Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-08-30
KIND 0l0 FACES.

Gov. Geo. A. Crawford spent q day in
Wichita last week. He had been down to
TT. Scott for few days visiting old friends.
What factor little George used to be in
Kansas politics, and how all the old time
fellows yet love and respect him for his
countless virtues and accomplishments. A
gentleman and scholar he is, and, in
thinking II over, we believe he always was.
He lost a fortune during the years Of Kan
sas reverses, but whoever heard him COM
plain or repine. His present home is at
Grand Junction, n thriving city in central
Colorado, which he laid out. When he sat
down to talk with us the other day he look
ed ten years younger than when he left the
state. May his shadow keep on increasing
MIR. Guilford Dudley, one Of Topeka's
most solid bankers and Oldest citizens,
dropped in on us Monday last. 1t was his
first visit to this great valley although he
has lived in Topeka nearly twenty seven
years, in which time he has grown into
wealth and affluence. His surprise over
the size Of this city, its din and racket and
v0luminous business, was akin to amaze
ment. In his own language, sit upsets
every preconceived notion which he had
held. Emporia was larger and greater than
he bad expected, but for business, life and
activity Wichita is without rival in the
State, and he should proceed Immediately
to invest a few thousand dollars" Away
back in the winter OF SO, or rather, early
In the spring of 81, Mr.. Dudley and the
writer, Henry Cowles, r. b. Murdoch, of
the Commonwealth, and Aaron ID. Stevens,
who was afterwards hung with John Brown
at Charleston, lived together in house
l0x12 made Of boards. up and down, and
located In Topeka, on Kansas avenue, just
north OF the new government building.
Those were gay old days into which lots of
fun and history were crowded. Stevens
was very quiet man, but terribly profane |
when any Of the boys pretended a desbe- |
lief in the inspiration Of the Bible, which |
"Guil" often did. Outside of the Bible |
Stevens held TO but one dogma, and that s.all |
men are born free and equal, and my bones |
shall bleach on the plains Of Kansas before |
a slave shall be held on its SOIL" We laid |
out lots OF towns In those days, the names |
membered after twenty-six years. We |
welcome MIR. Dudley to town that is |
''boupd to make it'' But where is Shelton, |
Of Mission creek; Shell Rock Falls, of |
Madison county and, Forest Hill, of Breck-
enridge county? The echo from the corn |
and pumpkins that now grow in their once
busy thoroughfares alone can answer
Governor Isaac Sharp, OF Council Grove,
a man who was a Democrat in Kansas in |
the days when the sight Of a live mossback
was only less rare than real circus, but
who has stood for governor, and made po-
litical canvasscs for his ticket when the few
Bourbons we did boast were making it con-
venient TO visit their wives relations in
Missouri, spent Sunday and Monday in
Wichita. In the antediluviap periods of
courts in this State, when Judge Watson,
of the fifth district, held court at Burlin-
game, John Martin, Of Topeka, Isaac Sharp,
Of Council Grove, and Judge Ruggles, of
Emporia, three Of the biggest Democrats
In all the Southwest were sure to be there,
ard for time II would seem as If the men,
DRY OF Jackson was really cherished in Kan
sas. But, alas, Judge Ruggles is dead,
Judge Martin has turned non-partisan, and
the only one Of the trio who sang with such
feeling "tbe wearing O. the green, or with
such sang .froid .'moved his Honor, the
court" is the glorious old patriarch Isaac,
who sat down with us ON Monday to talk
Of il all, as dream, over again.