Garfield County Journal from Loyal, Kansas • 2

lead to victory the grand promenade con EARLY DAYS IN KANSAS. GARFIELD COUNTY JOURNAL The managers of the Albuquerque Democrat are preparing a series of illustrated write-ups of the history, reoources cert. Somebody must have kidnapped a prominent figure from fame's eternal camping ground." and interests of New Mexico and Arizona. G. L.

SIGMAN. Publisher. Continuation ot the Quantrell Some people say that eastern capital is making Western Kansas. The Almighty made this part of the country. The pion The Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe railroad is credited with having already booked 75,000 passengers for New Mexico, Kansas and California, the coming The Great Boathwest.

Eauata are ripening at Phernix, Ari Raid Narative. I did not go, because there was no chatx-e to get through the crowd for one reason, and because I did not like to accept ttie terms of the invitation for another, I did not like the implied insnlt to my mother. The next morning I heard the crack of revolvers and the screams of frightened women who came rushing back to where I was, crying out that "they arc shooting the did not wait for farther particulars but raised one of the north windows of tqe dining-room, which opened out upon the bank of the Kaw river, and got out, first helping out two or three ladies, one of whom 1 think was Mrs. with Vpf litHo rrirl eers disco vera ana developed it. 1 he in winter.

vestors followed them and merely second Silver City, N. hasn't a vacant resi- Richfield has voted $3,000 in bonds for ed the judgment of the pre emptors and homesteaders with their cash. The good Lord, good men and good money comprise taring an artesian well and prospecting for gas and coal. It also voted to Kept Close Prisoners While the Outlaws iaoe: Kansas has nearly 10.000 fthool build tags. be used on city improvements.

Such Carried on Their Work of Incendiarism and Murder. the trinity of factors now doing the work and we couldn't get along without any A lare hotel is to he erected in Las towns are bound to succeed. Tascosa. Texas, and the world at large, one of them. Chronscope.

Aniuias. are soon to be connected. The Ft. Worth and the others I have forgotten. They Albuouerqiie is afflicted with sneak Las Cruces is to have an agricultural fair in September.

Among the products cf southwestern industry to be exhibited How They Were CaMed out and one of each had a small bundle of valuables, which 1 assisted thpm to Viiilp wo thieves. Santa Fe complains of an inefficient down the fcteep bank, in eight of the ferry tl' i Their Nurnber Brutally Murdered by a Ruffian there will be forty high bred Apaches, from the government herd at San Carlos, and Denver is to build through the Panhandle immediately, via that metropolis; then Tascosa will razoorah. The Prescott Courier is offering a standing reward of for the arrest and conviction of that class of neoDle who borrow oime force. Kuiiuug. mere was no unuge across tne Kansas river then from its mnnfh tn ij Wild pigeons are.

plenty in Dona Ana source, though one was then commenced as cXmnty, N. M. Arizona. These animals have been bred with special attention to their fighting qualities, and after several severe trials of their merits, the secretary of war stands ready to back them with all the surplus in their neighbors' papers from the front iawrence, on me spot wnere it still stands, after sundry disaster and changes. 1 ronld thp fprrv hnaf nn tho nrth aiA Tucson, Arizona, will noon have concen- oar the early morning.

BT JCDOEL. D. BAILLT. ft-ating works. the United States treasury against any Yavapai oauaty.

Arizona, is blessed with plenty of timber, gold, silver, copper. of the river, and a crowd of thirty or forty The recent rain extended as far south as thing except a buzz saw or a toy pistol. lead and other metals, some good fanning hi Paso limes. binds, and the best, stork ranges and di NO. XXII.

Farmers, don't neglect for twenty-four hours to protect your hav stacks 10m prai late in the southwest. frescott lxurier. Dr. Bailey, of the Mesilla valley, has ,000 grape vines on his place, and though rie fires. The amount of hay put up will not more than supply home consumption if From the (iarKeu City Senti only two years old and not irrigated since it.

mar. have everv itiaae or iast May. some or the vines have yielded this I closed my last letter by saying that we were all safely housed in Captain Stone's summer as high as ten pound of grapes peopie arouna it. called at the top of my voice for them to come over and take us across, assuring them there was no danger, and the boat soon came and took over. I found on landing from the ferry boat that there were some dozen soldiers in uni form, well armed of course, and as many Delaware Indians with their rifles, besides a miscellaneous crowd of citizens, or squatters, who belonged on that side of the river, They had been there all the morning but had not dared to cross, not knowing the force of the enemy, but iiad used their rifles to good purpose by shooting across at any of the rebel horsemen they could see within rangre.

