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Show EMERY COUNTY PROGRESS rASTLE D E, UTAH News Notes in to ' a PriviUge Utah is Thirty Liv " are of counties the in grown principally Cache, Utah, Weber, Salt Lake, Davis and Sanpete. PROVO High quality, exceptional and flavor, color and size of fruits Utah agricultural made have the Uniproducts famous throughout BRIGHAM CITY theXove Ueadlinet rtah potatoes Box-elde- r, ' Anelo P.tri la this eoui.tr. . C",",u York City u ' y,l,T L" n . it fat . LM public witt, yeg-etabl- ftiS5 9Jig? rihm&jj ted States. VERNAL Fishermen angling in the Uintah mountain streams report only fair success, due to somewhat muddy condition of the water. Recent rains in the mountains have caused no the preabrupt raise In the creeks, butcondition. roiled a cause did cipitation AIRPORT Several Salt Lake planes will go to Ogden June 30 to be used there in the celebration marking the dedication of the Junction City's new communicipal airport. The Ogden an aerial on program mittee is putting and Salt Lakers will compete for w&m Knows. , Ht ha. oa en - car ain newt h differs ttilude. intern, fa, him. U hi. -powerful and Hdej, th "a .fari7J i J hTl." .P.' S? JLTW and cood mat - .l.. . "rried and with hit wtf, or, councfl for p. withS ou problems reUtin. to nl diik;- cxT' By ANGELO PATRl r. II Ona nnnnnt iau ,u iove Why Just that tick nf ik. there then no grace fnr 1 h " Mil . n.. h ,v, , ' uid Time uiq ?J' n set ""'" piaeej TUt hi, ,i, with finality? Or is it but the prizes. LOGAN Forty farmers from Rich ant notion of a hannv man k. l xuuuu mis treasure early, beliei county conducted a dairy tour of the m kuuu ionune to be the law accord0f l city and Cache county recently, It cannot be that ing to Robert L. Wrigley, county agricultural agent, who accompanied the chance of love and lovin has lived a short thirty of the party. The purpose of the excursion, adto was years allotted Mm. what gain stated, Agent Wrigley ditional information on cow testing, irue love ever bad to do trin, . Love is limitless, timeless i. d breeding and also sweet clover pas... m quainy or rne spirit as Intangible ture. HEBER Wasatch county was vis- suuiigm ana air and n rt,w has always defied thewstnpo. J ited by a killing frost recently, the and of locksmiths. It is as elusive, Po26 to degrees. mercury dropping th mysterious, as powerful tatoes, corn and flowers were de- of which indeed It is. Bow el God, had where the gardens stroyed, even been covered with heavy guilts. It explain Its eternal power over and women? was cold enough to freeze ice a quarter Recently there were two weddii of an inch thick. Damage to peas and in my circle of friends. One p that the was peas slight, only grain were little more than were in bloom and the the grain which twenty-on- e numbered the t was in head being damaged. of their years. The other two Fifty-tw- o full grown both GUNNISON More than fil pheasants have been received and lib- years bad passed over their heads, erated in this section by Sidney Bax- the lovelight in their eyes was ter and Ernest Baxter, members of the as bright, the spring In their ate local fish and game commission. The the lilt in their voices were Inst birds were shipped from the state buoyant, just as blithe as that whj game farm at Springville. The birds animated those of youth. were liberated about two miles east of Indeed a second spring seems here. The Gunnison commission is have come to them, for the man, also expecting a shipment of trout artist, turns out better work tl from the game farm with which to ever he has done before and the wc stock the streams near here. an lives and works in the tireless Ogden B. J. Finch, district engin- ergy of youth with the added dm eer for the United States bureau of of experience. I never hear about lovers withe public roads, anounced that bids would be opened, June 28, in his office In this rememberina the Brownines. the city, on three contracts for gravel sur- most perfect of all lovers. The ttd stretch of their great love Is enough facing, as follows: Seven-mil- e west of Fruitland on the Victory high- quicken the heart and moisten way; nine miles from North Fork to eyes of the darkest doubter. Gibsonville on the Salmon, Idaho, to Elizabeth Barret was a ooetf s Montana line road, and two and frail of body, an invalid confined miles on the Alpine scenic road her room for the greater part of fS Utah county. life. Shielded from all outside