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Show 01 WITH THE If Back Hurts cegin on Salt! a M LI isura E The second week of the 18th session of the Utah legislature was marked l.y much activity over the Boulder Dam question and the introduction and discussion of a flood of bills ranging from the question of bounty on rabbits to a measure increasing the pay of the legsilators from $4 to $j a day and allowing them $3 per day for expenses. Removal of the state prison from its present location is provided in a bill introduced in the senate. The bill directs the state board of corrections to select a new site and construct a new prison. Boards of education are empoweied to operate and maintain jointly with a board of education of an adjoining school district, a school or schools, or pay the pro rata cost of such school operation for students ateuding school outside their home districts, under a bill introduced in the senate. The legislature adopted a resolution endorsing the appointment of L. S. Gates for the position of secretary of the Interior in the Hoover cabinet. The Idaho legisltaure has gone on reof cord as favoring the apiwiutment Mr. Cates to this position. Communications were received from Gov. Dern transmitting recomn'enda-tion- s and atxut CO proposed bills of the state code commission by the senate. The proposed bills look to the repeal of measures declared unconstitutional, never in effect, or otherwise of no effect on the books of the state. ... r f W li ..irT" T iH 4 By ELMO SCOTT WATCON i LOSING days of 1928 witnessed the passing, within the short sptice of sixty days, of six men whoso Uvea epitomized the whole splendid pageant of the frontier. It may be that not all of these meD were historically Important But the types which they represented were Important to the history of the Urjited States, and if modern race of Americans have any regard for the essential virtues of manhood murage, endurance, loyalty and the like then It can be said that they were "great' men. These six men of the Old Frontier who have recently gone over the Great Divide need no praise to ndd to their stature. The facts of their lives speak for themselves and need only, to be set down In stark simplicity to Justify the statement that their deaths marked another step in the passing of a great race. i Perhaps the best known of the six was Ezra Meeker, the pioneer of the Oregon trail, whose life was devoted to awakening public sentiment and stimulating legislative action In properly marking that historic highway and preserving the memory of those who traveled over It. He made his first trip over the trail, accompanied by his young wife and their baby. In 18V2. In 1906 Ezra Meeker at the age of seventy-simade the last trip ever made over the trail In a covered wagon. The cities through which he passed were filled with those who were passing into an industrial age and who marveled at the strange sight of the months on Its trip. wagon which took twenty-twHe proceeded nlont over the route to its terminus at the Missouri river and thence to New York and Washington an I then East. He was met at the capital by President Roosevelt. Latei he made the trip across the country several times by train, twice by automobile and In 1924, as a climax to his trail blazing, ho Journeyed from Seattle to Washington In an airplane In 24 hours. From covered wagon to airplane this man's life had spanned the whole history of the Great West Those who saw William Garnett In his declining years on the Pine Ridge reservation In South Pnkota bad lit tie Idea of the romance that lay hack of this man. For In Billy Garnett's veins (lowed proud blood Unit of the F. F. V and that of those "first eluss flghtin' men," the Oglala . Sio-jxHe was the son of Col. Richard Garnett. a classmate of General Sheridan af West Point and In the fifties commandant at Fort Laramie where a Sioux woman of Red (Moud's band Iteeome his common taw wife. When Colonel Oamett returned ti Virginia to cast his lot with the Confederacy at the opening of the Civil war, the boy and his lumber stayc with her people and P.llly grew up as an Indian. Purine the great Sioux war of 1S70 77 he served as a scout and Interpreter for I he army of Gen. George Crook, and when lr. V T. McGIIlycnddy, formerly a S'jrgeon with th" Second and Third cavalry, was appointed agent for the Oglalns on the Pine Rldg reservation, he imicle Hilly his chief Interpreter. For seven years Ciirneft served In that capacity. Several years ago when he applied for a pension, his claims were supported by his old "chief," who paid him this high tribute; trans-Mississip- seven-weeks-o- ld