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Evening star., 1926-04-21
SandstOrm at Sea
Wrecks Ship Off
Coast of Alaska
By the Associated Press.

CORDOVA, Alaska, April 2f.--
A sandstor1n at sea caused the loss
Of the cannery tender, Uncle John,
which was wrecked at Dry Bay,
Alaska, 25-miles southeast of here,
declared the ships master, Capt.
Ludwig Torgersen, who arrived
here yesterday with his crew.
Torgersen said that the vessel,
seeking shelter during a gale, en-
countered dense clouds Of sand over
the water. He said they were
caused by an off shore wind.
The tender grounded on a bar in
Dry Bay at the mouth of the Alsex
river and topled over. Torgersen
said the vessel was practically
buried under sand three days later
Evening star., 1926-04-21
STUDENTS STILL DEFIANT.
Red Flag Raised in Illinois After
Anti-collar Strike.

JACKSONVILLE, ILL.,, April II CP).
Sophomores Of Illinois College at a
mass meeting yesterday refused to
apologize to the faculty for taking q
stand against a rule requiring male
students to wear collars and ties to
-lasses. They took their stand week
ago. when the faculty endeavored to
stop students attending classes minus
collars and ties.
Coach William T.. Harmon Monday,
n an address, denounced the attitude
pf the students. Monday night the
students paraded before his residence.
md this morning red flag hoated
4bove the science building.
Evening star., 1926-04-21
NAIL DIET KILLS BUFFALO.
Rochester, Mimi, Zoo Inmate Also
Ate Wire, Autopsy Shows.

ROCHESTER,, Mimi, April Il Op).-
Nails and bits of wire it had eaten
caused the death early yesterday of a
buffalo at its home in the local park
ZOO. This was decided late yesterday
when experts of the Mayo clinic We're
called on TO determine the cause Of
he death.
Evening star., 1926-04-21
RUSSO GERMAN PACT
NEAR CONCLUSION
Agreement on Neutrality Clause
Would Enable initiating Within
Ten Days.

BERLIN, April 21.--If Russia and
Germany agree on the terms Of the
neutrality clause in the proposed
Russo. German treaty. the pact can be
initiated within two days, it is learned.
The two countries are still consid-
erably apart on this issue, Germany
insisting that she Is only willing to
agree that the signatory parties bind
themselves to observe neutrality In
case one signatory is attacked by a
third party.
Evening star., 1926-04-21
Assurances From Germany.

LONDON, April Il R.-Foreign
Secretary Chamberlain told the House
Of Commons today the German gov
ernment had given assurances that
the proposed Russo-G German treaty
would contain nothing conflicting
with the League Of Nations covenant
or the Locarno security agreement.
Accepting this assurance, the for
eign secretary declared he saw no
reason to take exception to the pact.
Evening star., 1926-04-21
Ochs Is TOastmaster.

UcnS IS 1OdSINAStcE'
Leaders Of the Metropolitan press
totned at the dinner with their fellow
publishers from the South and Central
American countries in desire to ef-
feet a greater understanding on all
questions pertaining to not only the
nations represented, but the world at
large.
Fred A. Walker Of the New York
Telegram, and chairman Of the Pub
lishers' Association, welcomed the
delegates to New York and introduced
as toastmaster Of the evening. Adolph
Ochs, publisher Of the New York
Times.
Mr.. Ochs told the delegates it is the
genuine and sincere desire Of the peo-
pie of the United States to establish
close relations between the peoples
and governments represented.
A special line, direct from South
America, brought to the diners mes
sages from the President Of the
United States of Brazil, the Minister
of Foreign Relations Of Brazil and
from Luis Mitre Of La Nacion, Buenos
Aires.
Others speakers were Ogden Reid.
publisher Of the New York Herald
Tribune; Ralph Pulitzer, publisher Of
the New York World; Herbert Gun
nison, publisher of the Brooklyn
Daily Eagle, and Jose Camprubi,
publisher of La Presna, New Yorks
Spanish newspaper.
Evening star., 1926-04-21

Poland's ambition to have It's own
automobiles has not been fulfilled, for
no cars have been made there, while
Czechosolovakia produced $500 ma
chimes last |-ear
Evening star., 1926-04-21

Tho monitor Glatton, which was
Junk with torpedoes In Dover Harbor
hen q fire broke out in her cargo Of
yplosives during the war vas recent
r. raised
Evening star., 1926-04-21
Champion Lauds School.

