Show DK DR E E R CAHOON TRACI 11 WRITES RITES INTYRE interestingly STINGLY ABOUT THOS CAHOON tommy cahoon 1 was scalped nd ind survived son of dr tracy s uncle mrs trac speaks authoritatively CHRONICLE READ IN 2064 grandview Grand view avenue sanford florida may 28 1930 my dear mr beckwith am very sorry I 1 did not answer your letter dated feb prompt ly meant to but interfered I 1 read witia with much interest mary articles in the chronicle including your review of Hell dorado mr has the name spelled wrong the inal name Is colquhoun the qu pro bounced as K the cahoots are still scotch the calhound Cal houns are scotch ir tr ish thomis cahoon who was scalped ind survived d was the son of my un cle samuel cahoon born in dela ware in 1815 he settled in pitts burgh pennsylvania then the far west while still a young man he wis married in pittsburgh about 1835 two of his sons thomas and william were conductors and were among the early conductors of the far west 1 I well remember rem reme enber riber uncle samuel coming home to delaware in 1876 making me a beautiful pair of arut arut ches and teaching me to wilk with them 1 I had been bedfast tor for four my parents were afraid to let me try my wings but uncle sam uel net told them he bad had been the good samaritan ho helped his own boy on his feet ind he would guarantee to take as good care of me I 1 alao also well remember how my blood boiled with fierce ind agnation when he told us how his son thomas had been scalped and still lived he ire was sup posed then to be the only man who ever survived the ordeal but three years ago I 1 read in a new york pa per that two had survived after scalping one was thomas cahoon my uncle s son in the united states and one in canada whose name I 1 have forgotten thomas cahoon was a conductor on the union pacific for many years he died in ogden before I 1 lived in utah I 1 did however meet in ogden mr mrs kate rate hilliard Hll liard who told me she knew him well that he was extreme lly liy sensitive about his deformity and bhe she knew no one who had ever seen the scar she said he wore a light fitting black cap under his hat which he never removed uncle told us that the silver plate mentioned wis in the skull cap I 1 presume the nerve fibre and the scar were sensitive to pressure I 1 never saw thomas but the broth er and three sisters whom I 1 met were very attractive and I 1 have been told that thomas was also illnave I 1 leave florida this week tor for a trip through the west my first stop will be at denver june fourth would it be possible f for or you to hold the chronicles tor for me till I 1 see you in delta my brother dr james cahoon and his wife are now in europe he was here when your letter reach ed me about thomas cahoon very sincerely yours elizabeth cahoon tracy let the editor add a note mrs elizabeth arnold stone in her vol ume uinta county I 1 t its place in history says hilliard was so call ed from reuben T hilliard one of the eanest conductors on the union pacific reuben T tj hilliard worked cut of evanston for many years and I 1 have often sepp sean him his wife s name if memory of 50 years can be trusted was I 1 belleve the mrs kate hilliard mentioned by mrs tracy the U P trains those days stopped twenty minutes at evanston to enable the passengers to hang the nose bag on the depot was the loitering place for every mean kid within the town an I 1 I 1 was one of them many and many and many a time have r gone to the depot and gawped like a yap at all the conductors in uniform unit uni irm firm in the here hore of seeing tommy cahoon the man who was scalped too young to have known him it if I 1 bad had seen him an unmannerly un fresh fm fin little wart how well I 1 ya rel n amb emb ember er even to this day a very proper calling down I 1 got on just such a trip and for that very pur pose of possibly seeing tommy ca loon 1 oon I 1 was very much in evidenced eviden cd dragged up by the hair of the head in an open barn not decently raised as were mannerly brats and like a oung demon I 1 sailed past a man from boston jeered at him stuck out a tongue in defiance died away before ha he gould clatch me and from a point of 0 safety waggled a fingel from nose any native to our town would have sailed after me run me down and given me that which I 1 needed applied to the seat of inder sanding but not so the eftis 1 ionian ah ali do not be so ram buric bious Bosto but the sassy kid wasn gasn t phased by it for he mrs tracy gives us a correct imbres sion of thomas cahoon and I 1 thank her for it frank beckwith sen |