Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1906-12-01
Writer For the Citizen Shows
Wonderful Progress Made in
Last Quarter Century.
COWBOY AND TRAIN Thief
GONE TO JOIN THE BISON
Gardens and Orchards Where Sage
Brush Held Sway-Cltles Dot
Redmdn's Hunting Ground.
(By ira e. Bennstt.l

(By ira e. Bennett.l
saR Lake City. Utah. Nov "a
whore b. the wild and wooily wost3'
Whore n the malignant bronco,
hncking his way In pristine vigur up
the village street. bearing his cowboy
freight 20 glory OF destruction
Where Is the cowboy himself. ndorn.
"a with ohaperoiO nnd assorted guns,
hia muatache curvinK like a steers
horns. his red flannel shirt open at
the throat, and his voice husky with
the swallowing OF innumcrahlo balls
OF liuuid nref where ~ the train
rObbor. with bis careless reparteeY
Whcro u the prnirc schooner the
prnirio dug. tho prairie hre. and the
prairie ifaoiif
inc traveller by rail will not end
them an the west They are gone;
some like Thompson OF Angels. Rt the
hetnat OF the Baldhcadod sulpo Of
tho valley: gone like the noble red
man aud the Romnn.noaod hunalO
The troncn could not buck against
the locomotive. The cowboy faded
ike q iltte ROwerest when he went
up against the real estate agent. The
trails robber has become a Pullman
Conductor or = promoter OF mlninE
schsmoa The prairie schooner mas
sailed Int the misty past Tho prairie
dog hai Joined the dOdO. The prairie
ace n extlnguiahed because 4 had
n0th.ag 10 feed upon. and the prairie
~ q FogiOa OF orchards, towns and
irrigation fields
Wherever railroads have penetrated
into fho west they have substituted
reslitg for romance Cowboys cannot
thrive when drummers multiply.
llarbad wire has throttled the COW
10Y. toe. Sic has heen driven back
into sAo interlor, with the coyote and
the iankrabbit. In certain portions OF
Utah, ~ IN Nsw Mexico Arizona.
Sovnaa, and other states Ia this arid
belt, there are patches OF wild c0un.
Try whore the cowboys cling 90 OK.
istCncc, and where the noble rcd man
Is atiu able 90 overtakc and banquet
upUa "a sick calf But Rs a whole, the
west ~ n0t the west Of old
The ideal Mormon.
May people who road In thoif
youth ~ tho Mormons and their spec
tacllnr History are under the impress.
viva - III MNNM way NaNMN NNNN NNNNA mum
hero 1.-Two llko Abraham, surrounded
vita nOcks and herds. They think
a. h lord OF a halem. and imagine
MIN An other ways a. being set
aparN from the ordinary American.
Thoy ehOuld come TO Utah, a2d attend
Inc pgiiticll conventions. read the
newspapers. and sec the Mormon as
ho o. They would find him exactly
resembling other American citizens.
However primitive bis religious belief,
he 81 personally UP 10 date, and
retishCz me luxurles Of civilization as
mucah az the Now Yorker lie docs
not 1.-Two IN n tent Ho dresses like
ethur men, lie Bwcars. smokes. plays
haaoiiaR. talks politics. and miabe-
haFos generally like his noighbOra.
Hlah ~ fast getting the best OF the
MgmonB as a ruling class. The rail.
roAG psaya hob with him. as Il does
vita everything else that ls archaic
or impractical. Il penetFates into his
hinterland settlements and drops Gen.
tiles al along. sooner or later there
IL a tug Of war, and the Gentle wins.
The Mormon practices which are ~.
augaant iO American laws are fast
disappearing. even in the hackwoods
q Utah and Idaho. As the west loses
as ed character. the Mormon cues.
lion settles Itself Tho Danlte-that
mysterious mGraudinE avonger--is nE
nhaOl0lo ~ che bison. In d feW years
The polygamlat will be- only bad
mom0ry. The younger Mormons are
opposed % pOlygamy, for the shame
az q, q nothlng more
effect Of the oentilss.
Tbe disaOlglng effect Of Gentle i'm.
migration upon Mormoalsm Is WILDLY
shown in southern Idaho There one
may observe MOrmonlsm actually
orumhliag before ones eyes. In Cas-
IA county, for example, the MormOnH
formerly ruled undisputcd Since blg
irrigation enterprises were installed
and the land settled upon by farmers
from Iowa, Nebraska Kansas. and the
middle west generally, the Mormonf
have taken their place us a minority
IN nc management Of public anairs.
"a was this food OF immigration
which destroyed the effect Of Senator
FTcd Dubois agitation against the
Normons. Idaho Us normally repuhli
can. senator Dubois Is democrat
Ia order % rotsin his seat. he sought
Tor nn Issue that would win ropuhli
can votes Tie agliatod the Mormu-
question. Tho statements he made
were based upon facts, The Nor
mOna wero PROFESSIONALLY guilty OF
the Things he charged against them
int the eycrfwelling tide OF 0cntllei
swont over the state ana paid no heed
90 tho old spector that formerly stood
IN the pathway The Geniilca do nol
oothor themselves with the private al
fuirs OF the Murmuna. nor do they
uara how tho Murmons run tnCm
a0lVos ua "a religious ur patriarchn
community. 20 long az NO attempt %
aade 90 rua the Gontllos. Time and
jhe lido nf immigration are wlplnl
out the Mormon question through
ont tho whole west
No Dead Line In salt Lake.
Hero Ia Salt Lake the mlngllng al
0enlila and MOrmOa De- often com
monted upon There o. NO dead Tine
Ia buslnuaf Or everyday itorCoursc
Mormon nnd GENTLE I've Together u
amioahy a. prairie doy ana rattic
aulko. They barter, play politics
and carry on huainess enterprises 90
gotsor They maintain hao club
whero ono D. as much on home al
tHe other Some of thc most hiehl'