Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 16, 1924, Page 3

FREMONT RAIDS BRING. SEVERAL "HRRESTS, ‘SI Replica of the “Days of 49” Found at Lysite; Other Towns Rai CHEYENNE, Wyo., March 15.—A “Days of ‘49 street carnival con- cession was suggested by a “vice” lay-out discovered by Sheriff Gay- lord of Fremont county, Wyo., and deputies and state agents when they raided Lysite which boasts a rail- road construction camp, according to a report to State Law Enforce- ment Corsmissionet M. C. Wachtel. The officer, observing that locality to be an attraction for laborers, des- cended ‘on’ a emall ravine, in the center of which an open-air dance latform had been laid. At either end of the platform stood a “sheep” wagon, and in each wagon a woman and an alleged bootlegger were hold- ing forth. Marvel and Ray Scott, the women, and Jack Martel and Bob Young were arrested. In Lysite Courteney Nichols, Blanchard Baden, Joe Montgomery and Bob Young were arrested, charged with selling Mquor or con- ducting disorderly houses. At Shoshoni, nearby, the raiders arrested John Bray, Frank Fisher and “Slats Jones, charged with 4l- legal eale of Mquor. At Hudson, a coal camp, the of- ficers took into custody Frank Ninkovitch, who is charged with violation of the liquor law. Twice in the past, it is stated, Ninkovitch has been convicted on similar e " Abatement proceedings are to;be instituted sgainst all of the places conducted by the -various defendants. TWO BOOTLEG ~ PLAGES ANDED Two alleged bootlegging establish- ments were raided by the police ye: terday afternoon and evening. W. Johnson was arrested at the Flop- Dery, 237 West First street, charged with being owner cf the place. ~ Others taken as inmates were Bert Williams, H. Ryan, Dan Walker, Thomas E. Jones, D, W. Sloan, and William McGee. Jones had the dis- tinction of being caught a few hours later dt a place in the same section of town owned by Walter Masty. He was even drunker than before. A. M. Johnson was also taken as being one of the ‘party. FOR FORGERIES Three alleged forgery cases came to the attention of the sheriff's of- fice during the last two days. James ‘Smith was arrested yesterday on 4 complaint made by the proprietor of the CY restaurant. V. L. Bur- ham, 18-year-old youth, was arrested last night on a complaint by F. W. Holmes. Burham is said to hav written a worthless check last Sep- tember on the Salt Creek State bank. BH. W. Baker was released after being held for a day. The plaintiff did not choose to press the charge. BOOTLEGGER BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN ACTIVE -INOTHER LAW BREAKING In. the arrest Friday night of 1. I. Wells, the police Weligve that they have secured not only: one of those who cater to Casper’s patrons of bootleg whiskey but also. that they have a clue to the solution of | Many thefts of car parts which have—been making trouble to auto owners during the last fortnight. When Wells was arrested his car was taken, and some moonshine ; Was found in ft while a still was discovered at his house, 512 East Thirteenth street.. Further examj- nation, by the police showed that he had a'giant pair of pliers in the ear which might be used for cutting. chains so that, tires might be re- moved. The officers made a more thorough investigation of Wells’ home yesterday and discovered a number of car parts thought to have been stolen. Batteries, tires, chains and other car equipment have been stolen from differeht motorists recently. (Accent Sk Sugar Contracts Being Signed U DOUGLAS, Wyo:, March 15.—At a minimum price of $6 a ton, the Holly Sugar corporation {s active in this section in signing up contracts for the trial crop of sugar beets to be raised near here during the sum- mer by a large number of farmers. Among the first to enter into con- tracts with the Holly company have| want to hear agnin as well pum whet | SALT CREEK BUSSES 3 Busses a Day Each Way LEAVE CASPER—ARKEON BUILDING | Leave Salt Creek Bageea and Express Called for and Delivered Salt Creek Transportation Company Te! been Robert D. Carey, ex-governor, and John R. Morton. Both are ¢wn- ers of ranches that are included in the largest in Wyoming. These in- terests are particularly anxious to give sugar beets a fair trial, It was not until this year that co-operation from a beet sugar company could be secured. Train Exch Da One dren iri the confines of the corporate Umits had not been enumerated. Not one was overlooked. © Casper was then, had been before, and has been ever since the biggest town or city for its