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The Washington times., 1924-02-22

Metal beds, enamel and
wood finishes; less than "a
price.
Mahogany and walnut dim
ing tables, 4S i'm. and 81 i'm.
sizes at u price.
Beautiful nine-piece (9) dull
mahogany dining
room suite. .$S9S.OO
Odd dining chairs, walnut
and mahogany, less than
n price.
American walnut nine-plece
~ dining room
suite .............$2 O5.OO
These are broken suites
and odd pieces assembled in
one room, all of which are
real bargains.
The Washington times., 1924-02-22
CAPTAIN
FOUND SLAIN
IN CABIN
Skull Crushed In; Another
Bargeman Is Held on
Staying Charge.

NEWARK, N. j., Feb. 22.-Capt.
James Donahue. of the coal barge
John l.. Quigley. was found in the
cabin Of his barge in Staten Island
sound today beaten to death. His
head been crushed with an axe.
Joseph Young, another barge
employee, was arrested on the charge
Of murder. Joseph Fix. deckhand
upon another barge was held as a
material witness.
Young approached Policeman
Joseph O'Connor and told him he
had had fight with Donahue and
that Donahue was dead. Young
was arrested, police found Dona-
hue's cabin wrecked and his body
lying across a blood soaked bed.
On the floor was an axe covered
with blood and hair.
Police learned that the quarrel be.
tween Young and Donahue had
started upon the barge d. ]. Null
queen. They examined Fix who
said he heard Donahue and Young
in an argument and had seen
Young hit Donahue over the head
with an iron bar.
The men then returned to the
John L. Quigley where the fight
was continued.
When the police sought to arrest
Fix he barricaded himself in his
cabin and it was necessary for
police to break in before he could
be seized.
Young refused to say what the
argument was about.
, 1924-01-23
Gas Co.'s Franchise
May be Revoked

The town council held a special
meeting on Monday afternoon for
the purpose of serving notice on the
company that had asked for a fran
chise to furnish gas to the town of
Cody that unless they appeared be-
fore the council on February 4th and
accept the franchise as prepared same
would be revoked. During the meet
ing DR.. Hardy, of Welfall, Montana,
who represents a Chicago concern
that is drilling for oil in that section,
stated that his company was going to
drill for oil north Of Cody, and If gas
was encountered instead of oil his
company would furnish gas to the
town. This, however, could not be
done unless the town was free from
the present franchise and in n posi-
ton to accept the first offer of gas.
, 1924-01-23
Cop Starts New Action
in Library Controversy

f. J. Goppert, attorney for Mes
danes f. j. Goppert and l.. f. Peter
son, has commenced quo warranto pro-
ceedings against Messrs ID. f. Hol-
lister and Fred Richard to make them
establish titles to the positions they
hold as members of the new library
board appointed by the county com
missioners.
Judge Metz is expected over the
end of this week to hear the case.
Judging from their optimistic state
ments, the old library board would ap-
pear to have inside information on
the judges attitude and decision. The
Innocent Bystander, however, is of
the opinion that their glee is a little
premature and Disposed to believe
that he will decide the case upon til
law, regardless of any personal frined-
ship one way or the other.
In the meantime there is nothing
but service at the public library with
two Librarians attending to the wants
of the patrons.
, 1924-01-23
POWELL CHILLY
AS TOWNS GAS
FLOW WzANENS
Pressure Low in Wells - VIII
Have TO Drill to Lower
Strata Soon

With all the gas opened wide from
three wells in the Byron field, resi-
dents of Powell have felt the lack of
pressure in the system this week more
than at any previous time. The sys-
TEN is in every way in first class
shape; there is no freezing to OBJ
struct the gas flow. The trouble is
plainly due to the absence of gas
pressure in the wells, and there is
little the company "A do to remedy
matters this winter. 1t takes months
of time to sink a new well to reach
the gas sands of the lower s~tratas,
where there is plenty of gas avail
able, and in the meantime the gas
company and the consumers can only
hope that they may be able to get
through the remainder of the cold
weather period without serious incon-
v~eHience.
1t was due to a break in the pipe
neal the meter house that the gas
was shut off entirely last Sunday
morning. This was the first Interrupt
ton to the service the gas company
has had since they have put in the
system from the Buron field to Powell
and naturally there was quite a furore
raised among the Powell gas consum-
ers when they observed that the pres
sure was entirely extinct. This situa-
tiation continued for about two hours,
and in the meantime the coal dealers
were besieged with orders to deliver
coal to several of the city's anxious
residents After the gas was on again
in time to prepare the noon meal,
many of these anxious residents were
besieging the coal dealers with en-
treaties to take back toe coal.
Powell is not alone in it's depleted
gas supply. The city of Lowell, OBJ
tanning its gas from the same field,
is having the same low pressure, and
is faced with the same difficulty of
having to drill into the deeper sands
at Byron for an adequate and per
manent supply.
Although the people of Powell have
felt the lack of gas pressure at sew
eral times during the last month, yet
the service is in the main quite salts
factory. 1t is only at the early
morning hours, when all homes and
business houses are using the max
imum amount of the fuel hat the
low pressure is felt. For the remain
der of the day the pressure is quite
adequate, and it is rather a feeling
of misgiving as to the supply holding
out rather than any actual discomfort
that is worrying the Powell public
Powell Tribune.
, 1924-01-23
HNOBODY'lL help HE" WAL.S
COP AT VI. C. /. u. MEETING
Commissioners, Merchants, Druggists, Town of
Cody-Everybody is Agin Him-Wants Re-
ports of Sales Of Corks and Kegs and
Money to Spend

