The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1910-07-01
AIErrrR FROM KANSAS.
HoIsIngton. Kans.. june ID.

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ing trip OF last Tuesday. and. by,
the way. this is my first experience
in Kansas.
On last Tuesday morn, at a.
m. my friend Josh billings and n
piled into my automobile all the
necessary equipment for a success
ful angling trip. consisting OF tao
kles. bait. boats etc. and started
for Clear Lake, ON the Cheyenne
bottoms, and by daylight we were
on the spot with all our accouter-
ments properly arranged for effect
i've work. We had four tackles.
one trot, and six bottles, (by the
way the bottles were empty so
We put to east n Clear Lake, a
body OF water two miles long and
and one mile wide, and about twen-
ty-four to thirty inches deep. We
waded in hip boots. and so when
in the center OF the lake. We
planted our artillery and by eight
O'clock we had landed about thir-
" pounds Of as fine catfish and
perch as you could behold.
We had sport enough 70 last
two weeks and enough fish to last
each OF US about five days. As l
said above, this lake was on the
famous Cheyenne bottoms. where a
great battle. once occurred between
the Cheyenne and Pawnee Indian
tribes. The battle occurred Just
south of our town on stream cali
ed Blood Creek. which empties in
to the large basin, or Cheyenne
Bottoms and has no outlet, but the
water evaporates.
The history OF this country tells
us that because OF this famous bat
tie the stream took its name. Blood
Creek, from the fact that the blood
once poured down the stream like
water.
During the freshets or high wat
er, these fish go out from this
stream into the lakes. they thrive
and become large These bottoms
are becoming very valuable, as
the land is cultivated since II
produces the finest alfalfa In the
land. During the duck season from
June TO April. we have hunters
from New York and many eastern
states, and all over the central west
coming to these lakes to shoot
ducks. 1t is great sport. and II
should say that had seen q
million of ducks at once on the
bottoms. l don't think ! would be
exaggeratlng. There are fine clut
houses for the comfort and conyen.
fence Of the hunters, so II any
Of the Lousia boys feel like having
the best time OF your life. Just
come out and hunt while.
Thye shoot the pelican. wild
goose the mallard, and all species
OF ducks and also the fox squirrel
the cotton tail and Jack rabbits.
It is the greatest sporting terri
tory on the face Of the earth
There are at least two hundred
square miles OF the bottoms and a
least one hundred square miles o
the lakes.
/ see some one from Terryvill,
mentions my letter Of a few week
ago. also, l had a nice letter from
Il. L. KaEee. Lamar. Mo-. who wa
an old school friend OF mine a
Blaine. He has a nice law prac
tice in Missouri and / do bespeal
for him genuine success. | like Z
see our Kentucky boys coming +
the front.
We are a city OF the secon
class, now and have one lawyer 4
our city. and by the way he Is
cousin OF Ben Prose. who once lIy
ed In the Dry Ridge country. Gu
lawyers name Is Joseph Benso
Prose and weighs about $50 pounds
an ohloan by birth, but Jay
Hawker by adoption. HIS office
first door south OF my office an
we often pass a little while in &c
ing over the history of Easter
Kentucky and Ohio.
We have lots OF people In gu
city who are from Kentucky an
Ohio. The oldest resident in tn
city. Mr.. Folk, is a Kentuckian.
was mayor OF the city some yeai
ago. Ed Heath, is our presei
mayor and he was born and reare
about Marietta. o. We can boa
! OF having an Indian U. s. Senate
Mr.. Curtis, The only thing
the kind on record. but you mu
not forget that Kansas is fi'
2 blocks ahead Of the hounds. an