Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 29, 1919, Page 8

PHONEER OF ROWOY WEST’ DAIS. RETURNS TO PICTURE STATE AS; HE ANEW IT HALF CENTURY A. _Louis Altheimer, Now of Little Rock, Helped to Sur- vey and Plat Capital Townsite in 1867 and Recalls Interesting Incidents. (Special to the Tribune) CHEYENNE, Wyo., Oct. 29. ming as it was in the wildest days of the “Rowdy West”: fifty-two, —An. interesting picture of Wyo- vears ago is provided by Louie Altheimer of Little Rock, Arkansas, head of the Altheimer Dry Goods company, who is a youth of 18 arrived at the site of the future capital of Wyoming with the party | that surveyed the townsite of Cheyenne. That was in 1857. Rem- iniscing regarding the Cheyenne of those days reyenne — in those days was M Altheimer, now in his year, say “On the y which h ned. to he my eighteenth birthday we hed the # was to be, or territory Some some L mere} the fu city of Cheyenn No one knew in w stat e i In fact, | ana led o- | held | ars later, after nsas, that the ts established. we yagons in cirele, people live stock in the center, called co At break of day the chief with the engineering corps went out on the prairie to take sigh for j rting ,point. At once Sioux and! yenne Indians made an attack. Tho; engineer corps made for camp. One engineer was rather r out and the Indians overtook him. He was rescued later sgrewsome bt. ‘ing was intense. A ched to Fort Rus-} sell, three miles aw for sugeon, who relicved the unfortunate man. He nin an ambulance to the end the Union Pacific railr and} thence to Ch Pt ater that! skin was ¢ nd that he fully reco: in < the end of the week the laying out of the town was under good head- I was fortunate cnough to se-| cure the privilege of erecting my house! in what was supposed to be an illey. In 2 short time I y aul Steven or al | shoulder, telling him that somo cae ted to Martin, with haughty steps, walked to the door openca epped out. He was knocked over the head i take to an improvished nd hung. That nicht the ilance commiitee rounded up mafiy des peradoes, but the principal dhes they were after escaped. .‘In the morning excitement ran high. About 15 outlaws, three in each row, were ted together, and all had pla- rrds fastened to the front and bs of their persons, with written thereon: t-throats, bandits, robbers,” and they w see him outside. it and srabbed at on with istols lo were given orders by the ance com-, mittee that each and every one must! parade the streets and at 12. o’cloc c| must leave the town under the penalty | of death. They left_and so] did many other des “Later in the 80 men of the vigilance committee, composed of mer-| chants, artisans i mechanics, left on horseback for Dale City, 40 miles} west of Cheyenne, to which place the} heads of the ban organization, who | had terrorized Cheyenne and the su rounding country had tied. ‘The ccan- mittee being posted-as to their where-| abouts, upon their arrival at Dale City sugrounded a disreptitable house and found three desperadoes in bed, The three were marehed out. Nine wagon tongues were pro- cured and three gallows were erected, | Jack Hayes, the chief 9f the band, was; the first one to he executed. He died a hero, not saying a word. - What pity! Instead of being an outlay a had be followed the right path in 1 WOTUM morning and this afternoon wa over to meetings of the ¢ IS PILING UP, PRICE TO FALL Press.) s WASIINGTON, Oct. 29,—Lower surplus accumulating, Herbert ver testified ¢ y. before the house war Wepartment’s expenditures com- | mittee, As a result of this year’s harvest there will be a surplus of | from 16 to 20 million tons of food, This accumulating surplus is al- ready reflected in the lowered whole- jlieves he has an escaped conyiet a sale prices’ altho no appreciable de- ‘the person probably résponsible f retail Lrobbery of the Casper Jewelry store, | night. crease, has been shown in figures, Hoover said. DELEGATES HERE PENG State Officers Hold Meeing This. Morning Preliminary to Con- vention Starting at Church Tonight Alarge number of delegates from an! ; Monday |rested Mast fers of the | to aceount | claimed killed by A saw | semblance this elry A war police parts of Wyoming arrived here day and today to attend the 3 nu convention of the W. Cc. T. t which opens here tonight at the Meth { theft of goods valued at $1,500 from, odist chureh. the American Railway Express com- \ The stute officers who will take a } | pany. and who had been in jail in Arthur Ashl prominent part in the meting, ‘Thermopolis since last July, was arrest- Miss Dasie M. Streed, acting prest- ed here Monday night, following his : dent, Suvenvendy hook eli release at Thermopolis on a fraudulent t ——— in the——— SERUA LTRS BRN GOOG NATL EAT eae on {By United Press) telezram evidently sent by “a confed- | “AMERICAN WAY” : Miss Dasie M. Streed, corresponding (ch N1ON, Ohio, Ost. 29.——Twenty erate. 