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The Weather WYOMING— Partly cloudy south, rain or snow probable north portion tonight and Tuesday. Not much change in temperature. 2s— _ - VOLUME VHI. 107 COAL MINERS ENTOMBED BY EXPLOSION AT WHEELING- FOUR BODIES BROUGHT OUT ‘SLIPPERYLDELL HANLON IS APPREHENDED DENVER BANDIT DE JAIL BREAK FAME CAPTURED Caught in Store at Colo rado Springs This Morning < COLORADO SPRINGS. Colo., April 28.—“ Slippery” Dell Hanlon, St. Paul and Denver bandit who engin eered himself and 13 pals out of the Denver County jail last Thursday night, was cap tured here shortly before noon to day. Inspector Irvin B. Bruce, chief of Colorado Springs detective depart ment. arrested Hanlon shortly be fore noon when training a revolver on the outlaw who has been sought throughout eastern Colorado and Kansas over the week end. He took him In custody in Thorsen's store. Hanlon admitted his iden tity and was immediately taken to the city jail where he Is held under close surveillance. Hanlon was dressed In a pair of old overalls over his brown checker ed suit. At police headquarters where ho was throughly searched. (Continued on Page Twm JUDGE ROSE RULES WRIT IS LAWFUL Judge R. R. Rose ruled at 3 o'clock this afternoon that It was within the Jurisdiction of the dis trict court to Issue a writ of prohi bition restraining the mayor and city council from ousting Walter W. Royce from his seat as council man. The case In which the city Is fighting the issuance of the writ however was not completed at Hint time and was to proceed during the remainder of the afternoon. E. H. Foster, county attorney, presented the argument for the city and maintained that writs of pro hibltion are used only by superior courts to restrain excess of Juris diction by inferior courts. Judge Rose ruled that the council would be acting In a quaai-Judicial manner . in hearing evidence in Royce's case Stnd in firing him from the council i*hd that therefore it camo under the jurisdiction of his court. ALL GOTHAM MOURNS PASSING OF MURPHY, TAMMANY HALL HEAD Ex-Bartender, Car Driver and Native of Gas House District Had Unique Life In Politics BY ROBERT T. SMALL - (Copyright, 1924, The Casper Tribune). X NEW YORK, April 28.—New York City is a lodge of sorrow. Its grief over the death of Charles Francis Mur phy, leader of Tammany Hall is deeper than that it has felt for presidents or governors or mayors. For Murphy unofficially had ruled the city for twenty-two years and had been a political power in its affairs for much longer than that. Ths flags of ths city are at half tnast. Yet Murphy was but a priv ity cltlaen. He was the maker of city officials and his great power '"'hind the throne was more to be "ought than the favor of any man in office. Charles Murphy was more than Ihe chief of Tammany Hall. He w na one of the last of a dying race— the political leader who grew up The circulation of The Tribune is greater than any other Wyoming newspaper. tbhr (Casper IBatly (Lrilnntr PEACE LOOMS IN HONDURAS AMAPALA, HONDURAS, April 25.—Peace negotia tions between the fighting factions of Honduras continued today, the first session yesterday, presided over by Sumner Welles, the American mediator, having resulted in elim ination of six of the ten candidates for the provisional presidency of the republic. Tho fmir nondMnt.o rnmnlnlnn- ... The four candidates remaining, three of whom will be eliminated today and tomorrow, are General Vincente Tosta and Dr. Fausto Dav- Un, representing the revolutionary elements and Dr. Alberto Ucles and Dr. Frederico Canal, the de facto government. General Tosta is con sidered the most likely choice, as delegates representing the revolu tionary factions have been Instruct ed not to accept a representative of the de facto government. When the correspondent left Tegucigalpa, capital of the republic yesterday after an Internment of 42 days In the besieged city, fighting was still going on despite the peace confer ences on board the cruiser Milwaukee at Amapala. The municipal market buildings were burned last night. Conditions in the capital are extreme ly devious due to lack