Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-01-23
KINGMAN KERNELS.

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l am not going to talk about the weather.
/ simply want TO correct some impressions
about its effect. Without correction and
in irresponsible hands might shock this ms
ton as did the exploits of the Blenders in
this state few years ago.
That twenty dead bodies were taken out
of one of Green's cannon bull stages going
west yesterday and nineteen in the other
one coming east, at the half way station Just
in the edge of Pratt county; that all the
bodies are to be brought to Kingman to-
morrow; that the event was sufficient to in
duce foreign capitalists to start marble
works on the south side; that the marble
dealers At Wichita had put up the price of
stone; that none of the victims left
assets enough 10 buy foot
slab; that Magill & Smyth had all
the Grape in town and thereby cornered the
market, SO that you could not tell widow
from your own wife. The party who irven-
ted all of the above and told it for facts is
the most ornamental liar / ever met and
when ! see him l propose to express in per-
son my opinion of such statements. They
even said Capt. Patten was among the dead,
and he was the first mayor of Kingman. The
idea be should die so young Why he ate
supper at the Riverside tonight with only
one hand tied up. Don't allow the EAGLE
readers TO believe it, even if Eli Perkins tells
it. But can say that the Grand View no.
tel st Cheney came near being short land
lord and the town one w. c. Osgood. 1t
happened in this way. 0sgood got dis
patch over the Wichita and Western rail- |
road telegraph announcing the fact that
some one had jumped his claim and !
the dispatch was three days old when it came
but Mr.. o. never stopped but started at once
and when be got eighteen miles up the river |
he discovered he was on the wrong side of
the raging and dangerous Minnesota but
rather than lose further time to come back |
to the bridge, Is miles. he took his chances
of crossing on the ice. Imagine person |
attempting to cross on the ice to the twin /
islands at Niagara Falls, and you see the
chances Mr.. Osg God took. When in the
middle of the stream the horses, wagon and /
all went under, and was only saved By some
freighters down the stream. There is
claim for sale at any time before warm
weather, jumped or not jumped. and Mr..
Moore is looking for boy and a top wag-
on, the horses were picked up while on
their way to the New Orleans exposition.
The town is out of meat The last at
tempt TO drive a steer to the slaughter house
stands frozen stiff in front of the Farmers
and Drovers' bank; the last thing the steer
saw was the name Farmer and he thought !.
he would go in.
A band of coyotes struck the town and I
landed in Jacks & Miller's livery barn and
ate up all the harness and some Of the nuts
on their rolling stock.
There is no coal in town and owners of
scales have taken up the platforms to keep
teams from driving on with empty wagons.
Regular drinkers are using kerosene and
lampblack.
The entire editorial outfit of the town
stand like grinning stiffs looking for items.
Your correspondent is more fortunate as be
had square meal before all this took place
and plenty Of good clothes and never uses
false teeth. In word, everything resembles
death in an Arctic region. All the doctors
agree that no babes have been born for a,
week. Poor things.
Some future time propose to tell you
about the barbarous relics used by the saw
age Indians and now in the possession of j.
Jones, but we have blood curdling
enough for one article, and calm to social
and local facts.
Judge Joan c. Foley, editor of the Cour-
Ter, returned home last Thursday evening af-
Ter prolonged absence to Indiana. He is ,
IN fine health and spirits and of course anx-
Gus to know the news. After calling upon j
bis wife and family he sought and interview Z
with the EAGLE's correspondent who took
pleasure in fully posting him and you may !
ook for Nm interesting paper next week.
Mr.. A. L. Pitts answer in behalf Of the
w. d w. Telegraph, was great disap- /.
continent to the readers here, but all are in
with him. He had hard subject.
Now if he will only send his chrome every :
BODY will forgive him. He ought to make a
rood one. I
There are more young men in this town '
han there are young ladies by about four ,
o one and the ladies are just about having !
picnic this winter. The boys say wait I'M !
il next summer when they are all out on /.
laims and none left to bait their fish hooks. \
There are few of us who never lack for in
'itstionr, in fact it is hard to keep them all a
tut those weasel forms and hair are having a
hard time Of it. Some of them are un- o
ducated and don't know that the first step a
o good society is clean handkerchief. /.
LEON.