BAKER’S
COLORADO TO PRESERVE INTER
ESTING DWELLING.
|g Situated in Little Snake River Val
ley. the Scene of Many an Excit
ing Adventure with the
Indians.
Deiver, Col.—The people of Colo
rado feel that “Jim” Baker's old cabin
on the Little Snake river should come
under the law that gives the govern
ment supervision and conti ol of his
toric places of interest.
The cliff dwellings of Colorado have
been set apart as a national park.
Beecher island Indian battlefield is
also a national park, and there is a
monument where Maj. Thornburg and
his troops were killed in northwestern
Colorado when they were marching
to the rescue of the Ute agent. Meek
er. As interesting as any of these
places is Jim Baker's cabin, built, in
the early 40's by this intrepid trapper,
scout and pathfinder, who ranks with
Jim Bridger and Kit Carson among j
the great characters of the early west, j
Here Baker penetrated, long before
any other white man thought of set
tling in such a wild country, and hero
be lived with the friendly Indians and
fought the unfriendly tribes, every
day being spiced with some thrilling
adventure.
Baker's unique cabin, which is built
with a "lookout" on top, where the
trapper used to wmtch for unfriendly
Indians, is located in a romantic spot.
It is in the valley of the Little Snake
river, which winds along the Colorado
Wyoming state line. It is in the foot
hills of the Sierra Madre mountains,
and near it is the celebrated Battle
mountain, where Baker and some trap
pers and squaws successfully stood
off a large attacking party of Indians.
Few visit the spot to-day because of
its inaccessibility, but this will soon
be changed A few miles below
Bridgets cabin the Routt County De
velopment company of Denver is open
ing 50,000 acres of state land to settle
ment. A 60-mile irrigation ditch is be
ing built, and next year, when the wa
ter is turned on the land embraced in
this vast project, "Jim" Baker's once
lonely valley will be thickly populated j
and there is no doubt that a spur of 1
the Union Pacific railroad will reach
it from the north, while the new Mof
fat road, from Denver to Salt Lake,
will pass within a few miles of it from
the south.
Old ''Jim" Baker himself would
never have dreamed of the rush for
this valley which the building of the
Little Snake river ditch presages. He
moved into the Little Snake country
early in the 40s', it is said, because
some one had moved into the same
county with him in the eastern part
of Colorado a year or two before, and J
he considered the country was get- j
ting “too derned crowded.” Even
when he died, in 1898, there was little
indication of the present great de
mand for cheap irrigated land, and
the scout would have scoffed at any
body who would have prophesied the
coming of a great irrigation enter
prise to the Little Snake river valley.
“Jim” Baker's experience in the wild
west, particularly in Wyoming, is only
paralleled by “Jim” Bridger. Baker
was born in 1818 at Belleville, 111. In
1838 he joined a company of recruits
at St. Louis, in the service of the
American Fur company, and made
the long journey up the Missouri and
across the plains into Wyoming. It
is a notable fact that this first expe
dition was in charge of “Jim” Bridger,
and it was only through the tact and
resources of this notable plainsman
that the entire party was not lost.
Many times the party was stopped by
Baker’s Cabin with Indian Lookout
on Top.
savages, and the warriors held a coun
cil to determine whether to kill the
white men or let them go on. But al
ways, according to Baker, “Jim"
Bridger’s quickness of wit, and his
extraordinary knowledge of the In
dian character saved the scalps of the
entire outfit. In all the years of his
frontier experience Baker declared he
was never nearer death than on this
first trip, which ended at the mouth
of Popo Agie, on Wind river.
Baker's cabin was the scene of
many an exciting skirmish, and the
forethought of the old trapper in build
ing the queer “lookout” on his house
was more than once rewarded when
he headed off Indians who sought to
surprise him. In 1S55 Baker entered
the services of the government as a
scout, and for several years he was
looked upon as one of the greatest
scouts and guides in the service of
the army. The Pike's Peak excite
ment drew him into Denver and in
1S59 he built a home on Clear creek,
not far from the present capital of
Colorado. Here he remained until
1873, when he went back to his first
love—the Little Snake river valley.
Baker, like the other old trappers
of his day, had several Indian wives.
Many of his children now live in Col
orado and Wyoming and they are
justly proud of their intrepid an
cestor.
WINS NEW FRENCH HONORS.
Rodman Wanamaker Made Officer of
Legion of Honor.
Philadelphia.—In the recent promo
tion of Rodman Wanamaker to the
grade of officer of the Legion of Honor
the president of Fi ance has recog
nized a remarkable achievement. Mr.
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RODMAN WANAMAKER.
| (American Who Has Won Signal
rench Honor Through Business.)
t ?nania^Sr ^ the younger son ol
I T, n " anamaker. He and his brother,
j ,omas b*. Wa-namaker, who is the
'oprietor of the Philadelphia North
- meiiean, have long been associated
| 1 their distinguished father in his
I ttv^i.nierca.ntile enterprises, notably
I "E Aew York and Philadelphia
department stores.
Ithe°pman- ^’anama^er established
IHp h ar*S Dranc*1 and set a precedent.
