Show T J i etA do 1 i r I u I. I of i c- c J M t is Doing In In- In THE T. GREA E- E Ry By Stan organs Morgan's J Jeep ep Posse Sad had a fish fry on the Wilkinson estate Sat at Jim Gamble and hU hla wife caught a whole slug sing of trout from Harr Harrys Harry's reservoir and everybody ev stuffed fluffed themselves The era rl lathered gather d again Monday night and laid plans for tome some ome worthwhile project projects like signposts sign po posts poet ts In the county's more rugged rug rugS ged god reaches reache These signs they will hope will help direct lost Josti folks to shelter elier had and civilization Sheriff Carters Carter's men planted warning to signs on all county roads road last lut week too 1 The local loal l and anti Klub cl clean cleanup an up to the Johnson Lakes LakE's last week end I Rugg Hugged d lot that group if St Spike Mecham slipped any any rattlesnakes Into any b bags rigs We w went up over Monte Cristo to Woodruff for the first time It was fun Passed the Max WId who were driving the same loop Letter received by Sheriff PortEr Porter Por ter Carter Carier Dear Sh Sheriff Carter CaYter We are very grateful to you and to o the Jeep Posse who assisted you in your efforts in behalf of our son Paul Coy We realize the outcome of his serious accident would have been much more serious herlous without the combined hl efforts of the three men who assisted him and aud Do Bob and you and aId your men m We are writing this note jutt JUd just to to let you know that we really appreciate all the help that that was given and to ask If you would please relay this to the members member of the posse pOISe and others who assisted We know that our cur Indebtedness to all concerned can In I no way be paid but we c certainly wish t to acknowledge the fine tine work that was performed At some date in the too not distant future we should like to personally convey comey our thanks to you We have ha Paul at home now ar and although b his injuries are of ofa I a serious nature he i Is progressing sing rapidly Sincerely Mr and I Mrs Arthur Coy Cor Plain City tah S. S romp i pe a 31 V to pieces at the mere mention of ot his late great at huntin dog Old Blue I Io I o JI r relates att tea tea-f d 1 r how his a I performed under various circumstances If Old Blue saw sal salme me I out the front door I with Ith a shot gun Kun sa says Sl s Jim dabbing at a a tear then he would lope out into the fields and locate locate- a flock of oC pheasants ei cm out I I with his nose and his tall BOTH at the same time If 1 I J came 1111 oJ out can of of Iff f a hOlls a rifle title l proud Old Blue would he head d for the hills and nd round up a I herd hird of deer deer coyotes a and d bobcats bobcats bob bob- cats eats for me He saw saw me w w fth th a le o one e d day y and went gallopin off toward the garden I was was curious curious curi curl ous and followed When I got there Old Blue Slue had already dug half a can of 01 worms worms and and had hadem hadem hadem em all laid out on the ground th there tHerel ie When I I II with was as' as Iri MI last fall fali continues JI Old OId i Blue Blue amazed me once again He lie took took one one look at al my pelt pell boards lined up In the shed then shed then x ti went ent down to the tha creek and rev it- turned with muskrats I ope to 10 exactly fit each stretcher When Old Oid Blue got to Join doln this I pulled Jn n my traps and started spendin all my time just cuttin more and more hide stretchers Id I'd just stick etick em in the shed and Old Blue would bring in muskrats to to match Then one day an awful thing happened Mother had been house housecleaning housecleaning housecleaning cleaning and set an old ironing board ard put out in the be shed beside my stretchers Old Blue ambled up up upa a short abort time later When he saw e flaw w the board up up there a look of anguish clouded hl tace He Ne slumped dropped his hta tall taU and Ad went sniff dragging off oft around tbt corner cOllier of the sniff bOIl houM Ive I've- sniff him never seen leen elate r Old Blue would've be been a sniff Iff i perfect dog If he lie Just hadn't Men been so 10 sniff en In sniff Iff DARNED CONSCIENTIOUS Exit EDt Jim Compton sobbing lobbing e. e Passersby note Dote that the picnic table pla plated placed ed near the highway Inthe in inget inthe the Devils Devil's SI Slide a narrows its JI e eting ge get get- ting plenty of use uee The highway department has hal accommodated a aL L campers P a ermen by py y placing the ta table le there thereat at that scenic convenient riverbank riverbank river river- bank spot Member of ot Evanston Cranston Wyoming Wyo- Wyo wildlife ming's