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Show CACHE AMERICAN. LOGAN. UTAH ike Fink, Keelboat King t AIRPLANES National Topic rtH.Wod ana; and red hot tnailu' turtle, lie ana a Salt Blver roarer, lie ana a ring tailed squealer, a reg'lnr a. reamer from the ol UltKlssIp'. lie is nursed on a bottle of r ho fore I e.o acre opened. He hired the women and he ana clunk full o fight, . lie could hit like fourth proof llght-- i .o' and eiery lick he made In the ': n a a hole acre of sunlight. He could w ... ! imp, out ahoot, out brag, out drink r .. ' i, 'rough an tumble, no holts barred. HI. on both aides of the river from Pitta-t.- , rv Orleans an tack ag'ln to St r,1. t" And, ttti.Hipl Also Cock j it a man I i.e-Vii.e Pink, one of America' super-lie o .1 flora from aucb mythheroes aa Paul .I., t c Imnherjnrk; Pecoa Illll, the cow. iTnm polio t...) in Jo n Henry, the negro stake driver In th.it t tc .e malty was such a person aa Hike link mu though In the favorite frontier pastime t i l stories h ha become balf-leof teiiu eti.lm, ii.i'f real. He was the apotheosis of a i.i'erstiien who flourished In the days tjshcu ofthefr. keclhout plied the Ohio and the rl'crs ami as such he la the subject of a re. cut biography by Walter Blair and Franklin J. Jleli.e, published recently by Henry Holl Interpreted by William Druckart i Washington. . ' i . 1 n i a rare print) A Kaelboal aa th , and cut.ip.iov. I. .a g .e,,.n ihe first railroads were built of the Al.gl.etiles aud before there were n.ii . ml r...ok these two river were the r. utis t,, narket for the pioneer farmer. ol market was New Orleans and j.r i.- Mitiiulppl west any only The the k. t un to get there was by keelboat, a m ernft designed for a particutjp .o' i icrt.-alar Ac -- to in need. It wa a alender, pointed Ion' di i" i' g only 20 to 80 Inches of water, and m it v. o - ai.'c to navigate the shallow waters of the lov r tr hul.iries of the Ohio the Licking, t'e lb I, g, the Scioto, the Muskingum, the M o' i in the Wutuish. It could be easily Her. ... it limited down these streams Into the ic ... t :i Into the Mississippi and so on ms. Such a trip, of course, wa not to N. ' w.t1 .i .tv .! ingers. The steersman bad to know the i ' 'ii I. ns well as the later steamboat cap-toI. now It, to avoid being hung up on or 'I lion, t.io, he had to watch out for a sat-pl.ii.t- 1 (h.g trees still standing upright In the n t of the swirling waters), sawyers (hi go l.roiiles which hoblied up and down In the ci rr. Ms. partly hidden, partly revealed) and niii' "f nd kinds. Added to these dangers were tho'i- o' wi ne outlaws In their famous stronghold o' ('no in Kook and roving Indians everywhere n .ng the hanks of the two rivers. Hi'1 ri tin ii trip from New Orleans had Its s and its dangers, too. The keeltionts hard had to - "waris'd, eordelled," buhwliarked," poled iiikI Kiiod against the strong current all the wav to Pittsburgh. To handle such bonis required men of brawn, men with the strength of an ex, the rourago of a lion, a hide of alligator toughness to shed rain, snow, bullets and Indian arrows and an Interior of castiron to digest a diet consisting mostly of salt pork and whisky." More than that, the keethoatman had to be a handy man with his fists, for lie was constantly thrown Into contact with tough men and Ills fellow keelhoatnien were Just about the toughest of the lot. Their fights among themselves and with others equally tough would make a modern prlre fight seem like the spanking yon give a bad child. No natural weapon was barred; fists flew at faces, feet kicked wherever they could find a target ; knees burked at unprotected crotches; teeth sank wherevpr there was flesh; fingers clutched at throats and thumbs seemed to gouge nut eyes from their sockets. Noses were hatiered, teeth splintered and blood plentifully shed wlien boatmen squared off and shot fists at one another." From all of which it Is clearly apparent that the man who rose to leadership among them had to he quite some" and such was Mike Fink, hnllv I toy of the Ohio and king of the Mississippi -- V t . 