The Cody enterprise and the Park County enterprise., September 27, 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.
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VOLUME XXIV. NUMBER 8.
RANCHERS SIDE OF
FIGHT AGAINST THE
GREYBULLOIRT DAM
0. B. Mann Calls Plan A Death
Trap, And Considers Pro
ject Impractical And
Impossible
In speaking of the Sunshine Reser
voir as proposed by the Greybull Im-|
provement Co., it means very little to
the settler who feels that he Is in|
need of water for a dry farm . But
■when we go into details, giving dimen
sions and capacity, as compared with
■other projects of the kind, it seems'
that one would see at once how im-i
practicable and impossible the proj-'i
oct is as proposed.
It might be well to compare it with
the Shoshone dam, as nearly every
body in the Greybull district has seen
or knows something about iL The
Shoshone dam is one of the highest
irrigation dams in the world. Built
"by the government at an expense of
$2,000,000-—costing about twice as
much as the best engineer in the
world figured on, and breaking every
contractor who touched it, and had to
be finished by the government.
Now here comes the Greybull Im
provement Company with Its project,
15 times bigger, with one-ninth of the
capacity, to be built at a cost of SBOO,
000. The concrete and stone rip-rap
In the proposed reservoir Is two-fifths
as much as the entire Shoshone dam,
and after we get all this stone and
concrete we have a dam 1200 feet 1
long, 800 feet at the base with a>
height of 160 feet, which would make'
it one of the largest dirt dams in the
world.
Everybody that has lived in an irri
gated country knows what a dirt dam
means. Look at the destruction and i
death toll at Pueblo in the last year)
by the breaking of a 50-foot dirt dam.
Here is one more than three times J
as high, and the engineers say per
fectly safe, built In a country of cloud
bursts and floods, without a spillway.
There has been a petition sent in
to one of the government’s agents—
signed by 150 settlers in this district
■—asking and pleading that the gov
ernment take steps to prevent this
death-trap from being built above
their homes. The Wyoming Tribune
came out and said that the project
had been put Into the hands of a very
efficient engineer in James B. True
for completion.
Now James may be very efficient,
for he said that if the contract was
let to him he could build this dam of
over 3.000,000 cubic yards of puddled
earth at a coat of 10c per cubic yard
and make good money. With James
bo efficient, we are at a loss to know
why this contract was let to other!
parties at a price of more than 40c I
and we are told that the contractors!
got cold feet and pulled down their
bld at that price.
The people here have been assessed’
$28,000 for preliminary work, SB,OOO
for engineers, which seems to be very j
unreasonable, and if one should go
look the work over, they would surely
aay this Is a land of milk and money.
Os this $28,000 no rancher, unless
he is an officer or has been hired by
the people in charge, has received one
cent of benefit, and yet the Court says
that our ranches shall be bonded for
a term of 20 years, and if we fall to
pay the amount, as assessed by the
commissioner appointed by the Court, I
we shall forfeit all right to the home
we have given the best part ofour
lives to build.
If this is done, we may console our
selves by reading the constitution
which says: ‘No person shall be de
prived of life and property without
<ue process of law.
O. B. MANN.
high school football
TEAM PLAYS LOVELL FRI.
The football team of the Cody hlg-b
school will play Its Initial game of the
season here on Friday afternoon of
this week, when they will defend
their goal against the onslaughts of
the Lovell high school team. The
Kame will be played at the athletic
field west of the schoolhouse. The
Lovell team Is said to be heavier than
our boys, but the local hope to offset
thia advantage with science and
■peed.
The team now has eight games
bcheduled. two each with Lovell,
Greybull, Basin and Powell.
dfie Cody Enterprise
CODY, PARK COUNTY, WYOMING—GATEWAY TO YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK
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HUNTERS ARRESTED BY
STATE GAME WARDEN
“Injun Joe’’ Mathison and a party
of eastern hunters outfitted by the
Majo ranch were arrested this week
by Carlie Downing arid Bruce Nowlin
for violating the state game laws.
It is alleged that they had hunted
on the game preserve. They will be
given a hearing in a few days.
BONDS VOTED FOR GREY-
BULL VALLEY RESERVOIR
Ed Hurst of Los Angeles, Calif.,
who has been in Greybull the past two
months, made a loan of $30,000.00 to
the Greybull Improvement District
the past week to clean up of the
organization indebtedness on the res
ervoir and irrigation project of the '
Greybull valley. A bond issue of
$800,000" was voted by the property!
owners up the Greybull river for the
purpose of building an impounding
dam for water to be used in irrigating
the big expanse of land in the Grey
bull valley.
