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The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1873-07-24
Where do They go I?

| had heard that emigration wa:
more brisk than ever TO Kansas this
| spring: but did not notice any unusu.
al ripple of life until touching the
country from Atchison, southwestern
through Topeka, to the valley of the
Arkansas river. Here there is un.
mistakablc thrift, enterprise and life.
A steady volume of population has
poured in here, and almost all other
parts have betN, for time, overlooked.
Southern Kansas, and particularly
Southwestern Kansas. are now the Ell
dorado of the western-bound planter.
Enthusiastic reports come back daily
from those who have visited this Sec
ton, and il really seems one of the
most fortunate positions in the new
west. As an incident of rapid settle
ment, the fact was given me that i'm
SIX weeks time. over $4,000 acres of
government land were taken ND in one
county alone (Rsrton) in the Arkansas
Valley. This estimate is taken from
the actual figure at the land office in
Wichita, and dc not include private
purchasers Of raj road property. An
,fher instance was related to me of a !
pioneer who, inprospecting for stu
ltion ten or moIe miles from railroad
coated the on ranch then taken and |
ct up his claim Returning five weeks
'fterward to tie old home, to , 49,
lis family wit him. he discovered :,
ess than los Iairie CABINS near him
md the land mS>;iV taken up.
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THE GOODRICH MURDER.

The Goodrich murder case, which
promised to rank with the Burdell and
other unpublished crimes of the past,
appears solved at last. A woman has
been found who acknowledges that
she was the mistress of the murdered
man, and that she killed him because
he proposed to desert her, and she
"could not live without him." This
Kate Stoddard probably tells the truth !:
il is only the old story over again, and
Charles Goodrich but paid the penalty
Of crime which many have paid before
him. Notwithstanding the character
of the deed she has committed, public
sympathy must be, to some extent,
with the half-crazed girl who took the
life of the man who betrayed her, and
sympathy may better take such di-
rection than toward moneyed assasins
of the Stokes class, who are made he
roes as soon as they show themselves
villains
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THE NATIONAL GRANGE.

1t would seem that the uprising of
the farmers is growing in magnitude
and graphing stronger and more eff
fectual for the right, that its influence
is extending from the cotton fields of
the south to the extreme regions of
the north, spreading its influence
through the length and breadth of the
land. The fact that the headquarters
Of the national grange is being removed
from Georgetown to Washington City
is significant. Since the LIST of July
about $50 subordinate oranges have
been organized, making the total num-
Der of oranges in operation to date
over 400, with an aggregate member
ship of about $4,000. The order seems
to be growing most rapidly in the
states of Iowa (Which now has 175
granges) Missouri, Indiana, Illinois,
Minnesota, Nebraska and Wisconsin.
In response to requests from different
states, several additional general dep
utics have recently been sent out by
the national grange to organize subor-
dinate oranges.
There are at present state oranges in
Arkansas, California, Georgia, Illinois,
Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Min
nesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebras-
North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina,
Tennessee, Vermont and Wisconsin.
The work moves on
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Correspondence of the EAGLE.
YOSEMITE GRANGE.
ONO TOWNSHIP, July 20

OHIO TOWNSHIP, July Goth.
EDITOR EAGLE: Thinking it might
be of interest to your many readers to
get few items from this part of the
county, in an agricultural and social
point of view, will pen few as they
occur to me.
Our township is quite new, and as
it was mostly settled last year, and its
political organization effected last
spring, of course we do not expect to
make as great a show as some other
townships that have been settled long
er. Crops look well, especially corn.
The small amount of winter wheat
that was sOwn last fall is now in the
stack. Our oats cropis being harvested,
and by the time this is done the spring
wheat will be OIL hand. The wheat
crop of this section of the county will
not average more than ten or twenty
bushels per acre. Oats will probably
reach twenty-five or thirty. Some of
our farmers are experimenting in the
raising of rye, cotton and castor beans
Potatoes promise to be an average
yield. The season has been too wet in
this locality for crops of all kinds to
do well.
There has been but one public school
taught in this township. That is being
taught in school district fifty-four, ends
this week.
We have had the benefit of Sunday
school nearly all summer, which has
been well attended by the youths as
well as the aged. We have singing
school that deserves passing notice.
The farmers of this section of the
county consider it our duty to act in
unison with other sections of the coun-
ty by organizing a grange. This we
have done and now, that we are ready
for business, we do cordially invite the
cooperation of other oranges in secur-
ing our rights among men, rights that
have long been neglected until our po-
sition as farmers has become so bur-
thensome by the force of combination
of other societies, for mental as well
as financial protection, that we can no
longer withstand their influence
Farmers let us try and see what we can
do for ourselves.
Our plan of operation is for each
grange to appoint a committee of three
to meet in Wichita. on the I'd of Au-
gust, and there decide where we shall
do our trading We do not wish to be
selfish towards our friends in town.
but it is our purpose to make use of
the old adage, to live and LET live. We,
the committee appointed at the last
of Yosemite grange to take |
charge of this affair for the present,
this plan the most effective.
Patrons. let us not delay single mo-
nent; let every grange be fully repre-
'ented: let us be prompt, and be on
,and at an early hour.
y y !; + 1 %. ssSs"aAr. Committee
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CHOLERA.

