Charlevoix county herald., 1914-03-28

who has not been there, believes. 1t
is a prairie city. 1t is interesting,
Lp-to-date and full of enterprise, but
it is not as great city as some would
have US believe. 1t is great for its
part of the country just as all western
cities are.
On Wednesday, August 18th, we left
Denver at 2 o'clock in the afternoon
and carelessly ran out OF our way
about ten miles. We soon got back
to the main route, however, and en-
joyed the run through the irrigated
farm lands adjacent to Denver.
We passed through Henderson,
Brighton, Platteville, Greeley Ga pref
ty and modern small city,, Eaton,
Ault, Pierce, Num-, Dover Ca town of
just four houses), and pulled up at
Carr, little burg way out on the
prairie, on the railroad, where we put
up at a little hotel. We had put in 105
miles, but it was after dark when we
stopped. We had passed through the
settled farming section, which irriga-
ton had made prosperous and come
out into the open prairie country
again After leaving Eaton we ran
for miles through perfectly level land
with magnificent distances. If there
were any fences the telephone wires
attached to them were our guides UNI
til our Blue Book told US TO "angle
across prairie" This meant to make
a diagonal run out into the open coun-
try, which TO us seemed TO be heading
US straight to the ends Of the earth.
Occasionally we would run into a
barbed wire fence stretched across the
m hot
seemed endless. Now and then we had
to stop our car TO open a fence di-
rectly across the roadway, which shut
oil our Progress. AS darkness gath
cred our headlights would frequently
reveal TO us running rabbits in the
roadway. They were so numerous as
not to excite us TO craftsmanship. 1t
was a delightfully."- cool evening and
we felt that we could have gone on in
the night without protest except for
the fear of losing our way in the open
prairie country. We thought il bet
ter to wait for daylight.
After our supper, which wasn't bad,
we stood out doors sans hats and
coats, and watched the trains. In
that level country we could see for a
distance of what seemed to be from
ten to fifteen miles, the headlight of
railroad locomotive coming toward
us. We could also see what appeared
to be storm gathering over the
Rockies far to the west Of us. We
could see lightning, but no rain reach
ed US.
All of our party had gone into the
little hotel when there drove up to
the place a large touring car, contain
ing five men. One man got out of the
car and came in to order sandwiches
for the party. Having met very few
travellers in this section and being in
terested in any sort of an event, one
of our party went out TO talk with the
newcomers. He asked them courte-
ously what place they were headed
for and received a non-commital re-
ply. One or two other questions
brought the same kind of replies and
our friend began TO wonder what was
in the air. The spokesman for the
newcomers finally took our friend one
side and rather sharply asked him who
he was, what he was doing there and
where he was going. An explanation
was made rather from establishment
than desire and then the stranger ex-
planned that he was the chief of police
of Cheyenne, Wyo.; that he was &C
companied by his sergeant, two Off
GERS, reporter and a man accused Of
murder They were on their way to
Greeley, Colo, with the prisoner who
was accused Of having killed an old
jeweler miser and stolen about $1,000
in money. The accused man had
agreed, the chief said, to disclose the
hl,. y place of the money and they
were their way TO find it and then
to turn tneir prisoner over to the Den
yer, Colo, authorities. He had been
caught in Cheyenne and the Wyoming
officers were in high glee over the
scoop they mad pulled off. A Denver
News reporter was in the party and of
course he was the hero because he
covered Cheyenne for his paper and
it would have the first authentic news
of the important capture. Our party
was introduced TO the chief and the re-
porter, but the other officers and the
prisoner stayed in the car out of the
light. We caught an indistinct view
o. the prisoner end could not see that
he looked any more vicious than the
rest of us! We were all pretty tough
looking nuts. Later we learned that
the story was all true and if we re-
member rightly the right man was
tried and punished.
Notwithstanding all this excitement
we got the bed before 10 o'clock.
We started the next morning at SAB
and ran into Cheyenne-about II
miles-for our breakfast. Here we
found town we had read about in
diem novels; frontier-Dead-Eye- Dick,
GO'd-Bullet-Sport literature; seen in
moving picture shows--Tag- time, cow
boy-girl, cow-pony songs-and we
expected great things. We don't
know exactly what great things we
expected, but we do know we were
woefully disappointed. Why, il was
just like any other respectable COM
munity. The hotel was as up-to-date
and expensive as any hotel in any
eastern town Of like size; the railroad
station was important looking; the
store windows looked just like home;
people on the streets didn't carry re-
volvers that showed and their clothes
fitted their occupations. Some of the