When these bonds are disposed of
the C. B. ft Q. railway will extend a
line up the Greybull river. Thou
sands of acres of good land will be
placed under cultivation with the!
completion of this water project and;
the Greybull valley will be made one
of the most productive and prosper
ous agricultural regions in the west.
Greybull will benefit immeasurably
as it will be the distributing center
for all the country up the Greybull
river.—Tribune.
Editor, Wedded, Asks Prayers
And Patronage Os Readers
With this issue our career as a
newspaperman begins with a new sig
nificance and a zest heretofore unim
parted, leaving the golden future yet
a matter to be fathomed. Now Mrs.
Ralph Smith appears on the scene to
make all our moments calm and
bright. It is as one might suggest:
“volume one, number one.” We have
received the choicest of felicitations
from our many admirers.
The much-hoped-for event took
place In Christ Episcopal church z at
Cody and the pastor of the groom, the
Rev. D. R. Blaske, performed the cer
emony. Two friends of the editor of
the news—J. M. Schwoob and Sidney
Eldrid—witnessed the vows and the
blessings and the name of the bride
—Miss Minnie Siipple—change to
that insipid name—Smith.
The bride needs no introduction
for she has lived her * about four
years and has garnered a host of
friends. She is a sister of Mrs. J. W.
Deane, consequently a sister-in-law of
J. W. Deane, pioneer and mayor of
our city.
The charivari at the home was ex
ceptionally well attended and a huge
success.
In conclusion we thank all for their
many hearty congratulations and re
mind them now, as never before, to
consider, for us the two “peas in a
pod” and grant us their prayers and
patronage.—Meeteetse News.
An informant of the Enterprise
states that the home-coming of the
newlyweds, Editor and Mrs. Ralph
Smith of Meeteetse was the greatest
event ever held on the Greybull river. |
People came from miles around to!
welcome them back to the city, which .
looked not unlike Smith’s Corners on |
circus day. The groom was captured j
in Josh Deane’s place of business and .
ridden about town on a mule Jor an ■
hour. Mrs. Smith was transported
through the streets in a cart, decorat-1
ed as an Indian maiden. After Ralph i
' got through his ride ho was roped I
and taken to jail and was not released '
| until he had contributed S2O which i
was used to give a free dance, ■which I
i was the finishing touch of a grand I
I evening.
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS
The Patriot truck belong to Wat-!
kins & Prante was completely de-i
stroyed by fire last week while being
driven by Ray Prante on Cottonwood
creek. What caused the fire the driv
er is unable to state.
“Scotty” Clark believes he came
near establishing a record for big
game hunting last Sunday. He left
Cody on Saturday evenjpg for his
cabin in the Mormon creek country
and returned home 24 hours later
with a fine bull elk. which he bagged
on upper Mormon creek.
| Mr. and Mrs. Burton Marston have
been visiting for the past several days
with the former’s parents, Judge and
Mrs. C. A. Marston, all having come
down from the Billings fair last Sat
urday. Their home is at Buffalo, Mr.
Marston being county agent in John
son county.
AND THE PARK COUNTY ENTERPRISE
As Seen From The Wer-Won
(arolinc
A well-informed corresponden from
another part of the state writes:
“There is not much doubt that the'
Wade propaganda defeated Governor
Carey, and it will defeat every local
man that he endorsed, is my belief.
It certainly is a strange mix-up when
certain conditions will defeat good
men in some localities and have no
effect in other places.”
—ww—
The old song beginning “Torn be
tween love and duty, fighting the bit
ter fight” should have a new and poig
nant meaning to Mr. Newton these
days. What with W. L. Wade, head
of the Anti-Saloon League in Wyom
ing, declaring that ‘John W. Hay, if
elected, will nullify all prohibition
machinery,’ and the Republican cen
tral committee spurring him on to;
help bring Mr.. Hay’s election about,
the conflict of emotions in Mr. New
ton’s breast must be something fierce.
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John Piper has an interesting
souvenir of Sheriff Davis in the Way
of a dented silver dollar which was in
Joe Lange’s pocket and was struck by I
the bullet that Mr. Davis fired when
he trembled his gun off and wounded
the Meeteetse man in the leg.
It is alleged that Mr. Davis’s body !
guard filled two machines when he’
went out to Carl Thomsen’s to get
the sheepherder who was reported to
have been on the Meeteetse road try-!
ing to get himself a stool-pigeon for
breakfast. We believe this to be an
exaggeration, however, and doubt ’
very much if there ware more than
five or six.
