In the early days of the WA Goldfields there were, as there are now, conmen who want to make a dollar without working. This is one such story. In May of 1923, Robert Rothkehl and Ernest Thompson claimed that they had struck oil at Mt Eva near Southern Cross in Prospecting area 1135. A Company […]
An Old Timer Remembers –
OLD-TIMER’S LETTER Employee in First Post Office in Kalgoorlie Kalgoorlie Miner 17 May 1950, page 2 Mr. Lionel J. Dudley, an old-timer, sent an interesting account of some of his experiences in the early days of the goldfields to Mr. J. D. Teahan, Mayor of Boulder. Once an employee in the first post office in […]
“Burly” McLean Drops in – by Allen Gledhill
from Allen Gledhill. John Gary’s great-nephew Claimed To Be Strongest Digger On three Fields “BURLY” McLEAN DROPS IN by John Gary They’re among the men who tell you that the gold rush days – the days of overnight fortunes, bare-knuckle fights, and chamois bags of gold are gone. Those days still live! They’re as rip-roaring […]
A Payable Claim – by Dryblower Murphy
Although the Sydney Bulletin claimed businessmen at Coolgardie were on more payable claims than the diggers, they were not the only ones, according to E.G. ‘Dryblower’ Murphy, who wrote: A few of the lucky have dropped in on a patch And gone on a rollicking spree, Where a woman is waiting the digger to catch […]
John Shrews TALBOT – grave tales
John Shrews TALBOT ― aged 70yrs, died on 26th August 1907, at Mulline, He was both a Battery Hand, Night Watchman and a Journalist, The cause of his death was suicide, a revolver shot, self-inflicted during a period of temporary insanity, This was the verdict of the Coroner. Above -Copy photograph of Captain John Shrews […]
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