Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 3, 1926, Page 18

THE CASPER TRIBUNE-HERALD PAGE SIX Chapel will have evening during the people of south- west Casper are invite Cardinal’ Mercier Because of his age 9:45—Church 1s recovery, but the operation s HISTORY OF STATE TRAC Cardinal Mercier Operated On , by Harris & Ewing. rid famous peration for fears w expressed for his m entirely successful. his work during the nditio; Mrs. Helms . Mark’s Church ~Membership school boys ning worship Romanza"_Gru Theosophical Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. , Services held in Labor Union hall Wolcott etreet. n. and preach- 0 p.m. Everyone at 340 North Karnia and Reincarnation Christian Science. Jan Science services will be the church edific Kenwood Presbyterian §:00 o'cloclr. welcome to these services. cf 20 years is held on Sunday at Becklinger building authorized Christian rature may be read, purchased. borrowed, is open each week day — Presbyterian. Salvation Army Hall : Saturday at 8 p. m. 615 °p. m. and The Church of Christ Vorshipping at the city hall meet each Lord's ¢ y at 11 a. m. to rybody invited but all this is very to help not to hind Anthony’s Catholic. Father J. H. Mullin, pas- he Rev. Father J. F, Mf clases from beginners to adult. hip at 11 and 7:30. The Spiritual Farme Morning then r,"" followed by 9 and 10:30 a. ends," Christian Endeav- etles at 6:90 R. Green=is the Trinity Lutheran, (Missourl Synod) Corner of South of the Sen ight. Our thursday night 2 meeting for e plans apd at First Baptist. and South Beech stree Bowerman, D. D., minister. » school, 4 am. C ad M begins class teac we rman, | Morning |mon by EF f nev tion of ception 11:00 a. m. Ser- Reed. Installa- of the-church, rs d Lord's vangelist officers mem of upper mon by E Special gospel music morning and evenin Male quartette. Large chorus. Mrs. B. Leggett, direc tor; M url Thomason, pianist. for the little Begin ar right. Go to church. rdiall, vited to all of nes. Gospel Mission. services, F | Special t Baptist Zaptist church {s very to have secured for the next few weeks the vices of the Oliver R the midd d, well west noted evangelist known worker nd south Mr, with mes- ges for the morning and evening, 8 and services will be held each eve- n of the week. Evangelist Reed is nin the prime of life and a preacher of great power. ‘The large chorus under the direc- Leggett will lead in the The men’s chorus Carr will T tion of Mrs. services of song. under leadership of Jack be an added feature. church prayer meet last week numt 1 the church a of gre First tendance church every North Casper Christian Corner 1H e are school, 9 in h hoping for an increase attend- ance. Parents come !f possible, but if not, please send your children that we may help them to know more about the Bible and God's love for them, The Psalmist sald: “The entra e of thy word giveth light,” Simeon in the temple at Jerusalem when the Christ child was brought in the temple, took him in his arms and blessing God, sald, “Lord, now let thy servant depart in peace, ac k and East Fourth street. W. C. c Sunday school Divine worship and ser- Confirmation January 5 at 4:30 p. m: WELL STOP AND CALL ON A FRIEND OF MINE OUT AT GREAT NECK, POLLY, | WANT ‘rou TO MEET Him AND “ THE GIRL To wHOom HE_IS_ENGAGED necessary re- Sunday of the The year ts bound to a record in Wilson ente: the Bible church Truth Center lock. Mrs. Serv- fan Healing. rning service will A. Williams Mothers will ) m training cla young people, Mrs. Randolpt the children Lise WHo (5S | country ulcerated stomach, | midweek | | pedition, who ‘started | River, opposite St. Louis, on May FREDDIE FLuWeER-" YOUVE HEARD mr SPFAIC OF Him — Service Club Hears Interesting Talk by Historian A. J, MOKLER, historian and ploneer of Natrona county, yes- terday delivered before the Cas- per Business and Professional Women's meeting an address sketching the early history of Wyoming. The part women have played in this history comes in for special mention. Because of its state-wide appeal and interest \* address. is published in full. By A. J. MOKLER On ‘New Year's day, 1743, Pierre Gaultier de Varrennes de la Varen- drye, a French-Canadian, with his two sons and two other Canadian men were the first white men to view the Big Horn mountains, a branch of the Rockies. These moun- tains were then known by the In- dians as the “Shining Mountains,” because thelr snow-capped peaks could be seen for more than a hun- dred miles. The Verendrye expedi- tion left Montreal on June 7,1731, by the authority of the Duke or Or- leans, to discover a route and ex- plose the country to the Pacific Ocean, then known as the Western Sea. Many of the white men in the Verendrye party had been killed by. the Indians before they reached the Missour! river in 1738, and their goods were stolen, and those that escaped were compelled to retrace steps, But in 1742 Verendrye, h his two sons and two other Ca- » men again