Truth (Perth) 4 July 1908, page 5 THE SADDLER AND HIS WIFE The Harness Parted and the Wife Bolted, John Brown Cadzow, a saddler carrying on business at the lively little town of Leonora, is a man who has a decided objection to wives going out at night unless accompanied by their husbands, and because […]
The Beel Family’s Legacy: From Bendigo to Kalgoorlie
The following family story has been kindly shared by Bill Potts. Bill’s Great Grandparents were Frederick ‘Fred’ BEEL and Mary Margaret Dorothea ‘Maggie’ nee PERRY. Fred was born in 1871 in Bendigo, Victoria, and was the son of James (Jas) BEEL and Ann, nee SHADBOLT. He came to WA with his brother John to follow […]
Desert’s Deception – The Fatal Pact of Dyer and Raunio
The Truth Perth 11 January 1931, page 11 GRISLY SUICIDE PACT OF THE OUTBACK Parched, Sun-Scorched and Mocked By The Cruel Phantom Of Water TRAGIC END OF KANGAROO SHOOTERS Henry Dyer, 55, of New Zealand and Laurie Raunio/Raunis, 31, native of Orimattila, Finland, died on November 3, 1930, about 100 miles north-west of Wiluna from […]
Devil’s Luck by J.N.
The ‘Devil’s Luck’ Written For ‘The Worker’ By J.N. He was a most unlucky fellow! Everything he touched ended in failure. Did he buy scrip? The mine was sure to turn out a duffer. Did he sell? The claim was sure to turn up trumps. He had the luck of the devil, and so his […]
Yerilla – from gold to gems
Yerilla (Aboriginal name for white Quartz) Latitude: 29 29 S Longitude: 121 50 E Yerilla is an abandoned goldfields townsite located 105 km east northeast of Menzies and 37 km southeast of Kookynie. Gold was discovered in the area in the mid 1890’s, and the miners soon formed a progress committee, and in 1896 requested […]
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