The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-03-08

train following several hours later.
Perhaps the company saved the
expense of hat train by holding
the other and their economizing
led to our supposed favor.
| read in a circular out there
that Pres. Roosevelt on his visit to
the canyon advised the hardy
mountaineers to preserve the gran
deur of the canyon unimpaired for
%posterity, and | wondered if the
same spirit of materialism which
has doomed Niagara Falls would
not find a way to dam up the Col
orado river and make a vast irri-
cation reservoir out of the Canyon
in the interest of the unborn cab
bage patches yet to be on the des-
ert of Arizona.
We arrived IN Los Angeles three
weeks ago last Friday and found
everything as enjoyable as when
we left there last spring and every
body spelling prosperity with a big
2. | bad the pleasure of meeting
ex- United States Senator Cole of
this state the other day. He is the
brother of the colonel of a regiment
in which I served in the civil war
and whom I succeeded in its COM
mand, and parted with forty years
ago. Senator Cole is "a Forty
miner" He came to California
across the plains in that year. He
is a native of Seneca county, New
York, and went to school with
Judge Edgerton, as the Judge once
told me. He was a member of the
House during the war and after
wards United States Senator. In
speaking of the assassination of
President Lincoln, Sen. Cole told
me he was well acquainted with
him and often called at the White
House to see him that he was
wholly unprotected there by police
or detective service, and any per
son could enter the room where he
was usually found unchallenged or
without question until be reached
the president himself; that he, Sen.
Cole, being aware of the large num-
Der of secessionists in Washington
at that time. suggested to Mr.. Lin
coin that he should take precau-
tons for his safety, but the latter
replied, with hat calm and I'M
bending courage which was so
characteristic of him, Gone man
values his life as much as another,
and no man would come here to
take my life without expecting to
lose his own"
| also had the pleasure Of meet
ing ex-G Governor Powell, a former
governor of Mississippi. He was
q captain Of a company from Ohio
i'll the civil war in which our "Ny"
Philips Of Sioux Falls was order
Ily sergeant, and he was mighty
glad to hear from me that his old
comrade was still in the front rank
Of activity and success. The Gov
ernor is an old time acquaintance
of General Pease of Watertown and
Colonel Parker Of D~eadwood, both
Of whom were prominent in the
public life of Mississippi Sin the
days that tried mems souls"
a week ago last Monday we din.
ed with mine host of casa Ferdu-
go at Glendale, about fifteen miles
from Los Angeles, which, reduced
to plain English or Dutch means
that we ate u Spanish dinner at
"The Ferdugo House" at Glendale
oyer which Charley sowl, formerly
of Scotland, acts the part so long.
and 50 well acted by the late, la
mented and unequalled General
Campbell of the Campbell House.
Charley IS a s'sure enough" Span
ish landlord and gets up as hot a
dinner Of tomales, frijolas, toortieas
and chile con carney as ever the
General did Of roast pork and tur
key, With this difference, that Char
ley seasons his Spanish dishes with
cayenne pepper to the full extent
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