atulated himself not a little over his
success.

"I done it all mineself," he was wont to boast. "So long as Doc Carey tink
he own der town vots name for him, an' so long as Yon Yacob, der
ding-busted little Chew, tink him an' Todd Stewart run all der pusiness
mitout regardin' my saloon pusiness, an' so long as Pryor Gaines preachin'
an' teachin' all time gifin' black eye to me, 'cause I sells wisky, I not
mak no hetway."

"You are danged right," Darley Champers would always assure him.

"Yah, I be. But von day I pull a lot of strinks at vonce. I pull der
county seat locate to Pig Wolf Creek, an' I put up mine prewery here mit
water power here vot dey vassent not at Carey's Crossing. An' der railroat
comin' by dis way soon, I know. I do big business two times in vonce. I
laugh yet to tink how easy Yon Yacob fall down. If Yon Yacob say so he
hold Carey's for der county seat. But no. He yust sit shut oop like ant
neffer say von sinkle vord. An' here she coom--my prewery, my saloon, my
county seat, an' all in vonce."

Hans would laugh till the tears ran down his rough red cheeks. Then
blowing his nose like a blast against the walls of Jericho he would add:

"Yon Yacob go back to Cincinnati. Doc Carey, he come Vest an' locate again
right here. Course he tak up claim on nort fork of Grass River. But dat's
yust for speculation some yet. Gaines an' Stewart go to Grass River
settlement an' homestead. Oh, I scatter 'em like chaffs. Ho! Ho!" And
again the laughter would bring tears to his watery little white-gray
eyes.

What Hans Wyker said of John Jacobs was true, for in the council that
decided the fate of the town it was his silence that lost the day and put
Carey's Crossing off the map. Hans, while rejoicing over the result,
openly accused Jacobs of being a ding-busted, selfish Jew who cared for
nobody but John Jacobs. Secretly Hans admired Jacobs for his business
ability, and all men respected him for a gentleman. Hence it was no small
disappointment to the brewery owner to find when Jacobs returned to Kansas
that he did not mean to open a business in Wykerton. Instead, he loaned
his money to Grass River homesteaders.

When crops began to bring returns Jacobs established a new town farther
west on the claim that Dr. Carey had taken up. Jacobs insisted on calling
the place Careyville in honor of the doctor, because he had been the means
of annihilating the first town named after Carey. And since he had
befriended the