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Show BEAVER PRESS "ew Sally Sez Hal Thejbrt kfll 3 WflfiJL Gams all I know nwvffill.Y the in papers or I read what Just 1 had and yon. what I see hither a funny kind of a trip here two or three weeks ago. My younger kid Jimmy and my little nephew Jimmy Blake were over in the panhandle of Texas on the Mashed O. Ranch learning to be HILL3.-W- elI Is fefefe I m They cowboys. were having a big UQ Exterior of Fort Hall, 1849 By ELMO SCOTT WATSON kUGUST 5, 1834. In a lush, upland meadow, In what Is now the A -Jk UU stockaded freshly-peele- JlI sn HI yAx NathanielJ: "i Wye-t- d smoke-begrime- d August C, 1934. The modern city of roeatello, Idaho, Is In gala array. Crowds surge through its streets. Flags are flying. Bands are blaring. There are parades, floats, pageants, speeches. celeFar today Is the beginning of the four-da- y bration of the event which took place Just a hundred years ago the founding of the post that was "decreed by fate to be a centrifugal point of trade, commerce and recuperation." Such Is the characterization of this post by Jennie Broughton Brown, whose splendid "Fort Hall on the Oregon Trail" was published two years ago by the Caxton Printers. Ltd., of Caldwell, Idaho. In the years that followed Fort Hall was a beacon of safety not only to "the fugitive hunter" but to many a weary emigrant over the Oregon Trail which ran beneath Its walls; It was a port of call for nearly every wayfarer trapper, trader, missionary, explorer, guide and army officer whose name looms large In the early history of the West; it w,as to have a stirring part in the later stagecoach and freighting days; and it was a center of activity In more than one Indian war when the red man was making his last deRperate stand against the white man. The founder of Fort Hall was Nathaniel J. Vfycth. Born In Cambridge, Mass.. January 29, 1802, of distinguished ancestry (his mother was relative of John Hancock). Wyeth was Intended for Harvard college of which both his father and oldest brother were graduates. But he was impatient to begin a business career and declined to go to college. By the time he was thirty years old he had made a modest success Id his home community, managing a farm and engaging In the Ice trade which brought In an annual Income of some $1,200. Then, influenced by the writings of Hall J. Kelley, founder of the "Oregon Colonization Society," Wyeth determined to organize a trading company to exploit the rich natural resources of the Columbia river region In the Pacific Northwest His plan was to lead an overland expedition to the Oregon country and establish trading posts which were to be supplied by ships that were to sail around Cape Horn to the head of navigation on the Columbia and from there to bring back the furs and salmon collected at the posts. On March 11, 1&'!2, the expedition set out. But, although they were lucky at Independence, Mo., to fall in with Milton Sublette of the Uocky Mountain Fur company, who was leading a party of trappers and traders Into the mountains, misfortune dogged the footsteps of the eastern "tenderfoot" First some of Wyeth's men grew faint hearted and turned back. Then they were attacked by the fierce Blackfeet Indians and lost men killed and eight badly wounded tbr III 9tM I I tM A5 lSili ..Tf , 1 hi ' - Jf "r : fj 1 JS Ih-- - I . W ' h ,Jt w4V" mllT - Wl il "CTv The Invitation to the President Eventually Wyeth and the remnants of his party reached the Columbia in a destitute condition. But they were kindly received by Dr. John chief factor of the Columbia river district for the Hudson's Bay company at Fort Vancouver, and there began a lasting friendship between McLoughlin and Wyeth, even though the Yankee adventurer was a potential business rival of the II. B. C. factor. At Vancouver came the crowning blow to Wyeth's misfortunes. He learned that the ship which was bringing his supplies around Cape Horn had been shipwrecked and all of his goods lost Nothing remained for him to do but to release his men from their contract and return home to recoup his lost fortunes. Some of his men remained In the Oregon country and these "remnants of Wyeth's first expedition became part of the nucleus around which later Oregon Immigrants clustered." So from the historical point of view the expedition was not an uiler loss. Accompanied by two men Wyeth set out for the East in the spring of 1S33 and by November 3 of that year he was home again after an absence of ID months, having "made the first continuous land Journey on record from Boston to the mouth of the Columbia." It is a tribute to both the