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Show BEAVER PRESS (TV m 0J 18th of the Le-latur- e ; State of Utah Me State Capitol The Utah Legislat nre, In Special Session, for preparhijJ of amendments to the Utah constitution for tax revision purposes, ha had a series of oratorical outburst! but has made slight progress In real wiii-y- ti work. Among other activities the House passed senate bill No. 2, by Irvine, providing an appropriation of $15,000 '.;iv t, t Mt.v. 'v 'f vjjp for Improving the capltol ground. The House revenue and taxation committee refused to accept the Burton cigarette bill and the Fuller oleomargarine bill, amending tax and sale provisions, on the ground that they were uot correctly drawn. The House passed the Leatbam bill appropriating $12,000 for publishing constitutional amendments and $10,000 for the governor's contingent fuud to entertain the conference of state governors In June. The House also passed the Smoot resolution providing that the state prison may be removed from Salt Lake county by a constitu' tional amendment, The last special message by the governor suggested the consideration of v ,; the , submission of a constitutional amendment eliminating the special elections for filling congressional vacancies. The constitutional amendment permitting removal of the staV prison to a point outside Salt Lake county. Repeal of the law requiring that proposed constitutional amendments be mailed to every voter. Appropriation of entertainment fund of governors' confe r ence which is to be held in Salt Lake this summer. Continuation of state code commisf .1 . sion until March 31, 1031. Law authorising University of Utah to collect fee from students to complete union building without obligation to the state. Amendments to and oleomargarine stamp cigarette taxes. The House has approved the senate amendment to the Burton memorial petitioning congress to amend the federal statute so the state may to impose Just and be authorized equitable tax on national banks. The House passed the Greenhagen memorial to congress urging passage of bill appropriating $10,000,000 to assist states, including Utah, which e have pensions. Utah's share would be $75-00in this appropriation The memorial passed without a dissenting vote. A bill was introduced in the Senate by Egan, which provides that the first instalment of taxes are to become payable on and after September 20 of each year, and the second Installment becomes payable oa June 2 of the year following. The following measures have passed and both houses of the legislature have been approved where so required by Gov. Dern : H. C. M, 1 by Burton Asking congress to amend the federal bank tax act S. C. M. 1 by Dillman Petitioning vance party of 300 French under Langy. In this the Interstate commerce commission Lake railfight Rogers captured 150, killed 100, leaving only In behalf of the Cralg-Sal- t road. 50 to escape to Montcalm's party. S. J. R. 6 by Irvine Proposing conLater that year Sir Jeffrey Amherst sent Rogamendment to allow the stitutional and ers his Rangers to destroy the Indian village ' manner of of St. Francis near the St Lawrence river, which Legislature to prescribe be did successfully, killing 200 Indians, taking filling vacancies In legislative seats. II. B. 1 by Leatham Appropriatmany prisoners and laying the village utterly to waste. "Then, to elude parties endeavoring to cut ing $50,000 from state road funds for him off. he retreated to Lake Memphremagog to paving roads on capitol grounds. S. B..4 by Candland Continuing Charlestown, on the Connecticut enduring as be went the excruciating horrors of famine and ex- code commission from December 31, haustion." The next year he was ordered by Am- 19.10 to March 31, 193L S. B. 5 by Candland Repealing the herst to take possession of Detroit and other conlaw requiring that statements western posts thnt were ceded by the French after the fall of Quebec. Ascending the St Lawrence cerning constitutional amendments be with 200 Rangers, he visited Fort Pitt had an mailed to every voter. S. B. 7 by Irvine Amending law to Interview with the great chief Pontlac at a place which Is believed to have been the present site provide that special elections to fill congressional vacancies may be called of Cleveland. Ohio, and successfully took possesat next general election. sion of Detroit In addition to the above the two After the war he visited England and suffered houses have passed S. B. 2 by Irvine from poverty until he borrowed money with which which appropriated $15,000 for conto print his Journal, which Is the principal source improvements on the capitol tinuing of Information about his famous corps. He prebut the measure has to be apgrounds sented this to the king and In 17G5 was appointed the governor. by proved commandant at Mlchlllimncklnac. While holding Bills to acted upon are: Memorial he was office of to accused this plunder to plotting congress regarding old age penhis own fort and hand It over to the French, ne sions: proposing amendment to pro-Tiwas sent to Montreal In