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Evening star., 1925-03-20
TESTS IN ORATORY
WELL UNDER WAY
Western High Participants in
Competition Arc Making
| Speeches Before Judges.

Western High School contestants
for the national oratorical contest,
and they are being judged now on the
delivery of their speeches. Three or
four are being heard every day.
Miss S. II. Gardner. who has charge
of the contest at Western, is using
The plan of hearing few orations
daily to avoid long session, with all
the hearings at one time. BY April
4" the number in the contest will he
cut TO six. The final selection will be
made April il. The winner of the
school finals will receive The Evening
Stars prize of 800 offered for that
event and will compete in the District
of Columbia finals
DIR. r. S. Newton, principal of West
ern High. has appointed committee.
with Miss Gardner aSschairman. The
members are Miss Irene Rice, Miss
i. r.. ThonsSen, assistant principal.
and Miss f. c. Stutz.
Western Breeze Comment.
The Western Breeze, published by
the students Of Western High School.
carries the following editorial in its
most recent issue:
Rearing the stamp of approval of
supt- Bd'lou snd other prominent fig
ures in education throughout the
United States. enterprise that is
very much worth while is to be re-
peated this year. 1t is the national
oratorical contest. sponsored by sew
eral of the leading newspapers The
country is divided into areas. the
local territory being assigned to The
Evening Star and The Sunday Star
of this city.
"lnaugurated last Spring, the na
t1onal oratoriCsl contest took imme-
dIately and without question Linn
tied to contestants not above the
nigh school status. the utmost en-
thuslasm was manifested throughout
all the areas. Local interest wss ac-
centuated in the final outcome when
r pupil of our Central High School,
Miss Ruth Newburn, was adjudged
the winner in this area and entitled
to compete in the finals for one of
the capital prizes. And this Wash
ington girl was awarded the second
big priest, ,00e. First prize was
captured by Don Tyler of California
and third prize by Ralph Dallam. Cd.
of Pennsylvania.
There viii be a capital prize this
Evening star., 1925-03-20
BOOTLEG BANDITS FoILED
Handcuff Official in Effort to Steal
SIS, 600 Worth of Stored LIQUOR.

NEWARK, >. j., March 2O.-Five
robbers. flourishing pistols, early to-
day handcuffed Louis Abeiove, secre-
tary of the Trans Atlantic Trading
Corporation, and night watchman
in a vain attempt to steal S75.05q
worth of liquor stored there by thS
Government Their discovery by q
third man caused their a ght, but ons
was captured. The robbers abandoned
their automobile when the motor
failed
Evening star., 1925-03-20
vice and have received the guidance

vice and have received the guidance
of the board.
OF the remaining cases now pend
ing and under investigation the board
states there are 10 notices for pos
session, of which they state seem
justified at this time There are 8
cases of increased rents to be set
tied, one of which the board states
seems fair. There is also one COM
plant of unsatisfactory service out
standing.
The Real Estate Board feels that
the predictions of wholesale evictions
made some time ago consequent of the
failure Of the rent bill are not full
filled, inasmuch as there have been
only ~ complaints before the board
involving all types of landlord and
tenant problems
Evening star., 1925-03-20

come to Washington early next week
for a conference with Assistant Cor
poration Counsel James c. wilkes. Is
now legal consultant of the New
York Zoning Commission. Mr.. Bassett
was a member of the Fifty y-eighth
Congress from New York, after which
he became member OF the public
service commission of New York. In
the past few years he has served as
TO number of large
cities in establishing coming laws.
Evening star., 1925-03-20
PLAN BIG POWER PLANT.
Company at Cumberland Will
Spend $500, 600 for Improvement

Special Dispatch TO The star.
CUMBERLAND. Md, March 20
The Potomac Edison Co. has arranged
for the construction OF a modern
power distributing plant in connec-
tion with the company's river plant
along the Kelly boulevard at cost
of about 100000 1t viii replace the
Union street substation, which, in
time will be dismantled.
Evening star., 1925-03-20
'LANDLORD-TENANT
CASES ADJUSTED
Twenty-Five DisputationS
AmicabIy Settled by Real
Estate Board.

Forty-two landlord and tenant cases
have come before the Washington
Real Estate Board for adjustment
since February u as q result OF the
efforts made by that organization to
amicably settles these disputes. OF
this total 22 cases have been salts
Evening star., 1925-03-20
His Mistake.

