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Indianapolis Monroes Iron Clad Age (Newspaper) - December 16, 1882, Indianapolis, Indiana M Indiana in Polis a weekly with Pew . R. Monroe m. D. Proprietor. Vol 37-isroiist�o., a turd a a. December i it 107-Issa. S2.50 a. Year a Ivi Imber on View Papor Tau Oil Kiln travel. The editor of the Serra our intl., Democrat is taking a to it air Westward and writing some of his observations Home to paper. Some of his reflections will prove of interest to the readers of the age. Under Date of dec. 1st he writes from Denver As follows in a re ious communication we depicted some of tiie Bright features of Leadville. But. Like All cities and Moje Purtic nearly mining cities it has its dark Side. To begin with the City is founded on i vast bed of Sand at tie opening of California Guh hand tiie slightest Breeze fills the air with the most aggravating Pai titles is no Consolation to the blinded traveler to know that each of these Small specks a greater or Imbs Jer cent of Argent Ferous Ore Silver in that form is not Quot Good for sore it in a walk of two and a half Miles we found ourselves covered with a thick Deposit of the finest Sand imaginable which penetrated our clothing eyes oars and hair of the Vei a roots. Every Man in Leadville Quot has the Sand Quot if life has t Auy other Good Quality. Another disagreeable feature is the avarice of the hotel keepers business men porters everybody. All classes seem to live for the one sole purpose of getting every i ent that can be exacted from the tourist who Falls in their Way. Everybody is m the make Quot and if you get a favor in the magic City of the mountains you pay for it roundly. The title to the real estate on which the City is built is very imperfect on account of the fact that that j ortion of the state has never been surveyed and regularly by the gov ment and the Jiro Sperty is held by Quot squatter s rights Quot which Are Good Emeigh to be sure until a Man with a better claim comes along. Jii consequence of this state of affairs the City can not raise a Revenue by taxing real estate but she makes up All deficiencies by licensing the necessary a there Are 125 saloons in the City each a me of which pays a License of $500 a year. Twenty six Public gambling Halls Are open Day and night and these pay a License of $5 a month for Euclit table in use. Billiard tables paying a License of 5200 a year each Are to be found in almost every Saloon and Hall. Three Quot dance Halls Quot adhere the lowest and vilest of both sexes congregate nightly to make night hideous with their Raad lascivious to tries pay a License of $150 a year each to the City. The Demi ulc too Are made a source of Revenue to the City one Hunt red and Twenty five licensed women each paying a fee of per month for the privilege of Quot plying their we were told by the chief of police that the aggregate receipts of the 125 saloons last year were $1,095,000. In company with a Friend we spent an hour in making a round of tint principal gambling places and in each Hall we saw an anxious eager excited throng of men of All Ages and conditions surrounding each of the six to Twenty tables that we found in every place we visited. Faro Rouge i t noir Oker Roulette mud Pionte Are the nost Dunnmon games and the butter Liere is often very High thousands of dollars a Langius hails Iti an hour. These Are some of the Sulie it fat urea of Leadville by gaslight. To May refer to this subject nude it length Home other time. O i heh . We turn from this array of bad noes to contemplate game of a More x of Quot my 531 i agreeable kind a id nature. Frightened by the shrill shriek of the locomotive and the l Rumblo of the a heels that now Roll in continuous line from the Rockies to he Lak its the Buffalo have altogether disappeared from this Region but Elk i Antelope Mountain Slie Eji Trio Ciji i Namon Bear and the noun Tanii a Hon still abound in the Mountain fastnesses and the Rich plateaus i that skirt the Numen Ous streams while each water course from the Mountain l ill to the largest i Ives flowing through the Gorges and i the Plain below is stocked with 1 Mountain Trout and the very finest i fresh fish known. The Arkansas i valleys and the adjacent mountains Are still the Hanter s and Angler s 1 Radise. A Riisom a tax 10 i lain. Bidding Good Bye to Leadville just As the Bright Shatik giving morning s Sun shone in resplendent glory on the Majestic Cloud capped mountains aii ording a a new at once grand gorgeous indescribable we Glide again through Canon and Vale through Gorges and Arounia from vying precipices until the lower Valley of the Arkansas is reached at Pueblo a Beautiful and Prosper Ous Little City of less than ton years growth but tilled with a bustling and Busy population of several thousands. Canon t Ity a Beautiful Little town at the Mouth of o Rand Canon and another magic wonder in the Way of Western Vigross and development is passed Enro Ute. Here is situated the state Penitentiary Colorado