The Cody enterprise and the Park County enterprise., February 01, 1922, Image 1

About The Cody enterprise and the Park County enterprise. (Cody, Wyo.) 1921-1923

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Founded In 1899 by Col.
| W.| F. Cody (“Buffalo
Bill”) and Col. Peake.
VOL. XXIII. NO. 26
CODY WILL HAVE GAS WITHIN YEAR
GUARANTEE OF COTASKING FRANCHISE.
Fairly Certain That Ohio Oil Company Has Been
Given Franchise by Mayor and Council—
Red Lodge and Bear Creek on Same Line
Mr. A. M. Sellery, representing the
Ohio Oil Co., has been in town during
the week conferring with Mayor Cox
and other citizens of Cody with a view
to securing a franchise for his com
pany to deliver gas into Cody, with a
guarantee that the line will be here
"within a year and operations prob
ably commencing in the early spring.
The Ohio Oil Company, a subsidu
ary of the Standard Oil. Company, has
only recently gone into the gas dis
tributing business, but during the
past year have made great strides
and are now reported to have secured
control of the greater part of the ga
fields of this section of the state.
"With Standard OH capital behind
them, it’s not surprising to notice that
they seem to accomplish everything
they set out to do.
They have already piped the Elk
Basin gas into Billings, and gas
■from the Byron field into Powell.
They were allowed a year to start
4 ‘BRONCHO NELL” GOES
“OVER THE ROAD” AGAIN
Old Time Resident of Greybull
Country Gets Sixty Days
For Making Moonshine.
Last Wednesday afternoon all was
•quiet up at the Sheriff’s office. It had
■been a dull day. No one seemed to
be particularly keen about bebing ar
rested, and there wasn’t even old Jake
Hendrickson around to forget him
self and offer the police force a drink.
The deputy sheriff sat back in his
«hair, idly scratching the babck of his
head for some reason or other, while
with the tip of his toe, he beat out a
steady tattoo against the radiator
pipe, byway of breaking monotony.
The long silence was suddenly in
terrupted by the frantic ringing of
the telephone bell, and with a gleam
nf satisfaction our energetic Deputy
Jumped to hit feet and picking u
the mouthpiece demanded in l hoarse
whisper, “What’s the dope?’’
"All set!” came the reply.
The deputy was out of his office and
Into his car in an Instant. It was no
longer a dull afternoon. There was
dirty work afoot.
Some hours later, in a little house
rear the outskirts of Meeteetse, Mrs.
Ella Smith, known to old timers as
■•‘Broncho Nell,” was arrested by De
puties Cullen of Cody and Shoup of
Meeteetse, charged with the making *
of whiskey from wheat. She showed j
nd resistance, and was taken to Cody I
■where she remained in jail for i
lhe night. The following morning)
she was taken to Thermopolis and i
brought up before Judge Metz
She pleaded guilty, and was given
■a fine of $350 and sentenced to sixty
days In jail, with the jail sentence to
be remitted upon payment of the fine.
A man associate of Broncho Nell’s
by the name of Florida, who was ar
rested in connection with the case on
the following day, is being held for
trial.
Broncho Nell is one of our oldest
of old timers, having come to the
country In the early days of the pral
rie schooner. She is a close friend
of "Calamity Jane” of the Black Hills
country fame, and speaks familiarly
of such characters as "Wild Bill” and
—Dakota Dan.”
For years she freighted between
here and Meeteetse, driving as many
as six and eight horses and slept out
by the road side on even the coldest
of our Wyoming nights. About ten
or twelve years ago, she was convict
ed of horse stealing and served a
-term in the penitentiary. In those
•days It is said that she "wielded a
■mean sixshooter.” She is now about
«ixty-five years old.
It is believed that this little epi
sode of a real old character and a
dull day in the Sheriff’s office, net
ted the authorities about two barrels
of mash and several cases of whis
key. .
So endoth the story, which reminds
us of the old song, "Just Another Old
Cal Gone Wrong.”
OHIO OIL COMPANY ENJOINED
It is reported on good authority that
the Enalpaca Company have secured
an injunction to prevent the Ohio Oil
Company from drilling on the Bonners
permit, section 8, In Oregon Basin.