—ww—
\se are informed that the sheric’s
office has made the boast that within
30 days there will not be a bootlegger
, left We are sorry to hear that there
is trouble ahead for so many of our
intimate friends.
English scientists are investigating
the case of a boy who has no sense of;
humor. If they had to read our Wy
oming newspaper exchanges they
would stop wasting their time investi
gating anything so commonplace.
This week, however, in reading our
first copy of the Cowley Progress we
were encouraged by the faint gleam
which would indicate that its editor,
Mr. Emil Vaterlaus. is not entirely
deficit in this quality. He calls his
column of personal paragraphs “Local
Mutterings.”
Commissioner Haynes is deriving
much satisfaction from the fact that
the prohibition joke has been barred
from the vaudeville houses on Keith’s
circuit He declares that it is a tri-
PARK COUNTY FAIR
2 DAYS JEXT WEEK
An Attractive And Novel Pro
gram Now Being Arranged
—Numerous Exhibits
The Park County Fair association
has recently arranged a number of
events for the public’s entertainment
on the first day of the fair, October;
6th. The program for that day con-!
tains many novel events and should
prove very interesting.
While the of events is not yeti
complete, the following are among the ■
attractive features offered:
Cavalry Oompainy F. parade and :
sabre drill.
One mile Ride and Tie race. In this;
event each team will consist of one;
horse and two men. Each man will
walk half the distance and ride half.
1 The frequency of changes from foot
! horseback is optional with each team.
| Five mile auto race.
Three mile Stop and Start Auto
! race. Cars are brought to a stop in
! front of the grandstand each half
mile.
One half mile Gills* race.
One mile Pack race. Three sacks
totaling 100 lbs. to be carried on pack
horse and not lost
One half mile Freefor-AU, running
High School athletic sports.
Free-for-All trotting, three heats
one mile each.
One mile Ride and Tie race for
boys under 16.
Besides the general farm exhibits
there will be special exhibits under
umph for prohibition. Mr. Keith once
| barred mother-in-law jokes, also, but
i we never heard that it was regarded
as a victory for mothers-in-law. His
reason then as we are told it is now,
was because it was overworked by the
entertainers.
—ww—
A druggist over in Basin sold eight
ounces of Jamaica ginger to a man i
who said he had a sick horse. The
man returned and statefa that he had [
broken the bottle and asked for an-,
other which was sold him. The man
used the Jamaica ginger as a bever
age and the druggist was arrested.:
When the case came up for trial at'
Lovell it was dismissed promptly. It
all sounds as i it might have happen
ed in Cody.
—ww —
I Last week the prohibition commls-■
sioners limited the sale of tincture!
of ginger to one fluid ounce. Lemon;
j and vanilla extracts also are intoxi
cating If taken in sufficient quanti
! ties—something ought to be done
1 about iL
—ww—
Much as people thrill at the sight
jof a fire engine responding to an
: alarm in the busihess district so the
j spectators tingled last Saturday when
i Sheriff Davis tore down the main
street in his Ford accompanied by
; deputy sheriff Cullen and a federal
prohibition ofL’cer. Armed to the
! teeth, stern-faced and rigid, they look
ed neither to the right nor the left as
i they whizzed around a corner.
’ It was surmised that word had
come that a band of desperadoes had
i fortified themselves in the Bad Lands
! and everyone felt a glow of pride tn |
our intrepid officers going with set
jaws to do their duty. It came as a
; disappointmen—not to say a shock—
to learn that they were only headed
( for the fair grounds where a passen
ger airplane had landed.
With the management of Charles
W. Barton, we look to see the Casper
Tribune become a pace-maker for
Wyoming dailies, since he, along with
his brother, Bruce Barton, is looked
upon by the newspaper fraternity as
one of the editors who could not get
out a dull paper if he tried.
Jake Bevelhelmer is rtilT at a I 'es
to understand Judge Metz’s attitude
in regard to his undershirt He also;
takes exception to the Enterprise’s
intimation that it had nothing in com
mon with a snow-bank and reclares
that he knows that it was as immac
ulate as any reasonable person would
expect as he had it anchored in Paint!
came to attend court in Cody.
the following heads:
Mrs. F. W. Kurtz, culinary depart-'
ment; R. J. Allen, educational club!
work; Ralph Hardin, school exhibits; ;
Mrs. Minnie Williams, county school!
exhibits: Mrs. E. W. Oskins, flowers j
and plants; Mrs. R. W. Wilson, needle
work and fancy goods; Mrs. W. L.
Simpson, Park county baby show.
JACK WILCOX, FORMER
RESIDENT, DEAD IN MONT.