The ravages reported Of this awful
disease in some localities are terrible.
In the associate dispatches of Tuesday
morning, we find that in the town of
Louisiana, Missouri, eighty deaths &C.
Cured there between the hours of
eight and twelve O'Clock, or at the rate
of twenty an hour. We think there
must be some mistake in the operator.
AT any rate great excitement prevailed
in the city, and hundreds of people
were leaving. The disease was also
prevailing at Troy and Hannibal, and
other places on the Missippi river.
At Mt. Vernon, Indiana, where there
had been great many deaths the dis
ease was abating, and the new cases
were Of milder type. In the cities
where it first made its appearance it is
rapidly abating.
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THE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.

The Sedgwick county Agricultural,
Horticultural and Stock Raising ass0-
citation is getting well upon its feet.
The men who have taken an interest
in its success, together with its officers,
have fully determined that we shall
have a fair this fall. Very eligible
ground has been purchased for per-
manent grounds, and committee in
structed to proceed with the grading
Of the track, the enclosing of the
grounds and the erection of buildings.
We believe Wichita can hardly afford
to let this effort fail in the least, from
a mere business point of view. 1t is
evident that in the near future some
point will be selected in this valley for
holding district fairs, which will be
run from three to five days each year,
and which will be attended by thou
sands of people, bringing the produc-
tons of a dozen surrounding counties.
Wichita is the most central and most
natural point for the holding Of a
Southwestern district fair, but by apa-
thy, or by waiting for the farmers to
do it all, she can easily lose the main
chance and all the benefits in the wav
Of trade and prominence that such fairs
would bring to her. To have such
fairs located here, the very first thing
to do is to secure permanent grounds
and enclose and improve them. Other
towns ia other counties are doing this
very thing now. Grounds of easy ac-
cess to the city and to water can be
procured very much cheaper now than
in six or a dozen years hence, conse-
quently we think our society, weak
though it is, does the very wisest thing
in procuring fee simple title to
grounds that can be improved from
year to year. The stock taken in this
enterprise may not command premi
um right away, but it will be worth
its face and maybe declare dividends in
a very few years.
The secretary of the society handed
us the following minutes of the pro-
ceedings of a meeting held Oh the 9TH:
Meeting called to order, n. A. Eng
llsh in the chair.
Report of committee read, adopted
and the committee discharged.
A committee, consisting of Massey
and Green, were appointed to complete
the contract with j. ii. Dagner. Also
a committee appointed consisting of
n. A. English, ID. l.. Green and w. b.
Smith to start and complete the track
and enclose the grounds. A commit
tee consisting Of ii. c. Sluss, W. B.
w. b. Smith, NJ. NJ. MUIR
dock, F. A. Sewers, E. b. Allen and
w. L. Jewett was appointed to wait
on the county commissioners and city
council and see what aid they will fur
nish the society.
Moved that there be a levy made of
twenty-five per cent, assessed Oh all
stock of the association, to be paid to
the secretary by August 4th, 1873.
Moved to adjourn to meet the first
in August.
ID. G.. GREEN,
Secretary pro tenn.
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Going West.

"A great MANY lazy people 60 west
expecting to get rich without work
They make a bad mistake. don't like
the west, want to go back ito civiliza-
tion, and if they have got energy
enough TO ride without springs in their
wagon they generally bless the west bv
leaving IT. Some men go west with
considerable money. and think they are
rich enough and sharp enough to win
a fortune and position in a few. wears.
A few succeed: others find the men of
the west are smarter than they and after
failures conclude the east is
the best country.
Many men. generally with but little
money, but with much energy. finding
in the east too much competition. go
west, determined 10 make home and
competence. If they have a wife to
axe along, all the better. and a baby
,r two does not hinder progress at ali.
When these men settle on farms they
ref rich in a few years. II they sell
'oods they commence with little. and
fer a little, have goods. and houses
nd lancs-all and more than their first
!, bition craved. In one respect there
s no difference in states. Everywhere
? Spcceed one has to work with en-
rgy and study economy.
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Correspondence Of the EAGLE.
FROM AN OLD CORRESPON-
DENT.
SPRING CREEK. July Goth. 1878.

