Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-06-26
THE RAMBLER,

THE RAMBLER.
Yesterday was highly unsvsntfal day.
but It must not be inferred from this that it
was dull. On the contrsry it was quite
lively.
Soon after reaching the postofice . boy
come to me with . blood curdling story
about some horrible animal that he saw
emerge from the timber on the West Side.
away down near the Wichita and Western
bridge. and 60 directly into the river. The
boy represented it - m animal about the
size Of COW with very large eyes and hoofs
and horns.
Invent to the spot and discovered the
tracks of the beast, in which the cloven hoof
was plainly visable. Armed with my six
shooter determined to pursue the monster
to its lair, and 1 marched into the
thicket with my gun all ready for
an emergency. was not long
in suspense, for right before me in clump
of trees could distinctly discern the mon
ster with horns erect and its body indicated
IN animal fully Is large as that of COW.
Nothing daunted by the terrible sight, 1
cooked my weapon and moved cautiously
forward, and sure enough it was Q COW.
hunted the dictionary for two hours in
search of words forcible enough to express
my opinion of that boy.
Not long after that met Pat Healy who
told me that Mr.. Ford wanted to see me at
the county building. hastened to that edifce
expecting good item sure. but my disgust
may be imagined when was informed that
Toler had offered q box of cigars to the
boys if they could have statement
made in the papers to the
effect that he had offered 100000 for the
county building. Upon hearing this gave
the gang lesson in profane history that
they'll remember until after election.
During the day 1 had many excellent
chances to give real estate men puff. and
tell big stories about sales they had made,
but this week the people, 1 apprehend, ANT
thirsting after that sort of knowledge.
I received some information regarding
Santa Fe Affairs from . source which con-
slider reliable. The gentleman said that the
company had arrangements made to give
Wichita the finest depot on their line and
that work would begin within thirty
days. He further stated that the
reason the company had not built here long
ago lie, that they wanted to build good per-
manent depot here, and did not want to 60
to that expense until there was reasonable
degree of certainty that later developments
would not make such changes that their de-
pot would be in the wrong place. Regard
ng the opposition to Wichita, SO much
talked about, he said there was nothing of it
and that the company never thought of OPP
posing the bonds for the other roads. Of
course the Santa Fe. or any other company,
will do everything in its power for its own
interests. That is all there is of it. "You
see," said he, "the Santa Fe did not want to
throw away $4,000 or $4,000 on depot
and find that they would have to change"
Quite q number of persons, including
three ladies, came to see mo about the hello
bolOo raised on account of Policeman Frank
Brasier dragging q man by the hand to the
calsboose, but had thoroughly inves.igst-
ed that matter the night before and several
persons who had no interest in the matter,
and who had been listening TO the fellows
for quite while before the arrest was made,
assured me that they thought Brsiser was
altogether too lenient and that almost any
other officer would have knocked the fellow
down with his club. The facts in the
case are that this fellow and bis pal were
Of the bragAdocis, smart slick style
and had run on the policeman for long
time, while he had advised them to to go
away some place and sober up, but they
were not drunk enough for that and sctu-
ally de6ed the officer, and then when this
fellow was arrested, he said to the police
man as he walked along "now if l lay down
how are you going to take me slong?" He
did lay down and then the officer put the
darby On the fellow and determined that he
should 60. In view Of all that heard of
the affair am inclined to the belief that
under the circumstances any of the gentle
men who characterized the policeman's
action ss "brutal," would have been tempted
to be worse than he was.
Wichita appears now to be destined to be
one Of the greatest of boating towns.
Whole fleets are being put in order to take
he river. found q number of carpenters |
1t work on nice little steamer with fiat |
ire 30x10 feet, aud as that is as far as the |
work has gone don't know what the cabin
will be. 1t will be q very wieldy little |
teamer, and will run in the big river trade |