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entry vae sIntent *ea la* gated Meals, to 11. Jr foals poreasser
of las Interaet of tio =nor heirs of Dillnalf. lamortat deosassi.
I, was obo only ineldeel of tbs ktiod I bad owor vas ammo ant
ay reriosily *so asoe0044 low coal& see wall* titio to eselloneeet
land by iwsa. of lb* rights of Ulmer *Ores
wool to tbs Coart louse to see if tore va, amy solders, to be
femed there of authority for bee:smog of sash Patent. leammoona4
le 6 ;lasso halm, severed with %be neennelaied dust at OTOI half e
eontury, I food the tiles Qf ma old moos satitled 'la la* Vatter
of the astato at Dillon IP. Saworthe bespeassise tiled Mar* lie letS.
A* 4* ftedall. Clerk of Dl3trtet Court, ths ftral tomaasml re ih0400
filet -,444 the kotition of 4mathcoe 8 troy Ca%rdian f lea aria
lemorthi Dose***44 to lb* baadvellag of eleao/** J. Paoli Wooled
to this .11seorGhls naewoll, JO4ge f ths raird rodlolal Metric*
of Seirsekat 681.1 064146# 41144 Dino 9,41 Neworth en &jtll 14,
amits lumeiriormill airy So. 11701, am the)* VIW„ of Menitime le. lavemalp
18, Ranee 91 *reeled a boase and resided *heron vitt hie tsAity
the lett dgy of kill 1015, ones ha, b4s vits ond 460 OM
onoirhed team:sr stotos.-learimi tee ehil: Uora ar.s neverth.
ago thros years. /bat petitioner is *as dosralan 4f said Miner, and
wars for 4 110411490 4411 poll said homertead for the benefit or said
41111014 ander to onsand Ssetion of ti. United 7tatse flamastood Laws,
ainarfveod May 10, lens
The is'etition lu sigosd, V, to ewe.* mad 1
1874, leeee V, 4 1041, erabsta :ad, of /Ward C4e4A7s
Oste) glauulasJ. 4aal 1U t4a first vrobate (C4saty) :fades of
hiodar4 cu4atio Jus %ha krukriat4e of t4 loimilts ie444 was
yrobably the first *hits mai la satabliek a kerummiat saaidemas la
Bawor4 C4oata, eA4M the iciso A.ver IR th, stiaai,etisa a the Csuative
lived the malodorof hie Aro ;Le4 flied a his srlikmal 2441140441
at the saga of eight,' oral? 4A4 441 Geary 014041, the Batear
co: his Casat,44 04 WA1 44. this P*th ia.g4 &moire Hir
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siwsui.14 lo c,t-‘41w tahow C4414.10" 4124 ia ;smokable La Shia:
TL4t it la la tke ZaDix;lting of, sad is sidaol by Sames14swU, J
Mat ;;Istsi‘t %Le tire% torz tak. C, at sgar held
la tale County, 4ao ofts.v.swae Chief Jostles a us some Coot of
this 4%taf, saj. b4asses 1444, Iwo* salehratail jurist sod Law visitor tilts
44hts á4ass: iiwodussilm, 704 4ase of Asorlog rooltes4 %es filiat se
*aid istitiaa 414 the sbj,at AVM thsva. 4444 aatifia4 sli
parsou cateriaista4i, in sal4 *state t4 )44.0es ueforii; salt *I it la
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VI:io ass% liusaa‘ut is rvAtf i'04441,410a4 *Aixiii is a *sky of
said "Order th., 44a* Caws." sad is varifia4 Marsh Jo iáfl 47 J. 34
'was *011.444r a t4e "tsward Oeshty 46voaats," a ssokly eareviawat
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tlx; Cumat44 boar.:4, a joislaoaS Attorasa4 ova wsis attorwards JUdme aC
the Mtzc C4t* 444 ad in ;..0t* -4461, at tlae five, old aua a
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ag.4 guiAwnt 14 thfr; 110444o 44 woll iosupe ta 444414a6
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still Ilviod6 24.4 otao w4414 read 1144 Shia;
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Await 1471 SwaArd Covet/ bO 34E
a 47440o COW2 %44,41 in 41t re4koots aa oalae4bited
wil4asoss4 exoldt tar aa 04,4aS anal PANO04Miiom 4 hauling or
Isavviag oxdociltioa ow the lootki, a :444x Imalan ea a foray
to stoul too meals' of the Peomoomo so hem f,104 treed Its all, but
la the 14te SAMOg tala 7f that woos a foe advastarses villa lea
ease, as It worse to gar out taoIaM Aesagthooe were J. 16 Pacto
A. O. Xisdall4 afterwards 0.4011$ Mark frau leT9 Is lift and Ohms
ileadooleser of ?tills Sonde mei Beilitic of the State atildireekao
sal some others, atio svied oat Us Lois mai N. Peale sod Lars
and eons (Aber
of lbese eeleeted homesteads. 11~4 all returned to their home S4
me* bask In Via eyrie&
LB tUO OpIrtnig of 147,4 **Moro ease by
110
that, strange as it my *weer, by the epring of 1873 all the ehoteest
Governmont lend elm, the lcup 'alleys, for fifty miles suio the river
from bore taboos by imesteadere, so that me *outing after that met
be content to go. book to the hills or to the inlaid creek valley*.