Springs with their sparkling Waters famed for great medical Virtues and Manitou the Sartoga of the West with pikes Peak looming up in grandeur to a height of ,147 feet Only seventeen Miles away Are Points of interest along the route of which space forbids our attempting a full description at this time. The entire route from Leadville to the Divide Tifty two mile South of Denver is one continuous succession of grand startling Awe inspiring scenes baffling the imagination to depict or tiie pen to describe. After a ride of fourteen hours through beauties and wonders we arrive at Denver Quot the Queen cities of the Colorado the Quot Centennial state Quot and youngest of the confederation is a youth of Lusty growth and magical develop Mient. In natural resources delightful Ness of climate Beauty and grandeur of scenery it has no rival among the older members of the family. The state has an area of 104,500 Square Miles nearly As Large As the new England states and new York combined. Its Mountain Are covered wit ii forests of valuable Timber and swollen with a hidden but unlimited wealth of Gold Silver Iron Copper Lead and Coal. All the valleys and foot Hills Are covered with a luxuriant growth of nutritious grasses and the soil when properly irrigate in no Rains fall Here from May or june to february yields Rich returns for the Husbandman s labor. Last year tie yield of wheat in round numbers was 1,500,000 bushels of Oats 650,000, Corn 475,000, Ami Barley 110,000 bushels besides hire and Fine All Kin it is of Garden vegetables. This year the estimate value of the live Stock in the state is $20,000,000. Sheep raising is an important and grow j ing Industry and the business is exceedingly profitable. As a producer of Gold und Silver Colorado loads All the countries of the world. Since the first discovery of the precious deposits less than Twenty three years ago the state has yielded �140,580,752 of Gold and Silver and the yield is constantly increasing. Last year it was 28,< 87, 85, or about one i third of the total product of the United states. An Ltd yet with All a this vast production the crust of its wealth is hardly broken and tiie developments of future years i will eclipse the Daz Ling miracles of Aladdin and his lamp. To Day the state with its marvelous deposits of precious metals its giant crags acid fathomless abysses its Cloud wreathed Heights and awful Depths its air As dry and pure As that which fanned the Cheek of sinless Ness in primal Eden its Waters Clear As Crystal sparkling like gems and pure As the distil a a Tion of Dews from heaven its sul her soda and magnesia 8 rings hot cold and tepid and its i cities of magic growth and marvelous development its fairy land i the wonder of the world i h Een of the rot Kies. Denver the Gem studded Queen j City of the Rocky Range is a Muni i Cipal Mii Acle an infant in years a i giant in development. Twenty three years ago the writer of this j sketch with a half do ten Boon i Companio Jis was Quot a Dweller in j tents on the South Side of the i Platte River near what is now the Center of the City and at that time Denver consisted of a few rudely constructed and very primitive log Cabins while the entire population of the City Ami what is now the state of Colorado could be numbered by a few hundreds. And what a marvelous change tonight we Are wasting the Midnight Oil Quot for the edification of our readers in an elegantly furnished Ryoju heated by steam in the grand Central rotely a House that in appearance and All the appointments that could be devised to make a guest comfortable would be a credit to any City in the Lanil in a City of 55,000 inhabitants a beauteous Queen of a supa singly Lovely Rii Alm that has sprung with magic growth from the nothingness of Twenty years ago. The Denver of to Day can boast of Public and private buildings on a scale of magnificence unsurpassed in the country outside of Chicago and new York of an opera House built by a Man who five years Ogo kept a Small country store in Leadville costing $875,000 and without a Superior in the United states of blocks of magnificent mercantile buildings erected at a Cost of $10 ,-000 to 800,000, each of a Branch of the u. S. Mint of five daily and twelve weekly newspapers including Brick Pomeroy s Democrat the most notorious widely circulated and vigorously edited w wekly journal in the country of a Circle Railroad extending around its entire limits of 200,000 Beautiful Shade frees and of fair grounds and a Bovle Varde unsurpassed by any in the Union. A City lighted by electricity and heated by steam with a Holly waterworks system fire alarm Telegraph Tele hones and streets eighty feet wide of natural gravel smooth As ice and firm As the i Anite rocks that lie imbedded in tiie Mouru Taitis that Ervinn it. The Central Point from which All the business and travel of Colora to Raili ates with a climate unsurpassed on the continent the air pure dry and invigorating where no Dew Falls and no a Innesh or Miasma is Ever known. Denver