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IfEDFORD MATLTRIBTIN15, MEDFORD, OREflON", TUESDAY. DTCCEMHKR 2, 19.10
Journeyed Across Plains
Thrice In Covered Wagon
Says Mrs. Luanna Denton
Three times ucross tlio plains in
n covered waKon is the record of
Mrs. Luitnnu Denton of this city,
ono of mitny southern OrcKon pio
neers, who havo reentered ut the
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(J cue nil Miles on his expedition
Into tho panhundle of Texas L. T.
Wilson of Jacksonville. And the
first "ex-bull whacker" to rector
ut tho Mull Tribune for tickets for
j "Tho Big Trull."
I "Just one of tho boys who drove
1 tho hullu for pay," hn said as he
: discussed the days when an chfof
: hull whacker for old Alexander
! Majors ho Urovo eight yokuof oxen
j ii nd two wuKoiut from east to went
were killed in battle und one died : In the emigrant trains of 'G7.
1 from disease contracted In the j Ho worked for tho Union Pa-
ariny,' Mrs. Denton Hinted as her dlflc wlnui tho company's first
j eyes clouded with tears. railroad entered tho weHtern coun-
; "We htayed In the south until I ! l, v umI WaH ln lu,lh to colebmto
I married and then. yourijr and hap- j tno Hvlnic of the golden spike
I py, I Hlarlod west atffiin." I w,,i(!n connected the railroad llneH,
"The trip hack south was the ''timlimting the need for oxen
j worm one. We were offm forced relKl linen.
! to carry water two day from one ! Wilson was IS wlien lie
j water hole to the next one. I gut , Jl"cd Major's freight line. lie
! thirsty many limes. I cried for a lcnt hIx months on Ills first Jour
5 drink and cried hard. Finally the!"1 uciohs. ile left bull whacking
j Mexicans gave us nome stuff that lo !ake "1 buffalo hunting. He
! quenched our thirst and we Bot hroiiKht down 46 one day without
uIohk helter after that. cnar.gmg location, u was wniio ne
"On my third trip in '75 things waH csageu in nuriaio nunung
were quite different: most of our thttl " mot General Miles. The
trouble was caused by hitch water. , hunters wer0 corralled by Indians
The rivers wore just booming fr three months at Doblo Wulls
niOllu nn I got a real thrill OUt. "" ucimmi 01 im aim ma Htuu.n
of that," Mrs. Denton stopped to
laugh. "I'll never forget some of
the camps we mode. People travel
ed wllh pretty small supplies then.
One night we were gelling supper
roaily and a man called from
came to their rescue, Mr. Wilson
then joined tho scouting party.
Ho chased Hitting Hull and
camped with Chief Big Iloads and
i . in I u'Hl Indians from the Doliie
Walls td the head of tho Washlla
city inude tho trip. from Madison
county, Iowa, to Clackamas coun
ty, Oregon, und later to tho Itoguc
River valley,
"There were 18 In our train und
wo had a guard of soldiers pro
tectlng us from the Indians. That
was in 'C5." she told the group
gathered at the Mail Tribune of
fice Saturday. "I celebrated my
fifth birthday on the plains.
"I can't remember who the lady j
was who died, but 1 never shall '
forget the funeral. The men went!
I buck several miles to get an old '
' wagon bed to mako a box to bury '
her In. We piled rocks high on the !
grave to keep tho coyotes from,
digging her out. i
"i also remember the journey '
through the Kocky mountains. The.
road was no rough we had to leave '
one of the wagons behind and i
mother sat on the running gears:
of the others with me on her lap.' j
Other pioneers whose Ktories '
will be told by the Mall Tribune
are Mrs. V'. I). Lewis of Central ;
Point. Mrs. J. Jl. Tyrrell. John!
Wallers. Aaron Scholium, Mrs. !
Anna Dlzney, Mrs. Lavinu Walters,!
Dr. D. A. Forbes of Jacksonville,!
W. M. Howard und W. H..WI1-;
Hams. , - j
Over Six Summits in One Day
T
liu niKH tin' river fur help. IIIh liorw I'lvr.