I ciai ’rou.sht a'>out a practical cornmer
I befn reCil"°Cit5' which n,ever existed
lartv/e’ and which has worked to the
I antage 0f both nations. By making
iFran'80?3' study of the situation in
|defi“, ® h-e f0lmd a way t0 supply the
Ijtencienaes 0f the American market
llw't Dg upon the skill of the
I*tench workman.
Imak6 Sy*lovvei' the Frenchman how to
■that that America needed and
fthe s»U ^ n°-t *>e bought at home. At
■Franr n e time he introduced into
[Cels ^ t00ds in which America ex
pliernj^eiVs aSo he was made a chev
fi« services Iwh” *“ recoSnitlcm of
fert. Hi b U the encouragement of
fever j<.S prorilotion in the order, how
jcial ach-f Ue as touch to his commer
Snterest 'oi^aTr111 33 l° h'S Work ln the
las hBbeveraI consecutive years he
; tiZKr .pres'^ent of the American
oation of Paris, an organiza
tion which includes French, as w'ell
as American students. From the
time he went to Paris in the interest
of his father's business he lias been a
patron of the French salons. He has
bought and shipped to this country
hundreds of masterpieces. From the
salon of 1903 alone he purchased more
than 100 paintings, all of which were
exhibited in the Wanamaker stores in
this city and Philadelphia without cost
to the public.
Mr. Wanamaker is a stanch advo
cate of outdoor culture and a promi
nent clubman.
MOOSE BROKEN TO HARNESS.
Minnesota Man Owns One of Oddest
Team in America.
Eldora, la.—Edward Crossman. of
Ely, Minn., owns one of the oddest
teams in America. He succeeded last
winter in breaking a pair of moose to
drive in harness. In his sleigh Mr.
Crossman spun about as rapidly be
hind these animals as if drawn by
horses.
The moose were captured at Bear
Island lake, a few miles to the south
west of Ely, five years ago. The
mother had been killed by an Indian,
and a trapper in the neighborhood,
hearing the dog barking, hurried to
the spot, where he found two moose
calves. Mr. Crossman bought these
calves from the trapper and secured
a permit from the governor to keep
them in his possession.
At first the moose did not like the
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Crossman’s Moose Team.
idea of being hitched up and they
made a great fuss, but being young
they took to it sooner than if they had
been full grown. The problem of
feeding the moose was no small one.
At first Crossman fed them willow
twigs and young birch, but this be
came a difficult task, for they re
quired about three wagon loads a
week.
To-day they eat hay, turnips and
cabbage and seem to enjoy the diet.
One of the moose will eat as much as
two horses.
Jerome on Colored Lvidence.
District Attorney Jerome, of New
York, said one day of a piece of sus
picious evidence:
“It is evidence that has been tam
pered with, colored. It is like the
lady’s report of her physician’s pre
scription.
“A lady one day in July visited her
physician. The man examined her
and said:
“ ‘Madam, you are only a little run
down. You need frequent baths and
plenty of fresh air, and I advise you to
dress in the coolest, most comfortable
clothes—nothing stiff or formal.’
“When she got home her husband
asked her what the physician had said.
The lady replied:
“ ‘He said I must go to the seashore,
do plenty of automobiling, and get
some new summer' gowns.’ ”
Born, Not Worn.
Little Margaret's grandmother had
written for a photograph of her name
sake, the “baby.” For material rea
sons it was advisable that the little
girl should appear as well dressed as
possible, and a cousin's new open-work
dress was borrowed for the occasion.
On being arrayed for the picture Mar
garet rushed to her father, crying:
“Oh, father, just look! These ain’t
worn holes; they is born holes.”—Har
per's.
Arithmetic.
Tommy—Pop. a man’s wife is his
better half, isn’t she?
Tommy’s Pop—So we are told, my
son.
“Then if a man marries twice there
isn’t anything left of him, is there?”
What a man can do is his greatest
ornament and he always consults his
dignity by doing it.—Carlyle.
Not Entire.
The aeronaut, after painfully ex
tricating himself from the wrecked
balloon, limped to the nearest farm
house.
"Madam,” he said to the woman
who answered his knock, "can you ac
commodate with a night’s lodging a
balloonist who has come to grief?”
“I'd be glad to,” she hesitated, "but
you are an entire stranger to—”
"Not an entire one,” he interrupted,
with some acerbity. "For I have left
my left ear, three teeth, and certain
portions of my nose back there with
the ruined car.”
Great Discovery Announced.
Sir William Crookes, as a result of
his own researches and the experi
ments of Prof sors Krowalski and
Moscieki, of Freiburg university, has
discovered a process of extracting
nitric acid from the atmosphere. The
process is available for commercial,
Industrial and agricultural purposes,
and is expected to revolutionize the
nitrate industry and the world’s food
problem.
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and completely derange the wlmle system when
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Man is a. thinking being, whether he
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liam Temple.
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w/tl & jr^JOL fl Jl A diseased
AND SYSTEM DISORDERED
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and waste of the body, leave it to sour and form uric acid in the system.
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feeling, nose continually stopped up, pains above the eyes, slight fever
comes and goes, the stomach is upset and the entire system disordered and
affected by this disease. It is a waste of
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i —Montaigne.
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