The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-08-06

VIII kOa Speak Of Former Days
and Is DOins His Best 10
Forget Them.

Cole Younger, tie One time Dandit- I,
is nov part Gamer OF an amusement =
company which travels under the
title OF the Cole Younger and Nlchol >
Amusement company. For the pass :
week this company has been showing y
at Council Bluffs SAYS the Omaha
World Herald.
I'D never make Snowman, not II
was TO live LOCO years" said Cole
Younger to the World Herald. 1T
isn't the life for me, although I've
been in it for two years now. l
haven't a thing to do except walk
around and meet people and keep an
eye on the performers once in a
while.'
osBut wasn't it one of the condl-
lions of your pardon that you were
not to be before the public In any
! way?" he was asked.
! 81 was required to promise that
would not go on the stage or lecture
} or be before the public in that way
said Mr.. Younger, "but guess I'm
/, NOT breaking any promise on this
: business.
e Cole Younger is now GA years old,
although he does not look 1T. lie is
}. fully six feet tall and weighs in the
neighborhood of 200 pounds. His
II light hair is graying in a fringe
around the top Of bald crown, ano
is he is smooth shaven. His keen
e. light blue eyes seems to look straight
rs through his visitors, ana have
IN chill, shivery glance even yet. AL
v. though his record for the last thirt
40 years has been uuimpeachahle, Their
no is an expression now and then Il
10, those steely eyes that make one re
of member the fearsome tales one IA
1T. read about the exploits OF his younp
Drt er days. But he gives you iirn
tie hearty grip of his broad hand ana
re. gentieness and courtesy personiiied.
Ill II went through this town thirtl
two years ago, he said''. II was Q
in my way to Minnesota then. Ana Il
on state reasons ] stayed In Minneso'
are some time. remember stopplt
les. here few days and buying "be
ore gum" hat. That's what we called
act high silk hat in those days. NO
,ral that hat on my trip TO Minnesot
r IL We stopped at a hotel at Ninth al
hut Broadway, ] think ii was. III +"
ear the biggest hotel In the town the
lere DAYS. aud the other day when !
to Council Bluffs | walked down |
here street TO see the place and ! was 81
ting prised to see the very same old no
eful standing yet, as natural as ever.
ex. "Now, don't you believe all
and terrible tales you hear about th
that laws in Missouri and Minnesota
I no the Younger boys. People niten
L lac me about FIR nix James; hut mob
even knows whether or not Ff'
east James was with us there In
hen. we're lots OF things printed That
vail. not so aud lots happened that NJ
lence got into PRINT. saw Frank ia
ance, the other day ia Oklahoma. lie
ansus a good farm down there. OF
, cas-. know whether he has any show
state heaven OF not; but he has Joined
church and the republican party,
added at least one ought TO see him thro'
con "Now, me; I'm a democrat,
ID for of course, will vote for Bryan.
ought democrat all my life. / don't
Il re. lieye In saving much about my
conf. life. That's all over aud done
demo- and hest forgotten.
xactly Mr.. Younger is intensely Int
,aking ed In politics, and there Is prot
them no one man 10 the country "
nee" better posted on the politics oil q
among ent states than he is. Since BIZ
among vent into the SHOW business,
baye years ago, he has Travelled viii
epator show In eighteen different state
they keeps tab on politics in all OF q