Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 23, 1923, Page 11

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1923 ~ he Casper Sunday Cribunc of your trip to the National Park without a reference to car trouble. It is my idea that the iatter cannot be done. Historians of all ages have been prone to write of wars and @ynasties, yet leave no record of the things which absorbed the thought and labor of the millions ‘who counted for more than kings. In Wyoming and her sister states the major share of the pioneers money, time and profanity was ex- pended on the land business. More than half of the long trips to town; more than half the short loans at he banks, were to hasten the acquisi- tion of land. ‘The animosities of a lifetime were engendered by a homestead filing. Even Cupid mired his feet in this clay. Brides were left waiting at the church because a wiser girl had filed on a claim adjoining the groom's, and he had to have tt, no matter what went with it. If camped with your sheep on the Bighorn Mountains, you heard a horseman speed by in the night, it! ‘was a good guess that some one was riding to the land office at Buffalo in haste to beat a neighbor to a piece of land that would be a curse to either of them. It bas been cafled “The Winning of the West” but there was nothing to win. It was an unbeatable game. Yet in our world of sport that seems to be only an added lure. If you saw an Infrequent visitor tm Casper lined up at a bar with « group of his neighbors, you could be sure he was making final proof and was squaring himself with his witnesses. In that day we were face to face with many forms of arid phenomena. We had arid wastes and gigs ie " man who came to town to ase rest ‘on his desert claim found that he had more than one exacting interior department to contend with. ‘The barkeepers never shrank from their share in the vital work of re- elamation. I had served an apprenticeship In the land business when I was deputy County Clerk under Marion Pp Wheeler at Casper. Every man was entangled in the meshes and mazes of the government land jaws. Every day some disconsolate wretch came with the familiar yellow tissue paper copy of a letter from Washington, giving him thirty days in which to show causé why his entry should not be cancelled. Desert entries were the source of the most intense mental anguish. Later, after going to Lost Cabin, I became a U. S. Commissioner, taking filings’ from the yet unterr! fled and proffering advice to the ai: consolate and discomfited. U. S. Commissioners are now forbidden to give advice; but in that earlier day we were fearless and feeless attor- neys. Many a harassed and bone- ‘we were many an harassed and hope- Jess homesteader laid his sobbing head upon my. breast... Hardy, ang resolute affidavit writers were be- jaght on bended knee. ae eatoemiber writing one for Miss Mamie Long who, with her qzed father, William Long, for many years resided at the postoffice of Deranch, on Bridger Creek, in Fre- mont County. The old gentleman had a pecullar affection of the eyes. At times they rolled uncontrollable rivulets of tedrs adown his cheeks. When I cate to Lost Cabin he was under the care of an occulist in Kansas City. His daughter Mamie had spent the winter with him, despite notices from the Land Department that she should tmmediately construct cer- tain dams and ditches on her desert claim, and every legal subdivision thereof. It is to be presumed that life in Kansas City is possessed of more movement and of a more vivid vaticty than characterizes the pace that kills on the head of Bridger Creck. Mamie was having a g00d time. Sho treated with scorn the registered notices written in a com- forable office in Washington, D. C.. nuggesting that she should return to Wyoming in a bitter January and do a Iittle pick and shovel work. There was too much doing at The Orpheum 2rd Pantages. But when they later returned to Lost Cabin and received a notice threatening _a final cancellaion of her entry, life took on # more fer. fous and less determined aspect. The foast wes and we were readin= the Honors'/o Commissioner's tissue Paper tet 1 the gray dawn of the Morning efter. There is one plea that even the most haréened and chairworn bure- aucrat cannot disdain. That is the plea of sickness. In the land bust nese it is the king of excuses. You make 3 st ditch fight under its bilious banner. When rsnalied on the azure plain, your glittering griefs be- stud the sky; This star alone, of ail the train, Can catch the sin- ner's wandering eye. I advised Miss Mamie to plead her father’s illnoss and her own agonized and bewildered state of mind. We ould strive to picture to the De- partment a highly disordered and unnatural state of the female mind in which it becomes alike oblivious to the receipt of registered letters or teail-order oateiegues. It was dif. feu, but I would attempt it! ‘One sore or though it be a gushing foun’ not a sufficient grief to melt the adamantine heart of The General Land Office, or any legal sub- division hereof. As Solomon was forced to say of his own numerous household, they are a hard bunch I felt obliged to put the old gentle: man to bed with a lingering and corsuming fever. A daughter, pale and tearful, looked on with anxious ove. I bad the old. boy's feet brushing Affidavit Writer” of Pioneer Days Played Big West,” Former Commissioner Shows Part in “Winning of the the dews on the river's brink Ping another contribution into a FouhGuSA: Near the aphueh cliche) af teard that inpoapen the coseeon Boatman’s oar. Noor. The angel with the sable pinion,| With no knowledge of the extreme hovering near, saw an agonized and /lquidity of his affliction, I was screaming daughter torn from her|®Mazed at the tearful state into father’s bedside by militant nurses; Which he had been thrown by my drawing blood and fifty dollars a/tale of Mamie's perils and privations. site Mr. porting story of the same name by Jack| charge of $1 an evening. In Lon- Boyle and was directed by Tom Ter-| 40m, where the demand ts “great. | ror the “master’s” product. It has riss, Marguerite Marsh plays oppo-| these “masters™ have been to clear a profit of $15 and §20 in single evening. Barrymore