Calling attention to the high stand.
ing OF Howard University and to the
Governments record for 80 years in
building up that institution. Mr.. Cram
ton said:
II have been in touch with Howard
University. It has been suggested that
we do not know how this money Is
spent. Every penny OF 1t is passed
upon by the Interior Department and
by the comptroller general. More than
that, in the last five years l have been
in touch with the university; and 1 say
it is q very great credit to the negro
race that so soon after they emerged
from slavery, from the days when they
were forbidden to learn. they now have
a university here, with 1000 students,
that is rated as class A among the
universities OF the Nation. That is a
credit to the race. Howard University
has been built up with aid from the
Federal Government for so years, and
your committee did not feel It had the
right to interpose anything in the way
of the House expressing its will upon
that which It has been doing for so
years"
Evening star., 1926-04-21
HOWARD j. FUNDS
PASSEDBY HOUSE
Amount Reinserted in Bill
Despite Charges of
Moneys Misuse.

Appropriations for the support OF
Howard University. as reinserted by
the Senate after they had been stricken
from the Interior Department appro-
priation bill on a point OF order In
the House, were approved by the
House on q vote Of 6s to % late yes
terday.
Representative Hare, Democrat, OF
South Carolina, on whose point Of or
der the House cut these items from
the bill when 1t was before that body
more than a month ago, charged yes
terday that some of the money was be-
ing used for purposes other than those
intended by Congress. Representa-.
tives Lowrey OF Mississippi and Byrne
Of Tennessee, both Democrats, op-
posed the item.
Evening star., 1926-04-21
OHIO PROSECUTOR
DECLARES DRY LAW
REDUCES CRIMES

CONTINUED from First Page.)
Evening star., 1926-04-21
Blanton Supports Item.

Representative Blanton, Democrat,
OF Texas Joined with Representative
Cramton. Republican, of Michigan, in
charge Of the bill, IN arguing for con-
currence with the Senate. Mr.. Blan-
ton said:
Il have checked up on this proposi-
tion. This colored race needs doctors
1t needs colored nurses. It needs den
lists, and It needs teachers to teach
in their schools. and Howard Univer-
sity every year prepares teachers for
the colored race--colored teachers, II
you please. The only kind OF teachers
who ought to teach the colored race
is colored teachers and not white
teachers, Howard University is pro-
viding trained colored teachers to
teach the race: II is providing trained
colored dentists to wait on them, and
trained doctors. It is good invest.
ment, and let US keep 1t up. law or no
law
Evening star., 1926-04-21
HAVRE DE GRACE ENTRIES
FOR THURSDAY.
tR. T. Wilson, r., entry
$William Heating entry.

SECOND RACE-Purse. $1,000: claiming
4-year-olds and up; 8 furlongs.
Evening star., 1926-04-21

within 10 years South America would
have so advanced as to compel more
space in the news columns Of the
United States.
Evening star., 1926-04-21

lLGu.lnued e2 Third PsAs1
Evening star., 1926-04-21
THIRD RACE-Purse, $1,000: claiming
,-year-Olda: & ~ furlonRe.

tE. X Bryson entry.
tSaKamore Stable and w. Lechy entry.
FOURTH RACE-Purse. $1,000: the Ad-
miration purse: 2-year-olds: n furlongs.
Beatrice Noyes Ill Dublin Show :. 112
nexfer liz tSeat ........ liz
Evening star., 1926-04-21

