Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 16, 1925, Page 5

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1925 is © HIGH SPOTS I; a it was but a short time until the red mah concelved the idea that he was in knowledge and skill to his white brother, and this was the cause of other conflicts which resulted ‘in the death of } | many, white people. A. J. Mokler, Casper and | ‘The following by pionee ident of t Jauthor of the “History of Na- ltrona County,” was delivered to- day before the meeting in Doug- Jins at the Wyoming State Fair lof the State Historical soctety | and pioneers, Casper residents much to interest them | Jdress. | superior many normous natural resources st domain soon began to at attention from high f+ only of the United S| but of the several foreign cou en explorers ries, were sent forth men threaded their gh the wilderness, tolled through the sands, marehed over the vast plains and sealed the precipitous mountains, They suffered from the nien might rule thémselves entered | intense cold of winter and the heat into their calculation The first of | Of summer; they fought the savages, who came this way ;8"d many of them were killed and by others died of er hardships and . MOKUER. a hundred § men pushed depths of the , hought of establish- ing the Widerness where hin years way ¥ the white men nim solel exposure. er and pre Follo' ambitions for] more fur and trappers and eed were measur: | prospectors, but a different class of the best of the | men from those who first « alm wag to con-| the county, and not a few of t trodden land and} were generous and kindly men, and its produce, their ambitions were the opening up ud wealth at their command | of a new field of life and prosperity emed to. think it would give|te future ages in this virgin coun- 1 the ownership of the very gates of untrammeled spaciousness They were strong and] Then came a few home-seekers and who Came not only f Christian men and women— States, but missionaries—who * pursued _ their other ends with a self-sa e and cour th, and c age at the risk, and sometimes at ashed. The success | the cost of their lives, to the enter only whetted the in-| prise of winning the of the es of the others. | red man to Christ 9 these Ch conciliated first | tian men and women, whatever their reed, is feserving of the highest ‘praise. ‘Their efforts, in a few in: me alth and The en ra ic y were nv Their monopol of brave the Unite Pr ‘ ven men some ably of exhaus See Jackie Coogan Off they scamper with bright eyes and merry laughter on the road to adven- tureland. How secure you feel when you know the-theater to which they are going is built of concrete. For concrete has great reserve strength and is firesafe. To help you get the protection that concrete insures in theater construction, the cement industry, through the Port- land Cement Association, offers you a free service. This covers every use of concrete. It helps you get the greatest value for your money. 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PARB—312 50 Saves you approsimately 12 hours travel between Casper WYOMING MOTORWAY Salt Creek Transportation Company's Office TOWNSEND HOTEL PHONE 144 ame into | than by ve many | | | i’ WYOMING ON OLD OREGON TRAIL ces, bore frult among the sav- ages, in others they failed. After the ‘missionartes came the empire builders. Thousands of men, Women and chlidren made their tott- some journey across the plains and mountains in ox carts and prairie hooners, and there were some Who me on foot pushing and pulling hand ¢arts, to ablish a civiliza- tion in the then unbroken wilder ness. These people blazed a trail an empire might be extended the farthest outposts, It was these pioneers, in their indomitable march aerosg the continent, who the broad highway of the Oregon Trail, whose deep hollow is yet plainly visible in many place’ 1cross the Wyoming plains, although it ds more than eghty years since pl carved. out | the long trains of wagons and carts t trekked actoss the wilder- e, is now nearly sixty years since the Old Trail was sup- planted by the railroad as a means of travel. The Indians contested the white man’s progress over the Trail, and especially in Wyoming the depreda- tions of hostile savages often wiped out wholé families, and then thelr wagons were burned and their horses and cattle were driven off. Even the very clothing they wore was stripped from their bodies and they were mitilated and left to He in the scorching sun as food for 1 wolves. the ned at Fort c , Platte Bridge Sweetwater Station, Fort Bridger, South Pass, and other posts to protect the travelers and to keep the telegraph Ine open to the Pacific coast nd many of these agic untime- the acherous Deer Caspar), savages Along “t route where rs camped for 4 day or a night rous of them inscribed their names upon the rocks by the way- side. ny of these names which were then engraved upon the granite or sandstone—some of them more years ago,—are still for hundreds of years names will stand out the haydships en- y the sturdy people. But thousands of the inscriptions, not 80 deer carved, have been e: ed time and the elements, and of more t 300,000 people who Old Trail and added the scheme of eyolu- all of them have passed face of the earth. Only a few remain, and they have but rt time y. Many, also, to no started over the 2,000- fl reached their “journey’s alo’ the wayside, some ough sickness, others by accident and many by being massacred, and they were laid to their everlasting rest in a lonely unmarked grave, eventeen graves tS each one of the 2,000 miles is a close estimate of the price paid in human souls for the building of this western empire. Thirty-four thousand deaths among s in thirty years—from pio- ne seventy 1 the passed ox their n tion, nea from th mile end” 1849 to 18 Adventure, romance and hdépe, hardship, suffering an@ death is written along every foot of the Old and the soil of the O14 been made sacred by the that were crificed the on sandma the Old Oregon ul in Wyoming probably are more nerous and of more importance interest than those in any r state along the 2,000-mile route. emigrants 1 trekked 66° es when they reached Fort Lar- and the t several hundred es of that distance was generally ihe most trying part of their journey the reason that when the travel- left Independence, Missouri, their rting point, they were inexper: in this mode of travel; the ney Were compelled to lead was ively new to them, and the coun- and conditions were changed 1 a quiet and comfortable home nm the farm or in the shop, or in tore or office to one full of ad- ire, full of excitement and full ps was the first py 1834 William an at. s] rth Platte This post was built for the of trading with Indiana, con- of the tribes of the Arapa- hoes, Sloux, Cheyennes and Crows, whose territories covered the sur- rounding country for several hun- dred miles. It was first named Hort William In of William Sub- lette, one first owners, In ames Bridger, Milton Sublette, A. Anderson, Fitzpatrick bought the post, and the same year {t was transferred to Lucien Fon- tenelle, who later sold it to the Amer. ican Fur company. When this com- pany’ bought the post its name was ected in tream of t Robinson \ \j Teal fighting was done at thene posts, from all other laxatives and reliefs 01 " Defective Elimination Constipation Biliousness nm of Nature’s Rem: (om is more natural ie thor je effects will be a revela- tion—you will feel so good. Make the test. You will appreciate this difference, Used For Over Thirty Yeare Chips off the Old Block WR JUNIORS —= Little Rn The same NR—in one-third doses, candy-costed. For children and adults. The actio Tablets ough. be Casper Dai ! changed to Fort John, but this name} did not seem to fit any moré than did Fort Willlam, and it naturally adopted the name of Fort Laramic on account of it being located on the Laramie river, Tort Laramie was sold to the United States government in 1849, and was the first govern- ment fort in what is now Wyoming, on the Old Oregon Trail. The eale of the fort by the fur company to the government was consummated for $4,000.00 and {ft took 128 days for the official papers to go to t adjutant general's office in New York elty and back to Fort Laramie. The first building added by the government, which was afterwards given the name of “Bedlam” was constructed from lumber brought from Fort Leavenworth. Gradual changes were made in the appear- anoe of the place by old buildings being removed and new ones erect ed each year until the old fort Ww: Practically abandoned in 1871, bu: the property was retained by the Sovernment until 1890 when it was Purchased by John Hinton, who, in 1866, was a clerk to the settler and he has lived there ever since, A concrete monument, fourteen feet in helght, was erected in 19 on tho spot exactly where the Old Oregon Trail entered the fort. In- scribed on the tablet of this mon- ument is the following: “ort Lara- mie, a Miltary Post on the Old Oregon Trail. June 16, 1849—March 3, 1890." Fort Laramie wae the actual capl- tal of a large extent of this western territory and aside from the great volume of official correspondence carried on by the government, many literary men and explorers of note made their headquarters at this spot, where they secured Important data which furnished the most important history the world has ever knotyn. It was here, also that thousands of letters were written by the emigrant: and posted to relatives “back eas! and Jn many, many cases the letter written here by emigrants were their last, How interesting most of this correspondence would be now, were it published,. I have copies of a number of letters written seventy. five years ago at this post, but T will take up the time only to read one of them: “Fort Laramie, July 8, 1850. “Final registry of emigtants for this year up to date: Men $7,570, women, 825; children 1,126; wagons 8 horses 22,8 mules 7,650: oxen, 31,502; cows 754. Hstimated persons not registered, 2,479, and 619 wagons, and with those still} behind, a total of 42,000 people and | 700 wagons on the trail at this | moment. Eight thousand to ten| settle there and visit the gold mines next season. Sickness has been se- vere. Of the 7 j made possible by the protec ied between here and the Missouri, a distance of about 650 miles, nine- tenths died of cerelessness and lack of experience and cleanliness, Six- teen out of seventeen of one train are sick; out of another train seven were buried and five or six more were sick, In two instances all but one in the trains had died. At one tent there were five graves. It { thousand of these are for Oregon to | 00 who now Ne bur. | ly Crinune PAGE FIVe Reliable Merchandise Since 1853 LEVI STRAUSS Makers of Two Horse a" the men, through priv ships, were red| that the greatest that Caspar W. Collins and gallant companions dians on July 26, to rescue Sargent train, elghteen of killed on the this point was first established ir r of 1888, and it non Fer c maintaining rth Platte rive r ot 1858-9, Le bridge the E women a been dre Em creek nany on of Spider Devil's fon, neglect ¢ ced in hea Indians prove ation, Bridger, the old Ore in Interest the time alloted me on the pr has almost expired and 1 clude by reciting to you an incident which occurred only a few yea ago on the old Oregon Trail one m east of Scott's Bluff, Net where the engineers are makin urve} the C., B. & Q They chme upon a grave wh in the direct line of the surv this grave was a wagon tire, 1 and crusted with t | tire we | becca W menace, all oF is onsely attempt Custar's wagon his men being The post at was S Pp & A Ma Pair FREEif They In,the winte built here, to 1d Platte rms: E to our govern r to emigrants of a ¢ Ugious