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Evening star., 1923-08-12

Eve Unser has received word from
Inndon that her story, "Stigmata.
dramatized by Beulah Dix and Evelyn
Grannleaf sutherland. will. have it's
English premier early In the winter r.
ieaIinS role. "Stigmata" is said to
be- the antithesis of the famous stage
success "The Jest, 1t deals with
love and revenge from womans
standpoint. MI
Evening star., 1923-08-12

The members of the New York Mu-
sical Mutual Protective Union have
decided that $50 a week is starva-
ton wages and are demanding from
SIS to $26 more, otherwise strike
in the vaudeville and photoplay
houses September !. =
Evening star., 1923-08-12
Circle.

son and Conway Tearle. in THE
Rustic of Silk; Tuesday. What's
Wrong With Women; Wednesday,,
Has the World Gone Mad?" Thurs
day and Friday. May McAvoy. In
only 3S": Saturday. Betty Compson
and Richard Dix. in THE Woman
With -Four Faces"
Evening star., 1923-08-12
MOUNT VERNON

and ALEXANDRIA, round trip, soc.
Arlington, side trip, 1oc additional.
Electric Cars leave 18th and Pennsylvania
Avenue Northwest, on the hour and half hour
300 An. to $50 M
Burning T1me-65 Minutes
Washington Virginia Railway Co.
Phone Main 307
Evening star., 1923-08-12

Edward Knoblock, author Of "The
Lullaby" the new play in which
Florence Reed will star for Charles
Dillingham; has arrived in New York
from Hollywood. where he has been
directing motion pictures.
Evening star., 1923-08-12

Today and tomorrow. Children of
Jazz" and Bobby Vernon. in Plumb
Crazy; Tuesday and Wednesday, Ag-
mes Ayres. in THE Heart Raider"
and Ben Turpin, in Where Is My
Wandering Boy This EVENING";
Thursday. Counterfeit Love-" Dan
Mason, in Pop Tuttle, Deteckative," {"
and "Tarpon Fishing; Friday, Jack
Holt, in "Nobody's Money" and Paul
Parrott. in Post No Bills: Satur-
day Alfred Lunt, in Backbone" and
Lige Conley, in Three Strikes"
Evening star., 1923-08-12

Elsie Ferguson will begin rehear-
sails shortly in Marc Klaw's produc-
tion of "The Wheel Of Life" by
James Bernard Pagan. She toured
with this piece last season.
Evening star., 1923-08-12

Comedy Theater, New York, this
week.
The advent of Miss Patricia Salmon
from Whitefish, Mont, whom Florenz
Ziegfeld has just landed In the Fol
lies" recalls that about ten years
ago Will Rogers also came out Of the
west to stampede Broadway. Last
year Rogers paid an income tax on
$350,000.
Evening star., 1923-08-12

"The Mad Honeymoon" Barry Con-
ners' new play, did not receive
happy send-off on it's premier in New
York, and one of the prominent New
York critics intimated that Mr. Con-
ners had gone a step too far in his
reliance upon the naivete of the
drama lovers and that ere long his
opera would be reposing under the
asphodels.
Major Johnson, the clever little
dwarf who appeared with Ethel and
John Barrymore in claire de Lune."
has signed contract with Hertig
and Semon TO appear in burlesque.
Marion Green, the baritone, who
created the role Of NJ. Beaucaire. sang
the title role in "The Wild Cat" and
also in "The Rose of Stamboul." has
been engaged for the Greenwich Vii
lage Follies.
Will Morriseys musical revue,
THE Newcomers, received this fiat
tering notice on its first appearance
In New York. "1n form THE New
comers" is a show quite to our fancy
an attempt to put on a revue
quite casually and inexpensively
with the onus upon the per-
formers rather than the costumes Of
the backdrop pinched and
skimped a little with a chief come
dian who looks very like Ed Wynn,
talks like him, and manages, never
theless. to escape being funny
There is more of the same sort.
Evening star., 1923-08-12
In the Spotlight.