Cody Enterprise
CODY, PARK COUNTY, WYOMING—GATEWAY TO YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK
operations on the line into Billings,
and within four months had the gas
tn Billings, thus saving about fourteen
months’ time on a line which was
seventy-two miles long and which was
worked during more or less uncertain
weather conditions of the late Fall
or early winter months.
This is certainly encouraging, and
shows that to put gas into a town of
Cody'a size, it could be accomplished
' in a few weeks* time, and thus save
j about 50 per cent of our fuel bill.
Mr. Sellery was expected to appear
i at the Cody Club luncheon on last
. Monday to outline his proposition but
| unfortunately w r as unexpectedly cal
i led to Billings and failed to put in an
[ appearance. »
, It is generally believed that Mayor
I Cox has grnated the franchise to Mr.
) Sellery. although there are certain
j formalities to be undergone, such as
, obtaining permits from state officials.
■ etc., before anyone is in a position
to make definite statements.
MAJ. HOOPES BICK
IN THE SPOT UGH
Puts On Successful Home Tal
ent Show for Benefit of
Knights of Pythias.
Major Hoopes who time and again
retires from the public eye and again
comes back into the limelight in some
official form or other, came baclj last
Friday night into the spotlight.
The K. of P. Home Talents Show
which the Major and others put on
at the Temple Theatre was quite the
best of that sort of thing that has
been seen in these parts in years, and
the long list or hard workers who
toiled strenuously through many
tiresome rehearsals in the hope of
"putting it over” were continuously
applauded by a house jammed so
that there was not even standing
room.
Probably the mqst amusing part of
the entertainment was the Cody Min
strel Troop, consisting of the Major
sitting up in a high chair and a dress
suit and a shirt so white that if one
looked at it too long it made you feel
like going to church next Sunday. All
around him were black faces, and
their jokes, singing and dancing,
were of professional style. It is not
known for sure, but generally believed
that when Henry Goodreau got up
! and sang what ever it was he sang,
j he at last found that "Lost Chord.”
The house roared when Major
; Hoopes asked Harry Rueger if he had
[ heard about the excitement up at the
jail the other day, when the sheriff,
while feeding the prisoners, caught
sight of Winnie Knott trying to give
Slick Billings a hair cut. (By the
way, was Winnie Knott guilty or not
guilty?) And the immense crowd got
so excited when someone said that
one of our attorneys had run over a
woman the other day with his Ford,
but that he guessed it didn’t Greever,
that Mrs. Lydia E. Peckham, demure
ly sitting in the front row where she
couldn’t possibly miss a thing, drop
ped her knitting and it rolled under
the piano and nearly caused serious
damage to l.Ae tempo of the Legion ,
Orchestra. In fact It was rumored 1
that Earl Pullev had to get a pulley '
to pull it out, but then you can’t tel 1 I
a thing about these rumors.
Another joke which was appreciat
ed was the one about Judge Webster
who played such a mean trick on Kid
Wilson. He hired Kid to drive him
(Continued on page 5)
EXPLOSION DUE TO .GAS?” -
LAMPITT’S DEFENSE
Bert Lampitt’s defense will be that
the explosion which caused the death
of two men in a Grass Creek bunk- ]
house was caused by gas and not by i
dynamite, and will endeavor to prove 1
| that they were burned and scorched [
in such a fashion that it could only I
| have been done by gas.
The first three days»were spent in l
| securing a jury. Basin Is filled with
witnesses and with people Interested
! in listening to the trial.
I A jury was secured Wednesday and
I the opening statement made by the
prosecution.
AND THE PARK COUNTY ENTERPRISE
As Seen from the Water-Wagon
Caroline Lockhart
Our friend Prof. "Bill” Borron who
is now in Kansas City with a view to
booking dudes for his next season
writes that while he has no socks he
is wearing kid gloves and has been to
so many pink teas that his stomach
is upset. "Bill” says that he Is i
vamped on every hand and if he were I
not a man of strong character and
will power he would no longer be
eligible to membership in the Purity
League of Cody. As it is, he can still
look his Maker or anybody else In the
eye without flinching.
Prof Borron states among other
things that he tolld the University
Club about the Cody Stampede one
afternoon and much interest was
shown in the event.
