The Cresset, April 23, 1885. News Items
C. H. Douglass is down from Sun.
I. P. Campbell, of Harper, was in the city Tuesday.
Dr. Menike was called to Thomas Stockstill's on Friday to visit a sick child.
Mrs. John Nelson and son returned from a protracted visit to Iowa on Friday last.
M. B. Nichols and old-time boy in this section, is here visiting relatives and friends.
J. A. McPhee, Esq., of Hazelton, was in the city attending to some legal business on Saturday.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Wainscott, on Saturday, April 18th, a boy. Reported by Dr. Meincke.
Uncle Milt Clements warned some campers on Mulberry creek just in time to save them and their outfits.
L. P. Williamson, manager of the Attica and Medicine Lodge stage line, was over last week arranging the business of the company.
From now henceforth a line of four-mule stages will ply between here and Sun City. We presume the line will shortly be extended to Coldwater.
Chas. Dement, a practical liveryman from Dixon, Illinois, is here looking for a location. He is a friend of W. A. Schuler.
W. A. McDonald and Sam'l. Berry, two of Wellington's eminent legal gentlemen, are in the city. They came over to attend court.
If the rainfall was as heavy on the Ne-ne-squaw side of the divide as it was on the Medicine side, Kingman must have been flooded.
Reube Lake says the river was four feet higher at Lake City during the recent flood, than at any other within the memory of man.
Rev. B. Schmihausen, of Newton, Kansas, came in on Monday to hold Catholic services. He has been detained by the storm and is the guest of Henry Durst of this place.
Occasionally a bad man turns himself loose in Kiowa. Recently one by the name of Snow undertook to manipulate the town, but was swiftly brought to time by the city marshall.
Little Ethel Simmins had the misfortune to fall and break her arm on Thursday last. The fractured limb was set by Dr. Moore and the little lady is getting along as well as could be expected.
Robt. Neff, the manager of the Chicago Comedy troupe has taken charge of The Sun City Union. His salutatory offered in last week's issue. Bob is a bright fellow and ought to make a lively paper.
Geo. W. Randolph and wife were in from their Comanche county home for a visit of several days at the lodge last week and this. It will be remembered that these parties ran the Medicine Lodge House for some time last summer.
Dr. Lockwood has gone to Bayard, Iowa, his former home, and will return in about two weeks with his household goods, to remain permanently. He, with his family, will make a desirable acquisition to the city of Medicine Lodge.
J. M. Bush, who used to run the passenger mail from this point to Sun City, now makes his home in Medicine Lodge, and expects to make it his permanent home. J. M. has good horses and will transport men around to look at the country at very reasonable figures.
A young man who has been working at the carpenter trade, for some time complained of being ill on Saturday last and proceeded to take in tarantula juice, we presume, to such an extent that he got "bilin" full and was run in by the marshall after being knocked down to sort of quiet his spirit.
J. M. Southerland and lady, of La Porte, Indiana, and W. H. Foster and lady, of Saratoga, Kansas, were in the city last week. Mr. Southerland is one of the principal stockholders in the Saratoga bank, and was on his way home after being out to look after his property. Mr. Foster is one of Pratt county's substantial men.
Mr. H. C. Rogers, business manager for G. B. Shurn & Co., the old Pioneer Lumber Company of Southwestern Kansas, was in town last Monday and secured a location for a lumber yard. They purpose putting in a large stock of lumber, and advise all parties contemplating building to wait for G. B. Shurn & Co.'s big stock and low prices. Yards will be located on Washington avenue, one block west of Grand Central Hotel.
J. M. Bechtel on Friday last completed the sale of the 200 acres which he purchased last summer from Lemuel __ff, for the sum of $3,600 to Geo. Tewksberry, of Topeka, for $12,000. $8,400 on a $3,000 investment in ten months' time beats bank stocks or cattle. Previous to making out the deed Mr. Bechtel had platted about 60 acres of the place in town lots. Although Mr. B. has made a good thing in this, we believe that Mr. Tewksberry will do equally as well in the next ten months.
We hear that on Tuesday night Sun City was visited by a destructive fire, It seems that the fire caught in a livery stable, destroyed the barn and rolling stock and burned up several head of horses. The flames were communicated from the stable to the City Hotel, owned and run by Dr. Dorsett, we believe, destroying the building and fixtures. It was only by the most strenuous efforts that the store buildings of Douglass & Lamport were saved from the devouring element. We have not heard an estimate as to what the loss will amount to or whether there was any insurance or not.
Dr. Kessler reports a girl addition to the family of W. B. Millard - 12 pounds - and a boy to the family of H. Crossman - 10 pounds.
W. McAchran, of Bloomfield, Iowa, was in the city last week looking for a location. He went on west to look through Clark and Mead counties.
Major O. E. Moore, manager of the Osage Cattle Company, of Comanche county, came in Monday morning. He knew of no loss of life in the upper Medicine country.
Clark Nobel, an Ohio boy and former acquaintance of the senior, came out this week to look at the Southwest. The flood has somewhat discouraged the lad, but he may be persuaded to locate.
Hillory Weidner draws the reins over one of the finest, largest teams ever in the Lodge. Hillory and Green Harris now have three good teams to use in their transfer business. They will shortly put in transfer drays.
Riley Lake, J. A. Williams and H. A. Noah, of Lake City, came down on Tuesday evening to report the flood at Lake City and view the scene of devastation at this point. They know of no loss of life in the vicinity of Lake's.
Riley Lake came near losing a good horse on Friday last. Riley started to ride the animal down street when it began to buck and dashed against a post at Ingraham & Simpson's stable, making a deep cut in its head.
Judge Orner came in Monday evening to call on court Tuesday, but has been adjourning from day to day on account of the death and destruction caused by the flood. It is highly probable that nothing will be accomplished this session except some civil business and perhaps the Shipman case. There will probably be a special session in July.
On Thursday evening W. T. Rouse met with a severe and painful accident. In company with his wife he visited during the afternoon with Mrs. T. Stockwell and her family. When they started for home Wallace thought he would try a nearer and better road through a lane that had not been used much. While but a short distance from their home one of the traces came unhitched and this frightened the horses and they started to run. Wallace, finding he could not stop them, turned them into a fence post. The buck-board was turned over, throwing both occupants clear. Mrs. Rouse was not injured seriously and Wallace got off with hid left collar bone broken. Wall did what he could with one hand to untangle the horses, while Mrs. Rouse went for assistance, which soon came and conveyed them on to town. Both parties are doing well at the present time. The buck-board was badly broken and both horses cut more or less on the wire fence.
The game of polo is now raging in the Lodge, and several of the boys are carrying around little mementoes of the game. Mr. Finny was noticed by the Cresset reporter on Friday last to be carrying a heavy Spenserian shade over his left eye. We supposed at first that perhaps he had had a difference with some muscular man, but we're informed that it was simply a reminiscence of polo, so to speak. Win attempted to make an optical investigation of a polo ball, which was passing through space at the rate of 11, 415 feet per second. The result was that he immediately turned his attention to astronomy, in which he made several important discoveries. He tells us that Sir William Hershel, the astronomer, was entirely wrong in his statement that the planet Saturn only had three rings, as he himself counted nearly ninety-to rings without going outside of the skating rink. He also noticed a number of wandering stars which have never before been discovered, even with the aid of the most powerful telescope.
Also see:
The Wild Waves: The Elm and Medicine Rivers Spread Devastation Through Their Valleys, The Medicine Lodge Cresset, Thursday, April 23, 1885.
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