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Show PIUTE COUNTY NEWS, JUNCTION, UTAH ' OKLAHOMA GUSHERS PRODUCE MUCH Dll THREE NEW WELLS BROUGHT : News Notes to Live in It' a a Privilege Utah IN Park City Thomas Blyth. president company, and Lyman Fargo, vice . president, were in Park City to aid insurance adjusters the $200,000 fire which Efforts to Curtail Production Come to following the companys store. The Naught; Operators Meeting Falls ruins made any attempt imoldering to Reach Desired Results tt fixing the loss impossible. The huge safe was too hot to open and the Salt Lake i to adjusters returned to Tulsa, Okla. With three new gush- come back later. ers completed In the greater Seminole Price A complaint charging E. Lat-ta- n oil area, attempts to stem overproducof Price with the embezzlement of tion In the field failed. The indicated $670 from Smith & Hancock, produce productibn of the three new wells to- merchant of Salt Lake, was issued by taled about 16,500 barrels daily. County Attorney O. K. Clay. This Operators, meeting here to perfect amount is alleged to have been cola plan for cooperative curtailment of lected during last November and Dethe fields output, adjourned without cember by Allan from four or five reaching an agreement. They had un- Carbon county customers of Smith & der consideration a recommendation Hancock. of an advisory committee of three Salt Lake City As a result of an which suggested a 20 per cent reducaltercation at the state prison which tion. As a result of the disagreement, resulted in the killing of Cleade Sloan, operators said that production will be convict, by R. C. Scott,1 another conlimited only by pipe line and storage vict, Scott will be charged, With some facilities. degree of homicide, and an investigaThirty-threoperators attended the tion will be conducted by the county meeting, occasioned by the recent rec- attorney and the - district, attorney. ommendation of the advisory commitWarden Richard E. Davis announced favored cooperative tee. Twenty-sevethe affairs is a striking example that action in curtailment, it was an- of the need of segregation among con-- , nounced, while one operator openly op- victs at the state prison. posed it and five refused to vote on Price Carbon county commissionthe proposition. are planning a meetiflg in tll3 near ers Inasmuch as pipe line aud storage with the state road .commission-anfuture facilities have been inadequate for Utah county commission at the field several weeks, production of the with the purpose in view of Provo, has necessarily been held beiow its making some kind of arrangements to potential output. improve the road over Soldier summit. An effort will be made to have each Unconstitutional Race Exclusion county work its end of the road. Washington Laws aiming to exLogan Cache county will entefita clude negroes from white residential herd of about fifteen cattle in the Insection again held invalid by the su- termountain Livestock show, in Salt preme court In a case from New Or- Lake from March 29 to April '2,. leans. Without a written decision, the to a decision reached at a court handed down an order affirming meeting of the Cache CountyHolstein its position of" 1917, when, in a case Breeders association! John T. Quayle, from Louisville, Ky., it declared a race Fred Whittle and Andrew Nelson were segregation ordinance unconstitutional named as a committee to select the and discriminating. The case was ap cattle that will compose the herd reppealed by Benjamin Harmon, a negro, resenting this county. who had unsuccessfully attempted to Salt Lake City Pilot Jimmy James convert his residence, in a white New established a new flying record from Orleans community, into a flat, the addition to be occupied by ne- Los Angeles to Salt Lake when he covPermission was refused be- ered the 60 miles In four hours and groes. cause of his failure to comply with city nine minutes, sixteen minutes better and state laws requiring consent of a than his own mark and tied by.Mavrjr. He carried nearly 400 pounds majority of the white residents of the Graham. ' ' of mail. community. It was the second important case decided in favor of negroes Price Definite arrangements- hatte-by the court within a week. Last recently been completed with Carbon Monday a decision was rendered holdcounty for the construction in Price ing that negroes under the federal canyon of the Nolan to Rolapp road, a constitution have the right to partici- stretch of more than four miles. Gravpate in state primaries, as well an el surfacing will be used and the cost of the work is estimated at $125,000. general elections. Because of the heavy sidehill work, the road will be of higher cost than Senator Greene Refuses Money the average. Advertising for bids- for Washington Senator Greene of will be arranged within refuses to hold the taxpayers construction the next ten days, the department anat large responsible for his being shot nounces. down on Pennsylvania avenue three Salt Lake Utah roads and trails in years ago during a battle between bootleggers and prohibition