Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-05-08

that Pratt county really can get rainfall
enough to supply all home demand ant
furnish surplus enough to thoroughly irri
gate Kingman, they now would fain make
the world believe that it was all the work Of
a"cloud burst" 1.-THE EAGLE has heretofore
believed that the destruction of life and
property, which occurred on the night of
the 10th and the morning of the 2lst Of
April, was q "cioud burst It is time the
mind Of the EAGLE is set right Sir, those
foods Of roaring, seething, boiling waters,
which swept with resistless course down the
valleys of the Elm, and the Medicine, and
the Minnesota, carrying death and destruc-
ton before, and leaving desolation and vail
ings behind, was simply cansed by a
steady, continuous and most remarkable
rainfall, which, beginning at o'clock p. IN.
Of the evening Of the Goth, fell without
much perceptible intermission until half
past o'clock next morning, and the whole
Of this time there was nothing like a
cloud burst about it, but Just q
real upright, downright, business-like Kan
sas rainfall, and the writer knows whereof
he speaks, having lived for the past fifteen
years on the Usage Reserve. and witnessed
many big rains that have fallen in all that
time.
Old settlers of Pratt county have in
formed the writer that on other occasions
they have seen the Minnesota reach high
er stage than it reached on the 21st ult., and
such being the case it behooves our King
man friends to get themselves out of those
fats, and build their town further away
from the river. for surely they ought to
know when they have got enough and not
return to such insecure quarters, for we can
assure them that Pratt county never does
anything by halves, and when we get
turned loose on rainfslls, or anything else,
for that matter, we're just "holy terror"
| Another heavy rain visited the southern
portion Of Pratt yesterday evening, and all
this moisture causes the face of nature to
wear, just now, beautiful, bright garb of
green, all garlanded with flowers. Our crop
prospects are most excellent and our hearts
are correspondingly bright.
The EAGLE is largely sought after, and no
mans EAGLE is safe out of his own hands
for moment, unless he has read it all
through, because lynx-eyed mob are hun
grily watching him devour the contents and
almost licking their chops for chance to
pounce upon that paper the moment he
lays it down. The people out here feel
sort Of local pride in the EAGLE, and point
the stranger to it as one of ''our institu-
tions," and regard it as the bright messenger
which carries out to the great world beyond
US the chronicles of onr doings, and brings
back to us the general news from every land
under the Gun.
first birthday anniversary, which suspicious
event occurred on April 9th, and there is no
use denying the fact that we felt pretty
good as we stepped out and took look at
ourselves and realized what a growth we
had made. No boy in all the glory of his
first red topped boots ever felt SO elated as
we, and We just took each other in arms
and Rugged each other, as it were.
1t would consume too much of your val
liable space to tell of all the improvements
that have been made since my last letter,
but they are numerous and substantial and
still they 60 on; and we have made many
happy marriages among our young people,
and the signs are good for many more; and
unto our people many sons and daughters
have been born, and few and far between
have been the mournful visits of the death
angel, SO that with good health, business
matters in hourishing condition, our city
and county rapidly growing in wealth, pop
ulation and prosperity, the season full of
promise and the people contented and hap
py our LOT seems kindly as that Of mortals
we'll can be, and trusting we may never
have more cause to complain and that ere
long we can ride by rail from Pratt TO
Wichita and that the EAGLE will scream for
us in this behalf we bid you good night.
CHE