Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-05-13
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A Characteristic Epistle from Bob
Rowland.

A Characteristic EpfstIe from Bob
Rowland.
The following letter is from Bob How
landmark Twain's old cabin chum-to a
friend here:
LEADvILLE (Coi.), May 10, 1880.
This is a sway up place" regarding al
| titude all kinds of weather. Yesterday
forenoon the thermometer stood 70 in
the shade, and in the afternoon the street
| sprinkler, in full blast, was caught out in a
snowstorm ere he could get TO his stable.
| From twelve to fifteen stages, and
as many private c~onveyances, arrive
here daily from the railroad, all
crowded with "tender feet" Occasion
! ally a few on the drivers seat, known
as "Other Siders." A tender foot is from
the East, "Other Siders'' are western men
from the other side of the Rocky Noun
tains. One of the other siders arrived here
| yesterday from Eureka with q large %valise,
which was nearly empty. He found the
| nearest restaurant and set his valise on a
chair near him at the table. The proprie-
tor told him if his valise occupied a chair
he would charge him an extra dollar.
"All right" said Eureka. When the pro-
| prietor went into the kitchen the fellow
commenced to put everything in reach on
the table in said valise, saying at the same
time to the valise, Eat you son OF a gun,
l have to pay for you"
By the way Dan DeQuill's old landlord
from Meadow Lake, is here keeping q
hotel. He fires off one barrel from a
double barrel shot gun to call his boarders
to meals. A tender foot asked him why he
didn't 'bang off both barrels" ''Oh, no."
said the landlord, II keep the other to col
lect with"
There are great crowds of idlers here.
About $1,000 waiting to give their scalps
to the Indians when the snow leaves the
Gunnison country. All, of course, are
going to find q Richmond and Eureka.
Leadville has about IS, 900 people, with one
| physician lin his own mind he is the one) .
No rule of custom here-few out Of the
whole number who ever lived in a city, and
never turn out to their right. The streets
are blockaded with lookers-on.
A few days since Black Crook pictures
were posted on the corners leg drama),
AID there were at least fifteen hundred
''countrymen" climbing over each other
to get a "look at the pictures" the devil
only knows what there would have been
done had they been real legs ~.
1t was a great mistake in naming this
place Leadville. 1t should have been Jop-
lin; there are more nice men here from
Joplin than are left there. They are lost,
though, when they leave their wagons and
are on the sidewalk, and wonder why
people run against them. One says, "You
| hot lifo I'm fropa Iop1in Mtoo,ouri II
am; come in boys, all on We, and take
somethin'; my friend from Nevadee is set
tin EN- up"
All would have quite a city outlook here
were it not that the majority Of the people
never saw a city only by looking out of a
car window as the train stopped while pass
ing through one. There are five daily
papers here, and good ones. One first
class brick opera house and ten other
theatres all in full blast; five of them have
brass bands playing in front every evening.
City water n gas companies; fire alarm
telegraph, and a No. 1 Fire Department;
several fine churches and public school
buildings; one very fine brick structure,
the new Catholic church.
Charley Knight and wife are here from
Eureka, running a lodging-house and
making currency. There are also people
here from the State of Maine; all come
with letters Of introduction from Professor
Frank Stewart. The Maine boys are all
solid on the sentence of letter her "be.'
Two of them were seated at o table in
Bob Moody's restaurant q few days since,
and, after cycling each other for a few sec
onds. one says to the other "'Pears to
me. stranger, I've seen you somewheres
around abouts before" MAYBE you
have" says No. 2. "What State be you
from2" "I'm from the State of Maine, /
be-" "You be, be you, so be 1. Wall,
wall; if l amt glad to see you I hope to
die. If there's any soda or ~sarsaparilla in
town we'll take a glass;" (He knew there
was none to be had had on his overshoes
and buffalo overcoat at the time, May 7th,
winter climate.)
When spring comes here and 1 visit
more Of the mines, I will write you again.