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, 1925-02-04
OHIO STRIKES
BIG GAS WELL
OREGON BASIN
GREATEST GAS FIELD EVER
BROUGHT IN IN THIS COUNTY
BLOWS IN TUESDAY

With mingled surprise and dis
may the Stock Drilling company I'M
corked a huge gas field in Oregon
basin Monday and the sound of es-
Gaping gas has been heard for many
miles around, as it escapes from
the hole. carrying with it water.
rock and debris for hundreds of
feet in the air. The drill was on
the 2,400 foot level, almost through
the red beds when the gas stopped
operations. The gas flow is con-
servatively estimated at 10000; 200
cubic feet every t~wenty-four hours.
The well is one which is being
drilled by the Stock Drilling com
pany. They are using a huge rotary
rig and expect to go to the 3,4O0
foot level before ceasing operations.
Advice from the drillers is to the
effect hat the gas is to be cased
oft at once, If possible. and drilling
resumed, as they have some 500
feet more to go before completing
their contract.
While the gas gave the drillers
their first trouble on Monday it is
not at all impossible that 1t may be
escaping from some of the sands
which they went through at lesses
levels. Several sands known to be
gas producing have been pierced
and an investigation may prove hat
the gas is 10 from the 2,400 foot
level, but at one of the higher
sands.
Many people from all owe the
basin have been coming in to view
the big gasser, and hope runs high
in Cody that, whether or not oil is
procured in this well, the Ohio COM
pany may decide to renew its ran
chise with the town of Cody and
pipe the commodity to the city for
domestic and commercial purposes.
, 1925-02-04
ASSESSMENT WORK
TO Be STARTED AT ONCE

Work was started on Monday
from the office of County Assessor
H. A. Phillips on the 1925 assess
.ment. Mr.. Phillips has presented
the names of his deputies for the
years work and they have received
the approval of the county board.
A. C. Newton will handle much of
the field work as in former years.
He will take the assessment of the
Northfork and Southfork, of the
Irma Flat community, south as far
as Meeteetse rim, and the Clarks
Fork, Painter and Crandall sections.
Mr.. Phillips will do much of the
work in and about Cody; Jas e.
Hamilton will assess the Meeteetse
and Greybull section; R. L. Gillison
the Garland and Penrose commun-
tiles and A. L.. Scott and A. P.
Monteba will take the valuations on
the Powell fiat.
With this corps of workers to as
sist him in the field work the 1925
assessment should be secured in a
very prompt and efficient manner.
, 1925-02-04
ISSUES PROCLAMATION
FOR BOND ELECTION MARCH 10

The town council at it's regular
meeting Monday evening issued a
proclamation for a bond election
to vote on 100000 worth of bonds
which will be used in purchasing
the electric light distributing sys-
TEN of the Shoshone Electric Light
&c Power company. The election
will be held on Tuesday, March 10,
at which all free holders and tax
payers of the town will be per-
mitted to vote.
The appraisement committee for
the electrict lines. composed of Chas.
Rector and A. S. McClain, presented
their report, and placed a value on
the distributing lines of the city
of $~16,269.11. In making the ap-
praisement they listed as Junk"
about 10. 900 pounds of the copper
lines, which have been in use so
long that the insulation has been
completed worn off, and figured a
material depreciation on practically
, 1925-02-04
W0MAN'S CLUB GIVES
LONGFELLOW PROGRAM

A Longfellow program was pre-
scented at an interesting meeting of
the Cody Woman's club Tuesday
afternoon in the basement of the
library.
Margaret Hayden read an inter-
esting sketch of the life of Long
fellow and extracts from his works
were read by Mrs. ]. N. Langworthy.
Mrs. c. NJ. Cox sang a solo, accom-
panied by Mrs. r. B. Hardin at the
piano. A piano duet was given by
Mesdames r. b. Rodgers and Henry
Pool.
The next meeting of the club will
be in the nature of a Washington
tea. 1t has been decided by the
ladies that hereafter a small charge
will be made each member at the
afternoon teas. The annual dance
of the club will be held this Friday
evening at the Temple theatre.
, 1925-02-04

everything included in the distribu-
ton system.
h town council, should it be
decided to take over the distributing
system, will find it necessary to
find a suitable office for the handling
of the towns business, and a few
thousand dollars will be needed for
this expense. Mayor Trueblood
stated that in the event the a X
payers voted the bonds it was pos
.sible that a salvage would be made
of the old building owned by the
town at this time and a modern city
hall constructed which would ade-
quately house the electric light Of
flee, the water commissioners office,
q council room and a fireproof Jail.
OF course these are but tentative
plans and it will be necessary for
the voters to express their senti-
ments before the council can go
farther with the project they have
in mind.
, 1925-02-04
MORE FUNDS
ROAD WORK
WEST OF DAM
FUNDS FOR IMPROVEMENT
ROAD WEST OF DAM