From the edge of the crater the
story was sent to Rome by telegraph,
flashed to New York by cable, tran
scribed from cable tape to words in
the New York office Of the Asso-
ciated Press, and transmitted on the
wires. The story then was followed
into the Evening World, where 1t
was printed and put upon the street.
This exposition was followed by a
reel Of important news events oc-
curing during the life Of the Asso-
ciated Press.
A plea to North American news
papers and periodicals to "dispel ig-
norance regarding the many coun-
tries which make up South America" /"
was made last night by Jorge Mitre,
publisher of La Nacion, of Buenos
Aires.
Mr.. Mitre, speaking at a dinner at
the Park Lane Hotel by the Publish
ers' Association Of New York in honor
Of the delegates to the Pan-American
Congress iaf Journalists. predicted that
Evening star., 1926-04-21

FIFTH RACT-Purse, $1,000: claiming:
year.olds and up: n miles,
, 1926-10-27
Regarding Our Taxes

1t having been brought to my attention that there is ~
siderable. criticism of the county commissioners on account of
a axe being raised take this opportunity to give publicity to
the fgures, as l feel such criticism is unjust.
1aklng the tax levies for 1924, 1925 and 1926. 70 find that
III state levy was increased "a per cent between 1924 and 1oos
an; 40 reduced approximately l per cent betweent 1926 and 1926
Inc county, levy was reduced 16 per cent in 1924 to 1925, count
ing the Judgment and is exactly the same in 1925 to 1926.
This leaves only the school tax to make raise and look
ing over Ill the school districts l find ten school districts lowered
Iune levy an average of 294 per cent in 1924 to 1925 and five
stflcts raised the levy an average of al per cent. The present
year the examination of the school district levies shows ten dis
lowered IN average of 12.5 per cent betweent 1925 and 1926
Ihese hgures are a little deceiving because districts No. d
and NO. 3 have increased 400 per cent, but tie rate is low. The
districts with the large levies have increased about SO per cent.
taxes inns means that your total taxes have varied about one
nan n above amount and also the commissioners have abso-
uIey mourning TO do with this, as they are required to set a lew
70 PROVIDE as much money as the school district trustees ask
Tor a long as it stays within the legal limits.
Inc change in grazing land valuation has come in for con-
siderable criticism, and therefore I will take it up. The grazing
Land is tied up with the livestock grazing thereon, as simply
the fact that land is proved up on doesn't increase its
value, or use by the stockmen, but simply brings it on the tax
schedules. In 1924 there were 28Sy $40 acres valued at 81, 32O-
acres valued at $1,313, 305.0 90 or So &c per acre. In 1924 there
were lO6,946 sheep valued at $689, 1873 and 15,94S cattle valued
at S339,925. In 1926 there were 1887 700 sheep valued at ST.
Go2,o56 and 1929 cattle valued at 1857, 125, or all together a
S28, making an increase of $685. S9 in the grazing industry.
There has been a loss of $482,9 $40 in oil and S27,961 on the
Burlington railroad, both of which are fixed by the State Board.
rms makes about a 10 per cent loss in School Districts Nos. l,
z and 3, and has raised the school levy accordingly, but due to
the raise in livestock there has been no change in the county
levy.
Therefore the Commissioners have REDUCED the county
levy rather than raised it, and at the some time have paid off
outstanding warrants to such an extent that they are now two
months behind in the payments, rather than ten.
EUGENE PHELPS
, 1926-10-27