x o 1 Purine ttiat seven years of servile It was larcely fhrnueh Onrnelt's help and Influence that I was able with the assistance of hut ten white men In holding the Indians In cherk with no troops within seventy nvles hut the original mounted Indian which we organized pr.lire forre of flft as a member of the tn the wintnr of fftO-P- l governor's staff of Dakota. I was ordered to Pine Kirti e to look after the Interests of the settlers In the pending Messiah or Ohcst Panoe outbreak In which terminated the dixastrous battle of Wioinrted Knee, and there Harnett, as usual, was to the front, seiving between his people and th? whites It through his cnr(ty. !nrltienoe and work In the fit Id as a scout largely that the great northern chief, Crazy Horse, the leder of the hostile In the Custer massacre of 186, was Induced to surrender nt Fort flohlnson In the spring of 1877 and break up Pittini; Roll's power in the north. Many a time dnnn? my Incumbency na agent, B'llv stood by my side In hostile roun its, on the White Bide of the Great Father, when our "0ber tfje &reat ZDitoifce" a troop of cavalry to advance and having found both officers killed he voluntarily assumed command and under a heavy fire from the Indians advanced the troop to Its proper positiou." Happily for posterity which would know the true cowboy as he was, and not as the movies and fiction writers have misrepresented him, Charle3 Siringo had written "Riata and Spurs" before death summoned him on October 19. For In that book he told the story of the boy, born In Texas February 7, 1855, who took to stirrup and saddle when he was eleven years old and drove cattle north over the old Chlsholin trail in 187G, who knew the life In the roaring cow towns of Kansas in the heyday of the Texas cattle trailing days, who knew such famous outlaws as Sam Bass and Billy the Kid, who later hunted other outlaws Butch Cassidy, Kid Curry and members of the "Wild Bunch" in Montana, Wyoming and Utah as a Plnkerton detective, who was an Oklahoma "boomer" and of whom, as a peace officer, it was said. "Wherever crooked trails led, from Texas to Alaska, he followed them skillfully and patiently, usually to bring back with him a man or two who had up until that time outridden the law. Wherever there was trouble, there was Charlie Siringo." The "great race passes" yes, but It Is not entirely gone yet. Billy Garnett and "Yellowstone" Kelly, two really great scouts, are dead, but In Columbus, Neb., still lives one other. He is Capt. Luther H. North, brother of MaJ. Frank North, organizer of the famous Pawnee Scouts. Captain North served against the Indians In the wars of 1867-6and one of the highest and of 1876-7authorities on frontier history, a man who knew most of the famous scouts of that period, says. "Lute North was the greatest of them all." "Taps" have long since sounded for most of the army officers who won their spurs against the wild tribes of the West In the sixties and seventies. But In New Jersey still lives Gen. Edward S. Godfrey, the only surviving officer of Custer's Seventh cavalry on the day It rode to Its death on the Little Big Horn (he was a 'ientenant then) and the best authority on the Custer battle. And Milwaukee. Wis., honors as one of her greatest citizens a man who. despite bis eighty-fivyears, still has the soldiery hearing and rides his horse with the same easy cavalryman's grace as he did when he was adjutant of the old "Fighting Fifth" In the days when Merritt and Carr led that regiment to fame against the Sioux, Apaches and Utes. He is Gen. Charles King, wearer of the Congressional Medal of Honor for gallantry in battle with the Apaches more than half a century ago. historian and author of a number of charming romances of army life old-tim- e William Garnett, scout and Indian interpreter October 16, 1928 Charles Sirlnfo. cowboy and peace officer October 19, 1928 Ezra Meeker, pioneer of the Oregon Trail December 2, 1928 Peter Thompson, survivor of Battle of Little Big Horn December S, 1928 "Yellowstone" Kelly, scout and Indian fighter December 17, 1928 Brig. Gen. Oscar F. Long. U. S. A Indian fighter December 23, 1928 prospects were good for a "buffalo hunt on Ghost cyeek," but he never weakened. He Is about the last survivor of the old scouts He had few equals and bo and Interpreters. superiors. "Yellowstone" Kelly was a great scout. No less George A. Forsyth and Gen. Kelson A. Miles, both great Indian fighters, have testified to that. Rom in Geneva, N. Y., July 27, 1S40, be served in the Civil war and upon his discharge on the Minnesota frontier, he set out to seek adventure along the Missouri