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Show SUNDAY .MORNING, THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, The Santa. Fe Centennial and the Old Span ; ish Trail. theyYe having a real oid- fajf'ned celebration at Santa Fe this fg"J' said Uncle Ferd as he handed to l. Aunt Km the notice of the Santa Fe "I freighted in there one mm me in the sixties, and it seamed aa if in the atate turned out to eYsrybody ipeqt us. The town ties thrown wide but they told us the fiesta was civilised compared w th the orgies iife tt the early days, when the Mexicans ffeii.the south, the Indiana from the Wbjt, and the trappers from the north to trade with tbs' iWtmbled together ikland caravans and indulge In mi hoif lloa good time," he said 4 es, 1 remember thr told us several at Hn 'teXlcans and Indians were kil.f-there on that dav rele'iratlon, right early shady corner where we pitched niip autosaid mobile camp, a few years ago, AuSt Em. "There were Me cans, ln- to ttieri and ranchers enough there feep the police busy," she 'continued. !btft notiodv Seemed to need watching. I was very muon Its 'fact, surprised at tbr cleanliness and orderliness of the wsrments worn and the handicrafts by the industrious looking Initial women, and bv the exemplaiy belie vlor of the gaudily dressed men as ontnoared with the hoodlums at the Uafehlnson state fair.-- ' Tt says two hundred years ago, f rst tfefk In September, 1722, the Spanish iirnor called upon the peop e of lb" ISoxinee of New Mexico to celebrate the ,jh defeat of the Indians, and the return of the Spaniards" said "It Was VUgt Km, scanning the paper. .1 the second successful of the Indians, which occurred on 13. 1692. tteta ember They evidently Watted those thirty vears to make sure the'fndlans would slay licked, since they haif been fighting then for nearly a hunCen-G8ia- iys to sixty day for quiring from forty-fiv- e bad the Sometime, withof anijourney. weather, Indian encounter, losses mal and other trouble of the long, unguarded trail, the ox team completed the 800 mile In little lew than ninety days. Mexicans Use Carts. celebration is to commemoof the first trader' train, wh.ch reached g Santa Fe in the autumn of 1822, a hundred years ago. Wagon were put on the route for the first .time In 824, nd the gradually the road improved and first number of trader increased, The e carried but twelve caravan worth of dollars' or fifteen thousand merchand e. but the trade amounted to nearly a half million dollar in 1843, and shortix before the railroad came, at the the overland freightclose of tin sijXt ing business to Santa Fe was estimated dollars. million a at nearly were not used after 1825, Pack animat ami while some gotals were repacked Into old Mexico, huge ox carts of the Mexl- cans, drawn by a single ox rhany t me, carried most of the trade to the south One driver would someinto Chihuahua time hxe sole charge of sexeral carta, making the transportation comparatively simple for the proprietors, if not for the and trappers Hole teamster. The Indian to their tribe carried their purchase and rendezvous on pack animals for want - This year4 rate the arrival pack-hors- car-va- e The greatest fall sale our store has ever held is now in full swing. Prices on every piece of furniture in our entire stock cut 20 to 50 per cent. The hundreds of thrifty buyers who offered and these people are buying furniture come hdre are amazed at the wonderful-bargain- at tremendous savings. LTbis4ime finds us with very complete stocks of all types of merchandise. Your visit here will positively; enable you to get the very articles you want and-aprices that mean a great saving to you. pack-hors- of s Formtrly WithSebutach . YOUR EYES CHANGE roadway. Spanish Trail in Utah. Then, in 1831, came the open ng of the Ualifomia extension of the Santa Fe triul h s it is regarded bv some authorities, that i the old Spftninh trail aroundthe Iohmido rixer, through Utah territon. Wiliam Woifskill and a party of trappers had spirit the summer of 1831 trapping this mute through Utah, and, heur.ng of the splendid price received for merchandise In California, he outfit- ted a pack train and thus easily closed the link in the transcontinental caravan route. That same year two other trader caravan traveled the aam- route tn California, and thereafter this route to the Vaclflc was very popular, a great deal of dred years., merchandise finding its way into California In this manner. Home of the busiInijian Battles Frequent. ness even reached northern California at that they didn't wait long soon after the day of forty-ninwhen said UncU Ferd rmphatically. more northerly