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Show A m& b ;j ! : It's a friviUg to Liv In 1 UTAH . ' 1T News Notes '-- v PROVO Tbs total orchard crop la Utah In ll!(, Including small fruit a, bad a valuation of $3,250,000. MIDVALE Ol ry growing still te n lufant Industry In Utah, but lbs product la recognised as a auperlor tab) delicacy tbe country over. LAYTON Utah growers have established an enviable reputation In the production of sweet cherries. Last 90.0o0 and yeara crop was worth totaled 1,200,000 pounds. One hundred pheasants PRICE bava been planted by the Eatery County Fish and Game aoclatkn through the efforts of their commissioner, Fred Larson of Castle Dale. Larsen was In Price last week lo receive n shipment of tbe birds, and transfer them to tbe Emery district. y Gideon Baal MYT0N who la farm- 'T-- , ' J? ' I .J? T171IEN damp days, sudden changes in weather, or expos ttre to a draft makes joint ache, there ii always quick relief in Haver Aspirin. It makei short work ol headache or any little pain. Just a effective in the more terioua suffering from neuralgia, neuritis, rheumatism or lumbago. No ache d for or pain it ever too Layer Aspirin to relieve, and it doe not affect the heart All druggists, with proven directions for various uses which many people have found invaluable in tbe relief of pain. ing In Bleaaant Valley, south of Myton, and whose land la under tba Taylor canal, baa made a good wheat yield fur tbe Iiatab basin on elrgln toll. I On a tract Mr. Basil threshed i 40 bushels of wheat to the acre, with the price of wheat at tl per bushel. BINCHAM Immense amounts of gravel were carried down to the paved f tulle east of Binghighway ham during a cloudburst recently covteVi I U tn4 lutt aI Hrr UuntuUm ering the road to a depth of nearly flva feet for a distance of 200 feet I Mllm AHtrf mrf isIrM Mttkt II dally. Ala U- buys. Li along the highway. No one was In fevuMrttitdmtVMsttefl ! eurtilp 10 rim. the vicinity at the time and traffic Iiwa Iturtta UUnnorr. j lMlimiU,ft waa later rerouted over another road. VERNAL A delegation from Vernal, representing the commissioners qf Uintah county and the local Done club, early this week went to the "K Hanfords cf Myrrh ranch near the Colorado line, where they met members of tbe Colorado rrfwJ ysw i AS JmImi sn sntierfssJ rfcvft state road rummleeion and diacusaed with them plana for the Improvement of the IT. S. 40 highway from Vernal Little Note Appealed to Craig. Road Id Dla-SPANISH FORK to Traffic Cop's Heart tnond Fork canyon were rendered lm- Mrs. Harrison, a young matron of passable by heavy rains and cloud drove to the business secbursts recently. A large number of Montclair, tion tn do a little shopping Hie other . caueht were picnickers and fishermen ;In the canyon and had considerable , day. She swerved to the curb as she nenred s store site Intended to padifficulty getting home. In some places tronize. hut before she had rent-liethey had to rebuild the roads where Hint point her motor stalled For 1I they had been washed out. Deep gut- - minute site tried to get It to start, lies were made by the floods. A force hut without success. She gave It up of men la busy repairing the reads. ns a hud Job and to summon alighted SALT LAKE Twenty-eigh- t fires, 26 a mechanic. To her horror she dis-- ! have reserve within forest boundaries, covered Hint she wns parked directly burned over lands leas than 10 acres In front of a fire hydrant. In size in Utah since beginning of the Mrs. Harrison knew that the Mont, reto present fire season, according clair police were strict nbmit such n port of the federal forest service. Is- - j v(.llt!),n Khe w rourceful. So sued recently. A total of $15.7 has a note and stuck it wro(e sle 1Ilgv been expended, exclusive of salaries. j In Hie window It read: "fienr Mr. In fighting the blazes. Thirteen of the Officer Iollce dont give me a ticket. fires were caused by man and five , I couldn't nmke the d d thing go Involved criminal negligence. and I've gene for a mechanic." VERNAL A new record In growing When she returned with the wheat on virgin soil In the Uintah she found a policeman rending basin has been achieved by Gideon the note nnd laughing heartily. Not Baril. a farmer residing south of Myonly did he not give her a ticket, but ton, Duchesne county, when he grew he assisted the mechanic to get the an average of 40.2 bushels of Ksrkoff motor going. New York Sun: wheat on five acres touched by a plow for the first time early the past spring. Boyish Incident Recalled The wheat Is of finest quality of that More tltun twenty-twyenrs ago variety, and Mr. Baril plana to seed three lads were Ashing In the vicinity a far greater acreage to the same of West Klngfleld, ,N. H. On the way wheat next year. home, after resting heneuth Hie shade OGDEN The Royal Canning com- - of a maple tree, each lud placed a cent pany plans to open the tomato canning of Inh of the trce lp season in Utah Tuesday. Tomatoes Recently on his West Klngfleld