size of any Place on the globe. It was then, is now, and will ever be the geographi- cal center of the state of Wyoming. We thought then that the capital of the state should be located here, but we don’t particularly care for ft now, for about a million dollars has been spent on the capitol building in’ Cheyenne—its location being close to the Nebraska and Colorado state Ines, but’ just over in W; and-if we decided to move the cap{- tal'up here now, where it rightfully and geographically should be, we would have to put up that million dollars, and it is not worth It, and as Cheyenne, is now only about half the size of Casper, and has nothing else but the Union Pacific railroad shops, the Internal’ Revenue | col- lector’s office and the Capitol build- ing, she is welcome ‘to them. The Fremont, Elkhorn pnd Mis. souri Walley railroad terminated at Casper in 19980, and the passenger service between here and Chadron and Cheyenne consisted of a train of box ‘carg.and one combination baggage, mail and passenger coach. The railroad officials called this an “accommodation” train but the pas- sengers had a different name for it. This train was supposed to leave for the east at about 6 o'clock in the morning—but sometimes it did not fet out before 9. It was due to ary rive at 9 o'clock at night. but it was generally after midnight before it arrived. A heavy snow’storm often delayed this train several days. Pas- sengers and freight to Cheyenne branched off Orin Junction and “connected up" with the Colorado & Southern, and the service on that road was worse than on the F., and M. V., if such a thing were pos- sible. \ There were tri-weekly mail | ex- press and passenger nes by stage running out of Casper to Lost Cabin, Lander and Thermopolis and ala in- termediate points. To get'to Lander or Thermopolis you left here at § o'clock in the evening, and traveled all night, all the next day and all the next night. The distance to either hander or Thermopolis was About 140 miles and the fare and feed was $15, “No extra charge was made for the 15 minutes sleep you might get at Round Hill or the Home Ranch. From four to six horses were generally used on the Casper was then the home of a number ot wealthy. stockmen, andi those who ‘are here yet became! richer by investing their profits from wool and lambs ‘in oll com-- panies ay collecting royalties from; their range re oil wells were» drilled. The Pennsylvania Oil andj Gasycompany; who then owned the, Salt Creels oil field, with six produc-! ing wells of lubricating oil, had its! Offices and refinery here, This was‘ the -only. Oil refinery In’ Wyoming: and eight men were employed at this plant, . which included the office force of “one and sometimes two men. The. oil was hauled from the field to the refinery in. tanks at- tached to the running gears of wagons, hauled by freight teams, and it generally required a week for a team to make the trip if the roads Were in good condition. Wher the roads were not in good condition there was no oil hauled. Train ship- ments of the refined oll consisting of about one car load a month, were made in steel barrels. ‘The people, of Casper at that time were as) proud of thelr oll refinery as they} sre now the numerous plants, where more gasoline, and other pro- ducts from the crude ofl is pro- BANKER DEAF ~~ FOR YEARS NOW HEARS PERFECTLY Mr. John L, Ellerman, President of the Farmera National Bank, Fair- fax, South Dakota, says that after suffering from deafness for years he-can now hear the slightest whis- per and {s so proud and happy of his own good fortune that he wants everyone who is deaf or hard of hearing to know about it. After trying everything he could hear of without success, Mr. Ellerman fin- ally saw the announcement of a New York firm stating that they had effected a new hearing device! called the Acousticon which would enable anyong whose auditory nerve was not entirely destroyed to hear as perfectly as those with normal hearing. As this. firm offered to send their product on Ten Free Trial—no deposit—no C. 0, D: he decided to try it. To his utter amazement and “delight, he found) that this remarkable invention en-/ abled him to hear all sounds as} clearly as when a boy. He has since recommended it to a number of his friends and thoy also report most satisfactory results, If you a child, write the Dictograph Pro- ducts Corporation, Bulte 1804A, No. | 220 W. 42nd atreet, New York City, and ask them to send you an Acoust, tloon on Ten Days Free trial, There are nq stfings attached to ihetr of! fer, The trial is absolutely froe,| Just send them your name and ad- Gress.