SPRING CREEK, July Goth, 1873.
EDITOR EAGLE: In looking over the
country, from the head of Spring Creek
to Ell Paso, the question naturally sug-
gests itself, what is to be done with
these immense crops? Wheat is good /;
oats are good; and from present indi-
cations the corn crop will be enormous.
The farmers are hoping that most of
the corn will be fed to stock here.
Col. Sharpnach has fifty acres of corn
and seventy head of hogs. Johnny
Dolan closes one eye and casts the 9TH
er trinmphantly over his immense corn
field. If you suggest that his corn
looks pretty good, johnny will say,
"you bet" He will then inform YOU
that he and Mr.. Corwine intend to feed
two hundred head of cattle, and he
guesses they will have nearly corn
enough to put them through.
BY looking over the farms of Zeph
Stafford, Otto, Clappen, irresistible
James Huff, Albert Law, Moon, Mack.
Pitman, Whaley, McBee, Corwine.
Barns, Goodacre and others, one NAV
form a faint idea of what this country
will be in few years. The improve
ments made in two years surpasses
even the expectations of the most hope
full. That beautiful farm between
Spring Greek and Spring Branch be-
longs to Morg. Stafford. He bought it
of Uncle Samuel for two hundred dol
lars. He has about eighty acres under
cultivation. Behold his corn, wheat
and oat fields, his comfortable house.
his growing hedges, his orchard, and
his fifteen thousand forest trees. Mr..
Editor, if you were to see this farm
you would say, there is a pretty place:
how home-like; that man had money
when he came here. So he did Heis
a capitalist. He came here little more
than two years ago with his family.
team, fifteen days provisions, and two
dollars and seventy-five cents in cash.
If p. 7. Barnum could have exhibited
that farmer over the United States this
summer, next fall would witness the
arrival in Sedgwick county of four
hundred and seventy-two thousand
men, each with his family, team and
two dollars and seventy-five cents in
cash.
The best improved farm on Spring
creek is that of A. G.. Burr, in Rock
ford township. Mr.. Burr being honest,
industrious, and a gentleman by ma
ture, is held in high esteem by his tel
low farmers of Rock ford. who, UNDER
stand, will make all effort to have him
elected for our next county treasurer.
If the farmers of Rockford can induce
Mr.. Burr to become candidate, any
one running in opposition to him
would receive about three votes up
here in Gypsum.
FARMER DOOLITTE.
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For the EAGLx.
SAYING Hateful" THINGS.

What strange disposition is that
which leads people to say "hateful''
things, for the mere pleasure of saying
them. You are never safe with such a
person. When You have done your
best to please, and are feeling kindly
and pleasantly, out will pop the bitter
speech-some underhand stab which
you alone comprehend sheer which
is masked, but too well aimed to be
misunderstood. 1t may be at your
person, your mental failings, your tool
ish habits Of thought, or some little
secret Of faith or opinion, confessed in
moment of genuine confidence 1t
matters not how sacred it may be to
you, he will have his fling at it: nav.
since the mirth is to make YOU suffer,
he is all the happier the nearer he
touches your heart. Just half dozen
words, only for the pleasure of seeing
a cheek flush and an eye lose its bright
ness-only spoken because he is afraid
you are too happy, or too conceited.
Yet they are worse than SO many
blows. How many sleepless nights
have such mean attacks caused tender
hearted idiots. do speak bitterly y
Then. after them, one awakes to aching
eyes and head, to remember that speech
before everything else-that bright.
sharp, well aimed needle of a speech
that probcd the very center of your
soul. There is only one comfort to be
taken, the repetition of such attacks
soon wean your heart from the attack
err: and this once done, nothing he can
say will pain you again.
MARY NJ. G.. COssETT.
WICHITA .JulV 10 1879
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Publication To,ic,.


