The Cody enterprise and the Park County enterprise., May 31, 1922, Image 1

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

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EVERYBODY READS THE ENTERPRISE—EVEN IF THEY BORROW IT!
Founded In 1899 by Col.
W. F. Cody (“Buffalo
Bill’’) and Col. Peake.
VOLUME XXIII. NUMBER 43.
END COMES SUDDENLY TO L G. PHELPS ”
MILLIONAIRE CATTLE AND SHEEP MAN
Owner Os Famous Pitchfork Ranch Stricken In Cody While
Attending To Business-Pioneer Stockman
Os Greybull River Country.
The sudden death of L. G. Phelps .
early Wednesday morning came as a !
great shock to the community, follow-|
ing as it did so closely upon that of;
W. T. Hogg who was taken some ten '
days ago in much the same manner. ,
Mr. Phelps was in the office of the
county surveyor in the court house
apparently in his usual health and'
spirits when he put his hand to his ;
head quickly, supported himself for a
moment and then fell backward. Dr. j
R. C. Trueblood was called immedi-!
ately but his heart had stopped heat- ■
ing. The evening before he had been '
with a party of friends at Russell
Crane’s and while he did not com-!
plain of feeling badly it was noticed '
that he was very restless.
He had suffered much for some
time from a chronic ailment and had ;
undergone two operations which had |
not helped him as much as had been ;
hoped.
Mr. Phelps will he greatly missed '
in business and social circles. He had I
an alert, active mind and a good
sense of humor which made him very I
companionable and always a welcome !
addition to any group of people.
Ho hud a • wide acquaintance
throughout Wyoming and Montana.
In which latter state he had been in 1
business fn his younger days.
Although he had many warm
friends on both sides ot ttye fence, he
was Republican in politics and took 1
a keen interest in state and national ■
affairs. He had intended to supportl
John Hay for Governor in the com-,
fng rnwiviieit . .■• <1
Mondell for the U. S. Senate.
In business he was far-sighted—:
dreaming big dreams which he made ‘
come true through perseverance and [
exceptional shrewdness.
Mr. Phelps has been identified with
the Greybull river country for t / • ty
lears and is now the largest land
owner in that section as his holdings
-comprise more than 130,000 acres.
He came to Cody in 1901 and pur
chased the Richard Ashworth, or Z-T
ranch, on the Greybull. After thy) 1
death of Otto Frank, he purchased the
. Pitchfork ranch and made it his
* headquarters. Subsequently he con
solidated with these txvo ranches the
holdings of Col. Pickets on the Grey
bull river.
At ono time he was associated with
George Merrill and Gutherie Nichol
ijon. They purchased the famous Em
bar ranch and conducted business un
der the name of the Rocky Mountain
Cattle Co. They disolved partnership
eventually, Messrs. Merrill and Nich
olson. taking the southern holdings—
Embar and Grass Creek where rich
OH BLASKE MAKES
NOTABLEABDRESSi
Speech On Memorial Day Pol
ished Gem Os Oratory.. Si
ncere Tribute To Dead.
The address made by Dr. R. Blaske
at the Memorial services on Tuesday _
morning was an eloquent and pol
ished bit of oratory, ho sincere and
beautiful that it made a deep impres
sion upon the audience whic h filled
the Temple.
The Enterprise is printing it in full,
that those who missed hearing it may
have the opportunity of rending this
notable tribute to the soldier dead.
“I count it a rare and happy privi
lege to have a part in this sacred
Memorial program. The American .
Legion has wisely and lovingly sug
gested that today wo emphasize the
sacrifices ot the heroic dead while on
Armistice Day we give ourselves over
to a rejoicing in the victories and the |
glories of the Great War. So let us de-'
and so mote it be!
"A word to the members of the G.
A. R. Here in Cody and thruout our
beloved country you gather with the
Veterans of the Spanish War and the
Boys of the American Legion to do
honor to those who at the altar of pa
triotism made the supreme sacrifice.
Ah, gentlemen, once you were a mil-|
dfie Cody Enterprise
CODY, PARK COUNTY, WYOMING—GATEWAY TO YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK
I dll strikes were made later.
! Mr. Phelps also had valuable oil i
j land in the Grass Creek country. He
formed the Sayles Sheep Co. and re- j
.cently became*president of the Grey-I
j bull Corporation with which W. R.
| Coe and A. A. Anderson are identified.
