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Show THE SPANISH FORK PRESS, SPANISH FORK, UTAH tgE?iiaiiafionqrfaii3rigfiuiioimrig!igcarKffaiigiKirronccqfiQiiog J. Illley, Thomas Raaahan, William Itellljr, ' " j Sigmund Schleslnger, Edward Simpson, Chalmers Smith, William Stewart, J. 8. Stillwell, Iseas Thayer, Ilerre Trudeau, 0 B. Whitney, John W: son, EU Ziegler, i From All Partt of , On tha west aide are engrared these word To ever keep green In memory those who fought here, this monument was erected by the states it Colorado and Kansas, A. D. 1906." . Such la the simple story which the stone faces Provo. Utah county commissioners of the monument tell. Uow much more thrllllnf have signed a cooperative agreement would be the narratives of the survivors there are only four of them today, Sigmund Schleslnger with the state road commission and of Cleveland, Ohio, Thomas Ranahan of Boise, the federal road bureau for the conIdaho, Thomas Murphy of Caldwell, Kansas, and struction of six miles of new road In Thomas Alderdlce of Conway Springs, Kansas If Spanish Fork canyon. By the terms of the agreement, Utah county. will pay 149.000. J Salt Lake. Eleven hundred "boys, from every school In the city, were engaged Friday In the cltywlde marble contest being" staged under supervision of the . recreation department of Salt Lake City and the direction of Miss Charlotte Stewart head of that department j A. . Help That Achy Back! News Notes UTAH Ar you .dragging around, day after day, with a. dull, unceasing backache! Are you lame ia the morning; bothered with headaches, dizziness and urinary disorder! Feel tired, irritable and discouraged! Then theres surely tome-thinwrong, end likely ita kidney weakness. Dont neglect Itt Get back your health while you oan. Use Dooms Pills. DoanS have helped thousands of ailing folks. They should help you. 1 g Ask your neighbor I A Utah Casa ' hare By ELMO SCOTT WATSON KB September evening In 1863 s host of people were gathered near s lit tie sandy Island in the middle of a sluggish stream In eastern Colorado. One September evening In 1924 an other and larger host of people gath ered at tha aarne spot Both were community gatherings, but It cannot be truthfully said that the community spirit In each case was the same. The 1868 as aerably was one of red men, gathered together with the laudable (from the Indian point of view) community of spirit in trying to wipe out of ex Istence a little band of SI whlta men crouched down In shallow rifle pita on the sandy Island. The 1924 assembly was one of white men gath ered there with the equally laudable community of spirit In celebrating the fact that that wiping out was not accomplished. And that Is the difference that 60 years have made In the history of Beechers Island In the Arickaree fork of the Republican river In Toms county, Colorado. One other contrast Is especially striding. In 1868 there wasnt a bouse of any kind within s hundred miles of the place. In 1925, when the white mans gathering Is again repeated, there will stand near this place a magnificent audl torlurn, If a bill recently introduced In the Col orado legislature Is passed. For Beechers island Is something more than the historic spot where Gen. George A. Forsyths little company of scouts, outnumbered nearly 20 to 1, successfully fought off the attacks of Chief Roman Nose's Dog Sol dler Cheyennes and their allies, the Arapahoes and the Slouc, and the annual Beechers Island reunion la now something more than It once was, a gathering of the survivors of the fight and fhelr friends to talk over Its thrilling history. Beecher's Island has become a great community center for thousands of citizens of the states of Colorado, Kansas and Nebraska and tourists from a dozen other states and tbs annual reunion la a great community, gathering, unique .In many re spects, Some 80 yeara after the fight, "Uncle Bob Lyman of Wray, Colo, a Gvll war veteran and pioneer of that region, organized the Beechers Island Memorial .association to keep alive the memory of Forsyths heroic band and to sponsor an annual reunion of the survivors on the anniversary of the battle, September 17, 18 and 19. Through the efforta of this association a tract of 240 acres In the Arickaree valley, Including the site of the Island, was set aside In 1904 as a public park and hundreds of trees have since been set out to beautify It. In 1905 the stntea of Colorado and Kansas Joined In erecting a $5,000 monument there. Beecher's Islund Is 17 miles from the nearest railroad and at first the crowds which attended the reunions were small. But the automobile brought about s change. Now they come from hundreds of miles around until the facilities for their accommodation are totally Inadequate!. The reunion has outgrown the rough board structures, a kitchen, dining hall and an auditorium, seating only about 600 persona, which wers built years ago. So a bill appropriating $25,000 for a new auditorium la now before the Colorado legislature end Kansas will be asked for $15,000 more to help - . build It . Commemorative assemblies on historic spots ara not unusuul Too often, however, they are perfunctory gatherings which attract idly curious throngs who have little understanding of the real significance of the meeting. But the Beecher's Island reunion la different The people who gather there from western Kansas and NebraaU and eastern Colorado are of the border breed. They are the sons end daughters of the men wlm rested the empire from the grasp r the red man and some of the older ones tliem-lvhad a part In those pioneer struggles. The horrors of savage warfare are still fresh In the u.mds of soma of them and to such people, a celebration honoring the Forsyth scouts has a deep s'gnlfl-cancFor the history of Ileechera Islund Is a part of their history, an honorubl tradition of which they are Justly proud. So they and their families gather at the Island park for three dnya In September each year Friday, Saturday and Sunday as near the dales of the battle as possible. On the first day trnns-MIssou- es e. these modest heroes could be prevailed upon to tell of their parts In th battle. Others wUl tell you how Schleslnger. the youngest member of Forsyths command, a lad of only sixteen years, who hnd left bis home In New York city In 1865 to follow th frontier of the railroad then ffose Raman pushing westward through from toy-roe- g ffofaait Kansas, was accepted at moment because the comth last at they go Into camp and that evening there la a nays fort bis muster roll of 60 to mander wished tbs complete where camp fire song service and story telling made the butt of was men. how th "tenderfoot" younger generation, the boy scouts, the girl scout, how he prived men, older the first-han-d - the school th Innumerable of Joke by tales hear children, and won the the campaign la bis metal throughout winning of that particular West Saturday them. For of one admiration and respect of every public schools day with a patriotic program by all durthat fact the to testified the children, music by school hands and athletic himself has sytb most worthily Easterner viscontests. Then tha youngsters help show the ing th battle the young brave men. itors around the park and vie for the high privilege proved himself a gallant soldier among , a vettwenty-fourat of being an Informal guard of honor for some suralso tell of Murphy, They skilled a plainsman, vivor of the fight es he points out where this Ineran of th Gvll war and cident In the battle took place or where that deed who gave hla heavy army overcoat to a wounded of valor was performed. comrade and lay In hr rifle pit shivering In the cold rain which fell throughout one night of the That night there la another camp fire song of Tom siege. They will tell you, too, the story service with speeches and more story telling, all and wife whose farmer Alderdlce, a young Kansas leading up to the main event on Sunday. After some Indians the stolen been by had children four school memorithe next morning comes the Sunday time before the Forsyth campaign how he and hla al address delivered by some national celebrity aad friends set out In pursuit of the raiders and how, attended by the biggest crowd of alt Last year when they had followed them Into Colorado and more than 7,000 persons were there. Then, after saw the Inanother musical program In the afternoon, they' caught up with them, Tom Alderdlc their beto ones loved prevent his dians slaughter strike their tents, load up the automobiles which Beechers at he wonder No fought have taken tbo place of the buckboards and waging rescued. Island with hatred In hla heart for the red men and ons of yesteryear and long lines of motorcars with a reckless disregard for hla life I speed pver modern roads across the prairies whers anhalf a century ago Indian travolx Jogged slowly They .will tell you, too, how Tom Ranaban, exa of the pony veteran narrow plains, buffalo ... trails. other youthful along In press rider and a driver of the overland stage. Tha Battle of Beechers Island, also known as Ilf hla devoted battle the followed that the years th Battle of Arickaree, which la thus celebrated to getting pensions for his comrades who wers not In this unique community gathering bolds a place went on the Little Big Morn In already drawing Gvll war pensions, how he with Custer's last fight he bad until the and fight kept np to Washington Montana and the Adobe Walls battle In the Texas th with do had much to getting also He won. one of as of the Panhandle the western epic fights a as aside set Island park public Beechers of site frontier. Historians have told Its story Innumer and In baring the monument erected there. Sevable times with a wealth of detail and tha Ineviteral years ago Ranaban proposed the same project able conflicting testimony characteristic of so