I eme is Js17 18/3, bet by that ties all the *holm government
land was pine *seep% such as me termed "Seed Bills0 or tuough_ to be
adh for farm land. Vlost of the settlers cams in soveredwadres,
le schooner.* so they were Almo leading or Oiling a eow
sr two, some with pigs, or a crate of ehlakens, some with e pios or
other fern apparatus *trapped under or an tap the wagon among household
goods to "tart the future fare,
Ascng Shim, *ming with -x t
Mathew Crow and his family, three stalwart boys. ',math Sodomy, aad
Vase, all grown nen. and sevoral daughters, they can into in 1872
and **leoted land is Spring Creek Valley, half ay between where the
teens of wolbseh and Cushing:sew stand, lid, Mathew was the first to
build his agree** just book from the creek in the foe* of the first
bomb. Dug beak into the bank to fore the bask and part of the We
ends of the house, while the front and reminder f tho ends were
bola of the tough sods of the °reek bottom land. In the eenter of
the rose wee an oak tree crotch, 00 which rested otoo* sealer poles
that extended t, the gable on,411 toth a roof 4' usk r4ters, eovered
first with willow brush, then tilth se4,--two layers deep...with J4Ints
nisei; broken and us1,inklth1 ofyst1ow slay tu fil1 the ere0Se,
new it
an effeetual barrier sold or 4,416
Thera were four ona.sash windows, two In the framf, /And in
sash and. with a partition asprArattag ons on for a siesplag roes, and
in ono earner of the living room was a totAurs 40.1I hal never sewn to
a new settler's oabis—is firs plow. Ibis was dag bask into ths bask
and a fluor borod to the top of the bomb and there a sod shimmy emlendsd.
I visited this home on a winter night in the L.fs 70's and with a smeary
fire of oak bc. in that fire.placs, a. more cosy ulster home I 'mould
not ise.41no.
am of the deedleters of Bathes Crow larrlad Dillob P Bamorlh,
they had two small ehildron, Grails and Xv:;. Pearls, five and three
years old. and Shay too w*Ated a farm upon which t4 mote thud, future
b440 and raise their twill,. Thew west farther tu, tho mirk alma ow.inatted*
upon the same land deseribod in thomo C.;:ort proosaginga add here they
too sUrted to balla their foturo hoos.
lbe winter of 1417110.3 was tairly mild and the' seas edeeteeelble
progress with thole new home. Doris/ swish and the first halt of
pril they had progressed so tar that their hones was neePAY 0001Pleter
in fact, all but a part of the root that was not yet all *Geared with
sod and slay as the, ousicar re,„airs44 but it wee 11;, peee4 40001110
that they =vial into it swpootiag to finish the 'mot in a day or two.
Adler Sunday, Avril 13 1073, started as 4 balmy spring day,
ware as Joe** v,ith all the prom's* of °amine OlidOPOr and Dillos Pmearthe
bis eUe and little Asm. ihro ham lath aatielpation of Aaat they
would do with their fins tars of rish creak bottos land an they should
gat their st4,41 in life.
