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MINERS REJECT
OPERATORS PLAN
DECLARE OWNERS PLAN TO SEEK
PRESIDENT HARDING'S AID .
OBJECTIONABLE
OPERATORS FOR ARBITRATION
Spurn Proposal That Both Side* In
vite President to Appoint Tribunal
To Settle Anthracite Coal
Strike
New York.—A proposal that Presi
dent Harding be asked to appoint a
tribunal to settle the anthracite coal
strike, submitted by the operators be
fore the joint sub-committee on wage
contract negotiations, has been re
jected by the miners.
Philip Murray, vice-president of the
United Mine Workers, declined to state
on what grounds the proposition Was
turned down, except to declare .it “ob
jectionable.”
The invitation to President Harding
to which the miners refused to sub
scribe, asked him to “appoint a com
mission to find a practical method by
which prompt operation of the mines
may be resumed pending its ultimate
decision, and also to seek and recom
mend a method by which further sus
pensions or strikes may be avoided.”
At the miners' headquarters, the op
erators’ proffered solution of the strike
was looked upon as nothing more than
a counter proposal to that which strik
ers’ delegates submitted a short time
ago, and which the employers refused
to sign, namely that Mr. Harding em
power the federal trade commission
and the interstate commerce commis
sion to begin at once a complete inves
tigation of the industry from wages to
prices of the product.
AMBUSHED PARTY FIRES
ON UTAH MINE WORKERS
Bullets Strike Cars Used by Miners;
Sheriff Orders Men to
Disperse
Price,, Utah.—Persons ambushed in
the hills above the Kenilworth mine of
the Independent Coal & Coke company,
where a strike is in progress, fired be
tween 50 and 100 shots at miners em
ployed by the company whne the men
were traveling from the mine to the
town of Kenilworth. None of the min
ers were struck, but the cars used by
the men in coming from the mine on
the "man trip” were hit in many
places.
Sheriff Kelter Immediately sent a
posse of 12 deputies to the scene. Al
most coincidently with the arrival of
the deputy sheriffs, approximately 150
striking miners from Helper reached
Kenilworth in automobiles and these
men were ordered by deputy sheriffs
to disperse Immediately and keep away
from the property line of the coal com
pany.
FIXES ARMY AT 133.000 MEN
Senate Boosts House Figure 18,000 In
Record Time
Washington. Carrying an appro
priation of $341,750,000, the annual
army appropriation bill was passed by
the senate. It fixes the size of the
army for the next year at an average
of 12,530 officers and 133,000 men.
Passage of the bill, which was with
out a record vote, followed quickly af
ter a test vote by which the senate
accepted, 49 to 21, its committee’s ac
tion in increasing the house figure on
the size of the army from 115,000 to
138,000 enlisted men. The strength of
12,530 officers compares with 11,000
as voted b.v the house.
Packers Offer Price Premium
Chicago.—The "big five” Chicago
packers—Swift. Morris, Wilson, Ar
mour and Cudahy—and many small
packers have agreed to pay 10 cents a
hundred above the market price on all
hogs shipped to the Chicago livestock
market providing they are free from
tuberculosis and come from a farm
where neither cattle nor hogs are in
fected with this disease.
Agree on Road Measure
Washington. The deadlock over
federal good roads between the senate
nnd house was broken when a compro
mise by which $50,000,000 will be avail
able during the next fiscal year for
continuing federal and stste co-opera
tion In road development was reached.
China Without a President
Peking.—President Hsu Shi It Chang
has resigned.
Boat Turns Over, 7 Drowned
Cis Elum, Wash.—Seven members o(
a crew working on a city pipe line on
the Cis Eium river, were drowned
when a rowboat In which they u’ere
attempting to cross the river was over
turned.