came to the Far t, arriving at the Mandan villa- Two Mandan Indians | were induced to accompany the ex- pedition, but after a few months red men deserted them, and they wandered about in the unknown Uke an unknown bark on an unknown sea. They pushed for- ward in a southwesterly direction til they came near the present Yellowst: National Park, and from he hey turned south on the oshone river, and down to the @ river, in Central Wyoming, and to them belongs the credit of the first white men to set foot on the soil of what is now the state of Wyoming, Here ended their west- ward journey, and they returned to Montreal in May, 1744, after thirteen ars of struggle and hardships, to ce defeat, obscurity and poverty. Sixty years later Captain Merri- weather Lewis and Captain William commanded an _ expedition wn as the Lewis and Clark ex- from Wood ye 14, 1804, with three boats and two horses toward the Pacific Ocean. ‘Their route was over an unknown, unnamed, unexplored country. It took them 165 days to reach the Mandan villages, and on November 8, 1805, after a year and a halt of anxiety, toil, hardships and some times almost starvation, they heard the roar of the Pacific Ocean, and their eyes rested upon their goal— the Western Sea. The return jour- y was made more quickly. They left the western coast on March 23, and arrived in St. Louls on Septem- ber 23, 1806. John Colter, who was with the Lewis and Clark expedition, but was allowed to turn back after reaching the Mandan villages on his way to St. Louis, is entitled to the credit of the first white man to discover what is now the Yellowstone National | Park, and when told of the wonder- ful things he had seen there, the traders and trappers would not be- leve him, and they called the burn- ing mountains, the spouting geysers of steam and hot water that he told them about “Colter's Hell.” Colter was in this country from 1806 to 1809, and there are some thrilling stories told about him and his com- cording to thy word: For mine eyes have seen thy salvation, which thou hast prepared before all people; Alight to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.” Commu 11 a.m; preaching, 11:30. Subject, “Our Special Plea as People.” Evening, ‘Soul Win- ing.” B. A. Wilkinson, speaker. Special music at each pervice. Pray- er meeting Wednesday evening, fol- lowed meeting Mountain View Community. Go to church next Sunday after- noon at 2:30 and bring your family. Take time for church, you need the quiet hour, Boys and girls story ser- mon, "Give and Forgive.” Adult ser- mon, The Untried Door No. III, “The Door of the Scientific Method.” Ad- ult class using the twentieth cen- tury quarterly. Should not more of the Mountain View people give an hour and a half to the interests of the church? POLLY OF THE FOLLIES--- After the Battle “OF COURSE -*You SAID HES BEEN GOING WITH THIS SUNDAY, JANUARY 3, 1926 ED BY A. J. MOKLER Panions, who had many narrow es- capes from being killed by the In- dians. Once when he was captured, he was stripped of all Ihis clothing, and he ran for six miles over the plains and through the brush and cactus, before he made his escape into the river. He was seven days on the plains in this condition be- fore he reached a fur trader’s camp. His companion was killed by the In- dians, Robert Stuart, with a party of six |men, who came throrgh here from Astoria on their way to St. Louis in November, 1812, built a cabin along the Platte river about twelve miles west of Casper. This was the first cabin to be bullt in what is now Wyoming. It was Stuart’s intention to spend the winter here, and in two weeks he had his cabin filled with choice meats from buffalo, elk, deer and bear; then elghteen Indians came along and after three days’ feasting they left for the west, but said they would return {fn a short time. _ Stuart thought when they returned they might bring a suffi- cient number with them to kill his Uttle band of men, or at least rob them of their winter's supply, and the next morning after the Indians had gone he and his men left for the east with what provisions they could carry. The first American of note to ex- plore this particular part of the country, which {s now Wyoming, was, General Wm. H. Ashley, who, in 1832, led 300 men through the Sweetwater country and the South Pass. In 1832 Captain Bonneville, with 110 men, passed through here. He spent threo years in the Rocky Mountain country, and his experien. ces are very interestingly descfibed by Washington Irving. General John C, Fremont, the explorer, who was given the title of the “Path- i finder,” made explorations of this country from 1842 to 1845, and un- furled the national flag on Fremont’s Peak on the Wind River range; to wave in the breeze where “flag n er waved before.” The Oregon Trail, over which more than 300,000 people traveled, going into the Far West, from 1843 until 1869, {s undoubtedly the most his- toric trail in the world. It was over this trail that