The daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1884, 1884-05-21

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The following story first appeared
in the New York Post. 1t is a true
story. In 1868 when the editor Of the
Wichita EAGLE established the Usage
County Chronicle, at Buriingame,
Howard Schuyler, thc..hero of the fol-
lowing sketch. was then young man
about twenty-one years of age. He
had just been commissioned as a re-
cruiting lieutenant. His father, Judge
Z. G. Schuyler, was the founder of
Burlingame. Howard, having little
to do, assisted us in getting out the
first two or three issues of the paper.
As nineteen year old boy lie had at
tracted notice in the battle of Wilson's
creek, and was one of the first among
the boys to reach General Lyon when
he fell. After the war he became a
chain bearer, and then a surveyor on
the X. p. Railroad. Afterwards in
connection with General Anderson,
he inaugurated the Denver and Rio
Grande Railroad, and in fact helped
to build, he acting as treasurer of the
organization. Before they commenced
Operations Howard went to Wales
and made report on the narrow
gauges Of that country. On his return
he came down to Wichita, spending
two days with the editor of this paper,
at which time he narrated the exploit
pictured in the following account.
His father was one of the original pro-
prietOrs of the old town of Wichita.
Howard after acting as general man.
ager and president of California
railroad, for several years past, took
the consumption, and died in Switzer-
land some five weeks since where he
had gone for his health:
In the month of June, 1869, when
the grass and flowers on the plains Of
Kansas and Colorado were nearly
knee high, the result of unusually
abundant rains, which left clear pools
OF water in all the little arroyos, a
corps of Kansas Pacific engineers, I'M
der the leadership of Howard Schuyler,
were engaged in making certain pre-
liminary surveys in the vicinity OF the
terminal town of Phil Sheridan, near
the border line of the two states.
They had been out on trip of several
months in the direction of Denver,
and had returned TO the end of the
track TO begin the definite location,
which we afterwards carried through
TO Denver. At this time | had been
with the party some two or three
months, taking my novitate in engln-
eering, and was occupying the posi-
ton of rodman. Prior to commence
inc the location, we were running
some rapid trial lines north of Sheri-
dan. and by the 10Th of June were
fifteen or twenty miles out in a rolling
country, where the heads of the
Smoky Hill and Republican Forks Of
Kansas river interlock. On the even
ing before our camp had been brought
up to the end of our work, and we
started out bright and early on this
memorable Saturday morning, so that
by 10 O'Clock we were several miles
away from camp. In all our work we
had been accompanied by an escort of
fifteen infantry soldiers under the
charge ola lieutenant, acting in the
capacity of a camp guard who, while
they were very useful in guarding our
base of supplies, were of no protection
to us in the field. Our party num-
bered thirteen all told, two of whom
remained in camp as cook and team
ster. The working party was there
fore reduced to eleven, including
Howard, whose duty it was to ride
several miles ahead, looking out the
line and indicating it by building sod
mounds two or three feet high with a
shovel. We followed from one mound
to the next, measuring angles aud dis
tanccs and dwelling the ground. Our