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Show CACHE AMERICAN. LOGAN. UTAn Observant Woman Saw ' Tragedy in Wifes Eyes of the Pony n ihj i National Topic t Interpreted Charming maul said tha of temper, an irritability at daughter. Bnt I might have known hed bom that matched In extent the by William Bruckart b married; they always art when Jolllnes and good fellowship be !" W showed to the world, sMngton. Major party atrat plana of thoM who ara viewing tha theyre real fun Real fun? mused her mother $ "Eye of wive field to determine whether a fgj la the present congresalotial-ovoC. Boll traeiMt. WNU Sterlet. wonder. By the way did you noatorial campaign public sentiment can b mar- T tice hie wlfee eye? It may teem 1 ae I f (J. P. Hat resolve shaled behind tha third party to you, but Ive found a pretty Sow Mustard to Prevent Hard Task 1,1,0 determined Many political atratcglita funny I by bi effort by the Dem both tn tha National Capital and good way to Judge a man Flood, Following Fire wife eyea." ocrate to bold the majorelaeaher believed, and gav In an effort to prevent flood damIlia wifes eyea had a look of Ured-res- i ity they into q the bouie of to tbelr vlewa at tha time, that wa strange for one living, age to land recently robbed of Its vegnd an equally deter that Senator La Follette made a mathe did In the hip of luxury. Her etation by forest fires, th United mined drive by the Republican high came out he when error jor political husband It seemed, gave her every- States forest service Is starting In command to break the "atrungle ojienly for Irealdent Roosevelt In bold there of the New Ieal party. 1932. Th la made certain that the thing. With but one child, n son of to cover It with a mustard plaster. To speed the revcgctatlon of 8,000 The holding of this majorily la of Democrat would carry Wisconsin fourteen, she had no work, no worry, no trouble as far as anyone eould acres of forest and brush land of vital ImiKirtatice to the IVmocrata the state many regard aa the because, with a two third vote they birthplace of the Republican party see. She was handsome, too "must th Arroyo Seeo watershed In th have been n beautiful woman, Is the Angctee National forest In eouthem will te able In the next congress and It waa equally certain that IL to continue gag rule which wa California, which burned over late the astute James A, Farley, aa way people put Invoked In the lat congrrs and chairman of the Democratic nationYet hor eye hud that look. It In July, forest service worker ere It to mustard, weed which under which It was possible to pas al committee, would lose no time In wa not precisely tiredness; there seeding was In It something of sadness, some- roots quickly end grows rapidly administration measures with a building up a formidable Democrateven tinder unfavorable conditions. minimum of debate and cITorL ic organize lion through the jMiwer of thing a hit haunted, something of In the light of live outcome In fear. But that was not for all who Ttiey are also planting wild sunflowpatronage at hla disposal as postrun to read. It was only the ob- ers, A almllnr remedy wns the Maine elections and In the fate master general. The vote In the reIn holding soil on parts of vote In cent Democratic of the ze of eye of my friend's mother serving Indicated primary the primaries In a number of stales that he had done a rather thorough that touud It then It wa envy the great Santa Iharbara burn tn regarded as rather safely Repub- Job, but whether the La Follette enough for us all to he wise and see 1932. Establishment of any kind of lican before 1992, the G. O. P. leadhold on the Wlrmnsln electorate It too, I,y most of the casual she would huve been accepted aa the green cover greatly reduces the rapership apparently has a hard task can be broken remain to be seen. and washing of the loos once beautiful, somewhat faded. In- id run-of- f ahead. In the last congress the IKmiocrn: a brilliant and de- soil by the winter rains, a situation had 312 member, or 22 of wife dulged Democratic Whatever the majormore thuu a majority, ity may be In tho next senate, the lightful man a Jolly follow, mind which caused the disastrous Montrose flood near Los Angeles last and generally were able to comNew Dealers are you, who would have spelled good New Years eve, when many Ire mand most of the five votes of the Would Outdo certain to have luck for any woman. Farmer-latliomembership as well It turned out that that was a good were losL The cities below the files tn the two KingRth rent burn have the additional proaa the Tote of several Republicans olntmeut, when hunch though, looking at bis wife's tection afforded from Wisconsin and from one of heretofore by