The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1872-04-11
KANSAS towns.

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dsanss our political views.
- KANSAS towns.
Every thing in Kansas partakes OF the
wenderfal. Her soil, her railroads, be.
climate, her psoplins, her very Amos
phsre, vegetate, grow, thrive and Is nd
xnnce. Great is Kansas AMI mono L.
nesdsd to become her prophet.
tits indeed surprising, and no less graf
iyiag, to note the difference Of Kansas
sf To-day and Kansas Of ten years ago.
Her prosperity commenced almost as II
were from her inception but her greatest
progress has been made from that time
when most OF her male citizens returned
from . participation in our coantry's con-
dict. Recalling q little personal expert
ence, &c remember, after being a citizen
Of Kansas for eight years, with what
pride, in 1865, VIC passed in the cars from
Kansas City to Lawrence, then the west.
ern end Of the Kansas Pacific. A rail-
road East significd little or nothing to us,
bat . railroad Of thir:y-five miles on the
81 Of Kansas was our highest idea OF
greatness! There was then no railroad
sonth of Lawrence and the Galveston,
Border Tier and NJ, X. & T. roads then
were almost for the first being worked up.
The x. P. has gono on and on to Denver
and minor railroads have been ojected
ord siscs- completed in tho east, north,
soafk end west parts Of the State, until
Kansas . well gridironed from length
70 breadth and from side to side.
Five and six years ago tho four south
eastsrn counties of the State, Crawford,
Chsrokee, Neosho and Labette, were or
.ganised. Montgomery, Sedgwick and
do other southwestern counties have
sincssAen been organized. All of these
counties all sport good towns, some Of
them numbering three thousand inhabi
taets and upward each. Independence,
Montgomery county, less than four years
cd, has twenty-five hundred people and
he county claims more than twenty thou
saAd population. Parsons. Oswego and
Chstopa, in Labette county, individually
have population Of from one to three
thousand, and Baxters Springs, in Cher
ohaa county, has about twenty-five hun
Arsd people. Wichita, in Sedgwick coun-
~, is another thriving town, is not three
years old and her people number about
twenty five hundred. These towns arc
four years and less growth. In eastern
and northern Kansas the towns and cities
have kept pace with the country IN
growth. Fort Scott is one of the Kan
rs towns that has swclled her popula-
ton from two thousand population in
1866 to six thousand at present. We
might cnumcrate the progress of Leav-
cnworth, Lawrence, Atchison, Topeka.
Emporia and Paola in tho last half doz-
on years with splendid effect. Refer
ring to Western Kansas, Salina and Be-
loit-afc prodigics. Salinas growth has
alciost wholly been accomplished in the
past ave years, and We claim for our city
5 population of near two thousand. Kan
~ TOXINS have surprising vitality.
Few Of them have died out, none re-
yaaincd ut . stand-still and the general
vatch-word of both towns and country
has been continued progress and pros
psrity.
J. h. Edwards, Of Hays City, writes
70 tho Ellsworth Reporter, proposing a
convcntion of the Republicans Of west
era Kansas for the purpose Of agreeing
upea . man to be presented by this part
ofthe State to the State convention a.
. candidate for Congress. He proposes
that tho convention come of at Salina.
Hear him:
IL - way can the several conflicting
1ntses1es Of the sections embraced in the
foFo mentioned district be hamonixed
except by . convention Of the delegate.
e3ocfed By the people Of the countie.
onhsncod inthc proposed district to meet
~ then determined upon some mar
vhoss namc they will present unani
noasly bcfarc the state convention.
We second the motion.
n White Cload Chief Missouri p
- 6ovs: . The bashwhackes all owe
- llo.ri cd &he borders Of kansas N
- tkcir headD outof tie brush -.
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