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THE GLENWOOD POST
VOL. XXXIV, NO. 12
STOCKMEN PROTEST
UTAH SHEEP INVASION
Rih Blanco Cn;n;l;— Oppose Sheep
Driveway From Utah to the
| Fore_sE_REerves’
EAGLE STU(:KM_EN ARE HAPPY
The mass meeting of cattlemen
united at Meeker last Saturday by the
Rio Blancs Commercial club was a live
'y affair from start to finish and was
wiil attended, about & rnthusiastic
cattlemen being present.
This was just a continuation c¢f the
ticuble which has existsl for several
Yyears with more or less intensity
Letwcen the cowmen und thc sheep
11°n, and was called for vhe vurpose
of voicing a protest by the cattlemen
against the continued maintenance of
sheep driveway over public domain
from the Utah line to where said trail
enters the national forest near Rio
Blanco, Colorado.
The order for withdrawal from entry
of certain lands for use as a stock
driveway was issued by the secretary
of the interior December 21, 1928,
under an act of December 29, 1916,
and the cattlemen claim that its oper
ation will work a serious injury to
their business.
Supervisor Blair of the White River
forest was an invited guest at the
meeting, which he says reminded him
of old times when forestry officers
were invited to such meetings in order
that they might have good opportunity
to find how insignificant they were
in the estimation of the stockmen.
Some years ago the Utah sheepmen
secured another driveway considerably
to the north of the present drive, but
the cattlemen objected to it and
brought pressure to bear which result
ed in its cancellation. The sheepmen
took the matter up with the interior:
department and secured the permit
for the new driveway, which the cat
tlemen claim will be more injurious
to them than the old one. |
For some reason the cowmen blamed
Supervisor Blair for favoring the
present driveway, and some appeared |
to believe that it was largely through
his influence that the permit was is
sued, whereas he knew nothing of it
whatever until just before he left for
Meeker, when he made inquiry at the
local land office and was told that
such a permit had been issued from
VWashington last December. Apparent
1y the matter was not taken up with
the forestry department, and neither
Mr. Blair nor his superior officer in
Denver knew anything about it until
the permit had been issued.
The meeting was called to order by
IU. B. Walbridge, president of the Rio
Blanco Commereial club, and Joe Neal,
banker and stockman, was made
chairman of the gathering. |
The cattlemen are sore because
Utah sheepmen are permitted to drive
their flocks across this coutnry, over
the protest of the cattlemen whose
range is damaged by the visiting sheep.
After Mr, Blair explained his attitude,
or rather his lack of any attitude, and
his ignorance of what was being done,
until after it had been aceomplished,
the cattlemen modified their attitude
toward him and asked him several
questions, which' he answered, at the
same time giving the meeting some
valuable advice. " !
Finally a resolution was adopted,
protesting the driveway, and asking
that the permit be eancelled. This will'
be forwarded to our mpnunh.tlvu}
and senators in Washington, who wm(
be asked to exert their influence toa‘
ward the cancellation of the permit,
but whether they will succeed or not‘
remains to be seen. |
The resolution which! was presented
and quite liberally signed, is general
in character, and opposes & sheep trail
or driveway, without voicing apecinll
opposition to the foreign flocks, and
it was noted that some of the cattle
men present at the meeting failed to
sign it. Does this mean that they fa
vor regulations that would prevent the
maintenance 'of a driveway for the
benefit of Utah sheepmen, but would
not object to such a driveway for
a local sheepman who would find such
a trail a great convenience? Aayway
the war is not yet over.
Bagle Valley Association
At Eagle last Saturday the Eagle
Valley association met in annual ses
sion for the election of officers and
the transaction of general business.
The meeting was held in the court
room and followed an excellent chick
en dinner served by the Ladies Aid
society of the Methodist church, which
| was well patronized by the people of
the community.
| The chief discussion at the meeting
! centered around the salt question and
the bull question. It was agreed that
it is much more difficult to secure
proper salting by the man who has
only 10 head of stock than it is to
(Continued on page 4)
SERIOUS CHARGE
AGAINST COWMEN
J —
%Twelve Ranchmen o.t Garfield
. Creek Country Indicted by \
|
. Federal Grand Jury
| ——
|
ECHO OF OLD TROUBLE
| |
|
Federal warrants for the arrest of
twelve Garfield county cattlemen, some
;of them wealthy and men of promi
. nence, were issued Friday, as the re
sult of a eecret indictment returned
ilaat. Wednesday by the federal grand
| jury, following investigation of the
isheep and cattle war that has been
lwngad on the Western Slope.
