The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1874-11-26

WrLros, PnLLIPs Co., KAN, !
Nov. 4th, 1874.

WILTON, tHLLIPS CO., NAN,
Nov. 4th, 1874.
Mn. EDIroR:-Noe quite two year,
ago left your county and came west
TO sock homo. came to this ooun-
ty when the 6rst tide of emigration
was setting in. ! took home here
whore the antelope and huGalo had
pastured undisturbcd for ages, except
by the red man. and occasionally .
white hunter. have trallod the an
telope on these plains and Toasted on
the flesh Oh his bones after have
brought him down, and have fought
with the wounded buffalo these
things are nothing Ssi o.;'i's play
lhave seen parties Of the Sioux ,Ckey.
ennes, Omahas, and PAsnoe tribes Of
Indians; alone, and without fear have
| been in their camps and shook
hands with them, and have yet TO
see the 6rst Indian that showed any
signs Of hostility. Tho ten acres Of
my quarter section that l wished to
break 6rst and plant into corn, wss
dcnsly inhabited with the prairie dogs,
being one solid town, snd eli Gov.
cred with little mounds of dirt
thrown up at the entrance Of their
holes. The owl and tho rattlesnake
that are always companions Of those
little dogs, aud burrow in the same
holes with them, were hero in force.
The people told mo l could raise NO
corn, for tho dogs would dig il up ~
fast a. I could plant il. I told them
il dogs would eat corn ] would soon
6x them; 90 I went TO town and GOT
6fty cen,s worth of strichMine, and in
. week I cleaned them oil out, and
had thirteen acres broke one year ago
last spring. Last year | raised three
hundred bushels of good, solid oorn
on It, which you cant beat in Iowa
of from your prairie sod. This year
| raised one husdred and thirty bush
els Of wheat, and Of as good quality
a. ever raised in Iowa, Of Of ten
acres that | broke last year. There
Was no roads nor tracks across the
prairies when l 6rst came here. I
could not hear the tinkling Of COW
bell nor . cock crow from ono weeks
end to smother. The whistle Of the
porcupine, the bark Of the wolf. and
the reports of the sportsman's rife
we're all the sounds then to be heard.
To-day, we'll beat roads ore sssu in
every direction, and whore oss year
ago the antelope fed from morning
till night, and the buffalo wallowed q
his ease, the plow Of the hasbandman
has turned the God, and those animals
are gone farther west, and II one Of
them dares to come back be is follow
cd BY . hunter that viii not let him
rest in peace. The rush Of psople
was % large here last spring, aud the
amount Of breaking We had done to
SOW in small grain 20 small, that The
grasshoppcrs and drouth tng.&A..l.s
caused actual want here, Just ct the
present time, but let this country
once get start and l tell you il can't
be beat. IL We had had the amount
of land broken to have sown in email
grain last spring that we will have TO
sow next, We would al have . plenty
and to spare.
Sharp men are trying to take the
of good people back there
to fll their own pockets with money
of Of the misfortunes that the settlers
have met with here. They ring to-
geiher, in counties, and send men
back to beg, with the county seal for
Some of those
men give no records nor keep any &C.
count Of what YOU give them. They
will feed the poor here with some
poor article Of living, but one thing
you may bet, these poor here will
never receive ono cent of money that
you put in the hands Of four-ffths Of
those county seal chaps. Ono man
was honestly appointed that lives
here by me. believe he 10 an hon.
est and good man, his name is John
Spencer. II he comes to ypur town
and shows good papers, which he
took from here, give him, If you can
spare. I sent . recommendation TO
the White Pigeon Grange. Anything
sent on that petition will be properly
distributed, for give records and
keep records, and viii make the com.
mittee appointed to receive donations
here give records to me.
ALBEIT DuBoIs.