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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-09-28

~ intimate friends had seen me ra-
cling hatless through the streets OF
Marysvale at dusk in search OF a
camp tent; and heard my vile up
braidiug some careless railway en-
ployee for neglecting to put all our
baggage on board at Salt Lake; and
heard Miss Youngberg saying it looked
as if the sprinkle would turn into
rain and necessitate our sitting up all
night in the white top wagon; and
heard Jimmy wondering where we
could pitch camp and just when this
event would take place. they might not
have guessed The joyous jangllng truth
that We were emborking upon the hap
piest journey OF our lives.
Tho Grand Canyon had been tantaliz-
ing us for several years; every Vaca-
non time that great purple dragon
away down in Arizona had wrlthcd be-
fore US in phantom form only TO elude
us and disappear at our attempted ap-
proach rs we would find the trip
through the intervening wilderness too
difficult aud too uncertain.
Naturally we wished 10 sec it from
the north rim, the Utah side, for this is
the region most frcquented by the dar-
ing ones who have made the chasm
famous. We had no desire for the
Palace Pullman journey away around
to the southern rim where dc luxe
hotel throngcd about with greedy guides
strives TO make up the deficiencies Of
the least interesting side: the Grand
Canyon of Arizona is Utab's most mag
uifcent piece of scenery, and thus we
longed to Craze our team along the
Cougar trails on the north rim, break
and build our camp fire on the very
verge from where il would be visible
for hundred miles across the world 8
greatest scenic spectacle.
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Yellow Pipe Organ Cliffs.

We soon pass and inspect quaint
Old water power saw mill and then en-
Ter the Parunuweap Canyon through
low but majestic portals. the beginning
Of the Southern Cliff country. And
through trees TO the west we get our
, first glimpse Of the picturesque Pipe
Organ cliffs of bright yellow as a sky
line, We get some 6y-specked chew
ing gum at Glendale and camp in
Bishop Espin IS hay shed at Orderrille
Cbanticleer crows nearly all the re-
ligioD out Of us here but desists at
daylight aud thus we get an early start
out of this town founded so years ago
in the Socialistic experiment of the
Mormon church.
Mr.. Covingtou with heavy team
and good eye for driving a coach
and-four. drove us through Mt. Carmel,
town by the roadside which The girls
actually did not sec, and across the
Virgin river up gravel dugway to the
Markagunt plateau, the famous Sand.
to the southeast. BY early noon we
were three-ffths Of the way to Kanab
on the down road again, though the
girls had dropped lot Of clothing ont
Of the back of the rig in the same wav
Mt; Carmel dropped from their sight, and
l had ridden eight OF nine miles on
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Grand Canyon Glimpsed.

And then ] think I am ready to con
template the main canyon; and | rise
to creep around to the rock pile on the
point. And there, as | wipe my eyes
and try to calm my senses and steady
myself, I hear Pelton's hearty laugh
Ny Obi Point was but a wrinkle in
the rim wall, and my Grand Canyon
gulIey and its opposite wall was Bright
wall; while to the southwark filling
an arc of 45 degrees was spread the
real Grand Canyon, the mighty Mirage
of the cloud-strewn sky inverted in the
depths Of the earth and peopled with a
thousand temples and towers and al
coves and promontories all fresh from
the world 8 paint factory; and this
man, and the party, and the point, and
left me there alone detached and trans
fixed, | seemed to be in spirit land
and yet how real was it all,
Wherever we go through life we get
the feeling that after all we have vet
to see the greatest or the "grand-
est; and no matter how wonderful or
unusual the sight, we survive it. and we
look on somewhere else, perhaps be,
yond the middle life, or marriage, per
chance, for greater experience; but
10 turn away from the Grand CANYON
is to turn away in conquered silence
The. deepest surges of desire and the
farthest waves of earthly hope are
filled. We have arrivedi To leave il to
forever go. away from, not towards,
greater,
All your ideals of beauty are
oclipsed, but slowly new ones begin to
grow up and you discover that YOU
nave become pulsating new. person
IN an entirely new life. Yet it is as
bewildering as four brass bands in a
three-ring circus, You select an object
to study, something distracts you, and
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AsZc RV ANGEL POINT