1111
Editor Ralph Smith of the Mee
teetse News gives the following de
scription of Miss Lea Ganguet and
her prize-winning sheep:
"The frontispiece of the last issue
of the Wyoming Stockman and Farri
er that is printed in Cheyenne, ap
pears a picture of Miss Lea Ganguet,
of Cody, the most successful woman
sheepraiser in the World. The lady
is pbrtrayed in a large brimed hat
under which her large and bland face
is looking down upon the prize win
ner and the chin of the portly woman
touching the fleecy locks of the wooly.
The sheep which was a prize winner
at the International Livestock Show
at Chicago is pictured a beauty, hea
vily fleeced and portly like its owner.
Miss Ganguet received a trip to Chi
cago and all expenses paid for a week
as a merited reward for her bility.”
1111
I We are informed that the dally
[appearance in court of Mrs. F. A.
Ingraham and Mrs. Lydia E. Peck
ham with their knitting and tatting
was for the purpose of “giving back
bone” to the proceedings.
In spite of our best efforts, we have
failed to learn whether the Judge or
the Prosecuting Attorney drew the
rick-rack edge for his nightie.
1111
Among the many mysterious com
munications which reach our desk is
an unsigned letter received last week
from a neighborbing town containing
a warning that Cody is to be visited
by a plague of cock roaches and advis
ing the use of plenty of insect pow
der.
114 1
We ho'** introduced so many edit
ors to oui since acquiring
Park County’s great moral uplift
weekly that now that it is encumbent
upon us to present another we find
ourself at a loss for anything new
to say byway of introduction.
Trerefore, we will state briefly
that June Little has consented to add
another to the responsibilities which
are making him prematurely gray
and round-shouldered, and he will fill
this position until the New York Sun
or Herald outbids us for his services. I
We trust that the public will treat '
Mr. Little with the respect and
consideration due his age and expert-1
enc.e.
1111
In his story of the trial of the liquor |
cases before Judge Metz, Mr. Newton)
wrote jubilantly in last week’s Herald I
of the convictions secured by the de
puty prosecuting attorney, Paul Gree- ■
ver. Tills should have read in thej
singular since out of the long list on |
the docket there was but one convic-.
tion.
The other cases resulted either in 1
WYOMING PUBLICITY MAN TELLS THE
WORLD ABOUT THE STAMPEDE BALL
Somo folks havo a talent for one
thing, some another: Webb Adams
of Thermopolis has a gift for adver
tising, hence he is known as the Pub
licity Man of Wyoming. While he is
averse to tooting his own horn he has
a wonderful lung capacity when it
comes to tooting for others.
Mr. Adams has just done the Cody
Stampede a good turn which is worth
mentioning, and justifies the use of
his handsome picture. He has sold a
column story of the last Stampede
Ball to the International News Serv
ice which has several thousand news
papers on Its subscription list. This
means that the Stampede Ball, and
the Stampede, will be brought to the
notice of readers all over the United
States as it goes into what is known
as ready print used by small town
papers.
Gaze on him!
disagreements or were dismissed up- j
on the grounds of insufficient evi- j
dence. Whether this failure to se
cure convictions was due to the weak
ness of the attorney selected to act
during Mr. Van Horn’s illness, or to
too much zeal on the part of Sheriff
Davis, is a matter of opinion, but the
fact remains that Winnie Nott was
the only person against whom a ver
dict of guilty was returned by the
jury.
The fines obtained were from de
fendants who pleaded guilty rather
than risk the payment of costs in the
event that a second trial resulted in
convictioh.
1111
They have a Purity League down
in Matthews. Missouri. Like our
own Purity League here in Cody, its
purpose is to aid the officers in the
enforcement of the law and to look
after the morals of the community.
On the 15th of December, seven
male members of the Purity League
of Matthews took a woman named
Bernice Phillips, aged 28. into a
woods, tied her to a tree and flogged
her with ropes.
She was at home with her mother
and brother at the time they forced
their way into her house and took her
away to whip her. They had warned
her to leave because they questioned
her morals, but she did not go, so
these seven males dragged her from 1
her family and beat her with ropes
for her disobedience.
They have been arrested, these se
ven male lillies of the Purity League'
of Matthews, and wil be tried separ
ately by the prosecuting attorney of
New Madrid, Mo., each now being at
[ liberty under SSOO bail.
In explanation of their action they '
[ state that “the morals of the com-1
munity needed protection.”
Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?
