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Show UINTAH BASIN RECORD J Civil Service Laws Speaking of Sports , Wyoming Looks Back Upon Its Fifty Years As a State; It Has the Distinction of Tri- - Cornered Fight Seen in Senior Circuit ilHEJ SWING THROUGH JUNE nlSEBALL form still is somewhat 3 muddled as the major league swing along. In the National ,s the Reds and the Dodgers , holding up, but the Cardinals, sec-- s ;aVy pennant choice in some me, T'HINK back, just for a minute, to the start of this years major three-cornere- pre-seas- amateur aft-nba- die-hard- -- single-hande- ef-c- ts , -- eas-Eve- 10 "1 j 4. Being First to Give the Women a Vote By ROBERT Me SHANE pre-seaso- 1 to the AILING HOUSE By ELMO SCOTT WATSON (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) JULY 10 a new United ON commemorative stamp is being on for the first sale placed time. Now, theres nothing especially remarkable about this, for the Post Office de- partment has sent forth a veritable flood of commem-orative- s during the last eight years. But the fact that this stamp is being issued in connection with the 50th anniThe Old Occidental hotel in Buffalo, Wyo., said to have been the of the encounter between The Virginian and his enemy, scene of of admission the versary in Owen Wisters novel. Trampas, of to sisterhood the Wyoming states gives it rpore than was a foregone conclusion the perhaps, than to any other single merely local or regional in- conquest of the red man and the factor. And, paradoxically, he seizure of his lands by the whites. wasnt a Westerner at all. He was terest. an Easterner, a tenderfoot. To Americans the name The Day of the Cattleman. A Tenderfoot Goes West. After the Indian wars were Wyoming means a variety Owen Wister was his name and of things. To a majority of us over came one of the most glampeiiods in Wyomings his- he was born in Philadelphia just it symbolizes, perhaps more orous the tory day of the cattleman. 80 years ago on July 14, 1860. than the name of any other Brief though it was, it lasted long A friend of Theodore Roosevelt state, the Wild West, and enough to make the name of Wy- while a student at Harvard, he a career in music and rightly so. For it is doubtful oming synonymous with the word planned that picturesque was well on the way to success cowboy, if any other state west of the American figure whose jingling in it abroad when the insistence Mississippi has been the scene spurs still echo in the American of his father resulted in his reof more acts in the drama of consciousness even though the turning to Harvard to study law. the Winning of the West era of the open range is long His health broke before he was well started and, as Roosevelt than have been staged within since past. he went West to recu- Wyomings miles. 97,914 square Although the route of Lewis and Clarks epic journey took them north of Wyoming, the names of two members of their party are written on the pages of her history. In 1809 John Colter, who left Lewis and Clark during their return journey to St. Louis, became the first white man to gaze upon the marvels of that wonderland which was first called John Colters Hell and which we now know as Yellowstone National park. Three quarters of a century later an old Indian woman died on the Wind River reservation of her people, the Shoshones, and today a Simple monument marks what Wyoming believes (despite counter claims by North and South Dakota) to be the last resting place of or the Bird Woman, the heroic Indian girl who guided Lewis and Clark across the Shining mountains. Long before Lewis and Clark, Wyoming had been visited by exthe plorers of another nation Frenchman, Sieur de la Veren-dryand his sons who were searching for good sites to establish posts for trading with the Indians. That was in 1743 and soon afterwards France lost to England in the struggle to dominate North America. So it fell to the lot of a new breed of men to exploit Wyomings riches in furs the American trapper and fur trader. The late 1820s and the 1830s saw the full flowering of the fur trade and wrote on Wyomings pages the names of such men as Gen. William H. Ashley, Jedediah Smith, Jim Beckwourth, Manuel Lisa, Jim Bridger, Thomas Fitzpatrick, the Sublettes, Baptiste Brown, Kit Carson and a host of other giants in buckskin. Then, almost before the day of the trapper and trader had dawned, the sun went down on this dramatic chapter in American history. The Oregon Trail. For the wagon trains of homeseekers or California gold hunters began streaming westward and one of Americas most historic highways, the Oregon Trail, wound across Wyoming from its eastern border to its western. Across it also wound the Salt Lake Trail, over which hurried the Mormons on iheir way to the- - Promised Land in Utah, and the Overland Trail, which echoed to the rumblings of the Concord stagecoaches and the hurrying hoofs of the Pony Express. The building of such sentinel posts as historic Fort Laramie and Fort Bridger to guard the traffic over these trails held in check for a little while the hosBut when the tile red men. Union Pacific began to push westward and forts were built along the Bozeman Trail to guard the hurrying to the new diggings in