Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-08-20

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for me 20 get to San Bernardino; And
always think when ! pray 10 my
heavenly Father for anything that he
viii hear me and answer my prayers
I turned away 20 go up town again but
1 had not gone but a few steps when
/ heard someone calling me. l looked
back and found that IL was the mate
who had called He said Here, go
down and shovel that coal back and
you can GO" l had TO smile | went
TO shovelng coal but had not shoveled
but a few shoVellsfull. when the sailors
seeing my fiddle. which | always took
along. told mo to never mind shovel
ing; they would shovel II ! would play
Tor them. 1 dad ~ and did not have
TO do any more Work until / reached
my journeys end. We landed at san
Pedro.
then had to travel over 20 miles to
Los Angeles BY land. and not a house
or stage road l started 70 travel tho
distance on foot ana alone but | had
not gone far when a freight wagon
overlook me and, although the wagon
was heavily loaded, the urlyer insisted
on my riding with him, which | gladly
did. 1 stayed in Los Angeles over
night and In the morning started on
foot to san BernardinO. a matter OF
90 miles. in company with another
young man, a stranger to me. We had
to travel the whole distance on foot as
there was no stage line and we met no
teams on the way. We got to san
Hernardno about noon the next day.
My brother William and his wife
were glad TO see me. | went To work
as soon as / got rested a little and
worked day ana night until ! made d
raise.
BUILDS HIS FIRST HOUSE.
About that time Amasa Lyman was
building large house for himself and
ne came " my brother ana myself ana
wanted us u go 90 work on IT, We
We're 10 get IN payment city lot
each. William told me that he did not
want a mole lot, that II 1 would go To
work and help build Mr. Lyman's house
Tor himself We would divide the lot
half and half between us. This l
agreed TO do lie went to work and
made ten doors Tor Brother Lyman for
SlO0, the price OF the lot, ana got the
deeds FOR the same and promised TO
give me a deed for one -half OF it, which
he never did, although what work L
did for him would have come to twice
what the whole lot cost, but we di-
vided the lot and | built two houses ON
my half and u heavy rock foundation
for another
RECKLESS ROUGH RIDER.
was rather reckless while in san
Bernardino and passed through many
serious accidents. l was very fond OF
riding wild horses and came very near
being killed several times. on one
occasion when 4 was riding wild horse
ne jumped over an embankment with
me and we lit with such a crash that II
ruptured me inwardly and / was laid
up for about d week. but as soon as
| could crawl out l went down TO the
pasture at the back OF the house to
see my horse. When 1 was returning
and had just got my hand on the fence
10 get over an old bull that was lying
down close by seeing that L was very
weak, thought he would help me over
the fence, SO he made a rush at mo
and stuck one of his horns In the fence
and the other i'm my right leg and split
it from knee to hip and threw me about
10 or ~ feet in the air ! landed on
my head all right and George Christen-
sen picked me up and helped me 10
the house, and l was laid up for sew
eral days more. As soon as ] got lit
tie better | was ready for more fun. so
the boys got up a horse race and un-
dertook to ride my wild horse bare
backed and run n race. But he had not
run far when he jumped stif legged
and stopped short and sent me over his
head about rod and | lit on my head,
and the boys said that ! turned three
somersaults before / stopped, / was
going so fast. The boys all thought /
was dead They packed water in their
boots and poured 1t on me to try to
bring me TO life. but II was OF no use.
They carried me home. / must have
laid unconscious for two or three hours,
for II was getting dusk when l came
TO. The first thing l can remember
was George Chrisman or one Of the
boys saying TO my sister-in law that
they would get some Of the boys TO sit
up with me to see II ] would come To-
l..
hut in Jew minutes I got up and sat
on the side OF the lounge where ] had
been laid and looked around in a dazed
way. / could not think what was the
matter with me. AS soon as / got up
my sister-in-law got me something to
eat and | walked down town, Just as
the boys had arranged who would sit
up with me. They all began to whoop
and holler when they saw me coming,
and one OF them by name of Eastman
said, II told you the divl couldn't kill
I'm"
FUN ON WILD HORSES.
one of our amusements i'm those early
days In California. especially on Sun
day afternoon. was to get eight or ten
Wild horses or mules and saddle them
up, get them all in a bunch together.
blindfold them. and get on their backs.
raise the blinds. and let them run and
jump stiff-legged II was fun 10 see
them scattering in every direction over
fences and everything they came 10.
There was one little amusing incident
that occurred in one Of our bronco rid
ing amusements that is worth mention
ing. There was an old Yankee lady
living I'm san Bernardino. She had
a son named Zeuk He was a good
rider and had n very large pair OF
spurs which ne used 10 good advantage
one day when he was breaking bronco
horse there wero a lot ~ us boys stand
ing AZ his mothers door when he
rode up 10 the house the horse was
jumping and his sides were all covered
with blood caused by Zuek sticking his
spurs IN his flank The old lady came
TO the door and was very much dis
gusted with the way her son was abus-
ing the horse, and shouted 10 him say
ing. "Zuek. get on Of that are horse"
Zuek got on.