Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 9, 1923, Page 8

MONDAY, JULY 9, 1923. DIARY OF W. P. WOODS TELLS OF TRIALS ON OREGON TRAIL BY OX TRAIN IN DAYS OF 49 Vivid Picture of Old Days Revealed by Ezra Meeker, Pioneer of the Trail Himself—Labor of Fording With Wagons. An interesting eopy of the diary of W. PR. Woods during 1849 has come into the possession of the Tribune from Ezra Meeker, pioneer of the old Oregon Trail, who turned it over to the Casper Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Meeker, who is now 94 years of age, made the trip by ox-team over the old trail four times, and is making it again this year for adver- tising purposes. It {s his desire to] They charged $3 per m. The get improvements and maintain the| oxen were swum. The boats had Old Oregon Trail through national] teen made by emigrants who crossed co-operation. and went on their way while others The diar; which ft ishes an ex-| would buy thelr rights, and so con ceptionally vivid picture of the da: nue the work. Just before we when old ploneer © Mr. Woods/ reached here, a man was while} and M M rt eled the Trall| driving his cattle by th cidental follows | discharge of a gun in unloading a F 1849, we made|wagon to cross. He died instantly; an earl e on to 12) the ball passing through him just miles to th Deer Creek,| above the heart and probably cutting where we found tea crossing the| the aorta. I saw his body in the Platte. There were r boats made|tent. He was from Illinois, and his by attaching two duge togethor. name was Bracken. A man was SKIN TROUBLES QUICKLY YIELD TO RESINOL Tf you are suffering from eczema, ringworm or similar itching, burning, un- sightly skin affection, bathe the irritated spots with Resinol Soap and warm water, then gently apply Resinol Ointment. You will doubtless be astonished to feel how instantly the itching is relieved and healing begins. In most \ cases the sick skin quickly becomes clear and healthy again, at very little cost. Resinol Soap and Resinol Ointment also help to clear away blotches, redness, roughness and dandruff, restor- ing health to skin and scalp. Place the Resinol products in your home today. Your druggist sella Ger nN SOMETHING AND Ler me (INTERESTED Books oR GAVE AVERY AN AWFUL LEAD Resinol “Always call for Resinol”” AUDITORS C. H. RELMERTH | DOCTORS DR. T. J. RI Certified Public Accountant Picpalcin fand Sireeod |diers were met returning to Fort Income Tax Service | Phone 1219 Residence 2118| Laramie, with some stolen cattle and 401 OS Bldg. Phone 767 horses, and two of the men that stole | ed THE CASPER PRIVATE them. ‘The soldiers remarked | HARRY F. COMFORT HOSPITAL we did not need the company | Auditing and Accounting | _938 South Durbin—Phone 273 two men on this route nd #0 they | Phone 2008 Suite 18, Daly Bids.) Women’s and Chitdren’s Hospital ‘thought they would be take R. ©. VAN DENBERG hone 406 nak, oie y wer iad use : i ee ¢ © wagons on to the bank o Certified ' Public! Accountan: ‘OLOGY AND | the stream and the cattle over the Income Tax Service Over Campbell Hardware Phone 148 ——— GUARANTEE REGISTRY CORP. Auditors and Accountants—Stock Registrar and Transfer Agents RICS Homer R. Lathrop, M. D., F. Victor R. Dacken, B. Se. M.D. | =, EAR, NOSE and THROAT Stanton, M. 8. X-RAY TRE. D iT |} NITO-U jin the same way. [hills to feed A. ©. & supper. GEE, SKEEZIX, WE'VE SOT TO STEP HEAVYT OUR STRIPPED GEARS drowned here yesterday and junt! above 12 miles, seven men haye been | drowned in two days while rafting their wagons across. It was one