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The Weather WYOMING: Snow today; Colder east portion. Tues lay fair. VOLUME VIII. L1 VOTE BUSINESS BLOCK OESTROTED BT FIRE CLmON NAN KILLED DURING BRAWL SEVEN PERSONS ARRESTED 511 HE ASSAYEUBOLE Os NW Walter Cox, With Six Bullets In Body, Falls Dead In Disorderly House Near Mammoth Tank Farm CLAYTON, Wyo., Dec. 24.—Walter Cox, aged 40, was dropped dead with six .32 calibre bullets through him here early Sunday morning when he is supposed to have lined up the party of four men and three women he had been carousing with in a disorderly house, and called for hands up at the point of a gun. ■ ■■■ What 10l up to this quirk de- BANKS HIVE NO PART IN TEAPOT OIL PRJMOTION Chase Institutions Deny Creating Market For Mammoth Stock WASHINGTON, Dec. 24. —Neither the Chase national bank nor the Chase Securi ties company had any offi cial part in the “street” tran sactions in Mammoth Oil stock, representatives of the two New York Institutions testified to day before the senate public lands committee. Early witnesses In the commit tee's Inquiry into the leasing of naval oil reserves had testified that officials of the bank and the secur ities company were connected with the syndicate organized to make a market for the Sinclair subsidiary organized to operate the Teapot Dome reserve. C. P. Blggerman, assistant cashier of the Chase National, declared he lad been unable to find any record »f customers* loans having been made upon Mammoth oil stock, but added that some of this issue un doubtedly was taken as addition-*] rollateral for brokers’ loans. He produced several cards recording loans of this class and explained that the bank looked no further lhan the market ability and price of collateral In determining its eligibility. “We accept a reasonable amount (Continued on Page Eleven.) DEATH PROVES WELCOME GIFT Child With Ruptured Heart Is Given Answer to Her Prayer On Eve of Christmas Day CAMDEN, N. J., Dec. 24.—The Christmas season brought to 13-year-old Helen Hamilton the gift she most desired, the one for which she had prayed—death. Racked for months by almost intolerable pain due to a ruptured heart—the result of a childish prank eight years ago— the heroic little girl died yesteday with her mother’s arms about her and secure in the belief Then, said Mrs. Hamilton, "her 'hat she would find a painless, per- < feet li<-ippk»B3 in the world beyond, •’lasped tightly to her breast was her favorite doll which she asked i he hurled with her. Her last words < "ere a prayer for death. “Jesus, take me! Take me Jcsusr* she said. Her pale lips had prayed that she ■ might live until her birthday, Nov- ' • niber 26. She had hoped to die that | day. When It passed she appeared 1 ’o rally but soon afterward passed into a lethargy from which she rare ly was aroused. The climax of her < suffering came Saturday and twelve ’ hours later she told her mother, i Mrs. Emma Hamilton, a widow, that : ■he knew the end was near. “Take : me in your lap mother.” she said. "I < know this is the end. I know that in ’• few minutes I will die. I want to 1 your arms around me. I want i fa be held close before I go.” To All Our Readers and Friends a Merry Christmas— Casper Daily Tribune (Lhv Casper Dathj Cbrilnuu' nouncement Is as yet unknown. Cox wae fairly well acquainted around Glenrock and Clayton ns he had been etnpoyed at tho tank farm at the latter place since early laf.t summer as a welder and more re cently as a teamster. The other mon in tho fracas were tankies en gaged in construction work at the farm. The five had been in the house tcgether for half‘an hour or more before the holdup, as alleged by the surviving participants which came without any preliminary flour ishes. There was evidence that rome li quor had been consumed but no bot ties were found when the arrests were made. The trio of women and quartet of men are now in jail at Douglas. An inquent into the shooting will probably be held there edmetlmo to day. Preliminary hearing of the seven is scheduled to come Wednes day. Cox is survived by a brother who lives at I’arkerton. Disposition of the body will be made following the inquest of today. _ FUNERAL HELD FOR SUICIDE CHEYENNE. Wyo., Dec. 24. Funeral services for Mrs. Edward Dolan, who shot herself at her ranch 1 home near Pine Bluffs last Wednes day, were held Saturday afternoon at St. Mary’s cathedral here. A large number of friends came from Cheyenne to attend. Fall From Stack Fatal to Farmer CHEYENNE. Wyo.. Dec. 24 : Chris Harer. 64. farmer, residing 30 ■ miles east of Cheyenne, was killed Friday when a haystack on which he was working collapsed. He was . precipitated to the gorund so violent ly that his skull was fractured. He is survived by a widow and four I adult offspring. dear thin arms came around my neck. Three times she kissed me. Never have I known anything so sweet, so terrible as those kisses. ”1 can never forget them. “A few minutes later I saw her lips move and leaned over to bear “Dear, Dear, Jesus* she was saying. T am suffering so much. Please, please take me* then her hands stif fened. She was gone.