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Northern Wyoming Herald
|OFFICIAL ORQAN OF PARK COUNTY}
Volume 4, Number 27
THE ASSESSOR’S SUIT
Grave Complications Likely to Arise
From Mr. Fulkerson's Action.
The c ninty assessor's recently com
men cert suit to compel the county
commissioners to pav him a salary
hasid on the assumption that Park is
a county of the first class, seems
likely to raise several questions of
law not contemplated by the assessor
nr his counsel when the suit was
started.
The democratic and the republican
county last fall each
placed In nomination a candidate for
this office whose realty holdings In
the county consisted only of a gov
ernment homestead.
The statutes of Wyoming provide
that one of the qualifications of a
county assessor la that be It a "free
holder” but just what constitutes a
Tree-holder la a question yet to he de
cided by the supreme court of last
conjecture of the state of Wyoming.
The weight of authorities in many of
the states that have paased on this
question seem to be agalust the prop
osition that a mere bolder of a gov
ernment homestead on the public do
main Is such a free bolder as the law
makers of Wyoming contemplated
when that statute was enacted.
Whatever the final declton In this
care may be, the record fact today Is,
that a suit is pending In Park county
that will Involve the validity of the
Park county lai assessment of 1911 Is
notice to the world, and with a prop
osition now pending to vote a I • t • ?
court house bond Intending or pros
pective purchasers of such bonds. If
voted, will hesitate before making a
decision as to such an Investment.
At the convention last fall, neither
democratic or republican candidates
were, as stated In the Enterprise last
week, “compelled” to accept nomina
tions In advance. Platforms were
made and the aspirants for office In
advance knew, or ought to l)ave
known, just what the platform planks
enunciated. Mr. Fulkerson kncw then
Us nearly as the public knows now
Just wbat the conditions were, and
koowlng them, he made a grave mis
take in accepting the nomination at
all, and as one of the results of that
mistake today Park county Is facing a
law suit that Involves matters o* such
larger Interests to this county that
by comparison the personality of the
assessor Is entirely, obscured, entirely
lost to view.
MRS. BERT WILSON MEETS WITH
ACCIDENT IN RUNAWAY.
Mrs. Bert Wilson met with a very
serious accident last Sunday. While
out riding near Beck lake Mr. Wilson
left her alone In the buggy while be
with his rifle, went down to the lake
thinking perhaps he might see some
ducks, and accidently she dropped one
rein. The horses became frightened
and ran In a circle for over a mile
finally upsetting the buggy and throw
ing Mrs. Wilson out, badly fracturing
the bone of the right arm. She was
immediately brought to town where
she was attended by Dr.' Howe, and
at last reports was resting as well as
could be expected under such circum
stances. Mrs. Wilson has the entire
sympathy of her many friends who
hope for her speedy recovery.
NEWS OF INTEREST
Supervisor Thurston has made ap
plication to the Bureau of Fisheries
for 200 000 trout for the North and
South Porks of the Shoshone river.
ONK sIIBKp DIPPING SCfTICIUNT
The new state board of sheep com
missioners decided that one dipping
of clean sheep Imported to the state
would be sufficient, and all bucks Im
ported must be dipped twice, regard
less of their condition.
mortgages not taxaiii.e
State Tax Commissioner McGill
has notified county assessors that
mortgages, both chattel and real es
tate, are not taxable as the result of
act. parsed by the recent legislature.
REGISTER THIS WEEK
All persons who did not register at
lhe last general election in Cody are
required to do so this week, the regis
tration dates lasting through Sat
urday of the present, week. The regis
tration office Is D. H. McFall's Hart
Mountain Inn.
The election officials state that, at
the special election of April 18, all
Persons residing west of Third street
will vote at the Brundage Hardware
"tore and all east of that thoroughfare,
t» the Town Hall.
SOME POLITICAL CHARGES
Our Qovernor Should Retract Some of
Pre-Election Statements to Harmo
nize With Present Conditions
Joe Carey. Ex (Jolted States Sen
ator. Joseph M. Carey, say Joseph M.
Carey, now governor by the grace of
the democratic party first nnd by the
grace of providence, second, during
the campaign last, fall, you, Joe, yon.
