Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 29, 1923, Page 3

FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1923. MARTIAL LAW. LIFTED TODAY OKLAHOMA CITY, -Okla., June 29. The Associated Press.) —Mar- in Oklaho Okmul- Gavernor lton, was today lifted from all sec- tions of the country except an area (By law, declared county Tuerday by 28 ~ n miles radius around Henrietta action v tuyton of tel was announced at the governor's of. pending decision by the governor as to what action he will take in con. taken by the gover- r reqommendation of ad} | tant General Baird H. Markham, it | It was indicated that troops stil! |to JIMBAKER, PLAINSMAN, WAS “| Although Jim Baker, a of Wyoming. nection with reported disorders ‘at | Picher, a mining town in Ottawa| county, The governor said he was| esting brief history of the famous uwaiting official confirmation of press reports that a miner there had been subjected to an operation by a party of masked men. T wo Railroads Reported Sold BALTIMORE, June 29.—The Balt! nore and Ohio Railroad company has old to the Consolidation Coal com pany the Sandy V: and Millers Creek » Che Fork Railway. railroads, These roads all connect with the Chesapeake and Ohlo’s Big Sendy branch and are known as tap lines and have been separately operated. The amount involved in the trans vction 1s e@pproximately $8,000,000 stated. HEIR TO BIG FORTUNE DIES AT CHEYENNE CHEYENNE, Wyo., June 23—Mark one of two heirs to a T. Cox, 40, New York fortune said to be $10,000,. ley and Elkhorn and to apeake and Ohio railroad the company’s announcement today plainsman. The story {s as follows: A little while ago the people of Wyoming and Colorado vied fervently with each other for permanent pos- session of Jim Baker's old cabin. This | quaint fort-like structure stood in the | valley of the Little Snake river, near Dixon, Wyo., and near the northwest- ern Colorado boundary. Overlooked from the east by Battle mountain, so named to memorialize a bitter fight between some trappers, including Baker, and the Indians, and placed between the forks of the stream in the broad valley beyond rifle shot from any natural barricade, the Baker bullet-proof house, with its turreted second story was a sure- enough relic of the early days. Lonely indeed it was in that beau- tiful but isolated valley, one might think, while the old frontiersman oc- ‘cupled it in his declining years and even after the thrifty mining and stockgrowers’ towns of Savery, Baggs and Dixon sprang up on Baker's buf. falo pastures, But with Baker re moved to the Happy Hunting Grounds of his adopted people, in Ja tiny rectangle which he reserved |on the brow of an adjacent hill, and | his last but best loved home offered for sale, the val’ey became a mecca for the preservers of historic places. Colorado's Original Settler WAKER OF PIONEER HISTORY. First Settler in Now State of Colorado—Came to West Originally From St. Louis to Obtain Furs— | Fought Indian Battles pioneer of the early west and said | be the first settler in the now state of Colorado, has Tong! under arms would not be demobilized, since passed away, the history of his life is still of much inter-| est to the people of the west and particularly to the residents | The Rawlins Republican in a recent issue, ran an inter- several | trappers for investigation times, and it took a number of co cils to get the trappers passed throu the assembled tribes. They went rect to the Popo Agie, on Wind Ri the American Fur company’s rendez-! yous. ‘They trapped thense up Big Wind and over the range |: Jackson's Hole that season. Ba ter on a hunt over the Uinta mot tains and Hole; but he returned to the Am can Fur company in the spring. Joined Kit Carson that fall and win- its streams and environs, in northeastern Utah, headquarter. ing at Fort Davy Crockett, in Brown's| His contract expired, Baker return-| Che Casper Daily Cribune | GPrapp, who, with a party of thirty- two trappers, was working the Little Snake River valley, then called St. Vrains fork: Baker was thus in- duced to go, at once with two com- panions to inform Fraeb of the hostile rumors reaching Bridger from the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians. Redskins Attack. Baker had no more than reached Fraeb's camp, near the present site of Baggs, than one of Fraeb's assist- ants, Burken (Berkoun,) encamped