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Show A KANSAS EXPEESSIOX CURIOUS ORIGIN OF A PECULIAR PHRASE USED IN THE WEST, "'ollowlng Tom's Wheelbarrow" Is a term That Has Heroine Very Common. Who "Tom" Was It Menus That a Huu Has Done Wrong. Among the scouts who accompanicr? ; Qiu. Sheridan during the campaign I pdinst the Indians in the winter of 16J8-01), who wero attached to headquar- : ters in the capacity of couriers, selected ' I for their courage and knowledge of sav- I . ago methods, was Turn McFndden, who J Biado a record for himself, and was one i I of Iho scouts sent out by Oeu. Sheridan to bring "Sa-tan-ta" in as a hostago I m'hen the villainous old sevngo was sit j ting on his horse apart from his great i baud of allied warriors on a knoll, con- .' tcmplating whether to attack the troops, I who were in battle array ono morning I lu front of Fort Cobb, and who was ex- f tri-mcly iinpuilent. MeFaddeu wasafter- I Ward one of Gen. Miles' scouts in his (wonderful campaign against the Indians In 1871. iLato in the fall of 1807 McFadden and two other trappers established a camp on the Paradise, about two miles above its junction with tlie Saline. They had remarkable re-markable luck, and in a short time bad accumulated a largo lot of pelts, furs, buffalo hams ami elk and deer meat. They possessed but ono small team of horses, ami their supplies running low f they concluded to go to tho then embryo town of Ellsworth, on the Hmoky Hill, V. which had just been started on account $ ot its proximity to Fort Ilarker, then the f most important military depot nnd post f, on the plains. It was also tho nearest I trading point for the many hunters scat- A tered ulongthe rivers and streams of the ) j V wilderness of central Kansas, and about ' 1 ' , seventy miles from McFadden's. camp. a . So Mac and ono of his partners hoofed it " into the new town, intending to hire ' , teams to bring their meat and skins to lV railroad, to purchase their needed jj"; suyplies, including poison the most noc- itry article of all their wants witb i which to kill wolves. i't K1NDINO THE HARROW. t Arriving at Ellsworth they vainly en- I deavored to hire teams, but all in the region had been employed by the quar- t tonnaster's department at Fort Ilarker iu hauling hay from the various "grass camps'' in the vicinity, so they had to go Lack, as they had left their ouly other partner alone iu camp with but a fow rounds of ammunition and the Indians anything but friendly. The railroad, at j the time of their arrival at Ellsworth, ; was running a train to what is now Bunker Hill, then only a water tank station, sta-tion, to which point they shipped their supplies, as it was some miles nearer ; their camp, intending to pack the most needed articles on their backs and return with their own team in a few days for those things they could not take along. After arriving at Bunker Hill and dumping their supplies on the little plat- form, dreading to start out on their long tramp louded down with what thoy must take, intending to store the rest in some !') secure place nntil they could come for i them, McFadden happened to see a pile ' of wheelbarrows belonging to the rail road company piled bottom side tip along the track, and with the inspiration that . is born of genius he turned to his part- ' ner and said, "Dan, this darned question i of transportation is settled right here, for here is a vehicle that looks as if it , was constructed for our special purpose i: at this ticklish juncture." So, waiting until the station men were $' out of sight, they proceeded to load tip h one of the fortunately discovered wheel barrows with their supplies, which in-I in-I eluded among many smaller things 200 pounds of flour, and away they weut I across the high prairie toward their f camp. Their route went over a smooth I country until they neared the "breaks" I of the Saline, and then it required a h good knowledge of the region to find a I passage through the precipitous lime- stone bluffs which characterize that por- tion of Kansas. i FOLLOWING THE TRAIL. It is a difficult matter, or rather was in those early days, for a "tenderfoot" to find his way down into the valley of the Saline, as it is the most lumpy region in S that part of the state. Knowing the f whole country well, Tom and his part ner struck for the nearest point on the river, satisfied that with their unique j- means of transportation they could go I down the bluffs anywhere and cross the stream where a wagon would not dar ' to attempt it. At last the fortunate hunters arrived at their camp, tired, ' but with their supplies intact. I; Tlie next season that immigration , which grew to be phenomenal in so short time began to seek the beautiful and tempting valleys of the tributaries of the Saline, and of course the ouly route i to the coveted localities was through the rough country north of the Union Pacific i in Kansas, and the starting points the stations of the road. Bunker Hill was a favorite initial point on account of its nearness to fho "Paradise" valley, and IM McFadden's wheelbarrow trail, which was still plainly visible, was taken for the wagon track of some preceding immigrant, im-migrant, which all persistently followed, and, naturally, too, only to be suddenly brought up all standing at some inaccessible inac-cessible bluff down which it was impossible, impos-sible, to go. Then nothing was left to do but retrace re-trace their Btcjis to tho main "divide," losing ten or twelve miles thereby. Thus a broad trail was made through the rough country, and considerable profanity pro-fanity was breathed on the pure atmosphere atmos-phere of tho virgin prairie in that vicinity vicin-ity until the errors of the "old wheelbarrow wheel-barrow trail" were corrected, ft became be-came a by word at last, when a man was lost and turned up after going miles out of his way, "Well, he has only been following fol-lowing Tom McFadden's wheelbarrow trail to tlie Saline." Kansas City Star. I Mrs. Romero, wife of the Mexican miniHter at Washington, has had th back of her neck photojrrainV'd |