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Show June 13, UH4 Page Seven The Pyramid Local men win honors The Storm Testament" are available for $12.95 from The Pyramid, 90 West Main, Mt. Pleasant or by mailing $12.5 plus $1.71 tax and postage to: The Pyramid, P. O. Box A, Mt. Pleasant, Utah 84647 or to: Liberty Press, 500 South 1200 West, Orem, Utah 84058. "The Storm Testament" is also available in local bookstores.. Copies of belonged to the dead Indian. Holding the point firmly against my arm, I twisted the butt in a circular motion, pressing the point harder and harder against my skin. When I pulled the knife away, there was a red dot on my arm. I did the same thing on my cheek Benny wasnt paying any attention to what I was doing. Benny, I called. I think Im As I came to my senses, I could coming down with the pox. Look at hear the splashing of horses hooves my cheek. in shallow water and mens voices in Looks like a big pimple, he said a language I couldnt understand. after looking at my cheek for a moment. He turned away, not inA They were Indians, all right. Did you cover your trail across terested in my problem, and not' the sand before crawling in here? caring why I would be interested in a asked Benny, his voice still in a little red spot at a time like this. I quickly made another red dot on whisper. It had never occurred to me to my other cheek. It was painful, but cover my trail. In dragging myself that didn't matter. I made about a across the sand, Id probably left a dozen more red dots with the knife trail an Indian could spot a mile before I asked Benny to look at me away. I felt so stupid. It was bad again. He responded exactly as I hoped enough, setting myself up for caphe would. ture, but I had also uncovered Hell, you really do have the pox! in the Bennys hiding place process. But wait a minute... I wished I had drowned and never He was wondering how the spots found this place. could have appeared so quickly, Thats alright, conforted without any fever or other sympBenny, sensing my regrets. He toms. I held the knife point against three-foo- t a club. stout, picked up arm and made another red spot, my Guess we better be getn ready then asked, form. Do you think them Injuns will The Indians didnt come right in after us as we thought they would. dare scalp me if they think I have We could hear a lot of what sounded the pox? There wasnt any time to waste. like laughing, boasting, arguing, and grabbed the knife and began Benny more hooves splashing through the water. More Indians were coming. It making more pox marks on me, on of my hands, on my neck soon sounded like the entire party of the backs and chest, and on my feet. It hurt, 30 or so braves were at the entrance but he made sure that every piece of to odr log fortress. I couldnt figure out why Benny exposed skin had red spots. The Indians hadnt expected us to and I would draw such a large crowd when undoubtedly there were other come out so soon. They didnt even white men hiding here and there up see us until Benny started yelling. Pox, pox, pox, he shouted, as he and down the river. Benny couldnt stood up among the logs, holding me figure it out either. in his arms. Help me, the boy has Then I knew. The whiskey barrel, the pox. Please help. erf course. The Indians were drinking Every Indian knew what pox the firewater. Theyd get our scalps meant without having to discuss the later. Boy, was I thankful Id matter. Each recognized the red dragged that barrel ashore. dots and the shivering. And each one We hoped that if the Indians got knew the dreaded smallpox could drunk enough, we could sneak out kill more Indians in a few weeks during the night, lash a couple of than famines, grizzly bears, and logs together, and be on our way. white mans bullets could kill in Suddenly Benny was silent. After years. a moment he whispered, Within seconds the Indians were Listen. for their horses. They scrambling For a minute I couldnt hear were in such a hurry to get away, anything except the lapping of the even left their firewater behind. they nearby river against the sandy Most didnt even bother to look back shore, and the occasional shriek of a as they plunged into the water. drunken Indian. Then I heard the Three days later, Benny and I sound that had disturbed Benny, the were up by a steamer called unmistakable rubbing of naked skin the pickedMountain Belle, headed Rocky -' cotof the surface rough against for Fort Benton. Benny would rather tonwood logs. One or more of the have been picked up by a boat Indians was coming after us. but not me. I downstream, heading stout Each of us picked up a club, was anxious to find out if Ike was and Benny moved quietly in the still alive, and if he was, to resume direction of the sounds, and our to the Rocky Mountains. journey stationed himself beside the opening wbfere the Indians would most likely THE STORM TESTAMENT enter Our den. The mid-da- y sun gave us just enough light to see what we VOL. I, II, III were doing. Ideal for Father's Day Apparently the Indians found it too THE PYRAMID difficult to crawl among the logs with bows or rifles, because the first Mt. Pleasant 90 West Main brave to crawl into view was armed CHAPTER 19 wittyonly a knife. When I came to the Rocky He had time to yell once before Moutains, by damn, there were no Benny batted him senseless with the lawmen to tell us what to do, no tax club. All was quiet for a few men to charge us for doing it, and no minutes, then we could hear the women to retreat of other bodies. We had won preachers or tell a man that his pleasure wasnt the first round. right. Benny handed me the Indians In those days, a man knew why knife. Except for moccasions and a he was in the mountains. To wade up loin cloth, the brave was naked. His a creek and think that no man - no lifeless