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FOUR PERISH IN FIRE AT HARTVILLE JUNCTION
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Weather Forecast
Cloudy tonight ar 4 Sunday, with
rain or mow in north and northwest
portion?; colder la northwest portion
Sunday.
VOLUME VI
VILLA OFFERS TO PUT
DOWN MEXICAN REVOLT
EDWARDS DENIES
EXTRADITION ON
FRAUD_CHARGES
Recognition of Warrant Is
sued by Washington Gover
nor Refused by New
Jersey Executive.
WEEHAWKEN, N. J. F«b. !«.
Recognition of an extradition warrant
for Carl C.» Hoffman of thia city,
wanted in Seattle. Wash., has beern
withdrawn by Governor Edwards it
was announced today.
A» a result authorities at Seattle
may be compelled to wait some time
before they bring Hoffman .into court
to answer charges connected with the
passing of fraudulent checks.
The warrant was issued by the gov
ernor of Washington. Hoffman, who
since February 3 has been a plsonrer
In New York City was expected to
return here today.
The night Hoffman was arrested
the Seattle detective who took him
In charge lodged him in a New York
Mfl. desiring to have a night’s sleep
before starting west across the con
tinent. During the night an attorney
retained by Hoffman obtained a writ
of habeas corpus, returnable the neat
day. Hearing was postpone*! several
times and now It Is learned that Gov
ernor Edwards has declined not to
honor the demand made for the sur
render of Hoffman. The detective
who made the arrest v. til stay In
Weehawken pending fvrti-er develop
ments.
State Official
Rescues Woman
WATERBURY, Conn.. Feb. 18.—
Lieutenant Governor Charles A. Ten*
pieton. a passerby, rescued Mrs. Mich
ael Ryan from a blazinz building
shortly before midnight last night,
after she had been overcome by smoko.
Mrs Ryan's clothes were in flames,
but the lieutenant governor managed
to wrap his coat about her and escape
from the building. Bhe Is expected to
recover.
STOCKPERISH
IN YARD FIRE
KANSAS CITY, Kans., Feb. 18.— A
stretch of pens In tho stockyards dis
trict here were destroyed by a spectac
ular fire last night. For. a time the
flames threatened to spread to the
central part of the district but a
high wind which prevailed died down
about two hours after the fire started
and the flames were soon placed un
der control. Several hundred head of
sheep and hogs were burned and about
7,200 sheep, hoks and cattle were
taken out safely. Estimates today
placed tho loss at approximately
$25,000.
MINERS TO STRIKE
IF WAGES ARE CUT
Determination to Oppose Reduction Is
Carried by Overwhelming Majority;
How at Appeal Lost on Ballot
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Feb. 18.—An overwhelming vote
was cast this afternoon by the convention of the United Mine
Workers of America against accepting any wage reduction
for soft cor 1 miners in making new working agreements es-
fective Apr.. 1.
By its action the convention
wage scaies in soft coal districts be
maintained and that "inequitable dif
ferentials’’ be eliminated, giving some
increases in wageq In some districts.
Io record was taken but only scat-
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CASPER, WYO., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1922.
Would Take Up Arms Against Gen. Ro
salio Hernandez, Former Aide of
Ex-Bandit in Outlawry
MEXICO CLT Y, Feb. 18.—(By The Associated Press.)—
Francisco Villa, former bandit chief, has asked permission to
lead his men against Gen. Rosalio Hernandez, who was re-
Eorted several days ago in rebellion in the state of Chi
uahua.
Back in 1914, Hernandez was Villa’s trusted aide but he
want over to Carranza when Vina and *
the latter split. Villa now sees a
chance to pay off the old score and
his emissary is said to have arrived
in Vue capital yesterday to obtain the
"assignment” lor his chief.
MEXICO CITY, Feb. 18.—(By The
Associated Press)—There Is “no rea
son for the alarm of the United States
authorities over threats of rebellion
along the frontier, according to Act
ing Secretary of War Serrano. He
■aid:
'There are no rebels of importance
close to the boundary, and the few
desperadoes tn Chihuahua, do not
dare attack a single federal military
unit, much less threaten Juarez.