Posse Capture* Bandits
Decatur, Nebr.—Three bandits were
captured, two of them being severely
wounded and $30,000 recovered by a
posse that came upon the men as they
were robbing the State bank of Deca
,or - I
AMUNDSEN’S PARTY
SIILS FOR ALASKA
Will Attempt to Pas* North Pole by
Drifting With Polar Ice
Pack
Seattle. The auxiliary power
schooner Maud, hearing the Amund
sen polar basin scientific expedition,
has sailed from Seattle for Nome. Alas
ka, on the first leg of a five-year voy
age through the Arctic ice pack.
Captain Oscar Wlstlng, sailing mas
ter of the Maud, commanded the ves
sel. Raold Amundsen, chief of the ex
pedition decided to proceed to Nome
by steamer.
The United States navy tug Mahopac
and a flotilla of cruisers from the
fleets of the Seattle and Queen City
Yacht clubs escorted the Maud up the
Puget Sound.
The expedition is a resumption of
the effort begun by Captain Amund
sen in 1918 under the auspices of the
Norwegian government to drift past
the north pole with the ice floes, mi
nutely studying phenomena of a vast
area never before visited by white men
and to secure data which the explorer
expects may revolutionize present day
meteorological and oceanographical
knowledge in the northern hemisphere.
The first effort met with delay In 1920
when rhe Maud lost a propeller in the
Ice off the northeastern Siberian coast
and was forced to put into Seattle for
repairs. Recently tire vessel has un
dergone complete over-hauling and ad
ditional equipment Including two air
planes. a long range wireless outfit and
many precise scientific instruments
have been added to the reimplement.
ENGLISH FORCES ENTER
ERIN IN USLTER CRISIS
Test in Boundary War in Ireland at
Hand, Says Ulster Premier; Stir
ring Times Predicted
London.—Reinforcements for the
British military forces in northern Ire
land are pouring into Belfast and the.
influx is to continue indefinitely. Two
transports have arrived from Birken
head with Scotch borderers.
Wholesale commandeering of ve
hicles Is going on. especially of motor
lorries. Many motor boats are also
being taken nnd officers have been in
specting other craft. The popular be
lief is that the military is to be used
upon the Belleek salient, evacuated by
the Ulster forces recently of its re
publican occupants. Stirring events
in this sector seemed to be presaged.
During the past week of fighting 18
were killed and 74 wounded in this
city.
London.—ln the course of an inter
view, Sir James Craig, the Ulster
premier, said:
“The testing time for Ulster has
come; it may be that the testing time
for England also has come. If we go
down, our flag goes down with us.”
In the present stand Ulster is tak
ing. Sir James asserted: “We are
fighting not only our own cause but
the cause of Great Britain.”
CLAYTON WELL SPOUTING 500
Important Strike Made in Cat Creek
Field at 1,600 Feet
Great Falls.—The most important
strike of the Cat Creek oil fields was
made recently in the Clayton well No.
2 of rhe Mid-Northern Oil company,
oil being struck iu the second sands at
1,000 feet and gushing out over the
top so that dikes had to be hurriedly
built across couleees to save the out
put. The output is estimated at 500
barrels a day. The unusual importance
of the strike lies in the fact that it was
made In the second sands, all other
wells of the Cat (’reek district being in
the first sands.
Presents U. S. Medal to Verdun
Verdun. —In the name of the Ameri
can congress and the American people,
Myron T. Herrick, the ambassador, re
cently presented to the city of Verdun
the first and only medal ever given by
the United States to any community
In the world.
The ambassador and Premier Poin
care together visited the ground where
are buried thousands of French whose
valor the medal commemorates, and
both spoke under the emotion aroused
by the thought of the dead and the
sight of the “red zone,” so devastated
that it may never again be fit for hu
man habitation.
Belt Scalps Woman In Laundry
Spokane.—Mrs. Olive Cousins, em
ployer) in a laundry shop here, was
completely seal perl when her hair
caught in a belt. Attending physicians
say her Injuries may prove fatal.
Brig. Gen. Sage Succumbs
Omaha. —Brig. Gen. William H. Sage,
(13, commanding officer of Fort D. A.
Russell, Wyoming, died at a hospital
here.
