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Show le D iiae dwStli Jesse JaameS and UTAH BRIEFS Get poisons out of system. . . . Fries Poetoif know that A $250,000 whool tuiltdtat program la being planned, Provo A 1373,000 expansion hai thl modem gclcntiflc Uxative been planned fur the Woolen mills at work efficiently ia omtller Prove, doses because you chew it, (Vutervllie A local unit of the waa or- gife and mild for old and young. Utah Taxpayers ganized at Oman Ills. Price A plunge of an auto over a fityf ad emharkment near here killed Mr. Brad. haw of Murray, . FOR CONSTIPATION Room-vei- t -- The clfy la to Is with artesian water by pipeline being laid from the reservoir. The homo and rommunlfy aeetlou of th Cn- he County Farm Bureau held a county here. of Provo clfy Fnvo The corporation during January exceeded th expenditure by $7.1 f3, Richmond Tii bare been taken of all dairy rattle over two years of age In Cache county for, tu!crcu!osls. Richfield I'lith will have an ex bll-l- t at the National Federation of Womens dub at I mover thla year. Frovo Utah Bint Iliskeejs-r- s aa aoclntion annual meeting will be held In th a illy, Fayuon A huge mountain lion waa killed near here after an exciting hunt. IxM-Le- h! hold their annual poulAt tk Fersawtl Dsssrt Retort try day recently. poultry pro-du! wor mss y Ion Increased 30 per cent during ef tfceWsri laerveleo d tterilt s)jM riser dry Isviqsrellnq gar last the year. feeds k gorgsov eiewstem Richfield Th Stale Convention of scenes iplssdid finest betels IN idsel winter how. Bus'neMi and Profession I Women J Writ erss A cliii a will he held at Sait Lake, liny 2123. a Itfurn la Richmond Cache county dairymen received $77,000 less for their product niuirrr.s In I d rn cur. nt lmpolbl, In January 1U30 than In January Jiookl't upon rcquMt, Klins.ru tlnnuiin Ifnrb to., sits IDln SI., fhlruso. III. Ieita A whisker growing contest, HTfH K MXM SSS ACKM which started February 19, will te one Oefbu Co.. Idnba. Wonderful ueparlunltv, d .tulle. Itl lt hl.y, Csldw.il, Idsbs. A.k of the features of the old tlmori "Forty-niner- " celebration here. Rendered Unconscious Lcl.l Effort are being made to se"Did the speaker electrify hla audicure the annual encampment of the Indian War veterans for this city ence?" "No; be merely gassed It." Stray Stories. during the summer. construcunder tgdo Buildings Rubiest way to get along with a tion for the L. 1). 8. Church In Ogden represent an expenditure of more clothes closet la to reduce the number of your clothes. than n third of a million dollars. Riverside Weber county grammar grade schoota held nn old fashioned spelling hoc at Weber county high Feetfaftiint gup-plh- - u Ml Sunshine Alt Winter Long Is-hl'- By ELMO SCOTT WATSON HESS dispatch recently chronicled the death la Japan ef Dr. Henry r. ho was on bla way home Hoyt from the Philippine where he bad been revolting the acene of hla career aa chief aurgeon of the United State army there during the PllJpIne Indirection. The brief mention which then dlapatchea madq of bla earlier career In the Weat gave only a alight Intimation of the thrilling atorlce which he could tell of the eld day when there waa a frontier In America. Fortunately, however, for a poaterity ofAmeri-ca- n who aeemingty can never learn enough of thoae epic days, he left behind him a record of hla part in the winning of the Weat," and In the book, "A Frontier Doctor," pubtlahed recently by the Houghton Mifflin company, there la additional proof of the fact that frontier history waa mode quite aa much by les picturesque but more Important personages than the long haired, Bills and Dlcka and Sams of dlmfe novel i fame. Before his death Doctor Hoyt claimed the onlque distinction of being the only man alive who had had dinner simultaneously with two characters who come nearest being the "American Robin Hood" Jesse Juntos and Billy the Kid But his claim to fame does not rest alone on this distinction, which to some might be a doubtful one, Indeed. That waa but a minor Incident In the earner of this "frontier doctor" but It Is Indicative of the wealth of experience that was hla. For he waa a polneer In more senses than one. He was ths son of a pioneer and spent a pioneer boy- hood on a farm near what is now the city of St. rani, Minn. He served as a rodmnn In one of the pioneer surveying parties along the northern frontier. He was the first doctor to locate and prne-tlc- e his profession In the Texas Panhandle. He was a passenger on the first stage conch to run from Bismarck, N. D. to Peadwood, S. D. He opened the first drug store In Bernalillo, N. M.. a typical southwestern frontier town. He was the only chief surgeon wounded on the butttetleld In war and lie was the first