That $4,000 will be available
for the improvement of the three
quarters of a mile of road to yell
lowstone park, beginning at the
Shoshone dam and continuing west
ward to the west entrance to the
canyon, connecting with the pro-
ject completed last year, seems to
be assured. Col. A. S. Peck, dis
trict forester of the Denver office,
recently in conference with rep
r~esentatives of the Federal Bureau
of Roads and the state highway Of
ficials in Cheyenne. sends word
that this amount is included in an
appropriation bill presented to con-
gress by the forest service, and
every indication points to it's pas
sage without reservation.
]. N. Langworthy, supervisor of
Shoshone forest, returned Tuesday
from Sheridan where he discussed
allotments of forestry funds with
Col. Peck and other forest officials,
n is very confident that this pro-
ject will be started during the
present year. The $4,000 would
be used in a new roadway which
would start at the west entrance of
the spillway tunnel, leading at a
slightly higher level than the old
road. 1t would be a wider and
safer roadway than the one now in
use. eliminating many of the short
turns and connecting with the new
project which was completed in
1924 by the Taggart Construction
company.
The proposed road will be a con
Meeting link for the project com
pleted west of the dam and the one
under construction at the present
time, and will make Shoshone can
yon and the road to Yellowstone
park n Of the greatest. scenic
routes in America.
, 1925-02-04
POWELL MAN FACES
SERIOUS MORAL CHARGE

A. Strand and his wife, of Powell,
are in the county jail, the former
being charged with an unbelievable
moral offense against his nine
year-old daughter. and the mother
charged with intimidating a wit
ness. The evidence in the case,
which is admissions of the young
child, may convict the father, and
the mother is charged with having
full knowledge of the crime, and
seeking to protect the father by
threats against the daughter should
she tell the truth.
Mr.. Strand has entered a plea
of not guilty and will be tried at
the term of court which convenes
the middle of this month.
, 1925-02-04
CODY CLUB URGES
IMPROVEMENT OF
DANGEROUS ROADS

AS an aftermath of the two fatal
automobile accidents in the county
Sunday, the Cody club, through it's
road and transportation committee,
will use every effort to bring about
an improvement of the dangerous
places on the Cody-Powell and Gar
land road, and the hill leading from
Cody on the Cody-Greybuli road.
There are several places on each of
these roads which have been uni
versally characterized as death traps
for autoists and the accidents of
Sunday only proved that they rep
resent greater hazards than the peo-
pie of Cody can afford to tolerate
any longer.
The places mentioned in the
Cody-Powell road are the bridges
just this side of the wildwood in
tersection, where the bridge is To-
Gated at a sharp angle to the side
of the road, and several more equal
ly dangerous places between Ralston
and Garland, where laterals from
the main Shoshone project canal
have caused a construction of mar
row bridges or %culverts, me of
which are in line with the main
thorofare, but were placed at angles
with the road.
The road leading up he hill to
the east of Cody on what is known
as the Cody-Greybull road has been
recognized as a foolhardy piece of
work ever since it was constructed.
1T is not wide enough for the
safe passinP of cars. and at the top
is a sharp turn at a place where
a car coming to Cody, and deviating
the least bit from the center of the
road will go over and down an em-
bankment several hundred feet.
Every effort is to be put forth
by the Cody club, and hopes are
entertained hat cooperation will
be secured from the commercial or
ganization al Powell to get m
thing done on these roads.
, 1925-02-04
CODY QUINT LOSES
TO LOWELL AND BYRON

The Cody High School basket
tossers suffered two defeats the past
week when they matched their bas-
ket shooting ability with that OF
the teams of Lowell and Byron.
On Friday evening Lowell took
them to the tune of Is to IA in a
game of thrills and fast playing.
On Tuesday night Byron defeated
them 9 to 6. Both games were
played away from home and the
boys promise to come back strong
when they meet Basin Friday eve
ming on the home floor.
, 1925-02-04
l. c. FREEMAN RETIRES
FROM TRUCKING co.

