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, 1923-02-11

DAWSON, N. M, Feb. 10.
One hundred and twenty
miners have persisted in Daw-
son mine No. j.
This was the belief here
tonight as weary rescue work.
ers, f~rantically pIoughcd through
debris in the mine tunnels, far be.
meath the ground. in search of more
victims OF New Mexlco's second great.
est mining disaster when 122 men
were entombed by a terrific explosion
in the Phelps-Dodge corporations
number n mine Thursday after,
noon.
Two OF the men. Charles Kantal
and Felini Martini, walked out Of the
death tunnel uninjured after waiting
iG hours for fresh air to be pumped
into the shaft and cheating death by
wrapping their water soaked sweat.
ers about their heads to combat the
poisonous gases that followed the
k,aHt. J
Tonight. AZ bodies had been brought
to the surface and thirteen more had
been located in the mine. Hope was
i'ractirally abandoned that any of the
remaining sixty would be recovered
alive.
Mine rescue car number 1 from
Tucson. Ariz., and car number 2 from
Wyoming arrived early tonight on a
special train.
The first car brought General Man.
ager Beckett of the Phelps-Dodge cor.
poration.
Daniel Harrington. supervising en-.
gineer in charge of the Bureau OF
Mines mt Denver. arrived with the
rescue n r and will direct the rescue
work.
These cars were at the recent Arg
onaut gold mine disaster at jackson
Calf. in which Az miners lost their
lives.
1T is more than doubtful that any
remain alive in the mine,'' Judge r.
L. Kinney. acting coroner told the
United Press. His was the first state.
ment issued since the catastrophe by
any official that ventured an opinion
as to whether any more living miners
would be found.
"The sixty men in the SHAFT have
been there As hours" he pointed out,
and when such experienced miners
as Alec Kerr. whose body was brought
out this afternoon were unable to
save their lives. the chances are
mighty slim that any of the others
are living"
Kinney said the amazing escape Of
Kantal and Martini probably was
due to the TACT tina they were n con.
siderable distance from THE scene of
the explosion. He declared thai mine
engineers told him searching parties
had not penetrated to that part OF
Continued on Page Two)
, 1923-02-11
INDUSTRIAL EDITION TO BE SENT TO
n GREAT FINANCIAL CENTERS; LARGEST
PAPER EYER TURNED OUT IN WYOMING

The official stntist!cian of the Tri.
bune. having nothing else to do about
three o'clock this morning, got paper
and pencil and commenced doing n
little calculation. This is what he
found out.
The metal used in preparing tho So
pages. each column 81 inches long
n eight columns to the page. would
weigh s.52s pounds.
In the Industrial edition and the
regular Sunday edition, 1880 pounds
Of paper costing 8 cents a pound
were used, making a paper bill Of
about 50. 800.
II h paper were cut into strips
10 inches wide. 1t would reach APP.
, 1923-02-11
Puts In
Is Hour Day to
Celebrate Birth

ORANGE. n. J..sFeb. 1o.-OUnitcs
PressJ-with a fun sixteen hour dav
OF work.. Thomas A. Edison prepared
IN his laboratory for his y sixth
birthday tomorrow.
The famous inventor did celebrate
b last day CT his seventy-fifth year
by coming to work three minute
late, but he made up for it by cut
ting his lunch time down to rs min
ufes.
Edison will spend his birthday
quietly with his family and will
stage his public observation Of the
day on Monday, when he will receive
his friends and grant his annual in
terview to the newspapermen.
, 1923-02-11
man DRINKS LYE POISON
AND FIGHTS Off COP