"Sufficient troops have been placed
on the border to repel any attacks,
and the garrisons at Juarez and other
border points are competent. The
fears in the United States are ab
surd."
BROWNSVILLE, Texan, Feb. 18.—
Three thousand Maxican federal
troops have bean distributed along
the lower Twis-Mexioo border hi the
last 48 hours. It was announced this
afternoon by Mexican counsul T. M.
Vasquez.
"While the situation along the bor
der remains quiet, we want to be pre
pared for all eventual ties," the con
sul said.
JAPAN DIVIDED
ON TREATIES
TOKIO. January 80.—(Correspond
ence of The Associated Press) —Re-
'sults of the arms conference at Wash
ington have split the thinking element
of Japan into two opposing camps,
according to a staff correspondent of
the Kgkusal News Agency. The con
servative group views the Washington
agreements with uneasiness and feels
designs of the United States and
European powers. The progressives
declare the Washington conference
has given Japan a golden opportunity
to become one of the leaders In uplift
ing civilization.
Miss M’Cormick
Is Silent Upon
Society Rumor
CHICAGO, Feb. 18.—No statement
regarding published reports that she
Is engaged to Marry Max Oser, Zurich
Switzerland riding master, was forth
coming today from Miss Mathilde Mc-
Cormick, 16 year old daughter of Har
old F. McCormick and grand daugh
ter of John D. Rockefeller. Miss Mc-
Cormick was said to be awaiting the
arrival today from New York of her
father before having anything to say.
insisXd that the present basic
taring "noes” we?e heard on. the vocal
vote.
Tho convention rejected the scale
committee’s recommendation that
miners demand that the eight hour
LANDIS RESIGNS U. S. BENCH
“Not Enough Hours in Day” to Do AH His Work. Federal
Judge Declares in Announcement of Resignation to Take
Effect March 1 When He Will Devote Time to Baseball
CHICAGO, Feb. 18.—(By The Associated Press.) —Federal Judge Kenesaw Mountain
Landis announced hig. resignation today. The resignation is effective March 1.
Announcement of it was made formally by the judge today as he took his place in court.
He said he would devote his entire time to his position of baseball commissioner.
“There are not enough hours in the day for all of my activities,” said the judge. "There
fore, I have forwarded my resignation as federal judge to Washington effective March 1.”
FOREIGN VALUES RULE TARIFF
SMOOT PLAN REPORTED OKEHED
WASHINGTON. Feb. 18.—(By
The Associated Press) —The adop
tion of tho Smoot plan of assessing
tariff duties on the basis of the
foreign value of the imported articles
is understood to have been practic
ally agreed upon by Repub’lean
members of the senate finance com
mittee*.
The re-writing of the ad valorem
rates In the Fordney bill on the
basis of this plan was started today,
senators said, and since the original
rates were predicted upon Amcircan
valuation, it was said that increases
were bqing made in many instances.
The signing of the bill, one meas
ure® especially sponsored by the
agricultural bloc, was witnessed by
Senator Capper and Reprtsentatlve
Volstead, its authors. Senators Mc-
Nary, Oregon; Lenroot, Wisconsin
and’ Kellogg of Minnesota, and by <
Charles 8. Barrett, president of the
National Farmers' union, and other
heads of farm organizations.
Th® acts limits the profits of co
operation associations to eight per
cent and stockholders to one vote
each no matter how much stock
they may bold in such organization.
Its administration is under the sao
retary of agriculture.
The Smoot plan would provide for
proclaimed American valuation and
flexible rates and also contains a
depreciated currer . provision. Sen
ators said a final vote on the plan
awaited more specific Information
from the state department as to
whether the currency provisions
would In van of the “favored na
tion” clauses of existing commercial
tretles.
Under the Smoot plan the presl-
doy be limited to actual time under
ground and then began discussing a
proposal far a six hour, five day week.
