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Show THE WEEKLY NEWS EXPRESS; LAYTON. UTAH BRISBANE Tills WEEK ... By ELMO SCOTT WATSON N July 21, 1851 a boy , was born in a farm in home Lawrence county, Indiana. His fa-- t h e r and mother, Daniel Bass and Eliza beth Sheeks Bass, gave him the name of Sam. On July 21, 1878 Sam Bass died m the little town of Round Rock, Texas, from wounds received in W11 fight with Texas Rangers. The date, you will notice, was his birthday and he was exactly twenty-seve- n years old.. Yet in that short span of time he had achieved an enduring fame 'denied many a man who Had lived twice or even three times as long and who, moreover, had lived a much more useful life.. During his lifetime he was regarded as a sort of American Robin Hood, or, more, specifically, a Texas counterpart of that famous English outlaw. After his death he became 8 figure and . the tory of his career has been told and retold innumerable times, often embroidered with fanciful' details that have little foundation In fact. The latest honor that has come to him is to be made the subject of a biography. It is the book Sam Bass," written by Wayne Card, a. Texas newspaper man and published by the Houghton .Mifflin conv pony.. (The publication date, appropriately enough,, was July. 21 of this year.L.r To winnow fact 'from legend in the story of Sam Bass has hot been easy, especially since most of the people who knew him have died and since courthouse fires have destroyed many records that might have throw the light on his explMt-Isayauthor in the 'foreword to his book. Unlike some desperadoes who lived to old age and wrote autobiographies, Bass died illiterate as weil as young. Despite the efforts resulting in. this book, there are still gaps in his story. To fill these gaps with Actionized details is a strong temptation, but in this instance the temptation has. been resisted." The result is a sto'ry of the making of a second-rat- e bad man whose subsequent fame is all the more difficult tp understand because he was second-rat-e. half-legenda- ' . ; . BASS-- ... . Honor Dead at Vimy Bass legends have been those of Spanish War Pitilesj buried gold . , . For more, than ' Russia Aids Loyalist half a century, .men armed, with Hitler Watches Spain .. maps ; and' spades and- some have withrods times divining The dedication of the magnificent, been looking for' chests of gold war monument, designed by a Cathey, believed Sam buried. (His nadian artist rebiographer lists a score .of places unveiled cently where this buried treasure .has by. the king of been sought and. then continues:) England in memWhere the searchers will, strike ory of the Cananext, no one can tell. As long as dian soldiers that Sam Bass legends persist, no fell at . Vimy Texan can be sure that he will Ridge, is . impornot awake some morning to find tant to- all our a ton of earth removed from his friends north of front yard by some romanticist the boundary in who has' just come into possesCanada. It will' sion of .the one authentic treasinterestalso,' all ure map." . . Americans that All of which makes; more unwere sent abroad derstandable the fact that Sam in that ' famous Bass is one of the legendary fight, with which Heroes of Texas. But why his Arthar Orlabnaa we had notingfame outside the. borders of the to do except lose our men and our ' . . Sam Bass was born in Indiana, it was his native home; And at the age of seventeen young Sam began to roam, ' .'' Sam first came out to Texas a cqwboy for to be-'kinder-heartesee.. ever seldom fellow you A ; - . one called the Denton mare. He made a deal in race-stoc- k He matched her in scrub races and took her. to . Sam used to coin the money and spent it Just as free; ' ' He. always drank good whiskey, wherever he migbt.be. Sam left the Collins ranch- in the merry rhonth.of May With a herd of Texas cattle; the Black Hills for to- see. Sold out at Custer City, and then got on a spree- -A jollier, set Qf c.owboya you seldom ever see. the-fair- . - . their way back to Texas, they robbed the TJ. P. train,. And then Split up in couples and started out again. . ' Joe Collins and-hi. partner were overtaken soon;.With all their stolen money they had to meet their doom.. Sam made it back to Texas all right side up with care-- ? Rode int.o the town of Denton, with all' his friends to share. Sams life was short in Texas ;three robberies did he do;., He robbed pli the passengers, mail and. express cars too, . Sam had four Companions, each a bold and daring lad . Underwood and Jackson, Joe Collins'.and Old Dad. Four of the boldest cowboys the ranges ever knew' ' the Texas Rangers and ran the boys in blue. Sam' .had another companion, palled Arkansas for short; He was shot by a Texas Ranger by the name of Thomas Floyd. and he thinks he's mighty sly. Tom is a big B.ut I can tell you his racket hes