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Show CACHE AMERICAN, LOGAN, UTAH California Joe, 'W--' inF- - J ' ' Roosevelt Sure of Renomination '" s,v Sk M'f 'fj' fihkfiJL J' A Great Frontiersman Propagandists Busy in Futile Attempt to Break Down IBs Amazing Strength S V. By EARL GODWIN 0saA 0? 3 ft zfp'Yi'j -- 'Zsts&i- -l T&tzsx 'f&ss 7&C zs & 1 ? S' If Jysi? t&.'fT '7r?-y- 7 'f f'--r-- x. &--C- V? 0-T- Xl, By ELMO SCOTT WATSON MONO the tangled briars and weeds of the neglected post cemetery at Fort Kobinson, Neb., stands a small, white stone slab which marks the last resting place of Yet the a great frontiersman. inscription on It gives no hint of that fact. It simply says: Moses Milner Scout. And that Is the epitaph of one of the most picturesque figures In the history of the old West, a character In the drama of the frontier who is almost as much myth as man. Back In the days when Ned Buntline, Col. .Prentiss Ingraham and others of the school of literature were turning out their flood of dime novels to thrill America's youth, one of their favorite characters was California Joe. whom they built up as a mystery man." But the California Joe of dime novel fame and the Moses Milner Scont" who sleeps In the graveyard at Fort Robinson were one and the same man. Fortunately for his future fame, a book which has recently been published dispels the myths and legends that have grown up around his name and gives what is evidently the first complete account of his amazing career. That book is California Joe, written by Joe E. Milner, his grandson, and Earle R. Forrest, and published by tlie Caxton Printers, I.td., of Caldwell, Idaho. It is based upon war department records and the personal history of the Milner family and as such is a valuable contribution to authentic literature of the frontier. California Joes full name was Moses Em bree Milner, lie was born May 8, 1829, near Standford, Ky., on the plantation of his father. Embree Armstead Milner, a veteran of the War of 1S12, whose father had served In the Revolution. The first Milners In America were two brothers who emigrated from Yorkshire, England, to Virginia, In 1083. From that time on mem bers of the family were restless and westward faring pioneers, a fact which makes the career of their most famous member, California Joe, more understandable. Young Milner grew up In a land where skill with the long rifle was paragraph one, chapter one, in its enforcement of the law of survival of the fittest. So It Is not surprising to learn that at the nge of twelve he killed his first deer and by the time he was fourteen he was one of the best shots In that part of Kentucky. At this tender age also the wanderlust seized him and the Odyssey of California Joe began. One day in August, 1843, he shouldered his Kentucky rifle and, telling his parents that he was going hunting for a few days, Btarted out through the forest. That was the last they saw of their son for five years; and then one day in 1848 he appeared at their new home in Warren county. 'Mssuurl, Embree Milner having emlgrat ed to that state because Kentucky was getting too thickly populated to suit him and be wanted a little more elbow roojn. In those five years the Kentucky boy grew Into efficient frontier manhood almost overnight, as so many of the youngsters of his time seem to have done. Wandering westward he had reached SL Louis, the first city he had ever seen. At that time it was the gateway to the Wesf and headquarters of the fur trade. There he Joined a party of trappers en route to Independence where they outfitted themselves for a hunting and trapping trip up the Platte river. The next spring they went to Fort Laramie to sell their peltries to the American Fur company, owners of that posL At Fort Laramie Milner Joined a party of trap pers headed by the noted Jim Baker, which was bound for the Yellowstone country. In a battle with Rlnckfeet Indians the boy killed his first Indian three of them In fact. One of tlipin he shot through the head at a dis tance of 4iH yards, a feat which won from Jim Baker the prediction that There's a lad who will have a' great name on the frontier some day If he keeps on like he did today, a prediction Baker lived to see come true. paper-backe- t d fifteen-year-ol- d Strange, falls in hot weather, and strangest of all the products of this hydrophobic session of congress Is the stoty that Roosevelt cannot be renominated by the Democratic party. That queer figment of the Imagination ran through the gossip stage and finally landed in black and white In several large city newspapers. Cun you imagine It Jim Farley hadnt seen this story until I spoke to him about It; and he sent out and got one of the pa pers to be saved in his collection of freaks. Of course, Roosevelt is practically renominated now. Parties dont throw dowD Presidents, especially