See end of this email for instructions on how to unsubscribe. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Nevada > Mineral Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=28108 (Follow the link above to contact the original submitter of the following article.) More articles for Mineral can be found at: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=1001 Article Title: Mineral County Independent News Article Date: June 20 1934 Article Description: Climb Mountain to Honor "Badger Bill" Article Text: Columns have been written about "Badger Bill" and his untimely death on the desert between Hawthorne and Mina, brought on largely beacause of his antipathy toward railroad trains and early types of vehicles. But no one can correctly assert what "Badger Bill" would say were he to have risen and viewed the most modern thing in automobile construction - the Airflow Machine - on the day the accompaning photograph was made. (Note I have not included the photo in this article) Briefly the history of "Badger Bill" is this. He was William LaRue, a Civil War veteran who came west soon after that great conflict. A wonderful physique was his and it stood him well in his occupation of blacksmithing at the Pamlico mines, 16 miles southeast of Hawthorne. Walking was his favorite mode of transportation an often he walked the 20 mile distance to Camp Douglas to visit friends. Returning from one of these trips one day in 1899 however, he became exhausted, having no water and dropped beside the old wagon road at a spot about four miles distance from Pamlico, his destination. There he died, and there he was buried, in accordence with a wish often expressed by the old character. A few years ago the Veterans of Foriegn Wars post in Hawthorne honored the departed comrade by erecting a fence on the grave and placing an appropriate gravestone on the same. A few weeks ago when Mr. John B. Rauen, president of the United States Steel and Bumper Company made a trip from Los Angeles to Pamlico and Ashby districts to inspect mining propert he was accompanied by W.I. "Billy" O'Meara, who made a fortune mining in the Tonopah and Silver Peak localities in the early days of those camps. O'Meara was a personal friend of "Badger Bill". When O'Meara had finished telling the story of the early-day character Rauen insisted on visiting the desert grave. One significant feature of the trip in the Airflow is the fact that this grave of "Badger Bill" who reluctantly viewed any or all forms of transportation ( other than "shanks mare" ) was reached in a most modern vehicle which has been viewed sceptically by many who claim to be keeping with the rapidly advancing world of today. However one who has made the trip of the mountain roads of Nevada in an Airflow will readily allay this suspicion of those belief is comparable to the ill-advised theories of poor old "Badger Bill". ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ IMPORTANT: To stop receiving these notifications, you need to know if you are receiving them through a mailing list or if you subscribed through the Newspaper Abstracts website. Either way, YOU HAD TO HAVE SUBSCRIBED YOURSELF, as we do NOT add people to our notifications. To determine what you subscribed to, look at the subject line of this message. If the subject line begins with the words 'Old-News' followed by 'New Article for', then you are receiving this notification through a mailing list. See the end of this message for instructions on how to unsubscribe. If the subject line says 'New Article for' - but does NOT have 'Old-News' in front of it - then you subscribed through the website. To unsubscribe, follow instructions found at: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=11191 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com