Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-08-13
"WRITE ME BOWMAN ASS" :

"WRITE ME BOWMAN ASS."s
The Special jenkins of thesPresidentia1
Party Saves the Public the Trouble by So
Subscribing Himself.
CAMP VEST, on Spring Creek, Wy, via
Fl. Washable, Wy, Aug. 1O.-The day SO
far since leaving camp Rollins, lat Bull Lake
fork this forenoon at o'clock, has been
very uneventful. The president and all
the members of the party are in excellent
health and spirits. The country travelled
over to-day has been mostly sage brush
varied by alternate ascending and descend
ing of steep hills covered with loose
stones, which made precarious footing
for the animals. One can not help Won
dering why so much material was
wasted in the making of so many appar-
emily useless ridges, when there are plenty
of guIches which could so we'll be filed all
along the route. However, the glorious
Wind river and Owl creek mountains with
their snow clad peaks are in sight, and
afford restfulness to the eyes of the travel
ers who are pursuing their way across the
dried and heated mesas. Below the camp
on Spring creek, however, it is very de-
lightful. We are on pleasant ground with
plenty of the essential requirements of
good camping places, good water and
grass. To the eastward of US is Crowheart
butte, which is a noted land mark of the
Wind river valley, land of it the photographer
has obtained several pictures. This dis
patch has to leave by courier at o'clock
this afternoon, so no reports can be made
to-day of the results obtained by the fish
ermen. The camp is named Camp Vest In
honor of Senator G. G. Vest, who is one of
the most enthusiastic and successful an
glers of the party.
After my dispatch of yesterday from
Bull Fork President Arthur and Senator
Vest brought into camp five creels full of
trout as result of their afternoon sport.
There are no special or professional cor
respondents with the party, and all dis
patches purporting to be from such per-
SONS are spurious.
Signed RAYMOND DAVIDSON.
CAMP CROSBY, on Dinwiddie Creek, Aug.
IL, via Ft. Washable, Wy, Aug. 12.-
Breaking camp $50 a. ma leaden gray
sky and drifting clouds added to slight
rain and heavy dew of last night, gave
delightful freshness and GOODNESS to the
air, bracing the atmosphere as the party
started on the days march. The rest from
the burdens of official and social life, the
exhileratipg effects of the climate, the
wearing away of the little soreness that
some of the party had felt from riding
all the good effects in fact from
this outdoor life were seen in the
buoyant manner in which the members
of the party mounted and rode away.
Senator Vest again scored the greatest
number of trout yesterday, hut shower in
the afternoon quickly put an end to the
sport, and prevented very much compet1-
tion. The route lay along an old Indian
trail, made dim and faint by time. A por-
ton of the party left the column and
skirted the foothills and mountains to the
left in search of game and scenery,
but the game had nearly
vanished, we'll nigh exterminated,
only one deer and one antelope were seen.
As coming events are sometimes said to
cast their shadows before, SO this may per-
haps indicate the sad fate of the Indian
race. A march of fourteen miles brought
us to Dinwiddie creek, a noisy mountain
stream rushing down in bo1sterous way
to join its water with Wind river. In
honor of the governor of Montana this
camp has been named Camp Crosby. The
country passed over to-day was mostly
rolling, interspersed occasionally with val
legs susceptible of irrigation, but the
future prospects of this depends
mainly on its being utilized
for grazing purposes. Grass had already
taken on brownish tint, the first indica-
ton of the curing process of this climate.
and In this lies the great secrets of its re-
tention of nutritious properties. It seems
pity that these streams should have lost
their Indian names. The lake, for in
stance, where we made our first camp, Is
called by them Moaning or Crying Buffalo
creek" and here in winter when there is
ice on, like wild Rand pitiful sound is
heard much resembling the moan of a
buffalo in distress. Again here at our
present camp, the Indians call the stream
"Creek with Gods Bridge" and some ten
miles above its mouth a natural bridge
about 300 yards wide spans a chasm
through which the waters rush. This bridge
is SCARED and marked by trails made by
Indians and game distinctly visible from
| the heights. A mile above it the canon is
grand, so grand and beautiful in fact that
one of the party who has wandered much
in foreign lands says of it, Nothing there
can in any way compare with it," This
| gorge in the mountains carved by
the masters hand is hard to describe, but
one cannot look at it save in awe of the
great architect. Near the head of the
stream is a crescent in shape backed by
mountains far down whose sides great
banks of snow, banks which have rested
there during all eternity of the past
Then comes sombre gray rocks,
gloomy and barren, above all
vegetation and seeming to frown
down upon the bright waters
and green foliage below.The stream opens
out on short interval into lakes Several
of these are two miles in diameter, and
these have pale green color.
The tents had been pitched but few
minutes and the fishermen had just com.
menced their efforts when from the north
west great black cloud came sweeping
over the bluffs. A hail and rain storm
really made the party feel that they were
enduring hardships, but they are just milo
enough to be agreeable. The entire party
is enjoying the best of health.
TOMBSTONE, Arizona, Aug. PA fire
this afternoon destroyed the Peoples Ice
works. Loss, $4,000; insurance, $4,000