a devoted family, euarded rv tnrts OGDEN Seventy five pairs of de pheasants, furnished by D. H. Madsen, a Jealous father who had sworn commissioner of the state fish and tn lovprs. she lived In seclusion a i game department, have been planted loneliness until she was thirty-n- t! west of Ogden by officers of the Weber vears old. Then it happened, cannot hapr County Fish and Game Protective as- thing some folks say one Is after sociation. Sixty-fiv- e thirty. pheasants eggs Mica Rnrrpt wrote I DOetD under incubation at the farm of H. H. His b Hodge, east of Ogden, will be hatched Robert Browning read it one soil as its message to this week. The birds will be turned on responded the wilds when hatched, which gives hirri resnonds to the love call He wrote his love I H promise of an open pheasants season onnther ter and she was not slow to answ for Ogden hunters. these two eiopeo HEBER The Heber tourist camp, Within two years lived In compl owned by the county and improved Italy where they until aentn naim during the past few years by the joint happiness Elizabeth. frall efforts of the Wasatch chamber of cvs a tvoQ tnrtv sad Browning comerce, Heber City, Wasatch coun- thlrtv-fou- r the day they ran away ty and the Wasatch stake of the L. D. ha oprrotlv married in the p" S. church, will receive additional Im Where was Old Time tb church. provements soon. A fund has been It is .. frimoloaa ia t ' accumulated by charging campers, and All, HO. u seir merges this fund is to be spent for the paint- divine quality thatanmners seeks ing of the present structures and the selflessness, installation of shower baths and other hean When the chamber of the f .M conveniences. . true and garnished . ck what ocla SALT LAKE The low temperature swept ana sibjb. u ucnr and light frost which touched Salt IS Lake and other portions of the n (tf? 118. by th Bll SjndWi district Sunday night of last week did not result in any damage to o Rarial RUet crops, acording to the United States weather bureau and Harden Bennion, in "Darkest Ahio ill state agricultural commissioner. The w A strangely ,.frli temperature in the Salt Lake valley "iormea uy i i nf He iropped as low as 40 degrees. Records tnoe on tne ou.v.. . of the weather bureau show that this phase of drop in the temperature was not parof the aeaa irww t ticularly unusual for Salt Lake, inas- wooden coffin elaborately orMnj . much as nearly every June on record with brass nails. has shown a cold spell on or about the luxury, only oDta middle of the month, the . mercury drop- I from traders.) ine ping in some cases as low as 32 de"- --. uun... tne piace oi grees. ff s and the wild HEBER Utah's winter wheat follow, who crop villagers . is estimated by the bureau of or agricul- then, small chairs formed r tural economics of the United States J A huge circle is 1 department of agriculture at 3,164,000 coffin; the headmen d ont which an j bushels this year, as tones notonous compared with 2,888,000 bushels last year. This into by sonorous retrain. crease of close to 10 per cent in the ceused's relatives aming Je , Utah crop is in the face of a decrease huge pyre racki of about 9 per cent in the nation's gathering dusk and the PJ ft winter wheat crop, the bureau's fig- upward the scene is not W evil spirit ures show. The nation p crop estimate gotten. Another for 1928 is 512,252,000 reward, Its to ti called while bushels, las-- t year's figures were 552,384,000 Truly fitting, and Darkest bushels. philosophy of these -Exchange. ZION NATIONAL PARK-- For the eason to date, a total of 10,089 . r- Miot- per, wl Bird sons, representing thirty-on- e states, District of Columbia, Hawaii, three Tiie cuckoo has provinces of Canada, Sweden, and tie habit ofucking south Africa, have passed through the rrodnee a clear voice, i ,a sates of Zion National park, it was Lid to hibernate during fi beneath the wow announced by E. T. Scoyen, season park here. This figure is prac-Jcall- y or Poo! ; while the hnr jcle double last year's total for the supposeu to 'o" tne foil writer recoil tame period of 5399 Private motor acies--one tMM he had actually :ravel, as usual, makes up the that m greater part of the total with 9499 persons in aclus detach themselves 8840 autos. The remainder, or 590. same by stage from the selves into miuiuiu-end of the raih It Cedar City. k... J ... "Black Watch at Tlconderoga," courtesy Glens Falls Insurance company; "Black Watch at Bushy ,Run," and sketch of Black Watch uniform, from Vale University Press' "Pageant of America." 