The dispatch does not state that,
any one of these seven men—we use
the word reluctantly—ever lodged a
complaint against Bernice. Phillips
over his own signature, which is ev
ery citizen’s privilege when a condi
tion exists that does not meet with
I his approval.
required less courage to over
power her and punish her in away
which is reminiscent of the days when
they burned women as witches and
branded them with the scarlet letter.
The astonishing part of the story is
that seven men could be found, even
in Missouri, who deemed themselves
so irreproachable that they could go
out and whip a woman for breaking
the seventh commandment.
Observing Purity Leagues at close
range, and elsewhere, we wonder why
the secrecy of a Black Hand Society?
Is i.t as its members assert that they
may work more effectively, or is it
because they do not wish to be known
as sneaks and spies informing upon
their neighbors for fear of the harm
it may do them socially and in their
business?
Can it be that while they are wil
ling enough to pledge themselves in
secret to support each other to “get”
those not in sympathy with them or
their methods, they find it requires
more courage than they can muster
to come out in the open and say so?
•With officers and city officials not
only paid to but eager to enforce every
law and ordinance, why go to so much
trouble when a properly preferred
charge over the complainant’s signa
ture is all that is necessary to get
action?
IUS W
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1922
DREAD GATTLESDISEASE APPEARS
IN HE4s_OWL stockmen
Dr. C. J. Rhoachj Loses Eighteen Head and
Ben Simpers 4" vo of Hemorraghic Septi
cemia—.ccination the Remedy
The dread cattle dlseas-' hemor-j
raghic septicemia, has ma its ap
pearance in this locality.
Eighteen head of cattle /elonging
to Dr. C. J. Rhoades and W. H. Har-1
den are already dead of it on the !
former’s ranch at the mouth of Rattle-1
snake Creek while two head belong-1
ing to Ben Simpers on the North
Fork died last week of the same mal
ady.
Dr. Rhoades at once called a vet-,
erinary from Powell who recognized
the disease from the symptoms and
the entire herd were immediately vac
cinated with serrum obtained from
the Codv Drug Store, and isolated. |
Since then Dr. Rhoades has vaccinat- 1
ed the worst cases, some three or
four times, and has lost only one
which was in bad condition and be
lieves that he has it under control. ■
Gus Kless is also vaccinating as a j
preventative and it behooves other)
cattlemen to take the same precau- >
tion for the disease works fast and 1
the germ seems to be everywhere
1 like typhoid which it much resem
bles.
“I examined the intestines of
some of the cattle that had died of
! it,” said Dr. Rhoades, who is glad to
give any information which may be
of use to other stock owners, "and I
found they were perforated with little
white ulcers as is the case in typhoid
! fever.
"The first thing noticed among
, those attacked with it is that they
; ouit eating and hump up and stand
TENTS PROPOSED
FOR TOURISTS
■ I
Cody Club Discusses The Hotel
| Situation—Lovell Man Asks
Help on Big Horn Highway
At the regular Cody Club luncheon, ,
i held an usual at the Hart Restaurant '
j last Monday there were two interest- i
I ing speeches made. Editor Leedom,
here with a delegation from Lovell,
spoke at length on the new Sheridan-
Dayton-Kane road over the Big Horn
Mountains and asked for help from |
Cody to complete the work, and Mr.;
Jones talked of the proposed new ho
tel to be built by the Burlington at
the depot.
It was unanimously agreed that
some steps should be taken at once
to try and persuade the Burlington
that Cody can and w’ill take care of j
the tourists, and after Dave Jones
had talked of new plans for the Irma,
which include among other improve- 1
ments, a dining room as large as that
of the Northern Hotel in Billings, and |
twenty to thirty tent houses, besides
eighteen additional rooms, a telegram j
was sent to Mr. Eustis, general pas-1
: senger agent, askng that he consider (
‘ favorably giving Cody at least a year’s
I lea way before starting their new ho- <
i tel so that there will be a chance toj
prove Cody as a satisfactory host.
' Mr. Jones asked for volunteers to
j help pay for the proposed new tent
houses, which will be better furnished
than ordinary summer cottages, and
1 which will cost about $l5O each, and
; received generous response from Mes
' srs Schwoob, Evans, Van Arsdall, Ew
; art, Tyler, Parks, Chamberlin, Jones,
i Newton, Lawson, Mrs. Brown, and Mr.
' Oeland. It was estimated that if Co
dy 3ucceeds in boarding and bedding
the tourists on this side of the river
i it will mean just about $30,000 addi-
I tional income this year and every
I year.
