The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-03-26

III, E44 .4t.-r $3.50, r.aNa 49, ..!il cured
up ri tie tai like nas,ltrtium.
lint / could tsA Yen something quite
odd about the country ut Colorado
Springs" lie aided. You will not now
tice it at first. Dut at lahst OF begin to
aowtice that the air is so thin and SO rare
ana pure that one is often deceived il
distances.
"Once there was Il fellow ont there-if
l am not taxing up your time-a fellow
who started TO ride We allowed him
to tell it, for he enjoyed it. and he told it
very well. but when we got the cue to
laugh great hot tears as large as buckle
berries stood in Burbank's eyes, and he
went to bed with "a hot water cloth on
his head.
Laramie City is II good town also. 1t
Ii n of the two cities of the new state.
Henry V. s.. Groesbeck. who succeeded
me on the woolsack as justice of the
peace there. is now chief Justice of the
state. This should be a lesson to the
boys of America and teach them to keep
their eyes on ne. l met Judge Groes-
beck, and he told me that a prolonged
effort to make head or tail out of INV
docket had fitted him for chief justice of
the state.
Judge Groesbeck was succeeded by
DR.. Hayford. who wires me today that
his thirteenth child has just registered at
his house and secured rooms.
Edward ~Ivinson. with whom | used to
do my banking while | was running The
vln.,,,n,,,,. I.,. -. - A.
which has made him IA wealthy retired
banker who goes to the Holy Land every
year and can tell you all about the earth
world or globe which We inhabit. and of
what parts it is compassionate, land
and water.
None of his cashiers ever went to Can
ada. That was understood when the
cashier was hired.
Colonel William Horatio Roat is now
a connoisseur and buyer of rare wild
animals in a live state. He does not aim
to be literary, but he has the faculty of
conversing freely and writing letters
with ideas in them. and he doesit with
out the use of a compendium. He had
gone with a carload Of live elk when !
was there, but he buys everything in
the heavens above or the earth beneath
or the waters under the earth. He will
fill an order for anything from a prairie
dog to the grizzly bear. and would be
glad if some little hoy who wishes to
the business would accept a po-
sition as caretaker of a grownup bear.
The las: boy was perfectly satisfactory,
but according to the contract he will
have to be shipped inside another bear
just sold to Fairmount park.
James Milton Sherrod is still on hand.
a neatly dressed squaw man. whose face,
us the California editor said of James
Whitcomb Riley. one has to become
gently a~ccliinated to. He has n queer
habit while engaged in deep thought or
conversation of rolling "A small ball Of
wagon wheel tar between his thumb and
forefinger. Many a time he has been en-
gagged in conversation with me. say at
the university or the p~euitcntiary. aud
he would halt. look wildly about. tears
would fill ins great o agate eyes. and
he would say: Excuse me a moment: |
want to step over to town and get a new
piece of tar. can't riccolect when I'm
o tar. Tar is my inspiration. under
| can't coat Scripter. | can't
reconcile. I'm like a cow that's lost her
cud. | amt with a d."
He was the first to greet me when !
landed in Laramie years and years age
and tell me that Laramie was the only
that had a particle of prospects or
progress or pop or gitup.
'Sle never he'd IA boom. She Jest
moves stiddy right along. Ever now
and then she strikes IA new mine rich
with all kinds of things in her. That
gives confidence to the merchants, and
that's the time | buy my supplies on
understand: Then when the cold
wynd is enguirin round to find
who has let his wife work his extra
winter wear up into rag carpet l can eat
sleep content.
when a mine is struck and the paper
1t lp with editorial at
30 much ham per comment, | take advice
If my better judgment. and during the
mercantile Rainbow | purchase"
Then he told Inc that Laramie was very
lealthful and said that never had she
a boom: that the wind wouldn't
dow down a s%tovepipe. which | suppose
vas because it didn't have TO.