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Show PAGE DAILY UTAH STATE JOURNAL. SIX. without PEI PICTURE OF a dollar and boarded with the and Rooney, up the gulch, too, there, found he board very good to was waiting he while they nay, little make his strike so aa to ay hla Widow SIGERRUSH STIFF debts stout young Irishmen, one Two called Flood and one named O'Brien, VERY INTERESTING ARTICLE BY ANNIE LAURIE. Utile claim up the gulch they could used to talk about, when they Oeorge and get any one to listen, giant, wllh a Hearst. a In his gray-hlu- e humor gleam of sharp with the rest eyes, worked in the hills y. to little of them, and said very had a good-natur- State Awakening Again and Rich Produce Other Comstocks. coveriea May Die ed any-bod- who took And John Mackay It was contithe tied and Comstock gold his talkof with a strand A pen picture of Nevada by Annie nent together James of and the daughters Laurie, belter known In Denver ae ing wire, IlonfllH, ia 5, 1905 ditches which will redeem 75.000 acres of land lying between Big Wind river REDSKINS AS and Sage creek. The system comprehends six big canals, for which surveys have been made and water rights secured from the state board of control. The transformation begun by the Indiana cm the south of Wind river have taken richest and best will be more than rivaled by the white men on the north aide of the river, afLAND IN VALLEYS. ter June 15, next year, when that splendid area la thrown open to settlement. With two railroads pushing Arapahoas and Shoshonss Accused to reach the scene, a land construction in Wind Duplicating Filings rush of formidable proportions la ImRivsr Reservation. pending. It la estimated that 100,000 land seekers will be brought in over the Northwestern on the south and the SHOSHONE AGENCY. Wyo, Sept Burlington on the north during the fin a trip through the great Sho- coming year. While only a small proshone reservation In Wyoming, a preas portion will get winning tickets In the reserve land lottery, there Is plenty of correspondent fell In with two surveyInof room with choice farming and graxlng composed entirely ing parties, diana, with the exception of one white lands In the adjoining counties of Big man, the engineer. In charge of each. Horn, Fremont, Sheridan and JohnThese parties are engaged in making ston, for the overflow of Incoming to find good homes, not to mensurveys nf the ranches allotted to the Job The tion the gigantic Irrigation projects the government. Indians by Is a big one, as all the old allotments now under construction In Wyoming made within the last ten years are be- by the government, which will make and mapped before the homes for 500,00 fieople when they are ing resun-eye, reservation Is thrown open for settle- completed. I whom he printed Fair and the Widow Rooney, In fashion of leaders the are In a recent number of Dividend. We married, resort of the world; and who the gay reproduce an follows: would think, to look at Mr. Willie Nevada, the wonderful. Is awake Vanderbilt or at Mr. Herman Oel-rlr- h. again. that every dollar that haa strewn She's been asleep for a few years. the paths under their feet with rosea, Sometimes she has stirred uneasily, showered them wllh golden forand for and murmured In her dreams, but was dug out of the gray ground tune, ahe as twenty years she has not sptken old Nevada. if sioke when she told the world about Llltle Jennie Flood, who used to the Comstock and set men mad with over the back gate of her fathhang fortune. the delirium of humble ers cottage up' there In VirIs old gray, Shes bilking now1. ment. mountain-crowned ginia City, could sign her check for desert-eyeThe work la carried on under the miss the Nevada, and all the world is $5,000,000 today, and never of Captain H. G. Nickerson, direction In a frensy to money when the checks had been standing on tip-to- e siieclal allotting and disbursing agent cashed. catch every syllable of her lisping. of the government. The son of George Ilearst took the She's a wondrous line story teller, is As the reservation extends over hla father found In the ground money of the old Nevada. The market places 8,600 square ' miles of territory, and earth have stilled their tumult, time up there In the cactus state, and built contains over 2,300,000 acres of land, of and again, to hearken to the tales It him a chain of papers that stretch diversified traversed