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Show FREE PRESS Feature Page ae THE MYTON F 8 Pages. $2.00 per year to everyone. Oe i THE MYTON _ Prepared especially for the nh _- Busy Readers a The paper that reaches every part of the Uintah Basin, 33 states in the Union and 3. foreign countries. | | OSMOSIS uth Dakota's The KITCHEN - | _CABINET Pare oe oe ER (©. Nach 1928. Western Newspaper Union.) 2 Uneaten A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many oth- Sete ers; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.—Perey B Shelly. DISHES A most which move WORTH TRYING wholesome will dish and one be enjoyed by young and old ig: Beets Stuffed With 4) Spinach.—NSelect six me dium sized beets, scrub Place them. them well. in a baking dish with water that. just the clings to them; cover and bake until tender in a moderate oven. Ke- and ‘slip off the skin. When cool enough to handle scoop out the centers, leaving a good’ sized cavity salt and FRED E. SUTTON By ELMO SCOTT NCE torian a of time’a his the American listing and describing frontier set about his task by Lh PLU UL fl ; | the “instruments of civilization.” He named the ax, the rifle, the boat and horse, and then, having put these the cooked chicken, one cupful of soft bread crumbs, one tablespoonful each instruments in the hands of a restless race of men, he started enists of his tale on their serness-breaking. That of butter and lemon juice and half a teaspoonful of salt. Moisten with cream, fill the pepper shells and cover with buttered crumbs. Bake in a moderate oven until the crumbs are brown. the protagepic of wil- historian was Emerson Hough, and the book was “The way to the West,” published by the Bobbs- Merrill orm any of Indiansxpolis, | A quarter of a century has passed nad another has added ments race historian of one more of civilization,” the “instru- which a later eS of GROUP OF OLD-LILE COWBOKS West, this book deals with of the frontier civilization, as the final phase era, the days when exemplified by the westward-pushing white man, definitely dispossessed the red had man, established a home of sorts in the recently-conquered wilderness and set about putting its own house in order. Insofar aS some members of. that household found it difficult to break away from certain lawless habits ac. quired while what Theodore Roose velt has characterized as the “rough work of conquering a continent” was going on, the task of iaw-bringing ‘was done ina primitive fashion. -perfiuous Jegal forms were dispensed technicalities ignored Su with and the dealing out of justice was, in the light of present-day procedure, appal lingly simple and direct. For in most eases Old Judge Colt was the finai arbiter, and was rarely Mention from his an appeal. the word decisions there “gunman” and one naturally thinks of the gangsters in our big cities of today. But as Emerson Hough long ago pointed out €ia his “The Story of the Outlaw’) it is exceedingly unfair to the gun man of the Old killer of today is an assassin, West with the to compare him. “The other was the one a war. rior; the one is a dastard, the other was something of a man,” said Hough who declared that. the nature of. some of the modern eause type a crimes committed of “gunman” hardened desperado by the “would of the West to blush for shame.” And in that opinion Fred Sutton; who knew some of those old-time desperadoes intimately, seems to concur. In his ehapter on “The Border Code” is an illuminating exposition of “the unwritten law of the Old West, which gave to every man a chance.” One instance is typical: in a freighters’ camp at Wagon- Bed Springs two men quarreled, and after they were separated and all of us thought the fuss was over, one of them, Arizona Jack, shot and kille@ the other without what was called warning. We formed 4 jack-rabbit court. Arizona was put end found guilty. on trial for He begged his for life his fife but the executioner. just before he pulled the trigger. rebuked him witb. 9 “You’re not as decent. even, as a rattlesnake, for it warns before it. getrikes.”” It was this same code which caused Sate SHE AB ihe Sangwichee.—The open, sandwiéh is especially well liked to serve with tea on an afternoon, as if is pretty to look at and just a mere mouthful, all one cares to eat. Mix chopped raisins witb orange juice, add a few drops ot lemon juice, garnish with halves of blanched almond. BAP TUSTERSON the frontier to restless men used in winning after their fathers had found the way to it. This was the six-shooter and it seems particularly appropriate that Bobbs-Merrill are also the publishers of “Hands Up!