Very few men perhaps would pick
on n solution Of I've in water as n
choice beverage. Yet that is lust
what w. w. Holmes. $50 CY avenue
did yesterday afternoon when an OF.
hcer of the police department came
to arrest him. Tho officer could not
help being non.plussed when he saw
his intended prisoner pick up a can
of Rex's purest and pour part of il
into a cup of water alleged to be Just
as pure, and then to lift the con
coction guaranteed to whiten the dirt.
lest clothes to his lips. When the
officer strove to prevent the action
that would be sure to result in reac.
ton, n club was lifted in his face,
and It was only by brute strength
and argument that Holmes now rests
quietly in the city Jail. An investige-
tion is being made regarding his san.
ity.
, 1923-02-11
BY HENRY WOOD.
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent.l

fAsN oNNA ANopOhaNhAJ
GENEVA. Feb. 1O.-The disarma.
ment commission of the League of
Nations today began consideration OF
a plan by Lord Robert Cecil to dis.
arm the world.
The project. which Is the most
sweeping Of It's kind to come before
any branch of tho league. makes de-
tailed provisions for discarding com
petitive ornaments and enforcing
penalties against agEressor nations.
1t would become effective upon rat.
iticatlon by tho United States. Japan
and four Of these European powers:
England. France, Italy, Germany
and Belgium.
Lord Robert cec'l's scheme. laid
before tho commission by It's spon.
sor who made a hurried trip from
London. provides that the signatorles
on the same continent would protect
each other.
Each state would be pledged to nor
cept ornaments assigned 10 H., but In
event that certain pewera advance a
plea that they are continually men.
Heed, owing to historical or EsogFaph-
lchl reABons, the league would be en-,
powered to negotiate SPECIAL military
treaties guaranteeing against such
msnaoes,
, 1923-02-11

proximately the distance from New
York to San Francisco. while IL 1t
were cut into a strip one inch wide
IT would encircle the globe.
This edition is the largest ever
printed in Wyoming and wa issued
only because the entire Tribune stan,
from Red, the neophyte devil to
the Old Man himself. worked day and
night for the past week.
Copies of it WIFI be rent by the
publisher to every member Of the
New York Stock Exchange and other
eastern financial centers to serve rs
a tangible advertisement Of the
diversified Industries of Wyoming,
the last of the old frontier.
, 1923-02-11

State n government officials and
authorities on the various industries
and interests in every section OF wyo-
ming. as well as the staff of the Tri-
bune have assisted in preparing the
news and special articles for publlca
ton. The publisher OF the Tribune
wishes to gratefully acknowledge this
cooperation.
Thousands of copies have been
ordered by local Tribune readers 70
send to friends in other states and
foreign countries. 1t would be safe
to say that the Industrial edition Of
the Tribune is the greatest advertise,
ment of Wyoming ever issued any.
where at any time.
, 1923-02-11
N0MEN'S" CLUBPRESDENT
OFFERED $4,000 SHE
SAYS TO LOBBY FOR BILL.

MINNEAPOLIS, MINI, Feb. TO-
United Press)-Declaring she was
offered s250.oo0 TO 20 to Washington
to lobby for a bill, Mrs. T. G. Winter,
president of h General Federation
of Women's Clubs, tonight warned
the 2.0oO,o 900 women she represents to
be careful what they say.
THE influence of women in politics
today is almost unbelievable she
said. I'm travelling about the u
try I find the federation Is being ms
represented in most distressing ways
, 1923-02-11
DOC JEFFRIES BILL TO
LEGALIZE CHIROPRACTOR
NOW "SITTING PRETTY"

CHEYENNE. wyo, Feb, ELECTROMAGNETIC Doc Jeffrey Of Cas-.
psr Saturday ohanenssd the medical trust Of America and got away
the orntory OF Representative doc Jeffrey and Representative Doc
jailed chiropractor. Doc Jeffreya bill to iegalhe ehtropractors al
whole that It pass, Furthermore, that recommendation given 1t by
n vote of twentythree to three, Tho fact that only twentyBLx repre-
sentattveB voted CAUSED Representative Leslie A, Miller Of Cheyenne
Democratic floor leader, to declare that the approval of the bill was not
legal, in aEnuch a n quorum had not voted OF the question, Miller failed
however, % have the recommendation excepted from the report Of the
committee of the whole and the chiropHctc bill is en- the file or second
reading Monday,
There nay be more fireworks than,
The. senate Saturday Afternoon sasBed the house hI providing for
state certficaton and guarantee of irrigation and drainage bonds and
the measure. now goes Ito. the governor. Tho j5nt resolution submitting a
constitutional. amendment creating tho office Of lieutenant governor waB
KILLED in the house when; on third reading there we're cast for it thirty.
seven votes three less than the twothirds ecessary,
, 1923-02-11
X-Rdy DiscOUerer
Dies in Munich

