The Carbon County news. [volume], April 16, 1925, Image 1

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EUGENI8TS MEANT WELL, BUT
—EARTH,—BIG ALMA MATER
WHY THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
BUT CAN YOU ENFORCE IT?
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The eugeniats in the birth control
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convention plan for a better race by
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mean picking the right husband for
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tne right wife.
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You can do that with cows, horses, i
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f Wl i, lem y ° UDny ree< a j
body Among human beings you pro
duce that very mysterious thing called
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a soul, and that 8 different.
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You might marry a John L. Sullivan
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to Hypatia, or a Michael Angelo Moses
to the Venus of Milo, and be bitterly
disappointed in results.
On the other hand, a tall, fierce
country girl, Nancy Hanks, probably
unable to read or write, marries a [
local ne-er do well, and the result is i
Abraham Lincoln. The Lord seems to I
reserve for himself certain problems,
artificial selection,
Harvard will spend $12,000,000 to
improve the study of agriculture.
That's sensible.
English-speaking
study
nations
Latin and Greek. The Romans studied
Greek. ' The Greek philosophers stud
ied the Egyptian language and hioro
glypnics. Millions are spent teaching
many kinds of knowledge little used
after the Student leaves school.
It is about time to begin studying
seriously old Mother Earth, the orig
inal Alma Mater from which we
spring, upon which we depend abso
lutely during life, and to which we all
return.
In Paris, a young girl, fifteen years
old, .Irene Laurent, evidently of the
Madam Curie type, has produced a
new fuel for automobile engnies. It
is made from sugar, and is cheaper
and more efficient than any substitute
for gasoline thus far discovered..
If events justify the prediction of
Professor Haldane that chemistry will
soon make sugar as cheap as sawdust
the gasoline problem may temporarily
be solved by "sugar 'power".
Religious organization, convinced
that public schools should include re
ligious training in the daily routine,
demand that the Ten Commandments
be read to the children at least once
a week.
Wouldn't
'The Sermon on the
Mount" be better reading for children
than the Ten Commandments? In a
general way every child knows of the
Ten Commandments, or as ifiany as a
child should understand.
Two or three of the Commandments
are fortunately not necessary to the
child up to fifteen.
he died he was one of the Gray Friars i
in a Roman Catholic monastery.
You admire such earnest seeking 1
after truth and wonder what this man j
of three religions learned about re -1
ligion when he passed over to the
other world. ;
Did he'find that only one religion is |
officially recognized above, or is one ,
better than the others, or does it all !
depend on how you act toward your I
fellôw man, the Creator of the Uni- j
verse not being so much interetsed in
what you think about Him? Definite'and
answers would be interesting.
Why not leave religion to religious
teachers, and public school education
to public school teachers, and keep the
two separate, which has been the
American plan thus far ?
A man, just dead, was at one time
a clergyman in the Protestant Epis
copal church. Later he belonged to
the Greek Orthodox church, and when
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President Coolidge says the States
should, out of respect for Constitution i
and law. , - j
But while the necessary Seventy-five j
per cent of the states ratified the Con- j
stitutional Amendment, nearly one j
hundred per cent violate it, and their
juries sympathize with thc violators.
should help the national Government
to enforce the dry law. So they
The question for the President and
the nation is this: How can the use
of whiskey be stamped out? What is
to be done to stop drunkeness and
open drinking of bootleg whiskey
among school children? Prohibition
seems to have put ralliions in this na
tion . os a whiskey drinking basis.
What can be done about that?
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CONTINUING THE CAKHON COUNTY CHRONICLE
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THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1925.
VOL. 2, NO. 6.
