Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-06-12
ON TO DENVER.
THE STORY OF A SMALL GIRL-BILL
EYE AsD LARAMIE
Denver A Marvellous City Of tn
west-Pine Buildings and
Lively Population.

| Correspondence of the REcoRp-UNIoN.l
| DENVER, June 5, 1882.
Railway cars are full of incidents, and
some are worth recording. A little girl was
placed ON board the Union Pacific sleeper
at Ogden, and, when the train started, she
was left alone in seat She was about 9
| years of age, very modest and well-bred,
and neatly attired. Her wooden dress of
navy blue fell only to her knee, and each
passenger noted her exquisite calf and
dainty little foot, the latter encased in
a new shoe. Every person whose eye fell
on that innocent little leg stopped to
look again. When the train pulled
out the little thing began to cry,
and the passengers crowded about to con-
sole her. 1t was soon learned that she
was bound for a little town-Monmouth, l
think-in Illinois, and expected to join
her grandmother. Her father, she said,
treated her badly, and her mother had
shipped her away from Salt Lake alone.
| A number of Boston tourists we're In the
car, aud they covered the child with SYM
pathy and attention. Presently the con-
ductor asked her for a sleeping car ticket
| She had none. Have to go in the other
car, miss" The child's eyes filed with
tears, and there was dead silence in the
car; the Boston capitalists became sudden
ly absorbed in their newspapers. Come,
travel on" said the conductor. The child
burst into tears, and the Boston people be-
came more and more absorbed in their pa
pers and magazines. Just as the child
reached for her little sack and rose to go,
| man in the next seat, who had before taken
no notice OF her, turned and purchased
section for her. Boston was very prolific
of sympathy and attention, but fell Ia
mentally short on the money proposition.
| BILL NYE.
l stopped at Laramie to see the town,
which Of late has grown famous as being
the site of the boomerang office. Iordered
hackman there is one hack in town. to
drive me to Bill Nye. On reaching the
office l asked the darkey, How much ?"
and his reply was simply, 6 Friend of Mr..
Nye, sab? No charge" | found Nye in
his office presiding over civil suit. Nye
is Justice of the Peace, and when case
comes up be simply turns from his editorial
desk and listens to the evidence. The
present case was one of peculiar interest.
A rival publisher was being sued, and the
plaintiffs attorney put the question,
''How many papers do you print ?" OBJ
jected to by defendants counsel. Court
appealed to by plaintiffs counsel. With
face as
SOLEMN AS SPHINX
| Nye rested his heavy brow on his hand
and thought the matter over. "This is
very peculiar question to decide, said the
Court. "Does the counsel call for the
bona fide paying subscribers, or the num-
Der of copies printed, excluding exchanges
and dead heads. shall request the coun-
sci to reduce the question to writing" The
question was put in writing, and Nye
began to consult the authorities. He
poured over his Blackstone, his Greenleaf
on Evidence, and his Statutes of Wyoming,
and finally announced 81 find nothing in
the Civil Practice Act or in the common
law to show cause why the question is not
only admissible but proper, but before de-
Gliding l should like to hear from defend.
ants COUNSEL The person called upon
made vigorous protest, and Nye finally
announced "Objection overruled.
admit the question" The rival publisher
admitted under oath that he printed one
hundred and eight copies, when Nye re-
marked, !" Mr.. -, you have right to
swear to all you print-exchanges, dead
heads and sample copies. Recollect you
are under the protection of this Court. I"
| The citizens Of Laramie fairly worship
| Nye. The two curiosities of the town are
the Union Pacific Rolling Mills and the
Boomerang. He is Justice of the Peace,
| City Librarian, and they want him Post
master. There are even men in town who
think he would make an excellent City
Council or Congressional delegation. His
paper has made Laramie famous all over
the United States, and the Laramiens real
ize and appreciate the fact.
IT Is SIGHT
To see Nye down at the depot filling"
| the Eastern tourists with wild tales of
Wyoming life, told with a gravity of as
pect and circumstantialness of detail which
carries conviction. Whenever Nye shows
signs of faltering, a man named Root Ia
pupil of BilPsl steps in as sort of reserved
battalion and moves on the enemy's bull.
L WarkS Will q lire Ol lies CatCuidtcu W lucil
| the stoutest skeptic. With Root at the
| finish Nye says he always feels safe, and
with a little more training to improve his
methods and technique, Nye says that he
will make Root the leading card on the
western circuit for the next season. Nye
is quiet, domestic man, with a young
wife and two bright children. He does
not own the boomerang, as is generally
supposed, but is hired to write one humor-
GUS article day for the company.
| DENVER
Is rushing city of 10000 souls. "There
are three live cities in America-New
York, Chicago and Denver" This is what
the commercial drummer says, and he
ought to know. Everything is on mag
nifcent scale. Its big depot cost million
and is to be enlarged and park attached.
| The opera house cost one and a quarter
millions and is marvellous piece of archi-
lecture of Egyptian and Moorish type, Law.
ishly decorated admission 81 so, reserved
seats 81, and packed nightly. The city
has seven daily newspapers and lot of
literary weeklies. 1t is a treat to walk
about Denver it is a maze Of elegant
houses, cut.stone buildings, tessellated
pavements, fourth. hand drags, polished
marble, mining millionaires. news-boys,
bootblacks, women OF the scarlet hue, and
4 fve.cent beer gardens with orchestral ac-