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The Dolores star., 1923-10-05

the county needed, have discovered
that their whole crop is ouly one
sixth of what the city of Spring.
field alone consumes. The rest of
the demand must be supplied by
Western or other outside apples,
so the task of the Hampden County
orchardists is to raise their stand
ard of grading, packing and mark
citing to those of their competitors,
or above them.
1t is the same story with onions
and with other garden truck, great
quantities of which are produced in
the county, yet not nearly enough
to supply the demand. The
remedy is better organization
There is no other. All the laws
that could be put on the statute
books would make no difference.
1t is hopeful sign that a county
wide association in the East should
be attacking so intelligently and
courageously the problem of a
farmers surplus and a consumers,
lack. The boy who finds his fish.
hook caught in the seat of his
trousers and cuts it out himself
will get to fishing a good deal
sooner than the boy who merely
sits down and shouts for help.
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unexpectedly passed away. He had
been in the johnson hospital at Cortez
for the past month with broken hip.
No autopsy was held, but it was
thought his death was the result of a
paraletic stroke. Funeral services
were conducted in the Catholic church
at Dolores and interment in the Dolores
cemetery on Saturday. The entire
community extends sympathy to Joe
who is left alone now.
Glenn Honaker is the possessor of a
new Ford which he drove home from
Cortez on Saturday.
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Friday, October S, 1928

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kORThDHlE.

George Crapo returned from Nor.
wood last Wednesday where he has
been working for the past month.
Mrs. William Bales, who has been
combining the business of canning
fruit and visiting her parents. MIR. and
Mrs. J. X. Wright, of Mancos, returned
home Saturday.
N. A. Griffin left Monday for Denver
where he will be examined for treat
ment for injuries received while he
was in the navy.
D. D. Cole was in Blanding the last
of the week attending teachers
institute and returned with his car
loaded with fruit.
Mrs. Dora A. Mirgon left last Thurs
day for Pueblo where she will spend
the winter with sister. She will
visit some point in Wyoming before
she returns.
Aldeberto SemadAni was passenger
on the mail Thursd ay bound for Salt
Lake City. From there he will 20 to
N'N" Aoih " tohe pdsShRe 10 SwltZer-
land where he will visit his parents
this winter.
Mike Dooley, who was so unfortunate
as to break leg last week is reported
to be progressing as we'll as could be ex-
pected.
Yves and Cecil Stoneking arrived Sat
urday evening from Taft, California. to
visit relatives and friends here during
their vacations.
N. 6. Cook, who has been employed
at Sunnyside, Utah, returned home
last Saturday and it is reported that he
drove through in new car.
The order of the day in this commu-
nifty at present is going after fruit.
Those who have done so this past week
are Mrs. Fred Winchel and children
Mrs. Lyman Eastin and son. VIRGIL
and Mrs. George Eastin, Lewis Bales
and daughter. Eunice, and H. Shemp
and daughters. Laura and Ruth.
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Notice of Call of Town Bonds.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, Thst "
Town of Dolores. Colorado, will rI
bonds Nos. 81, 3s. 80 and 40 Of 10
issue of Water Works Bonds OF da
August is, 1911. at the Chase Nat'ods
Bank, New York. u. s. A., or at u
First National Bank, Dolores, ColOf'S
or j. ]. Harris & Co. Bankers. Dolores
Colorado, on the 10th day of OctooS'
A. D. 1928, or as soon thereafter
said bonds are presented for paynf'
with accrued unpaid interest to oaa'
and that from and after said ~
mentioned date the interest on ~
bonds will cease.
CHARLES BEAR,
Colorsda
First publication September u, ls@
Last publication October 8, 1873
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Want Ads. !