1. i 'lilt.. Shooting the Scalp-Loc- k (All pictures from Blair and Melnea Fink King of Mississippi Keelboatmen, tesy Henry Holt and company.) Mika cour$ - I keelhoatnien. Put M ke I'ink'K historical Importance Is more than the fact that he was the typical keelbont-ninn- . For the keelboat era was a comparatively brief one and that craft was eclipsed by the steamboat just as It was reaching Its heights of usefulness. Mike lived on three distinct frontiers and his career on nil three contributed to tho mass of legends which cling about his name and helped make him an American myth hero. He was horn on the Pennsylvania border shortly before the Revolution and grew up In the crude settlement which clustered around Fort Pitt He was just about as tough a youngster as he later became a tough man. He could out-rur nil the and other hoys of the settlement. At the age of thirteen he took his first Indian scalp and he seems to have taken a delight In killing the red niggers, as the Indians were known among the ruthless frontiersmen around Fort Pitt. At the age of fifteen he was the champion rille shot and after a while, when the frontiersmen engaged in their favorite pastime of holding shooting matches, Mike and his favorite OF ride, were excluded. "For the exclusion, asserted a contemporary, Mike claimed and obtained . . . the hide and tallow (of the beef they were shooting for) for Ills forbearance. His usual practice was to sell his . . . quarter to the tavern or dram simp keeper for whisky, with wlieli he treated everybody present, par taking largely himself. So the first period In Mike Fink's life was that of crack shot, champion hunter nnd Indian scout on the Pennsylvania frontier. Then came the rush of settlers beyond the Alleghenies after the I, evolution nnd this region became too n Kang-All,- " fr crowded llim- - T)lp tPPihont Prn on tiP Ohio began and opened up an opportunity for Mikes energies. He won a right to a place on a keel-boa- t hy boating up a champion keelboat fighter who had challenged him after the fashion of the tunes and this at the age of seventeen or eighteen. a downriver from trip, this Blair and Maine's book gives a paragraph typical picture: Tne Keel moved on, past Indian Loggstown. past I.pgHinvillp, where General Wayne encamped In li.'2, on down the river. The boatmen for the most part resicd. Sometimes the steersmen mis Judged the extent of a sandbar arid there was a swearing session with the poles or the oars But the wise Baptiste or commander) (patroon, new the river well nnd there were few pauses A fiddler in the crew brought out his fiddle and leader and ar Farm Itadera musingthey the poll-trno end of Ctfigrttt Hcliin and worry. grief 'Peculiar, loo, (ho current struggle was brought on by (ho politician Uietnselvca nho failed to eo a year or so ago here they were headed. They are now face to face with a problem that Involve not only Ihe demands of (he farm leaders, but directly oml forcefully affects the ability of tha federal government to borrow money. Tha situation la this: the Farm CTedlt administration originally fund of $200,0(10,000 which had use It could rather In Its own way for relief In desperate farm mortgage cates. It could determine pralsale for Itself and do a number of other thing In order to get relief to distressed farm owners without regard for ordinary federal mortgage laws. But that fund has been exhausted. Indeed, It bat been far overdrawn, and the Farm Credit administration ha hnd to borrow money from the Reconstruction Finance corporation In order to carry on that phase of Rs work. Now, the Farm Credit administration must sell bonds. It bas authority to sell them to ohtuln funds, but It Is confronted with exceeding difficulty In their sale. Investors are not particularly anxious to take them. Just here Is where the politicians find themselves in a quandary. Farm leaders are demanding thnt the federal government guarantee the Interest on those bonds, so they may be sold; and If a guarantee of Interest wont suffice, then the farm leaders say the Interest and principal of the bonds ought to be In either event, conguaranteed. gress has to enact the legislation necessary. Offhand. It would seem thnt congress should be willing to guarantee the interest and principal without any argument. It Is a situation, however, not so easily solved, because of the effect elsewhere. If the farm mortgage bonds are guaranteed as to Interest and principal, then the owners of homes will, nnd do, wnnt the same thing. If one gets It, the other must have It or the bonds that are not guaranteed cannot be sold. That is the whole story. If both of the agencies dealing with mortgages, farm and home, are accorded a government guarantee, then the whole structure of farm and home loan bond issues, running Into billions of dollars, In which the government has an Interest, becomes a part of the national debt The national debt now Is around It can go some$23,500,000,000. what higher without causing the values of thoRe bonds outstanding to become depreciated. Yet, there When thnt limit Is Is a limit reached, Investors everywhere will suffer, banks will suffer to the extent that they have government bonds, life