The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1875-11-25

An order was issued some ten days age
transferring the route agents that had been
regularly running into Wichita, over to the
main line, west to Las Animas thereby leav-
ing this city with its important mails. out in
the cold, with no sworn agents to take charge
of the matter either way between here and
Newton. The Superintendent OF the Railway
Service was Immediately made aware that the
action had left the registered and other mail
matter OF l06 Offices which 90 through and are
made up IN the Wichita Office unprotected and
at the mercy of no one in particular, and that
unless something was not Immediately done
messenger would be put on at the expense OF
the postmaster here and complaint made TO
the department. The regular agents, on Sat
urday morning, were directed by telegram
from Washington, 10 return again TO Wichita.
which made oil things right. In salary The
Wichita post Office Is the fifth Office in the
State, but in the amount Of mail matter that II
handles it is first. On the last night that II
came in without an agent there was over seven
hundred pounds OF matter, an amount that
took three men from O'Clock to O'Clock Il.
m, the hour the Office opens, to work mp for
this and the different offices southwest for
which il was destined. The mails from the
different posts in the western part OF the lndr
an Territory arc massed on the Wichita office.
as also from one hundred others, and this be-
ing terminal route they must be here made
up in accordance with railroad and State
schemes furnished by the department, for
which service the department does not even
furnish the necessary lights or fuel. conse-
quenty the action that so suddenly shut of
the service was. TO say the least, rough.
Samuel Bragg, Of Lincoln, though much
used to brags, little and big, thinks the EAGLE
brags little too strong on the productiveness
of the valley, so he brings us an armiul OF corn
raised on the higher land, in Lincoln towship,
The corn is hard to beat anywhere, regular
Wabash in size and I'LL. But Samuel
Bragg must understand that 'our brag" OF
| the productions of this valley" means, not
only the river bottoms proper, but all the
land directly drained by the two rivers, lying
north of the Indian Territory There is es-
sentjally but little difference in the compo-
nents that 20 to make up the soil in Lincoln
and Wichita townships. After you leave the
magnetism formation and enter the gypsum
the character OF the soil of this valley varies
but little, and is about all equally productive.
There are extra rich spots. and then again
/ spots that from excess Of sand, alkali or wa!-
low that may prove rather below the average.
! Our ordinary mention of the valley means tAe
entire Lands OF the counties lying along and
drained by the tive Arkansas rivers all OF the
land OF which is hard to beat for corn or any
thing else. Does this .'brag'' satisfy Samuel
The following note is from Reader who
does't think the Arkansas Valley the only
good farming country IN the world:
MARsBALLToN, Iowa.
EDITOR EAGLE: Having once visited your
beautiful valley and having been . constant
reader Of your noble bird wish to say that
Iowa is not to be sneezsd at. In regard 10
I raising potatoes DR.. Duraaa, OF your county.is
somewhat behsd. ! planted lorty-seNen
pounds OF new variety, the Early Vermont,
and dug ffly-one and one-haf bushels. also
planted Two pounds of The same and dug three
and three-fourth, bushels. | have another va
rieiy. the Compton Surprise. OF which pan--
ed nine pounds and dug thirteen and one-hAli
bushels. But Master Sammy Bales, OF SIX
miles north OF Wichita. has done big thing.
80 also Mr.. HezekIah Boone. of Gypsum, Mr..
Hyde, of Union, have good yield. As your
bird gees weekly screaming about the richness
and beauty OF your valley, let him carry this
abroad L. L. ;.
Whom the gods love OIL dogs die young
for," we think is the quotation. Anyhow II
expresses our convictions. Oar path home.
these dark nights, has boen beset by the most
miserably sneaking lot of snariing, growing
whelps that ever bit cows tail OF or bayed
the moon This whole line of eurs took the
belly-aehe-euried down aud kicked up their
ghosts-the other night, and have gone 10
that warm cline where editors don't 80. AS
AN acknow Judgement of our wonderful deiiY-
erance from beng eaten up two or three
nights we hereby appoint the 10Th day OF No.
vember as a day o: thanksgiving, upon which
occasion all our friends are invited TO sacrifice
turkey without regard to any proclamation
| tlat may nave ueTtlosOle bsSH i1'NSN - -
Grant or Tom. Osborne
s. NJ. Ford, the able correspondent of that
wide-awake and enterprising journal, the Kan
sas City Times. has been spending several dayr
in our city gathering mp statistics and matter
pertaining to our growth and business rs Il
town and county. From Ford's well known
ability in that direction, and acknowledged
versatility as writer we have no besitancy in
saving that bis letter from this place will not
| only be readable but valuable. lie Is nc SKIM
mer of or dealer in gttering fudge and vapid
gas. but writer who sticks TO his text aud
actual observations, and we shall take pleasure
in reproducing his correspondence so that ey-
erybody in this county may know what the
opinions OF an impartial judge are.
For three months past the EAGLE has con-
tanned an advertisement Of the sale of body
OF land, known as the Cherokee strip"
These lands comprise narrow strip running
the entire length Of our State upon Lac south
ern border. The land is being sold under
sealed bids, and ten per cent. OF the bids must
be forwarded to the Land Commissioner.
when they are made. This per cent. IS re-
mtted In post Office orders. " iciiiia is about
forty miles from the lands mentioned. yet
guile number OF bids have gone IN from this
point. st II O'Clock on the 30th OF this mouth
the SAFE will close.
We are accustomed to thnk the people of
the west little better, on an average, than
others This impression probably COMES from
Tie fact Of the superior intelligence of western
people Henry Ward Beechers home has
bsen flooded with postal cards from eastern
localities, for months. He stood it like u
Christian until the west took up the worn,
when he was compelled to ask the Postmaster
General to stop The delivery OF these CRITICS.
lag mi,si,es. W icGita had bui just begun tie get
her work in on the eminent divine when he
succambed.
News was received here lat week by our
City Marshal TO the effect that a former resi-
dent OF this county by tie iiane of VIM Fax
mer, and whose father now hives in Deiano
township. was charged with the numbering OF
a man in some portion OF Central Texas, which
news was followed the next day by informal
lion that armer had been arrested in Denni-
son. There were no particulars furnished anu
our Texas exchanges say nothing of the MIL