Garfield County Journal from Loyal, Kansas • 2

GARFIELD COUNTY JOURNAL ting the house on fire over his head. They still believed he was hidden there in some slv place and stood around and commenced shooting. Wounded at the first fire he ran into the house followed by the hell-hounds, shooting at every step, through several doors, while his blood spurting from his wounds stained the door I town into ihe cellar he fled in to kill him when at last he (J. L. SIGMAX.

Publisher. should be driven out by the rire. But Mrs. Fisher was there, and acted like one inspired. llow she manage i 1 cannot well EARLY DAYS IN KANSAS.

vain hope of escape, followed by his shrieking wife and hfer sister, as well as by explain, but he had leave from the ut- laws to tave wnai iurniuire tue cuuiu. auu in doing that she managed, as it accidentally, to spill a tub of water 4n the floor over her husband's hiding place. And somehow he crawled out of the cellar while she concealed him under a carpet she had The Fort Scott Monitor, epeaking of the new process for making sugar, ia operation at the Parkinson works in that city, gives this hopeful view of the rotor success of the sugar industry in Kansas: "A to the success of thin industry there seems now no question. One hundred pounds of good sugar and from ten to twelve gallons of syrup are being made from every ton of cane worked. This ha never before been approximated, and settles foif vt the business of sugar making in Kansas.

We have no hesitancy in expressing our opinion, for we have ee with our own eyes and tasted with our own month, the evidence of success. Every acre of land in Kansas has been nhanced in value and the county made immeasurably richer by the work done and being done at Fort Continuation ot the Quantrell Raid Narrative the fiends bent on his murder. There he fell upon the cellar bottom, and his devoted wife and her sister threw themselves upon his tody in the vain hope of shielding him from futher violence. But no. They coolly lifted the dresses of the shrieking ladies so as to uncover his head and disclmrged bullet after bullet till he 'was dead.

By some means they failed to burn the house of their victim, and it still remains to remind me whenever I pass it of the horrid tore up, and carried out into the yard with KANSAS SUGAR. FitMB the Harden "it SwirM-t For several days the press reports have contained statement roncerniug the manufacture of sugar at Fort seott. thi state. The Tribune says 4-on-rningit: There are strung li-s for Kansas Migar yet. The great mills al Hutchinson and Sterling are silent, but the government has takes hold of the idea, piamuly at an opportune time, and there are indicatiiKis this season that Kansas will yet lead in sugar a-Jie Uas'iu freedom, in h-at.

In corn and pretty lnm-h in everything that builds up great states and prosperous romniunities. Tlw government has expended S70.000 at the Kort Scott sugar works and the Parkinson company have put in Last year the experiments were a failure.The results of last year's work were only about twenty-five to fifty pounds of sugar to the ton of -aue. T.ut by a different process, we learn from the Fort Srott Tribune.Prof. Swenson has succeeded in obtaining lOt pounrbj per ton of cane of excellent sugar from the first -'strike." This result settles beyond aIIi-ontroversy the fart that sugar making in Kansas is a success, and is destined to be one of the grandest industries of the west; and will doubtless revolutionize the sugar industries in this country. Kansa-s will Itecome the supply house of sugar as well as cattle, fhogs and corn for the Mississippi valley, the near future Wonderful Escape of Her.

H. D. Fisher Whom the Murderous Marauders Thought That They had-Burned to Death. tragedy. Mrs.

Carpenter was almost dis tracted with gnet, and retuned to her tor-mer avocation as a teacher, but time, a great soother, came to her relief, and after many years of widowhood she became the wife of Hon. John C. Rankin, of Queneno. O-agc county late county treasurer of that county and a farmer and busi-iiisk man. Bruta' Murder of jage Louts Carpenter, Reporter of the Supreme Court, who was Shot Down on his own Premises inrr mi flip ruirlii'ii- r.

