Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 31, 1922, Page 13

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1922 The third annv~i S:ampede Ball was pulled off ar Cody ou the night of December fifteenth. This unique function fs the winter social spasm thrown hy the Cody Stampede asso- elation, which stages the Stampede, Co@y’a FourthofJuly frontier and wid west show. The Stampede, al- though only a four-year-o}, is already in the class with the Cheyenne Frontier Days and giving the Pendl: ton Round-Up its dust, and is steadily gaining in excelimce and popularity The Stampede Ball was Iiterally a howling success; for, as a demon’s obligato to the hilarity within, a Wy ming Chinook was whooping ‘er up at something like thrice the prover- biel 40 knots. Commencing at dark the previous aight, this wind had hit it up with increasng venom, tazeaten- ing to make fibbering idiots of all who possessed “nerves,” and sendtg coun- try folks ving In log ranch houses scurrying hot-foot for their nocturnal fioursacks. These they are wont wrap about their heads in leu of nigh‘caps, lest they contract a severe case of sniffles cr wake in the pearly Gawn to find sand, gravel, snow, bits of stge and other debris driven through the cracks and parked in *helr hair. Cody ranchers who are thus utilizing their floursacks as a by-preduct during the prolonged hard times are contemplating a petition re- questing Miller Thurston to put up his famous Blue Ribbon brand .m bags of double-faced anyora, instead of in the usual porus-knit cheesecloth. The wind, catching up the powdery | snow which covered miles and miles of open country, swirled it in blind ing clouds about such travelers as dared yenture out, diabolically hurl- ing this stinging Christmas confett! in thelr faces; then it dropped the stuff and packed it across the high- ‘ways in lonx. deep drifts that looked Uke about 4 millilon dollars’ worth of “coke” which would have made a Casper Sunday Worning Cridune = Snow to reach the railroad. arriving their \—or gacl—sing? in Cody the day before the grand eas Yang org ign et te store pants and papooses in swaddl- ¥ 5 : 1 e time H ing short “S caiay aes cee Bead pede Ball BAS the wild-west spirit had got trem all.! ment in the hoseerow cot’ hare kept sont Seats tee aL DEEINOE ORNL ons Nia with, iettern. dancer are them’ away. ‘This bene é vod soon (Te TOG eae ae | oe ease Lavell Grabentea sity 2 Priate setting, and where the spirit of tuisitle uate a The sameneds and thelr squaws nevér miss a chance in6 o14 West still 4 faintly to to come to Cody, where they are linge All olé-timers in the Cod Prétident, M'ns Caroline Lockhart, a made much of. They say proudly: stetsty blond in black lace evening “Cody folks all same us,” which pre- para b prdbage ca yeg Sonar Gres, gayly footed it with Chief Sam- sumably 1s intended as a compliment. 5.04 trom the road in the fall to spend 2" Birt-hat. a strapping, wooden- Judge Perey Metz of Basin, always tne winter at home, dividing hia time {C1 buck in magnificently beaded © popular personage at Cody dances, tetween the town he hed and hie *D-Over of white buckskin and a won- carefully selected a sultable automo T 4 ranch, which were hia dearest Sifu! Warbonnet + of cagie feathers bile snd fared forth into the devilish interests; seeing in thelr mnd’s that reached to the'floor. While Jakie eye J (ny... Fin Dude; We es was, bi 7") Schwoob, Stampede vice-president, the picturesque old showman .Jovielly | sea5 about-Wyoming and Everybody's correct car fOr every occas‘on, his pingting wi! ingling with the crowd of townspeo- 5 garage containing busses ranging all oie and ep miles around! *!¢P4, all gladded up fit to kill in a tue way from a hearse-like Imousine bied to do h honor upon his big ~hite beaver hat, cer'se necker- with chaste fawn upholstering and @ J urn the Colonel freely “‘setting ‘em chief and green-and-orange plaid shirt, roadster. Inder his on pow the Pl hi rs e But ¢ ld da; m he old scout,’ Judge reached Sage Creek, some «lx Oetker tes ahaa t,| fox-trot. miles in the puriieus of Cody, where he stalled. An S. 0. 