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

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Founded In ISM by Col.
W. F. Cody (“Buffalo
BUI”) and Col. Peaks.
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VOL. XXIII. NO. 30
BONDS BILL HIS
FRIENDS M FOES
Opposition Growing in East-
Local Boys Favor Bill, But
Disabled Soldiers First.
There has go far been little public
of the Soldier _ onus ques
tion in Cody. In view of the fact
"however that we have heard consider-'
Able speculation about town lately in
regard to the Bonus, a representative
•of The Cody Enterprise has been
studying the situation and interview
ing various local members of the
American Legion with the hope of
"hearing the ideas and feelings in re
gard to this from our own ex-soldiers.
The general wish of the members of
the American Legion Post in Cody
seems to be that the bonus be adopt
ed. However, all favor some plan by
which the government should aid ex
soldiers in buying farm lands or
homes, and expressed unqualified op
position to the cash feature. In other
words they would rather see assist-'
a nee of the former service men
through land settlement proejets raj
ther than the straight cash bonus, j
All urged as a matter of first import- •
ance, the expenditure of government:
funds in providing adequate care for l
disabled veterans.
A general opposition In the East
and in the South seems to be growing
in relation to the bonus
While reports from large cities indi
cat») a division of opinion, with busi
ness organizations strongly opposing
the plan and ex-service men in some
sections favoring it. there is general
approval o f the proposal to confine
the bonus to soldiers disabled in the
war.
According to an article published
In the New York Herald of February
twentieth in relation to an interview
with Col. Arthur Little, in ommand of
the Fifteenth New York Infantry, the
"best advertised negro fighting regi
ment in the world, Cbl. Little, a South
Fork ranch owner who was at one
time under fire steadily sos one hun
dred and ninety one days, was seri
ously wounded and decorated four
times with the Croix de Guerre, and
•once with the Legion of Honor of
France, Is quoted' as saying:
“The colored troops fought bravely
and they are not holding their hats
lor a bonus."
It is altogether likely the "Fighting
Fifteenth" may be among the first if
not the very first to repudiate the
"State and Federal bonus idea, wheth
er masquerading as "adjusted compen
sation" or under any other cloak of
phraselogical camouflage. A move
ment to enlist the regiment and its
liost of friends squarely in opposition
to a bonus, not on grounds of financial
expediency but on those of patriotism,
principle and sentiment is ter crystal
ize soon at a great mass meeting in
New York City at which Col Little is
to make the principal address. He
intends to make the address a bugle
•call to dutv.
Col. Little said his purpose was to
urge his hearers, the leaders of the
negro race and all his old regimental
•comrades to take immediate action in
that meeting, not only recording their
own convictions but starting an end
less chain to cover the entire coun
try in the hope of enrolling the six
and a half million American Negroes
against the iniquity of a soldier bo
nus.
“I am taking this st«p under a com
pelling sense of duty," said Col. Lit
tle. "Five years ago our regiment,
■of which the country is so justlv,
proud, landed in France among the
first of the American troops. That j
was an opportunity gloriously grrsn-,
ed. I hope to point the way for them
to grasp a new leadership—a leader-.
ship against a danger greater even
than that which threatened the na '
tion through policies of the Kaiser, i
"In my opinion not many of our law
makers actually believe in the wis
dom of such a crime against the peo- :
pie as the levying of these vast im-|
posts for soldier bonuses. I suppose (
they are fearful of defeat at the polls j
If they fail to yield to this folly, to
this noisy barrage of propaganda
emanating from misguided or mis-;
guiding leaders who deluge them with
their demands. I have always been
■opposed to this bonus abomination.
Most of my friends and military asso
ciates are also hostile to it. T have
•determined to enlist in another fight
and to ask my men and the men and
women of the negro race to follow
me once more into righteous battle
I want to remind them that it was for
principle and for a proud sentiment
we fought in France, not for a sordid
bonus, the very acceptance of which
would tarnish with shame the medals
of valor we won. New York’s famous j
negro regiment is not seeking a gra
tuity for serving its country."
Some of those of the I [American Le
sion Post in Cody when interviewed,
(Continued on page 5)
cJfie Coou Enterprise
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CODY, PARK COUNTY, WYOMING—GATEWAY TO YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK WEDNESDAY. MARCH 1, 1922
VOLSTEAD ACT IS
COBBUPTIIIGII. S. I.
_ ,
Representative Gives Members
Eighteen Reasons Why 18th
Amendment is Wrong.
Washington.—Corruption in public
office is one of the results of national
prohibition. Representative McGregor
i of New York asserted in the House
of Representatives. Mr. McGregor
urged the legalization of beer and
wine and the levy of a tax on them
to pay the soldier’s bonus.