Continued from First Page.)
Evening star., 1923-08-12
Photo Plays This Week
Apollo.

Continued from First Page.)
, 1923-08-22

Mr.. and Mrs. Earnest May left on
Monday for n trip through the Park.
Upon their return they will motor
back to Lead, South Dakota.
, 1923-08-22
WI SIMPSON SHOOTS AND KILLS EDRA|NS
after BARbERMAkES UNPROvOkED ATTACK
UP0NATT0RNEY " CHARGED With MURDER
MIR. B~orsukiewicz, OF
Poland, Walks Around
The World Via Cody

w. T. Borsukiewicz of Poland, a
student in n of the colleges of his
native country, arrived in Cody this
week on a hike around the world.
This young nan has travelled many
hundreds of miles and has secured the
signatures of the leading personages
of every town and city that he has
visited.
His scrap book contains the sig
natures of the governors of every
state that he has so far visited, as
well as the official seal of the various
states, signatures of the custodians
of the various public buildings and
many personal letters commencing
him for his pluck and determination
in making this trip in order to gain
a world wide education. .
Mr.. Borsukiewicz intends to use
the data that he is gathering on his
trip to prepare a lecture to deliver in
his native country.
, 1923-08-22
Cody Follows Suit
Gas Prices Reduced

Gasoline prices at the filling sta
tons in Cody has bee nreduced in the
last week from 81 to 20 cents, with
the prediction freely made that n fur
Their drop may be made II the effect
Of the gasoline war that was started
in So. Dakota continues to cause n
price reductions throughout this sec
ton.
Both the Continental and Texas
Companies, who have agent sin Cody,
have made reductions in the whole
sale price and indications point to n
still further decrease.
Filling stations In Cheyenne and
Casper r selling gas for 1874 and II
cents, and substantial reductions are
reported throughout the state.
Further reductions are expected II
the price of crude oil drops as has
been predicted in many quarters.
, 1923-08-22
Turf own
LAWYER IN HORSE
STEALING CASE

Norman Price, alias Jimmy Turf
who was arrested last week on a
charge of horse stealing, was given a
preliminary hearing on Saturday af-
ternoon before Judge Marston, and
was bound over for trial at the next
term of District Court. Bonds were
fixed at 100000 which the defendant
promptly furnished.
The facts brought out at the pre-
liminary hearing dealt mostly with
the statements of a few witnesses that
a certain horse is carrying a brand
that appears to have been worked
over.
Witnesses stated that the Coe
brand is ~ on the right shoulder, and
that the animal in question. is brand
ed reverse E B, which brand is re-
corded as belonging to Jimmy Turf.
The witnesses stated that the brand
on the horse appears to have been
worked.
Turf appeared in Court without
any attorney to represent him, and
questioned some of the witnesses as
to facts concerning the range that
the Coe horses were kept on, the APP
pearance of the brand, and also asked
as to the number of horses belonging
to Coe that had died while in pastures
and on the range.
, 1923-08-22

