Show the tt h li life fe A and 1 1 qa d timea TP eo s of oy f e S I 1 i the story of a frontier and a great frontiersman CHAPTER tho the next year after nathan davis died pete was talking one evening to julia ills his wife the orchard eliard or is doing tine fine give up this millinery business here in i town and lets build a now house I 1 out on tho the orchard and live there we can get along fine without your store and think how much more time havo anve to visit tiro the sick julia thought about kt t tor for a few minutes she vas as tired ot of sewing and and she loved to have time to be out among the neighbors taking care of the sick and assisting at deaths and funel funerals als ls 1 I think id like thit she answered what hind of a house shall we leiila lei ild back answered answer ol pete who it haul 3 d been b sen planning a sort or of dream house for some time brick she said in 3 that would bo be very expensive and theres no use building an elaborate expensive house I 1 feel food in it I 1 like tt it lots lets use loss lo 10 s as lie e have always dorra dona and so pete got julia thinking about a new house they talked about it and planned it an and 1 I I 1 building was to got early the next spring which was 1902 that winter when all the wo wok k in the orchard was waa taken care cara of pete was called to tho the flume mill to take charge of ship pins lumber from the yard there this as a good job tor for a 0 of months in the dead of winter when the land was covered in white and there was nothing to be done on it packing his heavy beavy coats and clothes pete set out for a long stay in I 1 the mountains but bu tho the day after his ai arrival rival at the flume mill something went wron with tire the machinery and the mill closed down the men all latt with ith the exception of pete who was to remain tor for a few days to dispose of the cie lumber that w was already cut and to take care of a few straggling customers there was p practically nothing to do at the mill and petos pete 9 thoughts turned once more to the new looie home l on the orchard ile he looked around in the timber near the saw mill until he found just the logs ha wanted they were mighty trees and only fright eight of them were required to build the house a stoy and a half sigh in the next day or two he ot of enough of them tilled filled t for or a couple of rooms he was going to have no irvid n jd shack ills his house would lave have but few cracks and would be a solid house of logs one afternoon when he was out in the timber a fellow from tha town came up and talked to him what on earth are you cutting such great loss s for what ate aie you goic gain to do with them pete explained the kind of a house lie ae was going to build and his neighbor as soon convinced that those wee the kind of logs he V anted canted tor for the new house lie he planned to build in the spring so he sot bet about getting gettin some ot the largest trees out but when the snow began to aielt and aej it was possible to start bill ding the fellow changed hiss mind about the new house and sold fold pete all the logs he had cut pete then had b ad plenty to complete his new house which lie was already to begin any building activity in the little town aroused enthus enthusiasm Lasin anil and interest pete was buLl building ding a large place wit with larl larla a logs and many any people stopped at the lot just a little north of town to see wha what was going on oil one day a fellow who dealt in lumber came along and said be needing some ta fancy acy lu and some finis laing stuff soon ine ie got feet that ive got to alse aise a hundred dollars on hlll 1711 11 1 1 away but I 1 dont need that much lumber ill give you the th whole load for a hundred dollars cash Is it a deal flete pate looked over the lumber and deeded 4 to take it the irim lerman delivered it to the orchard and got his money in looking over the lumber himber pete pe found much that clat he could use in finishing his house ho ha sold bold it a lot of ait oit it to different but still hai haa several hundred feet of ten lumber left lie he got to looking over it one day and thin thinking lEing it ara and decided lie he bould finish th tire the e exterior ol of ills his house with it waat baat a fine house I 1 would have then he thought plaster Pl ister on the inside logs in the middle and the wood finish on the outside ought to be warm in winter and cool in the sum imar so pete took the wide lengths of ingber and every 1 foot or two cut grooves hooves in it and nailed it ito i to the log walls on the next n ext strip the groves alternated giving the tha appearance of great bricks or stone he filled in the groves with cement and the squares of lumber at the request ic quest at f mrs airs dellmin wore were painted a rock lock color when it was finished passersby passers by stopped to admire the new stone dwelling and it was difficult to tell that the house bouse was lumber until you looked very closely at the walls of the north end where a few knot A Q 7 N A A IN I 1 vr 1 aw 02 f I 1 A pete dillman holes wove discernible when the louse was nearly completed a bad eit denale of scarlet st fever spread over the villie I 1 v nant ant his f family am ily to get it so decide to move thena them into a two room shack on the orchard where pete and a caretaker sometimes stayed when work on tha th a was in full swing A few weeks after that tha the new house was ready for occupancy and it nils a proud pete ind and a happy julia who moved their children and belongings into the comfortable roomy dwelling A little later julia sold the millinery business to ad ross wife and was free to visit her sick and love and care for her children along with his fruit trees pete cultivated and raised shada trees which he sold to residents of the valley several of these lie be transplanted around the house planted lawn all around the house and sst scat out some beautiful shrubs and flowers ll owera in the sum when everything was in bloom ana the yards and ardena viero vero green and shady pete and julia looked over their estate its lovely breathed julia of all places ive ever lived it is the cie most like home and pete smiled ind and knew he had pleaded her for the next two years the dillman family lived art alij happily in the new house on the tha orchard and business vai good the winter of 