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, 1923-10-03
TRUCK BOGS DOWN
ON COTTONWOOD
Red Lodge Machine Carried 100
Feet Down Stream by Swift
Current-Turns Over

A three-ton White truck belonging
to Melvin Stump, of Red Lodge,
begged down in the crossing on Cot
tonwood creek above the Iron Spring
last Thursday. Stump, who was re-
turning to Red Lodge after bringing
over a load of furniture for Joseph
McElvain, saw as he approached that
the crossing looked dubious. He got
out and tried it with n stick and con-
cluded he could make it. He stuck
in the middle and was unable to back
out while the truck kept sinking.
When he decided il was useless and
started to walk back to Cody, only
the top of the windshield wa showing
above the water Returning with as
sistance later he found that the truck
had washed 100 feet down the stream
and turned over.
, 1923-10-03
FLOODS TAKE PARK
COUNTY BRIDGES
Rainfall of Two and One Third
Inches Unprecedented-Many
Roads Now impossible

The skies opened last week letting
down for six days such a deluge a.
has not occurred within the memory
of the oldest inhabitant.
A. ]. Martin, who has lived in Wyo.
ming for 80 years, says he does not
recall anything approaching it. Be.
ginning Wednesday, it rained practic'
ally a steady downpour until Monday
when it showered Internationally
clearing Monday evening.
2 1-3 inches of water fell, accord
ing to ID. A. Tinkcom, who keeps tab
on weather conditions in this locality
Mr.. Tinkcom states that this is the
greatest rainfall in the IL years he
has been keeping the records, and he
cannot learn that there is anyone liv-
ing in this vicinity who remembers
anything to equal it.
1t is safe to say that, with a few
exceptions, every bridge in the county
and the Big Horn basin is either out
or in some way damaged. Culverts
are gone and cave-ins make stretches
of road impossible, and the damage
done throughout the country will run
well into the thousands.
w. T. Killibrew reports that every
bridge and culvert between Cody and
Thermopolis on the State Highway is
either out or damaged. He expects
to make makeshift repairs so that it
will be possible to travel within a
couple of days.
The bridge over Sulphur creek is
out and most of them between Cody
and Valley . The Lower Sage Creek
bridge, improperly built in the first
place, is badly damaged. The bridges
and culverts between Cody and Pow
ell are either out or damaged; in fact
there is no road leading into Cody,
with the exception of the road to
Meeteetse and the canyon road, which
can be travelled save with horse and
wagon. Earth slides blocked the an
yon road Saturday and Sunday, but
Pat Kelly turned out with a scraper
and four horses so that on Monday
n car passed over it after much la
Dor and difficulty.
All the bridges on the Clarks Fork
road are said to be out except the
bridge over Cottonwood near the Har-
grave ranch. The new fill near the
Dave Good ranch has gone complete
ly. The report is that it is just pos
sible to get over with hodses and wa
gon but will be closed to automobiles
for some time.
Pat O'Hara creek rose to within !
feet of the house on the Walter Hoff-
man place where the entire meadow
was a lake.
1t looks like old times in Cody to
see the street lined with saddle horses
and teams hitched to the hitching
racks, instead of the automobiles
which is now the ranchers' mode OF
locomotion.
, 1923-10-03
OLLIE MALL0N
DIES IN WRECK
Former Resident of Cody Among
Those Who Lost Their Life
in c. B. & O. Disaster

Ollie Mallon, the fireman who lost
his life in the wreck near Casper last
week, when train No. 30 on the C. b.
G. Q. plunged into Cole creek, was on
the u between Frannie and Cody
last winter and this spring. His pleas
ant personality and pleasing manner
won a large circle of friends for him
during his residence in the commun-
ity.
Mallon was an athlete of no mean
ability, having been an amateur boxer
and interested in athletics of all kinds.
He was about 26 years of age. He
is survived by a widow and one child
who reside in Greybull, and his moth
err who lives in Colorado.
, 1923-10-03