8. to town brought Walter Frri to his rescue in sore stout broné c¥ a car, perhaps a namesake, with which the two, by Gevious detours made possible by cut- ting of fences, as well as by dint of much snow sheveling and other man- ful labor, an@ probably no little” judicial—or judiclous—cussing, man- aged to arrive upon the festal scene tn good time. B, C. Rumsey, who from ten in the A. M. until six in the P. M. alter- nately tramped snow, shoveled snow, spoke fervently of snow in the classic phrases of a Harvard Ph.D. or P. D. Q, or whatever he ts, or bucked his powerful Plerce-Arrow through Great drifts of the cenient-tike stuff, on the way down from Blackwater Camp on the North Fork, declared that in 27 years’ residence in these parts he never before had met up with such a combination of vile roads and weather!—to give an expurgated 1, say that the Starupede Ball for pic- | “ozen assorted elk teeth, which repre-! pronunziamento. are gone, and the old West is passing. The Irma bar is now given over to the prosaic and ultra-respectable uses of a pool hall, so the Stampede Ball this year was held ir the Temple Theater, which, though « “nuch larger hall and despite the formidable night. was crowded. Corralled in the Temple was a con-' glomerate bunch—many brands were two minutes, when the youngster let represented, SAC) Seeeh Tt t took x whoop that «robe tro even b enh amhe: Sceadiceesethers Hamer PORN the squall of the saxaphones. Samos. Sreenae. te ee "| eekenbagon, the squaw, muttering { sounds, the smello—a veritable jarz of| Fi ; the senses! No phlegmatic typewriter | Precations, grabbed the kid and glared * at the innocent white brother, could do th’s scene justice. Even 8 | though Se rere ena, ot pa palette with all the primary lgincned hee sitio spread lavishly thereon would be far) ) 0" 1" | Mr Ot . Visitors from the Sateen ita bei TP: aitones| Tex Kennedy, Brave-withouta-coun ger of Philadelph'a, who have we eer ac a boa akee nessed many old-world spectacles, | © ully danced around by Jennie varying from the Passion Play at | Gova-ahead-pretty, & none-too-young, Oberammergau to the public cere-|stoutish aquaw, all dressed up like s nionial of touching a little pig for luck |10-centstore window in a ncariet at the hour when the New Year comes| calico dress adorned by about 17 | "Colonel Melton, right-hand-man a ithe Cody store, looking lk» a good- natured priest in ministerial black helped to’do honors by attempting polite converse with Mrs. Fannie F ghts-wellknown, a young dame drap- ed in a ferocious blanket. The Colo- nel even held the new papoose, Ethi fer an aeon (measured by his time) cf as gob of precious was turesqueness’ and “uniquity”—not tn-|sented a young fortune, should the dope fiend fair babble with delight.| 5, on the North Fork road, the iquity—takes the red satin bafdana. |lady care to cash in at an “Elks” Nothing daunted by reports of im-! passable roads, many of those from ‘™ disteni burgs and remote precincts who had greased the!r cars and boots in anticipation of the ball, and so were rarin’ to go, blithe:y set out, Crow Indians from the agency near Pryor, Mont., ten in number with South Fork, the Paint Creek, the Sage Creek—in fact on all roads leading to the Rome of the Stampede Ball, the experience was the samo. Little bands of brave souls gathered together |in its name, their cars strung out along the highway, shoveling and tramping, by the very sweat of thelr Elegent ladies in handsome evening convent! _. gowns of velvet and lace, ranchers In| Bur rips there was no one pres: Sunday “blacks;” “dudes” in bluelent wao entered into the Joluty of dentm overhalis or taultiess evening | the evening more wholeheartedly clothes, according to taste, squaws in|/than the Hon. J. D. Woodruff of! gay blankets; roughnecks in white col- | Shoshon!, known all over the state as! a big rancher, sheepman and banker.! lars; flappers in daring “creations: cowpunchers in crimson shirts and | Despite his elghty-odd years, he three papocses, in open vehicles drove high or low brows, « track through piebald