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Show THE SAUNA SUN, SAUNA, UTAH .OlOlOltfOlOlOXLOlOlOlOlO.OlG One Doc for Two i Newo Notes It a a Privilug to Live in Utah By ROBERT GLASS CtOvrlhL big maple tree in Mrs front yard sat Mrs. Addy 's boarder, Evalyn Byron, who wa a clerk down at the lumtier mill neai the bridge. Evalyn was an orphan and hud lived for a long time with Mrs. Addy, who laid been an old friend of Die girls parents. Every Sunday afternoon after dinner, when the dishes were all washed and pul away, Evalyn came out and sal on the rustic bench under the maple, with a book or letters to write. Sometimes Mrs." Addy sat there, too, but today some one had taken her for a ride In a crowded motor car ami there was not even room for one more. Sorry, Evalyn, called oul Mr. Pe ters, as the widow squeezed into tbe Your turn next time!" tonneau. Dont bother about me, Mr. Peters." protested Evalyn. as site waved a gay farewell and returned to her bench. But when tbe car had van islied around a turn of the counry road she did feel rather lonely. It Is lonely Just us two. Isnt it. Bob?" she asked the uiredale beside her. The dog cocked his head on one side and barked sharply. Then he Jumped down and ran frantically np and down the yard, close to the fence. Funny how he does that every time 1 mention his name 1" murmured Eva But he Is the dearlyn thoughtfully. est thing, and hes all my own un less some one comes along and claims him. Some one came whistling down the path a tall young man, bareheaded, sunburned, athletic looking, with clear-graeyes and brown hair. Evalyn had seen him before somewhere it was an effort to recall, tie was a stranger In the vll lage. The airedule saw him at the same moment, his ears lifted, and one cocked forward expectantly. Bob!" warned Evalyn, putting out a hand to stay "his quivering body. But she was too late; in that fraction of a second he hud gained the fence In two bounds and then sailed over the barrier to fall In a scrambling heap at the man's feet Then he found bis balance and leaped and barked frantically, scattering dust over tbe clothes of the stranger. Down you rascal! laughed the stranger, stooping to caress the dusty Then he lifted his gray hurricane. eyes to Evalyns and smiled at her. Your dog? asked the hatless one Evalyn hesitated. Bob was her dog, by all the laws of finding and needing . She nodded,. Oh I he exclaimed sharply . an? looked away. . Why did you ask and why are yon UNDER the -- y Ey ELMO 8COTT WATSON. . T1HIRTY years ago there took place on a Cuban hillside a battle which has become a classic In American history, not so much because of Its iKi magnltude, In terms of numbers engaged and casualties suffered nor because It was In any sense a decisive battle" in history, but because It was fought by one of the most picturesque body of troops that ever served under the American flag. For July 1 Is the thirtieth annl-vers- a Battle of San Juan Hill In the Spanlsh-Amerlcawar and the famous charge and victory of the Rough Riders, commanded by Col.' Theodore Roosevelt This engagement was one of the most dramatic In that short war and it made ' a national hero out of the Rough Rider leader and eventually helped put In the White House one c! the most picturesque Presidents the United States has ever had. Although known officially as the First United States Volunteer cavalry, the public promptly christened them the Rough Riders. At first the men of the regiment resented that name, but finally adopted It themselves and made it even, more unforgettable with their battle cry of ry-of- -the n Roush, toush, were the stuff, We want to flsht and ws Whoop-ee- l cant get enough. " well-dresse- d mlscuously In the charge." His account continues: dent, among the many which are given In Herman Ilagedorns "The Rough Riders," as related by one of their number, N. A. Vyne : Juit before embarking for Cuba the ammunition for the Colt's machine gune bad not reached the regiment and a trooper was sent to the quartermaster for It General Chaffee happened to be thereandthe trooper, seeing that he was a high 'officer, rode to him and said: tor Say, Colonel Wood wants the cartridges them machine guns a heap pronto. Were goin aboard the ship. Chaffee exploded and' bawled him out severely and said: Dont you know enough to be a soldier? Why don't you dismount, saluts and stand at attention till I notice you?" I halnt no soldier," replied tbe