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Show THE SAUNA SUN, SAUNA, UTAH ! News Notes The Cooks Lost Letter It ( a Privilege to Live in Utah By DOROTHY DOUGLAS (Copyright.) picked Donald Sinclair that had been up the left 'u the subway, idly. He had no special interest in it; It had merely been occupying the space where be wished to sit. Back in his mind, but not in so exaggerated a proportion as to mar his outlook, was the wish that he was go' houseing home to a hold, to a dinner nicely served In their own small dining room Instead of one that his sister Jean had had to prepare after her own hard days work. Their experience with housekeepers had been unsuccessful. The first had walked out one evening with all of Jeans silk stockings and, lingerie. it wiis with a very grave delight then that Donald found that the magazine lie had picked up so idly contained something that pointed the road to happiness. A letter of recom mendatioo, apparently lost by its owner, was sticking between the pages of the magazine. It read: To whom it may concern: This is to state that Gladys Turner has been in my employ as general housekeeper for three years. She is an excellent cook, is strictly honest, neat, clean, and a splendid manager. She is leaving my employ only because my son has fallen in ioe with her, and made it trying for her with .his attentions. She lus my . highest recommendation. teleThe letter was signed and-thphone and address of the girl were : : given. , Donald did not confide in Jean until his plans should be perfected. The outcome was that Gladys Turner called at the. office of .Sinclair & Co. and was ushered in for an interview with Donald.' My sister and 1 are out all day my sister being the editor of a woman's magazine. I want very much to have you take entire charge of the home, planning meals and everything so that my sister will be entirely free from worry I will pay you $100 a month, and there is a very dainty room in our apartment for you. We are not in any way difficult people, he added with a rare smile. him! You have deceived me! He came to my tent Gladys Turner fidgeted in her chair last night! This is Ticonderoga! I shall die toand tried to speak easily, but her task day! and his prediction was fulfilled. was hard. Finally- - slie found her Black of the heroism When the news of the voice. Watch" reached England the king, as n reward -l have never worked In this for their deed, renamed the regiment the Royal she confessed. That letter is way, Highlanders. After the end of the disastrous Aberof a story I am writing, but part remnants the of shattered the cromby expedition I am not too well fixed financially, and Black Watch" regiment were stationed in Alreally am honest and a splendid cook were when summer 17G3, of until the they bany and could manage your household ordered to Pennsylvania to take part in the exhave to get my own very easily. pedition which Col. Henry Bouquet was to lead meals anyway, and pay rent, so if you to the relief of Fort Fitt, which was then bewill give me a chance 1 will do my sieged by Fontiaes Indians. will give me much of the Bouquet set out from Carlisle, Pa., at the end best. It writof June, 1763, with a force of a little more than day to continue my short-storShe looked up at Donald, awaiting. 500 men, composed of a detachment of his own ing his verdict regiment, the Sixtieth Regiment of Royal AmerAll I ask, she added a trifle wistregiicans, a detachment of the Seventy-seventis to be left alone to' write Forty-secon- d and the fully, ment, Montgomery's Highlanders am finished with your work." when regiment of Royal nighlanders, the Black seems little enough to ask, Thai of detachment and a rangers. Watch, Dona'w said out of the maze of his By August 5 Bouquet was nearing his goal About noon of that day, after a forced march. of thoughts. So it happened that an evening la17 miles through the hot forests, Bouquet had reached a place called Edge hill, 26 miles from ter Jean arrived home after a weary Fort Pitt, when his advance guard was attacked d'.ty to find a daintily set table, a by the Indians. The two light infantry companies beautifully cooked meal and a neat of the Black Watch went to their support and girl in spotless apron ready to serve her and her brother in their own dinscattered the Indians. But immediately the savages came swarming back and within a short time ing room. Donald had sprung many happy sur Bouquets little army was surrounded and fighting for their lives behind a hastily constructed prises on his sister, but this crowned defense on top of the hill. them all. "Are you quite, quite