2 Reiea lang: coal miners entombed by a fire in a| He was taken to Cheyenne last night A Lumber-Camp Romance shaft near here are feared to have per- by H. R. Roberts, the Burlington spe- Mae Alb , recording ‘seg: Wes Albright, recording weg: SNC. Christina ‘Wagner, ry, Mrs. Casper. Mrg. C. E. Linsley, secretary Y. P. Svanston. K Mrs. Martha J. Piper, secretary L. Cheyenn Mr. Geo, Ferguson, These officers, held treasurer, nuditor, Casper. a meeting this given ecutive com discovered. the directors. mittee and dozen apples fand joined the army, what a soldier h The delegates will b ly wel- HELPS 4 yithi ; ; somed this evening tives Within days Cheyenne would have mi prog 3 : #% town. Three months : 1 ant, called Shor of cight sile of lots we chimed 6.000 7 arsed and called the com- sdition, an inter 3 ‘Before that time we had a severe! mi » names, but his doom was’ grara nd-storm which blew down many s b he taken up tomor including mine, and the sand) “Phe third, a young fellew—a perfect nd merchandise. | giant—pleaded, saying that he had # The only w the sand-storm widowed mother in Missouri, und 4 and venture out was to be equipped) pegged for ev one to shoot at him with goggles. ; “I wrote my cousin at North Platte! to come and relieve me of $4;000 in 3 greenbacks which I carried on my per- 3 Son. He hired a team and in com- 24 pany with two other men started on| 4 their way, After dark t the trail and for three duys” the w of the Black Hill Fortunately they met an Ine who put them right to regeh Cheyenne. “After dark my cousin°and I retired on our Buffalo robes, spread out on the floor, Bedsteads w too much of # luxury. “About midnight we were The new town seemed to be on and the sound of battte raged mi People were running to and ed fro. 1 frose hut my cousin quickly pulled me addin. much the thin , admonishing me to lie quiet inas- as shots were passing thr walls of my portable came the tu oil had ceas gambling and tenderloin and let him run no. avail. “The committee returned to Che: bringing the Dale City black- , who ¥ raid to remain, with He had rendered valuable serv- dd had also gallows. ‘Cheyenne from that day on was : communi <_< —— “THE AMERICAN WAY’ AT LYRIC TONIGHT GARRIES APPEAL TO THE PUBL “for his life, but all to} | enne, smi them. Z " ice furnishing information, | The first picture of the series of pro- wan: In. .asli Several ductions to be made at the World's 4 among them Pat Malle! simber TAA EA eat GEE Teed ONS 4 Jim. “The dead were buried in a new igh Davotiie Oreenh ind TAF: grave: started week prior bj fs euten, Une Acontiaa two su woman who . : ae another man's wife her husband to Cheyenne. ed and while unde & f° “Soon the railroad entered Ch | whieh*brought newcomers and visitor A commodious hotel, the Rollins house, s opened, and was soon crowded (@ limit. George Francis Train, in his time a renowned speaker, contracted for un immense hotel. He paid $3,000) earnest money. The granite stone foun- dation was laid, work stopped, the pro- moter went east, but never returned. “A man who was a desperate char- acter enme to Chi nd had a big structure erected, and st of $40,000. When man went | D1 aE he wanted dining-reom gi ni | cured about 60. > Upon his ry em opened what ealled a hurdy hou: It was a place worse dom and Gomorrah, and the deluded s went to their ruin The mills of the Gods grind slow but sure. The debased proprietor was soon to pay for his crime One day another desperate gambler named Mar- tin, under the influence of whiskey, eruclly mistreated one of the unforun- ate girls. The proprietor ejected him, and returned back of his bar counter. Martin returned, pulled out bis gun and or. as telegraphed for. body went to see his corpse. nbout 46 years, herculean in It was a sad sight-—all the girls sitting and standing in the large dance hall arouhd the corpse, weeping over the death‘of a brute who had caused thelr mnfall, Oe arnniwss put in chains and guard- Within a’ week he was tried and acquitted by a jury composed of men of his kind. The better class of citizens became aroused and immediately organ y emxelves into a eq eseen the same night the com- mittee went to another hurdy gurdy house and surrounded it. The leader entered and espicd Martin dressed in up-todate style, wearing a stove-pipe hat and dancing. ing in high glee. he celebrated his acquittal, boasting that he had already picked out his next victim—the one who. endeavored to ase, him «convicted and was the friend 0! the man he killed.’ + “Phe leader of the mittee was a man named G Yorker. He tapped Martin ed, vigilance com- on, a New on the pee lens, vigilance com-' Jt will be shown at the today ) The American Way" is the thrill- ing and irresistible w in which ington (played Arthur Ash- ley) courts and wins young Betty Win throp (Dorothy Green), the charming ward of the Stuy t Van Allen: reless and full of life is a “Di ca In London {ndifferent sort of a chap, and fun, but with more or less of an toward life. rrington, de- to visit en her, attitude Lord F n to .America “I don't When his cides to send his relatives, the Stuyvesant Van Al in an attempt to reform him by getting him out of the reach of the set with whom he is associating in London “Dick” looks upon this merely as chance to shine against a new back ground in his wild carryings-on. But his first day in the. new world - marks the turning point in “Dick's” » lite, for then by an cident he mee! y the fascinatihy tty