before the Colorado legislature an approprinow Indian Is Its our of fights. written many story for a memorial auditorium and for that h ation on the faces of tbs stons simply and concisely Bob" Lyman and J. J. Peete of Bew "Uncle and monument which stands on the battlefield. another Forsyth icout are working. Kant side visitor tha north the eriy, reads: On "Battle of Beechers island, fought September 17, 18 and 19, The stories which these survivors tell sr not A. D. 1868 between Cot George A. Forsytha comstories of their own deeds. They tell Instead of Jack Stlllwelt another youngster In the command, pany of citizen scouts, numbering 51 men, and a buddy," who, with Pierre and young Schleslnger' large party of Indians, comprising Northern Cheyennes, Ogallalah and Brule Sioux and Dog SolTrudeau, went for help the first night. They tell diers, commanded by tha noted war chief, Roman how the two scouts found themselves on a barren Into th skeleton Nose. The scouts were surrounded and held on plain the next day and crawled this Island for nine days, subsisting on horse sad of a buffalo, around which had grown up some mule moat Indians killed, 75; wounded, unrank vegetation, to bide from a party of Indiana known. Here Roman Nose and Medicine Man that had approached. At that moment a rattlefought their last battle." snake appeared and prepared to dispute possesOn the south side, the etory continues, "The sion with them. In this desperate predicament first night Stillwell and Trudeau, crawling out oa the quick wit of Stillwell saved them. He was hands and knees, started for relief and. hiding chewing tobacco and h shot a stream of tobacco Juice Into tha reptiles face. The rattler quickly days and traveling nights, reached Fort Wallace. The third night Donovan and Pllley started. Arbeat a retreat and after the Indians had passed riving at the fort. Donovan with four others. Imon, the scouts pressed on to Fort Wallace. of their mediately started back and, coming upon Colonel They will tell yon, too, of the wounding Carpenters command on th south fork of tbs commander and hla sufferings. A bullet lodged In daah, reachRepublican, guided them In a hts thigh, s second struck .him between the knee ing the Island at 10 a. m., the ninth .day, 26 hours and the ankle, shattering the bone, and a third In advance of Colonel Bankhead, with Scouts Still-weglanced across bla forehead, slightly fracturing the and Trudeau. The return to Fort Wallace skull. So terrible was the agony from the bullet was begun September 27. the wounded belug carImbedded In his thigh that he begged hie men to ried In government wagons." cut It out They refused to take the risk of having On the west side appear these words: "Sacred him bleed to death. So he took Ida razor and per to the memory of those who fought and died here. formed the operation himself. And when Colonel KILLED: Lieut. Fred II. Beecher, U. S. A.; J. H. Carpenter arrived, this wounded commander was to read an old novel Mooers, Surgeon, U. S. A.; Louis Farley, William lying In his rifle pit pretending one the saddle bag I He of In found W. had Chnlmera. he which WOUNDED: Wilson, George Col. to Ids rescuer, trust himself U. 8. A. greet was afraid to Forsyth, A.j W. Armstrong. 0. B. George Clarke. T. K. Davis, Harry Davenport, Bernard afraid that the magnificent nerve which had sustained him through the ordeal of those starving, Day, Hudson L. Farley, Richard Gantt, John feverish nine days would fall him then. Haley, Frank narrlngton. Louis McLaughlin. V II. H. McCall, Howard Morton, Thomaa ODonThey could tell a hundred tales inch ns these, of heroism nell. II. 1L Tucker, Fletcher Vlolett. UNIX-JUREtales of daring deeds, of Thomas Alderdlce, Wallace Rennett. Maralmost unparalleled in an era when heroes wers tin Burke, John Donovan. Alfred Dupont, A. J. the .rule tnstend of the exception. Of all these Kntler, George Green, Abner T. Grover. John Beecher's Island Is a symbol. Small wonder that Ketterer, M. It. Lane, John Lyden, Hurst, J. the people of Kanaas and Nebraska and Colorado Joseph Lane, M. R. Mapes, IL T. McGrath, Thoms ,iake It a shrine and the annual gathering then Nichols, Georgs Oakes, C. C. Platt, s pilgrimage of high devotion I Murphy, C. Defiance of 20-m- ll ll It a 1 had palae bao! was a dal aorose my My kid lrreru-Ciarl- y. ,.neye acted 1 became dlasy and blaok specks blurred my I used Doan ia Pill and they there aohe kidney. sight helped me.1 DOANS STIMULANT DIURTTIC TO THK KIDNEYS FssSet Mllbum Co, Ml. Ckeaa. BuBtlo, N. Y. Cedar City. The government has surveyors In the field looking for a suitable airplane mall landing at tlon In this part of Utah. The Modena secton, aM well as Lund and Parowan, has been looked into and good locations noted, but the one that seems to suit the best in that Just west of Cedar City. Salt Lake. The Studebaker-Wulf- f Rubber company, engaged In the man ufacture of tires, tubes and other rubber articles, has decided to estab llsh a manufacturing and distributing plant In Salt Lake at an Initial ex penditure, for the first unit, of approximately $500,000. This announcement w&s made Friday by Frank B. Cook, president of the chamber of commerce. ,The plant will employ about 200 men, and have a' pay roll approximating $25,000 a month. DISTEMPER COMPOUND . Old Chestnuts Enjoyed More than 23 years ago Sally RefC a farmer's daughter living near Richmond, W. Va, gathered a box of ches outs and sent them to Henry Holt farmer boy living near Gauley Bridget Recently the girt who Is now Mrs. Henry Holt, found the chestnuts hidden sway In an old trunk owned by her husband. They were well preserved and good tasting. 