The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-08-06

graph ONCE TO wire Judge Jno. w
Henry, formerly of the supreme cour
of Missouri, now stopping in Denver
to 60 to Steamboat springs with US
At the telegraph office | met ID. T.
Witten, formerly manager of the
Western Union telegraph office at Sc
dalia. He left Sedalia in 1888. Per
haps some SedaliaDs will remember
him Is he buried his wife there.
AT IL o'clock this morning We
boarded the trim en- route to Steam
boat Springs via the Denver and Rio
Grande railway. Arrived at Pueblo
about l p. M, where dinner was had
at one of Thayer's model railroad eat
ing houses.
At Pueblo We met a party consist
ing of Mrs. w. Il. McKeen, wife OF
Col. w. r. McKeeD, president and
general manager Of the Nandalia
railroad, of Terre Haute Indiana, with
her son and daughter and one or tgC
others. They disembarked from Col.
McKeen's private wide gauge car and
boarded our train en- route to Cimar-
ron, Colorado, where the Colonel's son
has ranch. Mrs. McKeen told NE
she had taken FIVE trips through the
Royal Gorge, and each time she saw
something new to admire and to mar,
vel at.
During the afternoon the town CT
Florence was passed. This is where
coal oil is found and the output is so
great that it cannot all be taken care
of and the balance goes to waste. 1t
is an open secret that the Standard
oil company has. purchased the entire
property.
Later we arrived at Canon City,
where an observation car was attached
to the train and the trip through the
Royal Gorge was commenced. This
gorge has been written about, times
without number, and by the pens of
the most gifted of both continents,
yet, the idea gathered from these elab
crate descriptions, both in prose and
poetry, fail to convey anything but a
poor conception of its natural and
sublime grandeur. No feeble words
of mine can protray The beauties of
this canon and of the wonderful
skill exhibited by the master
mind or minds that en-
gineered the building of the railroad
at the base of the rocks, along the
banks of the Arkansas river, which
stream runs at your feet. To realize
what it is it must be seen. Before
the train had passed the canon it be-
gan TO rain, and drove the PASSENGERS
from the observation car, which was
dropped at Texas Greek, twenty-four
miles from Canon City.
At $50 p. m. We reached Salida in
brisk shower. Here We disem barked
for the nj ght and registered, the two
deacons, for accommodations, at the
Monte Christie Hotel. We were as
signed to rooms looking cut on the
Arkansas river.
TUESDAY, JULY %.
Clear and pleasant morning, and
the mountains looked prettier than
ever. We had expected to leave this
morning at 4:45 for Russell, 108
miles farther south, but a washout
near Denver had delayed the train,
and it was reported that it would not
arrive until night.
The writer, having slight attack
of rheumatism. concluded to drop be-
hind until a change came over his
malady, hence it was agreed that
Deacon Montgomery should proceed
to Steamboat Springs and find the
good places to fish and hunt by the
time ID. II. Smith, Col. Crawford and
myself should reach there.
Deacon Montgomery to-day met
Adam Boeck, very intelligent Ger
man, who does business at 207 North
Eighth street, st. Louis, accompanied
by his two boys, en- route for Steam.
boat Springs. They soon became
well acquainted and are to take the
same train for Russell.
1t was midnight before Deacon
Montgomery boarded the south-bound
train, in company with Mr.. Boeck
and his two sons, and ''your deacon"
very unwilling invalid, left behind.
WEDNESDAY. JULY "a.
To-day kept to my room and
wrote. That was about all / could
do-and that, | fear uninterestingly.
SALIDA
however, is 217 miles from Denver
on the banks of the Arkansas river.
The city was founded May Is, 1880.
Beautiful Salida, soon prosperous and
growing city, attracted the attention
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