This proposal was included in the de
mands of two years ago.
The action of the delegates taken
at the start of the framing of the
union’s wage policy, was an approval
of the union’s scale committee report,
which also favored increased wages
for anthracite workers, with heir de
mands for also those of the bitumin
ous miners being backed up with a de
claration favoring a nation-wide
strike.
Work on the scale committee re
port was begun after a stormy morn
ing session that ended in the conven
tion’s refusal to consider the appeal of
expelled Kansas miners for reinstate
ment in the union.
ETON
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I Wedding March
I 8 Played I n
Jail on Coast
SACRAMENTO. Cal , Feb. 18.—A
romance Wnich started in Mexico
several years ago culminated In the
county jail here late last night when
a wedding march improvised by mu
s'xally Inclined inmates, Fellsiano
Reynoso, JO. awaiting trial on as
sault charge, and Mias Pabla Aro
nas 24, were married by Justice of
the Peace Frank J. O'Brien. Fol
lowing the ceremony Reynoso was
returned to hl? cell and his bride
announced her intention of staying
in Sacramento until her husband
was freed. Jail officials plan a din
ner for the newlyweds.
dent would have authority to pro
claim American valuation if this
were deemed necessary to protect
American industry and to Increase
or decrease rates within tho range
of 50 per cent, of the ad valorem
duties fixed In the bill, but no proc
lamation could be issued until there
had been an investigation and op
portunity of those favoring and op
posing the changes to present argu
ments.
The other plan which the commit
tee had under consideration would
have provided for tho assessing of
duties on the basis of the whole
sale selling price of the imported
article In the American market. It
carried with It all the' other provis
ions In the Smoot plan.
Custom officials opposed the so
called American valuation principle
on the ground that tis administra
tion would be difficult and that the
wholesale selling price would vary
in the different markets of this
country. The other plan was drawn
by members of the tariff commis
sion and the customs court of ap
peals.
ASSASSINIM
EGPYT FAILS
CAIRO, Feb. 18.—(By The Associat
ed Press)—An attempt was made today
■upon the life of K. Alfred Brown,
controller-general of the Egyptian
ministry of education. He was struck
by a revolver bullet and sertously
wounded.
INDI AX APOLT 9, Ind., Feb. 18.
The majority in tho roll coll against
seating Alexander Howat and his
suspended Kansas following flu cn a tea
today in the convention of the United
Mine Workers of America during a
session marked by disorders.
The administration was 68 vntes
when the majority of the Illinois dele
gation had cast its 40 Howat votes.
Tho majority then went to S 3 on
scattering returns and with nine
small ditsrlcts left to vote, delegates
expressed doubt of a substantial
change.
Mother Jones. 92-year-old organizer,
took the convention In hand at hear
ing of tho disorders and succeeded in
quieting the delegates for the time.
This came after a charge that the ad-
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HEAVY CRUDE MAY BE
TURNED INTO PAVING
Midwest Refining Company Has. • Which Would Create Big
Market for Black Oil and Add 1k moth Industry to
Casper by Manufacturing Aspi. \Surfacing
An outlet for the mineral resources of the black oil prob fields of this vicinity
1 and of the whole state of Wyoming will be afforded under a pla,. h the Midwest Re
fining company has launched here to manufaacture the heavy oil Ik. pavement material.
All that is necessary to turn the black oil deposits into big commercial possibilities is to
I secure a demand for the p'avement products which will be manufactured at the Casper re
fineries. ——
With ths view to obtaining another
, manufacturing industry for Casper,
I public spirited citizens have taken up
I the effort to secure the co-operation
l of the city of Casper tn its future
paving projects, the state of Wyo
, mlng in completion of its hard sur
face roar' projects and the federal gov
emmrnt through Its connection with
road building In Wyoming in the form
of money advanced to help defray the
expenses.
