Show onn r r PASSING OF BIG Bid BILL DEVERE I I Famous u Tramp Poet Foot t o ot tho West t Well I Known In Salt I Lake Lako Dying Alono Alone and Destitute In Now New York j c 5 Ju U Dust In yer r cy eyes s dust In yet yer er nose noso Dust down yet er throat and thick On yer yet clothes Cant hardly talk 1 I know It II but Hucker walk Wm Dovere Hill Dill poet of tho the dying alone alono and destitute In New York Only by the barest accident occident was It learned recently that ho he had hidden himself away at al East Enet Thirteenth street to let his life lite dribble out o t ns IS It would years old with without wIthout out anything In particular of at this worlds goods Dig Pig has haa ever C r called colled him anything going where In his day he has hI sent many an another another another other man Devero Deore has hILS many friends In Salt Snit Lake n a time he ha has lias appeared lucre here In A mack Black Sheep Sheel as nS the time editor of at Im Un m Arizona paper lapel Who imo ho that has seen It does not remember Dig Big Bills laughing song In which he made mad th the audience laugh with hint him Who ho haa has not recalled with ft n smite mlle tho the Improved aerial cash carrier on a aIre wire Ire utilized to brine him hint whisky from the bar In Inthe the next room Who hia hlll not recalled Dovere himself anti and the humor of ot his very o appearance Otis OU Harlan Horlan was Willi ostensibly star of ot ofA otA ofA A Black Sheep and Dud the sheriff was wasa a n vastly Ully minor part patt but BIg HIg Hill Bill brought to it such uch a 0 naturally rough personality that tho the real actor was wa completely On runny many occasions Dovere has hns been entertained here Scarcely once has liaa ho ime poised through Salt Ball Lake without par pur participating In an Elks smoker which would to bl hi arranged In his hla honor but In III which ho hI would do the tho greater part of oC the tIme entertaining around here lucre has hIlS heard him hint recite his hla poems OOm notably Walk that extremely ly ex cx expressive story sIal of ot the wasted wall led fortune his hi ensuing remorse and his ed punishment of ot walking behind a 6 wagon ogon while he be soliloquized From this the tho height of ot absurdity Doore would begin his Two Little LIUo Dusted Busted Shots Shoes and amid not only imis hil audience hut but hu he h himself would try to keep keen down aown a abig abig abig big hard lump that wanted to como come up In the tho throat For these poems no imo 10 mutter matter how crude anti lacking In tech teh represented the tho authors actual experiences c luring during a life le spent for tor lit little lt littie tie tle te among the rough mining camps of ot the th we t and amI read them with wih a I IC certain C sincerity that lint was not learned lerned In II an nn elocution class clau Ills His Ts Two To Little Jt Busted Hasted lu tel Shoes re to roo latts lates Ille an experience o when at a n stage Bi 10 station far out west he opened his hilt trunk and anti discovered a I memento pIne placed ed ell there thero by b hl hil wife to remind him ot of the kid Tho Tue crowd of ot miners mIner Is looking on And n ns as each fellow frilow cranes his neck tho the lImit timing thing that ho views slows Is la two tiny Iny little stockings Blocking and 11 two little Ilo busied bunted bus I hoel hero on top tOl they Iho rested and In Infancy fancy seemed med to lo say uny ly Now ow papa Io l dont donl forget us u when ohM youre ouro far til away Not a 1 flippant word WAS WI ventured not a a sound sou nil was 1 spoken loud loudAs loudAs As AI a flood foO of gulden golden RUM sunshine III no poured pure Its Ita II glory oer the tho crowd Could Coul outI flO an I old mid Dud toaster painter r touched louche his lila palettes varied hum hues Hed ed have Inspiration from those lUlu little busted shoes hoes I II I sU satt 11 they wore were not nol bad men anti and Ild 1 I meant just what I any And I hope that Hut I 1 may mu moat meat theta them ther all I up upon upon upon on some future Jay do doMay May meet l l them thim loro 1 no