Showing posts with label 2019. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2019. Show all posts
Thursday, October 24, 2019
Saturday, September 14, 2013
September 14
1890 Newcastle's waterworks completed. Attribution: Wyoming State Historical Society.
1901 President William B. McKinley died in Buffalo, N.Y., of gunshot wounds inflicted by an assassin eight days earlier. Theodore Roosevelt, age 42, was sworn in,thereby becoming the youngest president in U.S. history.
1919 Game Warden Buxton was shot in the course of his duties.
Violence against Wyoming Game Wardens has been incredibly rare and very, very few have lost their lives in the performance of their duties. Buxton was one of them. He responded to reports of gunshots near Rock Springs, encountered two individuals, and after informing them, Joe Omeye, that the hunting season confiscated a rifle from him. The day being a Sunday, Buxton reported to the incident with his wife.
While putting the rifle in his car he was called by Omeye who shot him with a pistol that he'd been carrying concealed. The shot wounded Buxton who called for his wife to give him his gun. Omeye then shot at Buxton's wife but missed, and she fled for help. Help arrived too late and Buxton died on the way to the hospital.
Omeye was convicted of Murder in the Second Degree and served time in the Wyoming State Penitentiary to twenty years in the penitentiary.
He initially served only four years before being paroled, providing proof that the common perception of serving being light only in modern times is wrong. He violated his parole, however, and was returned to prison to be released again in 1931.
Omeye's companion, John Kolman, was not arrested and must not have been regarded as implicated in what occurred in any fashion. An Austrian immigrant, he died in Rock Springs at age 93 in 1968.
1950 President Truman signed a bill merging most of Jackson Hole National Monument into Grand Teton National Park. Attribution: On This Day.
1950 The Act of September 14, 1950 prohibited the extension or establishment of any National Monument in Wyoming without the express authorization of Congress.
1960 The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries was founded on this day at the Baghdad Conference of 1960.
1987 Anderson Lodge in the Absaroka Mountains east of Meeteetse, added to the National Register of Historic Places. Attribution: On This Day.
2001 President Bush declared a national emergency.
2019 The Black 14 were belatedly issued University of Wyoming letter jackets at a UW football game. See yesterday's entry.
1901 President William B. McKinley died in Buffalo, N.Y., of gunshot wounds inflicted by an assassin eight days earlier. Theodore Roosevelt, age 42, was sworn in,thereby becoming the youngest president in U.S. history.
1919 Game Warden Buxton was shot in the course of his duties.
Violence against Wyoming Game Wardens has been incredibly rare and very, very few have lost their lives in the performance of their duties. Buxton was one of them. He responded to reports of gunshots near Rock Springs, encountered two individuals, and after informing them, Joe Omeye, that the hunting season confiscated a rifle from him. The day being a Sunday, Buxton reported to the incident with his wife.
While putting the rifle in his car he was called by Omeye who shot him with a pistol that he'd been carrying concealed. The shot wounded Buxton who called for his wife to give him his gun. Omeye then shot at Buxton's wife but missed, and she fled for help. Help arrived too late and Buxton died on the way to the hospital.
Omeye was convicted of Murder in the Second Degree and served time in the Wyoming State Penitentiary to twenty years in the penitentiary.
He initially served only four years before being paroled, providing proof that the common perception of serving being light only in modern times is wrong. He violated his parole, however, and was returned to prison to be released again in 1931.
Omeye's companion, John Kolman, was not arrested and must not have been regarded as implicated in what occurred in any fashion. An Austrian immigrant, he died in Rock Springs at age 93 in 1968.
1950 President Truman signed a bill merging most of Jackson Hole National Monument into Grand Teton National Park. Attribution: On This Day.
1950 The Act of September 14, 1950 prohibited the extension or establishment of any National Monument in Wyoming without the express authorization of Congress.
1960 The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries was founded on this day at the Baghdad Conference of 1960.
1987 Anderson Lodge in the Absaroka Mountains east of Meeteetse, added to the National Register of Historic Places. Attribution: On This Day.
2001 President Bush declared a national emergency.
2019 The Black 14 were belatedly issued University of Wyoming letter jackets at a UW football game. See yesterday's entry.
Friday, September 13, 2013
September 13
1816 José Manuel de Herrera proclaimed Galveston a port of the
Mexican republic and raised the rebel Mexican flag. Attribution: On This Day.
1860. John J. Pershing born near Laclede Missouri. He graduated local high school in 1878 and went to work as a teacher. He entered the North Missouri Normal School in 1880. He entered West Point in 1882, graduating in 1886, which would have made him an old West Point graduate by today's standards. He considered asking for a delay in his commissioning so he could attend law school, but determined not to do that. He later obtained a law degree from the University of Nebraska while posted there, obtaining that degree in 1893. He married Helen Frances Warren, daughter of Wyoming's Senator Warren, in 1905. Mrs. Pershing and three of the four Pershing children died in a fire at the Presidio in 1915.
1868 The first Episcopal service is held in Laramie at the Laramie Hall. This was 19 years before the creation of the Episcopal diocese for Wyoming, which was originally headquartered in Laramie. The Cathedral remains in Laramie, but today the offices are in Casper.
1942 Responding to calls from the commander of the Army Air Corps' Casper Air Base commander, city officials took steps to close the Sandbar, Casper's infamous red light district. Almost remembered in a nostalgic, semi charming, manner today, the Sandbar had been a concentration of vice for Natrona County since the 1920s where criminal activity was openly conducted. In spite of the World War Two effort, the Sandbar remained a center for the conduct of vice until the 1970s, at which point it was attacked by an urban renewal project that effectively destroyed its infrastructure.
1942 Responding to calls from the commander of the Army Air Corps' Casper Air Base commander, city officials took steps to close the Sandbar, Casper's infamous red light district. Almost remembered in a nostalgic, semi charming, manner today, the Sandbar had been a concentration of vice for Natrona County since the 1920s where criminal activity was openly conducted. In spite of the World War Two effort, the Sandbar remained a center for the conduct of vice until the 1970s, at which point it was attacked by an urban renewal project that effectively destroyed its infrastructure.
1953 Neil McNeice discovers Uranium in the Gas Hills, which will lead ultimately to mining in that district. Attribution: On This Day.
1984 The First State Bank of Baggs added to the National Registry of Historic Places.
2019 The University of Wyoming issued a formal apology to the Black 14, those University of Wyoming football players dismissed from the football team in 1969 by Coach Eaton for wanting to discuss wearing black armbands in protest at an upcoming game.
2019 The University of Wyoming issued a formal apology to the Black 14, those University of Wyoming football players dismissed from the football team in 1969 by Coach Eaton for wanting to discuss wearing black armbands in protest at an upcoming game.
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