5000 of these cases have been tried or disposed
or averaging more than 8 cases each working day
per year.
The Legislature, in creating the Drainage Dis.
trict Law, placed all this work upon the District
Judge, instead of upon a State Commission as is
done in a good many states. This Judicial Dis
trict contains twenty of the twentythree drainage
districts in the State of Wyoming. 1t has one-baIf
OF all the irrigation districts in the State. All of
tnis requires a great amount of work. Investigation
ana responsibility of the District Judge.
In addition to the work in this District. 7 have
Deen called upon by the Judges of the Supreme
court 10 come to Cheyenne, and sit as a State
supreme Court Judge, and to hear and assist in
decidlng cases appealed to that Court, and this I
nave done numerous times, thus acting as a Su-
preme Court Judge while sitting upon the Su-
preme Court Bench. 1 have been called into the
other Judicial Districts of the State at numerous
lines 10 SIT as a District Judge. and 1 have tried
State. ' i" INC
l nave been your District Judge for nearly four.
teen years and 1 lack ten days of being the oldest
District Judge in the State in point of service 7
nave only had one criminal and six civil cases
reversed by the Supreme Court in fourteen wears
my term of office.
Long experience on the bench by a Judae is of
nc utmost nenefit to the people. In a great many
states a District Judge Is elected for a term of ten
or fourteen years, and In the United States Courts
a Judge Is appointed for life and retired ON a men.
Stt wh e SEVENTY years of age. | am familiar
WIZ tne details of all the work In this District
ano Ieei tnat my experience should make M morr
'o"petehr IMAM ever to act as District Judge.
h'eu III wyoming since | was two wears
oIu' was graduated from the Sheridan high school.
secured my college and legal education at the
oniserslty OF Nebraska; and Immediately started
practlclng law at Basin, in 1906. and have heen q
fe5,aeht OF the Big Horn Basin ever since.
inc office of District Judge is non-poIiticaI and
PoHeioa alIlliatons do not enter into your choice.
l stand for reelection upon nv record and haI;nnc
that tne voters of this District will recognize that
ne pest interests of this District will be served
Dy my reelection. If reelected, | pledge tbe CON.
tinuance of an efficient, Trustworthy and econom.
ical administration of justice.
, 1926-10-27
BUFFALO BILL TOWN DOINCS

B. H. Haffey was a visitor from
the Lakeview today.
Jack Cameron OF Sunlight was a
visitor in Cody last week.
Sam Osborne was a visitor from
the Greybuiisriyer on Tuesday
Mrs. VIM. Wibel of Meeteetse is
spending a few days in Cody this
week.
Court Reporter C. R. French
spent a few days in Cody the first
of the week.
Miss Joyce Rector entertained a
group of young friends on Tuesday,
the event being an anniversary OF
her birth.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bud Hall of the
Circle II ranch on Wood river have
been spending several days in Cody
this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Head were
hosts on Tuesday to a dinner and
dancing party at their ranch on
Trail creek.
Miss Caroline Lockhart is over
from the Dryhead country visiting
with Cody friends and attending
to business affairs here.
The Dinner Club met on Tues
day evening at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. S. p. Van Arsdall on Beck
avenue.
r. w. Jackson. representative of
the Studebaker Corporation of Bill
lings, was. a visitor in Cody last
week.
, 1926-10-27
Court Clerks Certify to Figures 5000 Cases Tried $4,000
Saved Tax Payers 100000 Paid Injured Workmen
First History of Work in District
TO THE CITIZENS AND VOTERS OF THE FIFTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT

