Kansas City daily journal., 1896-11-16
COMMUNICATIONS.

wards congressman from Kansas, and lat
or attorney for the Cherokee Indians, used
an army &c 4o0 uavalrymen in an attempt
to turn an immense herd OF buffaloes. This
was in October. 1863.
For hours these huge creatures gal;uped
across thg road and stopped the march OF
the army. Eight-pOund howitzers were
brought into action and the buffalGs Swere
CannOnaded with grape and canister for
some time 10 10 purpose or effect except
TO slaughter great numbers Of the poor
brutes. They could not be DETECTED from
their chosen line Of march.
Let US sit by n window OF Pullman
| and 1 viii show ycu few points Of inter
est. by the way.
or to the north about two miIes-on the
other size of the Arkansas riycr-dO you
see what appears to he "A town OF adobe
hOuses2 That is old Fort Lyon-now aban-
doued and left to the prairie dogs. owls.
rattlcsnakes and coyotes. DO you SEQ that
large building at this end Of the group Of
adobcs? That was department headquart-
crs You may distinguish IT by that tall
flagstaff in front Of IT. In that building
died Brgadier General Kit Carson-thr ia
nous hunter, guide and Indian fghter-oH
"A bright May day in 1861. i few minutes
before his death he planned a trou:-fishiuE
trip for the next day, and then sat talkir &
TO Alloys Schcurich. now of Taos, " NJ,
when blood vessel rTptured in his throat
AID he died IN his chair few minutes
later.
The next April-some eleven months later
his body was hauled on an OK wagon
! from Fort Lyou to Taos. ~ distance OF
nearly 80 miles, and buried there where
| Il yet remains.
Fort Lyon IS six miles northeast OF Las
Aumas Here is the mouth of the river
with lour names-Rio dc Las Auimas. Pur-
Patoirc rureatory and Picket Wire. on
"a the EoJhwcst-up this stroam-abUut
twelve miles. are the 80 acres OF land
/ that the United States government gave
! Kit Carson for his services in guiding Cen
eral Fremont across the continent in Isfi
, Thes" acres now constitute fine stock
ranch which is occupied by my cousin.
John Kellogg. This ranch IS some eight
miles nearly south Of the town OF Las
AHmas
We now approach the town of Ia Junta-
DO y0I sec that road leading across the
rra.rlay once ] was staying all night here
wirh Il cousin, Alexander Hickman. deputy
sheriff and jaiicr. About o'clock in tho
morning I heard A wagon going out that
road 20 a brcakneck speed. Presently a
man called oGt to Hickman: say, wake
up, I'm ore Of them shOwman what give
tho balloon ascension last night. and some
cowboys has stole my balloon ana lit out
i want EoG 80 20 after them"
$Dw He are ont on no Mesa between la
Jguta ana Trinidad Nearly due north OF
ug sou may discern the top or Gray's Peak,
lG5 miles distant To the lrrt Of - is Longs
F'@k Apparently tn the foreground IS
Pike's Peak. eighty miles as the crow
nl.a Nearly du. vest of ils and Igr miles
distant are tho throe noun taing Harvard.
Yale and Princeton. which are from
twenty-five 70 thirty miles FOuthwest OF
T I<aHsiIl". Southwest Of IIs about eighty or
ninety miles arc tho three Spanish peaks
They loom up beautifully. ! have looked
on th.n F-0roz Df times. but they are as-
Ways g10y-caTpeG and always beautiful
ana interesting.
Look ont on the plain AZ that herd of
c1-tle. What eauscs such = romTnotlonr .
All heads and horns are turned in one di-
E r-.-rton. 10 attention f. given TO the
. passing train. Now We may SEQ. II ls a
coyote trying TO catch calf fgr his din
{ n"r.
] Now yyn cross tho divide That separates
thc waters of the Arkansas from those of
-he Rio Ie Las Anmas. We descend into
! the valley % the latter stream and reach
i the oil town Of II No-"-the csztlc- four
! miles east ~ Trinidad. Why was this town
/ go named Look cf - the south twca-y
. mIl.z-it seems but for- or nvc.-I0 you
. see that rurun'afn Of p rular shape That
is now called Mount Fisher. The old