Mystery surrounds Booz death and West Point hazing claims
An army board and a House committee investigate Cadet Oscar Booz of Bristol Pa whose 1898 academy troubles and alleged hazing led to illness and death. West Point records contradict accounts of brutal beating with no lasting injuries and note Booz left the academy in October 1898.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oscar L. Booz
Bristol
Army
Secretary of War
John S. Brooke
George L. Gillespie
John W. Clous
House of Representatives
Benjamin F. Marsh
Illinois
Irving P. Wanger
Pennsylvania
Walter I. Smith
Iowa
B. T
West Point
Bibles
Booz
Weaver
Philadelphia
Mills
Boot
Military Academy
Academy
Cadete Patch
Ludlow
Stephen C. Mills
Paddock
Chicago
Rains
Patch
Good Stories Told by Strolling Players in the West
Veteran actors recount early western theater days in Butte and Anaconda. Tales cover a 1884 Camille staged with improvised props, candle payments in Virginia City, stage dangers in Cheyenne, Ogallala, Durango, and Denver, and the notorious Cheyenne Mazeppa and Tasman bull stunt. The accounts highlight frontier shows, confrontations, and survival of touring companies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butte
Anaconda
Phosa McAllister
Frawley Company
John Maguire
Front Street
Camille
Maguire
Miss McAllister
Cheyenne
Fred Roberts
Smith
West
Ogallala
Durango
Trinidad
Bill
Wheaten
Walter Moss
Cherry Sisters
East Lynn
Jim Wolcott
Will Visscher
Wolcott
Visscher
Tartary
Jack Langrishe
Denver
Butteman
Mazeppa
Langrishe
Sampson
Montana
Lord Dunraven
Colorado
England
Dunraven
Aire Cerairet
Poe
Dunreven
Estes Park
Candles as Currenes First Montana Theatre Tour Mentioned
A fragment notes Candles as Currenes as likely the earliest theatrical company to visit Montana, signaling a historic touring performance in the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
Salmon for Admission Shaped 1880s Grimmer Show
Sam Thall recalls a Grismer show in Astoria during a salmon boom year around 1880 or 1881. W A Brady acted as property man and was tasked with drumming up fishing audience. Grismer offered 00 cents per fish for admission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grismer
Sam Thall
Grismers
Sound Country
Astoria
W. A. Brady
Notable actor visits Butte and wartime tale told as Bill
One of the era's best known actors who visits Butte is named here as Bill due to fame. A former Civil War comrade retells a tale of postwar hardship and a hoax involving hay in Connecticut, where Bill negotiates with a farmer and a liveryman, then leaves the farmer to settle with the stableman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butte
Bill
Smith
Pany
Connecticut
Bil
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Ehot
Fl Caney
Fort Clinton
James Hayes
New York City
Jimmie
Morrissey
Jimmie Hayes
Florida
Skeets
Walker
Elon Wilcox
Sixth Cavalry
Wilcox
Quintin Campbell
Eht
Schenck
Poker’ Schenck
Black
Battery Knox
Bruieed
Edmund
Driggs
John Abrooke
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West Point Academy
Julia Dean Hayne
Miss Hayne
Tony Ward
Madison
Virginia City
Salt Lake
Mormon Church
Whooten
Buster
Negro Mazeppa
Resuks
Bull
Lord Danraven
Tsaeupade
Salmon
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