of food and the breaking out of typhoid fever. The city is being constantly bom barded by airplanes and cannon. The revolutionary forces now have approximately 10,000 well armed men besieging the capital and it is declared that if no agreement is COOLIDGE SPEAKS AT DEDICATION Friend Al—Well Al I have got a big »eace of news for you, they are going to put my picture in the paper every day in a cartoon called You Know Me A! and every thing I do they will draw a picture of same and put it in (lie cartoon, so all as you will half to do to find out how I am getting along is plrk up the >aper and look at the cartoon. How is that for a peace of news Al and the paper which my car toon will be in it is the Casper Tribune, starting today on the sport page. Your pal. JACK KEEFE, (Per Ring Lardner) from the saloon. In the face of f this it Is not disparagement of the - Tammany organisation to say that f Murphy, the ex-bartender, the ex ■ street car driver, made Tammany » more respected and more respect i able than any of his predecessors. Murphy was nn exceptional man. i Above all Murphy had dreams. » Tammany Hal! is almost ns old ns • the federal government. It was or- • ganlzed 114 years ago. But |t has reached in the Amalpa conferences the city probably will be destroyed- Throughout Honduras much con fidence is placed in the ability of Mr. Welles to bring about a final settlement between discordant fac tions. WILD AND WOOLY FIFTH AVENUE DRIVES WYOMING COWPUNCHER RACK TO HIS NATIVE PRAIRIES NEW YORK, April 28.—Joe Jones one of tho best known guides and cowpunchers In Wyoming. Is count ing the minutes until hn can get back to the open spaces where inen "don’t ride like cattle in a cattle car." Joe sat in an office over looking Fifth Avenue yesterday .and expressed himself in crash words President Predicts “a New Day In Scientific Research" In Talk at Opening of Academy of Science Building In Washington Which Cost $1,500,000 to Construct , WASHINGTON, April 28.—President Coolidge was the principal speaker at the dedication today of the building of the National Academy of Sciences and the na tional research council. The building, erected near Lincoln Memorial at a cost of about $1,500,000 will L n addition to the national offices of the related organizations numerous ex hibits of natural phenomena and scientific discoveries. It is regarded by authorities on architecture ns the best work of | Bertram G. Goodhue 'of New York, , who died Wednesday, Just five days ( before the dedication of his master- i piece. Gano Dunn, of New York, chair- ( man of the building committee. In i turning over the structure to the i academy and council explained that | never sent one of Itr, members to the White House. Airphy had groomed Al Smith for-'Wiat coveted honor. He was hoping personally to "put Al across" at the Democratic convention here In late June and he was confident in the belief that once nominated. Smith would sweep to victory. Al Smith hud grown up in Tammany, as Murphy did. But Al was of a different fibre. He did not spring from the "gas bouse gang" as Murphy did. He was one of the newer types that Murphy was devel oping in Tammany—men to be made governor and mayor and to be placed on the bench—how many there nre who owe their all to the favor of the great sachem who ent so long silent and serene In the wig wam on Fourteenth street! There will be other and willing hands to take up the fight for "Al" but “Al" himself Is broken hearted and much of the life has gone out of his rapidly growing boom. Murphy was to bo tho wine director of the Smith forces In tho convention; his wns the counsel to. be sought and followed. The commanding general is gone; the fighting yvlll continue, (Continued on Pago Eight) CASPER, WYO„ MONDAY, APRIL 28, 1924. French Troops In Syria Fight Turks LONDON. April 28.