Lias the pvt Misof a future As a business location a sanitarium and a fashionable resort unsure Das std l y Auy City of the Gre t West. What h in a name in our last to made referent get to the saloons and gambling Hall of Leadville. Denver too Lias saloons in unmovable some of them fitted up in Palatini style at a Cost of that Man is of dollars and the wholesale and retail liquor business do if Here is simply immense but gambling although carried on to a very Large extent is done a Pii etly and in a very orderly manner compared quit in grief and disgust. The medium s Friend a spiritual pay eve established a few months ago in Terre haute has been deceived by mrs. Stewart the Quot Vejum Quot in whom it had Ali Faith. The medium s Friend was one of with the custom that prevails in the crazier sort of spiritual papers. Leadville or that prevailed Here in., a a ithe earlier Days of the City s growth. At was started ostensibly to abuse Days of the City s growth one feature of the traffic that j c. Bundy and kill the up. Strikes the attention of the visitor i Lornal which St it the Terre to these cities in the open manner i haute jugglers higher a Kite some Tim i ago. But waxing crazier and crazier in its delirious efforts i out Linberts the Doughty Roberts of Phili Idelphia it snapped the vital chords that connected it the doors or windows to obstruct the gaze of the passers by or per,. Amit the taking of anti on the and it died in grief hav sly Quot and yet during a sojourn of my detected fraud in mrs. Stewart two Days in Leadville and then in one of Bundy s victims and one by in which the business is conducted. The Saloon doors stand wide open while the thirsty Patron Quot takes Lisin Quot Quot mixed or straight Quot As taste or fancy dictates in full View from the Street no curtain or screen at a Denver we did not observe half a i dozen Drunken men in All nor see a or hear of a single arrest for disorderly conduct. In fact in i these matters either Denver or i Leadville will comi Are favourably with Seymour or any other Indi i Ana City where prohibitionists i flourish and Quot Wax fat Quot and where All the drinking is done behind heavily screened windows and closely shut floors. We Are very Akhom it had sworn in All the moods and tenses. Hear its heavy grief monday november 27, or. W. Harry Powell the noted slate writing medium of Philadelphia came to our City calling upon the editor of this jumper who upon seeing him immediately called him by name the impression coming to us that it was or. Powell forcibly impressed with the con j although we never before met or fiction that the innovation is a de j even seen a picture or heard a decided improvement in the i ascription of his person. He came of morality and Good ejected and we never had any another noticeable feature hero communication with him. We wel is the extent to which the custom of Quot treating Quot is ignored another innovation with commendable results. It we May be allowed the privilege we would suggest to fhe Saloon men of Seymour and the Hooser state that they take Down the screens and to those who irn copied him As we would any medium of like standing and usefulness giving the right hand of Fellowship Anil wished him Success during his sojourn in Terre haute. He created considerable interest Here on account of the unique manifestations coming through Bibe that they go it alone Quot As is the j him and his gentlemanly bearing fashion Here both for their own j won him the respect of not Only Good and the general Good of the Community. But we did t begin this sketch with a design of moralizing we merely intended to note a few of the curious names by which the Salois in Leadville Are known. Of these we can now recall a few As follows Quot the Little Church Quot Quot the Blind House Quot Quot St. Ann s rest Quot Quot a Little one for a cent Quot Quot the Thistle Quot Quot the health office Quot Quot Rocky s roast Quot and the very suggestive Quot come and see now Quot what s in a name Quot heard Pope Robert. City Point mo., dec. 2,107. Do. Monroe a As my subscription to the age expires the 10th of this month you will find enclosed $1.40, for which Send the age on for six months longer. A was it Kansas City the 2l8t of november and heard the Champion of free thought Robert g. Ingersoll on Quot what shall we do to be saved Quot it was a treat that rarely comes Here and the people come in from All Points and every seat in the opera House was occupied. Tie Ortli Odom people of Kansas City Are now praying to god to answer to c Bob s arguments As Tivey cannot. As for your going to Seymour i have nothing to say. A Captain that can command such a Craft As knows his own Busin i a . The lord Oliai. Rolig Ioui lunatics Are becoming unpleasantly numerous suicides from that Peculiar craze being chronicled Ever Day. The latest a a it pm of the insanity is that of a Fisherman in California who with his wife has murdered his fourteen year old son claiming that the lord commanded the m All