Show coil COl CAVEN tS iS HERE Interesting Character Ahead of the Frank James Company Colonel J E Caves Caven who is here in advance of Frank James who comes to the Grand this week Is a unique and nd interesting figure In the theatrical world worl 1 He and ald James have been per senal friends since the outbreak ot of the civil war when they served together with the famous leader on the border In 1862 Colonel Caven was transferred to the regular confederate rate establish leUt and the remainder of his mill tar tary service was in the command of GEneral Joe Shelby He went to Mex leo ico with arny arz y after the down downfall tall fall or of the confederacy with the lion or of joining Maximilian The with withdrawal or of France front from Mexico exico left the confederate adventurers without it a itc c cause use add they drifted back into the states after amnesty was wils declared Since the war Colonel Caven has been principally engaged in the newspaper business For years he was or of th the own rs or of the Kansas City Times Selling his Interest he went to TExas where he lost a fortune In the cattle business Later he wason was on the New York C Commercial l Advertiser for tor tora fora a number of years He was managing editor ot of the Denver Times until two years ears ago since which time he has been connected with the theatrical bus busIness mess Iness in a managerial capacity He is a man ot of delightful personality striking appearance and distinguished bearing He has had an unusually in interesting Interesting career and talks entertaining entertainingly ly Or of men and of the past fort forty years In anticipation or of the appearance here ot of Frank James in the play Tile The Fatal Scar It may be interesting to learn more of the man as he is It IS useless to declare that these kina kinu f men do not attract No good reason therefore exists why the truth should not be told of one who was brave and steadfast to the end and though his sins ma may have been scarlet they shall be made white as snow In his youth his eyes es were ere blue soft and winning Looking at the face one might say There Is the face of a stu student dent It was calm and serene going oftener to pallor than to laughter lt It I Imay may be that he liked to hear the birds sing for hours houIs and hours he would 1 linger Unger in the woods alone His hands were small and perfectly Who 1 could tell in looking at them that they 1 were the roost most deadly hands with a re revolver i volver in aU all the border Perhaps no noman 1 man ever eyer had more complete mastery over a horse than Frank James and 1 whether at a furious gallop or under 1 the simple swing or of the route step he I Ia could lean from his saddle and snatch a pebble from the ground Thus speaks Colonel J E Caven who ho grew reminiscent when talking of the James Jamesb b ys S with whom he served In the same j brigade In the confederate army anny Frank James delighted in surprises s sand I and he was heard to sing little snatches of song sang as the gray smoke rolled a way away from his pistol he published his name I broadcast when the mood was upon him and blazed it along the route ot of lila his travels as tr If it were a cloud cloua to cover oyer hIm He was as unlike the rest just as he was greater than them If there is a arace l race without fear Frank James Janes be belonged belonged longed to it He loved life and Joet hl he 1 did not value it He exhibited au all the qualities dualities or of cunning skill nerve dar dat darIng big Ing physical endurance hu humor more mor a courage that was sometimes J cautious to excess and s sometimes des desperate p rute to temerity Having shaken hands with death he thought no more morl of the word surrender j he did or rather voluntarily gave him himsel himself self sel In all the time I 1 knew him and from what is still sUll told 1 of him lit lif I Iwas was a man who never his prom promIse I IIse Ise |