—Sanguinary fighting between French troops and Irregular Turkish bands is reported in northern Syria by the Jerusalem correspondent of the Daily Nows. Three hundred men were killed or' wounded during the fighting, he says, and the Turks capt tired a great quantity of arms. Ex-Mrs. Caruso Not ' Living With Hubby NEW YORK, April 28—Friends of Mrs. E. A. Ingram, who before 1 her marriage to Captain Ingrafh of the British army, was Mrs. Enrico ’ Caruso, widow of the famous tenor, ■ confirmed rumors that sho and her husband wero not living together and that there were no plans for them to live together in tho future. i like n pneumatic riveter In reverse. "I’ve seen a man get off a hoss on the Injun side and break out in cold sweat." he said. “I’ve seen ’em run a hoss In a prairft dog town, and I’ve seen ’em pull going up a stepp place and wondered when they Wero going to pitch backward (Continued on Page Seven) its cost and funds for its malnta nance wero provided In a 85.000,000 gift from the Carnegie Foundation to "aid realisation of one of the ideals of the life of Andrew Carne gie—the harnAning of science to lift the burdens and improve tho condi tion of all tho people of the United States." Setting anew the government’s "stamp of approval" on tho work of tho National Academy of Sciences and the national research council, President Coolidge predicted the coming of "a new day in scientific research." “A now sun Is rising,” h< Mid. "It is destined to illuminate the scientific world by illuminating this hall." The president traced the intimate relationships which, from the days of Benjamin Franklin, have existed between science and the American government, and declared that “if there be one thing In which America is pre-eminent, it is a disposition to follow tho truth.” "It is the same spirit,” he declared "that has moved through all our life. which makes it particularly appropriate that our national gov eminent should be active In its en couragement of tho searching out of the truth In the physical world and applying It to the well being of the people, ns It is Interested in the searching out of the truth in the political world, with the same object In view.” « Pointing to the declaration of Washington In hlw farewell address f>r promotion of "institutlona for the general diffusion of knowledge," President Coolidge said: "The beglnnlntj- of our govern ment. therefore, had to do with tho Inception of scientific research in the United States.” "American science.” ho continued "may bo divided into five periods— tho Jefferson period, that of HUllman and the Agnasis period, the present period of cooperative research when nq t'no dominates, and the future Lead For McAdoo Said Assured On First Balloting CLEVELAND. Ohio, April 28— William G. McAdoo with 217tt Votes pledged, in assured a lead on the first ballot at the Demo cratic national convention. David L. Rockwell, his national pre convention campaign manager, declared in a statement, adding: "No other candidate has more 1 than half that many.” The votes pledged to Mr. Mc- Adoo. the statement said, are: North Dakota 10; South Dakota 10; Wisconsin 3; Illinois 11; lowa 2G: Missouri 36; Georgia 28; Ari zona 4V4: Kansas 20: Nebraska 10: Pennsylvania 35; Porto Rico € rrnama 6; Alaska 6; Hawaii 6. • "I feel satisfied that Kir. Mc- Adoo loading on the first ballot he will continue to grow In strength until he reaches the I necessary two thirds," said Judg« Rockwell. i TAX DECISION IS POSTPONED i WASHINGTON, April 28.—A de clsion by tho senate on the Income tax rates in the revenue bill was postponed today when this section was passed over for future discus sion on request of Senator Simmons, North Carolina, ranking Democrat on the finance committee. ■ for which definite foundations nre ) being laid." x During the first period, the preo » (dent, Jefferson distinguished him- • self In paleontological researches t and set up his laboratory in the east • room of the Wiiite House. During 1 the Sllllman jieriod, J6hn Quincy Adams was concerned in the found ’ Ing of the Smithsonian Institute f and other important scientific so » cietles were founded. After the Civil War. President » (Continued from Page Eight.) TODD RESIDENCE IS BURGLARIZED Articles Valued at More Than SI,OOO Taken Including Clothing and Articles of Jewelry More than a thousand dollars worth of articles was taken from the residence of M. H. Todd, 811 South Wol cott street, between 6:30 