J. W. (Jack) Wilcox, for many years;
a resident of the Cody locality, was
killed in an accident near Moccasin,
Mont., about two weeks ago, accord
ing to word just received by local
I friends.
Wilcox was working with a thresh
ing machine outfit and in going up a
l grade a bolt in the front part of the
u separator broke and Wilcox was un
der the machine attempting to repair
, it when it slipped from the front axle
' and fell upon him, crushing his head
and chest and killing him instantly.
He worked in this locality for many
years as a sheep shearer and was also
■ at one time in business in Cody.
TURKEY'S CROP CONTAIN-
ED 180 GRASSHOPPERS
A Paint Creek woman curious to
know how many grasshoppers a tur
key ate in a day, counted those in the
crop of one she killed last week. It
contained one hundred and eighty.
At this rate she figured that her flock
of fourteen turkeys destroyed five
thousand grasshoppers in a
The turkey with its voracious appe
tite for grasshoppers has a double
value to the rancher —a fact which Is
becoming recognized more and more
each year.
WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 27, 1922
DEPARTMENT DISPLEASED'
WITH PROGRESS ON ROAD
An item in the official bulletin of
the state highway department, recent
ly, received, has the following to say :
“F. A. Project No. 126. Cody-Mee
teetse Road. Johnson Construction
Company, contractors. Progress is
generally unsatisfactory on this job.
Grading is about forty per cent com
pleted and surfacing about twenty per
cent complete. Contractor has been
notified to put on additional forces in
order to get this job completed, by Oc
tober Ist, the completion date on the
contract.”
NEW WHO'S WHO LIST
FROM TOUGH CREEK
A writer in the Casper Herald gets
right down to the meat of the “Who’s
Who” question in Wyoming and con
tributes the following enlightening
dissei tat ion:
“George C. Fish of Tough Creek re-1
marked the other day that the es
teemed Cheyenne Trib was running a;
series of ‘Who’s Who in Wyoming.’ |
and the ‘Ten Most Popular Books in
Wyoming.’ George had just finished
three months’ sheep herding on Poi
son creek and his mind had been giv
en a chance for peaceful contempla
tion of the problem.
“He stated that in his opinion the
ten most widely read publications in!
Wyoming were ‘Monkey Ward’s Cata
logue,’ ‘Tax Assessment Blanks,’
‘Yearbook of the Department of Ag
riculture,’ ‘Fifty Famous Homebrew
Recipes,’ Dr. King’s Golden Discov
ery Almanac,’ Caroline- Lockhart’s
‘Paradise Lost,’ ‘Wyoming Brand
i Book,’ ‘Robinson Crusoe,’ Hoyle’s!
' ‘When to Lay Down Three of a Kind’ i
and the common or garden variety
of Oil Prospectus.
! “For the ‘Who’s Who List’ he bade |
us submit the name of the fellow
who first put bells on sheep, the in
ventor of the new method of taking
nose-prints of beef steers instead of
branding their hides, all the state and r
national leaders Lunched in order to 1
avoid hard feeling, but just counting;
as one choice, Woodruff of Shoshoni.
w*ho took seven years to trail sheep j
across the Shoshone Indian reserva-;
tion in the good old days, the fellow
who located Casper close to Salt
Creek instead of some other place,
the designer of the old Birds-Eye
Pass, the ‘Virginian,’ the gay dog who
still has a little pre-war stuff left, the
New York lady millionaire who got
caught in a mild little squall in Yel
lowstone Park and gave Wyoming a
! chance to break into the roto-gravure
section of the New York Times, and
the guy who discovered that crude oil
contains gasoline.”
PREDATORY ANIMALS RUN
RIOT IN STREETS OF CODY
! Some of the better class of our cit
i izens have made application to the
I predatory animal inspector to provide!
' protection for the town of Cody ag
ainst the inroads being made by wild.
beasts and birds.
Joe Davenport, who as night mar-,
shal guards the peace of our city be
tween sunset and sunrise, was busily
■ engaged in directing traffic at the in
tersection of Sheridan avenue and
i Third street at 2 o’clock Monday
morning, when his attention was at
tracted to a large animal coming up
the street like Pluto’s justly celebrated
domain bent for the proverbial elec
tion. Joe says that he was making
: not less than 75 miles, not including
stops and slow-downs.
The policeman waved wildly for the •
infuriated animal to halt, as a dash,
at such speed through the busy traf-,
sic at that time of morning imperiled |
the lives and limbs of many people.
