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Topeka Signal from Topeka, Kansas • 5

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Topeka Signali
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Topeka, Kansas
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el THE ROCKIES. (Continued.) the expense of Mr. Campbell. It is said by some of the party that Mr. C.

hid himself under his bunk as we passed the "slide." A few miles DEALERS IN Our stop at Sherman was very short. About two hundred feet AAl Kinds of Coal. OSAGE CITY SHAFT A SPECIALTY. further od the canon broadens out and to the left are to be seen the first of the Mormon Settlements. A Office: 122 E.

Sixth St. Telephone, 306. Yard: Foot of 7th St. little further is the "Devils Gate," and shortly after the country widens into the Gteat Salt Lake Valley Our Best $3.00 Cabinets when Ogden is soon reached. The east of the station on the north side of the track, may be seen a post bearing the announcement that this is the "Summit of the Rocky Mountain." The next important object is Dale Creek bridge, this is seemingly a very light and airy structure, but is really very substantial, is 650 feet long and 130 feet high and is one of the wonders of the famous route.

You are soon on the Great Laramine Plains, which have an average width of 40 miles and are first view of the valley after the sur For $1.75 this week at Downings feit of mountain scenery is one of striking contrast. Between Chey enne and Ogden about ten miles of Gallery, 6I7 Kansas Avenue. Have your holiday Photos taken ear snow sheds are passed at different points along the line. The sheds are quite a feature of the ride. The ly and Avoid the rush.

100 miles long, comprising an area elevation of Ogden is 4,301 feet above the sea is a beautiful town of of two and one half millions sf acres about 15,000 souls, having increased You soon see off to the left the Diamond Peaks of the Medicine about 8,000 the last year this in Bow rango, still farther in a south westerly direction, if it be clear, crease is due to the victory of the Gentiles over the Mormons at the -MEAT MARKET you will see the white summits of election last February of our re ception at Ogden more will be said the Snowy Range." We reached Laramine about later on Salt Lake City is south 620 West Sixth Avenue, Notice to Consumers of Meat. from Ogden 37 miles by the Utah and Nevada railroad. We reached Salt Lake city at 2:30 and took din o'clock, the town is situated in the midst of the Laramie Plains on the Larmie river, has numerous churches and schools and several public buildings, is well watered from a mountain stream and is rightly ner at the Walker House. After We can give you the largest values in Meat for which about twenty-five of our party Spot Cash, as will be seen by the following un- went out to Hot Springs, drank some named the "Gem city of the Moun of the sulphur water and took a precedentea prices: plunge in the bath something that we all needed badly. Coming baek to the city some of the party hunted up old friends, some went back to our car, and others took in the sights.

The next morning (Sunday) some of the party went to church Loin Steak 10 cents per pound, 3 pounds for At cents. Round Steak 10 cents per pound, 3 pounds for 25 cents. Shoulder Steak 1 pounds 10 cents, 5 pounds for 25 cencs. Best Shoulder Steak 4 pounds 25 cents. Sausage of our own make 10c per pound, or 3bs.

for 25 cents. Lard 10 cents per pound, or 3 pounds for 25 cents. Lard of our own make 10 cents straight. Eib Roast 4 pounds 25 cents. Boiling Meat 9 pounds for 25 cents.

Best Plate Boil 7 pounds for 25 cents. Choice Butter, Veal, Oysters, Chickens, Ham, Salt Meat, Breakfast Bacon, Game in Season, while others visited the Fort and other points of mtersst. In the af ternoon we all went to the famous tain," here we had the pleasure of meeting an old friend of Mr. Rudi-sill's, Mr. Butler.

Our stay at Laramie was short, only time for supper. Wb soon got iato the Sportsman's Paradise, that portion of Wyoming lying north of Rock Creek and Rawlins, here can be found all kinds of game from the mountain squirrel to the grizzly bear. Green river buttes can be seen for miles and are objects of great interest. After passing Granger, we seon reach Evanston where we had breakfast. At Wahsatch station, the summit of the Wahaatch mountains is reached elevation 6,824 feet, and at this point the road enters Echo canon.

Echo Creek running through the canon is crossed thirty one times in Mormon Tabernacle, heard a Mor. mon sermon and some exquisite music: after which we went to see the Temple, which will not be com Etc. pleted for some years to come hav ing been under way now for about thirty-five years, is built of gray granite and is a magnificent struct THE OLD HELIlnLb BITIHEK, H.C. SMITH, Manager, 620 W. SIXTH AVENUE.

Don't forget the place. ure. The next morning we took the narrow guage road for the Great Salt Lake. This famous body of water is 40 miles wide by 90 long twenty six miles. Three miles west of Wahsatch the road runs through a tunnel 900 feet long.

One mile and is 23 per cent salt, and so great is the specific gavity of this water WHITE BRONZE HOTJMBNTS east of Castle Rock station is" a queer that a person can lay in almost any fomation of rock resembling the position with danger of sinking, a ARE THE BEST. the beach (Garfield) great fun was ruins of an old castle "Hanging Rock" is what its name indicates had, all the party, old and young. la.it Ironaso a short distance west of Emory, on went in for a bath, afrar sporting in toD of the bluffs, is a rock called the water for an hour ro so. some of "Jack in the Pulpit" and farther on the party went sailing, others climed the mountain and visited the are to be seen the heights of Echo canon, on top of which are the old Mormon fortifications. Then comes Giants Cave we had the pleasure of making the acquaintance of Jake I.

GORHAN, Real Estate, AND LOAN AGENT, -707 Kansas will sell YOU a HOME on monthly payments, as cheap as paying rent. Call anal See Him. Killrain alias Wm. Need, of Russel Steamboat Rocks just before reach ing Eono are seen the "Amphi thea. Kansas, we aeain met him and his Is endorsed by scientists as practically imperishable.

White Bronze is an absolutely non-corrosive and unohangable metal, equal in this respect to gold and silver, and superior to copper bronze. White Bronze is more appropriate in color and is made in more architectural forma than is possible in stone. White Bronze inscriptions are perfectly legible and will not be destroyed by frost or hidden by growth of moss. White Bronze supplies one of the most imperative requirements of the age a more permanent material than perishable stone for preserving memorila records is demanded. White Bronze is not porous, has no fissures, will not absorb moistnre and is therefore free from all the objections known to stone.

Gall or write for prices. B. MARTIN. 112 East 6th St. tre," "Pulpit Rocks" and "Bromleys wife at Ogden, who had the misfor tune to "break his pants." Com Cathedral.

At Echo station we en ter Weber canon. One and one ing back to the city in the evening some of us were carried home by half miles west of Echo can be seen the "Wi'oh Rocks," five miles further is the 1,000 mile tree, and a mile further on is the "Devil's Slide," here we had a "few lines" of fun at Salt Lake friends where we spent delightful evening. Delightful weather..

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35
Years Available:
1889-1894