sure will When daylight came the Indians resumed their attack more fiercely than ever. Bouquet saw that not awaken to have to run out and it was only a matter of time until the fire of the getffl few chops, a baker's cake and some vegetables for our dltiner?" she enemy would cut down his force until the few that were left could not withstand the charge questioned Donald. that was sure to come. Deciding to wager everyGladys reached a splendid content thing on one stroke, he executed one of the most ment in the home of the Sinclairs She had hours of uninterrupted con daring maneuvers in history. The two companies of Highlanders withdrew suddenly from the line, centration, Jean helped her with ad vice and criticism, and her mnleriai retreated across the hill and entered a little ravine wldch ran along one side of the hill. Seeing 'his was finding ready markets! Donald began to feel aggrieved that movement, the Indians believed that n general retreat was about to begin and came whooping ou be was excluded from the long con into the open. fabs held between Jean and Gladys. This was Just what Bouquet wanted. As the For once in his life he wished he knew mass of savages struck the weakened line that a good story from the piffle that en the Highhad extended across the crowded the magazines. landers left and forced it back, the Black Watch' He frowned darkly, then beamed us came charging out of the ravine on the flank of suddenly. Since lie was responsible the enemy and ns the kilted soldiers bore down for getting Gladys Into their home he upon them with their bayonets the Indians knew certainly had a right to share this that they had been trapped. But It was too late paldom. He would storm that feral ' then, for Bouquet again broke his line, threw two nine citadel and demand his rights,. companies of light infantry out of the circle on He strode Into the hall and pound bethe other flank and the savages were caught ed on that closed door. tween the two forces. Within a few minutes BouWell whats the idea? asked quet was in full possession of the field, bat at a Jean. terrible cost. A total of 115 officers nnd men nearNothing, except that I am Just ly a fourth of his army, was killed or wounded, darned lonesome. 1 want to go to the The heaviest loss was that of t lie "Black Watch movies and no one will go with me. which had 25 killed nnd 27 wounded. Donald was a very much nbused man But they had helped sne Pennsylvania. BouJean laughed. We didn't hear ourquet pushed on to the relief of Fort Pitt nnd soon selves or even express invited being afterwards Pontiacs conspiracy collapsed. I.ntet a dislike for movies.' ing on the Black Watch went Bouquet's expedition I didn't Well, blurted Donald. into the Ohio country which put the finishing blow want to her leave for Gladys position a nnd detachment of this same to Indian hosility the same reason she left the other. regiment went down the Ohio to Fort Chartres He looked boyishly but very pleadingin the Illinois country to receive the surrender of that post from the French who had not yet ly at the two women he loved most on earth. given It up in accordance with the terms of the blushed hotly and Jean shot treaty which ended the French and Indian war. h Gladys swift at her brother. glance the in The regiment passed following winter She had known this was coming and Pennsylvania and was then ordered home. Reduced to almost a skeleton of its original strength, Sloped for its enrly settlement, but the Black Watch embarked at Philadelphia for Donalds way was a bit unusunl. She Ireland In July, 1767. During the seven years of smiled up at him. Her eyes then lin the Black Watchs" service in America and the gered on the blushing girl. There was a lovely glow in the girl s West Indies it had lost a total of 563 officers and men killed and wounded, but it had written on eyes as she looked up. I have not as yet been annoyed by its banners the names of Ticonderoga and Edge Hill or Bushy Run, and those names stood fci your attentions," she said softly. But look out from now on, two of the most gallant deeds in all Americas laughed Donald as his sister dipped history. from the room d c&ms&.or ms1 'slack: ' Black wrc'jr'jir 2Xxw2&ros&l feuntuqtffh t'i'J ri$ Vt r'J: Watch at Ticonderoga," courtesy Glens .Falls Insurance company; Black Watch at Bushy ,Run, and sketch of Black Watch uniform, from Vale University Press Pageant of America. 