Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1884 — A Wonderful Canyon. [ARTICLE]

A Wonderful Canyon.

“Did yon ever notice what a great whispering gallery the Grand Canyon of the Colorado is?” asked Judge Harrison. “Wonderful,” said Judge Kennedy, as he placed his feet gently upon the table, and tranferred a quid from his left to his right cheek. “I was there some weeks ago,” resumed the Justice, “and we made some experiments. One of the party fired off a gun near the needles, and when we got to Cottonwood, more than eighty-four miles away, we found the Town Marshal still on the lookout. for the fellow who had been shooting in the city limits." “It’s got a fine echo, too,” said Kennedy. “I was down at< Fort Mojave along in February, and just before I left I got into a little row with a fellow and said he w'as no part of a gentleman. I said it rather loudly and noticed that the remark hung around the neighborhood pretty well; but when we stopped for dinner, twenty miles away, I’ll own up I was surprised to find the rocks still call calling out ‘ part of a gentleman ’ in the same tone of voice that I had used, except possibly it sounded a little more husky.” “It’s a queer country,” said the genial Justice, “and, as you say, its echo is wonderful. I was down there along in the fall, and when I went back last'month half the conversation we indulged in was still floating around promiscuously. I had made a verbal contract for a mining claim that the other party had tried to go back on, but I clinched him by getting a stenographer to take down the echo word for word which had been said six months before, and then I got affidavits from those who knew him that the voice was Jim’s, and had him where he couldn’t squeal. Wonderful thing, that canyon!”—Leadville Democrat.