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Carrying The Mail In West’s Woolly Days; Indians Carious horses.” Relay stations were pro vided; the numerous stations put up by the stage company between the Missourt river and Salt Lake City were utilized, and new ones erected until there was one for every twelve or fifteen miles all the way to Sacramento. On the announced date, April 3, the start was made simultaneously from St. Joseph and San Francisco. At the former city a delay was caused by the lateness of the Han nibal and St, Joseph mail train. But at dark the train arrived, the mail was delivered to the rider, and at 6:30 he sped down to the ferry, where he was taken across the Missouri. Landing, he dashed off into the darkness. Relays of men and ponies carried the mail forward to Sacra mento, where the last rider took it with him onto the boat, and at 1:00 a. m. on the fourteenth, a matter of ten days, six hours and thirty minutes, it arrived in Snn Francisco. From here, ten days be fore, a rider had galolped to the boat which bore him and ids mount to Sacramento. From there a rider had started eastward, covering the first twenty miles, including one change, in fifty-nine minutes. The run to Fort Churchill, twenty miles east of Virginia City, a distance of 185 miles, was made in fifteen hours and twenty minutes, and included crossing the Sierras in thirty feet of snow. It is a tantalizing fact that the identity of tiie first rider out of St. Joseph in this dauntless and spectacular service is disputed. Root says he was “Johnnie” Frey, one of the most noted on the com pany, but several others have been mentioned. Mrs. Louise Platt Hauck in The Missouri Historical Review for July. 1923, asserts, with what serins to be conclusive evidence, that he was a sailor boy, “Billy” (otherwise Johnson William) “MADE-IN-C AROLIN A” CHICKS From some of the South’s finest Bloodtested Stock. Every breeder raised under State Supervision and Blood tested by them. All hatched from large eggs. Write for catalogue or order from this. AA Grade Rocks, Reds, White and Silver Wyandotte*, Buff Orpingtons $18.00 per 100. A Grades Rocks and Reds $16.00 per 100. AA Grades extra fine large White Leghorns S15.00 per 100. CUSTOM WORK-Lct us hatch your own eggs for you 3 l-2c egg. Setting each Monday arid Thurs day. Bunch Poultry Farm And Hatchery, Statesville, N. C. Richardson. At the other end of the line the rider who started eastward from the boat at Sacramento was Harry Roff; but as to whether or not it was also Roff who began the Journey at San Francisco there is no available word. The service was at first weekly, but was made semi-weekly by June. The time scheduled for the entire frip. was ten days. Between tele graph stations, after the line reach ed Fort Kearney, the schedule was seven days, though with the com ing of winter it was extended to fifteen and eleven days respective ly. The route followed the well beaten line of the covered wagons from St. Joseph to the present Hor ton, where it struck the military road to Fort Leavenworth and Atchison; then by Granada and Seneca to Marysville, where it join ed the main Oregon Trail, which it kept, by way of the upper California crossing of the South Platte, at Julesburg. all the way to Fort Bridger. From there it followed the regular mail route to Salt Lake City, and then the Chorpennlng mail route of 1859 (south of the Humboldt river to Carson City) and the route south of Lake Tahoe to Placervlllc and Sacramento. Usual ly two men were maintained at each station to care for stock and to have everything ready for the relays. At the beginning each horse man rode a distance of from thirty to fifty miles, using three horses and keeping within the maximum of two minutes for each change of mall and mount. Later the distance traveled on each trip was extended from seventy-five to one hundred miles. There was, however, no regularity ar to the length of the ride. What ever the circumstances, the mail had to go forward, East or West, we are told as we continue: If the arriving rider found the next relayman ill, or slain by In dians, he must go forward, or re turn as the case might be, until a relief was available. On one such Occasion, young William F. Cody, the "Buffalo Bill" of a later time, made a continuous ride, on the western Wyoming stretch, of 320 miles, which Ivas covered in twen ty-one hours and forty minutes; and on another Howard R. Egan, riding west of Salt Lake City, kept to the saddle for a back-and-forth