Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-28

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The millionaire was mulish, and they
swung him up once, twice, three times. AT
| the third elevation he gasped surrender, and
signed check for the required amount. A
trusty man galloped off toward distant
Denver, and in few days was back with
the money to send the befooled Detroiters
home.
ScaIped Twice and Lived.
A man who survives being scalped Is q
rare phenomenon; but one of the pioneers of
Colorado went through that frightful ex-
perience twice and lived for years after.
That was a happy-go-lucky Irishman known
| as "Judge" Baldwin. He once owned the
land on which Colorado Springs now stands
| being swindled out Of it, so the story goes,
spot was scalped by the Utes in the early
days. A few years later another party of
savages on the warpath ran across the old
miner, shot him, took what was left of his
hair, and left him for dead in the mountains.
He revived, however, and got to help; and
in time fully recovered. After such won-
derful escapes, Baldwin was found one morn
ng drowned in two feet of water.
Passing the night comfortably In the
pretty Beaver Creek Canyon started early
next morning for a try at the trout. Soon,
at the top of great cliff made me drop nv
willow pole, unsling the Winchester from
my back, and sneak up the canyon in quest
of some point at which the cliff might be
scaled. Such long, breathless dance as that
little flock of big horns led me over cliff
and canyoni And fruitless one too, for
with all my caution could not get within
1000 yards of them
"A Chase After BIg-Horns.
A strange animal Is the cimmaron, big
horn, or mountain sheep as he is variously
called. Take large ram, double the size Of
his horns, plate his skull with four inches
of hardest bone, and you have an approx
nation to the big-horn. 1t would be hard
to find finer frontlets than his. Each pom
derous horn, curving three to five times
upon itself, is thick at the base as a mans
thigh, and all of one solid armor with the
head. The big-horn does not, with malice
aforethought, leap from. high cliffs and
alight upon his head, to save the tronble of
going around; but he Is sometimes forced
off or slips, sure-footed as he is, and then
that wonderful helmet stands him in good
stead. His head is the heaviest part of his
body, and he is almost sure to strike upon
it; and it seems none the worse for an in
credible fall. 1t is sight to petrify the
unaccustomed hunter when he sees Don
Cimmaron fall so feet upon ledge of rocks,
rebound into the air, alight upon his feet |
and leap away as though nothing had hap |
pened to give him so much as headache.
A Lucky Shot at Deer.
A few miles further along my long hunt |
was rewarded. A very lucky long shot |
brought down a fine black-tail deer, upon |
whose antlers were six spikes. A ranchero
who bargained to haul the carcass out to
town for me evidently concluded that the
meat was worth more to him than the stip-
ulated 81, for never saw buck or ranchero
again.
Along the roads in that part of Colorado
1 frequently came to ranches where chill
dren of 2 to years were 'staked" in front
of the house by long, strong rope, one end
of which was securely knotted under their
arms, while the other was fastened to a
stake. This seemed very funny, but was
really sensible institution to keep the
youngsters of that wild country from stray
ing under the hoofs Of the rowing cattle or
into the reach of wild beasts
Late at night, hot and dusty from a 35-
mile scramble over parks" and canpns,
pounded away at the door of the first house
in Canon City, where greasy but abund-
ant supper and board ''bcd" on the floor
beside the stove coaxed me TO dream of al
most everything except the remarkable ex-
perience the morrow had in store.
CHARLES /. LUMMIS.