MUNICH. Feb. 1O.-CUnited Press.I
Prof. Wizard Conrad Roentgen,
"discoverer Of the Xray, died here to-
day al the ago of rs years.
Prof. Roentgen was born in Lennep.
Prussia, n was educated in Holland
and Switzerland.
HIS discovery of the Roentgen. or
x-ray, for which he was chiefly
known, was purely accidental. While
he was working at a highly powered
vncuum tubo he discovered he X.ray
and found that they had tho power
Of passing through objects which are
ordinarily Opaque.
, 1923-02-11
MAN STRUCK BY TRAIN u
SEEKS $4,000 DAMAGES

d, n. wolcott. who was injured
January 3, 1929, when II truck IN
which no was riding was struck by u
Chicago. Burlington & Quincy train
at a crossing east OF tho olty, ~ suing
the railroad for SIS 900 damages and
has asked for "A jury trial,
Wolcutt wRa returning from tho
MePhssOn oil we'll after having de
livrrud "A TRUCK Toad ~ material and
he asserts IN hI= suit thai neither the
bell or the Whistle on the engine was
sounded ON the approach Of the train
to the crossing.
, 1923-02-11
Would Ban AL
Immigrants to
U. S. from Orient

wAsHINGToN. Feb. 1O.-All Or
iental immigration into the United
States would be banned under a bill
introduced in the house today by
Representative Miller Of washington.
In n statement accompanying the
measure, which proposed to extend
the provisions of the Chinese exclu-
sion act to apply to Japanese and
Hlndus. Miller declared the influx Of
orientals into the Pacific coast states
had reached "a menscing STAGE
, 1923-02-11

1T expect to greet every American
whom, I could not meet in the Unit.
ed States in my native city OF
Nancy" he said in parting. Come
TO me in Nancy. come to me in
Nancy" he was repeating over and
over as the Olympic pulled out.
Nancy is a little French cathedral
city Of 100000 where Coue had his
first clinic. But he believes every.
thing Is possible IL o r%eiterate It
often enough.
, 1923-02-11
SIGNALS WIN K
FIRST ACT
BY TURKEY IS
NOW EXPECTED
Nationals Have
Fled City; Word from
Angora VIII Decide
Issue.