gallop of 330 miles. A yet longer non-stop ride Is sometimes mention ed—one of 380 miles made by Rob ert (“Pony Bob") Haslan along the Nevada section of the route. For their labor the riders were paid $50 a month and board, though a lew of them, noted for braving extra hazards, received as much as $150 monthly. All of them had to face the perils of terrific storms, deep snows, flooded rivers, of losing their way, and being at tacked by Indians. Yet, though oft en pursued, they often managed, by their courage and resourcefulness and the fleetness of their mounts, to escape. The savages were some times a source of danger, even when they were not primarily hostile. "I want to say right here,” wrote Granville Stuart in his “Forty Years on the Frontier,” "that tor nerve, courage, and fidelity there was never a body of men that ex celled the pony-express rider.” The letters were carried in four small leather bags called cantinas, about six by twelve inches in size, sewed to a square mochila, which was so placed on the saddle that one letter-bag was in front and one behind each leg of the rider. At the beginning the charges were $5 for a half-ounce or fraction thereof, for the entire route, and $3 a half ounce from San Francisco to Salt Lake City, though with August quarter-ounce letters were accept ed for the entire route at $2.50 each. The Pacific telegraph, slow ly pushing its way from the two termini to a central meeting point, added considerably to the mail mat ter carried. At the last trans . mittlng station from one end of the route, dispatches were carried to jbe put on the wires at the first transmitting station at the other end. Prom Genoa, Nevada, the ar rival of the first westbound rider was telegraphed to Sacramento, while the eastern projection of the line was but slowly crawling along the north bank of the Platte to ward Port Kearney. In November, from a point opposite the fort it was carried across the river, and here, on the morning of the eighth, a dispatch announcing Lincoln’s election was given to a western rider. Six days later, at Fort Churchill, twenty miles east of Vir ginia City, Nevada, Us contents were telegraphed on to the coast. The best record made from end to end of the route was in the carry ing of Lincoln's inaugural address, in March 1861, the total of 1,080 miles in seven days and seventeen hours. After the pony express came the stage-coach, with a host of color ful characters familiar in Ameri can history. In the public eye the driver was the most important fig ure, and of him we are told: Mark Twain's picture of him, in “Boughing it,’’ has doubtless some thing of truth, not only as to how the driver regarded himself but as to how he was regarded by his fel low employees. It seems, never theless, to have been somewhat overdrawn. According to Root, the drivers were, in the main, "warm hearted. kind, and obliging.” Many of them were competent to fill more important places. Some of them were well educated. All ap pear to have been fascinated by their work, and none wanted to re tire from it. They were of most ages, from adolescence up, and from every walk of life. Most drivers developed strong affection for the horses they drove, sometimes feeding and grooming the animals instead of permitting the work to be done by the stock tenders. The drivers usually ran for two or three "stages,” or "drives” (tw’enty-five to thirty-five miles), though occasionally for twice the distance. At the end of the "drive” the horses were taken out, stabled and fed, and within twenty-four hours were started on the return run. The horses were the best obtain able. "It was the almost universal remark,” writes Root, "of those who made the overland journey by stage —that they never saw such fine an imals. Holladay was a great lover and a good judge of stock himself.” Though government agents during the Civil War were buying up the horses most suitable for calvary service, Holladay seemed never at a loss in obtaining the pick of the market. All the teams—four-horse and six-horse—were graded in size. Perhaps that great Democrat in President Hoover’s cabinet, Attor ney-General Mitchell, who voted lor Hughes, Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover, has always thought that he probably would have voted for An drew Jackson if he had been regis tered in 1832.