—Advertisement, “be Casper Sunday Eridun CASPER’S POPULATION AND PROSPECTS IN canvas top which will shed the rain, the sides extending over the it be well to explain tat on the running gears of a com- h- en out on the range and in the mountains where the sheep camps are located and are the homes of the campmovers and herders. The Lander Transportation com- mon wagon is built a frame andpany, with. headquarters In Casper, pe id i Radlk ae eae aie hedr cate sont abet wa ee Popular Dutch Colonial Dutch Colonial houses have en- joyed .considerable ‘popularity with homebuilders in the last few years. It is a distinctive and pleasing type, when not overdone, but carried out with due regard for its prototypes. The great danger Is-in exaggeration of the characteristics of the old- time buildings, * We must always remember that it is the principles, not the earmarks, of any type which should be followed. There are many interesting ver- sions of the origin of the gambrel- roofed house. That most generally favored seems to be that the thrifty Dutch settlers invented it as a means of evading the tax imposed on two-story houses. The Dutch Colonial house has the spaciousness of*full two stories, with the homey,| appearance of the one-story or story-and.a-halt Its wide frontage and spacious front veranda are very at- tractive. “Within are seven large rooms, well arranged. The living room and ‘dining room are on opposite sidés of the central hall, while the “teen occupies an cll t the rear. French doors are ef- UNLOADED Acarload of STAR cars in the latest models and designs. See these cars at our sales- foom today. Note th the change in hood fectively ued to separate the main rooms from the hall, so that they may be opened into one large space for entertaining. Three rooms in the house—the living .room, kitchen (housewives please note) and the owner's bed- Troom—all boast of windows on three sides. Surely there could be no dark days in so well-planned home. There is a cozy fireplace in the living room, and another in the owner's room above it. In the din‘ ing ‘room there is a beautiful built-in sideboard of delicately gtace- ful Colonial pattern. In the kitchen, @ room-end of dressers with sink and drainboard between, under a window, makes kitchen’work a joy. The guest roon? over the kitchen is fitted) with a bulltin dressing table, clothes closet and tray case,. and the other bedrooms are plenti- fully supplied, with closets. Every bit of woodwork in’ the house is Colonial in type, from the quaint entrance with its sidelights, to the six-paneled interior doors, the charming stair, and all the built-in features, Best.of all, it is standard- ized woodwork, which does"not have to be specially made. This, fact makes for reduced cost of construc- tion of this attractive home. SATURDAY e new pleasing lines, and radiator design. It’s a nicer and better STAR. Yellowstone Motor Sales Co. McKinley and Yellowstone. Phone 1406 fs. No, 29 TRAIN SCHEDULES .. Chlkeago & Northwestern Arrives catenin en ewn nn enntn nnn ee eee == 7:10 &. Mm. NO. 81 -enewecnwenensecneeeea--=---9:55 D. Mm. 8 a, m, 94. m 2:30 p. m 8 a m. 2p. m 144 3p. m, 1900 - CHANGE IN 24 YEARS IS INCREDIBLE Tri-Weekly Stage Service for the Interior. bad charge of the forwarding ond frelghting of merchandise into the interior from this point. Freighting for a lvellhood assumed a greater responsibility than most people real- ized. A “freight outfit" consisted of from two to four freight wagons, from twelve to twenty-eight horses, with as many sets of harness. The ‘wagons were loaded with from six- teen to thirty thousand pounds of merchandise. This merchandise was hauled from 100 to 180 miles to the stores in the interior. The dis- tatce made was on an average of twelve miles per day. Two men generally accompanied one “outfit. ‘The freighter became personally re- sponsible for the merchandise from the time it was loaded onto his wa- gon until it was delivered to the merchant or stock company to whom it was consigned, but about the only damage that was liable to result to the merchandise would be from dampness caused by cloud burst# and rain and snow storms. People who traveled along the public high- ways in those days would not ‘think of stealing anything from a freight outfit, and sometimes these loaded wagons were left along the roadside for a week without any one to guard them, while the freighter was out looking for his ‘strayed horses or was hung up on account ‘of bad