| Show h t L JJ 0 is i f t THE GREAT OUTDOORS Gont Horn was waa a a. well well known hired kiler of ot the early west Tie lie murdered murdered People for tor pay pat Western magazines have hare written writ ten up Tom Horn as RS somewhat ofa ofa of ot othero a hero lately Just lust as they have ve done dono with such ouch time old n na 11 Jesse Jeue Jamee and Dilly Billy the tho Kid ltd Horn lorn shot hot and nd killed 14 old H year oid WIllo Nickel Nickell near Cheyenne Wyoming On November 20 1903 1003 be was hanged for tor this crime A writer In the tho April True Western West ern era Adventures magazine passes this shooting off oft aa RS a 1 case caso of mia mis mistaken taken Identity claiming that the boy fooy was wall wearing Hearing his hla fathers father's clothes when ho wao WM shot ahot False Falso statements about cus eus cowboy characters dont don't matter matter mat mat- ter much to most folks Rut nut they can be of vital concern to those who Mho were victimized by them Last Lut week end we paid a visit to Mrs Mra Julia Nickell GJervik a lister stater of young Willie The aide side of her head still lUll bear bearil a amark amark amark mark which was WAi made by one of Horns Horn bullets Until a week ago not even the womans woman's best but friends knew of the tragic Incident In cadent In her past put My brother Willie was NOT wearing his fathers father's clothes Mrs GJervik emphasized Willie came upon lIpon Horn Just after riding out through our gate gato lie Ire turned back tack toward the ranch to tell father and Horn started shooting He Ho shot Willie In the flack back three hrco times Then he turned my little brother dver dyer and rand placed placeda a rock beneath his hta head just ashe ashe as ashe he had done with all of his other victims Horn norn had placed gunny sacks on en both his and his horses horse's feet As he ho rode back toward Laramie City one of the sacks slipped clipped oft off of the horse The killer was trail trail- trailed ed and Ed-and and later convicted largely convicted largely because of the shoe on that exposed exposed ex posed hoof A of mornings later Horn again sneaked up to the Nickell ranch He shot Mr Nickell Nic- Nic I kell ell In the tho arm and then In the tho hip but failed to kill him Mrs Mr head was creased by bya a bullet when she rushed out to help heip her father rather Mrs biro GJervik decided last week that after after a half century of f all sil silence ence once It was high time she reminded reminded re reo re- re minded over OVel imaginative western writers and their readers renders t that Tom Horn was not a great hero hero hero- but a ruthless cold blooded kill er Cr The he Wyoming Association brought Tom Horn norn in into into In in- to this country to work as a live live- stock elock detective It was reportedly the Individual battle tattle b bar barons a r o 0 n s. s though who hired him to dry gulch homesteaders Horn was secretly sent Into Browns Brown's Hole the well known n. n hideout in 1900 Here ho killed two suspected cattle thieves striking from nowhere Other shady citizens of ot the Hole tole realizing that a bounty hadeen had been een placed on each of their heads beads cleared out pronto Following t this h I f s I successful Crowns browns Hole cleanup campaign campaign cam cam- Horn hit the bottle battle harder than ever and he he hebe became be came more and more calloused Horns Horn's character was lower than a snakes snake's belly by the time John Kobel Kobe hired him to tosh sh shoot ot called so-called nesters out around Cheyenne Deer beer counts were made on the thelIe lIe Clay pit area last week PIa Fish and Game Came men fr from m Coal Coal- fj Morgan Ogden Ogdon and Salt Z lake Take ake participated participated We saw 82 deer right at Anderton's An An- derton's derlon's one of the con con- fler atlon officers reports Then moving on up lip Harris Creek we counted coupled 90 more At the top of the dugway we looked out over the little canyon behind Croydon With with binoculars ulars and spotted potted another another another an an- other 95 deer There were some moving out was way iw jIW in the canyon They were BO so tar far down that we couldn't them them them-so BO o we wound up with just u t a total We may go up tip there here again next week Therell There'll be he more IrMa grads then and probably more deer to be Ibe seen l' l According to Gilbert Porters Porter's records the count on this Hene Hen se section of winter range range was last year In the tho of 1058 It was In 1957 1951 S Park Paik eu City Gib OIb Kimball U ha ba bat quite 4 a unique souvenir lOuven of the early da days daye If Its Jr a Concord ton Con on- on cord corl CoMb one onoe used by dag o on bit Salt 6 1 It Me Ike to W Park City Olty stage atile line H U va later used tid by the Kh baR ball Dr Brothers on their Tonopah to Nevada Navada run JIb bag a. a wisely dismantled the tho oU ob and aDd