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Show tiik iwson chronicle, payson 0 rmp an,. U a J ,,;I'pos vp' tlie ,'1"'ll't.iir ' "'I, Yellowstone National Park ti Qteai Frontiersman UvE ' lifornia uo UTAH k'C v 7i '. j. ' 5, I'- - ?5 v - $ t,y f .. Housewife's Idea Box VV ' y 'KW ?wW,3ht 'i-- r$ ? iff4 'j IvSw Keeping Butter Freh Seine lines jmi tuny have to keep butter fur a long time. A good way lo kci p 11 lroni turning rum hi U to pilot the Initter In a Rin'ill dish. Wiing out ii rag tlmt lias been M'.ikci! ii, very cold water. Cover ttie tl.Mi w.tli tl, s cloth You will I't to timl how long the sin i butler will kup i Uh' Cuj Did SCOTT ELMO By WATSON the tangled briars the neglected post je frontier who is a. most as much mytli -- u dais when Ned Runtime, Col. others of the bang hang Rack at Fort Laramie Milner became a hun'ei r shiol of liteialcre were turning out their for the American Fur company tor a year oi u.h com J of to thrill so. Then he accompanied a party of trapper-t- o paper hacked dime novels innHirs, a jouth, one of their favorite characters Fort Ilridger wtiere he became acquainted ltd pet "California Joe, whom they built op as a with its famous owner, Jim I.rldger, and entered man. Hot the California Joe of his employ as a livestock herder. Returning to novel fame and the Mo.ses Milner Scout Fort Laramie in the spring: of is hi Milner found sips in the g'.ueiard at 1ort Robinson there a letter from his parents telling of then How one and the s one man. him to come home move to Missouri and oi.neli for Ins i mure fame, a hook which So he joined a party of mountain men hound recently been publlsheil dispels the myths for St. Louis. egends that luu grown up around his name At Fort Leavenworth (Ion. Stephen W. Kearney H fines what is evidently the first complete was mobilizing his "Army of the West" for serv ont of his amazing career. That book is ice in the war which had been declared against California Joe, vvrittm t.y Joe 15. Milner, his Mexico and wdien lioniplian's Missouri Mounted jadson, and Earle I!. Forrest, and published Volunteers arrived there in June, young the Caxtun Muter,, I.td of Caldwell, Idaho, Milner forgot about returning to his home. With abased upon war department records and two other trappers tie joined tlie army ns pack ' perSl,nal 1''i"r.v of the Milner family and ers and teamsters. After serving with Doniphan soeb is a valuable contribution to authentic in Milner returned to Missouri and .Mexico, "rture of the frontier. Rut out his family in Warren county. sought California Jue's full name was Moses Em after his experiences in the Far West life In lie s - V, Ue "as l,orn SIfly 8- - 1829, near the states seemed tame and he soon set out on up ,p Plantation of his father, again on a trading and trapping expedition MeeArmstej,, Milner, a veteran of the War the Platte. flUh'r llll(1 SerVPd lD tlle HeV0 Late In November, 11S, he was hack in Mis t Tkh0Se ,e 'Iibiets In America were two sour! to spend the winter with his parents, hut V,!ih0 e,llieniteii front Yorkshire, England. expecting to start out again the following spring n? tv.8, Jn 1a!' r"m time on mem However, when the Watts family from east Tenlev the family were restless and westward-I- ' nessee moved to an adjoining farm and young pioneer a f,,t M hich makes the career Milner Emma Nancy saw fourteen-year-olmost famous were mar were California changed. They member, his Joe," plans Watts, e tto5erstanil.il, 'e. ried on May 8, 1850, his twenty first birthday, ' iroung Milner g!PW up in a land where skill and the next day they set out for a honey moon y. i tit long riile w paragraph one, chapter trip across tlie plains to California, lured there, T'1" its eiifor.cn, o,.