stumbling block to the enforcement
of the prohibition law in Park coun-
ty. They refused to let the taxpayers
pay the bills he had incurred acting
in the capacity of private detective.
They once even went so far as to re-
fuse to refund a marked five dollar
bill he had generously advanced to
trap one of the largest retail boot
leggers in Cody. (He had to sue them
and collected % cents INTEREST,". One
of the board of county commissioners
was endorsed, too, by the w. C. T. U.
and then later published statements
hat were untrue and detrimental to
the cause of prohibition.
In closing his imprisoned address,
MI. Goppert advocated the following
legislation or amendments to the pro-
hibitory law:
A law that will compel all mer-
chants, including druggists, to fur
nish the county attorney with a re-
port of all sales of barrels, charred
kegs, sugar, grain, bottles and corks,
or anything that might be used to
manufacture Intoxicating liquor.
(Prunes, dried peaches, a~pricots, raj
sins, figs).
A law that will give the sheriff the
authority to make arrests for intox-
ication and assist the marshal in clean
ing up the town.
Last, but a long way from least
a fund to be placed in the hands of
the prosecuting attorney to ts used
by him to run down bootlegyers so
that he could have a free hand and
not be handicapped by the county
commissioners refusing to pay the
bills presented.
1t was thought that Mr.. Goppert
stopped too soon; that he should have
gone further and advocated a bill
making it obligatory upon all citizens
to permit the sheriff and prosecuting
attorney to smell their breath upon
request.
, 1924-01-23
SHERIFF TOY
ACCUSED OF
I%NTOXICATION

Announcement was made at the
office of Governor William B. Ross
Saturday afternoon that Frank r.
Toy, sheriff of Sheridan county, Wy
oming, had been served with notice
to appear before the governor Feb
ruary 18th, to show cause why he
should not be removed from office for
"having wilfully failed, neglected and
refused to perform the duties of your
office, and for being guilty of intox-
ication and drunkenness"
Toy, it was stated at the governors
office, also was served with a COM
plant by NJ. C. Wachtel, state COM
missioner of law enforcement, accus-
ing him of having been "in an intox-
icated and drunken condition" in the
town of Monarch, Wyoming, Deem
Der 10th and 18th, and having been
in an intoxicated and drunken condi-
ton" in Big Horn, Wyoming, at a
date unknown to the complainant.
Service on Toy, it was said at the
Governors office, was made by Cor
oner w. A. Steffen, of Sheridan coun-
ty.
The governors action against Sher-
if Toy invokes for the first time au-
thority granted by a statute enacted
by the last Legislature.
Sheridan, Wyo, Jan. 19.-Papers
notifying Sheriff Frank r. Toy, of
Sheridan county, to appear before
Governor w. B. Ross on February Is
to answer charges of misconduct in
office we're served on the sheriff here
Saturday by NJ. C. Wachtel, state
commissioner of law enforcement.
Sheriff Toy, questioned regarding
the charge made against him, said:
81 want my friends to stay with me,
l will prove that the charges against
me are untrue"
, 1924-01-23
Can't Tell Darrah
Anything about Snow