A deal was closed this week
whereby ~Southgate Freeman takes
over the interests of his brother,
l.. c. Freeman, in the L.. c. Free
man Trucking company. and here
after this firm will be known as the
Freeman Trucking company. Mr..
is operating five White
trucks, besides a Stutz and a Lin
coin touring car which he uses for
livery service. They do a great deal
of hauling for the oil companies.
Mr.. Freeman also states that he
has purchased the L. R. Ewart pro-
perty in the west end of town and
will make his permanent home there.
, 1925-02-04
CALLING JURY TODAY
COURT SET FOR FEB. Is

Judge P. w. Metz arrived in
Cody Tuesday and today is calling
a jury for the trial of several cases
in the regular term of court which
will v about the middle of
the month.
Judge Metz will hear sew
eral civil cases and any pleas of
guilt which may be made at this
time by defendants in court. The
docket was issued last week and
shows a criminal docket well filed
with jury cases, as well as a good
sized civil docket.
, 1925-02-04
ALLOTMENT
CONFERENCE HELD
AT SHERIDAN

The annual allotment conference
for the five national forests in this
district was held at Sheridan last
week. commencing January 29th and
continuing until Monday night.
Those present were Col. A. S. Peck.
district forester, with headquarters
at Denver. Colorado; j.. Stahl, as
sistant district forester; J. l.. Buck
ner, fiscal agent; Rest Phillips, of
the road engineering department,
and the supervisors of the Black
Hills forest, the Harvey forest,
%Shoshone forest, Washable forest
and the Big Horn forest.
The matter of allotment of funds
for each of these forests was taken
up and acted upon at the confer
ence, with the result that j. N.
Langworthy was able to secure sew
eral thousand dollars for road i'm
provement in Park county on roads
within the forest boundaries.
Funds will be available for CO.
operative maintenance with the
county on the Southfork road,
$1,000 for improvement on Dead
Indian hill inc 81 900 for improve
ment of the Crandall creek road.
Mr.. Langworthy states that there
will also be funds for considerable
work on the Shoshone trail, which
is a saddle horse route connecting
the Washable national forest, the
Shoshone forest, INT continuing to
Cooke City, Montana. The trail
crosses the Shoshone pass at the
head of Southfork, down the South
fork, across Table mountain, up
Trout creek, down Dead Indian
creek, over Lodge Pole trail to
Crandall creek and up the CIarks
Fork to Cooke City.
Mr.. Langworthy said the meeting
was a very enthusiastic one and
much road development will be
made in all of the national forests
represented at the conference. $780,
900 has been made available for
the completing of the road over
the Big Horn mountains from Sher-
idan to Lowell. This will be a real
connecting link for northern Wyo-
ming and will bring much motor
travel into the Basin.
, 1925-02-04
D. A. R. ORGANIZED In
THE BIG HORN BASIN

An organization of the Daughters
Of the American Revolution was
formed at Thermopolis last week
with eighteen charter members, and
the membership will include all ell
igibles in the Big Horn basin. The
chapter has been given the name OF
Washable" Mrs. B. B.. Brooks, OF
Casper, came to the Basin and as
sisted in the work of the organiza-
ton.
Mrs. A. p. Monteba of Powell
and her daughter, Mrs. NJ. C. Sar-
versy of Thermopolis, who are botn
well known in Cody, are anon
those identified with the order. There
are more people in and about Cody
who will become members.
, 1925-02-04
EAGLES WILL DANCE AWAY
BLACK MAGIC ON FEB. 4

The members of Cody Aerie, i.
O. E., are unafraid of the uper-
stitious traditions of Black Friday,
and on February 18th will give their
annual dance at the Temple theatre.
The committee in charge declares
that the dance will be a bigger and
better one than has ever before
been staged by the Eagle fraternity
and everyone is invited to join in
and spend the evening of Friday,
the 18th day of February as their
guests.
, 1925-02-04

Enroute to Billings
The accident on the Powell road
occurred when the Cody party were
enroute to Billings. Jack Shuler,
driver of the car, planned on max
ing the round trip on Sunday and
was accompanied by Stanley Land
gren, an employee of the First Ma
tional bank of Cody, Misses Vaun
Beatty and Mabel Anderson, men,
bers of the Cody school faculty, and
Mrs. Conan Davies. They left about
$50 in the morning and were said
to be travelling at a very fast speed
when approaching the jog in the
road about four miles west of Pow
ell caused by the concrete structure
of the Frannie lateral. Unable to
make the turn, the car hurdled over
into the main canal. throwing all
the occupants through the top, and
damaging the car to considerable
extent.
The driver, Mr.. Shuler, was un-
injured, and telephoned for heir
from the nearby home of N. w
Wittet. The injured people were
got to the Powell hospital as soon
as possible, Mrs. Davies dying 6
few minutes later of wounds caused
when she was thrown from the car
Miss Beatty is in a very serious con
dition, with injuries to her back
Stanley Landgren suffered a broker
arm and Miss Anderson is still il
the hospital with a cut which re
quired six stitches on her face.
, 1925-02-04
ACCIDENTS TAKE
TOLL OF TWO LIVES ON SUNDAY
Cody School Teachers and Meeteetse Ladies in
Hospital as Result of Injuries Sustained

