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ATTEMPT TO ROB A STAGE

... ATTEMPT TO ROB A STAGE CYACH. The Yosemite Valley stage ws, CaLirorNiA, May 19. lay, was stopped by nearing Milton © express messe shot one, but a companion returned rat killing a sound of the firing frightened the bolted and wildly for miles before they ...

Published: Monday 21 May 1894
Newspaper: North British Daily Mail
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 54 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE AGE OF TREES

... the spruce, 1,200 ; tfie walnut, ; and the yew, 3,200. It is not unreasonable to. suppose that some the giants of the Yosemite Valley are older than any those given, their years being almost, if not Quite, equal to those tbefperiod since the Flooo, according ...

Published: Saturday 06 April 1895
Newspaper: Glasgow Evening Post
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 231 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THE LORGNETTE

... Blackfriarap at present in California. In letter he just written home, dated from Scobie’s Ranch,, he passes over the Yosemite Valley and tha ' Golden Gate, &c., too well known to need description, but he linds much that is interest-.’ in in the universities ...

Published: Tuesday 27 September 1892
Newspaper: Glasgow Evening Post
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 851 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

THS APOTHEOSIS OF THE POSTBR

... visitors to Niagara have to peep the great falls between hoardings gaudy with placards, and to accept the grandeur of the Yosemite Valley along with gigantic recommendations of certain candies and chewing-gums. To be sure, neither our own country nor the Continent ...

Published: Wednesday 31 August 1892
Newspaper: Glasgow Evening Post
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 912 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LITERATURE

... Philadelphia, Balti- more, and Chicago, going through the Colorado Rockies, looking inon the Mormons at Utah, doing the Yosemite Valley, exploring San cisco, posting north to Vancouver,and then turn- ing homewards through British Columbia by the Canadian ...

Published: Thursday 09 January 1890
Newspaper: North British Daily Mail
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2625 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

IN WESTERN NORWAY

... view is had right down the Naerbdal, which is described bv travellers as being quite as impressive as the far-famei Yosemite Valley. The hotel is constructed entirely or wood, aud has a grand dining haill decorated in I Scandinavian style, capable of ...

Published: Friday 12 June 1891
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2441 | Page: 9 | Tags: News 

THROUGH THE LONDON PICTURE GALLERIES

... artist to possess, not only knowledg-e of the ( ,subject, but a bold and practised ha-nd to record E I-. A scene in the Yosemite Valley, Cali- E 4ornia, is a fine picture bathed in yellow light. ' MlountTacerc Washington3, ebo9wanlriverwind- 3ng ioin ...

Published: Monday 26 October 1891
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2279 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

JOHN DIL BISHOP O'DW YER. Our Dublin night, says:—To-day the freedom of the burgh of Clonmell was conferred on Mr

... Valen about the than any other man living. The trath has devoted himself place for a that John Muir of decades, When we Yosemite Valley.” its discoverer, writer has its been so wendy de scribed. In his latest paper he Power in and the cluded in of the preceding ...

Published: Wednesday 27 August 1890
Newspaper: North British Daily Mail
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3326 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

... greater area than Inverness-shire and Aberdeen- shire together as a perpetual pleasure-ground for! the nation. The romantic Yosemite Valley in; California, with its great falls, was' in like manner handed by Congress in perpetuity to the State. I may say, in ...

Published: Thursday 27 January 1898
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3499 | Page: 10 | Tags: News 

AMERICA

... now here, and gives a sense of security. STAGE-COACH ROBBERS, R(ECTER'S TELEGRAM.) Stockton, California, TMay 19. The Yosemite Valley stage-coach when near- ing Milton to-day:S Wm- §0PP#ti 3 Marskv4 robbers. The express messengers shot one, but a companion ...

Published: Monday 21 May 1894
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4821 | Page: 7 | Tags: Commerce 

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

... occurred to me that a short account of some i thie things I have seen here might be interesting tc your readers. The Yosemite Valley, the great ,vineyards, the rich mines, and the Golden Gate are so well known that there is no use writing about them. ...

Published: Tuesday 27 September 1892
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5975 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

LITERATURE

... mines, she went on -without tlagging to San Francisco and the Pacific coast. IThen, turning southwards, she visitod the Yosemite valley, with its falls 2600 feet high and its won~rous Sequoia~ or Weliingtontia, pines, plunged into M11exico, of which she ...