The Cody enterprise and the Park County enterprise., March 22, 1922, Image 1

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Founded In 1899 by 001.
W. F. Cody (“buffalo
Bill”) and Col. Peake.
VOL. XXIII. NO 33
DEEP SNOW RESPONSIBLE FOR POOR
CONDITION OF ELK SAYS SUPERVISOR
Game Have No Place To Go During Hard Winters Since
Settlement Os Lower Country—Andrew Hutton Thinks
Feeding Hay The Only Solution.
ANDREW HUTTON
Tn last week's issue of the
Cody Enterprise there appeared an
article quoting Mr. Ned Frost, local
<uide and big game hunter, irf regard
to the local game situation. The si
tua’tion is indeed alarmia’c a» i*®./; been
the case for years when snowfall in
tho hills is more than normal. The
remedy is not, however, the prohibit
ing of the grazing of domestic stock
•on the present game preserves.
It is true that the Forest Service
Issues permits for the grazing of cat
tle, sheep, and horses on the game
preserves, but such permits without
any substantial increase in the past
ten years were Issued for many years
prior to the creation of the game pre
serves, which were practically all set
after being recommended by
the Forest Service, various organiza
tions and individuals.
A large part of the game preserves
and even by game protectionists for
permits to graze stock on the area.
In addition to Elk Fork there is a
large area on the opposite side of the
river which is held for game range
and which is not included in any
game preserve.
On the North Fork along the river,
the Forest Service permits the graz
ing of only 240 head of cattle (milk
stock) and saddle horses actually
needed by resort and summer home
owners. This is indeed a rather small
•number to cause any serious condi
tion with reference to game, especi
ally when it is considered that this
stock is grazed almost entirely on
areas not suitable during years of
heavy snowfall for elk winter range
partly within and partly outside the
preserve.
In the vicinity of Pahaska there
was grazed last year approximately
25 head of horses and the impossibil
ity of so small a number causing elk
to starve on Jones Creek, Sylvan Pass
and Middle Fork, is self evident.
These areas are not elk winter range,
and regardless of grazing by horses,
the elk which stay in that vicinity dur
ing the winter are sure to starve
during winters when the depth of
•snow is above normal as is the case
Ibis year.
Last summer was at least an aver
age feed year, and was. by far, better
in this vicinity are summer range and
only a very limited area is winter
range for elk. Those which have been
set aside, however, contain the larger
part of the available game winter
Tange within the Shoshone Forest.
The main winter gamp range on
the North Fork is Elk Fork and its
•vicinity, on which the Forest Service
Ties for years prohibited the grazing
of domestic animals. This policy of
preventing the grazing of stock on
Elk Fork has been maintained for
years, although each year requests
and demands are made by stockmen
GOV’T TRAPPERS
DOING GOOD WORK
I
Over 3.000 Predatory Animals
Taken In Wyo. By Men Work
ing Under Biological Survey
B. C. Rumsey who was in Cody,
from Blackwater Camp on Saturday, j
states that the reports of the killing |
•of deer on the North Fork by coyotes
this winter is not exaggerated. He
aays that the hunters and trappers'
working under the IT. S. Biological j
"Survey who did such good work up
there last season, are again badly,
needed.
Local trappers on the South !• ork
have caught 75 coyotes this winter
so far. j
It seems as if all the coyotes in the
country have migrated to the game
preserves where the elk and deer
are congregated and hunting is easy.
In speaking on this subject recent
ly. Ned Frost was of the opinion that
the government trappers and hunters ,
could do better work In summer than
winter. i
By being allowed to kill a few elk;
and fill them with strycKnine while'
the meat was hot, they could account .
for a great many predatory animals,
that could not be trapped in winter,
after the traps are frozen down and j
at a time when it is no trouble for
them to do their own killing among
the snow imprisoned game.