river, then the heart of the hostile Sioux country. He became a dispatch bearer between the military posts along that river when no one else would dare to take the risks which that Involved. Despite the warnings that he would never return alive, he went on hunting expeditions Into the Yellowstone country, where he lived a "lone wolf existence in constant danger of losing his scalp to the Indians. But he became so well acquainted with that country as to make him Invaluable to General Miles In his campaign which broke the power of the Sioux and to give to Kelly the sobriquet of "Yellowstone" Kelly. After his scouting days were over, Kelly was In the general service of the War department from 1802 to 1S98 and In the latter year was guide for Captain Glenn's exploring expedition tn Alaska. He was back in Alaska the next year with the Harriman expedition and then became captain of the Fortieth I'nited States volunteers In the Phllliplne Insurrection, where he saw service under General Gates. In VJ00 he was placed In command of Daputan, Mindanao, and the next year was made provincial treasurer of the province of Surigao. He was acting governor there when bandits and escaped criminals took possession of the principal towns. Here for eighteen hours Kelly and a few companions stood off a bowling Tob of Filipinos. For his conduct In office In this troublesome period, Kelly was commended by President Theodore Roosevelt, who was a personal friend of his. Peter Thompson was born In Scotland. He came to this country as a youth and worked as a he enlisted In miner. At the age of twenty-siC troop was Seventh the C of cavalry. Company commanded by ('apt. Tom Custer, brother of Gen. George A. Custer, the commander of that famous regiment. On that historic day (June 25. 187(1) on the Little Pig Horn In Montana, Thompson did not ride with C troop to Its death for the reason that his horse hmf laved out and he was left behind. After a narrow escape from falling Into the hands of the Sioux he succeeded In join ing the part of the Seventh, commanded by Major Reno, which was beleaguered on the bluffs-an- d while fighting with Heno won the Congressional Medal of Honor which was awarded to him on August 2!i. 1S77. for distinguished callantry. The citation tells the story: "After having voluntarily brought water to the wounded in which effort he was shot through the hand, he made two more successful trips for the same purpose, notwithstanding the remonstrances of his sergeant." It was In another famous Indian battle that P.rig. Gen. Oscar F. Long, a young New Yorker fresh from Wet Point and then a second lieutenant in the Fifth Infantry, won his medal of honor. This occurred dtiring General Miles' siege of the stronghold of Chief Joseph and his Nez I'erces whom he had cornered In the Bear Paw mountains in Montana after their epic dash for freedom from "trcfjon toward the Canadian border, on September SO young Lit utevant Long (so eeted to order reads the citation) "having been authorities than Gen. x 8 7, much-discusse- e . In the Old West. Charlie Siringo Is dead not "with his hoots on, as died so many of the peace officers of the frontier and so many cowboys who rode north "trailing Texas cattle." But out in Colorado Springs. Colo., 'il' lives Andy Adams, who also rode north over the old Chfcholm trail and who long ago pave to the world that epic of the cattle trade "The Log of a Cowboy." And down in Arizona still lives Col. William Breakenridae. "Billy" Rrenkenrtdge they called him in the days' when Tombstone was "running wide open and wild" and he was a deputy sheriff. Ont in Berkeley. Calif., lives lr. V T. McGitly-cuddwho had no such spectacular career lis some of these others, but who was nevertheless one of the real heroes of the old Wild West days. He is hailed hy all historians as the greatest and most fearless of all Indian agents in the when It took courage of the highest order'days to control several thousand turbulent savages fresh from the warpath. The story of w hat I ir. did with Cod Clouds Sioux on the Pino Ridge reservation Is an epic of hemic achieve ment. and had lie been in charge there when the year 1S!m opened, there would have been no Wounded Knee tragedy nor a Ghost Dance -war" with its useless waste of valuable lives, both red and white. "The great race pnsses"-h- ut, fortunately for a later generation of Americans, there still remains men such as these, even though they are In the. sunset of their lives, to remind ns of their part In making our nation and of our debt to these wilderness breakers and pioneers. And so Ion- one of thetn lives. 