They are very fond of grapes in
Red Lodge. Indeed, grapes must be
the chief article of diet, else how
could a small town make way with so
many grapes?
Through the Red Lodge Picket we
learn that last weeks shipment of
grapes raise the total shipments since
the first of September to 81 carloads.
The shipments usually continue until
the middle of November so there is
still time to get in more grapes. The
cost is about $1,000 a carload.
Yes, when the snow flies John Chap
mans town will have plenty of grapes.
Some folks with things to sell argue
that newspaper advertising has no
value. The Thermopolis Record calls
the attention of such to the recent
strike of the New York City press
men, during which time the newspa-
pers were unable to handle advertis-
ing for a matter of several days. The
consequence vas that the merchants
retail trade fell off to an alarming ex-
tent, and the newspapers were swamp
ed with copy they could not set up, a
convincing object lesson to the most
obstinate business man that newspa-
per advertising does pay.
The Rev. G. Herbert Elkins of
Hartford, Conn, resigned his position
as assistant state superintendent of
the nti-Saloon league last week be-
cause he has no confidence that Amer
lea will stand permanently against
light wine and beer. Mr.. Elkins stood
up in a meeting and said that if he
chose to let grape juice ferment in his
cellar, he did not consider that any
man had a right to tell him that he
must not do it. He is also quoted as
expressing the fear hat harm would
come to prohibition thru its friends.
1t seems to be as much as a minis
tiers job is worth to have an opinion
of his WI upon any subject, politics,
people, the law. current events or
what not.
The Rev. N. L. Blessing of the Uni
ted Brethren Church of Christ of Van
couver, Washington, recently went on
record as being in favor of a modifica-
ton of the Volstead act and was re-
lieved of his charge for it.
WV
John HIGHLANDER, former prohibition
Iitnrtnr Of Ilfnnfg OF N 1tnnnr IN Chi
, 1923-10-03
FOOT BALL TEAM
READY FOR LOWELL

The Cody High School football
team is scheduled to play Mt Lowell
on Saturday, October 9Th, and the
boys are confident Of their ability to
give a good account Of themselves.
The game between Greybull and
Cody was not played OF Saturday last
for the reason that the Greybull team
was unable to get to Cody on account
of the impossible roads. The game
has been postponed until later in the
season and will be played in Cody.
, 1923-10-03
Basin Bank Fails
to Open as Result
of Heavy Losses

The Basin State bank is now in the
hands of State Bank Examiner HUE
Closing of the bank was due to heavy
loss on cattle and farm paper . The
loss is estimated at 100000. The
capital paid in is $4,000 and the de-
posits approximately $325,000. The
officers are Henry Jordan, of Mander-
son, president; Z. ]. Sullivan, Of Cas-
per, and John Luman. Of Hyattville,
vice-presidents, and Harry Hall, OF
Basin, cashier.
, 1923-10-03

wallace Keown, who WINS one of
me drivers for the Yellowstone Park
transportation company during the
Vast season, and later chauffeur for
%.s; Lulu Hall Of Cody, was probably
ia,aiiy injured in an automobile ac-
thet That occurred when Keown and
uaree friends were driving to n dance
proadwater, Montana, last We'd
nesuay evening. The car in which the
lung men were riding plunged from
m"h bank and turned over. Harold
dN$on, driver Of the wrecked car,
.hysn a hospital a short time after
~ accldent, and the other occupants
the car were seriously injured.
, 1923-10-03

II. C. Hargraves has rented the pro-
perty formerly occupied by Lambert's
second hand store, and is having the
premises remodeled and improved for
showroom and garage purposes. The
deal for tho old Enterprise building
failed to materialize, and II was nee
essary TO secure floor space for the
new Star and Durant cars which Mr..
Hnrgraves has on display.
, 1923-10-03

Henderson, Wyo.-T The Mcdonald
guiding, a structure 60 feet wide and
% ieet long, partially collapsed as a
result of the food which swept thru
,he streets Of the town. Fifteen rail
lengths Of the track on the Casper
niiiings line of the Burlington were
washed out near the town.
Basin Easements of about three
Iourths Of the town are filed with the
hood water and between 200 and 300
persons have been made temporarily
homeless as a result of the deluge. All
persons who were trapped in their
nomes were removed to safety and
mere was no loss of life. Public and
,odge buildings are being used to care
.or those who have been driven from
mere homes. A few of the business
houses were touched by the waters
Dul no great damage resulted.
Rich farming district near Basin
suffered heavily.
The Burlington bridge at Spence
at the lower end of Sheep canyon,
S'u.h OF Kane, washed out.
The railroad track in Sheep canyon
reported out in several places.
Low-lying farms between Thermop-
ohs and Greybull were inundated.
, 1923-10-03

Mr.. and Mrs. Roger McGinnis re-
ceived a telegram on Tuesday stating
that Thomas Francis Noonan, 4th,
had arrived at st. Francis hospital,
San Francisco. Mrs. Noonan was
Margaret McGinnis.
, 1923-10-03

w. b. Sleeper and family are now
at Hollywood where one Of the daugh-
tiers is in the movies.
, 1923-10-03

