, 1903-02-12
THURSDAY, FEB. IL, l90s.
u. p. Trains at WalcOtt-
WEST.
EAST.
Editorial Correspondence.


1AS gS'eNsf hN' 10 VI ~
in hand, adjourned Thursday even
ing until 10 O'Clock Monday morning.
The House has still been grinding
away, industriously and painstak-
ingly wading through a mass of bills
of more or less-principally less i'm.
portance.
Judge Rowen's bill for the estab-
lishment of a branch fish hatchery,
passed the House yesterday and, by
the time this letter appears in print,
its fate will have been decided in the
Senate. The bill, which appropri-
ates 5000, it quite SURE to become
a law.
The bill to remove the Soldiers
Home to Buffalo passed the House
last week with only two negative
votes. 1t is now being considered in
the Senate and will pass hat body
by a narrow margin. No measure
introduced in either branch Of the
Legislature has stirred up so much
feeling as this bill. There is much
to be said on both sides of the ques-
ton. The state already has comfort
able quarters for the old soldiers
here, and they are being cared for in
a most satisfactory and inexpensive
manner They are on one of the
great traDs-continental highways,
among friends and pleasant sur
roundings. They are old and set in
their ways, perfectly at home here
and, almost to a man, opposed to he
ing moved north.
On the other hand the grounds
and buildings at Fort Mckinney,
(of which there are many, some Of
which cost the Government as much
as $4,000 each) have been donated
to the state of Wyoming by the Gov
eminent and the legislature seems to
think they should be utilized. The
site is an ideal one, with beautiful
lawns, trees and shubbery, Nesting
near the Big Horn mountains, u
trout stream flowing through the
grounds, where the angler can satisfy
his desire to fish all through the
beautiful summer days. Two miles
distant is the beautiful little city OF
Buffalo, with its hospitable inhabit-
habitants, its superb system of water
works and electric lights and whose
doors are, even now, standing ajar To
welcome the war-worn veteran, who
is endeavoring to while away the few
remaining hours until the last roll
call shall summon him to fall in line
and march away TO dusty death"
But for one thing this change
would meet with my hearty approval,
and that is: Fit. Mckinney the old
vet will be left TO flock all by him
self. Here he has the hustle of the
city and the hum of fife, into whose
stream he can step at ans moment he
chooses. AT Fit. Mckinney he will
be confined to the company of his
kind, war-woIn, battle. scored and
living wholly in the past. As such
he soon tires OF the company of his
kind, who have heard his stories Of
hardship and daring time and again.
the fact is these old vets like other
society than that of their own and
were they are banished to the Garden
of Edin its glories and pleasure
would soon pail ON their taste. But
their journeys will soon be ended, no
matter what they may do with them
but ones heart goes out in sympathy
at their misery and distress over be
ing banished from civilization.
The Industrial Convention closed
in a blaze of glory. 1t was a grand
affair, from start to finish, and its
success is due mainly to the untiring
and interchangeable zeal of one man
Col. G. G. Coutant, and untir-
ingly seconding him in his efforts,
were Gov. Richards, Hon. W
q. Deming and Col. Slack, but it
was the brain of Coutant that moved
all, conceived all, planned all and
carried the whole thing to harmon
ious and successful conclusion and
as usual, his name was scarcely men
toned. Honor to whom honor is
due is an axiom as old as the hills,
but now and then honor seems to go
where it does not rightly belong and
in this case a goodly sha'e of this
success and honor belongs strictly to
Col. Coutant.
The event of the convention was the