Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-06-23
THEM STOCK YARDS.

| It is a matter of establishment how quick
the Beacon can get up stock yard COM
pany. Only last Saturday that powerful
/ organ published short article on that mo-
mentuous question, just threw out few
/ pointers and now the whole thing is fixed.
OF course nobody ever thought Of such a
thing before the Bacon flung out the idea,
vet rs soon as our reporter came on the
street yesterday morning, one Of the charter
mer1beIs told him that the charter had been
filed with the secretary Of state, and gave
him the names of the following gentlemen
as the charter members: L. NJ. johnson,
Warren Parker, G. W. Graham, J. c. Jones
and b. ID. Allen. When We consider that
er on Saturday evening at o'clock,
and that the charter was filed at Topeka
yesterday morning before breakfast, some
slight idea of what that wonderful organ
can do in piece of u wet afternoon NAV
be obtained. If our people really want the
reformatory and FIVE or six more railroads,
car shops, machine shops, manufacturers,
packing houses and kid glove foundries all
they haye 10 do is TO enlist the five or six
bushels of brains that is kept constantly on
tap in the Beacon office in the matter and it
is done like instantaneous photography.
This profound philosopher, whose all see
ing eve can look through every heart, who
can foresee all contingencies, can fix the
whole thing in On hour. This paragon of
humanity can look down from the serene
heights of his intelligence upon ordinary
mortals and twist their ideas his way as
readily as the candy maker can twist the
red strips into stick candy.
Observe the ease with which the
great man excites all our prominent citi-
zens: Il am glad TO see the Beacon agita-
ting this question" said prominent mer-
chant to the reporter yesterday Sunday
because it is one of the best schemes to
permanently benefit Wichita Yet thought
Of" Talk about your Methodist college
and State reformatory. Why, do you know
that stock yards would benefit Wichita more
than fifty colleges?" This is certainly pro-
found togic. Then another citizen said:
.'Your article with reference to the stock
yards is timely and sensible" Then a
prominent real estate man said: IL have
long been of the opinion that Wichita needs
stock yards, &c" SO it goes on in similar
strain for two-thirds of n column, and pc
e /, a.. 70,
believe that the article in Saturdays issue
had excited all the prominent men in town,
and that they were all running after their
reporter yesterday, but the fellows who
grabbed loose of the idea Saturday and
rushed off to Topeka and filed IA charter
must have been far more impressed with
the idea
If we remember aright the Wichita Stock
Yard company was organized last winter
but it didn't result in any incalculable beni
fit TO the city. Then another stock yard
company was talked of two or three months
ago, which was to be located somewhere
about the junction of the Fort Scott and
the Wichita x Western railways. The mag
nitude of the scheme however, did not
dawn upon the people until the Beacon
tackled it, and did it up in its usual fault
less style. The EAGLE talked stock yards
good deal last winter but it failed To do III,
great work. II was tried in the balance but
did not tip up the beam To the proper
notch Public sentiment did not get NJ
and howl for the stock yards until our
powerful ncighbor opened their eyes to it,
ia pOrtancc.