by topography, from ocean to ocean, and are quoted was her pleasure to tell. formed and mountain valleys, ranges She began to siieak away back in '49, and copied In every civilised country the Horn, Muddy Big Wind river, by but California liad the floor then and on the globe. allot the small numerous streams, and It was the Comstock lode that drove nobody listened to Nevadas voice. an have ment Interesting surveyors In '67 two old miners were digging the buffalo back from the plains, and Htrenuoua undertaking on hand. fur gold In canyon, near herded the gray wolves and sent them Under the treaty, Indians must be where Virginia City now stands, and snarling to the hills for shelter. And employed aa assistants. Some of them were annoyed by a kind of heavy It waa the Comstock lode that broke are Intelligent and good worker. They metal, which got In the way all the the pride and stem enmity of the red take to the nomadic life, livnaturally men and turned them Into American time. ing In tents, riding, camping, moving They cursed the strange metal cltlsens. Just as it waa the Comstock from scene to scene. When It cornea tt Mackay-Bennelode built the that whenever they met It. after the fashto hard the tramping required In the ion of the times, and went on digging cable, for did not the Comstock build work, many of them desert surveying the railroad? for gold. new worker are selected. When and Who would have spun that gigantic One day a man, who was born with of Carlisle and heaven-setook some of spliler web we call the overland road, possible, graduates curiosity, are schools Indian other employed. been not this Impeding metal to any assay office across the continent If It had made for all are Allotments being lode? Comstock and found that It waa the richest sil- for the ver ore that had ever been heard of IlHve you ever climbed the sweet the reservation Indiana, comprising 00 persona, about equally divided anywhere on earth. Then began the rise of smiling ground that leads from In the two tribes. Arapahoe and ShoWashoe rush. Men killed one another the silver edge of the Pacific up to the rn e. The work waa started about to get to Nevada first. Women de- Putrn Heights In San Francisco? ten years ago by Colonel John W. serted the babes on their breasts to be Have you ever stood there In that to It lighter-foote- d to Join in the rare for garden, one of the most beautiful Clark. After giving three year S. succeeded John he was Captain by the great gray deserts and lnva peaks pleasure grounds In the world, and In charge some three who was Wertx. watched the white dancers of the surf of Nevadu. Nickerson took A town of 4,000 people sprang up throwing up their arms In thels years longer. Captain In 1904. and has to do all June. charge measure down there out of the desert In one single week, strange melodic work over again, besides making their below we're cliffs? the tmnnnsa and the days fnlrly The Comstock has done something several hundred new allotments, many started. e miles apart. Miners W'orkhig with pick and shovel fur you, too, for Rutrn Heights would nf which are seventy-fivno chicken. Is Indian The spring for day's wages became millionaires never had been If Adolph Sutro, a poor retiof and reserve Ihe Under aspect Jew. hla brain and wllh nothing but In a day. Millionaires went crasy and lost Ills Indomitable will, had not built the cence he la capable of n statecraft that ofieu puzzles the white man. As far every dollar they had In a wild fever Sutro tunnel up there on the Com an their number would permit they of speculation laughed, and went to stork nnd snatched the gold out of the taken the richest and choicest have the greedy Nevada to begin again. penurious earth before lands lying In the great valleys where water It. could get Kvery steamer that touched at the Many have been The Comstock lode built cities, made Irrigation Is easy. American shores carried Its Nevada two or three allotments each by given states subdued and the heart ran train that savage toward pilgrims. Every former agents by taking different the west waa crowded with Nevada nf a wild continent. names. When charged with this graft Then Nevada rested again, Journey era. will give grunts and with stolid they la Now she The atnge coaches rolled Into Virawake, wide awake, and and demeanor, claim they unchanging we're to hear stories going stranger ginia Clly day