agents national forests have received $3,000,-00- 0 in improvements to dhte," accordand has returned to the government $7100 voted him for medical expenses. ing t figures received by E.' C.Shep: In The money was allowed in a resolu- ard, Wasatch forest supervisor. tion introduced by the late Senator Idaho, $4,152,815 has been expended. Lodge of Massachusetts, but the Ver- Dnly $980,000 has been spent on namont senator, who was incapacitated tional forest roads and trails in while the Kaibab forest of Aife' for a has finally refused to accept it. He holds it would be im- ona has been benefited by $163,139., j. proper for the people to have to bear Salt Lake Employees .in.' the expense for what ho terms his own in 1925 numbered 70,066, while personal misforutne. Senator Greene In 1926 there were 71,883. These workstill walks with a limp as the result of ers were paid $89,597,670 in 1925, and his wounds, which for a time it was In 1926 the payroll was increased to thought might prove fatal. $95,493,634. -- WITH A TOTAL OF SIXTEEN THOUSAND BARRELS DAILY -- f the Blyth-Farg- o ed e n American knows the name Mark even though they are not so with his real name, Samuel Langhorue Clemens. All who have rend his books know something of his career as a printer, a steamboat captain, a newspaper man, but most of all he Is known ns the great American humorist. Doubtless It will be a surprise to many to know that he was once a volunteer In the ranks of the Confederate army during the Civil war, and even though his experience ns a soldier was a brief one, It was eventful and Interesting enough. The story of this hitherto little-know- n period In Marks life has come to light recently In a book published by the Yale University Press under the title of "Absalom Grimes, Confederate Mall Runner," edited from Captain Grimes own story by M. M. Qualfe. For ten years before the Civil war Absalom Qrimrti was a Mississippi river pilot running between St. Louis and St. Paul. At the outbreak of the war he enlisted In one of the little companies of Irregulars which were raised In Missouri to recruit the Confederate army. Sam Clemens was a member oMhls snme company In which he had what he once referred to as his "short and Inglorious military cnreer." After the detachment had been disbanded, Grimes volunteered for service as a mall carrier between the Missouri and Kentucky Confederate troops in the South and their relatives at home. It wus an extremely hazardous duty for every time he went through the Union lines he was In peril of capture and execution as a spy. During the siege of Vicksburg Grimes ran the blockade successfully by wiring his mall In tin boxes to the bottom of an overturfied skiff and floating beside It through the Union gunlxvits. lie was repeatedly captured and twice sentenced to death. He spent several inonths In the old Gratiot prison In St. Louis and at the end of the war was under sentence of death. However, the personal Intervention of President Lincoln, who gave him an unconditional pardon, saved Ids life. All In all, the story of Absalom Grimes Is one of the most thrilling Civil war narratives that has yet been published and It Is one well worth preserving. This article, however, has to do principally with Mark Twain and the chapter on Campaigning With Mark Twain" lu the hook Is in some respects funnier thnn anything which Mark himself ever wrote. Here Is how Absalom Grimes tells It: A dhoit time afterward the war excitement reached old Italia (tn Halls county wvst of Hannibal) and one tine morning I learned that a whole brigade of recruits bad formed a camp at Nuck Matson's home, two miles west of New London. . . . I found that tho brigade" consisted of ten young men. most oS whom were my friends. Among them was Sam Clemens (Mark Twain). The recruits were undetermined what destructive move they would make first. On the suggestion of some one, nearly all of them had their hair cut oft as short as possible so as to allow the enemy no advantage In close quaiters Tom Lyon aited as the barber, using a pair of sheep shears. Any hair that escaped cutting was pulled out by the shears. I Joined the brigade and mounting an empty vinegar keg which was placed under a shade tree, had my hair sheared Neighboring farmers who were In sympathy with the South provided horses for those who had none. After much deliberation and discussion of plans we decided to move our camp westward, as vve beard that some of the Union army would be In Hannibal shortly and we were liable to be captured at any moment by them. We wanted time to organize and drill before their arrival. No two soldiers wore the same equipment. It would be useless for me to try to describe the appearance of that brigade when mounted Nothing was uniform except that we all rode I astride. will mention especially but one "war liorse, the one that had been presented to Mark Twain He was a little yellow mule, as frisky as a Jack rabbit. He had long, erect ears, was about four feet high, and ikirrled his tall sticking straight out on a dead level with his back. lie looked as