farm. Lay-togrown along the foothills east of A. W. Lnmler. on felling n tree, diswhich ripen earlier than other covered three cents Imhedded In Its crops of the state, will be canned first. wood. Tlie Incident wns recalled, as Then the plant will be shut down for Mr. Lnnders son. who died several a few days until others crops are yenrs ago. tyas one of those boys. The ready to be put up. The bulk of the others were W. S. Stanley, now of season's pick will start moving next Boston, and Rev. G. A. Woodcock, week, according to LeRoy Marsh, disof Klngfleld. Mr. Lnnder will keep one trict agricultural Inspector. of the eolns In memory of tils son and EPHRAIM Ranger Wells Tkursby, the "other boys will each receive one of the Mantl forest reports that a as a keepsake. hand of elk. numbering seventy head, has been seen from the skyline drive Oil From Shale near the road camp nearly every day Nova Scotias extensive during the past week. Ranger C. deposits, which are said to contain Williams reports that district No. 2 high percentages of oil, are to be exhas experienced more rain during the ploited as soon ns the extraction plant present season than for any year since which Is now being built at New 1914. Although the showers have been Glasgow Is completed. extremely heavy, the damage from floods has been comparatively small. All FARMINGTON Davis county grow"Are you still In love? ers began harvesting their sweet SpanSay, there's nothing still about me ish onion crop recently. They will be when Im In love. merely starting, however, this week, two one or only growers reporting that they are ready, but by the first of next week the harvesting will begin in real earnest. Lawrence Hatch of Bountiful, Wallace Noble of Woods Cross and L. S. Rice of Farmington are among the first to start to pull their onions. Carload shipments will not likely be made until the latter part The of next week. RUPERT Three cars of fat lambs, TWO feeders and ewes, representing the 800 cleanup for the season of about head, were shipped recently by the Brand Min!doka county lamb pool. The ship- ment, in charge of Floyd Hansen, mer, went to St. Joseph, Mo. VERNAL Fifty thousand Rainbow trout, from the state fish hatcheries at Whlterocks, were trucked to McKees draw on Diamond mountain north of Vernal, and planted In Francis creek. Another truckload was taken to Mos-b- y mountain and planted In Taradise lake. Also, several hundred thousand will be taken on pack animals from Choose a Profitable Vocation Mosby mountain to Whlterocks lake Learn tbe Beauty Culture Course given by a and other lakes at the headwaters of man that has taogbt fee students bow to Ashley creek and other trout streams. earn B,G MONBL Catalog sent on toques. The spawn are being planted earlier mon Utah Rcnnot, OP BBALTY tLLTCKE than usual this year, owing to the T 831 CHft Bldg. - Balt Lake City fact that the tanks at the hatcheries are crowded. deep-seate- live-acr- e one-hal- For Galled Horses Bakin f By ELMO SCOTT WATSON MONO tbla year setupiKcntennlul observances of Revolutionary war events, none haa more dramatic Interest than t lie series of celebrations commemorating the Sul-- . campaign against the Iroquois Indians In 1779. Considering the sire of tbe army en traced and tbe results accomplished. It seems strnnus that our school blstorians give so little attention to tlds expedition and that It la so little known to most Americana. Yet It waa a campaign which required tbe services of between 3.ooo and 4.ISKI Continental soldiers. They were In tbe Held for nearly six mouths and they effectually broke the power of the strongest league of American Indians ever formed, a league which lind been on Important ally of the British, and they won for the nation a veritable empire of unsurpassed fertility. llut New York and Iennsylvunla, where these stirring events took place, ore commemorating them In a fashion worthy of their Importance. New York has appropriated $70,000 for the principal observances which are being held at the battlefield of Newtown, near Elmira, at Geneva and at the old Genesee rastle, which marks the western terminus of the expedition. Pennsylvania is joining New York In exercises held at Athens, I'a., and at Salamanca, N. Y and historic markers are being placed along the whole route of the Campaign, Including the march of Gen. James Clinton through the Mohawk and Susquehanna valleys to Join the column led by Gen. John Sullivan. National recognition of the campaign, however, has come In the form of s commemorative two-cestamp, bearing the portrait of General Sullivan which was put Into circulation earlier in t the summer. Tbe expedition set out on foot early In 1779 not only to avenge the Cherry Valley and Wyoming massacres by tbe Indians and Tories but also to strike a decisive blow at the Iroquois. Their presence on the frontier was a constant threat of a stab in the back of the Colonies. Intent upon the campaigns by the British forces on the Atlantic seaboard. Tbe Iroquois, or Six