Govenor Joseph M. Carey, on the vari
ous platforms of the state denounced
the then Governor B. B. Brooks and
Mr. Commissioner Fuller as members
of the State Land Board and accused
them of defrauding the State Uni
versity and other state Institutions
out of 9850,000.00 In the matter of
agricultural and university lands
these two Institutions alone, (We
quote your exact language)—They
robbed the Agricultural College and
the University at one stroke of the
pen of 1340,000.00. Say Joe, you were
a private cltlten when you made that
statement and repeated It In and all
over the state. You are Governor
Carey today and are in a position to
make good those charges. You have
a democratic Attorney General qf
your own appointing. Say Joe, you
have a democratic Land Commis
sioner of your own appointing. Say
Joe, you have a democratic Secretary
of State and the Jolly Frank L. Houx
who was elected on the democratic
ticket of which you were the head®
body and brains and momentary
throne power, you are. this moment,
this Identical moment, surrounded bv
a bevy of male amt female demo
cratic co-workers and the Herald
writes thia to gently remind you, dear
Joe that the people of the gffeat State
of Wyoming have a right to demand
that you, you dear Joe, make good
or, llks an honest man we believe you
to be. that you, while under fTypootic
Influences were beguiled Into making
statements for which you at the time
were not responsible, bat Joe, you
have recovered somewhat from that
spell (at least the Herald iodulges
the hope that you bare), and It Is
bnl fair that you either make a pub
lic confession or falling to do this,
that you make good. There can be
no middle ground, as an honest man
and an honored long lime citizen of
Wyoming, occupying the highest po
sition In the gift of the peoDle, you
owe it to them sod you owe it to
those state officials you have charged
with a 9340,000.00 robbery to retract
or make good. In regard to one of
tbe propositions you charged as a
part of this 9340,000.00 robbery with
one stroke of the pen, the Herald has
Intimate personal knowledge and is
qnalified to speak, and that is the
Hammltt Ditch project, the state
did surrender lands and allowed the
Hammltt Ditch Co. to benefit It
thereby.
Frank L. Houx was a party to
that transaction and knows all about
it and the Herald unqualifiedly states
from long personal knowledge that a
cleaner, a mere square transaction
never appeared on the State land
Board records than this. The state
was a gainer, so were all parties to
the transaction, and more than all
others, the state was a gainer, for by
It, that company was enabled to se
cure lands sufficient to warrant the
construction of a canal, one of tbe
best In the entire State of Wyoming.
Say Joe, when you next brush the
dust off yuur knee panties after prayer
exercise, you think this over and
either make good or no longer In
dulge in the knee brushing exercise.
P. S.—Say Joe, more than six
weeks has elapsed since you publicly
demanded the reslgnatlun of Otto
Gramm as the head and frout of the
State University. The legitimate In
ference then was and Is now that
yuu had loforinatiou In your posses
sion that fully warranted tbe call
down you then on Otto for “the
public good”. Otto, unlike Davy
Crcokett’s coon, flatly refused to come
down. Now Joe, again the Herald
demands that you as tbe Reform
Governor of Wyoming flanked as you
are on the right by a democratic state
attorney and on the left by a demo
cratic state land commissioner, on
your front by the democratic state
school superintendent and your rear
guarded, securely guarded by the
democratic secretary of state *d the
last name fully protected on both
flanks, front and rear by the ever
smiling deputy secretary of state, tbe
Herald in the name of the "people”
of the state of Wyoming asks and de
mands that you, Joseph M. Carey, Its
honored governor, either withdraw
AND GARLAND IRRIGATION ERA.
Cody, Wyoming, Friday, March 24, 1911
PROGRAM FOR HIGH SCHOOL
ORCHESTRA CONCERT
Tickets are Going Fast for the Concert to be Given Tonight at Opera
House by the High School Orchestra, Assisted by Best Local
Talent. The Following Program is Announced:
PART 1.
Overture “Sincerity” I Baynard
Orchestra
March “Our Special", Jewell
Orchestra
Waltz “Hazel” Seem
Orchestra
Vocal Solo “May Morning”, - Deoza
Mrs. Flomer
Indian Intermezzo “Silver Bell”, /.... : Wenricb
Orchestra
Idyl “Moonlight nu the Nile”, Hall '
Orchestra
Vocal Solo “At the Feast of Bacchus”, Buck
Mr. Hoffman
Trombone Solo “The Patriot”, Pryor
Mr. B. C. Brown
Waltz Medley “Wbal's tbe Use of Moonlight ', Leroy and Williams
Orchestra
Bart 11
Overture “Encore”, Kiefer
Orchestra
Waltz “Wedding of the Winds”, Hall
Orchestra
Vocal Solo “Thru Sunny Spain”, Parker
Mrs. Meyers ,
Violin Solo “March from Tannhauser" Wagner
Mrs. Easton
March “Blaze Away”, Holzman^
Orchestra
Selection "Love's Reply”, Holmes
- Orchestra
Cup Presentation to Essay Prize Winner.