From the London Punch.
CaIler-I jest seen your man,
Martha. an 'e looks as IL 'e's bin
run over. Wot done it2
Martha-'E come 'ome bit short
sighted an started tickin' orf lidy
'e thought wos me.
, 1925-09-30
YELLOW BUS COMPANY
To FIGHT COUNTY TAX
Park Transportation Company
Files Injunction Suit Against
County Officers

The Yellowstone Park Transports
ton Company has filed an injunction
suit in the district court restraining
the county officials from assessing
and levying taxes upon a number of
their buses which operate in this
county during the park season.
The case CAM on for hearing be-
fore Judge Metz last week but was
indefinitely continued because of the
fact that one of the transportation
company's attorneys, who resides at
Helena, Montana, was unable to be
here at that time.
This is the first time that the coun-
ty has assessed any of the property of
the Transportation Company, should
they be successful in collecting the
taxes on these BUSES, it is very likely
that they will be assessed in every
other county where they operate.
, 1925-09-30
VALLEY SCHOOL BOYS
ARRIVE FOR SEASON
Enrolment This Year Is Largest
Yet Known To Wyoming
Boys School

Four school masters and thirty
three boy students of the Valley
school arrived in Cody Tuesday noon
travelling in two special Pullman cars
from Chicago.
This is the largest enrolment YET
experienced by this ever more popu'
lar school for boys, being an Increase
of nearly one hundred per cent owe
last year.
1t is stated that there are more
states represented at the school this
term than ever before, boys having
come from practically all of the east
ern states as well as Florida, Colorado
Oklahoma and Wyoming.
Herbert Snyder, of New York City
is to be head master at the schooI
again this year, he having very salts
factorily acted in that capacity last
year.
, 1925-09-30
BUILDING IS BEING
PUT INTO SHAPE FOR
new PICTURE HOUSE

Work has been commenced on the
remodeling Of the building recently
vacated by the Vogel furniture store
and which is to house Cody's new mo-
ton picture theatre to be conducted
by Mrs. J. +. Files.
The seats for the new theatre are
here and the work of setting them up
will start just as soon as the floor has
been put into condition. The floor
is to have a slope Of eighteen inches
SO that the view of those in the rear
seats will not be obstructed by those
sitting in front of them.
The projection room is being con
structed at the rear of the show and
two new machines will be Installed
for the showing of the pictures.
1t is not possible to say just when
the place will be in shape for the OPP
ening program, but 1t is Mrs. Files
intention to offer the public "The
Ten COMMANDMENTS" one Of the big
gest pictures of the day, as the first
production.
, 1925-09-30
CODY WILL HAVE EAST
END CAMP next YEAR
Twenty-O One Club Members Vote
For Camp Site On North
Side Sheridan

Cody's permanent tourist park is
to be located on forty acres land ly-
ing on the north side of Sheridan
avenue and adjoining the fair grounds
as a result of the Cody Club election
on this matter held last Thursday
afternoon.
Twenty-one votes were cast for
this site, while only three were cast
for site No. 2, which is located south
of the school house. One vote was
cast for a site offered the Club by F.
A. Ingraham and located in the east
ern part of town. One vote was vast
ed by being cast for site No. a, there
being no such site proposed.
There was a considerable falling off
of interest in the location of the camp
this fall as compared with that of last
spring when a real contest was on
and the club stood evenly divided,
one half favoring the east and the
other the west side.
1t is said that there were a number
of the members of the club who did
not take enough interest in the affair
to cast their vote, many of these from
the west end.
, 1925-09-30
walter WIDDOUS IS
ARRESTED TUESDAY
ON LIQUOR CHARGE

Sheriff Henry Dahlem made real
worth while haul on Tuesday, when
he located the liquor supply supposed
to be the property of Walter Wild
dous of Cody.
A search was made Tuesday morn
ing by the sheriff, undersheriff Han
cock and Town Marshall Hamitt, the
cache being located in a large tool
box in the old Montcliffe- Wallop
lumber yard. 1t is said that Widdous
admitted ownership of the whiskey,
when asked by the sheriff who owned
the tool box. He said that it belong
ed to the Taggart Construction Com
pany but that he was responsible for
anything it contained.
Widdous was arrested on a charge
of possessing and keeping for sale in
t~oxicating liquor and upon being TAX
en- before the justice of the peace he
was bound over to trial in the dist
riot court. He has been released on
bonds of $4,000.
The cache consisted of eleven and
one-half gallons of moonshine con-
tanned in a key, jugs and bottles rang
ing from pints to gallons. 1t showed
an alcoholic content of between AZ
and A per cent.
, 1925-09-30
WILL GROW MUSKRATS
IN CRANDALL REGION
Bearcreek Men Organize Com
pany For Fur Farming In
Big Swamp on Upper
Clark Fork

