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OLD TIMES "BEFO W, Interesting Reminiscences Times of Travel 0v? Coach L The club women of Wyoming who' po recently marked the old stage trail j te: T owrnio aHth a. granite shaft! U^UX JUUXUU4iV T> and who put up an imposing monu-1 op ment on the California trail along j ca the North Platte, at Casper, began i ge a movement which in all probability 18 will be' taken up in other States co traversed by the stage coaches in tw early days. , Ls The rapid obliteration of some of da the old stage trails has made it im- K< perative to hasten the work of Sa identification. Old stage drivers m< have been called upon to identify th many of the points of interest and the location of stage stations along j lit the various trails, says the New York ; bu Tribune. At Julesburg, Col., the old Mj station where Jules and Slade had a their combat, a fight that later re- F? suited in the loss of Jules's ears, has sfc been identified and will be preserved, tw It has been poposed to have the gov- ra ernment set aside Independence ho rock, on the California trail in Wy- 1,2 oming, as a national monument. This ws rock was a famous stopping place in an early days, and is covered with the mi names of thousands of early-day "E transcontinental tourists, scratched La dep into the granite. Besides the main trails across the diz trails that had much to with making be< the West, but whose course will soon an he. lost if some means is not taken to th< mark them. The old Smoky Hill an stage trail across Kansas and East- dei era Colorado to Denver is practically wo wiped out, owing to the settlement or of the plains. * abi This old trail penetrated the heart ler of the hostile Indian country and It was the scene of many exciting ad- ga1 ventures in the '60's, but even the wh old Smoky Hill drivers have difficulty car In tracing the route to-day. The try same is true of the several routes grz to Deadwood, every foot of which is replete with historic interest. Ru The main line of stages across ing the continent were several times laE shifted on account of Indian depre- ch? dations. The most sweeping change adi was made in 1862, when "Ben" Hoi- bre laday, the genius of the overland tra stage business, moved the line dri several hundred miles south and ef- me fected the change without missing a ant mail or delaying a passenger. The ing old line followed the North Platte Frt and the Sweetwater, over South pass, ing and the new road led by way of nui Julesburg to Denver, north from pai Denver to Fort Lupton, thence across anc the Laramie plains, in Southern Wy- wh oming, and then due west through of > Bridger pass, where the old trail was pos joined and the journey continued to mo Salt Lake. Gei Most of the stage stations and hoi other buildings erected along these apa old stage trails fell into ruins long rail ago, but there are few structures eve worth preserving. The easiest way esp of identification is by the natural day monuments marking most of the ^ trails. Chief among these is Inde- the pendence rock, which is said to have co*' been named by the celebrated ex- ed plorer Capt. Bonneville on account the of its solitary aspect, rising, as it ry. does, independent or an otner tucks a u in the vicinity. Fremont and other con explorers mention the rock many anc times. When the tide of California to i gold-seekers began flowing across spe the country the rock was a favorite "in camping place. As early as 1847; I immigrants gathered at the rock to j his celebrate the Fourth of July, it be- j ing ing on record that on the Fourth as of that year there were about 1,000 was California and Oregon immigrants not gathered there to celebrate Inde- "Ja pendence day. Old wagon hubs were div loaded with powder and placed in hea the crevices of the rock, producing lat< explosions that sounded like the rou work of a battery of artillery. vis Many of those who died on the Jul ? ./.atinnnf TIT a TO hlltm- or or "way auruss iue wuuucm .. v,. ~ ~? ov,. ed in tbe vicinity of Independence trii rock, and their epitaphs can still be Ind read on the granite. Probably the S most Impressive funeral held there div was in 1862. On July 4 of that ver year a large number of immigrants ter had gathered there for a celebra- Ind tion when a train came in bearing sta the body of a young man who had wo been accidentally killed while clean- dia ing his rifle that morning. The red celebration was deferred, and in oul the afternoon a Masonic funeral was a s held for the young emigrant, who nir wa9 buried at the foot of the great j