** Little Helen's case attracted na tion wide attention. When it be came known that she faced death with such fortitude and in poverty, a substantial fund was raised for her and gifts of all descriptions were een'-. her from many parts of tlie country. She will be buried Wednesday with her doll and in a white satin dress and white satin shoes, as she had re quested. - JO 7/ f 1 Mr sty rB \f L -■ <1! / wi*'l 'i' i ui ; r IMUiIIO 1 Jh'lHilhl|l|(ill|hlOilhlH hi IHi 111 i; i Holiday Spirit Permeates City Over the city the spirit of Christ mas predominates, to to consum mated tomorrow in joyful celebra tion of giving, receiving and well wishing. It is the time cf tho year when all mankind tninks mere kindly toward his fellowmei, when it is truly “more blessed to give than to receive," and when the fam ily feels a little closer tie than a any other time. And Casper has done well this year in making this Yuletide period joyful. Philanthropists and those in position have extended them selves to alleviate what suffering there is on hand, and hearts and purse strings have been loosened as never before. There is joy abroad and its mem ory and pleasing effect will suffice until another year rolls around to perpetuate the Christmas spirit. And Santa Claus'. What a wonderful personage he is! What a vast amount of joy and good cheer he brings to mankind at this season of the year! To children he is a real, live, lov ab’c, gift-distributing old gentlo man. To the adult he typifies the heart warming, genial, unselfish and lib eral spirit which fills the world at Christmas time. Tte SM Sensei We have always heard that people have five senses; tasting seeing. hearing, smelling and feeling. Writers recently have suggest ed a sixth sense—"impression.** It may be that this sixth sense is an outgrowth of the exercise of some of the original five. One of the best ways to cr*a’e impression is through the printed word. With a merchant the best way to create impression is by care fully planned and prepared adver tising. The way to make sure that the created impression is a desirable one is to be sure that tho adver tising. by every test, proves to be the truth. Buyers of space in The Trib une buy the opportunity to cre ate a mental impression in the minds of thousands of readers who are buyers of goods. CASPER, WYO., MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1923 Plays Many Roles And Santa Claus, while making a ’ universal appeal, has many roles to ' play in Casper. Santa Claus is no respector of ' class, creed or cause. He visits the ' hospitals to bring happiness to litt'e 1 suffering tots, he enters prison cells to cheer the unfortunates, he sails 1 gayly down the spacious stone chim neys of the rich and just as gayly > does he squeeze through the small I chimney of humble cottage. > Happy the home in which the lllu ■ slon of Santa Claus predominates. : The proprietor of one store stated I that he regarded this year*s business i as more satisfactory than that of last year. This outlook is typical of CRASH KILLS MAIL PILOT CHEYENNE. Wyo., Dec. 24—An air mail ship piloted by James F. "Dlnty” Moore and enroute from North Platte Nebraska to Cheyenne. , crashed about three miles east of Burns, thirty miles east of Cheyenne , at 9.15 o’clock this morning. Moore, unconscious, was picked up by a passing motorist and taken to a hospital at Burns, where Dr. H. M. Hanson gave him emergency atten tion. He later died. At 10:26 o'clock Dr. C. Y. Beard left the nir mail field here for Burns, in a ship piloted by Frank Yeager. A few minutes later another ship piloted by H. A. Cliandler took off for Eg- 1 bert, u few miles east of the scene of the accident, to pick up mall from the wrecked ship. Moore was com ing westward in the teeth of a fifty inilo gale and probably was flying low because of poor visibility.' . At the air mail field nere surmises made that the accident may have bc«-n caused cither by Moore's gaso line supply becoming exhausted, or the ship suddenly nosing to earth in its fight with the gale- Moore died at 10:30 o’clock, a few minutes after Di. Bqgrd reached Burns. The aviator’s chest was crushed and his back broken. Beard and Yeager at once started to return to Cheyenne by airplane. The fall of Moore's machine was observed by a railroad section crew. The machine, the crew reported, ap peared to be flying low. about one a great majority of merchants here t who were agreeably surprised to find > that their business was not depend ent upon tho artificial prosperity f tliat Immediately followed the war. , Same in All Lines. • The manager of a leading local r furniture sto're stated that their j purely Christmas business was, If - anything, better than last year. In r that line, although prices have been I reduced, tho demand for goods of . iiigh quality has held up. Similar reports were received from dealers in candy and confectionery. 1 jewelry, electrical goods, drugs, and ) -tbdjpuj ’esjpuuqoJaui jo saun jaqjo f ing that pros!