! Those indicted were Paul F. Hudson,
ilm Williams, John SBimpson, Jr., Oscar
' Starbuck, Oarl Larson, SBherman Lake,
{ Ray Young, Frank Porter, Harry and
| Frank MeDougall and. Irvin and Lyle
| Coulter. The latter two are the sons
iof BR. P. Coulter, one of the Garfield
;eounty commissioners.
| The indictment charges specifically
ithat the men congregated last May,
| bearing arms in violation of the feder
ial law, and prevented the passage of a
;bl.nd of sheep over the bridge at the
:Colon.do river, west of New- Castle,
Colo. The sheep, it is set forth, were
!the property of Henry and Herbert
zJolley, who claim New Castle as their
. home,
| The cattlemen, it is stated, declared
{ the Jolleys lived at Vernal, Utah, and
iweu not entitled to graze their sheep
lin Garfield county, becauses of the
' state migratory sheep law.
| The indictment under the federal
'hw, which is based on the assertion
that the sheep were on & publie road
and were on their way to grasze om
public domsain land, contradicts the
'/ GLENWOOD SPRINGS, COLORADO, Thursday, February 7, 1924
state law, according to federal o!ti-;
cials, The state statute prohibits the
grazing of sheep in any county by a
non-resident,
1t was claimed by the cattlemen that
they were upholding the state law and
acted after R. P. Coulter, county com
missioner, and Sheriff Winters of Gar
field county had told the Jolleys they
;were violating that law.
The above story, printed in last Fri
day’s issue of the Denver Post, tells
only a part of the story, which we will
not go into in detail. The cattlemen
have experienced considerable trouble
in late years with migratory sheep
herds invading the cattle areas, and
in the last session of the legislature
| Representative Claude Rees of this dis
\trict introduced a bill and: secured its
passage into law, providing for the
‘regulation by the county commission
!ors, of outside herds brought into the
Icoum:y, by licensing such herds for
ltomporury periods at a fee of not to
|exceed five cents per head, ‘‘PRO
| VIDED, that no license be issued to
the owner or agent of any such migra
tory livestock for grazing, pasturing
or ranging the same in this state upon
Ylnny public range or public lands if
WOODROW WILSON
ENTERS LONG SLEEP
Made Valiant But Losing Fight Against
Long Miness at His Home But
End Was Peaceful
THE ENTIRE NATION MOURNS
Washington, Feb. B.—Former Presi
dent Woodrow Wilson died at 11.15
o’clock this morning.
The end was peaceful. Life ebbed
away while he slept. A tired man
closed his eyes and ‘‘sustained and
soothed by an umfaltering trust’’ pass
ed on to the Great Hereafter ‘‘like one
who wraps the drapery of his couch
about him and lies down to pleasant
dreams,’’
Dr. Grayson, his friend and physi
cian, announced the end of the great
war president in this bulletin:
‘‘Mr, Wilson died at 11:15 o’clock.
His heart action became feebler and
feebler and the heart muscle was so
fatigned that it refused to set any
longer. The end came peacefully.
¢‘The remote causes of death lie in
his ill health which began more than
four years ago, i. e.. general arterio
sclerosis with haemopligia. The im
mediate cause of death was exhaus
tion following a digestive disturbance
which began in the early part of last
week but did not reach an acute stage
until the early morning hours of Feb
ruary 1,”? b
Washington, Feb. 6.—A bugle ecall
ling, softly, in the fading day, told
that Woodrow Wilson had passed on
down the ‘‘way of peace’’ to an
earned and highly honored rest. It was
the same bugle that sang the same
soldier requiem that once before, at
the lips of some loyal comrade, it sang
to lull America’s ‘‘Unknown Soldier’’
to sleep in the glory land, and as the
bugle called out over the hills that
look down the eity, stricken women
turned away from the stome erypt,
down the #m chapel, leaving their
dead to the mercy of God.’’
Washington, Feb. 6.—Woodrow Wil
son lies at rest. The grave this after
noon enfolded his body and his memo
ry is enshrined in the hearts of Mis
countrymen.
Under mourning skies that dropped
in & gray rain they earried the war
rior chieftain this afternoon through
‘the gateway ealled Peace and laid him
down to sleep.
- The drip of the rain from the tree
branches; the rustle of the oak leaves
such permit would, in the opinion of
the board of county commissioners, be
detrimental to the customs and priv
ileges enjoyed by residents of the
state.’”’
