The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-09-04

me up as zone OF them railroad fellers''
and like the people that ..eked out pre-
! others washing" they were exchanging
work in threshins out their crop.
Ranching on Lost River.
The farmers about Houston that fall
were in a hurry TO get ahead OF the
rain. The steam threshers happened to
be further down the river, and the Hous-
ton farmers were using an old bob-tailed
horse power that broke down every
time. they got up a sweat, Then there
would come shower and everybody
would crawl under the machine and swap
stories and chewing tobacco while a boy
rode seven miles after a jack-screw, or
a monkey wrench to tighten up the
nuts"
Hell of a big crop on Lost river this
year, said one. Il don't know how
| it'll feet prices, but ! wish I'd made
all my burned oats into baled hay and
sold 1t TO the railroad"
''How's this country goin' TO inhooence
| the price OF oats2' asked another.
You fellers can raise all the burned
! oats between here and Arco, but 1t amt
a patchin TO what they prodooce over In
| Gaiatin valley Montanner."
About this point the boss announced
| that the main cog wheel was busted on
the horse power, that 1T would take sew
eral days TO get in running order, and so
far as he was concerned they could all
go to Houston.
And so it happened that most of US
rode over in a hay-rack and the rain.
|
| Of vim and vinegar stayed and cele-
! brated considerable, one saying he was
wolf and that It was ''hIs night to howl
! Finally when the weather cleared and
erasshoppers we're disporting themselves
in the calm afterglow of summer, l de-
cided to go fishing down the river,
though opinions differed as to whether
there were any fish, though IT was said
that some had been planted in Lost
river waters. l waded and fished as
| far as "the point about five miles be-
| Il 11a ,lu
OF what they called rainbow" and "Ver-
mont brook trout" that were beauties.
Besides. 1 found that all kinds OF ducks
lived down the river along the slouehs.
man who was leaving the country
insisted on giving me dog that he said
was valuable and came of long line
of illustrious ancestors. lie was
/ pointer and setter and also ere
tr!ever," a dog that it would be a pity
10 leave behind without protection among
piece of baling wire and fed him beef
steak till he became so attached to me
I could turn him loose in safety from
covetous world. He had large. brown,
! was pigeon toed. He was a good mixer
and made friends with the other dogs
who came out TO fight. called MIN
"Arco" because that was where his for
mer owner had gone to take the train
out OF the country. and to me the name
sounded new and catchy.
/
| to the jupgles. a mile below Houston,
and when L heard the dog baying l ran
through swamp and found that he had
treed a jaybird in dead uualdng asp.
| The jaybird was saucy and the dog
so insistent I thought 1 would make an
| example Of the jaybird SO as not TO dis
courage the dog. 1 fired and while the
affrightod elements were raining disjolnt-
| ed fragments of jaybird, up flew about
n ton of ducks out OF a slough nearby,
with the dog barking at the place where
| they had been
The dog came back later. followed in
hot haste by huge bull and i'll stamped
| ing out OF the place with the dog ar%
bull at my heels l ran into whole herd
of cattle, the cows all tearing the brush
and believing for their calves. When
I got home ] gave that dog away to a
gambler in Houston, for for gamblers are
killed lots OF ducks after that but did
my own retrieving
Romance and Reality.
! l dug cellar for man down the river
who had n wife and fourteen children.
bachelor who was courting a red-headed
widow In Houston. ! visited Jones OF the
Mackay telegraph. where we all slept
four in bed on the floor. and I wrote
road Has Arrived" That was a fact,
and ] struck a job Of unloading brick
| from box cars.
II was prior TO this that two prize
fighters had come TO Houston THE Cow
boy Pugilistf and the Montana Kid"
| they were called. They advertised
thing In camp that would face the Mon.
tana Kid for four rounds In the ring.
No one wanted the job. but I was sug
gested for 1t on account OF my size, But
/ when / finally finished unloading the
brick my hands were stifr as boards and
1t was the evening for the fight
When I got to Houston | found 1t was
no joke about them figuring on me.
| audience already gathered
and ] was hailed as the expected sacrl-
fee "for the honor of the camp" and
self / finally consented. Either in Saw
ycr's or Sandy Gilberts saloon there was
a machine with the motto. Electricity
| Is Life" I tackled this to timber up
my hands, but someone turned on the
| whole contents.
Arriving at the arena. everything was
had "a rope ring and referee, seconds.
bottle-holders, etc. as iC 1t were 1.-The
battle OF the century, The gloves were
tied on and the or kd fb w2s
I was introduced under some strange
name as the heavyweight champion
audience were the testers OF the occa-
sion
Time was called. and what happened
after that was all red blur to me for
two rounds. / was hitting part of the
! time and being hit all OF the time. The
audience was bowling and some were pro-
| testing in my behalf Between the sec
ond and third rounds I got my breath
any spit out the blood Some sporting
| women present were cheering for "the
Kid" and II made me hot to think
was being "butchered to make Roman
holiday" When the third round was
we'll under way landed a blow that
saved my bacon" The audience was
bowling. go on, Idaho. you've got him"
But finally the end Of the four rounds
came and the referee called II a draw.
But I never managed TO draw the thirty
dollars.
My fame as a pugilist got me job
as ';mule puncher" and the honor of
breaking the first soil" on the new cleo
trio road TO the White Knob. There
were four OF these mules, owned by Ed.
Hill. who as Houston Tex" said was
from the Laplands. where Arkansaw
Tapped over into Missouri" We began
In the boulders Just above the smelter.
then beginning. Hill and I changed
about at driving and holding the plow.
The mules alternately ballled or stam