Two automobile accidents on Sunday took a toll of two lives
and five people are in the hospital as a result of the crashes
Mrs. Conan Davies, wife of a Cody man, was killed and three
others injured when a heavy touring car turned over into the
Shoshone canal at the Frannie lateral on the Cody-Powel road
Another accident occurred in the evening when a car coming
from Meeteetse failed to make the turn at the top of the hill
approaching the east city limits and plunged over a embank-
ment several hundred feet, almost instantly killing Pat Florida,
and seriously injuring Mrs. George Weller and Miss Marion
Swain. All of these people reside in Meeteetse, and Mrs. Wener's
condition is considered very serious, while Miss. Swain was not
, 1925-02-04
EXTENSION SCHOOL AT
SAGE CREEK BUILDING
State Specialists to be Here Next
Week to Conduct Demonstra-
tons in Farming and
Home Work

The extension department of Wy
oming, cooperating with r. j. Allen,
county agent, and Miss Margery
Eells, county demonstration agent,
will hold a school in extension work
at the Sage Creek Country Club
building next week, starting Thurs
day and continuing two days. J.. A.
Hill, dean of the College of Agri-
culture and a wool specialist, and
d. J.. Robertson, livestock specialist.
will be present from the state uni
versity and will give lectures and
demonstration work during the
meeting. A. e. Bowman, director
of state extension work, will arrive
Thursday night and give a talk on
that evening on Community Build
ing" Miss Luella Sherman, spe-
cialist in nutrition, will lecture to
the m The school will start
Thursday morning at nine o'clock.
The program for the men will be a
field tour, starting from the hall at
$3.50. This tour will include dem
opstrations in selecting individuals
for the farm. 1t will be worth while
and should be attended by as many
as who can attend. Starting at 10
O'Clock the women will be given a
demonstration by Miss Sherman on
the different uses of milk in the
preparation of meals, and the after.
noon session will be taken by talks
on planning a Nutrition Program
for the Community"
Dinner In Evan.nu
At six-thirty a big dinner is
planned for all who can attend, fol
lowed by some fine addresses. Mr..
Bowman will be the principal speak
er at the evening meeting.
Friday Program
Friday morning, commencing at
10 o'clock, a wool grading and scour-
call will be maintained for the
farmers of the community. From
one O'Clock to three sheep and lamt
feeding and equipment and rela.
lions will be discussed by Mr.. Rob
%ertson. "Sheep and Lamb Feeding
on Peas" will be the topic for dis.
cussion by Dean Hill at the after.
noon session.
IN Friday morning the ladies
program will be a talk by Miss Sher-
man IN the cooking of fruits, and
in the afternoon she will lecture and
give demonstrations regarding the
cooking of vegetables.
The time that Dean Hill is able
to be away from college is limited
and there will be but one meetine
in this end of the county. The peo-
pie of Sheets fiat, Meeteetse, Upper
Greybull, and those on the north
and south forks of the Shoshone
are urged to attend this meeting.
Serving of Lunches
Those attending the meetings
should bring their own lunches. and
coffee will be served at the comun.
ity building. Those in charge are
anxious that everyone who can
should attend and make this ex.
tension one of the best to be held
in the state. To a very great ex,
tent the talent which it is possible
to bring to these schools depends
upon the attendance, and those in
charge are very anxious that this
meeting in the west end of the
county be one well attended.
, 1925-02-04
WILLIFORD CHARGED
WITH OWNERSHIP BOOZE

Faye Williford was arrested at
Casper last week and returned to
Cody in custody of Undersheriff Jas
Milstead to answer to the charges
of ownership of the 90 gallons OF
booze which was unearthed by the
.sheriff's office recently. Mr.. VIII
liford has given bond for his appear
ance in the next term of court.
, 1925-02-04

Members of the Cody DeMolay
chapter are giving their annual ban
quet at the Masonic temple tonight,
which will be followed by initiatory
work The degree team has been
practicing very faithfully for some
time and will present the work in a
manner which will be worth while.
, 1925-02-04
Runs OF Bad Hill