Miss McGuffey
Selection “Tbe Blue Label”, / Kiefer
Orchestra
March Twostep “Wedding Feast”, Taylor
Orchestra
CODY LITERARY AND DEBATING
SOCIETY ORGANIZED.
At a meeting of a number of young
men of the city at tbe library Monday
evening, the Cody Literary and De
bating Society was organized. Tem
porary officers were eleted in the per
sons of J. H. Rosenberg, chairman
and Leonard Horr, secretary. The
first debate will take place at tbe
Cody Public Library, Tuesday evening
March 28 at Bp. m. The subject for
the debate Is: “Resolved that woman
suffrage is a failure.” Mr. Rosenberg
will take the affirmative, but bis col
league has not yet been named.
Leonard Horr and C. A. Lockwood
will likely appear on tbe negative.
THE ROAD FU ND
The Herald man, In conversation
with Commissioner Kepford recently
concerning the county road fund, learn
ed that the amount of this fund avail
able for use during tbe current year
would be, approximately, some 910,000
and If the Corbett bridge was installed
thia year, it might and probably
would absorb most of thia fund, and
the auery was made If It would not
be the better to distribute this fund
or apportion a goodly part of It by di
viding It between the Clark's Fork
country, the Garland and Powell
country, the South Fork country and
over in the Wood River and upper
Greybull and Fenton localities as most
needed, put the roads in repair and
delay tbe Corbett bridge structure un
til later in the season, or until the
next levy can be made available.
THREE COUNTIES QUARANTINED
Cheyenne.—Gov. Carey has Issued a
proclamation quarantining the coun
ties of Laramie, Converse and Natrona
and forbidding trailing of cattle out of
those counties Into any portion of the
state, owing to existence of scabies
among the cattle of the three counties.
Another order requires that cattle
brought to the state must be accom
panied by a bill of health, when there
will be no Inspection nor feed to pay.
your demand for that resignation or
publicly expose any mal-admlnlstra
tlon or rotteness In connection with
the administration of public affairs
by Otto Gramm or by any other pub- '
lie state official In Wyoming. In ad
vance the Herald pledges you the
united support of every Park county
democrat and every Park county re
publican in Park county and in this
work be assured the entire state as
one man will give you earnest and
honest support.
Go to It Joe! Go to it Governor!
"Hew to the line, let the chips fall
where they may”.
J ' COURT HOUSE SQUARE.
I In book 7 of deeds, page 113 the
United States patent to the court
house square Is recorded. This pat
ent grants to Big norn county the
reservation known as the court house
square in the townsite of Basin City
containing 49.000 square feet (10 acre*)
to have and to hold the said tract of
land with the appuratenances thereof
unto said County of Big Horn and its
successors forever.
The Herald quotes the exact lan
guage in the patent tn order that its
readers may understand just what
was granted and wbat terms were
used to control this grant. This ten
acre grant was made by virtue of an
Act of Congress which duly author
izes the patent and no restrictions
were expressed either in the Act it
self or In the patent. The Govern
ment holds that once it parts title
to any part of the public domain (in
the absence of fraud) It has no further
interest In it or to paid lands.
In tbe absence of any restrictive
clause* or the recitation of any speci
fle purpose for which this tract might
be used the Herald is unable to dis
cover any reason why Big Horn
county or Its successors to title
could oot legally use the whole or any
part of this ten acre tract for a fish
market, auto garage, church, library
or any other legitimate commercial
purpose. Were it not for the inter
vening distance of 65 miles the Her
ald would advocate a strict division
of this 49,000 square feet of land and
devote It to the use of Park county
for court house and jail structures,
but, until we can annex Basin as a
part of its domain. Park County only
ask that an appalsement be made and
in the absence of an actual division
cause It to be put up at public auc
tion sold to the highest bidder on
cash or time payments, subject only
to the existing 99 year lease now held
by that beautiful, sightly and alto
gether useful Carnegie Library.