high up on the mountain side at an
elevation of more than 5000 feet
above sea level, it has dwindled until
its present population is perhaps sew
enty. 1t is a tradition that 700 votes
were once cast at an election in Cooke
City and hen came a time when there
were only seventeen left of that num-
Der.
1t is said that there is ample funds
to develop the Homestake, Gold Dust
and other mines in the group con
trolled by the company which has
shown its confidence and gameness
by installing a power plant and smelt-
er at great expense and under great
difficulties, and that its stockholders
intend to go on as long as there is a
pound of ore in sight to encourage
them.
In addition to the news from the
Tanner group there were rumors of a
strike in blue copper in a mine in the
Buffalo Montana group on Sheep
mountain, which is being opened
under the management of Mr.. Fred
erick Tredennick. Sheridan capital
is also being spent in Cooke City,
building a road to take ore to the rail-
road from the property of the Irma
Mining company, of which Mr.. Ly-
man H. Brooks of Sheridan is super
intendent.
There are few men who have lived
in this section for any length of time
who have not heard of Cooke City
and its curious inhabitants. To the
unthinking it has been a joke; to
those who knew, a tragedy.
! 1t is only about sixty miles from
Cody as the crow flies, but a mountain
range with steep trails, little travelled,
have left it an unknown country to all
but a few in this section.
Yet it is the most beautiful and in
teresting pack trip in the country, to
my notion, through Pat O'Hara Basin,
owe Rattlesnake trail, Dead Indian
trail, the length of Sunlight valley,
over the divide on the Lodge Pole
trail to Crandall creek, along the up-
per Clarks Fork and then-Cooke
City.
Situated on Republic creek, at an
elevation of 7,645, surrounded by an
amphitheatre of mountains, it is quite
the loveliest spot imaginable. Twenty
decayed buildings scattered on either
side of two wide streets bearing the
p%retentious names of Maine and
Broadway are all that remains of the
many built by strong and willing
hands when hopes were high back in
the early SOS.
The others have fallen down and
been burned for firewood by the sur
vivors, while those still standing are
out of plumb, their roofs sway-backed
from the weight of snow they have
carried so many winters.
Time was, when lots on Main and
Broadway sold for $1,000, followed
by years when a lot and good build
ings could be purchased readily for
S25.
The ~calaboose, built by a man who
celebrated its completion by getting
Continued on Page 4;
, 1923-08-22
Wild Cat Tries To y
Garry Off Tame Cat

After Sam Peery, of Upper Sage
Creek, had retired the other evening
he heard a considerable commotion,
not to say ruckus, in the kitchen.
Sam got out of his nest in a hurry
and tip-toed out to see what was
transpiring. Picking through a crack
in the door he saw a bob-cat carrying
away one of his neighbours house cats
that had come over on n visit.
Sam let out n yell and the bob-cat
dropped the cat and disappeared in
the s~agebrush. Never know what's
goin' to happen next out on Sage
Creek.
, 1923-08-22
YELLOWSTONE PARK
NOT WORTH SEEING
SAYS BUS DRIVER

Somebody is always taking the joy
out of life. A few days ago a tourist
in conversation with one of the yell
low bus drivers was informed by that
worthy knight of the wheel that Vel
lowstone Park was not worth seeing.
He said that the scenery between here
and the park line wasn't so bad, but
as far n the park was concerned he
might as well save his time and gas.
Consequently the tourist, much dis
appointed, decided TO leave his camp
ing equipment in Cody and travel
light as far as Pahaska and return.
Before leaving town he was assured
by one of Cody's citizens that the bus
driver must have a grudge on the
world or something, and that by all
means, he should not miss seeing Vel
lowstone and he went his way in n
much better frame of mind.
Whatever possessed the driver TO
make n statement of this kind is diff
ficult to understand.
Perhaps he is the same driver who
came into Cody on the rim because
he said his right front tire went flat
and the only spare he had was u left
front.
, 1923-08-22
Shot In Stomach, Rains Dies In Powell Hospital
Simpson Sustains Fracture As Result Of Blow
On Head With Rock Or Blackjack-Is
Now In Custody OF Sheriff LOOMS

