The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-13
NORTH SIDE NEWS
Z. f. Tenant Tells of Early
County Seat War.
How Eustis People Kidnapped
Sherman Center Man.
COWBOYS APPEARED ON SCENE
And Squire at Once Discharged
His Prisoner.
Progress of Work at Garfield
Amusement Park.

Amusement Park.
E. F. Tenant, a North side printer
and former newspaper man, tells
story of the county seat fight OF the
early days of Sherman county. Mr..
Tenant lived in Sherman county at the
time of the incidents he told today.
I'm the early days the town boomers
looked for county seat. said Mr.
holders were bending all energies to
grow a crop of spring wheat. And
those were the days when hope was
the best filled dish on the bill of fare:
"A rival town, then Eustis, off of
the map now, tried to keep Sherman
Center from getting the county seat.
The Eustis officials one day came to
Sherman Center to close one of the
Center people. The next day, pretend
ing to be friends, the Eustis people
returned and kidnapped Center man
named Barnes. Barnes was taken half
mile away before the kidnapping was
discovered. The Winchesters barked
but the kidnapers got away with the
kidnapee.
The Eustisftes sent over word that
Barnes would be tried-for, well for
get, but it was fake charge anyway.
The trial was to be held at Volta1re,
another small mushroom town. The
Center people passed word to the cow
boys west of town.
Justice Was Not Tardy.
1.-The day following this after Squire
Whitney had taken his seat and the
constable had called the court to or
der. the cowboys appeared near the
town. Every one was riding with
loose rein. at full speed. with a gun in
each hand. And the guns were MAX
ing holes in the atmosphere. The
squire needed no further hint. 1t took
him only a minute to make up his
mind and he announced:
' The prisoner is discharged. This
here court is adjourned and the costs
of this here case is chawged up to the
constable.
Cars for the merry go-round which
are being transferred from Ninewood
to Garfield park have been taken over
to the latter park and are stored in
the casino The animals for the
merry o-round will arrive and be
painted next week. An expert will
also arrive tonight to tune the organ
of the big machine. The figure eight
will probably be completed within the
next two weeks.
Numerous applications from shoot
ing gallery managers, etc, have been
received. All indications are that the
park will be ready to open as an
amusement place by May Is.
A Wild Cat story.
A North side man who has just re-
turned from a DUCK nunIlnS Trip on
the Kaw tells the following wild cat
story:
I'VE decided to retire early one ev-
ening after a long day of hunting. We
retired by lying down on TIE bottom
of our large boat and drawing a can
vas deck about half way to our
heads. We felt perfectly sheltered. as
on the bank was a large tree. The
limbs overhung the boat.
"Just before We fell asleep my
partner remarked that he had heard
a farmer tell of a wild cat being loose
in the neighborhood I heard hIm
drowsily. AS a said, L was very tired.
1t was perfectly still. Not sound
except the Iap-lap-Iap' of the river
waveIets against the side of the beat
or the long drawn 'too-too' of a far
off train.
'LuIled by the noise of the water
and the gentle rocking of the boat we
were soon sound asleep. dreaming of
bringing home strings of decoy ducks.
About midnight, I think, we were
awakened by rustling in the
Instinctively we drew the covering of
the boat over our heads. Then came
what sounded then. the most unearth-
ly cry I ever heard.
" The wild cat said my compan-
ion in a hoarse whisper.
"Our guns, wrapped in canvas, were
lying at the side of the boat we
were afraid to move for fear of at
we lay, for an hour, but nothing hap
pened Finally, from sheer nervous
exhaustion, We fell asleep again.
GIN the morning we learned that
the cry had been made a large owl
which lived in the tree"
The following is the score of the
horseshoe contest last night in which
the North side won the twelfth of a
series of games with the South side at
the North side alleys. at S37 North
Kansas avenue
Alley No; south side; Lung Lung;
s siden Perry Pc, Is: Knobs, 10; total,
80. South side won in three games
South side: Barrett, As; steen, 80;
total, 81 North side; Laing; "a;
Stansfield, SIS; total SO. North side
won in five games by points.
South side: Stewart. So; Eckels,
40: total, rs. North side: Powell,
AZ. Riggs, %; total, 81. South side
Won in four games by IA points.
Alley No. 2-South side: Weaver,
6; Foley, IA; total, 20. North side:
Gurtler 50; Lorden, %; total, 66,
south side: Simmons. 27: Shep-
pard, II: total, "A. North side: Ga
brieI' 80: Workman. 40; total. r.
North side won in three games by %
po South side: Hurley. "a: Little. AZ;
total 6s. North side: Forbes. So;
Reed. Al; total. SO. North side won in
five games by S3 points.
South side: Simmons. 16; Wright,
10: Raer. 46; total. SIS. North side
wins three games by So points.
Grand total: North side. los points
over South side