>erity is not confined t to any one line. and one ha'f miles south of the Union Pacific tracks, when it sud denly nosed downward. The section crew hastened to the scene and ex tricated Moore and tho mall from tho wreck. They carried Moore to the railroad and took him to Burns on a speeder. They took the mall to Egbert. Moore was considered one of the most experienced pilots In the mail service- He is survived by a widow and one child, at North Platte. He was about 27 years old. No Tribune Will Be Printed Xmas None of the dads, daughters, j or. sons employed by the Tribune j will miss being at home all dur ing Christmas Day—for therj will be no publication of this paper tomorrow. Christmas Is the one big day of tho year when everybody wishes nothing more than to be with one's family around the tree or gifts, near the fireside and at the home coming dinner table. So it will t>e Merry Christmas— and no Tribune for December 26. as has long been the custom. HDLIDAYTREAT TOMORROW FOR MIDDIES St. Nicholas Will Be At Elks Auditorium With Presents Four thousand kiddies waiting to visit Santa Claus at the Elks home bright and early tomorrow! And the big busses flying American flags as a sign to: “Come, you youngsters, hop on and ride free to <>> . nd Bow•nth i whqH great old St. Nicholas Is surrounded with heaps of presents for you.” Besides the busses there are dozens of cars thnt will be carrying the same sign of free rides to the Elks home, Watch for that Ameri can flag. All Elks are asked to be nt Christmas headquarters with their automobiles or ready to offer their services, at not later than 8 o'clock tomorrow morning. Anyone elae wishing to enter Into this happy name of picking up Casper children for the big event, are also invited to te on hand in time. The busses will pick up children anywhere on their regular routes. Cars and trucks will call for them at the Park school. Central school. East Casper school, and West Casper school between 3 and 9 o'clock. All schools will be reached by 10.30 o'clock. The word of the Elks Is: “Let’s go. fellows, we have prepared for 4,000 children!” Third Victim Os Auto Crash Dies After Operation Death completed its play yester day afternoon with tho life of James 1.. Speck, ago 68. who was severely injured at the same time Saturday night that Floyd B. Evans and H. C. Briggs, all in a Ford touring car boun<| for Parkerton. were killed when a railing of a bridge eight miles east of Casper was crashed into. Speck was brought direct from tho place of the accident to tho county Imspltal. X-ray pictures taken soon afterwards showed that his chest was completely crushed In. there be ing nine ribs broken. His l“ft fore arm and his left hip were also frac tured. Death resulted from punc ture of the pleural cavity and conse quent hemorrhage. Eight children survive Speck. There are two sons living In Casper. One of these la J. J. Speck, whose home Is in North Casper nt 705 Pear street. He is married and la employed as a blacksmith at Park erton. Tho other. Carl, is unmar ried and Is a machinist at the Stand ard refinery. The body is at the Shaffer Gay mortuary. Burial will be at Platte mouth. Neb., Thursday. Snow Pleases Casper People If there Is such a medium of thought transmission as mental telepathy it has been used on the Arctic King during the past several days by thousands in Casper. In good humored reply to this barrage of concentrated requests for snow the old fellow sent a mantle of fluffy flakes to cover tho city this morning, so that now rooftops stand white against the sky and homes lend tinted gorgeousness to sur roundings of uniform winter land sea pe. Didn't all the kiddies know that ' merry Kris Kringle would be sore'y put out if there was no snow to make fast going for ids reindeer 1 sleigh full of toys? Wouldn't the ! sooty chimney tops be awful pieces I for Santa Claus to go down unless j each one had its rim fringed with ' frozen flakes? Christmas wouldn't be half as real as it should be un less all the outer world was white, would it? Os course not —so every, body just almost prayed thnt the Arctic King would make this a white Christmas in Casper. And he has! It is probable there will be fair weather tomorrow, with a possible drop in temperature. But who cares for the cold as long as there is lots of Yuletide snow for the new sleds to covt In? - INCENDIARISM IS SUGGESTED Black Hand Letters Received Some Weeks Ago Threatened Destruc tion of Buildings Property loss to the extent of SIOO,OOO was sustained at Lavoye, 42 miles north of Casper, last night when fire thought to be of incendiary origin broke out in the Tri angle garage and aided by a strong wind swept through half a business block before it could be checked. Rumors were rife last night regarding the identity of those who started the fire and while there - - was scarcely a citizen of tho much < contested town who "equid not lay I his finger” on the man who “did the work” no one seemed inclined to name the culprit or culprits. Black I hand letters were received by C. C. I 'Tex'* Pool as long as six weeks ago. and about that time tho first attempt to burn down the garage and perhaps all Tsivoye wea made It was frustrated by the timely ar- ; rival of C. E. Petticord, tho manager of the gnrage. but a day or two , later another unsigned message was slipped beneath the door of the gar age to the effect that "we have fail ed this time, but w will do a better, job in the