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Show t&bJ L'SJUS.' Idaho Had Its Beginning At Franklin Fianklin, the fust settlement Valley In the early spring of livei, now tailed Cub rivei. The In Idaho, actually vv as settled as this y vai seveial gioups of set- paitv i ear hed a point about two a pat t of Utah tetutory and for tlers lelt Pioo, talatei s ille and miles southeast of the sent a number of yeais was admims-teie- d Kays. Cteek to iind new homes site of Franklin and testedpi there by the authorities ltom Salt in Cache Valley. Some were sent in a little cove for thiee days Lake City In the early years of out by the LDS church, otheis until a budge could be built across its history it was the last outpost left of their own accoid. Spring Creek and a road conto the north, a journey of four One of the patties which ar- stituted. While there their num or five days from Salt Lake sad rived at Maughans Fort (VYells-ville- ) ber was inctoasod by othei fam- connected with it only by a thin and rested there for a few tes Thev arrived at the site oi line of tiny settlements. days was advised to proceed present-da- y Fianklin on the The year 1860 was a year of north and settle on the east side morning of April 14 1860. Other intense settling activity in Ca die of the valley near the Muddy families joined the little group during the ensuing weeks, so t lint by the end oi the year there were about sixty families, mak- All the white people who had tome to Idaho beluie 1800 had been mteiestid iinl in exploi a- lion or in fuis. Those who settled at FTanklin had come to ujnquer the sagebiush wastes plant ei ops and establish permanent homes. Almost the first art of the settlers was to dig a small irrigation ditch from Maple Creek to assure some kind of crop the first sea- Pumi, Ihe futl seal I.oum-weie huill a small n ig.it u.rv i anal time and one hall miles long was dug, u.nix belli mu, me e to raiiyoiis to make q hi mg oul tuiibi i. and small imps n! glam and vegetables haivisted. A log si lino house laige enough to accommodate ail the ehildi'n coniiImi was in the settlement structed this tirst yeai son. The season ol IShu was Thomas S Smait had b on cap- dry and them v r.s imie walm viy lor tain of one of the groups to iriigation in Maine Cieck. nut come to F'ranklin. Along with sun e the (top ;n m, me was small I oi Samuel R Parkinson and .Tame, the sell lei s g( i hv Immli ing a substantial little settlement. Sanderson, with Alfred Alder aStunntel the tirs! winter we- - ,m The following men with their clerk, he served on a committee open n and tl e si., s families are consider ed the foun- ol three to take chargp of the ol wild grass v Inch ml provided t ders of Fianklin: aflaus of the infant settlement only' hay piovd enough to see i ,e A. Alder. George Alder. E during the fust few monlhs of ealtie through urit siumg Broadbent. T. M. Bennett, W. K. its existence. This committee The fiist child hoi n in ini Cornish, John Cornish, James Co- sujkTvised ail the public wotk, was John I rankun ih iri, r. in wan Sr. and James Cowan Jr., presided at meetings, and looked ill 1860. It may come as somewhat of a down all the way from Pleasant James Ci.adw ir k W. Cor bridge, after the welfare of the settlers Franklin todnv is ons( io is .,f The first log houses in F'rank- - Us role os Ida A opi, i to n suipij,se to some fans of Cache Valley to Franklin, over 300 miles, G. W. Coohei on, P.. Coultours, J. Doney lin were built in the usual fort and justly proud oi tie i rt Valley lore that this country and it took several days before R Dovmlle ley, formation There was probably no which the commumtv l.s pi i (q actually played a part in a the stage driver pulled into the John F.'krns JohnJoseph Dunk Foster, W. other settlement in early Car he m the Insioiv of nun Id, 'o a d sequence of American history that dead-tire. Gar rim A Goodhffe, W. Valley in which this was such a "vui h i n from tab. A met me1 every school child learns about at Franklin office T. Hull. Hull W. Haim, T.C.D. i.i lin, ii- because Franklin iiadre building an eaily age Custer's Last Stand. lack of sleep and handed the dis- Flow necessity, ell. at the time of its establishment Mounded h,. we le Joseph Howell, W. HowGen. Cusler and 259 men of patches gounas Hatch. W . Head. S ell. W. Ffandv, was in the heart of Indian lerri-ho s,s obte 's the Relic Hall the U. S. Seventh Cavalry were The neophyte telegrapher glan- LeRoy Holt M Handy, ' niHansen. J. f I tory and far removed from other! from eaily piuru er hui.i s rod rnassacared by the Sioux Indians ced at the notes and hurriedly put E Kingsfnrd. I), Keel. W. towns s ami a The fronts of the houses farms, and many on the Little Big Horn Rner in in a call for Salt Lake asking ching. Lvnes, Janus s Petei house, a faced of 60 the 90 loit. rods ong replica by rectangle Southern Montana 75 years ago them if they had received the dis- Lowe Thomas McCann. n r and gardens were in the erting mementos front last month, on June 25, 1876 as patches by any other route. Tl.