General Sage had stopped at Fort
Crook enroute to Walter Reed hospit
al, Washington, and w*as taken serious
ly 111. The body was shipped to Wash
ington for interment at Arlington ceme
tery. General Sage was decorated with
the medal of honor for conspicuous ser
vice In the Philippines during the
Spanish-American war. He was to
have been retired next month.
ARREST IS ORDERED
IN FRAUD INQUIRY
Warrant Issued for Georgia Political
Chairman Charging Mishandling
of Lumber Contract
Washington.—A warrant has been is
sued by United States Commissioner
Hitt for the arrest of J. L. Phillips,
chairman of the Republican state com
mittee for Georgia, charging fraud in
the execution of war contracts.
Held Disposal Contract
Phillips, as a member of the firm of
Phillips and Stevens, obtained a con
tract soon after the armistice from the
government to dispose of surplus lum
ber left from cantonment and camp
constructions nnd other war building
developments, the firm having been
designated by a conference of lumber
dealers to act as their agent.
Representative Woodruff. Republi
can. Michigan, in n speech recently in
the house, asserted that official reports
had been filed by government auditors
In September. 1921, showing that
Phillips and Stevens still owed the
government under this contract more
than $1,850,000 and that so far as he
could learn, “no proceedings whatever
had been instituted in this connection.”
GOMPERS hWsToDY
OPPOSING CHILO LABOR
Many National Associations Join In
Move to Obtain Constitutional
Amendment
Washington.—A permanent organiza
tion to “absolutely abolish child labor
in the United States” has been formed
here by representatives of a number
of national associations called into
conference on the subject by Samuel
Gompers, president of the American
Federation of Labor. The meeting fol
lowed the recent decision of the tFnited
States supreme court holding that
special excise taxes on the product of
minor -labor were invalid.
The organization formed to institute
a campaign for such an amendment
will he known as “the permanent con
ference for the abolition of child la
bor.” Mr. Gompers accepted the post
of permanent chairman.
Growers Plan Flax Pool
Fargo, N. D. —The United States
Grain Growers, Inc., of Nortih Dakota,
and the Northwest Wheat Growers’ or
ganization will unite in an effort to
organize a flax pool in North Dakota
and Montana soon, U. L. Burdick,
former director of the United States
Grain Growers, Inc., who is working
on contracts to be used, announces.
The bwo states produce about 60 per
cent of the salable flax output of the
country according to Mr. Burdick.
Love Heads Sugar Manufacturers
Salt Lake City, Utah. —Stephen H.
Love, of Salt Lake City, sales manager
and member of the executive commit
tee of the Utah-Idaho Sugar company
was elected president of the United
States Sugar Manufacturers’ associa
tion at the concluding session of their
annual convention at the-Hotel Utah.
Mr. Love succeeds Judge 11. H. Rolaph,
president and general manager of the
Amalgamated Sugar company of Og
den.
New Vet Hospital Opens
Walla Walla, Wash.—The New
United States Veterans’ hospital at
Fort Walla Walla, has been opened.
Old buildings have been reconstructed
and new ones erected at a cost of
about $450,000. About 35 patients suf
fering froiq^tuberculosis are at the in
stitution. The capacity of the hos
pital is about 250. A staff of seven
doctors is needed to care for the men.
$493,000 Farmer Loans
Washington.—Appropriation of 23
advances for agricultural and livestock
purposes, aggregating $493,000, is an
nounced by the War Finance Corpora
tion. Distribution of the loans in
cluded :
Colorado, $18,000; Montana. $9,000;
North Dakota, $71,000; South Dakota,
$6,000; Texas, $141,000, and Utah, $39,-
000.
$295,000 Road Contract Is Awarded
Cheyenne. The Wyoming State
Highway commission has let to the
Utah Construction company on a bld
of $295,000, the contract for building
n 14-mlle highway through the canyon
of the Big Horn river south of Ther
mopolis. The work Is to be completed
by next March first.
225 Fight Forest Flames
St. Paul, Minn.—More than 225 men
are fighting timber fires in three coun
ties—Lake, Cook and St. Louis—near
Duluth.