the sage with our 1000 pound load and
trotted rapidly back TO where they
were The spectacle before us made
our flesh creep for six fine horses lay
helpless, three-fourths submerged in a
strip of apparently dry ground which
showed no signs of moisture except
that no sage grew there. 1t was a
bottomless patch of half dry soft soap
in which the horses had raced pell nell
twenty minutes before and were slowly
sinking TO destruction.
At the work we all rushed, the girls
carrying us brush to stand on, but, it
was 9 a. m. when the last horse was
drawn out by means Of ropes attached
to the saddle horns Of the animals al
ready out and every horse looked like
one pulled from the grave, dirt and
ALL and each Of us was smeared from
shoe to collar with the soapiest mud
on earth. We were glad it was over.
The ticklish work of exploring for
the feet Of those strong, lUaging horses
TO get the ropes on them, is an ex-
periencc VIC shall never forget. Every
pair of legs had to be dug out and tied
together and held up by short ropes
while saddle horses on the sage covered
ground lay down and pulled by the
saddle like plow horses on the collar.
And not horse was injured.
We reached the desolatc Jacob s
Lake, ranger station, in rain at 6
p. m. And such a rain In two min.
utes the rain streaks were jumping
back towards the sky and in FIVE min.
utes the ground was sheet of dane
ing, spraying, running water, and in
twenty minutes a score Of good-sized
streams We're racing toward the lake,
and in thirty minutes the sun was
setting clear.
The forest service very kindly
leaves its unoccupied cabins unlocked.
probably so that people will not break
the doors and windows seeking shelter
from such a rain. And there we cooked
on kitchen range and slept,
The sunrise chased us off down the
dugway to the south and on we clat
tered through the forenoon, the only
noise in an infnity of primitive forest
We were stul alone in God g country
at Three Lakes, and Mile-and-a Half
Ranger station was also vacant.
On we drive through forests and
wales that are Of rarest beauty. so
soothing after the drcary deserts! SO
very like the private estate of mil
lionajre or public park, and we ex-
pect at every turn to come upon a
spouting fountain or shaft Of statu-
ary,
At Big Park ranger station Ode
Mottel we turn the horses out for the
first time and let them forage; they
arc too tired TO leave us. The girls
get bed in the house and we boys get
the cots in the tent. The magnificent
spring of purest water here would be
worth government mint of money
back at Johnson s Run,
We arrived at Camp Woolley or
Catalo springs by early noon next day
where Uncle d. l.. has built a substan-
tial log cabin, some good corrals and a
mammoth pasture with q fence on
three sides and developed n good
spring.
After hurried dinner, nervous in
the proximity Of the greatest event Of
the construction Of the world, we were
taken by Mr. Pelton toward the jump
ing-off place. TremblyIcggcd. we
ambled off up deer path 10 the south
Of Bright Angel Ranger station. Mr..
Pelton lost ''four-bitH - bet when |
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Vision Of Promised Land.

again with interest very soon.
Vision Of Promised Land.
knew our Grand Canyon maps per
fectly and, like hound pup on
mountain lion trail, | lunged forward
with much assurance. ] soon sighted
the abrupt end Of the timber six rods
on at the top Of the hill; and here the
forest and the hill and the whole face
Of the earth dropped noiselcssly away
at our feet and lay there lodged, and
quiyering in million colors before
MS and below us like vision of the
Promised Land.
] became subdued and silent in this
awful presence for a time: and then
the sound of voices stimulated me and
my sense of proprietoTshin returned.
"Sec,' / ratified. "here in front is
Bright Angel creek, to the right Is
Bright Angel point and TO the left IS
Obj point, yonder is Deva and Brama
Temples and the Angels Gate. and be-
yond it all is the opposite wall of the
canyon. That opposite wall is exactly
fifteen miles from our feet -
"How plain it is for such a dis
tancc.' said my wife, and then Pei
ton whispered something TO the girls
and | remembered ruefully that while
he had been here before he had not
vet said a word.
Then he urged MS all on to Bright
Angel Point pathway, a well-worn trail
among the pine cones along the rim of
eternity itself.
IN half an hour with vistas and
views crashing through the trees at us
until we were numb and dumb we had
crept and crawled to the flatiron end
OF Bright Angel point, a narrow flImsy
buttress rising dIzzily ont of the blue
depths about it like a detached mass
in space.
Clnging tosthe rocks. | creep to an
edge and crane foolish neck out TO
get a look downward while my wife,
gripping a. frail cedar, shouts frantic
ally about my inadequacy as wisdom
source, yet flinging the gruesome COM
plimcnt that the life insurance is not
half sufficient TO console her.
But / look, 1T is 700 feet TO short
talus containing n few green spots,
trees and beyond that. directly on
down, it is just 5000 feet. five Salt
Lake blocks on end. to the purple.
blush, brimstonv bottom of that awful
abyss: and crept back before ! lost
control Of my wits.
On my knees (my legs were uncer-
tain) ] gazed dreamily across and up
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E9RHYG AkHO Or HSoz6
6ISIS 1T 9NSEL CAE<