II. w. Darrah, who has been win
tering at his sawmill up among the
mountain sheep and eagles on Carter
mountain, saddled the longest legged
horse in the corral and wallowed thru
the drifts to Cody last Saturday.
He declares that he knows more
about snow than any man living and
if his camera is working right he will
have the pictures to prove it. He says
he hasn't done anything but shovel
snow, cook and sleep since back in
November; that up to the 18th of jan
uary between IL and 10 feet of snow
had fallen around his winter res
idence; that the weight of 1t is such
that it required continual shovelling
to keep the roofs of his house and
buildings from caving in and to get
a little daylight through the windows.
He travels through a labyrinth OF
tunnels like the catacombs in Rome
and comes out once a day to see if he
can see his shadow. The snow has
broken down trees fifteen or sixteen
inches in circumference, being so
heavy and wet that a pan full of 1t
placed on the stove makes half a
pan of water. The only thing that
hasn't frozen up is the spring, and
that is still running. In fact "Hud'
seemed sort of peeved about the wea-
Their.
, 1924-01-23
SMOKEY" IS
Home AGAIN
Model for Equestrian Statue of
Buffalo Bill Tries to I'm
load his Pack

Smokey" Groves arrived home in
style in an express car de luxe last
Saturday after some weeks spent
among the smart set in New York
City.
To prove that he had not lost his
spirit and was the same old boss in
spite of the pampering and attention
he had received as the model of Mrs.
Whitney's equestrian statue of Buff
falo Bill, he "broke in two" when
Ralph Mccullough stepped IN him
last Monday to ride him back to the
TIE.
He bucked all over the street be-
fore the barn and Scotty's blacksmith
shop while Ralph was reaching for
anything that was loose, regardless
of contest rules.
'Smokey's' measurements were found
to be perfect and every pose was a
picture when he was filmed in action
and shown on the screen.
Referring to the s~yndicated article
containing his picture and that of the
local Adonis heralded as "Chief of
the cowboys of the Cody ranch,"-
whatever that may mean whose
"honest features were covered with
confusion whenever he accidentally
said damn Smokey declared the
story was enough to make a horse
laugh.
, 1924-01-23
DUDE HORSES mis-.
Treated, WRITES
CORRESPONDENT
Objects of Pity Left to Starve
in Bare Pastures Declares
Rancher
Dear Editor:

Deaf Editor:
If the people who complain to the
humane society want to prevent cru
city to animals why instead of picking
on the Cody Stampede do they not
look about them and see the poor
dude horses that are carrying dudes
all summer on short feed and then as
500 as their work is over thrown
into a pasture which has been eaten
off all summer where there is not even
decent sagebrush left, not a bit of
anything but what they can dig out
of the snow?
Why do they not see and report the
fact to the humane society that when
the bear season opens these horses
are rounded up, what is left of them,
and they are sent out again, living
skeletons, to carry heavy packs?
If they want to see real suffering
they should take n look around and
observe the hundreds of cattle and
calves standing out without any shell
ter and hear their pitiful believing
which is enough to make any person
who has any feeling for dumb ami
mails sick at heart.
II looks to me as if these things
were something to try and remedy in
stead of complaining about n few well
fed and well treated horses and cattle
that are used for n few minutes
amusement each year.
One Who Knows.
, 1924-01-23
TnENiBLOR FELT
IN SUNLIGHT
Residents Describe Sensation
Felt as if Cabin Was Walk
ing OFF, Says Marvin

Earthquake tremors were felt in
Sunlight and on Clarks Fork January
18th about 20 minutes of 5 o'clock
according to residents of those sec
tions, while the shakes were reported
to have been much stronger in Cooke
City and vicinity.
Simon Snyder who, by reason of
his occupation, dude wrangler, is i'm
mune to shocks of any kind whatever,
took the matter calmly.
81 heard a roar and noticed some
thing unusual" said Mr.. Snyder. 1.-THE
children asked what it was and | told
them | guessed it was only an earth
quake and not to worry"
c. j. James, Sunlight ranger, was
more impressed than Mr.. Snyder
when he suddenly felt the earth heav-
ing under him. He was sitting at the
table when he heard the roar which
accompanied the tremors.
"Things seemed to sort of go up and
down." declared Mr.. James, waving
his hand by way of illustration. at
vas quite noticeable"
A. E. Evans, whose training while
q hlIiilDII VI lllc Sldll VI the NEW
York Sun had taught him to be con-
sentative would go no further than
to admit that he heard something
Bert Marvin, however, who has
been in Sunlight so long that he is
an authority upon local history, in
Guiding earthquakes, said that it had
happened before and gave a more
graphic description of the occurrence.
81 heard a roar and it felt as if the
cabin was walking away from me-"
declared Nh. Marvin.
This was not a pleasant sensation
but it did not disturb Bert's equinimity
because he knew, from past perform
ances, that the earthquake wouldn't
do any more than crack the ground
open.
"Once, about 16 years ago, there
vas a quake that left cracks two
inches wide," he said. 1--WE noticed
that it happened during very cold
weather and l think it's because the
gas is pent up in there and has to get
out somehow"
At the Dickinson ranch on Clarks
Fork, it is said that tremors shook the
dishes on the shelves and ratified the
windows.
, 1924-01-23