If the plan carries the pavement of
asphaltic type will be manufactured
In Casi>er and distributed over the
whole Rocky Mountain territory, a
field which has been virgin territory
for the asphaltic manufacturing con
cerns of the Ihwific coast and for the
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Judge Ijandis will have virtually
completed seventeen years as judge
for tho northern district of Illinois
wh«.. his resignation became effective.
Rumors of the resignation have been
current for months and intimate
friends have known for some time the
action was imminent.
It has been understood that Judge
I-indla would have resigned some time
ago but for the attacks made on him
by Senator Dial of South Carolina,
and the notoriety brought through his
Kindling of the case of Willie Dalton,
17 year old bank robber.
On the verge of resigning when
these things rame up, the judge
changed his plans, informing friends
thta he "would never resign under
fire.’*
Senator Dial had attacked the judge
because of tho latter’a statement that
bank officials some times were partly
responsible for robberies by boys be
cause they did not pay adequate sal
aries. Senator Dial and Representa
tive Welty of Ohio later brought Im
peachment proceedings against the
judge, the representative basing his
case on the fast that two jobs were
held by the judge. Both cases were
dropped.
Shortly before the Dalton robbery.
In which the loot was nearly three
quarters of a million dollars In liber
ty bonds. Judge Ixmdis had made
some remarks about the low salari'-s
which he said were paid to bank
clerks. This was in the case of a
young Ottawa, 111., bank clerk, who
had attempted to steal $50,000 from
the bank where ho worked.
When Judge Landis made the re
mark ho was widely quoted by news
papers throughout the country.
After the Dalton robbery, some
newspapers quoted Dalton as saying
that he had committed robbery be
cause ho felt, through Judge Landis’
remarks, that nothing would be done
to him. Dalton never said this and
later in a signed statement said that
ho had never before heard of Judge
Ixindls’ remarks. Tho story had
spread, however, and the judge was
severely condemned as having made
statements which were declared to
have influenced Dalton.
The judge became head of organized
baseball shortly after tho grand jury
investigation Into tho 1919 world se
ries scandal. Ho was offered $50,000
a year to take tho position and after
several refusals, finally agreed upon
condition that ho remain on the bench
too. He insisted that his salary be
only $42,500, explaining that his judic
ial income would bring the total to
$50,000.
AJ though 58 years old. Judge Londis
always has been known as a boy r.t
heart and a lover of all forms of sport.
Tho baseball magnates urged him to
reorganize baseball "for the sake of
tho American boy” and it was this
plea which finally won over the jur
ist.
The resignation of Judge Landis
takes from the federal bench ono of
tho most feared and at the eamo time
the most respected judges in tho ©dun
try. His unusual conduct in court,
where ho frequently took cases out of
attorney’s hands and examined wit
nesses himself caused him to be fear
ed by all law breakers. At the same
time his reputation for administering
justice, regardless of technicalities
which some times obscured pertinent
facts, brought him universal respect.
Ho was vigorous in his attitude
against antl-Americans during the
war. His son Reed Landis was serv
ing with the British air service and
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IMMUNITY FOR SANDS PROMISED
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TAYLOR PROBE TAKES NEW TURN
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•
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 18.—Investigators of the murder of
■ William Desmond Taylor film director, were waiting today
. to see if anything would result from the announcement of
, Thomas Lee Wool wine, district attorney, that Edward F.
Sands, missing former butler-secretary to Taylor, would not
• be prosecuted on an embezzlement charge preferred by his
■ former employer, if Bands could prove
himself innocent of the slaying of
PLANS OUTLINED
FOR CARE OF ELK
IN JACKSON HOLE
State and Government to Co
operate in Feeding Herds
in Which Large Losses
Have Occurred.
CHEYENNE. Wyo.. Feb. It.—Gov
ernor Robert D. Carey and Major E.
