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Show A Unique Character. Of all the intciesting ch.iractcis thiscountj contains, none are moie unique or lunc had a moie varied and eventful ctpciicucc than Samuel Whitney, and while Sam bleaks into print frequently and has had much said of him, the half has never jet been told, and never will. His presence is alwajs the signal for some good jams, and 'armless fun (and legless fun as well, for the old man has lost both a pedal and flipper extremity.) Samuel, Sam-uel, who is a "teetotaler," has lately been accused of being under the Influence Influ-ence of tanglefoot and it's amusing to hear the old man tell about It. "It's the way I have that gets me Into trouble" said he. "I get jolly, feel good, crack jokes, shake this old peg of mine, talk Choctaw, Norwegian and Gei man all in one breath, and though I haven't had a drink of water all d.iv, the word goes around that Sam s drunk again. That word "again" Is what gets me, for it implies im-plies that I have been drunk befoic, and piobably recently. However, I don't care very much, as long as one knows he is all right, it makes little dilTcicncc what Is said about him." Mr. Whitney is sixty-two v ears of age, jet with that one leg and one arm, summer-fallowed sixty acies of land, plowed and harrowed forty acres for nelghbois, harvested his crops, bioke a halfdozenhoiscs,and did an unlimited amount of othei farm woik last year. On his slxtj'-second birthday, he went to the city of Cache Junction to celebrate, cele-brate, and while sitting on his lioise at the station saw a team mil away, dumping tho dilvci out underneath the wheels. After the team had run quite a distance our aimless wonder dashed alongside the running team, caught the bridle of one horse and led them In a semi-circle to where they had been standing at the time they became frightened, and theie they stopped. The old man is frequently seen in this city driving a team of four horses, with a half a doon tied aiound the wagon. He is a most excellent ex-cellent example of wliat will and determination de-termination can do, and is of such robust ro-bust health as to live many jears jet. |