—Ohio State Journal. NOTICE TO DEFENDANTS North Carolina, Cleveland County. In the Superior Court, Before the Cerk. Alice Canady and husband, Roland Canady, Ora Byers and husband, Tom Byers, Nola Camp and hus band, John Camp, Ethel Smith, IT’S DANGEROUS GROUND you stand on—with a c^ugh, a cold or grippe, and your blood impoverished. You must do something! Dr. Pierre's Golden Medical Discovery makes redder blood— builds health and strength. Mlsa Helen Grady of 780 Taylor St., Spartan burg, S. C., remarked: "I liave always been suscep tible to colds and coughs, the least exposure, or even coming in contact with a rrson having a cold, and would get right sick. Realizing my need of a ionic ana oiooa Duiiaer, 1 sianea taking ur. Fieree’s Golden Medical Discovery and found it so beneficial that I always take a bottle whenever I am exposed to the danger of colds. It never fail* to keep me fit for ~ny work.’* Dealers. Send Dr. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y., 10c if you desire a trial pkg. of tablets, and write for free advice. widow and Florence McCoy, sin gle, Plaintiffs vs. Lloyd Ellis and wife. Alice Ellis, Rena Crosby and husband, Wal ter Crosby, James Ellis and wife, — McCoy, Scott McCoy and wife, — McCoy, Odus McCoy and wife, — McCoy, Ulus McCoy and wife, Lottie McCoy and Arizonia Mc Coy, defendants. The defendants, Lloyd Ellis and wife, Alice Ellis, Rena Crosby and husband, Walter Crosby, James El lis and wife — Ellis, if living, Fred McCoy and wife, — McCoy, if liv ing, Scott McCoy and wife, — Mc Coy, if living, Odus McCoy and wife, — McCoy, if living. Ulus Mc Coy and wife, Lottie McCoy and Arizonia McCoy will take notice that an action entitled as above has been commenced in the super ior court of Cleveland county, N. C. for the sale for partition of certain lands situated in No. 4 township Cleveland county, N. C„ whiea the plaintiffs and the defendants hold as tenants in common and the said defendants will further take notice that they are required to appear in the office of the clerk of superior court at the court house in said, county on Monday, May 13, 1929* and answer or demur to the com plaint in said action, or the plain tiffs will apply to the court tor the relief demanded in said complaint This April 11, 1929. A. M. HAMRICK, Clerk Su perior Court. Jno. P. Mull, Atty. for plaintiffs. — A FINE SPRING TONIC — Of Great Value In Biliousness, Indigestion. Constipation, Sour Stomach, Inactive Liver And Bowels. HAND’S LIV-O-LAX CHILDREN LOVE LIV-O-LAX. 30c — ALL STORES — 60c — GET A SMALL BOTTLE TODAY_ I MORE Issac Shelby Flour Is Used In Cleveland County Than Any Other Two Flours that are Sold In This Section. Dependable Goodness And Wholesomeness Are The Reasons. Eagle Roller Mill Company Literary Digest. Indians to the light of him. In dians to the left of him; and In dians fore and aft. Ambushed! But the daring man on horesback, speeding across Western plains and mountains, did not pause Out he ivhlpt his pistol and, tiring rapid ly, yelling lustily, and spurring his horse to its utmost speed, he dash ed through the cordon to safety. But the Joke was on this rider of 1H60. Later, W. .J, Ghent tells us in “The Road to Oregon" (Long mans, Green), n history set merely because the curious red man want ed to know what the white man carried to make him go so fast Pony-express riders, whose ranks Included the great “Buffalo Bill,” carrying the mail between St. Jos tph, Missouri, and San Francisco, lame through many adventures un scathed, and rendered valuable serv ice to their employers, the Central Overland California and Pike’s Peak Express company, organized by Russell, Major and Waddell. This firm was demonstrating to the government the practicability of the mail service it proposed. But an other organization finally won the coveted contract. When the plan for the dcmoaistration was agreed upon in 1860, we read: Preparations were rushed forward with the utmost vigor. Riders noted for their courage and hardihood 'were employed. Some five hundred horses were bought, after great care in their selection, for they must be strong and wiry and fleet enough to outrun any bands of pur suing Indians. Though some of the animals were Califorina mustangs, most were, according to Root, ’’really not ponies but American Ease—Beauty—No Offensive Odor Improved—now dries hard in 1aaa than sis houra. Hare is the finish for old floora. Xuaniz* FLOOR ENAMEL limn solid fait color shades for floora. indoors or out. Baeslleot for porcbos, docks, wood or content floors. Waterproof. Quick Drying. Shelby Hardware Co. “WE SERVE TO SATISFY.” PHONE 330 SHELBY, N. C. 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