The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-13
JOHN CARR OF CACHE.
i "A UNIQUE PIONEER
Interesting Story of Early Days In Utah When Hunting and
Fishing Were Good, But Indians We're Bad.

and quit 9 and thenyJohn chuckled quietly
and winked at his auditors
Some Fast Riding.
well We got on our horses AMI lit out
for Hopper's. but l thought we were going
TO have trouble getting there, for just as
We got fairly started Employs horse got
hit in the flank. The bullet didn't more n
cut into the flesh good an deep. but how
il did bleed. Empey hammered him along.
and at every jump the blood would Jist
squirt out He managed 10 keep the ami
maj M, however. TIL we got within a
half mile OF Hoopers. then ii fell down
from loss of blood and Empey had To kill
il. We get help at Hoopers and went
back oniy TO find them redskins drivin'
about fifty head of our finest steers for
the mountains. You bet We had hot
chase Tor them cattle, but we got 'em all
right, and got one Ipjun TO boot:
lnJun iishtin'. however. wasn't at all TO
my likin. Brigham Young used to tell
US feilers never to fight an Injun as long
as there WAS a chance to coax him into
good humor. Get him up close to you,
you've got him handy and l a.lus fol-
lowed thai advice. But, snakes, My
brother Ben. he'd ruther shoot an Injun
any time than talk to one an / tell ye
they used to keep him jumpin' sideways
too.
The year the railroad come through
the lnluns were awful bad. | went out 10
Fort Benton thar year to haul in poor
emigrants. and as 1--WE had nearly ali OK
teams, the job of night herding the cattle
fell 10 me- We'd generally camp where
cattle out into the best lookin feedin'
ground and stay with EN- all night. After
they,d been out couple or three hours
they d git nlled up, and then of course,
they would lie down. When I'd git EN-
all settled down. then I'd hunt up some
special pet of nlire amongst the herd and
use MIN Tor a pillow: And sleep-why. Eve
slept on all sorts of beds, some bad ones
ana lots or good ones. but I've never slept
more peacefully and more contentei than
when laid out there on them. big plains
with the stars twinklin above me. the
wind ripplin around in the sea of grass,
and the rise and fall'of the animals body
soothin me 10 sleep. like the visions of
that mystic boat on Slumberland's sea
rocked my childhood's cares to rest and
made me happy again. l always felt safe,
700, when cuddled up 10 one of them oxen,
t !t' Mhen- there was any danger around
they be sure to- let you know il.
Saved By An Ok.
zone night laid down by big old OK
we called Buck. About 2 O'Clock in the
mornin' Buck commenced 10 fidget around
till he woke me up. and sure enough all
the other cattle We're standing right close
around us, rshowin' all sorts of uneasi-
ness: L grabs my gun and sorter half
climbs over the OK, when up he jumps all
of a sudden and starts off like he was
stampeding, didn't git a chance TO git
of him before he boited, and seem that
all the other cattle was runnin' like scared
buffaloes, l didn't want to git off after
that. as l was sure there was Injuns in
that grass somewhere. / dropped my gun
and jist clawed hold of that old OK in
order to say onto him. an il must "a
been a sight to have seen me clingin' TO
him jest like. We see these monkeys in a
circus humped up on a pony. 1t wasn't
fur 10 camp, and we soon got there l tell
We. i rousted EN- all out and we watched
for Injuns Jill daylight. but nary a dern
redskin showed up. l got my gun agin
next day. and the boys laughed at me
for gettln' scared of "a coyote, but they
cuit II when we learned that the night
herder of some freighters that camped
there next night was found dead with a
knife in his heart the following morning.
The poor Teller didn't have any cattle to
euddle up TO, as the freight outfit drove
But even with all them sorts o treu-
bles we enjoyed ourselves a heap more N
we do now" and the old fellow heaved "a
ter n his neighbors in them days, an when
we went out together we had a reg lar
good old time. But. o course. doins of
adays. We didn't hev any money then
an l can't see but what we got along jist
as We'll We used TO have theatres in
Logan in them days. and we'd tote in!
cts. One time the company gave regular
old. rip. shorter of play in the Old hall
Just across from where the Coop. now is,
and everybody wanted il repeated. Well
We used to use tallow candies for foot
lights them days. and it appeared that
the dramatic company had run short of
candles. So out come old John Reed in
front Of the curtain. and says he: .Breth-
rim and sisters, we'll be pleased to repeat
this ere play. bur we must ave more
fat John was English We see. an he
called the tallow fat Well, about three
fourths of us paid the doorkeeper in fat
next time, an l tell We we he'd show the
likes of which has never bin beat in this
town. And then the old pioneer laughed
TO himself as. despite the protests of his
listeners, he mounted the little pony which
Is almost as familiar figure as John
himself, and rode Off
Carr is a bachelor and some of the
friends who have known him since the
long. ago say that deep down in the old
mans heart is buried the secret of an
early love around which was woven the
most pathetic romance. But John never
speaks of his sorrows. and no one hears
him complain of his lot in life. but Incl
dents in his daily life reveal that beneath
the rugged exterior of this old pioneer
there IS heart as tender as that of a |
child. John is respected by all who know |
him. and many eyes watch him drift away |
on the ebb of life's tide, that will be wet !
when he disappears in the ocean of the |
great beyond.