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Campaign to Rid
Fields of Gophers
Biologist From University Was Here
Saturday 10 Assist in the Work
of determination.

Albert NJ. Day, a biologist from the
Agricultural Experiment Station at
Laramie, spent last Friday and Satur-
day in the valley, mixing and treat
ing grain for the use of valley grain
growers in exterminating gophers.
prairie dogs and other rodent pests
from their fields.
Mr.. Day spent Friday at Encamp-
ment, where he was kept very busy all
day mixing the poison for grain grow
ers of that section. Saturday he came
here, and n number of local ranchers
took advantage of the opportunity to
engage his cooperation in their cam
paign against the rodent pests. Mr..
Day went from here to the Snake Riv-
err section, where his assistance will
be given to the farmers of that region.
Mr.. Day recommends that the far
mers and grain growers of southern
Carbon county form a local district
for the complete determination of ro-
dents, in which case state and federal
aid could be secured and the cost of
the work to the landowners greatly
lessened.
, 1923-05-17
Have a Railroad Contract.

Bert Lee, Frank Nixon and Louie
Ruggl, all of whom have been doing
team work in and around Parco the
past few months, have pooled their in
terests and taken a s~ub-contract for Il
mile Of railroad on the line of the
North & South railroad. The scene of
their activities will be some 30 miles
northwest of Casper, between that
town and Kaycee. Their outfit start
ed the early part of this week for
their new camp, and they expect to be
busy with this contract for three or
four months. Between them they have
80 head of work horses. 1t is esti-
mated that 100000 cubic yards of dirt
must be moved in the building of the
cuts and fills incidental L the mile of
roadbed for which they have con-
tracted.
, 1923-05-17
Land Values Now
On the Up=C Curve
Banker and Business F0recaster Says
Land Values Are On the Rise
for 30-Year Period.

Declaring that now is the time to
buy farm land, all things taken into
consideration, E. G. Quamsne, presi-
dent of the Federal Farm Loan Bank
of st. Paul, told the convention of the
Minnesota Realty Association recently
at Minneapolis, that farming will be
better and more profitable every year
from now on, the upward trend to con-
tinue for perhaps 80 years or longer
Ian values reached rock bottom In
the northwest last October, he declar-
ed, and will continue to advance. He
said:
In July, 1919, l made a statement
In regard to the general real estate sit
uation and tendency, with particular
reference to the conditions here in the
middle west, which statement aroused
a great deal of interest and discussion
at the time, and not a little criticism.
Inc real estate men, particularly, OBJ
1ected to my finding n conclusions,
but they were not alone in this, for
many bankers and others also agreed
with e that 1 was clearly In error.
Prices for farm products in common
with everything else, were high, and
the ownership of land promised to be
a very profitable enterprise Right at
, 1923-05-17

this time, when speculation reached its
highest point, in the summer of 1919,
the bubble burst and the deflation pro-
cess commenced. Then no one would
buy land, and prices began to tumble.
The terrible effects of the reaction are
now history. Hundreds of millions of
dollars were lost, involving men and
institutions, and nearly wrecking our
banking system. The only cure for a
condition of this kind is to live through
it and live it down.
A a result of the land deflation
and the low price of farm products,
people have bought little or no land
the past four years. The natural and
potential demand has been here all the
time, but it has been damned and
waiting. 1t will break loose one of
these days, and there is danger that it
will approach boom conditions again
unless it is controlled. People are just
as wrong now in not buying land as
they were wrong when they all wanted
to buy land in 1919. What are they
waiting for? Three things stand out
as the principal factors that are caus-
ing buyers to hold back.
First, they have beer waiting for
better prices for farm products, better
farm income-in other words, for bet
ter times in tanning.
Second, they have beer waiting for
land values to go to rock bottom.
Third, they have been waiting for
interest rates to reach the lowest
point.
"In answer to all this it can be said
that we have now seer the worst farm
ing conditions. We are on the up
, 1923-05-17
Carbon County Gets Big Slice

