Morning journal and courier., 1883-08-27
Cant tell yet" Gambling is carried onihere openly both day and nioht

Cant tell yet.n Gambling is carried onihert
 openly both day and night. Leaving Santa Fe at 3 p. m., we witness
 magnificent scenery along the line, height.
 ened by . succession of thunder storn1s on
 the mountains, and arrive for supper at
 Wallace, where our good friend Sir Knight
 Schemerhorn had prepared 6 supper which I was feast. The finale of the day was a
 dance at this place by the Pueblo Indians gotten up by Sir Knight Schemerhorn
 The Pueblos here number one thousand 1 five hundred, and eighty-fve braves and msidens participated in the dance. Words ! cannot describe the enjoyment this enter tainment gave to our party. The peculiar chant of the chorus, the sober and earnest expression in all their faces, the grace and handsome forms of the maidens. added to which were the non-participants of the tribe on one side and our party on the other as spectators, and you have a picture not easily forgotten
 Saturday Aug. 11th we arrive at Demine on hme-I45 8. m.-have one hour for breakfast and leave at 45. This paradox IS explained by changing time from Jefferson Oity to San Francisco. At Deming we met Mir. $. Fl, Brooks, at one time bookkeeper TOT C. 5. Bushnell of your city, and now the agent faev shn' GOHshBrn Paeiffcs fn DgEhfnp AS this is the terminus of the Atchison. To peks &Santa Fe, we lose our good friend Sir Knight Schemerhorn and also bid good bye to MT. Charles T. Parsons. who has been with us as special agent from Topeka on Our party feel under obligations to both of these gentlemen for many fAvors shown. We have been well treated by the A. T. & s. F., and hope the management will build many new bridges, and in other ways improve their great enterprise so that our next journey over It may be taken in less fear. We dine at Bowie comfortably, and enjoy bounteous supper at Tucson
 Our night was hot and dusty, this being the worst part of our trip, but Sunday morning at Yuma all responded to the breakfast call Yuma IS the place where it is said man died and went to the warm region, but the next day sent message back for his over. coat. Inc Yuma Indians are quite numerous here and are easily distinguished from other tribes by the scantiness of their wardrobe. Some of our ladies were really shocked w. s. Delano, of the Signal ser vice here, gave your correspondent valuable and pleasing information as to this location, etc
 We cross the Colorado river and enter California and after an eight hours weary rae reach oolton, where my party leave for trip to San Bernardino and surroundings At Redlands we meet several West Haveners now settled at this place. and engaged in fruit farming With plenty of irrigation this section can all be brought under vine cultivation, and much of it is fit for other fruit as we'll
 At Los Angeles Monday, the 18th, we join our friends and with them enjoy the hospital ities of the resident Sir Knights This city IS surprise to all our party, both as to size and prosperity. In no place have we seen such boom. Scores of new buildings are going up, some of them large business blocks. We visit large orange groves, drive through spacious private grounds filled with fruit and semi tropical plants where eight years ago was nothing but barley field Our stop at this place was one grand ovation, the city paying part of the expense and our Los Angeles brothers the rest
 August 14th we breakfast at Merced, where committee of Sir Knights from the Golden Gate met us We arrived in this city at about D. m, and amid great pomp and display were es- corted by the two Communicates here to our present location, the Palace Hotel The city is fast filling up with brethren and their friends, and without doubt the twenty triennial concIave will eclipse all former gath erings. I append the best account yet given of our grand reception. J. D. D.