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Show UNCLE DAVY BROWN. An Old-Time Prospector About to Cross the Divide. A Los Angeles (CaL) paper of a recent date has the following concerning an old-time old-time inter-mountain prospector: Old Uncle Davy Brown, well-known all over Colorado as a prospector of early days, is stricken with paralysis and is about to die. Uncle Davy is 92 years of age, and in many respects is a remarkable character. A few days ago he attended the county fair at Lompoc and rode a mule there from his ranch, a distance of thirty miles. Uncle Davy is the pet of the whole region from Santa Barbara to Watsonville, and his reception recep-tion at the fair was a rousing appreciation of the old man. He immediately entered the mule in a mile heat race, ran it in four minutes and carried off the $50 prize. The exertion following the ride was too much for the old man and he fell down with a stroke of paralysis. Three vears atro. when 89 vears old. he rode 150 miles on the mule in three days. On reaching his destinatiou, he further astonished as-tonished the spectators by lifting his considerable con-siderable sized mulo on his back and carrying carry-ing it ten paces. Brown is a rancher and has lived in the West all his life, following ranching and prospecting. He has never been sick, is 5 feet 8 inches high, broad and compactly built and always distinguished for his great muscular strength, even in his extreme old age. Though grizzly and shaggy he is not bent nor emaciated, and had it not been for his foolhardy freaks he would have lived for the next twenty years. |