ion rock. Gen. Fremont was among ! those who carved their names on kil Independence rock, as were many of the the old trappers and fur traders. wa On this account, as well as on ac- hu count of the prominence of Independence rock as a stopping place Sla in the stage coach days, it has been stc proposed to have the rock set aside a ] as a national monument, under the ! act of congress giving the president we DE 4H" RECALLED. Retold of Romantic ;r Western Stage .ines. wer to segregate such places of illrest in the public domain. The first stages in the West were erated by Hockaday & Liggett to rry mail and express and passenrs to Western army posts. In 51 the business was extended', the mpany running semi-monthly beeen St. Joseph, Mo., and Salt tke, the round trip occupying' 42 ,ys. Horses were changed at Ft. jarney, Ft. Laramie, Ft. Hall and it T.nlro The driver fed his ani lis by simply turning them out on e prairie to graze. Matters assumed a more business:e aspect when, in 1858, the stage siness was purchased by Russell, ijors & Waddell, who had made fortune freighting on the Santa ! trail. The new proprietors built itions every 10 or 15 miles beeen Atchison and Salt Lake and n stages every day. They changed rses at each station and made the 20C miles in 10 days. The line is supplied with Concord coaches d the animals used were Kentucky lies. This line connected with ten" Holladay's line from Salt ke to San Francisco. Owing to the depredations of Inms, Russell, Majors & Waddell came financially involved. Alexder Majors, the prime mover in i firm, was- idolized by his thousds of employees. He was of a eply religious turn of mind and uld tolerate no whiskey drinking profanity among his men. To use a horse or mule was equiva it to asking for one s dismissal, was largely Major's foresight that ve the country the "pony express" ich made such a notable record in rying dispatches across the counbefore the days of the teletph. "Ben" Holladay, who succeeded ssell, Majors & Waddell in operat; the eastern division of the overid stage line, was a remarkable iracter. He knew the value of rertising and he started in to lak transportation records on the il. He offered prizes to his stage vers for fast trips. The equipnt was of the finest. Many thousis of dollars were spent in secur; the best horses and mules, jight trains were kept busy haulgrain and other supplies to the nerous stations. There were rer shops at division headquarters, 1 also traveling blacksmith shops ich were kept going from one end j the line to the other. It was im- j isible for traffic to be delayed re than a few hours at a time, lerally the coaches rolled into the ne stations, which were 50 miles irt, with the regularity of modern [road trains. All the equipment, n to the clothing of the men, was ecially manufactured for HollaiVhen Holladay traveled it was in finest stage coach that money Id buy. This coach was suspendon coil springs instead of on customary straps of the ordinaConcord. It was equipped with >ed, a reading table and "all the lforts of home." Only the best I most .daring drivers mounted the box, and to fail to break the ed record when Holladay was side" was a disgrace, lolladay demanded results along stage line, and he cared nothabout any man's past, so long he "delivered the goods." This 3 evidenced in the case of the orious desperado, Joseph A., or ick" Slade, who was appointed ision superintendent, first with idquarters at Fort Laramie and jr at Virginia Dale, when the te was moved south. Slade's diion was from Virginia Dale to esburg, and it was the most danous part of the transcontinental >, as the route was infested with lians and outlaws. Jlade had orders to clean up the ision and he started in with a igeance. He soon had the Indians rorized. If a report came in that lians had driven off the stock at a tion Slade was soon on hand. He uld take the trail after the Inns and would shoot down every l&kin he met. He slew several :laws who held up coaches, and in hort time he had his division runig as smoothly as any other divisl on the road. 51ade had a record of 21 men led when Mark Twain met him on ; way to Nevada, and this record s materially increased after the morist's trip across the continent. Julesburg, at the eastern end of ide's division, was an important pping point. This was named for French trapper, Jules Reni. Slade's quarrel with Jules is a stern classic and has been told ELOPES WITH BEST MAN. FL Georgia Beauty Uses Fiance's Auto Tli to Flee Wedding Rehersal. Atlanta, Ga., May 22.?On the eve of her wedding to Edwin