route were opened. the the real Indian troubles occurred fotn 125 to 150 years later. So viciously Driven to Coast. and Incessantly did the Indian oppose Sheep on the Spanish trail van The of the whites and the Mexicans In the forties and fifties that in central Vtah, the caravans coming from the crossing of the Green river, the very names Comanche and Apache ate of Green River, ebhoe with a sting to the old scout and at the present through ITIce and Rpanikh Fork can- Indian fighters. of instead crossing the Wasatch at J Their neighbors, the Xavajoes and yon, However, Price cany op the! Iteft, bad carefully disinterred th Kalina canyon. rmwliairk ami the scalping Unifo. and proper was not folowed all the way, the nTmrr fhs uetng nip totitpt JPtted the howling savagra in their war phif&urio" K'cn sheen xxerc driven from Santa Fe Even Kit Uarsm. who was In both to northern and to dfHf agent In that section from 833 to to California could not control his pimege. The southern portions of the state, beginning A verv few' sheep Mexicans were crowding too close on the in the early fifties. were drlxen bv way of the Gila and lower fgmth. Texas was becoming too civilised Colorado r.xer crossing, on account of on the east, end the Ltea of the Indian tolls; more were driven northboundary countrv, who hunted ward on the eastern slope of the Rockies, buffaloes east pf the Rockies every by way of Krt Laramie. Wyo.. and and made their homes on the west slopes, were being hampered by too thence westward oxer the old overland trail. many buffalo hunters, fur trappers and However, most of this traffic In sheep tfaders' caravans oxer the old Siwttish was directly through Utah, Theie and front tjrttl! their tountry. through from southeast to northwest, arent msny of them left at this late diagonally he added, after some reflection, because of the betteV feed and water, and because of the sale of the wool in Utah s the remnant of the Utq Indian still sullenly fighting for the tri- to the Moimon people, the wool being The Indians bal rights to the country, according to clipped In the Utah corrals. tW'San Juan county, Utah farmers and protested the passage of the sheep bands. to seven a did from f.ve they (Obtaining ranchmen. thousand head, for they consumed the wild out the and drove game. Overland Caravans Arrive. pasturage Home troubles were encountered by the tut tha real ceiehrnt.un is not an droxers. one of whom wa Kit Carson, cjtiijtation over an Indian xlitory. himself, after he turned ranchman, hut e It y for the bestowal of sheep and diplofreighter, tfe annual arrival of the traders' cara- judicious enabled most of the bands to reach van, which meant so much in the life macy California with little loss. of those New Mexicans in those of toltion and deprivation. The Indian Children Purchased. ilftj merchandise carried consisted of c othlng, Following the traders caravans across goods, firearms, tobacco, Utah came a certain class of Mexican cutlery, itlUor, foods tuft a. horse and house furtraders, engaged in the nefarious businishings. and trinkets and gaudy adorn-meri- ness of buying Indian children from the for Indian consumption. These Ctes. and selling them in Mexico and Lower California for $150 to $20 each a goods were eagerly Iwirgained for in for furs, gold and silver nuggets, slaves. and horses Guns, .ammunition undfaome actual coin of the realm. The were exchanged for the children, whom njrnchandiae meant much to the natixes, the Ute parents were all too willing to atd the arrival of the caravans in July part with. Thus the Mexican d,d a very nail August was always a gala occasion. large business for A few years Lose saw an old, rough trapper take Many Mormon families, including at moce delight In a new pocket kn fe than leat one of Brigham Young wives, had texr boy ever could take. taken Indian bovs and girl into their he uncertainty of travel, however, homes, thus establishing what appeared the arrival of the caravans tluuht-fgl?