THE ATCHISON
COUNTY MAIL, July 6, 1882
M. McKillop, of this city, was in
attendance at the laying of the corner stone of the Nodaway court house
at Maryville, the 24th ult. Mc says there was an immense crowd of people
there.
J.B. Johnson left, on last Wednesday
for Harper county, Kansas, where he expects to make his future home. Andy's
sly tricks and dry jokes will be greatly missed by many of the fun loving
citizens of this place.
One of the highest prices paid for
land in this community, that we have heard of, was paid last week. Frank
Sanders purchased of J.B. Johnson his place of forty acres out east of town,
for which he paid $2,500, or 62 1/2 dollars per acre. Don't say anthing
more about property decreasing in value around Rock Port.
Dr J.L. Hamilton who recently came
to this city from Dayton, Iowa, had the misfortune of having four good horses
break out of the pasture, not long ago. He spent two or three days in looking
for them without success, and became considerably alarmed in consequence
of not finding them. Finally he placed his boy on a pony and started him
towards his former home, in search of the horses. He went as far as Shenandoah,
when they were found, safe in a man's field. The horses were on the direct
road back to Dayton. The Doctor rejoices.
On Tuesday morning last a traveler
by the name of Miller, en route from Waterloo, Iowa, to Falls City, Neb.,
met with a serious accident in trying to cross the Tarkio bottom which was
considerably overflowed at the time. Being unacquainted with the road he
got into the bed of the stream and lost a valuable Morgan mare which he
was driving, together with a buggy and grip sack containing checks and notes
to the amount of several hundred dollars.--TARKIO REPUBLICAN
A COWARDLY DEED - On last Wednesday,
the dike which was built by this county several years ago was cut through
near the Lewis bridge, in Buchanan township. The job was done by about sixty
men from the vicinity of Hamburg, and in broad daylight. The party was armed
to the teeth, besides having a small cannon on the flatboat in which they
came upon. It is one of the most daring and damnable deeds ever committed
in this section of the country. At present writing (Monday) the water is
over hundreds of acres of the low lands of this county, with prospects of
ruining many farmers who live in localities where the water reaches them.
The fact of the Missouri river being bank full causes a vast amount of water
to come through the dike which otherwise would not. If the dike had been
cut with low water in the Missouri river, it would not have done near as
much damage to the farmers of this county. We undertstand that the low lands
above Hamburg along the Nishne, and also in this county north of the dike,
have been under water several days caused by the recent heavy rains. But
the cutting of the dike did not relieve those people up there, as the water
was as high on Saturday as when the dike was cut, and it did seriously injure
many prominent farmers in this county. We hope the instigators of the movement
will speedily be brought to justice. They are known and have been identified
by several different witnesses who saw the whole disastrous performance.
They will undoubtedly be made to realize that our laws are not to be broken
with impunity, and that their act was a rash, unjust and uncalled for violation
of the statues.
Linden Laconics - Mr Wm Clipfield
was taken very sick a few weeks ago, and as soon as he was able to travel
he went over to Brownville for the purpose of consulting Dr Arnold, his
old family physician. He did not get better and last week his family were
sent for and at the present writing they are still with him. I have not
heard from him the past few days but understand he is lying very low. We
understand that his business is to be sold to a Mr M. Graham, who will carry
on the same business at the same place. We hope Mr Clipfield will soon recover
his health and return to his old home....Messrs. Millsaps and Wolf have
not returned from Kansas yet and I begin to thing they are going to stay.
Elk Dale School report - ...
The machine trial which took place
in Hunter's field just south of town on last Wednesday, was witnessed with
a great deal of interest by quite a number of the prominent farmers in this
vicinity. There were three diffferent machines on trial--the McCormick,
represented by R. Hunter & Bro.; the Buckeye, represented by Deuser
& Bro.; and the St Paul, represented by A.S. Jones. The McCormick was
the first machine on the ground and took the lead for the first few rounds.
