The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, August 22, 1883, Page 1

The Butler Weekly Times. Vis NO 388 THE FAR WEST. Gur Correspondent in the Mountains Tells Another Tale. Special Correspondent Butler Times. Cortorapo, Sprincs, } Cox., Aug. 8. 1883, § An interval of several weeks has intervened since my last letter to the Times, and many tedious miles have been encompassed by our party since it,was written. From Hutchison, Kansas, westward to Pueblo and Colorado Springs, the traveler finds but little to amuse his thoughts orengage his attention. A smail village about eyery twenty or thirty mules and section house every nine miles, comprise the chief settlements trom Larned west. * The industrious husbandman has gradually encroach- ed upon what, for many years was considered tHe untillable portion of western Kansas, till now the entire country along the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe railroad as far west as Larned is almost a continual section of farmes. Away fromthe railroad ten or fifteen miles there are no set- tlements at all, and the Antelope, withnow and then a stray Buffalo, grazes undesturbed on the wild prairie. But ‘‘the plains’’ are not what they used to be when the ‘old Santa Fe trailer’’ gave hfe and interest to their wild, weary nature. The bands ot steel that bind the land from ocean to ocean have robbed them ot theit originality, and what was once the ‘‘American desert’? is now becom- ing the home of the farmer and the ranchman. Theold ‘trail’ has its interesting associations though the grass and weeds have in places ob- literated it from view. There are thousands of people living. in the west who could relate interesting re- miniscences of their experience in crossing the plains a quarter of a cen- tury ago when the Indians and Buf- falo were far more plentiful than the herds of cattle and sheep that graze upon its prairies to-day. Such is the past, and no history of the Great West will be complete without ex- tended reference to the ‘Old Santa Fe trail’? and the numerous inter- esting features that are associated with it. A system of irrigation is being operated in western Kansas and ‘eastern Colorado which promises, if successful, to bring manv thousands of acres ot lands into cultivation. Large ditches, embracing many miles of territory, have been dug by com- panies as an experiment and the trial thus far has been successful. Stock raising, however, 1s the chief business of this section of the coun- try. Cattle and sheep live on the plains and the Arkansas valley the year round with no other feed than they find. The stranger universally wonders how steck subsist through the winter on such grass as he sees. But we have evidence that they do it, and that’s enough. The A. T. & S. Fe. railroad first touches the Arkansas river at Hutch- inson, and follows it the entire dis- tance from there to Pueblo. This is one of the best railroad linesin the west and carries ona large business. The wagon road follows it almost from one end to the other and scarce- ly were we out of hearing of a train. The road bed is a most excellent one, and though very fast time is made, accidents seldom occur. Par- ties traveling by wagon across this | country find abundance of excellent well water all along the line. The muddy Arkansaw 1s no longer re- | sorted too to quench the pilgrims thirst or mix his morsel of bread. more generous and accommodating set of people never hved than those who have cast their fortunes on the plains. And quite might they be otherwise, for there is considerable travel to and fro during the spring and summer season, and | often these good people are 1mposed | upon. Almost immedivtely upon cross- |ing the Colorado line a cooler at- | mosphere, quite in contrast with the | hot winds of Kansas, was preceiva- jble. There 1s not this radical differ- ence in the climate but the occasion- al change of the weather in the mountains has effect frequently as tar east as the state line, and so it was in this case I presume. Granada, only a few mules this side plate a trip tothis hereafter that there is no other to travel with safety but the cone I describe. Proceeding westward we reached the old Mexicantown ot Las Ani- mus whose building were almost en- tirely of dobby. All that now re- mains of its former glory is a saloon kept open Sunday as well as other days, anda huge piles of dobby ruins. The site is on the south bank of the Arkansas. St. Lyon is just opposite the river. West Las Animus, s1x, miles turther up the river, has a pop- ulation of 1,000, and is a town ot some importance. We came through the latter place on Sunday and were much disappointed at not being able to get teed for our team. The Sunday law was in torce there and heavy penalties tollow its viola- tion. And while speaking of law of Kansas: Intoxicating drinks are as easily gotten in Kansas to-day as they were before any prohibition law was enacted. There isa difference in the way of getting it, that’s all. Saloons are no more in the eastern part ot the state but from Dodge City west they continue as though no law existed. The drugstores derive the benefit ot prohibition. They used to keep whisky only but now they add beer te their stock since the saloons are out of the way. In most places you call for what you want and are waited on as though you were buying some legitimate article of merchandise. In other places you are ushered into a backroom in the drug store and without seeing who you are dealing with, you depoisit your money on a table which turns on a pivot and in the next moment comes back what you desire. In Dodge City every other door in full blast with the additional attraction of a full