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Show I f0, President Arthur in T fastness of Tellow- stone Park. Lj OF THE IRISH POLICE. Ld Tribulations of the Boobies in It Land of the OTlaherty's J and 0' Toole's. 1 4 june 20. The shooting and f Ljpg of President 'Harrison Lend beyond one week. Presl-Leland Presl-Leland spent an entire month jj, term of office fishing among L0f theAdirondacks. President liauli the most elaborate sporting L spending nearly six weeks in L 0f the Rocky mountains, hun-If hun-If miles from all civilization, in fly ffililenitvs of tho picturesque ficne park. The year was 1883. Lkrral land of the great geysers L an accessible as it is now, for Iffaydid not run to the mammoth Lg, as it does today, ft was Lier, but the peaks of the Rocky tins were topped with suow. liresident of the United States, ten. Phil Sheridan, Secretary of tncoln, Surrogate Rollins, of New Ld Schuyler Crosby, governor of L and a body fruard of United regulars, had gone to tho wildcr-I wildcr-I a summer outing. They had en-he en-he country from Cheyenne on the pacific, and had journeyed at the shout fifty miles a day. A group .paper men had entered the park tlio Northern Pacific, coming Jh Montana and Idaho. ' I morning a guide came upon our mil reported the president but Lies away. Three of our party, L Sage, of The London Telegraph; Lannell, of Tho New York Times, vself, mounted our horses and lit dashed. That' night wo canie the distinguished group. Mr, had not seen a human faco other i? few companions for a month, ay be sure that ho gave us cordial L. At once we were his guests, f i fire was built, and we lay on the l around it. . A little band'sepa-frnm band'sepa-frnm tho outside world by the Rockies; chief among them the Int of rixty millions of people, th6 t and quietest of tho little coterie, ink I see him now, this roughly l, mauly gentleman, lying on his t in his coarse flannel shirt, gaz-to gaz-to the pure white stars of heaven ling in their violet skies, and chat-Lasantly chat-Lasantly with his three unex-I unex-I visitors. Ho was weeks away Lminunication with the capital, l! the government at Washington I placidly. Ill never forget that night, nor the y which followed, when Gen. La sent an orderly to our tent the morning and offered us the Is of a guide and a couple of sol- I I escort us over Mount Washburn, I'liest passable peak of the range. Frederick W. White. |