Park county's extremely active
prosecuting attorney, E. j. Goppert,
poured his troubles into the sympa-
thetic ears of the ladies of the w. c.
T. U. at the Methodist church last
Sunday evening.
They are many and varied. The
burden of his song vas that the town
was agin him except the noble little
band of prohibition sisters who were
listening to him.
Grievance No. He wrote to the
groceries stores, including the Cody
Trading Company, and asked them to
kindly send him information regard
ing the purchases of their customers
so that he could investigate them if he
thought necessary. He wished re-
ported to him the names of those who
bought charred barrels, quantities of
sugar, grain and other commodities
used in the manufacture of beverages
with a kick.
No one replied to his request.
Grievance No 2.-He wrote to the
drug stores and asked them to fur
nish him with names of customers
who bought corks and bottles.
Only one gave him the courtesy of
an answer, and that was the Western
Drug Company. Gas near as car be
learned this answer was verbal and
to the effect that the pharmacy would
do nothing of the kind.
Grievance No. 3.-The town of
Cody, that is, it's officials, seemed to
be friendlier to the bootlegger than
to the cause of prohibition since it
had collected only SIS in fines for vi
olation of the liquor law in a whole
year. When Sheriff Loomis walked
down the street he had to stumble
over or walk around intoxicated per-
sons because he had not the neces-
sary authority to assist the city
shall in cleaning up the town."
Grievance No. 4.-The county COM
missioners failed to cooperate with
him; in fact they seemed to be a great
, 1924-01-23
Caroline's Bobcat
Cures Rheumatism

A good active bobcat, working in
connection with the Big Horn Hat
Springs water, will cure the most OBJ
stlnate case of rheumatism. As bob
cats are not recognized IN pharmaco-
peia and as the case we have in mind
ionrraI" m9u ses in'o 'ne I. a.
tho sngou; 70 VIII nave 70 s,se
s p''"' !" ''f wv" way
Miss Caroline Lockhart came over
, 1924-01-23
CODY TRAPPERS
Bring IN MANY
HANDSOME FURS

Ben Ref came in from the noun
tains IN Saturday after having spent
four months trapping in the upper
Yellowstone country with Vern Spen-
Ger. He reports having had good sue
cess and brought out some very fine
furs which consisted of % marten, 2
fox, 4 coyotes, 10 ermine and 1 lynx.
During their stay they saw daily a
large herd of moose which they es-
timated at 80 head that are winter
ing on the upper Yellowstone. The
elk and deer have disappeared, having
left for their winter ranges. How
ever, they report a great number of
elk and deer on the Northfork, their
winter range. They are in good con-
dition.
, 1924-01-23
c. B. & Q. to Build
Steel Bridge Over
Dangerous Gulch

II is understood that the Burling-
ton bridge crew, now in Cook City,
Nebraska, will arrive in about ten
days to begin the building of n steel
structure over the dry gulch beyond
the station where the present bridge
is said to be in not too good condition.
This is n dangerous place in case of
accident and travellers will feel re-
lieved to know that the Burlington
is going TO span this deep gulch with
n substantial bridge.
, 1924-01-23
Thos. Osborne's Brother
Killed in Mine Accident

On Wednesday morning of last
week Thos. Osborne, Jr., of Meeteetss
received the sad news that his broth
err William had been killed in n mine
accident ut Red Lodge, Montana,
early that morning. Mr.. Osborne
started to Cody to take the train for
Red Lodge. 1t took six hours TO make
the trip from Meeteetse and, as he
supposed. too late to catch the train.
However, On arriving he telephoned
the station and the train was held
until he reached the station.
William Osborne was we'll known
in Cody, having visited here on sew
eral occasions. The accident which
caused the death Of Mr.. Osborne was
by being crushed between two mine
cars on which he was riding. The
body was brounght to Cody on Mon
day. Intcrment in Riverside GEM
etery.
, 1924-01-23
Inspired by Trip
Editor Smith Scars