(Continued on page 5)
Cody Enterprise
CODY, PARK COUNTY, W YOM ING—GATEWAY TO YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK
than the year previous. Why, then,
did the elk starve this winter and pull
through In such good condition the
year before? The Forest Service
made no appreciable change in the
number of stock grazed on game pre
serves in this vicinity In the last ten
years. The snowfall during the win
ter of 1920-21 was light but during
1921-22 the fall was more than nor
mal. The cause oX the present game
situation is, therefore, not due to too
many stock, but too much snow.
Would that the Forest Service could
control the snowfall on the elk winter
range.
Years of ordinary or normal snow
fall have proven that the present
games preserves within the Shoshone
Forest are entirely adequate to take
care of the game in excellent shape
when the snowfall Is not above nor
mal. When the snowfall in the hills
is above normal, the further restrlct
nig ar even totally prohibiting graz
ing of domestic stock on game pre
serves would not relieve the situation,
because the abundance of feed left
would be snowed under, as is the
case this year.
Years ago, during hard winters, be
fore the country was so thickly set
tled, the game found abundant feed
not within thet present Shoshone
Foresl but in the open range country
in the vicinity of the reservoir, Cody
and McCullough Peaks. This area is
now partially fenced and the remain
der is closely eaten off by sheep and
cattle grazed during the entire year
without restriction. Some such simi
lar area is now needed to take care of
the game during years of abnormal
shows, but such area is impossible
within the Shoshone Forest because
of topography and high elevations.
The Fore"* Splice has recommended,
the btate has set aside and the the
Service has prohibited the use by do
mestic stock of the very best game
winter range witfiin the Forest. Such
an area is also impossible outside the
forest because of settlement and be
cause of the unrestricted cattle and
sheep grazing. The game is amply
taken care of during ordinary winters
on the present preserves and the only
solution of the situation is to feed
hay during hard winters. If this is
not done the elk and deer in this vi
cinity will continue to dwindle in
numbers and disappear.
The Forest Service has done and
will continue to do all in its power to
help preserve the game. Numerous
letters and reports are on file, prov
ing that no action has ever been tak
en to hinder or undo any action by
the State looking toward the preser
vation of our game animals. Any in
dividual. society, organization or
State will at all times find the Forest
Service wiling and anxious to cooper
ate In the preservation of the game,
not only for this generation but for
those that follow us.
I“WHATS THE DOLLAR
TODAY?" WORLD ASKS
Mrs. J. P. Altberger Writes Os
Changed Conditions Abroad-
Prohibition A Joke.
Mrs. J. P. Altberger of Irma Flat,
who is spending the winter abroad
i and is now in Berlin, was notified
i some time since that she had been
made foreign correspondent of the
' Cody Enterprise and credentials
I which would give her the entre to
! court and diplomatic circles would be
i forwarded her.
I Mrs. Altberger replies that she will
be delighted to act in that capacity
i in view of the prestige it will give
her to have it known that she is re
gularly attached to so notable a pub
lication as the Cody Enterprise.
That portion of her first contribu
tion not deleted by the censor is as
follows
“I swell up with pride when I think
| of America being the money market
of the world. Old England had it so
I long and used to cause us Americans
Iso much trouble in exchange. Now
I one beers on all sides —‘What is the
' dollar today?’
“Then when it’s high enough, off
! we trot to the bank and exchange it
i for marks.
“We hear everything is going up
soon and then when the raise comes
it is ludicrous to us although the na
(Continued on page 5)
AND THE PARK COUNTY ENTERPRISE
As Seen from the Water-Wagon
Caroline Lockhart
A man named August over In Colo
rado, after having had his taxes and
everything else raised on him, was
notified that his rent also would be
Raised the first of the year. He replied i
to the notice:
“The first of January will be the
last of August.”
Nearly everybody theye days feels
that their name should be AugusL
f 11 f
Miss Marjory Ross made a state-!
ment at the Womans Club to the es-1
feet .that the manner in which the
Cody Stampede was conducted was a
disgrace, a reflection upon the fair
name of our city, and that she had
received letters of protest from stran
gers.
