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VOLUME XXIV. NUMBER t.
NEW DUDE RANCH
ON RATTLESNAKE
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Jim Windsor And Coleman Boys
Make Improvements On “Tuff”
Place-ffeady for Spring
Guests
James Windsor has purchased the
.ranch on Rattlesnake mountain which
has been known for the last year or!
so as the Tuff ranch.
Mr. Windsor who is a successful
stockman in the Greybull country j
proposes to develop, one of the most'
attractive ranches In this section on i
Rattlesnake mountain. The location
is ideal for the purpose and along i
■with practical business ideas, Mr.
Windsor has the agreeable personal
ity which goes along way in a venture
of this kind.
The “Coleman boys” will be asso-'
dated with him in his undertaking
and this fact in itself is almost a guar
antee of success as it assures a yearly
crop of dudines to make snub-nosed,
freckle-faced, undersized dude-wrang
lers pass away with envy.
New cabins will be built and corrals,
the work upon which will start in a
few weeks after Mr. Windsor has ar
ranged his affairs on his old ranch.
He will be a welcome addition to the]
community and everyone who knows I
him is pleased that he has decided
to settle in this locality.
STOOL PIGEON CHARGED I
WITH WHITE SLAVERY
—■ ■ •
The stool-pipeon known as “Powder
River Curley” who was in Cody and
vicinity early last spring endeavoring:
to obtain evidence of violations of the I
prohibition la w, is now reported to be I
in jail in Sheridan charged with white
ala very. The woman in the case is a
filfteen-year-old girl whom it is al-,
leged he took to Huntley, Montana,!
for immoral purposes.
It is said that Curley worked for
the prohibition enforcement officers
upon a commission basis, receiving
no salary but being paid for those he
•‘turned in.”
STORY SPOILED WHEN
WOMAN IS DISARMED
District court has been in session at
<3ody for the past week with Judge P.
W. Metz presiding. Practically all the
time has been taken up so far with
civil cases, a large number of which
have been disposed of.
The only criminal case heard was
a bad check charge against Rowdey
Jenkins, in which a parole was grant
ed the defendant.
Some excellent entertainment was
furnished on Wednesday when the di
vorce case of Gentner vs. Gentner
came up for hearing. There were
charges and counter charges, besides
a few other varieties of charges. As-I
ter hearing the evidence Judge Metzj
threw the case out of court, leaving
the participants in statuo quo.
Whereupon Mrs. Gentner, the plain
tiff tn the case, provided herself with a
large, formidable looking horsewhip
and started out with the avowed in
tention of taking a summary judg
ment out of the hide of the defendant.
She was overpowered and disarmed
by police officers, however, before her
job was finished, thereby spoiling an
Interesting news item.
“TIM" McCOY MAY BECOME
MEMBER OF FAMOUS PLAYERS
Col. T. J. McCoy who is now con
ducting a successful dude ranch on
Owl Creek near Thermopolis, left a
few days ago for Los Angeles to con-i
fer with the Lasky picture people with
a view to becoming a member of their
Famous Players Company.
If this comes about he will special
ize in western pictures for which he is
especially adapted by reason of his
many accomplishments. It is a fore
gone conclusion- that “General Tim”
will make a success of anything he
undertakes. He is built that way.
ENROLLMENT A RECORD
The attendance at the Cody high
school, which opened last week, es
tablished a new record, 132 being en
rolled as against 96 last year.
The attendance in the grade schools
Is also the largest on record and ad
ditional seating capacity will have to
be provoded.
CODY, PARK COUNTY, WYOMING—GATEWAY TO YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK
OFFICIAL CANVASS SHOWS
HAY WINNER BY 443 VOTES
The official majority of John W.
Hay over Robert D. Carey for the Re
publican nomination for governor is
about 443, the Wyoming state canvass
ing board announced last Thursday at
the conclusion of its canvass of the
votes cast at the primary election Au
gust 22. Hay received 16,110 votes
and Carey 15,667.
Frank E. Lucas' plurality over L.
Curtis Hinkle for the Republican nom
ination for secretary of state was 316.
The vote was Lucas 9,439, Hinkle
9,589.
William B. Ross' plurality over
George E. Kindler for the Democratic
gubernatorial nomination was 1,258.
The vote was Ross 6,230, Kindler 4.-
972, McDowell 1,370.