FOR SALE-Cheap or Will IN n
Cleveland roadster. Inquire Oh W. 4
Taylor.
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LEWIS

The Ladies Aid met Wednesday at
the Arthur Field home. Eleven mem
bers and four visitors were present.
The McGees. Campbells and Madi-
sons were dinner guests at the McAfee
home on Wednesday evening.
Mrs. F. E. Larimore is enjoying a
visit from her father. Mr.. Kraut, of
Idaho Springs, Colorado. He came
home with Earle who drove new Ford
from Denver for Mr.. Calhoun.
Most of the Lewis population at
tended the Cortez fair on Friday.
Messrs. McGee, Madison, Campbell
McAfee and DR.. Calkins journeyed up
into the hills Saturday to try their
skill at hunting grouse.
Mrs. Homer Hughes was notified by
the Bradley. Merriom Co. of Omaha.
that she won second prize in the con-
test which she entered some months
ago. Mrs. Hughes received check for
fifty dollars and two-hundred- dollar
Victrola as her prize.
FRANCES Optain nad the misfortune
to get the end cut off of one of his
fingers in the threshing machine Mon
day. He drove to Cortez and had IL
dressed by DR.. johnson.
VIM. Krunzler started to Bluff.
Utah. on Monday of last week and in
some manner the car overturned with
him dislocating his shoulder blade and
bruised him up. No further news has
been received Concerning his condition.
Next Sunday is designated as Rally
Day at Sunday school, and every men,
Der and teacher is urged to be present.
Our community was shocked on
Wednesday when the news came over
the wire that Pat Murphy had very
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Helping Themselves.

1t is pleasant in these times,
when it is so fashionable to regard
legislation as the only way to deal
with social and economic problems,
to find group of farmers who are
trying intelligently to cure their
own ills by first finding out what
causes them. That seems to be
exactly what the Hampden County
Improvement League of Massachu-
sets is doing. With a trained
market man in charged OF
the work, it has set about the
business of learning what food
products the county raises, and how
much CT them, and what amount
1t consumes, and how efficiently it
markets what it raises.
Already it has learned some
rather surprising things. Local
poultry meu complain that the
local retail mar ket fails to absorb
all their eggs at the height of the
spring laying season at a salts.
factory price; yet investigation by
the League shows that instead os
having a large sulplus, as they had
supposed the poultry raisers of
Hampden County are producing
only half as many eggs as thew
produced ten years ago, and only
one ninth ofthe eggs consumed in
the county. The tronble is that
those in the back towns have no
direct contact with the most profit
able market, and that distribution
through the local trademens or the
peddler breaks down when the
demand slackens. In consequence
poultry marketing pool is now in
process of organization that will
devote itself chiefly to establishing
standard package and label, will
candle its own eggs and select the
customers who can absorb the
spring surplus.
An apple-marketing association
in the county will handle this year
about one third of all the apples
grown within the county limits.
The members, who at first thought
they could supply all the apples
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Crumbs Swept Up.

Marriage is lottery only to those
who make it such.
Yes, the Lord will reward you for
your good deeds in this world, provided
the good ones overcome the bad ones.
Some people are so stingy with the
truth they never tell it for fear it will
get away from them.
Some people believe in as king the
Lord to provide their daily bread be-
cause it is less trouble than working
for it.
If you are enjoying good reputation
be careful that your neighbors do not
find you out.
Occasionally we hear of a woman
who marries man to reform him. but
it is generally the Judge who hears
most of the story.
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Bible Thoughts for
the Week
Sunda

sunday.
HOW To ESCAPE FROM EVIL.
Because thou hast made the Lord.
which is my refuge, even the Most
High, thy habitatiun; there shall
no evil befall thee. neither shall
any plague come nigh thy dwell
ing. For he shall give his angels
charge over thee, to keep thee in
all thy ways.-Psalm 81 oil.
Monday.
SHALL BE MY PEOPLE-They
shall be my people. and | will be
their God. and | will give them one
heart, and one way, that they may
fear me forever. for the good of
them, and of their children after
them.-Jeremiah 81 :3S, 80.
Tuesday.
GUARD YOUR THOUGHTS
Finally, brethren, whatsoever things
are true, whatsoever things are hon
est, whatsoever things are Just,
whatsoever things are pure, what
soever things are lovely, whatso-
ever things are of good report; If
there be any virtue, and If there
be any praise think of these things.
Philippians AS.
Wednesday.
L1BERTY.-Where the Spirit of
the Lord Is, there Is liberty.-u
Corinthians, 3:17.
Thursday.
THE APPLE OF THE EYE,
Keep me as the apple of the eye
hide me under the shadow Of thy
wings.-Psalm II IS.
Friday.
DELIVERANCE AT HAND-I
will be with him in trouble; will
deliver him.-Psalm 81 10.
Saturday.
THE BEST MEDICINE.-A
merry heart doeth good like n medi.
cine; but broken spirit drieth the
bOnes.-Proverbs II 90.
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No Hurry.