4 By ELMO SCOTT WATSON P ALL the military organizations which served in wars on the North American continent, few were more picturesque or had a more romantic history and none, probably, ever enforlorn gaged In more desperate hopes than those which at least twice fell to the lot of the regiment ofliclally designated as the Forty-secon- d Foot, a line regiment in the armies of his majesty, the king of England, also known ns the Forty-epcon- d Highlanders, but best remembered as the iBlack Watch. The Black Watch," according to Xk M. Boraberger, editor of the Jeannette (Ia.) rjjws-Dispntcwho has made a special study of this regiment and one of its famous battles, wa3 K organized by the king of England in 1720 with specially picked men from the Highlands of Scotland for the purpose of maintaining order in that turbulent region and in 1739 was made a line regiment, the Forty-seconFoot. They were jdlsbanded in 1748 but were enrolled again at the outbreak of the French and Indian war The uniform of the Black Watch," according to a description of the grenadiers of the regiHead-dresment In 1751, is described as follows: a grenadier bearskin with scarlet visor; white stock; scarlet Jacket and waistcont with rwhlte lace trimmings, silver buttons and buff collar and cuffs; black leather sword belt; and and belt; tan leather sporran; Murray of Athol belted plaid; red and white hose and black leather shoes. This was the same uniform worn by the other companies of the Black Watch 'during their period of service In America, except the headdress was a blue bonnet, with checkered border and tuft of feathers and Black Watch tar-tabelted plaid. The reason for the name Black Watch" lies in the fact that the kilts were, dyed In such a manner os to include the colors of a number of Scottish clans until finally it became almost black, hence the name Black" Watch, incidentally they were the only regiment in which the pipers wore the Stuart tartan. Upon its arrival in America, the Block Watch," under the command of MaJ. Duncan Campbell of Inverawe, was Included in the army of 6,000 British regulars and 9,000 provincial troops which Lord Pitt, the great British prime minister, was sending cnder the command of Gen. James a heavy man, infirm in body and mind," a veritable wooden pole wearing a cocked hat," up the historic water route of the Hudson and Lake Champlain to strike at the heart of New France nnd capture Montreal. But this magnificent force was doomed to inglorious defeat nnd before the campaign ended the Black Watch" was to experience a sickening and useless slaughter which was to all but wipe it out of existence. For despite the fact that the French had available only about 3,000 men to face this Imposing array, they were commanded by a military genius, Marquis de Montcalm. Although Montcalm had little hope of being able to hold Fort Ticonderoga, the key to possession of that region, he prepared to put up the best resistance possible with his small force. Arriving near Ticonderoga, Abercrombys army pushed on to find Montcalms troops behind breastworks on the crest of a small hill west of the main fort, 'awaiting their attack. Abercroiuby foolishly decided to use his superior forces in trying to carry these works by storm instead of flanking the French and laying siege to the fort or bringing lie up his artillery and reducing Its defenses. even gave orders that not a shot was to be fired but that the works were to be enrried at the point of the bayonet Soon after noon one hot day Just 170 years ago (July 6, 1758) the British troops advanced to the attack in three solid columns. The French waited until the redcoats had almost reached the nbat-ti- s and then opened fire with muskets and cannon. As the heads of the column were swept away in that sheet of flame and the repented volleys continued to deal death inthe massed ranks, the British were forced to fall back into the timber, still under fire and still losing men at every step. When word was sent back to Abercromby of what bad happened, his reply was a repetition of his first foolish order. So they tried it again and again were hurled back by the dendly fire. No less than six times that afternoon did these dauntless British nnd provincials march up that hill of death only to be cut down by the hell of gunfire which swept the slope. Finally it was decided to make one last desperate attempt upon the extreme right of the position and the Black Watch was selected for the assault History records fewer examples of daunt- d I , n Aber-cromb- less heroism nnd useless gallantry than the charge of these Scottish Highlanders at Ticonderoga. Under a scattering fire which tore holes in their ranks they steadily advanced across the clearing until they reached the abattis, which they tore aside, cut down or got over In some way. Major