the Devil's Gat come should who For one. eyes. along they have had only dam at Tasadcnn. Much of the seedAssum the northwestern states. Is sending to the senate but some one who had knowa them Mississippi membership In Its former governor, Theodore G. for years. And It turned out that It ing will oe done by the Civilian Conlng a Farmer-latho- r the next house as great a that In Bilbo, to Join Louisiana's Irrepress- wns not for nothing this woman was servation corps, working under forest service dlrecUoa would the last, the Republican ible Huey I. (Klngfisb) Long. Mr. prematurely laded. Her eyes were have to register a net gain of not look to and from tired bright trying Bilbo, who became a newspaper Makes Powerful Light less than thirty eeats In order to In Washington under the happy when she wns disillusioned break Democntry'a strangle hold." clipper Adding a minute pert of a rar and henrtslck. That haunted look New Deal, has promised his constitEven with such a gain the Repub- uents rubidium, to mersnry usually that If they would send him was doubtless remembrance of a long metal, used in mercury lamps baa resulted licans would have to muster their to of cherished Ideal and happimore hope he would raise full strength on every vote In order b Washington The fearful look concern that In the development of a lamp whosw I than Huey Long." He has set ness. to prevent "gag rule. sunlight Th for himself a very sizeable Job be- the world would learn of the struggle light approximates The Democrats are certain to cause admittedly Mr. Long hna of her tired pride. Money ? Yes, metal causes the lamp to give red In addition to the mercury make substantial gains In the sen- raised more h alnce be has been she had every comfort, that Is, they rays. ate, and they are by no means over- In the senate than was raised by lived in (Inc style. But she h?d no spectrum. The lamp Is said to have a life ten times as long as an orsingle senatorial contest. even those two theretofore Incomlooking Independence of purse, no money In ? As far dinary Incandescent lamp. Rubidium Faithfulness Democratic leaders in headquarters her I raisers Cole Blease of pocket h parable here have been mentally kicking South Carolina, and Tom Heflin of as had come to her knowledge. But cosls $7 a dram, bnt only one part of the metal Is used themselves ever since the Maine Alabama. They constituted a real she had tho humiliation of the petty election that they did not put on a team from the South during their flirtations of a conceited man. He In each lamp to change the light bu Senator to he a good fellow with the from green to light red. Previously vigorous drive against stay In the world's greatest delib- loved Frederick Hale In that state. They erative body," but unquestionably girls, and his wife wns always kept physicists had Improved the mercury explain privately Hint they did not Long and Bilbo will rut their rec- conscious of the fact that she was lamp by adding potassium to tha do so because they never had an ord to shame that Is If they team neither so young nor so good looking mercury, but the potassium Is said Idea there was a possibility of de- up together. Senator Long has dem- as she used to be. But what con- to disintegrate the glass bulb or tub feating Mr. Hale because a nale onstrated during his brief stay In tributed most, doubtless, to the cur- of the lamp. Popular Mechanics In the senate has been Maine tradithe senate that he likes to hold the tained misery In these eyes was the- Magazine. tion for generations. They detectcenter of the stage with a silent difficulty of pieusing him a snrlled a flaw In their reasoning when cast about to admire. Whether he Fully Descriptive Mr. Hale eatne through with only a 'Bennie, can yon tell me what aa h to another take will kindly scant majority, and this fact has raiser within Ills own Island Is? party ranks Fcrger Recognized as caused them to redouble tlielr ef- remains to be seen. "Yes, ma'am. It Is a place yon Most Clever Criminals cant leave without a boat." Cleveforts tn other states, and particuovernot Democratic leaders do land News. larly la Ohio, where Simeon D look the possibility thnt If these two When It comes to healing the Fe 3, former chairman of the Re- team together they might create a publican national committee. Is tip schism within the party ranks. Sen- rap (escaping Jail sentence) forg for re election; In Maryland. West ator ers aro by far the cleverest of all Long has far outstripped any Virginia, Rhode Island, Now Jersey, of the New Dealers In some of the criminals. Missouri, Indiana. Delaware, Just try and conlct a forger I which he has made, and ut and Michigan. Nor are proposals writes diaries