Insurance companies that have Invested your premium payments and mine In bonds to earn Interest will suffer. In short, an overloading of the national debt will wreak havoc. And In the end, taxpayers will pay and pay. So that point where the politicians find themselves now Is at the crossroads. They cannot yield all of the demands of the farm leaders. That would result In the things I have described. But they started the farm leaders on their present course by a lot of promises deAll the signed to win elections. farm leaders are demanding now Is thnt the politicians make good. ' . . The farm era on the neck of congress again, obviously fictitious. As to the end of bis career, Blair and Melne write: Death, nielodramntle, violent, caught np at last with Mike Fink In the winter of i822 23 In a remote trading post by the mouth of the Yellowstone river In the western wilderness. Just how he died, it Is no longer possible to Mike Fink discover. For something about the life, and more bis bow, and played dance tunes, and one of the especially the death, of the king of the boatmen hanged his feet on the cover of the boat, attracted the fancy of western pioneers, bewhisk-ereand so man; tales were told about the end of awkwardly Jigging. One fellow trailed a hook over the stern. A his picturesque career that now the truth of little group of boatmen played with a deck of Ills death Is so tangled with legend that no one greasy cards. Mike watched the menacing river. ran untangle the skein. Although Mike Fink And of the trip, this picture: Along lived but once, according to the legend he died the shore, the boatmen mlglit tushwhqck drag at sexeral different places and In a number of At least fifty times, the the boat along by grasping overhanging bushes different ways. and trees and pulling. On the river side of the story of the end of his life has been told In boat, the oars were used as an aid. And now print, and at least eleven versions have been they came to a sandbar, over which there was the sources of these numerous and varied narrata swift current The men took to their poles and ives. The first of these original versions apbegan a struggling march along the running peared a few months after the boatman died, boards. Their bodies shook, their chests heaved, and the last, It seems, appeared In 1860. During as they pressed each ounce of strength Into the the Interval, the story must have been told timbers; poles bent; the captain urged his men orally hundreds of times. Reduced to Its simplest terms, the story conon, now coaxing, now swearing prodigiously. Then a pole snapped and Mike had to do for a cerns three men Fink, a man named Carpenter time the work of two, for wavering meant dis- and another named Talbot or Talbeau. Fink and aster. Carpenter quarreled but agreed, as a pledge of Then the Ohio Hnd the Mississippi became their friendship and confidence in each other, to too crowded" for Mike Fink. The keellmnt era observe the traditional rite of shooting a cup of on those two rivers was coming to an end and whisky off each others heads. Carpenter shot first with it the end of Mikes career on this frontier. nnd grazed Fink's skull. When It came time for His next was on the Missouri river, where he Mike to shoot, he drilled Carpenter through the plied a keelboat for a short time. Then he be- forehead and for doing this Talbot later killed came a member of General Ashleys famous fur Fink. The relationships of the three men (in trading expedition and embarked upon the third some of the stories Carpenter Is the adopted and last phase of his career on his third fron- son of Fink and in others he is the brother of tier. that of the Upper Missouri and the Yel- Talbot) the reasons for the quarrel between lowstone. Fink and Carpenter and the exact manner and Meanwhile the legends had begun to cluster time of Fink's death at the hands of Talbot all about him. Some of the more familiar ones had have come In for embellishment and contradicto do with his feats of marksmanship. There tion In the different versions of the story. off an Indian was the time he shot the scalp-locThe bare facts and they are very unsatisstanding on the bank of the river a considerable factory facts, In a way, for they leave many distance away. Another time he noticed some important things unexplained say Blair and pigs rooting around a settler's cabin on the bank Melne, are to be found in the government report of the river. They were fifty yards away. He concerning the party of which Fink, raised his rifle to his shoulder, pulled the trig- In the year of his death, was a member Volume tail Its ran. and a On pig squealed