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Show UTAH BRIEFS John H. Mos'gan park. Wellington A new mbool building la le be roust rurird. Tooele Natural g beating Is la be Installed at lb heal smelter. Provo-T- ito Utah County fair will have a large premium list thla year. Provo A new reservoir, lo cool la lb neighborhood of IIJ.111 will be commenced In Ibe near future. price Work la Mug rushed on the new federal building. Fillmore A thoroughbred coll show will be held here July 23lb. clluci for Bingham Canyon-Ch- ild held. are being rhlldren young coorallv Grove A pleasant brooding a escalation with headquarter In Provo Is Mug formed. Ten HhummuI persons Tlmpanogoa are expected lo Join In tbe bike lo the peek of Ml. llmpnnogoa on July JPtb. Ephrai- m- Plana are tinder way for a new Irrigation project. Uhl -- The white By peal, which ba raued so much ba lo Hi sugar beet rulx-rs- , Is now attacking Ihe tomato crop, Cetilei field I II Calf club makes a tour of nirmU-r- s projec ts. provo It. Y. I, summer school has over (oO registered for the first half of the summer course. Eureka Tint It district metal ship metits show an Increase for the first six mouths of lti.'5ti over 1129. Hint Capitol The I'lab State treasury has a balance of over 2 millions of dollars on band. Kaimb IHversliy of oceuiaiona Is being urgtl for the Italian trllca. Mill Crock A water shortage for Saif Like City Is forecast by recent JoVinHltonj M I MECENTLT (her too filar In Lexlnp ton Kr" Which WiS th them of many new stories la paper I throughout th country and which I recalled for a moment th onm of on .. b01 picturesque figures IVfr VJjl In American lilatory. It waa the for- Iu7 mBl lo the public of the old horn of On. John Hunt Morgan, famotia Cunfcdcmt commander In the Civil war. Thla home, now owned by a Islington woman. Mr. John Johnstone, hna been restored to th architectural style of antebellum duya and, containing as It dea, many relic of thla cavalier of the old South, It now atnnda as n memorial to n man whoa deeds marked him as on of the boldest and most dualling cavalry leaders In our history. Among those who attended the opening waa a little group of aged men to whom thla ceremony had n special significance. There were only IP of them and they were the survivors of th thousands who rode with Morgan on those siiectacu-lo- r raids which made him the Idol of his followers. They entered the front door, through which once rode General Morgan and Ida Lexington III flea, and walked reverently through Its rooms, characteristically Southern In their simplicity and spaciousness. They saw the massive chandeliers, the heavy doora and the circular stairway, which are Just as they were when this fine old mansion boused the gallant and debonair horseman, only mellowed and mude even more beautiful by tbe passing years. They pointed out to each other the south gateway Into tbe paved courtyard through which, according to local tradition, the general, pursued hy his enemies, rode his beloved mare, "(Slack Bess," and clattered up the aide ateps to bid farewell to his adored mother. j John Hunt Morgan waa born In Iluntavllle, Ala., June 1, 1820 the oldest of the six tons ofCulvin CL Morgan. When he was four years old his father moved to Kentucky where he bought n farm In Fayette county. There tbe future cavalryman grew to manhood and at the outbreak of the Mexican war enlisted In the service, rising to the position of first lieutenant In a cavalry regiment. When the Civil war started he waa a prosperous young business mun of Lexington, huving married tbe daughter of n leading merchant of that town, John W. Hunt, and being engaged In the manufacture of bagging. It la said that at first Morgan remained neutral, hoping that imiending conflict would be settled amicably, but whed a Federal force from Camp Dick Itobluson entered Lexington be was angered by the Invasion and decided to cast his fortunes with the Confederacy. Morgans official position In the Civil war la something of an anomaly. In that respect, it resembled the position of his homeland, Kentucky. It was one of tbe border states which both the North and the South tried to win to their sides and it furnished thousands of men for both armies. In It the horrors of civil conflict were shown at their worst. Families were divided and frequently brother fought against brother. It was a fertile field for guerilla warfare and such was the nature of much of the fighting which took place upon its soil. Morgan became such a thorn In the side of various Union commanders and gave the citizens of two Northern states such a scare hy hit spectacular raids that amid the blind passion and prejudice of the war, be came to be regarded In the North as a guerilla leader. On the other hapd, the South regarded him as a regular Confederate cavalryman, subject' to the orders of higher Confederate officers and the government at Richmond, Certainly he waa regularly commissioned as a captain of Kentucky volunteers, attached to the division of Gen. Simon B. Buckner, early in tbe war, as the colonel of a cavalry regiment in Gen. Braxton Braggs army in 1802-3-, and later as a brigadier-genera- l. One of General Morgan's meD