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Show i fi 1 ft: VMJ I ri ri !&' atPjMUx i TV i v t f' v i . PIUTE COUNTY NEWS, JUNCTION, UTAH New York Goes Wild Over Colonel Lindbergh fcvp w7 - i I About seven and a bait million persons participated In the wild welcome given Col. Charles A, Lindbergh la New York. This picture shows part of the procession, with the hero In the car at the lower right. President and Mrs. Coolidge at Wicker Park, Ind. S x FJirlyttHgjaD By ELMO SCOTT WATSON N THESE days when I the movies and that type of fiction, which reviewers have become accustomed to dismiss with the characterization "another western," have united to give the public a very good idea of what the old NOT, cowboy WAS timers who knew what he WAS have about given up hope of teeing him presented In his true light. They will tell you that there have been only a few books which have done that and they will include in that short list Andy Adams The Log of a Cowboy, Philip Ashton Rollins "The Cowboy, and The Trail Drivers of Texas," a monumental book of sketches, compiled by the Old Time Trail Drivers' association. Now they elm add one more to the list Charlie Siringos Riata and Spurs, recently published by Houghton, Miflin & Co. If Andy Adams Log of a Cowboy Is the Iliad of the cattle trade, as It Is generally admitted to be, then Charlie Siringos Riata and Spurs is Its Odyssey truly another cowboy epic. This is not the opinion of this writer acting In the role of a book reviewer, even If It Is the composite opinion of some book reviewers men who are familiar with the cowboy era of the West and who know whereof they speak. But etlll better evidence than mere opinion Is the book itself. The reader who follows Charlies simple, direct narrae tive and sees for himself how this cowboy tells of what would be a most thrilling experience to most of us In his casual, matter of fact way, will find himself saying: Here Is real epic stuff. Here is a typical example : In one place he tells of having charge of a herd of 2,500 longhorns, and In the course of that drive he relates that After leaving these lakes we were two days and nights without water. Aa one reviewer says, Having gone through with this unpleasantly arid experience, Charlie Rlringo makes no more mention of it than that. To him that was all there was to It. It was a bare, bald, dry fact, a thing done In the discharge of his duty and for $40 a month and prunes, and It was as unromantlc to him as a ride In a New York subway Is to a suburban straphanger. The Odyssey of Charlie SIringo began on February 7, 1355 In Matagorda county, Texas. That was the date and place of his birth. When he was only twelve years old he began to punch cattle. In 1808 his widowed mother married again and sold out the family property In Texas to go north and make a home In St. Louis. Then followed a period of wander- old-tim- A Tip for Anglers Anglers, especially those who seldom have any luck, may glean a novel tip from the methods of Old Ioguk, medicine man and sovereign of nn Isolated tribe of Eskimos living on the windswept mtul flats between the Yukon mid Kuskowla rhers in western Alaska. Every spring Just before the salmon run up the rivers to spawn, Ioguk goes to the river mouths, where he performs queer Incuutatlons and magic '' V -- boat cattle outfits In that state Charlie made his first trip up the old Chisholm Trail In the spring of 1876 with a herd of 2,500 longhorns owned by W. B. Grimes. After enduring the usual perils of storm, stampede and troubles with 'the Indians, this herd arrivefl at the Kansas market and the young Texas cowboy had his first sight of one of the roaring cattle towns, Wichita, Kan. Charlie records the fact that In Wichita he and other cowboys for a whooped er up Liza-Jan- e couple of days and nights and found ourselves broke. Incidentally during this whooping er up LIza-Jan- e process SIringo received a buckshot In the calf of his leg and. he still carries a scar to retnlnd him of the days when he was a wild young Texas cowboy. On subsequent trips up the trails in Texas, he visited other noted cow towns. Dodge City, Sweetwater, Tas-cosand Mobeetle. One Fourth of July he celebrated In Dodge City and he frankly records that this celebration came near costing me my life In ll a fight In the Lone Star Dance hall In charge of the noted Bat Masterson. In fact a reading of Riata and Spurs Is like leafing through a Whos Who of the old cattle days In the West There you will see the names of Old Man Goodnight John Chlsum, Beals of the great LX ranch, Outlaw Bill Moore, the manager of that ranch. Sheriff Brown, who robbed the bank In his own town and was thereafter swiftly and sufficiently hanged by its happy citizens, Billy ths Kid, Jim East Bat Garrett and a dozen others who were connected with the famous Lincoln county cattle war and the saga of that youthful outlaw. If you would know the true story of how Billy the Kid came to his death beof Pat Garrett read fore the Charlie Siringos Riata and Spurs. Billy the Kid was not theonly fa- a, free-for-a- er i , i v ings for this Texas long horn kid as a farmhand In Illinois, as a bellhop at the famous old Planters hotel In St. Louis and as a deck hand on a Mississippi river steamboat Finally he landed In New Orleans, where he was talren Into the home of a prosperous merchant who offered