ming club lub have hare got it made They h hold held lS exclusive fish fishing ing fag and boating right IY to new nl I I Sulphur Creek reek Reservoir This man made lake Is fa located ju Just t a few rods rods' from the old Beartown atie alfe ten miles above I and and offers a a square mile rrUe or 01 more of choice fishing water I I E Eight I g h t thousand rainbows planted jn In Sulphur Creek Creek- Reservoir pea Res a year year ago Igo lift last it spring l now average nearly two pounds pound apiece apiece and and are so 10 deep deep bodied that they look like tike oversized sunfish Another fingerling fingerling finger finger- ling rainbows planted there last lut spring spring- are re now well over the he minimum legal length Fishing pressure on the new I body of water is light There were only four boats there last Saturday Satur Satur- Saturday day and they were towing water water- skiers J A j friend lend with a spinning outfit casting casting from dam dam that that afternoon caught eight of tho big rainbows and a six pound cutthroat cut cut- throat for good measure Alexander ran away from home and headed for the frontier frontier in 1848 when he was nearly ten years old He lIe spent his life lite here in n the mountain intermountain west working variously as a trader prospector lumberjack Indian fighter tighter and freighter Big Dig strong Alex lived a full colorful life Ufe lie He knew many prominent frontiersmen ja personally When Alex retired In Ogden at the turn turn turn-of of the century he compiled his recollections into Into In in- t to book term form and had them pub I In this rare now-rare little book non non Mormon Alex says say's of a business bustness bust busi ness neSB acquaintance Brigham Young was one of the most mOlt satisfactory men I II ever did business with There I was wu nothing of of the cheese cheeseparing paring skinflint about him I 1 II f found him to be the squarest man Jn In Utah to do business I I with barrIng none On one occasion Alex bought wagons I from Church President Young Another time he fold Vold Id him I I I multi mules Alex was was with John Johnstons Johnston's Johnstone I stone ston's Army as It approached Utah In 1857 lI He recalls how Morgans Morgan's Col Cot Lot Smith th and his I men men destroyed three Army wagon trains five thousand pounds lounds of go government supplies What t Lot Smith and his Mor Mormon or Imon mon cowboys did to our wagon trains on the Sandy put a crimp 11 oar trip to Utah he said Bald For Forthe Forthe Forthe the first time Johnston and his t. tt t Pointers woke up to the tact fact that they were engaged In areal a real ical war Q Of his personal associations associations associations' I with ith Morgan pioneer Lot Smith Alex wrote r When hen I l later ter settled in Utah I tame came to know lx Lot t Smith very F tie a rough lough h and ami ready read type He lie would have ha pasH passed passe i 1 as a I in in any ally country I IOne One da day I said Lot wh what t did I joi yot oa born all nil that stuff for fOI Why for by I t didn't 11 you you take it into Salt Sail Lake i He chuckled and said You fellows might have caught me As It was I fixed you good an ana and plenty When I was was In Arizona in 1103 1903 TT sheep I 1 Lpt Lot Smiths Smith's ranch on on the toa road 1 to I Flagstaff t i 1 II went Sent ent II up to his pl jre tomae to tomako tomake make mae a 11 call and md found foun he lie had bleu bien ell killed the week elk before by an Indian The Tho Indians Indian's sheep had broken Into Smiths Smith's field and Lot had shot one of the the- sheep The Iud Indian ludlan Ian In revenge re killed him lie He had been living JIving there for some years fars with two wives and had quite juite a ranch on n about ten miles from Willow Springs I bought a lot of grain for my sheep from his widows If we believe what he hat has written Alex was wa an exceptionally good man He made hundreds hundred of thousands thousand hauling freight and telling selling everything from egg eggs to livestock to railroad ties Alex was waa In Virginia ta City Montana Mon tana tang when notorious Jack Slade was was' as' as hanged witnessed the he driving drive ing log of the th Golden Spike a and acid d lived in Beartown of of Evanston I at the time of ot that railroad towns big riot Being Beine a a said har working hard W man he wan wa always on the move He lIe was waa more than juB justified USed in w wf writing an n autobiography Ue He had plenty to to write about four Eighty year old ld Alexander in Ogden in 1923 1928 A ln Agon an anti and anda a a. a grandson still live lITe there A daughter died in Ogden last laet February |