a man who swept the country, and whose party repeated in the mid term congressional election. If I recall my school books, the only President In the last half century to be turned down by his party was Arthur, whom the Republicans would not renominate favoring Blaine; whom Cleveland beat. But this bit of smearing gossip Is of the sort now being peddled around Washington in the power trust and Liberty league propaganda campaign to break down Roosevelt strength, to scare away his friends. Smart, high priced propagandists are at work and are getting results all across the country and unless the New Deal wants to be hurt and lose ground, thero should be something done to offset this dirty attack. The same tactics are being used on the New Deal that were effective in undermining prohibition and some of the same propagandists are being utilized, Sentiment, as far as newspaper stuff Is concerned, is bping manufactured. High sounding names and Impressive looking organizations are daily appearing on the firing line against Roosevelt These are groups carefully groomed and trained; and eventual ly break Into print by holding a conference or a convention or take part In open debate. It is made to appear as a spontaneous movement but actually It Is a well directed affair sponsored for one purpose to gain the newspaper headlines. Men of prominence are Induced to address the country by radio, their speeches prepared for them largely by high priced propaganda writers In the pay of one or another of the Deal and Street groups now entrenched here for the duration of the war. These propaganda writers, some of them, are paid as high as $20,000 a year for their skill in writing speeches that will hypnotize masses of people. not conI said "hypnotize vince. Men who have never been friendly to the New Deal are now being trotted out Into public gaze and made to utter some deep sounding constitutional opinion inimical to the administration. They are men who have always been unfriendly to Roosevelt but they are dandled before the public in a manner that makes it look as If they were reluctantly leaving the party for the conservatives who are now laying claim to the sole ownership of common sense. In other words, the Deni propaganda Is clever making people believe there are dally recruits to their campaign when all the while it Is the same old crowd being brought forward, one after another, to speak the same old piece. Another method of spreading poison Is through the pleasant method of luncheons, dinners, cocktail parties and other smart social functions, where It becomes fashionable to ridicule any progressive movement Vicious and scandalous whispers take on speed and circulation through these high society affairs which are a recognized part of the Washington political lobby. The rumor campaigns have easy going among brokers and middlemen who find the New Deal rather sharp on some of the practices of this class of business men, particularly If they are In a business activity which lacks economic Justification. Antl-NeDealers make much of Democrats who criticize features of the New Deal which cramp the style of Industrial pirates; and I am thinking now of the great play given In the eastern press when Henry Breckinridge came out Breckagainst the administration. inridge was assistant secretary of war when Roosevelt was assistant secretary of the navy In the Wilson cabinet; and It has been made to appear that here was one more loyal Democrat turning his back on Roosevelt Now the truth of It Is that Breckinridge never was for Roosevelt ; Demohe is one of those crats found In Wall Street and in r section of Virthe ginia, who fought the nomlnutioD of Roosevelt and worked strenuous-- WASHINGTON. Fort he went to Union, N. M., where he met a already famous as a scout and Indian fighter. His name was Kit Carson. Milner served as a scout under Carson and fought with him at his famous battle of Adobe Walls In the Texas Panhandle, then after a period of prospecting In Colorado and fighting Apaches In New Mexico he drifted north Into Kansas and reached Fort Riley In the fall of 1866. Mrs. M.E. Milner Back at Fort Laramie Milner became a hunter for the American Fur company for a year or so. Then be accompanied a party of trappers to Fort Bridger where he became acquainted with Its famous owner, Jim Bridger, and entered his employ as a livestock herder. Returning to Fort Laramie In the spring of 1846 Milner found there a letter from his parents telling of their move to Missouri and asking him to come home. So he Joined a party of mountain men bound for St. Louis. At Fort Leavenworth Gen. Stephen W. Kearney was mobilizing his "Army of the West" for service in the war which had been declared against Mexico and when Doniphans Missouri Mounted Volunteers arrived there In June, 1848, young Milner forgot about