, 1905-04-01
SENATOR SUTHERLAND OF UTAH
TELLS SOME TALES OF
OTHER AND DARKER
DAYS IN WEST.
Happened To Him On a
Trip From the Uinta Mountains
to Piedmont Station on the Union
Pacific-A Young Man and a
Notwithstanding Devas-
tation on a Mountain Mesa.

hot dS wealthy dS Ills p~TeueCebSOT, nor
has he that rich Irish brogue that
with some of the Utah speeches
in the upper house, but he is a man OF
prepossessing appearance and a be-
witching conversationalist. He is a
lawyer Of ability and will %unquestion-
ably be heard in the senate.
Recently he passed west to his home
in Utah, in company with Senator
Clark of Wyoming, and as the train
crossed Sherman hill he glanced off to
the southwest over that rough, noun
famous country where the Cache la
Poudre, the Big Laramie and the North
Platte take their sources.
That country reminds me-" said the
senator, "of a trip | took when l was
knew in the west. Several of us had
been on a prospecting tour away up
in the Uinta mountains, near where
Utah, Colorado and Wyoming join, and
had determined to strike for the I'm
ion Pacific at Piedmont.
Inquiry as to the distance brought
forth, in IN uncertain tone, that it was
about sixty miles. My horse happened
to be a stumbler and soon after start
ing down the mountains he unhorseI
me and l stepped on a log that rolled
and gave me a very severe sprain in
one of my ankles. Fol a time the pain
was excruciating, but l held my temper
as best l could and stuck to the horse,
when 1t was possible. We lunched at
noon from provisions taken with us
and then travelled industriously till
nightfall. Just as Old Sol was touch.
ing the western horizon we deserted
some buildings n with one accoru
thought they were the station and 9th.
err houses at Piedmont station. We
were soon disabused of this idea, how.
ever, when we came nearer, as they
were simply the buildings of a noun.
tain ranch home, the owner being
known as "Duchy." To the man who
was sitting straddle of a fence as we
rode up l addressed a query as to the
distance to the railway station of Pied
mont.
About sixty miles, he replied.
why, 1t was sixty miles from
where we started, and we have been
riding all day l replied.
I'VE were candidly informed that ii
must have been considerably over a
hundred miles from where we started
in the morning to the railroad station
and were invited to remain over night
as 1t would be utterly impossible to &c
to the station that night. The invita-
ton was accepted with considerable
alacrity, and We lost no time in eating
supper and turning in for the night
Before retiring, however, we were in
formed that there vas to be a country
dance at the ranch which might posi-
bly, disturb our rest to some slight de
gree. The boys and girls gathered
from all directions. They were from
Blacks Fork, from Burnt Fork, from
Smiths Fork. and all the other forks
Generally they came on horseback and
in one case, l remember, the girl was
up behind. I was put in a room at the
front Of the house and the girls hat
to shy around my bed to get to theil
dressing room. Between this noise, the
shutting of the dancers feet, the sount
Of the fiddle, and the pain of my swol
len ankle, there was little sleep fol
me that night.
"One of the young fellows with mt
was from away down east and a ten
derfoot of the most pronounced type
Some fiendish westerner had filled hin
up with a big story about woodtickl
and cautioned him that he must b,
very careful In the mountains, as the,
were plentiful and dangerous. He hat
been told that they would fasten OF
fesh in an easy, confidential sort Of
way, and then proceed to satiate hei
greed for gore. After becoming gors
ed 1t was NO easy matter to get rit
of the pests, al they screwed them
selves in and a pull on them was al
most sure to leave the head In thu
flesh. from which blood.poisoning fol
lowed and death usually ensued. Thu
young fellow was put In the same room
in fact in the same bed, With me, TIL
bed being q shake-down in NJ corner
When he stripped himself OF for TIL
night he stretched himself and rubbed
his limbs with considerable care. Fin
ally l noticed him give = start and lool
closely at something on one Of hi
legs.
what's THAR he said to me Will
blanched face.
1T looks to me very much like Z
woodtick,' I replied.
And there 1t was, swelled almost
to the size Of . big marrowfat pea and
stu filling. Duchy' was called in to
arbitrate on the kind Of animal It was.
Dot vas q voodtick. all right said
Duchy.