Mr. Phelps, christened Louis Gra
ham Phelps, was born in Red Wing.
Minnesota, July 2-, 1859. He would
have been sixty-three v ears of age |
> this , vuner.
■ His father, who was a prominent
■lawyer in Minnesota, died when he
' was thirteen.
He received his education at Trin
ity College, Port Hope, Canada, grad
uating u.ere when he was nineteen
years old. He came west in 1879 on
, the survey of the northwest boundary i
Jof the Yellowstone National Park,'
I having secured the position with the •
survey party through his uncle. Major
i Martin Magian is, oue of the pioneers
iof Montana. He served on the sur- j
• vey for three years, and returned to !
, Minnesota in 1882, when he was mar- !
I ried to Annis Williston of Red Wing.
Mr. Phelps then decided on a bank-I
; ing career, and secured a start in
this business in Bellingham, Wash-1
: ington, tn 1884, shortly afterwards
1 moving to Helena, Montana, where he
■obtained a favorable opening. He fi
nally became vice president and man
■ ager of the Montana National Bank
In Helena, owned by C. A. Broad
water. A few years after this, Mr.
• Phelps moved to Great Falls, where
. lie associated himself yrith the First
1 NntlofidrYlafilc this con
i cem very successfully for a number
( of years. While in Great Falls Mr.
’ Phelps purchased the waterworks
i and developed them into what was
, then a very modern plant.
Leaving Great Falls, he moved to
Chicago, and was made president of
j the Consolidated Casualty Company.
After putting this concern on a sound
: financial basis, he sold out, and was
mad 6 vice president of the National
Life Insurance Company of Chicago.
It was at this point that he decided
’ that office work was too confining and
j lie preferred the outdoors. So he
came to Wyoming where he made his
livestock interests his life work,
building a beautiful home in the mid
dle of his great acreage where he
lived surrounded by his family.
' Those who survive him are his
widow, his son, EYigene Phelps, anP
his daughter, Mrs. Charles Belden.
The funeral services will be held at
Christ’s Episcopal church in Cody at
one o'clock on Saturday, Dr. Royal
Blaske officiating. He will then be
taken to Red Wing, Minn., for burial.
lion strong. Thus a million strong
i you marched home beneath flaunting
I flags of victory to the merry music of
I fife and drum. Since then 57 eventful
years have come and gone. Like atx(
tunin loaves before the winter blast
' your members have been scattered.
Today we can count you as you pass
uh slowly by. One by one you have
1 made your last bivouac and one by
one you have answered the call of the
; Great Commander-In-Chief. True,
; Time has diminished your numbers
but. Time can never diminish your
i glory!
• The muffled drum's sad role has beat
(Continued on page 4)
AND THE PARK COUNTY ENTERPRISE
As Seen From The
Last week we had Lumbago :or i
something equally terrible. At any
rate, it hurt us to move, to laugh or
even to smile, and then some one
drifted in and told us that T. P. Cul
len was coming out for sheriff and!
nearly killed us.
!1 H J
The news came from Billings on
Saturday to frighten us, that our .
esteemed fellow townsman, S. P. Van-
Arsdale became seriously ill in the
lobby of the Northern Hotel on Fri
day evening and had to be transported
to his room.
From the nature of the symptoms
his malady was believed to be ver
tigo.
The report caused much alarm, par
ticularly in church and reform circles,
.as Mr. Van Arsdale <s a member of
the Methodist choir, one of the Se
cret Seven, active in the Law and Or
der League, an agressive participant
in all movements which have for their
purpose the betterment of the morals
of the community and the strict en
forcement of the prohibition law.
Mr. Van Arsdale is one who could
not well be spared by the better ele
ment in these critical times and it is
cause Yor congratulation that he has
regained his health so quickty.
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While we realized that Pexe Peter
son was a man of parts, an accom
plished barber and a ’*.;iy
we never fully appreciated him sci
til last week. He collected that $4.1 >
for us from Judge Webster, and by a
method so painless that the Jetfge
did not know he was separated from
it until it was over. j
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Here it is again—that paragraph
I from the Enterprise—in “Life - ’ this
I time.
The Efficient Reporter
Wyoming Paper—“A. C. Newton re
turned from somewhere last week.