The car in which the Meeteetse
people were riding was a Jewett
roadster and was driven by Miss
Swain. They were enroute to the
Carter ranch to visit Mr.. and Mrs.
Roy Wilds, the later of whom is
the mother of the two girls. AS
they approached the hill leading
down into Cody the car was slowed
down to make the turn which is a
very sharp one when they met Paul
Stock, an oil operator in Oregon
basin. In turning out to pass the
Stock car, the M~eeteetse machine
slipped over the bank of loose rocks
bordering the road and plunged
down an embankment several hun
bred feet. The car is said to have
remained upright until it had trav-
eled almost t%wo-thirds of the dis
lance, when a front wheel breaking
caused it to turn over and pitch
the occupants to the foot of the
hill below. The hillside is thickly
covered with large boulders, and it
was coming contact with these which
SO terribly injured Mr.. Florida and
Mrs. Weller.
The injured people were moved
Immediately to the nearby home of
Clarence Shrine, where Florida died
a few minutes later. Mrs. Weller
is critically ill at the home of Mira,
Mary Peckham, while Miss Swain,
who was only slightly injured, is
liable to be out.
, 1925-02-04

Mrs. S. M. Ref returned today
from Billings where she has been
receiving medical attention.
Evening star., 1925-10-21
MORE DETAILS SHOWN
ON GENERAL ELECTRIC
Federal Trade Probe Brings Out
New Facts About Great
Corporation.
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, October 2l-F'urther
details of the ramifications of the
General Electric 60. were brought
out today at the second session OF
the Federal Trade Commissions in
vestigation into charges that the
Radio Corporation of America and
associated companies comprised an
illegal combination
Named as respondents in the Gov
ernment action are the General Elec-
Iric Co. American Telephone and
Telegraph Co, Westinghouse Flee
trio Manufacturing Co, international
Radio Telegraph. the United Fruit Co,
ana the Radio Corporation.
J. d. Kammerer, travelling auditor
of the General Electric, supplemented
details he gave Yesterday of the
varied interests he'd by his company.
His examination showed Sl,132, $50 OF
common stock and 1928 shares OF
preferred stock of the Frontier cor
poration. holding valuable power
rights on the 81. Lawrence River,
stood TO the credit OF the General
Electric.
Another company in which sub
stantial interest was held was the
Niagara. Lockport and Ontario Power
Co., which supplies much of western
New York with electricity from Nj
agara Falls.
Evening star., 1925-10-21
'NEW H|GHLEVELS
| ON GERMAN BONDS
Expected Flow of American
Capital to That Country
Starts Buying Wave.
BY GEORGE r. HUGHES.
,ial Disnatcb to The Star

special Dispatch to The Star
NEW YORK, October 21.-Atten-
ton was again concentrated on the
foreign list in today's bond market,
where new high records were at
tanned for German government Is,
which We're the leaders, and new
highs for the present movement on
many other European obligations.
The trading in the German bonds
was Very heavy. They closed Tues
day at 1o11s and opened today at 102.
advancing rapidly a half point more
before reaction set in under profit
taking. German Central Agricultural
Bank Is bad a similar rise from 90 IS
to above 81. Another bond in this
group to sell at a new high was City
of Berlin 8 rs, which crossed so.
Buying also favored Poland bonds.
The SIS. approaching 81. were higher
than at any time since syndicate sup
port was withdrawn. The older issue,
the 6S. had similar improvement.
Fractional advances We're recorded for
City of Greater Prague 7i2s. by Bel
gian 6s and IS and by Greek rs. Large
transactions took place in Jugoslav IS
at 90 unchanged. Bolivian SIS made a
new high and Brazil and Chile bonds
were generally strong.
Among the new issues was $4,000.
coo Sauda Falls. Ltd. first 5s, guar
anteed by the Union Carbide and Car
bon Corporation to yield over 5.1c per
cent
Evening star., 1925-10-21
GRAIN QUOTATIONS
co HIGHER TODAY
Secretary Jardine's Views on
Market Factor in Up
swing in Wheat.
By the Associated Press.

CHICAGO, October 21.-With trad
ers giving special attention to report
quoting the Secretary of Agriculture
as saying it seems probable the mar
ket has already discounted all bearish
factors In the wheat situation this
year, wheat values took an early
swing upward today. An unexpected
advance In prices at Liverpool tend
ed further to strengthen the market
here. Besides estimates were current
which increased by IS 400 900 bushels
the probable import requirements of
Europe. Chicago opening prices 70
to L higher, new style. December
Lac y to LAT and May ABA to 1.43* IS,
We're followed by moderate further
gains, December touching 1.47as and
May / "A.
Corn and oats We're upheld by the
strength Of wheat. After opening un-
changed to half cent higher, December
= Is, the corn market scored a slight
general advance, but then reacted to
about the same as yesterdays finish.
oats started at shade decline to
Is gain, December 39ia to 80 Is, and
held near TO initial figures.
Provisions We're without material
change.