Eighteen effects of the Eighteenth
amendment were enumerated by Mr.
McGregor as follows:
1. It has deprived the people of
the United States of their inherent
right of liberty.
2. It has made a nation of hypo
crites.
3. It has made law-breaking popu
lar.
4. It has created a state of rebel
lion among millions of our citizens.
5. It has destroyed the sacredness
of law.
6. It has resulted in the moral de-'
j generation of our people.
7. It has made a whisky drinking'
: nation.
8. It has brought corruption in pub-'
lie office.
9. It has created a multitude of
new officers to harrass the people.
10. It has established a spy system
in our country. >
11. It has debauched our youth.
12. It has made bootlegging a re-
I spectable business.
i 13. It has given special privileges
I to the rich who can afford to buy 11-
j quors and to entertain their prohibi
| tion friends. k.
14. It has taken away the harmless
‘ glass of beer from the workingman
• and the light wine from those long
accustomed to it.
15. It has subjected legitimate bus
j iness to the whims, caprices and arro
| gance of government officials.
16. It has increased taxation.
17. It has brought in Its train all
manner of petty grafting.
1/3. It has brought destruction of
human life in its wake.
Cody Boys Beat
Basin 20 -10
By vjrtue of Cody’s clean cut victory
over Powell in the proceeding game,
a large crowd of loyal rooters packed
the new school gymnasium on Thurs
day evening to witness as a climax to
the Powell triumph, the team of the
Cody High School nose out a team
from Basin in a spectacular game in
which the Cody quintette forced tl e
going all the way with a superb ex
hibition of basketball, employing
a fast and varied attack in which well
timed passes, good dribbling, and ac- 1
curate shooting were elements.
Basin’s defense was keen through-'
out, their long distance shooting be-|
ing especially effective. The uncan
ny accuracy of Jones’ tosses from
the middle of fthe floor, often throw
ing no small scare into the hearts of
Cody supporters. Few if any of
Jones’ attempts even touched the ring
of the basket and practically every
time he essayed a shot from the floor
he was rewarded with a goal.
Cody played brilliantly however,
their pasing and blocking being the
best form showed on the local floor
in years. Though rather slow in I
starting, repeated field goals by Per
ry and Newton gave Cody the margin |
i and they were soon able to wrest any ,
posible victory from the visitors, j
though forced to make a rapid pace I
j to keep up the lead.
Perry was the individual star of,
the Cody team, tossing the leather.
through the netting many times with |
< Continued l’>M B>
Lampitt Appeals
For A New Trial
Ilprt lujmpitt, convicted of blowing
up the Graxs Creek bunk-house in
which Henry Folght was murdered,
and recently sentenced to ninety-nine
years in the penitentiary, is evident
ly not entirely out of money as some
believed.
Through his attorneys, Lampitt has
filed a motion before Judge Metz In
the District Court, asking for a new j
trial. It is imagined that the case
will be appealed to the Supreme l
Court.
It seems we made a mistake last
week, upon mentioning in these col
umns that Bill Lane was caught
with moonshine jn the lobby of the
Irma. As a matter of tact he was
sitting on the library steps when the
accident occurred.
AND THE PARK COUNTY ENTERPRISE
As Seen from the Water-Wagon
Caroline Lockhart
The Woman’s Club is to be con
gratulated upon having among its
members so many women with the
good sense to realize that the affair.,
of fthe Cody Stampede are none of
its business.
To use a figure of speech, its stock
has gone up 50% hi the estimation of
outside folk who gave the Club little
thought but were vaguely under the
impression that it was composed of
women of the type whose propens
ity for meddling usually make such
organizations more or less of a joke
to the public at large.
The harangue in which Miss Ma
jory Ross urged the Club to pass a
resolution asking that •the manage
ment of the Stampede be turned over j
to another organization was promptly!
voted down by members, who, as we
have said, had the common sense to
see that the stockholders of the Stam
pede were entirely capable of man
aging their own affairs and It was
no concern of the Woman’s Club.
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The above incident moves us to
ask what in particular is gnawing on
Miss Marjory Ross? In the two
years that we have been obliged to 1
ask the public for monev to pay the
initial expenses of the Stampede, wo
have yet to see Miss Margie’s hand
write upon the business end of a
check. So far as we know she has
never spent a dollar that found its
way to the treasury, but we are In
formed the money she has spent
burning the wires with telegrams, for
stamps, and calculating the wear and
tear on sole leather, in feverish ef
forts to influence the recent election
of officers, would, if figured up,
amount to the price of a stock certi
ficate.
tiff
: The last issue of the Herald con
tained a resolution emenating from
Miss Margie Ross, requesting the
, vice president to see that the next
j Stampede be conducted in accordance
I with law and order.