— Stories of the Six-Gun Fighters of the Old Wild West,” as told by Fred Ik. Sutton and written down by A. B. MacDonald. As the title itdicates, _the Raisin; Open ' Oysters. Sutton one night at a dance to save the life of the notorious Billy the Kid, “not solely for the reason that I knew him well but simply that 1 could not see a man murdered from behind,” as he explains it. But for all that he saved Billy from being shot in the back, the author of “Hands Up!” has no young served outlaw. Killing, illusions “Tf ever it was about a man Billy the President Roosevelt on one of his vis: its to Oklahoma City by the veteran Billy Tilghman, as follows: ‘There’s one thing that always counts in a fight of that kind (between a peace officer and a bad man, equally skillful on the ‘draw’)—the man who knows that de-< he is right always has a shade on the man who knows he is wrong.” - But that was not all, according Kid to Sutton, who he says, “He was a human tiger, the most pitiless killer of that period In his short life of twenty-one years he killed twenty-one men, and the most of those killings were murders done in cold blood.” Thus this old-timer shows a refresn these peace ing ning-like lack of maudlin sentimentality for those kiilers which colors the writings of others who have chron icled their dark deeds, the same type of misplaced sympathy which saves. the necks of so many murderers today. He knew many of them—Jesse James, Cherokee’ Bill, Bill Doolin Crescent Sam, Belle Starr, the Dalton boys, the Jennings gang, Henry Starr Blacked-faced Charley and Arkansas Tom—and; knowing them and the en- vironment which shaped their destinies, he can account for what they were and what they did. -But he does not glorify their crimes. He may have admired them for what good qualities they did possess, but he ad mires more the type of gunman who drew his six-shooter in the cause of law peace and order. officers “Nearly of the old all those frontier were likable men, but there was nothing maudlin or -irresolute about them They knew that death was the onlypenalty that would curb those wild men of the border, and when it was necessary to inflict it they did nor hesitate,” says Sutton. Such were Wild Bill Hickok, whom he character izes as “unquestionably the fastes! and that surest man with a_ six-shooter the West ever knew,” Bat Mas- ‘terson, Pat Garrett and Billy Tilgh man. It was men of this type who used ment the six-shooter as of civilization.” an “instru- “Will your band!” was the remark that Wild Bill made when he “got the drop on” a bad man from Texas who had come up the trail to Hays City. Kan., where Bill was marshal, with the announced ‘intention of spilling the Hickok code extended law and blood. order to For these when the. border exponents they set of about arresting a desperado and made them “sive the other fellow a chance, even when it was exceedingly dangerous to do so.” One of the reasons they were willing to do so was explained to explains officers handled guns, and in doing so he much-needed debunking West, as it is vies.. Sutton first-hand, for demonstrate others. ‘when, as a their six- does a lot of of the Wild presented by the secret of and various technique were by such masters Billy Tilghman, and how the mo- got his information he once saw Wild Bill draw ters of Colt to him terson, just as Al his light- other mat- explained Bat MasJennings. He learned about this boy, he first arrived in fond of these tenwill enjoy a different way of pre paring them. Oysters With Macaroni.— Cook three-fourths of a ‘eupful of . macaroni until tender in boiling salted water. Put a layer of macaroni imo a_well-buttered baking’ dish, cover with a pint of oysters, dredge with flour, salt; pep per and dot with two tablespoonfuls with Repeat buttered cupful of and finisb crumbs. cream Add or milk the top one-halt if the mix ture lacks moisture. Bake twenty min utes in a hot oven or jong enough te cook the oysters. witheut’ toughening them. Hot Guster: Canape.—Take oblongs of bread, brown tightly in butter and sprinkle a bit of finely chopped onien and parsley in the center of each. Lay a large oyster well drained in the center of each, season with salt. pep per, lemon juice and top each with a Dodge City. Kan., in the old days when “there was no Sunday west of Kansas City and no God, west of Fort Smith,” and was taken under the wing of such frontier notables as square of sliced bacon pinned down Masterson, Luke Short, Wyatt Earp.! with a toothpick. Set under a gus Chalk ‘Beeson and Robert M. Wright, flame, just long-enough to curl the and he added to his knowledge in that oyster and cook the bacon, Serve-on turbulent period when Isaac C. Parker individual plates covered with paper was the “hanging judge” at fort garnished with temon = ana * doilies, Smith, Ark., and the outlaw gangs, parsley, such as the Daltons, the Dooling and. Baked Haddock With Oyster Stuff others, were making their last stand in what is now the state of Oklahoma. The sum total of Sutton’s observations. as his book, set down in the pages is a paraphrase of