Mr.. and Mrs. Mel Nuckols are at
Gum Springs, Virginia.
, 1923-10-03

Evert Reynolds new address 1
Wann, Oklohoma.
, 1923-10-03

The policy of this pepper is
to uphold the standards
and perpetuate the spirit
of the old West.
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More High School
Students of Today

Chicago, oct. 10 CA. PD-If the
boy or girl who formerly quit
school" at the end OF the seventh or
eighth grade is not actually beCom-
ing extinct his ranks are being
decimated annually. acC."ding to re-
ports covering an average ten pear
period compiled from the Offices of
public instruction in ten central
states.
The percentage Of increased high
school attendance for the period was
taken as the medium for estimate.
The average increase figure for tn?
decade was found to he 95.4 percent.
with extremes ranging between 1000
percent. the figure reported by
oklahoma, ito 40 percent, that Of
Iowa.
While the figures do not unquali
fiedly represent the increased pro-
portion of grade school students en-
terIng high school-the factor of
increasing population applying large
" in newer states they do indicate
that the former gulf existing be
tween the eighth grade and high
school gradually Is being eliminated
In Oklahoma. according to 4 state
ment issued by Luther Russell. state
high school inspector. the increase
in II years from 1910 to 1927 was
from CPS to 62.021. or 1000 percent.
Figures supplied by the department
of education of Kentucky set the
increase from 1855 in 1918. 10 So
600 in 1923-an advance of 203 per
cent. while in South Dakota the total
number OF high school students in
1922. 1863. represented a jump of
162 percent from the 1903 enrolled
in 1912.
Vernon NJ. Reicel, state director Of
education for Ohio. gave the increase
in that state as 1870 percent. an ad-
vance from $4,000. the figure for
1912. to 17S.705. that for 1922.
Noicing the belief that the show
ing in his state was particularly
good in view of the strong call of
the many industries of the state
for boys to get out of school into
work." Thomas r. Johnson. superin-
tendent of public instruction of
Michigan. reported the increase there
at from 49.466 in 1912. to 106.496 in
1922. an increase of rs percent
High school attendance in Kansas
has increased Sc percent durin" the
last ten years, accordin: to j. w.
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Cold Siberia
Line Gold
Diggers of America

Nladiyostok. Sept. ia. PO-tp
in northern Siberia. several miles IN
land from the little town of Okhotsk.
q band of Americans are "pannlns
the river beds for gold as their "a
Tiers did in the California and 9TH
or mining camps Of the west 20 years
ago. Last winter there were 30 of
them, but about half the number
came out this year and all
will not return. They have not
made any big discoveries, such as
those which caused the PUSHES to the
west from 40 EDWARDS, but they have
made a good living and have always
before them the dream OF llcnes
which, through centuries, has kept
Drospectors at their calling.
There are also a large number OF
Chinese and Korean placer miners IN
the country and latterly, an entirely
new undertaking for th6n, japanese
have been taking a hand in the ever
enhancing work. Some of the latler
have gone 500 miles inland, and the
miners along the coast are awaiting
eagerly the reports of their discoV-
cries, il any.
There is also an American trading
station at Okhotsk, the manager OF
which is Captain II. A. Holmes, Tor
merry of the United States army.
Resides supplying the miners and
natives. this station engages in the
fishing industry and sells its catches
to the japanese canneries.
The Soviet officials. who are IN
control, do not interfere with the
miners. fishermen or traders so long
as they do not mix III Russian politics
Thus far no taxes have been levied
on the miners, who work any and all
claims despite the fact that con-
cession for mining in this district
was given n British company.
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MiIey. state superintendent of public
instruction. who placed the figure
for total attendance in 1913 at 80
O32 compared with 72,774 in 1922.
\ jump of 20 percent in high
school attendance from 1913 to 1928
was reported hN Leonard T.. Job. as
sistant state superintendent Of public
instruction of Indiana. The exact in
crease was given as from 59,S22 in
1913 to an estimated total OF 101. 425
in the latter wear. Compulsory at
tendance mp Ia the age Of 16 Years,
was given principal credit for the
good showing.
The percent Of increase during the
last decade for Illinois was set at
IL by Francis &. Blair. state Supcrin-
tendent of public instruction. Total
high school enrolment in 1912 was
"A SIS and in 1872, 163. 091.
bringing the high school 10 the
pupil" ~ means of establishing
rural high schools in connection with
consolidate schools and merging
the eighth grades with the high
school by creation of Junior high
schools is noted by Miss May +.
Francis. state superintendent Of pub
lie instruction Of Iowa. as in
funncing the greater proportional
gain in high school attendance in
that state during the last decade.
Between 1910 and 1920 the enroll
ment grew from 45.235 to 63.217, an
advance Of 40 percent. she said.
Texas proved no exception. In the
five wear period since 1918 the in
crease in high school attendance has
been IS percent or a growth from
10 in, no np,.in1 o.
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picions. stand accused OF having
acted as a German spy during the
war while chief of the Swedish Legal
tion in Mexico City, and during my
confinement in Mexico l had no
chance to rehabilitate myself.
such were my relations TO the
German legation in Mexico during
the war. My notes in the archives
of the Swedish legation in Mexico
City record the receipt OF these
cablegrams from Mr. Wallenberg.
NV recall as Swedish charge
d'affairs at Mexico City WAS not the
result of complaints. made by the
Swedish residents of Mexico. Such
complaints. even il justified, do not
entail the sudden recall of chief OF
legation without his knowledge. The
Swedes in Mexico made no com
nlaints of me because there were
none TO he made. The foreign min
lister has told me no complaints We're
made.
"\or did my recall result from any
kind of pressure on the part Oh '''e
American government owing to any
relations with the German govern
ment. 7 have never had relations with
,ny government other than the
swedish government. Nor aid |
transmit to President CarranZa any
notes other than those | handed MN
in the name of my own government
officially or by special order.
"Mv recall from Mexico was an act
OF revenge on the part of the men
foreign minister. Mr.. Wallenbers' pc
cause a report made by me and other
diplomats several years ago resulted
in his brother. G. o. WallenberG'
then Swedish minister to Japan pe
ing publicly reprimanded by MS
government
The state Department at WashlnS-
ton. on September IS. 1917. gave Out
the translation of an alleged letleI
from Heinrich Won Eckhardt, then
German minister at Mexico Guy
TO Chancellor Won Bethman Hollweg'
saving that Cronholm. in Mexico
CITY, had entered into close relatlohs
with the German legation; that he
was the only diplomat through whom
information Of hostile camps coulo
he obtained: that he acted as an IN
termedary for official diplomatic IN
tercourse between the German lesa-
tion and the chancellor. and recon-
mcnding that he be given Il German
decoration. ,,
Won Eckhardt Immediately dehleu
from Mexico City that he had ever
sent communications through Croh-
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!, swedish Diplomat
Denies Charge of
Being German SDy
GAS BUGGIES.

