, 1907-03-02
VERY FUNNY
STAND PIPE
]. A. DElFELDER HAD A VERY
QUEER IDEA OF MONUMENT
IN WASHINGTON.
President Of the Wyoming Wool
Growers Association is Disport-
ina Himself at the National Capt.
tal-Landed in wyoming Without
Cent and Hired Out az Herder.

Mr.. ]. A. Delfelder of Lander, Wyo.,
is at the Riggs house, n he has be-
fore him a few days Of unalloyed pleas
ure, for he is seeing the national CAPT.
tai for the first time, an experience
that has been his dream for years, says
the washington Herald.
1t must not be imagined that Mr.
Delfelder could not have reached
Washington earlier, since there has
been no time in the last ten years hat
he could not have had his check cash
ed in any bank of the west for money
of magnitude. In cold earnest, he Is
worth this day not a peso less than
$500 600, which is not SO much, reck'
oned by the Rockefeller standard, but
which is a lot when one comes to think
of the institution Mr.. Delfelder was in
when he first hit wyoming, fourteen
years ago. He had hoped to reach a
point in Idaho on his migration from
his old home in Kansas but his money
gave out, he had to stop at a place
in Wyoming, rejoicing in the name oil
Burnt Hole" which metropolis CON
sisted of one saloon and the railway
station.
Started in as Sheep Herder.
He didn't have the price of a break
fast, but soon encountered a sheep mar
who wanted to hire a herder. To him
Delfelder hired, and the rest may be
guessed. 1t wasn't long before he was
hiring men to herd his own sheep, and
now he is the owner of numerous
| locks. Mr.. Delfelder is not only a
leader in business affairs and politics,
but he enjoys also the distinction of be-
ing president of the Gray Bull club, a
social organization that has had a
great history in Wyoming. 1t was
through the efforts of the club that the
outside world was made to know hat
in Big Horn county, surrounding the
city of Meeteetse, scores upon scores
of sturdy plainsmen, cattlepunchers
and hockmasters wanted wives.
Advertised for Wives.
The deficiency in girls was all that
allied the country. The Gray Bull club,
aided by Wyoming's best known news
paper man, George S. Walker, of Chey
enne (who is also at the Riggs, ad'
yertised to all the unmarried daughters
of Eve throughout the nation that ii
they wanted husbands all they a to
do was to migrate to Big Horn county
state of Wyoming. Mr.. Walker told
a Herald reporter last night that In
| the course of a month he got by actual
count 11,742 letters from spinsters
representing every state and county IN
the union, not to speak Of q batch from
| Germany and other European cities
Boston Postmark on Many.
Many of these were evidently written
by of refinement, whose hearts
had been set on matrimony, but who
had never had an offer. The Boston
postmark on the letters was most mum
I erous. About 200 young ladies came
on in person alter a short period OF cor
respondence with the wyoming SWANS
and in nearly every case, Mr.. Walker
said, happy marriages resulted.
Resembled Kansas STANG Pipe.
A last word about Mr.. Delfelder. AT
ter arriving in Washington yesterday
on his way to the hotel, he noticed the
imposing monolith designed to perpet
uate the fame of George Washington
Turning to Mr.. Walker, he said:
George, that's a e kind on me.
Back in my old Kansas country they
always made the s%tandpipes of sheet
iron, but in this neck of woods they
use stone; and that's the first one
ever saw that had little doors at the
top"