The Buckeye met with some difficulty in getting started. The team first
hitched on were not in the habit of doing that kind of work and would not
pull together, thus making it a serious detriment in showing off the machine.
But soon after, they changed teams, and the Buckeye did some excellent work,
going the entire round without a stop, or miss binding a bundle. The St
Paul was seriously damaged before entering the field, something being broke
on the way to the trial ground. In our opinion the St Paul was the lightest
running machine of the three, and as both the other machines had their agents
here, who were familiar in running them, they had a big advantage over the
St Paul, which we very much regret, as we would like very much to have seen
them all equally tried. The McCormick and Buckeye machines are beyond all
doubt both excellent machines, and both do fine work. The fact of Deuser
Bros. having sold six machines since the trial, may be set down as evidence
as giving the best satisfaction.
MARRIED - At the office of, and by
L.W. Campbell, J.P., June 30th, 1882, Mr James H. Pratt to Mrs Mahale E.
Maloney, all of Templeton twp., Atchison county, Mo.
MARRIED - At the residence of the
bride's parents, near Rock Port, on Sunday, July 2nd, 1882, by J.A. Newell,
J.P., Mr Henry Opp to Miss Mary H. Traub, all of Atchison county, Mo.
Henry Staple, who has been teaching
the Taylor school for the year, just past, left on last week to take a thorough
course in law at the Ann Arbor law school, of Michigan. Some of our most
brilliant lawyers are graduates of that school, and we hope soon to hear
of his being numbered among them. He will proably be absent three or four
years.
[THE ATCHISON COUNTY MAIL, July 13 and 20, 1882
missing]
THE ATCHISON
COUNTY MAIL, July 27, 1882
We understand that Uncle Henry
Enoch has decided to build another brick business house. And still the
boom goes on.
Dr Hamilton has purchased of Henry
Warneke, the property on Nebraska street, known as the Lee Sanders property,
for the consideration of $650.
John Toliver will be ready to receive
guests at the Old Valley House by the last of this week. He is now furnishing
the house up in good shape.
We acknowledge the receipt of complimentary
to the First Annual Fair of the Atchison County Agricultural and Mechanical
Association, to be held near Tarkio city, beginning September 19th and
continuing four days. We earnestly hope that the Association may meet
with success, financially and otherwise.
R.K. Allen, of St Joseph, now has
a force of hands at work preparatory to making brick for the new court
house. They are leveling the ground, digging pits and preparing lumber
for covering. In a few days he will be ready for making brick in earnest,
and will turn them out at a lively rate.
John Garst, of Watson, gave us
a very pleasant call while in the city on Tuesday. Mr Garst is one of
those unfortunate ones, who had nearly his entire crop destroyed by the
cutting of the dike, a few weeks ago. They can not all laugh over so serious
a matter and be as jolly as John can. He thinks there is no use in "crying
over spilled milk."
The old court house is rapidly
disappearing. John Dopf and his corps of workmen are daily busily engaged
in tearing the old hall down. It has been found in a great deal worse
fix than we ever supposed. The plate upon which the upper joice rested
was almost rotted away, and the ends of the joice were found resting upon
the outside cornice, the only means of support.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE RIVER CONVENTION
- In pursuance of previous public notice, a convention of farmers of Atchison
county, Mo., was held at the Court-house in Rock Port; the object of the
meeting being to discuss the means of repairing and maintaining defenses
against encrochments of high water on the bottom farms, and to adopt some
plan of action in reference thereto. The meeting was organized at 1 p.m.,
with Col P.A. Thompson as chairman and S.S. Hughes as secretary.
A committee of four was appointed
to draft suitable resolutions, who reported at 3:30 p.m.