It is under the provislons of the
above act that Commissioner Coulter
claims to have been acting when he
advised Jolley not to take his sheep
across the New Castle bridge, know
ing, as he says, that Jolley could not,
by driving his sheep on the public
‘highwny, as he had a right to do, reach
‘the land which he had leased for graz
ing the animals, but that in order to
reach such land it would be necessary
for him to cross lands elaimed by
others, over the objection of these
land owners, and Coulter, as chairman
of the board of county commissioners,
and Winters, as sheriff, claim that in
their official capacities and through
their advice they were acting within
their legal rights and were seeking to
prevent trouble and perhaps blod
shed, or perhaps a repetition of former
experiences where a number of sheep
were killed in a similar clash,
There have been no recent develop
ments, and it is only a matter of con
jecture as to what the next move will
be.
"clinging to their bows; the sob of the
‘crowd; the far-off boom of a gun; the
solemn cadences of the bishop’s voice
—these marked the hour above the
narrow bed of arches in the great un
finished structure of the national ca
thedral, typical of his unfinished
work, but going on to completion, as
his faith told him his work would go
on,
At three o’clock in the quiet of the
home where Woodrow Wilson died Sun
day, the voice of his pastor, the Rev.
James Taylor of the Central Presby
terian church, broke the funeral si
lence: ‘‘Lord, my shepherd shall not
want.’’ P
Through its familiar words the ma
jestic psalm moved to a climax,
}breathing hope and peace. ¢‘And Will
tiell in the House of the Lord, For
‘ever.” In a deafening hush, rose a
voiece in prayer. It was Rev. Sylves
ter Beach, who was Wilson’s spiritual
adviser in the days of his presidency
of Princeton university. TNe benedic
tion, pronounced by Bishop Freeman,
ended the brief service at the home.
The strong arms of soldiers, sailors
and marines bore the body to the
‘hearse, through the streets, which were
lined with thousands, heads bared to
the rain, and the procession moved to
‘tho cathedral at the hill top. The en
‘trance to the chapel is marked ‘‘Way
to Peace.’’
HARRIS WINS FROM
S. B. MANSFIELD
~ In the district court this week, Judge
Francis E. Bouck presiding in the ab
sence of Judge Shumate, the case of
Mary Harris vs. 8. B. Mansfield was
heard and decided by a jury of six
men.
This is a case wherein the question
of agency was involved, and the suit
was brought by Mrs. Harris to collect
#llOO which Mansfield, who is cashier
cf the First National bank at Carbon
dsle, held out from Mrs. Harris’ ae
count on tlie claim that that amount
was due him as commission on a real |
estate sale which the Harrises c]aiml
Mansfield @id not make, and for
which he was entitled to no commis
sion.
The second count or claim by Mrs.
Harris was for $250 which Mansfield
claims on the sale of an 80-acre tract
‘which Mansfield sold, and the third
count is for $139.49 which Harris
claims &y interest on the $llOO which
Mansfield has deducted from the Har
-lis account.
} The case went to the jury about ten
o’clock last evening and this afternoon
;a verdict was returned, giving Harris
'a verdict on the first and third causet
fand Mansfield a verdict on the second
|cauue of action, which means that
| Mansfiold retains the $250 fee and
' loses tha $llOO commission and $139.40
'interest on the same.
| Both Mr. and Mrs. Harris throughe
‘out the case stoutly denied any agency
cn the part of Mansfield and also de
nied that he made the sale of their
principal ranch to the Dariens, the
{deal in which the $llOO commission is
liuvolvod. The case was hard fought
| throughout, Frank Delaney represent
ing the plaintiff, and the defendant
being represented by Noonan & Noon
|an of this city and E. J. Bothwell of
| Grand Junection.
COUNTY APPOINTS
ROAD APPRAISERS
At the meeting of the county com
missioners this week a petition for a
county road on the south side of
Sweetwater lake from the present
county road up to the forest ranger
station, through the Rivers and Dar
nell ranches, was granted, and viewers
appointed.
This action was taken because of
‘the recent refusal of Paul Gregg, who
owns a ranch adjacent to the lake, to
in]low fishing on the lake, except by
those who seeured his permission and
' paid him a dollar a day for boat priv
'ileges.
" The Glenwood Game and Fish com
‘misuion has also secured a camp per
'mit to ground on the south side of the
lake, which will allow their members
and guests to use the lake for fishing
whenever they desire.
Considerable complaint is current in
regard to the arbitrary attitude of Mr.
