The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-12

Kansas city Times.
 An who were sosfortunate as to int1- nately know Judge Rush Fillmore, Juose pf the United States Federal Court or Kansas in the early days or Kansas history. felt a profound respect for ms many social qualities and his intense love for the hunt was one of them. The deep toned paying of the stag hound was far more enchanting to ms ear than the artificial jingle of Gil- more's band. The first sound of the bugle-like note of the hound when ne "opens'' in pursuit of his game Wouia send the blood tingline through nis veins add brilliancy to his eye and hathe his countenance with exquisite ioy. Then it was that legal lore and cold, knotty arguments by the learned bar were forgotten and in his excess of pleasure the judges thoughts were more apt to frame such lines as these:
 Hark at Sports impatient cry
 As he makes the bold buck fly:
 List to Troops bewailing yell
 Echo long OCT plain and dell.
 No wonder then, that Fillmore should have brought with hin, from his South ern home a number of fine dogs. This he did and they were beautiful spec imens of their kind.
 one iMOn0ay LdlC HI luc AdAL of 1856. as the judge was on his way from his Tecumseh home to Lecomp- ton for the purpose of holding court, and when but little west of Biz Springs a herd of six deer crossed the road just in front of him on their way to the bluffs and bottoms of the Kaw. This sight so inoculated Fillmore with the spirit of the chase that he adjourn ed court without giving cause or 'ex- Uh af hz f1aa rah RI and bewildering the bar as he am nounced: Court stands adjourned ur- til 10 o'clock Wednesday morning."
 The Judge at once sent hotne for his dogs and also for those belonging to several of his neighbors. The hounds arrived that night, fifteen in number and we of 1.ecompton and vicinity fur nished OUT full quota.
 Every precaution was made for the hunt to take place the next morning. Many notables of Lecompton, includ ing the military officers then stationed there, were invited to join in the sport.
 We assembled by bugle call early on the morning of the hunt and as we stood attention before the old Amer ican Hotel We numbered twenty. We were all we'll mounted and full of vim, dare and stunt. The exceedingly reck- less but magnificent riding l witnessed that day would have made the rough riders of the present ineligible to show in that ring.
 Near the site of the present town of Grover began a deer hunt in the fall of 1856 which ended at Coon Creek, sust west of Lecompton. There were
 enty participants. and so far as wand believe. l am the only liv- il representative. The personnel of tl party was as follows: Major John sd gwick. Captain Charles May, Cap- tail Delos B. Sackett, Lieutenant J. E. B. Stuart, Judge Rush Fillmore. Gov ernor Wilson shannon, Hon. William Mcdowell, General H. J. Stricker, General B. J. Smith. Lieutenant Mo- Intosh, L. A. Maclean, Sheriff Samuel J. Jones, General T, W. Sherman, General Frank Marshall, Dr. John F. Wood, General William P. Richardson, Governor Hugh s. Walsh, Corporal Benny Cunningham. Private Pete Sweeney and Ely Moore.
 Seldom. if ever. has an equal number of men who were or afterwards became famous. met upon deer hunt. General John Sedgwick. who led the sixth corps at Malvern, al Antietam. who carried Mary's Heights and struck Lees rear