The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1881-07-26

him to 60 on with the train, that we we're
ready. The train was loaded down with
high-toned people, going to Lawrence,
Topeka and EmPOria, and some down into
New Mexico, and some to Pueblo and to
Denver, and some to San Francisco, over
the Atchison, Topeka h Santa Fe and the
Southern Pacific. These two roads connect
now at Deming, and form the most popular
route to the Pacific coast.
TOPEKA KANSAS
was reached about one O'Clock, and We got
of and stopped at the Fifth avenue hotel,
a nice, cool and pleasant place. Topeka
is the capital and political center OF Kan
sas. We stopped here to learn how the
new liquor Law was working. They said
il worked quite we'll, and we looked around
and saw that it did They call lager beer
sea foam and whisky iced tea, and sell
them a. such, but they don't sell any beer
or whisky.
Topeka is handsome city of twenty
thousand inhabitants, and is noted for
wide streets, cotton wood trees and
PRETTY GIRLS.
Everybody was out riding i'm the evening.
That is where we saw the pretty girls. Bat
as this was not the place we started to, We
got On the train At one o'clock Thursday
morning and started west again. We got
to Usage CITY about daylight. and 10
ing houses along this road can't be beat.
Onr breakfas, at Florence and our supper
nj Sargent were rs good meals as could be
had in any hotel. but the dinner at Larned
could have been better.
The crops appeared 10 be good ineastern
Kansas, but the chinch bugs were making
sad havoc with many green fields. The
"Santafe' road runs alongh the
ARKANSAS RIVER
from Nickerson TO Pueblo, distance of
four hundred miles. Looking south from
the cars this river is nearly ALWAYS in
sight until you cross il at Grenada. Just
after entering the state Of Colorado then
you see il along the road on the north
side. When We get beyend Larned, the
houses become dis,ressingly few and far
between. Now and then one can be seen
away of on the horizon. but sometimes
none is visible in any direction, and We
five hundred miles without seeing
any timber or even tree. When We began
To approach
and for miles and miles west ci Dodge We
could see thousands and tens Of thousands
Of cattle grazing along the green and fer
tile valleys of the Arkansas. In some
places the scOrching plains were strewn
with the bones and carcasses Of cattle that
had persisted during the severe cold wealth
er last winter. Our anxiety to see the
prairie dogs was more than gratiied by
splendid view Of hundreds Of them along
the road. We didn't see but one buffalo,
but he was very large one and was feed
ing with the cattle We were on the road
"Wednesday night. all day Thursday and
until two o'clock Friday morning when
We reached Pueblo. One is surprised to
meet sucha good class OF people travelling
i'm this country. and the trains are always
crowded. We ioafed from one end of the
train to the other and formed many pleas
an; acGuaintaces. frcm whom it was not
pleasant 10 part. Every body seemed So
cial and anxious To become acquainted
with every bodv else. We had the pleas
IRE of meeting our old friends Harry
Black and Charlie TAYLOR, of Sedalia, on
the train coming out 10 Colorado Springs.
Ex-Gove.nor Oglesbv, OF Illinois, was
also on the train. But this letter is grow
ing too lengthy. We will tell YOU some
thing about Colorado in our next. Ia, ia.
CRITICIZE FIELD.