the Spanlsh-Amerlrn- n person to utilize Chinese coolies as litter bearers In the United States army. Around that framework of pioneering achievements can be built a life story which symbolizes pretty well the history of America during the Inst elxty years. Few passages In the writing of today, either fact or fiction, have summed up more adequately or more dramatically the amazing transformation of a country from a raw wilderness to a modern, highly civilized community than the opening paragraphs of "A Frontier Doctor" which read as follows: I During Stmts Fair Week In September, 1127, I visited a flylng-fleat the southeast corner of Snelllng and Larpenteur Avenues, St Paul, Minnesota. Planes were humming through the air In every direction, when suddenly a young woman dropped from one as It passed over, a parashute unfolded, and ahe made a graceful landing but a few paces from ths spot where I first appeared on the screen sf Ilfs. In 1SS4, this flying field was a typical Minnesota farm, owned by my father, Lorenxo Hoyt who had arrived in Minnesota, aa a pioneer In 1S48. ' Our unit farm then waa practically a Mot only did we raise alt our own food, including a coffee substitute composed of several varieties of parched cereals, but ws sven provided our own clothing by raising and shearing our own sheep, carding the woo t and spinning It and on our swn loom making sur own cloth. There were no railroad In St Paul In those early was by stage or daya All our transportation wars rlvermen and steamboat Two of my uncles oneof my pleasures was driving down to ths levee at the foot of Jackson Street to meet the boats from New Orleans. Sometimes as coming my father and I sat In the buggy watching the unfine looking, loading of the boat very often a come over and atrongly featured young man would chat with us. This was James J. Hill, then workdollars a month. ing as a freight clerk at forty-fiv- e foreMany years later, when, by his remarkable be one of the to sight and acumen, he hadof risen the head the country, great railway magnates of the Great Northern Railway lines, I became chief surgeon of all his properties. Young Hoyts father was not able to provide funds for a college education, so the boy set out to win one for himself. His first inclination was to become a civil engineer and his first job was with a surveying party sent out by the St. Paul and Pacific railroad. In 1873 he secured a place with the government expedition which was sent out to survey the boundary line between the United States and Canada from the Lake of the Woods west to the foothills of the Rockies. The military escort for this party was a company of the Twentieth Infantry and two troops of the Seventh cavalry, commanded by Captains Weir and Keogh. Three years later Doctor Hoyt was to learn of the death of Captain Keogh at the battle of the Little Big Horn and to bear that his horse. "Comanche," which young Hoyt admired so much during this surveying expedition, was the sole survivor of Custers command which rode into that Valley of Death. After a series of exciting adventures with this surveying party. Including several attacks by Indians and narrow escapes from death In both prairie fires and blizzards, young Hoyt returned to his home and decided to become a doctor. After Completing his course of study In that profession PALM SI'HIXGS f 19-2- 9. I up-riv- er t.v4 This Mother buck-akln-cl- . ct Had Problem school. lly rum Dans for three Independfor Iley ent summer rami s have made by the Boy Scout council of Cache valley. Brigham City The annual Boxeld or County Farm Bureau social and banquet was attended by more than time hundred persona. Ogdon The third shipment of cars for use In the metni mines In South America baa been made by an Ogden factory. Sprlngvllle The 1330 convention of tba Utah Fence Officers' association will be held at Sprlngvlllo, June i 27 and 28. Wendover Active repair work oq the Western Pacific railroad line Salt Lake and Wondovor ha begun. More than 5.0K) persons will be engaged In the work during March. Ferron Dairying, boys and girls club work, poultry raising, marketing were the subjects discussed by experts during the Emery county annual leadership week. American Fork A pool of 00 cooperative western turkey growers pools Is planned for Ulah which will handle millions of pounds yearly of turkeys. Iarowan Investigation of sites and methods of financing the construction of a first class modern hotel Is being conducted by the Parowan chamber of commerce. Gunnison A number of prizes will be awarded Junior beet growers by the Gnnnlson Sugar company, In with the extension division of the U. A. C. IVovo The second meeting of the scout leaders of the Ttmpanogos Council was held at the B. Y. U. In