Muffled gunshots broke the quiet
a little after eight o'clock last Sun
day evening and almost before the
sounds had died away the startling
news that "BilP Simpson had shot Ed
Rains, the barber, in the Mint pool
hall drew a crowd that blocked the
street and sidewalk.
Rains died in the Powell hospital
at five o'clock on Tuesday morning
and w. L. Simpson was taken to the
county Jail charged with first degree
murder.
Such, briefly, are the results of the
unprovoked assault of Rains upon the
Cody attorney.
According to witnesses, the circum-
stances which led up to the tragic
-denouement are as follows:
Simpson was standing on the side
walk in front of Ernest Ricci's pool
hall in conversation with William
Wibel and two strangers. Rains
came down the street until he reached
the group when, without other warn
ing than an offensive epithet, he
struck Simpson on the side of the
head so hat he went down as if hit
by a mallet.
He was helped in a dazed condition
into the pool hall while Rains went
on down the street where, upon meet
ing Clarence Shrine, the constable,
he told him what he had done and ask
ed how much it was going to cost him.
When Mr.. Simpson was able to
walk he was assisted to his office in
the Walls building, where he also has
sleeping apartments, by Claude
O'Shea and Joe Davenport. There
they left him and shortly after the
attorney got his six-shooter, a So
calibre and started out to hunt Rains.
He found him at the cigar counter in
the Mint pool hall and without words
struck him twice yer the head with
his gun.
Rains turned and grappled with
him. In the struggle, in which the
attorney who is a cripple was no
match for his antagonist, Simpson
shot him twice in the stomach. A
third shot was fired but went wild.
Simpson went down under a table
with Rains on top of him, Rains hold
ing down the hand with the gun in
it while Simpson said, according to
the evidence of A. B. Felsheim given
at the %coroner's inquest, "Take that
gun away from this man I'm afraid
of him."
j. L. Mathieson pulled Rains from
Simpson and took the gun.
Simpson was taken to an office
across the street and later removed
to the home of DR.. ID. h. Blaske.
Rains was removed to the Powell
hospital as soon as possible.
At the hospital II was found that
the small intestines had been punctur-
ed in six places and a kidney had been
grazed. He died however as the re-
suit of shock from the gunshots
rather than the wounds.
An examination of Mr.. Simpsons
head by Drs. Howe and Trueblood,
and X-ray pictures, disclosed the fact
that the blow had produced n fracture
, 1923-08-22
Reception For Gov, And
Mrs. Ross At Irma Hotel

The Irma Hotel dining room was
the scene of a pleasantly informal
banquet on Friday evening when the
members of the Cody Club were hosts
to Governor and Mrs. William b.
Ross.
After a bountiful and well served
repast had engaged the undivided at
tention of the sixty or more club mem
bers and guests for some time, Doctor
r. c. Trueblood, president of the
Cody Club made a few Introductory
remarks in which he voiced the APP
probation of the citizens of Cody at
the apparent pleasure shown by the
governor on the occasion of his visits
to Cody, and said that he believed
that Mr.. Ross had an especially warm
spot in his heart for Cody.
Governor Ross in reply said that
his visits to Cody were usually on
matters pertaining to his executive
capacity, but that it was always a
pleasure for him to stop in Cody, as
the associations and memories of
days gone by were typified by the
pictures hanging in the Irma and the
spirit and hospitality Of the old west
as typified by our citizens.
Governor Ross said the Mrs. Ross
insisted that she accompany him to
Cody on one of his trips, as there
evidently was something attractive
about the town, and that she wanted
to see what II was.
After telling n few stories of n
u usVxr .. Al. 49,
, 1923-08-22
ledge" and Mrs. Walls
Visit Their Home Town

Mr.. and Mrs. w. L. Walls of Chey-
enne are visiting with friends and re-
latives in Cody this week. Judge
Walls has been practicing law in the
capitol city since retiring from the
post of Attorney General, and has
built up a lucrative practice among
the most substantial business and
professional men of Cheyenne.
Both Mr.. and Mrs. Walls have
many friends in Cody, having made
their home here for many years, and
their annual visits to the home town
are always looked forward to with
pleasure and anticipation. Judge
Walls has some extensive property
interests in Cody that are also en-
gaging his attention.
, 1923-08-22
COOKE CITY, FAITH UNSHAKEN,
WAITS so YEARS FOR DREAMS
OF MILLIONS TO Be REALIZED
GRIZZLED PRosPECTORS, GROWN OLD HOPING, CLING
TO CAMP WITH DOCCED TENACITY UNPARELLED
IN MINING HISTORY
Caroline Lockhart