( of the law of survival as were so many thousands In lMhod, bv the the fitter " . ls Ilot surprising to learn hope of making their fortune in tlie gol fields the creatlti I10 killed his ibrtlL!'e f first deer because of his experience on the pla.iis, IVasbi" h0 was fourteen lie was one of youthful bridegroom was elected guide of the S ln and after a jour e boys s Ul'n part of 'tenJerh(' Kentucky. At wagon train which they joined the ru'iim.to :il'" gton. 1.1 the riri,a"e wanderlust him ney of six months they reached seized - Ires nr aifornia Joe began, valley safely. j, ritiU 'Ur: cut M iner irlyar.x lle shouldered his f'ttuok-Leaving his bride at Sacramento, Mn truck ! dm! and fields to the ,lis fas gold Parents that he at once h rot of Iew daygi gtartld out two years he accumulated a coiim of the oiegon f"r "as tlie ast sa" tune. Then reiwirts of the fertility and Chen one day in country drifted down into California and M.lner be apw,nrr. i1! tl"'lr nfw l",,ne In 'Varren decided to emigrate there. In 1852 he took up uf. '!ll''ne Milner having emigrat- a homestead In what is now Renton county and - to U.at gtam settle down as a farmer and stock Jttkhlj' pon.i ,rjll,se Kpn,llcky "'a9 Setting prepared to 9 b'.de him and he wanted raiser In the new country. s,lit in,,.. elh.jw room Rut again the wanderlii-- t seized the young Uwse flie Nl. frontiersman and within a year he was faring fr"n''forth upon his career of wandering footloose arNoDef v li", ''"'"outers of his time seem to through all parts of tlie West which ended only with his dentil nt Fort Robinson in 18,(1. During Louis, tho fi' rin' "pstward he had reached tlie patient had seen. At these years Nancy Emma Milner, s, remained Iljs-eAmerican this of 10 Che West and Penelope HWters of V'" Kateway and activities Its llr trade I1 Ittrty There he joined on the Oregon ranch, directing of trai had been horn to l,ier they fa, en route to Independence rearing the four Sons that l Ihemselves for a hunting them. upping tr the ! "l 1latte river. Tlie nest News of gold strikes in eastern Washington Uey wo "rt Eurainie to sell their and northern Idaho took him there in the sum "oies to ... . ; Ulhlloan Fur company, owners mer Post!" of 1S59 and three years later he was pur w p ity in irginla suing the golden will o the he Mont. It was ln the hitter gold camp that was to make so he which r whic' w sobriquet ids stone country. In Asked by a party of miners wli.it a battle " ,an lh.it it was Joe and when the tiiteen year-olhe was name replied h.s flr boj O'hari f three of them In fact thev asked him vvhe.c lie was from he jokingly lhm f,p tie n From C.i'ifoin.i where you find of 4no , lrV t,ir,)llgh the head at a dis answend c h and rPat en real "'hi1'!, won from Jim gold ;(sf the r,rJi "I heics a lad who oriiM Joe and Ih.it n ' u a gr. 86 nn 'he die r in under ot h ier some ila Urn''", ,n,""p ',P M c i t lived to a prediction Fi om Mon' See ( ,me on up then .in. iiung ,ig -- ct In the mss Ingraham and cc-- y e lhi, tht 1 , (I Ltti ir v- - - F Itr1 - r?. ; 1 fc"'1 V0r-the'';- 1,1 r" f 1 l' 11 m Standing upon lnspiintlon point, wliiih pu hi s almost to the center of the canyon, one sis ms to look verlnally down upon the foaming Yellowstone river. To the southwest a w iterfall twice the height of Niagara rushes out of the pine dad hills and plunges Into the gorge The Bleep glopi s of the canvon wall, dropping a thousand and more feet, are incnnedvahly carved and fretted by the fro't and erosion ot the ages. Here and there jagged needles live pei pendiculai ly for hundreds of feet like groups of goiliie spins. The whole canyon Is colored as brokenly and vividly as the field of a kaleidoscope and Is streaked mid spotted In eveiy shade fiom the deepest orange to the faintest lemon; fiom deep nmson to the softest pink: from lilac k thinueli all the greys and peails to glistening white The Yellowstone National Iaik ls one c,f the largest and most sue cessful wild life refuges in the wot Id. For tills reason It Is also an excellent and accessible fi'hl for nature si inly. Not the lea- -t if its attractions for lovers of out of doors ls the excellence of the fishing. All of the pro it watersheds abound In iroui wlihh often attain gnat size. There Is, for eomparauio pm posts, more fishing water in the patk than in the entile Mate of Utah' Last year, It nt Yellowstone is ri ai heel by rail and highway. traded the greatest number of visitors since Its opening In 1x72, There were 200,775 who loured (his great si me paradise during the season from June 11 to Septi tuber 13. 