memories mL may conjure vip the blues blue With their little II one mica around them y Wih tag Ing little I busted shoes Again Devote Deore struck a I when h hO e himself read road ItIn the tory story ester of ot the t he girl who tired tro I of ot round the Ih farm faint decided to go to 10 tho city ety He 10 says Youra Youre Jest like UVe Iko your moth r Mandy tad and m mot t slIme allus hoy Mv hot y tr er r way bout y ter yar r mother the tho tho th that t she Rh tiled d td 1 I went In th te the big front bud bed room rm anti and nn I 1 knelt down by b her slue side IldeAn An 1 I Mk J the good 10 lorit IMI M to spare paro hoe hir ht tend tn In leave h tier hr r f ler fer r nt ate e to 10 lov Iov Hut But I Ho lie 10 no Ilde ded hot her In Inthe inthe lut the mansion up II bO She glue l towed w t she h thought I IL bett better ete r for tor 1 hw her hM tu to tl KO 50 thin uy Itay 14 An youre j jut t Ilk Ik hike nr yet 1 mother other Manly Mandy and 11 alu h lev v our way wey aims saId W tt that t the Ut Ij Urd WI wi It Ittu ItI tu as k aSia hw Mid lIla Hid d will b tip done dan wi lun Then I Ih she h I uk d m iii UW to tu ih hv r lt tb lii t 8 1 back sri l 1 bet t In tn the tho th warm sun iun II Wr Sot Bot bk oM aM h rouM a look lk at th the dear Kr n fl fitl whir r I sie k UM hued ill her Irn Kv lIver t wl else Ie th lii II dy ulay Ia I ow od M i iB 1 un haul u usa man intuit IMI nr WitS W C CAl An Al lI she M 11 i ml t to r an In pr Sg Oit MI to JW yeu v V ru 0 a Il J MJ But ant t you eQ a r jU jest t Uk ut U Yost Or MaMy Ia y yan II an n mosS noil 0 h a M v m mU wy Of 01 U 1 von It il I b ii N aS Mandi to th cur ur l h h n fl nAmi t tAnd And Ami i I i tern n to rr you e eM ni 4 I I seso all You YU n IS mi m lIP I a W 1 bo s I stu t tu YU 1 I e w Lt I li Wl Ik M IkO t y VU M hind 1114 lul im i U u 1 1 t W Wini 1 lit ini i IM Wim fou ra fouK itsu K Fr r v ui 11 u I IHM I ill 11 lUt III Ih ir r r rin I in ilI il 11 II liv I tiu i wi ui 1 its U I i i tiC 1111 jI Ull I i k h I tl U the lh ih nast At I La 1 ii I C 1111 In I in iii inIn I ulY 55 In lii r i il I lIlt P C l I h Jt I M It was IS perhaps for tor a great Ireat many that they could mako friends with wih Bill Dl Dovere ere for tor In early ear dayH lays when wien Colorado was on an In Infant among amon stolen states and the tho ho word wor was a I synonym tot for or disorder dl and lawlessness he was itc no IC counted one of ot the real and ond a 1 bad b man map In II a 1 controversy Later LIter ho vuis WU weaned enned partially from his ways WIS and In time he became sheriff herlt of or lila his hi county And he lie h was nas 38 a I good gool sheriff too Many talY a n and n a murderer linn has Dig Big Ilg Hill Di taken with wih his hil revolver his lila hands anti and he lie bears beRrs upon hits person the sears scars of ot countless countess battles Then Thou he became benlo a n proprietor In Denver for tor years fol tol lowed jawed his bent hent In that dint direction As Ami the ho city eb ile larger lie le opened time the th Alcazar theater nt a anti and streets and anil for tor a 1 time Ms hIs burlesque and after ater pieces were vere wC famous through throughout out the west w t In 1919 19 he had hind tho time Theatre at and amid a 11 It was wan In this city If It the lie memory memo of ot a 0 close Ilo acquaintance serves correctly correct that he ho met Charles Hoyt That no ao ripened Into Inlo tho the warmest t friendship and anti It I was 01 lloyt Hoyt 10 t who put Dovero Dovere Into the tie part of oC the tho editor In InA IniA InA iA A lack Sheep nut Hut Big HIg Jl life le hII about spent spen Itself Isel They have found him hint destitute and dying In time the metropolis HU 11 hIi friends Immediately took up the tho nub mouth lub jeet of a I vast saat benefit and It will 1 he be In iii Tammany halt on Feb J b 17 1 of or the thc proceeds wilt will I see ace the vet veteran ct cain eran through to his hIl grave and what remains will wi go O to t his only oni living mi his tWo daughters Frisco anti and Denver Denser who uvito were named for tor the two cities cile |