"They've broken through-they've
struck it." The statement was made
quietly, with just a little quaver in
old voices and a sudden light in
faded eyes to betray the excitement
beneath the outward calmness. at
goes SIS to the ton and there's a
world of it."
For close to a half a century the
inhabitants of Cooke City, Montana,
have waited for some such message.
When it came, finally, in their sun-
down days, they received it without
visible emotion.
Once they would have jumped on
their hats and 'hollered,' let out
whoops to scare the mountain sheep
on Pilot peak and Henderson noun
tain; but that would have been back
in '73 or 4 or the early sos, maybe,
when they were young and full of
life and hope and high spirits.
Now they are old, grey, bent, deaf
and crippled, many of them, through
hardships and exposure.
There was none of the wild excite
ment and jubilant demonstrations re-
ported in the papers as a result of a
strike in the Homesteak mine as an
nounced by G. l.. Tanner, a Seattle
chemist, who for three years has been
driving a 1600-foot tunnel into the
base of Henderson mountain to reach
the body of ore which he was conf
dent he would find there.
l was in Cooke City when it hap
pened-when the news became public
property that the crew had reached
the goal it had been striving for and
the assays were far higher than had
been expected by the most optimistic.
Whether it was that they we're afraid
to allow themselvs to hope, these old
prospectors who have been disappoint
ed so often, Or that they were so con-
fident that the news came as no great
surprise to them, or that, with thei1
lives behind them and only a few
years ahead of them, the things which
money buys have lost their value to
them, 1 cannot venture to say. But
the fact remains that the handful OF
prospectors who have spent forty
years of their lives waiting for these
tidings took with surprising calmness
the announcement that what is de.
clared to be one of the most import,
ant strikes eve made in Montana hac
been made in the Tanner group OF
mines on Henderson mountain.
Whether this great body of ore re,
ported continues to hold out in rich,
ness, or whether it is merely one OF
the pockets which some experts have
declared is Characteristic of the sec
ton, is for the future to determine.
All the outside world that know.
the story of this camp hopes it is the
beginning of big things for Cooke
City and its few remaining inhabit.
ants, the prospectors who have grown
old and grey waiting for the realiza-
ton of their dreams, holding on with
a grim ~tenacity and logged patience
unparalleled, it is safe to say, in
mining history.
Once a booming camp when the old
Republic and its smelter was working
, 1923-08-22
No Stiffness Reported
At Deer Creek Function

Judging from the reports that
trickle from the Southfork country,
it is surmised that the dance given by
Barry Williams at the Deer Creek
Ranch on Saturday night was n huge
success, and that entertainment of
all kinds was to be had in liberal
quantities.
A large number of Cody people
made the trip to Valley to enjoy the
hospitality of Mr.. Williams and his
associates.
At midnight an elaborate luncheon
was served to the assembled guests,
and dancing was enjoyed until "A late
hour, some of the Cody parties re-
turning home without the aid of head
lights on their cars.
, 1923-08-22

One rib was also broken by his fall.
In the opinion of the physicians,
Rains must have used a rock or black
jack 10 have struck such a blow and
produced the abrasion.
When the word came that Rains
was dead, the attorney was charged
with murder in the first degree and
placed in the custody of Sheriff
Loomis.
The coroner's inquest was held on
Tuesday and, after hearing the evil
dence, the jury, composed of l.. r.
Ewart, A. M. Berringer and c. A.
Evans brought in a verdict to the
effect that Rains had come to his
death by of a gun in the hands
of w. L. Simpson.
The witnesses called were DR.. j.
R. Whitlock of the Powell hospital,
Henry Pool, Albert Felsheim, ]. l..
Mathieson, L. L. Newton and F. M.
Lane.
Rains had been nursing a grudge
against Simpson ever since the latter
acted as attorney for Mrs. Katie
Prim in a suit which grew out of his
occupancy of rooms in the Cooy Hotel
where he had his barber shop. The
case was tried at the last term of
court and he is said to have made
threats against the attorneys life
since that time.
1t is said by his associates that
Rains had been drinking for several
days and when under the influence
of liquor was particularly quarrel
some.
Rains was 81 years old and born in
Springfield, Ill, but lived many years
in Dallas, FIT. Worth and other towns
in Texas where he worked as agent
and telegraph operator for the Cot
ton Belt r. r. He came to Cody from
Casper where he had lived a couple
of years. He was married in Dallas
to Miss Edna Hubball who is a sis
ter of Mrs. w. H. Love. He also has
two brothers who r living in Calf
ornia. Rains has lived in Cody about
three and a half years. He will be
buried on Thursday at 2o'clock from
the Presbyterian Church. The funer-
al will be in charge of the Eagles of
which Order he was a member.
Mr.. Simpson is one of the best
known attorneys in northern Wyo-
ming and hasa large practice, keep?
ing an office in Thermopolis as well
as Cody.
He has practiced in the State for
80 years and been retained in many
important cases, among them the Ten
Sleep murder cases, when he acted
as counsel for the prosecution: and,
more recently, the case of the State
against Bert Lampitt who was charg-
ed with blowing up a bunk-house in
the Grass Creek oil fields.
In evidence of the esteem in which
Mr.. Simpson is held by the legal
fraternity, it may be stated that of
fers of assistance have come from
nearly every member of the bar in
the Big Horn Basin while long dis
lance telephone calls and messages
from his wide circle of friends and ac-
quaintances are keeping the Western
Union and telephone offices busy.
, 1923-08-22
Bert IN On
Road To Recovery