G. Gilbert, , Miss Clara Parker, member of a rec prominent Gainesville, Ga., family err and noted for her beauty, eloped the with and was married to B. W. Sul- gin livan, of Atlanta. wei Sullivan, who was to be best man, pie was at Miss Parker's house with the hoi other attendants for a wedding re- ret hearsal. Just before the rehearsal of was to begin, Sullivan and Miss hui Parker disappeared and so did Gil- vill bert's touring car, which was in thi front of the Parker home. It was to soon learned that the couple had fled mil in the auto of the bridegroom to be. pla Sullivan and Miss Parker soon reached Atlanta, where they were flo( married. the "I loved Ben best," said the bride haj in explaining the jilting of Gilbert. Sal for Sullivan. wa "She was my first sweetheart and. the I had to have her," said Sullivan. the "I congratulate myself I didn't get wa her," said Gilbert. "I got off lucky, fal I hope they will return my auto in wei . good CUJUUIUUil. j cor Greenville Convict Hunting for Judge ^ Judge Ernest Gary has had several of experiences during h:is long term of wil service in circuit court, but he had a reli sensation coming to him recently; Mis something new and novel along the ien criminal line. Some time ago Job ? Duncan, of Greenville received a lit- Ne1 tie token from the judge in the shape ton of seven years' sentence. Duncan and the the captain of the chaingang in Fe< Greenville county were good friends the while Duncan was serving another ha\ sentence for some misdemeanor. i Duncan was a pal of a Greenville Sidi man who was bereaved by the loss fun of a house. The insurance amounted the to about $800 and said pal collected yir it all in cash and went over to the wa* convict camp to visit Duncan and the to-i convict guard. They had a nice time for that night, but the Greenville man 0f lost about $300 and the guard and i Duncan were arrested the next day, tial t.he eharee beine: erand larceny. Atl: The chaingang guard was acquitted, but Duncan was convicted, and Judge Gary thought he should be put out of the way for some time. The A judge regretted, according to his Wo statment in passing sentence, that \ gus the guard had not also been convict- W. ed. When he said "seven years in at the penitentiary" to Duncan there ave was some sensation, according to eye 10.: witnesses. Duncan was not sent to bar the penitentiary, but was kept on the tarn Greenville county chaingang. In the * trial it was brought out that he had eye been allowed to go to Greenville and was purchase some whfskey and Duncan froi also admitted that he found about stre $180 on the floor of the log shack the where the oonvict guard, and his for* friend stayed. The This, however, is merely prelimi- bae! nary, as a magistrate would say, after hou binding a man over to higher court. ed, The other day a man called at the Cori residence of Judge Gary and asked as 1 for him. He wanted the judge at last j once. On being told that Judge Gary stm was presiding at Richland court, he pro< said he must see him. "If I go to the sboi courthouse," he said, "I will be ar- ranj rested. You know I am an escaped Wou convict and I have walked here from COni Greenville to get the judge to recom- said mend a pardon. I have written the 0USi governor and told him that if he \ would pardon me, I would do every- fror thing possible, and you know I am tbe strong with the boys in the mill vil- 0f \ 1 lage. 011c The judge has not yet seen Dun- f0r can and he is not going to recom- 0f . mend a pardon. "That man is too arr sharp for the people in Greenville," ^0.n remarked Judge Gary in discussing ? the case.?Columbia State. I many times, with variations. It has been denied that after killing Jules, Slade cut off the trapper's ears. ^ I When drunk, Slade was in the habit ?r 1 try of pulling one of Jules' withered ears ' from his pocket, and, throwing it | on the bar, demanding that the bari tender "change that." Slade's ap- ?i^ [ petite for drink eventually grew so love strong that even 'Holladay had to oil withdraw his support, and eventu- Obi ally the "bad man" was discharged T from the service of the stage com- *n pany, going to Virginia City, Mont., where he was lynched by vigilantes, While the southwestern stage lines mel were operated in no such a systematic and elaborate manner as the pro' main line across the continent, tnere u are many historic stage stations, of along the Santa Fe trail and its Btre tributaries which are worthy of pre- ?OT1 servation. Most of these structures in the Southwest, like the historic "Fonda," at the end of the Santa Fe I trail, in