The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-03-23
KANSAS CORRESPONDENCE.
NEAR WAUKARUsA, KANSAS. I
Editors Journal:

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Editors Journals:
For fear some Of your readers
should be led into the error of sup
posing that the above named city "
is a big thing really, as it looks on
paper. it will not be improper for me
to inform them that "Waukarusa
City, is a station on the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fee Railroad, about
twelve miles from the CAPITOL" and
at the point where said A. Il. & s..
Railroad crosses the Waukarusa
1t contains-let me see-one black
smith shop. two 10x12 private man.
sions, built of pine lumber, set on
end, implanted and undressed, one of
which is inhabited by a long, lean,
lank, pumpkin. colored individual,
from Southern Alabama, who fought
in the late unpleasantness, against
niger equality, and who is the proud
parent of a large litter of interesting
little Alabams; the other is" to
let" no doubt, on reasonable terms;
one two story building, built ditto,
as above, and inhabited by two or
three families, a number of railroad
hands, a very brief grocery store, q
hotel and numerous other persons too
tedious to mention.
This city is owned by a Topeka real
estate firm, who are offering great in
dueements to purchasers Of corner
lots" The aforesaid inhabitants
thereof exultingly look forward to
the time when Waukarusa City will
suddenly become entirely too large
for its 'britches," and it is roundly
argued that it is foreordained to be-
come a great railroad centre" some
thing on the style of indianapolis, as
the said pumpkin olored Individual
from southern Alabama, and the
blacksmith shop are, even now, in
d%ustriously engaged In the prospect
i've construction Of another railroad,
which is to run, as the party of the
first part scientifically expresses it,
+" catawampusly" across the city, and
it is confidentially predicted that said
II. r.. will be in going order
in a few weeks if the want continues
favorable. l learn, also, that the
grocery store. before named, who is
deeply interested in through lines and
cheap freights, is anxious to have
said railroad extended, in a direct
line, to the Southern terminus of the
Indiana North Il South Road, and
strong hopes are entertained that
Adam Young, who runs an engine In
the latter place, will use his influence
and eloquence to secure a mutually
satisfactory connection between these
two great thoroughfares. The only
N~N,hIngn-n n FIAT rs 1-rah n pon0onwa
if successful, would be the necessary
removal of Evansville nine miles fur
Their up the Ohio.
As many of your readers have, nc
doubt, seen maps of Waukarusa City,
upon which every thing is set down
with so much precision, q la ChuZZle-
wits Eden-the court house, the the
atre, the Waukarusa male and fe-
male universities, the railroad de-
pots, the public square, Broadway,
the Methodist, Baptist, Episcopal, u.
). Brethren, Oampbellite, Lutheran,
Roman Catholic, and several other
elegant Churches, where tall spires
extend perpendicularly in an altitu-
dinous dlrection-that, to them, this
extended description will be worse
than supeThuous. And yet, | NAV
mention, even for their. edifcation,
the additional interesting fact that
the blacksmith shop aseents, with
gusto and cuss words, that a no more
suitable northeastern location for the
National capital could be selected
this side of Washington, D.. G., than
this, and he has a diagram ingenious
ly constructed, In the shape of a
horse shoe, by which he proves be
yond any mathematical cavil, that
Waukarusa is only one seventeen.
hundredth of a cubic inch removed
from the exact centre of the United
States. I think SO myself.
Waukarusa River is q fine little
stream, not classic that | know Of
but the bottom lands" contiguous
are the richest in the world. World
includes a very large portion of the
earth, yet | won't, Y e on delibera.
ton, amend or restrict the preceding
sentence a single syllable. One hun
dred bushels of corn per acre is only
a reasonable crop, aud by careful cul
ture, fifty per cent. nor could be
produced. This river, like all other
streams ia the State. is lined with @
narrow belt of timber, in some places