Show W w Mw What's Doing inTHE in- in in inTHE THE THE GREAT OUTDOORS By By Stan Taggart From Park Patk City In the April 7 Issue of The Park Record wrote wrote but About bout Tom Horn fern notorious ous Wyoming Cattle Association range detective Ills Ilia former range associate and det detective trend friend Joe LeFors LePors a U U. U S S. S marshal at the time of ot otTom Tom Horns Horn's arrest and trial total trapped Tom into making a conS con fes lon Mr LeFors Lepers lived in and died at Buffalo Duffalo Wye Wyo and 1 I knew him well My oldest eon son took his photograph after much persuasion When 1 I last saw lIaW bimat him bim himat himat at his hie Buffalo Duffalo home in 1910 1940 he was a man pat past 70 10 years of age At 13 LeFors rode cattle herd from T Texas north on the Chisholm Chis Chis- holm Trail lIe He had brothers in Oklahoma who were also abo U. U S S. S marshals mar shale and who were killed by outlaws Joe alone avenged his brothers' brothers killers To look at him you would think he was wasa a mild retired farm hand Joe LeFors married a Mrs Mr a widow and former wife of the the president of the Bank of But But- falo tab Her banker husband was wal poisoned by their daughter in law La LaFors Fore solved the murder and got a confession from the young Mrs Mr Later he married the bankers banker's widow Mr LeFors was a personal friend of my law father an early day County Powder fiver lUver district rancher He wrote a book of his life and end early day Wyoming experiences and I have read it but tut dont don't recall the title The Buffalo newspaper the Bulletin Bul nul letin loth may have It Jt for tor sale In later life LeFors was an anoil anoil oil geologist and oil scout Ernie Lang a a Ernie by the way is a phila philatelist or stamp collector He exchanges with wilh many foreign c col collectors collectors col- col l. l lectors and they often ask lIsk him for lor US U.S. duck stamps But I have a hard time finding used duck stamps says Mr Lange because most t duck hunters destroy them or just throw them away Maybe some of you scatter scatter- gUnners gimners who haven't cleaned out your license holders lately can cando cando cando do eo and so-and and forward your old duck stamps to Ernie Lange Box Pak Par City Utah Operation MUD The big Q question of the day islow is Sg low Jiow we should celebrate Morgans Mor Mor- Morgans Morgan's Morgan's Morgans gans gan's one-hundredth one anniversary While every one agrees that something must be done to commemorate commemorate com com- the towns town's founding not pot too many any good ideas have yet been presented Coming to the rescue rescue we offer some Morgan Centennial Celebration suggestions flugge First of all all If Glen Thurston wilt will show us exactly where he and aud his dad were standing when they hey first glimpsed Morgan Valley Val Vat ley toy back in 1860 we 1860 we might erect nn en Ideal Cement monument or make a county park parko o of the spot or something In line with the centennial festivities the local merchants could remind us of the good old days by ceiling beef for a nickel a pound flour and bean beans for fol four bits bite a hundred Buzz Buss Stewart might even put a bras brae rail long atone his hi bar with spittoons spit pit I tonne at each end I Another phase of or our Project MUD IUD for tor Morgan Utah Days Day would be to pay tribute to the ther theran r ran an who throughout the years year has done dODe the most to put our town on the map In front of the courthouse we should erect a big bronze statue of or Surveyor Gower Clark Clarki Surveyor putter map on get It ItT We can lend to our towns town's early day look took and solve the current school problem at the same time 1 ty t-r y erecting little red schoolhouses es HI at each of or the county's eight or Of 10 population centers centeno Just like old times I IlAnd lAnd And Sheriff Carter should grow a handlebar mustache mustache- and start tart a pair of low low- slung lung 45 And put some come notches In n em for the tourIst tourist tour tour- 1st trade Then we could convert the old high school building into a museum museum mu mu- seum to house items that