| Show AlEXA BOOK VIVID STORY Of PIONEER WEST Gives Highlights of Interesting Career in Utah and Adjoining States from the Civil War far Until His Death Deatha a Few Months Ago Br Dv I ELL j WELL WELLI I have hate e just lust completed reading Reminiscences o of To- To To ponce about as Interesting a 0 book bookas bookas bookas as J a In n Utah Idaho Mon Montana tana Lana W Wyoming and Nevada could care to tl read This Thia Is the book written b by Alex AleC In his hie tear sear ear and aid lust Just published by hi 1118 rite vIe Mrs Irs Katie Kallo 0 of Ogden About Ab lIt the Iha first Impression one gets from the book Is too the remark remark- remarkable abia able panorama which must hn base been on Alex memory when hen he hu looked back hack over his life an as s ho he sat and penned these memoirs r He came to Utah and got sot toI to I knoss R Utah Idaho and Montana pretty thoroughly s sn the Ch II war was fought ou ht hen n I ther there sore nere re hardly as many persons per persons i I sons In all those states as there i I arc In t t n n now Yet Tet n a ai ho he J dots Ins Ills book he looked out on ed Il td streets heard automobiles b by perhaps airplanes and could visit all the titles cities In I i he dd did pioneer work ork In le less s time than It took him Mm in n those days to travel tra between any t two 0 trading points a HAD IfA OrE vor VOLUME u tt of Alexander Is II n book bolt of pages pa hand ome handsomely bound In embossed leather eath r and printed In readable t type pe There are se Illustrations illustration But It Is not th the binding or the illustration Illustrations tion that make male the book hook It Is the great t ma mass mas 8 of readable matter but picturesquely quely told with hero J-ero and there a humorous touch which makes the tho book stand standout standout standout out Aiex AI came cama to Utah as asa a asa a wL wagon on boss with army and he was In tn and out of Utah from that time tI-ne until his r recent ent death Thu Thus he hs was wag In a po to give some on early eMI i Utah history and nd he ha does SO eo I In hl 11 bonk book I HiS Ha dv d of his pioneer i In Montana the touch of those tho attracted to tre e I ge s and how the tho vigil vigilantes ante antes cleaned el up the the- the condition forms torm one ona Interesting part of his bony bO I The story of his freighting ac- ac tl tics Is I another He Ho made mada agi a aI ai I gl gi cat man many trips t 1 y wagon train or pack train from Salt Lake or Ogden Og- Og Ogden I den dea Ita to Helena Helena- He also did freighting from tho the Missouri 1 steamer terminus to Montana points I In ono one chapter he tells how he lost and a completely load load- loaded ed rd train of at 40 wagons In to a Mon Mon- Mon tani It'd flood In another chapter he tella tell howa how howa a part part returning from the tha Mon Mon- Montena I tena diggings IlIS wl was snowed In at atthe atthe atthe the present site alte of Malid Malad how the I carried by the party In Ingold ingold gold dl tins d n na noi 0 burled and how they set st hut iut ut to walk to Calls Call's Fort 45 miles mil avav Let II Alex lei tell his own stor I I I I i or HARDSHIP The night we camped where Malid City Cly Is now our food ga e lOUt out entirely nl night ht It turned so coil coll that t all ou our r animals fl froze oze to de ith o ol or were so badly badh frozen that tho the the next nt day could not and soon died Tho The nearest point where we could 1 rt help 1111 was wan Call Calls Call's Fort 4 45 mile mil assay avay Th The only Wit way to pet get there rc was to n alk It was decided that It should hould h he every man for I forI lf and whoever er rot root through h should hould send end end back bacle a relief party IThe I The Sl In gold sold dust du t we wo bur bur- burled bur burled led In the snow DOW light right where Pecks Peck's now nw stands and we struck up we g-we tee brush around It so could It again Then we started I I It It was 6 o'clock In tn the morn morn- morning tog ing when we Ise started Each cur cir curried car carried ried rfd his blankets The snow at Malad was nas a three to four tour feet teet deep deen but as we e got down the valley valle It no le less lee s but never less than two