OF the $4O,5O3 recently distributed
in Wyoming by the forest service to
the counties in which forest reserves
are located, Carbon county received
the largest share, or $3.50. Follow
ing in the order OF amounts received
are Fremont, $1,000; Lincoln, s6,01s;
Albany, $5,474; and the other counties
beneiting from the distribution being
around $1,000 or less. This money has
just been distributed to the counties,
and is re-distributed by the counties,
90 per cen to the road funds and o per
cent to the common school fund.
, 1923-05-17

Ten=Year Permits
Will Be Granted
Believed This Method Will Assist in
Recovery of Live Stock Industry
From Recent Depression

beginning in 1925, ten-year permits
are to be granted to stockmen who de
sire to Craze cattle and sheep ON rang
es within the national forests, accord
ing to announcement made his week
by District Forester A. S. Peck of the
u. =. Forest Service. This new pol
icy, as approved by the Secretary Of
Agriculture, exactly doubles the max
imum period for which grazing permits
are now being issued.
The departments action was taken
from the standpoint of assisting the
live stock industry to further recover
from It's depression of the past few
years, since, 1t is claimed by stockmen,
grazing permits for ten years instead
of five will make it less difficult to Sc
cure financial aid to carry on live
stock grazing operations.
The ten-year permits will be granted
for the full established preference OF
permittees owning commensurate de
pendent ranch property, with the I'M
Outstanding that at the expiration of
five years reductions in numbers. not
to exceed 10 per cent, will be made for
the admission of new settlers or in
creases to small owners now using the
, 1923-05-17
Future of Live
Stock Industry"
Will Be Subject of Address by Profess
sOr Hultz of State University at
Annual Stock Meeting.

President A. f. Dahl of the Sara
has received notice that Professor
Hultz, Of the Animal Husbandry De
partment of the State Agricultural
College will be here to address the
members of the Association on the
subject, ''The Future Of the Live Stock
Industry" at the annual meeting to be
held on Friday, June Sth. Prof. HuItz
is as well qualified as a man could
well be to discuss live stock problems,
and his address will be an interesting
and beneficial feature of the spring
meeting.
Supervisor H. c. Hilton of the Medi-
cine Bow Forest has notified the Off
GERS hat he will try to be present at
the meeting, and he and his colleagues
in the forestry service are expected to
provide something of interest to be in
cluded in the afternoon program.
With the future of the industry
looking brighter than for some years
past, it is expected that the Assccia-
ton meeting this spring will be one
of unusual interest and enthusiasm.
Local committees are working in
preparation for the social features
which are always a part of the spring
convention, and all will be I'm readiness
for an unusually good meeting on
June Sth.
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Continued on Page Four)
, 1923-05-17
TOWN COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.

Saratoga. Wyo., May Z, 1923.
Regular meeting of the Town Coun-
ell was called to order by Mayor Nc
Killip. Upon roll call Councibnen Led
better, Dahl and Gross were found
present. Councilman SOwder absent.
Minutes of meetings of April 10Th
and goth were read. Motion made and
seconded that they be accepted as
read. Motion carried.
Report of Fire Chief DePue was
read, as follows:
To the Hon. Mayor and Council:
Be it known that on May Bird, 1923,
at . O'CLOCK p. M, Mrs. Kirk johnson
turned in fire alarm and that the Sara
toga V. +. ID. responded at once to the
scene of the fire, where they found The
barn of Roy Griswold ablaze and past
all hope Of saving. This building is
outside the fire limits, but we laid one
thousand feet Of hose and did our ut
most in getting there in record time
We did, however, save the chicken
barn and a small part of the fence by
tearing down and moving to a safe
distance from the flames. | at once
placed a guard and chemical tank
there to protect all other buildings
should the wind change, and paid the
guard one dollar for his services.
Continued on Page Fourl
, 1923-05-17

original will total $40 acres.
Generally speaking, the provisions
are the same MS the acts providing for
additionals to ordinary homesteads not
within the forests.
, 1923-05-17

Roy Pew is down from Brush Greek
for a few days stay on business and
pleasure.
, 1923-05-17

County examinations were given in
the seventh and eighth grades this
week.
Evening star., 1923-05-11
SHRINE WEEK HONOR
AIM OF DECORATORS
Superintendents of Public Build.
ings Will Strive to Please
Visitors.