Nations, had also been an Important source of food supply for the British and tbe Tories, since the region they held was one of the richest agricultural sections east of the Alleghenies. However, Washingtons deteomlnatlon to strike a blow at the Indluns was based upon a bigger and more important objective than punishment for the massacres or cutting off this food supply. Peace talk was already In the air in 1779 and the great commander saw that If peace came at that time the United States would be a small fringe of territory on the Atlnntle coast. And the interior must be taken by force of arms if it were to be Included In the new country. So It was for the Stake of a great empire that Washington was playing when be launched the Sullivan-Clintoexpedition. The command of the expedition was at first Offered to Gen. Horatio Gates, the undeserving victor at Saratoga. But Gates declined on the plea that he was unable to undertake a campaign Involving such hardships. So Washington next turned to another general who had repeatedly proved his mettle on the battlefield. lie was John Sullivan, a young lawyer and commander of the militia at Durham, N. H., who In 1774 had committed the first overt act of the Revolution by the capture of Fort William and Mary, In New Hampshire, and all the British stores In it. Appointed a brigadier general In 1775, Sullivan had made a good record evpn though It was not particularly brilliant. Characterised as a "plodder, Sullivan was just the kind of dependable commander whom Washington knew he could trust for such a campaign. The first success of the campaign was scored by Clinton who sent a force of 500 men under Colonel Van Schalck, who made a rapid march of 900 miles up the Mohawk valley, scattered the Onondagas, destroyed their villages, laid their fields waste and returned to Fort Schuyler with his force intact. He then ascended the Mohawk to Canajoharle and opened a road to Otsego lake, pver which he transported 240 boats with supplies Ilvnn-Cllnto- n n I7ig Tortura Tree . for Ms I.40U troops. I!y the end of June Clinton had reached the lake and was ready to float down tbe Susquehanna to Join Sullivan. Sullivan had established his headquarters at Easton, Ia, late In Muy and Immediately found himself In because of the rltulrles and Jealousies among the officers and men front the different colonies. But he succeeded In smoothing out most of these troubles, mid on July 211 began his march with between 3.000 sod 3.5(SI men. At Tioga lie was Joined by General Clinton and pushed boldly forward Into the Indian country. After an occasional skirmish with a few cnsual-Itles- , he reached the village of Newtown, near the city of Elmira, on August 29. Here the Indluns and Tories numtiering about 1,100 had laid an ambush for the Americans. Their (dun was to draw Sullivan Into a defile between river and ridge and after his army was well strung out, to enfilude both flanks with their fire. If they hud succeeded, "the bloody business of Braddork" might easily have been repeated there and Sullivan's expedition failed disastrously at the start. But, fortunately for Mm. among his forces were three companies of Morgans riflemen, those stalwarts In buckskin who had played such a prominent part In the defeat of "Gentleman Johnny n and who could the Indian at his own game. Among them was the famous Timothy Murphy, serving In the company of Capt James Barr and Lieut. Thomas Boyd the same Tim Murphy who hud fired another shot heurd round the world when lie killed General Fraser at Saratoga and whose fame as the scout of the Schoharie was to go ringing along the whole frontier. It was these riflemen who detected the breastworks, masked by bushes, which the Indians and Tories had thrown up. in time to save Sullivan from marching Into the trap. He Immediately deployed his army for attack, sent General Ioor with his New England regiments to outflank the enemy on his right, and brought bis artillery to play upon the breastworks. The movement was an Instantaneous success. Terrified by the roar of the big guns, the Indians fled and Sullivan scored a decisive victory. The news of this victory spread over the Indian country and brought great discouragement to the enemy. Meanwhile Sullivan wus pushing on, destroying every village which he reached, cutting down the corn In the fields, girdling the fruit trees and In general sweeping like a wave of destruction through the rich country where the Indians had lived In peace and plenty. By September 12 Sullivan hud reached the head of Conesus lake and found the deserted village of Chief Big Tree. He knew that he was In the neighborhood of the Genesee river, the heart of the Seneca country, where lived the most numerous and most warlike of the five tribes. But he did not know where the principal village was located, and In order to find out he sent Lieutenant Boyd on a scouting expedition. Boyd was instructed to select four or five men to accompany him but made the mistake of instead, a party much