The Cody enterprise and the Park County enterprise., November 08, 1922, Image 1

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

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Founded In 18M by Col.
W. F. Cody (“Buffalo
BUI”) and Col. Peaks.
■VOLUME 24. NUMBER 14.
KENDRICK GOES TO U. S. SENATE; GUBERNATORIAL CONTEST IN DOUBT
HODGE, WHOM PROHIBITION FORGES WILL
"BACK TO LIMIT’ WAS ARRESTED AND
FINED IN SHERIDAN FOR DRUNKENNESS
Sheridan, Wyo., Nov. 2, 1922.
Chief Police:
I am writing in regards to Bruce
Hodge, the Federal officer. When I
•was Night Chief at Sheridan I arrest
ed Bruce for being drunk and mak
ing remarks against the government.
He said that he wished that the first
boat that went over with our troops
would eink. That was during the
war. I am writing you this to tell
you it may do you some good. He
plead guilty and the Judge fined him I
SSO and costs. It is on the Police rec- ■
ord at the City Hall. They used this
on him at Laramie and they made a'
fool out of him. I went out of office
tho first of the year.
Owen Moore beat him up and called
the Police when he made this re
mark
HENRY WALKER.
534 E. Burkett, Sheridan.
Afoot In Snowstorm
On Germania Bench
Plucky Casper Woman Fights
Way Thru Drifts and Cold
in Slippers and Silk
Stockings for Se
ven Hours
Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Fowler of Cas
per had a narrow escape from death,
by exposure on the” Germania bench
during the snow storm which started
last Wednesday night.
Mr. Fowler is an agent for the
■Cates Tire Company while Mrs. Fow
ler has been coming to Cody for sev
eral seasons selling laces and silk lin
gerie.
They started from Greybull at 1:30
in the afternoon with close to 10 gal
lons of gas. The roads were good in
the beginning but commenced to get
muddy a few miles out and grew
steadily worse until, when 38 miles
from Greybull, they ran out of gas.
The storm had started but they
waited for some time hoping for some
one to pass, then when night came,
and the snow was still falling, there
was nothing to do but take a desper
ate chance and walk toward Cody.
Mrs. Fowler was wearing low shoes
and silk stockings and, after a time,
as the wind blew and the snow drift
ed, she was struggling through snow
to her knees.
At times she sank down exhausted
when her husband carried her until
he, too, gave out
They knew that to stop meant cer-
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5 K § o u E q $ £ o .2 £ £ S £ 'To ™ ius
Monrtolt 43 148 110 40 15 42 76 16 27 40 128 102 73 64 16 6 25 11 9 9 26 23 12 27 29 7 1j 23 12 16 13 1148
Kendrick 6 149 96 46 11 17 105 13 6 33 101 110 118 102 13 1 9 13 10 12 21 13 19 23 24 35 36 46 6 10 7 1233
Hay ‘ 43 139 104 28 16 39 72 15 28 39 93 95 57 64 5 2 21 18 11 12 31 26 12 22 13 9 16 24 14 12 13 1145 J
n o L 5 156 102 58 8 18 103 15 3 32 133 117 136 100 0 3 12 6 16 7 17 11 19 28 40 32 25 42 5 14 7 1297
Mud«ett 35 140 106 37 12 36 81 23 22 30 84 85 96 79 15 1 21 16 8 9 23 18 13 19 31 7 21 41 14 15 9 1237
34 170 138 51 13 35 82 12 25 36 141 103 84 78 14 2 22 15 12 10 22 24 12 22 27 14 26 33 14 10 11 1314
«7 44 8 17 63 12 8 22 M 68 63 43 3 2 9 5 14 10 17 13 13 26 17 31 17 27 4 10 8 887
Hendricks 7 115 62 81 11 22 93 18 6 25 145 120 119 113 3 3 11 7 14 9 19 16 18 26 22 23 19 35 4 13 7 1020
HUbfl . 22 83 61 26 7 14 58 4 9 16 116 101 94 76 3 1 8 3 5 2 13 5 8 13 18 5 716 4 4 4 816
RouHHeail 25 214 144 61 17 43 104 28 24 50 113 103 94 86 14 6 24 18 31 18 27 38 21 36 33 35 36 55 14 22 16 1600
Davla 19 107 77 35 14 30 128 14 14 30 111 82 116 101 4 3 16 77 6 13 6 16 15 32 18 12 33 19 6 9 1109
.“ml. 30 194 130 51 11 28 46 18 18 46 119 133 77 70 14 4 18 17 21 14 30 29 16 34 22 23 30 39 0 19 11 1364
