The chronicle=news., 1914-05-30
Renaissance Of
Tie Ereatier Days


t.s,s In the srsiss Of 1865 a hos'
siss ssasassrs sAm-d juss- E~ihe.
aish ao, hinx -tse Tn do sa' talk. sns
ap minins -xeil~aashs ga The Gsv~a
river by i-~iafias h- had foasd .
hat iuii al nasesis AtDas that TRACK
-sous .sf-sm il sse aossh--st s"ssss
II Colorado. ii- hsa ps.saLiy ssser
..-n . hunk at asisse sait. but this
made hs aiffss-sse IN his piass. Tho
a--s .rFeAa all sioaE the thisn Ia.
sis,s ~hish had just sh-a penetrated
Use ~iias. and creates great stir
IN Cheyenne. The ramos. h-e sn,-
.o persistent ths, ~ II. Hook. The
tifss mayor al the turn. eoaeiude.a
TO take tss lack oA ,h- propositions
and ossanis-.a rsssS at eight trust.
'si friends Tn iassd~ 'h- nr~ ei'so.
saio.
AZ the ae~ lous "t Gs--a River
.t,r 'h.s built three flat haais and
struck out .so~a sssvAh, tn make their
fortunes In the unfnowa s~siaa
~hieh had ., that Sius- never s~-a
explored BY = white man. Tho msyos
ueas ahead 9th tee other ,o,sRcss
in the first boat. They had pssse'i
tho ferry near the pee~rn, sowa Of
iiriix-rast and carie 10 . dangerous
canon. A. aae pias. Just before ca
'.rins<,hc narro-s above nro~a's
itri.. they reached a particularly bsd
strt The stream was olsslfuc,ci hr
n dixie oe q slide Of broken rork
which had o,idSn'iy como down
from the steer canon wall and they
should have stopped and inss.tis stcsi
Thoroughly before '-nsuvinx over II.
Saint Paul remarked that tho cyc 10
not saiiyticd with its seeing nor the
-ar with Its hearing and Hook dccid.
cd to nm tho risk by shooting the
rapids and trusting 10 luck.
!, vas tho fatal mistake Of his life
and h- seemed 10 r-aiisc II MI after
u was too late. Tic saw that they
would bc rsrsisrd aud called To his
companions To cling to the l,oat and
never mind him as he could swim.
The boat fiukcd Of course aud Hook
went uudct hut soon recovered him
self aud struck on, for shore. lie
caught n boulder and climbed onto II
like Edmond Dan;cs. the count of
Monte Crisso. but unfortunately he
slipped Of; and was lost. Tho men
In tho boat behind saw the catastro-
phc In time to pull In and thus save
themselves. The two men who went
down with Hook managed to stick
until they could got to shore and
were saved. but the mayor had gone
to a terrible fate.
His widow at homo threw tho us
un1 spasm NJ grief and offered re-
ward Of $1,000 for the recovery Of
his body 80 that she could give her
beloved husband Christian burial.
A hundred or more men took up the
search and two weeks later when the
body was found below Willow creek
tho good woman declared II was not
the remains Of her man and rcpndiat-
cd the reward In a business man.
ncr. Tho boys dug n rude grave and
had n funeral much like that Of Sir
John Moore and this was the first
burial In Browns park. As Austin
said. Death is the master and dawn
shovel tho clay and tread II down"
1cssc Ewing and n miner named CAL
loway subsequently Joined the silent
majority and were Inferred alongsidc
Of Hook in the littlcb urying ground
70 that It looked in time as II they
might have n cemetery. The plans.
however. were changed by John Jar
vic, the old ferryman at the govern
ment crossing Just below Bridgeport.
He stopped impersonating Charon.
who rowed the lost souls across the
river Styx. long enough to plow up
the hallowed spot and put In little
patch Of beans. With all our billions