A collision with a Ford would have
meant disaster to the occupants of
the car. The beast, however, disre
garded the marshal's signals, shot i
across Sheridan avenue like a
bolt, of lightning and disappeared
over the hill south of town. As he
dashed by, however, Joe was able to
discern that the animal was a full
grown jack rabbit, who was evidently 1
out for the record to the North pole.
The fact that no children happened
to be in the street at the time proba
bly prevented a holocaust
In going over his beat shortly there
c*ter he was amazed to see perched in '
a row on the sidewalk in front of
Newton’s store three full grown ducks, i
apparently blissfully ignorant of how
drj’ the climate is at that particular
corner. While Joe went for reinforce
ments to scatter the mob, the birds
crept into an alley and disappeared. 1
The campaign for protection is be
ing vigorously pushed.
, The policy of this paper Is
,to uphold the standards
i and perpetuate the spirit
of the old West.
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ISSUED EVERY WEDNESDAY
COSTS SIOO TO WHIP
COP IN MEETEETSE
Rebuked For “Hollerin”, Lloyd
Coleman And Officer Ekdahl
Mix at Social Function
Administering justice from a keg of
nails in the rear of his grocery empo
rium, Judge “Shorty” Welch fined
Lloyd Coleman SIOO and costs last
Monday for hitting the Chief of Police
of Meeteetse three punches in the
| jaw and “hollerin’ ” at a social func-
I tion.
Lloyd, still Wearing his prison pal
lor and complaining bitterly of the
hardness of the mattress in the Mee
teetse calaboose, came home after his
| hearing declaring that the fine was
, excessive as he has hit far better men
in the jaw for half the money.
, The unusual amount, however, is
i attributed not so much to the fact
that he struck an officer as that the
' treasury was empty and the town was
said to be behind two months with
Ekdahl’s salary. This can now be
paid in full with something to start
on for October.
But even more astonishing than
! that it is now a crime to whip an offi
i cer, is the news that It is no longer
etiquette to “holler” at a social func
tion in Meeteetse.
Unaware of this change in the so
cial code, the Cody guests who drove
over to attend the danck in the hall
; last Saturday began hollerin’ as soon
as they had arrived at the proper
stage of enthusiasm. Tills was about
eight thirty and very likely kept the
neighbors awake although they stay
up later than usual on Saturday night.
Cody folk are sensitive when visit
ing neighboring towns and the harsh
tone and language used by Officer
dahl when he informed them that they
, would have to close their mufflers.
I grated. Therefore, as the chief of
j police wore no badge to indicate his
J authority, the Cody visitors exercised
I the prerogative they have enjoyed
since Wyoming ceased to be a terri
tory’ and hollered some more, louder
and with a derisive note which had
the ring of battle.
Accounts vary as to what happened
thereafter. Only one fact is estab
lished and» it is that while Mr. Cole
man saw no star when he hit Mr. Ek
dahl, the chief of police saw several.
Eye witnesses state that the floor will
require planing where he left his im
i print in it and that it will be weeks
before his front teeth are again solid.
Two more landed as effectively and
the chief of police, who is said to be
a warrior from Bonneville, thought
the room was full of Colemans.
. At any rate, he thrust his gun into
TJeorge Coleman’s stomach and told
him to surrender.
The incident had a tendency to mar
the pleasure of the evening and the
amicable relations which had existed
between the townsfolk and the visit
ors from Cody were somewhat strain
ed after Lloyd had been escorted to
the caflaboose. Ladies of the two
factions shook their ngers under each
others? niches and challenges were
: exchanged, couched in words which
l sounded like business.
. Fortunately, “cooler counsel pre
, vailed,” as the phrase is, so there was
Ino hair lost or blood shed. It is hoped
i that the breach will soon heal and a
few whoops and a holler will not be
I allowed to come between friends.
MISS SIGGINS SURPRISES FRIENDS;
MARRIES CASPER MAN AT BILLINGS
| Miss Mildred Siggins, one of Cody’s
' most popular young ladies, stole a
march on her friends and relatives,
1 including father and mother Siggins.
' when she went to Billings this week,
' ostensibly to visit a lady friend.
1 On Wednesday comes the surpris-
I ing news that she was married in that
city on the night of September 27 to
Mr. Roy Archer of Casper.
The wedding took place at the home
of Mrs. Van Howell, the ceremony
being performed by the Presbyterian
minister of Billings.
Miss Siggins has been employed for
some time past at the First National
Bank, is an attractive and highly re
spected young lady with a host of
friends who will wish her and the
groom life’s blessings. Mr. Archer is
quite well known at Cody, hairing
been a contractor in Yellowstone park
this summer. He is now in business
in Casper, where the couple have gone
to reside.
Phone news items to No. 9.