A. Goldman, representative of the
United States Biological survey, con
ferred here Saturday n gardtng tenta
tive i*lans fur state and federal co
operation for the prcßcrvatlon of the
elk heds of Yellowstone park and the
Jackson Holo region. In furtherance
of theso plans Major Goldman will
leave Monday for Jackson Hole, ac
companied by Howard Eaton, promin
ent "dude” rancher of Sheridan county
and Assistant State Game Warden
Bruce Nowlin of Dubois. At Jackson
they will be joined by Assistant Ward
tn Aimer Nelson, and tho quartet will
inspect tho elk herds, tho feeding
grounds and a number of properties
which it is proposed to procue asr refu
ges and feeding places for the elk
during the winter months. Eaton is
acting for the governor in lieu of
State Game Commissioner W. T. Jud
kins. who is too ill to make the hard
trip to the elk country.
Governor Corey, who has been
closely studying tho elk situation,
favors splitting the herds into three
divisions during the winter months,
one to be ranged—and fed when neces
sary—L's the Jackson Hole country,
one to be token care of in Park
county, east of Yellowstone park, and
the third to be run n northwestern
Fremont county.
Vessel Springs
Leak, Abandoned
NEW YORK, Feb. 18 —The British
steamship Argalia, New Orleans for
London, wirelessed today that the Lun
■enberg, N. 8.. schooner Kathleen
Spandler, had been abandoned at sea
in a leaking condition about 150 miles
’west of the Bermuda islands and that
she had rescued the crew. The Ar
galia will proceed to London.
SHAKEUP IN PERSONNEL
OF PROHIBITION FORCES
DUE, CALIFORNIA CHANGE
Fifty-Six Federal Directors Planned in
1
Reorganization of Department for
Greater Efficiency, Report
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.—A shakeup in the California
liquor law enforcement force was announced today to be un
der consideration by prohibition headquarters here.
Commissioner Haynes declined to comment upon reports
of the resignation of E. F. Mitchell, federal prohibition di
rector for the state, beyolxl sayin j that he had no announce-!
ment to make at present.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18—Reorgan-11
izaUon of the national prohibition field ‘ i
1 Taylor and “untangle this murder
mystery”
Woolwins’s announermsnt followed
receipt of a letter purporting to have
been written Sands. The writer
stated he was tn Los Angeles, was
not guilty of the murder of Taylor,
but could name the murderer and
solve the mystery of the slaying. He
Inquired whether ho would lie sot free
in case he surrendered himself and
proved his Innocence of the elaying.
He naked that the district attorney
publish reply in any of the Los
Angcks papers’’ and Woolwine made
public the letter and the answer, the
latter being addressed To Edward F.
Sands, through the public preaa.”
Woolwine stated he luul no means
of knowing whether the letter was
genuine, but that ho and hl* investiga
tors thought it better to "treat it as
such," in the hope that it was.
Detectives investigating the slaying
of Taylor conferred with District At
torney Woolwine today, but the dis
trict attorney said afterward that
"nothing definite’’ had come from the
conference. He said he felt the most
important thing to be done was to get
in touch, with Edward F. Sands, miss
ing s’cretary-butler of Tuyior.
Wool wino said ho was expecting
further information from Cldcago or
Rockford, ill., concerning Mrs. Mar
garet Snyder, reported to have said
she knew Taylor and Sands and that
Taylor had been married three times.
Tho police were said to have been
investigating disappearance of the
driver of a taxicab aiout tho time
'Kaylor was killed. Hla absence was
told them by his wife. In tils home
the police said they found a cap and
three bullets of the calibre of that
whloh killed Taylor.
THREE OFFISERS
SHOT BY NEGRO
DETROIT, Mich., Feb. 18.—Three
police officers were shot, two of them
seriously wounded, when they respond
ed to a call from a drug storo last
nicht where Alex Walsh, a negro, ter
rorized patrons and clerks by flour
ishing a pistol. Tho negro was dis
armed and placed under arrest by a
fourth officer.'
5150,000 IN DIAMONDS STOLEN
NEW YORK IMPORTER IS ROBBED
ST. LOUTS, Mo., Feb. 18 Sidney
Krlngle, of Krlngle Brothers, dia
mond importers of N>w York nnd
Chicago, reported to the police that
ho had been robbed of between $125,-
000 and $150,000 of diamonds on an
Illinois Central train which arrived
from Chicago this morning.