'Tinis" cannot be written 3 to that glamorous -- bapter in American history MeCM-lycudd- BILLS INTRODUCED The SENATE No . 9, Smith Giving the state board of agriculture power to adopt regulations fixing dimensions and standards for containers of all vegetables, fruits, hay, grain, seeds and livestock products, etc. No. 10, Maw Requiring owners of motor vehicles to settle taxes on motor vehicles with county assessors before license is issued by secretary of state. No. 13, ratterson Amending the state law relating to the trespassing of animals, damages and impounding and providing that there shall be no tresrecovery for an unintentional pass on unimproved, uncultivated grazing lands surrounded in whole or in part by public domain. No. 19, Parratt An act repealing section 83, session la we of Utah, 1925, creating the state board of elkcontrol. No. 20, Parratt An act allowing the governor to declare any day between March 1 and April 15 as Arbor day. No. 21, Smith Providing for the appointment of state vcternarian and density reternarians. No. 22, Evans Providing for the licensing and regulation of owners or users of trucks used for the transportation of livestock. No. 23, Musser Providing for collecting of interest on Investment of redemption fauds and requiring state treasurer to credit such interest to state highway fund. No. 24. Hollingswovth-Amendin- g the law relating to the voting of abseut electors in municipal elections. No. 25, Smith Making it unlawful to use an unrecorded brand or to use a brand recorded to another person. No. 20 Authorizing the release, relinquishment and conveyance to the United States of a portion of land for the Echo reservlor construction in Summit county. No. 27, Marsden Relating to tax rate for county purposes and defining when and in what amounts the same shall be fixed. No. 39, Dillman Empowering the boards of education to cooperate with boards of education of adjoining districts to maintain jointly a school or schools, etc. No. 40, Ilolllngsworth Relating to attorney and counselors and tightening up requirements for admission to practice. No. 44, Smith Amending the state brand Inspection law so that in cases where cattle are fed or grazed on land adjoining the state line and the owners of such cattle have lauds or range privileges in such adjoining state ami within ten miles of such state line and such cattle may be driven aprons th state line to such land without inspection. Resolution Introduced S. J. R. 3, Ryan Proposing to amend the state constitution so the legislature iray fix the pay of legislators and so that the legislature may receive mileage for th atcual dlstau'e traveled in going to or returning t the place of meeting by traveling the usual route. BILLS INTRODUCED THE HOUSE No. 20, Burton Relating to compensation of executors and administrators and fixing compensation of attorneys in estate matters. No. 1, Burton Creating special juvenile courts in all cities in Utah and fixing the jurisdiction, and control of such courts. No. 22, Ksp'.in Approving and ratifying the Colorado river eoiunact and providing for certification of the action of the six other states which, lane already ratified and to the feiteral goveriiiiient. 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It acts instantly; lief is auick. and very apparent Is gas is dispelled ; all sourness sweeto Is gone ; the whole system and , Do trv this perfect chMl for eood as Is lust It mpmhpr too, and pleasant for them to m Any drug store has the genuine,!! 5criptional product. anti-acid- PHILUPS JT Milk . of Magnesia Pni;;-;.i- i and StatMBiM "Are you a politician or W man?" Sorb "Both," answered Senator "In nAar w, rrntn nnV OOSHo1 ence as a statesman you are ...!,H,.,r,o tn adopt VOUrSl'lf SS H ticinn." j n.mn Plate nlate is qui" this 'r,.tfr "Pardon me. sir, that is your -- Lustige Kolner Zeitung- Within the Reach nof every woma- strength, you by Doctor J "'j.f, Pie vorite rreKripttA sold by druggis'-- , a net vou3, v.. One . who has twu ...,,f ri marked :."''orb I was in v brought on trouble. I g would have " notrf 5 every (lay. P all gone ard . Fmahy to do anything. , -is to take Dr. K ?t of each pisnwet-,'weial boittes 'c' U'J ..- Providing fT the of boxing I, .tils by individuals or clubs ii. cased by th? of incorjinrated c'.t'.es er towns or other ctly govevnin- - bodies. 25, stagin-- r - Jorgcnson 4, .Jon;enKon - i :;; e is:ng num- ber of members of state land board. Han-'o- n No. 27. Fixing minimum crews fur freight and trains" v P'cc wuiuni.3 WCil : TWO f .ln-,t I.- -,. t:.:11.1 -T flunk ' I'lCli!. Mrs. I. B. KitcktU. uui.0. ,, nu-n- lion' and the 'GoW.n I.TCT1 yj . 'l- rJ |