There is keen competition among
the superintendents of government
buildings to see which will win hon.
ors for having the best decorated
building during the Shrine conven-
tion here. A large Illuminated Shrine
feZ Is to be erected on the front OF
the government printing office. Maj.
w r. Metz, superintendent of that
building and president OF the Asso-
citation of Government Building Su-
perintendents warned the other
ernment printing Office last night
that they would have ito go some
to surpass him in the decoration OF
their respective buildings. T. j. How
ell, superintendent of the Post once
Department. building, announced that
make that building the best-deco-
lated along Pennsylvania avenue
for the Shrine parade.
Feeling that there is lack OF in
terest In mechanical trades as affect
ing maintenance and operation OF
government buildings on the part of
the employees reclassification board
was expressed at the meeting last
night A committee was appointed
to prepare data in substantiatton of
the classification and to attempt to
emphasize the Importance of rating
mechanical employees operating In
government buildings on d par with
shop mechanical crafts.
Maj. Metz, as president. and j. c.
Young. as etary-treasurer. were
appointed to represent the association
at the convention of the National As
sociation Of Building Owners and
Managers at Atlantic City. June Is
to 2l.
Evening star., 1923-05-11
0BREGON'S OIL VIEWS
CALLED CONFLICTING
American Producer Says U. S. In
terests Will Not Accept Re-
ported Solution.
By the Associated Press.


NEW YORK. May 11.-American
producers Of petroleum in Mexico
never Will be contented" with the
solution said to have been outlined
by President Obregon for settling dis
putes over oil rights. which will be
presented by the Mexican delegates
at the joint international conference
In Mexico City beginning next Mon
day. Guy Stevens. director of the AS
sociation of Producers of Petroleum
in Mexico. declared yesterday.
Mr.. Stevens asserted that article z
or what were reported as President
Obregon's instructions on May s. in
which the Mexican commissioners
We're told to agree to "non-retroac-
tivity In so far as 1t affects petrp-
Ieum rights acquired prior to May /
1871, was Inconsistent with article 8
of the instructions, in which the ex-
ecutive announced the administra-
tion's support of the new oil law re-
Gently enacted by the chamber OF
deputies
Mr.. Stevens said that the text of
the bill passed by the Mexican cham
Der of deputies would have the eff
feet Of distinguishing various rights
legally held before May /, 1917"
The rights of the petroleum COM
panies do not depend in anywise
upon whether they actually com
menced petroleum development prior
to that date" he continued. 1T must
be borne in mind that the American n
petroleum companies never had any
government CONCESSIONS Their
rights were acquired by private pur-
chase or leases"
Evening star., 1923-05-11
Two Couples Wed
While Dancing
On Houseboat

Two couples took the solemn
vows of marriage at a ceremony
performed by Judge Robert E.
Mattingly Of the Municipal Court
in a houseboat anchored off tho
Virginia end Of the Highway
bridge last night
The houseboat has been tho
scene of a so-called marathon dance
contest and the couples wed were
competing in the contest. Before
a curious throng. with lights low
cred. the musicians playing a
wedding march instead of jazz.
the couples shuffied up to the
judge and kept their feet moving
while they took the vows.
The contracting parties were
Fred w. Newman, twentyone
years old. and Miss Evelyn King,
twenty years old, the first couple
married, and Herbert J. Gately,
tWenty-three years old, and Miss
Thelma Reese, twenty years old.
They were attired in their dane
ing clothes and dancing slippers.
During the day yesterday the
two couples drove to the mar
riage license clerks office, in the
Supreme Court of the District
building, whore they secured their
licenses to marry. The truck in
which they rode was placarded,
announcing the purpose of the
trip.
Evening star., 1923-05-11
DUNPHY, D. c. AMATEUR
CHAMPION, MEDALIST
IN GOLF TOURNAMENT