the of old saying that “they who take the sword shall perish by the sword.” For, as he puts it, “The six-shooter ended the lives of nine-tenths of all the outlaws of the Wild West.” And it was al- most equally true of those others who took up the six-shooter in aefense of the law. Of the four most samouy peace officers whom Sutton knew, three went down before a smoking — six-shooter. Wild Bill’s brief career as “prince of pistoleers’” ended abruptly in 1876, when he was shot down from behind in Deadwood, S. D. Nearly a = quarter of a century after Pat Garrett had killed Billy the Kid, he himself was shot and killed. After fifty-one years as a peace officer Billy Tilghman “went out” as he had* hoped to do “in smoke and with his boots on.” He was shot in an Oklahoma oil boom town in 1924 by a man whom he had arrested and was taking to the police station. Only Bat Masterson, whu left the Wild West years ago to be come a New York newspaper .man died peacefuily “with his boots off.” ing.—Remove from a and keep the skin four-pound head and haddock. the fillets in shape. tail Bone Sprinkle with salt and brusb with lemon juice Lay a fillet in a dripping pan, cover with oysters dipped in seasoned cracker crumbs. cover with another fillet, brush with egg then cover with buttered crumbs -and bake fifty min utes or until well cooked. Serve with Hollandaise sauce. Any meaty fish may be used in place of the haddock ‘Canadian Meat Pie.—Remove the meat from a Knuckle of veal. ~ Put the bones into a kettle, cover with vold water and add two slices of onion, one slice of carrot and twelve 1 Bring to the boiling “peppercorns. point, add the meat and simmer: un til tender. Remove the meat. sim mer the stock to two cupfuls. Put a slice of ham in a frying pan, cove: with tukewarm waiter and let stund ap hour. Brown four tablespoonfuls of butter with four tablespoonfuls. o1 flour, add the stock then ham and ty cut into minutes. bake. cubes Cover ALL but name, of South Dakota with the veal and simmer pastry twen and in the the Black are more Hills than ocean. They form a Sabiialite island of mountains in the Great Plains. and the natural attractiveness of their heavily wooded peaks and ridges and. their well-watered valleys is made doubly appealing by the contrast of the surrounding country. Touching the hills on the southeast is one of the most desolate yet interesting areas in America the Big Bad Lands of southwestern South Dakota. wheré, through thousarids of vears. rains have carved the light elays and mands into fluted columns and eones. jagged buttresses, and a thousand other fantastic forms. The Black Hills are not a part ot the Rockies, but they may be locked upen geologically as dwarf brothers to those giant mountains, showing the characteristics on a smaller scale. Both probably were formed about the same time. Pata assembled. by geologists show that millions ot years ago, during the Mesozoic age. a vast sea washed over the entire cen. tral portion of the continent. covering the site of the Black Hills It was at this time that the softer rocks of the region were formed as sediments. When at the end of the great from Mesozoic, the flow of melted granite welled below te raise the Rockies. found a weak spot at up it the site of the Black Hills and rose there, too, poking the surface limestones and other rocks up as a rising tent-pole pushes up the eanvas. The cooking process which the sur- face rocks underwent at that time had much to do with making the Black Hills one vions in of the the richest mineral re- country. “In the ages since these mountains rose. the softer stones have heen weathered away in nany places. ex: posing the hard granite, as at Harney peak. Around the base of this peak stand great spires, remnants of. the softer rock, which constitute Needles, one of the most striking of scenery in the region. Hunting Grounds of The bits ca, Before man these the life of Ameri coming wooded of the uplands They were unsettled by white were of the favorite hunting grounds Indians of the surrounding of Clark the territory passed Sioux, hold the this when in 1804. last of the desirable Lewis an@ came the Next red region men te before the advent of the whites. The first “written” history of the country is a pictorial chronicle of the Sioux on prepared skins. It records that the famous chief, Standing Bull. led a.party of warriors to the hills ahout the time of the American Deelaration of Independence, and took back to his plains home a tree, a type of tree never by his immediate tribe. _ Explored little seen by Army pine before Men, Probably the first whites to see the Blach .Hills were two Frenchmen, Louis-Joseph Verendrye and his broth- er, Francis Verendrye, who wandered’ west with @ party of, Indians in 1748. They. @atered the bills and clainied them for the king of France. The era of military