The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-01
By Charles Warren

Guess if you're a relative" said
Sam Spelman, you must be RESPONSE
bic for that six dollars Dan owed me
when he left"
That's So" came from several 9TH
ers. And my four And my
seven"
''MorDnon Joe" was glad to get out
Of the room without further partici-
patton in the debate.
The conference continued until late
in the evening. When it broke up the
following program had been agreed
upon:
The double celebration in honor of
Togler and Dewey should be held on
Wednesday. The mining superintend-
ents would shut down work at the
mines at noon with a full days pay.
1t should be opened at the Bucket of
Blood" when Emil would set UP one
round of drinks free to everybody in
order that the proper toast might be
drunk. After that liquor would be
half price. Then would come a re-
voIver match: after that a creased pig
and q creased pole contest Cthis was
the suggestion of the postmaster, who
came from Pembroke, Me.); then
tug-of-war contest made up Of teams
from the four different mines; races
of all kinds, and a new one invented
for the occasion, a race down and up
three hundred feet Of ladders of the
north shaft of the Little Giantess
mine; then the public exercises, in
Guiding music and an grafton, and in
the evening fireworks. bOnfireS and
| dance
The only man thought of for orator
was ST Cottrell, rining superintendent
| of the Golden Belle. Readiness and
| luXuriance of speech were Sis strong
points.
| 81 tell you what, boys" said Young
| man, the superintendent of the Yellow
Dog after their thirst had been some
what relieved, saw by the paper that
Los Angeles band is to play at Albu-
querque Tuesday night. That's to-
| morrow. Let's wire down there and
get it over here. It can come down
| from TufleX Junction on the Wednes-
day afternoon train, along with the
| fireworks we've got to send for, and
get here in time for the evening fes-
tivities. I'll chip in to the pot to the
extent of fifty to start the subscrip-
| ton"
This suggestion was received with
enthusiasm. That night the lights
shone until after midnight in the print
ing office Of the Screamer, and then
two men started over the mountain on
horseback with rolls of posters strap
ped to their saddles. The next day the
San Jagons read with mingled feelings
of establishment and enviOus veXatiOn
| that they were invited to attend the
great celebration to take place at Los
GarpillOs.
All Tuesday preparations went on for
the unparalleled event. Men worked
hard building up bonfires and erecting
fIagpoles on the different SUBMITS
|
mountain they were heaping an enOr-
nous pile out of timber from an old,
deserted mine, small, glossy chapar-
rails and dark green canyon pinyOn
trees with quantities of the long yell
/ low bayonet leaves of the amoya plant
and fine. dry gramma grass stuffed in
the chinks to kindle the flames readily.
The men of Los Garpillos were sure
| that this bonfire would be seen 100
miles away over in Texas.
Wednesday dawned, a superb day.
! The volcanic sand and rock grew
warm with tints of red and brown and
orange under the blazing sun A few
clouds straying by now and then
caused purple shadows to drift across
the mountain sides, and under them
the Great Staked Plains, stretching
southwark deceptively like the ocean.
shifted from amber to dark blue and
misty gray and back again.
The celebration began at Glother-
mans promptly at noon, when DR..
Macdonald called on the boisterous
crowd which filled the saloon and the
street outside to drink the toast of the
day. ITO Daniel Togler and George
Dewey" From that moment all was
wild enjoyment-the contests, the
races, the pig. the shooting.
At half past seven in the evening ST
Cottrell was just finishing his grafton
| to his wildly enthusiastic audience,
gathered in the Miners Union hall,
over the Dostoffice.
"And now, fellow citizens, let me
picture to you that scene one week ago
in those wonderful isles of spice, as the
poet says, when the sun rose In the
orient like an oriflamme of war. What