returning to his home. With two other trapiiers he Joined the army as packers and teamsters. After serving with Doniphan in Mexico, Milner returned to Missouri and sought out his family in Warren county. But after his experiences in the Far West life In the states seemed tame and he soon set out again on a trading and trapping expedition up the Platte. Late In November, 1848, he was back In Missouri to spend the winter with his parents, but expecting to start out again the following spring. However, when the Watts family from east Tennessee moved to an adjoining farm and young Milner saw fourteen-year-olNancy Emma Watts, his plans were changed. They were married on May 8, 1 850, his twenty-firs- t birthday, and the next day they set out for a honeymoon to across the plains California, lured there, trip , as were so many thousands In by the hope of making their fortune in the gold fields. Because of his experience on the plains, the youthful bridegroom was elected guide of the wagon train which they Joined and after a journey of six months they reached the Sacramento valley safely. Leaving his bride at Sacramento, Milner wei t at once to the gold fields and during the next two years he accumulated a considerable fortune. Then reports of the fertility of the Oregon country drifted down into California and Milner decided to emigrate there. In 1852 be took up a homestead in what is now Benton county and prepared to settle down as a farmer and stock raiser In the new country. But again the wanderlust seized the young frontiersman and within a year he wav faring forth upon his career of wandering footloose through all parts of the West which ended only with his death at Fort Robinson In 1876. During these years Nancy Emma Milner, the "patient Penelope of this American Ulysses,- - remained on the Oregon ranch, directing Its activities and rearing the four sons that had been born to them. News of gold strikes In eastern Washington and northern Idaho took him there 1b the sum mer of 1859 and three years later he was purIn Virginia City, suing the golden Mont It was In the latter gold camp that he won the sobriquet which he was to make so famous. Asked by a party of miners what his name was be replied that It was Joe and when they asked him where he was from he Jokingly answered From California, where you find the real gold." Then and there he was dubbed Call fornia Joe and that name stuck to him througn r'te remainder of his life. From Montana Milner drifted down Into Wyoming again, then on Into Colorado, and In 1865 d 1849-50- For the next five years he served as a scout for the troops operating against the hostile Indians In Kansas, Indian Territory and Texas. During this time he made the acquaintance of such border notables as Wild Bill Hickok, Buffalo Bill Cody, Capt. D. L. Payne, the "Cimarron Scout, served with General Custer as chief of scouts In the Battle of the Washita and the subsequent campaign and rapidly rose to a position of outstanding importance among the frontiersmen of the period. From Kansas he drifted West again to Nevada and California, then back into Wyoming where he served as guide for the Jenny geological and topographical surveying expedition into the Black Hills. After bis return from this expedition he guided a cavalry column sent from Fort Laramie to the Red Cloud agency to hold In check the Sioux who were threatening to go on the warpath because of the Invasion of their (Black Hills) by the miners. beloved From this place Milner wrote the letter to his sons (reproduced above) telling of the richness of the new diggings and urging them to join him there. Early the next year he was In the Hills and filed a homestead claim on 320 acres on Rapid Creek on which the present Rapid City was later built In the fall of 1876 he joined the command of Gen. George Crook as a scout and was assigned to the force led by Col. Ronald S. Mackenzie to disarm Red Cloud's Oglalas before they could join the hostlles. He was to have been chief of scouts for MackeAzie in the latters winter campaign against Dull Knifes Cheyennes but a few days before the expedition get out, on October 29, he was shot down from behind and killed at Fort Robinson by a man named Tom Newcomb with whom he had had some trouble in the Black Hills, and whose life he had once spared. He was buried on the banks of the White river by Dr. V. T. McGillycuddy, then surgeon with the Second and Third Cavalry regiments in Crooks army, who had known Joe well during the Jenny expedition. Dr. McGillycuddy, who is still living in Berkeley, Calif., declares that California Joe had no equal as a scout in natural ability, reliability and wide experience over the frontier" and a reading of this new biography of him confirms that opinion. It also contains the material to upset many a popular belief about some of the frontier