18ig; Milner , , e -- i i Mr. RiadFR I s. spared. the White T. McCillyciiddy, then surgeon rner by Dr. with tl ,se. ond and Third Cavalry regiments in ('look's army who had known Joe well during tlie Jenny expedition. Dr. M, Cillv cud !v, who is Cali-f- . still living I'l Reikeley, Calif., declacs that t m natinal seo as a no had equal nil Joe rh m e over the ability, rtlmbilPv and wide expi in vv biography this of a and reading ier" from of him confirms that opinion. a It aN" contains the material to rpet many some of the frontier about lx lief "popular notables who have been so widely publicized. as a slaver Recaii.se of Ruffalo bill's reputation Idea that lie a widely-aopted is of bison there was a wizard with the ritle. lie may have been, b. n a deadlier hut there probably has never with Ids heavy ntie shot than California Joe w tilcli he demonstrated time after a fact Sharps, and in Indian time, both In shooting matches lie was h"'ied on the hanks of V. , c buttles. Wild bill Il'.kok Is famous for the number of men who weie votings of his speed and deadly Joe had accuracy with the pistol. If California on his gun for been given to rutting notches could lave shown a every man he had slain, he In the record which would have placed amateur class This does not mean that Milner was. was a killer in the sense that Wild bill I was put on. He was ear cable enough until man to fool Then lie prove himself a had sorrow his to learned man with- as ninny a to le sorry. enough lived If he long Is, that self appointed Cody and Hnkok had many both deown, re, their to spread press agents had no Joe California undeserved. served ami In xml first aids to fame. IPs neglected grave Is symbolic Robinson Fort at teim-terx t (he j is ofteu unof the f.ot that true greatness is too and unsung uulioiiored wept, Hb-ko- - y Wes'cro Newsca-e- r Union. f rnr MUI.T.1N eome otTV bevy of reporter were holding uhat ls technically known as u death watch" on a famous man who was thought to be dying. What are Ills last words going to A asked om. lie Isn't going to have any,'1 reYour city plied a confrere tartly. editor ami mine can't get together beV on them ' Rut tills story has a happy end Uncle Dud lug. The man got well. ley," In the Boston Sunday Globe. charm. ei as SEW IFF. t. Inc. extremely dangeious. but the geyseis and the hoi water formations aie hv no means the only wonders in Yellowstone! The brand Canyon of the Yi llowstone The Grand ls entirely different from lls cousins in boiithoin Utah. -Canyon of tho Yellowstone is the cameo of all the canyons a gorge so marvdously roloml that one may stand for houis eni.iptuud at Its n. For the next five years he orvid as a scout for the troops operating against tlie hostile InIndian Terntnrj and Texas. dians in K.in-a- s, Inning tins time he made the n qu.imtanee of such border notables as Wild Rill lllikok, buffalo bill Cody. (apt. D I.. Payne, the Cimarron Scout, scried with Reneial Custer as chief of scouts In the Rattle of the Washita and the subsequent campaign and rapidly rose to a position of outstanding important e among tlie frontiersmen of the period. Plum Kansas he diifted West agiin to Nevada thon hack Into Wyoming whole ,i ud California, he solved as guide for the Jenny geological and topographical sinveying exped.tmn Into the After Ills return from 'his expediI, link Hills. tion i,o guided a eavalrv column cut from Fort Ln ra in io to the Red Cloud agency to hold in heck t lie Sioux who were threatening to go on the v arpatli l.o au-- e of tin ini avion of their Imlovod Fas-ipp(Rlatk Hills) hv the miners tom this place Milner wrote the letter to Ills sons tiepiodiieed above) telling of ot the new diggings and uiging theie. Hills and IiiIy the next year he was In the hied a homestead claim on til'd liens on Rapid Cieek on which the present Rapid City was later built. In the fall of 187i he joined the command of Con. (leorge (rook as a scout and was assigned to the force led by Col. Ronald S. Mackenzie to disarm Red Cloud's (iglalas before lie was to have they could join the