The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-02-14
HOTEL GOSSIP.

Old practitioner as being a man with a
history Last night DR.. Whitford admit
TED IN an ofi-hand way, that his lot had
fallen, among. stirring scenes incident 10 a
pioneer OF the west he said: i bear
several arrow scars on my anatomy
which were presented 70 me by band OF
Cheyenne Indians al Julesberg. Colo, in
1883. but the narrOWeSt squeak 1 had was
at the hands of a Methodist preacher
Who was with a company of argonauts
crossing the plains IN eastern Colorado
] am an agnOstic and 1 guess / aired my
opinions too freely. At any rate, a lynch
ing bee on the tongue Of a prairie schoon-
er was one day inaugurated, with your
humble servant as star performer az a
result I had 10 cache myself for few
Tae pioneers real historical epoch,
however. commenced when he reached
Pixies Peak. where he INDUCED in min.
ing and. to use his own words; Jim
BeckWith, DR.. J. 3. McClelland and my
self owned half of the site Of Denver, but
/ sold and moved out. In those days
used TO go out on Cherry creek and pick
I'D mica for gold dust and send Il back
east in gOose-quills until / learned better.
The men were crazy IN those days. /
travelled with old Major Bridger then,
with a train Of 1.50O men; old BTldger was
the demnedest liar I ever knew. de would
fill them up with yarns about icicles of
gold hanging on the rocks on the banks
of the creeks, and when we struck mica
in the sand they would go crazy. l had
a WagOnload Of tools along with me, and
on those occasions i would sell the picks
at SO apiece When the mob Gained down
they would want to Fang Bridger, and
then / had to do the cache act and keep
him out of harms way for a week or So
The boys would throw their tools away
in disgust and | would buy them in at
two bits each, to sell out again on the
next strike l made quite a little wad
that way"
DR. Whitford claims to have been one
OF the first men into Alder Gulch. now
VIRGINIA civ Mont and tells n
teresting yarns regarding the way the
men used TO throw the dust around in
those days. He said last night: For
two years during the time / was there.
there was 500 coo of gold dust taken
out Of the placers- I remember well
Preacher Colonel Woods, who at one time
was taking out $4,000 Of placer gold per
week. 1 have seen him take his wife and
two daughters up to the dance saloon
and fill the wOman's apron. who stood at
the door, with gold dust until it ripped
and the dust went on the floor for the
poor. Less than three years after, he
couldn't pay my bill for medical services. |
Talk about times! Why, / have seen 1900
men drunk at one time in Alder Gulch.
throwing their stuff around in handfuls
for the poor. I remember well one fellow,
a blacksmith by the name Of Dump who
tied two $1,000 sacks of dust to the POM
mel of his saddle and cut half dozen
holes in the bottoms Of the bags. to 60
ripping and rearing through the town.
scattering the sold, shooting and yelling
ike devil Ten years later we gave him
a pauper's funeral Very few Of those
fellows kept their money
The old pioneer went on to relate the
circumstances of q reunion of Old-timers
he!u In Virginia City recently. and for the
eGtncatiOn Of those around him. Tecited
an epic poem composed by himself for
the occasion. He said that those old
timers bawled like so many babies when
no delivered the last verse, which was as
follows:
ttL7or r-h,+ . y r;f. L,-4 - -s-.r- 49,
Compared to the thousands yet to be;
To the millions unborn, who in time viii
appear
And travel the blazed trails Of the old
pioneer
The Butte medical man and pioneer
poet came down to Salt Lake City in re-
Spouse to telegram from Donald Gillles.
the Butte mining man. he will proceed
with Mrs. Gillies and child to Hot Springs,
Ark, today, where the patients will be
under his treatment
Attorney NJ. P. Gilchrist of Butte came
INTO salt Lake City yesterday direct from
Honolulu. In speaking of conditions in
tins Sandwich islands at the walker last
night, he said: y had occasion TO be in
san Francisco SIX weeks ago on a case
when l took a notion to run over to Hon
olUlu. W hen i arrived there ] found the
whole place in a panic over the outbreak /
OF the bubonic plague. The authorities
were burning down TIE Injected districts
anu dl4 AIle btLtGE EidSS or HfGn-E were
IeaVlnS Tor Portland. san Francisco or
Japan VI course, / did not see any
cases while / was there. but from what I
could gather I should imagine that there
nad been couple Of hundred deaths
there, as 95 per cent Of those stricken in
FaIlably died. The plague consists Of a
swelling of the GLANDS around the throat
ana groinS and strikes victim with sud
denness ana olspaJcn, Coming DOWN 10
Hon0ulu as q business and residence
town, Mr.. Gilchrist SAID 1t was a xerltabIe
paradise. 4 should say he said, that
DuL OU9-te1th of the population is made
up OF whites. and the Japanese seem TO
have collared most of the business there.
lhey run stores. operate sugar planta-
IONS. ana are prominent citizens gener-
any before Mr.. GilchT1st was admitted
10 the bar he was occupied as a news
paper man in the capacity of a. reporter
on Inc 81. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Well I think that the thing Mt. Pleas
ant Is most noted for is the fact that it
has produced SOren SaWbuck Clr.sleu-
sen, SAID A. Johnson, the Mt. P,easanl
merchant, at the Walker last night Il
always tell people that l live right next
door to him when they ask ms John
son further has the distinction OF being q
brotner-in-law to Willard Bean, the par
son-nSnters' consequently III a quiet WAY
he takes an interest IN the squared circle.
He said last night that he was glad 10
say that pugilism had not gained very
strong hO1d in Mt. Pleasant. although Il
contest that il had come to stay: but q
subsequent fake affair had put a uuietus
on the pastime. with the result that Mt
Pleasant was behaving and living up to
tho statutes governing peace and dig
nifty.
]. c. ThOreson stated last night at the
Kenyon that politics was the disturbing
theme in Cache county at the present. al
though the advent of snow had been d.
yialng the hOnors during the last twenty
-FOUR hours. One thing was certain, said
the ex-member of the legislature. that a
pOlygamlSt would not be the choice Of the
people in his county for congressman.
England is waking up to the pressing
need of the hour - said E A Drllur0ood
of London, England. at the KENYON lasl
night AT WooiWich arsenal the employ
eeS ara working day and night and the
total of 1900 men who are employed in
inc piping times or peace IN the arsenal.
has been raised to over $1,000 The big
machine shops there are a sight TO tho
unlnitiat6d peaceful citizen in ono shop
aione-the shell time-fuse factory-there
are COO men employed under one roof with
miles Of machine belts revolving AL
around them. he hugo steam hammers
which are employed N welding the
breeches of the big naval guns. are
among the show objects of the arsenal.
These hammers can be manipulated 50
delicately that they VIII crack the crystal
on the face Of watch. and leave the
rmepiece intact, while on the other hand,
they can be brought down with the force
of 200 tons upon a piece Of metal Then,
too, another sight TO be seen is the big
Cighty-tOn guns for coast defenses, these
turned. just as one would turn stair
bannister. In order TO view the sights of
this factory for engines of war one must
be a British subject. furnished with a
pass from the war Office on Pail Mall
and even then such factories as the tor
pedo shops. machine gun manufactures