The burglar had just begun his term.
Near MIN was an oldish man who
studied him intently and seemed to be
awaiting an opportunity to say some
thing.
How long are you in for?" he
whispered.
Twelve years." replied the new.
conner.
The veteran looked around nervouslv
and thrust letter into the burglars
hand.
I'm in for life." he said. "Pos,
this for me when you get out.
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FOR SALE-Four-room house ano '.,r ~
lots. Good Ford car might Dc i
sidered in part payment. lnqutM IA
w. G. Spyres, Dolores, Colo.
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LUMBER FOR SALE

2x4s and TX o's used in
Chautauqua tent. 2x4s are
short and TX Is have nail
holes. NewI1umber. See c.
l.. Flanders.
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OF course. our neighbors may Ms
full of faults as we are of prunes, ht|
talking about them won't corsd|
them.
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Happiness is twin. 1t must
shared to really exist. Exchange.
The Dolores star., 1923-10-05

The fellow with loud suit need, n
introduction.
The Dolores star., 1923-10-05

The early bird doesn't catch worni
sitting in his nest.
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THE DOLORES STAR
CHARLES BEAR. PUBLISHER.

Entered at the postof,ice In Dolores, Colorado
for transmission through the mails, as second
class mail matter.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1923-06-28
THE STORY OF DENNIS DR1SC0lA, WHOSE DARLING EXPLOIT
SAWED THE LIVES OF FORTY SOLDIERS BES1EGED BY SIOUX