GETTING READY FOR THE
FAIR AT CODY OCT. 6-7
Active preparations are now under
way for the Park County fair which
will be held here on October 6 and 7.
It is the intention to have for the
most part Park county horses com
pete in the racing and other events
and thus keep the bulk of the prize
money at home. Some interesting
and novel features are being arranged
and the entertainment will undoubt
edly be of high order.
It is anticipated that the exhibits'
will be equal or superior to previous
years.
The county has appropriated 5250
towards premiums and the Cody Club
will also make a substantial contribu
tion.
The putting on of a fair this year
will consummate the provisions re
quired to give the association title to
the fair grounds, which will put it on
a solid financial footing.
GREAT ANXIETY IS
AROUSED BY FIRE
ON HART MOUNTAIN
1 Our townspeople talked with bated
breath and faces were white on Tues
day when a forest fire was discovered
to be raging on Hart Mountain and
several of the very largest stills in
that region were in imminent danger
of destruction.
Several prominent citizens started
out to organize volunteer fire-fighting
companies and prevent the threatened
calamity. With a long cold winter in
the offing it was considered the height
of folly to take any unnecessary chanc
es.
On account of the small size of the
timber, however, the fire burned itself
out, leaving the principal industry of
the Hart Mountain region intact. The
sighs of relief over the happy issue
‘ out of the impending calamity could
, be heard for several city blocks.
RISKS HEAVY PENALTY
IN TAKING FOREST TOOLS
Frank Lewis, a prospector, was ar
-1 rested this week by Forest Rangier
Fred Thomas, he having been charged
with the theft of some tools from a
boy in the Shoshone national forest.
On Tuesday he was given a prelim
inary hearing before U. S. Commis
sioner Cox and bound over for trial
before the federal district court at
Cheyenne.
The tools which were taken are
among those placed at various points
throughout the fores'! for protective
and emergency use and their theft is
a very severe offense, carrying penal-1
ties as high as a $5,000 fine and ten
years in prison.
Foresters complain that they have
had much trouble recently through t
having these tools taken and they are
' endeavoring to put a stop to the nuis
: ance.
CODY BOYS SET RECORD
ON TRIP TO CALIFORNIA
Teller Hogg and Charles Parks, who
recently drove a Ford sedan from
Cody to Hollywood, California, estab
lished what Is believed to be a record
for such a journey.
They negotiated the 1400 miles In
just I’ve and one-half days, which, to 1
use a stock phrase. Is “going some.”.
They reached Pocatello, Idaho, the >
first day out, a distance of 325 miles.
Charles will attend the Leland
Stanford university this winter while i
Telfer will be a student at the Unl-j
versity of Arizona.
AND THE PARK COUNTY ENTERPRISE
As Seek From The
L. L. Newton, declares tn a recent
editorial: “The Republicans of Park
County enter the campaign with a
solid front”
We are sorry to contradict Mr. New
ton but this is not the truth.
With a single exception, and that a
precinct committeeman in honor
bound to vote the 'straight Republican
ticket, we have yet to come across one
person who voted against his candi-
I dates at the primaries who now in
tends to vote the Republican ticket!
straight.
Newton has alienated many loyalj
; Republicans who will not now fall into
line because he has secured the nomi
nation of his candidates by methods
characteristically newtonish.
The tin-can which the new precinct
committeemen tied to Len Leander
when they thwarted him in his cher
ished ambition to be re-elected state
committeeman and elected Mr. Dilla
vou, will go a long way toward restor
ing harmony, but. unfortunately,, the!
aforesaid receptacle was not attached
soon enough.
In his position as state committee
man L. L. Newton did things unheard
of in Park County to secure the nomi
nation of his candidates.
! The central committe is supposed to I
be neutral until after the primaries
when it then becomes its business to 1
secure the election of the candidates
I the people have nominated.
This is what happened:
While urging precinct committee- 1
men who would have opposed the can
didates he favored, to be neutral, he,
himself, and those committeemen in
I accord with him, were using every
i means in their power to further the
I interests of those they wished to see
{ nominated.
At the “harmony” meeting in : the
, Methodist church he bragged that ev
lery one of the “organization’s” candi
i'dates wiere nominated.
1 Whom did he mean by the "organi-
I zation?” Himself, presumably, and
j those of his kind who were in the
conspiracy to defeat those candidates
i who did not have their approval
I Why should C. A. Davis have been
: the “organization's candidate” before
the primaries any more than John
i Dahlem, Harry Wiard or “Tex” Holm?!