integrity of the man and the force of his personality that despite his failure he was able to Interest his friends In a second expedition. Within 12 days after his return to Massachusetts lie had organized the "Columbia River Fishing and Trading Company," had secured money from New York and Boston business men and chartered another ship for the Journey around Cape Horn. On his return trip east he had again come Into contact with representatives of the Rocky Mountain Fur company, this time In the persons of Milton Sublette and Thomas Fltzpatrlck, and had obtained from them the contract for supplying the merchandise to be nsed In their trading operations. So he purchased about 13,000 pounds of goods to fill this contract, part of It In eastern markets and, shipping It down the Ohio, secured the remainder In St iouls. Again be prepared to start from Independence. There he was Joined by the two young scientists. Nuttall and Townsend, who were also Oregon-bound- . But a more Important contingent of his party was a group of five men, whose presence Is accounted for by Mrs. Brown as follows: "When Wyeth had returned to Boston the preceding year, he was accompanied by two Indian lads, one about eighteen years of age, a kind of servant of all work, and a boy of thirteen, the son of a Hudson's bay trader and a Flathead beauty. Their presence In the East and also the visit of a party of Indians to St 1iuls In search of 'a Book, the !ulde to Heaven,' had aroused great zeal In missionary circles. Partly as a result of these visits, a small party of Methodist missionaries was In Wyeth's company for safe conduct on their way to the Oregon Indians. Their leader was Jason Lee, described by Town-sen- d as a 'taH, powerful man, capable of handling men In a wild country.' With him was his nephew, Daniel Lee, and three lay brethren, P. L. Edwards, Cyrus Shephard and C. M. Walker, alt of whom proved to be good travelers and excellent companions on a long tedious trip." The Journey across the plains was comparatively uneventful . His destination was a place on the Snake river In the country claimed by the Shoshonl or Snake Indians. En route there bis party was Joined by Thomas McKay, a Hudman, who was hunting In that region son's w.h a band of Canadians and Indians and who traveled along with him until he reached the site which he picked out for his fort It was a natural meadow of rich bottom land, enclosed by a sharp bend of the Snake river on half-bree- $! Uv4 I 4 Interior of Fort Hall, -- V ! I 1849 IBM mM'M Jason Lee -- y two sides and by a slough forming a protection on the third. Arriving there on July 14, Wyeth lost no time in getting to work on the fort According to Townsend, part of the men began felling trees, collecting drift logs and making corrals for their horses while the rest were sent out to hunt for meat. Osborne Russell, a youngster from Maine who accompanied tl'e party as a trapper, records In his journal that "On tha ISth we commenced the actual construction ot the fort, which was a stockade eighty feet square, built of cotton wood trees set on end, feet In the ground and sunk two and one-hastanding about fifteen feet above with two bas tions eight feet square at the opposite angles." When the hunters returned on Saturday, July 26, they found the stockade virtually completed and the men working on the houses Inside. The next day Wyeth Invited Jason Lee, the leader of the missionaries, to preach to the men and at two o'clock that afternoon the whole party assembled In the shade of a cottonwood grove to listen to the first sermon ever delivered within the boundaries of the state of Idaho. On July 30 McKay decided to leave for Fort Vancouver and Lee and his followers, In order to reach their new fields of missionary labors the sooner. Joined them. After the completion of the fort on August 4 and the ceremony the next day, Wyeth and his men commenced packing on August 6 to push on to the Columbia, leaving Fort Hall in charge of a Mr. Evans who kept with him "11 men, 14 horses and mules and three cows." Thus began the history of this famous fort. As for the later fortunes of the leader and others who had played a part In Its building: Wyeth continued on to Walla Walla where there was a happy reunion with his friend, Jason Lee. He reached Vancouver on September 14 and was again courteously received by Iwictor McLoughlin. On the lower end of Wapatoo Island, later called Sauve Island, he built another post which he called Fort William. But during the next two or three years, although lie worked tirelessly, the competition of the Hudson's Bay company under the management of his