order to produce greater cooperation and uniformity of scouting In the district. Morgan A poultry grading plant is being built at ' Morgan by the Poultry Producers association of Morgan and Summit counties, at a cost of $10,000. Coalville It Is expected that storage of water In the Echo reservoir now under construction near Coalville for the 1930 irrigation season In Davis and Weber counties will be ts-e- . he began looking around for some live town" In which to start Ids practice, ills selection waa Deadwood in the I'Jack Hills which was at that time (1877) at Its heyday as a gold camp. But In Dead wood men did not die of lingering Illnesses. They usually died quickly and with their boot on. So it did not take the young doctor long to decide that prospecting offered more opportuni- ties than doctoring. Accordingly he tried hla hand at that but after a short time tired of It and drifted south Into New Mexico. Arriving at Fort Sumner, the young doctor first patient wns William Maxwell, son of Laden B. Maxwell of the Maxwell Land Grunt fame, who was suffering from a case of malignant smallpox and whom he wns unable to save. Further down the Pecos valley he made the acquaintance of John Cliisum, the Cattle King of New Mexico," famous for his part In the Lincoln County war which started Billy the Kid on the road to notoriety. To young Hoyt the cattle king said: Doc, over yonder Is the Panhandle of Texas, a big country, full of people, an epidemic of smallpox and no doctor. Theres the place youre looking for." So to the Panhandle the young doctor went and began practicing In Tnscosa, one of the wildest of the wild cow towns In the old days. But he soon found that Chlsums prophecy was too optimistic. The smallpox epidemic was soon over, the Panhandle waa not full of people and there was little for him to do. So the next Incident In his career was securing work as a cowboy ender W. C. (Bill) Moore, former outlaw but now the superintendent of the LX ranch. The senior foreman of the LX was an even more famous character Charles A. Slringo, Inter noted as a peace officer, detective and author. After a short career as a cowboy, fleet returned to the practice of his profession In Taseosa and In the fall of 1878 he made the acquaintance of Billy the Kid, who was just then assuming the leadership of the gang which was so soon to spread a trail of red across the Southwest. Of this Doctor Hoyt writes: Billy Bonney wa then eighteen years old. a handsome youth with smooth face, wavy brown hair, an athletic and symmetrical figure, and clear blue eye that could took one through and through. Unless angry he always seemed to have a pleasant expression with a ready smile. His head was well shaped, his features regular, hts nose aquiline, his most noticeable characteristic a slight projection of his two upper front teeth. . . . Billy was an expert at most western sports and dissipations with the exception of drinking. Much has been published of his exploits during drinking bouts, but it Is my opinion they are mostly fiction. I never knew of his taking a drink of liquor all the time he was in the Panhandle. To tell the truth, this fact helped to make me friendly with the outlaw, for I was a teetotaler myself. Reared In strict Christian principles, I had never touched liquor. Redoubtable as was this notorious outlaw, there was one accomplishment in which the young frontier doctor excelled him. He tells of it as follows: On a beautiful moonlight night a bails (dance) was in progress at the home of Don Pedro Romero. Bonney and t stepped out to enjoy it and inci- dentally strolled across the plaza, about one hundred yards in width, to Rineharts store opposite. Returning I challenged the Ktd to a footrace to the dance hall. I found he could run much faster than the Sailor (a local sprinter whom Hoyt had defeated In a rare some time previously) but I led him all the way. As we neared the door I slacked up. while Billy kept on at full speed through the door. Mexican adobe houses, for some reason, have a threshold about a foot high, and as the Kid flew through, the heel of one of his cowboy boots caught on It. landing him at full length on the floor In the middle of the ballroom. Quicker than a flash his prostrate body was surrounded by his in four pals, back to back, with a Colts forty-fiv- e each hand, cocked and ready for business. The Kids unconventional entrance was to them an Indication of something wrong, and tlieir lightning exhibition of preparedness showed wonderful effi ciency of its kind, tlow or where guns were concealed was never quite understood, but their owners all registered ihagrln when they learned they were barred at alt future Romero bailee. The acquaintance hot ween the young