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...Haskel, killer for hire, was a mighty surprised man. He had been paid to ride up to South Pass, Wyo. and plug a troublesome cowboy named Lincoln Bradway. But when the two men drew and fired, Gunman Haskel "uttered a loud yell of pain and dismay . . . Clapping his hands to his big paunch he sank to his knees, swayed and slowly collapsed a few yards from the sidewalk...
Surprise. In Douglas, Wyo., 14-year-old Jimmy Willox, after having ridden horseback 20 miles to school every day for the past eight years, received an eighth-grade graduation present from his proud father: a saddle horse...
...citizens of Rawlins, Wyo. (pop. 8,634) had no end of trouble after they decided, one night back in 1880, to lynch a bandit named George Parrott. It was easy enough to get him out of jail. "Big Nose George," intent on escape, had thoughtfully filed off his leg irons and knocked the jailer cold with them, thus had left himself undefended. But he was a hard man to hang...
...Rammelkamp's team began this discovery while working at Fort Francis E. Warren, Wyo., where many cases of rheumatic fever had developed. The researchers started with the fact that about three weeks after the beginning of a strep infection, the victim develops antibodies in his system as the streptococci are disposed...
Fallibility. In Port Jervis, N.Y., the repair man called in to fix the cigarette machine at police headquarters found it jammed by ten phony coins. In Powell, Wyo., Patrolman Warren Schrofel, after lecturing to 400 high-school students on traffic problems, paid a $2 fine for parking near a hydrant...