The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-12
HOTEL AND CORRIDOR.

TUe dOI- =. VI.
ercnr of Iowa. Governor Drake arrived
r. the Rio Grande Western at 1880 yes
terday and viii remain till this evening
He IS on pleasure trip and is accom-
panied by George w Bowen of Denver,
assistant attorney for and a stakeholder
in the Colorado Fuel and Iron company
IT am merely here for pleasure and 10
see Salt Lake. said Governor Drake last
evening. y had worked hard of late, and
tcek an active part in the recent cam
paign and was in need OF recrea ton. SO
decided to make trip west 10 visit my
daughter, who spent the summer in Colo
RADIO. When l got 10 Denver. l concluded
10 come on 10 the Springs, and then,
when l was so near Salt Lake, l thought
= l was so ciose would run on and
see your city.
NO. my visit has no political signif-
c=nce whatever. / have stated the full
import OF my mission.
Governor Drake is an interesting char
acte:. He crossed the plains 10 Cali
forn.a in 1852 and again in 1854. journey
ing back both times by way OF the
but is well preserved and vigorous and
reccunts with zest the experiences
which came 10 him in his journeyings in
the early days when TO cross the plains
was a perilous undertaking and travel
through the more civilized regions was
exceedingly tedious and inconvenient.
y had been in Utah before said he,
in rectting some of his experiences but
il was many years ago, when the portion
of the state l passed through was a
wilderness. | was on my way 10 CALI
through the northern section We trav-
ele1 by OK team, and il was an exceed
ingly tiresoms journey. | can assure you,
but We got through without serious trou-
bic on that trip. ] made a considerable
amount of money in California, and see
ing an opportunity TO make more IN
the great scarcity Of cows. l returned 10
Iowa and bought up drove Of 100. l
IVA al cd hun hot trim nv n
isthmus and up the Mississippi river
from New Orleans.
My next trip across the continent was
not as fortunate as the first / started
with my drove of 100 cows, several yoke
OF oxen and a few head of horses, in
1854. 1 had II men in my party, and all
went well till we reached Shell creek in
Nebraska. There we encountered band
OF PaWnee Indians, who gave US an ex-
citing experience. The Pawnees were at
war with tire Sioux and had been worsted
and were in half-starved condition.
They demanded toll for crossing the
bridge across the Shell creek claiming
to have built the bridge. They wanted
TO give up the oxen till I knew whether
they were entitled 10 toll. and made an
examination OF the bridge to ascertain If
their claims were true. l found the
bridge had been built by the logs having
been hewed with axes and knew the In
dams had not done the work but was
satisfied it mad been done by q party of
emigrants who had preceded us.
b
Il decided not to give up the stock.
and OF course we had to fight. There
were only ABOUT 30 Indians in the band
VIXEN we met them, but when hostilities
ocened the bushes fairly swarmed with
redskins. We had them very much a a
disadvantage, as We were armed with
two Colts siX-shooters and a rife each.
while they had only bows and arrows
and tomahaWks. We were therefore able
to keep them Al a distance after the first
one or TWO volleys, for We knocked them
over right and left, and they could not
understand how we could keep shooting
so fast.
After we had killed nine OF their num-
Der, they drew away, and we crossed the
creek and FASTENED TO overtake the emf
grant party ahead of us, which numbered
about 300 men. They followed. and by
the time We had joined the larger party
the.- had increased to more than a thou
Sand. but we were able 10 stand them
OH without much difficulty.
I'VE passed through Utah that time by
the Bear river route. We reached Call
fornia safely. ana 1 sold my COWS at my
own price. which was. L venture TO say.
as handsome as was ever paid for milk
cows anywhere. That was the most i'm
pOrtant step that had been taken a that
time toward stocking the state with cat
tie. 1 sold them in and about Sacra-
mento, where l made my headquarters
Il only remained in California short
time when L again started 10 return east
{ / sailed from San Francisco in the
I Yankee Blade. one of the Vanderbilt
steamers which run in opposition TO Tie
mail line to Panama. Tie steamer was
wrecked off the coast of California and a
great many were lost. | was picked up
after five days and taken TO San Iran
CISCO | took the next steamer and
reached the isthmus safely. l crossed the
/ isthmus travelling by mule 10 the Shasras
river. Then We padded down The RIVER
some miles and struck the railroad, which
had then been completed from AspinWali
/ to the river. We travelled by train to
| Aspinwan and then L took steamer for
New York.
That journey TO Iowa will give you an
idea of the progress that has been made
since 1884 in modes of travel. l went
up the Hudson river to the Erie canal
and took . tow boat 10 the lake At
/ Buffalo | took boat for Detroit and then
/ Travelled to Chicago by the Michisan
Central, which had just been completed
! At Chicago / took a canal boat for La
/ Sale and then travelled down the river TO
/ ST. Louis where l took a Mississippi
river boat to Keokuk and then Travelled
10 miles by team 10 my home.
/ Governor Drake was elected year
ago. succeeding Governor Boies. He is an
ardent Mckinley Republican and stumpe1
all through the campaign Tor me ticket
He preferred not to talk politics las
evening, saying he was out OF II Tor
the nonce. He stated. however, that re
thought times would get better through
out the country and would continue so
through McKinley's administration, after a
/ tariff bill had been passed Concerning the
announcement that Senator Allison had
been offered the portfolio of secretary or
state. which appeared in the dispatches
Yesterday. he said he hardly expected
Senator Allison to accept as ne mad but
last winter been elected for another term
in the senate. where he can be OF more
service than in the cabinet.
Governor Drake. called on Governor
Wells Yesterday and was driven about the
citv in Governor Wells carriage Today
the governor will conduct him on an
other sightseeing tour. which viii include
a trip to the tabernacle concert there
and a ride out TO Sailtalr-
The up-to-date reply to the person who
injuries. How are you? IS, Just able
Ia sit M while they make the bed. Al
least it is supposed to be as that was the
response half a dozen such inquiries mel
when put to A. ". Morton, MarshaN
Fields carpet man. oy as nlsh dor of tbs
when they met him in the corriooI OF lhe
Knutsford last evening, and ne is sup
posed TO DE UP 10 date in everything
n C.. McBeth. who unwinds many mil
lion yards of Clark's Mile End cotton
the Knutsford yesterday. " men asker y
he had encountered anything or interest,"
in his travels recently, he replied; NO
rye been in Ogden two or three days
/ For the benefit of Mr.. McBeth's con.
nections in the junction city, IL snouio
OGDEN but the remark was just as ap-
propriate as though he had
r + Davis who was elected sheriff