Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-03-06
1AIL FEATHERS AND FLOATING DOWN.
With which an Old Correspondent Piumes the
Readers Of the EaaIe,

TAIL FEATHERS AND FLOATING DOWN.
0 With which an Old Correspondent piumes IN
II Readers Of the Eagle.
The proposed route Of the Wichita Il For
, Scott railroad from this place to Anthony
runs through the garden Of the Arkansa
Valley John Clayton has returned from
Arkansas. He says about all they hay,
down there is mountain scenery. He think
Of buying some. :. Cal Sharpnack shipped
his fat cattle over the Fort Scott road to st
Louis and done better than to sell to Kansas
City buyers. :. 1t seems to me the recent
cold weather was hard on the growing
wheat, but perhaps no serious injury Ii
done. .. Mr.. Coleman thinks the railroad
will be built on to kingman when the frost
Is all out Of the ground. He says 1t is diff.
cult to lay rails on frozen ground. He does
not know what the company intends to do
but In bis own opinion the road will not be
built on to Dodge this year Stephen
Bowman says you may tell them Uncle Steve
is building new house on his new farm at
Clearwater; tell them Uncle Steve wants a
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made Union township Democratic and now
he is going to move near the county line
where he can operate across the line and
make Sumner Democratic county; tell
them that!. Mr.. McBee, of Rockford, says
In 1872 DIR. Berger, of that township, raised
nine acres of millet and raised go bushels
Of seed and sold it for si.00 per bushel. He
says tch Marsh to swing that at the Harper
Graphic. 1t would seem that people, by
this time, ought to know better than chal-
lenge Sedgwick county to comparison of
| crops. A conscientious correspondent is
compelled to report the yield of certain
crops less than it actually is TO avoid the
appearance Of exaggeration to people who
are not acquainted with this valley The
Dill liquor case cost Scdgwick $lS2 per day
and lasted six days. Ii we have three terms
Of court in this county this year, and man.
aged as this one has been, the cost to the
county will be more than the entire tax levy
for 1883. j. NJ. Stark has been travelling
over this county and Sumner selling railroad
supplies. He came through by team from
Wellington last and says the wheat crop is
all right, and the prospect for another crop
is good -. DIR. Mccoy has been quite sick of
diphtheria, but is out on the street again.
The people at the fremont missed HIM dur
his absence When think of Phillips and
Garrison being insulted, and of Lovejoy
being murdered for procaiming that all men
are created equal when think of Sumner
assaulted by Brooks, PROSTATE and bleeding
upon the floor OF the American congress,
because he said slavery was wrong; when
think OF poor old John Brown suffering an
ignominious death on the scaffold, surround
ed by the powers of slavery, because he
would break the chains that bound the black
man; when l think of honest old Abe Lin
coin going disguised through the proslavery
town Of Baltimore to reach the capital of
the Nation to assume the office to which he
had been elected by the American people |
when think of the Shareholders rebellion, |
how, when their armies were defeated in |
war, the hate of that movement eliminated |
in the assassination of Lincoln and Sew |
ard /; when think that through all these |
trying times the flag of the Republican par |
ty, like the flag of the Union, was carried |
to victory and every victory of the Repub-
ican party was triumph for liberty, and |
then to look here at Kansas and behold the |
leaders Of the Republican party inscribing
upon that old banner the bastard Republic
ian principle of prohibition, and then see
hat banner in defeat, trailed in the DUST
ny heart cries out, oh Republicans of Kan
las, put aside these false leaders and swing
o the breeze the old Republican flag unfair
,ished by these new inscriptions, and victo-
y is yours LA young man at the Presby-
erian Church last Sunday night, created
ome amusement for the boys liz the gallery
" rising in the congregation to remove his
'vercoat. He succeeded several times In
letting it about half of, but every time the
lndercoat persisted in coming of too, leav-
ne him in his shirt sleeves. He finally but
oned the overcoat up under his chin and
erly effort to keep his face straight while
e "sassed" the boys for laughing in church.
John Brunton has sold one of his farms
a Gypsum township to J. ID. Harrington, of
owa. l have been on the streets of this
ity all winter and talked with men from
II parts Of this and adjoining. have been
the hotels and heard men talk from near
every State in the Union, and have yet
} hear the first man speak unkindly of
resident Arthur. He seems to have the 4
'spect and esteem OF men of all parties.
Geo. Wachob has returned from WASH
gton Territory. He says that country !
)es not compare with sunny Kansas IS.
7. Mccoy says there were GO car loads of
I'm shipped from Derby last week MIR. q
Brownlee, formerly Of Gypsum town.
Zip, now OF Illinois, has been visiting here
Id returned to his home Monday evening. h
ITO some parties who object to what was
ported about certain parties being candi-
ties for Office, will say that whatever / +,
arm in this matter is simply related in con- d
lence to the readers Of the EAGLE Mr..
avs, the miller of the Ninnescah, was in \
! Monday. lie thinks II. +. Lawrence will 4
for representative IN. A. English, Col. a
iylor and Mr. Stone were in Niederland- a
3 office the other day talking of old times "
the frontier times in this country, away h
ok in 1871 and ~ :. The boys in the San. I,
Fe Office say there were go cars of corn q
tipped of the Cheney branch in the month O.
February. Pretty good for little road h
renty-seven miles long with no accommo- il
tions for shippers, and yet in the hands ii
the construction company. d.