Klan Initiates 2,000
Chicago.—The Ku Klux Klan held an
Initiation meeting near La Grange, a
Chicago suburb, at which 2,000 candi
dates were taken into the organization,
while 85,000 members attended the
gathering.
80 Perish When Ship Sinks
Buenos Aires. —The steamer Villa
Franca, sank off Hohenou, Paraguay,
following an explosion and 80 persons
perished. It Is said the vessel sank so
quickly that the passengers had not
time to dress or see’x life belts.
SENATE COMMITTEE
FAVORS VET BONUS
McCUMBER TO URGE SENATE TO
GIVE BILL RIGHT OF WAY
OVER TARIFF
BANK LOAN CLAUSE RETAINED
Important Change* In Houae Plan by
Senate Include Abandonment of
Reclamation Program; Date
Advanced to January, 1923
Washington. The house soldiers’
bonus bill, amended In several Impor
tant particulars, but with the much
discussed bank loan provision retained,
was approved by the senate finance
committee by a vote of n to 4. Chair
man McCnmber proposes to report the
measure to the senate within a few
days and said he hoped to get action
on It before the passage of the tariff
bill.
The more important alterations
made In the house measure were:
• ’hanging the effective date of the
legislation from next October 1 to Jan
na rv 1. 1023.
Removal of the time limitation on
filing of applications by world wnr
veterans for adjusted service compen
sation.
Abandonment of the reclamation
nlan and substitution of a provision
under which veterans would he given
preference In making entry on public
or Indian lands when opened to entry.
Elimination of the forfeiture pro
vision, under which veterans falling
to repay loans made by banks or the
government on adjuster! service cer
tificates would have forfeited their
certificates.
Under the amended bill such voter
nns could reclaim their certificates at
any time before their maturity. 20
years from the date of Issue, on pay
ment of the sum they were In default,
plus Interest nt 414 per cent compound
ed annually.
GERMANY GRANTED DELAY
IN REPARATION PAYMENTS
Berlin Answer to Ultimatum Receives
Approval; Moratorium for
1922 Granted
Paris. —The reparations commission
has fully approved the German reply
to its ultimatum and definitely decided
to grant Germany a provisional mora
torium for the year 1022.
The decision was unanimous.
The action taken by tne German gov
ernment to put Its finances on a sound
basis and eliminate as much as possible
the wholesale printing of paper money
constitutes a "serious effort to meet
the commission’s requirements,” the
decision says. In its letter to Chancel
lor Wirth, the commission states that
In view of the importance of any de
cision on the question of postponement
of payments, the commission felt justi
fied in taking prompt action notwith
standing the fact that on several points
Germany’s answer requires further
elucidation.
Robbers Blow Safe of Shoshoni Bank
Shoshoni. Wyo.—Robbers who blew
the safe of the Slioshoni State bank
here secured $3,500 in currency and es
caped leaving no due to Identity.
Damage to the safe and Interior of the
bank will amount to S6OO.
One package of money taken con
tained SI,OOO In new Wyoming National
bank (Casper) bills, which can be
identified, it is said.
War Fraud Probe Opens
Washington.—lnvestigation of the
so-called wnr fraud cases began before
a special grand jury when United
States Attorney Peyton Gordon pre
sented, ns the first of the government’s
series of cases dealing with wartime
contracts, that involving disposal of
surplus lumber by the quartermaster
corps of the United States army.
Pickford Divorce Affirmed
Carson City, Nev. —Mary Pickford’s
divorce from Owen Moore was sus
tained when the Nevada supreme court
affirmed the order of District Judge
Frank P. Langan quashing service of
summons in the action brought by At
torney General Fowler to set aside the
decree granted the movie star.
War Bonds Sell at Par
New York.—For the first time since
the date of issue, all liberty bonds re
cently sold at par or better. Heavy
trading in liberty bonds at highest
prices and transactions embracing sev
eral lots of $1,000,000 are the out
standing features of the bond market.
