Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1909-09-23
MY TRIP TO ALASKA
YUKON PACIFIC Fair
Condor Phelps, 9 Years Old.
Tells of His Journey

The first thing that interested me
on The way was the Hutchinson Re
formatory. Gee! kids, you had
better be good boys, for you surely.
don't want to stay there. We al
most had wreck on our train in
eastern Colorado. They said
wheel flew off the engine, and we
had to stay out on the prairie two
hours, waiting for another engine
Then we went on to Denver.
don't like large cities, and l would
not like to live there. But l bad
jolly good time at the electric park
that night.
Next day we took the trip to the
top of Mt. McClelland and made
snow balls. We mailed some letters
at the highest postofice in the
world. and the conductor showed
US where Teddy Roosevelt hunted
bears, and he pointed TO a smooth
place on the mountain side and said,
''There is where the bears put on
tin pants and slide down hill. :"
Mother says the grandest scenery
of the trip was up this Clear Greek
| Canyon. l know | saw some fine
places to fish. While we were climb
/ ing what is known as the stairway
to Heaven" the conductor told us
to look straight down just one half
mile Oh, what if the train had
rolled off that narrow track. Well
it did not, but mamma and | were
awful sea sick.
The next sight was Indians. You
know | never saw real live Indians
before. At Grow Agency, a white
school teacher brought class Of
Indian girls down to the train. A
man on the train said they looked
like herd of fat poll angus, and one
fellow called to them to come down
where we could see them, and you
should have seen them run. 1t was
here that Custer made his last stand.
Right up on high hill was where
they fought and fell. oh so MANY
tombstones, you can see them plain
from the cars And there over
Clusters grave, floats Old Glory
every day in the year. There is q
fort near here where our soldier:
are stationed. Some of them dressed
in khaki got on our train at thi:
place.
! lust before we reached Billings,
Montana, we saw what is called the
DEVILS Cap. 1t looks like huge
giants thimble placed there on the
plains. They say it is thousand
feet high, and has a small table
land of two acres on top. No one
can climb it. At Billings the mos
quitos have bills yard long.
The next day we reached the
Cascade Mts. Here | saw forest:
large enough for me to get lost in
1 kept looking for bears, but die
not see any. 1 would like to hun
, and trap there We saw so many
beautiful streams and cascades.
could look down on tops of the tai
pines from the car window. At the
top of these mountains we wen
through a tunnel two miles long
Then we commenced to 60 dowl
hill to the coast. And gee, how we
: did 90. l was eating in the dine
and the train wabbled so my chat
| tipped over and the waiter caugh
me- 1 was glad that evening wher
we reached Seattle The next da,
went to Lincoln park, play plac'
for children. Here is a cemen
wading pool, ali kinds of swings
see saws, boys gymnasium, and
: drinking fountain, that little brothe
tried to drink dry. went dow
: here two and three times a day.
wish Meade had a play park.
l saw in the Government Build
ing at the Fair every kind of fsl
you ever heard of, and they wer
, all alive in glass. They were beau