Natrona County Tribune from Casper, Wyoming • 1

SMOKE SAN TELMO CIGAR Schulte Bros. Natrona County Tribune. smoke SAN TELMO CIGAR Schulte Bros VOL. XXII CASPER, NATRONA COUNTY, WYOMING, JULY 31,1912 NUMBER 11 where helcould sleep the away The Primary Election. Escaped From the County Jail.

original coal supply than any other state except North Dakota, which 1 Local News. John Kelt Is now grading avenue ami putting It In good shape for travel. Judge Le Champion left last Friday BELIEVE WE That a store's first consideration should be the benefit of its customers; That the principles upon which a store is operated are as great a factor in its success as the kind of merchandise it carries. That goods of cheap quality are dear at any price. That merchandise of moderate cost should be represented in every stock.

That the purchaser of a dinner gown and the purchaser of a spool of thread are entitled to the same degree of consideration. That the real measure of a store's success is not the amount of money made but the amount of satisfaction given. THIS IS OUR POLICY THROUGHOUT THE STORE AND IS ONE OF THE REASONS OF OURSUCCESS. i i I I I i i C. H.

TOWNS END Leader in Good Goods and Low Prices Telephone 5. Casper, Wyoming sspp-y MOUNTAIN it. I w. Sfl i I 1 CORPORATION Casper, Wyo. LlvtnY 1 AbLt Proprietor i SUM! NatWs haj br i mail or carload lots 10 snit pnr- 9 ehsser i REALTY TITLE MRS.

A. T. BUTLER, President. on soft bed, while the man who paid his fine Is carrying the hod through the hot sun, and after he pays for his room and board he has about one dot lar left from his day's wages, but he says he has cut out the crap game and suggests that the white people should no', play stud poker any more, for they; might get pinched, and he would very much dislike to see anything like that happen. The man who thought he was going to have it so easy by staying in jail, is, however, cutting weeds and raking the rubbish off the streets, for which he is given credit of two dollars for each day's labor.

Tourists Should Cut Out Cheyenne. What time and money has been spent by the people of Cheyenne and Lara mle county to fix up their roads has all gone to the southern part of the state, and the people of Douglas, Cas per and the towns west and north from here should warn the automobile tourists who come this way to cut out Cheyenne and come and go by the way of AInsworth and Crawford. The roads are much better this way and there is not' so much danger ot being lost in the wilderness. Tourists who have come to Casper from Cheyenne this year have had all kinds of trouble. They get out from Cheyenne a couple of miles and th bump up against signs, "This road is dosed," but! there is no sign any where showing which road to take.

You travel over sage brush, through irrigating ditches and oyer the wild prairie, and you are like an unknown bark on an unknown sea. You are liable to get stuck in the mud holes with your machine and must either dig out or be pulled out if you can find a team. You buck up against' a wire fence which cuts off the road and there is no sign indicating the direction to go to pick up the road on the other side of the dry farm. You are just as likely to go the wrong direction as you are the right one, and you are just as apt to wind up in Laramie as you are in Douglas, and from all indications it would appear that the people of Cheyenne and Laramie county are attempting to send the tourists to the National Park over the south route, and it behooves the people in this part of the state to get busy and warn them to cut out Chey enne and come along the line of the Northwestern railroad. Ex-Gov.

W. A. Richards Dead. Ex-Governor William A. Richards of Red Bank died atJMelbourne, Aus tralia, on Friday, July 26, of heart failure.

He was in Australia with a land seeking party, His body will be brought to Wyoming and interred in Cheyenne where the remains of his wife and daughter were laid in everlasting rest. William A. Richards was born March 9, 1849, in Hazel Green, Wis. He received a common school edu cation in the town of Hazel Green. At the age of 21 he went to Omaha, where he was employed in the post office as registry clerk.

He was later the business manager of one of the papers of that city. In 1868, he came weBt with a surveying party. This party covered all the territory in Western Nebraska and Eastern Wyo ming, and was always in fear of the Indians. In 1870 he moved to California. December 28, 1874, he was married to Miss Harriett Hunt.

After five years he moved to Colorado for the benefit of bis health. On April 18, 1886, he moved with bis family into this state, locating at Red Bank. In 1889, he was appointed surveyor general of Wyoming. He held this position until 1893. In 1895, he was inaugurated governor of Wyoming and served until 1899, when he was named assistant commissioner of the general-land office by President Roose velt, serving until 1907.

