The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-04-27
Agnes City Correspondence.

AGNES CITH, mans. April 20, 1867.
EDITOR NEWS: AS all the balance of
Lyon county seems to be written up by
some enterprising person, 1t looks lit
tie bad for the great future stock portion
of Lyon county, to not have at least an
occasional item IN the NEWS. Now
you may think me little premature in
my opinion as TO the future of Agnes
City township, but there are certain
| facts connected with this matter that
lead me to believe what / say. In the
first place, we have some very good pro-
ductive farms along the creeks running
through our township. In the second
place, we have as good and pure creek
and spring water as there is to be found
in the state of Kansas or elsewhere. And
| in the third place we have an unlimited
acreage of cheap rough lands only suit
able for grazing purposes. And in the
fourth place our good farms ON the
| creeks, containing plenty of water, can
be bought at very reasonable rates. And
in the fifth place, the cattle are already
coming in here. The stock men of our
county are availing themselves OF the
| present operunity to procure good stock
| ranches at the very lowest rates possible.
But there is one thing yet needed
which is most important of all.
That is an act of congress throwing the
balance of the Kansas trust and dimin-
ished reserve lands on the market at its
present appraised value in such man
ner that stock men and all other persons
can enter said lands in any number of
acres they may desire. And that
should be permitted without said pur-
chaser being required to improve it or
| re side on such lands as required at
present. Now, Mr.. Editor, don't
| accuse me of being q bloated
monopOlist, for 1 never voted
the Greenback ticket in my
life, nor do l expect to. I am Stall
wart.
| But once more to business. The laws
| of Congress now in operation were all
right when they first became laws, and
even up to the last year past the inten-
ton of the law was good one. II
aimed to open up large tract of lands
to settlement as homesteads. But as the
lands suitable for that purpose have
been taken up and the present law
has fulfilled it's mission, be-
cause there is not now q
single quarter section of these lands
susceptible of cultivation, and 1 am
free to assert that there is not a single
quarter section of these lands that has
40 acres of pillow land on it, nor is there
single quarter section that has ten
acres of firstclass bottom land on it.
That being the case, Mr.. Editor, I be-
lieve it is q duty that congress owes
the general government and to the peo-
pie of the state of Kansas, and es-
pecially to our popular free school
| system, to throw these lands on the
market in such a manner that they will
be entered soonest and placed on the
tax roll of the county, and then play
their important part by paying their
share of the taxes and helping to build
up our educational interests, instead of
lying dormant and doing no one any
good, but making expense to the United
States government. Now, think this
land matter is question of importance,
and requires the attention of the people
| generally. 1 am ready to answer any
question that may be asked about the
Kaw lands.
The Agnes City Union Sabbath School
was reorganiZed last Sabbath by the
election of the following officers: to-
wit; Superintendent, Mr.. g. H. Thomp-
son; Assistant Superintendent. Mrs.
Effie Hartford; Secretary, Mr.. r. D.
Cottrell; Treasurer, Mrs. Sarah
] Henderson; Chorister, Mr.. Bill
| Williams. Said Sabbath School
hold their meetings at the new Agnes
| City school house on each Sabbath at
10 80 q. m, and they have an attendance
of about fifty pupils.
Our new J. p. tried his maiden case
| on the Oath on complaint of Daniel
Wilsey VS.. George Smith for assault and
battery. Smith was requested to shell
out ten dollars and costs. and went on
his way rejoicing with the admonition
that he had better put his hand in his
pocket than In his neighbours face, and
the other party's sore nose will proba-
bly, be an admonition to keep his abuse
to himself. Supposed trouble-too
many cattle didn't know 'em.
More anon. G.. w. AsHTNGToN.