Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1899-09-16

FROM Evanston i went TO OROeQ,
Utah, town of 10000 Inhabitants,
Is, 900 Mormons and 5000 Gentiles.
Ogden is beautiful city and, to my
surprise, 1 found the Mormons to be
a fine class of people, intelligent, re-
fined, and Industrious. A Mormon
told me that they believed in polyga-
my, but that there was a law against
it, and that they were law-abiding
citizens. No plurality of wives exists
that stranger can discern. The
MOrmOnS have an enormous temple
and an academy here. The Catholics
have a large academy, and the Meth
odistS have a fine building. There
seems to be about four girls to where
there is one boy in Ogden, but in
the other mountain town the reverse
exists. All kinds of vegetables and
fruits are raised near here and are
sold at prices much lower than at the
surrounding towns. You very seldom
hear % or 80 cents mentioned west of
Denver; it is always two, four or six
bits. or a long or d short bit; bit is
124 cents, a short bit 10 cents and a
long bit 10 cents. A lady asked for
short bits worth of salt at a grocery
the other day and when she departed
1 asked the grocer what short bit
was. One cent pieces are seldom seen
through these states, if you buy
postal card and hand them nickel
you have to take postage stamps for
change. The grocerS out west don't
think of selling any notion for less
than 10 cents.
From Ogden 1 journeYed north
through Idaho. 1 could see nothing
worthy of mention here except thous-
ands of acres of uninhabited sage
brush land, and large lake in the
northeastern part where duck hunt
ing is very good. Lake Pend d'Oreille
located in northern Idaho, by the city
Of Hope, on the Northern Pacific
Railroad Is body of water covering
about 1000 acres of land and is a good
place for hunting and fishing. In
Montana 1 found a very diSagreeable
climate, rough country and second
class towns. l was in Montana on
August, 81, and saw it snow till the
ground was all white, the snow did
not melt off the hills there for two
DAYS afterward; in the valleys of Mon
tana they raise great deal of timothy
and few acres of oats and wheat.
Their harvest won't commence until
the last of September; in the noun
tainS thousands of sheep are graZed,
large herds of horses and few bun
ches of cattle; sheep and cattle are
worth good price, but horses are
very cheap. 1 saw five head of range
horses sell for $500. The city of
Butte, Montana, is the largest mining
near $4,000 people, generally of reck-
less nature. An eastern person visit
ing Butte would naturally form an
opinion that missionaries instead of
crossing the waters and going to China
could employ their time very profit
ably in the United States: they have
probably diSremembered that charity
begins at home, L believe that L am
safe in saying that there are thouS-
ands of dollars spent in the Butte sa-
Icons every night. They have saloon
tneaters in which young women form
the principal part and they sing and
perform until an early hour in the
morning, there is generally a crowd
Of over 200 in each Jheater at once
and they are coming and going all the
time. The programme is free but
each patron is supposed TO patronize
the bar, which some of them patron
ize too freely and get too feeling quite
happy. Gold. Silver and Copper are
mined here, some of the mines being
over 1000 feet deep. L was on an ele-
Walton of 1000 feet above sea level in
Walkerville, Montana. L find that
the higher the elevation the cooler
the climate is. From Butte / came
to Spokane Washington. Spokane is a
city of about 46, 900 inhabitants, a very
nice town and located in a fine Gil
mate.
Harvest has just started in this
state, the crops being somewhat dam
aged by too much rain. 1 have de-
cided that it is better to dry out than
drown out. / have seen it rain every
day for nine days and surely thought
OF sunny Kansas and how pleasant the
sunshine was. 1 tind wherever L go
that meet people who are dissatis-
fed with the country they live in it is
either too wet, too dry, SHOWS in the
summer, his crops freeze out or his