New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-12-28
they wish to know the purposes OF the people
who did not get beaten last year.
A NEW COOETY-SEAT PLAN IN KANSAS.

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Every few months some Peace Society numbers
to the front with long resolutions denouncing war
as an Institution. and calling on the impulsive
and irritable nations OF Europe to settle their
difficulties by arbitration but, while these So
cieics have been giving good advice TO the Powers
across the ocean, seems to have been done
away with in quarter where it has ragged with
greater violence Of late years than it has in
Europe. We refer to Western Kansas where the
County Treasurer is sometimes jolted OF his re-
volving stool in the Courthouse, as that build
ing rattles along the rough prairie road.
drawn by ten mules. driven by the Probate Judge
who sits on the chimney. The wheels are about
TO be taken of the Kansas County Courthouse
forever and it will have been accomplished with
out bloodshed.
These conclusions are arrived at from the read
ing of Kansas dispatch printed in The Tribune
day or two ago. II seems from this that it is
Rawlins County, In the northwestern part OF the
State that is taking the lead in the new way of
settling county-seat difficulties In the county
of Rawlins there two enterprising towns-At-
wood and Brakeman. Each is DESTROYS of being
the county capital Now, the people Of Atwood
are not IN good financial condition. but. though
poor in the purse, they are rich in heavy repeat
ing rifles and shoot with great accuracy, and il
occurred TO the Brakeman folks that there might
be serious difficulty in settling the cOunty-seat
question with those poor but steady handed At
woodtes in the good old-fashoned Kansas way
They had also read somewhere that discretion is
the better part Of valor, so they decided on a
plan which, as they had plenty of money, seemed
TO be the best that could be devised It was
nothing less than 10 buy all the houses in Atwood
and move them over to Brakeman. They argued
hat wi only md wit
habitation would have no chance for the county
seat in the approaching election. Accordingly
they raised purchasing fund by popular sub
scrption, and began operations. The first build
ing bought was the spacious residence of the
Mayor of Atwood on Mob Hill. This cost 5000.
and was trotted across the PRAIRIE with the aid
of twelve mules in two hours, the
Mayor of Brakeman handling the reins
from chamber window, while the
principal of the city schools, a very
conservative man, sat astride the ridgeboard
and blew large tin horn. Several other resi-
dences were then purchased and moved over. when
they turned their attention for few days TO
the business houses and public buildings. The
high school was the first, taken at $3.50 The
First National Bank building was then purchased
for SS5, and moved, the Grand Occidental Hotel
being hitched behind. Monday morning the post
office building was taken over and the same teams
went back and got the leading drygoods store in
the afternoon. Wednesday, while taking over the
Episcopal church, slight delay was caused by
a balky mule, which kicked OHt one Of the stained
glass windows but order was restored and the
church landed in town in time for the evening
mid-week service. The next day. while taking
over the Baptist church, the principal of the
schools, who was up on the steeple with his horn,
rls- off hxro of Ia tybna
suddenly dropping into rut in the road, but he
chung to the weather-vane, and escaped serious
injury. The Grand Opera House tat a cost Of
5000 was taken Wednesday afternoon without
interfering with the Christmas matinee of the
Garrick Uncle Toms Cabin Company. two Evas
and the justly famous quartette Of Smith Brothers
as Uncle Tom. In short not to weary the reader
with details about two-thirds of the city Of
Atwood has at the present writing been trans |
fcrred TO Brakeman and most Of the remaining |
buildings have been purchased. There are two |
men, however, who may yet defeat the plan. |
One of these is the Editor of The Atwood |
Antagonzer, who positively refuses to sell at
any price, and declares that he will remain and |
continue to advocate Atwood as the proper place |
for the county seat if every other building goes
The other is sharp Connecticut man. who has
hired large gang of men, got In dozen car |
loads of building material, ana puts up n mouse |
every night and sells it to the Brakeman people |
in the morning. If some way cannot be contrlved /
TO subdue these two men Blakeman's hard work |
may yet go for naught.
In closing, we cannot help remarking on the |
great superiority Of this new plan over the old |
one. with its shotguns and rifles, Sherifs posses
and State militia The whole country will con- !
graduate Kansas on the new departure And is !
there not hint here for our Chicago friends 4? |
If they could buy up New-York and move it to |
their city, it would perhaps settle the Worlds |
Fair question True, they might have some |
trouble in moving the Produce Exchange building |
and Metropolitan Opera House, and perhaps they |
would have to take the tower off The Tribune |
Building before they shipped it, but we presume |
that they would meet with success in the end. |
As we understand it, the word fall Is omitted
from the dictionaries used in Chicago. AT least |
every one will admit that Chicago will not get |
the Fair till she does take step fully as active
as this.
Writing OF precious stones, The Baltimore |