Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-04
KANSAS TOPICS.

- Go. little booklet go,
Bearing honored name,
Till everywhere that you have went,
They're glad that you have came"
Speaking of this haunting quality Mr..
Ware himself perpetrated a verse on New
Years day which has II. Upon his calling
card was the silhouette of rounder in
evening dress, standing in an oratorical
attitude and delivering himself of the fol-
lowing:
20. New Year, greet the old,
And hide, as it has hid,
The sights which we have saw.
The deeds which we have did
So. too. may be found this wrath of fas-
cination within the following lines which
appeared on the New Years card of an
other Topeka man:
"A glad New Year to you, my dear,
And welcome, welcome ninety-seven;
May it bring cheer to you. my dear
It's nearer to and rhymes with heaven"
Scarcely had Senator PETER risen to A
question of personal privilege and refuted
the insinuations of his enemies by deciar-
ing that My official life is like open
book" when the Hutchinson News caught
the attention of the speaker with a motion
to insert blank between open" and
book"
1t is no shock to the eternal consistencies
to discover that Mr. Beterof, of Benning
ton, has made no application for place at
the pie counter.
William McGlashen, the Populist who
was beaten for representative from Greeley
county by ]. L. Brown, has filed notice of
contest. His principal allegation is that
the said Brown did, in a high handed,
wholesale and corrupting manner. order
cigars to be set up in various places in the
electors" Let this contest go to its fullest
development and most rigorous penalty.
Any man who would distribute Greeley
county cigars in a wholesale manner ought
TO go to the penitentiary for life.
''One time before Fort Dodge was estab-
| lished,' says Colonel Bob Wright in the
"reminiscences of Western Kansas which he
| is writing for the Dodge City Republican,
I'VE had to abandon a big Concord mail
| coach at the foot of Nine Mile Ridge on
| account of the muddy condition of the
| trail, and went on to the stage station
with light spring wagon. On the way
we met a band of friendly Indians who
| We're going to Fort Larned, and we told
| them to haul the coach in. OF course,
| they didn't follow the trail but struck
| across the country on to Pawnee Fork.
After a long time had elapsed, Little
| Raven the chief, rode into the fort and
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| UP the creek, and bleS't if he could get
| it any farther, as he had pulled the tails
| out of nearly every one of his herd OF
ponies getting it that far. You see their
method of hauling the coach was by lying
| it to the tails of their ponies
| Commenting on the present denuded con-
| dition of Western Kansas, Colonel Bob
| says: The creeks, when the fort was
first started, We're all heavily wooded with
| blackberry, ash, boXelder, cottonwood and
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| almost in one body, on II little creek SIX
| fniles north of the fort, all blackberry.
| There We're Il good many thousand cords
| cut on .Sawlog, which stream is properly
the south fork of the Pawnee."
| Speaking of the game Colonel Bob says
| that in the early days Western Kansas
| was well supplied with elk. Il have Saen,'
| say; he, "as many fifty in a single band
| at one time. Every spring we would go
| out there and capture young ones. That
| region was also the heart of the buffalo
range as well as that of the antelope. l
| have seen 1000 of the latter graceful ami
mails in a single bunch, driven right into
| Fort Dodge against the buildings. by a
storm. | have shot buffalo from the walls
of my corral at the fort; and so many
| of them were there in sight it appeared inn
| possible to count them. 1t is d difficult
problem to determine just how many buff
falo have seen at one time. L have trav-
eled through Il herd of them for days and
days; never out of sight of them; in fact
it might correctly be called one continu-
Gus gathering of the great shaggy mon
sterS "
Describing an adventure which came to
him while he was seeking refuge from a
buffalo stampede by hiding under the bank
of draw the colonel proceeds as fol-
lows: They were fairly making the
ground tremble as in their mighty multi
tude they came on running at full speed
| 10 SOuO6 Of their hOOfS resembling thun-
der, only a continuous peal. 1t appeared
to me that they must sweep everything in
their path, and for my own preservation
I rushed under the creek bank. But on
| they came like a tornado, with one old
| bull in the lead. He held UP second tC
| descend the deep narrow trail, and when
| he got half day down the bank l let him
have it. 1 was only few steps from
him, and over he tumbled. l don't know
| why ] killed him: out of pure wantoness
| l expect, or perhaps | thought 1T would
frighten the others back. Not so, however
they only quickened their pace and came
| dashing down in greater numbers. Dozens
| of them stumbled and fell over the deao
!, | bull: others fell over them. The top oi
. | the bank was actually swarmng with
them; they leaped pitched and rolled
| down | crouched as close to the bani
| as possible; but numbers of them 1us
graZed my head, knocking the sand ant
gravel in great streams down my neck
indeed, L was nau Dufleu before lIle idS
one had passed. That old bull was the
1as- buffalo I ever shot wantonly, except
Ing once from an ambulance to please {
distinguished Englishman who had nevel
seen one killed; then l did it only after hi
hard persuasion"
Commenting on the proposal of Superin
tendent Nudge, of the Santa Fe, TO try an
} beat the worlds record for fast railroa
= running. Jerry Shaw, the veteran Santa f
| engineer. says: II have made the ru
( | from Garden City to Dodge City. dlstanc
of fifty miles, in forty-three minutes; an
consider the proposed fast run fror
La Junta to Dodge City, n distance of q
| miles at u rate of seventy-two miles a
hour, a feat easily accomplished. Their
| are several engines on the division that ca
| make this time. ! am not anxious to tr
L this experiment, but II / am put on tn
g run l will go There are some difficulte
or discomforts or disadvantages, in dus
and hot boxes. and u run like this would
4 disagreeable; but it would be al
tended with no more hardship or DANCE
| than a run of forty miles an hour. Th
h newspaper men who contemplate accom-
: panying this fast train need have no fear
o or anxiety of the danger. In case of a
t accident, it will not make any differenc
e whether you go to heaven at the rate {
n forty miles an hour or seventy-two miles q
: hour You get there on time
f Governor Riddle is out with piece" 1
n his own paper in which he denies that h
[ has ever said that his resignation from tn
r Office of state superintendent of insuranC
d was ready for Governor Leedy whenever
I al hat