Why should S. A. Watkins have
been the “Orgianization’s cajididate”
any more than Thomas Osborne?
; Why should G. A. Holm have been
the “organization's candidate” any
more than E. E. Dunn or J. D. Buchan-
: an?
! All of these men he opposed are as
good Republicans as the men endors-
, ed in the name of the "organization.”
He had the central committee, or
' certain members of It, assess some
of the candidates before the primaries
SSO for campaign expenses, something
never done before in Park County, or
anywhere else so near as we can
learn.
| He used this money to defeat the!
. candidate from whom he had taken
| it —John Dahlem, for instance.
Mr. Dahlem paid SSO for the privi
lege of seeing C. A. Davis endorsed
| as the “organization’s candidate” in
• the Herald, Mr. Dahlem’s SSO probably
going to pay for the 700 extra copies
of the issue extolling Davis’s virtues.
Mr. Newton took advantage of the
fact that the Herald as the offeial pa
per printed the ballots and just be-j
fore the election had sent out sample
ballots marked for Carey, Davis, Wat
kins and others "endorsed by the or
, ganization.”
At the bottom was written: "The
names crossed are pledged to uphold
the 18th Amendment and Volstead |
FIGHTING *SHEP’ ARRESTED
Jim Kelley, a sheep herder for Carl
Thomsen, was arrested on Wednes
day after it was reported that he had
beaten up a couple of other herders
with a gun and hud been holding up
automobiles on the Cody-Meeteetse
road. He was placed in jail after
having been captured with a good
deal of difficulty, according to reports.
FAIR AT POWELL IS
PRONOUNCED SUCCESS
The fair at Powell last week, which
attended by a large number from
Cody, turned out to be be quite a suc
cessful event, enjoying a good patron
age and providing some excellent en
tertainment in the way of races and
and other features.
The agricultural, horticultural and
other displays at the exposition build
ing attracted much attention and dem
onstrated the splendid variety and
high quality of products grown on the
fertile w flaL
Act”
Now. Mr. Newton declares that
those defeated candidates who do not
fall into line are “poor sports” and
“yellow streaked cuckoos who are in
politics to get an office.”
There are times when Len Lean
der's gall wrings from us a grudging
admiration.
It may be true, quoting again from
our peerless leader, that “the only
way you can defeat a Republican is
in the primaries,” but a feeling is
j prevalent that the Democrats and
I those Republicans who intend to
scratch the ticket may make Mr. New-
I ton’s hand-picked candidates look at
their hole cards occasionally during
the general election.
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The Basin Republican, mumbling to
itself, grumbled some time since that
the Cody papers were 'continually
harping on the wet question when
I there should be no wet question,’ and
' declared that ‘violators of the liquor
laws are criminals just as much as
| bank robbers and thugs and should
.be treated as such,’ recommending
the rock pile
J Perhaps we ought to lay off after
: a rebuke like that, but until it
makes the New York Sun and the
i Brooklyn Eagle and the Chicago Trib
•' une and the Literary Digest quit harp
ing we ar e going on yapping against
I prohibition in our column.
j There are a lot of people who are
• opposed to the direct primary law and
would have it repealed because they I
, believe it does not work out as antic- '
i ipatd and is a bad thing and a nuis
’ ance generally. Why should the Re
i publican’s editor not take them to
s task also for “harping” and declare
, there should be no such question?
J ent.
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-! Concerning the statement that vio-
1 lators of the liquor law are criminals
- along with thugs and bank burglars,
1 we would call the attention of the Re
-3 publican’s editor to the fact that no
J less a person than William Blackstone
I made a very decided distinction be
i tween them. There are crimes "mala
J per se,” acts wrong in themeslves,
I and crimes "mala prohlbita,” acts
’ j wrong because prohibited by statute,
s Robbery falls within one, violations
of the liuqor law within the other.
As for hie suggestion to put offend-
II ers on the rock-pile—that is where we
r would put fellow editors who come
■ into are peacefull office and try to
hire our linotype operator away from
i us.
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The following letter arrived this
week from a "bad un” in Colorado.
1 Cream separators do not seem to
belong in the setting he describes and
leads us to wonder if, perhaps, the
writer is not "wanted” for stealing a
bicycle?