H. Knowles In the Mr. Bilbo apparently is determined they even overlooking that eitadel to with him if not sur- American Detective Magazine. Mr. pace keep of Pennsylvania, Republicanism, Knowles, who Is a investiga IRRITATION pass him. There are several Demo- tor for the William ajieclnl whore David A. Reed Is up for J. Burns Deteccratic senators who might conceivtive agency, continues: go along with them, as they The lack of tangible clues preThe Democrats now have sixty ably are not wholly satisfied with what members In the senate four short Relieve the dryness and! as the conservative vents positive proof. Forgers oper. regard they ate In such huge, of a majority and they radicalism of tho administration. irritation by applying to one catch of the are confident that November will Menlholatom night that gangs many and morning. Increased means little. Although we investisee this membership by Two pieces of legislation enacted gators and tlie a minimum of five, or one more may, in our police s And by the last congress with a view to minds, be sure of certain things, the than a majority. aliling the farmer law says it all lias to be proven, not when they get down to cases, ReDue for seem destined for surmised. mournsomewhat leaders Forgers, for this reason, publican Scrap Heap the scrap heap. collided with their own organized fully admit privately that DemoThey are the cleverness and network of inside' 1EATH SHOT kill 1! tnfe-t- x TO'ilte tl cratic expectations may be fulfilled. Bankhead compulsory cotton control bottle 40 tlmee PROKMTS, sens in the A help, are the slipperiest to hold of 305 majority Dyal'L'pcharcli Jacksonville, Fla, farm oil criminals. law and the I.empke-Frazie- r Is two next the ate during years mortgage bill. Strangely enough It If one of the gang Is caught and highly important from the DemoIs Senator Bankhead of Alabama, lie wont arrested, what then? cratic point of view because of the the cotton law, who leads number of Important treaties now author of squeal, and if ids pals do not sup. revolt that the measure, ply bail for him, which he can forpending or to be submitted to that which limitedagainst cotton production to feit by Jumping (disappearance) he body for ratification. ten million bales with each state can rarely be convicted of much on fewest Hotel allocated its respective share of tills the slim evidence of his Jn the part It Is no secret In political circles total. It so happens that the total whole great scheme." here In Washington that the camyield was only nine million bales, a paign strategy of million less than permitted by statTalk of Royal Relation those at present ute. But, peculiarly enough, some command of of the southern states had superb King Edward VII of England was Third Party the G. O. P. does weather and raised more than they married to Alexandra, daughter of not meet with the full approval of were permitted to raise under the King Christian IX of Denmark. Her gome Republicans who are offering allocation made by the Agricultural sister Dagmar was the wife of Alexfor There ander III of Russia. Their son, the I have had several Adjustment administration. of them tell me that their pros- is a penalty of $30 on every excess murdered Czar Nicholas II, was a victory would be mate- bale raised In any state and taken second cousin to the present English pects rially enhanced If the Republican to market. Mr. Bankhead would King George V. The resemblance high command stayed out of their have this confiscatory tax waived, between the two cousins vyas states or districts. These are men setting np the argument that since who heretofore have been regarded only nine million bales In all are as the regular wing of the party, available it Is senseless to keep any but who have the feeling which ap- of It off the market In the face of a parently Is becoming more and crop shortage. more widespread among the young200 Rooms 200 Tile Baths The Lempke-Frazie- r bill, In the er leaders that there must be a first test case brought In the courts Radio connection in every room. of the Republican party before Federal District Judge W. RATES FROM $1.30 and a younger and more liberal Calvin Chestnut, in Baltimore, has leadership If the party Is to regain met the fate which its opponents fmttppouu Mormon Tattrnndn Its place In the American political predicted it would meet. It has been ERNEST C ROSSITER, Mgr. sun. declared unconstitutional. The purMeanwhile reports trickle Into pose of this measure was to declare a 'movement about Washington moratorium on farm mortgages 40 3d WNU W having its Inception on the western for a period of five years. prairies for the formation of a third It will be recalled that this was