- - to be a precedent. In fact, the Mexican indeed, the New Mexicans had no slave trade xvas finally stopped by a Utah dfcfibite assurance that a trader was n law, wh.ch provided that i the people of ioutg until (a hen the trade became es- the state could take the Indian children tablished) the traders sent runners into their homes, under a form of adopahead when within 200 miles, so that tion, guaranteeing support and a certain the ear a van might be properly advertised amount of schooling, where such adoption among the natives. The traders' mra-xaiwas considered necessary to prevent their came r.t first from Franklm. Mis- sale to the Mexicans souri, but later from Independence, re These children mav have been the per- - -- t Dont think the same glasses will always suit. When your glasses seem misty, see our expert optometrist and you will find satisfaction in the result. Often new glasses save old eyes. eort-igje- ft - THIS WEEKS SPECIAL Reading glasses, spherical lenses, in good strong frame, including examina- - CQ 1 fQ tion and case na-i- a ts a -- ti Orens Optical Co. A DISTINCTLY BEAUTIFUL SUITE IN CANE AND MAHOGANY 207 Main St., Kenyon Hotel Wasatch 4888 All the charm of the Queen Anne period is carried out in these three in rich mahogany. The hacks and wings. are pieces, and all are finished of highest quality cane. " Comes complete with pillows and bolster, has loose cushions and upholstered in rich velour. Kf) Mammoth Kali Hale Ml IWVil Cl 70 Instruction Begins Monday, Sept. 25. 5 5 Students will find it advantageous to entir oar! Better attention to the oeleetfon of eouies and He program of work is '3- determining the student Lti . - then possible. Opportunity is afforded to prepare for praetieally all of the leading professions us well as to receive a general cultural trainitiii. Schools at the University School School School School School School I of of of of of of Arts and Sciences. Education. Mines and Engineering. Law. Medicine. Commerce and Finance. Extension Division. . Additional Information Cheerfully Sent on Request. Utah SALT. LAKE CITY. C9RQ - high-grad- Escalante Traversed Route. The caravan route ftom Santa Fe as far as southeastern. Utah had been traversed by Father Kacalante in 1776, and bv trappers early In the next century. Marcus Whitman followed a path from one trading poet to the next across that sect on in 1842. (aptain J. W. Gunnison in 1852 made some examinations for a railroad across Utah and rolnrado touching the Hpanlsh trail at the Gunnison, nt Green River (town) crossing, Morman settling in the Grand alley were driven out by the Indians in the earlv fifties, and Oapta n K. B. Mnrey covered part of the route in the winter of 1857-8- . from Fort Bridger to Fort Union, near Sinta Fe, when he went for supplies for Johnston army. Captain J. X. Macomb made an exploration trip' for the government from Santa Fe to the junction of the Green and Grand river In 1859. Then in the spring of 1860 the troop under General A S. Johnston, that had come to Utah, and which xvere then stationed at Camp Flovd, west of TYovo, were ordered to move on foot by way' of Santa Fe, to participate in the rixii war. Some wagons xvere taken on this journey. according to Panic) W. Jones, in Fortv Years Among the Indians. and a number of officials rode on 'horseback, hut the troops walked. The government had previously ordered an examination of the route between ('amp Flovd and Santa Fe, for the purpose of establishing a wygdn road between the two places. in the fifties. Colonel W. W. Thu, iate Lor.ng of the V. 8. army had traversed and carefully logger! a route, this log being gjven in detail in Captain U. B. Marcy s Iralrie Traveler. concluded I'ncle Ferd "Santa "Y,g, Fe is entitled to a b.R blowout thi, vear. for the modern Santa Fe trail, para'leiing the iron trail, ie delivering by the rubber-tir- e route a nice lot of touri.t buaineaa annually into the old town. The Indian war dancea will be Imitations, and the trappers and hunters will be common actors, and the overland freighter on disranchmen, but, anyplay will be uiwtate way. I wish 1 could be there again myself "It strikes me that the pld Spanish trail has become quite a popular automobile route, itself." finished Aunt Em; "for with the Rocky mountains and the South park, the Mesa Verde, and scores of ether cliff dwellers' ruins, the interesting Shiproek Indian school, the I'tah natural bridges, and an open road to Salt all routes Is a Lake Citv. this oldest very attractive one from Kansas. Oklahoma and Texas. I vote to return home that way when we go." (Copyright. 1922. by J. Cecil Alter.) dentist, now Templeton building. ( Advertisement, Tr. B. Earl Dunts, cated T plete restfulness. The suite shown above upholstered in tapestry. Mammoth Fall Sale IMo-ne- Tourist Route Today. i that fit every curve of your body and of thick soft cushioning into which you sink deep anT restfully. Hundreds of tiny wonderfully flexible springs hidden in the softest cotton gnd down give that velvety buoyancy of com- ever, Fres dmt Young also said at that time that If s aw arc brought here b those owned them in the plates, w do not favor their escape from the of their owners Since throe names appear on the hronxe ab!et of the In Sa4 Lake titv a' monument 1 Resident colored