The following resolutions were
presented and discussed at length by Messrs J.P. Lewis, A.S. Campbell,
Wm Fraisher, J.D. Campbell, N.O. Hopkins, H.P. Moore, and others:
Whereas, A large portion of the
best lands of Atchison county, Missouri, have been overflowed with water
and the crops destroyed, and many of our citizens left destitute by the
unlawful cutting of legally established levees by an armed mob from Hamburg
and vicinity.
RESOLVED 1st, That we, the people
of Atchison county, in mass meeting assembled, declare that we are law
abiding citizens and in favor of a strick enforcement of the laws of our
country, and opposed to mobs and mob violence.
RESOLVED 2nd, That we favor the
repairing and extension of the levees on the Nishnebotna river so as to
prevent another overflow, and that the County Court of Atchison county,
Mo, authorize the sheriff of said county in times of emergency to employ
such force as may be necessary to protect our levees thus lawfully established.
RESOLVED 3rd, That the County Court
of Atchison county, Mo., take such steps to maintain and keep in repair
such levees on the west bank of the Nishnebotna river as will in their
judgement be to the best interests of our citizens living west of said
river.
RESOLVED 4th, That as the county
own and keep in repair a large amount of county property in the shape
of valuable bridges between the levees and old mouth of the Nishnebotna
river, which would be swept away and destroyed in case of the destruction
of our levees, that the expense of maintaining and repairing such levees
should be paid out of the county expenditure fund.
RESOLVED 5th, That we recommend
our county to confer with the legally constituted authorities of Fremont
county, Iowa, and co-operate with them in the construction and maintainance
of such levees as will confine the waters of the Nishnebotna river to
the proper channel, and to take such other action as in their judgment
will mutually benefit the people of said county.
RESOLVED 6th, That the County Court
of Atchison county, Mo., in person or by committee appointed by them,
confer with the officers of the St Joseph, Kansas City and Council Bluffs
railroad and ask them to put in sufficient trestle-work north of the bridge
near Hamburg as will carry off the volume of water in times of an overflow
without allowing it to back up against the railroad track.
RESOLVED 7th, That the owners of
land on each side of the old channel of Nishna river, between the levee
and mouth, be requested to remove all obstructions as far as practical,
so as to allow a free, unobstructed current of water to pass through,
and that the County Court render them such assistance as the laws may
authorize.
RESOLVED 8th, That the proceedings
of this convention be published in the county papers.
Mr A.S. Campbell offered a resolution
of amendment to main resolutions covering an important feature, but after
free discussion the amendment was lost.
The resolutions were adopted and
the meeting adjourned.
S.S. Hughes, Sec'y
Langdon Locals - Mrs Andy Cotte,
of this vicinity was taken suddenly sick at her mother's, Mrs Chris, east
of Nishne station, recently....Lydia says "P.A. Thompson was cutting wheat
on Sunday with four self-binders." We do not wish to contradict her honest
word at all, but there were only three--two twine-binders and one wire-binder....
McKissicks Grove items - Rev Miss
Maggie Wallace started for Ohio, last Tuesday....
George and Thomas Pardum returned
last week from Kansas.
Mrs Price, of Monmouth, Ill., is
visiting her daughter, Mrs W.A. Rice, in this city.
John G. Scott of the WESTBORO CHIEF
was at the county seat Saturday, and gave us a call.
W.H. Orton and J.J. Hopkins, of
College Springs, Ia., was in the city over Sabbath, and dined at the Commercial
House.
Publisher Chas T. Taylor and Editor
F.M. Lowe, of the FAIRFAX INDEPENDENT, were at the county capital, Saturday.
Joseph Blevens returned from Plattsmouth,
Neb., last Friday, where he had been barbering for several months. He
reports Plattsmouth as being a lively town.
Miss Hattie McCollister, an accomplished
little belle of the Tarkio country, was visiting in this city last week,
the guest of her sister, Mrs Wm Bickham.
DIED - Near Los Angelos, Colorado,
June 30th, Ora Hurst, daughter of E.M. and Lydia A. Hurst, aged 13 years
3 months and 4 days.
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