If he had been mounted on the vinegar keg and Lyon, the company barber, had used the sheep shears on the wrong end, for his tail was shaved us with a razor to within six inches of the end which resembled a painter's only tool. He was promptly christened 'Taint Bnlsh" by his master On this little mule were located Mark Twain, one valise, one carpet sack, one pair of gray blankets, one home-mad- e quilt, one frying pan, one Kentucky squirrel rifle, twenty yards of sea grass rope, and ore umbrella. . . . We proceeded west until we reached the home of Col Hill Splawn, and then next day went on to Col John Ralls home. He gave us a lecture on the Importance of our mission and after his statement that he was duly authorized by Governor Jackson to enroll recruits for the southern army, we were all sworn In. . . . On a branch of the Salt river we found another squad of men who had organized a company and called themselves the Salt River Tigers. Their appearance would have filled the enemy with terror and caused a stampede equal to that of Bull Run. A blacksmith had comeach man with pleted their equipment by providingsickle-bara huge saber made from scythes, long files and goodness knows what else. . . . We decided to elect officers and the nominations for captain were William Ely and Asa Glascock, the former being eleAed Then Glascock was unanimously elected first lieutenant. Mark Twain was nominate for second lieutenant and he was promptly elected . . . We called on him for a speech. After some hesitation, because of such a large audience (the Tigers were present), he mounted a log, blushing, and said, "You would scares expect one of my age to speak In public on the this log. Well, boys, I thank you for electing mo try to do my duty and the jour lieutenant.byI will you, but I oannot make a square thing EV'EKT ... s, snterh. . . -- two-famil- y When I left New London Col. Hanceford Brown gave me an old sword that he had worn In the Mexican war and his father had used In the War of Hill While at Colotfcel Ralls' 1 concluded ojjr I second lieutenant should have a sword requested Colonel Ralls to make the presentation speech, which he did, and Mark Twain responded We then rode to the prairie, drew up In line and waited for Captain Ely to report which he never did from that day to this. Lieutenant Glascock finally assumed command of the Hulls County Rangers, as we had named our company. . . . Ws had no tents, so ws cut sticks and stuck them Into the ground and spread some of our blnnkets and quilts over them. As for food, the most Important part of the expedition, we had very little of any kind. The boya went foraging and brought In c fn meal, fat side meat and rome sorghum. This constituted our bill of fare during the enttre two weeks we remained there. It rained all the time vve were there. Near our camp was located a log barn belonging to a faim house, and In It was a this we used for headquarters. largo tough In which we fed our horses. At night Clemens and I slept In It. Borne one brought us the news that the Yankee army was coming out of Hannibal In full force that It would leave the railroad at Monroe City and march straight to our camp. This report created much excitement and we decided to put out a picket guard. . . . Mark Twatn was placed In post charge and after dark we started for two miles north of camp at the mouth of a Ians leading to Monroe City. . . . At one o'clock 1 heard the enemy coming and 1 aroused the other two soldiers. Lieutenant Clemons mounted "Saint Brush and held our horses' bridles while we Went to the mouth of the lane to observe the movements of the enemy. I stood, In front and thus commanded the host view. Urgently I saw them rise over the top of the hill and I raised my double-barrele- d shotgun and fired both barrels. Without remaining to see how many were killed, wo turned and ran for our horses. l'o our horror we saw our lieutenant more than a hundred jards oft and still going We called him to halt and finally Bowen leveled his shotgun and yelled, "D n you, Sam, If you dont stop, I'll let her go!" Clemens halted, and when vve eanght lip with him Faint Brush got (Bowen still swearing) he said, so excited I couldn't hold him. Ws, mounted and and "Paint rode away at full speed, leaving Brush" far in the rear. The last we heard him say n want the to capture Yanks "I was. you, you ... ... or - me "... After a meager breakfast, I requested Sergeant Bowen to go to the mouth of the.jlane to see If the enemy had removed their dead. After viewing the field of battle I salt., "Sam, I want to tell you something, but ou must swear that you will never of It to any living soul as long as reveal a you and I both live." He said he would swear and Do you see those tali, mullein cross his heart stalks on the side of that hill? Well, last night the wind caused them to wave and I would have sworn that they were Federals on horseback. "Well, you d n fool You played h 1, didnt you?" was his only remark. But en route we were Jovial and Joked about the lieutenant and "Paint Brush. The very first thing Bowen did