After nearly fourteen years of service as Dis
trict Judge of one of the largest Judicial Districts
in the United States, it is fitting that the record
of my term of office should be placed before you.
During this time have attempted faithfully
and fearlessly to administer the duties of the
office to which you have elected me. In the past
six years have received $4,000 LESS salary
than most of the other District Judges in the
State, due to the fact that the Constitution pro-
vides that a raise of salary cannot become effec-
tive during an officers term of office, and the
law increasing Judges salaries was passed one
month after my last term began.
The first duty of a Judge is to administer the
law as prescribed by Statute, and this l have
attempted to do, without fear or favor.
In Criminal Cases the Jury alone decides the
facts, and the Judge c%onstrues the Law, and the
Judge must, upon conviction, sentence the offend
er as prescribed by Statute. The Statute provides
a minimum and a maximum fine and sentence that
may be imposed for any certain crime.
In every case 1 can truthfully state to the Citi-
zens of the District, that l have endeavored to
do my full duty, and faithfully and fearlessly to
enforce the laws of our State.
There is a great amount of work in this Dis
trict, new litigation being filed continuously. In
furnishing you this record it is my desire that you
may be given facts that would be instructive and
more fully to advise you of the amount of work
that l have performed as District Judge during
my term of office. The average citizen does not
have occasion to attend Court, and does not have
the opportunity to be fully informed on the enor-
nous amount of work handled in the Courts of
this District, and the responsibilities and duties
placed upon the District Judge.
The District Court in this State has jurisdiction
over every character of a case, and tries all civil.
criminal, probate, naturalization workmen's COM
pensation. adoption, drainage district, irrigation
district cases, all Justice Court appeals, land
board appeals, school district appeals, appeals from
County Commissioners decisions, insanity hear
ings, child delinquency hearings, ETC., etc, in fact,
every dispute or controversy may be settled by
the District Judge.
In other States the law provides a separate
Court for all criminal, civil and probate trials;
County Courts to handle cases between the JUS
tice and District Courts; and State Boards and
Commissions to handle drainage district, irriga-
ton district, Workmen's Compensation cases, etc.
My last term of office started January LIST, 1921,
and during the past five and a half years there
have been filed in this District the following civil
cases:
, 1926-10-27

Halloween Dance at the Codyum
Saturday night. October 30th. Ev-
eryone invited.
Mrs. B.. C. Rumsey and daughter
Betty were visitors in Cody Monday
and attended a party at the Alt
berger home that evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. NJ. Schwoob, Mr..
and Mrs. Lee Simonsen and Mrs.
Geo. Walker were luncheon guests
at the Valley ranch on Tuesday.
Lawrence Nordquist came over
from Crandall creek this week with
a bunch of cattle for his first trip
to the county seat in several months.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. E. Horner left
Tuesday morning for Boulder, Col
orado, for a visit with relatives and
friends. They are making the trip
in their car.
"Granma'' Grandall returned last
week from Billings where she Wis
tied for about a month with her
son, Fred Grandall, and family, who
reside there.
Joe Newell, who is this year en-
rolled at Roxbury school, Ches-
shire, Conn, writes his parents that
he is delighted with conditions
there.
Grandpa B. F. Martin is so much
improved in health that he has been
removed to the home of his daugh-
ter, Mrs. d. NJ. Trimmer, east of
Cody. He expects soon to start for
California to spend the winter
months.
, 1926-10-27

SiS''Oo: And since the law was amended, permit
ting jan sentences. I have imposed in addition to
tne nnes, sentences totaling two hundred and
fifty-three months in Jail.
F1nes and sentences imposed for other offenses
In the District during this time amount to over ten
thousand dollars in fines, besides three life sen.
fences and a total of 3S5 years imprisonment.
! am IN favor OF the active and strict enforce
ment OF the liquor laws and the vigorous prosecu-
ZION OF bootleggers and moonshiners. believe
tne pronibitory law to be a good law and necessary
from an economic as we'll as a moral STANDPOINT.
ana the Court records show that the bootleoaer
mas received heavy fines and long jail sentences
from me In my endeavor to stamp out the Illicit
traffic of liquor. ~
Under our Statute the County Attorney and
SheriH are the officers whose duty it is to see
tnat the law is enforced and to secure the evf.
aence' and prosecute the law violators, including
nquor violations. The District Judges duty ia To
construe the law during the trial and to fine or
sentence the defendant If he pleads guilty or is
found guilty by a jury.
The following is a summary of the cases filed
In the District in the past five and a half years.
, 1926-10-27
BILL SAYS