to adopt him and give him an education. But Charlie SIringo already had the wandering foot and he was not content with the dullness of school life for very long. So he ran away and returned to his farm hand Job In Illinois, only to leave that again for another try at life on a Mississippi river steamHe arrived In St Louts In time to board the Robert E. Lee and to ride on that boat during Its historic race with the Natchez. Back In New Orleans again he visited the home of his benefactor and again was taken In and given a chance at schooling. But again he ran away and the spring of 1871 found him back In his native land, the Matagorda country, In time to have a part In the heyday of trailing Texas cuttle. He entered the employ of the famous Shanghai Pierce and his brother, Jonathan, owners of the Rancho Grande who had literally After cattle on a thousand hills. working with various equally noted I v MsW ' j l! President and Mrs. Coolidge entering Wicker park, near Hammond, Ind., where they stopped on their way t the Black nills, to dedicate Wicker park, the war memorial of Lake county, Indiana. 1 MISS DENVER pArr.&tmprr mous outlaw with whom Charlie Sir lngo had contact In one way o another. He can tell you how the equally famous Sam Bass came to the Inevitable end of the western outlaw and from personal experience during his later career as a cowboy detective and as an employee of the famous Pinkerton Agency his experience Included a part in one of the most celebrated American the chase after Butch Cassidy, Kid Curry and other members of the Wild Bunch, train robbers par excellence of Montana, Wyoming and Utah. Siringos career on the Texas cattle trails ended with the decline of the cattle trade In the eighties. Then for a brief time he was an Oklahoma boomer and there still are many old timers who can tell you tales of the famous characters they saw when they were patrons of Slringos general store, ice cream and oyster parlor In Caldwell, Kan., where he sold his own special brand of Oklahoma Boomer cigars. The next scene in Charlie Siringos Odyssey was the city of Chicago where' he went because as he said Two years and a half as a successful business man swelled my head so that I thought that I was a natural born financier. Caldwell became too small for a man of my caliber. The big city soon disillusioned him but he had appeared there when the time was ripe for the use of his own peculiar talents In another manner. Soon after his arrival occurred the famous Riot and the trial of the anarchists which led directly to his entering the employ of the PinkerMiss Elva Roy, who has been chosen tons. i as Miss Denver, 1927 to represent If Charlie's life as a cowboy had Denver at Atlantic City In the anbeen an exciting one his career as a nual pageant of beauty contest detective was even more so. -- His duties with this agency took him to JAP WAR MINISTER every section of the American continent Some one has said Wherever crooked trails led, from Texas to Alaska, he followed them skillfully and patiently, usually to bring back with him a man or two who had np till that time outridden tho law. Wherever there was trouble, there was Charlie SIringo. If I am a part of all that I have as Tennyson has It was true met, of the Ulysses, or Odysseus of ancient times, It Js also true of Charlie SIringo, whose Odyssey Is Riata and Spurs, a new cowboy epic. man-bunt- At Custer Massacre Reunion Mr ' , m. , n t V . v -, (. 8C s, Hay-mark- et rites. He wears a wooden mask re- saying, Sandy? asked his sister, as sembling a salmon trout and dances the Infant made the usual gurgling and chants, commanding the fish to noises. Sandy cast a wary and Inswim up the streams to his people. quiring eye round the room and then For this mysterious power Ioguk ex- replied: Shes sayln, Gle Sandy an erts over the fishes he visits every apple. Eskimo home and collects of all the fish caught as his share.- Early Confederation Pathfinder Magazine. . Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Connecticut and New Haven formed a confederation under tle title, The Canny Scot A little Scottish boy, having becotne United Colonies of New England on nn uncle at the age of four, was taken May 19, 1643. Tills was the first conto see the new baby. Whats she federation in America. AUtTArTltt W . T' if C? ' v 5 V KiVts 'T. K :x A f - v s. . Ktimn 4. Jxfr- - ' A !? ' pS V k i, C54 ' 4r rv' f - it Jew Atiw m; 3ttlt 7- i - mmfomm Survivors of the Seventh cavalry, part of which was slaughtered In the battle of the Little Big Horn, usually known as the Custer massacre, held their reunion at the scene of the battle in southern Montana. The picture shows the monument erected there and Gen. E. S. Godfrey, one of the few surviving officers, who was detailed by Custer to take part of the troops on a wide detour to attack the Indians in the rear. Mecklenburgh Independence Parade one-fourt- h The first photograph to arrive here of the new war minister of Japan, General SUirakawa. Colorful parade wending its way through streets of Charlotte, N C. commemorate the signing of the Declaration of Independence In Metklcn-burg- h county. North Carolina, 152 years ago. This declaration was a serin of resolutions resembling, more or less closely, the Declaration drafted I $ Thomas Jefferson and adopted by ths Continental congress 4tfw" wuut r '! |