I of this srreat calamity, but 1 am try ing to give a true narrative of what 1 saw and heard, and this was one of most shock ing incidents and both he and hi wife BIT JUIMJK 1.. I. BAlLKf. we mv very dear tnends. mm croucning unaer it.

ine carpet was thrown down among wnie tall weeds and there Mr. Fisher lay while his would be murderers stood around within a few feet of him. watching the burning house, intent on shoo'ing him the moment he appeared. They staid till the roof and frame work fell in and then left, thinking he was burned alive. A narrower escape ha seldom been told" of.

Perhaps 1 may as well add here that I wa personally knowing to Mr. Fisher's care of the fugitive "contrabands," from the fact that a family of seven out of the steamboat load before mentioned, were committed to my charge and years lived on my farm at Balvois, where good old 'L'n-cle Tom" George and his wife Kliza are still held in pleasant remembrance. They are now living near Denver, where two of the daughters are married and all, 1 lieve, are prospering. Another elder daughter married a young preacher at Iiw-rence, and I think is still living there with a growing family, while the oldest girl of all was sold away from her parents and never came to Kansas. I made considerable efforts to trace her and once heard of her near t'arondelct.

Missouri, but when I went to find her she was not there, aitu so far as I know she had never communicated with her parents or heard of them since freedom came. Many more of that steamboat load are still living in Iaw-rence and vicinity, some of whom have bought farms and are thrifty farmers on a small scale. I think it was Saturday the day after the raid that I was walking in the south Ax arts-ian well is being bored at Galveston. The city stands on a narrow sand spit, which fences off the Galveston bay from the Gulf of Mexico, and is by water, lieing at different places from two to forty miles from the mainland. It is therefore a peculiar place for an artesian well.

The following is the stratification parsed through: Quicksand thirty-two feet blue clay se.venteen feet; coarse sand twenty-six feet; white clay 107 feet; sea mud fifty seven feet olive clay 1 16 feet sea mud 130 feet blue clay twenty-six feet; sea mud eleven feet blue clay 147 feet; total 58 feet-. At a depth of JS00 feet several palmetto logs were passed through. At present a nine inch tube i being sunk. Scientific American. I rationed seeing Mrs.

Frazer at the emry landing when Capt. Stone lay dying and her anxiety a bout the safety of her brother, James Perrine, a clerk in the store of Kldredge A- Ford. 1 had but little doubt myself of his personal safety, and tried my 'best to assure her of it, and prom NO. XXIV. ised to send her the good news at the earliest possible moment.

Alas! the first man I enquired of told me that Janice Perrine was about the nrst man murdered that morning. He and his fellow clerk, James Eldredge, occupied a sleeping room in the store, which was large and attractive, and Fire Guards. Now that the gound is in such splendid condition for plowing, the Blade urges the Ford county farmers to prerpare good fire-guards and make every precaution necessary to guard against the disastrous fires which will soon begiu to work devastation throughout Kansas. There are thousands of ways in which tires originate and the most zealous watchfulness can not present them. Every year in Kansas has been marked with destruction to property and to life through negligence to diligently guard against the tire-fiend.

No legislative enactmentsno matter how severe the ikui-alty can check or prevent fires. The only remedy is preparation. Therefore broad strips' of plowing on the north and south sides of field and good a guard around farm houses, barns and stack yards should be mado with out further delay. Only thus can immunity be guaranteed against destruction to life and property. -Spearville Blade when thev broke open the store for plun der they naturally killed the two young men.

I also spoke of W. H. Baker, of Lie firm of Kidenour Baker, as leing left for dead. But he did not die, and is one of part of the city when some one on horse back hailed me and ridinrr un ranidlv ask the best business men in Kansas City today. His attempted murder heads another ed me if knew what had become of the chapter ot horrible atrociiv.

He was Trnto the Cardeu t'ity Sentinel. All that day I wandered through the streets of the ruined city, and found the blackness of desolation everywhere except where the blackness was blotted out wit the red stains of blood. I listened to the xtoriw of the houselesw victims, and heard nany a tale of hair-breadth escapes. Walking down the main street before noon I chanced to Ite present ot the meeting of Kev. H.