Sella 14,000,000 Bushels
Spokane.—Slightly more than 14,-
000,000 buehe’s of Washington, Oregon,
Idaho and Montana wheat, valued nt
more than $20,000,000 were sold
through the offices of The Northwest
Wheat Growers, associated, during the
fiscal year ending May 81, Walter Rob
inson, manager of the Washington-
Idaho Wheat Growers, announces.
Only a small part of the 1921 wheat
poo) remains unsold. Trustees of the
association will meet in Portland soon
to outline policies for handling the 1922
crop of its members.
HUGE NETWORK OF HIGHWAYS
When Federal-Aid System Is Com
pleted There Will Be 180,000
Miles of Roads.
(Prepared by the United State* Department
of Agriculture.)
When the federal-aid highway sys
tem, provided for by the recently en
acted federal highway act, Is com
pleted there will be a network of
roads 180,000 miles in length covering
the whole United States, The time
required for the completion of the
system will depend upon the rate nt
which the necessary federal funds are
provided, say officials of the bureau of
public roads, United States Depart
ment of Agriculture, which adminis
ters federal-aid money.
An idea of w’hat these roads will
mean to the country can he gained by
studying the effect of roads built In
recent years and picturing what would
happen should they be torn up and
left in their former condition.
Should these roads go back to their
former state and the motor vehicles
which have come with them disappear
there would be many changes. Many
suburbanites would have to move into
the city and there would be a decrease
in value of suburban real estate.
Cities would have trouble in getting
their fresh milk and food supply.
Much farm land would decrease In
Completed Concrete Highway.
value and the effect uu rural social
life would be serious. In fact, motor
vehicles and the roads on which to
use them form such an important part
of our economic and social life that 11
is bard Jto picture to the full extent
what would happen.
Since all this dependence on high
way transportation has come in a
brief period of years and with the con
struction of 115.000 miles of surfaced
highways, 60,000 of which are on the
proposed f£deral-ald highway system,
It can be understood what further
changes will take place as the system
grows to 180,000 miles In length and
other roads are built branching out
from it.
PRICE OF LABOR FAVORABLE
Indication* Ar* That There Will Be
No Drawbacks Along That
Line This Season.
Labor costs on federal-aid projects
under construction tills year indicate
(hat there will tie no drawback along
this line in the building of roads dur
ing the coming season, according to
the bureau of public roads, United
States Department of Agriculture. The
price for common labor ranged around
25 and 30 cents an hour in a great ma
jority of the states, being somewhat
lower in the Southern states and go
ing up to yearly 50 cents an hour in
the Pacific states. The prices of
teams reported were in a great mariy
Instances as low as the 1914 level. It
Is probable, however, that there will
be an increase when the farming sea
son begins, as teams have always
been cheaper in winter.
ROADS ARE BIG BLESSING
The cost of keeping up Amer
ican roads and building new ones
last year was $4 for every man,
woman and child —after deduct
ing money from auto license
fees. So reports the National
Automobile Chamber of Com
merce.
It .’s equivalent to a cent and
a tenth a day for each of us. To
save that much, few would sur
render even the street in front
of their house.
Roads are about the greatest
blessing of civilization, also the
cheapest.
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Floods Delay Work.
Millions of dollars of roadbuilding in
northeastern Louisiana has been sus
pended temporarily, owing to high wa
ter in several parishes. The floods may
delay roadbulidlug there for two or
three months.
Millions Spent on Lincoln Way.
Expenditures on the Lincoln high
way lost year brought the total spent
on this trans-continental highway since
its dedication in 1913 to $40,000,000, or
more than twice the amount that win
figured necessary.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 1922.
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming
(WMMn N**w*p«r Uataa Am hnW)
Final arrangements have been com
pleted for the 1922 joint Lincoln and
Sweetwater teachers’ institute, to be
held In Yellowstone National park,
Aug. 28 to 31.
Cracksmen who blew the safe of the
Shoshoni State Bank recently escaped
with $8,500 in cash and bills of small
denomination, and left no trail for of
ficers to follow.
