The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1881-11-17
WICHITA MUST DO her OWN FIGURING.


ny have made survey southwest from To-
peka to Council Grove, thence west TO Salina,
thence southwest to junction with it pres
emf line on the Arkansas. That company is
now surveying another line from Topeka via
Council Grove and on southwest to Halstead.
1t is very probable that the Kansas Pacific
interest and the Santa Fe interest are con-
Jointly at the bottom of these surveys for the
purpose OF heading Off the new Leayenworth,
Topeka & Southwestern road which is being
built and watch will be operated in other in
terests than the first two named. The terri
tory is rich one and one in which neither OF
the companies can afford to divide with a
new trunk line if they can help themselves.
By compromising these conflicting interests
the Gould combination has been kept out of
this valley. Such procedure seems also TO
indicate an opposition to the proposed link
from Wichita to Mcpherson. As il is the
well known policy Of railways to prevent, as
far as possible, the building Up OF strong
commercial towns in agricultural districts, to
foster many small markets in preference to
few large ones, which inevitably invites the
will do well TO do her own figuring until such
time as she can gain an ascendancy that vii!
compel the extension of competing trunk
lines into her borders. The solemn truth is
Wichita is just al present in a precarious sit
uation and we hope our business men see the
necessity of wise action.
MIR. d. b. Emmert, late of Wichita. Kan
sas, has opened real estate Office in Aibu-
querque. Mr.. Eminert is man OF sterling
worth. as is shown by The different positions
of trust and honor he has occupied. He was
enrolling clerk of the last Territorial Legis-
lature of Kansas, and chief clerk of the
House of Representatives in 81 and '62. He
was twice elected TO the State Senate, and
was district clerk of Bourbon county for
four wears. Mr.. Emmert was also receiver
of the United States Land Office at Hum
boldt, Kansas, for nearly five years, and left
a good position in the United States Land
Office at Wichita. when he came to New Mex
leo. A gentleman who has held SO many po-
sitions of public trust is worthy OF the pat
ronage of our people. Mr.. Emmert has Sc
cured the ale of large tracts of land, in and
about the city, and parties wishing to pur-
chase real estate win do well 10 call on him
before looking elsewhere. Mr.. Emmert has
his Office with W. II. Whiteman in the Harsch
block.-dl5uquerque Journal
DIR. Boynton, who was in Wichita last
spring when Mrs. Garfield, his cousin, was
taken sick, and who was summoned to
Washington by telegraph, had not left off
attending Mrs. Garfield when the President
was shot In spite of Bliss, he remained
with the President in the capacity Of nurse
until the last hours at Elberon. The Doctor
has relatives in this city in the persons of
Prof. Hammond and family, and is also dis
family related TO Mrs. Judge Fisher, with
whom Garfield lived when a boy. The Doe
tor is now in Topeka, where he contemplates
settling, and the Capital publishes long in-
teryiew had with him by one of its editors,
in which we find nothing new. DR.. Boyn-
ton still claims that it was the want OF sur
eical treatment in the out-start from which
the President suffered, and that had his
wound been properly operated upon at the
first, the rigor of the sd of July and subse-
quent chronic pyamia and death might have
been ayerted.
The word comes back that our county at
torney. ID. II. Dale. was married on the Sd
inst. TO Miss Louise Berry, of Pawpaw, Hi
nois. David may have lodged the strife OF
the late campaign, but we assure him be has
enlisted in another, in the presence OF
whose warmth the heat of political strug-
gle would pale. The securing Of bread and
butter. shoes and stockings, little and big,
soap, hash, wash tubs, cooking stoves and
pianos. may not bother him much, but as has
ACQUAINTANCE ripens with the aaiitiners, and
the spring and fail openings, the dressmakers
and their wonderful figures and the satanic
smile Of the average dry goods man, the bald
spot on the top of bis head will reach the
pape of his neck and the burrows on his brow
will look like they had been made with sub
soil plow. Ia, ia, young man.
The Stafford County CitiseR in commenting
upon the binding and blankbook work leaves
| its readers under wrong impression, at
least its article might be construed wrong
fully. The Eagle Bindery gives no per cent.
but simply gives the best work in the State.
! The counties that have left orders at this es-
Enlistment say they never before got such
good work nor Is good material.