STATE OF KANSAS.
SEpGWICk Cot MY.
! u fosii aaa lhoIna- Gey ai partners tn trade.
Ig the arm name ci lft8 tayal. piaiaiiG-.
as4iust
l. n GUHa and > p Ccumloy fagtners In
tinia, b. the urw aSIne ai t,npu : trun,ivy,
dtisldaai-
The above na,gfd LET. %. l,sats T. y t.unn and
D CuimlcY. VIII tak- natcc that tkcN hayv
thr said rlaiutrs fhsi said rislntiHs. Jt The tsth
,iav ni November. \ f. Isl. aicd A tbs onler
at The chrk OF fhe district ,nitt ~ the chsuiy 81
>rdgwick. and state 81 kEn-i-, . PETITION 90 The
above eutifi.. action s-gaiue fttu. SAID ptainiis
dcluindlru tuiirNrut aFHimst lhein- tis sald
l.. u t.uau and = . tfunticN. tpr The %
three h,in,irrd and hity d,tiar. aud tWruty four
cents. and snierest lhsfeaH from thr cish 'isy OF
July. \ y i-s.l that eu tav TN day % ttbru-
sry, - is78, urdvr % attachment Wac To-
sued out 81 The said cagft, la said action, against
them the said efsugii-. which cFsleg OF attach
uivut was. on the tsth tiav 81 February \ u lis.
l,s the sheriff ~ the county ~ summer. state -
Kansas. levied upon thr following described real
Situated 80 the ev,iy 81 simmer, asd slate
~ kHasts. ls The property ~ tbs -nid b. tTuns-
ley. % Wit The sulthca,f quarter of secEuB MINI
bar one township HUIul'vf ihlTfs four, rsaEu
three wt-t. and HAL uAira~ YOU, tsv said I. -
1uHn and truulisf answer the saf,i plain
flI-' Isriliiuu hy thp lfsh dry 90 Aasus \ -
ls18 the ssi3 pGlii4an VIII De- isken true aud
ludsinHu ~ rsEsirryt against ,ou ga accordance
the said above described read estate viii hc raid
10 sati-t5 eGvh Judgment
Wichita, kaael-, Jufy a. i-.3
t.EO ~NI.i>m nv.
Attorney Tor piaipiln
Aue-t W. EltifS, Clara t3-it-sli 10
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POLITICAL MOULDING.

The newspapers that bolted from
the republican party at the beginning
of the last political campaign are
now engaged in forming new party,
but object to a coalition with the de-
mocracy. The Cincinnati Commercial,
Chicago Tribune and New York Trio
une are eager but troubled. The de-
mocracy refuses to be moulded oyer
under less odorous but more polite
name, and unless some of the big DEM
ocratic organs aid the plotters the par
ty will not exist. Great hopes are, we
entertained regarding the
course of the Missouri Republican as
soon as its editor returns from a tour
of investigation.
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prc,;ca.;.r Ec.;ce

THE STATE OF KANSAS.
COUNTY or >EDGvIcg.
In the district court Of III i3th jadiels district
siiiirs in and FOR said epaaiy q -eazxick
l. EaAn He2s;es Pla LA.
against
NaiFiBa Hees;ed. d fesdanf
Maivius Heusted, d. defendant "a the aissve
entitled caEse, Who resides oaf .f IN. ztAse 81
hassAs zpf4 vhp@- place q residence j. EsEHoEn
gIii TAKE DJ;ice Tat she hs hssa ssed Dy ne .asd
pisEnsia l. Tuzn He2s'.si, thai the sasd pI2irtiE
ijusza Hsusttsi. did fhs issk day ~ Jone
l-lS, tie his etfiiga against keT n. sad 6sf.ri-
ant. IA TIE .ais4 dssfrirf cu=t sIEtsng ia and fr
TIE sad county 81 ~e1gvies. sBd STATE Of kans..
alleging that sss-. The s2i 4aISias Hesss.s viii.
taiiy zl7aHdor-d attn aud Ess remained zifIfa!fv
absent fToTn hiu for more thzz Sne year last pat,
without zay csg-< tt=tiaeasisn .t.Frfar ca ~.
part and ina. for n-t tsza rear la: past ~
-aia AaiTGns HsEst%fs has grossly zexisef-3 h~F
dzty the wlfs q .eid pizsnTIc s1a przytag
therrirTe that b. the ssia ;.iaiufi1 b. divorced
from krT IT, aid GaiYao2 HsE=fed aad sllss D.
have sach other sas fas7-eF Yssisf a. b. nav b. in
sqaity entitled to s1i ~. aid NAlFiis4 Hsssi<
defendant Aforesaid 4 sSslsea ,hzf sbs i, re-
4airet o. ap5r&r and ansxsr the sssi j-t.iiya af
The said plaintlE Ga before The s-is day # Az
gust l--J, ane in 3eExati ihereof jsdxfss<sf xiii
. Fsgiered s-SInst hsE favor 81 te -stsi ylsis-
ns- according 10 the pszf 81 s&id etlsioa 81 IN
plaintiff, AZ the s-xt term Il sz5d e.ssFr
LYMAN HEC-TED,
By BALBwES & -T4SLET has attorneys
4isest g " REENE~. Clerk
D.sed, wichita kas. Jzly Tssh. Is5z is-ssle =
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Searching the World for the Kansas
Murderers.