Putting exceptionally well and
driving a long, straight ball, Chris ].
Dunphy, amateur champion Of the
District, led the entire field in the
qualifying round Of the Indian Spring
Clubs golf tourney, concluded yester-
day, with a card of so Il. Cliff Nc
Kimmie of Bannockburn was in sec
ond place with 81. while George G..
Voight Of Potomac Park and Dwight
Partridge of Chevy Chase were tied
for third with SO.
high wind again swept the
course, moderating shortly after Dun
ply and NJ. B. STEVENSON had reached
the turn. From the tenth hole on
the weather was fine for the first
time in two days.
Qualifying scores and today's pair
ings follow:
First fight-R. C. McKimm!e Rannockburn
ts2l; Allan Lard. Chevy Chase t90,. vs. C. J.
Dunphy, Columbia tsOl: B. r. Hart, Column
snn sa tIs, .,n vs. ,F. = F. Psley THat'Hched (ss5
speelmnn. Indian Spring ts7j; VI. b. Steyin-
SON.. Columbia lsil. VS.. Edward Muckerman,
st. louis ts3l; G A Fuller. Chevy Chase $50 .
Eoight. unattached (s2l, VS.. Tom Moore In
dian Spring (Syl; A. X. Mackenzie, Columbia
tssl. vs. J ". Brawner.. Columbia (s9).
Second flight. f. Baines, Columbia (91), ,
vs. Thomas A. kelleher, Potomac Park C9O) ,
J. NJ. Cults, Washington t95I, VS.. e. p. orme
'"iuulDih iSoi. ~ NJ Manly. toIuInbia ty4l :
vs. Middleton Beaman, Bannockburn (95l; W.
H. Montgomery. Indian Spring t92J. VS.. L. A
Snead. Columbia t91D; f. NJ. Posey Potomac
Park 1887. W. W. Smith, Columbia (91D !;
h. +. kellerman Bannockburn (94D. VS. +. Z.
Early, Indian Spring (35l; John F. Brawner
(9l, vs.. Charles Agnew. Potomac Park t9D !;
Carl Hookstadt, Bannockburn 900, VS.. c. b.
Asher. Columbia (s4l.
Third fiight-H II. Saum. Columbia t05l,
VS.. C. a. Watson. Columbia t91l c. b. Hatch.
Columbia t91b, vs.. II. c. Train. Columbia
tes) $. b Balm. Washington 1861, vs.. A F.
tached t97b. VS.. F. c. Clark. Indian Spring
1861; f. 2. Brooke. Potomac Park 1867. vs.
H. E. Burr, Washington 90; +. 2. Wagga-
man, Chevy Chase tJIl. VS.. Charles II. Baker
Washington t8Il; +. X. Tlley. Indian Spring
f95l VS.. J. Z. Henderson. Indian Spring t9Bi |;
Knox, Indian Spring t9Jl.
Fourth fight-A. W. Howard, Washington
W. NJ. Kennedy, Washington tl0D. vs.. l. S.
Morey, Washington 900; O. c. Murray. un-
attached l99l; vs.. John ". Downey. unat-
vs.. Fred Paxton. Washington uoO); J. A.
Kratz, Columbia t99i. VS.. T. II. Sears Wash
ington t1o0); c. Z. FELTON,, BannoCkburn (99)
VS. De We're Burr. Indian Spring (99l; W. X.
Garrett, BannOckburn t100i. vs.. l.. NJ. Bene-
dict, Indian Spring to9l; F.: E: Harrison. In
Fifth flight. NJ. Porter. Indian Spring
t102, VS.. Mary Thayer, Washington (iu3l /;
l. W. Mckernan. Washington (l03l, VS. j. r.
DE Farges, Indian Spring (loS>; f. II. Ioftn,
Spring 1o41; Ii. S. Pope. Indian ' spring IGiI GoiJ
VS.. X. B. Cummings, Columbia C102); Hugh
Mackenzie. Columbia 102l. VS. NJ s. BROWN
Indian Spring (10p; Z. W. Freeman. Wash
ington tl0tt, VS.. Z. s. Risdaie, Chevy Chase
Evening star., 1923-05-11
BLAMES PROPAGANDA.
German Red Leader Says Soviet
Envoy Victim of Fascist.
ny GEORGE u1TTE

