, 1922-07-19

upon seeing the neadl1ne IN the
Enterprise week mefore last "Bill
Pawley Hangs In the White House."
one of Bills friends observed that he
always knew Bill would hang some
where but he thought 1t would be at
Rawlins or some place nearer home.
1NG1
A humorist in San Francisco circu-
lated the report that men over So
were exempt from the provisions of
the Volstead act and all they had to
do vas to go to prohibition enforce
ment headquarters and ask for a dis
%pensation permit. 1t was asserted
that it was mandatory upon the gov
-ernment to grant these requests. AS
a result of this rumor it is said thai
there was a line of octogenarianssev-
blocks long waiting at prohibition
headquarters when the director APP
.peared the morning after the cruel
jest was perpetrated.
Cripples who had had to be waited
upon, the bedriden that had not walk
ed for years, astonished their rela-
tives by crawling out and stepping
off briskly toward prohibition head
quarters with their birth certificates.
Such an aggregation of Oldest Inhab-
itants was lever seen together and It
was asserted that the wall of uaver
ing voices was pitiful to listen to
when the director broke the news that
there was nothing to it and they
would have to die sober.
There's such a thing as carrying q
joke too far.
When jam Corder told us some days
before the Stampede thai his almanac
predicted a spell of weather" around
the dates set for the celebration we
gave small heed to it, but after the
deluge which arrived almost on sched-
ule we shall listen respectfully when
James quotes from his favorite au-
thor.
FfI1
We had Just finished perusing the
documents sent ou from state prohi-
bition headquarters, which we read
religiously, wherein it was proved
conclusively that hard liquor was a
tails of the past in Wyoming-thanks
to the efforts of its honest and eff
cient enforcement officers-when we
stumbled on the following dispatch
which made us wondes who in the
dickens a person was to believe any
how:
Cheyenne, Wyo., July 5.-Volume of
business that exceeded by 30 arrests
that of any previous month since pro-
hibition went into effect was accom-
plished by the Office of the Federal
Director for Wyoming
during the past month. The number
of arrests was almost twice as great
during June as in May. 121 persons
were arrested for disagreeing with
volstead last month.
dfl
learn from the judges that Clar-
ence Snyder of Ishawooa who made a
remarkably fine ride during the SIAM
pede had an average which came
close to getting him first money. Bad
luck in the way of a poor horse
brought his average down SO that he
Just missed it.
bill" Pawley is another whose ride
deserves special mention and very
likely we were more disappointed
than he was that it should happen
again that he did not quite bring
home the bacon for he is a clean rider
and one OF the best in the country.
We may say in passing that both
these riders showed themselves good
sportsmen and did not whimper over
the decisions very different spirit
from that shown by Tegland of Miles
City who. after standing around dur
ing the three days sneering at pump
kin shows" intimated that the judges
had been bought because he received
third instead of first money.
Pumpkin shows" appear to be his
speed since the best he has ever done
is third at Bozeman and he should by
now be used to that position.
RT1
We noticed more bootleggers than
usual about last week. The only way
we can account for the sudden influx
is that they were looking for business
among the C~hautauqua crowd.