He gave that figure as the retail
I forces is expected to be completed I
soon with a total of 56 federal prohl- j :
bition directors. Commissioner Haynes
I announced today. The commissioner'
SECTIONWORKER
TRIES TO SftVE
CHILDREN, ALL
BURN 1 DEATH
Mother Is Only One to
Escape Fire Tragedy
North of Wheatland
and Suffers Exposure
WHEATLAND, ,Wyo„ Feb.
18.—(Special to The Trib
une.)—Four members of a
family are dead and a fifth is
suffering from exposure as
the result a fire which last
night der xoyed the L. A. Dove borne,
one-naif mile from llartvffle Junction
and 23 ml.ee north of Wheatland.
The dead L. A. Dove. 55. section
forepian for the Burlington railroad;
hie children, Orral. 23; Mabel, It, and
Geo. 15.
Mrs. Dove, barefooted and dad only
in a nightgown, trudged to the home
of David Miller, a distance of half a
mile. In the early morning darknees
to tell tho story of the horrtblo trag
edy and appeal for aid. A night train
on the Burlington was flagged and
the woman was taken to Wendover
where Coroner John McCallum and
Sheriff Homer Payne of Platte coun
ty were summoned by telephone.
They returned to their homes here
today with details of the fire.
The hlnzw, according to Mrs. Dove,
originated In the kitehen, presumably
from sparks which fell into a kindling
box. Mabel Dove, a daughter, wav
the first one awakened and aroused
the rest of the family.
Just as Mr. Dove threw open the
door between the livingroom and tho
kitchen, the roof over the latter
crashed in. driving the flames into
the other part of the house. Dove
threw up a window In tlio livingroom,
there being no other door by which
to escape, and helped his wife out.
Turning around to assist the others,
he found that they had fled Into a
bedroom and he followed.
Tho bodies cf all four were found
In the charred remains of this room
by the officers. AH were burned to
a crisp. Dove’s body lay near a win
dow where he probably was overcome
by the smoke while trying to force
another exit. Tho charred remains
of tho others lay In a huddled heap
In the center of the floor, two side
by side and the other at their feet.
The bodies had not been removed
from tho burned house prior to the
departure of the sheriff for Wheat
land this morning, likewise no ar
rangement has been made fnr dispo
sition of the remains. It Is probable
that no Inquest will be held.
The Dove family came to Wyoming
from Maryvffle, Mo., six years ago
and the father had been tn the em
ploye of tho Burlington as a section
worker for some time. Another mem
ber of the family survives—Mrs. Ear!
Can of ITartvlHe Junction.
Mrs. Dove 1s said to bo in a serfcmv
condition as a result of her exposure
and the shock of the tragedy. She
Is under the care of a physician to
day.
SPANISH WAR VETS ORGANIZE.
CHEYENNE. Wyo.. Feb. llt—A
post of the Spanish American war vet
erans is to bo organized In Cheyenne
soon. There are about 50 such vet
erans In this citv.
value and said the diamonds had
cost him 175.899 They were Insured
tor 150,000, he said.
Kringle said he had hidden the
diamonds under his pillow and that
he discovered his loss upon return
ing from the wash room, as tho train
was entering tho St. Louis station.
Train crew members and passengers
were questioned by the police.
saidA director would be appointed for
the canal zone, rounding out the to
tal. The Wil Ur-Campbell act extend
ed the national prohibition enforce
ment area to both the canal zone and
the Virgin Islands.
Mr. Haynes sold he would not ap
point a federal director for the Virgin
Islands but had instructed Mariano
IL Hesquera. federal prohibition di
rector for Porto Rico, to assume juris
! diction over the former Danish
' Islands.
A change win he made in the di
rectorship in South Dakota on March
! 1, when Director Isaac Pearson com-
I pletes his service, the commissioner
: said, indicating that Director Pearson
would be succeeded by a member of
‘ the South Dakota enforcement forewu