roads. During the twenty © years that the freight was transported manner, not. one case of theft was ever reported, but in this modern and “enlightened” age; an automo. bile or anything else of value that was left unguarded along the .road- side for half’an hour would be stripped of everything that was moy- able. People of Casper at that time never thought of locking their doors when they went out for the evening, and nothing was ever stol- en. Such a thing as a hold-up was unheard of, and the police court then had less business in a year than is Dow transacted in Casper in a day. There were nine saloons in town then and three churches. The doors of the saloons were never locked. from Casper to the interior in cin Casper, being the county seat of Natrona county, then the smallest county in Wyoming, in population and assessed valuation, naturally did not have a very pretentious building for @ court house, but it was as commodious and comfortable as was the average home or business house. The building was covered on the out- side with seam iron, but was plaster- ed onthe inside, and was heated with coal stoves. There were eight rooms in this building—four down- stairs and four upstairs. The rooms for the sheriff and county attorney and.the court rooms were upstairs, and the treasurer, clerk, assessor and surveyor had their rooms on the ground floor. Each of these rooms was 12x12 feet. There were several two-story brick buildings in Casper then and one three-story building: there were numerous pretty residences, all of which, with one exception, were on the north side of the F.. EB. & M. V. railroad tracks. We had a gravity water system, and we boasted that the water, which came from Garden creek, on Casper mountain, was 99 per cent pure. We had an electric light plant then, but the store keep- ers, saloons, churches and all others kept their kerosene lamps filled and trimmed, for they were needed, quite often, One hundred sixty-six pupils were enrolled in our. public schools and four teachers were employed. We had a public kindergarten, the only One in the state of Wyoming, with an enrollment of 35, which {s in- cluded in the enrollment of 166 pupil The streets of the town were tn £000 condition when they were frozen and in the dry season, In the spring, when it rained, the mud was seldom’ more than eighteen inches deep, and a team with a light wagon could generall} get through. The sidewalks, such as we had, were built from 2xéinch planks, these walks were twelve feet in width in the Dusiness section and six feet in width in the residential part of town. There were some nice lawns and a few shade trees, North Casper, was then covered with a mass of brush, cactus and sand, and was taken up as a home- stead by “Tricky Brown; South Casper was the C-Y pasture, and the Sand Bar was not worth 50 cents. Most of it was the bed of the North Platte river, The “rent hog’ was ‘then a stranger here; the three store rooms in the Odd Fellows block brought $25 per month each, and a four- room: house rented for $20 per month, Everybody in town knew every- body, and the people worked as a unit, with possibly one or two ex- ception, for anything that was for the good of the town, and their purse strings were always loosened Every saloon had its gambling «ables, and the games were played upon the square. There was less drunkenness and less crime com- mitted then, according to popula- tion, in @ week than there is now in a day. Boys under 21 years of age were not permitted in a saloon, and very few of them were ever known to be drunk. If a woman With rouged c! ss and painted lips appeared on the streets the people knew where she belonged. A lady was always treated with the great- est_of respect. to help along a good cause or laud. able enterprise. When sickness, or death, or misfortune of any kind visited any of the citizens no sacri- fice was too great to be made to relieve the unfortunate one in his sorrow or distress. Such was the spirit of the people in Casper and the condition ‘of the town in thé year 1900 when we Proudly boasted that we had a popu- lation of 888. Nine out of every ten of the oldtimers who are left here will tell you that they would gladly BRANCH OF PAGE THREE SPRING BUILDERS IS FORMED A new national movement that hay originated in Gasper and als ready extencs through six states Is the Spring Builders, or the Society for the Preservation of Springs. It has as its object, according to the statements of those who have or- ganized it, the preserving and beau. Ufying of the springs of the coun- try with the jdea ot educating the public in regard to the Value ‘of these sources of water. = The founders of the movement are Edithe Ame Harris, Alta Harris ltin, Leon T. Gooc> Goodrich, Tony Trijillo and Celestino Quintana, The first spring was reclaimed last summer in the Big Horn moun- tains about one mile south of the Cunningham corral and near the middie fork of Powder River. It was name! “Quintillo” a name coined from the names of the Mex!