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Show INDIAN FIGHTER TO WHEN Captain Stephen Cole Uncle Sam's Oldest Employe to Make Trip Though mint u 1 1 p - are a thing of the p.st and thirsty colonels may no longer Indulge In their cooling draughts, Kentucky still lvns her thor-OUghbrad thor-OUghbrad horses and beautiful women, and now comes news thtt UnCls Sam's j oldest employe. both In years and kength of service, who once protected the borders of rtnh, is resident of thai Justly famous slate What Is more, the famous government em-i ploys may soon visit Ogden and other points of rtnh whore ho fought Indian In-dian In former years. Captain Stephen Samuel Cole, Indian In-dian fighter, veteran of the Mrlean and Civil wars, has served the United jstates seventh. five year, and at the .-ge of HO still helps to keep i.rren a national cemetery where his comrades com-rades sleep. UX Mi: LTVES U ING Captain Cole attributes his longevity to a lesson taught him by his mother' "Do right and just by all mankind. If you can not sjy f good word for a man. never say a, bad one. You may do a great Injustice. Have good ''neighbor and friends by being iic'uh-'horly iic'uh-'horly and frlendlv with I hose about I yon. Then you'll hive no worries and live to a ripe old age." When Captain Crle, If he makes h:s 'visit here, shakes hand v:Uh gdcn members of the American Legion i they will find that he stands six feet in height, weighs 1T pounds, walks wlth soldierly erectness. hr-.s no us?,i for a cnn reads without gla"-"i B, rhoots squirrels out of treetopi and bowls over rabbits with a shotgun. , And this notwithstanding that he has I endured the hardships of pioneer days and has been fwlce wounded As keeprr of the National remeterv-at remeterv-at Camp Nelson. Jessamine county. Kentucky, the veteran warrior keeps rt-ntlnel-llkc guard over the graves f more than 5000 sleeping comrades of the "lvil war 11- 1111 Is In emplov "of the best government the world has ever known." the only employer he has ever worked for. Captain Cole was a neighbor of President Zachary Taylor. under whom he served In the Mexican war. He was born in Jefft-ri-on county, Kentucky, near tb Zachary Taylor I farm, April IB, lSi'G, and spent his boyhood days there with h'a parents. JOINS ARM'S . While the In 1 1 was Still in his early Leens his father moved to a farm In Floyd county, near New Mbany, where he lived until he entered College at Greencastle. lnd. With William lenn. a schoolmate. ! ran away from school In 1S4C and Joined the United States army at I ndlunapolis. Me was placed In tho Fourth cavalry and sent o the Rio Grande on the Texas and Mexican border, where he did patrol duty and fought Indians Going into Mexico with regular-1 troops when the Mexican war dc eloped, el-oped, he was with General Zachary I Taylor in the battle Of Buens Vista. Later he was Ordered to Lower Call- fornla with General John C. Fremont's Fre-mont's cavalry. He did SCOIltd ut r.nd protected set-1 tiers In Utah and was Stationed at one i time at Porl potlglas He al.so did duty n? protedor of settlers In North Dakota and Washington! BE KN1SW LIM i N Gnptaln (.'ols was personally acquainted ac-quainted with President Abraham Lln-j coin and at the outbreak of the ClTllj war was commissioned as f -st lieu-tenant lieu-tenant in the Twenty-oighth Indiana cavalry. later he W as put In com-mand com-mand of the First United States ma-i rlnes and sent with General Grant's! army. The aged veteran was recently asked ask-ed to tell the circumstances of bis wounds. He said: "My first wound was received while I was in North Dakota, Da-kota, when a s outing party of twenty- ; five men under my command trailed i a band of Indians who had killed a' cottier James LSannon. a. d carried I off bis wife and two sons. Whn WO Cameu pon the Ind'ns a skirmish en-1 sued. I was struck b an arrow Which left my leg in bad shape for a long time. "Ten of the fnll.-is were killed and ' we rescued the woman and children Unless l am mistaken the boya arc' still living in Washington, i c " HEX HE s PRISONER The captain Is reported to have laughed when he v.ns asked If ho was eVor taken a prisoner- ll- . nj that' while he was In charge of the National Na-tional cemetery at Staunton, Virginia Confederate veterans held a reunion He attended, being the r.nh damned! Yankee" there. The obi rebels sur-; lounded him. and a Presbyterian min-KU-r asked him if he was not afraid of the Johnny Ftcbs "I replied. '-s. what time I wasn't tunning them, they were running me, and ihls brought down the house with applause.' said the captain Captain Cole's son. John Sherman Cole. 24 years old. served In the navy during the world wur. enlisting shortly short-ly after war was declared with Germany. Ger-many. When Jessamine couotyVi firs' draft was sent to Camp Zachary Ta-!or Ta-!or for training Captain V.li and General Gen-eral George B. Taylor, a Confedereate veteran, marchwg side by side, led Ihe parade througU the ssir-ets to the depot. oo |