-- y Joseph Messer vv Sr and Joseph rear of the houses and cm the out davs, It is well wor a imi practically any school kid can tell had not. Messer vy Jr. T. Mendenhall, side of the fort on the northeast Close by the build ig Hands a Western Union an rushed operyou. James May, G Mayberry, John corner a large public corral was monument to the toundei- - of But the tragic story was not ator to the Deseret Telegraph of- Morrison, A. Morrison, T. Men- built for the stock. F'ranklin. fice to take the to the message. relayed waiting world for' denhall Jr , Fidmond Kelson, JoJune 10, 1860, Brigham Young, Daughters of Fhum r V . d In a few minutes Lake the Salt seveial days. Lee Mantle (later W. G. Nelson, J. governor of Utah seph Nelson, of Pioneers" Sons orgioups of Territory, is man. Here a senator from Montana) was the operator said, your OI iverson, C. OJ.sen, S. T. Parkina ward In Franklin, nam- F'ranklin hovp been aclne in p. young Hatch went ahead. He son, Shem Purnell, p. Poole, P. ganized telegraph operator at Pleasant and ing Preston Thomas as bishop. serving valuable records and idlValley, Montana, at the time of had sent many brief lelegrams. p'rce, Joseph Terkins, James The settlement was named Frank- es from the early days and in but he had never before tackled Packer. N. W. Parker. the legendary battle. honor of Apostle Franklin building and maintaining the Rel, hn in 1 He received the dispatches from anything as voluminous as the D' Rhards. For several years the ic Hall. W. ,H tragic account he had excitedly in Rogers, I,B':kPr'WbPflU:n' Helena, but as late would have and George Shields. John new settlement was considered a A most important annual ev 'nt down dual the of holding job were it the telegraph lines down Smith, T. S. Smart, A. Stalker, part of Utah and was adminisfor FrankJin county and for t 1a Rail-hi- s Utah for the Northern agent conJames Sanderson, Preston Thom- tered under the laws of Utah entire state of Idaho is the "Idr o to the Southern points that hand. st Westas, Alma Taylor, John Trent, nected with Day celebration held at Ft" he away Tapping laboriously Isaac H. Vail, H. C. Van Orden, Territory. ern Union lines. In none of the early settlements in the month qf June, co labored one the pages, through by W. T. Wright, William Wood- was Mantle hurriedly recopied the on Next to Lost Peg and hard work cooperation rethat the one, realizing expert ward, H. Wadman. In evidence than In Frank- more dispatches and forwarded them in of this Section) in was becomLake Salt care of stage drivers, instructing porter ing impatient. to them try Eagle Rock (Idaho Finally after five and a half Falls), then Ross Fork (Poca- nerve-wrackithe entire tello). And If the lines were still volume of copy hours, had be rn disSUPPLY CENTER down, he told them, rush the news patched. Hatch was mote than on to Franklin. to make his tired fingers Hezekiah Hatch, later to be- happy to whl ft the say, That is all come cashier and president of Salt Lake replied, Thank reporter the Thatcher Brothers Banking God. Company and one of Utah's most The next day the newspapers respected bankeis and citizens of the nation carried the dis was 21 years old at the time patches and reporter Hatch had road and telegraph operator for the thrill of reading "his histor 1 & the Deseret telegraph company message in the Salt Lake papers I at Franklin. and later in the history books. As It happened the lines were B. H. v 3k -- lin. i pos-in'- News of Custer's Last Stand Relayed to the World From Franklin Telegraph Office -- i F'lu-ert- t, d 1 ! I ml'i-lYaid- j i , -- coast-to-coa- lin ng A PRESTON AND SHOPPING V" i i 4 J, GOOD FURNITURE FOR EVERY HOME r r i sn nr i? 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