He had the line completed to Salt Lake City on the 17th of October and on the 24th of the same month the California company reached the

City on the Lake. Creighton had bought during the summer one hundred thousand dollars of Western Union stock for $18,000.00 and when the project was completed, he was given three shares for one. And shortly afterwards he sold his one-third of his holdings for $85,000.00. It took a little less than six months to build the line, that made Creighton over a quarter of a million dollars.

Creighton became one of the great figures of this section and of Nebraska, and he died in 1874, at Omaha.

SACRIFICE OF FRONTIER WOMEN -- INDIAN EXECUTION AT FT. LARAMIE

Woman on the frontier has always had a hard time of it, but like woman always, when a crisis arises, she arises and meets it half way. The experiences of some of the frontier women was such that it left a saddened or changed person after the crisis, and others met heroically the test. In some cases it left no hope and they became derelicts that lived about in the sod shanties on the outskirts of army posts, or ranches, like "Dirty Woman's Ranch," near old Wellsville and Camp Clarke. Calamity Jane became a combination of courage and vice.

Virginia Dale, attached to the notorious character Slade, had a certain strength of personality that forced a degree of respect. Joseph A. Slade never had a friend that staid true to colors like Virginia Dale Slade, his wife.