Mis- Margaret Moore entertained the
Misses G. R. Club at her home on
Wednesday afternoon. A nine course
luncheon was served and those pres
ent all say that Miss Moore la a charm
ing hostess. Miss Camille Barnett
,is honoiable president of this secret
society and Miss Betty Beck is
secretary.
But a few more days remain within
which the Chicago capitalists who
undertook to finance the Oregon Basin
project can make good. The state
board granted the time asked for to
comply with certain requirements
and if these are not met within the
next five days the Indications are
that the deal will be everlasflngly off.
[PUBLISHED AT THE COUNTY SEAT OF PARK COUNTY)
NEW BRIDGE ON SOUTH FORK
Steel Structure to be Bullt--Work
Will Begin Soon But High Water
May Delay Completion.
Chief Engineer H. N. Savage, ac
companied by Engineer Williams now
In charge of the Powell, Cody Canyon
and High Line Government project,
came In on Wednesday’s train and
went over to the South Fork country
for the purpose of locating the perma
nent site of the new government
steel bridge that is to span the South
Fork at the head of the great gov
ernment reservoir. Mr. Savage ex
pressed doubt if the cement piers and
the superstructure could be completed ,
in time for use before the high water i
but It is safe for the Herald to pre- ]
diet as It lung ago stated that this I
work will soon be commenced and
completed at an early date. Some i
fine moonlight night when the Her
ald is in a receptive mood this paper ;
will volunteer to take engineer Wil
liams qp to the Cody dam »Q<l iß
strnct him just hoW to raise those
monster steel gates that have been
installed In tbe lower tunnel, and
with these open wide, tbe danger of
btgh water will be completely elimi
nated so that undue delay will be
avoided In tbe construction of that
bridge. This will be advantage No. 1.
Advantage No. 2 will be In tbe culti
vation of tbe vast area of tbe reser
voir bottom lands to wheat, eats, cab
bag*, spinach, garlic and many other
paying crops. The Herald predicts
that within five years or not more
than ten years from 1911 this reser
voir area aDove the Cody dam will be
the banner precinct of Park county
farm products, In volume and In var
iety no equal area in the fertile val
ley of the Nile above or below the As
souan dam can compare with it.
r COL CODY TO BE U. S. SENATOR.
From late Arizona napers the Her
! aid is pleased to note that the almost
state wide opinion es the press of that
state is that our own (Buffalo Bill)
C dooel W. F. Cody will be the next
United States senator from Arizona.
The many friends of the Colonel are
heartily engaged In an effort to honor
the state by electing to the senate a
man of intense personality, a man
who knows, well knows, the needs of a
frontier state, a man who has a larger
personal acquaintance with men,
women and children all over the
United States than any other Ameri
can who ever lived. With a six years
term well and quietly rounded out in
the U. S. senate the Colonel would
then again return to the excitements
of the wild west better equipped than
ever before-to again resume the ar
duous duties incident to the life of
America's greatest scout.
A. P. LIBBY SELLS OUT
A. P. Libby, pioneer merchant and
first mayor of Powell, has sold his
mercantile establishment to Mr.
Sheehy of Chicago, who took pos
session this week. Mr. Libby’s retire
ment from business does not mean
that this section of the Basin will
lose him as a citizen and booster as
he retains real estate interests both
at Cody and Ralston, and to which he
will now doubtless devote oloser at
tention. In view of this fact, Cody
would natu rally be his object! ve point,
and while the Herald is not informed
authoritatively, we will venture the
prediction that a return to Cody as a
permanent place of residence Is not
the least of consideration in bis im
mediate plans for the future.
PAUL CRAIG RETURNS
FROM CALIFORNIA.
Paul Creig-thc well known govern
ment engineer returned from Cali
fornia on Tuesday last and will make
final proof on his claim while here.
During his absence and for nearly a
year he has been holding a responsible
position in one of tbe large J. W.
Kuhn projects in the Sacramento val
ley. Engineer Craig has some clear
and sharp cut Ideas as to Irrigation
science, one of which Is, that it is of
vital Importance to all irrigation sys
tems to provide a proper drainage eye.
tern and install it with the system of
irrigation. Both should go band in
hand. Because of this oversight
scores of settlers are today suffering
at Powell, Garland, Burlington and
other points now under drainage.
