Show MEXICAN WAR I NEAR 1 I 98 8 DESCRIBES I BAD OLD DAYS Log I o Houses Burned t to Their Trigger Fingers I N NER NE i-ER i ER I Drives Cows From Missouri to California Camps PARIS PAnTS Mo Mo J Jan n 21 By 21 By The Press Pre Press s William F Buck Bucker er n 97 7 of ot Paris on one ot of 11 survivors of ot th the Mexican war var also 15 l one ot of o the few tew of the tho th west who can c n recall from hb fife lito the frontier days das day fraught with now known only by their place In history The veteran has hn been a soldier hunter stockman merchant and banker His lit ha has been teen all I a as tho the of book fame tame Ay a boy o of ot 17 li he ha h enlisted for tor tors In a s ce In the Mexican war company at Paris Parl and mustered In Int lr at t Fort Kansas un- un under un under der Colonel H Ho took part In the tir perilous march from Lea Leavenworth to Santa Fe which later eater was W wa described de In a centres I lonal address by Champ Clark a the tho th greatest creates military nt 01 all time COULDN'T first tir t fought In an en engagement en- en at Taos N M L thon tion I part of ot old Mexico Th The weather uther was wac co 10 0 cold th the veteran recalls that they had to burn log lot houses hou e before the battle to warm the sol sol- soldiers soldiers ol diers trigger The Th youth participated In severt engage engage- engagements engagements ment ments escaped c without a a battle scar car and returned to ParIs Parl after arter U months In th the service In 1849 he joined In tb the raid gold rush to California Call Cornia but did no make a strike and returned home A little later ho he h purchased cattle caUla In the vicinity of Paris Perls and andIn andIn andIn In the th face tace fac of oC o the th manifold dan dan- dancers dan dancers cers geri of ot the tar far western country drove them overland to California where h he sold old them at a hugo huge profit BANK SK PRESIDENT Th young man to Paris ii It 18 1854 US 54 4 and en- en en entered ted the tb mercantile business Wh where re he h conducted the th largest I Ie e In to town ton n until 1871 Ho He H then entered th the tie Paris National bank aAa aa bookkeeper And worked up to th presidency He lIe remained head ot of the bank until 1912 when he d Buckner waa was born In tn In county Virginia HIs father Cather came cam to Missouri when the theon theaon and staked a lion on was a small boy near Paris The son and I other members of at the family came tater making th the trip by boat wagon fagon train and on toot foot Hostile Indian bands menaced the party lt anel It It bad had crossed the Mississippi rive but there were no casualties The o Buckner family formed the tho th of ot th the present town ot of PAris OBTAINS ckner did not fight In th the si d-si but obtained a substitute substitute l Val war tute I would have been glad clad to hav gone ion to war myself the th vet vet- vet veteran eran explained In an Interview to- to today today to today day bu but bus my nc would not permIt m mo me to tight fight against my people I came rame from tn tb the tho south i and while hUe I did not approve of oC slavery my sympathies were vero with southern southern tle people and It would have havo been Impossible for tot me m to I take a fighting stand against I t The T Mexican war ar veteran will 1111 his hi birthday Janu Janu- January January I ary an 27 He Is In rood good health very active and Is often oCten seen sen on the tho streets of ot Paris lie Ho H expects expect to 11 live 1 past the th century mark Eix of oC oChie othis hta hie seven IOven children are aro ar livIng |