The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-07-15

o. the sex, anu going DacR 70
wic.e-up life, appears in buckskin
smock frocks. close fitting leggins
and mocCasins, and goes bare
headed. Truly has Chipeta fallen,
which is at least one illustration
that women are not always devoted
to fashion above all else on earth.
Government bought the Ouray
farm, paying 5000 or ST 600 for it;
thus ChIpeta, the only surviving
heir, was very desirable widow to
dusky bucks who never owned more
than two or three worthless ponies,
a carbine, Colts revolver and a mis-
cradle excuse for saddle. There is
q keeper at the farm whose duty is
to prevent the DIES ructien of the
houses and the carrying away of
the fences.
Many Salt Lake people will be
pleased to learn something of the
Fourteenth United States Infantry,
the most popular and best liked reg
iment that was ever stationed at
Fort Douglas. Most of the troops
are az ThOrnburgh, on White EiYer.
but four com panieS are at the can.
tonment here on the Uncompahgre,
nine mile above MontrOse. They
are comfortably located ana situated
in this most charming valley, and if
they do not enjoy life it is because
such soldier gentlemen as Colonel
Douglas, Captains McConihe, Foley,
WarreDs, Quentin, and Ljeuten-
ants Hasson, Muihall and War
rem do not know how to
make things agreeable under
not inausplcious circumstances
something Of which their arquaint-
anCes will never accuse them. And
they do enjoy themselves. A ball
out here in the wilds of the Rocky
Mountains, where few years ago a
fellow who had respect ard effection
for his scslp.lock would have spoken
in whispers and kept as much in the
shade as possible until he got out, is
10th romantic and suggestive. 1t
tells as plainly as does the locomo-
tive screaming over there that the
wild Indian has run his course in
this region. There are three paths
left open to him-he must become O
good Indian, must move on, or must
die. Which will he pursue? I'm
doubtedly many of them would
move on if there were any place to
which they could go; some of them
will become s'good Indians" with
out dying, and others will unQues
tionably pass to the great hereafter
longing for the revenge they are
unable to take. One cannot think
of the rapid and certain wasting
away of the red man before the adj
vance of civilization without o feel
ing of sadness, if not of sorrow.
He cannot help sentiment Of re-
greet that this numerous and mighty
people are inevitably travelling the
road to extinction dis a distinct race
or branch of the great human fam
lily. We wish it could be other
wise; that the Indian might retain
his Identity AID his existence, and
lose enough Of his hateful
characteristics to enable him to
exist with the Caucasian though
as a separate family or tribe. The
past and the present indicate that
such cannot be.
The ball at the cantonment was
not exactly a Vanderbilt affair, yet
silks and sstins rustled, diamonds
flashed, the differentiation kid was
seen; but what was better than all,
bright eyes sparkled and never did
feet trip more merrily. There were
no Wallhowers and no soft and quiet
tetes-a-tete with ladies in the cor.
ners Of the hall-really the most en-.
:, IjOyable feature of every ball-fol
ladies being scarce aud gentlemen
in a sense numerous, the former
were compelled to dance all the
time in order to be even polite tt
the sterner sex, The promise now
, is that in the autumn UncOmpahgre
cantonment will be abandoned a:
i, we'll as Thornburgh, and the Four
! teenth stationed at Sidney and d. A
Russell, on the line of the UnioL
, Pacific. Meantime the Salt Lake
= friends Of this we'll known regiment
may cease their mourning over the
: handful of the command. Of course
they are not as comfortable as they
> were at Fort Douglas, which is tht
larmy's picnic post, but they are by
no means IN distressing plight.
: The Denver and Rio Grande ha
= come to be known as the "sceni,
line Of America" The distinction
is not improper, for with the excep
q ton Of two or three short stretches
? the road runs through a countr!
: which for grand, magnificent
> and awe-inspiring scenery, is no
surpassed on the continent. Callini
:; this scenery beautiful, as L observ
! so many do, argues the possession
of strange 5and peculiar ideas 0
!, beauty and symmetry; but all mus
! call 1t grand and magnificent. Now
= l was nsver able to discover an
beauty in great ugly brutes o
: mountains, no matt + how high, 0
: how rocky, or how ill-shapen an
= forbidding they might be, Will
. theie Is a charm and fascinaulo
about plains and rolling hills an
! trees and brooks and meadow
There are. mountains and gorge
y almost continuously from the tim
2 we enter the Spanish Fork Canyon
. in Utah, until We come into tn
/, charming valley of the Arkansas
y ! +