Governor Brooks called upon him to take up the office of commissioner of taxation, in which position he served until the latter part of 1910. His wife died several years ago, and last fall, his daughter and her hus band were found murdered at their ranch home at Red Bank. Richards leaves two daughters, Mrs. G. McCreery of Pueblo.Colo., and Mrs.

L. A. Barret, of Oakland, Cal. He was affiliated with several lodges, including the Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, the Elks and the Masons. Off to the "War." Colonel George M.

Sliney of Ther mopolis and 190 members of the Wyoming National guard passed through Casper at 9 o'clock Saturday morning on a special train consisting of five passenger coaches and two baggage cars, on their way to Pale Mountain, in Albany county, to attend the annual encampment. The companies from Basin, Cody, Lovell, Thermop-olis and Lander were on board, and eleven members of Company went aboard here and will join the company at Douglas. Those who went from Casper were: Edward Wingelt, "Dusty" Miller, George Mahoney, Wilbur Tubbs, Guy Belden, F. A. Wllley, Roger Crawford, Earl Thurs ton, Ralph Foster, Harry Selbert and Walter Walters.

The first primary election under the law enacted by the lait legislature will be held on Tuesday, August and all candidates tor nomination have now filed their petitions wlih the county clerk, and the ballots will be printed within the next couple of weeks and delivered to the several precincts In the county. Each of the political parties will have separate ballots. The ballots with the names of the republican can dldates will be on white paper, the democratic candidates will have a blue ballot, and If there is a third party, their ballots will be on green paper. Republicans who vote at the primary election must call for a re publican ballot and the democrats rauHt call for the democratic ballot Sample ballots must be furnished the election judges at each of the precincts, but these sample ballots must be of a different color from the official primary ballots. It Is very essential that all the qualified electors of the county should vote at the primary election, which Is really more important than the gener al election, for at the primary election good men from both the republican and democratic parties should be nominated In 'order that competent men would fill the offices no matter which party is successful at the polls.

Following Is a list of those whohave filed their petitions with the county clerkjas provided by law: For sheriff, J. A. Sheffner, republican: Frank K. Webb, democrat. For county clerk, Frank H.

Sawyer, Chester M. Bryan, republicans; Thomas 0. Spears. democrat. For county treasurer, John T.

Scott, republican; no opposition. For clerk of the district court, Fred E. Place, republican; no opposition. For assessor, Phil Johnson, Frank Sturgeon, republicans; E. L.

Mc-Graugb, democrat. For county sup erintendent' of schools, May Hamilton, democrat; no opposition. For county commissioner, four-year terra, Robert D. Campbell, republican; L. Wal lace democrat.

For county commis sioner, two- year term, Frank Wood, republican; A. G. Cheney, democrat. For county attorney, W. O.

Wilson, B. Barnes, republicans; no democratic opposition. For county surveyor, M. N. Wheeler, republican; no opposition.

No petitions were filed as candidates for cororner and constables, and W. E. Tubbs of West Casper is the only candidate in the county for justice of the peace. Can didates for committeemen in the sev eral preoiucts in the county are as follows: South Casper, G. R.

Hag- ens, republican; J. E. Stacey, democrat. East Casper, H. R.

Lathrop, re publican; Jake Nelson, democrat. Salt Creek, D. Scott, republican. Lone Bear, Kenneth McDonald, republican. Bucknum, Oakley Garvey, republican.

Alcova, Herman Klock-sien, republican." Oil City, W. W. Grieve, republican. Bessemer, Frank Julian, republican. Miller, Edward Rlddell, republican.

West Casper, John Mowrer, 'democrat. Cameron Hays Drowned. the sixteen-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Park C.

Hays of Lander, was drowned in the north fork of the Popo Agie river, near Lander, Sunday afternoon. The boy, with his fourteen-year-old brother and another boy, went in bathing and he ventured out to far. He was un able to swim and his body soon went to the bottom of tha pool, and1 when the remains were fished out he was in the water about fifteen feet deep. The remains were taken to Tekamah, yesterday for interment. Mr.

and Mrs. Hays were residents of Casper a number of years ago, and their many friends here sympathise with them in their great sorrow. Stockmen's Bank Being Remodeled. The Stockmen's National bank Is now being remodeled, and during the time that the room is being worked over the banking business will be transacted in the west pat of C. H.