131 no 47 18 38 86 17 29 41 129 100 88 75 9 3 19 5 6 11 25 20 15 23 34 10 6 20 16 11 13 1223
6 160 90 39 6 16 76 15 2 20 91 97 101 84 9 1 10 17 22 7 12 23 14 26 45 32 31 52 1 14 5 1124
PliilHna 33 140 107 40 12 33 109 17 27 31 150 127 92 101 10 2 18 10 11 5 30 20 15 23 33 16 15 30 18 9 13 1329 ' ra ~'
Fdlrv 18 133 187 39 9 20 69 14 4 30 73 82 99 61 71 14 12 16 10 16 23 15 33 16 19 22 41 6 15 16 1016
,7. 27 99 90 31 19 32 101 17 18 33 144 100 92 84 4 4 7 11 11 10 30 13 14 10 35 17 10 33 17 15 13 1170
Markham 17 198 118 60 6 24 62 10 13 32 64 86 ' Bl 69 14 2 27 13 16 9 16 21 18 40 14 25 32 34 4 9 9 1171
P wnra 32 128 94 46 2 14 80 16 20 24 160 128 108 94 13 2 20 15 11 2 15 24 11 23 24 16 27 45 4 77 1245
Webster , r 6 143 94 38 22 44 83 15 11 42 61 74 71 62 2 2 14 6 15 18 13 17 16 25 27 24 12 27 7 18 12 1050
(Note. —Totals given include all county precincts except Frannie and Sheets Flat.) I
dfie Cody Enterprise
M. C, Wachtel of the State prohibi
tion forces declared the charge that
his star prohibition agent was drunk
in Cody was “absurd.”
Carl Jackson, Federal Prohibition
Director for Wyoming, signed a letter
to the newspapers which contained
the following statements:
“The investigation conducted by
my office into the shooting affair
wihch took place early last Friday
morning has proven that G. B. Hodge,;
federal prohibition agent, was not
drinking or behaving other than as a
gentleman on the night in question.
“The department has every confi
dence in Mr. Hodge, both as an officer
and a man.
“Every effort will be put forth by
the government to see that those re
sponsible for the terrific assault shall
be dealt with according to law.
“It is the intenton of this depart
ment to stand back of Mr. Hodge and
see that everyone connected with the
assault upon him shall be prosecuted
to the limit.”
tain death, so they fought their way
on, a few feet at a time, until they
reached the Pearson Bros, ranch at
2:30 Thursday morning. Mrs. Fowler
was nearly unconscious when they
arrived at the house.
Mrs. Fowler recovered after three
days in bed and Is now none the
worse for the experience save for the
shock to her nerves. The car, a Che
vrolet, was out on the road for sev
eral days as it was found impossible
to get through to bring it in.
JUDGE OWENS PANS
PRISONER IN SIOUX
That Police Judge W. S. Owens Is
a man of parts and equal to nearly
any emergency has long been an ac
cepted fact, but he further proved his
claim to versatility when he lectured
“Injun Joe” Mathison in the Sioux
language and fined him $13.13 for
fighting and otherwise disturbing the
peace on Monday night.
While the case started in English
it wound up In Sioux, and the fluency
with which his honor “panned” the
prisoner for misbehaving in his juris
diction showed that he had not for
gotten the language since the days
when he acted as interpreter at the
Pine Ridge Agency.
KILLED MOTHER-IN-LAW;
JURY RECOMMENDS MERCY
Statesboro, Ga., Nov. 1. —Elliott |
Padrick, youthful, former Methodist
preacher, today was found guilty of
grst degree murder in connection i
with the killing of his mother-in-law,
Mrs. Marie Lou Dixon, In June.
The jury recommended mercy.
Monte Jones went to Omaha on Fri
day with a shipment of cattle.
CODY, PARK COUNTY, WYOMING—GATEWAY TO YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK
As Seen From The WerMgon
(aroline lockhart
The night our town cop was shot, I
the information was telephoned to'
Cheyenne by one of the Lily Whites
who sits up nights Worrying about',
other people’s morals, that the battle
was a conflict between the bootleg
gers and the “better element.” For
ourself, we think it should go down
in history as the rising of the whites
against the Methodists.