too large taking twenty-sito escape detection by the Indians and at the same time too small to put up an effective fight in case he catne into contact with the enemy. Today there stands near the town of Cuyler-ville- , N. Y., a granite boulder hearing a bronze tablet on which appear these words: This way side shrine marks the place where on September 14, 1779. Lieut. Thomas Boyd and Sergt. Michael Barker met death undaunted In the line of duty after lingering torture. Tliey marked with tiieir blood the western limit In the state of New York Not of the great struggle for American freedom. far away stands a great elm tree, known as the torture tree. For this Is the spot where took place a tragedy of the Revolution which Is hut lit tie known to mpst Americans but which stands as one of the most thrilling stories of dauntless heroism tn the whole history of that conflict On the evening of September 12, Boyd Hnd his party found themselves at a deserted Indian village near Canngcrnga creek. The young lieutenant sent two of his men back to Sullivan to report his Situation and these two readied their destination safely. In the meantime a force of five or six hundred Indians under the command of Col. John Butler, the notorious Tory leader, took up their position on Groveland bill to resist Sullivan's o'- - A V T V; Y s Bur-goyn- e, nut-lndln- x i 7Tie oyd-Ftirt- er f&rker- - , advance Into the Genesee valley. They had n Idea that the Boyd party was behind them uud Boyd hnd no Idea that he was cut off from Sullivan's army by such a force. Early In the morning of September 13. Boyd started to return to the main army. One of Ids men. seeing some Indians prowling uhout the village, made the fatal mistake of firing npon them, thus revealing the post tlon of Boyds party to the savages. Bor a short time the scouting party was unmolested, although as Boyd traveled buck along the trail through the forest he saw several Indians trotting along abend of his column. He did not realize that they were enticing him Into an ambush. Finally they closed in and the next few moments witnessed one of the most desperate combats In the history of the frontier. Boyd and his men fought with their rifles until their ammunition ran out and then it was a struggle at close quarters, clubbed musket and fists against tomahawk and sculping knife. Fourteen of Boyd's party were killed on the spot but several among them the redoubtable Tim Murphy managed to break through the cordon of death and by thels fleetness of foot escaped to army. D;yd and Sergeant Barker were tuken prisoners. The next morning the hot September sun looked down upon a terrible scene In the Seneca village. Tied to the torture tree was young Tom Boyd, bravely facing the howling mob of savages which surrounded him. Mary Jamison, the famous white captive of the Seneras. has told about the scene of that morning as follows: Boor Boyd was stripped of Ids clothing and then tied to a sapling, where the Indians menaced Ills life by throwing their tomahawks at the tree directly over his head, brandishing their scalping knives at him In the most frightful manner and accompanying their ceremonies with the most terrific shouts of oy She also described further details of his lingering death but they were too ghastly to he recorded. He was then beheaded. Ills liead was stink upon a pole and his body left on the ground unlmried. Later in the day Sullivan captured the village and found the bodies of Boyd and Barker. The sergeant apparently, however, bad been killed with comparatively little torture. The story has often been told that Colonel Butler questioned Boyd and tried to get informa tion about Sullivans army from hint, hut that Boyd refused to reveal his commander's plans, whereupon the Tory leader shouted: Take In. a. Senecas ! Bad ns was Butlers record ns a leader of bloody raids against the colonists, historians have generally absolved him from responsibility for Boyd's horrible fate. Terrible as had been their fate, their sacrifice had not been In vain. For the Indians, hearing the uproar behind them caused by the fight put up by Boyd's party before it was overcome, abandoned their position nnd liurritdly retreated westward. So when Sullivan advanced up that hill he met with no resistance, and It Is probable that Boyd's party saved Sullivan's army from a severe engagement In which n large number of men probably would have lost their lives. On September 14 of this year the granite boulder on which is Inscribed the deathless heroism of Boyd and Parker will be formally unveiled as a part of the celebration of the Sullivan-Clintosesquicentennial. Although It was a minor incident in that campaign, no tribute that will be paid to the participants in that campaign will be more deserving than the tribute there honoring the memories of the two young soldiers who marked with their blood the western limit in the state of New York Ff the great struggle for American freedom." ; , I n, Sil-llva- n -- oil-sha- Horse & . J |