The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-09-04
Rev. Beattie and Party Six
Days on the Mississippi
River.
The Beautiful Scenery in Min
nesota Has Fascinated
the SedalianS.
Success of Col. Jaynes and ID. II.
Smith With Hooks. Rods and
Lines.
Correspondence Sunday Bazoo.

HOTEL ST. LOUIS,
LAKE MINNEToSKA. MINI. Aug. %.
On Tuesday morning.. the 2l-t al Au-
.'isi We fond Ourselves only twenty miles
bOve Dubuque, our steamer. the War
E.gle. feeling her wy gver sand bar.
A good deal Of freight had been put on
a Dubuque, which inside our progress
:rore difficult. Alter several unsuccessful
t'empts had b, ca made. the pilot went on,
in yawl and sounded the river. We
hen returned back To the last landing and
HniOaded a larse amount of freight, and
hen passed over the bar with leo trouble.
While the pilot sounded the river our
Steamer was tied :" the shore when some
iied their luck ~ fishing. All ihr boys,
"f wh,'m there were qni:e a number. fur
nishrd themselves with whistles auc mad
t nvely fer the Ie-i If us. In the evening
We sang some gos,,ei hymns, young lady
frvor d rs wish some finely rendered solos.
q, d another vourg lady from indianapolis
< We us sume COED recitations The
CoIorr,, from ~, LOuis. contributed much
Ia the entertainment ard enjoyment Of all
"' hoard, and heing a widower, he was
s-st eciaiIv
ENTERTAINING TO THE LADIES.
he had travelled gcoi deal, AID was
full Of anecdotes an1 stories. The weather
MAS delightfully."- cool and pleasant.
and the scenery beautiful. We re-
gre!ied the time spent at
meals and i'm sleep. so 10th were We to miss
any of j.
We passed many points OF interest,
among them Chimney REX, SO cailet
IL LII fack
iouei chimney, and Hens point, on the
i"p IF which flag WAS waving. Ii is
ish: hundred and forty fees high-said To
~ the highest priut an the river.
About 9 a. III on Wednesday we reached
Lacrosse, Wis, where passengers and
fright were transferred 10 Tie stern
wheeler Keukuk Whil- the transfer vas
made large party If u, walked up into
me ely and found il quite beau,i-
tul place. The streets are we'll paved and
clean. public buildings are good, and the
stores art attractive. The ladies, as
mater of course, visited The dry goods
stores; the gentlemen tn. drug store.
where they had soda fountains, and the
Young ladies the c"nfecticners, where they
laid in boun,iiui supply Of wax and
andy
We had such pleasant time on the
War Eagle, and felt so much at home, that
W. were
QUITE 10TH TO LEAVE HER.
The keokuk was much smaller boat.
and re anticipated being crowded. and
were afraid W. would not fare so we'll. hut
.,re agreeably disappointed. The verdict
L many of the passengers was that our
dinner was the best since leaving st. Louis,
"ur state rooms just as comfortable, and
ne captain. clerks. pilots ard steward even
more polite and accommodating thsn those
Se left.
The steward Mr. Fowler, was especially
10. H. seemed 10 feel that all the passep-
gers were hi guests, and he was ever on
he Il. TT 10 please them. He vas so kind
am sure would no. hive complained
even If We had Jared poorly. The weather
vas quite coil. While YOU were sw-ltrr-
ing with heat i'm Sedalia. we were wearing
our wraps or sitting around the FIRE.
Wi1ona Impressed me as being an enter
,risipg. thrifty town. The huge smoke
stacks belching forth great volumes If
mrke, the massive elevators, the saw mills
hr lar.e Pile OF lumber, all indicated ron-
siderable business.
When yon get in the upper Mississippi
thu rats OF logs and lumber become still
more numerous and ;he b. at Is constantly
m. cling .l.rm. Y.u wonder
WHERE THEY ALL CONE FROM
and where they are going ] was told that
there were eigh, or nine hundred feet in 4
raft If logs md from me Ia two million in
one of lumber
Abnnt 2 p. M. on Thursday landed in
s; Paul, after having been six dav on the
river and still some of our party were
sorry TO leave it. 1t had been a week
Stree We hal left home, and during
thai time none of us had received word
frum our loved ones, so the first thing after
dinner was a visit t. the postof6re to get
the home letters and papers. learned that
gentleman bearing my own name, with
the same initials, had been there before ne
ami had opened one of my letters. He hal
expressed io the clerk desire Ia see me,
and am sure il was mutual. short time
after | saw his name in st Louis paper
registered at one of the hotels, and until
th.t ;ime had thought was the only man
of the name. was quite disappointed
wh-n learned that there Were two Of us
mink shall propose an exchange Of pho
iographs The postoffice clerk told me that
he was about as fine looking man as nv.
self.
Ala p. m. our party, with Col. NOrvell's
family, who stopped at the same hotel
drove out To Fcrt Smelling. over fine road
There is nothing e. pecially sitrsctive about
the scenery unril you reach the bridge ,ha,
spans the Mississippi river. The wafer ha.
cut the solid rock away, leaving simply q
chasm. Above and below the bridge
THE SCENERY is QUITE GRAND.
A short distance below, the Mississippi
and Minnesota rivers flow together. The
| first place we visited was the old stockads
! fort, built in 1919 as defence against the
Indians From distance it looks like the
tower of an old castle II is built Of stone
two stories high and circular in shape
about thirty feei In diameter THE walls