a deadbeat on the- sly, Jim Murphy was arrested and then released on. bail; He jumped his bond at Tyler and took the train for Terrell. . But Major Jones had posted Jim and that was all a stall; Twas only a plan to capture Sam before the' coming- fall, Sam lrei his fate at Round Rock, July the twenty-first;- '' They pierced poor Sam with rifle balls and emptied out his purse, Poor Sam he is a corpse and si foot under clay; . . . And Jacksons in the bushes, trying, to get away. . Jim had used Sams money and didnt want to pay; He thought his only chance was to give poor Sam away. ' Ile.sold out Sami and Barnes and left their friends fo mourn-Ohwhat a scorching Jim will get when Gabriel blows his horn! On - s . - . r, ; ;;irv ry . 1 . dits, and Harrell shot and seriously 'wounded' Bass. But the bandit leader was picked up by Frank Jackson, the third member of the' trio, Who carried him safely out of town through a hail of bullets from the Rangers ' guns. Knowing that he was mortally wounded, Bass persuaded Jack-so- n to leave him and make good his escape, which Jackson did. The next day the Rangers found the wounded bandit leader lying under a live oak tree some distance from whore Jackson, had left him. They carried him back into Round Rock- and there on ' Sunday, July 21 he died.While his riddled body lay-ithe grave, at Round Rock near the site of his last camp, Sam Bass lived pn in song and legend," writes his biographer. .He had - r?r - v . v - the Fight at an unsympathetic and stern taskmaster. So at the age of eighteen (not seventeen, as the song baa it) young Bass started for Texas, a cowboy .for to be.-Hdidnt get there at once Instead, he spent a year working in a sawmill in Mississippi but in the late summer of 1870 he set out for the Lone Star state accompanying a family of Texans, named Mayes, Wno were returning to their home In the little frontier town of Denton. After working for a while on cattle ranches and discovering that the life of a cowboy wasnt nearly so romantic as he had pictured it Sam drifted back to Denton where he got a job as hired man for Sheriff W. F. Egan, who did a freighting business on the side. Dad Egan never worried about Sam when he was gone on a freighting trip. He knew that Sam was as honest as could be and would account for every penny." But ?it wasnt long before a change came over the young Sam caught a contaHoosier. gion for the sport of kings and cowboys; he acquired a passion He bought a for horse-racine g. f.Y . - 1 i;4 - Texas Rangers Standing Beside the Monument Over Bass Crave et Round Rock, Lone Star state? For a reading of Cards bjography only confirms the. belief that Bass was a bad man and had second-rat- e few, if any, of the attributes which have given others of his kind their place in the pantheon of. the Wild West. Certainly he Was not as picturesque a figure as Joaquin Muricta of California. d He didnt have the of Kid of New the Billy ferocity Mexico. As an exponent of superlative skill in the art of handling cold-bloode- a pared with r,- he cant be com- Wild Bill" Hickok. Except for the Big Springs robbery (at which, incidentally, Joel Collins was the real leader), he wasnt much of a. success as a hold-u- p man. (Black Bart would . . . Sugar Used as Medicine Sugar at one time was rare and and was used exclusively costly as a medicine (when first brought to Europe from India, at about' the time of the Crusades, 1096- -' 1271), Sugar has various pharma' ceutical uses today - briefly, to render oils miscible with water; to disguise the taste of medicine; to give preparations consistency, '. back The history of parole goes to English Colonial experience in the system of New South Wale as early as 1790 and to the mark system .of Captain at Norfolk island in 1840, in both of which the prisoner might by good behavior win conditional liberation. ticket-of-leav- e ie . Highest Soprane Voice an Lucrezia Agujari Italian opera singer, is said to have possessed the highest soprano voice ever known, says Colliers Weekly. She could sing notes of excellent quality as high as C in altissimo, or more than an octave above the B fiat which is about the limit of the average soprano. . The war that killed so mahy millions blowing' them to pieces, leaving them to die shattered and agonizing on the battlefield; suffocating, making them insane with the poison gas just coming into, fashion, seemed between 1914 and 1918 as horrible as any war could be. But the civil war, the worst, most savage, pitiless and ferocious of all wars, now going on in Spain, makes the big war comparatively mild. Temperature af Trees of The' internal temperature trees, according to a scientist. generally lags 20 degrees behind the atmospheric temperature dural ing spring and summer under conditions, and during winter is about 8 degrees warmer than the air temperature. . nor--m- 1 