Editor Leedom from Lovell told of
, the work that has been done on the
[ new road over the Big Horns, and of
how much to our advantage this road
will be. even going so far as to state
that at least 3,000 more cars will be
directed over the road and eventually
through Cody and this entrance to
the Park instead of going through
the Billings way or Livingston en
trance.
There is forty days’ work still to do I
j on Mr. I.eedom’s road and he has run I
i out of funds, which seems to be rath- j
' or a popular predicament these days.
He asks for only $2,000 to be given
between Cody, Powell, and Ixivell.
Cody has already given SIOO, and
i Powell $250.
At a meeting of the Board of Di-
I rectors of the Cody Club later on in
j the afternoon, Dave Jones talked of
j the expense to date on roads, canyon
(ContlMued ob l*ase 5)
! $ Pages |
ISSUED WEEKLY
I without moving. Then the bowels
! become loose and bloody. They
■ shrink to nothing within three days
; and five is about as long as they last.
“They are seized with spasms, froth
at the mouth, their eyes roll, and
I they die in terrible agony. These
j spasms last for two or three days.
“It attacks the fat cattle as we’l
as the poor ones, in fact, it seems to
! get the young ones and those in best
, condition soonest.
“It is not a new disease in the
I country as last year it was in the
buffalo herd in the Park and killed
about seventy-five head of them.
I “I think it is brought from one sec-
J tion to another by magpies, elk, deer,
etc. One of the herd gets it and it
is quickly transmitted to the others.
“I am inclined to believe that cli
matic conditions have much to do
with it, these sudden changes, lying
on ice and snow makes them suscep
tible.
“Believe me, from now on my cat
tle wil have shelter for it is my opin
ion that housing is necessary, not sta
bles but sheds as some protection,
against the cold wind and snow of
these northern winters.”
It is said that the symptoms are
not unlike those of what is known to
cattlemen as “pack,” which cornea
from taking stock off the range and
putting them on dry feed. Cattle af
flicted with ‘.pack” have high tem
peratures—sometimes —and hem
orraghes of the intestines, but hemor
ragic Septicemia is far more fatal.
PARK COUNTY POTATOES
GROWING FAMOUS
i Shipping potatoes to Colorado
sounds like sending coal to Newcastle
• as that state has long been regognised
j as one of the great potato growing
1 states of the West, yet that may hap-
I pen.
O. E. Knight living on the J. B.
' Buchanan place on Irma Flat has re
ceived a letter from James Bolinger
|of Brush, Colorado asking his price
. on a certified seed potato called the
, Irish Cobbler. The price quoted will
jbe $2.50 a bushel. This will be the
last car load for sale in this section.
Seven car loads of certified seed po-
I tatoes have already been sold at $2.00
a bushel.
Much credit for the improvement
in the quality of potatoes now raised
in this vicinity is due to the work of
R. J. Allen, the County Agent, among
the farmers.
Local Coal Mine
A Grewing Industry
Residents of Cody and surrounding
districts are realizing more and more
what a really great asset it is to have
so near at hand a coal mine that seems
to be fast becoming one of the town’s
largest industries.
The Native Coal Company, situated
about nine miles south of town and
run so ably by Otto Nelson and oth
ers, in their annual report to the Bu
reau of Mines, covering operations of
1921, shows that they produced 1800
tons of coal, and it further goes on to
state that with the exception of two
or three hundred dollars, used in the
purchase of explosives, the balance of
the money remains in Cody.
Business men and bankers ap
preciating this, are using almost
exclusively the coal from this com
pany. Tho large items which appeal
are that this coal is unquestionably
cheaper in price than any other coal
to be found nearby, and the quality
seems to continue to improve as tho
mine is dug deeper.
Union Oil Co.
Down 1600 Feet
Under the management of Mr Mil
-1 ler, the Union Oil Companv’a opera -
j ttons on the Cody structure about a
mile north of the Hargraves Ranch
j are progressing very favorably,
I though owing to severe weather work
-1 ers have been somewhat handicapped
I because of the difficulty in keeping
I the water line open. Fires have had
to be kept burning almost continu
ously along the line at an interval of
approximately every ten feet.
The present snow is reported to be
general and seriously hampering traf
fic in the Atlantic Coast states.