The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1879-04-10
WASHINGTON.
The Beautiful County in the North
west Which Perpstuates tie
Memory Of the Little
hstchet.
Northern, Northeastern ard North
western Kansas and ito En-
igrstion-A Good Class
Of Settlers.
Wonderful Growth of That Region
The Country Improving
and Cities Prosperins.
Correspondence of the TIMEs.I
GETTING A FAIR SHARE.

Correspondence of the TIMEs.l
GETTING A FAIR SHARE.
WASHINGTON, April At would seem
from the way emigrants are pouring into
the northern, northeastern and northwest
srn part Of Kansas at the present time that
these vast, beautiful and productive portions
of the State so long neglected, that il, az
compared TO the western and southwestern
portions, are about 10 receive the justice
due them in the Ii after Of the great spring
Influx, which has heretofore given them the
cold shoulder. Beginning at Jefferson and
jackson counties, which are bat few
miles west from the Missouri, and We can
safely Sc: either of them down as the line
Of demsrcauon for east OF that the increase
Of population will confine itself almost ex-
clusively to the cities, the emigrant rarely,
if ever, wishing to establish him eli in old
er settled counties Then
WE HAVE THESE TWO CoUNIIEs,
and portion Of Pot;awatomie county ira
versed by the Kansas Central road, which
ia doing good work the present yesr in the
matter Of inducing Immigrants to settle
along its line; the counties Of Nemshs,
Jackson, Marrhali, Wellington, Cloud ard
| Mitchell, through which the Central Branch
II the L ion Pacific runs, through the If
iOrts Of this road, are receiving this wear
the 'ull benefit Of the Labor t this comps
by during the past We In iveriising this
portion Of The State tEroul .Out the East,
and in
CALLING ATTENTION To NORTHERN KANSAS
through the fact of the rapid extension Of
their lire to the Rocky Mountains, and the
counties of Doniphan and Brown (hoth
| east, however, oil the line of demarc alton.
though none the Leaf exempt from the
1 len, fits 0f emigration on that sccoupt),
| Nemahs, Marshall and Washington which
three latter have the advantage Of two rail
road lines traver-iug their territory-all
magnificent countie-, with the choicest eli
mate, rich ard wonderfully productive
roll, tire best markets, good rail- Dad con
nectIons. and eSeryIhing The immigrant
could wish. all waiting with open arms TO
welcome his arrival sud mske him happy |
and conleated when he ge.s here.
1T MAY SEEM STRANGE
| to some that a c0untry possessing every |
advant-ga, with nothing wan ing should |
| be less fortunate than the region nth and |
southwest Of IL, in securing immi grafton. |
/ but the answer is easy-it mas no trunk |
roads. Wes'ern Ksrsas has the benefit of |
| the Kansas Poetic, which spans the STATE |
| from east TO west, and South sestern Kansas |
has the Afchison Topeka& Santa Fe, cross
| ing the State from The southeast 10 the |
southwest both mighty channels of trade,
| arteries through which flow the liie-blcoi |
& Il. IL. 4 -
! Ii Northern Kansas had
THROUGH LINE TO THE ROCKY NOUN
TAISs,
81 e would FL up ss rapidly as other parts
Of the sta.e have done; il either the Kansas
Central or tie Central Branch were COM
pe.ed TO the point for which they are des-
tined, the same ruth would be witnessed |
| along their lines a. il now the case on the
Kansas Pscitic or the Santa Fe. Bat this
section OF Kansas has no reason to complain
the present season. for she is being W II ad-
verIIssd, is filling up rapidly, while her
owns are growing most wonderfully.
TIE VAST ARMY OF IMMIGRANTS.
People Lying along the line Of the rail
road rec the long trains of closely y cked
coaches, which pass every day bearing the
immigrant TO his new home, and am azingly
large As this number ia, il does not offer
! more than faInt comparison with the
hundreds and thousands who enter the
State by score of different entrances, trav.
cling by the old time prairie schooner"
method. These immigrants do not come
in single families, they come in ~ lads. in
colonies, in settlements, in droves, in com
paniss, in regiments, in battalions they
stretch along the winding woods
L.
weary lengths, bearing close resemblance
We're 1t not for
THE CONSPICUOUS ABB ENCE
Of marching regiments, clothed in the
paraphernalIa oil war, with shining bayo-
| nets, drum beat and mar isl mu-ic, one
| could imagine that the country was being
traysr-ed 10y armed !egilns with their &C
| cUmpanyiug supnlY trsIn. IL IL not an uu-
| common daily sight, even III the smt llesi |
| of thU-e northwestern towns, TO see al V or
seventy-tge Of these ships Of the desert pass
| ing through with losing herds o! cattle and !
noisy drUyes of hor4ts aud sprinkling Of |
| the powerfully obstinate male, each wagon |
representing temi!y with inte!li GEM |
looking parents and clear eyed, brightfaced |
children. Without di-paraging
| ANY PARTICULAR CLASS OF Immigrants, |
| or initiating against the man er in which |
| the immigrant nay come, IL IL usually the |
case that the pioneer who comes 10 us 10 |
this manner il a greater and better scqui- |
siIion than the one w.o comes along with |
a Thousand Others, with bare
| ly money enough 10 buy an immi- |
| grant or land buyers ticket. 1t is abso- |
| 4,,-. l,- k.. ,k
| Kansas this present year, because there is |
| no means Of determining the numbers. An |
| spproxim alton can be made, but that il de- |
cId.dly unsatisfactory, and very apt to fall |
below the true figure. A man cannot travel |
five miles upon any road in this part OF this |
| State without meeting one OF these cara
vans, bound Tor what but few years ago
| was the Great Unknown. Cheyenne, the |
| extreme northwestern county, aud
| FOUR HUNDRED MILES FROM THE MISSOURI
| RIVER,
is receiving additions to its population
every day. All of the northern tier of
countie., Rawlius, Decstur, Norton, Phil |
lips, Smith, Jewell and Republic, and those
| immediately to the south of those above
named, Cloud, Mitchell, Osborne, Rocks
and Graham, are settling up at an unpre-
L
ago, more especially in the case OF Decatur,
| Rawiins and Graham, 1t was a constant bat
| tie for dear life be ween the daring settler
and the trescherous and vindictive Indian.
Graham county is the territory being occu-
p ed lin part) by colored colonists, and De
cstur was
The SCENE OF MORE THAN ONE HORRIBLE
| OUTRAGE
during the Cheyenne raid Of the memorable
fall Of 1873 Western enterprise obliters;es
space and the distance of two or three hun
dred miles or so from a railroad makes no
difference to the adventurous immigrant,
Who being convinced that the Great Amer
ican Desert is one vast, blooming oasis, il
determined 10 secure his portion TO his pos
ierity, for in the present great rush it is a
mstter Of but a comparatively short time a.
TO how long our hundreds Of thousands Of
unoccupied lands will hold cut
THE COUNTY OF WASHINGTON.
| Washington county is one of the famous
nor thern tier, and is the favored recipient
OF q great proportion Of the Immigration
nowpouring in, offering most char ming in
Gucemenis 10 those who wish home, and