Mackenzie in the latter's (ieen chief of scouts for ( winter campaign against Dull Knifes tieyennes set out, on the s before expedition but a few day October g'd, he was shot down from behind and killed at Fort Robinson by a man named Tom some trouble New i mill) with whom lie had had had once in the Id, iik Hills, and whose life he i It is and Indian tighter. His name was Kit Car-oMilner served as a scout under Carson and fought vvitli him at his famous battle of Adobe Walls In the Texas Panhandle, then after a period of pi ting in Colorado and lighting Ap. ii lies in New Mexico he diifted north into lx in- -. is and remlied Fort ltdey in the fall of Mrs. M.E. Jiy T. J No pei son lias leully livid who hasnt felt the maji sly ot bellow-tonPai kl Those aie the wolds of an ancient cynic a man who for year couldn't understand why hu should see Yellowstone when there was When finally coaxed to visit this so much to see Mimew bei e else. and since patriarch of all the national parks, ho went unwillingly then has made a trip a year without fall. Yellowstone, which ls located In Wyoming's northwest corner and borrows poitions of Its lofty area from both Idaho aiul Montana, is the largest of Fncle Sam's national play grounds. It has an aiea of 3,42t square miles. While great and varied arc the attractions of tins vast park, Yellow stone's greatist hue lies in the phenomena of Its geysers. There are Most of them are about 3.000 geysers and hot spi mgs tn the park. located in the six pimilpal gevser basins, the Norris, l.ower, Midway, Upper, Heart Lake, and Shoshone basins. Old Faithful, most famed of the vv oi Id's gey si is, has played with legulailty every 05 minutes for years. The hot spring tiriacis are also an awe insphing spect.u le. Well marked trails wind tin ir way among the Hi anting pools- - and touilsts lespect the trail-- , as in many places the cnist ls linn and walking on tie went to tort Cnion, N. M where he met a fellow Kentm kian. alieady lumous as a scout and weeds of cemetery at Fort Robinson, Neb., stands a small, white stone slab which marks the last resting place of i gie.it frontiersman. Yet the lnvT ption on it gives no hint of that fait. It simply says: Moses Milner Scout. And that is the epitaph of one of the most picturesque figures in the history We-- t, a h.u acter in the drama of MONO tgller'. lot There Last Word." Then used to In u alliy fad of at ti Halting to every notable in a n on b.s dea! tilled Koine phrase which n us supposed to epitomize Ids career. I he Hone culler's chisel ou the entablature of the public building Is it Mt by way of being n similar sentimentality the attempt to provide an age with last words " Bo conceived, how would this age of ours tn ai purr In ltd Thin ii one of iorus of nrtn-k- i CiUli. assis-tnlefike AU.ei rule cluba of eiH.ns, led lo tl,e Salt re of nmm, rri , xrt of a ,1. units ami aoit I loll, lon'ral south, in ,o point out Until a rtsm.uoa io that l.u wl poople will I.murHm "Know Utah I 11115 M 1uImIc Da your pail to aJvrrthr Cti,h. PLa't send tne nelue la i ome fricnj or rclaltVf or business assonute out of the Slate. IDA. A decided in the number of farms m and the amount of act Intermountain News cultivation m Idaho in the last briefly told for Busy Readers five years was shown in a nqxiit released hy the stjte census 7000 TO FIGHT FIRE bureau. Elgin cs for 1!)35 showed 45,113 farms with 9,1)50,085 acres LIQUOR PRICES LOW under cultivation as compared FARMS SHOW INCREASE with 41,074 fuims and 9,340,908 MANY SCOUT DELLGA1ES acres in 1930. A in the SALT LAKE CITY, UT Utah valuation of fuims was shown, will have more than 800 elele-- ! however, with the bureau regates, including at least 250 from portingr the 1935 value at $308,-- 1 as computed with 87,14 Salt Lake, at the silver jubilee in 1930. Boy Scouts of Ameiica jamboiee BOISE, IDA -- Mary Smith of in Washington, D. C , August 21 to 30, C. J. Cailson, region 12 exRcxburg, became the tenth womecutive at Los Angeles has an-- 1 an in Idaho's history to be adnouncod. Became of the enthuxi-- 1 mitted to the state bar. She took asm among Utah scouts, sponsors the oath be foie Jiutiee Raymond and leadeis, the wed doubtlessly L. Givens IDAHO FALLS, IDA.