Montana, the Sioux and Cheyennes girded their naked red loins for a last stand against the invaders. The result was Red the Although Clouds War. Treaty of 18C3, signed at Fort Laramie, was a victory for Red Cloud, in that the government agreed to abandon the post3 along the Bozeman Trail, it was far from being complete. For the Union Pacific continued to push westward and when, in May, 18G9, the Golden Spike was driven at Promontory Point in Utah, the hammers which drove it home sounded the death knell of Indian domination in Wyoming. True, the Sioux and Cheyennes would fight another ' war in 1876-7but the final result Saca-jawe- a, e, Oregon- -bound gold-seeker- 7, s, For the day of the cattleman came to a climax and an end in 1892 with the famous Johnson or the Rustler County War, War, a fight between the cattle barons and the small ranchmen. It not only ended the reign of the barons but it also foreshadowed the coming of sheepmen, who began to crowd upon and spoil the cattle ranges, the nester or small farmer, and finally the dude rancher of today. Such, in brief outline, is the thrilling history of the state of Wyoming. But there is another fact in her history which makes her unique among the sisterhood of states. It is suggested by the had done, perate. That was in the middle eighties, and he lived in Arizona and Wyoming and learned to love the West. He returned to it each spring and in 1891, upon his return from a summer in Wyoming, wrote two stories about the country and its people, Hanks Woman and How Lin McLean Went West, both of which ap- peared in Harpers Magazine. He continued writing Western stories and in 1896 the first group of his tales were gathered in a Red Men and volume called A second volume, Lin White. McLean, came out two years later. Thus far Wisters work had been accepted by critics as authentic portrayals of life in the West but it had not enjoyed any particular popular success. Then in 1902 his novel The Virginian appeared. The book became a best seller in a day when historical novels were especially popular and it continues to sell even today. At the time of Wisters death in 1938 it was announced that the total sales of The Virginian had passed the 1,500,000 mark, a distinction which few American novels have ever attained. Soon after The Virginian was published it was dramatized and, with Dustin Farnum playing the role of the hero, Frank Campeau as Trampas and Guy Bates Post as Steve, it was a best seller for six months. Afterwards it ran on the road for 10 years, is still played by stock companies, has been made into a movie no less than three times and has been translated into foreign languages. central figure of a woman in the Since Wyoming was the scene with the legend of the story of The Virginian new stamp was a Equal Rights above her head. and its cowpuncher-herWhen congress, in 1868, created romantic figure, it is glamorous, the Territory of Wyoming from easy to understand why America parts of Dakota, Utah and Idaho, thinks of that commonwealth one of the first acts of the terri- which is celebrating its fiftieth torial legislature was to pass a year as a state this year, in bill granting women the right to terms of the cowboy. Another vote. reason is indicated in the preface Two years later the new terri- to one of Wisters later books Members of the Family, pubtory did an even more unheard-o- f thing. In March, 1870, when lished in 1911. In it he says: the grand jury for the regular Wyoming burst upon the tenderfoot term of the court of the First resplendent, like all the and Irving and Parkman like Judicial district at Laramie was come Cooper true here, actually going drawn, there appeared on the on, was thatagain; something which the boy to find, that school from womof runs the names first the away panel land safe and far from Monday morning, en to be summoned to act as com- nine here o'clock, and the mon law jurors anywhere in the was Saturday eternal, wheie you slept hunted big animals, rode Miss Eliza Stewart, a world. a horse, roped steers, and wore deadly school teacher, had the distincno mistake: Make weapons. tion of heading the list of eight were at times practical and imperative, was not the whole reason for women whose names were drawn but this them on your hip; you had essporting and who served on the jury. caped from civilizations schoolroom, an Breathed before filled your They were Nelly Hagen, Mary air never and you were become one large , , Wilcox, Retta Burnham, Mary lungs, shout of joy. , Lizthis West melted you all down Flynn, Mrs. I. M. Hartsough, Ivin-soWere same first to you the principles. zie A. Spooner, and Jenny seeking fortune. Perhaps, Incidentally, Appointed as a bailiff was but money was not the point; you had escaped from school. Tins holiday was another woman, Martha Boies. leavened by hard bodily work, manly innovaNews of this startling deeds and the bright brave ripple moved l of tragedy, Something tion in the conduct of public af- the of a promise, also, was in the air, world over the all fairs spread promise of a democracy which the East and King William of Prussia, who had missed. seems to have been something of The truth of that quotation a feminist, cabled President U. with