One would have thought that the
superintendent of the Yellowstone
Park would have had some inkling of
our misconduct, but apparently not,
judging from a paragraph in a letter
recently received by us from fioiace
M. Albright. Says Mr. Albright in
this connection:
“I am for the Cody Stampede, which
I think is one of the best advertise
ments that Cody could have. I never
attended one of the Stampedes but I
have never heard any adverse criti
cism of them from tourists.”
Miss Ross- did not make it clear
why strangers should single here out
to make their complaints to so we
are still wondering about those let
ters.
1111
A reader o f the Enterprise sent us
a check for five years subscription
because he liked the ‘Water Wagen.”
The thing that is worrying us is, will
we have to stay on the water wagon
for five years in order to keep faith
with him?
1111
Bert Oliver says that things have
come to a pretty pass in Cody when
a man can’t sing what he wants to.
Bert says he was sitting on the curb
singing “Shine On, Silvery Moon”
when Sheriff Davis tapped him on
the shoulder and told him if he didn’t
cut it out he’d get 30 days for it.
FRANK W. MONDELL HAS LOOKED AFTER
WYO. INTERESTS 25 YEARS THIS MONTH
Absent From Duty Only Five Days In All That Time-
Busiest Man In Washington. Says
Florida Correspondent.
Wk
I Wp- w
I I b m /
Let people who think they are busy
read what the Washington corres
pondent of the Daily Times, Tampa,
Florida, says of the work accomplished j
by Wyoming’s brilliant and indefa
tigable representative, Frank W. Mon
dell.
The newspaper man makes the fol
lowing comments upon Mr. Mundell's
achievements and every resident of
Wyoming should feel proud Indeed of .
this unsolicited tribute:
“A quarter of a century of service I
in congress will be rounded out by
Representative Frank W. Mondell of
Wyoming, on March 4 —and during .
I all of those 25 years he has been ab
sent ju.At five days, and then only
! where there was the most positive as-1
We learn that Sheriff Davis had a
narrow escape recently. While con
cealed in one of his favorite coal
housed back of the pool halls, where
he watches the back doors in the
hope of nabbing someone who steps
outside to take a drink, a person with
an antipathy for cats saw his eyes
shining in the dark and was about to
take a shot at him when the sheriff
sneezed, thereby saving himself from
what might have been a bad puncture.
I I f f-
The above reminds us that the Anti-
Saloon League has sent out the fol
lowing item:
‘‘The sheriff of Park County has
been doing some excellent work,
which we hope to report more fully
next month. The splendid activity of
this efficient official has seemed to
almost break the heart of certain
members of “The Wyoming Tooze !
Journal.”
Now, we know that the reference
to “The Wyoming BOoze Journal”
does not mean Editoi Ralph Smith
and the Meeteetse News, or Editor
Baird and the Powell Tribune, or even
the Cody Enterprise, so we can only
think that the shaft is directed at L.
L. Newton and the Northern Wyom
ing Herald.
We await the account of the splend
id activity of Sheriff Davis with more
than passing ♦nterest.
1111
When Mrs. Margot Asquith first
came to America she was "dry’’ and
the fact was received with loud ac
claim by the prohibition forces. When
she went home she was “wet” and the
same organization declared that no
serious attention should be paid to
her statements as she was not at all
qualified to judge of the joys and ben
efits of prohibition.
Local etomologists announce that
soar cock-roaches of a new species
have arrived in town.
According to the specialists in in
sect life, these cock-roaches have a
stripe down their back —yellow—are
narrow between the horns and when
disturbed make a hissing sound like
the escape of hot air.
surance that nothing of importance
would be transacted. House Leader
Mondell has thus established an at
tendance record that cannot be match
ed by any of his colleagues.
