Show UNCLE CHARLIE DECKER IS 18 DEAD Ono One of tho the Picturesque Characters of Utah Passes Away END ENI IS REACHED AT Ark the Ih Time Career of A 1 A was na received lit itt II this thi city tit last night announcing the death of ot Charles P 1 F Decker which occurred at yesterday morning morn lug He lie le was familiarly known as Uncle Charlie Charle Mo hil demists removes uric one of Ut this the last InRI of lt the tho picturesque characters character lives hives Sero associated with wih the tho plains When the tho West was wal Inhabited by b the bison and ond the thu Indian He lie le had attained tIme thu Ihl ilpo ripe age of a 77 fl years year having beet been born Lor In Ontario county New YOlk Toik unu 21 1821 1824 He lIe was of or erman descent and Inherited Ju a rugged constitution timid and lightness of heart henrt that bore hore him tip up lp through many mal HiAtt Miffing of ut peril and nati exposure lo ur When hen ha ito heI Was Wan I a u boy hU imis parents moved to land Ohio and ane subsequently ntY went weil on oh onto 01 ohto to 10 Missouri settling In laiS county In that State Ills Jl Ill family suffered wih with tho the rest of or the thu Saints In Il the tho lions anti outrages Imposed upon upun them then by b time tho Missouri mobs During the tho latter later part vart of at this period Charlie Charlo was wait al casting about tho country engaging In it anything thoU that came caine call to hand that offered any ny pecuniary ro no 10 noward ward The flie beginning of ot his romantic career as scout Indian tighter lighter anti pony express rider riller began bt lt In Indiana where hert he ho h engaged to rIde pony 1 fin on a it 1 mile mil route traveling seventy miles every cry hours hourc Illes nt Ett ft the tho rate ate Of er II twelve an tin hour hutin rain ruin or Ills His Ils taste tast for this kind of ot n a life lite soon haled before the Iho ambition to work on 01 the river and all am obtaining his fathers content consent he abandoned the tho pony express and Ind followed the river rier life le for tor three years PLAYED PLA n D A USEFUL PART When his lila people approached that part partIn partIn partIn In tie the drama of ot their life that thal forced d their exodus from tram Nauvoo ho left lef the river boat to play a 1 humble but highly useful part through these most stirring He le offered bbs hil services to 1 President Dr ham Young who ho soot eoon 1001 found him hll hum to be almost at that time He lie Ht was always there therewith with wih a n helping hand where herA he It was 19 most needed and Ind his cheery cheer voice timid and en on encouraging encouraging smile were some of tho the fac tac factors tors torN that kept an insufferable Innumerable gloom from settling down over oVet tho the peo peu eo pie Ille Undo Uncle Charlie Charlt was wont ont at times to describe In his hll homely homo hub butt graphic style the tho story of ut the tho crossing craning of the Mississippi river on the Ice the journey Joure to tu Winter itter Quarters Quarter under the tue most din dill resting conditions and tho the strenuous tight light against starvation At this time President Young hon boa honored honore ored ore time the redoubtable youth by hy giving him the hand of his oldest daughter In marriage The Tho ceremony was performed In a n crude hut at nt Win WIntel tot tel Charlie and sad Ills bib wife did dil not nor come to Utah with wih the Pioneer band his strong atron arm am anti stout heart henrt being needed hl In II the camp Hut lInt they came cama on with the first Immigration tion train trin afterwards and ond settled In Inthe Inthe inthe the Thirteenth ward He le struggled with the tIme crickets the next year and worked diligently on the small farm torm His Is II is agricultural a rat pursuits i Is however wore wee broken Into continually as n ho he was sas often otten called on to go back Anti help train and an to freight merchandise CROSSED TIMES rIMES During those years 1111 ho lie crossed the plains nr thre times and a n vait v tt t vol 01 uro utile could be written recounting his hi experiences hl his marvelous escape from death In a hundred hunted ways He lie le always bore n a C manly man part and when any nn than Jan danger Jangel ger gor was to be he encountered his hll beau heal must mst gel be tho the first to be exposed expose Though the hard life pa the frontier and ond on the plains made his exterior rugged anti rough his heart though stout was naturally gentle gente and anti be he nev nen never n nener er wantonly cruel deed He lie le was wal forced sometimes to tu fire frO at lt Indians to save his own life but bui when tIme the red redskins redskins skins once shook his hla und and n hooked looke him In the eye oye they the were his friends through friends life le ns as Indians only on can be befriends b Ie A I MAlL MAIL CONTRACT In 1851 1551 he engaged with wih I M 1 Little and amid l Hanks flanks lanks In a contract to carry the mall mali once a n month from Halt