- cans Trijillo an® Quintana who as- sisting in the work of reclaiming. “We do not know who the first spring builders were, say the or- ganizers. ‘Mythalogy, tradition and history point out that the ancients developed springs. Therefore we do not claim something entirely new. We are however sponsoring a nat- ional movement with the hope that TWO NEW ROUTES FOR, MOTOR BUS TRAFFIC ARE PROJECTED HERE Plans for trying out two new bus routes in Casper with a view to pur chasing two new motor busses for uso here were announced yesterday by the Casper Motor Bus company. On Wednesday a trial service will be instituted, designed to reach peo ple who live beyond the paving In the region of East Second street and if the patronage warrants the route probably will be made permanent. Such a Une would permit keeping the East Second-CY busses on the pavement,. The new route will go out East A street to Jackson, south to First, East to Elk, describe a loop not definitely determined and return over ‘tho same streets. The other new route projected will go out South Durbin street and will be tried out a week later. The territory to be covered has not been determined definitely. go back to those “good /old days.” Perhaps they would it fhey | could take thelr twénty-four pears | back with them, but\time his mellowed the hardships and infonveniences endured .by the plone¢rs, and we seldom appreciate thé fomforts and fortunes of the present. For results try a Tribune Class Ad hidden watets may in many places be released and that those already released will be given attractive set- tings, sanitary surroundings and a permanent nature. We hope to cre- ate a new interest tn these shrines by the wayside.” The founders are getting out. a Witter this week which they are sending throughout the count This letter gives the details of the organization, the fact that there @re no (ues and that the only thing necessary for “Initation™ is to re- claim a spring according to the standards outlined, and offers a number of hints on the method of going about the work and at individual problems. The letter suggests the walling up of a spring with rocks, concrete, or whatever is the best material for the particular case, providing a@ suitable outlet and giving beauty as well as utility to the spring by Planting grass, shrubbery or what- ever may be suited to the climate, Sure Way to Remove Pimplés The Action of Stuart's Wafers is Direct to Where ‘They Work to Clear It and Remove Facial Diemishes acking ye YA Calcium a in Lots of girls are fashionably slim and are pretty, all except a skin rashed with pimr No face cream can do a bit of good. What they nd what the skin ‘absolutely have is the refining influence alclum which. you get from Stuart's Calelum Wafers Thetr first action Is to aid the system to get rid of the mass of waste pro= ducts that seep into the blood and are apt to sorbed into the tis- sues to find their way to the skin. Then the Calcium itself ts one of the essential elements that the sys- tem naturally absorbs and utilizes, particularly in keeping the skin in health. -Thus there are decided benefits to be had from these won- der-wafers, for no - matter how bimply the skin, a box or two, can- not fail to develop the rose tint of the skin, Gét a 60 cent box of Stuart's Cal- cium Wafers of any druggist and then you "may count on a complex- on worth having. Write to F. A. Stuart Co., 639 Stuart Bldg. for free sample package.—Advertise- ment. WOODROW ELECTRIC ~ WASHING MACHINES Are Recognized As a Leader In Their Class We are prepared to furnish yo u the names of hundreds of satisfied Woodrow users right here in Casper. One machine in use in this city in a.small laundry has done over one thousand wash- _ ings and is still doing its duty and has not received over $5.00 of service. Low Cost of Operation Low Upkeep Low Prices aie — High Efficiency ‘A-Down Payment of $10.00 Places the Machine in Your Home, Then $7.65 Per onth Pays You Out in a.Year’s Time. They have never bee ah n so low in price before and never will be again. NATRONA POWER CO. PHONE 69 Pld Nah TR)