1 JjtynundJchlcsmf my throusq My baok was weal lame and core ecu Salt Lake. A petition asking the city commission to take Into Salt Lake City the territory east of Seventeenth East street between Seventeenth and Twenty-firs- t South streets was filed with the city commission Thursday. It was referred to the engineering department for report. Petitioners claimed to represent 80 per cent of the district property owners, and expressed a desire for fire protection, water and sewer service. Indian Battleground Now Community Center for Three states'!? Pros-to- r, N, Ssoond Bast fit., Amerioaa Fork. Utah, eayt I s famous Colorado . . Mr. Robert ' Lucullue Civet Credit - Lucullus, famous Roman general and epicure, Is said to hav been tbe first to Introduce cherries Into Italy about the beginning of tha present era. He Is reported to hav spent fabulous urns on his table. Ogden. The first shipment of California spring lambs, which Is expect d to be heavy (his year, especially Th Department of Agriculture has a compared with laBt year, when a motion picture film show produced tha font and mouth disease ravaged log methods of eliminating bothersome he cx flocks, passed through the earthworms from putting greens. Ogden Jnlon stockyards Friday en route east . The board of education of the Jordan school district will at once advertise for bids for the erec tlon of a new school building at West Jordan. The building will be ready for occupancy by the time school opens In September. As the present building must be razed. It la planned to close school at least two weeks Bingham. The Woman Who Knows In my perSan Leandro, Calif. sonal experience of thirty-tw- o years with Pierces Ogden. A carload of oranges from Riverside, Cal., was seized by Hugh J. Cannon, pure food Inspector, and LeRoy Marsh, district agricultural Inspector. The oranges were said to have been frozen and some had been distributed to local dealers, who were unaware of thetr condition. 1 The inspectors said that the California grower! had agreed not to ship any fruit damaged In the recent cold spelt .. , Cedar City. Dr., Fa-! vorite Prescript tion, I must say' it is the fineatl' tonic and ner- -i vine for women, that I have ever' known. It re--' earlier. Fifteen home builders hare banded together here and - or- ganized a company. Each will erect this summer a modern bungalow, the materials for which are being purchased wholesale at Salt Lake City and shipped here In carload lots, thus eliminating the middleman and bringing the homes from $1000 to $1200 cheaper than by buying materials In Cedar. Salt Lake. Two Important steps toward expediting the Salt Lake basin reclamation work were taken by. the Utah waters storage comifflsslon, when the commission decided to spend $25,000 on the complete Investigation of the two Deer Geek dam-siteand agreed upon the formation of' a committee which will arrange for the formation of uniform water users associations in the areas Interested In the project. Cedar City. The Union Pacific system has a large force a men at work planting lawns, trees and shrubbery around the passenger depot. the Hotel El Escalante and the south aide of the freight depot. When it la completed the grounds will be the most beautiful and the largest on the U. P. system this aide of Omaha. Logan. 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Bccchamo Puis The state fair board announced Its Intention to triple th present seating capacity of the grandstands, front 3300 to 10,000, work to commence as soon after April 1 as concrete possible. The additional th PmrfmtUm f Ywr CompfariMi stands will cost approximately Itt 9me mem wbMe wun rsawwee all diseeisrstton A $ii Waralikaa grad rae and will make the slate fair plragdsi toe., m eomomr eomptestaa. At due ori4 dost ihnsW sU toad tor free lUewty ustM AsaMMi It MaU.ll grounds one of the best outdoor stafr. C. U. frffrfrT ce ft UNHbUn Am. diums In tha Intormountaln west Tha passage of the racing bill encouraged TIRED EYES the fulr association to announce Its BATHE BUS lit. Thntno' WnuMl oar ararrt.i'. ur plans to provide proper facll?oe for US kivM.bv, MIT. SouklTO the two race meets a year to be held Salt Lake. $50,-00- 0 !!. f |