They had killed spring many tons i hay were burned, when a little precaution at the proper time would have saved them. Our population has increased and the work on the rail each City hotel. We did not know whether we Ed. Brock, a Ferd county stockman, was were safe or not, but we thought so from roads building through the country will gored by a vicious bull the other day until his recovery is thought to be what Quantrell had said of his obligations require and make a strong demand for to Captain Stone, and his determination that not a hair of his head should be in every pound of feed raised: so don't let a day pass without protecting it. Meade Center Republican.

The seventh annual exhibition of the jured. And besides, we as yet know noth The leaven of woman's suffrage is work New Mexican exhibition and driving park association will le held at Albuqurque, beginning Tuesday, September 20th, and one man who was helping to cut down the i i- ing in Kansas. Here is an advertisement ing of the terrible work of death that had all the morning been going on all around us in the devoted city. We knew that the continuing four days. There will be in premiums.

uig nag spoad oi. They were entirely ignorant of the situation of affairs on the south side, except what they could see and hear the flames city was in flames for we could see it with Socorro, New Mexico, business men are in a western paper "Cut this out. Woman's land office in Gove City, Kansas. The best interests of women everywhere faithfully served. Thousands of women have invested in county seat lots and farms in Western Kansas, and are coining money.

All buying lots in Gove City or farms and smoke, the firing and the yells and shrieks. I explained to them briefly what our own eyes, how the best buildings and and in fact all the buildings that would burn were rapidly yielding and turning to I knew, and told them I thought aroused to the benefits to be derived from the western excursions and have appointed committees and raised money for the purpose of getting up a series of grand ashes before the devouring element, but in Gove county are sure to make large profits. Property owners in said county the main body of the outlaws had left the town, but that a few straggler remained who were drunk and devilish. Telling them of what had just happened we had seen no murder. We thought that Residents of the towns of Ran Mio-nnl.

outlawry would be content with the plun are invited to place the same, if for sale, on our books. Correspondence solicit i. To insure a reply send stamp. Li Mesa. Chamberino and La Union.

the hotel, they accepted my view of the der and destruction of the town, and little case and all who had arms trot into the Dona Ana county, N. on the west bank of the river south of Mesilla. niton 1 fnr The San Diegan is again agitating the ferry boat and crossed over at once. They were met on the other side by Capt. Frank ri militia protection against rustlers said to be operating in that vicinity.

question of a division of the state of California. Commendatory of Justice Field, who has spoken approvingly of state division, it says editorially: "Mr. Justice d. fcwitt, who had served a term in the First Kansas, and he marched them up in- Tia Juana City is the musical ampliation dreamed that its streets and bines and vacant squares were at that very moment thickly strewn with corpses.and that many of the dead were being consumed in the burning buildings. We had been kept close prisoners and still were so, for three were sentries posted in front of the City hotel to keep us from leaving it.

to the city just in time to see the last of the stragglers ride off. at full gallop to re saddled on to a poor little lone city on the lelds apparently reads the signs of the ower Lalitornia line. 1 he whole hrstpajre join the main body. For myself, still in of the daily San Diegan is taken up witn my stocking teet, 1 wandered off on the Leavenworth road till I came to a new a wonderful map and a roseate description of the city and the route thither. times aright, and recognizes the fact that sometimes, at least, 'coming events cast their shadows Everyelenient that can enter into a great question a question that involves vast and varied interests is found in this support of state The larire saw and planinsr mills re These sentries called for something to eat, and when it was given cently burned at Flagstaff.Arizona, are rebuilding to treble their previous capacity.

division. Necessity, justice, geography, climate, commerce, productions, economy, wealth, population, popular sentiment.and The Arizona lumber company alone in their several mills and planeries will fur them stood quietly at their posts and ate. We, the prisoners, had the whole hotel to ourselves, and had nothing to do but to wait and watch. I remember house in the woods about wlwre the rail-raod now stands, belonging to a Col. Garrett, and there I got a good breakfast and a pair of old shoes.