Townsend's store. The American Sash and Door company of Kansas City is. putting in the new fixtures, which consists of marble and mahog- heny. The floor will be laid with white tiling, while the ceiling will be frescoed and supported with mahog' heny beams, and the walls will be paneled and painted to harmonize with the furniture. The directors room will be of the same material and finish as the main banking rooms, and when finished will be up to date in evary particular.

Shooting Craps. Two colored men were caught shoot ing craps Monday morning and in company with Marshal Patsy Royce they immediately appeared before Judge Tubbs and pleaded guilty. The judge fined them S50 each and gave them a lecture, for which he made no extra charge. One of them drew a check book from his pocket and wrote out a check for the amount, which gave the court such a shock that be has not fully recovered, but the other fellow concluded that he would pay his fine at the rate of two dollars per day by going to the jail where it is nice and cool, where he could get three square meals each day and J. F.

Barnes, tho pick pocket, anil Frank Little, the wool thief, who were serving a seutebue la the county jail made their escape about noon Thur day by sawing off one of the bars In the corridor window and crawling through the hole, which was DJxll) Inches, and as each of them were medium sized met) they must have had ft tight squeeze. They were in the corridor but one hour, and as the work of sawing the iron bar In two would require several hours, they evidently had done some work oc It More or they had help from the outside. W. Patterson, the court steno grapher, saw the two men running across the sand bar north from the court house, but as he did not know who they were, he thought nothing about it until he heard there was jail delivery, The men went to the brush along the 'river bank and It is supposed they headed toward the oast, but no trace of them has yet en found. Barnes had three months to serve In the jail and Little would have finished his sentence in two and a half months, and while it is to be regretted that there was a jail delivery, nevertheless the county will not have to feed them during the remainder of the summer, and It is a sure thing they will never return, Ed Day, who assisted Little in the theft pf some wool from E.

Grover, and who was also serving a ninety day sentence, but who was a trusty and was in the jail yarn working on the lawn when the prisoners mude their escape, says he did not see thera, and he did not know they had been sawing on the bar, but It Is" thought he Is not telling the truth, and that he furnished the saw and was on watch for the men when they made their get-away. Marketing Asbestos. The Northwestern Asbestos com pany last week shipped a carload of fiber to Denver and another to Ro chester, N. and Superintendent Bryle says that he is now prepared to Ship a car load of tie product to market each day Uut the roads to the mountains will have to be fixed up a little In order to get the fiber to Cas per with teams. Frank Wood for Commissioner.

Petitions have been circulated and very liberally signed for Frank Wood us the candidate for the two-year term of county coJiinissioner on the repub lican ticket, and that he will be elected with an overwhelming majority is al ready assurred, Mr. Wood is in every way qualified for the position, and with Bob Campbell from Walt- man and Sam Conwell on the board we will have as strong and competent a board of commissioners as we have ever had in the county. Building Association Meeting. At the first business meeting of the Casper Mutual Building and Loan association, held at the court house on. Thursday night, about fifty of the stockholders were present and the bidding for the first loan was quite spirited.

W. R. Johnson's bid, which was the highest, was 34 per cent premium on $2,400, which will bo a fraction less than 7 per cent Interest that he will pay on the loan. The association statts out with more stockholders and brighter prospects than any asso ciation of the kind organized in the state, and the stock holders seem to be well satisfied with thev future success of the organization. Coal Resources of Wyoming.

The United States geological survey estimates the quantity of coal in the ground in Wyoming as exceeding that of any other state In the Union, with the possible exception of North Dakota. This great quantity is due in the first place, to the large number of coal-bearing formations in the state, second, to the great number and thick ness ot the coal beds, and third, to the size of the coal fields, about fifty per cent of the area of the state being underlain by coal-bearing formations. The largest coal field of the state is that of Powder River, which lies in the basin or trough between the Black Hills and the Big Horn mountains and extends from North Platte river to the Montana line. This field is the southern extension of the great Fort Union coal region of Montano and North Dakota, and embraces in Wyoming an area of about 15,000 square miles. Of this area at least 11,000 square miles are underlain by coal beds known to be more than three feet thick, and the remainder may in places contain beds thick enough to work.

Wyoming is the second largest coal producing state in the Rocky Mountain region, Colorado ranking first; and if production in Wyoming increases in the next few years as it has done in the last twenty-five it will soon rival Colorado for the first place. The coal mined in Wyoming is bituminous and subbituminous. More than half of the product comes from the Kemmerer district, in Uinta county, and from the Rock Springs field, in Sweetwater county. The geological survey's estimates give Wyoming credit for a estimated to have contained originally short tons of coal. The coal in North Dakota is, however, all lignite, but while the ooal in Wyom Ing Is either bituminous or semlbltu minous, Wyoming's supply Is est! mated to have been short tins, compared with which the ncjrregrate production to the close o( 1919 short tons) appears in' significant.