honest spiritualists but sceptics too evinced their admiration by testing his marvelous Powers. He had been in the City a Cut e week when we Learned that one of our noted and world famed materializing mediums mrs. Anna Stewart had Ivy clop cd Lido he a disc us that demonstrated big or. I Ricell with the additional Power of being Able to write with Lead Pencil materialized upon her Finger. This surprised us and it was with feelings of local Pride that we took the first Opportunity offered to witness her Powers in this direction. We went we witnessed and were dumbfounded. To say that we were pained with our experience does not express the feeling that came Over us. Mrs. Stewart met us we congratulating her upon her newly acquired development signifying our desire to see for ourselves what we doubted not she possessed. We asked of her no test conditions. She placed upon a slate a Sheet of note paper and then placed her Finger in her Mouth and taking it therefrom held it above her head with Index Finger extended the Ball of which was uppermost. She made a few i passes in the air and with a Cir Cular motion she brought her i Finger Down upon the paper with a out allowing any examination what Vei Quot. In in Ritilia the piece of Letiel a a Hail Milru Pix a Firulli Here iii i or kind rolled Iroini he slate Lido j her Lap. H c Sair the bit of a if Icil e s it rolled and in appeared to us i e a. Sharpened loin broken off from a common Ead Pencil about one eighth of an Inch in leu a in the Lander end of Ivsich teas the size of an Ordinary Lead contained in a Pencil. She tried to catch it again from her Lap and n lady near by made the remark suck your Finger again . Lei Rirl Quot in Yieh to our Ureal sir prism she ii indie it lilt Deli did Lak i iii in there Filoiii Irith Osif Lou Duff diet a. Anil Coirini Eureil Heid in i ill the Nir it iii the Ball of i he i Uyer ii Pei ii Iosi is i fore Elliis time ire Sair the Lead Propri Idini from her Hujer be Arlin an he Rhth of an Inch com iii la a Sharp Point. She wrote a message purporting As coming from a beloved sister of ours which q will not the space to reproduce for u e Hare Ureal doubts As la the Genus net is of iii manifestation ire a ii Essi d. \ we do not blame mrs. Stewart so much As we do Minnie her control and her advisors and protect i ors by unwittingly maybe encouraging her by extolling her me a Diu ship above All others in the world creating within her an am i bit Ion to have within herself All the medial Powers known to mortal Man. This writing was done while mrs. Stewart was in her Normal condition. Immediately after receiving the message we excused , leaving in a. Dazed Enid my on scions Condi Hon. On wednesday evening we again called on mrs. Stewart for the purpose of ascertaining whether she claimed that it was spirit Power that produced the Pencil the re Imit reaching our ears that she avas Only doing this As a practical joke and in answer to our question not genuine the rest of her manifestations were not that it was a manifestation As her Nuich Ria Liz it Dious Tiad if Sirhal Sie a Comodi stick iras a trick or. I u Ell s Manifest Lions were ii same. We told her that her manifestations were nothing in comparison to or. Powell a and that it was our Hope and prayer that they were genuine. But we thu air und the Aumi fastidious a ire to us i the occasion a it feared to Adnire were fran leu and Malie this Seal Neul without Auy fears As to the Ulli Nide result. And in the midst of his grief and disgust the poor fellow wrote the mediums Friend will suspend for a Short time with this Issue. To our subscribers we would say that they will receive All the numbers of this paper they have paid for and they will not be the loser for when we commence again we will number were we left Oft Quot. A the c Aslom House a nil hair c. Avellano ont., Canada dec. 3, 1882. In. Monroe a some weeks ago you or some one sent me the age. I sent it to a Friend of mine and he now wishes me to Send for it for him so find funds enclosed. I think your paper is an excellent free thought and Liberal paper and More outspoken than some others. As for myself i think i am taking All the papers i can afford to but will be glad to extend the circulation of the age and Hope it will find its Way into More families Here. To Are aleut As heavily i Iest Ridden Here As inane other part of Christendom though in this particular place the free thought movement is making fair Progress. I had thought of sending for some of your i ublication8 but the custom House is such a nuisance. There is now laying in Bond for me at the custom House the third volume of d. M. Bennett s around the world and i shall have to drive twelve Miles there and Back to pay the trifling sum of perhaps Twenty five cents. Hoping soon to be Able to get you More subscriber i am John Ray. The girls have a liw Vered that the shia Lega of Nabit Uhl of Greite amok Cra part it vent them Hgt my a a bling con a tit ution

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