“House Leader Mondell also has
another record —he receives daily a
great deal more mail than any other
member. This is partly due to the
fact that he is the only member of
the house from the great state of Wy
oming and that his constituents come
into contact with every phase of Fed
eral activity—reclamation, land office,
geological survey, bureau of mines,
. rural education and sanitation, pen
' sions and veteran’s bureaus, etc., ad
infinitum.
I Besides this, Representative Mon-
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, .1922
SOMEBODY SHOOTS UP JOE HILL; FBED
HOUSTON ACCUSED OF KIDNAPPING HIM
—•—
Jack Spicer Wanted For Taking Four Shots At His Erstwhile
Partner In The Moonshine Industry—
2ut He’s Gone From There.
From being an uncommunicative,
unostentatious person with a good
deal of time on his hands, Joe Hill
has suddenly popped Into the lime
light and become the centre of a
thrilling mystery and the subject of
much conjecture.
“Who shot Joe Hill?” Is a question
which bids fair to take its place with
that immortal interrogation—" Who
killed cock-robin?”
The answer, however, is generally
believed to be “Jack Spicer,” although
that person is not here to speak for
himself and has left no address.
The next character in importance
in this drama of the hills is no less a
person than our friend and fellow
townsman, Fred Houston, who has
been arrested charged with kidnap
ping Joe Hill and placed under • a
SSOO bond.
Then, naturally, there are Sheriff
Davis and his deputy. T. P. Cullom,
playing their respective parts as the
law’s representatives.
The plot has not yet developed and
speculation is rife as to what it’s all
about anyhow but, so near as can be
gleaned from the many stories in cir
culation, Joe Hill and Jack Spicer
who were engaged in the manufacture
of moonshine, had a falling out as the
result of their business enterprise,
and the latter, on Sunday night about
ten o’clock, took four shots at his
partner at their cache over in the
Monument Hill country. It is said
that trouble had been brewing for
some time but that the immediate
cause was Spicer’s discovery that Hill
dell is a Recognized authority on the
public land law and this brings him
an extensive correspondence from all
public land states. Since becoming
floor leader, his mail has naturally
greatly increased from people in all
the states who have suggestions on
pend»ng or proposed legislation.
Then, too. he is referee in all Wyo
ming postoffice matters, and so is
consulted on all of the very many mat
ters affecting more than 700 postof
fices.
Representative Mondell has estab
lished a strict rule that every letter |
received must be answered. Os course i
form letters are resorted to and used !
whenever possible, but his office av- j
erages more than 150 dictated letters ;
j a day.”
POWERS NOT GUILTY
OF KILLING DEPUTY
Victim of Frame-Up By Mrs.
Minnie Shore. Stool Pigeon
For Sheriff Holdredge.
The jury acquited C. R. Powers who 1
was charged with the killing of Ted
Price, a deputy sheriff, at the Cotton
wood crossing on the Grass’ Creek
road last August.
He was tried before Judge Brown
of Casper at Thermopolis and the
, jury brought in a verdict of not guil
ty last Wednesday. •
Powers’ testimony verified the sto
ry current at the time of the killing, i
namely, that the murder was the re-1
suit of a frame-up on E. L. Mullendore
by the woman stool-pigeon, Mrs. Min- j
j nie Shore, formerly of Cody.
Mrs. Shore had herself been eq gag- j
ied in the business of bootlegging, 1
■ transporting liquor between Red
Lodge afrid; Cody and Thermopolis.
When she was taken with a load and
her car confiscated, she turned stool
pigeon on condition thht her car was
returned to her.
After she attached herself in this
! capacity to the sheriff’s office of Hot
1 Springs County, it is said she came to
■ Cody, Greybull and other places, and .
endeavored to "frame-up” on her form-|
I er friends and acquaintances, urging
I them to purchase whiskey for her.
Her reputation however had proceed- j
I ed her so that she met with no sue- j
i cess either in Cody or Greybull.
In Meeteetße she had better luck.