the city of Santa Fe, are of y* adobe, a material which is capable of withstanding the ravages of time and much better than the wooden struc- F. ( tures which were erected along the midcontinent lines. S There are enough stations still left, however, to mark all the routes p. across the continent, but the work gus can not be delayed long, or the op portunity will be gone forever. H, , OOD WATERS STILL FALLING. ousands Soon Able to Return to Farms and Homes. New Orleans, May 23.?Reports eived to-day from the northeastl section of Louisiana state that i Salem crevasse waters are beming to recede and within two eks several thousand of the peowho were driven from their nes by the floods will be able to urn and begin the rehabilitation their farms and homes. Three adred small farmers near Plauchele have returned to their homes s week, and to-day sent an appeal the New Orleans flood relief comttee for seed with which to re nt their fields and gardens. While the higher sections of the )ded territory will soon be rid of i Mississippi's muddy waters, per?s a million acres affected by the em crevasse will remain under ter until the middle of June, and ;re is little prospect of relief for >se whose lands are covered by the ters from the Torras and Atchaaya crevasses for at least four eks. '.t the United States army relief ps is withdrawn by June 1, when is anticipated that the remainder the Congressional appropriation 1 have been expended, the local ief committees in Louisiana and ssissippi will have a serious prob1 to handle for several weeks. Samuel Blum, chairman of the w Orleans relief committee, said jay that it would be disastrous if army corps is, withdrawn and ieral aid entirely cut off before great majority of these people re returned to their homes., Norfolk, Va., heads the list of oute contributors to the flood relief d. The third contribution from citizens of Norfolk, through the ginian-Pilot,a check for$2,584.04, j received by the local committee lay. The Pilot had previously warded $1,389.25, making a total = $4,437.29. Ltlanta, Ga., sent another substancontribution to-day, through the anta Journal, a check for $1,400. Killing at North Augusta. i.ugusta, Ga., May 24.?Geo W. lfe, former marshal of North Auta, shot and instantly killed D. i Fulmer, a street car motorman, , the corner of Bluff and Clifton nues, North Augusta, to-night at 15 o'clock. He used a double- 1 rel shotgun and death was instan- 1 eous. i ^rom the evidence secured from i witnesses, it seems that Fulmer _ ; sitting on the banister of the it porch, with his back to the :et, and that Wolfe slipped around house and fired the first shot bei anyone knew he was on the place. ! load of shot grazed Fulmer's k. Fulmer jumped up, ran in the se, secured his pistol and returnfiring. Wolfe ran around the ler of the house, it is said, and Fulmer followed him he fired the load in the shotgun, which ick Fulmer over the heart, /Jsvn+Vi iT^etontlir Wnlfo WAS JUUlllg ucaw luotauvtj > II V.?V ?? t in the left shoulder, the bullet ?ing downward, and while his _ md is dangerous, still it is not j Bidered fatal. The shooting, it is [, was because of a fancied jeal/ Wolfe had for Fulmer. Polf'e wife, who was separated u him, resided at the house where killing occurred. She is a sister :he woman who lives there and G< had been separated from Wolfe ? the past five months on account i illeged non-support. Wolfe was \ isted and will be carried to Aiken aorrow. _ ( DELICATE CHILDREN Made Strong by Vinol [ wish I could induce every moth- ~ vho has a delicate, sickly child, to 1your delicious cod liver iron tonic, oL It restored our little daughter to ? Ith and Rtrpne+h after everything > had failed. It tastes so good she >d to take it?not a bit of cod liver taste.?Mrs. C. W. 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Loans Negotiated. ^ meeting of the taxpayers, voters of Bamberg School District, V r\UIPUe:OTCD C DIV I O No- 14> 18 hereby called to be held . .nluittu I tH u ILLd in the city hall in the town of Bam HffX bff ?? Monday June 3rd, .1912, rffftrW Chl^shea-tert Diamond Brand>VV\ at 4 0 Clock p. m., for the purpose Of I^*58fe EK/iS? S&-SS? ruSEy/ electing one member of the board of ^T^eeo otber. Bar ^Tw V . trustees, and for the transaction of i. jjp diamond jirand pills, for s& any other business that may legally come before the meeting. SOLD BY DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE w. m. brabham, ???????????? Chairman Board of Trustees. May 8th, 1912. ' RUL HEARD IN BAMBERG. 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