| Show TIME for a little while yesterday afternoon main street was blocked by men women and children the object of the motley gatherl ga therm was to gaze at n queer outfit that hails from the eastern part of texas it was a new thing for the people many of whom had never seen a true representation of an ox team such as crossed the plains to utah away back in the the family is composed of seven persons a man and wife and live children one a stanley is the gawn up son joseph name of the man he appears to be about fifty years of ape is a short heavy built man his a short slender woman the eldest child is a young man about twenty years of age and the others rane one about five years old all of them look as though they had passed through considerable hardship and lire somewhat emaciated An otlo man is with the family having joined them in colorado they left texas april and have been traveling live months and seven days U this city their journey probably occupy two or three weeks more there were two wagons as first but three animals died on ina col and way afi load had to be left they export to settle bome river cannoa there gee land for a kome thy wll move on to the snake biyer 1 abe beani consists e pt mexican ameera dohl er and leading these is a email scrawny mare lor a spike the steers are diminutive and have a lelii and hungry look being only a trifle larger than the donkey one of them is however as lively as a galvanic battery and throws its hind heels out at everybody and everything that approaches him the wagon is a veritable prairie schooner in a picturesque state of dilapidation having the appearance of having been wrecked rescued patched up and again launched on the overland route from texas in it is carried the whole camping outfit and property of the travelers the wheels were patched with pieces of iron willows and wood and as the old man remarked was get tin like me pretty old you have come a long distance ventured a reporter to the lady she turned wearily around and replied yes we have talk about hardships and trouble why no one knows what it is until they have gone through what I 1 have she said she had walked nearly 1600 miles either leading the spike or following the outfit over much of this distance she had assisted the children who had become footsore and weary from their tedious march here 13 my little five year old he has walked I 1 declare miles said the woman I 1 the man who accompanied them had rested the little ones by carrying them many miles on the dreary trip mr stanley was crippled by an injury and could not walk much of the way he said he early days passed through this country before but now I 1 am like a babe he added some man from plain city took a hat and pascedis pas sediS around among the crowd and a subscription subscript ioa was handed to be old man who counted the money out of the people several boys who had crowded around the diminutive aff wheeler were cautioned to get out of the way orthey would run the risk of being landed in the gutter he looks poor but hes mighty spry so stand back said the old man well fatheree fath erwe musac lead out to camp said the lady the street was cleared before them and the motley team plodded on the little boy leading the spike by the bridle the eldest son walking alongside with a stick prodding the beasts to their task mr stanley sitting on the wagon directing affairs and tending to the brake and the other man and mrs stanley bringing up the rear The children ride part of the time and change the monotony by walking they hope to find rest in their new unfound home where they have an idea that will grow better than in texas and where it wont be so hot ogden standard ath |