He had been there for several weeks, j
wberevr it was. ’—Boston Transcript.
it this keeps up we look to see A. i
C. Newton an international celebrity I
—like Peggy Joyce or Jack Demp
sey.
nil
Jack Reynolds of the Pat O’Hara
coutnry was in town on Saturday.
Jack has been in Wyoming 43 years
and claims‘the distinction of being j
able to throw more kinds of hitches .
on a ppek than any man in the world.
He says he can put Fred Houston in
a coffin and pack him on a burro. He '
has not yet obtained permission from
Mr. Houston to try the experiment.
ISIS
Some smarty on a state paper
wrote a paragraph last week saying ‘
that one of the events oi» the program •
of the Cody Stampede would be a tin j
ish fight between a bootlegger and a ■
stool-pigeon. Gosh! maybe that’s an
idea.
ISIS
We note that L. G. Nutt has been
appointed associate fedefhl prohibi
tion director for the State of IllinOife
It is to be hoped that no law violator
will be inspired by his name to take .
a crack at Mr. Nutt.
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This news item gave us a start
when we first saw it for we thought it j
had happened in Rock Springs.
Barrington, lll.—John Hay, a farm
er. advertised he would give a drink
out of a bonded bottle for return of
a pig which had strayed away. He:
had ten pigs before the paper was out
an hour.
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The Rev. A. M. Shepperd holds rath
er a unique place in this community.
No minister who ever lived in Cody
had such a large following' among non
churchgoers or wielded such an in
fluence for good as this tall. lank,
near-sighted Presbyterian clerg> man.
Bany Williams Buys
ThcO.D.Marx Ranch
Barry Williams has purchased the
O. D. Marx place on South Fork j
above Valley and will make it his
home from now on.
After looking the United States
over, Mr. Williams concludes that
Wyoming and Cody is the place for
him.
The Marx place consists of more ‘
than 300 acres of agricultural and pas-
l This comes about because he has
I interests outside of his church. He
has taken his place among men, thus
enabling those who have come in con
tact with him in politics, lodge work,
I etc., to appreciate his character and
i value him at his true worth.
He speaks hi-s mind when the occa
sion ar’i'ses, and, because he is cour
ageous, just, understanding, he has
' won the confidence and respect, not
only of the majority of members of
his own congregation, but of the peo
ple outside the church.
Those vrho usually make a wide cir
cle around preachers are among Mr.
Shepperd’s admirers and staunchest
fr lends.
Outside of a small faction, this com
munity, regardless of political or so
cial lines, beliefs or religions, stands ,
solidly behind this unusual divine.
Because of this fact, an affront;
which has been offered Mr. Shepperd I
is resented by more people and more |
deeply than perhaps the offenders sus- j
pect, and if there is any explanation, i
other than that which has been offer- :
ed. his friends would be glad to hear I
what it is.
Briefly told the story is as follows: !
It is customary in Cody, as else-!
where, for the graduating class to se- 1
lect its own speaker for the commence- ,
ment exercises.
Mr. Shepperd w’as chosen by the 1
unanimous vote of the class of ’22 and j
was so notified. He replied that he
w’ould be pleased to accept the invita-,
tion.
When it became known to the school I
board that Mr. Shepperd was the
choice of the class. Howard F. Bell
j informed the principal, Mr. Stude-
I baker, that he would have to recall
the ihvitation as Mr. Shepperd was
; noY acceptable to them.
A man unknown in Cody, and to the
graduating class was substituted and*
•' paid $25 by the school board to take
Mr. Shepperd’s plaee.
, i The only excuse made by Mr. Bell
, at the time he offered Mr. Shepperd
i this affront was that he was “too par
| tisan.”
The explanation is not logical in '
, view of subsequent events.
I Now Mr. Bell is a Methodist. Mrs. j
L. L. Newton also of the school board !
'is a Methodist. With the exception of
I Mrs. J. H. Van Horn the other three !
j members of the board are the type i
i that should be Methodists.
I Baccalaureate services were held'
in the Methodist church and the ad
dress made by the Methodist parson,
■ the Rev. Mr. Dryden.
The speaker at the exercises of the
I eighth grade was Paul Greever, Meth-.
! odist, and as active as a cat in poli
j tics.
| The benediction at the commence
! ment exercises was pronounced by the
j Rev. Mr. Dryden.
Yet if there is any clergyman in
I town more “partisan” than Mr. Dry
j den we have failed to hear of him.
i The Methodist church avowedly is
in politics and Mr. Dryden instructs
his congregation how to vote from the ,
pulpit.
