Lord Mayor MacSwiney of Cork is expected to die at any hour as officials refuse to release him. Ireland sees mounting revolts with deaths and fires in Queenstown after demonstrations. Shipyard worker strikes across several ports fuel disorder risk.
Sharp clashes on Cullingtree Road near Falls and Grosvenor Road end with police barracks damaged and a person admitted to Royal Victoria Hospital. Residents report intensified unrest and fire in West Belfast during the August riot.
In New York on August 24 pro Irish women pickets joined thousands of longshoremen to protest Britain’s Irish policy. The示 group aimed to cripple British ships entering the port as hostility resumed and demonstrations intensified.
New Haven Conn August 28 Governor James M Cox will address two engagements in New York this day outlining the League of Nations stance and urging focus on Republican campaign funds.
In Chicago a federal grand jury issued subpoenas to major department stores to produce their books for an inquiry into alleged profiteering. Marshall Field & Co. was among those named.
Denver and Rio Grande officials said 600 passengers were stranded at Salida Colorado due to washouts. Westbound trains are routed via Union Pacific while marooned eastbound trains are moved by other roads from the western slope.
Senator Warren G. Harding told an Indiana delegation from his front porch that world peace hinges on strengthening The Hague Tribunal rather than the League of Nations. He proposed a world court of international justice, combining Hague features with League concepts. If elected, he would form this association with bipartisan advice and may revise the covenant to protect national aspirations.
A Denver grand jury returned twelve indictments involving thirty three defendants in riots. Names are withheld and charges include assault to kill malicious mischief and related counts. Seven people died in the unrest.
In a six year effort to drill through a powerful gas zone at Buffalo Basin, three men died in a gas asphyxiation accident. W. M. Kline, Enoch A. Morris, and Rudolph Stahl were trapped while attempting to finish a casing job and rescue attempts failed. Morris and Stahl died saving Kline. Bodies sent to Indiana New York and Montana homes.
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