p,r Stockholm. Sept. 1S-CA. p, by
I.nl-Folke Cronholm, Swedish
large datfairs in Mexico City in
49,. 49, VINO is credited with having
t ,S.eu IN the interests of Germany in
,e passage of important notes in the
,.N part Of the war. has given out
ssNa'ement in which denies his guilt.
nv S SecIares he did not play the spy
"a ne,tmany during the war. but that
N. covering cableSrams in code to
| me-, uefman legation in Mexico he
hi. dcung upon the instructions of
superior. X. y. Wcllenberg, then
wuisn minister Of foreign affairs.
} part; 'O'''' > ''' 'e'iien' says ~
NJ pom my return home I learned
ch.r ne iaise rumor that |. as Swedish
rr,,s daffairs in Mexico, was
ham, u. VI acting as spy for Ger
rAsnit qquflhg the war. and that as
"Posil was recalled from my post.
vbinb to this latter allegation,
slrssa,s ridiculous and false / have
sIsssS declared publicly that my
sovsr wu relations with the German
my recall '''u ho''l'hs 10 90 with
snt.s 70 the charge that in Mexico
that N. as German spy, declare
\ Md s ~e only cause for these rumors
that 'JIcusations is to be found in
succss., as later did also my
l from in obedience to orders
4 enber.m y superior. X. A. Wal
ore,.' men Swedish minister for
cablsprsannairs delivered a number Of
Z vrittsn, ans received from him and
had no IN secret code of which
| Ibis cas as"oWledse. Responsibility in
D lQus cor. which led to such disaS-
lpon Wr"sequences for Sweden, rests
No, his Wal!cnbers and not upon
4 home i purpose today. on my return
/ 70 free myself of these sus-
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SPARKS FROM MAINE WIRES
-ewiston Liquor Dealers Sentenced

