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Show SENATOR KEARNS TELLS EXCITING CHRISTMASTALE Senator Kearns of Utah has a vivid i recollection of a Christmas morning wheifr as a small boy he was "freight-Ing "freight-Ing In the Black Hills with eyes big with wonder and . speculating as to whether he would ever possess some of the yellow gold, which others were digging dig-ging out of the earth, says the Washington Wash-ington Star. - "Two days before Christmas,"- he related re-lated a short time ago, referring to this period; "there was a scare in the Black Higa over an epidemic of smallpox, and I was taken Bick with what appeared to be that disease. I was working for a Dig miner named Dove, and he was a man no one cared to cross. He had some Mexican blood in his makeup, bad lived a life of adventure, and there was nothing he feared. The Board of Health had Bet aside a log house for a hospital and started. In to Isolate every suspicious suspi-cious case there. Dove determined that I should not be taken away from his cabin. " 'Boy he said, 'Just stay here. No man dare enter my house without my consent, and no one can take you away.' "I felt perfectly safe after that, and when I heard the Board of Health, consisting con-sisting of two doctors and three deputy sheriffs. In front of the cabin I -knew that Dove would look after them. " 'Friends,' I heard him say, quietly, after they demanded in the name of the law that I should be brought out and taken to the hospital, 'I don't want any trouble,"but that filck boy Is going to l stay here, where I can take care of him.' "I peered over toward the door, and there I saw Dove standing with a shotgun shot-gun ready to be aimed at a moment's notice. He . was talking very calmly, and as he proceeded he brought ' the gun In place for action. I " 'Friends,' he repeated, "you had better bet-ter go along because if any man enters that door I will kill him on the spot.J "The . Board of Health then went away. All day Christmas I lay there wondering whether they might come back at a moment when Dove was away. Between Christmas and New Year day they did return, and as It happened Dove was not at home. I felt very much averse to being taken away, and determined to Imitate Dove's action as far as possible. Though weak from illness I got up and shouldered Dove's gun. I told the man that sooner than be taken away. In Dove's absence I would kill any one who came In for me. I think they didn't care to have any trouble with Dove, and they left. It turned out that I had a case of .measles, but had I been taken to the pesthouse I would surely have had smallpox." For reveral years Senator kearns has been making inquiries for "Dove." If Ihe ever locates the big miner, for whom he has a very tender place in his heart, there will be a big time, and if Dove has not in the meantime found a gold j mine he will be Invited to help himself I to all the yellow metal he wants from T Senator Kearns's rich find in Utah. . i . . r |