was an expert telegraph operator, who carried his instrument behind his saddle. On one occasion Morgan wanted to know if there were any Federal troops at Louisville who could be sent quickly to Bowling Green to reinforce the large force stationed there and cut him off while he was raiding behind the Union lines. General Boyle was In command at Louisville and General Granger at Bowling Green. Reaching the main railway line between the two cities, Morgan had his telegrapher tap the telegraph line and put himself In communication with Boyle whom he Informed that Morgan had been Been In the vicinity of Bowling Green and that there was danger of his attacking tbe town. How many troops can you send Immediately to reinforce me?" tapped out the telegrapher on his key, ending the message with the name Granger. Back came the reply, There are no troops In Louisville who can be made at once available." Are there troops elsewhere who could be sent to Bowling Green? If so, where are they now? IIJ .74 I frnOy rvsrts. , wore killMidtalc Sixteen In Salt Ijikr City ed In auto acchb-ui- s for the fir- -t six mouth of till year, Echo Tin dedication ceremonies for Echo dam have Indefinitely posiix-e- n tioned. Logan hold their Woolgrower nual summer meeting with a large ,3w luc&r 1 . i high-ccltlng- ed . ,. "VT . Jl, , T. Jf'.L & md Morgan an- Ogden Utah will he represented at the national contention of Gyro dull at Tueoinu. Washington. Ft. Douglas Citizen military train lug camp will close August 3rd. Ogden Buildings divined a fire me time will le removed hy order of the city government. Trenienlon Local I.lotm club sponsors community celebration. Ogden Water shortage requires a strlet sprinkling of lawns regulation, llyriiut Hr. El wood Mead, U. 8. to of reclamation I Commissioner How soon could they be brought up to strengthen the town' defenses?" was the next message from the bogus "Granger." Boyle replied, naming the places where troops were then stationed, stating their exact number and calculating the time re- quired to transport them to Bowling Green. Having received this, Morgan sent a final telegram, thanking Boyle for giving him so much valuable Information and praising him as a very smart boy." Then he signed the message with his own name I The most spectacular enterprise of this cavalry leader was his raid Into Indiana and Ohio in the summer of 1803, a feat of during and skill almost unequaled during the whole course of the war and one which won him even the admiration of his enemies. Boldly conceived and skillfully executed. It just missed being carried to a triumphant conclusion through no fault of Morgnn's but because a awlft and unexpected rise of the Ohio river prevented his reaching safety at the last moment. It was his own Idea, carried out In his own way and undertaken In spite of the disapproval of bis theoretical superior officer. General Bragg. At that time MorgAn was operating In Tennessee where the military situation wu far from encouraging for the Confederates. General Buckner was In East Tennessee and General Bragg's army lay around Tullahoma, confronted by General Rose-cran- s with a superior force. Bragg dared not detach any troops to strengthen Buckner's Inadequate force, which was essential to holding his part of the state, because General Burnside was preparing an army of 30,1)00 men In Kentucky to move against Buckner. So Bragg decided to retreat across the Tennessee river and In order to create a diversion to cover his retreat, he decided upon a cavalry expedition Into Kentucky. Morgan was selected for the Job with orders to go anywhere in Kentucky lie wished and capture Louisville If possible. Morgan was willing to make the utempt but did not believe tiiat he could hold out long enough for Bragg to accomplish his withdrawal. He proposed to carry the war Into enemy territory hy crossing t lie Ohio river, believing that the scare would not oul.v hold Burnside in Kentucky but also reduce the pressure on Buckner and Bragg. But Bragg could not see It that way and gave the cavalry leader orders to confine his operations to Kentucky. Morgan, however, had set his tnind upon handling the expedition In Ids own way and when on June 11 his division of approximately 1..KX) men, divided Into three brigades, crossed the Cumberland and started north, his secret destination was Ohio. After a number of skirmishes with Union troops stationed as garrisons of towns along the line of march, he reached the Ohio at Bragdens-burJuly 7, captured two steamboats, drove off 800 Federal militia and two Federal gunboats, and then crossed the river to Indiana. He was now In the heart of enemy territory, his little force pur- g, AND ITS PEOPLES By Copt. L R. Cloud RobinsoA WHAT 13 INDIAT EXCEPT la generalities, the average E kko knowe very little about ludia. there bes out been annihilated, eur western civilization. by telm graphs, newspaper, book, telephone, movie and wireless To comprehend nut visit a country even allghtly. It. To know It atlll better, you most Ikvt Is It. And to know It best of all, yoa must ot only live to a country but study Its people, their customs and mod of living. I don't suppose 2 per rent of Americans have had the