Winthrop, and Ithe development of the story show: jhew Dick saves the Van Allens fron. probable ruin and wins the heart an‘ hand of the charming young heroine. fhe American Way” is the vort of Sto t appeals to everyone. It is ical, the scenario ix clei - the acting thruout is ad sour ly written, and nirable, TAYLOR AND CLAY WILL ‘PEN ANOTHER BRANCH IN RAWLINS SATURDAY The Taylor and Clay. company which its main brokerage offices in (us- will establish a branch off « company in Raw-as, Wy tart ing November 1. It will make the fifth office of this growing company. J. H. Gatlup formerly of Casper, wil! have charge of the Rawlins office. Promising indications of oil and pos sibility. of future development of fields near Rawlins prompted the officials of the company to install the office qt Tawlines. The same stock market branch offices Rawlins office. jbe provided. has per, tne yort of wire service board provided in will he placed Direct wire sei aud other in the ne will SHAFER AND'LAMON REPRESENT. CASPER.AT STATE HIGHWAY MEETING. H. F. Shafer’ and R. M. Lamont are among the Casper men who will repre- sent the Casper Chamber of Com-; merce at the state highway meeting | which is to be held in Cheyenne to- , morrow. George B. Nelson, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, is anx- ious that anyone going to Cheyenne to-; nicht on business inform him, if he is willing to serve as a delegate to the meeting. for the interests of Aacgt| should be safeguarded by the sending of as laree a delegation as possible. —_—_— More Amendments to Peace Treaty Are Voted Down WASHINGTON. Oct. 29. — The Shields’ and Moses’ amendments to the pence trenty were rejected by the sen- ate today, the White the name, — — CHARGES ARE DROPPED i T. R. Drake, held on. suspicion of having aided in the escane of R. 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Phone 903 FORMER CONVICT “Mai Caught Guilty of Jewelry Robbery and Resembles Escaped |several beef hides which he was 1 The man giving the he setured them | thinks otherwise. were found on him when Chief Webb says there is wanted in Wyoming. morning knows an employe in the Caspc company, against the man this afternoon by authorities who feel have the right ma: 20ENTOMBEDIN COAL MINE ARE Twenty others eseaped through an air shaft = gee ‘The Word “Magnet.” The word “magnet” is derived from the name ‘of the-city: of Mognesia, in Asin MInor, where the properties of the. loadstone ‘are said to have heen CURE PRESIDENT Dr. W. A. 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Plunkett, in an address today before | Sheriff Tom Majors, who went for him, | HOU the National Liberal elub, declared | had to practically carry him to>the car. the path of wisdom for the govern. | Kelley lived the life of a hermit in ment was to make to the Irish peo. | his shack -and neighbors living more 24 HOURs Each Ca; Bule bears tha: | ae Priso: rT {fer of the full heen. takin nearer ner {ple an. a! of the fullest measure of | than half a mile « 7 roost { self-goternment, We advocated giv-' —— —— SNE —— - — » In“ man who gave the name ct} ing to Ireland ‘the Status of 2 self- | : Walter Coe,-Chief Frank Webb | Rayrening Cush ad wie Are res- mee r A em a] ervations covering the problem of Mx - The a it min: the! Mstional: defense and leaving it to” Bett Ventilated Theater in, Wyo ning i the Irish people to seitle their inter- nal difficulties themselves, The suspect was night by Special Agent Fow- Northwestern railrowt tth weble FAKE MESSAGE = GIINSRELENSE FOR JAIL BIRD “No Case against Him,” Says Tele- gram and Man Is Freed at Thermopolis to Be Recap- tured at Casper ar- CONTINUOUS 1 P.M. TO 11 P.M. You Can’t Beat It! Standing Room Only arid the Wind Blowing Like H—_ WE HAVE ALL-COMEDY SHOW TONIGHT Dorothy Green and——— for being in. his 4~s: name om Chie? the railroad. knife and some str! between him and Chief We the man that “ t probably will be secured the they 1 sur R. L. Anderson, wanted by the fea-! eral authorities for complicity in the’ 10 REELS Then TOPICS ‘OF THE DAY—They are interesting and fun- ny. Also two comedies and the SCREEN LETTER BOX. ADMISSION—10 and 25c TOMORROW—The Sensation—‘‘PARENTAGE.” cial agent, who with Deputy Sheriff W. _ BE. Kilgore, made the arrest. | The telegram received at Ther- monolis ordered Anderson's release “is {there is no case against him," and pur- | ported to be signed by a federal judge. | After Anderson had boarded a train) for Chevenne. it was discovered that |the wrong name was signed to the! messaze. A telephone. message was received here. at the Burlington offices urging that Anderson be arrested here without | |fail. He was easily identified when the Nieain obliea ansuand “was \placeti-under Jarrest as he stepped to the platform. | At his request his baggage was taken |‘off and will be held there. | His trunk reveals fastidious tastes, |as it contains a dress suit, silk shirts, |several suits of clothes, and six pairs | |of shoes, | DR. GRAYSON CRABAPPLES FOR JELLY $2.75 |Labor Interests — | Jeopardized by JONATHAN APPLES . { Treaty Articles $3.75 WE DELIVER TO ANY PART OF THE CITY. 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