trooper Indignantly. I'm a Rough Rider! After a period of training at Son Antonio, the Riders were ordered to entrain for Tampa, Fla, where they would embark for Cqba. There the regiment suffered a bitter disappointment, for when the order came for the expedition to Cuba it was learned that only 8 troops of 70 men each were to go (the total strength of the regiment then was approximately 1,000 men) and that their horses were to be left behind. So tbe Rough Riders," probably as fine a body of natural cavalrymen as had ever been assembled under the American flag, set forth to win their laurels in Cuba fighting on foot! They arrived In Cuba In time to take part in the fight at Las Guasiroas on Jane 24, 1898, where a force of about 1,000 dismounted cavalry, partly regulars and partly Rough Riders, defeated nearly twice their number of Spaniards with a loss of 10 killed and 52 wounded. Of the killed seven were Rough Riders and they were burled in a common grave "Indian and cowboy, miner, packer and college athlete the mun of unknown ancestry from the lonely western plains, and the man who carried on his watch the crest of the Stuyvesants and the Fishes." Soon afterwards. Colonel Wood succeeded General Young, who was stricken with the fever, as commander of one of the brigades In the cavalry division, commanded by Fighting Joe" Wheeler, the famous Confederate veteran. This left the Rough Riders In command of their Ueutenant-coloneTheodore Roosevelt, and gave him his chance to become the hero of San Juan hill. Just as It Is true that the Rough Riders did no riding, rough or otherwise, In Cuba, so It is true that their historic "charge up San Juan hill" did not, as a strict matter of fact, take place up that hill at alL The real "charge" of tbe Rough Riders was up Kettle hill, near San Juan hill, and the only mounted Rough Rider In that charge was Colonel Roosevelt So the myth of 500 men on horseback standing In their stirrups and galloping along, shouting to one another like polo players, as they charged up San Juan hill," which has been often repeated needs to be corrected. The right wing of General Shafters array (ot which the Rough Riders were a part) began Its advance against Santiago on the morning of July L Exposed to the fierce heat of the sun and under a heavy fire from the artillery, the Infantry and the sharpshooters of an invisible enemy, the cavalry division lay for some ttme before the heights in which the Spaniards were entrenched awaiting orders to move forward Throughout the morning the situation grew worse, bat the nerve of the men did not give way, and American individual Initiative rose to the boiling pointj" writes Carl Russell Fish in the The Iath of Empire In the Yale Univolume, versity Press Chronicles of America." Realizing that safety lay only in advance, the officers on the spot began to take control. General Hawkins, with the Sixth and Seventh regulars, advam-eagainst the main blockhouse, which crested a slope of two hundred feet and the men of the New York Volunteers Joined pro Seventy-firs- t Rough Unless It be In the French Foreign Legion or perhaps In the fictional Musketeers" of Dumas, the Rough Riders have had . no counterpart In history. No better description of this unique outfit has been written than the following by Wilbur D. French, who was one of them: Twelve hundred as separata, varied, mixed, distinct, grotesque and peculiar types of men as perhaps were ever assembled In one bunch In all the history of man. Millionaires, paupers, shyster lawyers, cowboys, quack doctors, farmers, college professore, miners, adventurers, preachers, prospectors, Socialists, Journalists, clerks. Mormons, musicians, pugilists, Jews, polttlcans, Gentiles, Mexicans, professed Christians, Indians, West Point graduates, Arkansas wild men, baseball players, and one possibly two Democrats. (AU except the possible two were straight Republicans.) Mix the above and add some forty civilian officers. And they came from every state. Aged, as we reckon time, from eighteen (witness Archie Tuttle, SafTord, Arts.) to fifty years from time of birth, but some thousand years old In deviltry and wisdom. Garbed In the various habiliments of the fashions of the time. The esthetlo In their dude rags, standing collars and patent leather shoes, as well d as bats. The millionaires In Fifth avenue duds, to which add a wagonload each of soil soled leather trunks and hat boxes. The cowd boots