Fire-DamFire-dam- Lord Rothermeres London Daily Mail eclipses in the horror of one published statement all stories of horror In the war and goes beyond .anything that could possibly be believed. When the French newspaper, the Friend of the People, described fighters for Madrid's radical government .digging- up and throwing from their graves the bodies Catholic nuns, that horror seems beyond belief. .. But Lord Rothermeres newspa per print the statement that other nuns ALIVE were, seized three of them their clothing saturated with gasoline, and burned to death. The Daily Mail also quotes the statement that in the city of Barcelona. when the radical forces bad conquered the rebellious insurgent inhabitants,, any Catholic priest in the city was butchered without men " . . cy. Never in War The little republic of Andorra, located in the Valley of the Pyrenees, between France and Spain, has never been involved. It waa' declared independent- by Charlemagne about 800 A. D. peculiar Gas p, is a most peculiar p ' gas. When it constitutes less than five per' cent or more than 15 per cent of the atmosphere of a coal mine, it merely bums. But when It constitutes from 11 per cent - - . Russia is, according to reliable reports, in constant communication . with the Madrid government by radio. , Newspapers in 'England, and the more 'conservative newspapers in France, declare that Russia, .In addition to advising Madrid concerning the Immediate Civil war arid Cowboys In their evening helping the Spanish government by and retold the story the. purchase of Spanish bonds, ia camps told of the ' Indiana 'orphan who also sending by radio. detailed in thought he had 'the world by the formation as to the organization in tail, with a downhill pull and Spain of a Soviet' government" who played fox 'with sheriffs and similar to that existing la Russia.1 Texas Rangers until sold out by tile traitor. Thfe . Bass of the France, thanks to the existing alcampfire narratives became an liance with Russia resented by embodiment of bravery and gen- many of the elicbfashloned Frencherosity, while the name 'ef Jim men. who ask, Is Stalin the real ruler of France!" ia under presMurphy wasin continuously a Western sure from Russia to help the Masplotched until,, pulp- magazine in 1935, he was drid government against the insur. . rs .The End of the Trait of Sam Casa-Capt.- James B. Gillett ef the probably have considered him a piker in that respect.) And measured by any standard, ho doesn't compare with that other American Robin, Hood Jesse James of ' Missouri. ., name that last affords Perhaps a clue and perhaps, too, the answer lies in this quotation from Gardg book; ' - O' p to-da- Reported Round Rock but Sam and his friends missed that one entirely. In one hold-uthey got only $11 and on another occasion their loot was a dozen ' peaches! Eventually' Sam and some 'of his fellow-robbelit out" for Texas and n tonte decided to try train robbery, for a change. 18, 1877 they' held up a Union Pacific train at Big Springs, Neb. and'secured $G0,000 ill gold $20 pieces from the safe. After dividing their loot and splitting up Into, small parlies,' they continued on their way. Joe! fobbef-nameCollins and another were and shot Ueffridge killed While attempting to escape, from a detachment of cavalrymen ' who were aiding local officers in pursuing the U. P. bandits. Jim Berry was wounded, captured and died of his wound. But Sam Bass made his way safely back to' Texas where he established himself In true outlaw fashion hi a deep, wild, over grown ravine." Here he gathered recruits and the Sam Bass gang" started on its career of train and bank hold-up- s (few of which- were very profitable).. Aroused' by' their depredation? the Texas. Rangers under Maj. John B. Jones and Capt. Junius Peak, and local officials, Including Sams old boss, Sheriff Egan, set to work to wipe out the gang. Several of them were killed or captured and one of the latter, Jim Murphy, was released on nominal bail on condition that he would rejoin the gang and betray Sam and his followers. Soon afterwards Murphy was able to. send word to Major Jones that the Bass gang was planning to rob the bank at Round Rock on a certain day. The Ranger leader made his plans to receive them but those plans miscarried somewhat. So when Bass with two companions arrived in town rrison Parole 014 s d (1743-1783- ), Joined in the battle. Ware killed Seaborn Barnes, one of the ban- $350,000 . - lily-finge.r- that year carried Bulldog Originated in 1658 The bulldog is said to have otig- inated as a distinct type in 1650. The dogs of that period were high and huge in body, massive-bodieas a mastiff we view today at the Around 1850 the bulldog Shows. was bred down to be a low animal in the front This, was done, most likely, by those who wanted him that way to bait with the buff, , - d, - y. Statistic of the