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Show uu 100-Year-OId Wyoming Veteran Visits Cody CODY, Wyo., Feb. 11. Peter Porrin, 100 years old, who was in the audience at Ford's Thcator at the national capital capi-tal tho night when John Wilkes Booth assassinated Presidont Lincoln, and who came to Wyoming as a settler during the days when this state was a part of the Dakota territory, was a Cody visitor recently. Mr. Perriu, or. as his friends prefer lo call him. "Old Peter," onjoys nothing noth-ing more than to relate tales of the frontier days days when he came we3t to help lay the steel for tho Union Pacific and to aid in the construction of Fort Steele. He lias not yet been compelled to resort to the use of glasses in reading, and to nil outward appearances possesses much of his mental and physical vigor. Mr Porrin was a member of the ! posse which chased Booth o.ut through the stage entrance of the Ford Theater, The-ater, and later killed him after he had been surrounded in a barn in Virginia. He is also a veteran of tho union army during the civil Avar. |