advantage of seeing India. It Is not surprising, therefore. Ibsl w bar the bnblt of apeaklog a If It wert a country Ilka Franc or Italy. Instead of a continent or combination of countries Ilk Europe. W are apt tn forget that India baa a population of 82U.tsMi.ntRi, comioMed of different race, speaking different language and practicing different religions. U'e also forget Iho results of cmda, a social or class system under which every Hindu la born Into a group which for lire the Ones his occupation, method of living and even marriage limitation. There re id i Hindu cmsIcs In India, and It Is difficult to realize that 7U.immmmmi total of LihmmmmpO Hindus out of are bmked by the caste width ere shove them ne "untouchables" or 8 par at In ju un outcast. the Thousand of years ago wlo-conquering Aryans descended from the North and became ruler and master hlglo-- t civiliof India, they formed sation than the dink, till k featured aborigine, and to preserve their own purity of rare, decided lo exclude l ho i earlier race from iheli more Intimate social settlement. Thus originated this body of "untouchable. " Torn them, or even coming Into remote contact with them. Involve the high caste Hindus In ceremonial defilement. It It Interesting to note that In a recent utterance the mkesman of these 7(i,(KNMMM) erqile declared himself entirely opposed to the Hilley of Mahut-mGandhi, the Instlgntor of the movement of passive resistance In India. Just Imagine, then, a region the size of all Europe, exclusive only of Bus-sia- , stretching over 28 degrees ot latitude and (0 degree id longitude, with a population of 32immmi.mm. practicing nine great religion and siieaklng 130 different dialect belongings lo six dls- tlucl families of ieech That Is India from Ihe point of view of the statistician. Statf.-tk- a usually are dull and commonplace things, hut at least In the case of India we may say ttini they are startling. If their meaning Is to be grasted we must clothe them with flesh and blood. This rno only he done hy hard and extensive traveling Id that vast, mysterious and romantic land. u sued by thousands of Federate front the Kentuckyj camps, and facing hostile militia, populace and, soldiery wherever he might turn. Descending on torydon, he found d.Otni militia drawn up to bar bis way. He dispersed them and moved on without halting through Salisbury and Palmyra to Salem. There he tupped telegraph lines and learned of the frantic efforts the Kederuls were . making to cupture him. and of the wild reports of an Immense luvnding Confederate force which were Ming circulated. From Salem he proceeded on up the Ohio, destroying and burning us he went, In an effort to cripple the transportation system and deprive the Federuls of their stores. At Versailles he encountered a strong force of enemy troops sent to capture him but eluded them and continued on his way. After threatening Cincinnati, he skirted the of the American IsgIoti will hack the city and reached Camp Shady. There lie destroyed construction of a hospital ut Provo. a large number of Federal army wagons, much Manti Sanpete count L with tbe state In weed eradication forage and other supplies. Continuing east, lu.v Ing waste to rull lines, he finished his dash campaign. Wheat Hay" Is celebrated THE HIGHWAY TO INDIA NephI through Ohio at Iotneroy. At tlmt time It was estlmnted 2.1.000 Federal troops were in hot pur- for teuth year with elaborate ceresuit of the daring raiders. monies. the dawn o! history India Water shortage is the FROM been the victim of Invasion Sprliigville Even then Morgan might have mude his escape Into Virginia, but for an unexpected rise In th cause of strict sprinkling regulations. after Invasion What of the gateway Moroni A new mall schedule with Ohio that delayed the comnmnd and prevented It which these invasions came? through from crossing the river Immediately. While they better service has been established. A little north of latitude 34. a natural Pleasant Grove 1030 cherry crop Is cut In the mountains, runs for a were compelled to wait. Federal troops and gunand with good quality of fruit. tance of w boats came up. The raiders pushed further up the from JaIurud on the Tooele Meed spraying Is begun in river to another ford. Here many crossed before edge 0f ,he (ran Indus plain to an j the pursuers caught up. and made their escupe. southern end of Tooele county. 0j,en gpot a, ,and rmna on the bor- Hemmed In by Federuls. the remainder of the Brigham City Auto accident Injures der 0y Afghanistan. It Is known as j command split up in snmll groups some escaping, four persons seriously. tbe KbybPr pasgwater shortage Is being some being captured. General .Morgan and a large Logan- -A Dnt adveIlf ot goa power thU number of his men escaped, doubled back on the forecast for this city Historic highway constituted pracU- s canyon highway Park City-Pa- rley trull and headed toward Athens and Zanesville. M llIch cally (be only channel resur ace . But the game wus almost up. And Ironically s o enter the many influences which couj Murray Municipal power plant is have played so large a part In shaping enough It took a Kentuckian to catch a Kentuckian. For when Morgan wus finally