and the sup- cast is adequate, SMUGGLING 1S SHOWN IN FILM “Miracle Makers” Com- week, Far down the valley of the shad- ows did he wander, with Mamie at his side. Oh! Most high and honorable com- missioner, there {s scant time to think of houses and ‘ands when you face the grim Reaper with the scythe in his hands! “The General Land Office was in- formed that, when addled reason had Tegained’ her tarnished throne and was sitting tight, Mamie’s first thought had been to resume her of The Arid West. if there was any winning of the wild to do, Mamie was wild to do it. Hurrying to Lost Cabin, she had flung the harness on old Buck and Mary; with her own hands she had thrown into the wagon the plow, the scraper and the go-devil. Seating herself on «a twelve-tnch board and a sheep pelt, she had raised a willow switch toward | heaven and asked the gods to wit- |ness that she would immediately and with due diligence construct jdams, ditches and reservoirs on every legal sub-division of the tract above described. But, Ah! The cold and cruel winter! Oh! The long and dreary winter! Ever thicker, thicker, thicker, fell the snow on upper Bridger! Blinding blizzards had swept her down from the slopes of the Con- tinental Divide. She had leaped over yawning chasms, and had tunnelled through cliffs of Jagged ice with her delicate but willing hands. We plead for one moment of the Honorable Commissioner's attention, which we directed to the figure of our dauntless heroine with dishevel- led tresses and flowing robes, cling: ing to the frosty pinnacles that cut the sky line of Bridger. She was putting one over on the girl in the chromoed “Rock of Ages,” that hung in mother’s room. Mamie, too, was hanging on! Simply to her claim she clung. Our corroborating witnesses would stoutly maintain that the dusky Eliza, fleeing over the floating ice in the flooded Ohio, pursued by blood-hounds and slave-<dealers in high boots, had a warm and: com- fortable time compared to Mamie. I was reading the affidavit aloud. I had just reached the final and af- fecting paragraph where I pled for mercy for. the over-worked predestined part in the reclamation; and} this action: the first time he smash- Possibly he had never before real. Thrilling Plot. ized the full measure of her sacri- fice and devotion! A son of earth was wakening to Pemereatial: sonra! Makers,” Leah Baird's latest release Like another broken and weeping| for Associated Exhibitor, which Wolsey, he had been forced “out of| will be the attraction at the Rialto my honest truth to play the woman.”| theater on Wednesday, contains T, too, felt my own decks swept|some thrilling scenes which were by a wave of submerging emotion. | staged in Chinatown. The story ‘This was the highest tribute that] tells of how Chinese are smugglod had ever been paid to my talent as a} into this country in open deflancs “riter of moving fictian. of the immigration laws. . Never had any literary effort of] Miss Baird, in her latest photo- ine been greeted with such @ co-| play, has brought out all the sordid Woda: Siow ot eave: details of this traffio in human Steadying myself, I walked over| souls, and the scenes of the streets | Rnd laid a trembling hand on the old] in Chinatown and its optum dens waae Seen Sa: and dives form some of the thrilling Jed him out into the purple| material for the picture. Though ; hush of the summer twilight; down] Chinatown appears a surface of silk | the hill, across the bridge, into the} and splendor, there is many a gid jog salon, and bought him al potion of sheme that is brewed in aot its underground recesses. There not one-half of San Fracnisco’s Chinatown that ts known to the police. Though the actual shops and houses are known to them, there are subterranean refuges for criminals of oll sorts that will never be known. The picture is thrilling throughout. LONDON PANHANDLERS RANK WITH ARTISTS story of “The Miracle ——__— ‘GREAT. PRISON SCEN ‘W “BOOMERING. BILL” [SOMING UIST OF WEEK A prison cell setting in ‘Boomer ang Bill.” a Paramount picture fea- turing Lionel Barrymore, which comes to the Rialto theater next Fricay and Saturday, had to be re- built and strengthened before Mr,| LONDON, Dec. 22-—{United Press) Barrymore could do what he con-|—London panhandlers are nothing sidered justice to one of the most| if not artistic. dramatic moments in the picture. Tabes of blue grease paint we-e “Boomerang Bill” (Mfr. Barrymore)| found in the pockets of a robust goes to prison for bank robbery, hav-| young man, before the Westminster ing committed the crime to get the| police court a few days ago. money to save the life of the invalid] The policeman who arrested him mother of the girl he loves, Annie,| Said that this young artist hat the girl, swears to him, as he en-| smeared the grease over his fac ters the portals of the prison, that | taken a position outside a tea shop. she will await the expiration of his|and pleaded in piteous tones that sentence and marry him. he was “blue with cold.” Later Bill receives a letter saying But perhaps the pavement artists she is to be married and that this have developed their profession to is the last she can write to him, the highest efficiency. Every visitor Something in Bill's mind seems to}to London ‘has seen sketches in snap. Mr. Barrymore here rises to| vari-colored chalk drawn on the magnificent heights of artistry. Fo | sidewalks about the city. Besides flings the locket on the floor,|these sketches, a pitiable creature stamps on it, crushes the letter,| sits imploring passersby to “help tears his prison bed from its fasten-|an ex-service mian to live.” ings on the wall ,and then savagely} But recent disclosures have lost attacks the cell doar. these patrons of color much of their When Mr.: Barrymore attempted|erstwhile popularity. Practically all the sketehes exhibited come from over-wrought, when I heard some-|ed through the side of the setting.| one center, and seldom is the man thing go pit-a-pat on the floor. I turned and saw the old man seated with bowed head and holding | that it could) withstand the welght| some artistic gift, known as a moist handkerchief in either hand. 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