Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-05-13
WEST OF KiNCMAN.
Nav IL, 1885.

10 the EDITOR Oh
On Saturday morning, May 9Th.
with the wind from the northeast
your correspondent was induced 20
mount the box beside the driver on
one of Green's great cannon ball
stages for Trip up the valley of the
Ninnescah as far as Saratoga, IN
Pratt county.
Col. ID. X. Green was on hand, early
as il was in the morning, TO see the
crowded stage leave the Riverside
hotel. and 30 over the historical Main
street brid 90. We were soon whirl-
ing past tn. resident portion of the
city with their occupants still III bed
on our way up the Ninnescah and on
TO Saratoga. At IL O'Clock we had
reached Maud. some fifteen miles
west, where horses were changed and
dinner served aud rclished by the hun
gry passengers. Passing up the north
side of the classic Minnesota aud just
before reaching Maud We forded the
river TO the south side. The town of
Maud is situated on fine plateau and
in the midst of a beautiful farming
country and some day ought 10 make
a town of no mean preience' Ii Is
five miles east of the west line OF
kingman county and nearly half way
In Saratoga. All along the valley
could be seen the effects of the recent
flood SO graphically described in the
EAGLE. Dinner over and every one
in their seats and we are again whirlcd
westward. leaving the river from one
10 two miles IL our right, and
at > O'Clock we are landed
at the Western hotel in Saratoga ia
charge of Max School, the proprietor,
formerly of Winfield, kas.
II was Saturday afternoon and the
square was full of people and the
brass band was out, and all hailed the
coming of the stage that brought some
dozen strangers and the L. 5. Mail
One is impressed with the hospitality
of the Saratoga people at once, and
| then there was no lack of chance to
Just see the county around by the in
effiable real estate dealers You are
! importuned to be shown and to buy
as YOU are by the Arab vendors Of
their wares in Alexandria. | looked
the town over. looked the country
over, and | could but help To call tc
mind of reading somewhere in some
book, and the reader may remember
In the beginning God created tn,
heavens and the earth. and the earth
was without form and void: and dark
ness was upon the face of the deep.
Now there is a beginning in Pratt
county same as there was in kingna,
or Sedgwick. but there is darkness
upon the face of the people for tho
want of railroad. An honest eX-
preston on the face of the real estate
dealers all tell Won that the people have
been going west. and are still, bu
MANY are returning. In talking will
an intelligent emigrant who Is allow
the average and who said h.
was returning TO Kingman coun
tv. was asked the reason
of his return. well he said one tow
he WAS at they went To Cheney 70
water and hell for fuel" and ne i
about right Ii should give III
EAGLE some facts that exist in SOM
of those col mites would be murder
cd on the sTo' Many of the scheme
are none be.ier than confidence game
either. and ike procedures in a larg'
citv would be so treated by tn" au
thorities and the perpetrators locke
IN. The county for which it has bee
used is all right. stock country ant
many will wish before they are don
that they had left the county 10 i;
glowery in first hands Nineteenth.
of the town sites are frauds an,
should be so treated by all honorabl
newspapers and journals. The pro
iectors are playing them for all the.
are worth and they make no hesits
ton of living 10 friends away from tn
town. LEON