shore, ger. XXXXII, Record Book Containing Copies of Lethad been chopped off close to its rump. And ters from Indian Agents and Others, to the that, said Mike, want no accident. To prove Superintendent of Indian Affairs at St Louis, it, standing on the deck of the dancing boat as September 10, 1830, to April 1, 1832. Here, grudgit sped upstream, he fired eight more shots, and ingly, unimaginatively. In a section, deaths of each time the gun spat, a bewildered pig lost men caused by accidents and other causes not a said keeler. Just tail. its curly Tretty good chargeable to Indians a few stiff sentences said Mike. a bristling with drama tell that In 1832, Mike Then there was the time when he was sitting Fink shot Carpenter Talbot soon after shot on the levee with some of his cronies when he Fink, and not long after was himself drowned noticed, more than 100 yards away, a negro sit- at the Tetons.' This report was written after ting on the hank above the levee. This black September 10, 1830; it was not printed. It seems, man was a town clmracter, noted for the size until 1002. Meanwhile, many versions of the of his feet. So Mike shot at him and shaved off story had been published. a portion of his heel, so he can wear a genteel "A slightly more detailed version, the first. In I.ater he sent "a handful of silver to the fact, to reach print, appeared In the Missouri hoot. darky to extract the pain. Republican of July 18, 1823: Do you remember Emerson Hough's Covered By a letter received in town from one of Wagon and the two frontiersmen who were ac- General Ashley's expedition we are Informed that customed to shoot a tincup of whisky off each a man by the name of Mike Fink well known In other's heads as proof of their friendship and this quarter as a great marksman with the rifle confidence in each other's marksmanship? Long . . . was engaged in his favorite amusement of before the Covered Wagon days, Mike Fink was shooting a tin cup from the head of another man, doing that stunt and, as we shall see later, It is when aiming too low or from some other cause an essential part of the Mike Fink saga. shot his companion In the forehead and killed But not all of the legends about Mike Fink him. Another man of the expedition (whose name had to do with his shoutin' ability. One story we have not heard) remonstrated against Fink's tells how he fought and killed a bear with his conduct, to which he, Fink, replied, that he naked hands. Another tells of his capture of a would kill him liken ise, upon which the other moose with the same weapons. Then there is drew a pistol and shot Fink dead on the spot. Here, one might say, Is an account which may the story of how he wiped out the nest of outafter they had attacked his well be the true one. It comes, it would seem, laws at keelboat. His drinking boats In the dives of from a man who either saw Mike die or who Hill and New Orleans and 8t soon after the event heard the tale from those Natchez Fnder-thLouis nnd the playful habit he and his cronies nho hnd seen the death. It was printed, furtherhnd of taking a town apart form the basis more, before the story had been mulled over, twisted and embellished by inventive spinners of "or other wild yarns of his varied activities. So the talcs of Mike Fink could he mull plied tales nho yarned dramatically by hundreds of endlessly. Some of them may have had some wilderness campfires. C br Western Newspaper Union. basis of truth, but the majority of them are d ... g l, Oive-In-Rm- k e o lha the trading la done Just I on tha record. hole thing bsv watched them from tha eminence of the preos gallerle so many time that th gyration no longer things, prove entertaining Tho however, never seem to appear In tha reprinted speeches which th senator and represent atlie mall out to their constituent. Hut th trading goes on Juat the same. 1 brow peacefully aa tho airmail gur a'frhead. significant result of tt aptmreat among tb African wild elephant herd la that bus J thrir territory I (hen a on of the of th stlmala ar leaving thrir fareason for the nutlceablo unict miliar haunt along tho root Nil I among African alrpliaiit herd of lata Seek he t U feeding ground by ('apt. IC J. D. balmon. oay tha . north and south of Ibis area, IMroll New. Lien trained animat In ll.a Belgian Congo ne'er Lemma really Indifferent to tho sound of Boy, Aayke lah yCB gasoline anglnea, ha state, and ha Employer Jarkaoll, I betlrte It unlikely that the herd wouldn't b!tl at your work. la tho Uganda Will Her to Jarkoon I wasn't working, air. A tinny nr motor Dy ELMO 8C0TT WATSON i; WAS tmlf wild borne and half cock-- i m'. alligator and t