have been significant In Morgans Morgan's past Such a collection must of ot course include A G string from balladeer Russ Porters Porter's uke ban jo 30 Spike Mecham's saddle Syl Heiners Heiner's cane Amos Bingham's piano plana a baseball autographed by Paul Stuart Doc oc Clements old stethoscope J. J L. L Terrys Terry's baton Clark Wrights Wright's brush Ted London's London's Lon Lon- dons don's Mason MIlSon Hills Hill's sawed sawed- off shotgun virginal fish pole and untarnished creel Our centennial museum may also contain Marvin KM- KM burns burn's snowshoes Jack Heiners Heiner's Helner's Heln- Heln ers er's elk head Glen Thurstons Thurston's old Clydesdale coach Bill Dickson's bronc trophies Charley Kippen's Kippen's Kippen's Kip- Kip pens pen's deer rifle Earl Halls' Halls anvil and a couple of Ulrichs Ulrich's root beer glasses Also one of ot Whit Walt Smiths Smith's rusty beaver beaTer traps Reed dancing shoes George Neute- Neute booms boom's six gun a brick from the theold theold theold old courthouse an iron bar from Irom the old jailhouse and a barrel of ot whiskey from the old Wadsworth Wadsworth Wads Wads- worth saloon 1 if somebody still sWI happens to have haTe one one and and le is willing to donate it Some museum no noT Another Project MUD proposal propos propos- al al'- al' Everybody in the county should wear weal just what clothes they have which are CoMpLETELY COMPLETELY COMPLETE CoMpLETE- LY raid aid for Following this rule m many ny of or us would be attired very much like our pioneer lore fora- oraw fathers t I Suppose we all ati move Into potato potato po po- po tato cellars for the summer eat just what we can raise and kill kUl and find out l if it pioneer life lite was waa wasas wasas as ex exciting and glamorous as the TV Iy and movie versions Why not put our big chrome- chrome plated gas-eaters gas In In mothballs this year and do our by y horse and ald buggy buggy bug bug- gy f Cant Can't you Just see Ted and Mase patrolling the speed speed- w ways y on June Bards Shetland ponies We could equip the and the ladies of the Fine Arts Am Club with claw hammers and Club crowbars send lend em out to tear teat teardown I I down all the county's unwanted outbuildings outbuilding and use tue the wood woo I to lay Jay A board sidewalk sidewalk- along Main Maln Street and to construct construe false raIse we western western- tyle fronts on all the business S houses house Dont Don't you tool feel lucky when you stop to realize that Jedediah Morgan Grant might have been stuck with some other middle handle bandl like maybe Jedediah ELVIS Grant Conservation Officer Gilbert tIlbert Porter showed 17 Morgan young a film on safe sate hunting bunting practices practices tices last week Later the Ule same came evening he presented them with diplomas awarded diplomas awarded to all youths who T pass opals ass an hour eight firearms familiarization course In a short abort talk Gil all stressed to tae group how bow fortunate the were t-r t in h In having the t services of or ormen men who ho were qualified and will willing ing fug to teach teath th them sate eafe hunting h habits He pointed out that there are many plates leeh where kids who want to take tate such a course find DM no qualified t teachers teacher available ble Oil all also commended the NIIA- NIIA trained hunter bunter safety instructors rOt for their other thoughtful U assists isla to the boys cuch auch s M b helping em sight eight in their These men extend Their belr training services e through the 13 Morgan Rifle rune and Wildlife Club S a sIt s It was Gilbert Porter by the way who working together with the county commission commissioners lon lon- ers era acquired the North Morgan Mor Met gan gun range site lite for this areas area's firearms fans S eFrank e Frank Bohman Dohman down Peterson way has seen een an large arge number of deer on the slopes behind behind be bew hind his home homo the past weeks Probably all those paratroopers spooked em down a a Fish Flat and Game men made their annual dO doer r census ceneus of the Dry Cre Creek k range last lut week The total count was head three higher than a year ago Stan ago Stan |