Mirror 12 November 1949, page 12 TWO UP LURED HIM BACK TO WHERE THE BLOOD OF THE VICTIM STAINED THE GROUND A MACABRE CAMP SCENE While the axe blades of Lakewood were chipping out a song of fuel for Kalgoorlie’s Golden Mile over 100 miles to the north, the thirsty red sand was soaking up […]
Buried Alive? The Mystery of Frederick Smith at Wha Gold Mine.
Murchison Times and Day Dawn Gazette – 28 May 1908, page 2 A telegraph was received at Cue from Burnakurra, stating that a trucker who was employed at the Wha GM at Errolls was killed. It also noted that the body was buried at Errolls and that no inquest was opened. The newspaper three days […]
Cheers for Change: Mt Morgans’ Victorious Beer Boycott
BEER STRIKE AT MT MORGANS VICTORY FOR THE STRIKERS Kalgoorlie Western Argus: 14 July 1903. – A correspondent, telegraphing under yesterday’s date from Mt. Morgans, states: A fierce and decisive battle has been fought in this town, the contest lasting exactly 48 hours. The miners, led by Captain Frampton, held a meeting on Friday night […]
A Promise Kept: Retracing Carnegie’s Desert Odyssey
Kalgoorlie Miner 10th Jul 1996 When 69-year-old Perth man Dr William Peasley led his party of men and camels down the streets of Coolgardie, he was fulfilling a promise he made more than a decade ago to the nephew of explorer David Carnegie. In 1995, Dr Peasley visited the Carnegie home, Kinnaird Castle in Scotland […]
The Lonely Graves of Duck Creek: The Lyons Brothers’ Legacy
John O’Malley LYONS, known as Jack. Died 4 April 1945, aged 70 years, on Duck Creek Station 140 miles east of Onslow. Present at the burial was C. C. Dalton. The grave is about 2 ½ miles south-west of the station camp on the west bank of the Serpentine Creek. John Lyons was a Pastoralist […]
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