The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-12-02

Here lived and gave her service to mankind
Segis Pietertje Prospect worlds champion milk
cow. Born 1913 died 1925 Twice she registered
production records that set her fame above all
dairy cattle of any age. In each of two years she
exceeded 16,500 quarts of milk 1,400 pounds of
butter, yielding for the two a total of 1892
quarts of milk 2,S651S pounds of butter Sired
by a king and of purest Holstein strain she
herself bore sons and daughters of champion
achievement. Finest type of the noble patient
animal that is most justly named The Foster
Mother of the Human Race her queenly worth
deserved the gratitude in which this tribute is
erected by her owner, Carnation Milk Farms,
1925"
In Salt Lake City. Utah, stands lofty granite
column, on top of which is large granite ball
upon which two bronze birds, covered with gold
leaf are gently alighting. On the four sides of
the base are bronze tablets three bearing bas-
relief scenes of pioneer days in the Salt Lake
valley One shows the beginning of agriculture
in the arid West-a pioneer and his family and
a yoke of oxen at work retaining the desert
soil. The second shows the wheat fields overrun
by crickets. The pioneer man sits with bowed
head on his face look of helplessness and
grief. But the pioneer woman is lifting up her
face to the skies as she sees a miracle about to
take place. Winging over the mountains into the
valley come a great flock of guls. The third
bronze shows the harvest days. The gulls have
devoured the crickets, the crops are saved and
the pioneers in the wldernessSwI have bread
On the fourth tablet are these words: "Sea Gull
Monument Erected In grateful remembrance of
the mercy of God to the Mormon pioneers"
Thus this monument is an everlasting story in
stone of one of the most beautiful and dra-
matte incidents in American history-the story
of how the gulls saved the wheat fields of Utah
in 1S4S
This brief catalogue of unusual monuments
would not be complete without reference to IN
usual memorials to two men-not great men,
perhaps, and certainly not especially good men
in fact, to two pretty bad men, judged by
most human standards. Carved an Alaskan
cliff is a huge human skull which recalls the
fame of "Soapy" Smith, gambler. gunfghter and
general bad man" of the Klondike gold days.
who died as he had lived-by the gun. So today
an ronic skull a jagged mountainside is
Smiths salute to latterday pilgrims journeying
north by the inside water route to Alaska The
skull 25 feet high by feet wide, with missing
teeth and leering smile, was carved by order Of
the "Arctic Brotherhood" as a warning to other
bad men.
Some day when you're motoring through Doug
las, Wyo., pay a visit to the little cemetery on
the hill east of that city and take look at
large granite gravestone upon which is engraved
this unusual epitaph:
GEORGE w. PIKE
Underneath this stone in eternal rest
Sleeps the widest one of the hayward west.
He was a gambler and sport and cowboy too
And he led the pace in an outlaw crew.
He was sure on the trigger and staid to the end
But he never was known to quit on a friend
In the relations of death all mankind is alike
But in life there was only one George W. Pike
Perhaps it's just as well that there was only
one George w. Pike for Malcolm Campbell,
famous oldtime sheriff of Wyoming, is authority
for the statement that Pixies remarkable rec
ord for horse stealing extended over a period of
is years during which time there were few
terms of court that he was not down for at
least two counts but he was never convicted
Of q crime in his life."i
Se by Western Newspaper Union,