JOHN H. GOOD OF
WASHOE DIES AFTER
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John H. Good of Washoe passed
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away We< * ne8 ° & y night after an illness
of about a year. Funeral services
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were conducted from the Downard
funeral parlors last Saturday after
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noon at l;o0 and interment was made
in the Red Lodge cemetery with Rev. 1
L Churchiu officmting . H e was
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a ménber of the United Mine Workers
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and a member of the Odd rellows
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The P al1 bearera we ? Joe 3 ,
W - McDonald, J. A. Boyer, Gustave |
G «y hart ' Ed Cunningham and Robert
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John H. Good was born in Scotland )
May 14, 1861 and came to Pennsyl-!
vania about 45 years ago. Later he
[moved to Belt, Montana, then Coke-1
(dale and Livingston. After residing
in Bridger for two years he moved to
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Washoe.
He is survived by three brothers
l/Thomas Good, superintendent of the
A. C. M. Mine at Washoe, William
Good of Elmyra, New York, Alexander
Good of Clymer, Pennsylvania; daugh
ter, Mrs. M. H. Bolinger and son, W.
S. Good of Washoe.
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Gerald Chapman, notorious
criminal and mail robber, has been
sentenced to hang in Connecticut
for the murder of a policeman.
Chapman has made many daring
escapes in the past so is now being
closely guarded.
WM. F. GREUSEL
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William F. Greusel, a prominent life
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insurance man of Billings, was killed
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about 3:45 o clock Saturday afternoon
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when his car overturned while making
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a turn across the railroad track near
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from Red ^ and was ndln » a,one '
1 According to reports from Boyd, the
j overturned car, with Mr. Greusei
pinned beneath it, was first discovered
by a section boss at Boyd. Unable
; r 'ffht the car himself, he returned
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, oral residents.
! The section boss and his assistants
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j time before the Red Lodge train was
due into Boyd. The train was «igged
parts of the wrecked car were
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Within a foqt of the track. Members
I of the tram crew assisted in righting
the car and extracting the body of
Mr. Greusel was a frequent, visitor
i t0 Red Lodge and had many friends
j here. He was agent for the New York
j Insurance Company, and recently
ma d e B record for number of applies
t i ons> having the largest number ever
written by an agent of the 'company
in the given time.
Mr. Gcrusel.
He is survived by his wife and two
small children.
"Scientists have found a skull half
an inch thick in Arizona. But why
go as far away as Arizona ? "—Brook
lyn Eagle. Probably because those
wooden skulk farther east deteriorate
too quickly.
Juniors and Senior8
Prepare Big Banquet
Next Saturday evening the Junior
Senior banquet and prom will be held
at gi)t 0 > clock The banquet will be
held at the Methodist church. Mr. H
!L. Hussong, principal of the Carbon
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County High school, will act as toast
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master. The special welcome address
will be delivered bv the Junior presi
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dent, W alter Aho ami the Senior re
sponse will be delivered by Nino Cor
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neho, class president.
Covers will be laid for ninety-nine,
After the banquet the prom will be
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held at the high school gym.
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The management of the banquet is
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American Legion, on Tuesday evening,
plans were formulated for the me
morial Day services and program for
the. day. State Adjutant, W. L. Jones,
is expected to be here for the day. The
Legion is making preparations to ded
icate the new Mausoleum under the
direction of Mr. A. L. Rankin of Bil-1
lings. Services for the dedication of
the new structure will be given, as
well as the Memorial day services. The
different organizations of the city will
take part, and will also take part in
the parade to the cemetery. Plans for
the program will be fully outlined at
a later date.
The American Legion is also start
ing a membership campaign which
will last until the last of April. The
state department expects the local
post to secure 100 new members.
The Legion Auxiliary plans to sell
poppies as has been their custom, for
the benefit of hospital and child wet-1
fare work. At present there are six
Carbon county boys at the Veterans
Hospital at Fort Harrison.
The Auxiliary collected about fifteen
laundry bags Monday evening, to bç
seqt to the Veteran's Hospital.
At a meeting of the local Post,
OUT - DOOR - LIFE
SHOW IN CHICAGO
MAY 9THT016TH
Beartooth Region Will be Represented
by Exhibits Showing Camps, Moun -1
tains and Lakes.
