Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-07-30

pDN the mountains OF Kentucky
Rip van Wrinkle Of the middle
west Travelled 10 Frankfort in
i 1894 His clothes were in rags.
VIZ hair, which had not been combed
mr. cut In many years, hung far down
Me hack. His silvery beard reached
nj. waist His gun was antiquated.
nj, horse was bony and poor and his
doc lean and hungry He WIS such a
queer old man and was SO mild man
Bsred and poverty stricken that some
a, the coarse wits Of the capital played
tricks on him They pretended to be
greatly honored by meeting him, and
Vhen he told them he wanted to see
tbs Governor because he knew the gov
eroor would give him plenty Of land,
tbey had a tavern keeper pose as gov
ernor and make all sorts OF ridiculous
nrsmlses 10 him. Then they urged the
od man to talk He talked OF Indians
ana Indian fights, Of hairbreadth es-
rapes and thrilling adventures until
tbev tired Of listening TO him and
turned him on But before they turned
KIM on they had hidden his poor, bony
horse and pretended IT had been lost,
Next day the coarse wits who had
sought TO have sport with the old man
were eager to hide themselves. The
whole town was trying 10 do honor TO
him. Some one who had heard him
talk believed what ne said and had him
taken 10 the real governor. Then IL
developed that the Rip Van Wrinkle
from the mountains was the famous
simon KentOn. scout, Indian fighter
and frontiersman extraordinary. COM
panIon Of Daniel Boone and George
Rogers Clark.
THREE TINES AT THE STAKE.
No wonder the tales the old man told
taxed the Credulity OF those brutal
creatures who amused themselves at
his expense, for few men that ever
lived had experiences so remarkable as
those Of Simon kenton, Three times
within month he was tied to the stake
preparatory 20 being burned, Eight
tines within the same month he was
forced by Indians TO run the gentlet.
He fought In the Lord Dunmore
war the Revolutionary war and the
War Of lsl2--in all OF these his
antagonists being Indians He saved
he lie Of Boone In one Of the at
tatks on Boonesboro, and he was
with Clark in that campaign that
made clark famous-the capture Of
incennes Throughout Kentucky the
story Of his exploits had been told
and retold until it had come to be
tradition No wonder the rude 1okers
thought the old man was romancing.
Tor until he came down from the
mountains and visited Frankfort IL
was believed kenton was dead. the
report having gone out soon after the
War OF 1872 that he had been Killed.
The governor, the legislature and
Prominent citizens We'd with each
other In doing honor to the old man.
Like Boone, he had little business
sense All the lands he had located
lor himself In the early days he had
lost because, Ike Boone, he had
neglected 20 attend 10 some techni-
galDy. The little tract In the noun
Mihs TO which he had gone in his
ga age and poverty had been taken
ron MIN. too for he had failed to
register his claim to II, and some
newcomer had taken advantage of
w.s hHity and turned him adrift.
kentucky did nobly by the old from
uefsman Not only were some Of his
amos restored to him, but his con-
quon and HIS services were brought
70 NE attention OF Congress. A pen
s,0h was granted to him at once
Ne''r again was the old pathfinder
PERMITTED 10 want And never again
1l me coarse wits Of Frankfort for