narrow strip but it is 5000
and less than that in width.
wall breaks away towards us,
opens the Grand Canyon prop
the opposite wall called The
Facade stretches like a wavin,
er-aag five or six miles sout|
the picture, to the north Of &
Colorado, which appears as
dragon writing its way open
3400 feet from top to bottom,
parent, the sunken leviathan,
call Grand Canyon.
Before us from our feet
studded slope rolls over the (
an abyss without a bottom.
tories TO each side of us, ram
" out a quarter OF a mile into
and end, as does the one at
IN a sheer drop of 1000 feet
ing to our reconnaissance md
comes a sloping shelf or talus
scattering tree tops, and tht
another vertical drop Of 1l0(
the bottom, Just 5000 feet I
and not a mile away.
Atoko point TO our right u
with the coIored strata like
girls ribbon, but the ribbol
with a shears at the outer e
a mile toward the river from
bon s end is Siegfried Pyre,
guIar butte $500 feet above q
at lis feet and averaging but
thick, with a fat top,
at about 1000 feet elevation.
thick, throughout all the can
cry, is the mark of distinetioD'
pillars and pagodas, terra
spires below this consplcuou'
ical strata arc usually namele
any one OF them were alone IN
cossible place anywhere, n
would make paths to ITS .
Pyre, Guuther Castle, Chuar
the Nipple, all before us u
rise high enough to wear fn
baud or crown of glory.
Beyond the Palisades of t1a
CANYON wall spreads the far,1
far-feared painted desert, ~
low the level Of cur yle"
nine miles away, Il
Above rolled a flock or
clouds which crowned a pictu3
can paint. And as the clouq
crept YEARLY across the see
nv camera curled up in my
bling with fear lest ] should
the picture; but l knew BETH
He is a fraud who claimss
graph it or paint it or de
when some sainted creature
on this enchanted rim and
spirit Of it all so we'll as 70
adequately in words fifty spe
coins Gettysburg address VI
the babbling OF a baby, ana
y.third Psalm will be sop
say. - th>
to return to camp at
noon, for in memory alone ,
transcending experience
away. K
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Horses Sink in MudhoIe.

We hadn Z gone q mile before a
racing, frotbing stced dashed up to our
side from behind and Bowman said
breathlessly that every one of their
horses was in the mudhole and they
would require our horses at once IL
they saved their sinking animals; they
were four miles back on the trail.
tableauX AT a. m. and our faces
not washed. We wheeled about through
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An Irritating Critic.

The cougar hunters swarm
MS ava kened MS rudely lfyS
cries and one Bostonlan g. g.
blond vacation beard bluntl'
me that my cougar was .
is usually the newconisitS
them, }; said he irritatlngly,,. &.
that he might make a ioi'' .
had nv imagination ana q 4
ographer; but Uncle Jim ap''
a friendly way. ,,vv \
"rhe dew was hs%,d 20 m h
'Coneee' ran" said he, 'ano tor
Iy noon when all OF us 20; 81
look the dogs out: the tran ~ ~
Eut the remarks OF tne "
hnrnt deep and as we parreaot
Lu1r III - hri cav to myself ma
roigpt r,jiG see things in the twilis5
lug a long haired; I'm, ,hace .I 'iIIla1
eating dog named the .i,in6 (
i'm my arms. nor Tie IL os Iii n
like n raincoat, as lie, dau al l.
II was the aching In my
,ba canyon at still anotnel
1aS ,m mo from the camp alone
biIIs IGd "st at 4 p. m, that afternoo1 nc Z
,''''o : ,ord tbo folks I meant 70
- VOC nouear since he had mace
md OF course he nad h''
where ! had seen him ,,,,od
v Hilltop and valley , rUI,eu nlaves
,llppery feet like ocean va cor
hour and then the re"aro
1Cont;nued on Following r
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KSZA Iv DE laoyzE RzRN)

led the party up the proper trail. ac
cideutaiiy. but he won it all back
again with interest very soon
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fContinued on FOLLOWING
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and down the coffinl,llc transept to
the west, and its scalloped opposite
wall and head Of dainty lines and col
ors. dropping downward through Z
blush wall beyond the range Of vision
in the depths below, was indeed n per.
feet casket, empty. thank goodness,
And for fear my imagination would
place silent, shut-eyed figure in it,
my gaze lifted 10 the rounded rim
draped so fuueral.ljlle with ferns and
posies, but III reality by the mightiest
of the forest s pines. two miles away,
which shed their cones into the Him
liable depths, and carpet the rim like
n RoVal Wilton
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LooEoC~ CRN-YoN
R3/0OS ~ ATE4u

