The sun., 1894-12-30
4 COLORADO TOWN OF 1878.
The Atchi.on Railroad and Clay Allison.
che Desperndo, Both Cano to Trinidad
that Year.

AAhN Pail AnA
the Dr.perndo. 10th Came to Trinidad
that Year
",t, ers, oor,i,o IN Trinidad 70, In Is7an
sotd n Western civil apv,noer was over the
nar-o,v o,uos branch road from pueblo which
,vonpd ,hroyoh tho Rockv Maintain f,,o,bilIs
" ouli1 W. -, ."o - S.,. ~, -,
the terminal station, and our hack ride of fve
roi,o. % Trinidad under tho a,ors NJ n heautIful
June night was strange and picturesque. AL
along the trail the camp fires of freighters from
~, uoxio, roro hIaziro aort so,,hr.rcod
a>o" Hi'Aloo "eio uiaIHs' u ~, n , o'Oo.
figures moved or rechned as silhouettes against
dir,Iy doenod ooairs. tho larLn..a Than n, ths
uiuiiy uouneu ateins' sno .ai Ane''' M, ., 'no
end came the lights, the low, hat-r'ofed adobe
ing, gambling, and dance houses, and tinkle Of
in the mouth OF the Ration pass. the gateway Of
Nav, Nax,co
THE hotel was crowded with railroad men.
for the Atchlson road was building into Trini-
dad from La Junta on the Arkansas River, and
the work OF grading had been carried beyond
the town up the pass as far as the Ration summit,
where the tuhnel hah Already neen begun. be-
yond the prevailing theme OF the coming rail-
-, -. 80 .,st, ,.,,,. 10, IT., g. u
.nere ".re ,, ."o - s.ooA '1ps' 1p s. "n w ~, ~ gu
mutation OF names by which the river got its
."I ..i.t-''o'- o- 80 n,N,'.', ,',,,,- - 10
strange hauie' fcket"He. orisinahy chrlsteheu
bv the Mcxicans with the poeticai name Rio de
L,s nimaa river of soulsl IL receiyed tbe title
-. - -. - I,e.L ., 80.
furgatoire from the french uaders anu trap
pers, who. early in the present century, found
their yav Westward from st. Iouis This mama
nuain i'm the mouths OF the Missouri bullwhack-
era OF The wagon trains that came over the
santa "a trail was corruutei into pick ct wire at
which IL hnh since remained
"'rhc seconI and most Fascinating theme was
the dninrs ~ The New Mexico des6erado CLAW
Ailisnn who f,r seyerai wears mast had besn
mnEinU n great deaI Of history between Cimar-
ron and Las Animas He often visited trinidad
at that Ueriod his --latest ex ploit having been TO
cross the Ration range and tnke without reoui-
sitinn nv force of arIoa a nrisnner from IN.
trinidad jail carry him owe. the line into New
Mexico and lodge tim in the Iail M Cimarron
His Killing OF the CITY Marshal AT Las MIN al
OF CHUNK. the drsparedo frou the Indian Terri.
tury whom ne sIoi scross- Ihe dinner table at
Red River Stage station and of Pnncho the
Mexican in ISmtert's barroom at C'imarron
were ali occurrences toe recent 10 have lost thelr
novelty In narratior.
As An assistant engineer I was detailed to
some worx on the railroad grade near the sum
mit az the Ration Pass and I remember the stir
and Interest that attended the renort which
travelled along the line one day that he had gone
down the toll road that Afternoon on his way 10
TrinIdaii
He was riding a mule and had six reyolyers
along said INV irformant and went ON to tell
how the weapons were disposed ABOUT his person
and the saddle. Then he fold me about iiison'a
shooting of tie CITY Marshal at La, Animas A
wear or two before Las Animas then a t.rmi-
nal station of the Atchison road WA. the shin
ping point for southern Colorado and New Mex.