friend. Doctor McLoughlin, was too strong for him to overcome. So his enterprise for which he had had such high hopes ended In failure. In 1S37 Fort Hall was sold to the Hudson's Bay company and F'ort William was left in charge of C. M. Walker with Instructions to "lease it to some trusty person for 15 years." Then Wyeth returned to his home town of Cambridge to attempt to retrieve his lost fortunes by going Into the Ice business again. In 1844 Jason Lee also went back to his home town, Stanstead, in eastern Canada, and there he died the next year. But his fame, as the pioneer missionary of Oregon and the founder of a school which later became Willamette university was already secure. In 18.77 Doctor McLoughlin died, , poverty-strickeand a "Man Without a Country." For the Hudson's Bay company had removed him from his position because he had not exerted himself to discourage American settlement In the Oregon country and his efforts to become an American citizen were thwarted by Americans who remembered only that he bad once been an employee of a British who and how he had befriended company forgot when they were In dire their lf flag-raisin- g n branding. ranch state of Idaho, stands a little fort, Its walls or cottonwood logs V. gleaming white la the early the , v.k morning sunshine. Inside fort a motley crowd of men U around a tall flagstaff. Lnters and trappers, whose R Y buckgreasy, skins tell of a hundred camp-flrp- s in the ereat West, rub whose men garb bespeak the East. elbows with In the murmur of talk the nasal twang of the Down East Yankee rises sharply above the gruffer tones of the frontiersmen. Apart from the others stand two young fellows destined for future fame as men of science. One Is Thomas Kuttall (or Nuthall), a botanist fresh 1'rom Harvard college, and the other Is J. K. 'Townsend of Philadelphia, physician and ornithologist As they talk to a third man, scarcely older than themselves, their deferential manner toward him stamps him as the leader of this varied company. And he Is, for this is "Capt." Nathaniel J. Wyeth, founder of the "Columbia IUver Fishing and Trading company," a young I?oston business man, but already a' veteran of westward travel. Now Wyeth steps forward to the foot of the flagstaff. In his hand he holds a folded flag. He attaches It to the halyard and as it rises to the peak the roaring of muskets and the popping of pistols mingle with the whining crack of long rifles. As the banner ripples out In the sunshine In the red, white and blue glory of the Stars and Stripes a mighty shout goes up from the assembled company. Thus was another wilderness outpost established and, although this shouting throng may not realize It now, the curtain has been rung up on another act In the epic drama which Is to be called "The Winning of the West" Two months later Wyeth is to write to an nncle back East, saying: "I have built a fort on the Snake River, which I have named Fort Hall from the oldest gentleman in the concern, Mr. Henry nail. We manufactured a magnificent flag from some unbleached sheeting, a little red flannel and a few blue patches, saluted it with damaged powder and wet It in villainous alcohol; and after all, I assure you. it makes a very respectable appearance amid the dry and desolate regions of central America. Its bastions Stand a terror to the skulking Indian and a beacon of safety to the fugitive hunter. It Is manned by 12 men and has constantly loaded In the bastions 100 guns and rifles. These bastions command both the Inside and outside of the fort After building this fort I sent messengers to the neighboring nations to induce them to come to trade." i-f- fe sJfV' Nr calf The broken-hearted- fellow-countryme- need. In contrast to this sad ending to the man who was once the "Emperor of the West," it Is pleas-an- t to record that when death had romp to Nathaniel J. Wyeth th previous year It h(1( found him once more a prosperous man of aiTairs even though a century wan to pass before his name would he widely honored In connection with the celebration of the fort which he founded Fort Hall on the Oregon Trail. (C by W'ptPrn NwM.pr CalM be- - old family lougs to the Halsell Family, folks and myself. Its and where 1 went a couple of years ago om an and juh calves, was roping k,H0H crrev horse 1 was riding goi1 calf and tangled in the rope, and the was just an innocent Dysuinuei. mm t out ot it was bucked off on my 0n i head. On account of using good judg ment in knowing how to fall, wny i TKont hurt at all. The old horse stam calf peded around the corral with the aimwe oi tore up him and anchored to 1 was just scratch-ining fire. All