Muskrat and fur farming on 9
large scale is contemplated by 9
group of Bearcreek men who have
incorporated and have secured q
special use permit covering about a
thousand acres of swamp land in the
Crandall creek country to the south
of the Clark Fork. The AIRED is q
natural haunt of muskrat, beaver,
and other fur-bearing animals and its
environs r well adapted to the Blue
Alaskan fox, several pair of which
will be taken there in the spring.
Capital stock of the company
known as the Shoshone Fur Company
is put at $4,000 in the article of the
incorporation, filed in Wyoming. The
moving spirits of the company, NAM
ed as directors, are A. F. Christiani,
DIR. ]. w. Reed and Ed Garrett. Mr..
Christiani states that considerable
work has already been done upon the
fur farm, a dam has been constructed
to control the water of part of thu
big slough and provide ideal grounds
for muskrat, great numbers of which
are already there.
Furs of animals trapped in that
territory have been of universal high
quality, according to Mr.. Christiani,
as a result of conditions being per-
fectly adapted by nature to fur pro-
duction. Placards warning trappers
and others that the ground in the
lease is now private property have
already been posted and the bound
airy will be thoroughly marked next
year.
Enclosures will be built to confine
imported fur bearing animals and
prevent their escape but the first in
terest of the c%orporators will be to
develop the natural muskrat output
and make it the foundation upon
which may be built an important in
dustry. While some work will be
carried on there this fall the real
development of the industry, accordr
ing to Mr.. Christiani, will begin next
spring.
, 1925-09-30
SHERIFF AND DEPUTY
ON HIP POCKET RAID
Four Persons Arrested And Half
Pint Of Illicit Liquor
Is Confiscated

Sheriff Dahlem and Undersheriff
Hancock staged a chip pocket raid,
at the Sage creek country club dance
last Thursday evening and four per-
sons who were endeavoring to enliven
the affair with an occasional nip were
taken into custody.
Kenneth Knight, Carl Ballinger and
Lou Ewalt were arrested while in the
act of taking a drink from a small
flask and were brought to town and
locked up for the night. They were
released the following day after be-
ing questioned and we're informed
that they would be called to appear
later on.
Henry Lambert was arrested on the
Sage creek road near the cemetery
when the car in which he was riding
was driven into the ditch at the road
side. 1t happened that the first car
to come along was that of the sheriff,
and upon searching the party a pint
bottle with a small amour of liquor
found on Lambert, and he was
brought in and lodged in Jail. Lam
bert was released on parole by Judge
Metz early last spring. He is being
held in Jail awaiting a hearing.
Among all four of the persons ar
rested there was a trifle more than
a half pint of liquor found.
, 1925-09-30
HARVEST Home SUPPER
TO Be HELD OCTOBER 9.

The Sage creek Farm bureaus an
nual harvest home supper will he held
at their club house about six miles
from Cody on Friday evening, Oct
ober 9th.
Supper will begin at 6 o'clock and
will be served until nine, or until all
present have been fed. A dance will
be held in the hall to occupy the time
of those who care to dance while
waiting to be served.
The harvest home supper of last
year was ever more of a success than
anticipated by those in charge of the
affair, and some little difficulty was
experienced in handling the large
crowd that was present. Arrange
ments are being made this year to
take are of all who attend with plen-
ty of good things to eat and amuse-
ment for all.
, 1925-09-30
CODY HATCHERY HAS
HAD SUCCESSFUL. YEAR

Adam Majors, who has charge of
the Cody Fish Hatchery, was in town
the first of this week and reports
that the hatchery has put in a very
successful season.
Mr.. Majors states that the work
of planting 12s,O0O fish in Park coun-
ty streams has just been completed.
Eight thousand of these were plant
ed in the Clark section, sixty thousand
in the neigborhood of Meeteetse, and
this same number will be put into
streams in the vicinity of Valley.
1t is planned to plant another so
thousand this week, which will leave
about 10000 still at the hatchery.
The Cody hatchery will remain
open all winter, and it is understood
that an endeavor will be made to
take eggs from some of the streams
and lakes of this vicinity.
, 1925-09-30
SOUTH FORK MEN ARE
ACCUSED COLT THEFT