SMAltNA, Feb. 10.-United Press
winked from the
Oh AIMED warships in Smyrna harbor
mig as British and French naval
commanders with fun powers m
strike back at the first sign OF n
hostlle act on Turkeys part. awaited
Woru from AnEora of the national
or war. F~S
Shlps from all parts OF the world
shugsied against the charred ouavs
a'ohs the city's miles of water front
were warned TINT the Turks have
sowh the harbor entrance with minea.
were warned against rout-
ing vessels by way of Smyrna.
French nationals, fearing a Turkish
uprising against foreigners similar 10
that which occurred when thousanda
OF Greeks were driven from Smyrn,
lied from the city today aboard H.
cruiser Ernestrcnan, which steamed
INTO the harbor in defiance Of Tho
uitimatum banning warshIps of moro
than 1000 tons. This ultimatum yvo.
not enforced. the time limit being OK
tended indefinitely pending decision
OF the Angora assembly.
The Turkish congress- is mocttr-
TO hear lsmct Pasha's report on Ian.
same and to decide whether Turkey,
VIII make good her vague threats or
war. VI
Mustapha Renal. gensralissimo Of
Iurkish arms. is expected to address
h assembly. Influential Turks,
said TO favor war. are nocking to the
capitol. But opinion prevails there
VIII be no war.
Turkey. IL she decided to fight
Britain, car strike several wnvs
Turkish troops in the yicinity Of
Alosul can move against the email
British garrison defending BrItain,s
claims to the rich oil lands. A clash
OF arms with Greeks along the NIarltz
river in Thraco might bring Britain
INTO the conflict. Trouble in Con
stant!nople, an uprising against Chris
tians might be sufficient to start war.
a hostile act here, such as firing upon
British men OF war in the harbor.
would be n cnusc for war.
Austrian and German officers are
reported TO be at salonilSl en- route
Tor Angora TO go in the Turkish army.
The assistant American high com.
m'ssioner Mt fConstantinople warned
the Angora representative Of the Eray.
ity Of any hostile act Of Smyrna.
CoNsTANTINoPLE, Feb. 10
UNITED Press.GThe Turks tonight
closed Ismid harbor to foreign war
ships and announced that all light
houses on h Gulf OF Ismid viii be
extinguished.
The situation at Smyrna remains
unchanged.
GIBRALTAR, Feb. 10.-UJnited
Pressl@One battalion of the Duke OF
WelAngton's regiment was ordered to
depart Immediately for Constantl-
nople.
, 1923-02-11
BOCHE FESTIVE
AS FRENCH GO
ON In u R
French Activities Keep Occupied
Area Stirred-High German
Officials Barred.
BY CARL ID. O

UNITED Press Staff Correspondent
BERLIN, Feb. 1O.-Demonstrutions
of revol against n virtual state of
French annexation were staged by in.
habitants of the Ruhr as france
again extended the occupied zone 10.
day.
Dispatches from Bochum said that
two French soldiers, alleged to have
lnsulted German pedestrians. were
d sarmed by crowds and one of them
seriously stabbed.
Young Germans who attacked n
Herne cafe which served food to
French officers were driven off by
French troops vho increased patrols
IN the city. Many of the youthful
demonstrators We're arrested.
The disturbances were simultaneous
with word received here from Duesse!.
dort hat the French were extending
their advance from the neighborhood
of Elberfeld and Lcnncp toward Rade.
vosmwald.
Essen dispatches announced that
tho French had issued orders requiss.
tioning housing accommodation for NJ
entire troop division which will arrive
shortly.
Activities of the French kept the
occupied area stirred with mutterings
from the stole Westphal,ans. French
a~v'ators flew out over the Essen area.
ph~otograph!ng con mines. b
Temper of crowds in Berlin streets
was aroused by tho death ct Heidel-
berg of n German official named
stammlnger who was expelled from
the occupied zono desplt u plea OF
illness.
The French arrested Herr Hopp-
stadetter, German mine director in
Bcohum, and employees In his mines
Immediately struck until Tuesday, ac-
cordlng to reports from that town to-
day. At O~berhnusen the b~urgomaster
was arrested and handcuffed when he
refused to deliver hay and straw to
The French.
Wholesale arrests in newly occupied
territory were reported. Railroad
tracks near schnarhorst were torn
up, further disrupting traffic. Coal
trains resumed operations in Italy
and Switzerland, however.
AT Mayence. according to reports
The French arrested 10 railroad pay
masters, who were paying striking
workers. S'xty.one million marks
were co~nfiscated.
President Ebert will go to KARLSRUHE
Monday to discuss the situation at
Gutenberg and Appanwe!ser with local
government authorities.
ESSEN, Feb. ia large detach'
! ment of French troops. with tanks
and artillery. moved into the Ruhr
during the night.
Welsbadon reports early today said
nightlong negotiations between
| French and German railway mon dc
signed ia prevent complete traffic
, 1923-01-07
Sheridan Girl To
Be Correspondent
In Washington

