The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1891-08-01

lent and deserted also.
At Glendive we first see the Vel
lowstone river beautiful clear swift
stream along whose willow fringed
banks we run for more than three
hundred miles.
As we cross its branches, Powder
river, Tongue river. Rosebud river,
and Big Horn we realize that we are
not far from the battlefield where
Clusters command was slaughtered
by the Sioux in 1876 Fort Custer
is 80 miles from Custer City small
town on our line of travel. At Liv-
ingstone we cross the Yellowstone
and see it no more. 1t is the only
river in the United States, except one
in Florida, and the Monongahela,
which flows north.
Bozeman is fourishing town of
$500 inhabitants. Five years ago
the Mayor and City Council of that
place entertained the Press Associa-
ton in truly royal manner.
At Gallatin, the Madison, the JEFF
ferson and Gallatin rivers join, all
within stones throw, and form the
Missouri.
At Bozeman tunnel we are 5565
feet above sea level. Our shoes be-
gin to feel a size too small and gloves
are difficult to get on; that is the
only change noticed though some oc-
casionally swoon or burst blood
vessel owing to the lack of atmos-
pheric pressure
There is heavy tourist travel at
this time of the year. At Living
stone many changed cars for the Vel
lowstone Park and many who were
returning from that enchanted re-
gion boarded our train at this point.
A large number kept on to the Pa
cific Coast.
AT Helena | found an old friend
awaiting me accompanied by his
charming young wife who was form
erly a resident of Morgantown, w.
Va. l was soon seated with them,
behind pair of splendid horses and
in few minutes was handed out at
one of the most tasteful and hospita
BILE homes in the Prickly Pear Valley.
l have said nothing of the wonder
full region known as the Bad Lands
or "Mauvais Terre" not from forget.
fulness but because shrink from at.
tempting to describe the indescriba-
BILE.
They begin in Dakota and extend
far into Montana. They appear to
be the piledup scoriae and lava of
numberless volcanoes worn by the
action of wind and water into thous
and fantastic shapes, which loom up
far and near in gigantic outline like
the monuments of dead world. In
places, for miles, there is semblance
to the walls of fortified city with
battlements bastians and flying but
tresses thanking them and beyond the
walls one sees castles, crags, cathe-
drals, spires, domes and minarets.
Now they tower far above our heads
and anon they recede in the distance
and you see the pyramids of Egypt
before you multiplied by thousands
and again the scene and. semblance
change and you look upon hundreds
,of huge cone shaped structures re
minding one On Hottentot Kraal.
Those tremendous formations are
the conundrums Of the geologist
They are marked horizontally by
streaks of red, black, gray and all
shades of brown. The black la, err
is formed of sort of Ignite which
is very combustible but dssolves If
subjected to the action of water Pet
rifactions are found there
A trapper only few weeks ago
found the head of fish protruding
from the shale and further explor
alton revealed bugs and reptiles in
profusion. One was a flying snake
four feet in length with two legs and
evidence that there had at one time
been wings on the back. The head
was long and had bill like bird.
The Pterodactyl perhaps. Most in
teresting of all, however was hu
man skull the interior of solid rock
weighing l5 lbs. and measuring 81
inches in its largest diameter. The
forehead was heavy and the back of
the head fiat. II the fossil had not
been petrlfied | should have joyfully
concluded that it was the head of a
Pullman Porter whom some long suf |
fering passenger had murdered and
left by the wayside, but the passen-
ger is-the-one-who is usually net
rifed and not the porter.
When this black male ah(?) ap |
proaches with his little broom and |
his peremptory "brush your one
would think Dick Turpin or Claude
Duval had turned up with a brace of
pistols and roared out your money
or your life" so suddenly does every
ones hand res oh for his pocket in
way and come forth laden
with Precipitation for the foe.
Don't the Pullman Palace Car Co.
charge enough for what they furnish
the travelling public to enable them
to pay their employees reasonable
without obliging them
to levy forced tribute on those who
travel? / was told that the n. p.
run what they call Tourist Sleep
ers" in connection with their through
trains. They are said to be very
neat and comfortable and the charge
is only one-fourth that of the Pull
man tariff. Not having tried them
| am not prepared to express an
opinion of their merits except to say
if by this innovation the N. p. eman
cipates people from the Pullman
they will have conferred a
lasting blessing upon too patient
public NJ. A.Y.