A TRIP TO THE WESTERN SLOPE
Fred hartsfield Writes an Inter
esting Account of His Re
cent Trip to California
To Tlie Newark Journal:
Point Richmond, t'ali., Nov. lb.
—As I have been requested to
write a letter to one of the home
papers, T will endeavor to write
a short letter to The .Journal, as
more of my friends around .Sul
phur Rock read The .Journal than
any of the other county papers.
I left Sulphur Rock on the morn
ing of the 23rd of September, go
ing up the White River road b.\
way of Carthage and Kansas (’ity,
and 1 wish to say here that Arkan
sas has some pretty scenery a>
well as other states. In going
over the Ozark mountains, we
passed over some very deep gor
ges. The highest trestle is 14o
feet. 1 believe the longest tun
nel I passed through on my trip
was in Arkansas. It was 3700
feet in length. I arrived in Kan
sas City about 2 p. m., and had to
wait there until 1<» a. in. for the
next train, so 1 had plenty of time
to see the sights. I took an ele
rated car and went over part 01
the city. Kansas City is a prett.\
place and is almost as large as
San Francisco. In passing thru
Kansas there is not much to be
seen except rolling prairie land.
I went to sleep in Kansas and
when I awoke 1 was breathing the
sweet, pure air from the table
lands of Colorado. There is where
I got my first glimpse of the great
Rocky mountains. We had a fine
view of the Rockies all the way
from Denver to Cheyenne. It
certainly is grand to see the great
rugged peaks reaching away up
into the clouds. The base of the
mountains is black but the tops
are all covered with snow and
glisten in the sunshine like silver.
The land through Wyoming, Utah
and Nevada is nearly all rolling
desert and foothills. After leav
ing Ogden, Utah, we crossed over
the great Salt Lake. I wonder if
any of my Sulphur Rock friends
ever saw any saltcyclesf There
are lots of them on the shores of
Salt Lake. They resemble an
icycle in form and color. The
spray of the waves alighting on
and dripping from the rocks, forms
cycles of pure salt, some of which
are 5 or 6 inches in length. After
crossing the lake, over what is
known as the Lucien Cutoff, which,
by the way, is quite a feat of en
gineering, we ran into the Sait
Lake desert. As far as the eye
can reach there is not a sprig of
, vegetation to be seen; nothing but
white sand.
The most beautiful and pictur
esque scenery I found along the
| whole route was in passing over
i the Sierra Nevada mountains Al
though it was the month of Sep
tember there was plenty of snow
on the tops of the mountains. As
the train crept around the sides of
the mountains one could lo,uk from
one side of the car arid see great
high bluffs towering above, andj
from the other side could look '■
down hundreds of feet into rocky
gorges. On leaving the moun
tains we ran into the beautiful!
; valley lands of California. 1 have ;
| never seen any country that will i
j equal California in the wa.v of
trees, flowers, fruits and sunshine, j
I arrived in Oakland, Cali., on j
the fifth day of my journey. I
met rny brother, George, at the
depot and we took a trolley car j
to Point Richmond, which is now
, my home. Point Richmond is a j
[ portion of the city of Richmond, j
; which has a population of 7,000.
! It is situated on the Bay of San
! Francisco, about seven miles from j
i that city.
Shortly after my arrival here 1
[ took a trip to San Francisco to
| view the ruins of that once grand
and beautiful city. 1 shall not
take time and space to describe
the awful result of the earthquake
and fire, but it is a sight to almost1
turn one sick.
1 know my friends in Sulphur
Rock and Newark will be glad to
lenrn that I am enjoying good
health and am well pleased with i
the country. 1 am a member of
the carpenter’s union; am now
working at that trade and getting
$4.50 per day of eight hours. The
manners and customs of the peo !
pie out here are quite different to
what 1 am used to, but I think I
will soon master their peculiar
ities. It is decidedly a cosmopol
itan place.
i
I will not tax the patience of:
the readers or the editor further
for fear that, this might find its
way to the waste basket.
Yours truly,
Fkei) Haktskiki,i>.
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DILBECK GETS TWEHTY-ONE YEARS
Slayer of Will Weatherford Con
victed of Hanslaughter and
(Jets Pen Sentence
Will Dilbeck, the young man
who shot and killed Will Weather
f'ord at Desha last l hristinas, was
convicted of manslaughter in th<
circuit court at Batesville last Fri j
day, the jury fixing the punish !
ment at twenty-one ,\ > ars in the!
penitentiary.
Tiir killing <> •>m- .■'• i tlif* 2 b th ol |
last December at IL-ha, six miles’
from Hatosviih , mJ the following
is a brief histor.\ ot the case,- tak
en from the Datesvilie Daily (..fuaro
of Friday: j
‘‘Will Weatherford and Mack
Lindsay were hnHtiing a house fori
Moore one mile south of Desha
Sam and Ed Lindsay, sons of
Mack Lindsay were cutting wood
close by, but at the time of the j
killing were at the house and eye !
witnesses to what occurred.
There had been a Christmas
dance the night before at the home
of a Mr. Estes, in the community
Weatherford and Dilbeck had
gone to the dance riding the same j
mule. Dilbeck was drinking.
About 3 o’clock m the morning j
while Weatherford was playing!
the fiddle the dance broke up in j
the midst of a set. Dilbeck at the j
time, was taking up a collection
for the tiddler, and did not like it j
because the set ended so abruptly; (
and when Weatherford assented!
to it, swore at him and declared
he should not ride home behind
him.
“After the dance. Dilbeck went
home with Walter Mouse and!
spent the remainder of the night.
Next day about noon Diibeck,
still under the influence of liquor, j
borrowed a shot gun from Colbert
Sherrill, to go bunting, and told j
others he was going to kill the 1
biggest, fattest squirrel he ever
saw. Me told A. «J. Ragle that he J
was going to whip Weathetford.
“About 3 o'clock in the after
noon Dilbeck appealed at the
house on which Weaterford and
Lindsay were at work, w ith a gun.
Weatherford was at work on the
roof, and Diibeck, addressing him,
said he understood that they were
going to have him (Dilbeck) ar
rested for something he had done
at the dance, and asked Weather
ford what he had done, adding
that he was drunk aDd did not re
member. Weatherford replied
“You did nothing out of the
way.”
“Dilbeck then took his seat on
a sawhorse, and Weatherford came
down off the house to sawr a rafter,
Dilbeck without saying another
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