future. Tex Pool and al! ' his friends ere do: i.ted. We aro go ing through with this." Business Jealousy was the reasons for these threats according to Mr. Pool. . The buddings destroys I in the confragration were all of frame con struction. They included the Tri angle Garage Hank of Salt Creek, Goodman Hardware. Johnson Drug company. Ignited States |»ostofflce. with office suites upstairs, Dyer and Powell Barber shop. Brown’s Jewelry store. McdHlrk's Clothing ft are with apartments on woennd floor, gnd the Union Meat Market. The business block in which these J buildings wore located is between ' two streets which come together in | an angle. With the exception of a small case, tho garage formed the • southernmost structure. When Jt . was seen that the fire was going to , take the entire block and endanger ; ‘ the town, chains were hitched to a ! ( heavy truck an 1 the small building ( housing the Union Meat Market was ( tom down to form a break for the . flames. Tho Castle Creek hotel was ( the next building but it was prac- s tical’y undamaged. , Fire apparatus from both the Mid- ] west ant' tho Mutual Oil companies ■ , was rushed to the scene. The Mid- , west laid more than a mile of hose ( to the town from the nearest reser- , voir. Lavoye has never had a water ( system, and water murrt be hauled , oven for drinking purposes. ( Wet blankets were nlaced over j . tl.e fronts of buildings which flank- , od the ctppos’to Hi«'.e of the street ! and these structuics received l!ttl»-1 or no damagx Tic greatest lotau In : eee p'aces wis from the loss or theft of goods. Such stores as the Jack Scott Clothing store had men moving their merchandise out of the danger zona, and prowlers tak ing advantage of the attention which tho fire attracted are thought to have gotten away with a consid- j erable quantity of merchandise. t Sheriff Perry A. Morris together : with Deputies Dan Miller and Wil- ! 11am Irving went to the scene early 1 (Continued on Page Eleven.) ’ HOPE HELD FOR CREW OF BLIMP Fifty Men and Officers Drifting Help lessly Over Coast of Africa Are Imperilled In Dirigible PARIS, Dec. 24.—There appeared this morning to be some hope of saving the French dirigible Dixmude, which with fifty officers and men aboard, has been drifting helplessly for three days over the Gulf of Gabes on the north coast of Africa and over the interior of Tunis. Although news received in Paris hag been sparse, the latest advices said that the great warned naval units in the Medlter- ship had drifted well inland, taking a northwesterly direction, was hover ing in the q|ptnity of Foum Tata houlne, thirty miles south of Medin. Military authorities at Foun Tata houlne were reported to have pre pared a fair landing place. In case the ship was able to descend. Auto mobile headlights were set to mark out the spot through the night. * A strong force of troops was also pre sent. The Italian authorities in Tripoli have Instructed all military posts I to maintain a close watch for the, I'ixmude, and take all necessary ] steps to aid her should help be; neceaaarj'. British officials at Malta have] EDITION NUMBER S 2 MISSING NAMES OF VIOLATORS DISTURB CALM Bankers Said To Be In volved in Washington Bootleg Scandal WASHINGTON. Dec. 24. —With the mystery of the whereabouts of the list of 2,500 names reported seized during the roundup of alleg ed members of a local boot logging syndicate growing deeper. I investigators are said to b« working lon information which they describe .as pointing to the involvment of on* or in the financing of the enterprise. ' The list of a’leged purchasers, however, remained the chief point of | interest in the investigation as far | as residents of the capital were con •cerned, many of whom felt more competent to enjoy the holidays af ter reading this morning's papers. The Anti-Saloon league and the asso ciation against the prohibition amendment, among other agencies, were demanding publication of the names and Assistant District Attor- I ney Presmont had announced he would submit them to the grand jury for possible Indictments on conspi racy charges, but police insisted they had turned over all evidence seized In the raid to internal revenue bureau Investigators and the latter I Insisted they' were not in possession of the list. MINISTER GETS 53,025 BONUS LOR ANGELES. Calif . Dec. 24 A Christmas bonus check for $3,025 was preaented to the Rev. C. Leit sell, associate pastor of the First Methodist church, by members of the congregation at last night's ser vice. f ranean tn keep nn extra lookout by day and searchlights playing by night. Successfully accomplishing a three .'day flight from <luers-Pierrefeu to ■ Inralah. southern Algeria, the Dix -'ni'ide last Friday afternoon headed > eastward for Tunis. Her gasoline •i supply ran low and it was necessary :, to put her on one of her six motors, i She then began 'o drift, sending out • I distress signals that put in motion j ail French naval units within call 11 and all garrisons In the Tunis dis -11 trict. •| September the Dixmude esta >l blistied a world s record duration s; flight of 4.500 miles. She was en deavoring to break this record when i j trouble overtook her.