After this I went back to Ihe ferry housf. where I found a large crowd of fugitive' from the burned city, and was shocked to see Captain Stone mortally wounded, lying on a bed, and learned that be had been shot down on the piazza of the hotel at the moment I made my escape from it. He died that same day or the next. He was 'manifest destiny. hat is the sentiment nish employment to eight hundred hands that links alta to baja? Not any.

What including woodsmen and teamsters. for my own part that I found some com Natural was has been found in Colorado. It is possible that a great part of- the Piatt valley may be uuderlaid with rock good and brave nun and had refused to permea'ed with 'combustible, gas. The qut stion is yet to be determined whether anv single locality may be reliei upon to give au unfailing supply. have a white flag displayed from his house that morning, declaring that he would natural boundaries and industrial relation are favorable to a divorce suit without claims for alimony? Many.

The popular eve down in this section sees no 'crime, in tiie light of history' or by the light of the moon, or in the blaze of electricity. We are not sentimental but prosaic on state division. When the fullness of time shall come and we live in a rushing age and phenomenal climate partition of the state will take place, and the gem, South California, will be added to the national diadem of sovereign rather take his chance. As 1 stated in my fort in the fact that I had saved a pipe and some tobacco about mv person, and that naving divided the tobacco with my old friend, Hugh S. Walsh, for some years secret? ry of the territory, and several times acting governor when the appointed governors were remeved, or were absent from the territory, we seated ourselves in the barroom and proceeded to enjoy a protnicaed smoke, discoursing in the The ore sampling works at Tucson, Ari last letter, Quantrell had sworn that "not a hair of his head should be injured," but zona are running dav and night.

Ore from )ld Mexico continues coming in, which, the men who murdered him were stragglers not at the time under Ouantrell's control. 1 1 af terwards came out that he was killed in addition to the ores from Southern Arizona has increased the business to more than do'Jble of what it was six months ago, which causeth the citizen to crow hilari meantime upon the sudden blow that had ously. on purpose, as a special act of revenge, by a man who had stayed behind when his companions of the main body left to fulfill a threat he had made to the good old man's daughter an hour or two before. "And thereby hangs a Me," as the storybooks sav the tale of a ring. fallen, like a thunderbolt from a clear sky.

Governor Walsh, as we called him', was a Charlie Tcer, inspector of trail herds at Socorro, N. M. Cattle buyers are making their appearance at Las Animas. Sneak thieves and house breakers are working Las Vegas. Cattle stealing has been practically stopped in lower New Mexico.

Charges have been preferred against Vlov. IloW, of New Mexico. In Albuquerque it is fashionable for the ladies to bet on the base ball games. A 'lfax. New Mexico, tanner has a wool clip of 37,500 pounds this year.

From 6,000 to 8,000 head of cattle are their way east from New Mexico. The Santa Fe railroad company is advertisings New Mexico and its resources. Las Crudes is shipping daily from 1300 to 400 baskets of the renowned Mission grape. The Panhandle, of Texas, is trying to riral California in the matter of climate. Angora goat ranches have proven very profitable in Socorro county, New Mexi-.

A motor road is being constructed between San Bernardino and the "Rod lands." The Preseott Courier says that Albuquerque ministers get their inspiration in Hell canon. A live stock depot will probably be trected at Keno. It will be an extensive affair. Very heavy rains have fallen of late throughout the southwestern mountain ranges. The government telegraph line between Pkenix and Matieopa, Arizona territory, is for sale.

Z. H. Powell, of Santa Fe, Kansas, is registered at the HotelCapital. Santa Fe New Mexican. Las Vegas is agitating the question of city government and sewerage.

It now hm neither. The season at Manitou has about closed. The guests have nearly all returned to their homes. Southern California draws almost entirely upon New Mexico and Arizona for tier horses. The sheep industry will cut a more important figure in Texas next year than wer before.

Cimarron is stage struck. No less than three amateur companies are talking of taking the road. An iron mine on the Maxwell grant, twelve miles from Trinidad, is to be opened at once. A history of the old Texas trail is being written in Denver and will shortly be published in book form. On account of climatic changes the fruit rop will be two weeks earlier than usual in New Mexico this year.