exploration of the hil? eountry was opened by Gen. WS. Harney, for whem the highest of the region’s peaks is na.ned. He skirted the southern end of the highlands in 1855. The first real exploration. however, was carried out by officers of the United States army in 1857 and 1859, After these expeditions rumors of the existence of gold in the Black Hts spread throughout the nation. and a horde of would-he prospectors. insisted that they be permitted to seek their fortunes in the new El Dorado, In 1874 the secretary of war sent an expedition to the region and its mineralogists discovered gold When this became known. prospectors entered, in spite of the best efforts of the United states army. After a year or two of unsuccessful attempts to eject these white interlopers the federal government found it necessary ta purehase the hills from the Indians. Altogether more than $40,000,000) has heen spent hy the federal government en behalf of the Sioux as a result of their relinquishment .of the Black Hills, The region was thrown open. by President Grant in 1876, just 51 years ago. A frontier life of the most turhnu- lent sort developed in the. mining camps that sprang up, and Deadwood, the leading eamp. became the inspiration for the American “dime novel,” which eame into heing ahout that fime, Quiet Mining Region. All is changed now. ‘Mining has been Indians. The Black Hills derived their name from the blue-black appearance of the dense pine forests when viewed from a distance. They played a cae and interest- ing part in the frontier Biack Hills, sion Geographic Cy hills. They rise higher than either the Appalachian or the Ozark mountains, and Harney peuk, their loftiest mass, is the highest point between the neeeS and the Atlantic family Those who are der little morsels of butter. N crumbs and bake for fifteen minutes in a hot oven. Serve hot. Chicken and Mushrooms in Peppers —Prepare the peppers for stuffing by removing the tops and taking out the white fiber and seeds. Parboil ia slightly salted water for ten minutes, then drain. Drain the liquid from a small can of mushrooms, cut into pieces and add the yolks of three hurd cooked eggs chopped, one cupful of WATSON upon buttered the National Washington, _srnsommrenitans the beets, cover with Game (Prepared by Society. an with ee each pate at Sprinkle pepper and put a half teaspoonful of While the beets are butter in each. baking, cook spinach until tender. Drain, then chop fine and add one chopped hard cooked egg, two tablespoonfuls of butter and salt and pepper to season. Press the spinach into cena in each. one of the plains. whites long placed on a corporation and machine basis, and the once hectic mining camps have become quiet. prosperous little cities. The Homestake mine at Lead world is one of the largest in the and has taken out gold valued -at more dollars. than two hundred miltion Despite the industrialization of gold mining, there still dwell in the heart of the hills survivors of more primi- after emigrants had established them tive days, Still under the spell of the selves in California, Texas. Colorado. yellow metal they fare forth daily Utah, and other territories farther from their tiny log eabins in endiess This was because all of west._ _ search. “West. for reserved was Dakota A large part of the Black Hills fs South ern the Sioux Indians, covered by two adjacent national forIndian tribe possessed this— ests, Harney and Black Hills forests. What hunting ground of the? West the white man came to Ameri- choice before can unknown; is but the since ing of the West several distinct farther West. ; The Crow Indians are believed ft) bave been in possession of the Blaek Hills near the beginning of the Hight eenth century. Later the Poneas entered the eastern portior of the high lands, but, finding them occupied turned were from ined back the the rte eastwaru. rext East, gina lan The Cheyennes . successful invaders and were in posses RE NR CAR lS State park, one park areas of our 429 throughout the nation, is almost entirely) tribes| rounded by these reservations. have oecupied the region, each in turn forced out by a stronger group. In all cases these newcomers have appeared from the East and almost without exception the older residents have moved Custer splendid state surThe open- we 8 ere Meth eae cee park extends eastern edge ward about town of from near the south- of the Black Hills westeight miles toward the- Custer _inelude Harney and peak northwestward and Sylvan ta take, ahitude Of). F242 The peak kas an feet. Sylvan lake covers 40 acres and lies at an altitude of approximately a mile and a quarter. Game /in which vacation, Lodge, the state-owned hote! President Coolidge spent his is situated a few miles from the eastern edge of .he pa:k. in a vet ley among the lower hills. Its altitude is approximately 4,000 feet. i |