The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-09-20
TIE EAGLES CHIEF
Writes Most Entertainingly From His
Colorado Mountain Retreat.

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo, Sept. Is.
DEAR EAGLE-Ever since that morn
ing when Scotland's first ruler, Will
walking his ramparts, was startled
raven falling at his kingly feet, pierce
with two arrows, forcing from his lip
the exclamation "Iurdockw-and 70
traditions fail to record-every sugges
ton of the chase and its excitemen
starts the pulse and eXcites the imagina
ton of all the descendants of the Clal
whose coat of arms q is crow pinned
to the death with two arrows. On on
of the hottest days Of last month, Will,
an electric fan was vainly endeavorine
to prevent the heated mercury in The
EAGLE sanctum from boiling over, it:
occupant vexed at the perverseness Of
Kansas Democrats and the blindness Of
the Alliance leaders, letter was re-
ceived from an old friend and relative
which contained the opinion that there
might possibly be one editor less if he
did not drop his faber, take up his rod
and gun and seek an altitude
where game of every description
| abounds. The missive did not fail of Its
mission. The sudden resolve no doubt
| disconnected Mrs. N. not q little, but a
few evenings thereafter found the Roost
deserted and its occupants being shunted
out across the level stretches of Western
Kansas, up through the Royal Gorge,
around the head waters of the Arkansas,
over the continental divide and down
the western slope to station on the
Denver and Rio Grande railway known
as Wollcott. A nights rest with meaere
accommodations, and the next morning
the sharp crack of whip was the signal
for an eightymile ride in Concord
coach-and four. For six mortal hours
of dust and declivity, one minute the
driver endeavoring with brake and yell
to keep the coach from utterly crushing
his wheelers, the next the leaders threat
ening to fall back on the numbering
vehicle, but at all times an overhanging
precipice upon the one hand and deep
destruction far below on the other, the
outfit numbered up and down until 3
o'clock when all were dumped out for
dinner, and but twenty miles having
been made, the sun half way down the
western slope and sixty miles more to
make. 1t was too late to think of turn
ing back, but that was just what every |
one of that dusty, tired crowd were busy |
about. Nerves unstrung, dark but four |
hours off, with range upon range rolling |
away in distant lines of dusk and light |
into unknown regions and into the night,
and Pearl and little N. NJ. NJ. wished
themselves back upon the shaded lawn
IN Oak street, back "home," the name
md spot which means so much to plod-
lerS and wanderers the world over. But
our Jehu, veritable Hank Monck of
Horace Greeley fame, who for many,
many months had made this entire trip
laily, rain or shine, mud or snow, for
the owner of the line, pulled
Up his reinS and with knowing smile,
,aily sang out Give changes more of
lorses, twelve miles an hour from this
N, then supper and bed at the end of
ixty miles" That was all. And he did
t. Sturdy bronchos on dead run with ,
lattering hoofs, screeching breaks and /
mapping whip, whistle and yell, by the :
nargins of crystal torrents, over gentle
lopes and round about the foot of many
lonesome mountain, all i'll the bright
ght of a full moon, we rolled into our ,
"on time"
The writer had hardly got rested and {
iven a little time to the wonderful 6
ecitals of the local trappers and hunters 6
this region before, through the good I
lfices of the friend aforementioned he d
as introduced to three residents who
ere going on prospecting and hunting !;
aunt up into Sierra Madre range which +
ans through southern Wyoming and e
ITO this state, and who kindly invited v
i'm TO become one OF the party, a Mr.. d
7. c. Shaw AN expert miner and hunter u
I'D Joe La Munyan, crack shot, and I
IS brother. \ few hours after the ac-
'ptance with five horses and pack mule 9
ere Off for the north. After the first @
~ wagon tracks gave place to mere .
alis which in turn disappeared and
ere lost Our party struck on the di-
ding range between Wyoming and :.
dorado, at timber line on the CONT
,ntal divide where we could in twenty
inutes drink of waters running to the
lcific or to the Atlantic respectively. p
here old mother earth humps her back
until lis rocky bristles seem to scrape
e sky. Here, surrounded by eternal s
ow fields above and below US. where in
e thunder of eager waters, in falls and -
scades, fret and storm down through W
oomy gorges. where increasing winds
IN and shrek by turns through the -
eSome frs and where mighty shad- \
IS Cypress one with impenetrable mys- hi
les. ghoStly glances and startling ech- *