neckerchiefs; Indian braves in romped through dance after dance all day through miles of cold, deep the lovely white wilderness toward gorgeously beaded bvckskins over! with the enthus'asm and pep of a SAA NLL CROW INDIANS GUESTS OF HONOR AT C BY ALTA BOOTH DUNN genuine go-getter that was a joy to behold. The Ind’ans, probably owing to their native sense of rhythm, made & very creditable showing in the mod- ern dances, though of course, it was in the'r own primitive measures and figures, such as the Owl, the Beaver, the Sun and War dances that they expected to capture the silver-plated horse trough. When the time came for she‘r first number, the interested crowdpushed back against the walls to clear a wide space in the center of the hall, where two young bucks in full Ind’an costume began to caper Sracefully. The remainder of the red band undertook to furnish the music.” One ancient buck with a leathery, gested a immobile visage that wei wus: chair cushion, pounded the tom-tom as though the very future of his tribe depended upon it. He was a pathetically ludicrous figure with his old, lined face and his fool'sh trappings. H's costume sisted of a pair of buckskin step-ins @ lght sprigged-calico shirt :f commerce, worn a la smock, over which was slipped a gry beaded yest. On one wrist he carried x fussy bead ed bag, resembling a ladi+s' retic Swooping, crouching, eyas’'ng, pur worn con- and sulng—efter the manner of a bird with {te prey, the two atylis ung bucks gamboled through the intricat _ and interesting movements of the Owl The re and the wail: beat of the tom . not un-mustcal of the Indian voices ‘aal-aal-ah-ya accompanying it, aroused In the white by-stander some atavistic instinct that made him long to leap out and bh it down with ng their cry. The Crows have a faacy for hitch- ing white man names on in front of their Indinn cognomens. The follow. Ing ladies with the interesting and suggestive monikers live cn the Crow Reservation: Lucy Old-horn, Ida Day- light, Edith Blackhalr, Laura Bigiake, Agnes Littleow! 8 red brothers, chant The boys are call by such noble’ names as John and Ben, with an occasional fi one Uke Albert Those who know them, say that there is considerable sound sense and shrewdness under the simple extericr a tro of professionals to shame. PAGE THREE. ODY STAMPEDE BALL — } Upon their recent brief visit in selves loose in the Indian dances with | Cody, the Stampede committee, which,an abandon that was amusing to paid all the expenses incident to their witness. trip, arrang'd to farm the Ind'ans out] Watching the unmatched, colorful at different homes in town and saw Spectacle presented during the entire them settle] in their temporary quar evening, the question naturally rising ters, which apparently were satisfac in the mind of the Stranger-!n-our- tory. But the red squad refused to| midst was “How come? Whe or what stay put, and within an hour ail were has mustered this picturesque, hetero back at the home of the Stamnede geneous assembly?” President, Miss Caroline Lockhart) The answer, my comstateriots. 's Having « sort of protective feel'ng for that the Stampede Ball was a reflec there big kids, she had s cook stove tion of the unusual personality that put up in her attic and allowed them 's the m ng spirit back of it—Caro to camp there. Une Lockhart, one of the Stampede During the'r threedays’ stay mn OTean and president of the asso- Cody, the ten Indians and three|‘iation since its inception. Her youngsters got away with two fore. friends include aristocrats, Indians Quarters and @ leg of dull elk, which Toushnecks and was donated Mont in-betweens: tivities range from writing a by Jones, who vigorous Sunranteed the meat to have plenty Western novels and publ shing of “chaw™ in it. It must have been ©4'ting the Cody Enterprise, to shoot highly sufficing, for Fights-wellknown ‘9g, riding, driving and taming bob said that he had had @ “heap good | ¢@! sewing time” because he got all the elk meat|carpet-raga as diversion. Ths ind he could eat and slept on a buffalo|certainiy has put her brand on the To supplement such