certain reservations as to S. Grant his enthusiastic congratwearing deadly weapons, perulations. Reporters and cartoon- haps is immediately apparent to ists swarmed to Laramie and pic- anyone who has ever spent a tured the women jurors as mas- vacation on a modern Wyoming culine creatures with bawling ba- dude ranch. And for the thoubies in their arms. Some unsands of Americans who have known poet celebrated the event driven across Wyoming the truth in a deathless couplet: of this quotation from the prefis also a in ace of The Virginian don't fury; get Baby, baby, on the to sit apparent: Your mamas gone The mountains are there, far and shinjury. and the infinite Eut for all the ridicule, the ing. andandthethesunlight, air that seems forever earth, suca be to women jurors proved the true fountain of youlh but where is antelope, and cess. They not only served on a the bulTalo, and the wild pasturing where the horseman with his murdera indicted but they jury, thousands? So dke Its old self does the I when him seem revisited, that er and convicted for the horseman to appear. wait you Americans of If the majority But he will never come again. He think of Wyoming in terms of cowrides in his historic yesterday. You will o story-booK- spelling-book- ; fire-arm- s College-boy- farm-boy- street-boy- n. ground-swel- sage-brus- boys, bucking broncos, Tidin and ropin and roundups, credit for that fact is due more to one man, By ROGER B. WHITMAN Summer House. We recently looked QUESTION: summer house, 23 years old. I would say the walls are plasterboard. Upstairs bedrooms have very narrow boards for a ceiling. Personally, I don't think the house, although small, can be heated in its present condition. Do you think the house could be insulated, and would a pipeless furnace be (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) league baseball campaign and see if you can remember the teams you thought would be the chief contendwhen the spring predictions ers for first place in the National so that badly ,t under way, lag league standings. 'Jey are not already out of the Odds are 10 to 1 that you didnt on the are verge. teetering ethey consider the Giants a very serious Yan-e- s the In the American league threat. Early in April It looked like have come on but not rapidly a two-clu-b race a bitter fight beto in fit with enough tween the Reds and the Cardinals. n the schedule that called The Reds were looking good tn for them to be away spite of last year's fiasco and the out in front by this Cards were expected to maintain the that almost carried them past time. Otherwise, stride to the pennant in the the race in that the Reds final stretch of 1939. is accordin league Now, after about 10 weeks of acance with the dope, d with the Red Sox, tive campaigning, its a as looks race and it Indians and Tigers it might continue to be just up ahead and the though second division held that. But the Cardinals arent in it and the Dodgers and Giants are by the White Sox, life miserable for the CinSenators, Athletics making and Browns. The cinnati delegation. wns, it seems, have had their Unpredictable Giants jrge and from now on not much dope, the According to . likely to be heard from them. Giants have no reason for their One of the main surprises has rapid turnabout. Thousands of d veo offered by the Giants who, and professional crystal gazinto start, have moved up At the outset, the ers are casting baleful glances at a running. their present standing. And why ants didnt look any better than not? The Giants sagged badly last 1939 did finish of at the the y year and were scheduled to look impaign. But the return of Joe even worse this year. Only a few Joore, the fine pitching of Carl Hub--- II s, probably relatives who Dan-i and the batting of Harry for a future touch, picked hoped out of them that early pulled jg them to finish in the first division. .ison slough. The Giants were a team of ifs. look as if they i They still dont If Carl Hubbell could come back the ght sneak through and grab the cause wasnt hopeI anant. But they do loom as a ' .:eat to the Reds and lessly lost If Joe be-- I Dodgers, Moore and Mel Ott .een whom the pennant seems tc could charge in and e, of trouble a can lot make They really play baseball, r those teams. so it Unable or then things why , :pears to win themselves, they be so bad. wouldnt .n have to about say something There were plenty ' I .ho does win. ifs on of other I Ike Reds and the which success would Dodgers uncertain depend e, The Reds naturally are favored. st hey moved back briskly from their spots that might when sc Jlapse against the the crack was on. irf Yankees last fall, Pressure Carl Hubbell Look em over tost little time tak-i- g over the lead day. Hubbell, Moore and Ott came id have played at rushing back practically as good as ,n ever. Hubbell wont win any peni steady gait most f the nants but hes still Again way. ej the meal ticket, the fellow they can jis year two of the Iiost important fac-fcrely on when the chips are down. in their play Ott has been doing better than all feave been the pitch--- g right since he started wearing of Bucky Wal-fer- s glasses, and critics of Moore refuse to believe the evidence, which is all