The third national Out-Door-Life
show is to be held in Chicago, com
mencing May 9th for one week. This
show, of interest to all lovers of the
great outdoors, is to be held in the
Colliseum and great preparations are,
being made by those having the expo-1
sition in char 8e. It will be of interest
to the people of Red Lodge and com
munity to know that our town, and the
beautiful Beartooth country, as well
as our state, will receive some wonder-1
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ful advertising through the part being
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taken by a number of our local people.
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Mrs. H. Richel, of the Riche! Lodge;
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E. K. Ikerman, of Beartooth Range;
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F. I. Johnson of Camp Sawtooth and
j o j )n g ron g er of Rosebud Lake, are
keenly interested in the show and are
co-operating with Mr .James A Shoe
maker 0 f the Billings Commercial
Club, who is well fitted to handle the
ma ff er f or that organization, having
one fj me f, een connected with the
management of Glacier National Park,
Two bo 0t j, B have been engaged by
those promoting the resort camps and
sight-seeing tours in the Beartooth
ve gion, and Billings as the gateway,
a i s0 have exhibits in these booths,
ft is hoped that those visiting the
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show will gam some idea through
these exhibits of the wonderland of,
(scenery to he.-#ound in the Beartooth
Mountains. There will be a relief
map of the Beartooth National Forest,
showing every mounjmin and lake, and
a small flag will mark the different
camps and resorts, while pieces of
mirror will show the lakes according
to size. Camp life will be portrayed
by scenes and there will be two pack
horses with all of their necessary bur
dens, ready to start for the moun
tains.
The wild animals of this particular
section will be represented by one live
bear, one elk head, one deer head, one
bear head, two antelope heads, and
stuffed bob cat. There will also be
bear skins, wolf and coyote skins and
two mounted trout, one contributed
by Mr. Ikerman, suggesting big game
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BEARTOem BOOSTERS CLUB WILL BE
NAMfDF CIVIC ASSOCIATION
iff RED LODGE
The genera Ï meeting, which was called by
the secretary of the Red Lodge-Montana
Club, was held at the club rooms on Tuesday
evening, April 14th, for the purpose of decid
ing upon the name of the Club. There was
quite a number of the members present and
quite a good argument forthcoming. There
were about twenty-five names submitted up
to the closing-date, April 10th, and the Gov
erning Board, which met on Saturday even
ing, found it difficult to choose the names
they felt most appropriate. Several names,
however, were selected and these were dis
cussed at the general meeting. A motion
was made by Robert Schendal and seconded
by Dr. Siegfriedt to change the name of the
Red Lodge-Montana Club to the BEAR
TOOTH BOOSTERS CLUB. The choice be
came unanimous, and the name of the win
ner who had submitted the name was an
nounced, and the honor fell to Mrs. O. H. P.
Shelley.
Beartoeth Boosters Club, Beartooth Com
munity Club, Red Lodge Community Club
and Beartooth Boosters Bureau, were
among the names discussed at the meeting
of the governing board.
Also the matter of the 4th of July celebra
tion was taken up and President Plunkett
appointed Budget committees composed of
W. F. Tinkcom, Dr. A. H. McFarland and 0.
J. Salo; F. W. Lyle, Edward Bloom, Henry
Schmidt and D. M. Marino; Dominic Cas
tellano, Stev^Glotch, Dominic Rossetto and
Mike Dimich.
Dr. 0. L. Koehn, chairman of the commit
tee on arrangements for the community
dance, announced at the meeting that the
dance scheduled for the Linley Hall at
Luther next Saturday was to take place at
the Roscoe Hall instead, and sincerely hoped
that the business men and people of this
community have a large representation at
the dance. The Club seemed very enthusias
tic over the proposed dance at Roscoe Satur
day night and are taking this means of get
ting acquainted and encourage all who pos
sibly can to go to the dance at Roscoe.
Other matters of business were then
taken up and President Plunkett appointed
Dr. Siegfriedt as committee of one to see
the county commissioners in regard to put
ting up a sign at the turn of the road near
Boyd where Mr. Greusel was killed, as a
danger signal.
