Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-05-25

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
.rot News IS in receipt
TN an advance copy s., o. nook COLA "a
BOP focn A hasty glance
Salo, rs is7 pages proves TIA, ,l !.
owe. ,oj ali that is claimed ior
'"l I wonderful Record OF
- H. ,.1 service" covering a pc,
i, more than forty years o. ,.o naya'
nod Of ',', ~ a review Of the volume
Ne AZ W ,,iu not be made mere
however , ' And place in the literary :,
nat N'u Of the Deseret News at an
d'p'T','',p' suffice 1t to say, mat 'ne
ady d1,., .r Of Fighting BOD OF
7 gs., D. Evans which IS su, MS t0 ,o
be p.op' !. n vnginlan by birth ana
L''.. ,. no light Of day in 1876 Like
ts'', ,op,nern children of the ante ,
ro' '' Jaws ne was brought up ana
N''u a' a "black nanny whom
cara ", 10 ioyed most dearly notwilh-
h@ ,bs fact that her complexion
@s darkest and that her shape
w y" eour barrel more nearly
AN ''' anything else he could imagine .n"u me,
r4u ,so. died when he was but
b'' ~ age and he found himself
zen s.a1 If the family In order that
n' uI ne near good schools his
2 sos moved at once to Fairfax court
. ,D,"', where his schooling really be-
DO' +, was IN this town that a farmer
t-I "a nj. northern friend who was
'''' ,,l.bng him on the large size
1gIsl"t' Sr,n, II am not as poor as you
y'.m m think don't own ~, Vi llla'
,s1a The county. be II uhderstoou'
, ny. always rich In law SUITS aNera .st,
wy rrobobly one or two 10 the acre'
ias s,ncs The civil war II Is rich III
historical Incidents ,,oo, ~ uva
il 49, mole IN washington, where
W.. .a %" educational advantages pre-
hs az" ,bemsslces and where he found
.nlendd home and much KINDNESS
S,i attention. This uncle was
S,,r by profession but at the TINE
a. .gsn ~ WAS congressional committee
si,rt and busy newspaper man.
FIGHTING TENDENCIES,
prl,btlng Bobs" defensive and Of
s,sye proellytles as well as his love
20. me sea exhibited themselves when
~ aos mere child. For instance:
O ,e 5ay after heavy rainstorm, he
Sas irving 10 SAIL toy boat In a pond
,r me- school yard when one OF the
iargsr boys smashed his little craft
Ytb stone. Bob Immediately
smashed the destroyer with another
and ne was carried home on a door
Mucb OF Young Evans spare time was
sospt about the committee rooms Of the
Casitol and there he made the ac-
abundance Of some OF The men who
enerWard became prominent IN the his
tory Of the country; among them was
Non. w. II. Hooper the delegate IN
Congress- from the Territory Of Utah,
With whom his uncle was In some way
associated Mr Hooper asked him II
he would like an appointment TO An
ripGis, to which the youth promptly
REPLIED that nothing in the world would
Dlase him so much In order TO have
he appointment. however, II was
necessary that he should transfer his
residence from Washington to Salt
Lake City He had but four days In
which to prepare for what was at that
Tine a very long and dangerous jour
rey
THE START FOR UTAH.
When he left Washington for Utah
n l5g he carried all his worldly goods
IN a large old-fashioned grip sack. II
contained among other things a navy
revolver which he says was about half
e ang as he was and the ammunition
e this weapon on his person in
tMney belt he carried $3.50 in gold.
ihi1 his pocket a ticket for st. Jo-
NJ Missouri In his book he speaks
/ q Ne loneliness Of his surroundings
i'i the awe with which he viewed the
hle on reaching st. Joseph. he
ll'hased his quota of an outfit for
~ nen-ilye for California. and one
~ Vail Lake City His riding animal
vas large gray Mexican mule. which,
as y aiierward turned out. could smell
n nolan farther and, under the in
Altnle OF The scent, run faster than
any animal In the outfit. The trip
allo's The plains was full Of many in
events such as characterized the pill
stnage Of the Mormon Pioneers so
frequently across this hitherto track
.p@ region. The story OF his adven-
,u'e' are entirely too long to even at.
wwhp 10 synousi2e here, and only the
snh chanier win be given. This Is how
We author tells &C.
IN THE MORMON COUNTRY.
after crossing Green River our
w VIZ Jay along Hams Fork in the d.
..uon OF South Pass, the highest point
% NE Rocky Mountains we had to
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