Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-18
FROM THE PANHANDLE
CANADIAN CITY, HEMPHILL
COUNTY, Tex, july Is, 1889. (

CANADIAN CITY, HEMPHILL
COUNTY, Ten, July Is, 1889.
To the Editor of the Eagle.
Your correspondent has just returned
from a trip into Gray and Wheelel
counties. Both of those counties as vel
as this have been well favored with rair
thus far this summer and every thing
indicates good crops of all kinds. Thi:
(HemphilD county during the last two
weeks has been visited by three heavy
rains, which insures crops of all kinds.
The people of the north who have ar
idea that it never rains in the Panhandle
would be surprised if they would come
and see the fields that haye been started
here the past year.
Mr. A. j. Jasper, for many years res.
ident of Hill county, Texas, has opened
a farm on the plains in Gray county and
is showing with good results what can
be done in the Panhandle by practical
| farmer. He came up in March, broke
the sod, and has just harvested ten acres
| of wheat that went fifteen bushels to the
acre, and he has corn which will 90
! thirty bushels now, and with one more
rain vii. 60 sixty bushels TO the acre.
| His sorghum, millet and garden are also
looking well.
! MIR. a. S. Shaw, Of Galesburg. Ill.
bought several sections of land on Gage
| by creek, in this county, last year, and
his wife who had been long a
sufferer with lung trouble,
concluded to come out and
see If this climate would help her lungs.
| She seemed SO much relieved that she
has concluded to make this her home
and has built a nice cottage, set out
I 10000 forest and fruit trees, has changed
the course Of the Gageby creek, which
Is fine running stream Of water, has
cut off an island in the stream, planted
pond lilies in the creek, and has made
many other improvements, having as
line flower garden as the writer ever
saw in the older settled part of the states.
The heavy rains of yesterday and last
night caused the Red Deer creek, a
stream of water which empties into the
Canadian at this place. to rise and over
flow its banks, washing out two bridges
between here and Miami, and buff the
careful running of Conductor Billy Phil
lips, who was running the Santa Fe
train which left here at Gee last evening
for Panhandle City, the train would
certainly have gone into the creek, as
one of the bridges which was washed
out was around curve and could not be
seen until right on it.
The Oklahoma City bubble busted.
One Of the greatest frauds that has teen
perpetrated upon the American people
since the "Great South Sea" bubble, was
exploded here last week, A man by the
name of Bontils, of Kansas City, came
down to this town last February and ap-
piled to w. S. Decker, the land agent,
for cheap section of land. He
wanted the cheapest he had.
He wa5 priced one on the
Nation line at $1.25 per acre
that just suited him. he was told that
1t was sandy, but that made no differ
ence; all he wanted was something to
trade for Kansas City property. He pur-
chased the property and filed a plat Of
Oklahoma City, Tex, with the county
clerk without having the land surveyed;
went to Kansas City, Mo-, opened the
Panhandle Town Site Co.'S office and
went to work selling lots at $500 per lot.
In ms advertisements in the Kansas City
papers and circulars he referred to the
Traders bank and W. S. Decker in re-
gard to the city. They at once by letters
TO the Star, Times and Journal of Kan
sas City tried to make known to the peo-
pie that it was a swindle, but the afore-
said papers, not wishing to
break up Bonfil's advertising.
refused to publish the letters and
thus protect its readers. Bonfils claims
that he paid the Times 800 to suppress
the publication of the letter.
Last week Mr.. Geo. ". Studs, of 1901
East Ninth street, Kansas City, Mo-,
came to this town. He is one of the
directors of the Oklahoma City
Building and Loan ASSOCIATION, formed
of men who had bought lots in the town.
He being suspicious of Fred G.. Bonfils.
proposed that he be sent down TO inves-
tigate before they did anything more, as
Bonfils represented that the town was
growing: that the Frisco" railroad was
but few miles from the town with
their force laying track, and other stories
Of that kind. Studs came here, secured |
the services of Mr.. Decker and drove out
to the land. The section was found
forty miles southeast of this place on the |
Nation line and a corner made BY DIG |
ging four pits and a mound erected in |
which was placed the Fort Worth Gazette
of the 10th and the Dallas News of the |
Sth. The section was found to be very
sandy and no house within four miles OF |
il. it not having been laid out in lots.
Mr.. Studs returned to Kansas City dis |
gusted.
Bontils was very successful having dis |
posed of over 1900 lots at from 81 to $40 |
per lot. W.