Ii;mI liecn fnrwil in hvvImi ilii'l "JJul. It was no fuult of mine,"
Hll'i'liln. Iln look off IiIh panlH noil '"' "' f'1'"1 "'
Blrnppi'il llinm on IiIh HhouliliM' mill "fH'- I iiirryhiK u iIIk-
thoy InHt off. Wc illfln't have iiiiinyl l-'h nil I iilmom didn't got
In lichen In our cump but wo fljtcd I """re."
hhn up." When Air. Wilnoh followed Chief
Mr. 'nil'! Jlrn. Denton found tho BB IJonds ho wuu the only white
end of their trull In Wanlilngton In' ""' lllB camp and often felt Ills
nil I nd Hi n Koltlctment cluhl iiiIIoh i holr tuklng a perpend leu In r miuid
from liny wIiIIgh. . on hiH head an he watched Hitting
"All I eould koo wax Ijuneh kiiihh ' "H' trllio Balhor bofuro the wIr-
nd Inilliin ponlca when I looked whiiih in wur iionnetH.
im. liiimiiiu Denton
Mall Tribune off ire for tickets for
"The Bis Trail" which will "be '
shown nt the Fox Crsterlnn thea
ter Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
and Katurday.
Many men and women have an
nounced they are eligible to at
tend the Mall Tribune party be
cause of unn trip uci'omh the plains
but Mrs. JJenton Is the first to
make tho long Journey three times
before tho advent of railroads.
Hho made the first trip as u very
Httlo ogirl In a wagon drawn, by
oxen from Akunsas to , California.
In '07. The second trip wa: fiVim
west to cast a few yira later and
tho third a wedding Journey.
"When we canio west the first
(lino mother decided California
wan far too wild a place for her
ho we turned our wagons back to
ward Texas, arriving there Just In
tlmn for film if mv ht'iitlwirn til
Jrntn the Civil will'. Thrno nf fbnni '
"I was safe though' he ex
plained, "as long as 1 was with
Chief lilg Uonds. Ho protocted mo
from the enemy Indians."
Mrs. It. U Vlsh is another one
of tho 46 pioneers who have regis
tered at tho Mall Tribune who re
member tho Indian tribes who
The Indians would come in every i haunted "Tho lllg Trail."
j day und sit on tho ede of the ! "They never hurt un hut I wan
porch. I learned their language ! alway afraid of them. I had red
and told them Bible storle. i j hair and they Iikc4 to get their
J taught them to nliig hymns too and ! fhigcra In it," she said ycHterday.
I down In that little valley and when
my hmihaud said 'That's going to
be our home, Anna,' 1 Just cried,"
Mrs. benton ad;nitled.
' Wv Jived In camps for so long
i l hat whet) the log cabin was com-
pletod I thought It whs the motd
i beautiful thing I had ever seen.
they would crowd closer and closer
to me as they llxtencd to stories
and songs of the Christ child. And
as 1 look hack to those days' Mrs.
Denton hesitated and her eyes
clouded over again, "I romcmher
them an the liapplest days of my.
life. Home of the peoplo wore Cath
olics, Homo of them Methodists,
hut we all sang in Chinook. They
almost pushed me tff the porch.
Hut there's a sotyethlug that al
ways: makes you h.tppy If you
plea ho someone elw. I've tried to
remember that all through .my
life," Mrs. I Jon ton concluded.
"lie's tho last living member of
the old scouting party of 74, cum-
"They used to hang 'round our
wagons for days."
M rs. Vlsh made tho Journey
from Missouri to Oregon in li(i0.
Thero wero 100 wagons In tho
train. It was often so difficult to
find water tho emigrants would
travel all night to reach tho next
water holo and oxon stampeded
for drlnkii. Klic ItxtH tho saddest
event uf tho journey as tho death
of tho captain's wife.
"It was hailing terribly that
day," Mrs. Vlsh said. "I never shall
forget It. Wo hurled her on the
plaliiH nt Hweetwater, covered the
gravo with stones and left her
thero In tho storm." .
Death utso visited tho train In
posed of Tt argute who followed 1 which Mrs. Anna Klmpson of this
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A. H. Patterson of Stockton, driving this Oakland Eighf sedan, drove over six Sierra
summits, 774 miles of mountain traveling, in 25 hours and 15 minutes elapsed time. He
climbed 38,135 feet, was in high gear except for 4.9 miles, and in low gear for 10 feet.
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DEER HUNTERKILLED
BY FRIEND'S MISTAKE
VICTORIA. B. C. Dec. 2. (tpf
Mistaken for a deer, Elmer Pajc
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