Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-02-26
at some wonderfully beautiful view,

w." \ONy OO"Js :" ~
simply grand. and can imagine how the
children of Israel had pictured the pro-
missed land. The weather still continued
stormy, but the landscape had changed.
We found we were on time and reached
Los Angeles at 3 o'clock. Monday it
rained all day and I did not venture out
of the house, but I could sit by the win
dow and see moving palms, pepper trees
in bloom, beautiful cypress hedges, long
lanes of Gala lilies in full bloom, stand |
ing two and one-half feet high, and great
variety of Towering trees and shrubs,
geraniums in full blossoms, two large
locust trees with the fruit just taking
the place of the blossoms, stand in front
of the house while in the yard at the
rear of the house, we're peach, pear,
plum, apricot, fig, lemon and orange
trees, yes and a banana tree, with
roses, pampas grass, etc.-the lemon tree
has everything from buds to ripe lemons.
1t looks so strange to sec buds, bios
SONS, little lemons of all sizes and ripe
ones on the same tree. The most beauti-
full sight of all to me was the orange
groves with their rich, dark green vel
vety foliage garnishing an immense load
of beautiful yellow oranges, hundreds
Yes, thousands of the trees we're so
heavily loaded with fruit that the limbs
were propped up by sometimes a dozen
props to a tree. This was my first view
of an orange grove and would have been
grand at any time, but coming SO sud
denly and in contrast with the Arizona
desert that it was rendered duubly
grand, even sublimely beautiful. How
we shall like the country on longer &C.
quaintance 1 am not prepared to say.
The rainy season is in full blast and may
last a month.
1 have found a number of old St. Paul
friends here and several North Dakotans.
Tuesday morning after our arrival while
looking at the various beautiful things
in the yard, although the weather was
still cloudy, it suddenly seemed to break
away and grow lighter. looked to the
east expecting to see the sun breaking
through the clouds, but instead of the
sun, | saw the light of Co.. Thompson's
kindly face coming up the walk from the
street car. He had come down from
Tacoma anu knowing that I was ex-
pected to be here 1901 had hunted us
up. His dear old face was like an in
SEPARATION and we have enjoyed his SO.
ciety more or less every day since. Yes
terday was quite pleasant and l thought
L would do down town and visit him.
We walked over to the 'Hollembaek' to
see if there was any new arrivals and
found another pleasant surprise in store.
Col. Lounsberry had arrived that morn
ing and we unceremoniously marched in
upon him and demanded an uncondi-
tlonal surrender. Last evening he came
down and spent several hours with us,
leaving to-day for New Mexico. He is
coming back here in a few weeks, prob
ably about the time we go north. Capts.
Griggs and Mccormack are here, al
though l have not seen them yet. Major
Woods and family are here, having come
down from San Luis Obispo over a year
ago. He has brothers living there and
he and his family have been in Cali.
fornia over three years. Doc Langdon
of Mandan and Senator Fisher
of Casselton are also here.
I presume I will find more who are we'll
known to me as soon as I am able to get
about. DR.. Hagan proposes to drive me
over the country as oon as the weather
clears up-having just arrived and kept
housed l have seen comparatively moth
ing as yet, but 1 get the impression from
what l have seen that the people here
are decidedly cosmopolitan-everything
from everywhere-a grouping together
of all countries and classes, with appear
ance and habits especially their own,
while the transients are gathered in
from all over the whole country, and
there seems to be no established rule as
to dress, each brings the proper or i'm
proper style, as the case may be, from
their W locality and the street pre-.
sents a moving mass of humanity OF all
shades of color, size and style> with
nothing in common outside save the APP
pearance of sex and that from a casual
observation might fail on a more critical
examination. The great diversity of
fruits and flowers does not surpass (only
in beauty and fragrance) the great d.
versity of humanity. Everything here
is p~aradoxical. The country is on both
a big and little scale-the people the
same; big mountains; rich valleys; i'm
mouse trees; geraniums and callas of
immense size; but five acres is a ranch.
Oh, my, and the people, vast wealth and
grinding poverty. They say they have
a lovely climate hero, and we see it at
it's worst during the rains. I presume
that it is so, but I am inclined to think
that the climate of this Pacific coast