this time and otner ear off marks, old cut Rmnutated parts out of my hair. Ana old dry cowpuncher, (and 1 never saw will many that wasent) said "Well you about to write sho have something now." He figured here is a day when he will lay eff the Republicans, and tell something amusing. Well this time 1 flew out there one night. Flew all night and got to 'Amarillo at four o'clock in the morning. Its about 100 miles to the ranch, down at a town named Muleshoe (1 suppose its an old Spanish name and come from the thing a mule wears on his toots.) Well I got in a taxi and lit out I figured there wasent much time to sleep, so I told the old boy "Lets get some breakfast and then hit on out of town." 1 dident know the road, but I did know the direction. We went by the restaurant to get ham and eggs, for out West everything you do you must get Ham and eggs first. Then when you get It done you get ham and eggs again. An old girl and her beau, (perhaps) eating in there too about 4.30 that morning, she recognized me. She had on an evening dresa. that's mighty late for an evening dress In Amarillo. She wanted me to Join her in what she said was a cup of coffee "That had something In it." 1 told her 1 was doing mighty well on this coffee 1 had ordered that had nothing but grounds in it. But she swore she wa3 drinking "Coffee Royal " That sounded awful g "Contineutal" to be browsing around In Amarillo. Why even "Old Tack" never heard of that. Well anyhow she got plum sore at me becaus I wou'.dent join her. And when 1 said "'Good Morning" as my driver and me went out she turned her bare back on me and muttered "Them actors are all alike, they are all swell headed, thats what I get for speakfTlg to a ham. He dident know a lady when he seen one." Well as it got to getting daylight and we passed all those little frame farm houses on every prairie quarter section, (where It never In the world should have been plowed up) I never saw as many fowls of various breeds try to cross the road ahead ot us. Chickens, turkeys, guinea hens. This old driver boy looked like he took uuuuisn oengni in trying to maim some of em, but much to my delight he couldn't reach any of cm. We was driving over a Country where 36 years before as a boy iS years old 1 had helped to drive a bunch of cattle from that very place to Western Kansas, and there wasent a house or a chicken In a whole county. That plains was the prettiest country 1 ever saw in my life, as flat as a beauty contest winners stomach, and prairie lakes scattered all over It And mirages! You could see any thing in the world Just i.ir..3' ahead of you eat out of a chuck wagon, and slept on the ground all that spring and summer ot !)8. (Lot ot folks went to the Klondike, but I couident get any further away from my home in the Indian Territory than Texas.) The limit of my "Pay Dirt" was think 30 dollars a month. Well here I was 3G years later driving out to a ranch, to ca: at ancther "Chuck Wagon", and do a little roping. A good deal had happened to everybody in 36 years. No more happens to one pernon than to another. Some look llgger, but they are no bigger than the things that look little that happens to the other leiiow. 1 We can't torn back the hand! of tm, but wa CAN build our awn pninJi, PATRONIZING HOME INDUBn lty br 192 THIS WEEK'S PRIZE STORY ATTENTION! the Housewives t mountain States: Do yoo realiza that trading witk INTEEMOUNTAIN Dealera keewtw money movinr mora rapidly to briar product for leaa money than we caa usl away fort And aren't we often W pointed In or "ilsht unseen" paichuj! Le-t'keep the Golden Rule ot Bmlnt "Trade with INTERMOUNTAIN Deal aa we wish them to trade with at" Cu we depend on yon? MK3. MABEL HASKELL. Hilfort, At 400 Utah Oil Refining Service Stations in Utah Special For The Month 75 fun Conpleti Sut Months Its coffee. Now none of this aint what I Rtarted out tc say, so will have to say that next week. I would get sentimental in a minute If I kept on. and ldah Of Aotutt; Btjutj Um Vou can now learn a profeuloa Ibtt will make yoa independent for the rat of yonr day. $75 only for tat complete course of six months. Phone or write for our cataloru. 1TAH 121 SCHOOL HIGH So. Main OF j j CtUW Lake City BEAUTY SU Salt See No Danger The theory that the sun wil some day undergo a destractki expansion has been upset by Post Office on Maintain There is a Dost office on Fuji yama, Japan, on Japan's historic mountain. ASK YOUR DRUGGIST APES FOB CREAMS AVOCADO STRAWBERRY LEMON CLEANSING I L K I Lx uil Made ef the very best inrredienU. Best Brains Scarce Onlu i npr rpnt. nf the brain! 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