Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-04-02
BOLTS FROM THE EAST SIDE.

March 80, 1892.
Gardening is now on the tapis.
J.P. Marquand attended the allianct
speaking in Wa-Keeney last Friday.
Seymour Coffey has erected new iron
tower Windmill near his house.
i Chas. Lotstedt is at home once more
after an absence Of several months.
Official business called F. W. Cross, Of
Glencoe, to these parts, through the rain
on Thursday, last.
No school in district four on the 21st
inst. owing to the bereavement in the
in the family of the teacher.
Several of our farmers have began
blowing again, but the ground is very wet
Five of orr young mer visited Uncle
Sans signal tower, in Glencoe, last Sun
day.
The Pleasant Ridge literary society
died without struggle on Tuesday eve
ming. A goodly audience witnessed the
final dissolution.
A singing class met at the residence, OF
Samuel Baird, of Adair, last Sunday eve
ming. A pleasant time is reported.
Their next meeting will be at the resi-
dence of Mr. Clark.
Christ Nielsrn returned to his home in
New Mexico last Tuesday after several
weeks visit with friends and former
| neighbors of the East Side.
Joseph and Yves. Marquand have re-
Gently put down a new we'll near their
house. They have about fourteen feet
of water IN it.
Some of our young people attended a
dance ar Swim Pearson's, in Riverside, on
the 18th inst. It was about thirteen
miles away, but that is nothing when one
gets used to it.
Altho' the winter has been very mild,
the length of time that stock has been
kept on dry feed Is beginning to show its
evil effects. Several head of fine cattle
have died in this vicinity the past two
weeks.
A bunch of one hundred and fifty cat
tie were pastured by J. P. Marquand over
night Thursday of last week. They had
been picked up in the Russian settlement
east OF here by party from the western
part of Trego.
The social hop" to have come off at
Hiram Grifith's last Thursday eve. was.
on account of the rain, postponed until
the following evening when a most enjoy
able time was had by every one present,
there being twenty-five numbers out.
Howe brothers furnished the music.
The last two meetings of the East Side
musical soriety we're well attended and
most entertaining time was had. The
next meeting will be held at the residence
of A. V. Hixson.
A chill of horror again pervades the
community as we hear of the terrible
tragedy in Ellis. This is two deaths, in
as many years, that can be laid directly
at the doors of the illicit liquor dives of
that place. Surely the fire and brim-
stone of the Internal regions is none too
good for men who will uphold such
traffic
A prairie fire ragged here for over five
hours Sunday afternoon. 1t was started
by locomotive near the old Barnes
house and ran eastward to @. T.. Ridg-
ways. Though there was only light
wind it was with difficulty that the men
of the neighborhood, sixteen in number,
gained the mastery of it. Charley Rldg-
way had several tons of hay burned.
Monday about II o'clock freight train
started another fire near the same place.
The wind was blowing gale and it drove
the fire northward as fast as horse could
run, jumping creek and fire guards and
dong untold damage. It was with the
greatest difficulty that the dwellings of
Seymour Coffey, Eli McCollum and
Amos McCollum were saved. As it vas
Seymour Coffey and Francis Ridgway
lost about sixty tons of hay and millet, |
stack of straw, twenty-five bushels of
corn, a large cattle shed, feed racks, |
wagon bed and out building, and at one
time their granaries, contai ming over a |
thousand bushels of wheat, was on fire
but was saved. The fire also destroyed |
many rods of fine hedge fence surround
ing Mr.. Coffey's farm. Eli McCollum |
lost his new barn and granary containing
quite an amount of wheat besides several |
hay and feed stacks. Thomas Roberts
lost some of the roof of an out building,
several farming implements, etc, and had
a COW and horse badly burned. Several
fine young orchards in the neighborhood |
were completely destroyed. have not
further particulars The fire ran north
ward to to the Saline river and was only |
stopped by the rain Tuesday morning.
The writer has served a ten years
in fighting Trego prairie |
fires, but he never saw one that could |
compare with Mondays fire for fury or
one that was more completely beyond
human control. Thousands of acres are
burned over and damage to farmers in
that tract will reach up into thousands