after day loaded down have no land at all. Some will find a with men of every nation on earth, than ever fur her again. Stories that make the very heart In piece of land, and then, finding someall come to Nevada to dig out a fortune from the hard and sullen ground. your body leap, atories that will thrill thing better, will try to get their allotFor a few years all waa a golden dream the world aa the old Comstock hap' ment changed. Others show no InterIn Nevada. A dream of red sunrise pen Inga thrilled It with hope and rour est In the matter, and have to he urged and yellow sunsets, a dream of wild age and strength, nnd the very Joy of and driven to make a selection. Under the old law. each Indian, old fairy atories coming true, of strange living. or young, male or female, was allowed Nevadn Is awakening again and To. legends turning Into farts, and of the acres of agricultural land nr 160 eighty of a sudden the nnpah. Goldfield, Lldn, Dlamondfleld, Impossible becoming acres of grazing land. A large family Gold almost Kawich. and be" the "must of Reed, Bullfrog and probable waa thus enabled to secure an extennil life. Com other Rhyolite may produce everyday sive area of some of the best land the Then came Nevada's time for rest- storks. sun shines upon. Under this law the Remember tills date 1905. It ing. Hhe went calmly to sleep and allotments are being made, alpresent be d ns men 1849. historic whom she ns left the had lured Into her purple solitudes to Have you ever seen Nevada, the though a new law haa been passed by beat their foolish breasts and sing land of the Joshua tree? It la like go- congress, giving only twenty acres of whatever requiem they might over ing lo the country of the Wumblete-wee- n. agricultural land to each Indian. This in the their vanished hoies. Scotch fairy new law will le enforced In future treaties. '73 Nevada awoke and told the liooks. In The restricted reserve, which Is still world the amusing story of the big The Joshua tree Is a kind of misbebonansa strike on the Comstock, and gotten juilm left over from volcanic retained by the Indians, lies south of laughing niul crying, praying and sob- centuries. It Is green lu a sort of rat- the Rig Wind river nnd west of Big bing. cursing and singing, the whole tling. way, all the year Poe Agle. The Indians will thus hold Pacific coast went stark, staring, rav- round, and at the end of .each braneh In common. In addition to tluir seving mad. and yelled to all the world Is a twisted growth the elder brother eralties. the graxlng and forest areas in this great tract, while to Join In the carnival of Insanity. of a pineapple only it la not good to Included The world accepted the Invitation. are scattered over cut. It does not look like a tree at all, their allotment There never was such a time of wild Ihal Is. not a renl tree, with both parts of the entire reservation. thirsty deeds and frenzied folly and Inspired and vigorous Indians hold lands on both forks of sprplngtng branches. wisdom as there waa In the days of the river. Mill creek. Sage It is like a weakened, cruel, av- Little Wind big bonansa on the Comstock. aricious old man turned Into a Joshua ereek, Bull lake nnd Bull Lake creek. And no wonder. tret for his sins and condemned to Willow, Meadow, Dry. Braver. Think one minute of what the Com- stand bent Into all manner of Crow. Muddy and Owl creeks, eortorted stock lode has done for the world. miseries In the as well ns the best parts of the wide sageJohn Mackay went to Nevada a poor brush. with great misshapen flats and fertile valley of the Big wind miner, with a pick on hla broad shoul- stretched to the hraxen sky In one last river. ders and nothing but the sweet brogue gesture of eternal despair. Many of the Indians are getting on the tip of hla tongue, and a pair of Captain Kidd killed the wickedest of rich, although the majority are still stout arms, between him and hunger. his crew nnd set his ghost to watch lazy and shiftless. The better class A man named Fair, a Scotchman he the treasure when he burned 11, they lias herds of cattle, sheep nnd horses. waa with a pair of shrewd blue eyes say. They farm and sell quantities of hay and a mat of black hair that made him In such a manner docs the nicked, and grain on contract at the agency. look like an outlaw came to the camp sneering Joshua tree stand over the They construct ditches and Irrigation