, 1890-01-30
THE LIFE OF CROCK EFT.
An Eventual Career Which Was
Terminated by Santa
Anna's Treaohery,
He Was Man of Groat Force
and Popular at the Ma
tional Capital.

Much interest in the career of Da-
! vld Crockett has been excited In
Spokane Falls by the production of
/ Frank Mnyo's drama, Following
is brief biography Of the noted
/ frontiersman:
David Crockett was II native Of
Tennessee. When hc was l. years
old his father hired him to an old
/ Dutchman, with whom he went
100 miles ON foot, but after remain.
I ing u few weeks with his master he
ran away and succeeded In reaching
home. For IA time he worked for
/ teamsters In Tennessee. Maryland
and Virginia, and for eighteen
months was bound TO hattor Ia the
latter state. Tired of wandering
about, he finally returned home and
worked fora year To pay two notes
of his fathers amounting 10 S7B.
fic then went to school for six
I months and learned his letters for
/ the first tlrne, but relinquished
I study to seek II wife, and after sew
cral disappolntmcnts In love, mar
ricd and settled In Lincoln county
J in 1909, and about 1911 In Franklin
county, one of the widest parts OF
| the state.
Crockett had by this time acquired
some fiunc as n hunter, and Mt the
I beginning Of the Creek war IL 1873
he enlisted in IA regiment of sixty.
I day volunteers. lie served through
I the war and aftcrwnrd settled on
I -hoal creek, In u dcsolate region OF
/ the state, where n temporary govern
nicnt was formed and Crockett was
made "a magistrate. He WAS subsc-
quenily appointed To the same
Office 10y the legislature, and was
l then elected colonel Of the militia.
I In 1921 hc was u candidate for the
legislature, and winning favor by
I telling amusing stories and by Ills
skill with the rifle, was elected by y
handsome majority, though hc had
never read IA newspaper In his no
and was ent rely ignorant OF pubic
speaking. lie was reelected again
/ in lS23, and In the latter part Of tho
year was an unsuccessful candidate
/ for congress. la 1926 he was again
IA candidate as II supporter Of jack
son, and this time was
/ elected, serving two terms,
/ from 1897 til 1881. In his
second term he opposed Jacksons
Indian bil and this course caused
his defeat In 1850, but lie served
again In 1880. Crockett was popu'
lar ut Washington, where ho be-
came noted, not only for his &c
centriclty of manner, but for ms
common sense and shrcwdncss. lie
prldcd himself on his independence,
and thus set forth his position; II
am ut liberty 10 vote us my con-
Science and judgment dictate TO bo
right, without the yoke of my party
on me, or the driver ut my heels,
with his whip In hand, command.
Ing me to gc-wo-haw, just at his
pleasure"
After the increasing influence OF
Jackson In Tenucsscc, which made
1t impossible for Crockett to he ~
elected to congress, he Joined tiie
Texans In their struggle for hide,
pendcncc, and, having performed
various exploits, ended his advon-
turous life in the famous defense OF
the Alamo, where, as one of the AIN
survivors Of a band of li0 Texans,
he surrendered to Santa Anna, only
to be massacred by that officers or
dcrs. In 1894 he published II char
acterlstic autobiography of his liic,
also, "Iiifc of Van Buren,, Heir,
Apparent TO the Government" ana
u Tour to the North and Down
| East