Irons and for classification of property. In 17C9 he revisited England but was soon imto create a constitution-stat- e Proposing prisoned for debt Later he returned to this councommission. tax try and as the Revolutionary struggle drew near, of mines by Proposing taxation it became apparent that be was doubtful whether state ta xcommlsslon. to cast his lot with the Patriots or the Tories. Proposing constitutional amendment In 1775 it was rumored that he had been in to place mine taxation under state Canada and bad accepted a commission under the tax commission. king. He was also accused of dressing as an InProposing a constitutional amenddian and acting as a spy on the Patriots. Washment to fix mine multiple in constituington was so suspicious of him that he ordered tion. him arrested, although Stark and others who had constitutional amendment In him the Rangers do not seem to to Proposing served with allow prison to removed outside of have shared the distrust of him. Eventually he Salt Lake county. was placed npon parole, but embittered. It Is said, school Proposing amendments to by his treatment broke his parole and openly amendments passed at equalization Joined the British forces. He accepted a commislast general session. sion of colonel and raised a command called the Amending building code for state Queen'f Rangers. institutions. In 1776 he narrowly escaped capture by the for tax Investigations Providing Continentals and soon after this returned to Engand studies by board of equalization. land, in 177S he was proscribed and formally Continuing tax revision commission. banished. In England his later career was deappropriations for governMaking as "wild. scribed Improvident and extravagant" and for cost of pubor's conference He was divorced by his wife and Is said to have lishing proposed constitutional amenddied some time after 1M0. "a victim to his evil ments. habits." " Amending rigaret law. Amending Prejudice against the Tories among the early oleomargarine law. American historians, no doubt is largely responsible for the fact thnt MaJ. Robert Rogers Is a "for university regents to Authorizing collect tuition from students for ungotten leader." Had fate Intervened differently when he was wavering between his king and his ion building, ' native land, he might have shared with Gen, l payment of Proposing Dunlel Morgan thnt Intrepid lender's fame as a taxis. commander of a "partisan corps" dnring the RevA conference committee is working olutionary struggle. For certainly Morgan's Rifle oh the classification amendment and no more brilliantly during the Strug men served this also includes the allocation of gie for American Independence than did Rogers' income tax revenue and this committhe to establish Engllsk struggle Kitngers during tee will likely arrive at a solution of supremacy over the French a decade earlier. such nature that both bouses can accept and pass, . 4 5TW painting fy Ferrb; Kave .v nnisne that Wt Hive to take y0U old triaf outdoors if v ; WATSON HIS Is the story of a forgotten battle In American history and of a forgotten leader. It took place 172 I years ago and was only a minor Incident In the long series of wars which decided definitely the question of French or English supremacy on the continent of North America, So that may be why It Is forgotten. He made an enviable record during those wars but when there came the war from which we date the history of the United States as a nation, he "guessed wong" as to where his allegiance should be. And that may he the reason why he Is forgotten. But in the military annals of America the Battle J of Ropers' Rock, fought on March 13, 1758, near Tats to k banc irci'ic- In iu Vn... icw Vn.l; la ia.c mai ivib iiuiua a nlnm !mast unique. Attacked by a force of 100 French ind 600 Indians. MaJ. Robert Rogers and ISO of tin Ropers' Rangers, fought from three o'clock In the afternoon until nightfall before retreating. In that battle the Rangers killed 150 of the enemy but they suffered a loss of 100 killed one of the largest casualty lists. In proportion to the number of men engaged. It Is believed. In American 0. kla - warfare let this was only one of a number of desperate made the name Rogers' Rangers i lynonyra for a daring and resourceful type of fchtlng niao and which caused his enemies Jto regard him as a "dreaded partisan." Rogers was born In Dunbarton. N. H.. In 1727. the son of James Rogers, an early settler of that place. His youth wag spent as a hunter and trapper in the rorest of New England and Canada and his familiarity with the Indians and Indian methods f warfare were to make him Invaluable to the British generals In the French and Indian war. At the opening of that conflict In 1755 Rogers led i force of hardy woodsmen from New Hamp-Mr- ? to Albany, N. Y where the British and Colonial forces were being assembled for an at-o-n the French forts at Crown Point and Ticonderoga. He Is described at that time as w six feet high and physically the most pow- D,an 'n the army." Sir William Johnson, the Peat Colonial leader, knowing of