Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-02-27
CONWAY SPRINGS NOTES.
CONWAY SPRINGS, KAs., Feb. %.

CONWAY SPRINGS, KAs., Feb. %.
To the Editor of tie Daily Eagle.
Our people as well as those of the town.
ships east and west of US, are agitating the
question OF another railroad. Mr.. Burns, Of
Belle Plaine, vice-president of The Denver.
Memphis and Atlantic, is stirring them up
on the newly proposed Harper route. So
far as we can learn, the people all along the
route are enthusiastic for the road, and there
is little doubt but what the small amount Of
stock the company asks, will be readily sub
scribed. The proposed road is to also run
branch north from Belle PLANE through
Wichita to connect with the b. & NJ. in
Washington county. While our people do
not feel the possession Of this road to be a
necessity, they are anxious that it should
strike us rather than cross the "Sunhower"
north of us, building up new towns and
cutting off cur territory without giving us
any benefit. Vice-president Burns was
in town short time on last Thurs
day, and reports everything favor
able for this line, provided the
people will work for it. The ball has
Just began to roll and doubtless meetings
will soon be called and general idea OBJ
tanned of what can be done in the different
townships.
While storms are raging in other places
and general blockade prevails through the
eastern states, with the Thermometer way
below zero, we have mild and pleasant win
ter weather, dry and dusty streets, good
business, good health and happy people.
Doubtless before the three feet of snow in
Indiana and Illinois have disappeared, our
farmers will be busy blowing for oats.
The fact that better land can be bought
in Kansas for the same money than good
tenant farmers pay cash rent for in Ohio,
Indiana and Illinois should be sufficient ar
gument for great rush from those old
states to this, and judging from the tide Of
emigration pouring in from those states, it
is reasonable to suppose they are beginning
to understand a few Of the natural advan-
tages thus gained.
Real estate transfers are becoming more
numerous, and business in general appears to
be reviving.
Capt. Cramcr, who has been largely in
tercsted in building the town of Conway
Springs, is at present visiting relatives and
friends in Pennsylvania, the place of his
birth. A dispatch from him last week
brought the information that his aged moth
er is lying at the point of death.
Tie soap swindlers were on the street
again Friday, and succeeded with little effort
in victimizing quite q number. Their game
is in every respect branch of and similar to
the three card monte game, and when these
confidence gamblers appear on our streets
they are free to carry on their business spen
ly, surrounded by crowd of eagar suckers,
who "blow M their hard-earned and much
needed money, with which the gamblers de-
part highly satisfied with their days work.
Their frequent appearance here is becoming
an intolerable nuisance, and we would rec
ommend them in future to the Horse Thief
or the citizens, who might treat
them as did the people of Attica,
with a dose of tar and free
ride upon rail out Of town;
viewed in a moral light we see no difference
IN permitting this kind of gambling on the
open street to running an open gambling
house on Spring avenue, where cards, rou-
lette and faro might be played. There would
be the exception, however, in favor of the
latter. that it would be legitimate hazard, if
such term may be applied TO gambling,
and not zone mans game" VICTOR