Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-10-18
TmE ROUGH WEST.

aunt SAID was great saving OF trouple
and wedding cake.
TME ROUGH WEST.
81 Some Good Stories.
We take from Mr.. Richardson's very
lively volume Beyond the Mississippi some
entertaining extracts:
THE MISSOURI RIVER. n 81
John Randolph exaggerated in declaring
that the Ohio was frozen over one-nalf the
year and dry the other half But Benton
told almost the xact truth when he des-
cribed the Missouri as a little to thick to
swim in and not quite thick enough to
walk on. BY daylight the broad current
is unpoetic and repulsive-a stream OF Ii.
quid brick dust or flowing mud, studded
with dead tree trunks, broken by bars and
islands of dreary sand, and enclosed by
crumbling shores of naked soil. Its waters
will deposit sediment an eigth of an inch
thick upon the bottom of a tumbler in i've
minutes. Though at first unpalatable and
medicinal one soon finds it pleasant, beau
tltul beverage. have seen errant Missou-
rians 80 partial to it as to urge that the
pure waters of the rocky mountains were
unfit to drink because of their clearness!
OuC VI OuI CdStCIA pdSoCbSClS pOAIluS
out half q pitcher full for ablutiOn, was ut
terly disguised with its color in the white
porcelain basin. 51f 5.~
Here waiter" he exclaimed, bring me
me clean water; somebody has washed in
this" rea. r.4osseslqss laetaee
Its aspect quite justifes the Indian ap-
pelation of strong water" and possibly
accounts for the tendency of whites to- the
k<@r 90 olyo xuyi
novice fancies bathing in it must sadly soil
any one not very dirty to begin with; but
1t proves soft and cleansing. - Vi
Navigating the Missouri, at low water,
is like putting q steamer upon dry land,
and sending boy ahead with sprinkling
pot. g. it
ORIGIN OF WESTERN NAMES. ilt
a" Kansas" signifying smoky" is the
dian tribe. Lewis and Clark, and all other
early explorers, spelt it as pronounced,
with q 81" rt aa uJjd
Kansas towns perpetuate many Indian
names. Osawatlomie, the home of old
and Pottawatomie rivers, at whose juno
ton 1t is built. Oskaloosa was named in
Joint honor of Oska, an old chief and
Loosa, his squaw. Osawkee signifies the
"yeliow leaf" Hiawatha, in Brown coun-
ty, commentaries Longfellow's hero. Kin
nekuck is corruption of Ke-an-ne- kuck
(the foremost MANI, a great Kickapoo pro-
phet. "White Cloud was brave chief
among the Iowas, and the city of White
Cloud is built on his old hunting ground
Waubonsee is from Wau- bon-see (the dawn
of day., the name given to Pottawatomle
leader who attacked the enemy just at day
break. III a 4a.,l5.ee,5l r.ta aa Hld. 80
There is legend of an old brave within
the present limits of Wisconsin whose
squaw annually presented him with girl.
Women are of little repute among the
Indians, and the heart of the chieftain
longed for son and heir. But the squaw
had all the obstinacy of her sex, and every
twelve month the appearance of The inevi-
table girl filled him with dependency and
chagrin. On one of these sad occasions
the unhappy brave visited a littlesgrocery,
for settlers were already encroached upon
his domain. He was plunged in profound
est gloom, and refused to drink or talk.
A white loafer knowing his disappoint-
ment congratulated HIM upon the new ar
row added to his domestic CULVER. With a
look of unutterable disgust, he calculated,
"She-boy 'gin!' (she boy again y strobe
from the house, and never returned to the
scene of his broken hopes. And when q
fourishing town sprang up around the lit
tie grocery, it was named by common con-
sent Sheboygan.
Topeka Is an Indian name signifying "po-
tatoes." Satirists translated it small pota.
taes-an Interpretation which the Topeka
philoligists Indignantly rejected.
p siis "JIM LANE"
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 reti-
cence. The first person asked would per-
haps reply that he "never heard of any
such man." z Another would report him
"gone down SOUTH" A third saw him an
hour ago, but thought he was now over
the Reservation. Then young man with
revolver at his side would step up and
demand gravely ..l-.es. ..a.55 .y za
4 HELLO, marshal, looking for jim Lance"
4" Yes; where is he ?" zeal saT
~ !" Just left town, ! saw him start for
Iowa ten minutes ago with a twelve pound
er under his arm. pin sai4iaiuoo - .
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 up Massachusetts street, wearing the
old black bear-skin overcoat, which en-
veloped him winter and summer, and ask
ing if anybody had heard gentleman
from Lecompton inquiring for himl
LYNCH LAW IN THE EARLY KANSAS DAYS.
In Lawrence, when the assessor asked
one man for list of his property, mob
began to gather, and he departed abruptly.
Upon his arrival in Topeka, he heard a
party of young men step into an adjacent
store and inquire: el4A
"Can you lend us roper"
l. ~ For what purpose % Eerg{
"There is bogus assessor in town, and
we are going to hang him" 5f
The officer absconded again, in what
Choate used to call terrific and tumul-
tuous haste" fully convinced that the post
of safety was private station. No more
tax efforts were made.
TOWN LOT sPECULATIoNs.
The pantomime of actual life began with
beggars clothed in rags. But the genii of
real estate speculation touched them with
his wand, and lol the tatters were gone,
and they were clothed in purple, adorned
with jewels, and weighed down with gold.
Young men who never before owned fifty
dollars at once, a few weeks after reaching
Kansas possessed full pockets and town
shares by the score, and talked OF thou
sends as if they had been rocked in golden
cradles, and fed with the famous Miss Kill
mansegg's famous golden spoon. On a
smaller scale was repeated the story OF
that Minnesota wood-sawyer who accumu-
lated half million in half year. On