when we reached camp was to to1) the whole story. . . . Mark Twain became afflicted with a boil and It was a source of much comfort to hint that there were no stools or chairs In camp Mark had a lot of straw put tn the feed trough and spent all of his time lying on the straw and Wondering y the of patience that Job possessed great amount we decided to advance upon Mon . Finally . roe City. Mark Twain was lying in his trough, wracked by his boil and remonstrated with us for thus breaking camp and showing no military discipline after all of our training W told him that We were after blood and railroad Iron and were going on the warpath. As we "were about to depart, he raised up on one elbow and said. If you are determined to go. Its no use for me to try and hold this position by myself. Ab, If you will saddle and pack up Paint Brush, I will Join the army and go with you." I saddled the mule and placed all of Mark's baggage on him and the lieutenant rolled out of the trough and mounted him. Salt river which we It was but a few' steps-thad to cross, but we could not persuade the mules a to take water. After great effort Mark said, "Ab, I guess you will have to lead him In. He will not for me." I tied one end of an Inch rope around ?:o mules neck and took a turn with the other ground the pommel of my saddle. After some o maneuvering we got the mule close to the rlvel bank and while be smelled the water I gave ml horse a dig with the spurs and he Jumped far out Into the stream, dragging the mule. The top of the bank where we started was only g foot above water and the water was eight or ten feet deep the first Jump My horse swam vigorously for ths other bank. I looked baok over my shoulder to see how Mark and "Paint Brush were faring. To my horror neither was In sight and I thought both had drowned 1 hurried across, knowing the rope would btlng the mule. I landed safely and after a few steps In the edge of the water; the top of Mark's old slouch hat, then Mark and the mule. In turn, showed up The mule was very- - weak and weaving from side to aide. When he was entirely out of the water, Mark rolled off. removed his hat, took hla handkerchief from his pocket, wrung the water out of It and wiped his face. Then he Raid In his slow, drawling tones, Ab, that infernal mule waded every atep of the way across Fiat . . . river.' About three oclock In the afternoon, tired and we hungry stopped at a nice brick house by the side of the road We tied our horses and went In. Presently In came a tall, thin woman with cdld gray eyes and light hair that was combed back tight. In a sharp voice she said, "What do yOtt men want?' Mark Twain acted as spokesman an said, "Madam, we are tired and hungry and would like to have something to eat. "Get something to eat, would you? Well, you will not get It here!' We are willing to pay for It." "Pay nothing! Get youreelves out of here, and that pretty quick or I will make you. Reaching behind her, she seised a large hickory stick and madam! Don't be started fer Clemens. Hold on, We-are so fast. Let us reason the case. gentlemen 'and Intend to pay for food Do you think I am going to feed any rebel! and my husband a colonel In the Union army? Get ' v out! By this ttmo aR the boyswere out and mounting the horses, while I remained Just In the rear of Mark as ho slowly backed toward the door, fearing to turn around and expose his boll to ths woman with the club. She was striking at his shins, keeping him bent nearly double and all the while he remonstrated with her, she was abusing the rebels and Secesh. After we had left her I asked Sam why he did not take his sword to her. Do you think I would disgrace It by spilling the But I believe blood of a woman?' he answered. she would Just as soon hit mo as not If I had not kept out of her way." We caught up with tho other boys who wore roaring with laughter about our lieutenant's battle with the Yankee woman. Wo mot a man on tho road who informed us that the house was owr.e-- by Colonel Tinker, who had been tn the Yankee army about three months. "Well, who la . - -- - Ver-mont- h Ne-ad- a, e, long-tim- Utah.-Kj-lustrie- s Farmington Altering of the course Tellez Departs for Washington of Big creek, so that houses in the vicMexico City Manuel Tellez, ambasof the viaduct, north of Farming-ton- , sador to the United States, who had inity are protected from flood waters, been here for some days conferring will start in the near future. The with President Calles, is on his way work will be conducted cooperatively to Washington. mainhe Departing, the state road department and Datained reticence regarding the Object by vis county. The new course will bee of his visit to Mexico City, his program between fifty and seventy-fiv- e feet east when he returns to his post, and de-- , of the A channel stream bed. present velopments in the relations between five feet deep will be excavated. Mexico and the United States. that woman? Vernal The storm beginning at 11 Is the general at home! That Is Mrs. Tinker. She p. m. on Search 3 and continuing twenI should remark she