The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1882-08-03
FROM GUNNIsON.
TIsCUP, GUsSIsOS Co, Col, Z
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.- TIsCUP, GUsSIsos Co, COL,
July 2l=t, 1882.
EDIToR Kansas CHEZ After an absence Of three
years, thought I would down this morning,
from AMONG the Great Rockies, md have n little
talk with my old Doniphan County folks, for that
is my mind and hope find you wcll-"scrving the
Lord" If it not for You, Mr. Editor, would
have lost sight of nearly all Kansas affairs, by this
time But the Ckicf comes along nearly every week,
and brings the good and evil dngs from the drouth
stricken, grasshoppereaten, cyclone haunted, and
st. John ridden Kansas. by tho way, does this
Kansas St. John resemble the pictures Of those old
saints that snch pest to the people, eighteen
hundred two thousand years agoi Especially
that old Digger saint who lived locusts, sweet
cned with honey, stolen, no doubt from hee-hiyes.
II 40, throw him overheard, and let whale swallow
him. and be sure it does not pukn him up again. till
be reforms; for. 50 long he remains among you,
preaching his scfccneeited erankizm, just SO long
God will visit his Judgments upon you.
Sorry to learn that my young friends MOwry and
Dixon. of Severance. have been compelled To take
st. John pills BE more careful in the future, my
lads. II you will sell whiskey, why nOt get few
patent medicines, start drug store, with sample
room in rear, keep liquors, and cell for medicinal
and mechanical purposes only Join Sonic church
The good brothers will learn visit your sample
room, and sample your goods; and If any com
plains, the deacon will call church cancus, and you
uk n be forgiven. Chip in a dollar to help pay
for the church organ five dollars buy the deacons
wife hat, fifty eents for missionary fund, quar-
terage IS cents; total g Is; all Of which is to fur
thcr the cause Of Christ. Benediction will be sound
ell, you parloned, and sent home happy, having the
satisfaction of knowing that sample pays.
and you have cheated the city out Of its revenue.
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Doniphan. Many Of her citizens have been laid in
the silent grave; some sickcned and died, others
stricken down in the prime of life, by an IN
punished brutal police.
Some of the learned and venerable, who wero be-
got by Democratic parents and rrared m the Demo
critic party were taught. and have themselves for
many years, taught its noble principles, St. Paul
like, have been struck blind, and now 90 cropping
through the world In darkness
The head Of the nation has been assassinatcd the
assa--in has been appointed agent, with full power
aud means, and has been sent 70 purchase large
tract of territory, and make all the necessary mr.
rsngemeHts for planting colony Of 'Stalwarts- in
h.
All this, and niuch more has taken place since I
left Kansas But the Chief comes, and brings tie
news, all the same
Well, suppose some Of my old friends would like
70 hcif -omehhS hbout the town and country am
in The town was formerly named Virginia City, |
but last fall by vote of the people, it changed
to Tincup. AboIt twenty-five years ago. a company
Of propoetors, gold hunters stopped in this little
valley and prospeeted for gold. About mile soth
Of this town Is tieep gorge. canon, coming down
FROM the mountains, and opens out into the valley
Early in the spring much water comes down this |
eanoa later in the season, but little water comes
down. not enough to wash gold. Now. it so hap |
peued that one Of the irs-Peetsr- foGEd whs; be
supposed 20 be pay dirt and having 10 vessel bat
tin-crP with him, be filed the cup with the dirt
carried it TO the stream below, banned ont HE tin
erP full Of dirt, and fOand in the bottom Of the cup
several coio-s, as h Is called. Hence the name Of
T;scuPs 81 th. canon. the town, and this mining \
district are called lineup. yhc origin Of names "a
interesting to soue, and this my reason for detail
ing THE
TiscaP = Situated the Pacific slope, foar miles
west Of the summit of the main continental rar.e
in valley about eish; miles long. and from onealf
to two uIiies wide Il has three hotels, several