Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-09-18

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WILD WESTERN WINDS.
Some Sample Stories of Their Very Ec-
centric Performances.
Salt Lake Tribune.
A gentleman from Nevada and another
from Kansas were sitting with Colora-
doan on the Walker house porch Sunday
evening during the lively little dust
storm which drove everybody else in
doors and filed all eyes, ears, and pores
exposed with Utah soil.
1--WE been here quite while" said the
Nevada man, 'bnt I've never seen wind
here yet that amounted to anything. I
tell you that Nevada is the place where
they have winds. I've seen the wind
come up there all in a minute and every
thing would fly. Cobblestones, and
signs and tin cans and barrels and dogs
and goats would all go down the street
together. One day saw the tin from a
roof over 1OC feet long rolled up like the
diploma of a young girl graduate and
carried the whole length Of the town in
Virginia City, and as soon as it got be-
yond the city limits, where there was
nothing to break the force Of the wind,
it Just spread that roof out like table
cloth, and tore it into shreds like it was
tissue paper.
"That's nothing" sarcastically re-
marked the Kansas gentleman; "you
can talk as much as you like about high
winds, but I'm telling you that Kansas
is the banner state for zephyrs. Why,
that's where we have cyclones and cork
screw winds. You read q good deal
about cyclones in the newspapers, but
you never see a word about the cork
screw gales; you bet you don't. Any
man who dared to publish word about
them would be lynched! If people out
side knew about them it would stop i'm
migration and spoil the prospects of the
whole state.
"Those corkscrew winds just wind
around and Irvine into all sorts of places
in the most eccentric manner possible,
There have been several cases of people
having their necks wrung just like you'd
twist chickens head off. People who
understand the country all build their
fences in the tract of climate where these
winds prevail so as to have their post
holes dug for them. I've seen pile Of
lumber stand near the site Of fence for
three months waiting for one of those
breezes, Just because the owner was too
slack and lazy to dig the holes and 80
kept waiting, from day to day, hoping
for breeze It's risk, though, be-
cause there might happen to come along
an unusually big blow and dig a cellar,
but in that case the man would probably
build house where he intended to put
a fence. I've seen one of them gales
enter q window what had been left open
and corks,rew baby out Of it's crib and
twist the bedclothes into q coil 30 hard
that they could only be separated by an
az. I've seen cook stove waltzed into
the middle Of the room, and all sorts of
things like that OCCUR during those kind
of winds. You don't have much wind
in Colorado, do YOUR
"Wen, no." said the Coloradoan, I'VE
don't have any winds to amount to any
thing but it blows few minutes there
now and then. The winds are peculiar
as the ID, too; I never saw anything
like them any whore else. They are
what you might call discriminating
breezes. They don't have a much force
as some combined air I've heard Of, but
what they do counts. They don't seem
to penetrate, like New England north
easter, but still they do penetrate lit
tie way, and they have their effect, too.
A northeaster, you know, win cut right
into q mans bones and marrow, and chill
him to the quick. These signs Of Boreas
do not penetrate but little way, and
they blow funny, too. I've seen q mao
go along street, and it would be blow
ing q hurricane on one side Of him, and
;. on the other aide It would be. dead
calm. I've seen 9 mule. stand braced
} against the wind blowing behind her,
y with her tail blown right mp straight,
and one ear put away ahead Of her nose,
while the ear on the other side would be
in q natural, calm, position, and thst side
} Of the beast would be sweating. It will
take the skin OF one side Of your face
, and not touch the other. saw man
} with whiskers get one sids Of his face
shaved by wind like that, % clean as
} any barbercould do It. A small boy
y and dog were Walking with him It the