The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1876-06-29
IOUFespUHueIICe OF Tue NOV
Letter from Kansas.

L RANKFoRT, Marshall Co., Kansas,
June, 1876.
Friend Boardman, ana your many
readers of the News: a few lines
from this part of the country may be
interesting to some persons who
want to hear something of the far
West.
When in Ohio last winter, 1 was
asked many questions in reference
to Kansas; about the grasshoppers,
chintz bugs, crops, &c. Our pros
poets for crops this season are quite
fattering. Fall wheat and rye look
well; will be harvesting in about
three weeks. Spring grain looks
well for the time it was sown. Gar
den vegetables of all kinds are doing
we'll
1t is getting dry, and we begin to
need rain. It has been the wettest
Spring here ever known by the old
est settlers. The rivers and streams
have been very high, in several in
stances washing out mill dams.
The flood washed away our mill at
Frankfort, total wreck. Loss
about seven thousand dollars.
There was about $1,000 worth of
grain and flour went into the river
with the mill.
We have plenty of old wheat and
corn on hand yet 1t is coming into
Frankfort market from one to two
thousand bushels day for the last
three weeks. Wheat is worth from
rs to so cts. per bushel, Corn 25 to
2S cts. Cattle 8 to 4 cts. Hogs 5 to
6 cts per lb. gross.
Our prairies look nice and green,
with the grass foot or more high,
scented with the choicest wild flow
ers you ever saw. 1t is a beautiful
sight to get on a high point and
SEQ the herds of cattle grazing IN
different directions, and at the same
time, see villages and towns Is to 20
miles away.
Our country is gradually filing up
with emigrants from the east. There
is still room for more to come.
This is good country for a man to
buy cheap lands, or rent. Choice
lands rent for one third in the bush
ell, and house and garden furnished.
Raw lands are selling at from 50 to
s1O per acre, owing to distance from a
Railroad. Improved farms sell from
$40 to $50 per acre, owing to loca-
ton and the amount. of improve
ments, &c.
Twill now give an interesting In
cident that came under my own OBJ
servation last week. There is
tribe of the Otoe Indians living
Northwest twenty-five miles, and a
tribe of the Potawotomies South OF
us twenty miles. They visit each 9th
er every Spring and Fall, and they go
through our place in going back and
forth, with their camp equipments
On last Friday evening there were
thirty-fve of the Otoe Indians camp
ed on the outskirts of our town, and
that night by the request OF the elH-
zens, they came into town, and built
their camp fire, and gave US several
of their favortite dances, including
the War Dance, showing the manner
of scalping and the use of the toma-
hawk, scalping-k knife, bow and ar
row. &c. When they brandished
their weapons in the air and they
plistened in the fire light, my mind
was led back to many incidents in
the early history of Ohio.
The Indiansare peaceable and quiet,
but they are great on the "beg."
The News is a welcome visitor to
me. 1 would not do without it on
any consideration. 1 receive it gen
orally on Friday evening, the week
of publication. But for fear 1 will
make my letter wearisome, will
close. Yours as ever,
WILLIAM SIDERS.