The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-03-19

Springs" he said. .'You will not now
nowtice that the air is so thin and SO rare
and pure that one is often deceived In
distances
"Once there was fellow out there-if l
an not taking up your time-a fellow who
started to ride We allowed him to tell
Il. for he enjoyed it, and he told it very
well. but when We got the cue to laugh
great hot tears as large as huckleberries
stood in Burbank's eyes. and he went TO
bed with = hot water cloth on his head.
Laramie City is a good town also. 1t Is
one of the two cities OF the new state.
Henry V. s. G-oesbeck, who succeeded me
on the woolsack as justice OF the peace
there. is now chief Justice of the state.
This should be lesson TO the boys OF
America and teach them to keep their
eyes on me- I met Judge Groesbeck, and
he told me that prolonged effort 10 make
head or tail out of my docket had fitted
him for chief justice of the state.
Judge 9roesbeck was succeeded by DR..
Hayford. who wires me today that his
thirteenth child has just registered at ms
house ard secured rooms.
Edward Ivinson, with whom l used to
do my banking whsle l was running the
Boomeraag, secured an impetus then which
has maize him a 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
Il Is composed, viz, land and water.
None Of his cashiers ever went to Canada.
That was understood when the cashier was
hired.
Col. William Horatio Root is now a
connoisseur and buyer Of rare wild animals
in live state. He does not aim to be
literary, but he has the faculty of convers-
ing freely and writing letters with ideas
in them. and he does it without the use Of
. compendium. He had gone with car
load 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 tor anything
from prairie dog to the grizzly bear. and
would be glad if some little boy who
wishes to know the business would accept
. position a. caretaker of a grownup bear.
The last boy was perfectly satisfactory,
bu: according 20 the contract he will have
to be shipped inside another bear just sold
to Paramount park.
James Milton Sherrod is still on hand, a
neatly dressed squaw man, whose face as
tho California editor said of James Whit
COMB Riley, one has to become gently ac-
climated to. He has queer habit while
engaged In deep thought or conversation
of rolling a small bali of wagon wheel tar
between his thumb and forefinger Many
. time he has been engaged in converse
ton with me, say at the university or the
peuitentiary, and he would halt, look
wildly about, tears would fill his great
mess agate eyes. and he would say: "Ex-
cuse me a moment; l want to step over to
town and get new piece of tar. | can't
riecolect when Pm out o. tar. Tar is my
inspiration, understand? l can't coat
Scripter. l can't reconcile. I'm like a
COW that's lost her cud. 1 amt with
f."
He was the first TO greet me when
landed in Laramie years and years ago and
tell me that Laramie was the only town
that had particle of prospects or progress
or pop or gitup.
'.She never he'd boom. She jest moves
etidcy right along. Ever now and then
she strikes a new mine, rich with all kinds
OF things in her. That gives confidence to
the merchants, and that's the time l buy
my supplies on credit. understand? Then
when the cold winter wynd is enquIrin
round to find who has let his wife work
his extra winter wear up INTO rag carpet
can eat and sleep content.
"When a mine is struck and the paper
follers it up with editorial comment at so
much ham per comment, take advice of
my better judgment, and during the mer-
camille rainbow purchase"
Then he told me that Laramie was very
healthtul and said that never had she had
boom; tina. the wind ouldn't blow down
stovepipe. which | suppose was because
1t didn't have TO.
He also said that you'd be awfully fooled
on distances here. the air was "pyore "
"0nce there was a felier out hyrr--if
don't tress-pass on your time" etc.
That was seventeen years ago. | saw
him the other day by the merest accident.
His hair has grown gray. and Nance. his