and the work of Bill in his favor. Burgess Whitehead "fWerber. Walters seems headed for was another question mark last sta season as brilliant as that which year. He had developed a bad case e had in 1939. Take Werber out of Now the unof the quick jitters. r ae Red infield and it would sag so believers suspect that his present-da- y success is the result of strange .adly the weight of it would drag 8 he team down. herbs and a witchs cauldron. e The Dodgers have exceeded the y expectations of Larry MacPhail and Terry Knows Ilis Players Salmost met those of the Brooklyn Manager Bill Terry is far from the ins. Larry said in the early spring most popular figure in baseball, but "I n , re didn't think the Dodgers would he is a canny pilot one of the smartJ je as good as they were last year, est in the business today..He would rhile the fans claimed the pennant. be one cf the least surprised if the r ind, of course, they remain the Giants captured the pennant. most exciting team in baseball. 1 The Dodgers, a strong team with of aggressiveness, became plenty Quick Comeback stronger with the recent acquisij,'l The robustness of the Dodgers tion of Joe Medwick and Curt Davis. pirit was emphasized by the manLippy Leo Durocher finally has the or in which they threw oft the hitter he wanted a hitter he can of the loss of those two games count on when runs are needed. o the Giants on Memorial day. From 1935 through 1937 Medwick hit "hat, it must be remembered, was He had a bad .353, .351 and .374. lore than just the loss of a aouble-eade- r. time the past g It was a bitter, humiliat-- three years in St. and total defeat suffered on the Louis, but is figtime grounds at the hands of a hateured to become as d enemy and with all the fans who solid as ever ossibly could be packed into Eb-et- s with Brooklyn. field looking on. It was enough With Davis to o have thrown them off their stride out with help jr a couple of weeks at least, but chores pitching as it from dey bounced right back and Medwick to nly a thoroughly game outfit could. supply the badly Once more Leo Durocher is needed daily he as his skill as manager the Dodgpunch, Snides the Dodgers past bumps ers are loaded for ueh as that defeat by the Giants big game. The and the loss of Pee Wee Reese. The deal whereby Brooklyn acquired Brooklyn players and this is one those two men also may help nail d their main sources of strength the pennant to the Ebbets Field ihink he is the greatest manager he game ever knew. I cant go flagpole. Residents of Brooklyn already see quite that far with them but I will the pennant in the clutches of the sav there is no basebIn manager And wont stand for all now who is doing a better job. Dodgers. that they Interfere with might anything the reaching of that goal. Witness Yankees on the Way when the Cardinals The Yankees, though they have the near-rio- t beanftd Medwick reBowman Joe aSged, may be on their way at last Even the police took part in -- not yet with the smoothness that cently. s characteristic of them but in a that fiasco. Civil war was averted, but narrowly. fashion that makes them still look ke a fair bet to smash precedence Ever) bodys Happy lfld win a fifth pennant in a row. of Medwick from St. The 'hty have got over their bewilder- Louis ispassing not expected to have much ment, brought on by early season effect upon the fortunes of the Caretbacks, and are hitting again. In dinals. lie was unhappy there, iarvin Breuer they have the best to play with the Dodgers. wanting pitcher in either league. one of the last of the Gas House Vy have had days recently such as Joe, Gang, didnt hold his popularity with ey usually have at their peak. teammates and with fans. The Red Sox, holding first place, Of course the race is far from i ,rent n going to be overhauled over. St. Louis cant be counted out the Yankees know that. The passing of Medwick mereCleveland, with Bob Feller swinging yet. a shakeup begun with ly completed ltm& and a fine second-bas- e com-- 1 release of Manager Ray Blades. "'nation in Mack and Boudreau, and the Whether or not the shakeup will Detroit, with a lot of power, are the Cardinals final league alter ngerous, too. The White Sox are standing remains to be seen. Right ,lnS to be troublesome from time now it looks as though the change time as they were last week, was too long delayed. However, a hen they took two games out of new manager plus sweetness and ,free frorr. the Yankees but they In the rank and file may do scarcely are contenders and the rest light toward reviving the Cards. wonders the cubs do not i matter, either. Thats the way it looks as the And they do need reviving! But time alone will tell if the shakeup is trjms roll through these weeks. rs FIRST-AI- D no more see hhn gallop out of the unsee Cochanging silence than youseawillcome Saillumbus on the unchanging his caravels. with ing from Palos sufficient? Answer: Make certain there Is a wood sheathing and sheathing paper underneath the outside wall covering. Many summer houses have been built without it. Sheathing helps keep the weather out. Insulation will help make any type house more comfortable. At a slightly higher cost, a hot air furnace with ducts connected to each room would