Wichita eagle., 1888-03-10
LEOTI LACONICS.
IEOTI. Kas. March s.

LEOTI, Mas. N1dICu ..
Today the town plat of the new town
of Farmer City" was placed on record
| in the county. This town is the out
come of the old town of Coronado and
is located on a contested timber claim
one mile west of Cornado and between
the two railroads. 1t is a government
town site and lots will be given away,
Ever since the election for permanent
county seat, which was held on the Sth
day of February, 1887, and which re-
suited in an overwhelming majority for
! Leoti, the people in Coronado have been
| Matching up schemes to down Leou.
They have patted the farmer on the
back and the plan of forming them into
a farmers protective union was
adopted as the one most feasible to work,
and after d thorough canvass OF the
county they formed this nnion. and at
| the fall election elected their full ticket.
| Those same county officers which were
| elected under the argument that it was
! for the purpose of more firmly cement
| ing the people of the country together.
| have during the last two weeks stirred
up more strife than it would be supposed
! men of their caliber would be capable of
doing. While working under the cloak
of honesty and fairness. they have
! formed this new town company and laid
off their town, and during the past three
! days have made a full canvass Of the
county and by securing few valid
names and adding more heve got the
! TO hnr IN
| They have set up the plea that this
county has never had permanent
county seat election and on this grounds
now call it. Farmers all over the county
/ that voted for Leoti one year ago. We're
led into this matter by having two peti-
| lions presented them, claiming to be for
the purpose of getting seed free, one to
be sent to Kansas City and one to
Wichita. They were shown valid
petition, on one or the other of
the place and when they signed it was
printed with the other, being told that u
was the same only for the other place,
and when they signed it they signed the
petition for the county seat election.
The fraud became nOised abroad
| throughout the county and today when
| the commissioners met the county seat
was full of indignant farmers who re-
Quested that their names be taken from
the petition, but such was not the intent
of the so-called farmers, but in other
words petifogers who had ridden into
office on the shoulders of honest men,
| There object was, and is, to create as
much tumult as they possibly can, and
while Coronado and Farmer City have
nothing to loose, they set up the farm
ers, who voted to man for Leoti and
own property here, as the breastworks to
hide themselves behind for protection
while they hurl their dire and filthy
abuse upon respectable community.
This election as called today of course
will have no effect as regards county
seat, for that point has been fully deter
mined for four years hence, but the OBJ
iect of the whole thing Is to kill the
boom which the board of trade of Leori
was working up for the whole county.
and was sure to come These same men
could have been benefited in the amount
of immigration that would come to this
county, but out of pure malice and Jeal-
ousy would rather kill any advancement
! that could be brought to the county in
which they would share equally than to
see Leoti prosper.
But Notwithstanding all this ,Leoti goes
right on. New buildings starting up in
all parts of the city. and today Mr.. Al
| phin contracted for a fine building to be
placed ON lot which he purchased yes
terday of our Mayor Mr.. Koontz. paying
him $4,000. This building Will be TWEEN
ty-five by one hundred and twenty
| feet, two stories high, the front to
of pressed brick and plate glass, and
when completed will be the finest build
ing in the city.
The Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe are
putting in extensive stock yards here.
They have had employed ten men for
two weeks and they have fully as much
more work to do as they have done.
Messrs. Working and COffman are new
corners here and are putting in one of
the largest lumber yards in Western
Kansas, having received and unloaded
two cars day for the past three weeks.
johnson Bros. have been receiving the
same amount, and there is no town OF
! the size of Leoti that can show up better
lumber yacds than she can.
Hankim & Thatcher are now wholesale
agents for the consolidated oil tank line
and are wholesaling Oil from Leoti west
to Pueblo at the rate of two cars per
week and the reports from all the bust
ness men of the city which your cores
pendent gathered today, shows an actual
increase of business during the past thir-
ty days of at least fifty per cent.
Leoti is destined to be the city of
Western Kansas on these two lines of
railroad: she is the best county, one that
shows up more farms improved than any
other western county. She has the best
water and the most of it, and a more
active set of business men cannot be
found anywhere. D. a. 3.