tor stored it Jt In fn the bank back ot tile the KI y Garage Garag e At M least leut If plan to Ml fat pp a trip 4 down the eke Colorado fado Hirer r In May lay This TWI group wa wu Aown and aDd elides Udea of ot By By Stan Taggart that remote country last week Welk by I Mac Ellington I Moki Mac Mao has been boen a Colorado Green Oreen and San Ban Juan River RIter nat Hat Jot tor many manT years Hell He'll personally I guide the tho Morgan men and Ex Ex- I Scouts down tho the winding mile of ot reddish water A bus bUI will pick the group up I at Morgan on Friday May 21 27 at t 6 pm p.m. They'll transfer to a af I f truck down at and then bounce over 62 miles of I rough dirt road to Hite their launching site lite 0 I The river ride will wilt be bo made on two foot 30 powered motor rubber boats Mac that with smaller boats boatA and using I paddles they would have Ie less energy left for side trips trip into I Ithe the canyons I Points of Interest along the route include Rainbow Bridge the in the Rock Rock Music Temple Crossing of the tho Fathers l a her her- cabin Indian ruins and Indian In In- dlan dian markings These Theae places will wilt slowly become covered now by bythe bythe I Ithe the waters of the Olen Glen Canyon R Reservoir o A big question of the day Is whether 15 to 25 million should be spent to protect Bridge from these rising waters I IThe The groups group's boat trip will end at Cane Creek nine nino or ten miles above the Glen Clen CanyonDam Canyon CanyonDam CanyonDam Dam site site lite The seven loven day adventure ad I venture will be bo climaxed by a aI atour atour I tour of this huge construction project I I By Dy the way mothers Moki Machas Mac lac Machas I has yet to lose Joso his first cus homer tomer Ever have to deal with a n rabid I dog Mrs Bert Allen did She recalls the unpleasant experience he follows One Ono time when Bert was out along his Mrs airs Allen relates a sheepherder gave him hima a u little dog Bert brought It home and It was a fine pet for tor lor several months Then one morning I noticed that the dogs dog's eyes were red and that it was waa acting strangely It wobbled up and laid on the front porch frothing at the mouth I coaxed the poor animal ammal out to the buggy shed and locked It Inside When Bert got home he I looked In at the dog Realizing I i at a glance that It had rabies he killed It with a rifle shootIng shootIng shoot shoot- Ing through a crack In the side I of the shed Trapper Bert Allen has baa always given rabid animals a wide berth I t and hes he's had bad scrap with witheE e eE etal of ot em tn 1 I Ivo Ive seen een rabid cows cow C coyotes i Just mink just about everything but horses honee Ive I've never seen teen a horse borne with hydrophobia Thata how bow h w I got started trap trap- pin liln for the government out there thereat at Park Valley We were fight In Ina a rabies epidemic If It we killed d a coyote that didn't show the sym sym- symptoms of the disease we sent Its It I brain In to Salt Lake ICke To find out If it an animal had bad rabies they'd always examine the tho brain I While In that Infest disease i ed Park Valley country I w. w was plenty cautious Spent a lot of or time up on my buckboard just keepin an eye out And I always always al al- al ways kept my old shotgun handy too I I was out there thero at Dave nave James James' place Bert remembers I i when one of ot his hla cows cowa got choked choked chok chok- ed up frothed at the tho mouth and couldn't swallow She had the I symptoms of rabies and I told Davo so lie He didn't b believe it land land came pert near me oft off the place Dave got a big chunk of bacon and pushed it down the cows cow's throat to save the tho poor critter In doln such lIuch a foolish thing he ho scratched his arm in several places A few weeks week later yater Dave James Jamn himself got the tho rabies They had to tie him down before before be be- fore the doctor could treat his hll sickness He died In just a few days daYI S Mold Moki Mac Ellington would like to furnish some Bome boats boat and canoes and sponsor races down the Weber Web Web- er River one day this summer Bummer Web Web-I Ho lie thinks a stretch of water between be I II tween Hene er and Morgan would be Ideal I I One race could toe bo with canoes can oes he suggests one with I I rubber boats and boats and the third one ono v anything that floats I By Dy tho the time I get a chance to view the wonderful sights along the Colorado River Ill I'll do doIt doIt doIt It in a skin akin STAN For seven weeks Mrs Mra Bud I Fearn has hAIl emceed a unique radio program on Station KLUx KLUK Evanston Ev Ev- anston Wyo Subject of the popular h hour ur- ur long five mornings a a. week broadcast is the history of Branston Ev Br- anston and Uinta County Listeners Lis IJa tenors telephone Mrs Fearn yearn at atthe atthe atthe the station and discuss on the theair theair theair air early-day early facts