The total exhaustion of the beds up to the close of 1910 amounted to 146,000,000 short tons, or thirty-four thousandths of one per cent of the total estimated supply. Does Casper Want Reform School? The state board of charities and re form has sent out circular letters to the board of county commissioners, mayors and newspapers In each of the counties, cities, towns and villages in the state giving out the In form a tlon that the Eleventh legislature en acted a law providing for the establishment of a reform institution In this state, to lie known aB the Wyoming Industrial institute. The institu tion is iutended to provido a place for the younger class of persons who are so unfortunate as to bo convicted of crime, and to enable them through good conduct and Industry-to make, time thereby shortening their terras. When the next legislature meets there will have accumulated In all probability about S150.000, for the com- mencenient of the construction of the necessary buildings. Under the law mentioned above, every city, town and village in the state is eligible for the location of this institute, the town to be determined by a vote of the people.

This nstitution will not be a penal insti tution in the ordinary seuse of bolts and bars, but will be conducted in a urge measure through the honor of the inmates. It will therefore be an advantage to the community where It Is located. 1 Any city, town or village wishing to be chosen must be nominated by peti tion in the manner provided by law or the nomination of candidates for public offices. Under the provisions of this law at least one hundred signa tures of electors must appear on the petition. The law further provides that the various counties, cities and towuH of the state may make proposals to the state board of charities and re- orm for the sale or donation to the state of Wyoming' of any suitable site or sites for such institute, provided that the institution shall be located on rriguble land suitable for farming and stock raising.

The board is of the opinion that! there should be at least 640 acres of irrigable land provided with sufficient water to fully reclaim it. One thousand acres would be better. If the cities and towns desiring to become candidates for the location of this institution will inform the board on or before September 15 of any tenders in tho way of lands and advise of thb advantages surrounding same, whether tendered free or for a fixed price the board will see that the ac tual facts of the matter are widely ad vertised throughout the state, so that the people in voting may have the necessary information to determine what location is to tho best interests of the state. Dr. C.

O. Merica, former president of the Wyoming university, was last week admitted to practice law in Wy oming. Mr. Merica, however, will not practice law in the state. He baB already gone to assume his duties as president of the Industrial Home for Boys at Red Wing.

Minn. At the regular meeting of E'opo Agie Tribe, No. 10, Improved Order of Red Men, held last Saturday night, sixteen palefaces were given the first two degrees of the order. The third degree will be conferred on a class of at least one hundred on the night of August 8, which will be during tho session of the Great Council of Wyo ming. The bachelor girls of Glonrock gave a leap year dance one night last week and their cleverness entitles them to their choice of the best single men in the west.

Among some of the mottoes that decorated the walls of the hall were: "The longest way 'round is the sweetest way home," "where single ness Is bliss 'tis follow to be wires." "Drink and be merry, for tomorrow vou may be married." This was one of the nicest and most pleasant dances ever given in Glenrock. Sheriff Sheffner left on Thursday for Rawlins with Walker and Watson, who are to serve terms in the peniten tiary, Walker having pleaded guilty to passing a fraudulent check on Jack Callahan and Watson tried to wreck a train near Wolton. Mr. Sheffner picked up two prisoners at Douglas who had been working on the state highway and returned them to the pen. One of the men had sustained broken leg and the other wa's suffer ing with asthma, and they were un able to worK.

The sheriff brought back with him eight prisoners from the penitentiary, who will work on the roads in Converse county with the other convicts. for Denver and other Colorado points to remain a couple of weeks on legal business. Miss Hebsacker of Cairo, who vlxltud In Casper a counle of weeks 1th her cousin, Mrs. Bubb, left last Friday for her home. C.

Rauner of Laramie, who was i Casper for three months organizing the Casper building and loan assocla- on, loft for his home in Laramie on Friday. Hal Bennett Is having plans drawn for a five-room bungalow which will be built this summer on his lot south of Mrs. Hewes'residence in West Park addition. Mr. and Mrs.

Joseph Snider, for merly of Oil City, but who are now making their home in Thermopolis, were visiting among Casper friends this week. Homer Shaffer is drawing plans for modern bungalow to lie built hv W. It. Johnson, near the baptist church. Park addition, to cost about tllm.