One hundred and thirty thousand
pounds of wool sold at Casper recent
ly for 37 and 38 cents a pound at
the first auction sale by the sealed
bld method. The sale was held by
woolgrowers of Natrona county.
Louis G. Phelps, 03, of Pitchfork,
Wyo., nationally known as a financier
and Park county’s largest Individual
landowner and taxpayer, dropped dead
recently while transacting business in
the office of the county surveyor at
Cody. '
A meeting was held in Burlington
recently, which was attended by the
Inndowners of that section of the Grey
bull valley and a number from Basin
und Greybull, relative to inducing the
Burlington to build a branch line up
that valley.
Plans are now under way for cele
brating the fiftieth anniversary of
founding Yellowstone National park
this summer, according to Stanley Ed
wards, secretary of the Rocky Moun
tain Highway Association, with offices
In Laramie.
The Laramie local of the Interna
tional Typographical Union voted
unanimously for the election of David
W. Baird of New York for a member
of the bonrd of auditors of the inter
national Typographical Union. Baird,
a native of Laramie, learned to set
type in that city.
R. E. Stapleton, reporter for the Cas
per Daily Tribune, lies in a critical
condition at a hospital In Casper from
a bullet wound received in an accident
al shooting, when a gun slipped from a
holster which was being removed by
Deputy Sheriff Frank Devlin, and was
discharged on striking the floor.
Plans are now under way for the
establishment of a reserve officers'
training camp unit in Casper to be
located at the high school and under
the supervision of the high school au
thorities. A regular army officer
would tie in charge and the govern
ment would furnish all the equipment.
During the past few days there has
been a revival of rumors that the
Union Pacific is to build its south ex
tension from Yoder to Cheyenne, and
that construction will be started this
year. One rumor says "dirt will be
flying” within ninety days. Engineer
Wood worth at Gering denied knowl
edge of new construction activities.
A new high price for wool in Natro
na county since ths collapse of the
market two years ago was established
at Casper in the sale of 70,000 pounds
by the Freeland Sheep Company for 40
cents a pound. Bilbennan & Son of
Chicago made the purchase and also
took 180,000 pounds from the same
company at prices ranging from 36 to
38 cents.
In the realization that his own sit
uation was hopeless and that he must
perish in the worst late spring bliz
zard i hat had swept Wyoming in
years. Jack Westcott, world war vet
eran from Urbana, la., once more
acted the hero by removing his own
thin "slicker” and throwing it over
the prostrate body of his buddy, Ma
rlon D. Young of Pasadena, Calif., In
a last desperate effort to save the
latter’s life while his own was ebbing
away.
Wyoming’s largest high school grad
uation class is the claim to distinction
made by the class of 1922. which grad
uated ninety-eight members recently In
the Orjftieum theater at Sheridan.
With the bodies of two-year-old
twin daughters still missing, funeral
services for Patricia, aged 6, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. William Mclntosh ol
the Sweetwater country were held in
Rawlins recently. The three children
were drowned when the car which had
been brought to rest on the brink ot
the Sweetwater river tumbled into tlie
stream with the caving of the bank.
Search io being continued for the
bodies of the twins.
The Burlington railroad lias ar
ranged to give parties holding tourist
tickets to Yellowstone park stopover
privileges at Thermopolis, both going
and returning. The Big Horn Hot
Springs provide the greatest attraction
In Wyoming and one of the greatest
In the entire West, and this fact is
forcing Itself to the front. The stop
over privileges will give many people
a chance to visit this great resort for
a few days who *>therwlse would be
whisked through u’thout knowing that
we were on the map.
Nearly a year ago the Goshen Hole
News remarked there were three or
four families of Yoders In that county
not related to the others. Now comes
Mr. and Mrs. <l. A. Yoder from Michi
gan to locate In Yoder. And they are
not related to the Yoders already
there.
Judge P. W. Montz ap]Kiint;ed James
A. Berry receiver of the Big Horn
County bank, all efforts at consolida
tion having failed. Berry is engaged
In Basin in the grocery business and
was formerly chairman of the Demo
cratic county central committee.