We cannot but wonder where Miss
| Roas was that she saw so much dur
-1 ing former Stampedes that she felt
I such a request necessary We are
very sure that Miss Ross was not in
sulted by any visitor, drunk or sober,
i for we are confident that Miss Ross
is one of the women who could go
anywhere in the world without fear
of molestation from the opposite
sex.
It is not possible to conduct a Wild
West show along the lines of a Chau
tauqua Assembly, and in so large a
crowd as come to our celebration
there will always be found a few
who take on more than is compati
ble with dignity, but, on the whole,
the Cody Stampede is as orderly an
affair as may be found anywhere in
the country, and conducted in a fa
shion which is wholly satisfactory
to everybody except the Meddlesome
Marjories of both sexes who have a
nose for sniffing out evil in others
which we confess Nature has not
given us.
fill
While we do not regard the pres-,
ent prohibition law with any degree
of enthusiasm, as may be gleaned I
from perusing this column, perhapsi
we make up for our lack of sympathy i
by the extra heartiness with which,
we favor some other laws, notably.
the fish and game laws that make |
for the protection of the biggest as-j
set of this section.
From every authoratative source,
game wardens, guides, hunters, the,
news comes that something has got;
BILL BARLOW DISCOVERS SECRET OF
PERPETUAL MOWTATENT APPLIED FOR
Makes Machine Which Has Long Been Dream of Inventors—
Can Start Her and Stop Her-Bill Claims
♦ Horse Power for Model.
Since early last fall the mysterious
movements of Bill Barlow have been
a matter of concern to his friends
and the community at large.
At long intervals he would sudden
ly appear upon the streets and in
pool halls, and then as suddenly dis
appear as if the earth had swallowed
him.
Whence he came and whither he
went was a question no man could
answer.
Some thought Bill was leading a
double life—one which was a matter
for the Secret Seven to investigate;
others were of the opinion that Bill
was engaged in the manufacture of
contra band liquor, while a handful
of credulous persons inclined to the
belief that Bill had died and It was
his astral body which appeared and
reappeared at will—ln spite of tfhe
fact that upon these occasions he us
ually bought a bill of grub.
Now the mystery is no longer a
mystery and everyone who has bus
to be done for the big game or short
ly there will be none.
Between hard winters, short feed,
too few game wardens, illegal killing
and the increased number of hunters,
elk, deer and sheep are going at a
rate which is sickening to people
who love thp game birds and wild
animals of the sagebrush and
tains.
In Sheridan county they have form
ed a Rod and Gun Club, the members
of wfhich have pledged themselves
to bring together true sportsmen,
men who will uphold the game laws
and do all in their power to see that
others do the same. They will serve
i as examples to those who are not
I true sportsmen and who belong to
that great number of hunters who
i seem to feel that the game laws are
made for everyone but themselves.
There are any number of men in
this locality who are qualified to
take the initiative in forming a Park
County Rod and Gun Club, men like
Ned Frosr and B. C. Rumsey who are
familiar with conditions, who are
good sportsmen themselves and are
, keenly interested in the preservation
i of the game outside of the fact that it
is a matter of vital interest to them
in their business, as it is to every
licensed guide and dude ranch in the
country.
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Here’s a brand new idea for Hiz
zoner.
The Mayor of a rural town *u
France has just issued an edict pro
hibiting dancing, declaring that the
music disturbed “cocks, hens and oth
er barnyard animals and it would be
considered a misdemeanor to hold
public or private dancing parties
anywhere in the commune during the
hours in which domestic animals re
pose.”
We had thought all the kill-joys
lived in America.
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Someone sends us the following
with an inquiry as to whether there
was an Eighteenth .Amendment back
in the days of Isaiah. They’ll have
to ask somebody older than we are,
but it sounds like it.
“There’s a crying for wine in the
streets; all joy is darkened, the
I mirth of the land is gone!”
—ISAIAH, xxiv., 11.
Till
Writing in the New York Sun, Don
Marquis asks the prohibitionists when
the expurgation of the Bible is to be-i
gin, and adds:
“We point out once again that el- j
ther certain well known personages.
in the Bible narratives are wrong, in .
their attitude toward beverages con
taining alcohol, or else the Anti-Sa
loon League is wrong.
