The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1872-04-19
Correspondence of the EAGLE
A CHEER FROM SUMNER.
OXFORD, SUMNER Co, KANSAS.
April IL ls79

4 OXFORD, SUMNER Co., KANSAS.
April Is, ls72
! ME. EDITOR: "What beauty.' So
say |: so say all. But whether the EA-
GLE is to remain ga joy forever" de-
pends on the people OF Scdgwick and
| adjoining or surrounding counties. To
let such triumph of skill and genius,
lack for liberal support would be a
! burning shame. We don't live with
"you'uns," but we feel as proud as the
bird with wide spread narrative, that
we have such a clean well conditioned
! paper in our state, as bright and mod
est and handsome as the fairest female
school teacher in christendom. Oh We
tipplers! twenty drinks of rOtting rum
will buy this beautiful educator a year.
Oh we smokehouses, and pigstys on
pegs! twenty cigars, or two pounds of
nasty concentrated poison, you call
''terbacker" will bring this tidy sweet
faced messenger, to your door whole
twelve month. Be man, if your are
poor. and kick out the cause of your
poverty, and take the EAGLE, and at
the end of the year if you have not
made good bargain, draw on us for
the money. But such paper viii be
sustained. There are too many read
ing, thinking, appreciative men now
in Southern Kansas, who will do with
out even some necessary comfort if
need be, rather than not have such
cheerful sparkling visitaRt come in,
once a week, and tell them in its own
intelligent way, of the doings and say
ings of the outside world.
But we intended to blow the bugle
for Sumner county and not you So be-
speaking for your elegant sheet-sur-
passed in no state or city-the largest
mearure of success, We give you just
prelude of coming music, and close
this Introductory letter:
This county has been for time like
ocean into tempest tossed on cleo
ton of county seat. After warm
contest between the gallant and lively
little town of Belle Plain, Oxford and
Wellington, the first of these succumb-
ed under pressure Of numbers, leaving
the field to the two last named. The
final election came off OH the 9th inst.
and Oxford did not like the way it
was done, and got out an injunction
restraining the commissioners from
counting the vote until hearing could
be had before his honor Judge Camp
bell. on the 22nd inst. The smart (?)
people of Wellington, evidently fear
ing to trust bad cause in court, stole |
the Injunction papers, orders of the
court and all, from the clerk, run off /
the officers who conld serve them, hid |
the Eastwood puttyhead, acting as dis
trict clerk and then climbed their lib |
erty pole and crOwed.
Thus it stands. But bark methinks
l hear an earthquake rumbling. "A 60 !
ahead widc-awake town like Oxford |
can't be beat by such silly unblush-
ing defiance of law and decency. We
predict removal of the courts and
county business from this pilfcrous
W wellington, for a long time to come,
lest they might attempt some dark
night to steal the court house, Jail ,coun-
~ and all and move them into the In
lian Territory. Our new district
Judge, Hon. w. p. Campbell, held his
irst court in this county last week and
made a decidedly good impression.
Jnassuning, obliging, firm, well in
iormed i'll the law, familiar with the
practice, ready and prompt in his de-
,isions, impartial and just in deter
mining questions, he gives promise of
'ccOilinS enc of the most useful and
jurists of his day. 1t must
'e specially embarrassing for judge
o find incompetent, recreant, re-
,ellious officers around him. but we are
much mistaken if he does not prove
himself equal to the emergency, and
IOes not vindicate the honor and au-
hority of his court. and teach trick
tiers that they are trifling with the
wrong man. Col. W. II. Knapp, was
Omitted to the bar this term and we
earn is to put up his single at the
rowing town of Oxford A LARGE ,
usiness and prosperous career awaits l
i'm.
Mr.. Editor, this effort is only to tune ,
p and strike the key note, hence some
iscOrd. Be patient and the music I
ill come by-and-by from the full
of MOZART.