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Show JciUSourtUi tea mem : Friday. October Brigham City, Utah 24. 1947 Sons Of Utah Pioneers! Related Stories And Incidents Of Pioneer Times In Utah Pioneers Utah of Sons By; The Box Elder County Camp, Reminescences of Alex Toponce By I. E. Halverson I knew Porter Rockwell quite intimately. He vote a full heard and long hair like an Indian Sometimes he let his hair hung loose, but generally had it done up in braids, which hung down! his back. Naturally tie was a ftgute that attracted a good deal of alien the tion, as he passed along street. I had a room at the old Salt Lake house and Rockwell and sit liked to come up tlu-iand smoke and talk over the news of the mining camps and I we got along fine together. would also invite him to go down to the dining room witli me. Unce I had startl'd my wagon Hum for Montana and the driv-e- r from of the stage Ogden handed me a letter that had been given to him by my wagon boss, stating that at Farming-ton- , seventeen miles north of Salt Lake City, IS head of oxen had strayed or been stolen from the tamp (luting the nighl. He had spout half a day look at ridden in ftom his ranch laughed. the point of the mountain about 1 missed On another occasion of Salt Lake City, while 'camped jn miles south hitched his horse some yoke-oxehad and just near Salt Lake and was riding in front of the Sa't Lake House. around looking for them, and church I told him my story and he came to the Mormon lotithing yards, which were now got on his horse and we rode cated where the Hotel Utah back to the Tithing yard. He was called Stringham to the gate stands. The yardkeeper Bainum you bring Bainum Stringham. and said, cattle." Just as I got there a big bunch o u t Alex Toponces of stray cattle was driven up Stringham commenced to argue. and Stringham stood at the Never mind now, said Porter, and gate as they were turned Into you heard what I said, the yard. dropped his hand on the butt I spoke to Stringham and told of his revolver in his belt. him that I was certain some of ing for them but bad got no trace, so had decided to pull out for the north without thpm apd leave it to me to find them, an the train was too large to be delayed. Porter was in my room at the time letter was given me. After I had read it I had a hunch" and threw i.t across the table to Rockwell Afler he read it, I said, Porter, do you think you could find Old those cattle for me? Wheat in the Mill," he said. . That was his favoitte expression, Old Wheat in the Mill, they will he at your train tomorrow night. He put his hat on and went out at once. I did riot see him again for some days, but I got a letter from the wagon boss, dated two days later, telling me that while camped on the sand ridge west of Ogden, the missing cattle had come back to the herd He found them all present at roll rail that morning.' When I tried to talk to Potter about it and thank him. he just Country Doctor Charged By Mile n . those cattle were mine, and said I would come in and point them out with my brand on them He gave me a black look and said. You havent any cattle here," and shut the gate. And as he walked away he said And furthermore, no outsider can take any cattle out of this yard. 1 knew better than to make any trouble so I rode away and almost the first one I met was He had just Porter Rockwell. suggested I would help Stringham cut them out, but Poiter said, No, let the ornery cuis do his own work. In a few minutes Stringham drove out all my missing cattle, five in number. Theres 50c a on head stray pound charges those cattie, he said. I reached lor my poeketbook, but Porter said. "Dont you pay him a cent." Then he told Stringham, "Any time Alex claims any cattle in this yard you let him have i DOTHAN, Ala. I UP) People who passed Dr. John Owen driving his fine horse and gig over North Carolinas trails some 125 years ago, must have wondered about the strange bell contraption mounted over one wheel. His grandson. R P. Williams of Dothan says it was one of the first if not the first speedometers ever used. Dr. Owen wasn't particularly interested in how fast he was going, but it meant money in his pocket to know how far he had traveled. In the early 1800s a country-doctohad a lot of traveling to do. Owen figured that it wasnt them and don't ask any questions any After that I never had further trouble of any soit. r who fair to charge a patient a piece lived down tiie road as much as lie would a sick person who lived across the county, the practical so he decided be to charge would do to thing mile. the by come However, gigs didn't in equipped with speedometers had those days, so the doctor to invent his own. He measured the distance his gig moved with one revolution of the wheel, and of then figured the number tratimes the wheel turned in attachveling a mile. Then he to ed a device to the wheel when and revolution, each clock he had traveled a mile a bell would ring. Williams says his grandtath-er'- s device must have worked, medicine in for he practiced 50 Noith Carolina for about mile the and by charged years most of the time. ELIZABETH. Minn No matter how badly ,! Louis Cardinals want . h izabeths star baseball, plans to continue v for the local team J c f or: scout, upon trying to 8, up, learned the mound Father Kampsen, Catholic priest. JOHNSON SEA-HORS- CS jellJI the h a foreign Mill iD2. It's bring He ihe THE FOR MAYOR . Delightful ruin lh iideril s Tohvo. Democratic Ilf.l Dancing Party J Manila I at the Dance Bowl New PRESENTS Sea-Gree- n Beauty Perfected Alternate Firiaj Dual Carburetion Patented Full Pivot Revet, Every Co-Pil- THE CANDIDATES Saturday AND Ready-Pul- l Dancing From 9 to 12 $1 .00 Per Couple tax inc.) THE ISSUES 5 great Jolm.'Oii motors- -i size for ev ery need. Come in and see them! J. EDWIN BAIRD CENTRAL B0MIRG OUR '4-YEA- COUNCILMAN R Slarter 20 other great features As low a $ 7 23.75 CHEVROLET CO. RECORD The Democratic party of Brigham City, in charge of the City's administration the past two years, invites COUNCILMAN of the Record. 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