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, 1923-10-25
MOOseheart Termed a
Splendid Achievement

with eight millions of dollars
invested in beautiful school, admin
istration, and dormitory buildings,
Mooseheart is an outstanding and
splendid achievement in the world
of ~fraternal activity" declared w.
A. MCGOWAN, a directr of that in
stitution who was in Rawlins re-
Gently in connection with the Moose
heart Concert Party's entertainment
Halloween night.
The Loyal Order of Moose is a
~rejuvenated organization of fifteen
years standing, and already has an
enrolment of more than 500 900.
Members feel hat the most import
ant phase of their work is the main
tenance of Mooseheart. situated
near Chicago, where 1,122 children
of deceased members are now re-
ceiying grade school and high school
education. Every child Is given the
equivalent of n high school educa-
ton. and is allowed to continue into
branches of higher learning If he SO
wishes. A. graduate from Moose
heart is accredited for entrance into
any college or university in the
United tatcs. Mr.. MCGOWAN said.
Following the annual state con,
vention in Rawlins recently much
interest has been taken in the loca
lodge and many new members taker
in. The concert Halloween NIGH
at the Strand Theatre is one of the
big features of the lodge year.
, 1923-10-25
Big Law Case Goes
To Cheyenne Court

Further business in the cas OF
the Embar Drilling Company versus
the Utah Oil Company will be hand
led by the U. s. District court at
Cheyenne as the result OF a court
order signed Tuesday afternoon by
Judge Tidball. Mr.. Baldwin Robert
son, OF the law firm Of Ball. Musser
and Robertson of Salt Lake City
appeared before the Judge In the
capacity OF counsel for the defend
ant. asking that the case be re-
moved from the district court here
TO tho Federal district court at the
Capitol city. N. X. Greenfield Ia
counsellor for the plaintiffs. the
Embar Drilling Co.
, 1923-10-25
Forest Ranger Ex-
animation at Laramie

The annual civil service examin-
alton for the position Of Forest
Ranger was held at the head
uarters of the Forest Supervisor for
the Medicine Bow National Forest
by Supervisor Huber c. Hilton on
October 23 and the following ap-
~plicants took the examination:
Fred Croht. Medicine Bow. Wyo..
Allan N. Birge and Rube Riley.
FoXpark. Wyoming: Chas. Woman.
Laramie; Louis f. Thomson. AL
bany: owen w. George, Jelm;
Maurice V. Dunmire. Tie Siding;
Walter S. Lee. Laramie: James r.
Shope. W-heatland. Wyoming and
John ]. Neilas. RawlIns. Wyoming.
Tho Forest Ranger Examination
was held at all Forest Supervisory
headquarters on October 20. APP
plicants who pass the examination
are placed on the Civil Service ell
gible list and selection is made
when vacancies occur In the posi-
ton of Forest Ranger.
Applicants who have honorable
discharges from the military or
naval service of the United States
are entitled to preference for Sc
lection over those who have not
been honorably discharged from the
army or navy. The entrance salary
the Medicine Bow Fopst IS
S~l,220.00 per annum and appoint
oes whose services are satisfactory
are allowed the Increase author
lied by Congress Of $4,000 per
, 1923-10-25
Legion Will Give an
Armistice Day Dance

A big Armistice Day dance will
be given by the Fred Duncan Post
No. % Of the American Legion at
the Masonic Temple the night of
November 12. 1t is announced that
the Ladies' Auxiliary will serve a
luncheon in connection with the
dance. Rawlinsites remembering
the uproarous good times had at
Hell's Half Acre-and who does
not?-are already showing enthus-
iasm for the Armistice Day affair.
The dance is being held on the
twelfth of the month since Armis-
tee Day falls on Sunday this year.
, 1923-10-25
"SpOrt" Morgan WEEDS
Denver Girl Sunday

Telling his many friends that he
was going away on a few days
vacation" Frank J. Morgan. the
popular fire fighter whose pride is
o be at fires before the alarm
whistle sounds. slipped away a
week & and was quietly married
in Cheyenne.
Mrs. Morgan was formerly Miss
Helen Todd of Denver. The young
couple returned to Rawlins hast
Saturday. and Mr.. Morgan will re-
sumo his duties as the driver of
the Rawlins fire truck.
Rawlins is quite proud of its ef-
fcent employee, and hosts OF
friends. including The Republican,
wish Mr.. and Mrs. Morgan every
success.
, 1923-10-25
School Notes

