The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-10-23
TRIP FROM SALT LAKE.
State Senator Lawrence Easily Eiret
With the Ladies'
BY 6. 3. PALMER.
(Special to me HeraId \

Beatty, New, Oct. 22-The trim from
Salt Lake was quiet and Fisher Harris
been attacked with chiiblains or some
other trouble affecting the same part of
tne anatomy. At any rate the Salt Lake
deiegatlon was forced TO get along with
Out the SilVery tongue and merry grin of
the redoubtable manager of the CONNER
clal cluo. There were Sixty-eight per
sons who left Salt Lake on the excursion.
including some half dozen members of The
Commercial club The Ogden contingent
was unable to make connection on ac-
count of the storm.
"BuIIfrog" Wells on Hand.
The main feature OF the first evening
was the raucOuS laughter of one Bull
frog Wells, former partner Of .Scottv''
Davis, who had made a stake IN Bull
frog and did not care who knew il He
is the individual who has been cuttino
a swath in Salt Lake for three weeks
lighting cigars with ten-dollar bills and
sending his peculiar Bullfrog laugh re-
sounding through the Hobbies of the hotels
and other places The last thing heard
by the passengers stretched in their
berths last night was his ha, ha
Some Members of the Party.
The travellers appeared TO he wind
weary when they boarded the train. and
they were early TO retire 1t was not un-
I'll they woke up this morning coming into
Las vegas that they discovered who they
were. Then it was known by all. for ex-
ample. that the tall poplar of the Wa
satch, c o. Whittemore. general attor-
ney OF the road, was on hand. with Trav-
cling Passenger Agent Kenneth c. Kerr
to represent the Salt Lake Routs Mr..
w hlttemOre was accompanied bV party
including his brother. R 3. Whittemore.
DR. and Mrs. j. T. Keith, Mrs. Thomas
Blyth of Evanston. Wyo.. and Mrs Cur
tbs Mann of Rhyolite. Mrs. Mann was
the first white woman to take up a res
idence in that camp. She was on her way
on this trip TO teioin her husband. who
is interested in mining in Bullfrog
Were Jealous OF the Senator.
VIII ]. Lawrence and State Senator
George N Lawrence were among the par
ty. The women voted the Adonis-like
senator's poetry Just lovely. and he
became so popular that some jealous man
dubbed him Shakespeare and asked
him how he had escaped from DIR.
Dippy"
Lafayette Holbrook and Major Samuel
A. King represented Provo The major
had been able to make hurried arrange
ments for his client, Jim Donaldson. and
had escaped to the train to hasten to
There he will open a law Of
flee with his younger brother.
Ex-Governor George A. Black trail
blazer, was one of the Bullfrog boosters
He and NJ. II. Walker were two os the
original directors Of the Shoshone Mining
company. since absorbed by the Mont
Two more pioneers
boarded the train at Las Vegas
An Apostles Romance.
They were Apostle Francis Nj. LYMAN
and Mrs. Rhoda A. Lyman. Fifty-five /
years ago Apostle Lyman traversed the |
old ernigrant trail the railroad now fol- |
lows. He was bound from Salt Lake to !
San BernardinO. Brigham Young called |
him on a mission to help found the Nor
mon colony at the latter place. There he 4
met woOed and won young Australian /
girl and in 1855 they crossed the desert 4
together along the old emigrant trail on /
their bridal trip to Salt Lake. This was |
their first trip through southern Nevada /
with a reminiscent look in their eyes I
that they gaZed out OF the window of a !
Pullman.
The trip had another sentimental in \
terest Forty-five years ago Mrs Lyman /
parted from her younger sister. Ever /
since that time their paths have been /
apart The younger sister. Mrs John A /
Johnson. has accompanied her husband TO /
mining camps in the west. and he is now |
proprietor of a store at Beatty. Each /
cherished in her memory the picture of i
Young girl but when the train arrived at |
Beatty two white-haired women en- |
braced each other
Stop at Las Vegas.
AT Las Vegas there was a stop and the I
travelling men hurriedly worked the /
town. while party took trip TO the /
ranch with Mr. Whittemore as personal |
ing a couple of hundred boomers from 1
hat city, arrived in two sections. Among /
those it brought We're Vice President J. |
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