State politics, the very government of the commonwealth, the history of Monterey County and of Vandemark Township, were all changed when Buck Gowdy went off over the prairie that day, holding Rowena Fewkes in the buggy seat with that big brawny arm of his.
Ma Fewkes seemed delighted to see Mr.Gowdy holding her daughter in the buggy.
"Nobody can tell what great things may come of this!" she cried, as they went out of sight over a knoll.
She never said a truer thing.

To be sure, it was only the hiring by a very rich man, as rich men went in those days, of three worthless hands and a hired girl; but it tore the state's affairs in pieces.

Whenever I think of it I remember some verses in the _Fifth Reader_ that my children used in school: "Somewhere yet that atom's force Moves the light-poised universe[11]." [11] See _Gowdy vs.

Buckner_, et al, Ia.Rep.Also accounts of relations of the so-called Gowdy Estate litigation to "The Inside of Iowa Politics" by the editor of these MSS .-- in press .-- G.v.d.M.
It was a great deal more important then, though, that on that afternoon I was arrested for a great many things--assault with intent to commit great bodily injury, assault with intent to kill, just simple assault, unlawful assembly, rioting, and I don't know but treason.

Dick McGill, I am sure it was, told the first claim-jumper we visited that I was at the head of the mob, and he had me arrested.