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Show good work of the Mormons has found its way .... and everywhere the world over .... the intelligent people .... have only the greatest praise for the work of the Mormons. o Adventurer, Soldier of Fortune Visits Am. Fork Jack Lloyd, 67 year old soldier of fortune, adventurer, veteran of several seve-ral wars and numerous revolutons, known throughout the entire world as "Burning Daylight" and hailed by the newspapermen of the country as the "Original Globetrotting Reporter" Report-er" was a visitor for several hours in town Wednesday morning, while going through, Jack called on the editor, showed his scrap book with it's hundreds of clippings, gave us the high lights of his life, then announced an-nounced that he would stick around the Rockie section of the country for several weeks, before heading east again. Booms the world over seem to have been the veterans "greatest meat" and he claims that he has never missed a good boom in the last 45 years regardless where it was located, then he recalls the best of them, when the "little bits of glass" were found on the Veldts of the Kimberly Jack was one of the first Americans that made the rush to the South African 1 country, and he wrote many of the feature stories of the day from Johannesburg, about the greatest diamond rush that the world has ever witnessed. It was during the days of the great Alaskan rush, after the cry of gold was heard from the Yukon and the Klondyke, that Lloyd broke into the headlines of the papers, and became a figure in the limelight of the day, for it was after the colorful life of Lloyd, that Jack London wrote the story of "Burning Daylight" a story of the North country that will never be forgotten. All of the great mining towns and camps of the west in the days of the "Gay Eighties and Nineties" are recalled by Jack as he tells you his story, he first tells you of Leadville, when "Silver Dollar" Tabor was the greatest character west of the 'River' . . , . then he tells you of Silver Coty Cripple Creek, the Black Hills country, coun-try, the famous Couerd 'Alene country coun-try the once famous camp of Virginia Vir-ginia City, Butte, Helena, Bingham Canyon, Goldfield, Boulder, Silver-ton, Silver-ton, Ouray, Roseville, Tonapah, Ely, Carson City and almost every one of the "old camps" that made the front page in their best days. According to Jack, in his rambles, he has writen copy . for more than 6000 newspapers the world over, and he has edited and published more than a dozen of his own in the many boom towns that he "made." Many of the greatest celebrites of the days .... hobnobed with Jack, and he tells you of Tex Rickard, Harding Davis, Louis Christmas, Jack White, Tex O'Reily, Ted Lar-kin, Lar-kin, Led Malone, Carl Butler, General Gene-ral Stanley and many of the rest of the Fortune Soldiers. Like all good soldsers of fortune, Jack done a "hitch" in the famous French Foreign Legion, and he knows the life of Beau Geste and what it means to be sent to the "Last Outpost" on duty. The veteran1 claims that the great-. great-. est thrill of his life, was the time that he spent more than three years with the late Pancho Villa in the various revolutions that were led by Villa, and like all the rest of the Americans that were with Villa, Jack speaks only the , greatest of praise for this great leader of the "Mexican "Mexi-can Peon." When Sandino declared his' famous fam-ous "banana" revolution, way down in Nicarauga, Jack joined out with that leader of men, and was with the famous "midget" leader, until the earthquake that almost wrecked the country .... almost wrecked Jack. The major wars .... well he tells you first of being in the Boer war with the one and only Lord Kitchener, Kitche-ner, then he recalls the Russian and Japanese war, when he was a member mem-ber of a Cossack outfit, in the Spanish American affair he joined the "Rough Riders" and in the World war he was a member of the I Intelligence department of the British army. As it has been 26 years since Jack was over the "Salt Lake Route" from Los Angeles to the Lake .... he was more than surprised to 6ee the great advancement in the agriculture agri-culture industry, all along the railroad, rail-road, and he recalls that through irrigation, there are many live communities com-munities today, where as on his last trip .... many were but "wide spots on the road." One of the greatest points that Jack brings out, is the great advancement that the state has made in the highway situation, and he tells you that in many of the small towns .... the filling stations .... garages and eating houses .... have sprung up like mushrooms .... but he tells you, that the most of them tell him . . . .they "make a go of it in the summer months." From J Caliente on north, Jack tells you, that there are a "lot of holes" plugging plug-ging away in the "hills" and in many of the towns, he has found that independent mining .... has become quite popular as well as 1 profitable. As Utah is the greatest center of the Mormon Church .... Jack tells you, that no matter where he has traveled, even in the most remote re-mote sections of the world, he has met the young men .... the graduates gradu-ates of Brigham Young University .... on missionary work .... from the Tropical Islands to the Frozen North .... Jack tells you that the |