I Dear Miss:
I Quite a while ago I had the pleas
ure of reading "Me-Smith” and wish
to add it to my collection of western
books. I, too, sometimes get that "no
torious feelin.” Will you send me the
name of the publisher?
, We still have a West in here west '
of the big hill. This spring and sum
mer some cattle killing and horse
stealing, and a little gun fighting. I |
smoked a fellow up a couple of weeks
j back and knocked some meat off his
ri/bs and the bullet smashed a cream
separator. What do you know about
that? Back in th© hills forty miles
from nowhere my best horse got crip-
I pled Yours respectfully,
|P. S. Am wanted.
COWBOY SHOT FINGERS
OFF GLOVES FOR FUN
The shooting of his best friend by
Billy '.osgrove, foreman of the Ant
lers outfit on the Crow reservation
the result of a challenge to Cosgrove
that he could not shoot a hole In the
top of the cowboy’s hat, has brought
forth many anecdotes of Cogswell’s
skill as a marksman.
One of the diversions among the
boys on the round-up which has been
going on, has been to partially remove
a glove and hold their hand out for
Cosgrove to shoot off the fingers of
the glove with his six-shooter.
It is said that the killing of Henry
Lemondorf was due to the fact that
he did not stand still but moved as
Cosgrove shot
Carl Hammitt has been made a
deputy sheriff with the South Fork
as his bailiwick.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13. 1922
CODY’S DAVID HARUM
WINS AT POWELL FAIR
R. C. Hargraves’ trotting horses.
Bear Cat and Wyoming Boy made a
fine showing in the races at the Pow
ell fair last week. Bear Cat won the
green horse race on the first day in
straight heats, making a mark of 2:51.
Mr. Hargraves himself won the admir
ation of everyone by his display of
splendid sporting spirit as a driver.
“CAPITAL TAKES HOLT”
IN COOK CITY, MONTANA
The boom which the old prospect
ors in Cook City have been awaiting
for twenty years or more appears to
have arrived finally. There is much
activity in the camp since Salt Lake
capital has become interested. The!
company is installing a smelter and
otherwise spending much money to
develop the camp.
UP-TO-DATE FILLING
STATION BEING BUILT
H. A. Munsterman, who purchased
the Primm building near Wolfville a
few months ago, is remodeling that
structure for a permanent home for,
his vulcanizing shop and filling sta
tion. The front part will have a ce
ment floor and left open so that cars
may drive in and out conveniently.
Others improvements will also be
added and the shop made strictly up
to-date.
This Time The Flock
Stays With Its Shepperd
(Editorial)
j Some thirty months ago there came
to Cody a minister of the Gospel, tall
! and lean of stature and large of heart. |
He had been called to take charge of a
local church.
With heart set upon prosecuting his
work in a manner which would best
promote the religion of the lowly Na
zarene, he sought out and cultivated
the friendship of those not only in
high places but among the by-ways
and hedges, as did the founder of
Christianity.
In the carrying out of his labors he
did not neglect nor hesitate to upbraid
members of his own and other congre
gations when they strayed from the:
narrow path, and especially when they j
displayed hypocrisy or a spirit of mal
ice not in keeping with the Christian
faith.
In his personal conduct, in politics
and in all else his life was an open
book and never was he known to shirk ,
a duty, either public or private.
He was a man of broad vision,
splendid ideals and noble charcter—
a man of a calibre not usually found
in small places. He won the regard
and friendship of those who needed
1 his help and his influence became an
inspiration in the community.
But as he won the regard of the
rank and file of our people, he also
acquired the ill will of a few in sup
posedly high places who could neithe
control nor browbeat him. In utter
malice he was assailed by the few in
i his own church who disagreed with
j his methods and a few others who
I make it a practice to condemn every
| thing not under their own control.
In their attempts to injure this good
j man they resorted to the most disgust
' ing methods. He was insulted, openly
■ and secretly, told to leave town, called
a “wet” man and a friend and associ-!
ate of unworthy persons—in fact, the
attacks made upon him can be brand
ed in no other way than as a discredit
and a disgrace to those who promul
gated them and to the town in which
it occurred.
The minister, true to his gienerous
nature, bided his time patiently until
he could determine the desires of his
own congregation and the citizens of
the town in regard to his status.