BY Wireless to The Star and Chicago Daily
News. Copyright. 1923.
BERLIN. May II. 1.-"Vorovskys 8
death. at the hands Of Swiss fascist
In Lausanne. was due indirectly to the
anti-bolshevist propaganda, carried
on Of late with renewed vigor in
western Europe and the United States,
especially by Great Britain" said
Karl Radek. the soviet leader, today.
LAS the result Of pressure brought
to bear on little Switzerland by Great
Britain" continued Radek. the rep
resentatives of a sixth part Of the
whole world were refused permission
to remain in Switzerland. Although
the Swiss authorities employed hun
dreds Of spies to watch the soviet
delegates, no attempt was made to
protect them from the murd derous
weapons Of white Russians. So far
the bolshevist propaganda has never
claimed a human life, whereas Lord
Curzon's harmless anti-bolshevist
propaganda caused Vorovsky's death.
His blood will be Russia's signature
on the Dardanelles straits document
This murder will yet prove fatal for
those who were responsible for It."
Evening star., 1923-05-11
ASKS WORK BE DONE
IN u. S. NAVY YARD
Federation of Labor Protests Hav
ing Steamer Buchanan Recondi-
toned by Private Concern.

Protest against sending the Ship
ping Board steamer President Bu-
chanan to Newport News for recon-
ditioning was made to President
Harding today by the executive coun-
Gil of the American Federation of
Labor The protest was based on
the grounds that the bid of the New
port News Shipbuilding and Drydock
Company was S45O.0OO higher than
that of the Brooklyn navy yard.
We are aware Of no adequate ex-
planatlon for this arbitrary action on
the part OF the Shipping Board" said
q statement issued by the council.
we desire to enter our most vfgor-
Gus protest against this disorimina-
tton in favor of a private corporation
and against the navy yard and the
workers employed therein"
The protest also referred to "the ac-
tion of the Shipping Board in award
ing the contract for reconditioning
the Leviathan to the Newport News
Shipbuilding end Drydcok Company
when a much lower estimate for the
work was submitted by a government
navy yard"
Until satisfactory explanation of
governmental sources" the protest
continued, I'VE may only regard the
action as a deliberate return to and
encouragement of the spoils system
in public work"
Evening star., 1923-05-11
DEMANDS EQUALITY
Of SOCIAL WORKERS
Miss Emily S. Cohen Speaks
to Jewish Community Sec
retarieS Here.

Equality between the woman COM
munity center worker with the man
worker was urged by Miss Emily Co.
hen, held secretary OF the Jewish
Welfare Board, in an address before
the annual convention of the National
Secretaries at the Y. NJ II. \. build
ing. llth and Pennsylvania avenue.
The problem OF a community CEN
ter is not problem of Sex, but Of
human beings. and only in the very
peculiar feminine and masculine
justified" declared Miss Cohen. who
said that family community and state
life have been built and developed by
the united service of both sexes.
Rabbi Simon Speaks.
The possibilities of the community
center secretaries are without limit
declared Rabbi Abram Simon, presi-
dent of the board of education. in
addressing the conference yesterday.
The community center secretaries
have opportunities greater than any
other community leaders, and can
bring about unity In community mat
ters- They can approach all eIe-
ments and factions and unite them
for useful service" declared DR..
Simon. The status Of the community
secretaries should be on the par with
the community rabbis; they should
be the leaders of the people"
Discusses Problems.
The problems confronting a small
community center were detailed by
Benjamin Rabinowitz. executive di-
rector of the New Haven, Conn.
Y. NJ H. A.: Miss Marion Scharr, ex-
ecuttve secretary of the Hartford Y
w. H. A. and William Pinsker, super
intendent of the Jewish Educational
Alliance OF Savannah. Ga
Other speakers were Herman Pas
samaneck, executive secretary of the
Kansas City Y. NJ. II. A.; Jacob /
Cohen, director of the Jewish Com
muntty building at Buffalo, " Y, and
Jack Nadel. administrator of the 92d
Street Y. NJ. II. A, New York city.
Mrs. Herman Hollander and Judge
Milton Straburger were to be the
speakers al luncheon held at Har-
yey'S this afternoon
Evening star., 1923-05-11
WIDOW OF FAMOUS
CONFEDERATE DEAD
Mrs. Flora Stuart, Whose Father
Was Union Officer, Victim Of In.
juries at Eighty-Eight.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

