Show I r r S Seven Trips Trips Across Across A r t thc lc plains with cove covered d wagons wagons and ox t teams ams were 0 J made by John Jenkins Q of d Newton Utah in iii pioneer pioneer s J days He Will wil be e in m the big Covered Wagon Days Parade driving a team of j J oxen which he broke himself i 4 5 MT 34 TUT 44 4 4 3 y 4 1 J bV j Wr- Wr i W i itt 4 t 4 r S 1 W S. l 5 y 5 S Sc 5 c 5 w 5 S S 4 s 's s S r l li i t S Y L t S r I Aged Ag d Ox Driver To Participate In Pioneer Fete John Jenkins Newton Former Former former For for- mer to Drive Team in Parade Parade Parade Pa Pa- rade Friday NEWTON July 22 22 Memories 22 of seven long trips across the plains from the M Missouri river to Utah will willbe willbe be recalled Friday by John Jenkins year old pioneer of this city cUy Mr Jenkins one of the rew lew re remaining re- re bull whackers in Utah will drive an ox team in the big Pioneer Pioneer Pio Plo neer day parade In Salt Lake Friday The parade is a feature of the first day of or the Covered Wagon Days celebration Mr Jenkins first crossed the plains In 1861 as M a a. boy of 16 driving a team which included a pair of ot cows and a pair of steers He made round trips In 1863 1864 and 1866 returning with large wagon trains of Incoming Lat Lat- ter-day ter Saints In each case The The old bullwhackers best boast Is 15 that he never lost loot an ox on any of or these trips Ordinarily his teams Included eight head Although Mr Jenkins was In the midst of Indian wars on nearly every trip he escaped any actual combat He tells of how on one occasion his train pulled over a hillside Into a valley valley val vat I ley Icy Just as Indians were leaving after massacring the owner of or a trading past post and burning all buildings Sixty miles further on on on the same Sixty trip the group came to the ruins of ot what had been a 0 train of 60 wagons which was bound for California The men had heel all been killed and three women carried off to the Indian camp Mr Jenkins settled In Newton when the community had only a single houe house He has lived here since that time and always keeps a voke oke of cattie cattle cat cat- tle tie teamed up UI and ready for action |