rations as | Stampede Bail so that he who lopes with housekeeping and robe. were provided by the white brothers, ™8y read. the Ind’ans brought with them a hi t as portion delicacy, the same belng a! W and in the seamlens grain sack half full of dried spirit from dying out en eboke cherries, which the -squaws Lockhart striven lens > up with the meat, thickening make the Stampede a ng h flour to make a, concern Here she tries to t to ! lorified mulligan. gether once a year shch 2 as rema n and also those Mins doors In ng. generation who 4 to car Lockhart found t rilé guests On the traditions sports of t had appropriated these to thetr own /°ld colorful, bonest-to-God It use, wrapping themselves fn the) has been no easy task, but chaste blue velvet curtains to slees,' Dede, though still a youngster, ts They kept their quarters clean and Kenu'ne wild-westerner and its spo’ in. ord: The'r jiostess' offering of SPS expect to see it thrive and ¢ bear grease sed the bucks “heap % & rdy maturity. much" anointed their hair| Notwithstanding the fact that, colin: with {t for the ball |c'dent with the announcement of the ‘And a0, with white man‘a dances! ate of the Stampede Ball, the cit and red man's dances, in brotherly ®Uthorities had ordered a supply of scelability, with mirth and gladn te cawit gl osttbeametde Reengptnn ad hm with whoop-Jas and hoorays, the eve: th? town calabooss, there were no startling casuatles, though there were some sl ght fortuities after the ball When the rarty broke up, prom) at 2 a. m., the guests’ headweaf was decidedly addled or mixed; some who had arrived in forced ning wore on, the wiid-west spirit . By wa waxing as the hours waned. of divertissement, the some of the guests Barry Wil Lams, accomplished p’anist, with | Jun ttle and Bob Rumsey at the 4 Riatahed y music with alt® leave in alien caps; others who Si Lais ae mamta caellagpey hdd searched for geal caps, size 7%, side-line of jaxz that would have put thick mackinaw Ddonnets with An: laps, had to be content with ‘spelied” orchestra an etsons were or ear dinky of these children of Nature; and they other specialty was introduced when fedoras, size 6%, or fare forth into seem to have an unerring instinct for the recognizing friends, the btter night—or rather morn—in such a travesty as an opera hat. Walter Ford, poor wretch, couid find “heap tall” Coleman Boy= got ‘out on the floor and turned them- neither hat or shoes, and 1 shoemaker's ch’ldren, pesum: barefoot his didn't matter ike Fights-wel bad had a and, after the manner of Christmas wishing that I wasn't a wh Bn a mventor of an al je the iy went But all much anyway. r known, gocd t kids a ly Bs everyb hea ne,” me, were fervent: Stampede off, nus, and eed perpetual for two days sut- but ot he found the next lo year Barlow al aption. od of unnecessary h over angu! e ices weater, whic ked beneath his undershirt of th evening ter Hocman, arve wotry especially to a who alte from the A for a few words of ex planation about evr picture gallery with one of The t uxom qian Buffalo xese feopar spota on her blouse Members of tho kn" pleara N. } Don't let your pa h agh, f I didn't notice the Indy giving a of her treasures away for souvenirs, nor yot for pleasant smiles or cold cash. T have a h t Roste haw & lovely dispos:tk d that her motto s “Sh rk,” ré an “Work” The Cat and ady shows Care Une Lockha. her laceit wild pet, “Wa said ty be a@ full grown lynx whick siost people 1 a hob-« miybe it ts. Any» way, Miz ( real pretty for lar picture, considerin’ this is the drat had tooken, and the, eur: KS were strange. 6 and squaws first, we now a3 to the Stampede vice-president. This picture gives us J. ‘M. Scnwoob in character. OUR RESOLUTION UR New Year’s resolution is to adhere to that broad policy of fair- ness, frankness and honesty which dominates this organization in all its dealings with its patrons. This policy is not a new one with us. It has often been expressed by work and by deed. As we look back upon the past ‘year we take pride in the knowledge that we have “kept the faith” with our customer-friends. SNA