and spurs. The boys In chaps, In aolled and ragged miners and blue denim overalls and Jumpers. The musicians brought with them their drums, guitars, fifes, cornets and violins. The gamblers, dice, cards, faro, I remember seeing a few Bibles. pnd crap layouts hard-boile- high-heele- down-and-oute- ra Anil . to command tills hard-boile- d outfit were Both were Harvard gradutwo eastern dudes Wood and Theodore Roosevelt ates Roosevelt, then assistant secretary of war, bad from the beginning of our dispute with Spain over her conduct of Cuban affulrs, been Insistent for intervention. S when congress authorised the I raising of three volunteer regiments of cavalry from among the wild riders and riflemen of the Rockies and the great plains. Secretary of War Alger, mindful of Roosevelts career as a North Dakota ranchman and hunter, offered him the command of one of these regiments. But Roosevelt replied that if Alger would make bis friend. Dr. Leonard Wood, colonel, he would be content to go as Ueutenant-coloneWood, then medical adviser to the President and the aerretary of war. was an army surgeon who bad served with General Miles In the campaign against the Apache Indians and had been awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for brilliant Bervlce In the Southwest. The secretary agreed to Roosevelts proposal and the appointments were made. In such an organization, composed of men who were, as Roosevelt himself characterized them, soldiers ready made, so far as concerned their capacity as Individual fighters, especially did the problem of discipline promise to be a serious one. For these Westerners, who composed the bulk of the regiment, had their own Idens of military formality and their genera attitude In that .respect Is well Illustrated In the following tool- L L . ' . ' To the right row Kettle bill. Jutting out and flanking the approach to the main position. Facing It and dismounted were the First and Ninth Regular cavalry, the latter a negro regiment, and the Rough Rldera under Colonel Roosevelt The Tenth Infantry was between the two wings, and divided In support of each. A battery of Gatling gune was placed In position. The American! steadily advanced in an irregular line, though kept In some aort of formation by their officers. Break Ing down brush and barbed wire and ehelterlng themselves In the high grass, the men on the right wing worked their way up Kettle hill, but before they reached the rifle pits of the enemy, they saw the Spaniards retreating on the run. The audacity of the Americans at the critical moment had insured the ultimate success of their attack and they found the final capture of the hill easy. The longer charge against the center of the enemy was in the meantime being pressed home, under the gallant leadership of General Hawkins, who at times waa far In advance of his line. The men of the right wing who looked down from their new position on Kettle hilL a quarter of mile distant, saw the Spaniards give way and the American center dash forward. In order to support this advance movement the Gatlings were brought to Kettle hill and General C. C. Sumner and Colonel Roosevelt led their men down Kettle and up San Juan hill, where they swept over the northern Jut only a moment after Hawkins had carried the main blockhouse. But even though Hawkins and his regulars had been the first on San Juan hill, there was honor enough for all." The charge of the Rough Riders with Roosevelt at their head up Kettle hill had been a gallant one and of the 490 Rough Riders In this engagement, 81) were killed and wounded, the heaviest loss suffered by any regiment In the cavalry division. Many more were doomed to die, either from Spanish bullets or from the ravages of disease, before their period of service was over. But when It was, their commander was able to pay this tribute to their record In his book : In less than sixty days the regiment had been raised, organised, armed, equipped, drilled, mounted, dismounted, kept for a fortnight on transports and put through two victorious aggressive fights in very difficult country, the loss in killed and wounded amounted to a quarter of those engaged. This is a record which is not easy to match-ithe history of volunteer organisations. The toss was but small compared to that which befell hundreds' of regiments in some of the great battles of the later years of the Civil war, but it may be doubted whether there was any regiment