Litchfield enquirer., 1875-05-06
tions. An effort is now being made to

enclose an account or the .atf0clouS
 murder and outrages on the Germain fam fly. last September, on the Smoky Hill
 west of this place. The horrible details
 are similar to those in the case of the Oat.' man family, who were attacked few years
 since, while emigrating to California Of
 tkis family of nine persons, all were mur-
 dered but two girls, aged ten and fifteen,
 the youngest of whom died of starvation
 and brutal treatment, while the elder was
 rescued after long captivity. We would
 respectfully call the attention of the ''senti- mentalists" who have formed their estimate
 of the .'noble red man" from sickly novels,
 to the real savage as he is. The noble traits of the imaginary Indian of our story
 books, are very different from those of the
 Indian of the plains, with his savage, bru- tai nature. We even begin to think thai the so-called gentle, loving ''Poeahontas"' , is a pure myth, or highly exaggerated character. .E+ e=4t lr saEa sH"1 ,-.F FREEZING KANSAS. slr One of the old English philosophical Divines, who wrote in the seventeenth cen-' tury, and who seemed to be more anxious
 to find out where the place of future pun
 ishment was located than to avoid it, main
 tained that the comets were so many hells
 wheeling bad people to the immediate vi, cinity of the sun where the heat was sew. eral thousand times that of red hot iron;
 and then swinging them around to the remotest verge of the solar system, there
 to suffer cold and starvation. Had he lived in Kansas instead of "Merry Old
 England" we could have excused him.
 The extremes of heat and cold, ranging
 from 200 to 30 below to 115 and 120
 above zero in Kansas seasons, might sug- gest such -vagaries. a3 5a ,Es.AfE't sl '
 Four years ago a dozen young men from Russell fitted out teams and went
 westward hundred miles to hunt buff faloes. After having been engaged for few days in the sport, they encamped one night and retired to rest. The sky
 was clear and the weather mild, but just after midnight one of those terrible Kan sas snow storms burst upon them, and,
 before morning, their aove1 or temporary cabin was crushed in by the weight of the snow and they were huddled together like sheep, buried under it. All day long the storm continued. They could not see a rod in any direction, nor do anything to- wards making fire. Finally, at sunset,
 the storm abated. The cold was intense and they knew that to remain was to die. They had seen a cabin about three miles distant, the day before, that they judged belonged to a cattle man, and concluded to try and reach it. Only one of the party could find his boots, and the rest started barefooted on race for their lives and succeeded Tn reaching the cabin which fortunately was occupied by ranchman.
 Their feet fingers, and faces were badly frosted. Another party. only one-haf the distance. left their camp in the fore- noon Tn the storm and wandered round until the middle of the afternoon before they found the cabin. They were frozen so that the flesh on their faces cracked open, and they had to suffer amputation of limbs afterward The same storm found John Q. Adams (not the "old man eloquent" but the young man vigorous) encamped an the open plains by his wagon which was loaded with buffalo, meat and hides, on his way from the hunting grounds to the R. R. station. The furious storm burst on him, and as soon as it was day. break he harnessed his team and ran be- fore the storm, trusting mainly to the in- stinct of his horse, and reached the sta-l tion badly frozen. During the present winer four settlers, hunters from the Sol- omon, eacamped near the ArkansaI one hundred miles southwest. of here, on the evening of Jan: 9th. They picketed their horses. rolled themselves in their blankets. and lay down. The skies were clear. and strong south wind blowing. About mid- night the wind changed to the north and Q fearful snow storm and gale followed, The snow formed a compact bank five feet over them, so firmly pressed by, the gale that horses or mules could have pass ed over them without breaking through During the next day they made efforts to. extricate themselves without ayaal, they. were separated few feet, could eonverse, but could render each other no assistance. The following day one of them,,a power ful man of extraordinary endurance, burst from his living grave, losing the skin from his knees and elbows in the effort, and attempted to rescue his comrades but his. feet and fingers were already frozen, and without mittens and unable to get his frozen feet into his boots, cfto button his clothes. he sprangiupon q horse, bareback. sndsede tventgsfve fnileso4yith nothing to guide his eourse but the sun, and with the mercury near zero. The hunters camp that he reached were suffering also, but fortunately had some provisions Aa soon, as possible they went to release his com- panions. but found one was missing and
 the other two frozen to death in their icy
 graves. They had madeodesparate efforts
 to release themselves, as the skin rubbed |. of their Hmbstoo plainly indicsted. Capt Wait, formerly of Bridgeport, was caught
 inthe same storm,p and per1shsd when when within four miles of his camp near SEzEt |aasassa bGHo3 yd Esolf11-1l.'e'-1 = 4 =; 2. F3 =! S& 1sVo s5de497y .ssZIIs sssT5T1 ,ael1x1 zg Pleasant-faced people heagenerallyi the most welcomes but Hhep anctioneerTis is aI. ways pleased to seeamsnc whose counts. nance ls for bdddinGio13sQ ii sxsf
 t''S ic !aiio@1a a'4 g ee44ssefe4g ,F,syo13s fs handkerchief of William Penn ls to be on exhibition at the Uensenhial and aa, curious corresponders writes Co ask if it - As~ e.1z n