Rogers' repuia-- . nsed him and his men as scouts. Making his Headquarters at Fort William a new post Henry, wetted by the British at the south end of Lake ww, Rogers began a series of forays against French and their Indian allies. So valuable did Ronera fl rid hla New Humnslitrp 'oodsnien prove to be as scouts and fighters that the opening of the spring campaign in 1750. he given a special commission by the Earl of wudin. commander in chief of the British forces America, to rnise a picked corps of hush fighters o were to receive the same pay as the regn- wui who were to on tbeir operations carry ta their OWn Ml Tlitis nr.,n I.I. ..t....n. thnt ly of milltary Irregulars, known as p,'! . i' fit RanwM- - whose prowess won the respect JMh the British and the French. One of Rog-Jnfnants as another New Ilanipshtreman, o rk- ,n,pr the v'etor t the battle of Ben-Rat,I! Anther whe was closely associated with Some of hls most from n daring exploits was ael ,.nect,cut-IsrPutnam. "Old Put" of Bank r and Ung Island. Both Stark and fotnara recelvp e, n..- "in n ii"KCiB iu iiiuiiai leaders! h 8l00d thpra ,ntraining K00d 8,pad duri0? the P i But the fame whIcn U theniM jB.grnssd h.v their old commander and comrade- enterprises which 2 I h'ht "Ir!!?6 t0 tlme dur,n the war the RanPers ,ncrpasetl from their oricinnl t0 more t,mn thousand Their ffielal I (tar,,,. . rurtl,,n" were "to use their best enrrencn ana tneir nines, oy 'klne nd destroying their houses. fcam. j! ,'"rtJlnIt ranoes bntea"x- and by kill ' ttrtr tlmeS 10 at and eVPFy "Woe Ta k,nl; land dwtry their convoys of provision, by and a,e ,n every Pnrt of the o country." And tr0np8 ever carr,e(' ou' their orders Ihor dld t,,ese Partisans. At that ,ln' the r nchy ,h,m were offering the Indians sixty fmn(, will' eVery KTie,lsh S(,alP taken but they na?e Pl(l a hundred times that m.unt f ton f Robert Rogers. All dur ,lle, 8'a,P ' ,h nmifrorg harassed the enemy. Rot tne F ere 8,M,n to nave an nPP(,r "lloi) lt J?ff s,,me 0,d ,ftres against the dar Mar,h 10. ms. Rogers was or "4 Io J'a 8n exn(IitIon of 18 Rangers against nderne Slnce the Hmry, of Fort William capture thp ',lp'iiy had been Very active and Rtrong n 'n,,Ifln were sroutlng the country evfrj rtl'e n,rmion. Knowing this. Rogers pro- renh i - ie b, U ,nrit tobacco. Wives tested that the force given him was too large for a scouting party and too small to hold its own In a pitched battle. Be asked for 400 men but his request was refused. With 15 Rangers on skates as an advance guard, Rogers' little army advanced by night over the frozen surface of Lake George to within eight miles of Tlconderoga. There his advance guard saw what they believed to be the glow of a campflre. But when Rogers marched forward swiftly to attack, no sign of an enemy could be found and the commander concluded that his scouts bad been mistaken. As a matter of fact, they had not been. For the enemy had hastily extinguished their camp fire when the approach of the Rangers was discovered and had sent word to the fort of the coming of the English. Early the next morning Rogers and his men resumed their march on snow-shoe-s through snow four feet deep. Early In the afternoon the Rangers discovered a party of about 100 hostile Indians near at hand and ImmedBeiately attacked, killing nearly half of them. lieving this was the entire force of the enemy, Rogers pushed on, only to find himself facing Indians and Canadians who over 600 had been sent from Tlconderoga to meet him. The Ranger captain, seeing that his little force would soon be wiped out, ordered them to retreat to their former position near what is now known as Rogers' Rock. But before they had reached there more than a third of their number had been slain. With cool desperation, Rogers and his men made a stand there and tried to beat off On the angry horde which surged around them. detacha had he where posted his line, the left of ment to prevent his being Hanked. Lieutenant the Phllllpa and ten men were taken prisoners by and friends enemy, tied to trees In sight of their harked to pieces by the Indians. was doomed If be Seeing that his command his ground, Rogers, with 2U men. tried to bold rushed to an Icy precipice over a hundred feet down to the lake. high which sloped abruptly slid down to the lake Jumped over the brink and on the shores of with terrific force. This place, as "Rogers' Slide" or "RogLake George, known out to the tourist of today Is pointed ers' Leap" escaped there Who Is told how the Ranger leader he had slid down from the Indians who. believing of the Great the precipice under the protection DUU at further made not attempt j eTer, Windsor, the historian, says. "The legend near the lower end of Lake of Rogers'-slidfoundation. stable no has George French was great rejoicing among the killed and been had thJt his partisan" annihilated. But they were mistaken bis the fray RoRers had in regard to Rorers. During In the pocket of which the coat. his cast aside This gave rise to Fremh f.mnd his commission he was dead. 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