Peek at the Past

100 Years Ago

Feb. 3, 1921

The Times has received in common with other Wyoming papers an appeal to “save the elk,” from W.B. Sheppard. While perhaps the game law can be improved in regard to elk, it would appear that this appeal comes at a queer time when the assistant state game warden is busy exterminating the surplus of this pest to the stockman and rancher. Which is worth the trouble – the elk or the livestock industry?

Earl Caddock, Upton’s one time champion wrestler and challenger for the title this year, lost to Ed Lewis, champion, in New York, January 24. The match was one of the longest and most strenuous in years, and many marveled that neither wrestler suffered serious injury. Later reports have it that Caddock is liable to paralysis as a result of the match, but he had not suffered up to this time. It would seem to the unedited that Lewis’ headlock, or the toe-hold of other noted wrestlers, are as much in the line of foul tackles as some others that are barred. They produce torture to overcome the opponent, and real wrestling is out of the contest.

75 Years Ago

Jan. 31, 1946

Search for the slayer of Butte County Sheriff Dave Malcom and Tom Mathews, Spearfish, special investigator for the attorney general’s office, dwindled to a routine checking of clues last night when no new leads to the killer’s whereabouts were uncovered. Searching parties are combing the hills between Deadwood and Spearfish in the vicinity of the road where the car believed belong to George Sitts, convicted slayer who escaped a week ago from a Minneapolis jail, was found. Clyde Ice and Ted Kelley, former Lawrence county sheriff, joined the search Sunday, looking over the countryside from a plane. Patrol cars still are covering all principal highways in and around the Black Hills and every law enforcement officer in the area is alerted.

Ray Bryan, of Casper, has purchased the corner lot in the Bear Lodge Hotel block, and Wednesday morning of this week excavation on the basement of what will be a modern brick building housing a café, cleaning shop and beauty parlor in Sundance was started. Bryan said Tuesday that the building would be completed as rapidly as weather conditions and material supply would permit. James Kokesh of Sundance is doing the basement work.

Sheriff W. H. Blakeman became the owner of the first 1946 automobile to be shown in Sundance when he purchased the 1946 Studebaker Champion form the Tracy Motor Co. of Sundance the first of the week.

25 Years Ago

Feb. 1, 1996

Sundance High School’s Clay Marchant, son of Ray and Sharon Marchant, Aladdin, has been named to the Wyoming all-star football team which will play in the 8th Annual Down Under Bowl in Melbourne. The Wyoming team will depart for Australia June 15 and return June 27.