recto feet I I took the lend lead an and broke the trail turn about with Hawkins my i wagon l boss 1055 He kept with me for tor forthe the tho first t two days When we got worn or out we would sit Bit down on th the e crust cruet of snow and rt re-rt re l and ant ot at it gain We lit Bit of oth- oth others oth others ers the tha R second ond day and I had hl to leave Ha Hae Hawking kins behind The Th road was WM down tho ho east eMt sid side of Malad river I cro crossed ed the Bear river on 1 the Ice a a little north of and got lot to Cells at 4 oelO o'clock 1 tho the morning of the day A rescue party was organized and ond nil alt saved but says two 1 In another party part sere Mere ere not so fortunate and ond worn wore frozen to death BA BAP TES S INDIANS His We description of ot personal en- en encounters en encounters counters with Indians Indiana are mighty The There la Ia many n a chuckle In his hl hone horse racing and chicken fighting eq exploits and hero her and ond there he h has a a good natured lab jab for the Mormons The description of the driving r ot of the last It spike with the great amount mount of ot champagne con consumed an and 1 the Inability of ot the dig dig- dignitaries dig dignitaries o 0 o hit the spike with the sled ledge o hammer Is refreshing nil III tens Leila about selling mules to Brigham Young Toung and emphatically es the great Mormon leader was the finest man with whom to todo todo todo do business ho ha encountered In aU all hl hi pioneer experience Mr tr gives a sprightly picture of Corinne In the good old dais da s when hen It was the forwarding point into Idaho and 1 Montana MAYOR OF CORINNE C At one time was may may- mayor mayor or of worshipful master ot of the tho sonic Masonic lodge there and nobl noble gr grand nd of the Odd Fellows was as the first station out of Ogden on the Central I Pacific Ic It any ony unfortunates were to be ho put off art the train they were ejected elected at that was ns kept busy looking alter after unfortunates unfortunates ates some som of ot whom hom homere were ere women children child who ho had no money upon which to travel W When en they were nero ejected elected from tho train they came ama to him He that thet between the It the Masonic relief relict fund fundor fundor fundor or th the Odd Vs rello fund he did pretty well ell but he ha Ii- Ii had Iid d to adopt a different rent method when nhen hen there was no o money In any of the trea treas treasuries uries Then he would Mould go Into n a n Corinne saloon aloon slap alap Iap some money on tile the b Ir ind ln Ite everybody to drink with the mayor After the drink drink- drinkers drinkers drinkers ers were ere warmed up the mayor YOI toll tell about the plight of ot a anoman noman with Ith children who had ben been thrown oft the tho train and had to have havo tince writes that th hiving hl drunk with mth the may may- mayor mayor mayor or they would not refuse his plea for ai all and Iud he was usually sue sue- suc successful in petting getting his relief money In hl his chapter Some Theolog Theolog- Theologians ians hns I ns I Met fet Ale Alex Alei gives some fine pictures of ot r is preach preach- preachers preachers ers rs In the west Including Bishops Tuttle Ind i nOOK HOOK There I 1 1 a n foreword to the book by Don Maguire also a preface by the th publisher Mrs and Mr acknowledgement of given him In preparing the book ook by Mayor Frank Fran Fran- Francis Francis Francis cis and 0 O A A Kennedy of Ogden Ogdon The book has hIlS not been censor ed Id In the least It Is h Alex Top Top- once's story of ot s h hi life It Is a afrank afrank afrank frank recital of a frank trank man on and persons vho knew Alex will sea se ee him In every ev ry paragraph ot of hie his hook book Th Tu book Is Ie to be placed eed on sale In Ogden den this week TIll Tie price Is 3 per copy and well worth It to on anybody body desiring an Intimate pic- pic picture pic picture ture of ot early days In the west Persons desiring r siring copies may reserve re- re re serve lIene them by hy notifying Mrs frs Top Tope once A committee from Weber lod lodge e No 6 F and A II L expects to announce soon that the tha books be ha placed on sale salo In Ogden stores n |