a few miles distant, dashed into Fraeb's camp badly wounded and with the news that they had been attacked, some men killed and ninety horses stolen, Baker and five others has- tened to the scene, but the thieves had retreated toward the Laramie plains in safety. The whole party assembled for safety on what has since been called appropriately Battle creek, and hastily constructed a forted inclosure for themselves and the remaining animals. Next morning, according to the narrative as Maggie Kilgore of Savery has gathered it, Baker and a companion brought down a buffalo across the way on Catlin creek and were skinning it when they were at- un- ugh dl: | ver | the tol reacted tal giatitietee ditetiana th Pilceeates been impossibie, they would have all ne and began at] pruin, Baker sought the solitude of neo | tracted to clouds of dust and the rat: | for a complement of horses. It| perished, without Baker and his| to “make medicine,” in a ridi-| the wilderness most isolated from tle of a swarm of Indians advancing Was a bitter siege, but the trappers| knowledge of frontiering, because of | 8 posture and with weird ges-| habitation, and abounding only in rin-| through Sweetwater pass above the won, and lost few, {f any, horses. deep snows, intense cold and lack of | tures and expressions. Ho complained | the life as he had known it and loved camp. | cer was an expert with the rifle| food for themselves and anim and | that if hig old woman was there to] it, There he éstablished his latest The trappers barely gained the in-|®n® the lariat and was always there-| because of the region being such a| assist with the ceremony the “pirates| anode on the sunset side of tho closure when the Indians precipitated ‘fter well supplied with horses, most | trackless wildern in winter, of fron could be made iato good ockies, in @ grassy val with a ‘eri.| O@ of the flercest battles known in ef which he taught wild on the Duel With Frenchman gold.” zon of tree-carpeted hills; it was | the west, the fort being stormed for Plains, and kept for trade or sale. When the Army entered Utah In His companions consoled him in the valley of his yesterdays | several hours with excessive rage and Baker and the Bea: = >——— +) daring. Ammunition ran low within bel ss. When Ge Marcy returned| Piute Indians, and, what wag worse, | beleaguered party lost no time in|but complained that the boots “chok-|that fall he foun@ Baker and the| ‘them pirates of Mormons.” Sure Setting out of the valley and back/ed” his feet so badly that he threw| frenchman engaged in a d ch| enough, he told Captain Humfrey- to Bridger’s camp on the Green river. THREE. promptly followed by a great sur- at hope that a rich find awaited them took ‘his misfortune so gamely that| 1858 Baker established a Prise, in that the Indians galloped|the gamblers admiringly staked him| the Overland crossing of th farther down the country. But Baker away, Probably already overladden |to enough to outfit him again for the} 4 aisg aia ao eee knew the country, above ground, and with their own dead. The squaws|mountains. One thing he could not| ° eee: eae that there were replied significantly “pirates” down that way,.such the Palouse, Coeur d'Alene and who had hovered about what has Since been called Squaw mountain during the fight also departed. The stund was citizen's clathes, after be-| Frenchman, however, coming accustomed to the mountain garb. He tried it once in Santa Fe, soon settled | jnore longside and got much of the bust-| as them away. He loved his wives, three of them, but while drinking he once charged a wife with infidelity and Tim Good- ale, a partner had a ¢ifficult Job in Pe TG Se ss . the Indians attacked and Killed the seclusion of their cabin doors. F BLOT) He} Dios ectOLs tent eters settied the affair apd Baker| the canyon. for drinking. Ru between It was in the winter of 1843-44 that practically all the Indian ponies in the Rocky mountain regigon were destroyed by the intense cold and bitter storms. That spring Baker ishing, Dixon and other travelers ‘8 men had discovered gold] ¢ Baker at his ranch on Clear and a band of trappers visited the|Preventing the old scout from cutting | at Cherry Creek (Denver) while mak-| creek, below Denver, as late as 1866, Utes in Utah, without avail, and then |ff ne of the woman's ears, the In-| ing a raft early in 