The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-03-17

smekcca In tn!S way and 10 lOWcl up Wlth
business care, the South could beat the
world on canned vegetables aud fruit.
Interesting Suit for Damages,
After all, the most obvious function of
tho court is the one Of least value.
Ehouglt-5t >fpuld doubtless be advisable
ito Sontfo04 6eh simply for what they
5 a. ~ the HA3S administering justice,
( n6SuSI leiess their greatest usc is in bring
lind 81 & gcne1Rl public notice occurrences
sof Nc =, (which would otherwise not be
I NhcaTS \: seyqtgl the neighborhood where
they tkeS place. This was admirably
.siifdstras5S recently III the Weekly when
1t gave an account of the case Of Drink.
water vs.. Campbell, an interesting and
diverting instance of a collision between
two holes which never would have OBJ
taincd public notice had it not bceu
taken into tn, law courts Again We
find the same thing in the case of Milli-
kan VS.. Eamcs, suit for damages
brought in local court of Running Wa
ter, Kansas.
1t appears that the defendant, Mr..
Eamcs, has farm near Running Water
which is largely devoted 10 stock raising.
The plaintiff, Millkan, some two or three
weeks ago. cine along the road from the
direction of Big Grasshoprer with his
earthly possessions lied up in bandapna
handkerchief and hung over h's shoulder
on a lath, and asked Mr.. Eames for
work Eamcs looked him over, saw that
he did not carry II watch or have other
outward indications of tho dude, and
hired him for the season at twenty dol.
lars month. Then, after some general
ins ructions about the work, Games drove
for Running Water to get the msil,
where, being m enthusiastic Populist, he
staid till evening and denounced the
government.
1t appears further that Eamcs is a bit
of an expcrimcntcr, aud that early in the
winter he bought buffalo cow from
Buffalo" Jones of Goodnight, the same
man from whom Austin Corbin and
others got their bisops. We ought, for
the benefit Of the ordinary rcad'r to say
right here, in rcg,rd t, the American
buffalo, that though it gives brilliant
promi of becom' ng q valuable domestic
animal, up 10 date the COW of the species
has not been mill,ed ly the weak and, as
we may say, flimsy hand of man. We are
assured by those who ought to know that
n man might as well try to shoe an OK
without the usual heavy fame work and
tackle ms TO attempt to milk buffalo
COW; and as to shoeing an OK without
7Fppardtus, u Vcrnont.b acksmith has al
j t3sady said in print that man ''might as
E<ell JIG down on hiAstolpach and try to
GOO thaQRl< f}5ll.s But of all
> = S1eas ,Aiilliksn,-ls.s
"a Dig sys9sSh5ppsr, &as as innocent as
"a babe.
| When milking time came Millikan put
on a pair Of overals, took two tin pals,
| aud proce ded to the barn. He MIXED
| two or three ordinary and, as we may call
| them still cows, and then approached the
| sparkling and .fervescent buffalo. She
| was confioed in box stall, and he says
that rs he approached her he noticed that
she she was ''mighiy -shouldcred in
| ont, and seemed to be wearing Q buff
| falo robe on herself, "but he "didn't think
nothing much about it," He casually re-
marked So, bossy!" couple OF times,
with the laudablc pu pose OF opening an
era of good feeling, sat down on his
stool, adjusted the pail, and boldly struck
out TO extract the lacteal fluid "Along
about now" as the ancient almanac wri.
tiers would have put it, this absurd buff
falo cow kicked. Indeed, that the reader
may know the very worst without further
delay, we will say that she kicked several
times. The first or forward half of the
first kick sent the pail against the man.
ger, where it shut together like an &C.
| co dion. The second or return half of
the same kick caused Millkau to smite
tho side OF the barn; and this not being
very rong, he went through leaving a
large, irregular hole. Subsequent kicks
broke the stall into pieces and demolished
the maugcr, after which the intelligent
beast jumped up and down stiff legged
till she had smashed down the plank
floor aud stood on the ground amid the
general wreck. When in ten minutes
Millikau recovered cons sciousrcss, HI
hobbled to the house and remarked tc
the hired girl that "that there brindl,
heifer didn't seem 10 be used to having
strangers milk her." When tho girl ex-
p'ained the true state of affairs to him
he forgot his hurt, and rose up and walk
cd to Running Water. where he engaged
the best lawyer in town to begin suit fol
heavy damages
The plea which Millikan will put for
wnrl is that Eames was guilty of crimi
nal negligence in not warDing him of tn,
danger in attempting to milk a buffal,
COW. Eames will set up the claim tina
any man with common sense would know
better withou, being told. We fear tha,
about all we can say is that much maj
be said on both sides. The question
seems to be, should Millikan have rec.
ognized that che was buffalo, and ia the
buffalos prejudice against being milked
generally kn)wnl We presume that j
Eames had had, let us say, giraffe con
fined in his barn, any court would hav
held that Millkan should have seen tha
1t was not domestic cow aud have keep
away from it. But a buffalo is not O.
greatly dissmilar to a common COW, ant
the court at Running Water may dccid
for the plaintiff. One point, however
seems clear: Eames will put in a ccun
ter c aim for damages. based on the hol,
in the barn where Millikan went through
| This claim ought not to be allowed
Barrer's Weekly.
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