of the Pittsburgh company that dis charged the gun which _ killed Bracken, and they have killed one of their own men and wounded another Buffalo have been A party of sol seen again today and are waiting for our Friday, June 1849. We were] aroused early and in good season} |commenced crossing our wagons. - |The line for two miles along shore 208-11 Oil Exchange Bldg. Phone 660 pk TENA | presented as busy an aspect as it eae ee le TE 7 on ROENTGENOLOGI Jordinarily does at St. Louis or ARCHITECTS ihe other little town in the State Cn EFS ea ES TT >, es arn Wagon: pieces, boxes, chattels, DUBOIS & GOODRICH, Architects ATHOLOGIST SON (Uh, PLE DORA bAG ana 3 "De and plunder. Our ship wa Rooms 11-12, Townsend Block ’ O'Donne'l, M. D. 5 own Poliles % eee ~ . d the “Two Pollies and Betsey Casper, Wyo. Phone 440 EHARMAOIST being two canoes and a long R. S. Lothian, Ph. G. \ betwr ch. W PEEPS E WM. J. WESTFALL, Architect | DENTIST etween in each. We joined forces Suite 5, Daly Building | ©. B, Duncan, D. D..& jwith the 12 Cincinnati mule team ———uLLER Architect’ | « ‘Offices in Robrbaugh Building =| ("25 and ea eg eeytis ns E. M. MILLER, Archit 113 East Secon ‘Strest style. wi men to cor 208 0-8 Bldg. Phone 1906 Telephone 54 and $8 jagainst the current. The men were ——— = wid obliged to work in the water on the ©. A. RAINWATER, Architect DR. KATHRYN F. T. SMITH | north side, which rendered it quite Basement Consolidated Royalty Bldg-| physician and Surguon—North Cas-| unpleasant. By 4 o'clock p. m. we Jephone i Per, Formerly at Corner of H. and| were across and drove oxen down to = _ = Ta urbin. Hol itzman Apartment, 721, a swim We worked until dark in BAGGAGE and TRANSFER Mad'son Phone Later. | the water, but with all our efforts we a 1 y i, could not get but three to cross. We Res. Phone 87 = : lall the time and at last let them Eye,Ear, Nose and Throat | Suite 2, 112 East Second MARSHALL ©. KEITH, Natrona Transfer, Storage and Fuel Co., J. L, Biederman, Prop. Phone 949 { M. D. TTERIES | HERBERT L. HARVEY, M. D. BA TE = ——! Office 208 South Center—Phone 30 ER BA co. Private Hospital, 612 South Durbin Phone 907) General Practice Surgery Obstetrics CHIROPRACTORS LAWYERS DR. J. H. JEFFRE | AMBROSE HEMINGWAY | DR. ANNA GRAHAM JEFFREY | Lawyer Suite 318 Midwest Bldg. Phone 706) Room 332 Midwest Bldg. DR. B. NICHOLS & STIRRETT | Chiropractor Townsend Bidg M. EB. HARNE . HAHN | | ti Phone 423 309-10-11 Ol EF change Bldg. SP. KEM >, Chiropractor | 162 North Kimball St. | 408 Consolidated Royalty Bldg. "hone 1457 Semeane yy ee is ea ee HAGENS & MURANE DR. I.E. BERQUUIST Lawyers Zuttermeister Bldg 206-207 Oil Phone 1 xchange Building WILLIAM 0. WILSON Attorney-at-Law Townsend Bidg. ROBERT N. GROVE East Second Street et ate nz X-Ray and ARNOLDUS _ Osteop 810 O-S Buildin, thie a g & ADAMS THURSTON. D. ¢ | 210 0-8 Building Phone 2217 Chiropractor =am 1133 § Wolcott Phone 2305W OSTEOPATH CLEANERS | — ~ | THE SERVICE CLEAN | Suite 6, Tribune Apartments, Ph. 888 Hiroad at Jackson ————_______ | Phone 56 DR. ©. A | ‘ Osteopathic Physician | CHIROPODIST 816 Midwest Bldg Phone 1030} : =| —<—<$—_—_$ __________ | CORINNE FE RYANT | SHOE REPAIRING | Foot Specialist ——. —- —— 16 Mast ond Phone 1046R NORTH CASPER SHOE SHOP | aoe All Work ‘Guaranteed | CONTRACTORS Ben Suyematsu 2 petite ted c csi re | TAYLOR & ORCUTT TAILORS | General ctors -2 site! t Us Figure Your, si Estimates| TROY TAILORS AND CLEANERS| ‘urnished on Any Kind of Building.