Brigham Young led the Mormons on their pilgrimage to their Zion. In the days of '49 {t was used by countless thousands of seek- ers after wealth in their mad rush to the gold fields of California, and it may be truly characterized “The Path of the Empire,” for by it came the pioneers who saved Washing- ton, Oregon, Idaho, and part of Wy- oming and Montana to the American Union. The trials, privations, and suffering endured by the people who same over this trail are indescriba- ble. The trail from Independence to the Oregon country was 2,000 miles in length, and if the people who died while traveling over this route were buried an equal distance apart there would be seventeen graves to each of the 2,000 miles—34,000 deaths among the emigrants who had start- ed on their western journey to bulld an Empire. It might be interesting to tell you that this particular part of Wyom- ing in which we are located, and in fact all that part of the country ly- ing cast from the Big Horn moun- tains apd extending to the Black Hills ‘colintry, in the early days be- longed to the Crow Indians, and was named by them, “‘Ab-sar-aka,” mean- ing the Crow country, <Arapooish was the chief of the Crows, and he was a wise man, judging from his said he, “isa good country. The Great Spirit has put it exactly in the right place; while you are in it you fare well; when you go out of it, whichever way you travel, you fare worse. “If you go to the south, you have to wander over great barren plains; the water Is warm and bad, and you meet the fever and ague, “To the north it is cold; the win- ters are long and bitter; with no grass; you cannot keep horses there, but must travel with dogs. What is a country without horses! “On the Columbia they are poor and dirty; paddle about in canoes, and eat fish. Thelr teeth are worn out; they are always taking fish- bones out of their mouths. Fish is poor food. “To the east, they dwell in vil- lages; they live well; but they drink the muddy water of the Missourf— that is bad. -A Crow's dog would not drink such water. “About the forks of the Missouri is a fine country; good water, good grass; plenty of buffalo. In sum- mer it is almost as good as the Crow country; but in winter it is cold; the grass {s gone and there is no salt weed for the horses. “The Crow country is exactly in the right place. It has snowy moun- tains and sunny plains; all kinds of climates and good things for every season. When the summer heats scorch the prairies, you can draw up under the mountains, where the air is sweet and cool, the grass fresh and the bright streams’ come tumb- ing out of the snow-banks. There you can hunt the elk, the deer, and the antélope, when their skins are fit for dressing; there you will find plenty of white bears and mountain sheep. “In the autumn, when your horses are fat and ~trong from the moun- tain pastures, you can go down into the plains and hunt the buffalo, or trap beaver on the streams. And when winter comes on, you can take buffalo meat for yourselves, and cot- tonwood bark for your horses; or you may winter in the Wind River valley, where there is salt weed in abundance. “The Crow country is exactly in the right place. Everything good !s to be found there. There is no country lke the Crow country,” Casper is located in what was then the Crow country. Arapooish was right. The Great Spirit has indeed put us in the right place. Wyoming derived its name from the historic Wyoming valley of Pennsylvania, and is supposed to be a corruption of the Indian name, Maugh-wau-wa-me, meaning large plains. The state is 365 miles in length by 276 miles in width, and it has an area of 97,883 square miles, @ surface equal to the two great states of New York and Pennsylva- nia, or greater than all the New England states combined, therefore the name Maugh-wau-wa-me, or Large Plains, is a very appropriate name for our state, Most of Wyoming was included in the Province of Louisiana, purchas- ed from the French in 1803, and be- longed to the District of Louisiana after 1804, the Territory of Loul ana after 1805, the Territory of Mis- souri after 1812, the Indian Country after 1834, Nebraska after 1854, Da- kota after 1861, Idaho after 1863, and Dakota again after 1864. This part of the country did not amount to a great deal at that time; wild game and the thrill of fighting the hostile Indians were about the only inducements for white men to come here. The Territory of Wyoming was formed from parts of Dakota, Idaho and Utah in 1868, and was admitted as the forty-fourth state of the Union tn 1890. When Wyoming ‘became a terrt- tory in 1869 there was incorporated in our laws a provision that the right of citizens to vote »nd hold office should not be denied or abridged on account of sex. Both male and 3- male citizens of the territory enjoy- ed equally all civil, political, and re- ligious privileges. No other terri- tory or state in the United States and no other country in the world at that time