Come in and look over our fall
wearing apparel for men and boys.
Better still-get the shopping habit.
Look around and see what others
have to offer you for your hard
earned SIS. Compare prices and
quality-as quality and prices talk
these days. Just arrived. another
shipment of Mayield wooden pants.
More than a hundred pair, at prices
that are right. and pants that wear
as a good pant should. For your
SIS worth in everything that men
and boys wear, See Bill at The Tog-
gerry, 10 East Cody.
, 1926-10-27
STATE OF
Firth judicial District


CERTIFICATE
We, the undersigned, are the Clerks NJ l. n,.,.
ToISrt OF the various Counties comprising the I Fi1h
Soreeoine Distrtcr. ana have examined the above and
n. statement relating to Court Wort in tha
Firth Judicial District. and certify that If is IN tne
m so as ~ relates to the amount of worL ~
cases IS etc; In the County for which we are the ci er
WITNESS my hand and III. o,,,o,.,
office. ~" oiioi seal OF my
(SEAL) ORILLA DOWNING.
Clerk of Court. Park Cour+v
NSf~AL) JOHN l.. ~LANDFAIR.
tsEAL) H. [. BoNGNE' Big Horn County.
tsHAL) GEo'B b s IH1Fti Washable County.
Clerk Of Court. Hot Springs Cnutv
, 1926-10-27

and performing the duties of this office, and keep
ing all the work up to date. This, you will see,
averages one and a half round trips across the
District each month.
Some Attorneys in order to delay trials demand
Jur1es, take a change of venue, take a change of
Judge, file motions, and other dilatory pleadings.
motions for continuance, and do other things which
l am ppwerless to prevent, causing delays. Do not
blame me for delays, if any, as l Am not to blame.
l do everything in my power to keep the dockets
cleaned up and cases disposed of promptly.
This district ranks third in the State in the
amount of Workmen's Compensation work trans
acted by the Judge, as the District includes a
number of oil fields, coal mines, refineries, sugar
factories, ETC., all of which come under the Work
mems Compensation Law.
, 1926-10-27
THE CODY r.

Don't miss the Halloween dance
at the Codyum Saturday night.
Bill and Ed Worrell and Bert
Maxwell went to Worland last week
where they will be employed for
several weeks.
Don's miss attending the Election
dance at the Codyum Tuesday eve
ming. Election returns throughout
the evening.
Oscar Trumbull and Otto Plank
of Emblem passed through Cody
the first Of the week for a hunting
trip on the Northfork.
Rev. A. H Beatty had the mis-
fortune to lose his splendid Ken
lucky saddle mare at the Russell
Crane ranch last week. It became
caught in the halter rope and hung
itself to the manger.
, 1926-10-27

The cases untried will be tried and disposed of
this fall. There are a number of Jury cases on
the Calendar, and they will be tried at the First
Jury Term. Some Jury cases cost the County
more to try than the amount involved, therefore a
Jury is not called until there are sufficient cases
on the calendar to warrant the expense to the
County.
It has been my practice when a Jury term is In
progress to hold both day and night sessions of
Court to save the taxpayers every dollar possible
on Court Expense, and during my term have
saved the taxpayers of the different Counties thou
sands of dollars in taxes In keeping down District
Court expense to the minimum.
A Jury costs the County approximately from a
hundred to two hundred dollars a day. besides the
loss to the Jurors and witnesses in time and
money while attending Court.
The total District Court appropriation and ex-
pense of holding Court for the past six years in
this District, is as follows:
, 1926-10-27

In passing the prohibition law the Legislature
did not provide for jail sentences for liquor VIOLA
tons; Two years later the law was amended in
Guiding fines and Jail sentences as a penalty for
violation OF this law. i have assessed as fines
against liquor %violators in the four Counties dur.
Ing the past five and a half years a total of
, 1926-10-27
Total

Most states provide for a Probate Court and
Judge. In this State the District Judge handles ali
this work, and there have been hundreds of pro-
bate cases disposed of and disposition made of the
property under the law, in this District.
The following classes of criminal cases bava
been disposed of by me in the past five and ono
half years, in the respective counties of the Dis.
trict, as follows: LAO