Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-03-02
ENcAMPMENT ECHOES

Good words about the late state
Encampment of the g. A. x. in
Wichita still reach us. From various
sources we reproduce the following:
In company with a large number of
the Joe Hooker Post and representa-
tives of the Ladies Relief Corps, the
News man spent Tuesday and
Wednesday in Wichita, attending the
annual meeting of the g. A. RS OF
Kansas. There were probably seventy
five from Hutchinson and Reno
county attending the festivities of the
occasion, and we can safely say that
there was not more orderly or in
telligent delegation in Wichita.
While many went down to help honor
our citizen Gen. Taylor, all went bent
on having good. time, and
from the many expressions heard
on all sides we are satisfied none
went in vain. Ghe RinggOld band
went down in uniform and besides
discoursing some splendid music made
a "big hit" No band there received
as much praise or honor as the King
gold band. Wichita was in her glory
bedecked and festooned with flags,
bunting and all the pretty colors inn
aginable which showed off to good
advantage. For hospitality her peO-
pie cannot be cxcelled, as the many
thousand g. A. II. boys and others
will cheerfully attest. General Taylor
had big host of friends, but his can
didacy having been declared so late it
was impossible to make much head
way against the many combinations
and work that had been perfected six
months before. The Joe Hooker boys,
however, made a gallant fight against
all that opposition, aud rolled up a
large vote for the general, who was
rendered the second place unani-
mously, but declined it. The follow
ing officers were rehabilitation
News.
The old .svets" speak highly of the
treatment received at the hands of the
Wichita people, and they do not fail to
eulogize the WICHITA EAGLE in the
most glowing terms.-Abilenc Daily
Gazette.
We wonder what the Usage county
G.. a. r. bows were doing down at
Wichita this week that they did not
register on the EAGLES register, only
the name of L. w. Lynch, of Burlin-
game, appears on the register of that
best and brightest of Kansas newspa-
pers, the WICHITA EAGLE.-Astonish-
err e. Paralyzer.
Our delegation TO the Wichita G. A.
r. encampment are profuse in praises
of the grand reception, decoration and
entertainment afforded them by the
people of Wichita. Specislly marked
were the intentions of Marsh Muir
dock, whose EAGLE office was head
quarters for The "Neis." Ii is the
most successful encampment the G. A.
r. ever had in Winfield
Courier.
Tie g. A Il. boys, attending the en-
campmcnt at Wichita, this week, nave
about all returned home, expressing
themselves as well pleased with the
treatment Of the people of Wichita and
and reporting good time generally
They also report general good conduct
among the bows. Very little, if any,
appearance of the use of intoxicatiOu.
Visitor.
Monday was big day in Wichita,
il being Washington's birthday, the
day for the assembling of the Old Set
tiers association of Sedgwick county
and the day for the annual encamp-
ment of the Department of Kansas,
Grand Army of the Republic. The
town was full of strangers.-Barber
County Index.
The G.. A. r. reunion at Wichita
this week brought together one of the
largest crowds that has collected in
Kansas for some time. The citizens
turned out to man to entertain their
visitors, and the principal streets were
decorated with bunting, evergreens
and triumphal arches. The city was |
flied with bands of music, and on the
second day of the meeting one thou
sand veterans were tramping on the |
streets to the grand old soul-stirring
martial airs.-Anthony Republican.
A DELEGATE from the far northwest
TO us yesterday on the small
from Atchison at the |
q. A. X. meeting at Wichita. The |
is of the opinion that Atch- |
isDI. '.EN sllbit esDeCidih htthieoh
outside of the city, does not
cut the appropriate and called-for dash
at any of the state gatherings. The
county has, as we said the other day,
no agricultural society, or any society,
in fact, except the ordinary secret or
ders and the G.. a. r.; there is no ma
liia organization in the county, and
consequently Atchison county may
be said to be stay-at-home county.
Champion.
The cncampment of the G. A. II.
department of Kansas, at Wichita this
week was too large to attempt de-
sc:iption or proper notice in this pa
per. Ii is said TO be the best yet held
in the state in nearly every particular.
Cheney Journal.
We at once beg pardon and plead
ignorance. If we appropriated such
an article without credit it was clearly
an oversight.-Wichita EAGLE.
SO far as we ate concerned it is all
square; but then we didn't wish the
EAGLE. the model state paper, to be
accused of running in borrowed
brains" at hsphszards. This prevents
a howl from the dismal dungeon.-
Register.