is! commented Sam, as we Browning Wins Says Newspaper rode on. New . York The North American ty hours, according, to the official govIt was about one o'clock at nlg-h-t when we ar- says that Edward W. ernment weather records kept by A. Browning has our Bill horses Colonel rived at Splawns again, put won his suit for separation against his Theodore Johnson, brought a precipiIn the ban and then climbed Into the loft to sleep on the ha. Mark selected a spot near the door ln youthful bride, Peaches, 'and that she tation of .85 inch of 'moisture.' During the gable end of the barn. Soon after, we went to has lost her counter suit and chances the period of the storm snow ppd rain Bleep and some one yelled Fire!" Sure enough, a. of alimony. The American says it has alternated, but, .the rain hgving the nice little fire had started in the hay. Mark made two or three rolls over and accidentally went out obtained authoritative advance infor- last argument, the new snow'3ias'b'5en the door, falling on the rocks below a drop of ten mation of - the opinion of Supreme wiped out. The precipitatiofl extended west to or twelve feet. The fall sprained his ankle and he Court Justice Seeger, who tried the that on Price and stage drivers report sat there groaning and rubbing his ankle with one case. the Indian canyon. summit 12 hand while he felt for his boll with the other. inches of snow fell. The roads are Meanwhile the boys In ths loft were busily rolling tremely muddy. up the burning hay and out of the same door Mark Court Reprimands U. S. Dry Officer had fallen from, and down on top of him. Away Salt Lake The railroad main headMont. Great Federal on all fours Falls, with the prohihay he went down the slope on his back. Several of us stood 'n the door and bition enforcement officers were rep- ing of the Moffat tunnel are now- 95 screamed with laughter. He' turned to us with lanrimanded in United States district per cent finished and the railroad tunhim to the guage unfit for publication. We. helped court by Judge Charles N. Pray for nel, full size, is 84 per cent complete, to our efforts our choked restrain by almost barn, to a report issued by the laughter. One of our boys had gone to sleep with their failure to obtain sufficient in- according tunnel commission received here Mona lighted pipe in his mouth and set the hay formation to guide to court in imafire sentence on defendants who day. Progress up to March 1 shows In the afternoon we reached Nuck Matson's with posing that the railroad headings are 14S9 our hair an lnb longer than it was when we left plead guilty of viloation of the nathere. Nuck had his own good time making fun tional prohibition act. "It ,is not fair feet apart and that the railroad is 5204 feet apart. The water of our campaign and safe return without the loss of to the court to compel it to rely merea man. although our lieutenant had suffered sevtunnel were holed through on statements the of the ly headings defendant was to bed Ke and tenderly put eral casualties on 18. February kind wife. We his and disbanded cared far by Nuck directions. I The saw different last Utah Cowboy on Trial and went In Ephraim S. S. Van Boskirk, Elliot of Clemens he lay groaning, his foot propped up, Santa of Ana, CaL Selection of a jury .Johansen and Fred Christensen, who his him made wrappings and the proportions look like a baby elephant. Mrs Matson told me in the Orange county superior court went to the Seely creek ranger station was laid up there a long years afterwards that he here to try All rt Dewey Gaines, "the to repair the forest service telephone time. They gave him a crutch and kept a little all time at the the on end of the picket Utqh cowboy, on a charge of murder- line and to make measurements of the negio boy with the main road snow at the different stations March 2, lane, where It connected mile from the house. Frequently the ing Joseph J. ratterson, Los Angeles report 53 inches of snow at the experquarter of awould be seen running for dear life tobroker, last year. Gaines as accused iment little negro station, tfth a water content of ward the house a signal for Sam to grab his with the Rev. Philip A. Goodwin, for14 inches; 57 inches at tn the woods pasapproximately crutch and hasten to the bushes ttme the negro mer American Catholic priest, with Alpine, with a water content of 15 ture adjjiuin the house. By the Is cornin'! Sam slaying Patterson. Goodwin, convict-- ' inches; 54 inches at would eL "Miss Mary! the Y'anks creek, with would be In his hiding place, there to remain until ed on evidence furnished In an as- a water content of Seely 14 inches. The de Is Yanks I done Sam, "Marse gone!" notified, never learned what- - became of "Paint Brush." When serted confession by Gaines, was sen-- ! Marvin snow guage of the experiment Sam left Mrs Matson's home he went to Keokuk, tenced to be hanged. His appeal of station showed the total precipitation and then to Nevada with his brother. As a result sentence is before the supreme court for February to be 4 inches of that trip he wrote his first book "Roughltg It - i |