Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-02
|ONL Y KIT CARSON
IN EXISTENCE
Grandson Of Famous Scout and
Frontiersnan a Visitor
In Salt Lake.
FULL OF "REMINISCENCES.
Troubles With Cattle Thieves and
Bnd Men, in tie Early sos
lsncIling of Joe Fowler.
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Kit Carson Ill. son Of his father aud
grandson of the famous scout and
N fl;ontiersnlan who guided John e. Fee
mont through the wllds of the western
wlldsrnesaes, and himself a scout 81
the carly days. is In Salt Lake for a
day Of Two. MI. Carson is registered
Il at the Kenyon hotel, and is in the city
on business and pleasure combined. He
has Just returned from Phoebe. Nevada,
Il where he Is interested in an extension
of the Prince Consolidated mine, and
while there he let a contract for he
construction of a 350Ffoot tunnel.
THAT is one of the richest mining.
countries in the west. said Mr. Car.
son this morning. The Prince Con-,
4 has S7s;0OO,ooO worth Of ore in sight,
d and our properly is Just beyond the
* Prince Con.
Reverting, To early scouting days Mr.
Carson told some haif-raising stories
OF blood-cnrdllng adventures on the
plains. \, People get us mixed. 2 said Mr..
Carson, In referring to his father and
4 grandfather. My grandfather, the
original KIT Carson, the man who pilot
ed john c. Fremont out of the desert,
{ died on Sept. 70, 1865. My father, Kit
Carson. Jr., was killed at Horseback
i Crossing. New Mexico, by. Apache In \
8{dians in October. 1872. All that you
4 have heard and read about Kit Cur
SON. since that time has been about
& Ine,s as 1 am the only Kit Carson in eN-
istence since that time Yes, | was
r born and reared on the frontier, and
I1,1.,, \.
tsof them. AT 81 81 3 85 a3s.
CASE or JOE FOWLER.
N remember we had a great deal o.
trouble with the cattle thieves ana
@rust]ers in The carly SOS In Colorado
and New. Mexico, and they were pretty
8hothersonle. Theysswere pretty well |
cleared out by 90 however, and as
everything WAS getting to be Civilized
Into the mining business All the cat |
tie rustlers We're not among the thieves
and desperadoes, though,s continued |
MIR, Carson, II remember the case OF |
Joe Fowler; he was a deputy sheriff |
in Colorado, and was one OF the biggest |
horse thieves in the west. Fowler had l
I y varied career. He was credited with |
X Hing 20 men in q couple Of years
4 He never {hesitatcd to kill a man, 4 he
IS bought he could get any money out
4 nj him OF " bunch of cattle; it was Inn
< material. III well remember his finish
8 He hau followed Two men into New
Mexico after q herd Of cattle. The
men had sold their stock and had $780,
4 Coo, according to reports They were
found dead shortly afterward. These
4 We're the Greenhouse brothers., and it
was common report that Fowler killed
them for theeir money and cattle. Well,
Fowler went Into Socorro, New Mexico,
and stopped at the Central hotel. I
was upstairs, and heard Fowler down.
stairs saying he would kill somebody. I
went down with my hand on my six |
was q friend of mine, and II wasn't GO Il
ms 70 stand wand see him murdered,
$b.l ~ hem - got down stairs |
FL found it was another man, |
but they had a pistol duel all around |
Z the house. The other mans hat was
blown off, and in il was found some OF |
4 rs brains. Fowler. was captured and |
Z ai.th1,oueh he had been able to get clear
OF many murders prior to that time |
&on account of his official position, he |
WAS convicted this timeEandt sentenced |
10 be hung. But here comes his little |
Vile with lawyer from Kansas City, |
and succeeds in getting new trial for |
her husband, and achange OF venue to |
ut IeavonWorth, Kan Well the citi- |
- " " WIZ listtt iiISttuy DSe1
on tho point of taking Fowler out and |
slSncihng HIM, but desifted when the
court pronounced his sentence. Just |
gathered as one man and took Joe
Fowler out OF prison and strung him8up
& 70 the first handy tree, 50 he never got
ms now trial ut Leavenworth.''
Il Mr.. Carson is Il man about the me-
dunn height, heavy built and wiry. with
keen black eyes and curly black hair,
nov tinScd however, with stl'eaks of
gray He has the alertness of a young
man, however, and Is fun of reiuinis-
fences of the early days in the west,
which he, as well as his illustrious
grandfather and father, took such an
important part. /