4 By ELMO SCOTT WATSON children-scan- F ALL the military organizations which served In wars on the North American continent, lew were more picturesque or had a more romantic history and none, probably, ever engaged In more desperate "forlorn hopes" than those which at least twice fell to the lot of the regiment d V officially designated as the Foot, a line regiment In the armies of his majesty, the king of England, also known as the Forty- second Highlanders, but best remembered as the ,Black Watch." The "Black Watch," according to Ai. uomherger, editor of the Jeannette (Pa.) who has made a special study of this regiment and one of Its famous battles, was organized by the king of England in 1729 with specially picked men from the Highlands of Scotland for the purpose of maintaining order in .that turbulent region and in 1739 was made a Foot They were jline regiment, the Forty-secon- d disbanded in 1743 but were enrolled again at the outbreak of the French and Indian war The uniform of the "Black Watch," according to a description of the grenadiers of the regiment In 1751, is described as follows : "Headdress, a grenadier bearskin with scarlet visor; (white stock; scarlet jacket and waistcoat with ..white lace trimmings, stiver buttons and buff collar and cuffs; black leather sword belt; and and belt ; tan leather sporran ; Murray of Athol belted plaid; red and white hose and black leather shoes." This was the same uniform worn by the other companies of the "Black Waich" ''during their period of service in America, except the headdress was a blue bonnet, with checkered border and tuft of feathers and Black Watch far-ta- n belted plaid. The reason for the name "Black iWatch" lies In the fact that the kllta were dyed In such a manner as to Include the colors of a number of Scottish clans until finally it became almost black, hence the name "Black" Watch. 'Incidentally they were the only regiment in which the pipers wore the Stuart tartan. Upon its arrival in America, the "Black Watch," under the command of MaJ. Duncan Campbell of Inverawe, was included in the army of 6,000 British regulars and 9,000 provincial troops which Lord Pitt, the great British prime minister, was Bending under the command of Gen. James "a heavy man, Infirm in body and mind," a veritable "wobden pole wearing a cocked hat," up the historic water route of the Hudson and Lake Champlain to strike at the heart of New France and capture Montreal. But this magnificent force was doomed to Inglorious defeat and before the campaign ended the "Black Watch" was to experience a sickening and useless slaughter which was to all but wipe it out of existence. For despite the fact that the French bad available only about 3,000 men to face this imposing array, they were commanded by a military genius, Marquis de Montcalm. Although Montcalm had little hope of being able to hold Fort Tlconderoga, the key to possession of that region, he prepared to put up the best resistance possible with his small force. Arriving near Tlconderoga, Abercromby's army pushed on to find Montcalm's troops behind breastworks on the crest of a small hill west of the main fort, awaiting their attack. Abercromby foolishly decided to use his superior forces in trying to carry these works by storm Instead of flanking the French and laying siege to the fort or bringing up his artillery and reducing its defenses. He even gave orders that not a shot was to be fired but that the works were to be carried at the point of the bayonet. Soon after noon one hot day Just 170 years ago (July 6, 175S) the British troops advanced to the attack in three solid columns. The French waited until the redcoats had almost reached the abat-ti- s and then 'opened fire with muskets and ran-no- a As the heads of the column were swept away in that sheet of flame and the repeated volleys continued to deal death in the massed ranks, the British were forced to fall back into the timber, still under fire and still losing men at every step. When word was sent back to Abercromby of what had happened, his reply was a repetition of his first foolish order. So they tried it again and again were hurled back by the deadly fire. No less than six times that afternoon did these dauntless British and provincials march up that "hill of death" only to be cut down by the hell of gunfire which , swept the slope. Finally it was decided to make