NORFOLK. Va. May 11.-Mrs.
Flora Stuart, eighty-eight years old.
widow of Gen. ]. L. B. Stuart, re-
nowned Confederate cavalryman, and
daughter of Maj. Gen. Philip St.
George Cooke OF the Union Army.
died here yesterday, following a fall
sustained last Sunday.
She received A severe blow on her
head as a result of the fall. and new
er recovered from the complications
which developed. Funeral services
are to be held at the residence OF her
son-fn-law. r. Page Waller, with
whom she lived. tomorrow. Inter-
ment Will be at Hollywood cemetery,
Richmond.
Mrs. Stuart's life was wound up
with the romance OF civil war days.
AS Flora Cooke she was wooed and
won by the dashing Lieut.. Stuart. At
the outbreak of the war her husband
resigned his commission in the United
States Army and cast his lot with
Virginia.
When Gen. Stuart was wounded. in
one OF his cavalry charges, he was
taken to Richmond. but died before
his wife could reach him. She had
been a widow for nearly thr sc score
years
Evening star., 1923-05-11
SHoPMEN ASK RAISE.

PITTSBURGH. Pa, May 11.-Shop
employees OF the Pittsburgh and Lake
Erie railroad asked a wage increase
of approximately 80 per cent in a let
ter received today by J. B. Yohe. vice
president and general manager Of the
road. NO arrangements for confer
ences between representative Of the
road and the workers have been made
Mr.. Yohe said.
After citing increased cost of living
and the wages paid mechanics and
helpers in other classes of work, the
employees ask minimum hourly rate
or 80 cents for machinists boiler
makers. blacksmiths, electricians
sheet metal workers and carmen and
81 cents IN hour for their helpers
Regular apprentices, the letter
added, should receive a minimum
starting at Al cents an hour with
23 cents an hour increase every six
months for the first three years: 5
cents Tor the first six months and tn
cents for the last six months Of the
fourth year. The rate for aDpren-
tees helpers would receive the mini
mum helpers rate, with an increase
OF cents an hour every six months
for three years, after which thew
would be paid the minimum wages
for mechanics.
A demand IS made for a G5 cents an
hour minimum wage for car cleaners
supervision would be paid on an
hourly basis of s1.02. while station
ary engineers and firencn, engine
room oilers. boiler-roonl water tend
ers and coal passerS ask minimum
increase of 90 cents an hour Shop
and houndhouse laborers demand n
like advance.
Evening star., 1923-05-11
TO ATTEND UNWILLING.
McAdoo Wires Mellon He Will Be
Here for Ceremony May II.

Los ANGELES. Calf. May 10
William G. McAdoo. formerly Secre-
tary Of the Treasury. has telegraphed
to Andrew Mellon, Secretary Of the
Treasury, acceptance OF an invitation
to attend the unveiling of a statue Of
Alexander Hamilton. their famous
predece ssor. at Washington, May II.
The financing of the project was
effected while Mr.. McAdoo was Secre-
tary of the Treasury. in 1915, and
completion delayed by the world war.
This first monument to be erected
to Alexander Hamilton in Washing
ton," said Mr.. McAdoo, 'is g. tardy
recognition OF his great service to the
nation. 1t Is made possible through
the generosity Of a patriotic New
York woman. who never has been
willing to have her identity revealed"