Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-12-07

own Of Beaver Dam, and at the time
lived there this was full OF hsh. Hun
drcds Of tons we're caught every winter
and / remember one winter when
shipped 100 tons OF fish myself
caught u great many ul these and bought
others, and ] made that winter lusl
about ftolo. Have you ever seen how
they fsh through the iccf 49,.
NO, b" said ]. "How did you do ~
I'VE built little houses on the ice,
replied the Senator. Each OF these
houses was Just about four and a had
feet square and five feet high They
we're entirely closed, and had door, but
no windows. In the back OF the house
there was a little sheet iron stove, the
pine OF which went out OF the top, and
which kept Us VAIN. We would cut a
hole In the ice In front Of the stove, and,
owing TO the comparative darkness. we're
able to look down into It and see the
/ fish as they swan about beneath We
used decoy bats Of wood. with tin
/ wings fixed to them. These were so
| fastened 10 the line that they twisted and
turned as We pulled at H. The fish
would nose about the bait, and we
would catch them by driving spears into
| them. Our BEST fish were pickerel, and
those we caught weighed all the way
from two and one.hah to twenty five
/ pounds. When the weather was warm
| we often cut holes In the ice outside the
! houses and tished with genuine bait
You spoke about hunting, Sena'
tor"
81 should have said trapping" was
/ the reply. This lake at Beaver Dam
was surrounded by marshes and these
were the natural homes OF muskrats
and mnks. used to set traps aoou,
/ the edge Of the lake, and would visit
them every morning to see what J had
caught. | had as many as forty traps
some winters, aud have many times
caught twenty rats In a single morning
When the ice was good I could skate
around from one trap TO another, and
visit all OF my traps before breakfast"
Was there much money IN ~"
Yes" replied the United States Sena.
tor. There was a good deal in It for a
boy. used TO get forty cents Tor a
muskrat skin. and haul OF twenty
skins meant s.. to me-"
TIKI STRUGGLES or 4 YOUNG LAWYER.
GLOW did you come to study lawi"
81 can't tell that" replied Senator
Thurston. when | was quite a small
boy said was bound to be two things.
One was to be lawyer and the other
was to 10 TO the United States Senate.
! suppose my father put the law idea
into my head. Al least, I studied law al
! soon as got out OF school and was adj
mitied to practice at Beaver DAM
DO you remember your first case
Senator"
Yes" was the reply ut was jus
iiee OF the peace case. A man had beer
arrested for whipping a boy. The pros,
ecuting attorney was called away and he
asked me to try II. When the town
learned that | was to plead the case
they crowded about the office. The
Justice complimented me on my speech,
but he gave the verdict TO the other side.
This was so with nearly all the cases OF
my earlier practice. did not seem to
succeed, and II was a long time before
made anything TO speak OF"
How did you happen to 10 to
Omahap'
II wanted to lind a new city aud grow
up with II, " replied Senator Thufston.
II took a map Of the United States and
studied the towns OF the west, wavering
long time between Omaha and Kansas
City. Omaha had then 1900 people,
and finally chose it,
"How much money had you when
you got thereF'
lust forty dollars, which | had made
ciadling wheat"
That was not much to start out life
with, was Il, Senatorl said I.
1T seemed a great deal then" re.
pled the man who IS now getting more
than four hundred dollars a month from
Uncle sam 1T was more than my
partner had, and he, by the way, had
gotten married and brought his wife
with him using the iourneyas wedding
tlip"
How did you spend your forty dol.
lars?"
THE most OF II went into furniture
and food. My partner and his wife had
nothing, and as boarded with them INV
money had to supply the kitchen. We
waited Tor some time, expecting to get
practice, and finally matters became so
desperate that my partner had 90 send
ms vile back TO Beaver Dam, ard he
lett Omaha and went further west. lie
stopped In Denver, and he Is now a very
successful lawyer there ! STAYED In
Omaha 80
But how did you get alongp"
On managed to make q little NOW
and then" replied Senator Thurton.
VI had an office with another firm. and
they gave me little ante room which
used Tor my private office and slsening
room brought buffalo robe and a
9ulit with me, and made up bed on
the moor, had 10 try Oh sorts OF shifts
20 get along, and one tine, / remember.
~hen the financial skies we're very black,
bought box Of crackers al vholessIe
ara lived on them until the silver lining
came out from behind the clouds. TINS
SILVER lining usually appeared in the
shape OF a ive'dOllar lee, which some.
tunes lasted ME Tor weeks. Aher a
ume, however, ! did better. Nv practice
gradually grew and | had ali that
could DO. then became the counsel of
the Union Pacific railroad. which / held
"l,t AFTER my election to the Senate"
senator, you have been a successful
lawyer DO you think the chances Tor
maklng success at the law are as good
today as they have been in the past"
es, the held is a large one. and
men" ''H"'
"Will you drop your practice, now
That you are IN the Senate"
ITO a large extent, yes, - was the re.
ply J Lave resigned rom the Union
PACING, though IN doing SO 1t is with the
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