The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-11-11
ssVIDETT2'' LIES

/ Under the head of"Emporia Lies"
the Wichita Vidette has q column of
choice literature ON our town. The oc-
casion of this display of epithets seems
to be the story recently circulated in re-
lation to the killing of a couple of wo-
men, in that town, by one Curry. We
cannot see any justice in the charge
made by the Vidette that the story was
started here to injure Wichita. 1t did
not originate here. twas given in
this paper as rumor, and the editor of
the Vtdette certainly has sense enough
to know that such rumors are legitimate
news items. Says the Vidette: s'The
story originated in Emporia, as will be
seen by the Commonwealth" The
Commonwealth got its news from mail
agent on the A. T. & S. +. railroad.
The mail agent received his informa-
ton from a gentleman "who arrived in
Emporia two days ago." So it will be
seen that the very proof which the "
dette cites that the story originated
here, is the best proof in the world that
it did not originate here, viz: II came
to Emporia from a gentleman who ar
rived here, and a mail agent who does
not live here took it to Topeka. So
much for the Vidette's proof that the
story originated at Emporia.
.'The story of jim. Curry killing two women
here is the most stupid lie of all the lies told
by some of the citizens of Emporia to direct
trade aid travel from us and throw 1t to Ar
kansas City, every lot of which is owned by
EmpOria men. Our citizens here are told by
every new conner of the efforts made by some
of the citizens there to dissuade people from
coming here"
To show how reliable the Vidette is,
we will state that not one-fourth of the
lots in Arkansas City are owned by En-
poria men. One of the original own
ers of the town of Wichita lives here,
and many others of our citizens own
lots there. Several of our business
men are interested in business at Wich-
tia. Not q citizen that we have ever
heard of has said word against Wich-
tia to the benefit of other points. Our
merchants advertise in the VGdette, and
we have given column after column of
favorable notices of the town. So
much for the above quoted batch of
living bosh. The citizens of Wichita
themselves know there is no foundation
for the publication of such stuff in their
local paper, and we have no doubt they
are ashamed of it.
''The facts are that Emporia men already
see that Wichita within two years will not on
| ly be double the size of their own town, but
will command the trade of Southwestern Kan
Ion han fnSaN-
set afloat these bloody tales TO intimidate ner-
vous men,"
The above is the quintessence of fool
ishness. A paper that has to resort to
the little demagogue trick of trying to
array one town against another, when
there is no reason for it, in order to
prove its devotion to local interests, is
weak affair. 1t will require the aid
of microscope to discover where En-
poria and Wichita are in any sense III
walls. There is not ducent, liberal
desire the building of large town at
| Wichita. The idea of jealousy exists
only in the small brain of tn scribbler
that wrote the article in the Vidette.
Such minds as his are made for jeal-
ousy. We know that many good
words have been spoken here for Wich-
tia, and will continue to be, notwith-
standing the weak attempt of the Wich-
tia paper to get up muss.
Let us venture a word of advice to
our Vidette friends: Attend to your
business; make better local paper is
sue it more regularly; be more indus
trious; don't pitch into your neighbors
who are helping you all they can, con-
sistently, unless you have some reason
able ground for doing so, and you will
receive a better support at home and
| mora PaSDect abroad