The total enrolment in Rawlins
schools after the sixth week Is LOIS
"a compared with but 7i3 enrolled
upon a similar date last year. En-
rollment figures are virtually com
pleto now. as most Rawlins houses
that were formerly vacant are now
filled. and few are being construct
cd at this time OF year. TO a large
extent the movement OF families
from ranches to Rawllns has also
been completed. Study OF the en-
rollment figures compared shows an
increase OF 37To this year W. the
enrolment OF last.
r.. II. S.
or tho LOIS pupils 525 are boys
and i93 are girls, giving the boys
tho best of II by 80. Figures are
for school district No. 3 exclusive
OF the school at Parco and the
rural school ut the General Petro-
leum camp No. lG.
II. II. S.
The board OF education has just
decided to complete tho basement
rooms In tho West ward school
The architect employed by
the board has approved the rooms
as 10 heat. light, ventilation and
, 1923-10-25
Methodist Rally Day
Set for Next Sunday

Rally Day at the Methodist
church next Sunday will feature an
interesting program. Additional
classes under teachers taking up
their duties for the first time this
year will be held at 10 o'clock. At
IL o'clock a special Rally Day pro-
gram entitled Growing a Christian
World" will be held. when the pas
tor. Rev. Law. will speak on Chris
tina f d u C O n-Hope OF the
World"
Evening services at 1880 include
a community Sing" and address by
the Pastor.
, 1923-10-25
"Vanity Fair" One of
Worlds Great Novels

Probably the most widely read
novel ever written in English is
william Makepeace Thackeray's
Vanity Fair which was published
In lSiS. This novel has been trans
lated into every modern language
and has been regarded in every
country as n o fthe worlds
masterpieces of fiction.
Many plays have been made from
Vanity Fair" notably. In America.
L.angdon Mitchelrs adaptation I'M
der the title of Becky Sharp
which served Mrs. Fiske as a star
ring vehicle for several seasons.
Marie Tempest gave another version
at the New Theatre. The first
American production was hat OF
Brougham made in 1919: another
dramatization was produced In 1857.
and in 1860 Laura Keene and Dion
Boucicault were seen in n different
dramatization. The famous novelist
and playwright. James NJ. Barrie.
also made a stage adaptation OF the
novel under the name OF It's leading
character. Becky Sharp.
This novel has also been depict
ed on the screen both here and
abroad. Mrs. Fiske used a film
version OF Langdon Mitchell's play
about ten years ago. A new version
has Just ben made at the Goldwyn
studios studios by Hugo Balm, in
which Mabel BALM e. starred AZ
Becky Sharp. This picture Is be-
ing distributed by Goldwyn and will
the attraction nt the Strand the
atre tomorrow.
, 1923-10-25
Gun Toter Spends
S25 Under Protest

owen Rafferty, waved n gun
around In rather n dramatic fashion
ut the Luxus cafe last Sunday. and
succeeded in frightening the patrons
of the place. But an immediate
arrest by city authorities called
down the curtain on his act and ut
n hearing before Acting Police
Magistrate w. S. Bennett Jr.. owen
paid $25 and costs. Tho man paid
the money In any but a cheerful
mood.
, 1923-10-25
SAG, 900 Legal Fight
Ends With Dismissal

The case of II. p. Hansen versus
A. II. Winkler. ct al, involving
$4,000 came to an u%neventful
close Tuesday when Judge Tdball
granted a motion to vacate the
judgment for that sum put by the
attorneys for the defense. Action
on the case was dismissed.
Brimmer and Drummer. affiliated
with the Salt Lake firm OF Allen and
Webster. comprised the counsel for
the defense.
, 1923-10-25
Ethel Woods Funeral
At Soda Springs Home