treasure burled In the Jealous earth works. The government has made pets of out there In Nevada, and seems to defy any human being to dig where Its these tribes. It hna bought live stock, agricultural machinery, provided seed, malignant shadow falls. If you dont like it, give it Shake tools, etc., for them, and has mainswollen your fists at the sky tained schools. Now the away; your grocer returns all you like, old Joshua tree, you can- has planned a big system nfgovernment not scare us away from the treasure Irrigation for the Indians nn their exclusively your money. yu gunrd. part nf the reserve. The last congress WhSb f r c Km Vi. Hmk. A Settling A Men made an appropriation of Nad Comply nearly IliAO.-l- o that. construct a Irrigation works and Winifred Black SEPTEMBER TUESDAY, set-tie- rs d wlhl-heart- flerce-heiirle- Removal Notice The Singer Store, formerly located at Xo. 257Washington Ave. has been removed to 2338 Washington - Avenue where our patrons will receive careful attention. Whether you propose the purchase of a machine there is much to interest most women at any Singer S t0r and all are cordially invited this sign you may know These Machines are never sold By and will find Singer Stores to dealers Only from maker to user Everywhere These machines are new sold at lower prices, quality considered, than any other Needles and Repairs for All Hakes of Sewing Machines SEWING MACHINES RENTED AND EXCHANGED Singer Sewing' Machine Co. d, d, Six-Mi- le nt half-erase- Civilization. Seeking Please help me, you nations," says China, Who are full up of hustle and go. have dwelt here for ages unnumbered And drowsed the dull centuries through. You've impressed me at last with the lesson That I'm old and decrepit and alow. 1 must hustle and worry. now But For I want to be civilised, too. So come, you Industrial nations. And teach me the dollars to grab; Instruct me In managing sweatshops. And teach me to strike and to stab. There are methods of squeesing the money From the many to pleasure the few Borne I know, but teach me the others. For I want to be civilized, loo. "And you nations that call yourselves dir Wont you please pay some heed to my plaint? Oh. prosper your puritan missions, Whose incomes are blameless of taint. The men that profess your religion Speak sweetly whatever they do! So part for me precept and practice. For I want to be civilized, too. And most do I seek an Instructor Familiar with powder and shell. For you Christiana, 1 know, only honor The folk that ran butcher as well. So sell me your guns and torpedoes. And teach me to murder, like you; Henceforward I'll bully and slaughter. For I want to be civilised, too." Portland Oregonian. Good Old Game of Baseball. Some apprehensive party haa expressed the opinion that the American people will outgrow baseball" and an editor has been thoughtless enough to print it. Thoughtless, Inconsiderate; yea, and unpatriotic. Almost immoral. How dare an editor give pub- Quick Way East ! save many hours time and more miles, take advantage of service via this new east-bouTo nd 0 Union Pacific and Chicago, Milwaukee St. Paul Line : : Three through trains to Chicago every day. No change of cars. I West Second South St. Commercial Agent C. M. & St. P. Ry., Salt Lake City. C. S. WILLIAMS, 106 licity to an lntldloua breath hoatlle to one of cur basic Institutions! By all the memories of and town ball, how can a man utter such a thing and an editor circulate It? The American 'people riss up in the grand stand, so to speak, and resent it with a mighty hiss. Life would not be worth living to theglorious, free and independent spirit without baseball. We are a nation of rooters. We must root or die. Baseball will live as long as the nation. When the ghouls got to dancing on the diamonds there will be none of us to witness It. Baseball will be the laBt relic to crumble. St. Louis Republic. Highest Bridge in Germany. The highest bridge in Germany is that crossing the River Wupper at Mungsten. The bridge Is 392 feet above the water level of the river. It was romi'Wed in 1897, and is one of the nnt nmeuillrcnt railroad brliUea in Enir-pe- Got Off Chsap. He may well think, he has got off cheap, who, after having contracted constipation or Indigestion, is still able to perfectly restore hla health. Nothing will do this but Dr. Kings New Life Pill. 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