and stories which h have He been han handed ed down downto to them timers Old call in and with Airs Urs Fearn serving as interviewer interview Interview- i er and memory jogger relate reminiscences of bygone gone places es people and Incidents The unusual radio venture probably the first of Its kind has brought surprising results The attractive well liked Mr Mrs F Fears irn m Is becom b l O sw swamped mp d with letters letter books book documents document photographs a a a wealth of material which relates relate to West West- Western ern Wyoming's neatly nearly forgot forgot- forgotten t. t ten past pat At their ranch near nur Evanston Saturday Mrs yearn Fearn spent nearly near I ly four tour hours toning tolling us ua about some lome of her home home-county's colorful col cal characters She told us of Chin China Mar Mary and Mormon Charley Chaney 1 two cite citizens cit of Cranston's Evanston's old Chinatown China China- Chinatown town Also Allo of Handlers Henry Code who Code who supported his large family by working as s a gunsmith We heard some lome new new yarns yarn about Butch and ud hi his Fort Bridget Bridger partner r Do fob Bob b bI I Meeks And some lome surprising hand first facts about bout the well wellI known hired killer Tom Horn I Several citizens telephoned the radio station elation st Uon last week to relate information about Dr George Goorge Washington Terrel a scientific manipulator who was waa said to have learned his hie unusual healing methods from the Indians Indiana One woman who had actually been treated by Dr Terrel for six months half a century ago testified on the program to the theman theman's theman's mans man's medical ability Some day well we'll have to take a truck to Evanston Evanston and and borrow Mrs irs Bud Dud Fearns Fearn's notes noM S From the tho US U.S. Fish and Wildlife Wildlife Wild Wild- life publication Utah Trail Belden Bolden Lynn caught a 47 41 pound bobcat In Echo Canyon in January The big cat was wu weighed on accurate scales scale In Inthe Inthe Inthe the presence of witnesses Can Ca any one top It S Me and Ward Thurston were 1 working In Lost Cr Creek ck for tor Dave DaTe Eddington mentioned Bert AI AI- Alcon t ten con n when when hen a man got lost loot In InA Ina ina A blizzard up there It was waa quite a adory astory story dory Mick EddIngton could tell teU you all about It I Bo So we wo asked Erroll D. D Mick about Lost Creeks Creek's lost I I man Incident Heres Here's how he re recalled the tho II This young man rode up to our ranch one stormy February day dy and stopped In long enough en enough ough to haVe dinner with us us UI That must must have ave been about out 1602 because because I r w. w was only six or seven even years year old at t the time Anyway this fellow was in a hurry to get out to the head of Lost Creek Creck where he was waa going to work for lor the De Deseret eret Land and Livestock tock Company Company eo eo o he got up to leave the tho minute ho finished finish finish- finished ed eating It had been snowing hard all that day Dad tried to talk the boy Into staying at the ranch until the tho storm eased up but ho was waa anxious to move on So dad drew him up a map and mother packed him a lunch Then Ihen he mounted his horse and rode on up the canyon Into the blizzard Three or tour lour weeks went by y known r. r before It became me known lutow rite I young D fellow was fhe be h t Militia went rent O out t and aDd bunted hunted him then but I turned tip up nothing A short abort time trips later latet the toe boys boy's hor horse was waa found And in la April someone came upon hl his hie saddle with saddle with Its cinch cinch I strap P. P cut It was thought that he ho must e cut the strap when his hi horse gave cuo out on him Wm Ch Charles Olson Ollon a man mn who lived at Morgan and herded sheep for Deseret Livestock finally happened onto the bod body I In b about ut August It was wu sitting up lip beside a brush brash just Juat a aha half half- mile up the creek from Heiners Heiner's cabins They figured the kid had sat ut down to rest reat became chilled and frozen A few more minutes of walking would've t brought him right b bait k down to lout our ranch They never 1 Ter did cUd find rind him hla head heard We Wt think concludes that he g got t. t up uP as II far tar as the hit t tcp op of Big Trail Trait the day h iu he left out our ranch Then losing toting his hie dlf dirt directions lions in the blizzard he be tamed oft off down what wo we call Indian Pork rk Instead of ot continuing m oa n north over the brought him right back Sack Int into U the bottom of ot Lost toot Creek Creek but but at aI a I point eight long miles mUes above abaTe our OUI I ranch I Nicks Mick's mother Mrs Mr Laura Laur Eddington also alao remembers the Incident He teemed seemed to be a avery avery very fine fellow she says of the boy who fell victim to a severe levere Lost Creek winter |
