Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-07-26

Amerlca SO TAR as tnelr census IL concerned
There are dogs Of all ages. all sizes, all breeds
and ours Of all degrees The streets are full
OF them and when you see a front yard. and
nearly every residence in Denver possesses
one, 1t is sure thing that "dawg"i is in 1t. and
the odds are equally as great that there will be
q m ate In the back yard We're the dog laws
here carried out as strictly as they are in east
ern cities the dog tax would almost equal the
revenues from real estate. for the statutes re-
qulre dog owners to pay 50 a year for each
male pup and IS for each female, but the law
svirtuailya dead letter. Unlike the scav-
quadrupeds OF Denver are notable for the vast
number OF arfstocrats among them. Fine set
tiers and spaniels that make q sportsman feel
wickediy covetous meet one on every street,
and venture to say there are more grey
hounds in Arapahoe county than in any other
county In the world 1.-the, slender, sharp
muzzled creatures, keen-eyed, graceful and
fleet az the antelope, trot unconcernedly along
AS you pause and admire their beauty and
realize that beneath the sleek coat there is
more endurance and power and unfaltering
determination than there is in all the rest OF
canine aristocracy put together. There ia q
reason for their existence in such numbers and
that reason has four legs. pair of ears that
are predominant, an apology for a caudai ex-
tremity, and vast amount of sprlnting power
concealed about its person.
coURsINa THE JACK RABBIT.
Coursing is quiet pastime in Colorado, and
to see jack rabbit scudding over the prairie
with four or five eager greyhounds in his rear
is a sight to be remembered l remember once
OF reading description Of the speed shown by
Texas jack rabbit who had been accus-
toned to having fun with common ours and
who one day found himself in front of an ener-
getic greyhound. When the jack rabbit fully
realized that miserable dog was at last catch
ing up with him he hitcbed himself together
and began to run in earnest and he went so fast
that he gave the spectators the optical deIusion
of a streak of jack rabbit a mile and half
long. Tho writer may have exaggerated a
little, but on Sunday last / went down to a
rancho about twelve miles east of town and saw
three magnificent hounds chase black-tailed
jack. 1t would have dislocated the internal
mechanism of Jorgensen stop-watch to have
caught the time that quartet made, and. Of
course. my Waterbury was not in 1t at all. The
jack succeeded in escapisg his pursuers and it
was laughable to sec the mouse-colored trio
when they returned. They seemed utterly
crestfallen and looked at each other as much as
to say: Its your fault you knock kneed, bow
legged, bone-spavined lump Of senility You
couldn't catch hearse much less q jack rabbit
You want to go TO the pound and enter into the
composition of fertilizer" There is no doubt
they thought something like that. for there's a
good deal Of the human in q dogs nature after
ALL
wAsH1NaToNIANs IN THE QUEEN CITY.
Coming up 10th street yesterday met young
Sam Foot. who ia out here with the irrigation
end OF Maj. Powell's survey. He is located at
Colorado Springs for the summer.
The world is mighty small place nowadays
II we measure it by the people we meet or
course Denver IS made up of people from all
over America, and the Washington contingent
here is large and rapidly increasing. In my
last mentioned some of them, and every day
run up against more. They are in the local
government as well as in private enterprises
Billy kiskadden, who was a clerk in Cats Jew
elry store several years ago, has very pleas
ant position. He is chief clerk of the city
clerks Office and holds down his place with
grace and dignity. just across the corridor
from him in the city hall ia Alvin II. Pickens
who was once a captain of the pages in the
House of Representatives and whom all news
paper men and old Congressman will remember
for his obliging courtesy. Mr.. Pickens is pri-
vate secretary to his honor Mayor Londoner
Henry Himber, formerly one Of the most
prominent contractors under the board of pub
lie works, is the inspector of sewers and has
amassed more than a competency since he be-
gan his career in Denver.
Joe Grady, who was with Saks & Company for
80 long, is also here. He ID manager of the May
Shoe and Clothing Emporium, where a man
can get anything from collar to a seal skin
overcoat, and is greatly pleased with the CITY.
Camille Solari reached here with his family
last week and will probably open a resort simi-
lar to that which bore his name in Washington.
He Is suffering from a severe attack of govt
Another old Washingtonian who will be re-
membered by the gourmets of the capital is
also in Denver. Broche, the Frenchman, who
once presided over the kitchen at the White
House and afterward was in business for him.
self on e street. below the National Theater, is
the chef of the Denver Club and tickles the
palates Of the millionsires who compose 1t with
many wonderful creations. He finds 1t more
congeniai where he is than it was when he was
serving Mrs. Langtry with the delicacies Of the
season in New York.
George and Martin Downs who were 'sIsland"
boys, are in business on 10th street, and Hugh
Mohan. the cosmopolite, stump speaker and
general all round hustler, whom nearly every
man in public life knows dropped into the city
several days ago and will remain.
Mrs. B. A Owens, with her daughters Mary
and Mamie, and her two young sons, Robbie
and Herbert, have made Denver their per-
manent home.
In fact Denver is getting to be a suburb Of
Washington, its only drawback being that it is
too confounded far away. As Sam Foot said to
me in strict confidence:
IF it came to a steady thing I'd sooner be a
wood shed in Washington than a brown-stone
front anywhere else.' &C.