I is estimated that there are 12,000,000 susres of land in Southern New Mexico which can be cultivated by irrigation. The tramp nuisance is becoming so grat in Las Vegas that the Optic of that citv suggests hanging in a few instance. The Tucson Citizen is of the opinion thxt its people will not stand much more bleeding on the smelter project. A big strike has been made in the Union ome, Maricopa county, Arizona. The arine is owned by a California company.

The Vasbury and Ncyton ranch in Pleasant Valley, Arizona, is turning out some -of the finest cattle upon the market. Says the Santa Fe paper: The second wnd even the third crop of outs will grow fesre from one sowing. So also do peas. Medicine Lodge has voted 815,000 in vity bonds tor th purpose of bringing ii waters of Elm creek into this city. The Sonora and New Mexico and Arizona railways have issued an order abandoning Sunday trains on their roads for the jwesent.

At the opening dinner of the new Carle-ton hotel at San Diego, seventeen -caurses were served to over four hundred people. In the Las Cruces, N. M. land district swore homestead entries have been made this month than during any two months previous. The horse market in Texas was dull last week and there was little demand.

Sevier! carloads of mules were shipped east from San Antonio. By an act of the last general assembly of Colorado, the first Monday in September been designated as a public holiday, to fce known as "Labor day." Horned stock in Sierra county, New Kexico, are lookingflbetter than the indications of drj weather in the early part of Ae season would have led one to expect eteran democrat, born in Delaware coun It seems that when Quantrell boarded with Stone and was sick at the house, Trail City, has been in town several days this He reports that only about 81,000 cattle have crossed the Arkansas at Trail this season, this number being greatly below that of last year, and thinks the Texas trail herd business is about wound up. Bent County Democrat. Miss Lydia Stone waited on him during ty, New lork, but had spent many years of his life in the south and though a loyal man during the war he had of course some little sympathy tor the people he had lived among so long and with whom, politically he had always acted. He spoke of this raid upon Lawrence as having been provok- his sickness, and in return for her kindness he gave her a diamond ring of considerable value, and as if foreseeing the stormy times to come he charged her to Potter county, Texas, which has been under the judicial and official protection of keep it.

in token ot his life. That ring she wore on her finger Oldham county heretofore, is lo organize and choose her county officers August 30th. 1 and brought on by the depredations of the abolitionst called "red legs" who had Potter county is one or the hnesr. in the Panhandle, and with pluck and energy that fateful morning, and whan it was seen by one of the villains who robbed the guests of the house, he demanded that also. She valued the ring highly-as most young ladies are apt to value diamond f'r years made Lawrence their head she can develope the untried resources she so surely possesses.

quarters while enticing negroes to run lgs and told the ruman how she came The Tascosa, Texas, Pioneer, in a well away from their masters and steal their masters horses or mules sometimes with wagon and other goods as the best means written and strongly argued editorial, an nounces prohibition 'a "'dead duck" in Texas now that the proposition was de feated down there, and while pleased at that s'atus of affairs, deplores the fate of some of the other amendments, "some of which possessed decided virtues." by it. It made no difference to him, he said, who she got it from; "Hand it over, quick!" And she did, but noticed his dress, and afterward sent for Quantaell and told him of her loss, describing the man who took her ring. Quantrell swore it should be returned, and soon the same ruffian who took it came back and returned it, acting very sulkily and muttering as she took it from his hand that she would be sorry for it!" And for this he planned and executed the brutal murder of her father, as I have Grand preparations are being made for the celebration of "San Mignet's Day," of getting away. He also spoke of the atrocious doings of some ot the Kansas troops in the border counties of Missouri and particurarly of the robbing and burning of the city of Osceola, a town as large as Lawrence, at the head of steam boat navigation on the Osage river which had been recently captured by Lane's brigade. We could not agree on these matters, and meanwhile the sun shone so hot into the east door and window, where we were sitting, that we adjourned into the dining-room, discribed.

But one other man was shot at Socorro, New Mexico, beginning September 29. The program will be a very interesting one, and will consist of genuine old fashioned bull fights, horse races, burro races, band and cow boy tournaments, chicken pulling and all sorts of sports, and to end up with a grand pyro-technical display at night. down in that chaige upon the crowded Kansas Notes. Salina banks have a capital of The Rock Island has reached Tratt City. Coal has been discovered near Lawrence.

