Show i 4 THE GREAT OUTDOORS By By Stan Taggart t From Park City In ln the April 7 1 Issue of The Park Record you about Tom Horn notorious ous out Wyoming Cattle Association range detective ills lite former range associate ami detective friend Jot Joe LeFors S marshal at t the time of l' l Tom m Horns Horn's arrest and trial tra trapped ped Tom Into making a con con- t fission Mr LeFors LeFor lived In and died at Buffalo Wyo and I 1 Joie v him well My IMy oldest eon son sont t took ok his photograph after much persuasion When I last saw Baw himat him nt it his Duffalo home In 1040 1940 he ho was tM raa a man past 70 years of ot age I At 13 13 LeFors rode cattle herd from Texas north on the Chisholm Chisholm Chisholm Chis Chis- holm Trail lie He had brothers In Oklahoma who were also U. U S S. S marshals and who were killed 3 by y outlaws ws Joe alone avenged his lils broth s' s' s killers To look at ot him you would think he was wasa a mild retired farm hand Joe LePors LeFors married a Mrs Mr a widow and former wife of the the president of the I Bank of But falo felo Her banker husband huband was by their daughter daughter in In law La LaFors For solved the murder murder and got a confession from the young Mrs Mra W Later he married the bankers banker's widow Mr LeFors was wall a personal friend of ot my tather law father n taw an featly jearly day Johnson Johnon County Powder flyer district rancher lie He wrote is a book ot of his life and early day Wyoming experiences and I have I read it U but hut dont don't recall the title The Buffalo newspaper the Bulletin But Bul letin may havo have It for tor sale I In tn later life LeFors was anoil an anI I oil loll geologist and oil scout scout scout- Ernie Lang 55 Ernie by the way Is a phila tell t or stamp tamp collector lie He exchanges with many foreign col collectors lectors and they often ask him for US U.S. duck stamps Out But I have a hard time finding used duck Stamps says ays Mr Lange because most mOlt duck hunters destroy them or just throw them away Maybe some of you scatter scatter- gunn gunners s who haven't cleaned out your license holders lately cando can cando cando do eo and so-and and forward your old duck tamps stamps t tot t Ernie Lange lAnce Dot Bet 35 36 Park Park- Utah qty City 1 l I y iI L I Operation MUD The bIg tig question of the day U is how boW we celebrate Mot cans Igana tan one one hundredth hundredth anniversary I I While every evert one agrees that something mutt must be done to commemorate com corn I I I the towns town's founding not too many good Ideas have hATe yet yet been presented Coming to the rescue we offer otter some Morgan Centennial Celebration suggestions First Flat of or all If 11 Glen Olen Thurston will show IM u. exactly where he be and his dad were standing when I they first tint glimpsed Morgan Vat Vat- Icy loy back hack In 1860 we 1860 we might erect I nn Ideal Cement monument or make a county park part of the spot or or somethIng aIn n III nIn In line with the centennial festivities the local merchants merchant could remind us UI of the good coed I old days daYI by selling beef for a nickel a pound flour and beans for four bits bit a hundred Buzz Stewart might even put a brass braes r rail along his hI bar with spittoons spit at each end I Another phase of our Project MUD fUD for tor Morgan Utah Days I would be bo to pay tribute to the theman theman theman man who throughout the years has done the tho most to 10 put our town on the map In front of or the courthouse we should erect a big bronze statue of Surveyor Gower ClarkI Surveyor map putter map putter on get It Wo We Va can lend to our towns town's early day look and solve the current school 1 problem at the same Bame time I by tr erecting little red schoolhousES ea ES at each of the county's eight or 10 population centers Just like old timed lAnd And Sheriff Carter should hould grow a handlebar mustache mustache- and start a pair of low low- slung And put some notches In la em for the tour tour- lit lat trade Then we could convert the old high school building Into a museum museum mu mu- I seum mum to house items that have been significant in Morgans Morgan's past Such a collection