wiping him out than had the first
| party. Twice the Indians rushed
him. Zone Indian with a big head
dress and a bunch of his followers
got so near me-" he said, "that I was
able to drop two of them with my re-
volvers."
Sitting up in bed and apparently
living again the battle, he said. II
seemed to lose all sense of fear and
wanted to kill every Indian / could.
Every shot / fired seemed to tell.
They could not know that they were
fighting only one soldier"
Driscoll's statements were after
wards verified by visits to the scenes
Of the two combats and he was pre-
sented with a gold medal by Captain
Thompson. This he afterwards lost
in a fire in Bozeman.
On his discharge from the hospital
Driscoll returned to Fort Phil Kear-
ney, where he was given an ovation
and borne into the fort on the shoul-
ders of his comrades.
ION July 10, 1908, the survivors
of the Eighteenth U. S. infantry held
a reunion at the site of old Phil Kear-
ney at which we're present General
Darlington, William DAILY, S. Gibbon,
William Murphy, S. S. Peters, ].
Stratum and Dennis Driscoll.
General Darlington delivered an
address. Others of the survivors
were called upon until finally Dris-
coll was reached. He begged to be
excused and would not talk, so his
old regimental commander arose and
related the story of his heroism.
Driscoll's services so commended
him to Senator Warren and Con-
gresham Mondell-Driscoll at that
time was living in Deitz, Wyo.-that
they and Brig. Gen. A. S. Burt were
instrumental in securing for him a
comfortable pension.
Among the veterans priceless pos
sessions was an autographed por-
trait of General Burt on which the
general had written, ITO my old
friend and comrade, Dennis Driscoll,
late corporal company G., Twenty
seventh u. S. infantry, a good SOL
der and a very brave man. Dris-
coils daring ride for help to save his
comrades who were surrounded by
hostile Sioux Indians, is one of the
memorable deeds of our frontier his
tory. Comrade Driscoll, may all the
pleasures in life be yours, is the
wish of your friend, Andrew S. Burt,
brigadier general U. S. army, retired,
late captain and brevet major, Twen-
t~y-seventh infantry, u. S. army.
d. c., February, 1909"
Driscoll located in the vicinity of
Miles City in 1882 and later removed
TO Timberline camp near Bozeman.
was a close friend and associate
Of Buffalo Bill and of the late Sena-
or Charles Hoffman. Buffalo Bill
Ind Driscoll had often secuted toge-
her.
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u. S. infantry. He was sent to the
west, his company being assigned to
Fort Phil Kearney. The Irish lad
had. scarcely become accustomed to
the routine of garrison life when
Fetterman's command was massa-
cred just outside the fort. Fetter-
man, according to the statement of
General Darlington, was a daredevil
who in his zeal to punish the Indians
for an attack On a wood train was
drawn into an ambush and killed,
his detachment being wiped out in
FL minutes.
Driscoll was not included in Fet-
terman's detachment but was of the
number sent out by General Car
rington under Captain Ten Eyck to
rescue Fetterman. Ten Eyck, who
was rushed out from the fort when
the firing on Fetterman commenced,
went to the nearest high hill to To-
cate the Fetterman command, the
firing having ceased before he had
scarce left the fort gates. He sent
back word to General Darlington, ac-
cording to the latter's published
statement that .the valley was full
of Indians, challenging him to come
down but he could see nothing of
Fetterman," to which Darlington
made answer II send you 40 men
and 10000 rounds Of ammunition.
Join Fetterman at all hazards"
Ten Eyck obeyed the command of
the general to the letter. He pressed
on with his small handful of men
into the midst of the horde of Indian
warriors and brought back 40 dead
bodies of the Fetterman command.
1t was thus that the young Irish lad
Driscoll received his first baptism
of fire in Indian warfare and learned
that fighting savages was deadly
work in which the initiative of the
individual soldier was quite as i'm
portant as the leadership of the COM
handing officer.
1t was six months later that Dris-
coll wrote his name high on the roll
of fame of his regiment, along with
that of John Philip, another peerless
spirit of the west. Pheidippedes, the
Greek, "who ran a little more than
100 miles-from Athens to Sparta
in 48 hours" through a friendly
country to ask the Spartans to as
sist the Athenians, and GORGEOUS,
who ran from Marathon to Athens
to bring the news of battle and drop
ped dead after a 24-mile, 1914 yards
run, a feat that is successfully ac-
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Canadian Jack rushed forward and
presented the volunteer with a
brace of Colt revolvers and a field
glass. The gods watch over the
brave. AS nightfall approached, the
time at which Driscoll was to make
his forIorn attempt to secure help, a
heavy storm broke and the air was
rent by the thunder of the elements.
Silence was not a requisite under
the conditions. Speed was essential.
Although the fort was 40 miles away
by wagon road it would be folly to
attempt that route. The way ross
the hills was much longer so Driscoll
put his dispatches in his bosom,
mounted the blind army mule and
made a break for the open.
Evades the Sentries
The Indians have a superstition
that a man killed in the darkness of
night must spend eternity in dark
ness. This belief does not prevent
them from cunning for victims by
moonlight. The belief, the darkness,
crashing of the thunder and the
Indians feeling that it would be i'm
possible for any n to pass their
lines all played into the hands of the
young soldier. He managed to evade
heir sentries and travelled all night