Last week all doubts regarding the
matter were removed when the ques
tion of retaining him was put up to a
vote of the members of his church. ]
The result of that vote was that 52 of i
his congregation enthusiastically vot
ed to endorse the man and his work
with only two voting the opposite.
In the vindication and approval of
Rev. A. M. Shepperd, Cody and the
congregation which he serves have
taken a decided step forward and the
condemnation of his would-be detain
ers established in a manner which is
richly deserved.
T n justice to those interested in the
affair it is but fair to state that this
article was not “inspired” by any per
son—in fact, the only mention of the
matter made to this paper by anyone
participating was a request that the
matter go unpublished, nevertheless
the Enterprise feels that it would be
remiss in its duty as a newspaper if
it neglected to give the facts to our
readers.
ISSUED EVERY WEDNESDAY
INDIAN WILD WEST
PICTURESQUE SHOW
Good Riders Developing Op The
Crow Reservations--Cody
Stampede Is Their
Goal
Elkin Stands-on-the-bull walked off
with the honors and first money in the
bucking contest at the War Bonnet
Stampede which was held in Pryor
Gap on the Crow reservation Septem
ber 3rd and 4th. George Turns-back
took second and Samson Bird-hat
third.
This picturesque wild west show,
which was promoted by William Orser,
a white settler on the reservation,
called attention to the fact that an un
commonly good crop of rough riders
is developing) among the young In
dians.
Heretofore, they have excelled chief
ly in bareback riding, but under the
tuition of Mr. Orser, who takes a keen
interest in wild west sports, they are
learning to ride according to contest
rules with a view to competing with
the white riders at the various round
ups.
One of their avowed ambitions Is to
ride against the white boys at the
Cody Stampede—to which all the Pry
or Mountain Indians are counting on
coming next year.
A seventeen-year-old rider that is
going to make the champions look to
their laurels is Artie Orser, the sec
ond son of William Orser, who rides
like a young wild-cat. Another is Sam
son Bird-hat, the Indian boy who won
I the relay races here this year.
The War Bonnet Stampede through
‘ little advertising has not drawn the
crowd as yet which its excellent pro
gram deserves.
It is a primitive and picturesque
i scene jvith its performers and spectat
ors composed chiefly of Indians, a
small crude grandstand built of slabs,
a track deep with dust and fenced with
poles, big bands of horses feeding on
the hillsides and the white tepees
gdeaming among the trees.
The grounds are located eight miles
from the agency on Pryor creek. The
i Indians come for miles around with
i all their dogs and their children,
i grandmothers and invalid relatives, to
’ camp and visit and bet on their favor
i ite horses and riders, making from
three to four days of it and leaving
I their gardens and crops to Providence.
I At night they gather in a big, round
j tent and sing and hold dances. This
year on Labor day they gave their fa
vorite—the beaver dance —which last
ed from nine o’clock at night until
four the next morning.
Fights-well-known, Goes-Ahead-Pret
ty, Simon Bull-Tail, Barney Old Coy
ote, Plenticoos. Bird-hat and Old
Crane, all were present, riding their
medicine horses and wearing their
best and gayest apparel.
RATLIFF-LAMBERT
Miss Grace Lambert and Carter E.
Ratliff were united in marriage at the
Methodist parsonage in Cody on Tues
day evening, Rev. L. C. Dryden per
forming the ceremony. Only the im
mediate relatives of the contracting
! parties were present.
Miss Lambert Is one of Cody’s best
known and estimable young ladies.
For the past eight years she has been
a clerk in the local postoffice where
her services have been of the very
, highest order. The groom is a rail
road man, his home being In Wichita,
Kansas. He is a brother of James
Ratliff and is known to many folks at
Cody.
Mrs. Ratliff will remain at Cody for
' the present but will later go to Wich
ita to join her husband.
OLD TIMERS LEAVE
Mr. and Mrs. F. O. Thompson left
; for California on Friday afternoon,
i They will motor through the Park,
then down to Salt Lake City and from
' there to Long Beach where they ex
pect to remain until they decide upon
a permanent residence. They have
i been residents of the Cody section for
twenty-six years and Mr. Thompson
, states that few of those who
| lived here at the time of their coming
now remain. The many friends these
old timers leave behind are indeed
sorry to see them go.
BIRTH OF ANOTHER NATION
Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Nation are be
ing congratulated upon the arrival of
their twelfth blessing—a girl—on
Tuesday.