Show BIRTHDAY OF PIKES PIKE'S PEAK Hundredth A mil sary crry of or Its IM HIs ery co Will be ht Celebrated Zebulon Montgomery Pike e dl discovered cov- cov ered the peak In the which hears r his name on November 15 Hi 1806 In the tho all fall of oC this year the tho people ople of ot Colorado will celebrate the anniversary anniversary an nn- nl c of this discovery discover at ar Colorado Colo Cob rado Springs The celebration will viiI be beIn Ir In the last week In September that month having been selected because weather conditions will be bc more at attractive attractive at- at than later laer Western people see sec a peculiar fitness II IP In the proposed celebration Tho The peak I 1 lh considered typical of the country ant th the people surrounding It It re recalls recalls re- re calls generations of ur courageous pioneers who settled a territory of- of ring fc-ring stubborn resistance to the ad advance advance ad- ad vance of or civilization Zebulon Pike c and hl lila his associate ex explorers cx- cx conquered In spite of or hard hard- ships With a handful of oC fellow travelers travel travel- ers erg h he f started t from rom St. St Louis on July 15 1806 for the tho unknown lands of oC the West Savage tribes of oC Indians roamed the plains warring on the whites and a against one another It was vas four Cour months after the start as made that the great reat white peak wa sighted twelve twel days later the thc base wn wt reached On reaching the mountains storms were ere encountered anti and oath food became scarce The clothing of or the tho men was wa worn Oln to shreds It was Inadequate Inadequate- to keep out the freezing air nil When hen Pike and md three of or his men climbed an ad adjoining adjoining ad- ad joining mountain to view the peak peale the they were clad In overalls o without underclothing underclothing under under- clothing or stockings Their boots were worn through h admitting freely Creely the snow stones stoats Snow on top of oC the mountain was four feet deep and the thc temperature was s-as six b degrees below zero Cro The rho climb occupied two tso days the Intervening In n tit IV J- J n nAr r food or o water e After Ar this experience came others othel equally trying The little party parly was finall finally captured cap p b by Spanish h soldiers at a point near where Trinidad Colo Cob now stands Had Hall Pike e not lint bon been a n sold soldier lor he doubtless would have hayo remained with the ent venturesome u spirits constituting uti the earliest pioneers in the West Vest cn B his dramatic lentiL lenth a general at atthe atthe atthe the age of 34 34 Ica leading the thc American forces In an attack upon the British at York Canada doos 1008 not overshadow overshadows his s achievement In blazing blazing- tho the first trail I to the tho His Ills life was governed Jo by the messages mes mes- sages to his son ion that were found on his lila bod body Preserve c your honor free from blemish nud Be always read ready to di dif dIe for your our country he hc wrote rote for Cor forthe forthe the boys boy's In life his own career both |