and 9:30 o'clock last night. The burglars entered through a basement window in the rear and ransacked three rooms before they departed. Mrs. Elizabeth Garret, sister of Mrs. Todd, was the flrat to discover that someone had been In ths house. She noticed on going to her room that tho blinds had been drawn. Nothing was taken from this room although the key to her dresser had been removed and had been used to open the dresser in Mrs. Todd's room. Mrs, Todd dis- BALL SCORES | AMERICAN LEAGUE At Detroit— R. H. E- Chicago 010 000 Ixx—x x x Detroit 024 000 Ixx—x x x Batteries Robertson, Connally and Crouse; Stover and Bassler. At St. Louis— R. 11. E. Cleveland . 000 xxx xxx—x x x St. Louis ...100 xxx xxx—x x x Batteries—Edwards and 1.. Sewell; Danforth and Sevcreid. At Washington— R. 11. E- Boston ...__ooo 002 xxx—x x x Washington . .000 001 xxx—x x x Batteries—Ferguson and O’Neill; Marberry and Ruel. At Philadelphia— R. H. E. New York ...MO 01G 310—11 16 0 l*liilade?phla -.101 010 000— 6 11 1 Batteries—Shawkey and Hos man; Heimach, Harris and Perkins. MATRIMONY MAY BE TAUGHT BY CORRESPONDENCE TO SATISFY BRIDEGROOMS THROUGHOUT US BY JITNE HADDAWAY NEW YORK, April 28.—Bride grooms are to be taught matrimony by mall. This will lie the next development of the school for pros pective husbands known as "Cupid’s class" now flourishing at the Brook lyn Young Men’s Christian Asso ciation. So many requests for an outline First White Boy Born In Wyoming Dies at Laramie LARAMIE. Wyo.. April 18 Lewis J. Porter, born nt Fort Hal leck, Wyoming, July 2. 1852, and believe*!, from records so far studied, to havo been the first white child born In what is now Wyoming, died at a hospital here last night. He leaves a wife, two daughters and one eon. The National Federation of Wo men's Clubs of Cuba, which Is the largest organization of women in tho insular republic, has a member ship of nearly ten thousand. It is believed that D 0.000.000 years have been required for the sea to attain its present saltness. covered'that she had lost a gray traveling bag, material for four fine evening gowns that had not yet been made up, several pahs of n« w silk hosiery and a sealskin coat. A gold watch and diamond fob be longing to Mr. Todd was also token. The room of Mike Kinney In the NATIONAL LEAGUE At Chicago— R. 11. E. Pittsburgh ...100 013 020—7 12 0 Chicago 120 100 000—I 10 3 Batteries—Cooper and Rchmldt; Keen, Blake, Bush and Hartwell. At Cincinnati— R.11.E. ; St. Ixmta 000 003 Oxx—x x x Cincinnati 020 000 Oxx—x x x Batteries—Stuart and Gonzales; Donohue, Sheehan and Hartgrave. At New York— R.H.E. : Philadelphia —.IOO 100 000—2 5 4 ’ New York 110 100 lOx—4 11 0 Batteries—Couch and Henlinc; Barnes and Snyder. At Boston— R. H. E. Brooklyn _<I3O 000 000—o 3 2 Boston 300 050 OOx—-8 12 0 Batteries—Decatur, Gneen and Taylor; Barnes and O’Neil. ) I CATAWISSA—CIover, the world’s ; oldest horse is dead. He was 53 years old. of tho lectures have come from young men in far sections of the country that Carroll N. Glbney, head of the educational department of tho Brooklyn ”Y” under whose inspiration the course was started, announced today that ho wns con sidering a plan to assemble the ma terial into a series of lectures which could be sent by mall. The course, consisting of six lec tures of advice to the young roan about to embark on tho uncharted seas of matrimony, opened a fort night ago. The enrollment lists thirty-five young men between tho ages of 21 and 35—a1l of them bach elors and all "with honorable in tentions.” As many more. Mr. Glbney said, were turned away, and the class room door locked to bar the crowds. Os those lucky ones who got inside about fifty per cent it is estimated, are engaged. Half of the remain der have the girl in mind and would like to be engaged, and the remain ing one quarter are looking forward to matrimony In the Indefinite fu ture. The two lectures thus far have been upon the physiological and anatomical aspects of marriage by Dr. William H. Price of the Brook lyn Nursery and infants home and Dr, Joseph G. Forbes of the New York Homeopathic medical collego, respectively. The physiological