be preferable to the pipeless type. Creaking Floor Boards. Question: Occasionally at regular intervals there is a tapping noise, which we discovered is a creaking of the floor boards. The same thing has happened in another room. How can this noise be stopped? Answer: The tapping noise may be caused by the expansion and contraction of floor boards due to the absorption of moisture and to drying out Nothing much can be dona to stop this, except to maintain a uniform amount of humidity in the air. Creaking of floor boards caused by loosening from the beams may be stopped by driving finishing nails through both thicknesses of the flooring into the beam. Nails should be driven in pairs at opposite angles. The heads of nails are driven below the surface of the floor boards with a nailset Plug the nail holes with plastic wood. Talcum powder worked in between the floor boards may also correct this condition. Inherited nouse. Question: The house, which we recently inherited, has five rooms upstairs and four rooms downstairs. We plan to alter it. Can the roof be taken off and a bungalow type made of the building, with all rooms on one floor? We havent much money, and wonder if the FIIA would give us a loan for remodeling. Can plans be had on modernizing a Three states, Minnesota, Rhode Island and Alabama, adopted civil serfice laws during 1939. Civil service laws were, however, repealed outright vn Arkansas and greatly modified in Michigan during 1939. Streamlined Coyote Hunting Streamlined snowmobiles, capable of 80 to 120 miles an hour over good snow, have been used with great success by Montana coyote hunters. Ancient Indian Temple of the most amazing constructions erected by man is the Kailas temple in India. Dating back to the reign of King Krishnu 1,200 years ago, the temple hewn from a mass of solid granite is 90 feet high, 109 feet wide and 164 feet long. Rooms 17 feet high were cut from the interior of the granite mass and .these were covered with plaster and coated with paint. One Earl of Sandwich The sandwich is said to get its name from the earl of Sandwich, who so loved his games that his only food for days would be a piece of meat between two dices of bread. Earliest Easter The earliest date on which Easter has fallen in over a century was March 22, 1818. Why They Jitterbug Jiterbug dancing is nothing but an outlet of physical energy, in the opinion of Miss Ethel Bowers, field secretary of the National Recreational association. Sho said youth needs violent dancing, running and racing games as well as mental games, observation games and educational games. New Type Glass Announced A new kind of glass, which shrinks d in size after it has been by formed into dishes, is announced. It is immune to heat cracks and sudden temperature changes. one-thir- Ducking Stool for Shrews A ducking stool was used to punish shrews in England in 1745. house? Answer: The roof can be taken off and the upper story removed. I strongly recommend that you employ the services of an architect. He will be able to plan all of the necessary structural changes to be made, as well as rearranging the rooms, and specifying the proper materials to be used In making these alterations. Loans on this type of work are made through local banks, after the local FHA office has approved the arrangements. Tourist Cabins. Where can I secure Question: plans for tourist cabins? Answer: All of the larger manufacturers of insulating boards issue pamphlets on this subject; so do several of the lumber associations. Ping-Pon- g Table. A correspondent has sent in the following suggestion for finishing a table: Apply two coats of linseed oil, allowing ample time fur the first coat to dry thoroughly, and coating both surfaces and the edges. Finish with two coats of heavy dark green house paint, which should last for several years. Wall Coverings. Question: Is it advisable to use oilr cloth on the ceilings and on the side walls? Answer: You may find it more h or washpractical to use for the walls and able wall-papordinary wallpaper on the ceilings. Soiling is more apt to occur on the walls than the ceilings. Stuck Doors. Question: In two garages that I doors have know the hinge-typstuck at the bottom on the concrete drive in cold weather, although entirely free in warm weather. Can you explain? Answer: That is not due to expansion, as you suggest, but to the heaving of the concrete apron by the freezing of water underneath. The condition is quite common. To get away from it, drainage should be provided under the apron. 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Brick or stone would not look well with the house. Could you suggest someQuestion: thing? Answer: Lumber nowadays, if n Is of good quality, is just as good as it ever was. You can now get treated lumber which will retard the rotting. One of the woods suitable for your purpose is a good grade of cy- press. Roger Whitman WNU Service. I S Room 0 45 Bathe te f I flu If 00 Family Rooms for 4 persona Air Cooled Lounge end Lobhr Coffee Shop Grill Room Tap Room flume of h reroutes Rotary Kt want 20 30 Exchange Optimue Chamber of Commerce and Ad Club 35 Hotel Ben Lomond OGDEN UTAH Come as voo are r g. HUgrrald WNU Week Ne. 4027 8LT Mat LAhh |