notables who have been so widely publicized. Because of Buffalo Bills reputation as a slayer Idea that be of bison, there Is a was a wizard with the rifie. He may have been, but there probably has never been a deadlier rifle shot than California Joe with bis heavy Sharps, a fact which he demonstrated time after time, both in shooting matches and in Indian buttles. Wild Bill Hickok is famous for the number of men who were victims of his speed and deadly accuracy with the pistol. If California Joe had been given to cutting notches on his gun for every man he hud slain, he could have shown record which would have placed Hickok in the amateur class. This does not mean that Milner was a killer In the sense that Wild Bill was. He was peaceable enough until lie was put on. Then he proved himself a "bad man to fool with as many a man learned to his sorrow-thaIs, if he lived long enough to be sorry. Cody, and Hickok had many press agents to spread their renown, both deserved and undeserved. California Joe had no such first aids to fame. Ills neglected grave in the post cemetery at Fort Robinson is syniboli of the fact that true greatness Is too often "uu wept, unhonored and unsung." a widely-accepte- d Wtstern Newspaper Unira. Pro-Wa- anti-Ne- ... antl-Ne- e retired-banke- for the Domination of Senator Harry Byrd of Virginia. He Is a Democrat merely because he came from that section of Kentucky where It Is social error to be a Republican, but tils political and economic views are right out of the same corn crib where Uncle Joe Cannon, Cal Boles Penrose E! ill u Root, and YVarren G. Harding got theirs. So It doesnt alarm me very much when one of these plush lined Democrats is led to the microphone and told to view with alarm," but It does alarm me when I realize that constant reiteration of any sort of a slurring campaign always has its effect It weakens the support of any progressive movement; for there is always an element that will desert the leaders when the opposition gets out the harpoons and begins throwing them. The New Deal should hurry up and start the counter attack, Cool-idg- MONEY AND CREDIT PILE UP Money and credit piling up In banks and business houses; Indus- trial leaders standing still. It reminds me of folks standing on the banks watching the waters pile up behind a dam, knowing full well that sooner or later that dam Is either going to burst or the waters overrun the banks. Because there hasnt been a time In seventy years that there was so much business waiting to be done; so many customers waiting to buy something they need; so many houses and buildings to be restored, repaired, refurnished; so many factories and Industrial plants whose machinery and equipment need rehabilitation. Houses have gone unpalnted until they cant stand it any longer; and the paint trade reports the best sales In years; and thats Just one Indication. Savings banks report Increases of $2,000,000 a day. There is In savings banks In spite of all the tough years weve had. Would you believe It, but that huge pile of saved money Is nearing the amount we had In the days of 19281 We hear pessimists moan about the $28,000,000,000 public debt ; and say that their children and their grandchildren will be taxed to pay off this debt; but they never seem to realize that our bank reserves are so great and valuable that we could right now extend $28,000,000,-00- 0 new credit without Inflation and without strain. Our national debt can be paid within our lives and without strain If we should Insist on economies at Washington. The odd thing about It Is that business leaders are not taking advantage of this ripe field; and If they dont watch out the United States government will simply have to step In to supply the people with the things they are now needing badly and can pay for. I would not be surprised to see the next great business boom, predicted for this calendar year by all sorts of economists, bankers, and even groups like the American Federation of Labor, either start with or develop something new and big In American life. I think the treIn railroad possimendous step-ubilities through the fast' streamlined trains, may start a brand new era in railroad car building and passenger traffic; that would mean millions of dollars; there are pending some new developments In airplane design, I am told ; and they tend toward greater speed, safety and popularity of air travel. There are new types of houses, new types of house and the and home equipment; things that will be made and sold when once the government gets its cheap power policies working defy description. NEW APPLE NO LONGER SOUGHT Irochet Designs in Wide Demand Farm Thrill of Other Days Forgotten. Onr wild apple years are over. on The produce of chards Is uniform and shapely, and every autumn our markets show the same varieties