The herald., 1894-10-01

Tour OF us explored Palm cafion, which
Is l25 miles east Of this city. It is
deep and awfully grand canon nine
miles long; the mouth of the northern
end of it opens out OF to a beautiful
little plateau OF about Thousand acres
owned by an old Ohio friend OF mine.
He calls it Garden OF Eden and claims
wonderful sanitary conditions for it.
There is also remnant of band of Mis-
aion Indians here, who own o portion OF
this land-one OF them Ito years old, it ia
claimed. This plateau is hedged in by
lofty mountains. Mt. San Jacinto,
which is IL 900 feet above the sea level,
protects it ON the west, and on the east
5000 footer stands guard. In this wild
csfion are to be found majestic palms,
some OF them rs feet in height and meas
uring fully feet round the trunks,
standing there in their primitive loves
illness and grandeur. There are about
1000 OF tneee wonderful trees. for trees
they are to all intents aud purposes. 1t
is time honored custom among this
tribe that when one of their mum ber
dies to burn one OF these palms down.
We saw many evidences of their efforts
to kill. They go terribly mar and de-
face it that it is no longer thing of
DeAuty ana Joy forever.
This wild, weird cafion ia a good hunt
ing ground mountain sheep are numer-
oue here: mountain lions, coyotea, wild
cata and sn occasional grizzly are also to
be seen here. We were glad to retrace
our steps and rea ch the mouth of the
canon just at dark, where our teams
weIe waiting for us, and drove to a little
cottage in the garden of Eden, where
lives an old woman, Mrs. Weed, her
con and grandson. and where we found
awaiting us as fine a.suppsr-dinner
New Workers would call it-as / have
eaten in many day, including fine
roast turkey gobbler, which the little
grandson raised on the ranch and called
it Dewitt Talmsge. He has others in
his flock called after noted men; one he
names Henry Ward Beecher. Mrs.
Weed came out here from Lake county.
Ohio, to save the lie of her son
and little grandson. Both had been
given up to die of consumption. all the
rest of her family having died of this
dread dieeass. Ths son weighed l20
pounds and could barely walk when he
arrived here; when l cav him his weight
was 235 pounds and the very picture of
health. He assured me that he had not
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nothing but hickory shirt and trouserB.
not even q wsistcoat, | think. This
noble woman, who has thus isolated her.
self for the sake of saving the lives of
thosB dear to her, deserves to be honored
by every man and woman who prefers
the noble to the ignobe, the true to the
false, the grand and good to the degrad-
ing and vile
After good nights sleep in the cot
tage OF the owner, Mr.. B. B. Barney Of
Riverside, Gal, and hearty breakfast
next morning with our hostesa. We
were driven to Palm Spring station,
which is eight miles distant and at the
west end of the great Colorado desert.
where we took the overland train on
the Southern Pacific to this city. Right
on the edge of the desert are the Palm
hot springs, where there is comfort
able little hotel kept by DR.. Murray,
who is proprietor of both hotel and
springs, and who at one time was a
clerk in A. 7. Stewards great dry goods
store in New York. TO hear him tell
OF the virtue of hia spring water would
be worth trip across the continent.
forgot to gay that the candidate
nominated against Mr.. Patton in this
district-the Republican csndidate-is
Mr.. McLachlan, who comes from Ithaca,
N. Y, where he also took an active
part in politics. Each accuses the other
OF being in the interest OF the railroads.