Campbell was shot down but his men pressed on until they reached the breastworks and under a deadly hail of bullets sprang upon them. The French gave way at that point temporarily and another Campbell with some twenty officers and men leaped down Into the IncldSurd. But Montcalm hurled n body of reserve troops at the breach which the Highlanders had made and those inside the breastworks were trapped. Disdaining to ask for quarter, with their backs to the wall, they fought desparately until they were bayoneted Where they stood. Those on the outside whoweie attempting to climb the breastworks were hurled back and they retreated sullenly, carrying their wounded commander with them. As they retreated the French cheered them, for they had seen an act of deathless heroism. Out-o- f a thousand soldiers of the Black Watch who hurled themselves against the French defenses, only 353 came out unwounded. The total British loss in that slaughter pen was 1,000 regulars and 350 provincials killed and wounded. Montcalms loss was only 400. Abercromby ordered a retreat to headquarters on the Hudson. The grand expedition which had set out from 'Lake George so proudly two days before had failed miserably. One of the most Interesting incidents connected with the part played by the Black Watch at of Inverawe," one of Ticonderoga is the the most famous ghost stories" in all history. Here is that story as told in Parkmans Montcalm and Wolfe: The ancient castle of Inverawe stands by the banks of the Awe In the midst of the wild and picturesque scenery of the western Highlands. Late one evening, before the middle of the last century, as the laird, Duncan Campbell, sat alone In the old hall, there was a loud knocking on the gate and opening It, he saw a stranger, with torn clothing and kilt besmeared with blood, who in a breathless voice begged for an asylum. He went on to say that he had killed a man In a fray, and that the pursuers were at his heels. Campbell promised to shelter him Swear on your dirk!" said the He then led him stranger; and Campbell to a secret recess In the depths of the castle. Scarcely was he hidden when again there was a loud knocking at the gate and two armed men appeared. Your cousin, Donald, has been murdered, and we are looking for the murderer!" Campbell, remembering his oath, professed to have no knowledge of the fugitive; and the men went xn their way. The laird. In great agitation, lay down to rest In a large dark room where at length he fell and terasleep. Waking suddenly In ror, he saw the ghost of the murdered Donald standing by his bedside, and heard a hollow voice pronounce the words Inverawe! Inverawe! blood has been shed. Shield not the murderer!" In the morning Campbell went to the hiding place of the guilty man and told him that he could harbor him no longer, You have sworn on your dirk! he replied; and the laird of Inverawe, greatly perplexed and troubled, made a compromise between conflicting duties, promised not to betray his guest, led him to the neighboring mountain (Ben Cruach-an- ) and hid him in a cave. In the next Bight, as he lay- - tossing In feverish slumber, the same stern voice awoke him, the ghost of his cousin Donald stood again at his bedside, and again he heard the same appalling words: "Inverawe! Inverawe! blood has been shed. Shield not the murderer!" At break of day he hastened. In strange agitation, to the cave; but tt was empty, the stranger had gone. At night as he strove In vain to sleep, the vision appeared once more, ly pale, but less stern of aspect than before. "Farewell. Inverawe!" It said; "Farewell, till we meet at TICONDEROGA!" The strange name dwelt In Campbell's memory. He had Joined the Black Watch, or Forty-secon- d regiment, then employed In keeping order In the turbulent Highlands. In time he became Its major; and, In a year or two after the war broke out, he went with it to America. Here, to his horror, he learned that he was ordered to the attack of His story was well known among Ticonderoga. his brother officers. They combined among themselves to disarm his fears; and when they reached the fatal spot they told him on the eve of the battle: This is not Ticonderoga; we are not there yet; this is Fort George. But In the morning he came to them with haggard looks. 