Gregg the past summer byway of dis
couraging tourists who sought the
privileges of the lake which Gregg
claims he controls under a permit
from the state game and fish commis
sioner.
VAN CISE ATTACKS
GRASSELLY PARDON
l
Pays Respect to Governor
Who *‘Rides Fool Theories
"
at Our Expense
Fort Collins, Feb. &.—Governor
Sweet was branded a ’’millionaire
Bolshevik’’ by District Attorney Van
Cise of Denver in a sensatonal address,
Tuesday, before the Kiwanis club of
Fort Collins,
Discussing ‘‘the man with the ex
alted idea that his mission is to ride
fool theories at our expense,’’ the
Denver prosecutor eaid:
‘ ¢‘Governor Sweet is a shining exam
}plo. He has made the most amazing
statement of any official in publie life,
writing a letter stating ‘I frankly say
that my judgment is better than that
of the twelve men who sat upon the
jury, of the court and the prosecuting
attorney, with respect of keeping
abreast of modern methods of treating
‘crimlnnln.' 'Who ever heard of kis
stadying ecriminals before he became
governor, unless at first hand in the
stock and bond business?
‘I just want to discuss one of his
pardons. Jan. 4 of this year Gilbert
Grasselly was convicted in Eagle eoun
ty of arson and malisious mischief for
PRICE FIVE CENTS
the burning of a house, and was sen
tenced to the penitentiary Jan. 7. Be
fore he even started for Canon OCity,
he was pardoned in secret session
without district attorney, judge or
jury knowing a thing until the pardon
arrived.
‘‘Why were not those who secured
the conviction asked to the meeting?
‘The reasons given disclose the UTTER
ASININITY, NAY, CRIMINALITY,
IOF THE WHOLE THING and the
ilolly of putting a millionaire Bolshe
lvik in the governor’s chair.’’
ROCKWELL THROWS
HAT IN THE RING
Prominent Paonia Farmer and
Stockman Seeks Republican
Nomination For Governor
Robert F. Rockwell of Paonia, who
is now serving as lieutenant governor,
officially announced his candidacy for
the Republican nomination for governor
Wednesday, according to a telegram
received by The Post Wednesday eve
ning from Paonia. !
This follows the meeting at Delta
Monday when a Rockwell-for-Governor
club was former by friends of the Pa
lonin leader, in which C. J. Moynihan
(of Montrose and A. A. Clements of
’l’noniu and Merle D. Vincent of Grand
Junction were leading the boom for
'the Paonia man. At the Monday meet
(ing it was emphasized that the West
\ern Slope has never furnished a candi
date for governor and also that neither
of the two industries which Mr. Rock
well primarily represents, stock raising
‘and farming, has ever had a member
of their industry controlling the des-
Itiny of the state.
At the Delta meeting Mr. Vincent
stated in part: ‘‘While Bob Rockwell
lives on the Western Slope, geography
iwill not be a factor this year. The
public at this time demands of the
‘candidates for high offices integrity
above all other qualifications. Liet.
Governor Rockwell has had several
Yyears experience as a legislator and as
lieutenant governor. He is a man of
good judgment, of fine ideals and per
haps no man is more frequently con
sulted than he is. However, what has
most impressed the public is his per
sonality. Fairness and integrity has
marked his official career.’’
LOCAL NEWS FROM THE
MOUNTAIN STATES MONITOR
The February issue of the Moun
tain States Monitor, a monthly pubH
eation issued by the Mountain States
Telegraph & Telephone company of
Denver, contained a cut of the tele
phone basketball team of that ecity
which included a picture of Alex J.
Allen, a guard on the team and an
‘employe of the company. Alex is well
known here and was, during his high
‘#chool years, a star player on the G.
C. H. 8. team.
On the following page of the paper
is an excellent cut of Mrs F. W.
DeWitt of this city, taken while sit
ting in her chair by the side of her
new telephone, consisting of a mouth
and ear piece attached to a board so
that she can use the phone by merely
turning in her chair. An article pub
lished in The Post upon the installa
tion of the new phone accompanied
the eut.
ASSESSOR SIMPSON
SELECTS DEPUTY
| The first of this month C. J. 8.
‘Hoovor resigned his position as deputy
county sssestor, and will return to hig
ranch on Rifle creek. Assessor Simp
son has selested Kenneth Smith to fill
the place vacated by Judge Hoover.
Kenneth is one of Glenwood’s live
‘wires and is fully competent for the
position.