The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-06-01
AN INVASION OF MEXICO.

IAN INVASION OF MEXICO.
The gentleman from Missouri inform.
ed me also that the price'of beer at tn.
bar was 10 cents. I presume, however
that these altitudinous prices are nc
counted for by the fact that we are S..
OeO feet or more above sea level. But
while as already stated, this resort il
not the most favorable place in the
world for the practice of economy, vet
for those who need take no account OF
expense, 1t certainly offers induce
ments in the way OF lovely scener~,
princely entertainment, rest aud
healthfulness not excellcd by anyother
resort in America.
After an impromptu concert in the
great parlors Of the Phoenix, a concert
lasting two hours and displaying an
extremely diversified repertory. and
after night of most refreshing slum.
Der, we throw open our windows and
are rewarded with breeze that might
have swept over the Elysian fields, SO
fragrant and soft and life-giving is it.
Gov. Riddle is the envy of the party
for having had the forethought to get
up in time to see the sun rise-a eight
which he eojoyed from the third story
balcony and which he describes rs
surprisingly lovely. Some of Us take
short strolls to the various springs and
other places of interest, all returning
to the great dining room for the eight
o'clock breakfast with appetites that
do full justice to the generous and SUBJ
stantial bill Of fare. 1t might be stat
ed here that, Notwithstanding the high
rates charged. the hotel is conducted
at loss of from $1,000 to s., 900 a
month. "WhO foots the bills ?" The
Atchison. Topeka and Santa Fe rail-
road company. The Company own
the resort and they find their return
for the direct losses sustained in main-
tanning it, more than compensated by
the added travel it attracts to their
road.
From the Springs, or rather from
Las Vegas, the ride to Lamy Junction
is one of the pleassntest and most pic.
turesque We have yet had. Every turn
Of the road-and there are 80 many
turns and our train swings round them
at such terrific rate that some o. the |
ladies betray symptoms of sea sickness,
brings some new scene into view that
one wishes might be stamped indeli-
bly, upon his mental vision. Plenty of
history. too, these mountains and gorg-
es and little hooks of valleys could tell |
Il they could only speak, for it was
among them that the Aztecs lived and
loved and fought and finally perished
from the earth. Perished, perhaps;
migrated possibly. For a little way
off from the rad, on the banks of the
Rio PecOs, are the ruins of the temple
from which Monteznma mounted his
eagle and led his people to the City of
At least that is the story the
Aztecs told Cortez when he came to
each them 'the one true faith" and to
give them a few other pointers on
European civilization;-and it must be
rue for there are the ruins of the tenn
pie to prove it. All that was long,
ong time ago. Not SO long ago, only
100 years or 80, there happened another
event which is well authenticated and
which gives perpetual, pathetic in
crest to the great peak that rises there
N our left, like watch tower. They
all it Starvation Peak and the story
,oes that 120 Mexicans, men, women
md children, pursued by Indians, took
efuge on it and were then tesieged
md starved to death. Everybody
Inows the m0urnful story for it has
'een told thousand times but how
yer often one has heard it the pathos
# it comes over him anew as he gazes
It the Peak. And how long it remains
n sight! Prentis has said somewhere
lin his northwestern Letters" 1 be-
ieve-that it seems as though one
ould never get away from it. 1t will
e lost to view for a little while and /,
hen sudden turn in the road and a
ackward glance and there it is once
aore, standing solitary, outlined
gainst the blue sky, with its two +,
ROSES to remind you again and agai n !
f the sorrow and suffering and an
uish it has witnessed. Ii
We are getting well toward the sum.
hit of Glorietta pass by this time and i
noon we glide down through Apache
anon, the scene of the only consider =
bic battle between Union and rebel n
rOOps that occurred in the Territory, to
.aney Junction. Switching here we II
ind among the mezquite-covered n
.ndhills for II miles and then stop at T
ne New Mexico penitentiary. Old !!
ansas friends meet us here,-Gov. Z
oss and Henry Burnett-and escort !,
} into the pleasant parlors, little sug. 9.