, 1873-07-06
Green Leaves Returning---
.Half-Breed Horses. Equine
Endurance.
Blg-Horn Observation-Disclosures
tion---Juno- Weather.. Getting
into a Diphthong.
Badgers-..An Indian Dish --- Beaver
Trapping-"-Laying in Whisky
Money.
Ladies Wnnted---VerdAnt VAL
Neutrality-suspicious.
{(itiOn.

From Ossr 0on Correspondent.
BEAVER CREEK, ". r., June u, 1879.
Il seemB good to BOO grcon lenyos onoo moro.
Tint they havo been long enough coming, no
ono will deny. Tho bunoh-grasa Is putting on =
%ertlant appearance, and spring-aoweru look
bright aud pleasant On tho uplRnds. Blue, rcd,
1ellow, and pink blossoms, as wild ~ tho hills
on which they grow, show that Nature Is trying
its best to appear beautiful undor the most nd-
vorso circumstances. Along the rppling streams
Tho grass ia aprlnging up luxurihntly, and tho
wil1ow-bushcs arc adorning themselves with
leaves. Vegetation; like humanity, docs not
do very we'll so high up On Che
mountains, and 10 sigh for the bound
less prairioa md magnificent farms Of tho
nlder-aottled statos, near tho Misnissippi and
Missouri Rivers, whcro there ID no danger Of
etarving, and such thing rs scurvy is unknown.
1t Heems almost pitiful to think that, in this
broad land, there should DO place whore 1t Ia
Impossible to got oven potatoes enongh to cat,
question.
Every man who Ia able
oWNB HORSE
In this country, as It Is not considered exactly
ahe thing to go about on foot. Tho brood Of
horsoa In common uso Is by no means f1rst-rate,
though some Of the horses arc good aaddle-Ani-
snals. They arc mostly ANAL aud ecrawny, oyi-
aontly Of Indian origin, and not particularly
hne-looking. Tho frontier-men pretend TO like
tile Indian and California horsoe beat; but hnyo
discovered they always trade ouch horseB OF whom
possible for thoeo Of puro American stock, Amer
lcnn horses need moro feed aud bottor caro-, and
Rre aa superior to halt-brecds or Cayuse horses
hs American mon ato to Indians. Tho poor
INDIAN ponies sometimes suffer greatly from
3unBcr, but always appear willing to do what
they can to serve their oHners. Indians are
proynrbia1ly
HARD ON HORSES,
hnd once saw pony, which had belonged to
IN Indian. on which an American was riding,
come upon tho doad body OF an Indian which
had been lying on the ground for several days.
At tho sight Of the body, tho pony appeared to
he seized With uugovornable rage, and Jumped
with all its might On 1t. atriking it again and
again with all its feot and endeavoring to tear
it to pieces. Whilo SO doing, his eyes 1aahed
fire, and ho fairly froshed at tho mouth with
anger.
Tho horses Of tho Pacific Slope arc hardy.
small, and capable of groRt endurance. Thia
can bo said In their favor without fear Of contra
diction; but that they arc
OFTEN TEARFuLLY Ai1HUsEp
is also truo. When hear q man toll how many
miles he laas ridden q horse without halting, I
mot to be intrustod with the care Of go noble
an animal. have even known Of mou who
dropped doad from over-e1ertion. Il may noem
bo capable ot Ruch Shameless cruelty; they not
only did 1t, but thought they had done sonno-
thing worry smart. During the early dhya of
California somo Of our ffonter-men travelled
ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY MLEa
In two days but they had drove OF loose
showed signs Of fatigue, tho aaddle waa shifted
gallop ovor hill and dale. But these wore times
when celerity OF movement was absolutely nooeu-
sary in order to accomplish great objects. Tho
horses used by mountalnoers aro easy under tho
11oat Of theso riding-horees have been vol
trained, and go along apparently With little Of
no o1ertion.
A day or two since, a flock of
NOUETAIN-BHkEPt
numbering some sovcn or eight, made an inour-
eion into ono Of tho mountain towns about day
BREAK, nnd for time hold posBossion of
Ct. These eheep-which the mountainea1s call
with long hair instead Of wool They gen.
eraily ronm about in the highest and most in
accessible portions Of the mountains, and it ro-
quros considerable skill to kill them. Mark
precnoc whsn ,n o "1 his snG euao q IT,
mouTtsn- -sna1, ....sha - a.s @ Astnens a.a to
immenaa hornae md thsn ns 9ssnt % ~, ,ont I'D ~ ~
business as 4 nothing hsd happened. They aro,
tsmo sSa.. ~ s.n3 oo4soo1eoiy M1Bo3 nhan
food. An sfort h,s hean na'o u ass,,nsta
49,. 1a III LEE p1oa naae 70 uomostaoAte
do M ras,, ~ h.H ucn t., pato, sn1usa .aese
40 doin1 II ;s ni.i1na3 H.. tho1 - ~ ~ ~
~ t hon 'nhs ny 10 to- Ha 70
EnmswhsI 1ora-k.h,a thst Uro,i.a, ~ aSa as II -
nnirnnis Az, for,nd IL tha;- III G e1 no
isanda Of sardin;s md % Gcr.,co ~" ona t.n5 ~ ~
the Snake Intiinns ir known AZ tSn Mon-taln-
nntae1 furniahfnr them H. ~ food ~aasaa,rx M % nv
4hair srhs;ata.oae Min n, aau Auoa noo9eoa.! I
tim IL mt hnttcr - ~ @
prrrr1ra MAN. IN ,.u
In 1nountain-town amount. tn Int i,tsle. ensnn
Vino neo Il boco,na naoaasa ~ arcsr,ta
negro, and, AZ thoso vaa no iailer. tho negro
S,nn .tJ:.-.3 II 80 -" ~ !.sN4tt 49, AHnt11