We clip the following from the
American Register. of Paris:
An agent of the special detective
agency of New York is now in Paris in
pursuit of the Bender family. who are
charged with being the authors of the
wholesale murders lately discovered at
Cherryyale. Kansas. Detectives from
the same agency have been sent to Lon
don and all the leading European cities.
One of the accused, Johanna, or. as she
is commonly known. Katie Bender. is
quite Young. has red hair, and is a per-
son Of rather rcpulsive appearance.
The other woman is forty-two wears of
age, and has marked features. with a
furtive and distrustful expression.
She was seen on steamer which left
Now York for Havre. and il is sup
posed that the whole family are al
present concealed in the French CAPT.
tai or in the enyirons. Kate Bender is
possessed of some education. and is
said to be able to speek little French. |
If they are really in France, now that
the police are on their tracks, il will |
be impossible for them long to escape
detection.
Ii appears that the world is TO be
that these murderers NAV
DC caught. 1t is most singular that,
With the strongly-marked characters.
les of all four of the members of this
Infamous family, they have escaped de-
ection SO long.
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Correspondence Of the Eagle.
FROM REMANTO.

REMANTO, July II, 1873.
EDITOR EAGLE: All crops in thi
part of Sumner county are lookin:
very well. Rain-falls in abundance
Wheat and oats are all harvested.
Mr.. Wolfe estimates that his oat
will average from fifty to sixty bushels
per acre; wheat twenty to thirty bush
els per acre. Corn crops are looking
fine. Drouthy Kansas is doing well b,
her people, and they cannot complain
Mr.. Williams has l2O acres of prairie
broke this season on his quarter
There is suppose about one-fourth o
the prairie lands broke up this season
in the vicinity of Remanto. The farm
ers mean business.
ii. Pruden E. Rrns hnv~ L~.-a .
very fine lot of Texas cows, and have
taken steps to improve them. He i.
going into the cattle business heavy.
Mr.. j. c. Smith is going to start q
cheese mandatory as soon as he gets
sufficient number of cows together tc
pay to herd them. He is a go-ahead
man. He came from Illinois this
spring and brought all his manufactur.
ing apparatus with him.
Mr.. Jacob McLay is trying boring
for coal. He has started one well
some time back, but on the force of the
quantity of salt water he had to aban-
don said well, and has now instruments
to drill for it, and will start Mr.. Ennis
machine in a few days.
Messrs. Golf & Marshall are making
salt very fast indeed by solar evapora-
ton. They have eighty watts running.
Mr.. Marshall is now east buying two car
loads Of lumber to build more watts,
also will buy kettles to begin to boil
as soon as they get the aparatuses here,
and will supply the whole Southwest
with Remanto salt. Hurrah for the
Remanto salt works.
A drug store is needed at Remanto,
and Squire Raiman will give very good
inducements to parties that will bnild
one; and also good wagonmaker is
wanted. Lots are donated to parties
that will improve them free of charge.
Also a good hotel is needed; travel
increases every day, and all kinds of
business would do well if represented.
Remanto is located forty-five miles
southeast of Wichita, ten miles north
west from Arkansas City, twelve miles
south from Oxford, twenty-five miles
southeast from Wellington, eighteen
miles southwest from Winfield, on the
road from Winfield to South Haven
and Caldwell.
The salt works are one-fourth of
mile north of Remanto and one-fourth
ola mile west of the Arkansas river and
one and one-half mile from the mouth
Of Slate creek.
The prospects Of Remanto and sur
rounding country are looking favora-
bly,. Salt manufactured at home: coal
said to be here, for thin veins are being
found and there are certainly thicker
veins below; good. No. farming coun-
try; good grazing country, only seven
niles north of the Indian territory. In
course of time it will make the greatest
point in the southwest part of
Kansas. Now parties wishing to To-
ate here, TO come and look for them
selves, or for further information write
o Squire f. Reiman, and he will
answer all your letters.
Yours respectfully. f. y. X.
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MORE SHOOTING.

Another horrible murder took place
at Dodge City last Sunday night. a
man by the name of Ellis in attempting
and threatening to take some lewd
women into the bar of the Dodge City
hotel, was shot by the bar tender, David
Burrell. Burrell was also shot. Ellis
died Immediately, but the bar tender
was alive Tuesday, but was not out of
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