body was smeared abunwhite man - had ever been there white and black with tjed, dantly before. We gave names to the paint. All was quiet for a long time, too creeks, valleys, ridges and peaks. Everything was new, fresh, and quiet. Benny was the first to smell innocent as God made it. A man felt smoke. The Indians were setting our like Adam in the Garden of Eden -log jam on fire. all the world newborn, ready to be It took a few minutes for the looked at, touched, smelled. significance of the smoke to set in. When spring seeped into the Our log fortress would make a mountains, and the streams were campfire that would light up the jammed with beaver, I wouldnt evening sky for many miles. If we didnt want to be roasted, we could have traded places with God himself. give ourselves up to the Indians for torture and scalping. The situation I.was listening to George Franklin was desperate. There didnt seem to Chesterfield III, more commonly known as Beaver George. We were be anything we could do to avoid capture. I almost laughed at the riding along a grassy hillside unusual turn of events. The night overlooking the Madison River. I had joined up with George in Fort before, I had nearly died of cold. Benton. We were both headed for the Now I was facing death by fire. Snake River country, George to trap We became silent as the smell of the smoke became stronger. There beaver, and me to fine Ike. When I arrived in Fort Benton and with the wasnt much brush-mixe- d a Ikes about take I would it so began asking logs, guessed while for the blaze to really get whereabouts, I learned that he had left a few days earlier with a group going, but once the big logs caught of prospectors headed for the Snake on fire, the heat would force the River country. I suppose Ike figured Indians to take their whiskey barrel I had been killed in the boiler exto the other side of the island. I began to wonder what it would be plosion down the river and didnt see like burning to death. I had heard any need in waiting for me. continued that burning was a lot worse than Every summer, freezing. I thought back on the time I Beaver George, wed all gather for a rendezvous at Pierres Hole, on the had burned my hand on a hot horGreen River, or in Cache Valley. like was it what working seshoe, under a blazing summer sun, the Sometimes, over a hundred trapfever when I had smallpox. pers would show up, and lots of I was eight at the time, and felt Injuns, too. Ashley and his men would bring trade goods and suplike my skin was going to burst into flames. I remembered how good it plies all the way from St. Louis so felt when my mother would put her they could rob us blind tradin us out of our furs. In 30 I brought in just cool hand on my forehead. She had been dead four years now. Maybe I over 300 pelts, worth $18000. Could would see her today, after I was have bought me a hundred-acr- e dead too, if there really was life farm in Missouri. But after three after death. I figured there was an weeks of tradin, gamblin, drinkin, afterlife, like the scriptures said, buv and fightin, all I had to show for my today it appeared I would find out years work was enough powder, for sure. balls, and traps to get through I thought back again on the heat of another season. the smallpox fever. It was still cool Ashley would buy in our den under the logs... percent corn whiskey for a dollar a Smallpox. Benny had talked about gallon, then hed water each gallon down with three gallons of creek it on the river, how many thousands of Indians had died of the disease water, flavor it up with tea, tobacco, two summers ago. All the Indians on ginger, red peppers and molasses. the river knew about Smallpox, and Hed sell it to us for a dollar a quart. He never seemed to run out. all were terrified of it... I picked up the knife that had Continued iw "'m W at karate tournament 4. MT. PLEASANT Two local men received trophies at the Society of Black Lion Annual Tournament held June 9 in Page, Arizona, and a youth placed in the event. 4 fe i "f it ?1PV John Christensen, Mt. Pleasant and Matt Hamilton, Fountain Green were awarded trophies for Most Dedicated Student and Most Improved Student at the karate championships. Sperry Univac softball players challenged the Moroni Processing Plant Team players inteam on Monday, June 4th. Sperry won the game clude Yvonne Carter, Lane Anderson, Paula Brewer, Bob Reese, Lari Perry, Clair Whitmen, Tonya Oslund, Rick Allred, John McConnell, Zane Munson. 17-- John Christensen, Mt. Pleasant Police Chief, also placed third in Green Belt Kata and third in hand to hand technique along with his Most Dedicated Student award He was also advanced to Brown Belt classification Matt Hamilton, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hamilton of Mt. Pleasant, placed second in Blue Belt Kata competition and second in weapons competition as well as the Most Improved Student Award. He was Belt Green to Classification. Paul Hamilton. Jr., 14 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hamilton, Mt. Pleasant, placed second in Purple Belt Kata Competition. Seven local karate students ate tended the competition. A total of 57 students participated in the event. advanced five-stat- Mt Pleasants Society of Cook captures golf tourney Frank Cook of Moroni NEPHI was one of two winners at the TourCanyon Hills Amateur Golf nament which was held Saturday, June 9. Cook won the net with a score of 63. Kent Abegglen of Ogden, won gross with a score of 71. Each golfer received $250 in merchandise. There were 68 amateur golfers from around the state that entered the tournament which is held annually in June. Cook also won the closest to the hole contest which is 165 yard par 3 He put his tee shot 2 feet from the pin to win a dozen golf balls. 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