party. Several conferences of pro- one of the measures which was gressive leaders already have been passed by the senate in the hectic easily quickly held, and some of those who have closing hours of the last session, Sufferer from itching, homing afparticipated tell me that the moveand it Is no secret that many Demoment Is gaining steadily, although crats voted for It in the belief that vj fections, eczema, pimples, ra bites, It has had no publicity as yet. Mr. Roosevelt would veto It and red, rough skin, sore, itching, homThose participating desire no faning feet, chaftngs choppings cuts that even If he did s'gn it which hums and all forms of disfiguring fare, as they do not believe the time he did the courts would declare tt blotches, may find prompt relief by Is ripe for the announcement, and Invalid. This was merely another that certainly the movement should one of the many cases of passing anointing with not he brought Into the open until the buck which are to be found Ointment. It quickly soothes Mand soon heals. after the November elections. in the annals of the congress. Mr Price 25c and 50c. The fate of the progressive party Roosevelt declined to take the In Wisconsin as organized by Rob Proprietor!: Potter Droit A Chemical buck so the holders of farm mort Corporation, Malden, Maes. ert M. La Follette, Jr., and his gages were left only recourse to the brother Phil, can be expected to courts. have a considerable bearing on the G. Western Newsuauer Union. - s' nes also-abl- e - ?. . : : 1 rV':'? mova-meti- L taro-thlrd- t iiit or ' . amK'Al: T. .. I :j.rr-.::S-h- V? ft Oj. r.VcivJktas L- - '1 lx 7c . ,f ( ! 3 villi i 5V y. v rv 1 I M U.UUdU, ;i: f Jv 1 - - - A Kit.iJ.NiSmunoK! . P' Charles Cliff and WECodyatthePony Express Monument, St Joseph, 19 IZ 'i - 77ie ' .s.. .. r P -- I - J s 'v. two-third- s . ? j I pny Express Salutes the Telegraph . - ' kiJ Cy ELMO SCOTT WATSON Those matked with an oilier Uiiy pres dispatches carried time. present the news that "one of the last of the During the same year Ilownrd R. Drlggs, presiold time Pony Impress riders had dent of the Oregon Trail Memorial association died in the West at the ago of eighty, j. historian of pioneer days In and a live. The only trouble with that news tlio West, said In an article lu the New York Item was this: if Ids age at the time Tribune magazine: of Ids death was Risen correctly, then They can be counted on the fingers of one he must lane been braving the perils, the few that remain of the hundred or which constantly threatened members hand, more daring boys who helped put Americas first of that famous corps of daredevil mail across from old Saint Joe to Sacramento riders, at the tender age of eleven years! Know those stirring days of the early O's. we Iiir what do of the Idstory of the Iony Ex- during now . . , only a hare handful of the origRigid press, what was required of Its riders and the inal riders are left to take part. And they can conditions under whuh they operated. It doesnt participate only as onlookers; for every one of seem l.kely that an boy was one I Item Is over eighty years of age. of them. These survivors, according to last reports, And yet this particular news Item Is not are John Seebeck of Alameda, Calif.; Charles unique. For the last two decades such Items Clifif of SL Joseph, Mo. ; und Elijah Maxtield of have been appearing regularly In our newspaiiers Loa, Utah. Two or three others have been named and almost Invariably a check-uon the dates with some uncertainty. Several station keepers In them 'would reveal the fact that this supand substitute riders have also been reported rider had been posed Tony Express engaged alive. More may be discovered through the celeTom Ranahan in Ids dangerous task while still a mere child. bration in progress; but the three Pony ExpressIndeed, one of them who was characterised as a men Just named seem to he the of the Buttle of Reedier's Island thrilling story only regular 'Tony Express rider would have been only six riders that fought in eastern Colorado in September, LS6S, to give linger experience that name is familiar. For Tom Ranahan was years old at the time! of that thrilling ejtoch in Americas story. The explanation of this Inconsistency lies In one of the party of f0 scouts, commanded by It will he noticed that Mr. Drlggs list of sur- Col. the fact that there Is much confusiou as to A. Forsjth of tlie reguvivors checks with Miss Packs list only In re- lar Georgewho (Sandy") . exactly what is meant by the term wrote their nurnes high In the army, Iony ExCliff to Charles and John Seebeck. does He gard press rider. Strictly Seaking, that title can history tif the West by their desperate defense be applied