Personally, we do not have the im
pertinence tu condemn Jesus of Na
zareth, who turned water Into wine
at a certain wedding feast. We feel
certain that Jesus was no advocate
of gluttony or drunkenness; at the!
same time it is quite evident from His
actions that He was entirely in sym- ■
pa thy with the qujet, innocent and
moderate use of wine."
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Government employees in the Fed
eral building in Chicago voted 146 to I
12 against the present prohibition
laws in a straw ballot taken recently. •
The voters were all workers of Uncle ■
Sam—deputy marshals, the staff of I
the United tates attorney, tax offi-1
cials, etc.
Can it be that the popularity of
this “popular” law is on the wane?
picloned him and thought ill of Bill
will shortly learn how wrong they
were.
Instead of carrying on a shame
ful liaison in some gilded palace or
distilling moon. Bill, in the seclusion
of fhis boudoir—which is also hjs kit
chen, dining and drawing room —has
been solving a problem that has had
the attention of tfhe human race al
most since the world began
Bill has invented a perpetual mo
tion machine, lhe greatest money and
labor saving device of all time. The
patent has been applied for so it is ’
of no use for any unscrupulous per-1
son to attempt to steal his scheme. I
With the aid of two Ford wheels, j
strap iron, rivets, screws and other |
parts, which those who are taken into
his confidence are not at liberty to
name Bill has constructed a machine ,
that has long been the inventor’s
dream. Once started It runs by Its ’
own power, faster and faster, until I
the danger is that it may attain such '
HO BUCK WOLVES
SAYS OLO im
Wyoming Pioneer Accounted
for Six Thousand During
Winter of 1868-9.
(By Hon. J. D. Woodruff)
In the early days ot the West there
was no such thing as a black or spot
ted wolf, or any animal bordering on
such a description, so I believe that
the so-called black wolves ot today
are a mongrel of a coyote and a do
mestic dog.
The gray or buffalo wolves varied
slightly, some being a shade darker
than others, but they were all of the
same type. They were a plains ani
mal and followed the buffalo In packs
in the winter from a few in number
to hundreds banded together.
Then there was the white or tim
ber wolves which were about one
third larger, than the gray wolf. They i
came out of the mountains in winter |
and ran with the gray wolves but
never cross-bred any more than the
coyote and gray wolf, or the deer, elk,
antelope, or any other wild animal
did.
Foxes run in all shades of colors ■
from a dull brownish red to greys
of all description up to the silver
gray, and jet black. These pelts
were very valuable, running some
times into hundreds of dollars each.
When the buffalo disappeared from
the plains the gray wolves also prac- i
tically disappeared. There were but l
few left until now they are almost I
extinct.
I believe the so-called black wolf
is a later day product. It is a curl- 1
ous fact that different types of wild j
; animals never interbred, while almost I
any of them cross rehdily with do
; mestic animals.
! During the years that I followed
trapping I took many thousands of
wolf pelts. During the winter ot
18G8-69 four of us poisoned more than
! six thousand wolves.
I I remember an instance when I got
1 two hundred and fifteen wolves at
: one bait in twenty four hours.
Our method was to run a buffalo
to a good place, kill him and put thd
strychnine in while the meat was
warm. We would skin the upper part
' of the carcass, slash the meat and
I sprinkle the strychnine all through,
: rubbing it In until it was disolved,
I and then stuy with it until it was
' frozen sold. We put a full box of
strychnne in a carcass. When put
j in the warm meat it seemed to disolve
and penetrate the whole mass, like
salt, and was very effective. A wolf
would seldom get more than 100 feet
from the bait, but if he got at it
while warm it would not kill him at
all—he would gorge himself, it would
make him sick, he would have fits,
and his hair would all come off but he
I would usually live.
We were in the Judith Basin that'
i winter. The Judith is a tributary to j
the Missouri river in Montana. I have
, not been there since but am told that'
it is now a solid wheat field. I would
like to see It again as the change is
hard to comprehend.
; speed that It will fly to pieces. He '
[ claims that his small model will de
' velop four horse power.
Already Bill has received some
i small measure of reward.
Last Christmas Bill admitted a
. trusted friend who was willing to bet
I a quart of Bill’s favorite beverage
I that she would not start.
She started and kept on going, so
Bill won. Then the sceptible friend
bet another quart of the same kind
that she wouldn’t stop. Once more
Bill won, so he figures that if some
flaw developes which he has not for-;
seen, his time is not dead loss.
Bill works constantly perfecting:
his machine, arising sometimes in the |
night to make a drawing of an idea
that is the product of hs sub-conscious I
mind which seems to work whle he
sleeps.