tie rent of Lira waa AND ELEPHANTS at Dm Botsa of airplana that have recently lutali-- d If you want to GET JUT) Ilia met Ubreot no of Constipation worries Science says Today use a LIQUID Laxative A an exampta of the way the trading goes on, consider this one; A western mem-HoIt' a her fought nnd madcspeechea and Work'd demanded roll calls and did all of th other things L Control inteitinal fiction rxacfjr-H- io "pmrtlni necessary to attract attenUoo to a hill pulling sum money out of th federal treasury for no In bio disZ Measure to lull your tndiviJuil oecdi to die drop trict U wanted tha bill put through But he reto tniur hi 3. Dfiniih Bowel fatigue tnd the Uxative habit or no consideration. ceived lilt Presently another bill seeking aom particular plums for other sections of tba country appeared on th seen. Supporter of that hill fought and made speeches and did all of th It, yea avoid danger of bowel strain. Yon can keep lit bowels regular, Any hospital offer eviJenc of th other thing to attract attention to laxatives harm harsh that done by and comfortable; yoo can malt their btIL They ran Into a atone dram the system, weaken the bowel constipated spells as rare as cokb. When also. thnt happened, wall, musrlrs, and in some rases even the two group began to talk turkey affect the liver and kidneys. They Joined among themselves. A doctor will tell yon that tho bands and they served notice on sevon wise choice of laxatives is a common cause of chronic constipation. eral other groups, fostering particular legislation, that thry would Fortunately, tha public is fast This test has proved to many mefi block anything and everything until reluming to the use of laxatives and women that thrir trouble was in liquid form. not "weak bowels, hat strong they received permission from thn A properly prepared liquid laxacathartics: power that he to get their bills bemovement a tive perfect brings First. Select a good liquid laxafore the house. They forced an There is no discomfort at the time tive. X 1 oka the dose yon find ia agreement It wa ihe action of a and no weakness after. You don't suited to your system, 3. Gradually bloc," and congress I Just filled have to take a double dose a day reduce Uia dove until bowel are with them. or two later. moving regularly without any need In buying any laxative, ohravt of stimulation. The traders get what they want In Trad the label. Not the tlatms, but most Instances, because enough Syrup pepsin has the highest the ronlenti. If it contains one standing among liquid laxatives, strength can be mustered among doubtful drug, dont take tL and is the one generally used. It disgruntled group to prevent affirmDr. Caldwells Svrup Pcpxin Is a contains senna, a natural laxative ative action, lu the current session, which is perfectly safe for the preparation in which BrescripUonal mineral however, Mr. Roosevelt' program drugs. Its inyoungest child. Your druggist has ia the first consideration and If the Lr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin. gredients art on the label. By using Democratic majorliy doca not perform as the President says, well, It may be too bud uext November. 1 am reminded, in this connection, of the Incident Involving PostmasReminder Salty Conversation ter General "Jim" Farley, the adminNote to parents: Yoo were that Kathryn Mr. Ilngf'na sayi istration's political guide. A cer- same kind of Idiot at sixteen and the salt of the earth. tain senator wanted to see Jlm look bow well you turned out. Los Klttye lie means youre so wel about a Job for a powerful constitu- Angeles Times. preserved. ent. Jim" did not want to see the senator, but the senator Insisted and Jim received him. He requested and urged and finally demanded appointment of his man or else I will be licked in the election." Well, replied the political boss, Farley, I am not responsible for that I see by the record here where, on seven major votes In the senate, you voted against the administration on five. That record may anynot warrant your way." That ended the Incident, and It also served to show bow the President aud all of his advisers engage In horse trading, too. I Hero's Whyt The liquid tests a I-- i Heres Quickest, Simplest Way to Stop a Cold a a a The turn of the year, with the fresh start that always accompanies a new year, baa See Better given rise to Ahead vietion among many observers full Rlsof water. If throat Ii tore, crush that conditions, economically and t Rsyer A 7 Drink ITake Tablet. Repaat treatment in 2 V and dissolve 3 Bayer financially, are Improving. Underhours. Aspirin Tablets in a half glass of water and gargf aclying factors surely