Mrs. Annice Phelps left the first
of the week for New York City to
embark upon that Mediterranean
so extensively delineated recently in
magazines and newspapers. Mrs.
Phelps principal abiding places of in
terest will be the lofty Alps and Him
alayas, the Holy Land, the mute
sphinx and beautifully contured Pyr-
amids in Africa. She will not let the
ghosts lowering about King Tut's
tomb keep her away from that plum
dered sepulchre and in many oriental
gardens il will be her pleasure to bask.
While sailing the waters Of the Giant
Sea and viewing the picturesque
landscape afar, the lucid descriptions
of Thomas Buchanan Reeds luridly-
pictured Drifting" will make her en-
chanted journey doubly enriched:
My soul today
Is far away,
Sailing the Vesuvian Bay;
My winged boat,
A bird afloat,
Swims round the purple peaks re-
motel
Round purple peaks
IL sails and seeks
Blue inlets, and their crystal creeks,
Where high rocks throw,
Through deeps below,
A duplicated golden glow.
-Meeteeste News,
, 1924-01-23
Mrs. VIM. Lenniger
Badly Scalded Falling
with Kettle Hot Water

While carrying a kettle of boiling
water down cellar a week ago Tues
day Mrs. William L%enninger missed
n step and fell to the bottom, scalding
herself badly. 1t was twenty minutes
before she had assistance. The burns
were painful as the skin came off in
many places. She will be laid up for
some time.
Clifford Lenninger, who has n phar-
macy in Greybull, came over last week
to be with his mother.
, 1924-01-23
z. T. Williams Sells Out

f. T. Williams, organizer and presi-
dent Of the f. T. Williams Oil COM
pany. large operators at Salt Creek.
has sold his interests in that concern
and has removed to California TO re-
side permanently.
f. J. Sullivan, who has been asso-
slated with the company since the
start, has succeeded Mr.. Williams ms
president of the concern.-Thermop-
oils Record.
, 1924-01-23
As SEEN FROMTHEW WATERMELON
1 @mhine@ chhayf gzA
.KIAL - I'll LIN

lie looks as if there was trouble
ahead down around Largo canyon,
Aztec, New Mexico. An advertise
ment CLEANED from the classified
column in n local paper reads:
WANTED-A real rough guy-I
want a COW hand who knows cows.
Not under So years of age or over so.
One who smokes, drinks, swears, tells
the truth and hates sheep herders.
w. F. H., the Three B ranch, Largo
Canon, p. o. Aztec, New Mexico.
-wr+
Two schoolmarms NEAR Riverton
froze their knees during the recent
cold weather. Fashion hints from
Palm Beach indicate that skirts are
to be shorter and we are wondering
what will happen to them next win
ter.
One of the state papers suggests
that Governor Ross spend some of his
appropriation for enforcing prohibi-
ton in establishing a Kelley cure for
enforcement officers.
The consul general for Cuba visited
a night court in New York last week
and afterward declared hat in all
Cuba, which is without prohibition,
one would not see as many cases of
drunkenness as he saw during that
night.
, 1924-01-23

We take u typewriter in hand and
hasten to congratulate Mrs. Margaret
Hayden upon her excellent story of
the Cody Memorial in the last issue
of the Herald. We have watched
Mrs. Hayden's work with a good deal
of interest, and noted it's steady i'm
provement. Her well written and &C
curate stories of local happenings
published in the Billings Gazette, diiu
widely copied, is giving Cody much
desirable publicity.
WV
Katheyn Wolf, of Cleveland, Ohio,
was awarded $4,000 damages against
Walter Juhn, who lived in the same
house. She claimed she found Juhn
under her bed and was scared $4,000
worth. Juhn blamed Mr.. Volstead,
declaring that if it had not been for
a drink of moonshine he never would
have been guilty of such a monkey
shine.
Upon our return from an absence
we observe that our cub reporter
made mention of the fact that L.. L.
Newton and ourself departed togeth-
er. To- tell the truth-this is in strict
confidence-we are each afraid to go
away and leave the other vt home for
fear he will slip something over, sc
by tacit arrangement, we make our
pilgrimages to the outside at the same
time.
, 1924-01-23
Pontoon Johnny Not
Expected to Recover

A visitor to st. Vincent's hospital
in Billings reports that Pontoon
Johnny is in n serious condition. He
has a bad attack of jaundice in add
ton to other complications. The phy-
sicians held out very little hope Tor
his recovery, which is bad news in
deed to the many friends of this brave
little veteran Of two wars.
, 1924-01-23

Mrs. L. Il. Ewart leaves for Wells,
Minnesota, on Thursday to join Mr..
Ewart. The family will return next
summer.
, 1924-01-23

The policy of this paper is
to uphold the standards
and perpetuate the spirit
of the old West.