0. Fisher and Charles Duncan. Wisher had been pastor the Methodist church in Lawrence, but Dad accepted the post of chaplain in the Fifth Kansas infantry, and been detailed to tike charge of the runaway slaves who were everywhere flocking to the Union -amps and needed souie one to take vare of them. Mr. Fisher was an ardent hater of slavery and entered upon his duties "with 7.eal and efficiency.

He had brought hundreds of the poor fugitives from the war-stricken borders of -Missouri to 'the free soil of Kansas. and horses I drove from Topeka. I told him I Thk best way to encourage railroad building is to raise crops. One of the first questions by a corporation when asked to construct a line of road through any local' ity is: "What do your crops amount to?" If the farmers raise no crops railroad corporations do not care to build line! through their territory. Every fruit tree planted, every hoof of stock raised, every bushel of grain raised, and every ton of hay cut.

andsaved is so much encourage-ment for railroads to come among us This is gosjiel truth, and farmers would do well to heed it. Now is the time to make preparations for next year. Till the soil, pet in winter crops and make preparations to wise an immense crop next year. Do not procrastinate, but go ahead with your work now. did not and never exjtected to know, the guerrillas had taken them ot course, I said.

"(I, no!" he replied, "I took care of those horses, you bet: iouleftthein in my care and I did not forget it. When I found the rebels had come 1 took those horses down into the ravine and have taken good care of them ever since." It was John Donnelly or his brother James, I am not certain which, but the horses were safe and were duly returned to the owner, An drew Stark, of Topeka. then clerk of the supreme court horses, buggy and harness, all complete, The season for expositions and fairs at hand. These enterprises, if rightly conducted, are a source of great profit to those who attend. In no other manner can the products of a locality be brought together so advantageously for inspection, study and comparison.

They facilitate the interchange of ideas, generate the spirit of honorable rivalry, and enthuse all with the determination to exert greater efforts for improvement in their respective lines. The county fair and the city exposition are objects worthy of patronage. newly married at the time and was boarding at the house of Dr. W. F.

Griswold, together with Hon. S. M. Thorpe and wife and J. F.

Trask and wife. Thorpe hnd been a teacher in Lawrence, then state superintendent of schools and was at that time state senator. Dr. Griswold was also a young man not long married, and Mr. Trask, editor of the Iawrence State Journal, had but a few weeks before returned from Massachusetts with a blooming bride.

Dr. Griswold had returned with his wife only the night lx-fore from a. visit to the east, and as he came up to his own house etpressed his extreme satisfaction of finding himself at his peaceful home once more. Alas, scarcely twelve hours were to elapse before he and his three friends. Baker, Trak and Thorp were all called out and shot down in front of his own house.

All were left for ('cad, and Griswold and Trask were so. Baker and Thorp were desperately wounded. Thorp mortally. He lingered a few days in hopeless agony but maintained a cheerful spirit to the very last. In the senate the winter previous Hon.

Edward Kussell, to whom we in Fin-nev county, are so much indebted for the except one bridle, had been found, hit by that bridle there hang's a tale which was not disclosed till the next winter. I think Arizona has caught the artesiaji well fever. The Star, of Tucson, says: "We must have the artesian well: artesian water in Arizona will do more to populate the territory than all other influences combined. It is meet and proper that the territory should pay at least part of the expense incurred in prospecting for the same." in. Februrary.

