The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-04-26
ALL ABOUT A SWINE
Litigation That Has Already
Cost Over $4,000.
AND THE END NOT YET
"Kever's Model" the Hired
Man and a Ringer"

Charles A. Vlgal because Vigal has sad
the hog that Council sold to a syndicate
as the famous porker known as Klever' 5
Model, was not Klevers Model az all. but
just plain. everyday ringer" Now the
term ringer" as applied TO swine, does
not mean merely pig adorned with a
ring in its nose TO keep it from the IN
pleasant habit of roofing up young onion
beds. The syndicate that bought the hog
Of Council calls it ringer" because, its
members say, il is not the hog that Coun-
Gil claimed it was at all,
The hog the members OF the syndicate
wanted TO buy was a proud, ar.stocratic
swine of the Poland China breed called
Klever's Model, and they paid 50 100. said
to be the highest price ever paid for a hog
in the United States, for one they thought
was Klever's Model. But after they had
the animal in their possession they claimed
to have discovered it was. instead, only a
low, common, base-born porker known as
Columbia Wilkes, which they say would
have been hard to dispose Of at $50. They
refused 10 pay a matter of some Sl.000 on
notes they had given Council when the hog
was bought. Council sued on the notes
They had Council indicted by the grand
jury.
There have been suits and cross-suits
The litigation over the hog already has
cost over $1,000. The last time Council
sued to recover on the notes the jury de-
clared him in the right and gave him
judgment. Now ne has started after the
III
blan hog in disguise and has begun by
suing Vigal for $4,000
The story of Council, the syndicate, and
the hog is a long one. but every child in
Sangamon county knows It by heart. II
began in 1897 at the state fair grounds in
Springfield. Council decided publicly to
aucion off a famous hog he owned, known
as KleveT's Model. The hog came of an
ancient and highly respected race and his
fame was known the country through, so
when he was put up on the block on
September s to be sold to the highest bid
der stockmen from all over the country
were there anxious to secure the prize.
The bidding rose higher and higher and
finally Klever's Model was sold to a syn
dictate for S, 100. The syndicate was COM
posed of James A Heyl and A VI. Cald-
we'll Of Washington. They escorted Kle-
vers Model home in triumph.
All was serene until Councils hired man
whispered about the country a horrible
secret. He was a Swede. named Arthur
Thielander. He said his conscience troubled
him 80 that he felt he must speak He
declared the big Poland China hog that
was not Klever's Model at all. The real
Klever's Model, ne said. had died nearly
a year before the auction sale Of one Of
the pesulences peculiar to the hog race.
The hired man said he had been with
Klever's Model when it lay down and died,
had been chief mourner at the funeral.
and had acted as undertaken for the de-
ceased porker. He related how at the dead
of night. by the s.ckly glare Of a barn
lantern, he had laid Klever's Model in its
grave. The next day, he said, Council
built a straw stack over the grave and
put the low born hog Columbia Wilkes
in the place formerly occupied by Klever's
Model. This degraded hog was introduced
around as Klever's Model. 80 the hired
man alleged, and finally sold as the orig
inal animal.
When the members OF the syndicate
heard the hired mans tale they were
greatly exercised. They sent a man TO
exhume the remains under the straw stack
on the Council farm. The grave was
opened. but instead Of finding the skele-
ton OF one hog they found all that re-
manned Of two. Council had not denied
the existence Of hog bones under the straw
stack, but said they were those OF two
hogs that had died OF cholera and be
had buried them to prevent the disease
from spreading. Neither OF these hogs. he
declared, was Klever's Model which he
insisted he had sold to the syndicate
The syndicate men. however. were not
satisfied. They took the hired man over
20 see the hog they had bought and ths
hired man pointed his finger at Il ard said
like the hero Of a unelodrau1a. II know you
now" You are not the artstocrat.c Kle-
ver's Model. bat the base-born Columbia
Wilkes"
So the syndicate men posted oT %
Springfield and put the hired man IN the
grand Jury room. and the hired man told
the grand Jury his story and Council was
indicted The Gaze came I'D for trial and
the states attorney was preparing 70 wage
q vigorous prosecution against Council ard
the false Klsver-s Mode. when ne received
an AFFIDAVIT from T'ntelander stating that
he had sworn falsely before the grand
jury ard that the real FIever's Model VAS
alive and no. moulderinE ~ the lonesome
grave under the haystacek.
The states attorney thought this set
ted The matter and d<nssed ne case.
but it was no. end here The syndicate
members ca. med TfGe'a nda- had been
hr.het. q position 81 which they were e.
sustained By me versatile
Mr.. Theiazrdar himself during the trial
on a suit watch CouncsI bro1Eh. against
he men5srs % enc syndicate 20 recover
on the note II ire second BON ssdss
brought expe-ts from every 7art % the
country 20 swear fa- ate defendants that
Klever's Model Eas Columbia wilkes n
d:sE1fse. ard tor re p1stntl- thzt Kleys-'s
Model was che only original
Over eighty Witnesses we're examine.
and the .uro-z wee as mE15Eea a fasy
had been az me f-st trial. when Ceu--sl
w1n MS suit ~ checkmat5ug a move q
enc defense Ire defense had exhlsltss
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as Kie~er's Eossi hut whlca they ga
was Columbia TsIkes- Councss vert OFT
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