Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-07-31
PONY EXPRESS DAYS.
Sarcastic AlluSlOnS 10 Exp TlGnCos oil
That Period.
WANTS A VETERANS CONVENTION
HON Billy Fisher was TCmahawk"d
With q Saucer--Ihe Big
Diamond DlsCoytry,

Special correspondonce OF the NEWS.
JULY 80, ls97.-I my feminie.
cences OF t e Pony Express recently
appearing In the NEWS / nave Give
the riders OF that express the credit Tot
being quite respectable Glaze II pee
pie, but after seeing tho parade On the
Nv nty fourth l have changed NY
opinion anu now cln idet them about
the toughest citlz ms 1t has been my
fortune or fate to be ass cistea VITA.
think OF ~ After n lspsc OF thirty
Dix years anu many OF them were
mild lt-sged at the btginniug OF that
period. On tho TweHiy fourth the
"Woodt" or rather the streets wore
full OF them.
The Herodotus Of pony history
makes them but eight a. surviving,
but then have notcs1 ON similar DC.
casions old histories beiuddled snd fig-
uTes by extraction instead OF addition.
l must have met and shook hsnds
witua number sum Gent to man %
ute from here to Alaska, AMI Ter
hnps that end would Do the N 81 con
genial for some OF b Ose grizzied vi.
prevaricatUTs, whose exploits are
cbronicled in 81 atherhsad, The
great Siwash OF the G1shutes." AS
i remarked ex.pony rlders N SatuT.
uny were az thick ne leaves 10 valam.
brasa, all desiring 10 share, all desery-
ing, " mIasuIeI by their piliary cipl.
cities, the nOnUTa ATTACHED to tue ulF-
tinguished occupation OF pony rider.
And yet among these ex-rlders iakiDs
part in ths procession L saw nut two
representatives OF tue eastern rOad-
Dobson aud CoviDgton.
Where were Thatcher, Graves.
King, Wiley, Wright Little and
Calianai They are all Utsh boy
anu were regular riders on the frs
division east. l discovered fr0m ON
p)ny literature that the riders were
paid $3.50 per month. Now us 1t Is a
TACT tnnt they received but $50 q
month, 500 must have been wiGuhel
from Them rs "A guaranty, perhaps for
their good behavior, and this beng the
Gaze 90 fl urss DONE lie, II has oc.
CURED to me that "a convention OF the
surviving pony riders and the widOws
anu orphans OF those deceased, for dc.
vising weys and meane for the recov.
cry of tuis "bs ok pBy" wDuld bn Just
he thing. And which from my esti'
mate OF the number claiming tU have
been on tho,e portions Of the roai IN.
lested with InJians would mount to
about sls,00O,0O0, the sum Ie.
ceived by H.. NJ. and w. ioI
u series OF years OF ireighting.
purpossly put 1t al this amount, s
that the heirs ana admiDistra 81
the gentlemen will have no d fficulty
In paying 1t. Consi or the benefi
suoh convention would confer upon
the city, that 10, provided the city hs,
building large enough to hold them
Some pfeiuiiced individuals may
sneer 81 suon u suggestion, Uut / assure
these perrOns that th o IL not the p1u )
roncern hat was bitten Uy the blu,
tail fly. / shall take the earliest oppol
tunity to confer with come OF lhosI
most prominent gentlemen whose
scalpe, fguratively, are dangling II
the wickups OF the Ga-huie BRAY
and enueavOr to bring about q ienni
OF the pony express family aud Al
though the suceessIul pursuit of The ot
lsct indicated may prove harde
route than any VI them have ye
struck, we can at leaBt pIeambuat
and resolve.
OF the overland and plny expires
literature, much Of IT Is reliable an
intereOting, but pome OF tho event
narrated were pure romance, aud IN
dates assigned Tor the occurrence O
some inciuenis where at tlmes whe
the pony express did not exist. Gu