1858, returning n 1869 Major Powell, descend- went to the Spanish settlement in|@2n's means of punishing such de m Fort Massachusetts, apd by the | Green river, sighted er's southern California for horses. Baker |auency. When sobered he was read-| late months of 1858 the place was| cabin in Henry’s fork. This may have told Coutant they obtained about|ily convinced of the fathfu!ness of settled by goldseckers. Baker ry abode or a former 4000 (400?) from the Mexicans in the | his spouse. ned them, establishing himself at even 80, Baker chafed un- same manner as they would haye| Baker was appointed chief of anch four miles north of where| der the encroachments of ctvilization, taken them from a hostile tribe of |Scouts at Fort Laramie under Gen sree wow stands, und finally retreated to the vatley o€ Indians. eral Harney for the United States! 4 group: of prospectors employed| the Little Snake river in 1873. Rew The trappers, squaws preceded the|@tmy in 1855, In 1 he guided a| Baker as a guide, and explored the|membering his two most terrific bat- returning party, driving the stolen|Part of General Jghnston’s columns] country generally. At one place,| ties there thirty years before, he horses, while the trappers at the rear |to Fort Bridger, when on thelr march | presumably in Idaho, Baker fitled his | Dullt a fortified home. Ho then settled held the Mexicans at bay. The trap-|against the Mormons. That winter he} pockets with fool's gold and rushed| himself tn the stock business, doing ders divided their horses and settled |guided General R. B. Marcy cross} excitely into camp. When told it was| occastonal service as a guide there- themselves in thelr cabins, when sud-|Colorado, diagonally to Fort Massa-| only pyrites of iron, he was crest-| and avoiding the larger settle- denly Baker and a few others in the|chusetts for supplies. fallen. But he was a firm bellever in Little Snake River valley were sur-| Marcy says the trip would have|the powers of the incantations of the| tre was getting olf. Like a wounded prised by a swarm of Indians who Indian medicine men Baker's worst ed to the Missouri river in the summer| of 1840, but by the spring of 1841 he was on his way back to the mountains| alone, to remain permanently as far as residence was concerned, He re- traced himself back to the Wind Rtv-} er mountains and, desecending the the fort, and when the Indians cen- tered their attack on the side of the | corral occupied by the horses, Baker and Fraeb, essayed a flank movement, but were forced backed into the corral. |was a with a small party, fight, the one that put him in pictorial literature of the West permanently and conspiciously, hand-to-claw combat with |bear. Few boys of any age who have not gazed long and interestedly at that famdus picture of Jim a Baker vesterly slope, passed dawn Green river in mid summer, his old pal Jim Bridger, establis near the mouth of Henry's northeastern Utah. Bridger was found In a state of xiety for his partner, finding | Fork in Henry Fraeb Indians Ride Away. Night brought silence and the tn formation that four trapers were dead, many wounded and several of the horses badly injured with arrows and gunshots. A renewal of the at- tack in the early morning was the hed an- While Baker, living, had never meant so very much to Coloradians, -| Baker dead, was remembered as Colo- 000, died at his home here Thursday | rado’s first citizen, the original set- after a sickness of several weeks, He | s engaged in livestock raising and his country place five miles wert of this city is dne of the best equipped A widow, one son, Mark Junior, and his | mother and a sister, the latter two, People of Cheyenne and of the Lit- wi ranch properties in the state. residing in New York, survive him Arrangements for the funeral have | themselves not been completed. Steel Merger Barrier Lifte WILMINGTON, Del., todey dissolving the preliminary in. junction restraining the American its and Ohio. A Royal Charlie! assets to the Youngstown Shee Tube company at Youngstown With reed cane, black derby, spread-eagled feet and elbow akim, bo, all th ince of Wales lacks {a ® misplace e-brow to resemble Charlie ch in, This is just an unconventional pose snapped at English golf links. hs 7 June 29.