1902 and 1903 wei were c mot hard ones and the brzes bloomed and grow grew and produced some of UP tle finest f uit raised in the basin the Dill dillman mai youn youngsters wre were also growing 9 pete looked at elmer and ra ray and wondered if they wore ivare not growing faster than his trees elmer had completed school he had gone as fa as he could in vernal and as anxious to tako a herd of sheep in tho the byrt int alris and winter them pete advised against this offended elmer who A ho went oft off to omha when hiddo ways waya shipped sh their sheep east this was in the fall of 1904 in 1904 the country waa buzzing uth news of the worl worlie ve fair in st SM louis this was close to petes home bome he ha thought of taking in the fair and visiting his mother and relatives reli tives in iowa I 1 he le planned to take son ray N miltn d tn him for weeks before pete and ra ray talked of their trip in UA th I 1 tall but the day before they planned to leave julia took ill she had been carin for a tam fam lly suffering with typhoid fever ind sie was taking tho disease her henelt kelf that evening pete stayed with julia and said mabe we better go I 1 hate to leaver you sick but BU julia insisted 1 I want you to go and I 1 want ray to go dont alv give up the trip ill be b all ri ht I 1 so the next morning father i and son set out for an adventure which aas to prove a sad one arriving in iowa they went to sheridan to petes mothers home there they found elmor elmer who had gorra as far as omaha with the sheep and then on to iowa abe whee e lie hoped to stay pete was gl d to see bee him and his worry was rell relieved eved talking one evening to Elra lr peti said what do you plan to doa do id like to 0 o to school it if I 1 had the money eliner answer ed would yol yen encouraged pete just what id like you to do and 1 brought the money with rne one but first arst come on down and go to th tha 3 fair wita us learn moe mo e there in a week than ou will a all winter rt school the tillmans Dill mani mans visited a few days in sheridan v acting toi for henry petes brother and jiin son bon to get ready to go down to st louis with them pete and henry and their th thee ee sons song spent five days at the fair in the day time they took in the I 1 big show buildings at at ali niga t the side shows one after afternoon noor pete missed elmer and ray who had slipped off 0 to see bee a circus the second time they were nere delighted with the animals and antics of a circus having never seen one ona before after five diya days of looking see int in watching and walking the party was worn out and vm weary end and decided to return to sheridan arriving there in III the rooming morning pete said now mother ill visit with you today but tomorrow I 1 think ray and I 1 had better leave tor for home deb just a little worried about julia half hair an hour later a messenger boy delivered dell deli veed a telegram to boym tho the dil ans ask asking in them to try and find pete if possible julia was worse pete read the file telegram gra in and he and ray amic the first train wiest ekner stayed to go to school that winter the travelers arrived in vei nai october 3 1904 pate P immediately went to julia but she sha was as eak and all she said was oh youve corro coiro home tire the next day fiina were boise and pete was giving up tip hope toward even in she quietly passed away in III a 1 I flash of a minute petos petas v hole life was changed julia I 1 me lie fair julia th the tha a beloved was wai gone nothing could ever be the nine film il anin al ln and he know what nhat to do or where to turn soon he zed that lie must so go on and make a home for ill chi ildren they would be his chief care and ail interest from now on levith thia in in mind ind lie he did not n arite t elnick 1 until antil the funeral services service 3 were ov over ovar ar it would only interrupt his school and he enild could e do nothing by comai coin i bacal bad I 1 home j pete nado the tha arano emon ii for or ju la in funeral 1 I want som loov asic it sic an nl only one i laker ei E rone it ir the vail valley ay laws jui i and thares no rise iise ha haxhi IT g a 1 dren dran dia tp speaker eaker i fay ay the sime same thinie over and ever ig igalo atil I 1 would lik ill R S collet to lve ive the address the funeral was held in tha vernal stake jail and people said afterward it was the most beautiful and impressive funeral they had ever attended julia was buried in rock point cemetery lite life for pete peta the next few years aas as almost unbearable the only thing that saved illin him was wag his rh children ildren 1 I want to educate them and jive ive them each a trade and have bave enough to bury 1117 myself self on ts he thought and so pete bet out to educate his children elmer was in iowa iona at school ray went to provo fen to a girls school in salt lake and pete pe e hired and board tor for the little ferl belle at a placa a near school in vernal the big house was empty and echoed with footsteps of a happier past pete could no longer loner stand to stay there when the children we 0 away so the house and tta tha orchard were sold old end pete was now game warden for uintah county the preservation of flea fish and ganji a as 9 now under gov government control the stala had appointed gamel marcellus pope as fish and earns commissioner of five cou countley count les in eastern gutib each county was to have a deputa commissions the first fint man mail I 1 thought of for uintah h county was you pete pelo said Mareel marcellus lu 3 pope you like the job oh no said pete pefe 1 I like to lo kill game too well to ever take a job like that ent it if you act as warden soon quit doing it you 1 think it over and let me know ow in a fow few days the next time pete saw pope he told him he want the job ive ot to kill a deer once in a while but pope give up ho was waa trying a new angla you like to be in the tha hills think of the chance have to do sonic some prospecting lie he went on you ml mi lat ht soon biake more than your salary prospecting ws vi s betes dealt reas nebb ire ho til thought ought for a minute and then said you youve struck a tender spot t maybe ill zave ive it a try and tor for t the lie next eight years j peter dillman was same ame commiss corni comi missioner miss mAss loner of vintah uintah county to be continued |