aspects of the marriage state hints of the emotion al and Intellectual accord which should exist, the problem of whether to rent or buy a home, the budget and how to make a wife financially contented on a meager family in come will be treated in future lec tures. "One of the young men told me the first lecture of the course alone was worth <25 to him, "Mr. Glbney (Continued from Page Seven.) basement had also been entered and I two gunn, one a rifle and tho other a revolver, were taken. An attempt had been made by the thieves to enter tlie gurii<<> ami taka a car which was there but this was Ineffectual. Both Mrs. Todd and Mrs. Garret play In the orchestra ut the Rialto of which theater Mr. Todd ia the manager, it ia thought that tlio , rubbery was executed by someone who was familiar with the move- , merits of the victims. A piano lump is always left lit In the front room but sines Mrs. Todd loft the house . before dark last night she neglected to light this. | Tlio poll co are working on tho A robbery between midnight and 6 o’clock this morning occurred ut I , Edwards case, 545 West Yellowstone. ■ Thirty dollars worth of cigarettes, candy, gloves and other merchan i dlse was taken- EDITION NUMBER 159. FIRE AND GAS MAKES RESCUE OF MEN ALIVE VERY UNLIKELY WHEELING. W. Va., April 28. Tiro men found at the fobt of the airshaft died before they could l»e brought to tho surface. Two bodies, badly charred, wero found in & mine motor, 2.500 feet from the entry, bringing tlio number of known dead to four. Tho rescue crew of the United Staten bureau of mines made a hasty Inspection of the workings and ex pressed the opinion that few, if any, of the miners would bo brought out alive. Those who escaped the ex plosion and fire probably fell vtethna of the deadly gasre, they declared. WHEELING, W. Va., April 28.—More than 100 miners were entombed by an explosion in the Benwood Mill Mine of the Wheeling Steel corporation at Ben wood. near here, a few minutes after they went to work this morning. AH entries to ths mine were blocked by falls of rocks and dirt Four hours after the blast came, volunteer re scuers, hurriedly assembled, had been unablo to gain entrance to the underground passageways. Little hope was entertained for* the trapped miners, for the mine was on fire and choked with deadly fumes. At the mine it was reported 12M men went to work and that none had escaped. The state bureau of mines at Charleston, however, announced that its report showed only 107 men entombed. The combined mine rescue power of the United States government and the state of West Virginia, was rush ed to ths aid of the stricken com munity in the hope that some of the miners would be brought out alive. The United States bureau of mines sent the car Holmes from Pittsburgh and was prepared to order In a car from Maryland and another from Southern West Virginia. The state's rescue car, stationed at Fairmont, also was sent to the scene. The explosion occurred about three miles back from the drift mouth. Scores of men, women and children, soon gathered on a slope facing the entry. They stood in a drizzle of rain, spurring on the rescuers who were digging frantically at the mass of rock which blocked the way into the mine. Baseball Men Will Practice The American Legion baseball will practice thia afternoon at 5 o’clock at tho high school athletic park All players trying out for the team ore asked to report. WASHINGTON -Acting In ae» cordancn with his new custom of trying to get away from Washington for a perlol during the work end. President Coolidge spent the after noon and evening on a Mayflower cruise down the Potomac. FRENCH FLIER MAKING TIME PARIS. April 21—Press dlwpatoh report flint Lieutenant Pelletier D’Olsy, the French aviator, who ta flying to the far east, reached Haa aarah, on the Persian gulf. from llagdnd Saturday night and left yesterday for Karachi. The undersecretary of air thinks that he may have arrived at Karachi. TIER LlN—Former Emperor Wil liam. in u new book published by Lloutortunt Colnlemann. a friend la quoted ua nipping President Wllaon for his ata nd against Germany in the world war.