| 148 BE, Midwes > Mone WESW. 324 South Elk Str bo Erato ees ay DOCTORS : _ VOICE CULTURE | = — - MRS. BERTA SMITH opiedin res ery recede al Concert Soprano and Teacher of 3d ico Ph, 699 Res, 7 Sas tip b O-S Bldg. Office Ph. 699 Res. 746 Pupil of ° | DR. G. 5. BARGER Oscar Saenger of New York City | Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Specializing Volee Placing and | Glasses Fitted ‘ 3S. Wolcott Phone 113| No. 16 Ardmore Apts Phone 1487J [return to shore. | Don't tell the wife you've Leen We watched them until morning. The water is remark ably swift, deep and cold. The cold jness is probably owing to our proxi mity to the mountain snows. On our south, about four miles from the Platte there rises a range of very high ragged pine clad hills. They appear to become worse and worse until they terminate in the Laramie range of mountain Saturday, June our labors by recro: the purpose of crossing our Again resumed ng the river for teams, but with no better success than the aitting up with a sick friend. She might have a retinoscope, invented by Dr. W. D. Bates, of New York, shown wearing it. The retinoscope detects ies by discovering shadows in the eye, he says, CLAIMS TH LADY ON THE GULD USE (T “EBBE You mB aad! day before. scene far surpassing anything the imagination ever conceived; fancy for one moment our feelings on reflect- ing, the vast amount of oxen, mules, Wagons and horses, mixed indiscrimi- nately with men clothed, half clad and naked, rushing into danger of losing men and teams, the swift and long to be remembered crossing of the Platte. No pen can t or pencil portray the scene as really was—suffice it that we suc: ceeded in crossing our teams about 12 o'clock without further loss than the extreme exhaustion of our men and teams, We witnessed sights jaughable and alarming in an un usual manner. In one place were | six men being towed ashore all hang- ing from the tail of one mule and a rider on him at that; while in an. her they were making extreme ef- | forts to save a man from drowning. at_sank with a wagon contain “I can't praise Tanlac enough, for gave me perfect health after 1 told there was no hope of my. ever being well again,” sald Mrs. Mary Gavin, 419 W. i2th St., Chey |enne, Wyo, | “Three years ago the fu left me so | weak and run down life didn't seem | worth living. After meats gas would | form on my stomach and p-ess against | my heart until it paipitated so T got | dizzy and thought I would fall dead, |1 lost my appetite, ached all over, | and was so nervous my rest was all | broken up and I fell off in weight I honestly believe I was in as bad condition as anyone could be and still | | | it w. I Wreina BE SY MYSELF WHAT \ SEE A News ITEM HERE SILVER DLLAeS HAS ADENOIDS = imminent| co HAROLD TEEN—ANNENT ADENOIDS deen dbeastaainodns New NA bar and was saved. |letting him tow me across. scenes are over, and we shall [remember the ‘ossing of the wu | Platte. | net know. HOLD The the current outside of the jam THE PATHe SEPARATE, AVERY UP ON THE UNCOLN HIGHWAN HAS A GOOD START ON WALT WHO PLUNGES ‘ INTO KANSAS. MONDAY, JULY 9, 1923. SOING EAST, EH ? YER, ROADS ARE PRETTY GOOD, YOu AINT BY ANY CHANCE GOING THROUGH SPRINGFIELD ILLINOIS ? 