servants. Young doubtless meant to tell Horace Oreeiex that negro slaves were held in Utah that time. This4 route was bv wav f Xephi, Salt Creek canyon, Manti, Salma canyon and San Rafael creek to the crossing of the Green, But Jones, who was guiding the troops, took them through Spanish Fork canyon, and to the north of Price canyon, to the Green river crossing. Colonel Lorings route crossea the Grand river foity-flv- e miles from the Green river crossing on what he calls the old Mormon road, evidently that used by the un Grand successful alley eettlera that Jones mentions. The Lorlng route follows up the Grand river for about ninety miles to what he calls the Uncompahgre (Gunnison) river, and thence over the crest into the Rn Grande xalley. and thence southerly to Sinta Fe. Jones took the troop up the Grand to the Dolores, and thence south- ward to th Spanish trail. In the sixties came the placer miners, who panned the sand as the trappers had trapped the streams, using ail the routes and ail the region in quest of the shining metals, and then came th ranchmen and the farmer e The annual, fairs or carnl- val in New Mexico were legalized bv the state leg slatur in 1852." resumed Uncle were to last The celebration Ferd. from eight to twelve days, and be held in all the better towns of the state. The trading at those times and places was free from taxes, and ramblin'' was gen- erally permitted, together with all sort of chance of game That is whv the fairs were no well patronised: But they became too rough, and the law was re- on t te The travel nealed In 1866 dtous trails, and the users of the wilds of southeastern Utah, were prone to celebrate too freely when they came to town. September 21, 22, 23 the comfort of luxurious lines There is solid 'comfort in Karpen furniture sons refrrod to bv Hi igham Youhr whfh he told Horaco Grcelev. in 1850. that theie wore slaxes held In Utah territory. How- ODD at 611 lo- KROEHLER CHIFFONIERS AND DAVEN-- 0 CHIFFOROBES AT ONE-HAL- F PRICE Our display in this department includes many pieces from our highest grade, suites. All finishes are represented, and you will find exceptional values. A PRACTICAL LIVING ROOM SUITE IN QUARTERED OAK OR MAHOGANY bed. operation will convert a Daven-- into a tiful pieces for the living room, upholstered in genuine leather. May be had in quartered oakor mahogany. Fall Sale A simple full-size- CEDAR CHESTS. Crosses Grand River. Registration for the Autumn Quarter of the University of Utah, Will Take Place KARPEN SUITE DE LUXE j h zl SEPTEMBER 10. 1922. beau- MMtyi A LIBRARY TABLE OF UNUSUAL MERIT Well constructed, conveniently arranged with drawer, in that popular Queen Anue period. C7I5 Sale price tM j A deposit will hold purchase for future RANGE... No better alue could be found anywhere than may be had in this durable range. Has polished top, smooth nickel, specially constructed oven ventilation and is backed by an unconditional guarantee. i j 51-- Free delivery within fifty miles. livery. j e Neu) Books for Library Furniture is the editor of Life,of hearty, laughs." . -- body-serva- nt $49.50 51r57 EAST FIRST SOUTH - the book Is full brought to some women." Terhnne. Further Adventures of Lad. "A delightful book for the one who Full at exciting adloves dog. stories. ventures and humorous anecdotes." Young. Ked Knight. "The scene Is laid In Trinacrla In the Mediterranean, in an atmosphere glowing with the southern sun and sinister with intrigue. Special to Tb Tribune. POCATELLO, Idaho. Sept. 9. A new angle has been presented in the annual eleetjon for the se'ection of two members of the school board at American Falls with the filing of a declaration by Mrs J. F.'Hautvinger, clerk of the board, to the effect that the election was not lawfully conducted and that unofficial ballots had been used. The clerk of the board is seeking to have the election annulled Sndvis pet. tinning for a new ballot. One hundred and sixty votes were cast In the election and the race was very close, J. P. HautvlngerJ husband of the Foi-n- d clerk, being one of the - candidates. M. K. Walker, tomlng are the results71: S8; Irx Allen, 92; J. F. Hautvinger. 70. P. - MAKE YOUR SELECTION NOW MODERN AND BRICK BUNGALOWS TWENTY-FOU5- Clerk Declares Election Not Lawfully Conducted ST.- tWhitney Baby Carriages WeitemdL Palmer. Altruism. "A series of eight the connection lectures aiming ter The following books will be added to between altruism and egoism,, socialism the public lihrarv Monday. September 11: and individualism." MISCELLANEOUS. Palmer. Problems of Freedom. "A seAmerican Pietry, 19:3. 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