Show 1 NELSON TERRY TELLS OF OLO OLD TIMES 11 his 1119 19 seen hard times you bet bett not mere I 1 slumps like this one but achen you actually had to dig tor for a living KNOWS THE OLD TIMERS the conversation turned on the present hard times when T nel son terry said to me pooh you don t know what hard times are I 1 ve dug roots to live on and then he went on to tell me that he was raised down in dixie and when that country was brand new they had a hard time getting along crops were meager and tic to eke out his mere p otance of food abe he has actually dug the thild roots and had to one time he in meeting here and for a time amused his audience with the humorous side ot of those times timm and some ot of the young people got to giggling too much so he be came serious and talked about the tragic side of those days when star forced many to digging roots even he himself aa as a boy and it was noticed that one elderly lady in the rear of the room wiped away her tears so strongly did recollections ot of the old hardships rise before her mind brought drought into being by his words you can get either pathos or hu mor as you are constructed out ot of such is ts this which he told me the people on the river in the early days were so hard up that they had to watch chimneys tor for a smoke to rise so that they could go over and borrow tire fire tor for there was no money for matches and so very tight did it become at one acute stage that a bacon rind to grease a pan was actually BORROWED from family to family why when a man has seen priva eions like that he Is not much amov ed by a wail wall of HARD TIMES HARD TIMES do you k know now I 1 can hardly afford to keep the radio battery charged they might borrow the comun cobun ity bacon rind to stop a squawk with I 1 had not read jacob Hamb hamblyn lins life when mr terry talked with me so what follows was fresh to me but may not be so vitally fresh to those who read more than I 1 do he knew know jacob hamblin well one day when he wae was chopping wood he glanced up saw a man afoot in the tiny town and lecog nihed him it once why hello brother jacob well brother terry pon my word where you goin brother ja cob oh just visiting round then to st george are ye yes well your e not goin afoot be cause I 1 in going to take you I 1 in going to st geor georff e tomorrow to get a pinion and take you be here beje bright and early so that s how but wait As they drove along from enter prise they soon came to the moun tain tall meadows and jacob hamblin well versed in the history of the place pointed out to T nelson terry all the spots associated in the enact ment of the history on the spot that was about seventeen years after the event it if my memory es me correctly several years later terry again had occasion to pass the spot but this time driving wagon while bis his brother rode a horse alongside and gathered cattle As they came to the Mea dawis the brother said there are some over there ill just round them up and start em along when he came back he had a small skull in his hands with a bul let bole hole clear through it and terry claimed where d you git that over there lets of em over yonder pointing gruesome isn tit t it jacob has presentment life grooves it jacob used to live in tooele thoele coun ty one time he heard the screams of children and the shrieks pt worn en when the whites had surprised an indian camp and were massa cring the non combatants and it moved him he ile vowed then and there never to shoot an indian nev er to take arms against them and at that moment a presentment came to him that be he would never shed in dian than blood and bis his blood would never be shed by them his after life proved it to be true for he became the famous adviser biond to the indian and pacifier in southern utah he went among the indians unarmed and allowed no one to go with him armed either ha he appeared to risk hie his life and did many times but did not die dle at the hands of the indians one day he approached an indian camit near tooele thoele when a tiny lit tie indian boy ran up to him put his band hand in jacob s and said I 1 go with you in indian jacob said here here what s this I 1 don t understand then turning to the indian mother he said this boy wants to al with me yes I 1 feel that way too yon you take him how the indian boy albert was adopted by jacob hamblin the same boy albert who lay hid in the oak brush on the of the mountain meadows and witnessed the tragedy enacted there and gave it all in detail to jacob hamblin years later jacob bad had business away and as he was preparing to go the indian boy albert said to him when you come back I 1 will be on my mission why not so soon as that are you alberta I 1 will be back soon when you come back he re affirmed I 1 will be on my mission when jacob came back the boy was dead and buried maybe hafl mission spoken of was his presentment sent ment of that forthcoming event the incident with the santa clara indians and their gardens jacob got the indians to go down dorwn oh the river bottoms nearly appo bite site and there he taught them how to plant for he said you plant grain tend to it then in fall get lots to eat much more and better than beating weed tops tor for seed and squash and mel ons better than to take cha chance n ce on killing deer in winter so the indians did they planted and practically gave up the chase but a drought came up and san ta clara creek was dry and waa was dry for six mile miles up and the Ilidia indians ns crops were burning and they were discontented and blamed the whites for coaxing them into this kind of life lifo they said to jacob you told ns us to plant not to hunt we did now no rain indians all starve what we do jacob thought tho about it long he wanted their respect he wanted their influence so he pondered oty er it long meantime the indians likewise gave it much thought finally one of the indiana indians came to jacob you pray your great spirit ask tor for rain save indian crop so indian can live our medicine man will use his powers and he will see what he can do toto too so jacob retired to the open kneeled and with bared head ter for vently implored god to supply the needful rain that it might relieve the plight of his poor childlike un fortunate unlettered sons fervent ly and eloquently he beseeched di vine grace for aid laid up in the hills he saw the tiny wisp oft ot smoke curling lazily upward from the medicine man mans s lodge an appeal too to his great spirit ac compan companied led by potent rights and ini pl orations jacob asked his ilia maker for aj sign As he kneeled with upturned face out of a clear sky tell fell a single drop upon his face and that night it rained great was his authority and pow tar er with the indians after that let me here interpolate ted and jos Pik s grandfather was so well liked tor for kindnesses shown jacob hamblin that hamblin 99 gave the grandfather his name and ever after the indian was known aa as ja cob this indian wis ws he who showed jacob hamblin the water holes the pools the trails down to the big river and gave him so much lore of the kaibab the indian later be came blind at about eighty five or six and lived in kanab tor for fifteen years later until his death one evening terry had come back from hauling frelot trel ht to up gorge a difficult and hard broad the horse horses were blown and it was dusk A fit time to camp and not push on it was raw and miserable and thele was a cutting wind blowing so he be sought protea tion in a sharp little nook had his supper and hit the hay in the hot torn tora c of his wagon A short time after he turned in three men came up and went into camp by the side of ilis in the same alcove next morning when he got up to hunt his horses one old friendship was was gone and there were only two men in the strangers camp he had remarked to himself the night before tough lot look mean but he bad had no idea that one of them would get up in the night which he had done steal hia his horse and ride it far in advance of the way the trio were going and so get let away with his third animal months later he talked with one of his relatives at kanab and this relative said why did you sell old friend ship I 1 never did sell him he was stolen from me why john M higbee stopped here with him on his way through and told me he bought him froni from 4 you they never did find haight or higbee after that te 1 says |