A suggestion was also made that the busi
ness men of this city give their support in
trying to get twelve or fifteen head of buf
alo to range up the creek, but Mr. Plunkett
stated that this matter had been taken up
by the Isaak Walton League.
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[one of Manager Westbrook's ideas is
carried out, arrangements will be made
with a trout firm to supply trout and
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) evenings during the show, to which
: newspaper men will be invited. This
is expected to be a show oi u lusual
interest, and since it has already been
a success for two years, it & being
eagerly awaited as a pleasure eeent
and an opportunity to reveal the un
usually beatuiful sights waiting for
those who will visit our discovered
wonderland. There were over 200,000
paid admissions to this show last year.
I hirty thousand folders will be distrib
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uted at the show, showing pictures of
(the mountains and resort camps of
tbs Beartooth.
Mr*. H. Richel, F. I. Johnson,
E. K. Ikerman, John Bronger and Mr.
Shoemaker of Billings will compose
the party, who expect to leave on May
4th for Chicago to attend the show.
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ôtât© Against Roth
The case of the State against John
I he case ot the Mate against John
Rothicheller, charged with contribut-1
ing t0 the delinquency of minors, was
tried beforR j U8t i C e of the Peace E. B.
Provinse Saturda y County Attorney
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Emil y Sloan appeared for the state
and H. A. Simmons apeared for the
defendant.
-phe case was tried before a jury
compose d of Sam Taggart, Orin Zupp,
ch as. Akin, William Jones, Ed Kelley
an( j Richard Mallin.
Several witnesses from Joliet were
in attendance and after due délibéra
tion the jury returned a verdict of not
guilty.
ichellcr Tried on Sat.
Languid, Ill.—Spring fever broke
ont i„ unabated fury here today as un
cut **'eeds towered their bloomin' heads
over uncu t lawns.
AMERICA'S GREATEST BLUFFER STARTS
SERVING TERM IN LEAVENWORTH PRISON
Oil Fields Final Waterloo For Man Who Claimed
First Scaling of Mt McKinley and Then Discov
ery of North Pole.
Written Especially for The News
By ROBERT FULLER
Thru Autocuster Service
Leavenworth, Kansas, April 13—-Dr. Fredrick A. Cook has returned to
the practice of Medicine. It was against his will, hut nevertheless for
the next 12 to 14 years, should his health permit, medicine will be his pro
fession. His services are free. He is ministering to the ills of his fellow
convicts in the Federal prison here. He is No. 23,118.
So opens one of the late chapters of the career of America's greatest
bluffer. Should he live to serve out his term of 12 to 14 years, he will be
72 years old when he again steps into the sunshine of freedom He was
born in Sullivan county, N. Y., June 10, 1806.
''Doc Cook, the man who has bluffed
in a big way all through life, has never
yet put one of them across. But he
is still trying. Only last week in Fort.
Worth, Texas, he attempted u bold and
grand bluff—of how he had refused to
join a jail delivery. This was just
before his transfer to the government
prison here. Wardens Biddle and
Zerbst of this institution will perhaps
have many such bluffs and brainstorms
of the famous doctor to deal with be
fore he says goodbye.
If the reader is of the younger gen
eration, perhaps they are not familiar
with the doings of Doc Cook. Here
are some of his bluffs—one of which
ho cashed in on—but was caught.
Doc Cook claimed to have been the
first man to scale Mt. McKinley. Ho
was given a seat in the hall of fame
beside such explorers as Agassiz and
Hörschel. Later his claim was dis
approved, This was in 1906.
Claimed he Had Reached North Pole
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In 1909 he returned from the North
less than two weeks ahead of Admiral
Perry, the real discoverer, claiming
that he had reached the North Pol«.
He returned by way of Denmark—
which country official honored him.
New York gave him the "freedom of
the city" and hunggarlands of roses
about his neck. Iwy'i
turn with authentic data and proofs
of himeelf having reached the pele
was the bomb which exploded all of
Doe Cook's claims—and the praise and
honor he so glorified in was quickly
turned to ridicule and scorn.