At the last municipal election he'
■ overworked his telephone and ran
J himself ragged bullying balky Sisters '
' into voting for C. M. Cox, Methodist,
for Mayor.
Mr. Shepperd was a judge of elec
! tion and attended to his business.
Mr. Shepperd’s friends would like
i to know if it Is .the intention of the
I resent school board to make the,
I Cody High School a Methodist institu I
tion? Is it not possible to hold opin
, ions different to the school board
without being disciplined for it?
Must a minister be either a Metho- [
dist or a mealy-mouthed syncophant;
in order to be acceptable to the per- ■
sons who have offered this affront to'
Mr. T Shepperd?
Ring out, wild Bell —wild Methodist
Bell —and tell us how this happened! i
i ture land. It is considered one of the
most attractive locations on the river 1
and will lend itself to the improve-
I meats which its new owner has in
mind to make.
■ The new South Forker is a partie-
I ularly agreeable, friendly, warm- !
hearted young man and his friends
■ are ‘Tickled to death” that he has de- j
•elded to hang up his hut permanently
lin their midst.
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NOTICE, KNIGHTS PYTHIAS
All Py th lans are requested to bo!
. present at Memorial services at Prea
, bytorlan church Sunday, June 11, at i
II o’clock. Ceremony at cemetery foi i
j lowing. Meet at hall at 10:30.
i Patronize the advertisers.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 31. 1922
[EG. GROVES AND BARRY WILLIAMS
GIVE RELAY DACES TO CODY STAMPEDE.
Indians' Prizes From Farmer Hopkins Os Clarks Fork--Wolf
ville To Be Real Stomping Ground And Live
liest Spot On Earth July 4. 5, 6th.
(CAROLINE LOCKHART)
Races! Races! Races! We’ll say
there’ll be races at the Cody Stam-1
pede! Everybody likes to see the
ponies run; if they don’t there’s some
thing serious the matter with them
and it’s time to divide up the silver
and make arrangements with Vogel.
The most popular and exciting of
the races of other years have been I
the relay races and from the number j
of outside inquiries received from
I riders getting their strings together,
j it looks as if there would be more en
> tries than ever before, which means 1
, more thrills.
And speaking of thrills, we had a
few of them ourself last week.
First, Barry Williams, who is now
in our midst for keeps, handed us $l5O
• for a relay race. Also he is sending !
; to California for Cody Boy to see if :
| the colt can win again in his Home
i Town.
Then, on Saturday evening, we took
I a letter from our .box which gave us 1
a queer feeling—the kind we always
have when there’s a check inside. We
, have an instinct for checks that sel
dom fails us and -it did not this time
! —another cheek for a relay from F. S.
Groves, Jr., of the T. E. Ranch.
Oh, chile! The corners of our
mouth almost met in the back with
the smile that did not c me off that ’
night.
In addition to the aic'c windfall.,
Farmer Hopkins of Clarks Fork has
thrown sundry hints which l?« , *i
1 us to believe that we can w co’inc r
$75 from that, quarter for an Indian
i bareback relay and a squaw race.
I S. J. Ahlberg, the shoemaker, cele
i brated the last payment on a note he
has been wrestling with for years I
i by the purchase of a share of Stam
j pede stock and a new Ford car.
j As we go to press along come sub
| scriptions from Arthur Holman, ‘Bub’
; Cox and Russell Crane,three good
we mm I
WILL BE FILMED,
Tim McCoy To Be Starred In
Humorous Story Os
The West.
Thermopolis is to l.a- r e a moviua,
picture studio where teil W’?>t<rn l-'c
tures will be made at last, .icjordi’tg
to the Thermopolis Independent which
in its last issue says of the new enter
prise:
G. LaDura Fein, art director of the
Mountain-Plains Enterprises, produc
ers of western motion picture films, is
in Thermopolis arranging for the pro
duction here of Caroline Lockhart’s
famous novel, ‘The Dude Wrangler.”
In addition to the distinction of be
ing chosen as the scene for this pro-,
duction, Thermopolis woll have anoth
er honor in that Tim McCoy has been
assigned the part of leading man.
The leading lady and the heavies
will be brought from Los Angeles,,
while those who play the lesser roles
will be picked up locally to some ex
tent.
