Wichita eagle., 1889-08-21

Wood mower drawn by q pair of steers
Inc sight doubled US all up. The steer.
were harnessed. had bits in their mouth.
and were driven along by the lad quite
had little trouble. / never before heard OF
| oxen drawing moving machine"
! Excitement is running high, just now
| on account of the adventure of Ed. S
| Manning with panther, few days ago.
FROM personal statement the writer is
enabled so give entire the particulars: A
number of residents OF Seward have night
ly heard the screams of panthers for sew
eral weeks and many tracks have been
seen where it crossed the stream. Monday
Mr.. Manning went out on turkey hunt,
and only short distance from Seward he
entered bend of the Cottonwood
where dense jungle exists and where a
'cut OFF, of the creek has grown oyer with
vines and dense timber. He was cautious
~ moving through the head of the now
dry stream when he was attracted by huge
tracks of what seemed to be panther.
While examining them his dog COM
menced to cover and tremble at his feet.
On looking up his eyes at once alighted on
the majestic form of a huge panther.
stretched out on limb of a gigantic oak
tree not more than forty feet from him.
To say that he was astonished does not ex-
press it-he was paralyZed. The huge
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his shining coat bristling in the sun and
his long sharp claws hanging to the limb
looking complacently down upon the iu-
truder. A very king of the jungle, he was
wholly without fear and watched with
that cat-like stare that is so cool and dead
ly. Face to face stood hunter and beast
and for once the beast was master OF the
situation, for as two loads of No. s were
uncertain, discretion was the better part
10 hpn of k
ing out of the terrible dilemma and max
Ing quick steps away.
How they eject from the Guthrie capital:
Guthrie proper was all torn up yesterday
over another case of ejectment. The prop
erty in controversy is lot 10, block 53, just
across from the postoffice. A small build
ing now stands on the lot, which has been
divided into three apartments for renting
purposes. The building has been contin-
uously occupied ever since its erection
soon after the opening, until quite re-
Gently, and has yielded handsome
income to the parties having control Of
it.
This lot like a good many others
throughout the city has several claim
ants. Ore is f. NJ. Jay, a former resi-
dent of Garden City. Kansas, who
claims to have been the first person on the
lot, !; after ,,, noon Don. the memorable t e
the evening of that day on what
proved to be the FEAR end of the lot
Another claimant was B. f. Neal,
who states that he was the
first person on the lot. Neal went to work
and erected the building which now stands
there, Jay himself working on the build
ing. Some time ago Neal sold his interest
w. G. Jones, NJ. II. Foss and II. j. Hum
phrey. Jay and these parties have quar-
relied almost necessarily over this property
and about August l the people who had
occupied the north room of the building
moved out and Jay at once moved into the
room and opened up a soup counter Then
A. G. Schnell ct al. brought suit before
entry and detainer. The case came up on
the 9th inst. Thurston g. Merrick, appear
ing for the defense, had the case put off
until today. In the meantime they applied
to the United States court at Muscogee for
an injunction restraining the officers here
from any action, and received a letter
from the clerk OF the court, stating that
Judge Shackelford had ordered the case
docketed for September 2. The case be-
fore Judge Enright this morning was ex
parte, and Judgment was rendered against
Jay, and a writ of ejectment placed in the
hands of Constable Graham. Graham
went down to put Jay off the property but
the latter showed fight. Jay is a powerful
man and IS brave as lion, and it required
several men to get him to police headquar-
tiers. Judge Enright sent him to Jail for
five days for contempt of court. Mean
while large crowd had collected around
the disputed property, where jays wife
still remained, and which was held by her
until late hour last night, when she, too,
was elected with all her furniture. The
soldiers. late in the afternoon. droye the
crowd away from the building.