must of course Include A G string O-etring ng from balladeer Russ HUBS Porters Porter's uke ban uke-ban- ban ban- jo Spike Mecham's saddle Syl Helner cane Amos Dingham's Bingham's piano a bas baseball balt autographed by Paul Stuart Doc Clements old stethoscope J. J L L. Terrys Terry's batons baton Clark Clark Wrights Wright's brush Ted Tod London's London's London's Lon Lon- dons don's 30 30 Mason IMon Hills Hill's sawed- sawed off ott shotgun virginal i fish p pole le and untarnished d creel Our centennial museum may I I also allO Marvin KU- KU KIIb b burns burna n snowshoes snowshoes' l. l le e Jaek JIk Henrs Hen Hen- J I e ers er's rs wath tb aten elk en 01 n old eld Clydesdale coach coc Dill Bill Dickson's bronc breno Charley Kippen's Kip Kip- pens pen's deer rifle Earl Halls Halls' anvil and a couple of Ulrich root beer glasses glass Also Allo one of ot alt Smiths Smith's rusty fusty beaver traps trapI tReed Reed N tap dancing shops ho l George Neute- Neute booms boom's gun six a brick from the theold theold theold old courthouse e an iron bar from the old and a barrel barret of of whiskey from the old Wadsworth Wads Wade worth saloon if it somebody still aun happens to have one one and and la Is willing to donate tit HI Some Somo museum no ao nor I Another Project MUD proposal prop propos 8 al al' Everybody In the county count should wear just what clothes they have which are COMPLETELY COMPLETE COMPLETE- IY LY paid for tor Following this rule ninny many of us would be attired I very much like our pioneer forefathers forefathers fore fore- fathers lathers I Suppose we all aU move into potato po tato tote cellars cellara for tor the tho summer eat Just what we can raise ralso and kill and find out it pioneer life Ute was wasas wasas as exciting and glamorous as the TV and movie versions Why not put our big chrome chrome- plated gas gas eaters eaters In mothballs this centennial year and do our I fly y horse horle and buggy bug bug- buggy gy gyr gy Cant Can't you Just see lee Ted and Mase Maae patrolling the speedways speedways speed speed- ways on June Shetland pontes ponies We Wo could equip the and the tho be lad ladles Ice ot of f the tho Fine Arts Club with claw hammers and crowbars send em om out to tear teardown teardown teardown I down all aU the county's unwanted outbuildings and use the wood to lay laya a board sidewalk along I Main Street and to construct false western style fronts on all th the business houses Dont Don't you feel teel lucky when you stop to realize that Morgan Grant Orant might have havo been stuck with some other middle handle like maybe ELVIS Grant I Con Conservation Officer Gilbert Porter Potter showed 17 Morgan youngsters young stern ter a a film on safe ate bunting hunting I last week etc La Later r tb the same lAme I evening he presented them with diplomas awarded diplomas awarded A-awarded to all youths who who pass an hour eight firearms I familiarization course cours I i In 10 a short talk Oh ted i to I the group how fortunate ate they tiler were were In 10 having the of I men men who were quail qualified fled and willing will willing ing to teach h them sate afe hunting habits Ho lIe pointed out that there are many places where places where kids who want want to take such a course COUtee find no nl qualified teach teachers rs available I all Gil als also commended the li tA- tA trained hunter safety instructors for tor their other thoughtful assists to the boys such AS aa helping ng em sight eight In their Those men extend their training services through the member Morgan Rifle Hifle and Wildlife Club S C a aIt It was Gilbert Porter by the way who working together with the county commissioners commission ers ere acquired the North Morgan Mor Morgan gan gun range site alte for this rea areas area's firearms fans C CFrank Frank Bohman Dohman down Peterson way has had seen saen an unusually large largo number of deer on the slopes behInd be e hind his home the past weeks Probably all aU those paratroopers spooked em down Fish and Game Oame men made their annual de deer deer r census of the tho Dry Creek range last week The total I count was head three higher than a year ago Stan ago Stan |