'M SORRY. | BOUGHT A TELEPHONE SLUG THERE AND DIDNT USE IT. THOUGHT You MIGHT TAKE IT OFF long pper =\T Says FURTHER Thar WOMEN, , IN Cast CentuURIES WERE Nor TReUBLER WITH ADENOIDS: ; Foe TH’ REASON THat THEY * ' WORKED Their Saws HACDER, - CHEWING TOUGH MEATS AND OTHER EATS — Here we witnessed a! ing women and children but struck a Such vast amounts of cattle and in- I was carried by animate matter performing a jorney of of 2,000 miles against their will and cattle and saved myself by catching efforts, just because he wills it, and the tail of one as I passed him and atill he is But the Fa Hear weiter Has BEEN MISIN FORAAED! FRom MY OWN OBSERVATIONS 1} woucd Seay THEI Taus ; A2eE Just as AcTue! IN THis DAY AND -1T 15 CLAIMED Ther ToDeyY THE Foop REquifees TREATY COVERING SHIP LIQUOR STORES MAY BE NEGOTIATED BY the easiest destroyed of anything upon the route and his own works will crush him as they would! We are camped among a|@u Wa grove of cottonwood, For two days a dense cloud ® worm. of smoke has been rising from a. hill lear off in the south. The cause I do. The smoke from the stoves curls up | It may be the pine timber | among the branches. fired by the Indians or hunters, or it| little today and hailed. may be a bed of coal on fire, it being; so hot to my feet I could not endure : itovthe south of the coal already de-|it barefooted and preferred walking |°t@ty Hughes’ plan for a treaty cov-|suggestion that the plan might be scribed. _'We yoked our teams and/on the prickly pears a pleasant spot WASHINGTON, July 9.—The poss- what nation ibility that powers other than Great Britain might look favorably on Sec- had intimated a favor able attitude tovard the Hughes p’an, peared certain, however, that there had been at least an indefinite It has rained a ‘The sand was Some of theso|erittg ship liquor stores and rum /|found acceptable by the power con- drove on over a very rough and|pears are covered with prickles so|*muggling, suggested itself when it | cerned. |sandy road for about four. miles they seem to be choked with|became known that there had been in | The treaty plan called for sépar- where we encamped on the river bank! maliciousness and die with crabed-|formal converrations with representa-late pacts with each of the maritima }to feed our oxen and rest ourselves. |tives of at least one of the other pow-| nowers, Should some other power ac- Many is the man here who wishes! Sunday, June 24. This description |ers which received the state depart-|cept the proposal to extend parte right himself in the states, uch circum-| of the Platté crossing coild be located ;ment's propasal, of search ifor contraband up to: the 18 stances forcioly remind us of the and re-enacted for picture. The} Inquiry at the state department |mile limit there would be nothing ta weakness and imbecility of Mrs. Gavin Happy Over 31-Lb. Gain on Tanlac get around. “Tanlac made me feel woman. petite, nothing I eat hurts me, ever nervous, sleep all night have gained thirty-one pounds never felt stronger or better in life. I'll always be grateful to lac.” like a |wists. Accept no substitute. | 87 miftion bottles. sold. Tanlac Vegetab’e Pills are Nat own remedy for constipation. ale everywhere. new Now I have a splendid ap- am long, and my Tan- Tanlac is for sale by all good drug- Over ure’s For PERFECT GROOMING can be had only when the coiffure, the face and hands have been treated by spec’ ialists, You May Be Sure If You Patronize The La Rue Beauty Shoppe 116 E. Second St. For Appointments Phone 1327J man. | description along the entire route is brought no information on the point a prevent the conclusion of a two part omplete as this record. nor was there anything to indicate |treaty on the subject. = Business Man A saving of time means money. Higher efficiency means money. Health wealth, Hill Crest Water MEANS PURE WATER means A special cooler in your office means a small cost offset by the above good reasons. Phone 1151 Quick as a Jiffy.