. Early history of Wabaunsee County, Kansas, with stories of pioneer days and glimpses of our western . amed we give a partial list ofothers who are fast coming to the front either as dealers, or raisers offine cattle and hogs, as follows: Frank Schmidt, Wm. Maas & Sons, August and Chas. Zeckser,Schniilz Bros., A. M. Jordan, and C. B. Fields, of Alma; Tom Wilson,Ed. Shumate & Soni5, of Eskridge; Sebastian Wertzberger, H. , Robert Fix, Henry Grimm and Wm. Home, of Yolland:Otto and Henry Hess, Henry Loehr, and Finney Bros., of Halifax:C. S. Kelley and the Muckenthalers, of P
. Early history of Wabaunsee County, Kansas, with stories of pioneer days and glimpses of our western . amed we give a partial list ofothers who are fast coming to the front either as dealers, or raisers offine cattle and hogs, as follows: Frank Schmidt, Wm. Maas & Sons, August and Chas. Zeckser,Schniilz Bros., A. M. Jordan, and C. B. Fields, of Alma; Tom Wilson,Ed. Shumate & Soni5, of Eskridge; Sebastian Wertzberger, H. , Robert Fix, Henry Grimm and Wm. Home, of Yolland:Otto and Henry Hess, Henry Loehr, and Finney Bros., of Halifax:C. S. Kelley and the Muckenthalers, of Paxico; Henry Fauerbach,Frank and Horace Adams, and W. J. Tod, of Maple Hill; Tom Maney,Frank Ronneau and John Maguire, of Kaw township (St. Marys); Burt and John OMalley, of Wabaunsee; S. G. Cantrill, of Harvey-ville: Herman Arndt of Templin and James Cessnun of Chalk, andscores of our farmers who prove by their works their faith in Wabaun-see county as among the best stock raising centres of the world. EARLY HISTORY OF WABAUNSEE COUNTY, KAN. » z Q H O H a W50 O cc •a Ins B S o>. EARLY HISTORY OF WABAUNSEE COUNTY, KAN. 29 f\ Free Ride in a Cattle Gar. Item in Signal, June 21, 1893: A tramp giving his name as JohnFair appeared at the Atchison (Kan.) police station one night, recent-ly, bruised from head to foot, and asked permission to sleep at thestation till morning. Fair said he had come to Atchison from Omahain a through stock train and that he had the most terrible experienceof his life. Shortly before the train pulled out of Omaha the trampsaid he crawled into a car loaded with steers. The steers soon beganto step on him and seeing that would never do the tramp climbed onthe back of one of the steers. This enraged the animal and it lungedforward, exciting the other steers and there was a panic. The mad-dened steers dashed about, hooking the tramp on all sides. He puthis arms about the neck of the steer that he was riding and held hisgrip until the train stoppe
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