only to men who were engaged by not mention four In her list Charles Becker, of the little Island lu the Arickaree river against Tom Ranahan and W. II, t William Pridham, the Central Overland California and Iikes Peak lie hosls of Cheyenne warriors led by Chief Streeper and she does not mention one of his Roman Nose, who was killed there. Ranahan Express company for Its Pony Express service, three And neither of them Elijah Maxwell. founded by William II. Russell of the famous was still living In Idaho a few years ago one lirm of Russell, Majors and Waddell In 1SG0, mentions another survivor, Henry Avis, who was of the three last survivors of the Forsyth started In April of that year and discontinued a resident of Kansas CPy until his death In Scouts and one of the few real surviving Pony 1927. In October, 1S(J1. That was the original Pony Express riders. In Root and Connelleys "Overland Stage to whose brief career of IS months forms Expre-'One of the best short accounts of the Puny one of the most romantic chapters In the his- California" appears a partial list, so far as Is Express, dealing with its organization, operation men who of the rode the known, Pony Express of the old frontier. tory and its historic Importance, is the chapter deto and entercontributed the of the fame lasting In later years throughout the West the mails voted to It in the book The Overland Mail, were carried over long stretches of territory by prise." It contains 47 names, 24 fewer than by Dr. Le Roy Iiafen, Colorado state Miss Pack's list, but it names three which site horsemen until their work was taken over by does not have. They are William Boulton, Wil- historian, which was published by the Arthur II. stage coach lines which. In turn, were succeeded liam Clark company of Cleveland In 192G. Carrigan and U. J. Faust. by the railroads. During these years It became In it Doctor Iiafen points out that The Pony Miss One of Pack's list Just missed being somewhat the fashion to refer to these horsemen was not an end in Itself, but a means to Express marked with an as a survivor. He was Joseph as Pony Express riders, a characterization Donovan (Joe Donovan) who died In Denver, an end. There had been previous suggestions which persisted after the passing of the fronfor the establishment of a fast overland express '!, just a month before the Pony and an tier without any special Inquiry Into the appro- July 20, attempt was made la congress in 1833 celebration Besides a began. Express being Pony to priateness of the title. such a service but these first efforts provide Donovan a had career Express rider, stirring So In these modern days, when an did not succeed. With the establishment of the as scout aca and Indian fighter, government dies and It becomes known that he had once overland stage lines a rivalry had arisen between carried the mails on horseback out West, he Is cording to the accounts of his death in the Den- the Butterfield (the Southern) and Central ver to was said He held have the newspapers. routes and with the assembling of the thirty-sixt- h Immediately set down as a Pony Express rider, distinction of being the only Denver citizen, at which accounts for some of the news Items congress In December, 1839, everything had the of time his who visited the site death, spoken of at the beginning of this article. of In the direction of a general revision pointed to 1S39., that city prior Mounted mail carriers they may have been but of the overland service. Partisans of the Central Even more famous si a scout was another route were they were not real Pony Express riders at least active but they met with considerPony Express rider who now lies buried on able opposition. It was with the Idea of demonnot all of them. near Lookout mountain Denver. name His apWho, then, were the real Pony Express riders? strating the practicability of the Central route It is doubtful if a complete roster of their pears on the Pony Express roll as William F. for travel and to secure an enlarged names can ever be compiled. When operation of Cody but the whole world was to know him in mail contract that the Pony Express scheme was the Pony Express service began, there were 80 the future as Buffalo Bill. Most accounts of conceived. of them but this number varied during the next the Pony Express give prominent mention to , while William During the winter of 18 months and it Is probable that at least 100 Cody as one of the youngest of Its riders (he U. Russell was in Washington, he discussed the was fourteen at the time) and the rider overland only different men at one time or another were riders mail question with Senator Gwin of who made one of the longest and "probably In the