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Died. Oklahoma Jim Moore, 87, old-time Indian fighter, lately technical adviser for Hollywood horse operas; in Strongsville, Ohio. Bearded, long-maned Oklahoma Jim was believed to be the last surviving eyewitness to the shooting of Wild Bill Hickock in a Deadwood, S. D. saloon...
...Barry,* who bought in with Editor Mitchell early in 1900, shrewd Mr. Brown lost no time in acquiring enough Pathfinder stock for full control. On Pathfinder's staff went Mr. Brown's sons Barry and Sevellon III. Pathfinder's youthful new staff proposed to lop off "deadwood" in its 1,129,481 circulation, oust questionable advertising. Editorially they promised more photographs, breezier copy, brighter gags. Two things about Pathfinder that Republican Publisher Brown did not plan to alter were its $1 subscription rate and its stand-pat Republicanism...
...Near Deadwood, S. Dak. the Black Hills Exploration Co. prepared to prospect for gold with the world's largest diamond drill. The company's president: Sid Grauman, owner of Hollywood's famed Chinese Theatre. Vice president: Cinemactor Al Jolson...
...where Homestake's 2,000 miners and their families live, last week's report was of less interest than the $100 bonus paid each employe last Christmas and the well-founded expectations of similar bonuses to come. Only four and one-half miles from legendary Deadwood, Lead is a wholly-owned company town with a unique mining-town tradition of health and tranquillity. It has never known a depression. There are no pool halls in Lead, no saloons, no drugstore loafers. Homestake spends $65,000 a year on its hospital, more on its recreation centre. Though Homestake...
Evalyn's father, Thomas F. Walsh (not to be confused with Montana's late Senator) was an Irish immigrant who drifted to Colorado, left his carpenter's trade for prospecting. He ran a store in Deadwood, owned Leadville's most respectable hotel during the boom there. Evalyn's mother, known to Leadville as "a rather refined lady" because she changed the name of one of her husband's strikes from Sowbelly Gulch to St. Keven's, had gone West to be a schoolteacher. Evalyn was born in 1886, can still remember...