give every incording to direction m boa dication of better times. We, here, who are meeting men of consequence from every part of the counAsk your doctor about this. And try week after week, get rather definite expressions that conditions are when you buy, see that you get going along at a rate of improvethe real BAYER Aspirin Tablets. ment that warrants real optimism. The simple method pictured abovo They dissolve almost instantly. It is the first period In four years is the way doctors throughout the And thus work almost instantly that the sentiment brought to Washworld now treat colds. when you take them. And for a ington has been uniformly of that is recognized as the QUICKIt gargle, Genuine BAYER Aspirin kind. EST, safest, surest way to treat a Tablets dissolve so completely I am constrained to believe, howcold. For it will check an they leave no irritating parto The early weeks of congress al- ever, that most people are going cold almost as ticles. Get a box of 12 ordinary be because recovery as ready have demonstrated that the will discouraged fast it. tablets or a bottle of you caught be stow. The spring undoubtsession Is going 24 or 100 at any Is to see more edly industry going Political to be devoted to drug store. the work since at than depression exHorseTrading atentconsiderable began, and the summer will carry to the buildDOES NOT HARM on with some expansion. But it ing of campaign fences. Although THE HEART so takes for the long improvement will not votes Nobe cast the until to become to most of us, apparent vember, there Is dissatisfaction with sitting members cf the house insofar as it affects us personally, and senate in many a bailiwick, that we get down in the dumps with and there are ambitious citizens in waiting. One of the things about which I every one of them who are willing to serve the district or the have heard that sounds worthwhile Tavest Hotel state. Consequently, the Job of is the total of advance orders that building campaign fences is under are going in from manufacturing essuffer with If you pimples, eczema, Advance orders, for rashes, chahngs, eruptions or other way, and the biennial horse trading tablishments. of the politicians has begun. February, March and April delivery distressing skin trouble, Liegin today to use ( The horse trading of the current are recorded in some lines to be Soap and Bathe the affected Ointment. That session, however, is going to be the largest in four years. with the Soap, anoint with the considerably different than in most statement does not apply to all lines Sarts Relief comesat once and sessions of congress. One of the of commercial endeavor. There are k healing soon follows. reasons why the trading will be some exceedingly bad spots, even Soap 25e Ointment 25c and 50c different Is that man who sits In dangerous spots. These will be slower than the others In getting Proprietors: Potter Drug & Chemical the White House. Ordinarily, maCorporation, Maiden, Mass, Yet the picneuvers are carried out on the off their feet again. floors of the house or senate that ture of business, as a whole, can are designed to enable this or that he said to be far better now than DAUGHTERS Individual to obtain and it has been since the beginning of MOTHERS, Mrs. John Keralls of they are accomplished with little 1930. 1013 No. St John St, a a or no Interference from the PresI Casper, Wyo., savs: ident. President Roosevelt has his was in a weakened, mn Although Secretary Morgenthau I down condition. was I program, however, and unless the said that his censorship rule against I terribly didnt nervous, Jtrest well and had a heavy boys and girls making up tho memtreasury ollicials was withdrawn small of the m ache 200 Tile Baths 200 Rooms 2 back. I suffered from my bership of congress line up correctand that subordinates could talk ir- regularity, feminine weak- ly, thev wont get any smile from with newspaper correspondents who Radio connection in every room. ness (female catarrh) and the Chief Executive when such a wanted only factual data, many of would get auch awful RATES FROM 1.50 some Preand kind Favorite used Pierce' Dr. smile words would the lever lights around the treasheadaches. I of the female me relieved it ard scription election. It Is a tough ury still are scared stiff about talkJiut opposite Monoom Taberoscto win the and nervousness. fiviMf, a with Spot for the candidates. newspaper ERNEST C. ROSSITER, STgr. ing correspondent. VYMj W It might be well to explain how 234 fc by Weat&rn Newspaper Union. cou-Titn- Almost Instant Relief in this Way Quick Tfealinq FOR Skin irritations Salt Lake Citys ulieura HOTEL TEMPLE SQUARE |