Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-03-20
The Land Of Canaan Pays The Land Of Egypt Back Her Borrowed Cam
PROSPEROUS BUSINESS MEN OF the
GREAT COUNTY SEND TO the RIVER SUFFERERS
SUBSTANTIAL SYMPATHY,

Il SYMPATHY.
J too thin to cast shadow, with the settler
dilapidated cabin in the background, tn,
J roof Of which was being eaten up by &
hoppers and the crown of his hat going il
the same way, and cloud raining grass
hoppers. The companion entitled 1884, wa
backed up by big two-story farm house
and wheat stacks, hog that would weigl
ton and melt down In warm day, and
COW that would make car load OF beef, ant
great, jolly, broad, fat farmer with dia
mond as big as your first stuck on his fol
chain.
Several OF these pictures were duplicated
and varied as to notices, but the grasshop
per was everywhere, every cartoon being
bordered with the muie-faced whelps, but
none of which were more life-like than that
serving as the horse to the beautiful native
warrior, aud which serves TO illustrate this
article.
A map of the county, printed on cloth,
( and headed, the "Great valley county, three
rivers, one-half of its entire area consisting
OF rich valley with property valuation Of
SO, 000,0o0; aud Wichita, its commercial
center, with its five railroads, gas-works,
water-works, street railway, and 10, 900 PEG.
ple," was tackled on several cars, which map
also gave the yield OF corn, wheat and oats
for 1883, and the number of cattle, hogs and
sheep in the county.
Probably so spontaneous aud, when eve.
rything is taken into consideration, SO gen
erous contribution was never made by any
people, and it bears out the claim of the
EAGLE, made for years, that this county is
blessed with people whose enterprise, in.
telligence and generosity fits them for an
ideal civilization.
report will be made up within short
time, which we shall publish, aud which
will show exactly the amounts countribut-
ed by each township aud the city.
The editor Of the EAGLE is the associate
press agent for this city, and sent out dis.
patch Monday night which appeared in all
the leading daily papers In the United States
the next morning. We probably cannot
better close this article than by reproduce
ing the dispatch which was SO sent, and so
appeared, and which will, for one day at
least, bring our county aud people promi-
nently before the whole people OF the Unit
ed States:
WICHITA, March IA solid train, con-
sisting of thirty-one cars, loaded with corn,
which corn was contributed by the farmers
of Sedgwick county and the Asiness men
Of this city, 10 the sufferers of the Ohio val.
ley, left this city at 10:45 this morning. The
train, which was profusely decorated with
bright-co.ored and suggestive cartoons aud
bunting, moved of amid the cheers Of hun
dreds of our citizens and the enlivening in
fluence of brass band. Each car was fur
nished with two cartoons, one upon each
side, or sixty-two In all, measuring twenty
eight feet in length each, subjects being va
ried and suggestive, with appropriate mot
toes.
The decoration was done by the Santa Fe
railroad company, which road furnished the
cars and the engine free of cost, 10 haul the
train to Cincinnati, and which will 90 from
here to Kansas City over their road from
Kansas City to st. Louis over the Chicago
d Alton road, and from st. Louis to Cincin-
natl over the Ohio & Mississippi road.
The train, as it stood on the side-track
yesterday, was viewed by thousands OF peo-
pie, and it was photographed and sketched
by several artists. The thirty-one cars con-
tanned I2,4OO bushels shelled and cleaned.
|. was spontaneous offering Of our people
all having been raised within few days.
Each Of the twenty-six townships Of the
county contributed one car, and some of
them more. Hundreds of wagonloads adj
ditional were offered and number of loads
came in this morning, but too late to get in
to the train, which was already as large as
could be conveniently handled. Several
hundred dollars contributed by the citizens
Of Wichita is still on hand and will be sent
by draft.
Sedgwick county is known as the great
valley county Of Kansas-nesrly thirty miles
square and watered by three rivers. Short
ly after its first settlement, ten years ago,
il was almost devastated by grasshoppers,
but since that time her farmers have grown
rapidly rich. She had on hand on the first
day OF March last LOO, 900 bushels of old
corn, and her crop report for 1883 shows
5,4ls, 900 bushels of corn raised, 1,IS7, 900
bushels OF wheat harvested, and I 800, 900
bushels of oats, with cattle, hogs, and sheep
without number, almost. Her property al
uation has grown from nothing OF dozen
years ago TO upwards OF S20,O00,000 The
train that she sent out to-day could be du-
plcated every month in the year and the
corn not be missed by her prosperous and
whole-souled farmers.
1t was said that two or three other cars
from points along the road between here
and Kansas City would be hitched on to
our corn train, which to us seemed an in
justice to our people. We telegraphed
General Manager Harris to please not per.
nit it. His reply we print below:
TOPEKA, KAN, March Is, 'Si.
NJ. NJ. MURDoCK.-The Wichita train is
going through intact, without any addi-
tons at intermediate points.
q. Is. HARRIS.
Dispatches received by us up to the hour
Of going TO press represent our train as re-
ceiyipg regular ovations from the people at
all the towns along the route. Emporia
honored it and our county by a welcome
from two or three thousand of her men, wo-
men and children, and at Topeka, our dis
patch says, the populace turned out enmasse
amid ringing of bells and blowing OF steam
whistles.