orchestry—including a piano with a gorgeously attired female at the helm—rending the air with de- lightful music. Standing on the sidewalk you can count from a dozen to fifty men seated around gambling road tables in one of those largest establish- | ments. They have no painted win- dows or screens. From Dodge City westward saloons are as common as anywhere. This 1s how I find prohi- bition in Kansas, and it only serves to strenghten my often expressed opinion that prohibition is a traud. From Las Annimus west the country becomes more interesting. The mountains soon appear, and the general lay of the country is more pleasing. Our road begins to cross tributaries to the Arkansas, which in | the rainy season are dangerous from crossing the Hueifano river ot what was once Ft. Reynolds. Nothing is left to tell the tale of its interesting history but dobby ruins. Al reasonably | on our long journey. | tion is filled with the herds j men. Barbers. The longe: shaver, M 'Dorn’s. Try him. had been very high only a few days before. On the western bank of James H. Walker, Kansas Ctiv, Hio, this stream we noticed the remains | { At] Still, opened fire on him, firing two | shots, one of which brought blood | | fram the marshal’s ear. Still fired } of the ine, we crossed the river tor | one shot at his assailant, and missing the first time, having followed it on | him rushed upon and disarmed lim. } the north side from Hutchinson. | Beatty is now in jai! and will standa | And let me inform any who contem- country now or} the quicksand that abound in them. | We experienced some dificulty in | is an incomparable remedy for puritying which | | have used it myselfand recommended it Itis the most desclate place found | In Colorado 1 slickest Go to Crouch Bros. shop, nea at Fred | eorner of the square. T | Consumption. ' Hostilities in Holden. Holden, Mo., August 13.—Satur- i day night a man named Beatty, a} stone contractor at work on the new | school house here filled up on Whis- | key, and becoming boisterous, Mar- | | shal Still locked him in the cooler for safe keeping until morning, when | he was released. Beatty at once procured a revolver and meeting good show for a term in the pen. STILL ANOTHER, At about 2 o’clock yesterday at a supposed house of prostitution re- | sides a family by the name of Kinder chastity and whose reputation for honesty is not the best. girls is said to be marriedto a named Thomas McCoglin. the forenoon a man named John | Adams visited the ranch and became inyolved in a quarrel, which man was Opera House Building WALTON & BALI Mr. Ball of the above firm has just returned from jan extended trip throu where by purchasing la both the HOLDEN and cured Great Bargains One of the | DEOPle Of Butler and surrounding ROCK PRICES. We will save During |. ing and being corvinced, as w gh the Eastern markets, rge amounts BUTLER STORES, has se- which we now offer to the of goods for country at BED you money by call- e defy competion. kept up until about 2 o’clock, when McCoglin ordered him out of the house. Adams obeyed, but he retreated pulled his pistol and began firing at McCoglin, one of the balls striking him in the right breast an d producing a painful though not nec- essarily dangerous wound. entered near the right nipple and came out near the arm pit. The would-be murderer made good his escape. as It appears the Republican party continues to regard politics as much a matter of dollars as it did when nearly half a million was put where it would do the most good in Indiana in 1880. Itisstatedin what seems to be atrustworthy way that Gov. Foster has just raised a quarter ot a million to cover ‘the legitimate expenses’’ of the Ohio campaign, going down into his own pocket for asolid twenty-five thousand. And yet there are signs portents which suggest that he will not be en- tirely happy when the returns come in. It may be that you can do almost anything in politics with money, but it seems that a quarter of a_ million and is not enough to buy Ohio this year, Present indications suggest that the Republicans have got a bigger job on hand than thev had in Indiana two years ago, and all over the state Also keeps in stock a All American ¢ Vv. BB. JETER, R. R. Watches. tull line of AND SWISS WATCHES. Complete Line of AND MARINE GLASSES Repairing of Watches, Clocks and Jewelry, Satisfactorily Done. THE NONPAREIL Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Solid Silver and Platedware, |S A T,.OON ° SPECTACLES The ball | Agent for the celebratea = sQu ROCKFORD J.P. WILLIS, & Co. OPPOISTE OPERA HOUSE. @ The handsomest room and furniture in the city and the finest liquors and wines in the market. Free Lunch Every Day. » Work Given Out, On receipt ot your address we will make an offer by witch you can earn $3 to $7 evenings, at your home. Men, Women, Boys or Girls can do it. H. C. Wilkinsons & Co., 195 and 197 Fulton Street, New York. 21 3m. Right at the Jower scale, South side square, keeps a tull line of. Queensware, Glassware and Woodenware. substantial Dry Goods and Notions, Boots, Shoes Hats and Caps, all sold at prices that defy Competition. the men who run the machine are complaining that they haven’t enough to work the thing right. That isbad enough; but what is worse is the lamentable fact that there is no star route ring to turna golden stream into Ohio. Meantime the Democratic tidal wave is all over the state, while the Re- publican leaders are begging pite- ously for more money.—Mo. fe- publican. “UNEQUALED.” Marsh’s Golden Blood & Liver Ton- ic is an Incomparable Remedy. “‘We have used Marshes Colden Blood & Liver Tonic in our tamily with excel- lent results. 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