—ww — .
O. D. Marx and Joseph Ganguet <
were Harry W lard’s bondsmen when ;
the latter was charged with conspir
acy and interfering with an officer in .
the performance of his duty, and
placed under $9,000 bond—s4ooo more
than Fatty Arbuckle’s when he was
held for murder. Upon being asked ;
the customary question as to how
they could qualify, O. D. Marx said;
“Cash,” while Joseph Ganguet re
plied laconically, “Goats.”
The day after the shooting of the
town marshal, the Hindman young
ster ran home from school with the
news. Oh, mamma,” breathless with
excitement, “Harry Wiard smashed
the government in the jaw!”
T. P. Cullen, deputy sheriff, charg
ed the County sllO.lO milcage for
the month of September. The com
missioners allow him 15c a mile for
Who’s Who In The Greybull
Valley Irrigation Company
0. B. Mann Scepticabof the Business Ability of
Commissioners Appointed to Spend
Sum of SBOO,OOO
The success of enterprises, whether
great or small, depend upon their
management.
This being the truth, what chance
for success has the Sunshine Reser
voir as proposed by the Greybull Irri
gation Company.? Who are its man
agers, and are they big enough for
the job which has been assigned
them What have they done in the*
past to merit the confidence of the
people?
Here they are—the Who’s Who in
the Greybull Valley Irrigation Com
pany—appointed by the Court to or
ganize an irrigation district in the
Greybull Valley under the Wyoming
irrigation law, and elected at the an
nual election of the Greybull Valley ;
Improvement district by the Lincoln
Land Co. and its followers, namely—
Simeon Scovgard, R. L. Beston, C. E.
Webster.
Mr. Scovgard was featured in an
article published in the Basin Repub
lican some years ago, as a very suc
cessful stockman, financier and poli
tician. Mr. Scovgard’s success as a
AND THE PARK COUNTY ENTERPRISE
the use of his Ford car. According
to these figures he traveled 734 miles
in 30 days. This leads us to specu
late as to whether the 55 minutes he
says he spent joy-riding with the pro
hibition officer before he let him out
to keep his appointment with the two
women on the night of October 12th,
was also charged to us taxpayers.
—ww—
At the hearing before the U. S.
Commissioner, Galen B. Hodge, Fed
eral prohibition officer, offered a new (
and interesting explanation of his vis- 1 ;
it to the women he had met on the
street corner. Mr. Hodge said he,
went to their home for the purpose of i
discussing matters pertaining to the'
18th Amendment and the liquor situ-!
atlon on the Montana line., but that
owing to the presence of people look- 1
Ing in the window and running around
the house, he was unable to talk upon
these subjects.
—ww —
The Casper Tribune is fulfilling our
prophecy that a real newspaper man
had come to Wyoming. It has dou
bled its circulation since Charles Bar-i
ton took charge. The Tribune now!
has a metropolitan appearance and
handles the news in a fashion foreign
to these parts. It quite warms our
heart to see the “Sheps” sitting in the
pool-halls reading the Casper Tribune
and the Cody Enterprise.
stockman and financier is largely a
matter of opinion but in politics we
admit his superiority. Any man who
could go to the legislature, mother
and bring home such an abnormality
—such a monstrosity as the Wyoming
Irrigation law—is no ordinary person.
He should have stopped when this
baby was born, however, and not
gone ahead trying to deceive the peo
ple into believing that if they would
help nurse and suckle this baby octo
pus for 20 years it would then be able
to stand alone and, by turning desert
wastes into Edens, be a credit to its
parents.
Mr. Beston is an old timer and has
always been considered a good citizen
and well liked by everybody, but re
calling the occasion when he came
from Omaha, where he had been with
a shipment of sheep, with a wild tale
of having been buncoed out of the
proceeds, $16,000, by a bunch of pro
fessional crooks who sold him a gold
mine, we naturally feel a little un-
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1922.
Democratic Strength Astonishes Republicans—
Loomis Snows Davis Under—Markham
Wins Over Watkins
Latest state reports received Thursday morning were to the effect that
Ross was leading by 681 votes with only some small precincts missing and
his election is undertood to be conceded. K«ndrlck’ lead for U. S. Senator
Lias lengthened to more than 5000
The race between Winter and Rose for congress Is very close and the
result is in doubt at this time.