Mr. Stark on going onto tne street one day, saw a team hitched in front of the store over which he had hi office, and he chanced to notice that one of the horses hail on a bridle exactly like the one lost at Lawrence. It was a new bridle when 1 borrowed it, and like the two har nesses was trimmed with blue. He soon found the man who owned the team, and a-s soon as he began to ask question about ''thnt the man grew very uneasy, and was very willing to give it up. Me finally explained that he took it from the LOT SALE BG construction of the Great Eastern Irrigat Kldredge House stables, on the morning of ing ditch, had been a colleague or Ihorp the "ynantrel raid, not being ahle to hnd his own in his haste to get away to save his He lived down in Johnson county, some sixtv miles from Topeka, and had iHsd found places for them where they could earn their living- by their labor.

nd he had quite recently brought up a Kjtrf of them from St. Ijoius. In many caise? fee had advised the negroes to help themselves to the abandoned property of their rebel masters, and many a pood span mules or horses with wagons attached vame oul loaded with fugitive families, their beds and bedding and such poor of food and furniture as they could gather at short notice. "Mitf Mttrse these things made Mr. Fisher a 'VSfcarked man among the reikis and his life was not worth a moment's purchase if Ifhey could lay hands on him.

Mr. Duncan was a leading merchant in Lawrence, a Methodist and an old time democrat, as lieis yet. Rather a rare combination. Both had lost everything. Both had their houses burnt and met in the street each unaware till that moment whether the other was alive or dead.

They were smoke begrimed and dusty, for it was one of the hottest and lustiest August days 1 ever saw, 'and they threw themselves into others arms and embraced with the ardor of two school girls. And then each related hrt of deadly peril and escape. Mr. Fisher's was truly marvelous almost mi-i-THculous, in fact, and I am glad so many never been at Topeka before. It almost from Doniphan county, and as the senate at that time was prohibited from acting on any measure till it had first passed the lower house.

Thorp and Kussell had amused their leisure by raising and debating a good many questions of rder. They were warm personal friends, and Mr. Kussell, hearing of the AT seemed a-s if he had coine on purpose, and to that very house in order that the owner condition of Mr. Thorp, made haste to of the bridle might have his own again. Mr.

Stark cared nothingabout the bridle, but was much interested in the story of its loss and its recovery. The man who took it Wiis evidently afraid of bein" charged with participation in the raid. Mr. Stark visit him. Thorp though almost in the bust stage of his case looked up and in-stamly recognized his senatorial friend.

Kussell, and with a smile on his pale face to remind him of the senatorial debating school, and of his present desperate con was satisfied with his story and accepted the bridle with an apology. This is a trifling incident perhaps, but it completes tne ation he called out cheerfully: "Well, story of my borrowed team which, by the wav, was borrowed by udge m. it. Ed, they have moved the previous question on me. On Friday, September 30, 1887.

Brown, now of Larned, late M. C. and The previous question was sustained, and a brave spirit was lost to Kansas. Three young widows were left in one house to mourn the loss of three young i :0: vr the people of Garden City recently men, their nuswuuts, wno were among the most promising that had ever come to Kansas. Mrs.

Trask has never married a second time but until re heard it from his own lips, for I dispair of The management of the LOYAL TOWN COMPANY, have arranged for a cently for many years was the efficient li brarian ot the Lawrence City Library. Mrs. Thorpe returned to rew iork and her son met and greeted me a year or two since in Lawrence, a fine promising young man. iilFE iriiiL Mrs. Griswold after many years of wid owhood was happily married to Hon.

Geo. A. ranks, of Lawrence. (to bk continckd.) Keeping Farm Machinery. One of the most important matters in hay-making is the keeping of the mow ing machine io perfect order.

The bolts must be kept screwed up, the joints well till later register of the Larned land ofhee. His parents living at Lawrence he borrowed the team for the trip, and went by way of my farm on the Wakarusa, inaor der to see my patch of cotton, which ws-just then beginning to blossom though planted about the first of June. That cotton proved to be a good crop and of good quality, for I sold it in July, 1864, in Boston for $1.50 per pound, which was within ten cents of the highest price ever paid 1 think in the Boston market. That proves that cotton will grow in Kansas and mature even when late planted, but it does not prove that it can be raised profitably at present prices. One of the saddest calls I made on that blackest of Black Fridays was at the house of my young friend Judge Ixmis Carpenter, who had been appointed reporter of the.

supreme court, to succeed Preston B. Plumb (now senator) who had been first appointed, but had resigned to go into the army, where he roe to the rank of colonel. Judge Carpenter was a young lawyer of decided talent and great industry, and had but a few months before married a very amiable and accomplished lady from Emporia, with whom 1 waslwell acquainted. He had just completed the erection of a new brick house in the south part of the town, and there I had visited nim and his bride but a few weeks before. Then he was in high hope, and as happy as a young man so happily situated had a right to be.