This is not Bill’s first invention by
any means. Uron a time he invent-'
ed a surgeon's chair, and while he
was out of his shack somebody stole
his model and left in its place a quar
ter of a pint of whiskey. Bill says
that the small amount was the un-1
kindest cut of all and put murder in [
hia heart. The chair has since been ■
patented and is quite generally used.
Bill has friends galore who hope
that all his dreams, the dreams he ‘
has dreamed lying on his bunk and
' looking at his model through the
' smoke from his pipe will come true,
| and that he will make his barrel; for
I everybody knows that if he does he
, will not nail it up and bury it, or
i leave it to foreign missions.
Mrs. Carl Cox gave a farewell lun-
I cheon party to Mrs. Hoopes and Mrs. ,
■ Mike Dayer recently. Among those
; entertained were Mesdames S. P. Van I
I Arsdall. Vogel, Greene, Shaw, Gop-1
pert, McGee, Blaske, and Lens.
The policy of this paper toil
to uphold the standard*!
and perpetuate the spirit!
, of the old West. g
ISSUED WEEKLY
■IOWIERSM
Rough-Shod Methods Partially
Responsible for Suit in Whicb
Town is Involved.
The Cody Canal owners stand solid
ly behind Messrs. Pearson, Nelsoa
and Horner of the Board in the stand
they have taken in regard to the wa
ter works controversy.
Messrs. Cox and Bell quite obvious
ly did not include the owners of the
ditch in their calculation when they
made the plans for their new water
system. The Board has never been
consulted officially and no agreement
was ever made with the owners of
the ditch from which the town pro
poses to take its water.
Although they were ignored in the
mattqr, the three canal commission
ers were willing to meet with Cox
and council and talk things over in
a friendly spirit with a view to
amicable settlement Instead of which,
the mayor, in his now well known
domineering and obstinate fashion,
attempted to "bull” things through
without regard for the rights of the
canal owners who were represented
by Messrs Pearson, Horner and Nel
son.
Where a little tact and diplomacy,
and a willingness to consider the point
of view of the canal owners, might
! have led to an agreement they antag
onized from the outset. The result is,
that the Town of Cody is now in a
lawsuit with the Cody Canal owners,
the outcome of which is not so cer
tain as Cox and the city attorney
would have it believed.
The Board feel that their position
i is well taken and they are represented
jbyC. H. Brome of Basin who look-
I ed upon as one of the best attorneys
j in the country in Irrigation cases.
The canal owners in their answer
to the petition filed by the city’s at
j torneys make the following statement:
I "Your application is apparently
j made upon the supposition that the
( Town of Cody is the owner of a pro
i portjonate share in the Cody danal by
I reason ,of its adjudicated water right,
and you state that the Town has al
! ready paid its proportionate share of
. the expense of maintaining the canal.
With this we do not agree, and as an
adjustment of this matter is necessary
before we can grant your application
we herewith state our position regard
ing same.”
In conclusion the Canal owners
make clear the terms upon which they
are willing to accede to the demands
of the city administration:
"The commissioners of the Cody
Canal Irrigation District are willing
to enter into an agreement with the
Town of Cody upon the following
terms:
“The District to recognize water
right for 563 acres in section 63 upon
the payment to the District of $9,806-
.91 with interest at 8% from February
19. 1922 until paid.
“The town of Cody to pay future
assessments on the said 563 acres of
water rights on the same basis that
assessments are levied in the District.
“The District to change point of di
version as requested, and to build
check and bank to conform with the
Town’s needs, the town paying cost
of construction and maintenance of
lame.
"The District to consent to the con
struction of a reservoir, provided that
overflow or flush from same is not
permitted to drain into Beck Lake.
"The Town to pay cost of installing
and maintaining adequate measuring
device at point of diversion.”
CHAS. WORKMAN ABOUT
TO MARRY, IS RUMOR
Charlie Workman has purchased
the residence property which belonged
to J. W. Lowe of the Forestry Serv
ice and has been busy of late repair
ing and remodeljng. This together
with certain other significant signs
has given rise to the rumor that
Charles is contemplating matrimony.
While his intimate friends know no
thing of his intentions, it is said he
is to marry Effie Foster of Cody.
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
FINES CARL THOMSEN
$4,600, REPORT
It is reported that in addition to
the fine of S7OO given by Judge Metz,
Carl Thomsen has been fined $4,600
by the Federal Government for mak
ing moon«hine. It is doubtful if he
will be able to pay any such sum, if
the report is true, as his property is
said to be heavily mortgaged.
Stub Jones, manager of the Brow*
Ranch has been in Cody having his
teeth gone over by “Scotty” the Black
smith —I mean a dentist.