| Show V Ff t M MI DAVS I I Interesting I Career of Joshua u Torry T rr os n Frontiersman t n Sj Married n Squaw and Son Became a Q 2 5 Chief Now Lives at Qt Draper a 1 STAUNCH old 0 mountain veteran li I Joshua J shul Terry ery of ot 1 Draper the mountaineer of ot Idaho Wyoming and a 1 Utah pioneer r who reached che valley with wih the s ond b bt t r 1 tallon of ot Immigrants Immigrant In B Sp p 1 7 nor In he Is to pass his mile otone Itolle and notwithstanding the strenuous strenuous ous experiences of ot earlier erler years yeul Mr ferry forr Is II able to move sprightly rbt and to do a days work vork He le li II linow now Hissing the remainder of ot tho short time Ume to Win him on this earth quietly with wih his wife In Draper roady to be b summoned over the range that knows no whose divide mortals do llo not sto The story of ot his life e Is II of ot In Interest Inter terest ter Jt as Illustrating the trials hard hardships hardships ships and privations experienced by bythe the tM of ot Hie advanced guard of ot civilization who penetrated the trackless s wilderness rne nearly lI rl a ngo and blazed the way a that t led It their followers In to wt t tie develop and an civilize the west tt Une Josh As 41 Mr r Terry l li familiarly Ht born In Ih Dominion o of Canada of ot pare ts who bad bd migrated thither front Port F rt Erla In la New NI York tnt nut But the tho older did not remain In Canada They were converted to the und and removed two to 01 latr lh their Mn to ll where tit jointed jointe the Saints there wore wih tb m when hen driven out an of the state by W lawless mob ob At A the age of ot it Z Terry a I strong and vigorous vl orous young oung man Iun marched across Rem the plains with the second party of Saints to enter the nley of ot the theOr Or Creat eft t Salt Lake Ho le luCer at qt the time no more hardship than might be 0 expected In III such sueh a II Journey In those thO days das when western was Wn of o a n character He II remarked a few days da since sil In speaking of ot this period that the lako wan Wil lower than thaI It Is at present so that he h was 1 able to walk dry dr shod to Antelope Island Th was 3 not n 1 houpo In tile the valley alley although there wore were beginning of ot several leeral adobe huts Tile The rut party of ot Immigrant with whom Mr Terry Terr came Ime numbered about MO all ni under the til captaincy of or George Gerg n I Wal Wallace lace IaN and brought 10 wagons with lh them Indiana were met with wih en route roule but they the were placated by Ly presents pl of edi edibles cl bIN bles and no violence was W offered Mr r Terry TIry drove tho th cattle clite of or the Im Immigration migration party up Into Davis county for herding being the first man to drive n 1 wagon wavon Into that of nf the territory In February F HIS nn Undo Josh went t to Fort Hall 1411 Idaho he expected to migrate further the sun lun In company with a V v v man named Savage who had come with him from the th states Hut lut the treatment accorded hin by b this Savage and Ills hil wife was no such luch as Induce him to continue In la their company he made up his mind to go to Fort Frt come Iome ZO miles fast He le knel in two tO or three weeks n a party rt of ot would para through en ell route back to tho states from the tho Salt Lako valley with the experiences of or their long western trip fund and It wa his Intention to 0 join them at r and return to the river All Al Mr Terry hill had When hon he left lef Salt Sal Lake valley for tor the Irth V a peck pk of ot wheat and a small lot of 0 powder and bullets Illets a rifle rile the tho wheat whet being all 1 he wa U to llva 10 on until the next nd crops harvested haest Sl ge kept Terrys Terr wheat hot and lite on finding he hewa was wa going AWl and only Ie him throe pieces of hard hall tack a 1 small quantity of ot dried drie meat mt to exist on en route rutt Moreover the young man had no n blanket but he h started stute In April ISIS m on the long l nely n trip that tot lasted nine days dl and during which he thought MIral times that thai his time had come There were three feet teet of snow In the mountains and a ni it was wa none too to warm hen Ahen the lonely march was rs taken taen up lp When evening came young Terry Tury s rp rpt td t away aa the snow sno from under a quakIng Ing asp lP built hul him n 1 camp fife c with dry dr branches from the tree lr striking a tire III with wih a n tint a little i powder Then a u the Ihl snow anol was a the range of ot the fire nr was extended un until til t quite Quie n patch atch of ot bora 0 earth orth was ws and warmed when the tho tired tre traveler laid IRI and alt slept well wel nil all night even en If I he hall had no blanket On the cond day out he managed to reach to the tho present Soda Sa Spring SI coun country oun try tr lut Hut there thee was wa no hotel and nice bed for him to Into warm or tl creep as there Is now no at nt that point and besides six Inches ot of snow sno fallen falon that thai da Gild and there was no n e brush of of any other kind of or combustible within for a ramp fire nut Hut as ni It G dark the weary footsore pilgrim noticed close coo by the tl trail tai a peculiar VV V looking rock rork formation about 40 0 feet ret long much like a n cof cor coffin I fin fn He II turned aside Illde to tl examine and I found a hole on the welt nest side Into which he ho crawled So he slept there thee all aU sheltered from th Ih weather wethe al tielt It I none too to worm warm The next net day da young Terry Terr went on subsisting largely on roots eating sparingly of his hard tack lack and dred d m at or On 01 the fourth evening out from Fort Hall Hal he Il truck struck Fork Fork which was all too to high for tOr Ht at the trail tri Hut a log was WiS found Ihl stream next day dl veral mile up and Ind shortly was Wi found the