service. California. The senator contended that It was In connection with the celebration held In 1923, the longest continuous performance without a of the necessary to demonstrate the the Union Pacific Magazine Issued a special formal rest period In the history of this or any Central route before he wouldfeasibility be able to get 322 21 in other service miles courier hours. Pony Express number In which Miss Mary Pack, from congress the desired contract He Unfortunately for Codys fame as a Pony Ex- to Russell to launch a swift overland appealed writing on The Romance of the Pony Express, express listed the following as known riders for the press rider, Just as is the case in some of the and agreed to obtain from congress a subsidy not of his the other record is clear career, phases original organization: to reimburse the firm for the undertaking. The enough to be accepted unquestioningly. One of plan appealed to Russell and he Baughn, Melville (Mel) Kelly, Jay G. agreed to put most his trustworthy biographers, Richard J. through the Beatley, James (Jim) King, Thomas Owen enterprise. Walsh In his book, The Slaking of Buffalo Bill, Little Yank" Put it through he did and on April 3, 1860, Becker, Charles says: Ills Pony Express record is accepted by the historic Boston" Maeaulas Pony Express went Into operation all of the testimony is hearsay historians but Brink, James IV. Martin, Bob accounts o( that period are highly con- with riders starting simultaneously from the the and McCall, J. G. Bucklin, Jimmy Eastern and Western termini SL Joseph, Mo fused. . . . Alexander Majors vouched for Cody's McDonald, James and Burnett, John San Francisco, Calif. It continued until the on Overland the service trails but Slajors, when Campbell, William McNanghton, Jim he told the story, was an old man in sore straits through telegraph line was in operation. Then, When the telegraph line was comCarlisle, Alex. C. McEneany and grateful to Buffalo Bill for financial assist- says Iiafen, Carr. William Moore, James (Jim) book was written for him by pleted on October 24, 1861, the Pony Express ance arid Majors came to a close. The pony was fast but he Perkins, Josh Cates, Bill none other than Prentiss Ingraham, the dime" could not compete with the lightning. Pridham, William Clark, Jimmy novelist. Cliff, Charles Ranahan, Tom Unfortunately for its founders it was far from Elsewhere in his book, Walsh says: "At first, Cody, William F. Rand, Theodore being a financial success. It cost Russell and fourteen-year-olwas an he (the Cody) given Richardson, Johnson Donovan, Joe his partners $700,000 to it its miles, which he had to brief existence and their operatewere during$300,-00- 0 easy route, forty-fivEgan, Howard Ransom Riles, Bart receipts only make In three hours with three changes of Egan, Richard Erastus Rising, Don C. leaving them with a net loss of $200,000. mounts. . . . This easy route was probably the But "from Ellis, J. K. Roff, Harry the standpoint of the nation the Pony Jobetween Leavenworth road and SL G. G. regular Fisher, John Sanglovannl, Express was eminently successful It demonas on office rode which over the Cody boy Seebeck. John seph, Fisher, William (Bill) strated the practicability of the Central route and horseback (a term by which Majors once char- marked Frey, Johnnie Spurr, George the path for the first In to be acterized him), carrying mail the railroad. placed Streeper, W. H. Gentry, Jim By shortening the distance between the Pony Express bags at SL Joseph. Connelley Atlantic and Pacific coasts it Gilson, Jim Strickland, Robert C. helped unite the E. late of the secretary Connelley, (William Thacher, George Hamilton, Sam Pacific coast and the Rocky mountain region most one Historical and of the Kansas society Ilaslam, Robert Towne, George to the Union the first ominous year of careful Investigators and reliable historians of the Civil war. Itduring Wallace, Henry Hogan, Martin showed the conquest of the West Is believes of the the that this that part West) Westcott, Dan in one of Its most spectacular phases and it is Huntington, Let only Pony Express riding ever done by Cody. Irish Tom Whelan, Michael M. an act in the great western drama that will alrerhnps the name of Tom Ranahan on the ways be recalled and James, William (Bill) Whipsaw as one of our Pony Express rolls means little to the average precious heritages. Jenkins, Will D. Zowgaltz, Jose ever to has read who but the anyone person Keetley, Jack C by Western Newspaper Union. till: well-know- eleven-year-ol- first-han- d " 19-'.- old-tim- year-roun- d 1S39-0O- d e r 1 1 NASAL two-third- s d two-third- two-third- Salt Lake Citys fr HOTEL TEMPLE SQUARE RELIEVES and - Cntlenra IRRITATIONS |