gave the women these rights and privileges. How different it is today. There is not now a state In the union but extends to the women these privileges. For the first time in the history of the world men and women’ took their places side by side in the jury box at a session of the grand jury held in the City of Laramie, Albany county, in 1870. There were three women and nine men on this jury, and they were in session three weeks, The women worked as dili- gently and as faithfully as did the men, and they possessed just as keen insight to the affairs brought before them as did the men, and having disposed of all the cases brought to their attention and com- ing into the court room to make their report and be discharged, the presiding judge complimented them in the highest terms of praise for the wisdom and judgment they dis- played in the discharge of their sworn duty. Mrs, Esther Morris of South Pass, in Fremont county, was the first woman who ever administered the office of justice of the peace in the Territory otf Wyoming, or in the world, and it is said she administer- ed’ justice with an impartial mind, and that she won the respect and admiration of all her fellow citizens. When Wyoming was admitted to |) the Union as a state in 1°70, the same law was incorporated in our constitution, and for many years ‘Wyoming, was the only state in the union where women could vote and hold office, and to her praise it may be sajd that the right of franchise did not impede her onward march in_the work sho sccomplished, the beneficent influence she exerted up- on issues and the check which her presence put upon the evil tenden- cles of those early days. It ts surely true that after all these years’ experience the people ot Wyoming would not be content to return to the old limits, where men only, no matter what degree of Intelligence they possessed. and re gardless of what thelr mental cond!- tion might %e, should have all to say in regard to the making of our laws, the election of state, county and city officers and the holding of public office. Wyoming has always been blessed with a home-loving citizenship, and Iam pleased to say that our terri- tory and state was the birthplace of true democracy; the land of freedom to men and women; the spot in na- ture’s wide domain where the law was originated and was made by the governed, without regard to sex, and in the years that followed the eyes of all the pepole In this nation turn. ed to this commonwealth as the land where equalicy was held in trust and sacredly preserved the rights.and Itb- erties of all her people. In conclusion, I will say that wo- men have always inspired men to do great and noble things {n life. Every man, who ts worthy of the name. desifes and strives to be re- spected and honored by good women, and they are pleased to have the ap- 4 plause and approval of the women in public as well as private life, In the offices, stofes, factories, hospit- als, schools, and especially in the home, man is almost wholly depend. ent upon tho women for all that makes life tolerable, In the City of Washington women tre acting as private secretaries to some of ‘our most distinguished statesmen; Mrs, Wells {s secretary to our Senator Warren, probably the most influential senator in the Na- tional Capital, and she 1s better posted on national affairs than many of the senators; Miss Mildred Reeves is private secretary to Nicholas Longworth, the speaker of the House of Representatives, and it ts Probable that she has a clearer con- ception of what is going on in the House than most of the members, but these are only two among thou- sands of women in Washington who are occupying very responsible po- sitions, and thelr services are almost indispensable, What the women in these responsible position in Wash- ington are to the senators and rep- resentatives, the members of the Business and Professional Women’s club of Casper are to the private and publis affairs in this city and county. Many of the members of your or- ganization are occupying positions that. require as much intelligence and as much diplomacy as those at the National Capital, and to you and the ten or twelve thousand other women Iving here belongs the cred- it, fully as much as {t does the men, of making Casper one of the most attractive and prosperous little cities of the West. TODAY ORDER ” THE — DENVER POST LATEST NEWS BEST FEATURES 10 PAGES COMICS ON SATURDAY 7 DAYS A WEEK Delivered Anywhere in Casper 65c Per Month EARL KEENAN Agent Office at Pep’s 146 S. Center. Phone 18 ID A 4 “oy TRAIN SCHEDULES CHICAGO & NORTHWESTFRN Westbound No. 603 . Eastbound Lo eaneceswenenncnal.80 p.m. enne----- 5:45 p.m, No Sunday trains west of Casper. Arri CHICAGG BURLINGTON & QUINCY Eastbound No. 80 No. 82 . Westbound NO.329 (ce Law No. 81 ... LONG ENOUGH TO BE MARRIED BY THIS “Tete # IF ‘You ASK Him, 8:00 p. m. senceaea -9.55 p.m. Arrives 350 a.m. 7:10 a. m. 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