Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1898-05-11
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er's ticket in Chicago for $500 to-
Seattle. Wash. and time wasn't con-
sidered, came this way. and can say
il one wishes trip to the coast there
is no g ander scenery than this route
furnishes. Bat as to road-bed and ac
com modations | wouldn't speak favor
ably. The alkali plains OF Gambia are
a barren, desolate country, with now
and then cattle ranch owned by the
Canadian Ranch Co. The railroad
company owns twentyslx miles of land
on either side of their tracks, the govern
ment reserving every 9th section
think the only thi"g this country IS
good for would be for grazing. and the
most of it is no good for anything, with
its ponds of alkali. Saw many cattle
dead, and those which We're not looked
as if they wished they were. Saw
some antelope and wolves and it makes
one feel bad to know the grandest Of
all animals are gone-the buffalo-es-
pecially when looking at the old buff
falo paths a along the route which
have been cut in the ground two feet
deep at some places, but are now
almost filled up and sodded
over by Father Time. These
paths are very plain yet, cross
ing and recrossing, but IN an
east and west direction. Great piles OF
buffalo bones are piled up along the
track. as on other western roads. The
Knee Indians which inhabit this part
of Canada strip the horns from the old
buffalo heads, polish them aud mount
them in pairs, sometimes two pair to-
-,
the center with wolf skin. One of the
passengers bought a double set from
an old squaw for 81. II | had been
coming back | would have purchased
some of them, as they were polished
like ebony. My trunk was bonded
through from Chicago to Seattle, aud
didn't see it until | reached here
When we crossed the border and into
Canada the conductor followed out. All
open your grips for the customs off
cer." He found box of !perfecfoes in
my grip, but it just happened that a
few moments before | had opened the
box and distracted two or three of
them and this saved the balance.
When coming back into the United
States the same performance is gone
over again by Americans. One China
man was stopped by the British
officers.
The Rocky mountains of Canada are
grand, as they have on their suit of
winter beauty. A heavy snow orm
was falling while we were going over.
Immediately after crossing the Rock
les, we cross the Selkirks, said to be
the finest scenery to be found, and one
cd ha br
scenery is the only inducement for
a railroad to cross as there doesn't
seem to be anything else, the pine
timber being small and nothing worth
coming for but the grand
heights Mhsn- -Ko1nxw-oSsx-ths tbs,
large mountain engines, one at either
end and twelve coaches, around and
around the mountain side, through
tunnel after tunnel. In passing
through one of these tunnels | struck
a match and looked at my watch to as
certain how long it would take to go
through, but the match burned my
fingers and | could not tell. When
we arrived at the top of the mountain
we saw what is called the Glazier
house, something after the style of our
own High Point hotel, only not so
large, summer resort which is pat
ronized much by eastern people. This
mountain is 4,275 feet high, but the
hotel is in pocket or nest of the
mountains The snow here is six feet
deep, and in the winter it falls twelve
feet deep. The glazier ice and snow
is estimated at 500 feet deep the year
round. The sun scarcely gets to shine
| in this nest of mountains. Forests of
| small pines grow very thick on the
| mountain sides, and you see where
| great snow slides have slipped down
and swept the pine trees in its path as
| though they were weeds. To see the
top of these mountains while going
around at the bottom it is necessary to
get on your knees and look stright up.
One lady at the GlaZier house, while
stopping there, looked up at the high
est point so long it took two of her
comrades to restore her equilibrium
and one of their crowd said he didn I
believe he could see the top without
he would stand on his head. So we
assisted him. We had a jolly crowd
indeed.
This city is wide open to every
thing, Sunday and all night,
although Saturday the gamblers
paid into the city treasury S10,270 IN
fines, but they go right on, aud all
gam. thatcan be found at Monte Carlo
reign supreme here. There are are nc
pretty girls here as in our city of Rich
mond, but assure you they have a
greater variety and thousands of them,
Japs, Chinese and disreputable public
houses run by Jap women. Several
restaurants are run By Japs. There
have been awful crowds of people here
| WAITING for the Yukon river to break
up, and many have gone by the over
land route. But the town is full yet.
Many have turned back in disgust and
sold their outfits for song. | saw 8
company of young men yesterday
purchase tickets from place which
had sign out like this: A Snap
10 tickets for sale at $3.50 each
including 900 pounds of freight IL
Dawson City. Well, they bit quick a:
they were afraid they would be gone
They had just got in town and weren''
posted. | went TO another place which
represents the sane company and got
rates for $40 to Dawson City. frs'
class passage. and freight &c per hun
dred and the Sl6o tickets freight
rate was 10e per hundred.
believe the rate will go dowr
to 800 before the last of the month
There will be q great war on soon. 3:
one vessel has been launched here ana
seven more are on the way for the
Yukon trade. The first boats ont ars
the Lsekime, Perfection and Rival
The ship which sailed from New
York with the forty women OF
board is lying anchored
ont in the socnd here. The amount
1,f Goods heirr shinnaG tn the AiEnr