Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-09-17
NTHE ARKANSAS TRAYELER.N

The Little Rock (Arkansas) Gazette gives
the following account Of Colonel Sandy Faulk'
ner, the original narrator Of the "Arkansas
Traveller" whose death, in that city, on the
9TH ultimo was reported by telegraph:
"Colonel Faulkner was born in Georgetown,
Scott county, Kentucky, March 3, 1904, and
was seventy-one years ofage at his death. He
came to Arkansas in 1929, and settled in
Chicot county, on the Mississippi river, as a
cotton planter. In 1889, Colonel Faulkner
with his father, the late Nicholas Faulkner,
Virginian by birth) took up his residence in
Little Rock, becoming the owner Of another
place on the Arkansas river, below this city
He disposed Of both plantations before his
death. 1t is we'll known throughout the
Southwest that COL Faulkner was the origi-
nal personator of the "Arkansas Traveller"
and it was his pride to be known as such.
The story, it is said, was founded on little in
cident which occurred in the campaign Of
1910, when he made the tour of the State in
company with Hon. A. H. Sewer, Gov. Full
ton, Chester Ashley, and Gov. Yell. One
day, in the Boston Mountains, the party ap-
preached squatters, for information Of the
route, and Col. "Sandy" was made spokesman
of the company, and it was upon his witty re-
sponses the tune and story were founded. On
the return to Little Rock, grand banquet
was given in the famous bar-room which used
to stand near the Anthony House. and Col.
SANDY" was called Oh to play the tune and
tell the story. Afterward it grew in popular
ity. When he subsequently went to New Or
leans, the fame of the "Arksnsas Traveller"
had gone before him, and at banquet, amid
clinking glasses and brilliant toasts, he was
handed a violin by the then Governor of
Louisiana, and requested to favor them with
the favorite Arkansas tune. AT the old St.
Charles hotel a special room was devoted to
his use, bearing in gilt letters over the door,
Arkansas Traveller" During the war be-
tween the States Colonel Faulkner was cap
tain of ordnance at the arsenal in this city
until the place was abandoned to the FEEDER
ais. From here he went to Tyler, Texas,
where he still held the position Of ordnance
officer At the close of the war he was at
Marshall, Texas, but returned to this city.
He was complimented at the first term Of the
existing Legislature by the naming after him
of the new county of Faulkner. At the con-
vening of the present Constitutional Conven-
ton he was elected door-keeper, which posi-
ton, together with Magistrate for Pulaski
county, he held at the time of his death.
Throughout the State his death will be sorely
felt, for he was good man, the very centre
Of brilliant social circle, esteemed and be-
loved by all who knew him."
AS as an appropriate accompaniment to the
foregoing, we give herewith the following
the original story Of "The Arkansas (Alkan-
saw Traveler"-from an old number of the
knickerbocker Magazine:
In the early settlement Of Arkansas, trav
eler, after riding some eight or ten miles with
out meeting human being, or seeing human
habitation, came at length, by sudden turn
of the road, to miserable "shanty," the
centre Of small clearing, in what had
originally been "black; jack thcket," whence
the only sound that proceeds is the discordant
music of broken-winded fiddle from the
troubled bowels of which the occupant is Ia
boriously extortipg the monotopous tune
known as "The Arkansas Cor Rackensack)
Traveller" Our traveller rides up within