which made such a record during the first months of sny of our wars. Today San Juan hill Is a national park, having been made that by a decree of President Machado of Cuba last year. A monument tops the bill as a memorial to the gallantry of the Americans who faced tbe storm of Spanish lead there thirty years ago and helped the Cubans win their freedom. But the Rough Rldera have another memorial in their own land. In the heart of Arlington National cemetery Is a plot of ground known a$ the Rough "Rider plot and there stands an Imposing monument which bears the Insignia of the First United States Volunteer Infantry and upon which are Inscribed the names of the three engagements In which this regiment engaged Las Guaslmas. Sun Juan and Santiago. The headstones In the Rough Rider plot carry such historic names as Capron. O'Neill, Kune and Luna; Ilall, Carr, Tiffany and Huston; Hamilton Fish, Jr., first sergeant of Troop L, who was one of the early casualties in the Battle of Las I.ieut Thomas W. Hall and Maxwell Keyes, both adjutants, and First I.ieut James R. Church, who acted as regimental surgeon during most of the campaign of the Rough Riders. Corp. George H. Doherty, Sergts. Henry Haywood and Marcus D. Russell, Race H. Smith, Yancy Kyle, Henry J. Haefner, William T. Santo and Oliver B. Norton, battle casualties alL also Ire there. And only last year another headstone was placed in this historic spot It Is a simple wooden marker, bearing the words Leonard Wood, MaJ. Gua-nima- s; Gen. U. S. A." 1 surprised?" "1 beg your pardon but 1 though! you were going to Bay, No. " He bent down, whispered something in the dogs ear. Then he lifted Bob and dropped him over the fence He went on his way, while tbe girl stared resentfully after him and the dog crept close to the ground, follow e Ing the fence, whining softly. Suddenly, Evalyn gave a little sobbing cry and ran across the yard. Stop!" she cried. As If he had been listening for that call, be turned swiftly and leaped the fence. You called me? he asked eagerly. The girls charming face dropped It is not my dog 1 Into her hands. wanted him so I found him In the bushes beside the bridge a month ago one of his paws was hurt; 1 think an automobile must have struck him. I brought him home here and Decause I tiave no one who really belongs to me. I adopted him. I tried to find out his name he wore no collar and I tried ever so many, but when I believed' I said Boh he went wild. It was his name. Thats all 1" The man's eyes fell to the dog, who was curled contentedly heside him. His name's Sundy he recognized my name when you called Boh.'" About a apologized Sandys owner. month ago, 1 chained him up. 1 was going to the. city and couldn't take When I got home I him thnt day. learned be bad sllpiied his collar and followed the car. Sandy was leaping now between the man and the girl, torn between tw-- i Do you mind keeping him a loves. I while longer?" asked Boh Mason. will come after him later its too bad to tear him awny so suddenly." Bob Mason, who turned out to be a stockholder In the lumber mill, living Id the adjoining town, came nrnnjr times to visit Sandy, though Mrs Addy declared the poor benstle played second fiddle to Evalyn. But late In the fall, when it was too cold to sit under the nmple. Bob told Evalyn that they must reach a decision about the own ershlp of Sandy. She looked wistfully Into the glowing fire, while Bob adoringly regarded her dainty profile. Let Sandy choose. she evaded, and when they asked Sandy, that most Intelligent uiredale stood erect and placed one paw on Rval.vn's band and the other on Bob's knee. "Just what 1 was going to suggest." whispered Bob softly, and ns Evalyn said nothing for a while. It Is to be inferred thnt Sandy had his own way about Itl . Certainly "What did they say when your horse fell Into the swimming pool? Oh. everybody yelled Pull out the plug. " PROVO Utah packing houses turned out products last year, valued at $11,603,088. This vyas on a capital investment of $3,500,000. The industry is of particular value, enabling-raiser- s to dispose of their animals without shipping them to other states. PROVO 15,000 Approximately cases of strawberries, properly graded and packed, have been sent out from the local receiving station of the Utah Cold Pack Pruit company, located at Orem, during the past week, according to President A. V. Watkins of the corporation. HEBER Decision to purchase a permanent