Sedgwick county's poor farm has only sewn inmates. The new Episcopal church at Topeka will cast 3100,000. Osborne City raised $2W for the Mill-brook sufferers. Scott City has voted bonds for a $20,000 school house. The public schools in Dodge will open the 5th of September.

Caldwell Ins 660 children of school age. 830 boys and 330 girls. Greely county will hold her first fair "at Horace next month The retail trade of Salina in 1886 amounted to $6,000,000. The News says mother hubbards are popular in Kingman. The rain this week has put the farmers to wcrk for wheat and rye.

Topeka now has ten miles of street railway running from Kansas avenue. Crawford county's normal school Jhas an attendance of 240 students this year. The Vigilant Live Stock Insurance company of Lincoln has suspended operations. Beloit is expending a good deal of money this year paving grading up its streets. A soap manufactory with a capacity of two tons daily, has commenced operations at Wichita.

Paola has an old settleis' reunion this week. Senators Plumb and Ingalls are expected to be present. The school population of Ford county is 2,786, and its annual apportionment of the school fund $1,504,44. The' silk season at Peabody is reported to have taken 2,000 pounds of cocoonB since opening last spring. The state assembly of the Knights of Labor will hold their next meeting at Atchison, August 1, 1888.

Governor Martin has issued a proclamation declaring Osborne, Osborne county, eity of the second class. Campbell oni versify, at Holton, will commence its school year with nearly 600 students. It had 563 fast year. piazzaa peddler. 1 believe, and I think he recovered.

1 heard this story ot the ring at the time, but e-ave little credence to it, considering it a romantic invention. But in 1881, eighteen years afterward. I saw the same lady, then Mrs. Kinsbury.wife The Tascosa, Texas, Pioneer is quite an which occupied the north side of the house mportant sheet in the panhandle of Texas, and was cool. That morning, by-the-way, was one of the very, hottest 1 remember of the public printer of Dakota territory, living at Yankton, D.

but on a visit to friends at Lawrence, and had the story from her own lips nearly as I have related to have seen in Kansas, yet I may as well remark here in passing that four days af being the official journal of Oldham, Hartley, Dallam, Sherman, Moore, Potter, Randall, Deaf Smith, Parmer and Castro counties. It is a seven-page folio, well edited, and full of spicy, newsy editorial and local, but, curiously enough, poorly patronized in its advertising columns, although enjoying a large provincial circu it. terwards we had a severe frost (Tuesday morning, August 25), which killed some to be coxtixtjkbJ. Journalistic Pleasantries. More than three tons of turnip seed crops on low land, and extending into Illinois, Iowa, Indiana and Wisconsin, did lation.

have been shipped from Lawrence to A sneria.1 to the R.enuhlir.nn from Idnlio Western Kansas this year. great damage. Springs, concerning the cutting of government timbersa.vs! ''The troiihlp nlmnf Up to the hour of goin-r to press the Walsh and I continued the discussion question of "where in the is Heber" cutting government timber that interfered i i i is still unanswered. Meade County Globe. wiiu me ousiness oi our lumoer yaras nas bHt-n adjusted and work at the mills re The red headed editor of the Register sumed.

The law forbids that timber for some time, until our attention was aroused by the tramp of horses on the south front of the hotel, and loud voices, calling On everybody in the house to come out. the language they used was coars and ruffianly such as drunken men are accustomed to use, and run in this wise: advocates woman suffrage and greenbacks, prohibition and socialism, the labor party and anarchism. He "straddles" ewry-' thing in sight and is a "bad McPherson Democrat. We wonder if the editor of the Repub "here you Gr-d son of ch from mineral lands be shipped to dealers, though it may be sold to consumers, thus providing against speculation among middlemen. The Fort Worth, Texas, Gazette asks, what is the matt with the newspaper reports of the Dallas ex-confederate reunion, and claiming that they are incomplete because "in all the record no mention is made ef the generous benefactor who bared his breast and went boldly forth to lican informed County Attorney House where he got the "bug-juice with which he made such a distruatinjr sneetacle of come out here! come right out here all of you!" There were probably not far from one hudred of as in the house At that time and those in the front rooms went out on himself in the postothee and on the streets uat Sunday afternoon.

Meade Cosaty Globe. the piaza as fast as they could get out through tho doors.