The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-04-29

accepted more out of curiosity than
anything else and found an establish
ment that threw my North Carolina
bungalow entirely in the shade. He was
an excellent host ar. pressed me so hard
to remain that the creases in my trousers
could be seen for two weeks.
| was panied last week to read his
name in the reports Of the Panama affair
and car hardly believe that he is the
zcaulebong. l think.
Yestaraay l ate a tomato.
The tomato. if well made, is said to be
very tOothsuIae. but unprincipled Portu-
guese and Greasers sometimes make
them of inferior material. They are
made of chicken and hot things chopped
MP together ana rolled in a corn husk.
Then they are heated in an alcohol stovs
and Kept hot by men who sell them 10
the credulous throng.
VI zen chickens are scarce. the sea gull
is used. That was the kind ] got. | am
not enough Of an ornithologist to select
tamales. :
Designing people might make them out
of weathercocks Or other dcciduous fowls
and fool me sadly. 4 ma who is not
an ornithologis. should shru the tomato
unless he has faith and a stomach which
will not turn when trodden upon.
California has more attractions than
amy other state IN the Union. but the eli
mate was about a month later than
usual this year. and several people per-
ished from exposure. Living here is
cheap. Norkingmen can get good board
at the larg, hotels ut IS 10 SIS per day.
with coal at 81 per hod. Horse hire is
extra. Dogs are not allowed to play in
the halls or to eat at the regular table
with guests.
Monterey probably has the best hotel
III the state except Saugus. Saugus is
an eating joint where your meals are pre-
pared while You wait-while you wait
four hours for the Los Angeles train for
san Francisco.
There is nothing at Saugus hut the
eating house and a few cases of colo
under the same management. The pas
sengers i'll Il entire car. excepting a ma
from New Haven. ate lunch there and
Were poisoned by something they ate
there. Probably it was the canned vege-
tables which are used at that place and
are obtained from the east. ! judge, in
exchange for oranges and lemons.
Our Car was the scene of the widest
connection all night. and several of the
passengers were i'll for l0days afterward.
do not know how the employees at
Saugus live. Probably their meals are
brought to them from Los Angeles.
There are many pleasant hotels in
California. but when crowded, asthey are
at this season, of course they have to
work hard to please people. and they
cannot always succeed. 1t would be
well to engage rooms several weeks ahead
If the reader is coming to the coast.
never saw such a rush in search of
health in my life. 1t takes IA pretty
healthy person to go in search of his
health. often think.
The train ahead OF ours had II sleep
ing cars and 3 engines. besides the
coaches. The sleeping cars We're 50 full.
too. that il one car. filed almost entirely
by ladies, they were dressing for over $50
miles Ill the morning. One lady had to
brush her hair on the Oakland ferry.
She said that when she ON on earth
again she hopes she will be "A Chinaman.
One finds the Chinese here quite fire.
quently. They are divided by natural
lists into two c~lasses-yiz, male and fe-
male. The female Chinaman goes bare
headed. The male wears IA hat. Lately
the Chinese have been pretty busy as
.sassinating each other and thus endear-
ing themselves TO the people of San
Francisco.
Il am writing this letter at a table in
the reading room of the hotel, and a man
with .the whole arm movement is writ
ing at the other side of the table. l Judge
he learned to write on the side of a
large, heavy barn that had been secured
by mortgageorsomething, sothat it could
not move much while he was writing.
The table is already bowlegged trying to
the thread of his remarks.)
Recently l met Mr.. Hatch, the biggest
on the coast, / am told. He
TO hort about IS years ago and
was reputed to have at that time about
$40, 200, but taking me by the arm and
me out to the Cliff House, where
The sound of the breakers drowned his
voice, he admitted to me that he did not
have that much.
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