The morning news., 1894-09-03
He Tipped over a Mountain.

Capt. Taylor of Wyoming, eh?" asked a
reporter for the Detroit free Press.
Il. Is the Capt. Taylor who ran for the leg.
lsIature three or four years ago:'
The same man"
'ALd got defeated because he tipped over a
mountain out there )mewhere:"
just the same"
CAPTAIN, there was a story. of some sort
about you and mountain. Give me enough
TO make page for the Free Press
1T won't be as long as that, out I'll tell you
all a. out it, laughed the captain as he
settled down on the cushion OF smoker on
the Mlcu1gan Central road the other cay.
Having lighted fresh cigar and thought
fully stroked his nose for moment he con
tinued:
You don't know where Toms mountain is.
OF course, and so will tell you that it is due
south of the town of Rawllns, on the Union
Pacific road, and only about twenty miles
away. Used to be lots of game UP there for
1t s pretty fair chunk of a mountain and
well covered with timCer. Five years ago A
party OF us went up there on hunt and tt
was then the incident happened you have
probably heard Of. We had a camp about a
mile from the south end of the mountain
Between the camp and the end l one day
came upon great crack or tissure. 1t was a
mile long from foot to three feet wide and
from ten to 10J feet deep 1t was as il the
south end of the mountain had sagged down
and trying to pull away from the other
portion"
"I've got your fissure captain"
All right Al olt the middle Of the noun
tain, where the assure was widest, il was
hIled with Ice TO within five feet of the sur
face. dropped down on the Ice and found it
as hard as iron and rs cold as miSers heart
II may nave been there for thousand years
for all l know"
Remains of the glacial epoch" " sagely OBJ
served the man with the note book.
Now, then. why should go and make
fool OF myself about that fssure is beyond nv
reasoning, but l went into it with my ewes
wide open l suddenly felt tender toward
that ice, which hadn been thawed for so
change OF feelings. There was heaps of dry
wood about and I spent an hour tumbling
stun into that hsSUre. caves, brush, limbs
roots and logS-everyth thing went. When the
fire got under headway there was great fry
ing and sizzling down IN the cold lecesses. I
got tired OF the fun after while and went
back to camp. That night atout midnight
Toms mountain shook herself three or four
times as II she had chill. Next morning we
went out to the hsSure, TO find ourselves look
ing down precipice. Tue whole south end
OF the mountain had en- side" D"
Your bon ire did the biz, eh:"
We'll that whers | differ with the infer
nal opposition. II hey said t melted the Ice
and brought aoout the avalanche ana that
only fool would have started the fire. l got
four biologists to swear tnat II made no diff
ference, but when election day came L wasn't
half elected. The papers said that man
who fool with mountain million years
old wouldn't hesitate to sell his influence to
any corporation which wanted to dam a river
discovered only l0J e lrs ago"
Did the avalanche do any great harm
captain"
oh no 1t was the principle Of the thing
they loo ked at. A hundred million wagon
loads OF earth ana rock hlled up VALLEY six
niles long by three wide, and the cd OF st.
Nraim S river was carried seven miles south
and given sixteen new crooks, but no dam
age was done