Warrants of arrest have been serv-
ed upon Kenneth Grips and Leslie
Billings, of the South Fork country,
by Sheriff Dahlem, they being charg-
ed with having stolen a colt from Wal
ter Pederman, ranger in that section
of the country.
The men were not at their places
when the sheriff arrived, having gone
into the mountains for a few days,
and word was left for them to APP
pear in Cody this week.
, 1925-09-30
W. |. M'CARTY OFFICER
FLORIDA BUILDING co.

w. L. McCarty, formerly of the
Sunlight country, has been made vice
president of a new building company
with offices at Sarasota, Florida. The
company has purchased the patents
for that section for the manufacture
by machinery, of a new process of
concrete slab.
1t is stated that houses built of this
material can be constructed in two or
three days after the material has been
assembled on the ground, and is bet
ter than wood for the Florida climate
although the cost is about the same.
, 1925-09-30
JUDGE METZ CLOSES
COURT ON SATURDAY

Judge p. w. Metz on Saturday
closed the term of court which he had
been holding in Park county since
the 14th of September.
A great many civil actions of minor
Importance were cleaned up during
the term.
During the past week divorces were
granted to the following: Amelia Sir
rine from Orion Shrine, Eula Pearl
Wise from Harry L. Wise, of Basin,
and Mary Ethel Wagner from Willis
A. Wagner, of Powell.
The Judge is expected to return
here for u short court session about
the 18th of October, ut which timo
it is believed that the hearing in re-
gard to the taxation Of the yellow
buses and the Town of Cody gas ssx
will come up for settlements.
, 1925-09-30
"Ortie" Got the Cook
Stove and Brass Bed

Mr.. and Mrs. "Ortie" SHRINE, of
Clarks Fork, "tore the blanket in two"
last Thursday when Mrs. Shrine was
granted a divorce by Judge Metz up
on the grounds of cruelty and non
support. Shrine did not oppose the
suit other than holding out for the
cook-stove and the brass bed. Mrs.
Shrine agreed to make this concession
declaring that the next bed she bot
would be a single bed. IF
, 1925-09-30
HOPE ITS A LONGTIME
LOAN, MR.. CHAPMAN!

John w. Chapman, Red Lodge
banker, who was badly shaken up a
couple Of weeks ago when his big
Packard turned over a few times on
the Meeteetse road, Is gradually re-
covering from the shock Of the acct
dent. Mr.. Chapman, who is past
seventy. says he would have no right
to complain II he had been killed as
he is living on borrowed time, anyhow,
, 1925-09-30
Vogel Store Is Now In
New Modern Building

J. H. vogel has moved his furniture
business from the building adjoining
the Diamond pool hall to new quar-
ters in the building which has just
been completed.
Mr.. vogel's new building Is a fine
structure, built of brick with a plate
glass front. 1t is we'll built from
basement to roof and is a credit to
the town.
, 1925-09-30
CHANGE AT RAILWAY
BOARDING HOUSE

On Tuesday of this week Mrs. Ana
T. Orr closed a deal to take charge
of the Burlington boarding house,
located near the depot.
The boarding house has been con-
Quoted for the past few years by Mr..
and Mrs. E. j. Brown. 1t is under
stood that MI. Brown and his family
will leave shortly for Bonneville
where they will conduct another
boarding house on the Burlington
line.
, 1925-09-30
Lowe Plumbing Shop Is
Moving to Prante House

L. w. Lowe is announcing in this
issue that his plumbing and sheet me-
tai works shop will move on ncxt Mon
day to the Prante residence on Sails
bury avenue, where he will soon be
in shape to take care Of his old Gus
toners and any new ones that may
need work in his line.
, 1925-09-30
OIL index CI YES REASONS FOR
FAv0RIMG EXTENSION YELLOWSTONE PARK

A J. Hazlett. whose courageous and sound editorials have made
the Inland Oil Index, of Casper, the most widely quoted in the
State, is strongly in favor OF Yellowstone Park Extension. Mr..
Hazett gives. among others. the following reasons for believing
that the additional territory should be added to the Park and placed
under federal control.
Continued on page 8
, 1925-09-30

Paul Greever, ]. Z. McElvain and
Walt Owens went through the park
to Snake river on a fishing trip last
Thursday. returning Sunday evening.
Mr.. Greever brought home a nice IL
pound trout.
, 1925-09-30
As SEEN FROMThEW WATERMELON
f@Ae7@ rulne& ckhazt %k@a9

We hasten to assure more IF less Gentle Readers that there is no
truth in the report that "The Water Wagon" has been withdrawn from SER
vice and stored among the phaetons, surveys and other obsolete vehicles. We
ire still modified and ready for action 1T a moments notice.
, 1925-09-30