The body OF Ethel Woods. the
daughter OF ]. w. Woods living on
West Buffalo, who died Tuesday
morning at her fathers home after
a short illness, was shipped y%cster-
day to her home in Soda Springs,
Idaho. where the funeral services
will be held. Miss Woods had lived
in Rawlins but a few weeks OF an
intended stay thruout the winter.
The Rasmussen Undertaking parlors
have had charge OF tho body which
is being taken to the Idaho home
by Mr.. Woods.
, 1923-10-25
Oil Worker Receives
Painful Face Burns

Charles Seckmnn, an employee
for An oil operation on the Mahoney
Dome. was brought to the Memorial
hospital with his face and mock a
n OF painful burns last Sunday
afternoon. The injuries are lot
deep and the area more painful than
serious.
Mr.. Seckman was tho victim OF
An accident which occurred when
he was cleaning some machinery.
, 1923-10-25
Calvin Circle Will
Hold Bazaar Dinner

On November goth q pre-Thanks-
giving dinner will be held at the
Masonc Temple by the Ladies' OF
Calvin Circle. Tho dinner Is sched-
uied for 8 O'Clock r. NJ. and the
bazaar will be held during the af-
ter-n0on and evening.
, 1923-10-25
Elks to Have
Roll Call Night

Next Tuesday night will be Roll
Call night for Rawlnis Lodge No.
6O9 B. p. o. Elks, and all members
who can possibly do so should at
tend as the proceedings OF this meet
ing will be sent in to the Grand
Lodge as n matter of record.
There will be balloting for several
candidates and n lunch will also be
served.
, 1923-10-25

equal to or in excess of the school
census. This tends to show that
the communities are growing. and
that laws relative to school atten-
dance are being complied with.
Amounts going to the various
districts from each fund follow:
From School Land Income Fund
, 1923-10-25

other factors OF direct bearing upon
the health OF school children. Both
rooms Will therefore be finished and
will be used temporarily for school
room purposes during tho emer-
gency which now exists.
, 1923-10-25

Mrs. Pat Byrncs and daughter.
Miss Alice. returned the latter part
OF the week from a weeks visit In
Denver.
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DOPE PEDDLINC
is DECREASING
REPORT OF NARCOTIC LAW EN-
FORCENIENT AGENTS SHOWS
NATIONAL SITUATION.
Fifty Percent of Drugs Consumed by
''Fiends'' in United States Is Snug
gled Into This Country Says Feder-
al Prohibition Com. Haynes.

A great decrease in the activities
of drug traffickers in Montana the
last year is reported by Louis j.
I He praises the cooperation of city
] and county officials throughout the
; state. A statement recently issued by
Federal Prohibition Commissioner
Roy Haynes gives some idea of the
results accomplished by the federal
anti-narcotics agents operating under
the Harrison act.
The Statement.
1.-THE Harrison act, while primarily
a revenue law, was never intended
as revenue producing measure, but
for each of the last five years the
money turned into the treasury as the
result of fines and penalties, under
this law has far exceeded the annual
congressional appropriation of $780,
900 and at no time has the cost of
enforcement equaled the appropria-
| ton.
During the fiscal year 1928 a to-
tai of 1901 criminal cases were made,
93.6 per cent of those already tried
resulting in convictions and prison
sentences aggregating 1892 years 6
months and 81 days. This is in adj
dition to 29,776 civil cases reported,
all of which was accomplished with
an average of 10 men, the limit the
smaller appropriation will permit,
who are allocated among i divisions
into which the United States, Hawaii
and the territory of Alaska are di-
vided.
There are on record in the United
States at the present time 286,465
narcotic registrants, consisting of
physicians, dentists, druggists, whole
sale dealers, manufacturers and i'm
porters of narcotic drugs, all of
whom are under close surveillance by
the federal authorities, in order that
no narcotic drugs imported and man
ufactured are sold and dispensed ex-
cept as contemplated by the law. All
dealers are required to keep an ac-
curate record of sales and submit
sworn report to the Washington Of
flee each month showing the drugs
sold.
Consumption Decreases.
Suppression of the traffic in mar
cotic drugs since the passage of the
Harrison act in December, 1914, has
resulted in the per capita consump-
ton of opium having decreased from
SO grains to grains, in morphine
equivalent 7-8 of one grain, while the
per capita consumption of cocaine is
only IA of one grain.
"It is estimated that from so to so
per cent of the various narcotic drugs
consumed in this country by the or
iinary dope fiend,' or drug addict
ire smuggled into the country across
ur international borders and through
he various ports of entry on our
hores. To cope with this problem
would require force several times
anger than that now available"
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PIONEER FARMERS OF MONTANA FOUGHT
THE GRASSHOPPER PLAGUE 1M 1877-1879