you can I find the object Of your study
again to save you.
Photograph it? No! You can't even
turn away momentarily and dream the
half Of the real picture. My poor OLD
camera lust lay down and crled; i
wiped its tears away and placed ray
filter google on it. but still 1t could
not maintain its plain country self re-
spect in that chaos of color and lnlln-
ity of form.
Lucky that we were not honeymoon
ing this trip. This is no place for
man that ism prepared to forget the
very hand he is holding. 1t is the re-
gion over which the aerologist, falling
to destruction, dreams he is passing.
How could we leave 1T! The two
hours allotted passed like our youth
and we found ourselves creeping back
along the rockway toward broader land
with aching uuSatlsfied hearts ms a
dainty rainbow in Bright Angel creek
waved us a farewell.
| am foolish over it; and under the
circumstances it is a privilege 10 be SO,
for ! Will be forgiven for ever attempt
ing 10 tell what [ saw and for failing
so pltifully in the effort.
Rust and Marion were at the main
rim with ten riding horses and we fol.
lowed the leader on the gallop several
miles around through the open forest
to secondary climax at the head of
the Transept. And after fairly found
ering my camera trying to force this
majestic amphitheater into IT whole
we trailed off toward Camp Woolley
at eventide filled with the bcnediction
that il was the close OF Perfect Day.
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Cougar Flashes Past.

At clock in the dim twilight the
next morning while Rust and | were
wraugling horses in the forest a mile
from camp ] saw the full broadsidc OF
a sorrel animal hurrying along about
five feet ahead Of yellowish ''ques-
ton mark, - which, of course, was a
mountain lion S tail, a little chill
swept over me and my skin seemed to
draw mp so tight ] couldn { run. Rust
had lust related how cougars (moun-
tain lions) had attacked and eaten
some barn horses out there recently,
and | was glad when we found our
team later grazing contenredly.,
The cougar story Travelled Ike Wild
horses, for Pelton mounted one and
raced Il mile for Uncle Jim Owen, the
government hunter, and some Boston
boys at Bright Angel Spring. AS that
crowd of hunters and dogs pressed
about me for details L shrank from
them. for I alone had seen the beast
and L was to he tried by jury OF dogs
for the crime.
Our little party of four, however
were hunting other views of that 9th
er Giant that has the long crooked ten
tacles clutching out into the kaloab
from the south and we departed for
Greenland and left the cougar hunters
to bring in the hide | saw.
In couple of hours we halted the
lcaln on Tue CduS On I'M ~ VI, 49,
edge of the Kaibab; and there before
us lay the broad tentacled head Of the
desert dragon, scrried and scallopcdd,;
ribbed and fluted, and painted, all
quivering like life beneath the FAINT |
est tingc Of a purple haze.
Directly across the submerged valley |
of shadows ran the Marble Canyon |
wall, and to the left came the Colo
RADIO river out Of the marble plat form
in Il dark gutter: it looked to he
Bisbee daily review., 1913-03-19
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
IN THE COUNTY OF cocHlsE.
STATE Of ARIZONA

IN THE Matter OF the Estate Of,
r WILLIAM VLACIS, Deceased.
Notice Of Hearing Petition.
NOTICE is hereby given that the
Bank Of Bisbee, has, filed in this court
its Petition prayinga that it. the said
hank of Bisbee, disappointed Admin
istrator OF the Estate of William
Vlacis, Deceased, and that the same
viii be heard on Tuesday. the 25th.,
day of March, A.. d, 1913, at 1000
O'Clock in thu, forenoon Of said day
at the Courtroom or SAID court, in the
City of Tombstone. County Of Co
chfse, State of Arizona, and all per
sons interested in said estate are
notified. then and there to appear and
show cause, If any they nave, why
the prayer OF said petitioner should
not be granted.
J z. JAMES,
Clerk Of the Superior Court
By C. B. WILSON,
a- Deputy Clerk
Dated March 12thg 1913,
Bisbee daily review., 1913-03-19
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
OF THE COUNTY OF cocHISE.
STATE OF ARIZONA