Mr. Fred Morris, of North Fork, ran
into the Herald office on Thursday, 1
just for a minute, in town and back 1
the same day. On asking him his
hurry, he stated that be had so many
“Dudes” booked for June, that he did
not dare to loose a second.
Price $1.50 Per Year
MORE DELAY EXPECTED
OarlamL. Settlers Look In Vain For
Immediate Relief from Seep
age Conditions.
The Herald acknowledges a pleasant
call from Mr. Louis Jacobson and L.
F. Starr of Garland. These gentle
man both have located homestead
ranches near the Tom Long home
stead and expressed themselves as
much pleased with the outlook for
that part of the Garland Bench.
The Government Service is slow,
exasperatingly slow to afford many of
the settlers needed relief from threat
ened seepage In that locality and our
Congressional delegation has been ap
pealed to Tbe unfortunate situation
Is here presented, the workings of the
Reclamation Governmental Depart
ment down atWasblngtoo are so slow,
painfully slow, that were the earth
again submerged as it was, when Com
modore Noah was In full command of
the worlds navy, Director Newell
would never know'that he had been
caught out in the rain, for before he
could wake up he would not only be
fully dried out, but It Is extremely
doubtful If he would remlizc that there
had been a flood: that Garland flat is
now ana long has been threatened
with a deluge of water, but the long
distance phone between Powell and
Newell’s Washington headquaters
seems to be out of order, at least the
bell don’t respond to the crank turn
at either end of the wire.
WHY DELAY SETTLEMENT?
The Herald Is of the opinion that
the settlements between the old and
tbe new counties should be pushed as
speedily as possible so that Park
County may early know lust what may
be legitimately expected in the wav of
balances. The old corporation has
been dissolved, and the first thing to
do Is to make up an inventory qt the
’ Corporation assets, and the liabilities.
' This done and agreed fc’pon, lllg Horn
and Park counties can sit down at tbe
1 same table, talk and do business. If
it developes in tbe final adjustment
that Park county owes old Big Horn
$50,000 or *IOO,OOO then Park county
must go slow a few years nntil
sufficient taxes can be levied and col
lected to pay off the debt. If on the
other hand the balance is the other
way Park county will then know
just what to expect. The largest sin
gle item of assets is county bridges.
Whether the ten acre square in Ba
sin donated by the general govern
ment to Big Horn county is an asset
or a liability, to date, seems a much
mooted question, but It is easy of solu
tion and as it seems to the Herald, it
should be soluted at the earliest prac
tical date.
ALFALFA AS FOOD
Alfalfa derives its name from the
Arabic al-facfacah, mcaoing “best
kind of fodder.” It belongs to the
tribe of leguminosae, which are es
pecially rich in tissue-forming ele
ments. There[is inherent probability,
therefore, that the Herald writes Mr.
John L. Marks of Clarks Fork, testi
fies correctly as to the nutritive value
of alfalfa in the humaa dietary. Mr.
John L. Marks writes the Herald that
he began his experiments Dec. t 7,1910
and that last Fall he selected tbe
specimens, in bloom and before the
blooming season, for steeping to a tea
of which be imbibed two cups at each
meal. The alfalfa lea acted like a
tonic. After seventeen days. Mr.
Marks, who is 6 feet 5 inches in height
had gained 20 pounds of flesh, and he
added 5 pounds more within the next
ten days, bringing his weight to 198
pounds. His nineteen-pound infant
daughter gained 10| pounds within
twenty-one days after the addition of
this “tea” to her diet. He writes
that the tender shoots when cooked
are delicious and that, mixed with 50
per cent of wheat flour, or half-and
half with any granulated wheat food
it makes an excellent breakfast food
and bread of even quality. Mr. Marks
was inspired to begin his experiments
by observation of the effects of the
alfalfa diet In the fatting of sheep,
cattle, h irses and family babies.
DIED AT BUENA VISTA.
The Herald received a letter from
J. B. Dodge, who so recently moved
to Buena Vista, Colorado, stating that
on March the 18th., their baby “Tiny”
died, and was hurried on Sunday in
the Buena Vista cemetery.
Their friends in Cody, join the Her
ald extending their sympathy to Mr.
and Mrs. Dodge.