?hen a aloud some:old. a sumer shower was brewing, that would
gaup, thegrAftg 10 paw and the flowers to bloat, and the rail 414 eocei
Just a summer shower at first. than It grew daghes, the wind that
had been so balmy amd reftelehtng turned lett the Northwest. the rain
tarried to Mows the wind tosreased to a hurrieene and, the grout Sooner
Storm of len. that h4 gone down in history as the vocos that ever
visited the western sountry was on.
2 wee not here then.. and I hesitate to tell of the tailors of
that awful 'tom but when I eame In Jhly of that Tear. the 'tortes of
its horrors was on every tongue. Ass told of qow it blew through a
hole in his bare no larger than his hand, so numb snow that the
barn was eompletety filled so that his st4tle were astaally *mothered
to death. Another told that it blew through u hole la his badsoos
window no bipr than a strls4 emogh .no to covers his bed fi4et
4eop, but than a straw, lanc4eh szeww to cimer i. beet a t.. tdeep,
but this to only an example f the stories that were told. ape
old philespher 1014 no this theory about it. "that snow didn't
fall doom move than it did AN It slap/4 eamo steeight. driven by
that &IOU wind. If anis flake streak the around It was Immediuteiy
authored by the wind and burled on maw the seethina mass that to
this way woe multiplied u Clousand fold, until the atmoeAsre was
so eompietelr filled that one exposed tc It e,ald hardly breathe If
ens ventured out in it he was .J.Lisitly rendered helplees for want of
breath. "Whys* he said. *wren the anov itself weaned to be searehlOg
for 'tome pLans where it svuld tape the Pril4 of that offal Outs ND(
set410 dawn to meet. It was tbat wAab 4vAlwod it t; S. LaAsteli
fill every eheltorez place it co.41 4nter." I have tward mv,tro than
ora tall ‘ir tJnig a elothesitne fro fs the 4v.or t tus veil, or b,zu,
or woo O shed. that he could taw It with one band while protect/1W
his noes Gad eyes alt% the other. 4na to go and Morn without straFtwit
away and being lost in the storm; that it um, so bad that no humen
being eould survive exposed to it was prootleally certain.
ADA that terrible stars 0,41tinua4 all that afternoon0 all that
night, all the next day ane flied: and stall Tuesday afterneon. 460
eontinueus harrieena of blinding, etifflinge mothering mow.
There was no ens loft to tell the story of Dillon nametb
and hiu fatally in that aural storm. ammo t little EVm Ilearle1 three
years old. and tie is 11 she told. "grade is deed. new We Sett& go."
Alan the store °eased every one rise deoply °outmost aboat the
fate of his neighbor. the Cre.4, knowing ths eanditiLn of tha gsworth
home soar;1 espesially anxious, an ae soon as ipow.ible the young men
hurriAl there tu Zin4 ths ho;Ime filled kith snow that had blown in
thr.;e64 that aufinlahed rf,cane after eszoroling and digJime Shalt
*Nast fare aere realised. Tare ua no
or trees ,,l' anyone be fulia•
Aft alarm was sent ty:Ato a grew i-o.4401g
no there. nor *weld trask
same lie join in the
meselm4 k ll day 4ednesday no trues of them woe found. lbsn on
Thursday. (I have this story from the iis of Jasper Sparks one
of the searchers WV discovered the bodies. and iriN; is still Illini)
after the sun hsd partly molted the snow away. does the amok almost
half u mile from the house. Just over the brtnir.. f a 011. ,,:here
the drift as the deepsat, a dark *Woe* was found protruding from
the snow, and after a hurried aMrt ths dead body of Dillom almorth
was pullaa fr4a the ewe, And in hie urme waa elasped the lifeless
form of little Steele.
