The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1872-10-10
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ncapoiis Monday. Couse gave Us good
rig and with buoyancy and good feeling
we tretted across the prairies to the
northward hills. Even those hills which
in earlier days we're tedious and appar-
entity barren are now being settled and
from their sol! bursts out corn to the
height Of twelve feet. The Colonel
gave us graphic account Of buffalo
hunt he was engaged IN in that region Us
early as 1857. He says the wilderness
commenced then in the neighborhood
ofTopeka. just after midday VIC struck
the divide from which We could look
down upon the far reaching valley Ut
the Solomon. When Cortes and his par
ty first caught sight Of the far-famed and
long-sought city of the Aztecs, they are
said to have danced a Spanish jig upon
the top of \ sacrificial mountain. The
beauty of the Mexican valley, the float
ing gardens, &c, &C., filled their souls
with delight and their pedal extremities
became very loose. The Colonel, al
though somewhat "rheumatic," and ro-
mantle too, burst off three distinct but
tons from his pantaIoons in giving vent
TO his ecstatic feelings. ave" broke
our pipe and bumped our knees, SO great
was the beauty before us and the tedi-
business behind us. In the Oldcntime,
when we put ON our armor ~ fight Jer-
ONE in the ncighborhood Of classic
Bennington, we were compelled to
plunge into the waters of the Solomon
and ago 1t blind" at the ford, encoun-
,cring the risk of choosing lie, liberty
and happiness AT the hands OF high
water. Ii is not so now. The Ottawa
people have built III the last eighteen
month two fine bridges, one near Minnea-
polls and one three miles southeast Of
Lindsey. We crossed the Rubicon'
and soon hove in sig. Of Lindsey. As
we Travelled we noticed large hay-stack>
dotting the pr;,irics on every hand, good
looking farm houses and barns, and, IN
the haze of that October afternoon, one
of the grandest valleys our eyeshave ever
rested upon. Surprising changes have
taken place there since last we "horse-
backed" it up and down the valley, three
years ago. AT Lindsey, we watercd.'
Lindsey and Eaton together, make a
sood-looking town. \ beautiful Local
ton il has and large town can be built
there. A few minutes ride brought us
in sight Of Minneapolis, which is set up
on Il hill. This town boasts Of one of
the best, if not the best, Xatcr-power IN
Kansas. 4 saw mill and grist-mill are
now doing successful business, and the
prospect is good for a large-sized manu-
featuring town. Tunnels abound in
this locality, there being one already
built through solid stone-one quarter
of a mile long. Most of the new towns
of the west are inartifcially built. Their
grandest structures wave and crack
like a piece of bunting, during high
winds. When Il certain amount OF glo-
ry has been obtained, the inhabitants
"fold up their tents and steal silently
away" We have heard of one house
which resided in all the towns from
Omaha to Cheyenne. The houses of
Minneapolis are "made to stay" Min
neapolis has one dwelling house which
would be "princc among Others" in
most any town. Several brick build
ings-two stories high-loOm up, be-
sides large frame, well-built business
houses. Thorn, proprietor of the Trav-
eler's home, is building an addition to
his hotel. Court was in session, but rs
we did not come to court, we kept out
of the reach Of sheriff Trips call
Charley Hitler was astonishing the peo-
pie from the "rural deestricks' with
wonderous words of learned length
So we had nothing to say. Judge Can
field was chewing as much tobacco, and
was as genial as ever. Steel and Wood
en-, court clerks, were enveloped in big
looking books, like b. Butler in search
of documentary evidence upon the i'm
parchment trial. Andy lngersoll with
pen in mouth, was looking up TO heaven.
like the monk of Mark Twain's Old mas
ters,. in search of an idea. J. l. Norton
had made raid on Lindsey and was
moving fine two-story building up to
Minneapolis on wheels. Johnson, once
partner of J. W. Russelrs. has neat
boot and shoe store, and is doing we'll
EASILY, once of Salina, muscular as ever,
still pounds the anvil and shoes Ottawa
county horses. Doctors Dunn < McHen-
ry-always clever and good hammered
run well-ilIcd drug store. Increasing
wears silver their brows but little, while
the hcalthful atmosphere gives them
more embonpoint. Wharton is jolly
and turns over the tripod TO Bishop