The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1890-07-17
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A special article emanatlDg fron
an imaginative brain In reference 20
the fertile state Of Kansas and its
eItIes aud given prominent space In
the Chicago Tribune, 10 causing .
great deal Of comment on the part
Of citizens Of this city The article
Is most positive In il intsut TO DO
injury TO the state % Kansas and its
eities, and seems 10 have been ORR
ginated for that purposs. In con-
versstlon with Q leading citizen yes-
tsrday . Journal reporter wss made
aware Of the deep Indignation that
the article was aroused here.
Frank wilkerson. formerly the
Gypsum City, Kss., correspondent
Of the New York Sen, 70 10 claimed
undertook the same kind Of Q task
last year and did succeed In bring
Ing hardships upon certain portions
Of the state by his malignant mis-
representations. He was soon re-
lIeyed OF his position on the Sun,
n the citizens generally over the
western portion Of the state took the
trouble TO hunt up the reason for
such q manifestly false write mp and
made the matter plain TO the man
agement Of the paper.
IL seems that wIlkerson Was GO
ing about writing mp towns for the
Sun, at the expense Of the towns.
He made Q trip Into Western Kan
.as aud stopped over ct Colby,
where he proceeded to engage the
attention Of the people by portray
ing to them the immense amount Of
good he could do them by giving the
town Q full page write up In the sun-
day Issue Of the Sum, which he Of
Tered 10 do for the consideration Of
81, 600. Several enterprising citizens
took the matter In hand, and started
out to raise the money, but were un-
successful. wilkerson then made
smother proposition whereby he
would accomplish the same result
by using smaller space and which
would require only t5O0. This pro-
position failed to lie met, and the
Sun correspondent became angry at |
the Idea Of defeat. He retired 10
his hotel and busily engaged himself |
at writing. Col. r. c. CUP, Of ss-
lima, was there ai the time, and 10
him wilkerson eonfided the fact in !
asmuch as he could not do the peo-
pie any good at popular price,, he
could do them some harm, and |
he'd "be d" II he didn't. And he
did.
Colonel Cup, being . genuine
KAnsan and . champion Of the
states good reputation, Informed
the citizens Of Colby Of what was
going on, and the result was when
wilkerson's scurrIlous article APP
Peared In the Sun. heralding to the
world the alleged bankruptcy Of
Kansas. the people whom he was
crying down were quietly collecting
proof Of his Perfidy for Perusual by
his employers. A1idavits were
made by leading citizens aud placed
In Col. Culp's hands, and he brought
them before the proper parties with
IN effect that Mr.. wIlkerson will
never forget.
The article that appeared In the
Chicago Tribune IL almost identI-
cally the same ss the one written By
WIlkersou for the New York Sun.
The happy faculty OF wIlkerson vas
To show that the citizens Of Kansas
broIled In summer because Of hot
winds, and became an icicls In win
ter by reason Of billiards.. In his
write-up he spoke Of the ghost Of
eastern capital" and the silent snd
deaih chilled" cities Of Kansas.
Whether IL IL . coincIdent or that
Mr.. Wilkersou lie now . correspond
eni OF the Chicago Tribune, having
been discharged in the east, and
that lie has unsuccessfully under
taken to write mp" some Kansas
town at high figures, are the pertin-
ent questions that figure In the
minds Of many Ksnsans who are
cogniEant Of wilkerson's fresky
cspsrs Of the past. That there
was . method in the madness" Of
the correspondent there 10 no doubt,
aud everyone admits the absurdlty |
that the Chicago Tribune would |
send . man out into Kansas for the
purpose Of Matching up fslsehood
its resources and coniI-
tions.