2 have seen ?f. 1 y h 1 1 hill-wli- BRIGHAM CITY Utah potatoes are grown principally in the counties of r, Salt Lake, Weber, Utah, Cache, Davis and Sanpete. PROVO High quality, exceptional flavor, color and size of fruits and vegetables have made Utah agricultural products famous throughout the United States. VERNAL Fishermen angling in the Uintah mountain streams report only fair success, due to somewhat muddy condition of the water. Recent rains in the mountains have caused no abrupt raise in the creeks, but the precipitation did cause a roiled condition. AIRPORT Several Salt Lake planes will go to Ogden Jurtt 30 to be used there in the celebration marking the dedication of the Junction Citys new municipal airport. The Ogden committee is putting on an aerial program and Salt Lakers will compete for prizes. LOGAN Forty farmers from Rich county conducted a dairy tour of the city and Cache county recently, according to Robert L. Wrigley, county agricultural agent, who accompanied the party. The purpose of the excursion. Agent Wrigley stated, was to gain additional information on cow testing, breeding and also sweet clover pasBox-elde- I J t I i i s I ? ture. I HEBER Wasatch county was visited by a killing frost recently, the mercury dropping to 26 degrees. Potatoes, corn and flowers were destroyed, even where the gardens had It been covered with heavy guilts. was cold enough to freeze ice a quarter of an inch thick. Damage to peas and grain wTas slight, only the peas that were in bloom and the the grain which was in head being damaged. full grown GUNNISON Fifty-twand libbeen received have pheasants erated in this section by Sidney Baxter and Ernest Baxter, members of the local fish and game commission. The birds were shipped from the state The birds game farm at Springville. were liberated about two miles east of here. The Gunnison commission is also expecting a shipment of trout from the game farm with which to - o stock the streams near here. Ogden B. J. Finch, district engineer for the United States bureau of public roads, anounced that bids would be opened, June 28, in his office in this city, on three contracts for gravel surstretch facing, as follows: Se7en-milwest of Fruitland on the Victory highway; nine miles from North Fork to Gibsonville on the Salmon, Idaho, to e s Montana line road, and two and miles on the Alpine scenic road in Utah county. OGDEN ' Seventy - five pairs of pheasants, furnished by D. H. Madsen, commissioner q the state fish and game department, have been planted west of Ogden by officers of the Weber County Fish and Game Protective asSixty-fiv- e sociation. pheasants eggs under incubation at the farm of H. H. Hodge, east of Ogden, will be hatched this week. The birds will be turned on the wilds when hatched, which gives promise of an open pheasants season for Ogden hunters. HEBER The Heber tourist camp, owned by the county and improved during the past few years by the Joint efforts of the Wasatch chamber of comerce, Heber City, Wasatch county and the Wasatch stake of the L. D. S. church, will receive additional improvements coon. A fund has been accumulated by charging campers, and this fund is to be spent for the painting of the present structures and the installation of shower Laths and other conveniences. SALT LAKE The low temperature and light frost which touched Salt Lake and other portions of the intermountain district Sunday night of last week did not result in any damage to crops, acording to the United States weather bureau and Harden Bennion, state agricultural commissioner. The temperature in the Salt Lake valley dropped as low as 40 degrees. Records of the weather bureau show that this drop in the temperature was not particularly unusual for Salt Lake, inasmuch as nearly every June on record has shown a cold spell on or about the middle of the month, the mercury dropping in some cases as low as 32 degrees. HEBER Utahs winter wheat crop is estimated by the bureau of agricultural economics of the United States department of agriculture at 3,164,000 bushels this year, as compared with 2,888,000 bushels.-las- t year. This increase of close to 10 per cent in the Utah crop is in the face of a.decrease of about 9 per cent in the nations winter wheat crop, the bureaus figures show. The nation crop estimate for 1828 is 512,252,000 bushels, while last years figures were 552,384,000 bushels. ZION NATIONAL PARK For the season to date, a total of 10,089 perstates. sons, representing thirty-on- e District of Columbia, Hawaii, three provinces of Canada, Sweden, and South-Africhave passed through the gates of Zion National park, it, was announced by E. T. Scoven, park superintendent, here. This figure is practically double last years total for the gtm period of 5399 Private motor travel, as usual, makes up the greater part of the total with 9499 persons in The remainder, or 590, 2840 autos. tame by stage from the end of the ra!is tt Cedar City. four-tenth- i I ; ! J s j I s |