fair grounds and equip it with modern stalls and sheds for the annual Wasatch county Mutton day and stock show was reached at a conference between representative citizens and county commissioners recently. LEHI Eight thousand cockerels were shipped out of Lehi by the Utah Producers association one day recently. The birds are billed to Omaha, Neb., and are netting the growers here 22 cents per pound, live weight. Four similar carloads have been shipped out of American Fork to San Francisco and other coast points during the past two weeks. OGDEN Approximately 12,000 east ern brook trout flngerlings were plant ed in Spring creek, Ogden valley, recently and also by the Weber County Fish and Game Protective association. The shipment was part of those allot-- , ted by the federal government from the Springville hatchery. Spring creek and other spring streams are used by the Weber association as development waters. PLEASANT GROVE Strawberries had their inning when the residents o! pleasant Grove, as well as thousands of visitors from Utah and other surrounding counties gathered here to upon the largest supporting Industry of the section. Strawberries, the first seasonable fruit of Utah, were abundantly in evidence and in the grove of this city aproximately 20,000 servings, garnished with sugar and cream, were passed out to may long lines of men, women and children. . VERNAL Ranchers have begun tu. cut their first alfalfa hay crop. While Uintah country crops, as a whole, have been retarded to some extent by unseasonable spring weather and the normal first alfalfa crop is not ready for cutting until the tenth of June, the Tridell district was favored by exceptionally warm rains, The altitude ot the region is 5330 feet The second crop of alfalfa is reserved for seed, and this year is assured at least two week additional growing season. MORGAN Utahs first shipment of green peas is now enroute to the eastern market and It is expected that before the season is over that more than 25 carloads will be skipped from Salt , Lake and Davis counties. Dr. Edgar M. Led yard, announces. Last year the pea c p brought returns to the farmera of Utah amounting to nearly with a good share of, this being re- ceived from fresh green peas while the remainder was received from canned peas. , KANAB Southern Utahs best rodeo is scheduled to take place at Ka-- . nab July 3, 4 and 5, according to the committee plans. Arrangements are be- ing made to insure the best in roping, boxing, wrestling and horse racing. The committees include: Amusement, E. C. Persons, Lyle Jepson, D. M. Tietjen and Vem Glazier; rodeo, Jim-m- y Warner, G. W. Findlay, Parvin Church and Merlin Adams; fights, Lyle Jepson, Dee Schumway, Ray Esp-li- n and Charles Mace. e VERNAL An allotment has teen made available by the Ashley National forest service for the building of an auto highway from the highway to Fish lake, on the north side of the Uintah range, for fire control purposes. The branch road will, miles long and be two and takes off the main road at Carter Creek. Work will begin on July 1,' and ready for travel this season. Fish lake in the Uintahs is considered one of the best fishing waters in this range. COALVILLE Arrangments are being made this week for the inauguration of a truck service to take care of the egg production of the upper Weber river valley. H. M. Blackhurst, of Ogden, manager of the central station for this territory, has been in this locality for several days completing delivery schedules, etc. At present, in the neighborhood of 200 cases of eggs are shipped weekly and with truck service it is anticipated that this amount will be increased. Plans for a campaign to increase the output of poultry plants In this vincinity are being made, and it is hoped that establishment of an egg grading plant in the upper Weber valley may be secured u a year or two. VERNAL A continuation of the prairie dog campaign is being con ducted in Uintah county under the direction of E. Peterson, county farm agent, and S. E. Aldous of Salt Lake. Mr. Aldous is a representative of the U. S. biological survey and is expected to spend the summer here. The campaign started in Ouray valley recently, where retreating of sections treated last year was commenced. Be-- , rides the Ouray valley section, work will be done at Ashley ward, Steinaker Draw, tbe Bad Lands, Diamond Moun-- : tain and Willow creek. - - $575,-00- 0 - Vemal-Manil- one-ha- lf a |