outlaw and the young doctor ripened Into friendship of a sort and Iloyt won the regard of the Kid by presenting to him a ladles gold wuteh which he had won In a poker game and which the outlaw wished to give to hla Mexican sweetheart. Attached to this watch was a long chain of braided hair and In the only known photograph of Billy the Kid, two strands of this chain can he plainly neen crossing Ills shirt front Th result of this gift was a somewhat surprising one. When Hoyt decided to leave the Fanhandle and go to (as Vegas, N. M Billy the Kid presented him with hla favorite horse, Dandy Dick," and In order to protect Hoyt tn case his ownership was ever questioned, also wrote out and gave to him a formal bill of sale. This bill of sale, which Doctor Hoyt preserved to the day of his death, Is one of the few known specimens of Billy the Kids handwriting In existence. At that time, the origin of "Dandy Dick." a fine Arabian and locally as a race horse, was a mystery. The Kid never would tell where he got him although he did admit that theres a story connected with him." Years later. Doctor Hoyt, through correspondence with Charles A. Slringo and James Brady, court Interpreter at N. M., learned that the horse had once been owned by Major Murphy, one of the lending figures In the Lincoln County war. who had presented It to Sheriff William Brady of Lincoln county. Brady was riding Dandy Dick" when he was killed by the Kid 1 When Hoyt arrived In Las VegnR. he found that boom town at the end of steel on the Santa Fe railroad, which was then building through New Anxious to secure Mexico, was full of doctors. money to continue his medical studies he put aside his scruples against gambling and "threw in" with two men In opening a faro game. But at the end of a month all three were broke and Iloyt next took a Job as a bartender In a hotel. While engaged in this occupation he hnd a part In the historic dinner with Billy the Kid and Jesse James. Near Las Vegas was a famous hot springs and a hotel, noted throughout the country for Its dinners. Sundays always drew a big crowd there. Writes Hoyt: possible. I rode out one Sunday and found st a corner Murray The mayors and city coun- , table the only vacant seat In the room, at the three guests already there, I was perfectly oilmen of Bingham, Murray, Sandy amazed to recognize the one on my left as Billy and Midvale met at Murray to discuss the Ktd, urbane and smiling as ever. We shook the methods proposed to insure proper hands, but neither mentioned a name. inspection of milk, meat, water and We were chatting away of old times In Texas as If w were a couple of cowboy friends, when the other foods. man on Bonney'a left made a comment on someCapitol Airport Ceremonies Inauthing he said. Whereupon Bonney said Hoyt, gurating transcontinental air service meet my friend Mr. Howard from Tennessee." to the northwest by the Varney Air The fourth man had nearly finished his meal Lines, Inc., were held at Salt Lake when I sat down, and soon retired. Mr Howard and the points of contact along the He had piercing had noticeable characteristics. steely blue eyes with a peculiar blink, and the tip line of service. e of a finger on his left hand was missing. I menphysicians from tally classed him as a railroad man. He proved to be congenial, was a good talker, had evidently Carbon county, Salt Lake and San Francisco were guests of the Carbon traveled quite a bit, and the meal passed pleasantly. After dinner we separated and Billy, taking Medical society recently at the largest me to his room, gave me, after pledging me to medical fraternity meeting ever held secrecy, one of th surprises of my life. Mr. Howhere. man bandit no was than the and ard train other robber, Jesse James. I was skeptical but Billy e Tremonton A new has soon convinced me It was true. been built by Tremonton, New equipSome other unwritten history which Doctor ment, including more than 300 new Hoyt reveals for the first time in his book In rent boxes, has been Installed. this incident Is the fact that Jesse James Murray A new school building, made IUlly the Kid an offer to Join forces. But six class rooms and an audcontaining in or to bank no train desire engage Billy had be constructed on the will itorium, robbery cattle rustling and horse stealing being campus of the Murray high School, his favorite diversion. More than that, joining Duchesne Hearings on the appliforces with the Missouri outlaw would take him cation of the Denver and Rio Grande away from the magnet at Fort Sumner (his Railroad Company to acquire the DenMexican sweetheart) and for these two reasons ver and Salt Lake R. R, have been set he turned down Jesse James offer. 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