IN THE Matter OF the Estate of
GERGE Fl. NEAI.E, Deceased
Notice Of Hearing Of Petition for
Probate Of viii.
NOTICE is hereby given that Tues
day. the 25th day OF March. A. d
1913, at ten O'Clock a. NJ, of said day,
at the Court room of said Court. at
the Court house in the City OF Tomb
stone County of Cochlse and State
IF Arizona, have been appointed as
the time and place FOR proving the viii
OF Said George II. Neale, Deceased,
and for hearing the application of
Mrs. Jane Neale, for the issuance to
J. NJ. o'ConneII Of Letters Testamen.
tary thereon.
Witness my hand and the Seal of
said Court this 12th day of March
a, D., 1918.
tSEALg j. r JAMES,
Clerk of the Superior Court
BY c. B. WILSON,
Deputy Clerk
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v = +
! Ohm RAWN H
Prominent Citizen
BY
Il Emerson Hough
author Of The aississippl
Bubble f; 81 so or Flight
Illustrations by
Ray Walters
co1ynSni isI2 % Eassso6 Ho1Eh

chs a1-g e. 81 them, the gems she
has nut Ip1n her person to protect
sh5n from uncertain servants. gems
vhicc ls5. her blazing Ike some wax
en- queen in her tomb-white, dead.
enje Fsled.
Take them!" she cried 81 don't
want them" She went on, piling his
hands full OF gIittering, flashing things,
He stood gazing at her, stupefed.
Then, slowly. the burden of years, tho
burden Of business failure, and lastly
this-the burden Of the worst Of mans
discontinue, the worst OF a mans pos
sible losses-began to weigh down
upon him. He shortened visibly;
shriveled; dropped.
They had no pity for him. Youth
has no pity for age. love no pity for
a mates inefiiciency; but after all
some sort OF contempt. at least,
seemed due him.
"Rawn." said Halsey, its pretty
hard. We're all of us paying a hard,
heavy price for what we thought We
had. But we can't evade it. any part
of it. It was your fault that Grace
left me. We were gong to part. You
sent your wife after me. as you call it.
l suppose Grace found that out. You
know what she did then. Il said
blame you. and so do But was
going to get a divorce u5E
"Diyoreet--you divorce my daugh-
ter! John Rawn's daughter" aaa
Ibid you not divorce her mother
you, yourself2"
But | loved-my wife-I mean, this
woman-Jennie, here!"
$50 do ! love her; more than you
do OF ever will know how to do What
you have done wen do. Is 1t worse
for us than it was for you? WHAT'S
the difference?"
"But she's my wifei Why, Jenniei"
He held out a hand 70 her.
so was Laura Rawn your wife, my
wifeis mother" went on Halsey.
What's the difference?-
Virginia Rawn stepped between the
two. I'm as much to blame as any
one OF US all" she said quietly. q
sold out to you. didn't /, Mr.. Rawn--
down there in New York? / married
you, didn't I? Very well, what you
did, I haze done. No more, and not
without equal cause. 7 love him ITu
going 10 marry him. You and I are
going to be divorced NO were not
I'd 20 to him anyhow hate you.
loathe you My God. how 7 detest
and ioathe the sight Of you Go away
go away-go away from rs, You're
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2 81 any part OF a man
'Its truel" gasped John Rawn TO
himself; MY God, it's true! She said
that heard her-to me? What have
done to deserve this? I
ought to kill you" said he to Haisey
slowly.
"Of course you ought" said Halsey.
'If you were any portion Of a man
you would. But you've tried that, and
you know where you ended"
But Halsey-Charleyi donE !.
stop to think" began Rawn pitifully.
You viii go bsek--you viii go baek
70 the factory, in the morning? You
viii help me pull it together. won't
youf'' s-r. CTS .v
mo, not one step back to the fac
tory-neyer in the Rofldt Tn done
with that. im going away somewhere,
and she's going with me, I don't know
whore. Let some one else work out
what you thought we could do, aLd let
some one else take the consequences
Its not for me. You've got what
you earned-I suppose I'll get what
I've earned. too. / don't care about
that any more"
Rawn could not answer the young
man as he went on slowly, duly. bit
terly. 'If I've been traitor to any Of
my own creed I reckon Godn punish
me. Very well; l viii take my pun
ishment on my shoulders. I've no
apologies to make in place ike this.
Haven't you gone up-oughtn't We
to go up now-up-stairs? ?" be added
at last. He put down Virginis's arms
from his shoulders; for once more she
had come to him.
Rawn sighed. Il suppose ! must
go up there" he said vaguely.
He turned aud walked away, heavy,
stumbling.
TO BE CONTINUED
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present place OF residence OF said
wards in the State of California; and
thai Friday, the 21st day OF March,
1913. at 1000 O'Clock A. NJ, at the
courtroom Of said Court, in the city
OF Tombstone, Cochise County, has
been appointed the time and place
for the hearing of said matters, when
and where any persons interested
may appear and show cause, if any
they may have, why the said account
should not be allowed and settled
and the said petition granted.
Dated March 8, 1918.
]. Z. JAMES.
Clerk of the Superior Court