Lewiston Liquor Dealers Sentenced
Several Lewiston liquor dealers
were sentenced in United states Dis
trict court at Portland Monday. They
are John Hawkins, fined So. Romeo
Pomerleau, fined $500 and costs,
Louise LemieuX of Webster, fined
5000, Joseph DUDE Of Webster, fined
$500, Rose Nadeau. fined $3.50, Louis
Boussard of Webster. fined SEQ, Will
fred NORM. sentenced to four months
in Jail and $50 fine.
Charge of Intoxication
Everett A. Descharmes of 10 Cedar
street, Lewiston. Monday. in the
Lewiston municipal court was found
guilty of operating an automobile
Sunday while under the influence OF
liquor. He was sentenced to 80 days
in the Auburn county jail. He APP
pealed and was held in $500.
Appeal Filed Again.: Will
benjamin l.. Berman. Lewiston at
torncy, filed an appeal Tuesday. in
behalf of the heirs of Charles Allen.
against the action of Judge William
II. Newell of the probate court, Au-
burn. in allowing the will of their
grandmother, Mrs. Celina Charpen-
tier Of Lewiston, who did not pro-
vide for them in her will. Twenty
days is allowed for an appeal. and
as the will was allowed September
10. Tuesday was the last day.
Sparks Result In Loss OF Buildings
Sparks flying from a pile of rub
bish which Harold G.. Parsons OF
Turner was burning in his pasture
on Monday afternoon, set fire to his
barn, and resulted in the destruction
of his buildings, at a loss of $4,000.
Ncighbors removed the household
furnishings but the contents of the
barn. which included the seasons
hay crop, and most of the vegetables
were lost. The cows were in the pas
turC. and the horse in the barn was
rescued.
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comparisons. however. can he made
if adjusted rates based on stand
ard population are used. II the ra-
tios of the crude rates to the adjust
ed rates for 1922 be applied to the
1929 quarterly rates. the poorest
showing for the first quarter of 1928
appears for Maryland, with an ad-
iusted rate of ISIS. ana the hest
showing appears for Montana, with a
IA tn of 10
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Those Who Advertise Today viii Be Counting Their Profits Tomorrow
MERCHANDISE
Building Materials

l. U NJ l. II - Thoroughly seasoned
spruce and hemlock boards, planks
and :tudding. Frank +. Mace. 81
Winthrop st. Tel. SAM
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holm. or recommended him for a
decoration, and on September 90
Cronholm, in the same city, denied
Won Eckhardt had offered him dec
ora ton. or that he had ever furnished
Won Eckhardt information gathered
among the enemies of his country in
Mexico.
Dispatches from Stockholm last
October said Cronholm had returned
10 the Swedish capital from Mexico
and was engaged in preparing a de-
Tense Of his alleged actions in Mexico.
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Business Opportunities 50
BOWLING ALLEY-In Hallowell for
sale or rent. Inquire II. Gerstian. 223
Watch St. Augusta
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Provisional Mortality Figures: 1872

Washington. ID. G., Oct. 10-The
Department Of Commerce announces
that provisional figures for the first
three months Of 1928 show higher
death rates than for the correspond
ing quarter of 1922. For the states
compared the death ate for the three
months was 1873 in 1928 against 1919
for the first three months Of 1922.
Owing to the differences in the sex
and ae distribution of the popula-
lions, the crude death rates of states
may not be comparable. Better
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Farm and Dairy Product.

CIDER APPLES-Sl a barrel. deliv
cred at the mill. Ben Levasseur, j
s. Hallowell.
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THE OPPORTUNITY you are seek
ing is calling to YOU through the cas-
sifed columns.
CLASSIFIED. ADS help those who
help themselves.
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EMPLOYMENT

Situations Wanted-Mals 81
ORDER COOK-First class one. and
counterman desires position: day or
night work. Cecil Carver, $50 Water
St. Gardiner.
The Washington times., 1923-08-06
CENTRAL HAS
TALBOT THE
OLD SOUTH

"Counterfeit Love-" the Ralph
Ince special production which
opened three-day engagement at
Crandall's Central Theater yester-
day, unfolds an exciting drama of
the old South, is rich in humor,
and highly satisfactory in it's man
ner of dealing with those VINO
almost-but not quite - cheated
justice. The plot hinges upon the
need of a family of the old aris-
tocracy to secure money to dis
charge debts that threaten to wipe
out the last remaining vestige of
the estate. The son of the house
hold, intent on helping his sisters
in their difficulties, happens upon
man who apparently has been
murdered and picks up a roll of
bills near the body. With these
he attempts to lift the mortgage.
but the money is recognized as
counterfeit at the bank From
this situation is built a drama
that moves at a constantly ac-
celebrated tempo until a climax of
numbering power is reached.
During the development of the
major movement are scenes at the
county fair, with it's thrilling
morse races and quaint fun that
give no hint Of the tremendous eff
1ect1VeneSs of the later scenes.
In Boys to Board" Hal Roach
has scored another bulls-eye with
his gang of juvenile mischief
makers. led by Mickey Daniels
ana Sunshine Sammy Morrison.