Success in the fields Of Journalism
and imaginative writing seems 10 be
ahead OF Miss Olga Moore of SheFi.
dan, who viii go to Washington. d.
C.. In June to become a special CORE.
spondent for some of the more I'm,
portnnt papers OF Wyoming.
Miss Moore viii be graduated from
the University of Wyoming this
spring with a bachelor of arts degree.
Her career has been unusually pic.
turesque during the past few ysars.
Working on the Sheridan Enterprise
In the summer and attending college
in the fall and winter, she hsA had
many unique opportunities to further
her progress along literary lines.
She has been looked upon by those
who know her aH one OF the future
representatives OF Wyoming IN its 1T.
ersry life. Already she has succeeded
In placing some OF her work with the
magazines M Is especially skiliful In
drawing characters of the west.
, 1923-01-07
Trouble StnLked
Child to Casper;
May Be Let Stay

The shadow OF a fathers suicide
occurring IN the vastness of the
mountains OF West virginia. the cry
OF loneliness heard by the Erict
stricken widow and mother, and the
Loneliness Of separation from the par.
ents who had nourished him for 10
years followed little Harry ghirk 70
Casper when he came here last March
with his uncle Andrew Shirk.
Austin shirk. the child's father had
shot himself in the early spring, and
the brother had thought I o bring the
widow to Casper through the drawing
power Of the child. according to thd
superstition of SONS who are familiar
with the case.
Whether It RAJ legally a case OF
kidnapping or not has v been dc,
cided.
Ole Smith, a friend Of the shirk
family, came TO Casper yesterday in
the possession Of an order for the boy
empowering him to take such steps
MS wero necessary 70 got possession Of
him and to return him to his homo IN
Ms .fsli. West Va
Smith says that he has no othor
interest in the CASE than that Of re,
turning the boy to his mother. When
he arrived yesterday he was confront
ed with q bill OF $500 to oover the
care Of young shirk and his railroad
fare 70 Wyoming, Negotiations ara
now under way which may lead in .
peaceful settlement OF the matter.
, 1923-01-07
Plan TO USE POISON Gas
ON MOONSHINERS IN TEX.
sTRONGMLDs OF LIQUOR

CoRsICAEA. Texas, jan. g.
Lights Of fires under stills that make
meonshins fiiekered dimiy tonight
through the dense growth that saei.
tiers Texas most dangerous booze
stronshoids. as prohibition enforce.
nent officers planned poison gas as.
Seulta in Portsrs Bluff region.
Despite threats Of dry officers 10
use a and machine guns in driving
them from their den, the "bootieG-
gers" continued nimly At their work.
George E.. Webb. head Of the dry
agents in this section. was in Dallas
.ete today. presumably making for.
nal arrangsments Tor the battle he
claims he will launch to drive moon.
sinners out Of their swemoy strong,
hold.
Although Webb viii not disclose his
plan of attack, It was believed he
would surround the outlaw den with
squads OF agents armed with machips
guns and thsn proceed to pump dead.
ly gas into their rendezvous, forcing
them to emerge and surrender.
Drastic measures against iiliett dis.
tifiers IN thu Porters Bluff section
were decided upon after sight raids
had been made and officers were un.
able to dlsiodge them. Each time
rifle fire drove the raiders back after
they had captured = few outlying
stillB."
Two booze runners are believed ny
officers to have been killed during
the assaults,
, 1923-01-07
jul JITSU ONLY
AFFECTION TEST
Widow of Jake Hamon Testi6es
to Treatment Of Millionaire
Husband.