The Republicans have not yet recov
ered from their surprise at the unex
pected strength shown by the demo
cratic candidates on the State and
County tickets.
It was indicated early In the even
ing by the returns from the smaller
precincts that both Kendrick and
Ross were going to make a strong!
run in Park county s»nd this belief
was confirmed with each report that I
came in. It had been admitted that
Kendrick would carry a big vote in
the Powell district but it was not
thought that he would cary the coun
ty.
The vote for W. B. Ross was the
surprise of the election.
The Republican state ticket was
elected with varying substantial ma
jorities but some astonishing scratch
ing was done on the County ticket by
both democrats and republicans.
The defeat of C. A. Davis-for sher
iff was the big event of the local elec
tion and the news was received with
gr2B-t enihusriasm as the votes for
W. H. Loomis piled up against him. |
The contest between S. A. Watkins
and P. E. Markham for County Com
missioner, 4-year term, was next in
interest and was a neck and neck racei
until the last when the tiny precincts'
MISS BETTY BECK
TO BE MARRIED j
The engagement of Miss Betty Beck!
to Dr. Doyle Joslin of Salt Lake Citj
was announced at a party given to
some thirty of her friends last Satur
day afternoon. The date of the wed
ding has not been made public.
Dr. Joslin is a son of the Rev. Mor
ton Joslin who was pastor of the
Presbyterian church in Cody in 1912.
The young people were students to
gether at the University of Wyoming!
in Laramie.
Dr. Joslin will practice in Salt Lake
[ City where he is now an interne in a
hospital.
easy about placing SBOO,OOO at his I
disposal.
C. A. Webster needs no introduction
as he is an old resident with a wide
acquaintance. He has put himself
onrecord as being rather careless of
other people’s money, notably in the
matter of the county printing which
he let to the highest bidder at a cost
of some $l3O to the taxpayres.
The same holds true in the affairs
of the Wyoming Cattle and Loan Co.
of which company he was a director.
Here is Charley’s own story of his
career in that capacity.
He was taken in with a number of
other innocents and, when he came
to, he realized what had happened.
He went to a banker friend who, be
ing familiar with the ways of high fi
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' The policy of this paper Is
;to uphold the standards
. and perpetuate the spirit
i of the old West.
ISSUED EVERY WEDNESDAY
of Sheets Flat and Frannie
settled it in favor of Markham,
the unofficial count giving him a ma
jority of five from Sheets Fiat, and
one at Frannie.
The contest betweeen G. A. Holm and
Frank Herrington of Powell for county
treasurer was also close. At one time
Herrington’s election was conceded
when it was discovered that there had
| been an error of 100 votes in his fa
vor which gave Holm the election.
Returns were received at Patch
ell’s pool hall in the Irma Hotel build
ing where a tense crowd stood beofre
the bulletin boardl from seven o’clock
in the evening until 2 o’clock Wednes
day morning.
As it was the largest registration
in Cody so this was the largest vote
ever cast here at a general election.
The political workers were out early
in behalf of their candidates and ex
citement was at fever heat all day, an
excitement which did not abate un
til the final returns were in on Thurs
day.
i Voters in other parts did not
turn out as they did in Cody, notably
’in the Powell section. In the south
ern part of the State the reports were
very slow coming in owing to a ter
' rific storm.
iSHIFI BREAKS; COOI
: DARK THREE NIGHTS
Cody was at as dark as Egypt
■on Thursday, Friday and Saturday
i nights when a broken shaft put the
,' electric light plant out of commission
■ for that length of time.
With the well known fiendishness
[ of inanimate objects it waited seven
, teen years to catch the newspapers
on press day with a big election com
ing on, leaving them without power
i to run presses or linotype machines.
I Editor Baird of the Powell Tribune
showed himself a friend in need and
a good neighbor by permitting the
local papers to complete their work
on his presses and linotype.
i The Enterprise was bundled into
'an automobile and taken to Powell
over roads that were said to be the
worst known by those who travel
them frequently. It reached there
intact and was returned in the same
manner.
LEGION TO POWELL
The local American Legion boys
have been Invited to attend and par
ticipate in the progarm at Powell on
■ Saturday and many will accept. The
■ Cody boys will make headquarters at
the Badger club while In that city.