Salt Lake to Fort Lara inie In August of that year he h went vent nt out with the mall mail mal accompanied by byord Alford ord Dr was wasa WB a n passenger on en his way to Congress u Stories were lere ere then therm rife rite of ot a n renegade band of ot CroW Trow Indians with Chief Big Bobber at nt their head heath and ond Dg that they the were going through plundering everything overy thing that they could coula with Ih It Uncle Charlie Charle overtook Prof Prot Jones who with seven even men were making sketches of ot the country countr The Time former proposed to 10 the artist that they travel on together for tor mutual protection tUrn tion until they the had passed through the dangerous ton part of ot tho the country countr To hie this tn Pro Jones cynically replied rep led If 11 Mr Ir Decker wo was afraid of at the tho In tItans he had better belter beter return relur to 10 Salt Lake anti si send nd some Homo saro ono one out who Was not not The Intrepid but bu discreet tl cret Undo CharlIe made a low whistle to II himself and throve drove off of On approaching Deer Creek and ond Boxelder twentysix Indians Ill ns flied filed filet across the road They bey rondo made many man dem theta demonstrations but your our Uncle Charlie did not understand a I word of oC the tho language which he lie later became skilful In The he Indians lassoed the mules and took the entire outfit down Into a ravine when entre the chief showed a n slip of oC paper written by 1 Mr 11 a the partner of ot Colonel The Te clell nOte not no stated that the In Indians Indians would be pacified wih with a 1 few te terr I rr r Acting on the hint supper lupper WAR 11 sM prepared and downed and the tho red neil redskins re skins said all ni was wa peace Those red rell gentlemen cried PEACE PEACE PECE PJ but there was Wil no n peace As llon soon as Un Unc cl Charlie Charle and his assistant began to 10 c hitch up some lame made n a rush for the wagon wison where first nr t congressman was holding holding up his hands handl and saying Please dont Mr Mt Ir Indian the others othera made for the two young oung men amen and nn 1 at attempted attempted tempted to tear the clothes from tram their hotly body bad Alford though was wan a n good slugger r and as often oten as an would come within reach rench he would land hand landa handa a blow on un his head that would send him hll sprawling This wits was kept up until nu about ten hall had been knocked down own and anil at as each Indian went plowing dowing Ida his 11 heath head Into the ground hU hi comrades would laugh heartily heartlY At this th juncture n a squaw that was WAR In the party pat went run running running ning down the Ih hill bill hi giving the alarm alan that other white men were coming Be He Being le Heing ing InK thoroughly frightened the dusky marauders let jet the coach coah fro gi g on and mind they the 4 Hut But ut It was vaa al only Professor Jones and anti his hi party part and a as soon llon as 8 the te In Indians Indians diane e e saw w how ho many there w were r they the returned and stripped them ot of all al they had on giving In return this tb meagre rags that Ilat MIl hail served Nerved them tar for cloth clothIng Ing On returning from Fort lott Undo Uncle Charlie saw a ii I forlorn orion figure standing by tho th sIdo ot of time tho road and developed develop d the tact fart that It 11 ns tho the former well 01 dressed Prof Prot Jones Jone now reduced to a n greasy reasy breech clout anti n a I melancholy tn smile le Undo picked him bin hlO up they came camo on In to Merrills camp of emigrants FRIEND Fm t OF OI KIT l tT Undo wa a 1 warm marm arm personal friend of at the tho fAmous Kit elon and ami other celebrities of ot time the early carl her bor border tier der leI life Jf They Were together on time tho plains In 1853 1153 when they the hail had to light IhM a ant band nt of ot outraged Indians on an the time Platte thor river Smallpox had carried corr off of n a num number her ber of ot them arid their bodies had bad ha been blen placed In a n blacksmith to tn protect them from tho the wolves while their friends went to get pel et some lomo cloth to 10 bury hury them thul In A Frenchman passing the time hOUM und oath the time bodies bodie Were oro cre cro cremated mated Tho Ilme Indians thought that Uncle I Charlie did 1111 It and were deeply Incensed but Kit 11 Carton Carson mind ond his hiM friends come comae up In time tm to overt any bloodshed As has beer stated a volume could be Written on the thu le life of oC this remark milan man In II him waK sas embodied time Iho chivalry I of t the Ih pioneer and an scout Like Ilke most moat men of his hlA kind he lie was as modest mo est almost to ana when the story turned upon himself bo be kept a n silent tongue longue generally He lie le was WaN M hold In high big esteem by those who ho know him hll and In his h way has hM rendered Invaluable service to his State and Id 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