The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-04-08

"uSi az ~io15n You ulG. lAUre are
mice III the kitchen"
Speaking Of the rat. the mouse and the
cat, we have been told for Is years that
eats cannot live at Leadville owing to
the rareted air which fcr the heart $
action aud finally affects the brain. re-
srlting il one OF the most horrible of
deaths. The death of a cat brought TO
Leadvllle has always been regarded bv
eastern people rs one of the saddest sights
to be seen.
inquired a good deal while there re-
gardins this matter and found that the
cat does live at Leadville, and in private
houses many Of them are as happy and
well as elsewhere. But there are no
rats" said my informant. I'VE have
,nica hnt no rats"
mat evening at the theater a large
boy rat came into my dressing room and
ate a cake of soap while l was dressing.
Cats, it Is said, cannot live at the top
OF Pixies peak. Possibly they cannot.
Neither can anything else. Speakers and
singers experience great difficulty at both
Aspen and Leadville on account of the
hypercillmatic conditions there. They
gasp and become giddy, and sometimes
inconsistencies follows.
Dr. Dugan was once in the audience
when 1t was suddenly discovered that
the queen of the ballet had become IN
conscious i'll her undressing room. He
was uinmoned. Around him he found
~ or more danseuses ready to faint and
about the head of the ballet.
who lay there gasping in her rich pen
wiper costume. He looked at her a mo-
ment, as the physician might have done
80 years ago when he told the mother it
was a girl. Then he called for a bucket
OF water. and in a moment life and health
returned to all the dancers. They were
real well and glad to go on with their
work.
The dress Of premier danseuse often
'osts thousands of dollars, but is more
for a house dress than ANYTHING
Use. 1t would be a poor costume to use
n climbing Pixies peak.
In 1858 an avalanche came down the
Mountains, filling the valley with snow
mo- improved farm property as far as
main entrance of the Hotel Jerome.
MI that saved Aspen was that she was
lot present at the time. Aspen is a beau G
i1ul city b the air is SO rarefied that u
tenderfoot gasps like a dying sucker 7
n the grassy bank. a
Canyon City is also romanticallv situ. S
ted at the entrance to Grand CANYON. D
has everything that heart could wish Y
more tourists. Hot and cold O
brings, with or without mineral in them. q
ready for the invalid who Graves a n
ew kind OF water to sozzle in. a
There is n spring which was famous a
II ITS healing powers centuries ago, and IL
lie Indians came from all over North a
merlca to battle in it and show off their o.
aw clothes. g
The proprietor wishes me I o say that u
nee then the springs have been entirely p'
htted with fresh towels, combs, brushes al
I'd soap. The change is noticeable and n
| cannot do justice to the Royal gorge,
hlch is near Canyon City and named =;
ter the lunch counter at Omaha. Nv -
n falters. "a
quote from a livery stable man of ~
lnyon City: -
The Royal gorge. Whatever there il ~,
the grand canyons to surpass the other H.
nyons OF the Rocky mountains, what No
er there is to put the Swiss Via Mala' T..
the shade. is found in the first five h.
les that lie west of Canyon City. Here 10,
the cliffs are vertical and where 40,
OF sunlight never enter. This abys.
Il chasm ranks with Niagara and the