Ii 'Grasshoppers in various local.
: ties are reported Matched and hatch
, ing in myriads. In the grain sections
of Meagher county, in the Prick,
Pear valley and elsewhere, the pests
have shown their destructive in
stincts, devouring the wheat and al
kinds of young vegetation. Farmers
are flooding their fields, and millions
of the insects in this manner are
swept away. Their methods are adopt
ed to combat the encroaching insects
the most effective, perhaps, being
that of scattering straw in the line OF
approach, setting fire to the same,
and singing the hoppers to help
less state, or burning them to roast.
Every product of the soil promises
this year to find an active home de-
mand and it is to be hoped that the
| farmers will exhaust every means in
their power to ward off an enemy
active in dissipating the fruits of an
important industry. Quoted by the
Denver News of June IL, 1878, from
the Helena Herald.)
"James Fergus writes us from near
Helena that in the spring of this
year, particularly in the lowest val
leys, the eggs and young locusts were
destroyed by the cold, snowy, freez-
ing weather. Late in the spring fol-
lowing an early warm spring, locusts
appeared on Smith river, doing, how
ever, little or no harm. On the Up
per Missouri river they did great
damage to the late sown wheat. On
Middle creek it is STATED that fully
one-fourth of the entire crop is des-
troyed by hoppers.
Migrate to Utah
From the facts here presented it |
will be seen that the locusts which |
bred in the spring of 1878 in the up |
per Missouri, Gallatin, Prickly Pear
valleys, and about Bozeman, con !
stituted the swarms which from the
middle of July to the end of August
passed over the divide at Pleasant
Valley into eastern Idaho, and the
Cache and Malad valleys of Utah,
and passed south to the region about
Salt Lake.
''It thus appears that the locusts
which bred in central Montana in the
spring of 1873 Matched from eggs
laid in that region late in the sum-
llCl VI 10 NY SWdIuS Which, CdhO
over the Belt mountains from the {
Yellowstone and adjacent valleys ly-
ng to the south.
lowing to the vigilance and activ-
ty of the farmers of central Montana
he damage done was light. The {
ollowing extracts from the Rocky t
Mountain Husbandman will show
low the young unwinged locusts
we're met and nvanquished: c
Steve Howes, near Bozeman, r
as rugged up machine to catch the
rasshoppers in bag. On Tuesday
norning last while the hoppers were Il
lumb and chilled, he ran the ma il
hine over eight acres of ground and f
auled in five bushels of them. He n
J quite elated over his success, and t.
cells confident of being able to save b
is crop, which, only the day pre- l,
ious, he had been tempted to give b
p in despair.
The farmers of the Missouri val E
~ have been doing good execution il
uring the past few weeks fighting ]
Thousands upon thou b
ands have been destroyed. Of the
lany modes employed, that of burn F
lg manure and straw mixed is prov a
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: ing the most effective. The sides o.
: the field are protected by water dit
! ches, and the manure and straw Il
scattered across one end in narrow
strip when the hoppers are on the
move and set on fire and is burned
The manure has a little straw mixed
with it that will burn for several
hours. We are informed by those
who have made the experiment that
they have seen the hoppers march on
until the burning heaps were mass
of grasshopper cinder.
How GaIIatin Fought EN-
=" AS the season grows older the
war upon the grasshopper becomes
more general all over the territory.
On the Missouri river the conflict has
been long and fierce. The hoppers
came out early, and are now almost
ready to fly, and should none of the
winged armies from other sections
come in the crops will be good, not
withstanding great damage has been
done. On the Gallatin it was thought
there would be but few hatch out.
The spring there being cold and
stormy, the eggs did not hatch; but
late advices inform us that during
the hot, sunny days of the past two
weeks they have come forth in great
numbers, and it is feared will yet
destroy the crops.
=" The modes of defense employed
have been greatly diversified and nu-
merous. Where the land has con-
siderable grade and water is plenty,
water is the only weapon needed, but
if the land is level, then it is neces-
sary to employ coal OIL The Gala |
tin and Prickly Pear farmers have
tried the latter plan with great sue |
cess. The hoppers, which are we'll |