It will be 28x34, five rooms. Fred Sloane, manager of the Alcova Mercantile company, and D. P. Smis- or also of Alcova, drove to Casper on aturaay in tneir overland auto, re turning home the same evening. Mrs.

Harnsberger, who is interested in the oil lands near Lander, spent Friday and Saturday In Cn iderlng a proposition to Invest in some mineral land near Casper. Kd i tor Littlefield of the Press went to Cheyenne on Friday last week to attend the Bull Moose convention ailed by Governor Carey for the pur pose of sending delegates to Chicago. Fred Scherck of Kaycee. who was injured about a month ago by being struck in the stomach with a plow handle, is In the city this week, and is apidily recovering from his Injuries. Mr.

and Mrs. Major Ormsbv and their little daughter, who has been ufferlng for some time with a broken arm, arrived in Casper Monday and ill remain here until the little girl's condition Is considerably Improved. Mr. and Mrs. A.

T. Phillips will eave tomorrow for Cleveland, Ohio, here they will remaiu a week or ten days. Mr. Phillips is a delegate from the local lodge of Eagles to the Grand lodge, whieh meets in Cleveland next week. John Keil has surely done some good work on the road between Cas per and Stroud by straightening It out and grading It up, and many of the autolsts show their appreciation of the nice drive every evening by making the trip.

Mrs. Harriet B. Hood, a resident of Casper in the early days, but who Is now making her home In ThermopolU, and who is a candidate for treasurer of Hot Springs county, was visiting among old-time friends in Casper the latter part of last week. The convicts have done some splen did work on the roads in Converse county and the drive of fifty-four miles from Casper to Douglas can be made about an hour less than heretofore, and a great many trips will be made by autoists between the two towns. C.

B. Snider arrived in Casper last week and is getting the machinery for the Hope Engineering company together for shipment. One of the ditching machines will be shipped to California where the company has a contract for a fifty-mile ditch, and another will be shipped to Virginia, wbere a thirty-mile pipe line is to be laid. Miss Mary Campbell, daughter of A. C.

Campbell, who is attorney for the Natrona Pipe Line and Refinery company, arrived in Casper on Sat urday last week from Denver to remain with her father. They are at present making their home in the Prof. McDonough resi dence in east Casper. W. C.

Irvine of Ross, who will be the next state senator from Converse county, was a Casper visitor on Wednesday and Thursday last week. Billy says there are no Bull Moose down where he lives and be came up to Casoer to see what one looked like, but he was disappointed here, and now he says he will go up to Lander in the near future where it is reported that one of the animals (Jack Chen-ery) is caged and is on exhibition. Harry Ballard last week sold a two-thirds interest in the Casper Storage company to Mr. Wimpenney and Clarence Wimpenney, who recently came to Casper from Chicago. The company will, as usual, buy and sell bides, pelts, hay, grain etc.

They have splendid warehouses on the C. N. W. tracks and are well equipped for the business in which tbey are engaged. Mr.

and Mrs. Ballard intend to leave in a short time on a two or three month's trip in the east and may go to Europe. They may also remain in Boston during the winter. A selling afjent for lots in Butler Addition. With the Burlington R.

R. building at a rapid rate towards Casper and the federal government setting aside $30,000 to commence operations on the post office building. With the best prospects in the world for a 100-room hotel, who wouldn't buy lots in (Jasper, as an investment or to build a home? Nothing can beat it as a good safe investment. We have lots all the way from $50 to $200, $10 down and $5 a month. TITLES GUARANTEED 4 HUFF BAILEY DRAY LINE Office in Old PoBt Ollice Building Baggage Transferred and All Kinds of Dray Work Done PHONE 203 BLACK CASPER, WYOMING OSCAR HIESTAND Harness, Saddles, LUhips, Bridles, Robes, Hobbles, Nose Bags, Repairing, Ete.

5 Telephone 24 i I GRAND ChNlHAL M. N. CASTLE, litsry a specialty. Long or Abort ririfst HiRhsnteaeh prlco paid for all kinds of Hides, felts, Pars, etc. Stockmen National Bank Of Casper.

CUyoming Capital Stock 950,000 Surplus and Profits, 60,000 OFFICERS: O. H. TO WNSEND, President FRANK WOOD, Vloe President J. M. LOWNDES, Cashier A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS TRANSACTED..