one last desperate attempt upon the extreme right of the position and the "Black Watch" was selected for the assault. History records fewer examples of daunt gray-haire- ' Forty-secon- u Ntfws-DIspatc- Aber-cromb- t f feESfe iul', less heroism and useless gallantry than the chnrge of these Scottish Highlanders at Tlconderoga. Under a scattering fire which tore holes in their ranks they steadily advanced across the clearing until they reached the abattls, which they tore aside, cut down or got over In some way. Major Campbell was shot down but his men pressed on until they reached the breastworks and under a deadly hail of bullets sprang upon them. The French gave way at that point temporarily and another Campbell with some twenty officers and men leaped down into the IncIoSure. But Mont-cnlhurled a body of reserve troops at the breach which the Highlanders had made and those inside the breastworks were trapped. Disdaining to ask for quarter, with their backs to the wall, they fought desparately until they were bayoneted where they stood. Those on the outside who were attempting to climb the breastworks were hurled back and they retreated sullenly, carrying their wounded commander with them. As they retreated the French cheered them, for they had seen an act of deathless heroism. Out of a thousand soldiers of the "Black Watch who hurled themselves against the French defenses, only 253 came out unwounded. The total British loss in that slaughter pen was 1,600 regulars and 350 provincials klUed and wounded. Montcalm's loss was. only 400. Abercromby ordered a retreat to headquarters on the Hudson. The grand expedition which had set out from Lake George so proudly two days before had failed miserably. One of the most Interesting incidents connected with the part played by the "Black Watch" at Tlconderoga Is the "Legend of Inverawe," one of the most famous' "ghost stories" in all history. Here Is that story as told in Parkman's "Montcalm and Wolfe": The ancient castle of Inverawe stands by the banks of the Awe In the midst of the wild and picturesque scenery of the western Highlands. Late one evening, before the middle of the last century, as the laird. Duncan Campbell, sat alone in the old hall, there was a loud knocking on the gate and opening It, he say a stranger, with torn clothing and kilt besmeared with blood, who In a breathless voice begged for an asylum. He went on to say that he had killed a man In a fray, and that the pursuers were at his heels. Campbell promised to shelter him "Swear on your dirk!" said the stranger; and Campbell swore. He then led him to a secret recess In the depths of the castle. Scarcely was he hidden when again there was a loud knocking at the gate and two armed men appeared. "Your cousin, Donald, has been murdered, and we are looking for the murderer!" Campbell, remembering his oath, professed to have no knowledge of the fugitive; and the men went on their way. The laird. In great agitation, lay down to rest in a large dark room where at length he fell asleep. Waking suddenly in bewilderment and terror, he saw the ghost of the murdered, Donald standing by his bedside, and heard a hollow voice pronounce the words "Inverawe! Inverawe! blood has been shed. Shield not the murderer!" In the morning Campbell went to the hiding place of the guilty man and told him that he could harbor him no longer. "You have sworn on your dirk!" he replied; and the laird of Inverawe, greatly perplexed and troubled, made a compromise between conflicting duties, promised not to betray his guest, led him to the neighboring mountain (Ben Cruach-an- ) and hid him In at cave. In the next night, as he lay tossing In feverish slumber, the same stern voice awoke him, the ghost of his cousin Donald stood again at his bedside, and again he heard the same appalling words: "Inverawe! Inverawe! blood has been shed. Shield not the murderer!" At break of day he hastened. In strange agitation, to the cave: but it was empty, the stranger had gone. At night as he strove In vain to sleep, the vision appeared once more, ghastly pale, but less stern of aspect than before. "Farewell, Inverawe!" It said; "Farewell, till we meet at TICONDEROGA V The strange name dwelt In Campbell's memory. He had Joined the Black Watch, or Forty-secon- d regiment, then employed In keeping order In the turbulent Highlands. In time he became its major; and, in a year or two after the war broke out, he went with it to