without being seen. This was effect
only through stealthy progress,
1erve-racking waits, and passage
rough and dangerous ground.
When morning dawned, the exhaust
young soldier YEARLY made his
way to a high point of ground to
AXE his bearings.
Sweeping the plain with his field |
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4 LMOST unnoticed d, there
n passed at the SawteIle Sol
80 diers' home neal Los Angeles,
Last October, a hero of the old
west, a man as modest as he was
brave, who in the winning OF the
west from the Indian tribes laid
his life on his cOuntry's altar as
nobly as did those who held the
pass at Thermopy1ae. While the
Greek soldiers were immOrtalized
the Americans achievement is al
most unknown even among the
people of Montana, where he calm
~ went forth to die, If need be,
that others might live. This Mon
tana hero, a raw Irish lad who had
not yet attained his majority,
saved his comrades, a detachment
Of soldiers, from humiliation by
q war party of Sioux Indians. In
SO doing he underwent experiences
that called for almost superhuman
exertiOnS. He was without sleep
for go hours, travelling hard all
night and fighting Indian war par
ties by day. One man against a
hundred, he was able to stand off
his attackers, with heavy loss to
them, until he found a chance to
make his escape through the
smoke of the fire they had built
to roast him.
Again he held his own against a
band of so Indians, or more, s. bent
IN his destruction that they rushed
lis ambuscade again and again, los
ng heavily in each rush, until final
y they beaten off by the in
lcmitable grit and unerring marks
nanship of the lone soldier.
Worn out and bleeding freely from
weakening wound, he kept logged
y on until, his goal almost attained,
10 fell senseless in his tracks within
light of the fort, where succor for
lis comrades lay. Nelson Story, Sr.,
ound him and carried him into the
ort, discovered the dispatches, and
transmitted them to the command
ag officer. A detachment a rush
d to the aid of the b~esieged soldiers
nd the lives of 40 men and officers
Jere saved by the courage and UNI
altering determination of the young
This hero of the old west bore the
anne of Dennis Driscoll. He was
orn in Liverpool of Irish parents
nd came to the United States, a lad
10, in 1866, and Immediately en-
sted in company K, Twenty-seventh
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complished at every Olympiad by the
p~resent-day athletes - these me1
have been im~mortalized, while the
Irishman, Driscoll, and the Portu
guese, Philip, are almost unknown
even among the citizens of the local
ity where their great achievements
were performed.
In June, 1867, Driscoll was q
member of the Second battalion OF
the Twenty-seventh U. S. infantry,
company K, under Captain E.. F.
Thompson. This command was con
veying supplies from Fort Kearney
to Fort G. S. Smith, a distance of ITO
miles. Fort G. S. Smith was in this
state about ITO miles due south from
Fort Custer. Fort Phil Kearney was
in Wyoming about half way between
Sheridan and Buffalo. Both these
forts have long since been disman-
tied. The trip to Fort G. S. Smith
was made without incident. Com
pany K was returning in company
with company A. AS they approach
ed Trout creek they were suddenly
surrounded by a large war party of
Sioux. Following the Indian custom
CAO Dof06CO Liz OIdulpSQSu lllG StOCh
leaving Thompson one blind mule
which refused to travel, at least not
at stampede gait.
Then began a desperate fight for
life, the soldiers being outnumbered
10 to 1 by a tribe one of whose
chiefs, Red Cloud, had sworn to fight
to the death until every white man
was driven out of the Indian coun-
try.
Indians Attack
The soldiers were completely sur
rounded. The Indians made rush
after rush as the days wore by and
the whites were barely able to hold
the red warriors in check, but each
new onslaught fastened the time
when the scalps of the white men
would adorn a lodge pole in a Sioux
tepee, while the bodies of the SOL
diers would be food for the wolves.
The crisis was reached when every
avenue of escape was apparently cut
off and with ratiOns and ammuni-
ton getting perilously low. Unless
help came the soldiers would be
shortly annihilated. To attempt to
help appeared SO suicidal
that the officer in command hesi-
tated to call on his men to under
take such a forlorn hope. Finally,
driven to desperation by the situation
his men, Captain Thompson called
for volunteers to carry a dispatch
to Fort G. S. Smith, 40 miles away.
There were old frontiersmen in the
detachment, men who knew the Ind
AN methods and who realized the
Even Jack Henshaw, a Cana
11an half breed with a long record
-or clever scouting and death-defy- I
.ng undertakings, stood silent as
captain Thompson made the an
that the lives of the de-
.achment depended on the skill and
iar1ng of some comrade who would
Undertake to break through the cor I
lon OF red fiends who were remorse- I
essly set on a~nnihilating the COM 4
nand. "It would be suicide, cap t
ain" said Canadian Jack as Captain q
thompson repeated his appeal. t
DriscoII Volunteers /
From the ranks stepped a lad, the p
own still fresh on his cheeks, but Il
light of high adventure in his eye. y
III try it, captain" he said mod Il
stly. The speaker was young Dris- v
u you think you can make it? n
% you feel that you will not become o
r~1gntened and turn back?" v
The boyish chin came forward and e
le Jaws frightened with determine "
on. +,
III make the trip or die on the
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way" he said with a careless smile.
"If they run into me, we will have
the DEVILS own time of it," and he
patted the butt of his rifle.