Cassady Killed in 1898

One of the fun things about doing family history research is that sometimes you find things you weren't looking for. For example, I was recently looking at some digitized newspapers in Utah and I found an article about Butch Cassady's death. it was in the Deseret News, 1898. Here is what it says:

"BUTCH CASSADY KILLED,
Surrounded by a Posse and Shot Down While Resisting Arrest.

"Salt Lake, May 14 [1898] -- Butch Cassady, the master spirit of innumberable depradations and a leading spirit among the desperadoes in Robbers Roost, was killed yesterday in a fight with a posse while resisting arrest. Joe Walker, another of the gang, was also killed and Lay and Thompson were captured.

"About a week ago these desperadoes forcibly drove off 25 head of cattle belonging to the Whitmore boys of Price. Whitmore followed them but was held up and relieved of his horse and compelled to walk to Price, Carbon county, where a posse was raised which started in pursuit. They traveled night and day and surprised the bandits while asleep. A call to surrender was met with a shot from Cassady. A battle then began which lasted about five minutes, during which Cassady and Walker were killed. The others then surrendered.

"Both the dead men had rewards hanging on them of $500 each, offered by Governor Wells some months since Cassady was the leader in the Montpelier, Idaho, bank robbery two years ago, and also of the robbery of the P V Coal Company last summer. The two raids netted about $14,000. He and Walker robbed a store at Green River about a month since."

It was in the Deseret News!!  Nothing here about Bolivia.

I Hate Handling Money

I've always known it is not in my 'karma' to ever be rich. What I've ever really hoped for was to have enough to pay the bills and and have a little extra to buy a few things without going into the hole. While I was working full time, that's what I had. I thought I managed my money ok and did not over-extend. Now I'm retired, and it's a different world!

First of all, even though I get both retirement benefits and social security, my income dropped by a chunk! That cushion I had depended on is gone, and my expenses have gone up. The story is not new, or unique, but it is annoying!!

Just when I think I'm beginning to get on top of things, something stupid happens, like my water heater dying. I discovered it had been leaking for some time and had damaged a section of the floor near it. So what's the problem? Call the insurance man. I did, and learned that I had no insurance!! I thought I had arranged to have my premiums paid automatically from a specific account at my bank! Wrong! I don't know what I did or did not do, but that wasn't happening. So again, just when I was thinking I was getting on top of things, another bill is added to my credit card. Aaaaaarrgggghhhhh!! Where's that wealthy widower I've been waiting for? Never mind. I'm too tired to deal with a husband again.

And yes, I would like some cheese with my whine - camembert, if you please.

It's Groundhog Day!

Groundhog Day has always been one of my favorite holidays. Not only does it mark the halfway point between the first day of winter and the first day of spring, it is also my mother's birthday! My mother and her sister were born on the same day, two years apart, so it was a double remembrance while I was growing up. They've both been dead for many years now, but I still remember them both every Groundhog Day.

Provo Percy, the groundhog that lives at my house, predicts six more weeks of winter. The sky is blue this morning (no haze) and the sun is bright! I was able to get the above photo just before he disappeared back down into his cozy bedroom.