Bertel Wilkinson, who n badly
injured last week Tuesday when the
a that he was driving run into the
excavation between the Western Drug
Store and the Holm Block, broke sew
en- ribs and crushed his chest, is maxi
ing n slow but perceptible recovery
from his injuries.
Wilkinson's rugged physique and
splendid constitution have been n
strong factor in making his ultimate
recovery only n matter Of time and
care, AS his injuries were Of such n
nature that his physician hardly hop
cd for his survival.
, 1923-08-22
JACK SPIcER FINDS HUMAN
SKULL ON PAT O'HARA SLIDE

While sitting on n rock slide view
ing the scenery from Pat O'Hara
mountain last week, Jack Spicer dug
up part Of n human skull. There
were some small bones buried In the
slide near the skull.
The skull and bones were covered
with moss and evidently had been
there n long time. II looked ms II
someone might have fallen over the
rim rock.
, 1923-08-22
Andy Martin Wants The
Ladies To Bring Cake

Cody Enterprise,
Dear Editor:
We are giving n dance and ice
cream social ut our ranch home on
Friday August 81, for the benefit of
the Farm Bureau. VIII you please
print u notice Of Il in the locals Of
the next issues Of your paper?
Yours truly,
A. ]. Martin.
p. S. II will be appreciated II the
ladies will bring cake.
, 1923-08-22

Colonel and Mrs. Burke Sinclair Of
Casper were Cody visitors on Satur-
day while enroute through Yellow
stone Park.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-07-26
CARD PARTY

Mrs. w. H. Wade entertained at
bridge and rock Friday afternoon at
her home on Roanoke drive in honor
of Miss Mary Powell of Columbus,
and Misses Kezron and Emily An
thony of Sasser the visitors of Mrs.
Earl Anthony.
The spacious rooms of the house
were decorated with a profusion of
yellow daisies, which was artistically
arranged to carry the color scheme of
yellow and white.
Mrs. Wade was assisted by her Sis
ter, Mrs. Anthony, Misses Selma
Dorminey and Francis Denmark who
served a delicious ice course.
Those playing were: Mesdames Bob
Mckay, Carl Fellars, Modena Rogers,
H. B. Chestnut and visitor w. M.
Blackwell of Atlanta, Sam Hughes,
Mark Mathis. Henry Powell and Wis
itor Mercer Powell, Jake Brewer, mo
Mcmillan and Howard Shirley.
Misses Elizabeth McCarty, Eula
Lee and Thelma Dorminey, Pauline
Lewis, Mary Mcmillan, Mildred Hale.
Athleen Rhorer, Freddie Isler, Mar
garet Wise, Josephine Manning, Will
mer Harper, WinoM Harper, Cath
crime Clarke, Hazel Jolley, Cleo
Swearingen and Mvrle Scarborough.