— Chancellor Wolcott entered an order eel and Tube company from selling tler in that state, according to Ban- croft. What was more, Baker's unique cottage would look well in Denver's municipal park; hence the purchase money was tendered. Then came entreaties from the tte Snake river valley settlements eloquently protesting | against the removal of the well-pre- | served landmark. Whereupon a Wyo- ming legislature, then in session, having an affection for the passing frontier and for the votes of those protestants, appropriated $500 for the ; purchase of the house. But this was followed by a crude codicil carrying $250 for the remov- al of the structure to Cheyenne. Forthwith that thing was done wh! every lover of the historic marke | legislature's original motive aimed to prevent—the cabin carted away. Those scores of logs so carefully selected and drawn across the miles Indian fashion no doubt, then hewn and surfaced so accurately by the primitive implements in the hands of | Be r and his skillful squaws and | built into a sort of throne house among the teepees of the Snakes, of whom Baker had taken his wives, nd forming a refuge from the on- ‘s’aughts of all the tribes in the Rockte: was t was | logs bearing the very foot jand f'nger prints of a fast pass'ng | frontier and belonging to Little Snake River Val'ey as much as the ec’ ff | @wellings belong to the Mesa Verde were torn asunder, the numbered parts trundled some seventy milks to the railroad, shipped to Frontier park Cheyenne, and there reassembled, b reft of the cabin’s chief h'stor‘cal as- set, its environment and atmosphere. The spirit of the builder has f'ed the structure, to remain in the valley of his last adoption. Loitering in St Louis Jim Baker, sturdy and twenty was loitering on the old St. Louis river front when Jim Bridger offered him an eighteen-month contract to trap in the Rocky mounta‘ns for the Am- er'can Fur’ Company. Thus these two famous Jims and ninety-one other | trappers left St. Louis on May 25 1838, by steamer. Taking keel boats into the Kaw, they were towed an- other ninety miles when the real journey atross the plains and moun- tains began in carts, on horse and on ot. z Baker says when he reached the Lar- amie p'ains the Indians were as thick | as bees. The natives halted the 1 must protest against, and which the Mme. Horthy (1 giving lessons in weaving at thi 129 East Second Street HOME RENDERED LARD Bring Your Buckets Fresh Pork Shoulders, | {s what you want for your skin trouble -—Resinol to stop the itching and burns {ng—Resinol to heal the eruption. 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Phone 12 Phone 2207 SPECIAL 5 Ibs. for --55e 10 Ibs. for. $1.10 50 Ibs. for. $5.00 bb Phone 1500 grappling with the vicious bear, with Ja hunting knife held high in the air, and « faint figure running away in NCHANGING Bitte-Nut Coffee : \in bulk and only in our sealed original cans with the familiar Butter-Nut label | “Bulk Coffee means any coffee without an identity in open bins where the coffee loses its fragrance and strength and takes on dampness and weight Butter-Nut Brand of coffee ‘tf 1s trade marked the distance. W trapping on the upper Grand River, Baker and a companion came upon two half-grown grizzlies. Baker ingealously suggested a hand-to-hand fight, suying that guns were unfair weaponn, Very sud@enly both men were the busiest individuals in the Rocky mountains. The bears were boxers par excellenca, and not until Baker's bear became thoroughly ex- asperated and tdok the offensive did Baker get in close enough to stick his knife into the cub’s ribs. Though badly bruised and bearing several ugly scratches, Baker became suddenly aware that his partner was calling desperately for assistance. Stepping up to render first aid, Baker at once gained the eye of the battling bruin, at which the terrorized partner ed. leaving Baker to butcher No. 2 nded, which he did, luckily, in order. Baker fed on punishment and scars. The worst was a the acciden- tal discharge of a new gun with which he was not familiar, Baker was felled by a violent stanchion. knocking him overboard. Friends fished him out and Baker cooly re- marked that the fellow “almost got the best of me.” Loved His Liquor. After selling a season's furs, and having $9,000 gn him, some card sharpers plied him with quor, which he loved above all else, and fleeced the mountaineer to the last cent. 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