All the outdoor films will be taken
in and near Thermopolis, where the f
setting is ideal for such scenes as Mr. ,
Fein’s company is producing The
sunlight studio will be erected ar Mc-
Coy’s Owl Creek dude ranch, where
the outdoor work will be done. The .
success of the first venture will insure
the production of movies as a perma-;
nent enterprise for this city. There
should be no doubt whatever of this
success, for “The Dude Wrangler” is i
a strong western story with a thrilling
plot and plenty of action, Mr. McCoy ,
has great talent for the part that has 1
been assigned him, and the natural
setting is far finer than anything that j
can be produced artificially.
Mr. Fein believes that he can get!
better and truer pictures in the native |
haunts of the cowman and plainsman i
than where these things have to be i
faked with the resultant loss of much
of the true color that buffles imitation. :
He and his enterprises have been giv
en the freedom of the town and the •
The policy of this paper is
to uphold the standards
and perpetuate the spirit
of the old West.
ISSUED EVERY WEDNESDAY
| sportsmen. By their checks ye shall
know them. .
Wolfville, too, is getting into shape.
The floor polisher man from Billings
has gone over the dance floor with
sand-paper until it Is no trick atall to
break one’s neck on it.
The ground is being leveled and
given a dressing of grave? and shale
■ which will be wet and rolled until it
is as hard and dustless as a good ten
nis court. The dust has been a draw-
I back to the place in other years, be
ing ruinous to light clothes and shoes.
1 If possible, it is the intention to cover
the three lots with canvas, and the
music will be the best that can be had.
And while we are talking of Wolf
ville we want to tell people of the
fine, unselfish spirit which Jim Cbr-
* der has shown toward the Stampede.
He had an opportunity this week to
engage a good orchestra for the three
nights of the Stampede and called
us up to learn how we felt about it.
We told him that opposition to
Wolfville meant< the difference be
! tween success and failure for the
j committee, as it is upon the receipts
from Wolfville that the Committee
depend to pay expenses. The gate
* receipts at the Fair ground usually
are only enough to pay the big purs
es.
“Then,” said Jim, “nothing doing.
My house will be dark. I’m for the
good of the Stampede, first, last and
always.”
Last year he showed the same
spirit. When the committee asked
him not-to have a dance on the last
night for the same reason, he can
celled his engagement with the or
. chestra and closed the Temple.
We’ll say that Jim is a little bit of
all right!
Here :s some more Stampede news
which may be of interest to the stock-
(Continued on poge 4)
[ country round about, and any assist
i ance and co-operation will be more
j than cheerfully acorded to him and
I his actors.
This is the first of a number of west*
j ern movies that this company expects
to make here, and which will result in
I tremendous advertising for Thermop
olis and the Big Horn hot springs.
VIRGINIA BRADY MARRIES
HARRY BARKER OF THERMOP
Mrs. Virginia Brady was married in
Billings on Thursday of last week to
Harry C. Barker of Thermopolis.
The marriage took place at 5:30 at
the Congregational parsonage where
the ceremony was performed by the
pastor, the Bev. George Mahlon Miller.
Mrs. Walter B. Raymond of Cody and
Robert Houston of Thermopolis were
present.
Mrs. Barker is a daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. W. L. Simpson and well
known to Cody folk. Mr. Barker is
1 equally well known inf" Thermopolis
| where he has lived for many years.
. He is the stepson of Martin McGrath,
an old-timer in that locality who has
i conducted a general merchandise
| store but has since become wealthy
through oil investments. Mr. Barker
looks after the large cattle and oil in
| terests of his stepfather.
LOVELL FOLKS GIVE US
FINE ENTERTAINMENT
Cody people were treated to a most
I enjoyable entertainment on Monday
night, when a troupe of performers
from Lovell put on their Big Horn
Mountain Road show, so called be
cause the proceeds were devoted to
paying for the mountain road between
Kane and Dayton.
There were nine vaudeville acts,
consisting of music, dancing and vari
; OUS novelty stunts, in which the Lov
ell folks acquitted themselves with
great credit.
A full house greeted the perform
ance and the net proceeds amounted
I to about S3OO.
After the show a dance was given
| for which music was furnshed by the
I excellent Lovell orchestra.
j Reyn Leedom of the Lovell Chronl
i cle was spokesman for the troupe and
acquitted himself in his usual winning
[ manner.