Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-05-08
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hIN0AAS, MAy D, looO.
To the Editor Of the Eagle.
There was no little excitement upon the
streets this evening after it had generally
been circulated that an injunction was about
to be asked for against the issuing the bonds
of the county to the D. NJ. & A. railroad
recently voted. The report is that Camp
bell & Sisson Of Harper and Chaa. L. Ray
mond of this city had been returned as at
torneys to fight the bonds and that j. n.
Bray and c. r. Smalley, of Cleveland, this
county, were the moving spirits in the mat
ter. Considerable speculation as to the
ground upon which the Injunction would
be asked was INDUCED in. The knowing
ones said it would be upon the two-ffth call
of tax payers. As regards that, the friends
Of the bonds say they have at least 100 to
spare and besidef that the county commits
sioners sit as judicial body and not as
county commissioners alone. The count of
the votes show majority Of 2S3 votes in
favor of the bonds. Should fraud be charged
they would be beaten at their
own game as some of the
townships did not cast q vote
for the bonds and that intimidation
was freely INDUCED in. 1t is charged while
there are few soreheads in and about
Cleveland, that the majority of the people
there if left alone are in favor of the bonds
and the railroad. but that Harper is more in
terested in the matter than those that live in
that part ofthe country. Harper sees that
she is liable to be clipped by a railroad sta
ton on the northes st, as well as from every
other point Of the compass at the present
time. Some are 30 unkind as to think per-
haps the Santa Fe has som netting to do with
helping along the injunction. AL manner
of opinions are a6oat, hut everyone is san
guine that the bonde will stand and the road
built, and the attorneys had better not base
their fees upon the event of beating the
bonds. They will stand just the same.
The editorial in Sundays EAGLE in regard
to the food at Kingman has brought out the
fact that the Beacon had read an &C.
Couut VI tuc uoOu III tuo mOIiiuR
EAGLE and telegrsphed out here to
S. B. Sproute, editor of the Democrat, for
full reports. The matter Of sending dis
patches was something new to the editor,
but he asked and received advices how it
should be done so as to DO readable in a
daily twilight. He spread himself and
handed it to the telegraph operator here. 1t
contained some 800 or 400 words, and the
cost would be So or 81. The operator
thought it advisable TO inform the Beacon
what it would cost, and word came back
that it would not receive it and pay tho cost.
Thus it WAS that the Beacon's readers were
left without the news Of great importance.
of course, under the circumstances, sproute
was mad. and has been trying to explain
ever since why his report was not pub
lished, but he is now we'll grati6ed, ~ the
Beacon did copy one Of the Democrats ar
ticles of last week. 1t ought also to have
copied the poetical effusion in the home
sheet. The author is very proud oft.
Mr.. Hinton, formerly the proprietor of
the Central hotel, was fined in the Justice
court before Judge Strohm to-day for try
ing to spoil the chrome Of Mr.. Mayhoffe,
| his former landlord.
J. j. Strickland has sold 900 of his Texas
ponies 70 Jack Bstzs. Terms are said to be
private but it is generally understood the
price is about $50 each. With this LOT
makes Mr.. Betzs the largest horse ranch
owner in this county.
master, Dr.. c. n. Myers, informs your cor
respondent that fully one hundred copies OF
the EAGLE are taken here daily and that sir
months ago there we're but six or seven cop
les taken. So much for giving the people
the news. Some people pretend they dc
not like the news given but they read the
paper all the same and Petition oh, that
Leon.