4 turth4. searsh son tieeiveat 'We fringe fau-x.4 appearing
in the molting shou uz n a fe* zomonla the ,ielzsalair party bad suo.
humad the lifelosw body of Zr.. HosGret in whoae aria was eleepeg
bangle, wrapped in *bawl, Car
gna-Apped the bindle. and
a sold little white fees appeared, mar. thAn dead.
of %be melee goateed fus Its ,ne to 1,,le breast. Z;4" As if?, bog
doarkr, °tea. Eva Pearls.' be cried, and thane Ihy &law= A.,10 is ni-it
dead, she breathes." and it was true, bet Ltennited with oold that
Oho mould mot be arouse44 Carefully be rewrap:ad the 'shawl ab:44 her
end snugged bar to his breast to -;4arm bar task t4 life* .F4n4 akar
a time be ealled her name, "Rya. Eva," and Oho helf opened
her Ored frightened eyes. and tAs le what *be *aloe %raids lo deed.
WM we gotta goo tio4tit10.44 frightens little eyes' elose- again
1110012. Little Zva Pearls Earsorth was eyed.
It was thoushf by to who found her, that littlo Or -0010 bed
Acta before they loft the lwaaa, lea thAt what W: said .4 -*4 404 the
relatitita of ohA she hod bard ass karants 444, Thew )(41T4 IAA a
Pc ward,. un4 14 themselves wore but V4* Laa ckseelous enernmeinge
of u sick otAld, but bet -Attu the time was Uld a trAglo tale.
At least two otter arroscas 1L4t their liTOS in ti a o4untX in
that store, but the pro?erU less Ala a seriou4 las* to them now
settlers. Many thought that Asa half of the livestoli owned in the
county was lost. As an exatvle! I know of one MA. ThJsma Oitaa,
who 040. in 1911, bringing 102 horses, with an ambition to start a
gores ii4h for e4pking horse* to supply the settlors with work teams;
A
of those 102 horses only 26 survived filo storm.
Another ineident• Ca. tan Jamul* VAMS6A bad been sent here with
a Compaq of soldi)ro. part fAlen obrvary. to ward the oettliari
against foreas A* the aq..00f Indlaas and to the Anter cif 137244 is
eaaotd an unglion creek, 40,t two silts* abuse traA2rnt Tillage of "lbws
9
,.11a that brit ter iornn a k4 a eematry '‘v641 sant As a **outing
asliolition to ths west in psArsh of Indian aims. %bon that storm strait
them they had rettehati ths Middle 1+4%kVT31t ns,4r where LQUQ City isow
wads. ant'. In entitt6vor to find Snolter. saw -.0rAs. the hod ccloth
of a W. r.mscootex, *hers they 'Vero mode as wele,-,Ae u tha oiremmetemmee
would allow, anti hero CA* unsaddled their 'ties, vi*nt1. torning
iaiem 1.se to Elift rr themselves. The horsou 4rifted bef6ire the
terrific wind ontil they came to crest in a deed draw of eanyuni asd
In the bed et Ws week thhJ CAthhred USOther to take advNstage of the
sholter from the win4 that it tlfofted. 4hes the storm sabeided that
ravine was filled Wel fall vitti drifted eno% wad every horee perished,.
Tht creek la called "Dea4 Ro& *reek to C-ils stqi.
10.
TO THE OLD PLINEER
He went forth to bettor his ohances in life,
To improve on the stance that his forefathers took;
That his 40111d:ran be farther removed from the strife,
And seo in the future, a bettor -out look.
He oarod not for self, nor the work that it meant,
He was hardened and used to the test;
If they wanted a man, who with work was content,
He Gould hoe his own row with the best.
So he fared forth with vim, to a land of his dreams,
To a land of enohantment and fame;
Where the grasses grew tall in the balmy sunbeam.
And the oounty abounded in gams.
Where door and elk roamed o'er the hills and the plain*
And the fish of his *holes WOMM the strossq
Where Uncle Sam promised a home for hi. gain,
And his own will mi,stit there be supremo.
It was he who want out and broke the first trail,
Built tho first bridge o'er river and brook;
Built the first sehool house on top of the hill,
The first preacher to road the good book;
Cane at his bidding to help him devise,
Out of the wilderness a paradise.
Twas a herculean task and it cost him dear,
For Nature Which for WaNturiss had held its sway;
Scorned the work of the old pioneer,
And fought him at every tgrn of the wAy.
He had no gold for the eliOrifico.
'Tsai with treasures like those that he paid the Dries;
There's a debt that as may not 1,4r. I fear
'Tie the debt that we owe The Old Pioneer.