Jonathan, Wlnesap, Wealthy, Gravenstein, McIntosh, Baldwin and Ben Davis, of course; fewer and fewer Spys. There Is no uncertainty about the kinds, only about the crop. Excitement In fruits comes from far lands nowadays, with plnanonas and capotes arriving by air and the Orient sending jujbes and satiny persimmons. But throughout the century before tills one, unforeseen apples lent a thrill to every harvest time. The air of the orchard tingled with surprises. It was the bope of most farm lads then to discover or develop an apple so excellent tlmt It should make fathers fortune. Along the always mysterious edges of fallow fields, up among the cedars In the woodiot there might he griming a little wild or strayed apple, delicious beyond Imagination, unknown to the world and waiting to be named and glorify the finder. The end of the Eighteenth century and the beginning of the Nineteenth were the apple's age of discovery and Invention. The monuments to the Northern Spy, the Baldwin, the McIntosh, the Wealthy, the 'marvelous primate apple God's earth Is full of love to man all date from those adventurous years. Nothing seemed too wonderful for the young orchards, which already had been blessed by so many lucky wildings whose fruit had multiplied as in a Scriptural miracle by grafting. How rose that spontaneous variation, the solitary first tree destined to bear millions of offspring lo be called by Its name? The tree whose like you yourself might come npon tomorrow as good as gold another Tompkins King, or SmokeAn house, or Esopus Spitzenberg! nnknown Rome Beauty or Delicious I In that rich period of experiment farmers gleefully bought acres of many named saplings, and winter cellars were not big enough to bold the latest thing In barrels. To adorn the evening fruit dish one had choice af dozens of Inviting smells and names. The adventure became the The age of apple discovery ended. Tbe orchard settled down, No boys wandered off on secret guests for fame and tbe Wild Rose which would probably Bweetlng, rove uncommercial anyway. Farm era set out few varieties and those test sellers a more sensible plan Only In old, untended orchards will fou find fifty trees, all different, hearing frostbitten fruit nnknown to the trade but with a flavor lhat Iques memory. New York Herald tribune. Crocheted edgings and Insertions have such a wide appi'.catlon to household linens and wearing apparel that they are always In and always in use. Pillow cases, towels, table dresser sets, aprons, gowns; kiddle dresses, handkerchiefs, curand many other tains, articles, require these handmade finishing touches to make them attractive. 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To quickly relieve the Itching anjl burning, and help nature restore skin comfort, freely apply Resinol p THIRD PARTY TALK There are some old line conservatives In the Democratic party who dont like Roosevelt; and there Is a possibility of a third party made op of these mossback Democrats and their mossback friends of the Republican party a coalition of Bourbons, Old Guarders, Tories, Stand Patters, States Righters, Power Trusters. There Is talk of calling It the Constitution party ; and I suggest they make their headquarters wherever they find an antique store. Head and front In this mossback movement Is Jouett Shouse, of the Liberty league, strongest conservative propaganda force. You may remember some time ago I told you about the plan of these fellows to trick the South Into voting for a Republican candidate for the Presidency; but that plan has been dropped In the waste basket; their plan for this coalesced aggregation of conservatives Is a ticket headed by a conservative Democrat for President and a conservative Republican for Vice President; with the promise that the cabinet will be made np of conservatives from both parties. Seriously, though. It presents an opportunity to gather the conservatives, the big business adherents, high tariff men, and their political like Into one solid party where they belong. I approve the Idea, for It may be the first step toward a division In politics whereby parties represent various strains of economic and social thought and are not merely organizations boilt np for political aggrandizement and the accumulation of jobs. Jouett Shouse Is a Democrat himself; but he doesnt pick a coalitioa ticket headed by a Democrat for that reason : he merely has the practical view that a conservative Democrat next year will have mors chance than a conservative Republican; and he is correct Westarn Knmw Union. IT'S HERE ITS A TREAT T RACKETY-RA- X SWELL FOR SNACKS OnCE you taste Grape-Nut- s Flakes, youll flakes cheer, tool Crisp, sweet, with plenty of real nourishment One dishful, with milk or cream, contains more varied nourishment than many a hearty meal. Try it your grocer has itl Product of General Foods. golden-brow- n |