The nation's scorn was so great that
Doctor Cook left the country, going to
Borneo. There is no record of his
bluffs on the wild folks of the East
Indies, but that there were some, there
I is no doubt.
Hodden re
No sooner had the "famous" explor
er returned to the United States, than
he was busy again "stringing" suck
ers. His ideas were along new avenues,
I however, for, whereas he always had
j specialized on scientists, royalty and
1 a trusting general public, he now turn
I ed his attention to widows, orphans
j and poor folks who wanted to get rich
! quick by the oil-well route—and he
j strung them to the tune of some $4,
000 , 000 .
His Oil Ideas Brought $4,000,000
It would seem that his idea of a
going concern was to consolidate some
300 bankrupt oil companies with dry
weils and make them into one big sol-1
vent company with flowing., wells. He
"sold" the idea of the big company
so well to the inexperienced and ignor
ant, that he was rolling in million»
when the government stepped in to in
vestigate.
Conviction was obvious from the
first. He was sentenced* to serve 14
y ears . .
To show the workings of Doc Cook's
j brain—he sued u Fort Worth news-1
(paper for libel, claiming $1,000,000
i damages—after he hud been convicted.
j Doc Cook had rare gifts, had they
becn used in th# directlon -
. en(Jowwl with a rare personality,
beaming smile and affability that
! Won the confidence of strangers. Hei
! started life well enough—but never
could control the desire to bluff. Leav
|j n g the home place up state in New
hft went t0 B roo ki yn where hej
t j rove a ni j jr wagon until he had
earned enough money to start through
medical college.
He was a member of Admiral
Perry's party on one of the earlier ex
plorations—hut had been missing for
| some years when he came from the
north with his announcement of hav
ing reached the pole. Even after all
of his claims were disapproved he
maintained his stand and even went
forth on the lecture platform to carry
out his bluff. However, his pictures
were old, his dairies falsified and in no
way had he data which would stand
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lle made the gum-drpp candy
famous by claiming that by feeding
the Eskimos these colorful sweets,
they braved the intense cold and lead
him to the pole.
If in the prison library here there
is a Who's Who, Doc Cook will likely
gleam a bit of satisfaction, because
there amongst the great is his name.
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"In his prison cell he sits—may
be thinking of hi* beloved North
Pole — his greatest hoax on the
world. It was "oil" this time and
it landed Dr. Frederick A Cook in
the U. S. Prison at Leavenworth,
Kansas.
COMMUNITY DANCE
CHANGED FROM
LUTHER TO ROSCOE
The big community dance which was
to have been held at Luther on Satur
day, April 18th, will take place at
Roscoe in the Myrebo hall. The Lind
sey hall at Luther could not be se
cured for this date, according to Dr.
C. L. Koehn, who is chairman of tho
Red Lodge committee on arrange
ments, but the same program wiil be
, in effect-—the Red Lodge people to
j furnish the orchestra and the Rosooe
people the hall and a free midnight
I lunch,
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j wo no ^ wan f b* outdone by the
■ people of Roscoe, Luther, Castagne
land other immediate towns, who are
, joinioK w >th us for an evenings rec
reation, with the idea of promoting a
general immunity spirit between Red
Lodge and folks of the neighboring
towns. So let the ladies make ready
HejW'th « happy »mile and the gentle
with a sweet disposition, and
w«' 11 a11 8° to thc dance—at Ros
coe - April 18th, which is Saturday
night, the biggest night of all.
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Miss Monica Plunkett entertained
}ng performance of "Peter Pan."
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Maniac Wis—There ie philanthroplly
among thieve*. Finding no money on
hand, the armed bandits who yeatrday
held up the Bank of Maniac, returned
today and made a deposit.
Everybody's going! Red Lodge is
i going to send a large crowd, because
Entertained Sunday
the Misses Virginia Albin and Helen
Haggerty of Billings at an Easter
Sunday dinner. After the dinner the
hostess and guest* attended the even-