-Ne- -ai will have a higher topic irl.ilion ly at the jamboree Hum tie east, 9000 Idaho women have attended the executive said. He pointed women's vacition (amps during out Hint 10 special trains will be tl.e plat few v.iekx, and tnoie required to cany boys fiom re- - than 25 per eent of tl.e total nu'nbi r have pal tu ipat d m tla gion 12 alone, vhicii unhides Utah, Nevada, Anzona and Cal- full tliiee-da- v piopiuins in om or ni"ie of the four canq s held ifornia. SALT LAKE CITY, UT-- An under the supeiviMon of the impressive mm x a lo the mi- - University of Idaho extension prove merit it pi tend by f'inual division. businus is suppled by tipuic; SALT LAKE CITY, released by the state tax com1,500,0'") cans of mission w hich show that the fruits and vegetables will be the for taxes payment of special piocaM'd and placed m homes of fiist seventeen days e.f the new relief clients this summer by the fiscal year of FjJfi is (0 per cent canning centers being e.peiated larger than for a sin ilar period m 23 of Utah's 29 rounties under of last year. tlie direction of the state board OGDEN, U T .Approximately of public welfare. This is double -d 7000 CCC men have been the amount of fanned focidstutfs into service iccently to aid in which was made available last fighting fire s which have broken year. More and better subsistence out on the Idaho, Targhee, Chal- gardens, raised by the relief ks and Payette foreHs, in forest clients themM-lvestogether with of the canning service region No. 4, teports C. an cnlai gerne-nN. Woods, assistant regional for-- i activities, is ible for the ester in charge of operation. increase. BOISE, ' Quick, Pleasant Successful Elimination lad's be frank there's only one nay for your body to rbl Itself of the vviisto material Hint causes acidity, gas, headaches, blunted feelings and n dozen other discomforts. Your Intestines must function nnd the wny to make them move quickly, pleasantly, successfully, without gilpmg or harsh Irritants is to rhewr n Mllnesla Wafer thoroughly, ln with directions on tho bottle or tin, then swallow. Miliiesin Wafers, pure milk of magnesia In tablet form, each equivalent to n tablespoon of liquid milk of magnesia, correct n blity, bad breath, flatulence, nt their source, and enable yon to have tlie quick, pleasant, successful elimination so necessary to abundant health. Mllnesla Wafers cmim In bottles nt "5c and (Ac or In convenient tins nt 2')c. Recommended by thousands of physicians. All good druggists carry them. Htart using these pleasant 'tasting effective wafers today. OINTMENT $117,-219,57- , will aid iri removing that if chin dandruff, assisted by shampoos with, luticura SOAP to keep your scalp clcaa. ai- -: WNE-- W SALT LAKE'S NEWEST HOSTELRY O Our lobby Is delightfully air cooled daring the summer months Radio lor Every Room 200 Roo mi 200 Botha prc-M- , . " i t IDA. An Infestaand grasshoppers crickets of tion on the Raft river division of the Minidoka national forest is re-- 1 ported. SALT LAKE CITY, U T . Prices being charged for wines and liquors by the state liquor control commusion and its agen-- i cies are far below those prevalent in California, whc-rprivate agencies handle it. according to Hugh B. Brown, chairman of the date liquor cntiol c n mrnon BURLEY, 7Y1 " TWIN FALLS, IDA. Farmers and oflieials express confidence that the new type of beet seed, demonstrated in fly-- i n f e s t e d areas, is paving the way to production of sugar beets, and bringing greater as.sur?nce of steady beet yields henceforth than ierhaps any other single factor. ST. GEORGE, UT A blight appearing in tomato fields is expected to greatly reduce the sue-cesrf- ul rop. HOTEL Temple Square Pates $1.50 to $3.00 liotri Tempt Snr haa 0 IiikIiI? dfvinltlri frirntlljr ittniu will alwau it ittmiac phrr. You romfortuM, mi ulnt, otsrrmftiy crrraM. TL 1 horoiifttily m rn I fore umiNifHOii whf thii bolr. Ul IIIMILY RfCOMMIMJED Y ou ran 1ao pprorivto wkyi Cl mirfc of dti(nc(ion to stop at t hts beautiful ho&Ulry r K I ST C. RO.SSITER, Mgr. |