Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1907-01-31

Jan II. 1907.
Dear KING. has been 50 long
since have seen or heard from you
just thought 70 myself would
write i few lines 20 my old Sc. Ma
rvs friend and tell him about my
trials and tribulations.
You know I was turned out OF the
warehouse for voting the Democrat
lie ticket. nominated by the Demo-
Gratis Of the county, and. 50 had TO
look for job, and the u. S. Fideli-
~ d Guaranty gave me a position
In the Guaranteed Attorneys De-
partment 70 work the large cities in
the interest Of their bonded attor-
neys in the smaller towns /. O., to
get the lawyers Of the large cities
70 place any forwarding business
| they might have with our bonded
attorneys. .
was in st. Louis at work, and
was hustling expecting to get home
for Christmas, but was informed
that. instead Of coming home, / was
wanted, IL i vas willing, to hold N.Y.
self In readiness TO move to the Pa
ciic Slope at q moments notice.
left St Louis the first day of the
New Year. The trip through the
great State OF Missouri. which took
one day. was very interesting. The
land all the way was black with rich
ness. though the farms did not look
well titled. The corn crop was large,
and IL was shucked end in pens
which looked 70 be about ten or
twelve feet square, with no cover
whatever. and these pens were plen-
tiful.
The public roads were miserable
worse than our st. Mary's roads.
The railroad bed seems to be made
OF burnt clay, something like the
refuse Of q brickyard and ballasted
with the same material.
/ reached Kansas City at s. p. NJ.
and at 6 started for the wild and
woollv West. Next day. when [
awoke we had passed the home of
the greatest man in this country.
What say you? l should like to
have had a day in Lincoln, IL IL
could have been, but my ticket was
straight through.
la Nebraska. l saw nothing but
bleak and barren hills covered with
snow with not a tree to be seen
The only thing we had to break the
monotony Of the trip was when the
conductor came through and said
there was wreck ahead. II han
pened to be freight train. Icould
not learn il any person was hurt.
but saw about 40 fat beeves living
along the side of the road. When |
came in sight Of a, tree, I took of
my hat to IL. for l felt like meeting
friend.
At Tolucca we changed cars for
Cody. Wyooming-l3O miles away.
and it took us from 8 A. M, to 1918.
p. NJ. to get there. In going from
Toluca to Cody you have to cross
the Pryor Mountains, which are
5000 feet high, and most of the way
you could look out of the car win
dow thousands OF feet below. But.
this was only fun to what was to
come. When we got to the station.
instead OF being at Cody. we were
one mile and a-half away. So got
in the bus for the Irma Hotel. The
driver. after getting all in he could.
started bis four horses in q gallon.
and down hill and up hill, it was all
the same. | know John Gilpin did
not go faster. When we reached
the hotel could hardly register.
Cody is q nice little town of
about--(but they tell lies down there,
can say to you Brother King, for
you are nearly twenty five hundred
miles away and can 3 tell these fell
lows)-seventeen hundred inhabi.
tsnts. they say. Mind didn't saw
l doubted itl The town was started
about five years ago by Col. Cody or
Buffalo Bill. The Irma Hotel was
built and is still owned by him. It
Is two stories high and will compare
with many Eastern hotels. The
material used in the construction
Is native stone. In the building are
many and find paintings Of Western
scenes and nearly every room is
ornamented with buffalo and stag
heads. was introduced to the
Colonel. and after taking me through
the hotel and out buildings, we went
to his private room and smoked good
cigars. They have two banks here
both doing good business-some fine
brick storehouses. well filled with
fine stocks NJ sroo3S an1