war show that, on the side of the allies, the percentage of death was higher among the Canadians than among any other troops involved, excepting the French themselves, who fought at their own frontiers 'to defend their own homes.. Sixty thousand Canadians He bur-leeach one an unknown sol dier, around that great monument The king pf England; after a long and really admirable speech of appreciation, lowered the. flags that hid the monument which,- as he said, will forever honpr the courage of the Canadians that fought and that lie dead and buried. . -, none-too-savo- News- - f share In ' a .sorrel mare named to look the situation over, the Jenny, descendant of the famous Rangers weren't ready for them. quarter horse,"- Steel- Dust.. Deputy Sheriff Grimes' attempted Jenny was about the fastest hnl-- to arrest the trip and was shot mal In that part .of the country dead. Immediately three Rang-ersConnor, Harrell and Ware, and for a time Sam coined money er Bow the Galveston . A.:i so he sold out Sam and BarpeS and left their friends fo mourn. Oh, what a scorching Jim will get when Gabriel blows his horn! Perhaps hes got to heaven, theres none of us can say; ' But if I'm right in my surmise, .hes gone the other, way. well-round- arrived here yesterday evening. Nope here know his buiincis. , Bau, .Uc.kioi and Harnra, the train to make arrobbers, came la rangements to rob the bank. Deputy Bheriir Gtimoa, not impacting who they were; Went to arrest them In a store for carrying arms, where they were purcbulng tobacco,' when the three drew their .pistol from their saddle-bags and shot hm. lie got put of the store, and fill dead In the atrect with hi pistol Id hi hand, A Maurice Moore, deputy sheriff of Travis, who cam, here- with Jones, came up at the lime and fired several shuts, woumlipg'ono of them, and was him; self shot down. - 1 : , by betting on. her. Then the people around Deriton became mare-shand Sam drifted south to seek new fields of con-' swift mare. quest with-hiIn San Antonio he became acquainted with Joel' Collins, a about his own' age Left ah orphan at the age of saloon-keepwho had repa' thirteen, Sam Bass went to live two men the time a For utation. with an uncle' who proved' to be prospered, thanks to the fleetness of Jenny and the' gullibility of llATTLE jyiTH NAK IU8S. the Mexicans along the border who bet' against her. Then that, The Bold BrlRSs4,n Itb Rtrnfti and game played out and Bass and , Jacluon, Tara an at Collins drifted north into the tat' Hound Red.. tle country dga.in. They borrowed money to take a trail herd north, Deputy Sheriff fljlwei SM Dead went op to Dcadwood, S. D. when Them fur lj tftetr Attempting the drive was over;. armt, In Dcadwood Sam worked at .Major Jtura uad Ha Ringer Coa-- . freighting again and. made a litNveloUr NeurTUey ltnnb tle money at it. But it wasnt , to the Fray, enough for his needs, so he and The Robber lUrneo Killed and Collins tried their hands at gamDeputy Sheriff Moore Wounded bling only .to learn that instead . la thoCatiulng Fight, . of fleecing, the miners they were losing-large part of their .cattle Da.s aail.Jarkaou .Make Their to profesmoney JKkc1 ho Ranger la . (v sionals." in next .The Sams step. :V. downward path was stage robISprtUl Ttrak ifttfc Ktvi.l : bing but that didnt pay well ltovsu 1V.CK, July lO.ihjir Jonn cithers One stage out qf Dead-woo- d . ' - - . May Not Speak to Men Several white,' Christian countries deny to women some of the most, common privileges of mankind, says Colliers Weekly.-- ' An outstanding example is Armenia,, where, throughout an area of 60,00 square miles, women are not lowed to speak to any man except their husbands. In all their dealings with other men,' such as. storekeepers, they are required to use a sign language. - . two-coinet- d American soldiers; who liked the Canadian, and Australian troops better than kny others they met, according to statements made by many, testify to the courage with which the colonial Englishmen fought at Vimy Ridge and else- where. fl - s , - They-whippe- th - . . six-foote- f -- . Comets Return to Sun Most comets return to the tun after a.perid of years. Bielat comet on its return in 1848 split into two parts and on . its next Visit came back as twins were traveling in almost the same orbit formerly occupied . by one and on the same time schedule, There are several records of such multiple comets. The converse of this phenomenon is even more 'common. They break up. What causes this Is unknown. ; Disintegration probably is caused by the same forces that cause them to split. Study-oMosquitoes In a Capetown, South- Africa, aquarium one may follow in safety the four. stages of development which every one of the more than 1,000 species of mosquitoes undergoes. First is the raft stage, because as many as 400 eggs congregate; then the larva, when the raft