The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-09-11

of navigation In preparation for the
completion Of their present plans many
of them Insist on absolute military
discipline on board the little vessels.
Some. of the members of the club could ~
qualify us navigators and pilots in tho
waters of Puget sound, and that IS a
mighty big piece Of water, let me tell
| YOU
"Fiction writer's are fond of exploit
is dead,''' said John l.. Ramsey Of
Wahpeton, n. D. GAS matter of fact
the west. in some places, is just rs wild
and woolly as it ever was. 1t is truo
that you do not see cowpunchers parad-
ing in picturesque buffalo hide chaps,
with couple OF big gums buckled
around their waists. That kind was
very peaceable anyway, and there never
was time in the history of the west
when there was more fair play than
when these same wild and woolly gentle
men loafed around the railroad stations.
Up along the Canada line. in North Da-
kota, Minnesota and Montana, and
down in Wyoming there are hundreds
and hundreds of acres of land that is
absolutely aboriginal. / have. driven
for 800 miles IN Montana without see
ing sign of human being. There
ism t any law up there. Counties some.
times have no county seats, and there
fore no sheriffs. Other counties have
one town of perhaps 500 persons.
Settlers Are Scarce.
"Every now and then you will come
across hester, or settler, who has
cleared ground and claimed it. They
live their own lives in their own way,
In the cattle country, off the big ranges,
things are somewhat different, of course.
But when you hit cow towns of the
railways, you III find the young men
'toting' six-shooters just as they used
to thirty years ago.
"There ism u much bloodshed and sud
den death, and all that sort of thing.
There never was; that is, except In the
minds OF fiction writer's. Killing is
serious business, and men in that coun
try try to side-step it as much as they
can. I've seen two cowpunchers carry
ing Colts, fight it out to finish with
their fists and never make a try to get
their guns going. That IS the west. -
Too Much Whistle.
According to my father, Abraham
Lincoln used to tell story about pub.
lie man who talked a great deal and
did nothing of any great account and he
related an incident which was supposed
to have happened on the Mississippi
river" remarked A S. Tetlow of Sac
ramento, Cal, at the National FtThis
story had it that little steamboat
which piled between ST Louis and Mem
phis was equipped with such big
whistle that when it blew so much steam
escaped that the boat stopped. The
application of the tale, whether it was
true or not, is very obvious. Mr.. Lin
coin either had witnessed the phenom-
enon which he described or he was quite
a prophet. For I saw within the last
few months locomotive that whistled
itself out of business. / bad to mako
a trip hurriedly and was fored to 90
on freight train that carried passen-
gers between way stations. When we
neared Bullnrd,. Cal, the whistle began
to blow. II blew and blew, for how
long 1 don't know, but it seemed to me
the noise lasted for hours. The speed
Of long train slpckened gradually, and
finally we came to stop, although the
whistle continued to shrek long after
wards