CHICAGO. Jan. 6.-United PresSJ
Mrs. Georgia Hamon Rohrsr, widow
OF Jake l.. Hamon. slain Oklahoma
politician. described details OF the flu
Jitsu treatment she claims she re-
coiv0d from her husband, Wm. l..
Rohrsr, local millionaire. in thu hear
ing Of her divorce suit here today.
Judge Walter p. Steffen indicated
he would grant Mrs. Rohrer . decree
and the right to resume lannon's
name after the woman had cited
numerous instances Of alleged, cruelty
At the hands Of her capitalist husband.
He would grasp my wrists in that
awful japanese way" testified Mrs.
Rohrer. He would twist and strike
me and gioAt ovsr II all, as though
Il was part Of his daily exercise"
Every time the millionaire expevi.
enced one OF his angry moods be
would exhibit his prowess" at Stu
j.tsu, she told the court.
Rohrer after each display would
characterize Il as a simple demon
stration of prowsHs and the result Of
over'abundant good spirIts,' she said.
II wa always in desperate fear OF
my life. I have been frightened to
death every day since the time sodA
after our marriage that ] realized his
painful antics were not jokes"
Mrs. Rohrer waived dover interest
IN Rohrer's estate and accepted the
latter's waiver of interest in her
share of lannon's eStAts, valued At.
s 1000. 900,
Jake L. HRInon, Jr.. Of Ardmors.
Oklahoma, testified in behalf Of his
mother.
II don't want mother to take a
dino from that man." he declared
after telling the court he va Al tho
Rohrer home duSing one OF the j!u
jitsu exercises.
II will inherit about s1.4oo, 900 CT
my fathers estate soon and mother
shall never want Al long as she lives
, 1923-01-07
tcontinued from Boo onsi

VSonrluueQ from FAgo OneD
friendly o. partisan attitude toward
any nation or nations n Europe"
Senator Lodge announced the att.
fuds of the administration group In
congress when he spoFe in opposi.
ton to the first revolution OF SENATE
heed. This would have respectfully
requested the president to at oncs
cause the return Of troops.
Lodge said hS was opposed to that
resolution on the EFousd that il
would order immediate v~ithdraEaI in
tho fac of the present separations
crisis and while he was in favor OF
ultimately withdrawing the troops he
believed the action would be miseon.
strued by foreign governments at this
time.
Reed then Withdrew his first res.
%olution and substituted the one which
was ultimately passed. senator New
OF Indiana offered the amendment
was accepted, providing that
the senate dIsavow any unfriendIy-
feeling toward European nations.
In pleading for action on his rasolu.
ton, Reed pointed out that the Amer.
Ian troops stationed near Cobleuz
were OF no military. assistance to the
I uited States. He sHId they were be-
ng kept there to safeguard the war
ftdemnities which the allies We're at.
tempting to collect and If any put
freak occurred. American troops
would be fired upon and the United
, 1923-01-07
Paul Sampson, y. S.
Heavy, Is Still The
German Champion

HAMBuRG.-By Mail to United
Press.lEPaul Samson, American
heavyweight champion of Germany,
continues his victories over leading
German boxers. HIS latest win was
over Otto Flint, probably the best
boxer in central Europe, who went
down for a knock out In the first
round.
Samson, who was matched with the
German champion R~reitenstratsr AZ
a set up recently. defeated the Ger
man champion in short order. Then
came Flint. Flint took the count AZ.
ter only a few blows had been paused.
Despite the brsvity Of the fight. Sam.
sons work made a deep impression on
the fight followers here,
Samson, though born IN Germany,
has been hanging around the Bronx
end of New York for about ls years.
He acted as sparring partner for Car.
psntier when the latter was training
fofr Dempsey flight on Long Island.
Samson makes no prsten1s Of being a
first rater at home. but has displayed
championship eiAAs 90 far as German
boxing is concerned
, 1923-01-07
School Cadets
To Play Hosts Next
Friday at Function

The premier event Of the high
school social reason will take place
next Friday in the new high school
gymnasium with the cadets turning
out in their gray uniforms and play,
ing the genial hosts TO a large mum.
Dor Of friends.
II is probable that the high school
orchestra will furnish the music for
the dancing. This capable organiza.
ton is one Of tho finest that could be
obtained for such an occasion,
There will be no military drill al
this time. Later IN tho year a com.
petitive drill win be held to deter.
mine tho best cadet who wtlI receive
AZ that time a medal from the Casper
Rotary club.
Tho militGryIIl "a under the dlree,
tion Of Sam Nctt. Tho gymnasium
VIII be decorated IN orange and black.
the high school eolors, and Will be
fitted in every way 70 offer the bear
possible wolooms n the guess
Punch will hs served.