dissolves;" third, when each, larva. near the surface puts up an infinitesimal nozzle for air and last when it develops wings, legs and feelers, walks on the water." then fliefawaT-money- , - . - Hampstead Heath, writes a London correspondent in .the New York Times. It is mentioned in tha Domesday Book.' During his madness,- Pitt shut himself up in a small room on the third floor, which remains untouched. A hole was made in' the wall, through which he received food. It waa while Pitt' was ill in this room that bis ministers revived the Stamp Act and imposed the tea duty Which led to the Boston Tea Party, and the War of Indepetv depce. . - d, ry full-leng- THE. BALLAD OF SAM . Pitt Bouse Pitt House, the home of Williarf? Pitt when he was prime minister, stands on the highest- part of The U. S. In Africa A great day In the war history of the Stars and Stripes occurred in 1805 when Lieut P. N. OBannon raised it for the first time over foreign conquered territory,' over the Tripolitan fortress which the On marines had captured at Deme, ' It hapof Africa. coast the norffi pened in '.the war with the. Barbary States over tribute exacted from shipping in the Mediterranean. Again, American arms had done. what, other Europeans couldnt Pope Pius; XI declared the Americans did more for Christendom against these pirate states than all the powers of Europe combined. $ ; t; r- . . if i ' . Capt, June Peak of the Texas .... Rangers, been a likable youth' of early schooling arid of parental guidance fell into to become In turn gambler, highwayman and train rdbber.' In folklore, he soon became a cowboy hero who refused to, betray his pais a Robin Hood who eluded his pursuers with ease and shared his stolen gold without stint. Of the of the frontier, he was remembered as the "beloved who-de-pri-ved evil-way- . . . many-desperadoe- bandit. . , The generosity of Sam with the twenty-dolla- r gold pitccs he brought back from the big train robbery in Nebraska gave him fame as a Robin Hood even while he was living; and after his death the stories of hn giving and spending were enlarged. Payments of twenty dollars for a dozen eggs or a pan of warm biscuits were reported from many directions. The most persistent of all the pape- C Wtro Ni;iapr I'nloo. Ing starts. No need to waste time fussing with . I . methods, . . - , . ' . . . . H , . . , feed grinding jusf onit of the many is - . uses of electric Service around the farmi . . gents.. If Spain should become really It ; time, tabor and money t wilt save i countless. other ways. under the guidance of Russia, the Spanish peninsula would be practically. .branch and a dependency of Soy iet. Russia, at the southwest comer of Europe. . Russia, whoe plane have been taking information on manufacturing poison gai and building . factories to the nations that are friendly- to her in central Europe,-- plight build up .chain Of Communist-statetoo powerful even, for the di?i tator governments of Italy and Gerdemomany,'. and the remaining cratic" government of Great 'Britain;' It is not a happy' time for Europeans, or for any interested in Europe' future peace and welfare . . . - six-gu- n the switch and the grind ' . termed a Judas." 'Both ilesse James and Sain Bass played fox" .With the authorities until sold out by the traitor." That.-fac- t is emphasized ia the ballads which were written about both men and those ballads were authentic: American folk songs,. Not long after his death in 1&73, cbwboys On the Western Plains were reading r-back biographies of Bass and 'were singing about him as they watched their herds ' at' night of drove .them up' the Kansas trails," writes Gard, who quotes Charley, Siringo as. saying that Sam Bass was the hero of more young Texas cowboys than any other bad man and the ' song abput him' was the most popular. This song seemed' to have a quieting effect Qri a herd of longhorns during a thunderstorm." That song is still sung today-- on phonograph records, over the radio and around dude ranch campfires. It has been included in standard collections of cowboy songs and it is probably the principal reason why the name of Sam Bass has been enshrined in the Wild West hall of fame. IMPLY click . , . ' - C1 twliif WSU Sy ml i cal- -, Serlc. iuo . . you gv-e- ' taefi inJ eo mpftte .figures end trplai'i the many "edyantagu ' of in . . f ibw-co- sf a. Writ fecfrrcVy.- sob'nf : . - r- - or dam ' . . a a . ' ' . UTAH Pb WEE Hitler, is reported on the point of. siding with tha 'Spanish insurgents against the radical Madrid regime; because of savage attacks made on Nazi officers in Spain. It is reported, that a woman in charge of the Hitler office was threatened with death if she would not reveal the whereabouts of her principal; dragged into the streets, her dress was soaked with gasoline. An interruption applying the match. pie-vent- tef : ed E & OGHT ' 5 . n ' . GO. ' . |