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Show CAPTAIN JIM BAKER. From Indian Agent Thompson who recently returned from theSuake river country, we learn that the old frontiersman and mountaineer, Captain Cap-tain Jim Baker, is livirjg there quietly and comfortably. He ha3 a good ranch, seventy or eighty head of cattle, a fine band of horses, and snug quarters. The name of Captain Cap-tain Jim Baker is so closely indenti-ticd indenti-ticd with tlie first explorations and early history of tlie great mountain region, that even the mention of his name awakens general interest. For more than forty years Captain Jim has roamed through our mountains, exposed clten to great peril and privation; pri-vation; sometimes living pn friendly terms with the Indians, and at other times engaged in open warfare against them. Not a tribe exists between the Missouri river and the Pacific, or old Mexico and the British Possessions that docs not know of Captain -im, and with whom he has not had "discussions" "dis-cussions" with a Hawkins rifle. He has been emphatically a child of the woods and the wilderness, shunning at all times familiar contact with civilization, and courting the solitude and silence of the great mountains. Like all old mountaineers, he is credited with occasional Munchau-eeni-ms, but despite this he sarr recount re-count many a strange and perilous adventure by "flood andfield,"against which no rebutting evidence can be brought. If some enterprising Bohemian Bo-hemian could wring from. Jim Baker the truth, he could fashion a book ot marvels and mysteries worth the reading. Denver News. |