trail tri of a known mountaineer Per Legged Smith who lived lve near Hear lear Lake Lk Terry Terr holl ns nil loud as 18 he h could hoping to find some on 11 and Ild then relief HU 11 voice vol was Wi heard by Smith who sent a n Mexican I working for him over on 01 horseback to 10 ascertain who the owner of ot tho voice olce might be b The Mexican l found Terry rry and brought him to the ranch The Ti latter was welcomed and rested there for three days Then h was A ready reM to cut Lut on hi journey The Mexican noticed ot any blanket and declared dell Terry would freeze to death to t he rave at him a n three or four foot square ground hog skin robe and this was A put to a good use UM later Inter On the first evening out ot from frol the tho thon n r rive riv ranch the haeler met wll a n bunch bUllch of Indians to whom ho indicated by signs sign that something to toot cot ot would be highly acceptable I One of ot the Indians took tok him to his hll where tho queen quen of the household was nl engaged In culinary operations Thew were hardly harl on the Waldorf Astoria style on the tha contrary very much on tile the contrary they the were In Intensely tensely primitive and nn tn patent applied for The aforesaid queen had shook out the th oaten grass Irl from the he munch of ot a a young that had just been killed Il was WI boiling oln the paunch without other preparation In f kettle kettle The traveler was va given ten all al ot of tho th soup IOUp h he could worry down do n and Ind such luch of at the flesh sh afterward as u he might carp care to ent I Terry hud hlll his hla feet tet en tn route so I it 1 man un undertook to cure cur him and an performed nil 11 sort of ot incantation including bathing the feet tet In oil 01 and hating the patient expectorate In the doctors dOIG tin ear white latter did the Ihl same m by the patient The Th latter laUer Indicated a hupe hOIl on the of ot the medicine man ran the two might be l able It to talk to tu each other The Th tried to make Terry understand that h hI wa WI Inquiring of ar arter ter his hi friend trend and where w re he wanted wante to toK too K o Hut while lit h railed to understand her then she he the wards so I of or often ten tn that he remembered them nn l on Oi repeating the game me to n nIan man Ian with th the tongue tonge he what they meant On leaving the next net day Ilay the traveler wa Wf GWen given 1 meat for tr hl hi five ne or six Ix pound of ot antelope with Jn Instruction a to how to eat tt It I to the advantage alto all 11 buffalo ur falo In return for fl tills Mr r Terry try i pave tho Indians tome powder and al u I few rw bullets ul hf and went on hi hl way re The third dRY day after thU the traveler Ml In With mountaineer who II a I Mm Nm a n lift It on 01 a r animal in a stream 11 O t the Muddy Mudd and Il on 01 the day dl the much d Fort PI t loomed lome up In view 1 Col 01 Janwa Jal r WAN n observing man and Ind Mtv MV the Ut man ln from Fort or I hii from sAir He o Olt it to th traveler and Ild help d him himIn In to the collection ct of lt cabin known MS M Fort Yort On 01 learning the lIe story of th the trip and III Is object Col Cl Mid Terry Terr remain with wih him un until til tl the arrival Iral of ot the tl bound rt There here wo WI a place to J lep In n 1 cabin and wild wil meat nt could be b had hll for tor forth tl th nut Hut such luch thins thing as sugar flour nour salt hi and other staple condiments he might have h at mountain moun lAin price tir Ir IrS II S A I pint awl u l bullets buUts w re 10 t Mr Te r did di rot It trouble th th The T young YOng man mn then 10 hi mechanical talent In putting to 10 together gether tome lom old Id wheel till ti a wagon lin Y I extemporised n pole cut from fromn further evidenced n 1 and alli then Ms by fy building log cabins In Inthe II the tit most mut style Itle This t o Im 11 r IN Col that he hI offered TVr y steady employment at 10 0 p pt r to 10 remain with wih him hin and showed BhO et that In returning emit t with the com company cor pany they the came Calt that he h would only be b eating up IP their larder I of or on 01 th route lx h ot of IK 10 particular benefit nent to thet th n So S the th young ln retrained and 14 gave VI up ul thought of or return to 10 the t slut TIl 11 that h with the Ih colonel fur tor 10 year enn at a what wan In those day pretty fair fairish Woe hut but which would be 0 Wished ish at tiow OW a M utterly Inadequate In I s Mr erlY returned to Suit Lake City CIt he hll remained In II this valley Ble ever Ince He married orle first a woman a a w wu often oUn dine 11 In tn ti I fane day II by ly th i mountaineers and ald his hta son i by b her Is i chief among tt the Ah hoA Indians A l 14 dead a AI l I also the Indian mother and ml Mr Ir Terry married mrle later the th wife with whom lie ht Is b now n living He Il Is I a 1 quiet citizen ly h by b his neighbor n clr of 01 acquaintance scattered stor all al over the country Although having patted p through such uch strenuous and d K man tl hardships John Terry Tt In II Kill In I the full tull 1 ot at his HB lt I II Able bo bolet to Ret let around Ilka n man lal hilt half hi bin IN andean cn e without 11 He II be b good go for years IM yet t The TIl old gentleman ray I he never had any llY trou trouble tru trul ble l with lh the for he always mad Ia It a Jint to deal by b th ll and thin many mn a time M him tor Indian and Mr Terry Tery renumbers rn very vr well wol when Plade th tt outlaw 1 hunt In Inthe the Sweetwater country ty uy ft n vigilance committee and the Mines nt of ot the th bor border der dr US rampant tm nt arc al stilt tl fresh fh In his hll memory t mon However HoY lie lier I Ia r a a alwy for peace Jet And on out ot of ot trouble His Hs fel I lew kw dIl Ht Ih h Uncle Torry Tt I Ien en good gO health In hi hi declining years ura uraj uraI I |