! There, according to the story told by
Powers on the witness stand, she I
went to him and asked him to haul a •
’ load of whiskey from Meeteetse to
j Thermopolis for E. L. Mullendore.
officers were to arrest them both -
just outside of Thermopolis but she .
I guaianteed that Powers should not]
i be prosecuted and should receive SSO I
| for his assistance in capturing Mui- ;
I lendore with the evidence.
j She then telephoned the sheriff’s of-!
The policy of this paper s«l|
to uphold the standardejl
and perpetuate the spirit 3
, of the old West. ||
<--■ • ——
ISSUED WEEKLY
had “lifted” the cache.
One of the shots hit the horse be
longing to Harry Mellon which HiH
was riding, another went through the
cantie of the saddle and a third got
Hill in the side.
It appears that they came Into tow»
together and then the plot thickens.
Hill Alleges that he was kidnapped
by Fred Houston and taken twenty
miles out in the country. He got away
and walked as far as the Pearson
ranch from which place he telephoned
the sheriff’s office.
He is said to be occupying the jury
room while convalescing from his
wound which is not thought to bn
serious unless blood-poisoning sets in.
In the meantime the sheriff and his
deputy are endeavoring to locate the
vanished Spicer who appears to have
thrown sand over his tracks most ef
fectively. .
Strapping on their “gats,” the sher
iffs searched the Cody Hotel where
Spicer and his wife had been rooming
but uncovered nothing but some soiled
linen which the former had not stop
ped to launder before departing. Thee
they searched the Houston ranch and
town residence, with no better luck so
far as locating the alleged moonshiner
or getting other evidence.
Spicer is said to be from Tennessee
and was arrested once before for mak
ing whiskey.
The question which seems to be
■ agitating the community is as to whe
i ther Joe Hill, under the sheriff’s be
' nign influence, is giving up his giz
’zard?
fice in Thermopolis that Powers and
Mullendore would bring a load of
whiskey to that place and told the
road they would take and the time
they would leave Meeteetse.
Instead of meeting them outside of
Thermopolis, the sheriff and two de
puties overtook them at Cottonwood
creek where Mullendore got out of
the car when ordered to stop and
stepped behind a tree from w’hich
place he shot and killed Ted Price
instantly. Then his gun jammed or
■ he undoubtedly would have gotten the
I other two as he was known to be one
i of the best rifle shots in the country.
! The officers stated that Mullendore
i shot first and signed a statement to
; this effect, but his brother, Horace
Mullendore of Cody, who reached him
before he died, declared otherwise —
that the officers shot at Mm as be
was running for the tree. The se
cond deputy, Palmer, shot Mullendore
i after his gun stuck.
Powers threw up his hands and
i showed np resistance so he could not
! be connected with the murder by the
State.
After his acquital he was arrested
for transporting moonshine, but this
charge was withdrawn later.
WAR TO BE STARTED
ON LIONS AND COYOTES
Predatory Animal Inspector
Comes In Response To Re
port of Forest Supervisor
Charles J. Bayer, predatory animal
inspector from Cheyenne, Wyo., will
I arrive in Cody next Monday to go af
ter the coyotes that are reported to
i be killing the deer in the North Fork
' country and elsewhere in this sec
tion.
Mr. Bayer proposes to use poison
in his war on them as that appears
to be the only way to get them this
winter.
The prompt appearance of the in
spector upon receipt of a letter front
Andrew Hutton, local Forest Super-
I visor, telling him of the damage be
| ing done to the game by coyotes, it
1 very gratifying to those who are in-
I terested in this matter.
TROUT STREAMS TO BE WELL
RE-STOCKED THIS SPRING
The streams in this section will
i have their share of fish for re-stock
| ing. and then some. Owing to the
fact that there is now no hatchcry
I here and that expense it
saved in consequence, the stream*
i here will receive somewhat more than
their proportionate share from the
hatchery at Hyattville.
At the proper time, that hatchery
will send here for distribution, 300,00*
small fish and 50,000 fingerlings.