grown and would ferry a slow stream |
with east, are instantly killed by
coming in contact with the coal OIL |
The quantity of oil required is small
On the Missouri valley, where water
has been comparatively scarce, the
burning of straw and manure has
been the most successful.
The damage already done, TAX
ng the territory throughout, will not
each fourth of the acreage sown,
ind If the defense continues as sue
'essful the remainder of the season
he harvest will be good. There seems
o be no probability, however, that IL
will be so large as to produce de-
line in prices. There was more than
louble the amount of grain raised in ,
he Missouri valley last year than ,
here was the year previous, and we (,
'elieve the same may be said of many
Their sections; yet grain bears bet !
er price now than one year ago."
Few Hoppers in 1870 i
Then under the caption "The Lo-
ust in Montana in 1879" the report {
eads: :
This year the settled portions of t
Iontana were entirely free from the q
ocusts, either unfledged or summer 4
immigrants, as will be seen by the t
blowing correspondence. Large g
umbers of locusts were reported by +
ne Rocky Mountain Husbandman to D
ave Matched out in the Upper yell c
,wstone river, but they were never
card from afterward.
20. G. Morrison writes from Fort 7
enton that one very small scatter q
lg swarm of locusts arrived there =
uly 81 from the southeast, the wind d
lowing gently from that quarter: u
No eggs were deposited about a
ort Benton this year, no swarms IL
fterward appearing. There is no b
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prospect now of this section suffer.
ing from the locust in 1880, unless
by incoming swarms in July or Aug
ust.'
"Chauncey Barbour, editor of the
Weekly Missoulian, reports that
there were no locusts in the Missoula
valley in 1877, or 1873, or 1879.
William F. Wheeler writes:
at have travelled all over Mon
tana this year, and it gives me great
pleasure to state that / have seen or
heard of no migratory locusts or
grasshoppers this year. Our crops
have not been injured by them in the
slightest degree. Some doubt about
our having them next year, because
there are no visible deposits of eggs.
"W. C. Gillette writes from Dear
born, Lewis and Clark county:
Il have been during the summer
in that section of Montana lying be-
tween Helena and Sun River, and
] have neither seen nor heard of any
locust flying over or alighting in this
region: in fact, the native grasshop-
pers were very scarce compared with
previous seasons. / have not heard
of any damage caused by the locust
in other parts of the territory. My
opinion is that VIC shall have several
years of freedom from this plague.
l have been in the terrific DRY II years
and judge by the past
Urged Co operation With Canada
~. S. Woodman, territorial audi
tor, writes from Helena:
AS this is the only year since
1872 that Montana has been exempt |
from injury from locust, it appears
highly probable there will be another
here in $780,
After having considered in very
great detail the habits, sources of
nfestation of the locusts and the
successes already attained in meth
ids of eradication the commission
hen took up the question of:
'Jn what way, then, can the ma
ional government help to bring
bout the desired result?" replying
O the self-imposed questions as fol-
ows:
There are, it seems to us, seven
ways in which government action is
'ossible, viz: 1. BY encouraging set
lement; 2. BY encouraging the build
ng of railroads; 8. BY broad schemes
# irrigation; 4. By guarding the
resent timber and encouraging the l
lanting of forests; 5. BY judicious {
urning; 6. BY permanent system {
f observations and warnings; z. BY r
with the Dominion gov
(Canada) in these various !
leasures."
Thus it will be seen that while the $
riginal commission advocated a
umber of measures which are en-
rely foreign to the present system C
f combating the propagation and T
ligration of the grasshopper, it saw r
lie necessity of cooperating with the =
overnment to the north of the in .
irrational boundary line, just as the
resent grasshopper eradication for e
IS are doing. d
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Hobson.- Sheriff c. H. Kelley of
Judith Basin county displayed his
fistic prowess with the efficiency of
a Jack Dempsey when he was called
upon to quell disturbance created at
Raynesford dance recently. KEEL
ley knocked out six of them in one
battle to the delight of crowd that
hadn't expected such an event on the
program.