America. Here, to his horror, he learned that he was ordered to the attack of Tlconderoga. His story was well known among his brother officers. They combined among themselves to disarm his fears; and when they reached the fatal spot they told him on the eve of the battle: "This is not Tlconderoga; we are not there yet; this is Fort George." But la the morning he came to them with haggard looks. "2 have seen XF-- 17rlO him! You have deceived me! He came to my tenl last night! This is Ticonderoga! I shall die today!" and his prediction was fulfilled. When the news of the heroism of the "Black Watch" reached England the king, as a reward for their deed, renamed the regiment the Royal Highlanders. After the end of the disastrous Abercromby expedition the remnants of the shattered "Black Watch" regiment were stationed in Albany until the summer of 1763, when they were ordered to Pennsylvania to take part In the expedition which Col. Henry Bouquet was to lead to the relief of Fort Pitt, which was then besieged by Pontlac's Indians. Bouquet set out from Carlisle, Pa., at the end of June, 1763, with a force of a little more than 500 men, composed of a detachment of his own regiment, the Sixtieth Regiment of Royal Americans, a detachment of the Seventy-seventregiment, Montgomery's Highlanders and the regiment of Royal Highlanders, the "Black Watch," and a detachment of rangers. By August 5 Bouquet was nearing his goal About noon of that day, after a forced march of 17 miles through the hot forests, Bouquet had reached a place called Edge bill, 26 miles from Fort Pitt, when his advance guard was attacked by the Indians. The two light infantry companies of the "Black Watch" went to their support and scattered the Indians. But immediately the sav ages came swarming back and within a short time Bouquet's little army was surrounded and fighting for their lives behind a hastily constructed defense on top of the hill. When daylight came the Indians resumed their attack more fiercely than ever. Bouquet saw that It was only a matter of time until the fire of the enemy would cut down his force until the few that were left could not withstand the charge that was sure to come. Deciding to wager everything on one stroke, he executed one of the most daring maneuvers in history. The two companies of Highlanders withdrew suddenly from rhe line, retreated across the hill and entered a little ravine which ran along one side of the hill. Seeing 'his movement, the Indians believed that a general retreat was about to begin and came whooping nu' Into the open. This was Just what Bouquet wanted. As the mass of savages struck the weakened line that had extended across the hill when the Highlanders left and forced it back, the Black Watdr came charging out of the ravine on the think of the enemy and as the kilted soldiers hore down upon them with their bayonets the Indians knew that they had been trapped. Rut it was too late then, for Bouquet again broke his line, threw two companies of light infantry out of the circle on the other flunk and the savages were caught between the two forces. Within a few minutes Bouquet was in full possession of the field, but at h terrible cost. A total of u:, officers and men nearly a fourth of his army, was killed or wounded. The heaviest loss was that of the "Black Watch' which had 25 killed and 27 wounded. But they had helped save Pennsylvania Bouquet pushed on to the relief of Pitt and soon h Forty-secon- vn afterwards Pontlac's conspiracy collapsed l ater the "Black Watch" went on Bouquets expedition into the Ohio country which put the finishing blow to Indian hosility and a detachment of this same regiment went down the Ohio to Fort in the Illinois country to receive the of that post from the French who hadsurrender not yet given It up in accordance with the terms of the treaty which ended the French and Indian war The regiment passed the following winter hi Pennsylvania and was then ordered home Reduced to almost a skeleton of Its strength the "Black Watch" embarked at original Philad Ireland in July, 1767. During the seven wlVZ the "Black Watch's" service in America and th West Indies it had lost a total of 563 officers men killed and wounded, but it had its banners the names of Tlconderog, Hill or Bushy Run, and those names stid two of the most gallant deeds in Africa s ai Z vZS four-tenth- "". - - nATTI 1 inter-mountai- - hiJ23 ' T.e 'JJ dg tom-tom- J rr . JM t- raw- bWyi - -'- "LSe. |