surrounded to be improved. the destinies of India. It provided Midvale A large colony of chicken the mato and forced to surrender near Lisbon In Columbi,n)et lhroui;b wllir flowed ana county. Ohio, the man to whom he surrenI.n..t.hen.ettl.fU: the tide of Aryan stock which took members ture with all buying supplies root In tbe fertile soil of the dered was MaJ. George W. Rue of the Ninth KenGanges i tucky cavalry of the Union army, a native of colllectlvely. valley and gave to the world the rich A crowd with Orderville repgreat Lexington, an old acquaintance of Morgans before gift of Indian thought and civilization. the war and an old adversary of his during the resentatives from all parts of Utah j Many centuries later, though still first two years of the war. Rue had entered the and most of the other states attended 800 years before the Christian era, a Mt. j dedication ceremonies the tbe at Union service as the captain of o cuvairy comwestern civilization, lured by the story j pany which be had organized and, according to Carmel tunnel of the richness of the country' widen Lehl In connection with the en- big reminiscences, published in the Ohio Archeofor tbe first time trod Its Sons and Daughters lay beyond, This was the logical and Historical Society Publications sev- campment of tbe Invasion of stony path. eral yeurs ago. he was kept busy chasing John ot the Pioneers and the Indian War Alexander the Great A thousand years held Lehl which will Veterans be I Six at him of times drove Morgan out Kentucky. Christ came another conqueror, after out of the state, on six different occasions, before for four days commencing, August 12, Mahmud of Gaznl, opening up another n will be the raid into Ohio when he surrendered to me! "Utah Sugar Beet Day momentous chapter In the story of the has' served to the the Cubuugb farm, wltere monument according present plans, continent Mahmud was out for plunbeen erected. That monument stands south of Fillmore The old state capital der and be met and defeated the Rajs and hears this Inscription: This stone' eated here has tieen repulred ond puts at Peshawar. This marked the the spot where the Confederate raider,! tioned for a state museum hy an of the Mohammedan Invabeginning John Morgan, surrendered his command propriation from the state legislature. sion which was to end Id the Mogul to Major George V. Rue, July 26, 1863, and is The building was the first state bouse i the splendor of whose sway dynasty, ever the farthest point north reached hy auy erected west of the Mississippi river. ls perhaps unsurpassed In the annnls body of Confederate troops during the Civil war. At one time the structure was the cap-Itof the world. Erected by Will L. Thompson, East Liverpool, building for much of the territory Today the Khyber pass plays a less that now embraces all of the State of Ohio, 1009." historic pari, but is still, as It was Ctah with of Arizona, together ports After his surrender Morgan was sent to Columbefore, the main land thoroughfare beIdoho, Oregon. Wyoming, bus where he was imprisoned in the Ohio peni- Colorado, tween India and central and western Calofrnia and Nevada. The building Asia. tentiary. Four months later, however, he and six on dedicated 21th the of July. of his men dug through the stone floor of the' By an agreement made with the dungeon in which they were confined, tunneled! Smith field-Lo- gan roads Afridls towards tbe end of the last canyon under the walls and, after a series of hairbreadth. ,lllve been garvelled and rouds ls gad century, the safety of the pass was escapes from capture while making their way entrusted to the Afrldl tribe, which gooj to reach the Confederate! south, finally managed closed the fiscal provided a body of men for patrol and .NPbiTbe city lines in safety. After taking part in some minor; year with a large overdraft in the escort duties. More recently this corps engiigemeuts In West Virginia and Kentucky be;genera fund was placed on a reguliu basis paid, went to Tennessee and there on September 4., Salt Lakecity-T- he State Fair will armed and officered by British officers, ISol, while stationed at a farmhouse near Green- - have a large dIvlsIon deToted to tbe and became a regiment known as the vine, Tenn, he was surrounded in the night by a'horge sboe Khyber Rifles. The road as now pltcbng feature. detachment of Federal troops under Gen. A. C. metalled and graded, and you may acre feet of 20,000 HyrumNearIy GUlem. His presence there had been betrayed by water ba3 bten guscrlbed for ,n tbe new travel It In comfort by automobile and a young woman who was living in the house. . i t view the great fort of Land! Koiat, While attempting to escape a trooper shot him; Cedar C1yutab woo, cllp for J930 the ultimate outpost of Greiit Hritulp through the heart, thus bringing to a close his apporxlmates m n,UUoa unds and In the direction of Afghanistan. gallant and colorful career. !(. 1910. Wiitno Nt'Wtpftper liuioo Western Newspaper Galen.) ! i Statue in Lexinqton Court'Tard INDIA Nrw four room eebool umer. ereelnl be will building Murrsy-- A public wading pool f' small children la Installed In the city Consumer j - . I i ! j J ob-o- , condl-mark- by |