faith, and naturally diers and emigrants not vor of @ military post having me of “Mornion" attached to nee, the change in the name 6 of the post was again char November, 1865, to Fort C: in honor of Lieutenant Casper W Collins, Upon an order from t War Department it was aba in 1867, and the Indians immediate! set the bridge and the buildings of the post on fire and they were th destroyed. There were so many in- teresting and exciling incident occurred at this post quire hours and hours to rel. there are any here who are not miliar with the history of th tles that were fought at this post, I assure you th sput in many interesting reading it. also assure 2 the people « sper and Nat county haye not waited for the ernment of the L State of Wyoming to pu aside the land occupied old fort in order that it mi perpetuated and kept in reve memory of the devoted sacrifices made by the soldiers stationed here but they have purchased the A and in the not far future the old} bridge and at least one be restored, and thus the of | the hardships endured by those who fought and died to protect the emi: | grants who were passing through Will be handed down from generation to generation. The ground occupied by this old fort is looked upon by! many of us as hallowed were For Sale Dr. H. R. Lathrop’s Dairy Herd of Purebred Registered Holstein Catile in aspar, | | TETTINUS | RICHES GO TO WIDOW. donea it we Including King Cremelle Waldorf, Cham- pion Bull of Colorado and Wyoming, Grand Champion Cows of Wy; 1 the As- Grand NEW ted nus, YORK Press) ate partne company, tr in New athed 10 Sept Edw Y¢ virtual ALSO € ate to his wile through t tablishment of t ich she is to enjoy the her life time set Registered Poland China Hogs a Among liam Carri: timore, M Edw all Headed by nbler, 600-1 137711, of the old MeGillvra at Wyoming State Fair Write or Phone Dr. H. R. Lathrop CASPER, WYO. No. winner w and | i prize Mareh ulding will] beth a ‘ Stettinus of ye exact amount of tl uns Into nu charit and no speci are contained in the will peter ~~ CFrom many tropic ae W\ climes-- comes this Sf onderful Coffee Qua Fo) ey } estimated that 250 have died in the | past fifteen days. Many poor, un- fortunate youth, far from home and friends has found a lonely grave by the wayside; around his couch no friends were gathered to soothe and comfort the last moments of his life, | but in an open wagon or tent, ex: | posed to the elements without ana} the miserable comforts within, he | bowed himself to the will of his Cre- ator. Sometimes the father has | stood by the couch of his dying son and the son by the father: the broth. | er by the brother, and the friena by the friend, waiting for thém to meet the fate that all might expect before they reached the end of thelr long } journey, The wife and mother often must bury her husband and children | along the dreary roadside and then progeed alone on her wea way. It is the price that 911 mugt expect to pay when they start out on their 000 mile trip.” At the last session of the Wyoming State legislature a bill was passed memoratising the congress of the| United States to set aside Old Fort Laramie and old Fort Bridger. lo- cated on the Old Oregon Trail as historic reserves, Among other things the memorial declares: That never in the history of the world has there been a more picturesque, dram- atic and hazardous migration of the Sturdy sons and daughters who saved this country to America; this being on af- forded by these p. frontier Old Fort Laramie was the most important post in the Rocky Mountain region and was the scene of many Indian conferences and the place of many important tre- ties, and the descendants of the early settlers of thls country in apprecia- sts on have been the names of Fort ¢ | 8nd treaties were held at Fort Cas } three months, and in that time the SOLD BY YOUR OAUOSIST ton and gratitude for the services rendered to the Great West In the Detection afforded by these noted forts and {n order that the historic Places so prominent in Western his. tory may be re-established, restored and perpetuated and be kept for al! time In reverent memory of the higt: ambitions and devoted sacrifices o: thelr forebears, the Congress of the United States is memorialized to purchase and set aside O14 Fort Laramie and Old Fort Bridger on the Oregon Trail as historic serves,” Included in that memorial shi re ail par And the Sweetwater Station, I! is true that not so many conferences | Par as at Fort Laramie, but the and they are deserving of as much teverent memory and perpetuation on account of devoted sacrifices an | any of the posts that were stationed along the Old Oregon ‘Tratl, Leaving Fort Laramie, the emi grants slowly, but bravely, made | their way farther into the interic . camping at Rig Springs, Bitter Cot- tonwood creek, La Bonte creek, Wa- geonhound creek. La Prele oreth, Deer creek, and then to Platte Bridge station, or Fort Casper, 794 miles from their starting point, and the second most important post on the trail, By the time they had reached thie post, they had beén on the road fully oxen and horses had commenced to feel the effects of the atranuousness of the trip, the wagons and oarts had begun to show the effects of the rough and rugged roads; the dust and sand were deep and atifliing, and the Scorching sun made traveling al mort unendurable. It was ‘..s> that ‘ a Butter- Nut serves reputation, the product of a world-wide organization . } that extends to’ remote, romantic ports where | the very choicest coffees are to be found. One coffee is selected for its charming rich- ness. Another for its enticing “tang”. Mellow. ness and aroma are sought in others. Your cup'of Butter-Nut Coffee is blend of these rare qualitie s; each the finest the world produc an artful And yet Butter-Jut costs but a cent Ca and a half a cup! 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