Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1867-10-02

arrow added to his domestic culver
With look of unutterable disgust, he
CALCULATED, "She-boy gin!" (she- boy
again.) strobe from the house, and never
again returned to the scene of his broken
hopes. And when a hourishing town
sprang up around the little grocery it
was named by common consent SheboY-
gan. = 7a
Topeka is an Indian word signiifyiing
potatoes" Satirists translated it small
potatoes an Interpretation which the
Topeka philologists Indignantly rejected.
"JIM LANE" 80. <-.
Repeatedly the United States Marshal
from Lecompton, with an armed posse at
his heels, galloped into Lawrence with a
warrant for Lanes arrest. But the Law
renee people were miracles of heroic re-
ticence. The first person asked would
perhaps reply he never heard Of any any
such man" Another would report him
"gone down South."' A third saw him
an hour ago, but thought he was now ov-
er upon the reservation. Then young
man with revolver at his side would
step up and demand gravely: I - 80
"Hallo, Marshal, looking for Jim
Lane7" ..i'7
"Yes; where is he?' .--,'1 I. 1.''
'Just left town. I saw him start for
Iowa ten minutes ago with q twelve
pounder under his arm"
Amid the derisive laughter which fol-
lowed, the angry officer and his posse
would ride homeward Before they were
fairly out of sight Lane would come stroll.
ling leisurely up Massachusetts street,
wearing the old black bear skin overcoat,
which enveloped him winter and sum
ner, and asking if anybody had heard a
gentlemen from LecomptoE. inQuiring for
him!
LYNCH Law IN THE EARLY KANSAS :.
In Lawrence, when the assessor asked
one man for list of bis property, mob
began to gather, and he departed abrupt
~. Upon his arrived in Topeka he
heard a party Of young men step into an
adjacent store and inquire: 49, ~.
"Can you lend Us roper
"For what purpose?"
'There is bogus assessor in town, and
we are going to hang him"
The officer absconded again, in what
Choate used to call terrific and tumultu-
Gus haste" fully convinced that the post
of safaty was private station. No fur
ther tax efforts were made.
TOWN LOT spECULATIoNs.
The pantomime of actual lift began with
begoars clothed in rags. But the GEMS
of real estate speculation touched them
with his wand, and 10! the tatters were
gone, and they stood clothed in purple,
adorned with jewels and weighed down
with gold. Young men who never before
owned fifty dollars at once, few weeks
after reaching Kansas possessed full pock-
cts, with town shares by the score; and
talked of thousands as if they had been
rocked in golden cradles and fed with the
famous Miss Kilmansegg's golden spoon
On a smaller scale was repeated the story
of that Minnesota wood sawyer who ac-
cumulated half million in half year.
On paper oil these towns were magnificent.
Their superbly Autographed maps adorned
the walls of. every place of resort. The
town might be composed of twenty build
ings, or it might not contain a single hu-
man habitation. In most cases, however,
he would nn1 one or two rough cabins,
with perhaps tent and an Indian canoe
on the river in front of the "levee." -.
Anything was marketable. Shares in in
terror towns of one or two shant;es sold
readily. for a hundred dollars. Ways
proposed an act Of Congress reserving
some land for farming purposes before
the whole Territory should be deyided
into city lots. Towns enough were start
ed for State containing four millions of
people. -s r. ...f aaa
UNREAL REAL ESTATE. .- ....-.
Weston, Missouri, was once leading
and thriving town. Now the erratic
stream had made deposits in front, until
large. buildings, formerly On the bank,
were one-third of mile inland. At ST.
Joseph, forty miles above, and upon un-
DERIVING, quicksands, the river was fast
cutting into the city, Several acres had
disappeared in a single year. Brick ware
houses on the leyee were now deserted,
and their outer walls falling. A family
in the lower part Of the town were at din.
ner when the ground beneath them began
to tremble. At first they thought it an
earthquake, but it proved water-quake.
They fled to safe distance, and saw
house, garden and acres of land slide into
the encroaching element One might
contract to sell lots here and deliver them
in St. Louis! It was flight Of fancy to
call such property real estate: - q
At ST. Joseph the river originally flow
ed in front of First street. Now it ran
along Fourth, tand the intervening land
had disappeared. A nonresident who
purchased levee lots soon after the city
was laid out, returned in 1853 to look
oftor tbnm He supposed them some