Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-04-03
LITTLE MENTIONS LITTLE
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junction of the Santa Fe and ihf
Wichita railroads. place whose en-
tire life aud existence has been drawn
from the three TO five hundred people
kept there in connection with the OPP
Grating OF the railroads named, aud
which town is located on high and
hard piece of prairie at the head of a
little dry branch called Sand creek,
and which, IL the railroad employees
were taken from il and the place left
to its own resources, would sink into
utter insigniiicance ia spite of all lie
little patent daily paper might do OF
say, is a candidate for the state re-
formaiory. We do not know that
there is any objection from any quar-
ter to such ambition. Bnt the self
constituted mouih-piecc of this aspir-
ing burg, the patent daily aforesaid,
in a column editorial of its issue OF
the Is, inst. goes out of the way to
make untruthiui assertions touching
Wichita and the location of the
in tituiion referred TO. Not
only that-but assuming the role of one
behind the scenes without ''ifs or
ands," declares emphatical.v that the
new state institution ''will not be built
at Wichita" winding up with the gra-
tuitous insult that Newton-a town
by-;he.way, as well Us Harvey county,
that were made by Wichita interests
has done great deal for Wichita
people in the past. We suppose the
fact that about one-half Of her entire
population for the past ten years have
loafed around the depot and which
platform is the center of the town, 10
tell travellers what a dead city Wichi-
Ia had come TO be, was what the VIZ l.
ter OF the above alluded to when
he -aid Newton IA d done great deaf
for Wichita.
1t is hardly worth while to notice
She childish argumen' and weak
claims pa; forth by the New ton paper,
much less The many wild and unwar-
,snted statements about Wichita in
,lsed in, bat TO give our readers an
.dea of these. we mention q iair specl-
men IN which Newt0n's water p;ivi-
lcgc are dilaiea upon. Speaking OF
these immense water privileg =, the
Republican SAYS they have an excel
lent system OF the pure-i filtered arti-
Gle, abundant ehough 10 supply IN 'ins
mile and Il halt long. When we tell
our readers ihai that little ,lcyaiei
tank seen o8 The outskirts Of the vii
TEN and privilege OF III. place. the,
can imagine just what the rest of the
argument amounts to. A. TO gas, coal
stone, etc, markets. etc, we are told
that New ton will hasc all these by the
time she gets the institution and when
she gets some more railroads built.
We presume that's true.
Bur we have not the time 10 20 over
all the drlyci about this iown In Il
wouId have been one of the fiatiest
aud deGdesi on the Santa Fo line but
for the fact OF the Wichita and Soath-
western railroad and which must pink
out and snbside TO her normal condi-
ton as soon A. the new cutoff between
Wichita and Florence is constructed,
which cutoff has already received the
endorsement of the Santa Fe manage
ment.
We don't know that lis anybody's
business but our own still for
the better information of the
metrop lis of S1ni Creek we win
state that Wichita had not only hell
meeting- of its Board of Trade and of
its city council, but had appointed
committees and sent them out-not TO
metropolis. the possesSar Of that won
derful water works system aforesaid.
even ever heard of the proposition TO
change the bin so that il should read
west of the sixth principal meridian,
which line runs within a few rods of
West Witniia. a suburb of This city.
but which suburb y al be larger with
in Eve years than any town on Sand
Greek will ever be.