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Newspaper
Big Piney Examiner
Location
Big Piney, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1957
Page
1
A Wyoming economist urges lawmakers to pursue a constitutional amendment to repeal the school poll tax, arguing evasion and high collection costs burden taxpayers. The piece notes $144,287.17 collected in fiscal 1955-56 with tens of thousands not paying, and calls for voter input in 1958.
A lone trapper named Emmett Calhoun seeks beaver gold and a quick fortune in Blackfoot country. His trek from Loramie faces a brutal blizzard, leaving him missing in a snowy wasteland until a Crow scouting party later encounters the area.
True and complete abstract of county receipts and disbursements for Sublette County Wyoming from July 1, 1936, to December 31, 1956. Signed by County Treasurer Hazel Lawis and dated January 10, 1957. publication dates January 17 24 31, 1957.
Crow Indians observed a solitary man standing on a rock with no movement as they fired near him. After many shots and witnesses, Emmett Calhoun was found dead, bones and debris left. the stranger’s marvel blamed on medicine not slain by weapons. The tribe later shunned the valley as Fitzpatrick’s brigade investigated the galley and the bones were buried under a dirt mound.
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