This time I found him' dead, while his young wife and her sister, Mrs. Morse, of Emporia, wife of Rev. G. C. Morse, were distractedly weeping over his bloody remains.

Mrs. Morse had come up from Emporia by stage only the day before on her first visit to her sister since her marriage, and before sunrise the next morning was destined to witness one of the most brutal and savage butcheries ever perpetrated in a Christian land, The guerrillas called on Judge Carpenter about sunrise and wanted water. He had a fine well close by his house and he drew water for the men and their horses till all had enough and then they coolly turned their revolvers telling it as it was told them, though the impression wil never be effaced. Mr. Fisher had just come home and was in his house, a five-story brick.

Near the corner of the park when the fiends came to kill him. They had a carefully prepared list of the to be killed, a copy of which was picked up by a. son of Mr. -Stillman Andrew who now lives on a claim near SherftxikTitJ this county. This list comprised the names of the best known abolitionists, and among others were the names of Mr.

Fisher and (of course) "Jim Lane," The ruffians -had had spies in town and knew the houses where the doomed men lived. -'They, burnt the houses but as a rule the owners escaped. They came to Fisner' "house and he knew at once, that if seen lie was lost. He ran down cellar and hid himself in a pace where the cellar wall had been left incomplete, and left a. space between the natural surface of the ground and the floor.

The guerillas demanded of his wife where he was, and she told them truly that he had left the house, but did not tell them that he had returned. They told ncr she was lying and the brave woman told them to search for themselves. And search they did, high and low. At last they took a laugh and went down cellar. They could see the whole cellar but did 'not see the notch in the wall, though Mr.

Fisher could see them plainly, looking towards the light, while they were looking from the light out Into the darkness. They held up the lamp and gazed earnestly. They could sec the solid wall all around the cellar but never thought to examine to see if it was built clear op to the floor. So they missed their Tictim and contented themselves with set oiled and the sickle sharp, and the grinding of this is a very particular job. Grind the sections only on one side and keep the bevel and the shape the same, as near as possible, as when new.

Also grind the guards in which the sickle works so as to make the edges square when they are worn rounding, or the machine will not cut well, no matter On the above date. The Ravana Band will furnish music for the occasion, and Colonel A. Johnson, Captain R. M. Spivey -and others will be present and deliver short addresses.

Take stage from Garden City or Ravanna. A good-time can be counted on, and as a large number of lots will be 'sold at auction, every visitor can make some money. Is situated in the Pawnee Valley, surrounded by lands of most wonderful fertility. CRYSTAL SPRINGS gush from the ravines of the Pawnee and water this most beautiful region. The Chicago, Kansas Western railway is building toward Loyal as rapidly as it can be constructed, and the numerpus advantages of the location insure a good town here.

Easy terms of sale of lots will be made. Come and see. For further information, call on 01 address how sharp the sickle, or what the power and Beed of your team may be. Old machines are frequently laid aside or new sickles bought to make them serviceable, simply because the guards have become roundine and need to be squared up. The machine that is kept, in order does not wear out quickly, and age does not interfere with the perfect working for a long time, but a comparatively new N.

L. UNDERWOOD, President, macmnp in iwa oraer win soon oecome worn and work hard. Careful attention in this matter will save time and money and wear and tear on horse flesh. Rocky Mt. Husbandman.

G. L. SIGMAN, Secretary, Loyal, Kansas..