Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-03-06
ARKANSAS VALLEY rRurr.
Few Things That Some People Don't Yet
Know

Now comes the secretary Of the State Hor
tieu' society with the information, which i
Photographed all over the county, that tn,
peach crop in Kansas for 1885 will be a to-
tai failure and that peach orchards TO a
large extent, have been winter killed. Per
sonally We have made no examination, but
having kept pretty close weather eye upon
the antics ard extremes of the past winter,
we will venture the opinion that the secre-
tary is off as to killed orchards, and that the
peach crop viii not be failure.
f.S. Since writing the above Mr.. NJ. Il.
Moser, one of the most reliable fruit men of
this state, the gentleman who made the ex-
hibition at Cincinnati last fall, which took
the entire bakery, also the gold medal, came
into our Office with an armfull of peach
limbs cut from many different trees includ-
ing budded kinds of the most tender vari-
cites, and not one bud in twenty
was found to be injured. Just as we expect
ed. Mr.. NJ. also says, and emphatically, that
with all the successes of the past there never
was year when the promise was SO great
for big fruit yield as ii is this. Nothing
but storms OF an unprecedented and un-
looked for severity can beat us out of big
crop. This is not only true with regard to
peaches, but all kinds of fruits, including
berries of all the varieties grown here. And
that is all right, up TO the EAGLES standard,
too, of this valley. The truth is, what holds
good for the gumbo soils and unaccountable
climate of northeastern Kansas, is not true |
of the Great Arkansas Valley. The Neosho
and Kansas valleys, and all that portion of
the state, its soil, water and climate, belong |
to and are a part of the Upper Missouri
system, while this side Of the great swell, |
which runs northwest and southeast through |
Kansas, the Arkansas valley, its soil, waters
and climate, is but an extension of the Lower
river valleys and country of the
of which this section partales.
Just as northeastern Kansas is like south I
western Iowa. For ycars we have been try i
ing 10 beat the fact into the heads of some
people, but now out-pops fruit grower
from the old pocket and announces to the
world that the fruit crop of Kansas is a fail
are, when in truth he was speaking for
very circumscribed section of Kansas, and
which section never produced little else
anyhow.
NO. THANK YOU, WE NEVER DRINK.
We are reliably informed that drum
ner for an eastern brewery, in view of the
present stage of the new prohbitory law,
which is characterized by its wonderfully
mild provisions, has taken orders in this
'ity for case or bottled beer for future de-
livery to the amount of five car loads. One
4 the orders for six cases is from man.
she so far as we are aware, never INDUCES
'ut the dealer voucbes for the genuineness
4 the order. There seems one thing GER
ain and that is that an open saloon will be
ut of the question with such law upon {
he statute books. We should be tempted ,
o doubt the sanity Of man who should at
smpt to sell any kind of liquors unless as
ruggist in the face of the new law. There
; another thing abou. the law and that is |
will eliminate the whisky question from '
he city elections this spring IN this state, as
o city or town can either exact license or
ne for officers, knowing to such traffic, are ;
made equally liable with the man who sells
Mess such officer takes prompt steps to ,
ave the seller punished. So far as the sale of j
quor is concerned under the new law it viii
iake no difference whether a city admins
ration favors saloons or not they cannot be
IN or whether the officers are friendly or
OF TO the sellers they cannot be protected. ,
We wonld also call the attention of the
RUNNER to that clause in the law which
makes III Unable ofense for any railroad or /
xpress company to handle the stuff. a