Ghika on the envelope W thought that royalty was at last recognizing the
merits of the Cody Enterprise and that it contained a subscription. Fancy
our disappointment when. instead of a check. it contained an offer to sell
us a lot 1t Palm Beach, Florida.
, 1925-09-30

Honest Henry" Dahlem laid out in the brush last Thursday night and
caught four liquor violators witt something over a pint of moonshine be-
tween them. and arrested the whole caboodle. We have n o quarrel with
the sheriff for doing his duty, but we wonder why we never hear of
him fyTng ut in the brush to catch other observation-disclosures, for
instance. A car-stipper is to oil notion, the most contemplate thief in
the whole category-next to a kidnapper-and they are plentiful. Also,
with an apparently stranded car for bait, they should be easily apprehended.
Surely the punishment of these human buzzards who take advantage of the
misfortune of others is as important as that of a man caught with a drink of
moonshine o him. Yet a certain type of sheriff seemst to feel that he is elected
to office for the sole purpose of arestng liquor violators, and to this end
he concentrates upon the enforcement of the prohibition law as if there
were n o other. M
, 1925-09-30

Robert N. Stanfdd, U. S. Senator from Oregon, ws arrested recently
in a cafe in Baker by a policeman who charged that he was drunk and dis
been entirely mistaken in believing that the Senator had been intoxicated
and making n nuisance of himself in the cafe. So these charges were drop
ped and the only filed was that of resisting a n officer Since the defend
ant did not appear the case not pressed. At any rate, Senator Stanfeld
will probably be sober enough to vote dry on every rolcal when he returns
to Washington.
, 1925-09-30

What a shock it was to return from a two months absence and learn that
M. C. Wachtel the apple-cheeked boy of the Wyoming prohibition forces
former chief and highest among the high class officials of that important
department, had not only been given the gate but was accused by the county
commissioners of Hot Springs county of accepting protection money from
two moonshiners and booueggers who for a long time operated unmolested
in that section.
Well we remember Mr.. Wachters Indignation W Harry WARDS state
lment that his star enforcement officer, Bruce Hodge, "a intoxicated at
the time he attempted to arrest him. We can SCI again that imposing of
|fciars stern eye fixed upon is n dsapproval, when the case as heard in
court here. for daring to espouse the cause of the town constable and hold
to the opinion that he did his plain duty. We al almost hear Mr. WachtePs
ringing words before the w. C. 7. U. and other reform organlzationsere-
ported fully in the Cheyenne DEMONSTRATING that the State of Wyoming
was practically dry that he and his impeccabe agents had put the fear of
God into the heart of the moonshiner and bootlegger, denouncing the law
voators in scathing language and expatiating upon his own devotion to
the great cause of prohibition. Now, in our minds eye, we ca see Mr.
Wachten going back to the Plains Hotel and winhng at himself in the
mirror. We should adj. that three other former enforcement agents are i'm
picated in the bribery charges.
A dispatch from Cleveland, Ohio, states that at least six federal pro-
hbtion agents are loosing their eye-ight from samplng bootleg whiskey
Probably they take too generous samples.
Nine federal prohibition "aces' in Chicago were recently sent down
the road talking to themselves "fr the good of the service"
w
We note that Sheriff Geo. J. Carol of Laramie, is offering, out of his
own pocket a reward of s25 each to every person who will supply him with
information leading to the seizure o. a still and operator. If a man is known
4 be stealing stock, burglarzing houses burning barns, holding up pedes-
trans assaultng women, there is no difficulty in getting evidence to con-
Wet him. 1t really looks to US as if there might be something the matter
with a law which makes such a action a this necessary.
WV
, 1925-09-30

After reading a n interview with Lon C. Davis, deputy administrator for
Wyoming Of the northern Rocky Mountain district of the federal prohibit
ton department, we are disposed to think that he believes in Santa Claus
ant. that horseh airs turni into snakes in ranbarrels. When asked how the
West compared with other sections. Mr.. Davis answered:
"The West is absolutely dry. Even as much liquor as there is say il
Wyoming, the amount is nothing compared to that in the places where
they count it by the ship or carload, where they handle it in really big
amounts.
Washington isn't worrying about Wyoming, o Utah, or hardly Colo
RADIO r Idaho. They do more about Montana, because that is OIL the border
They will watch that state"
But W e need everyones help, citizens as well as officers. In this state
/ believe We have the cooperation of practically every county officer; they
ire helping i. in every way possible"