The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-25
WESTERN KANSAS.
CROPS, POLITICS AND PROSPECTS.
4 Travelling Correspondent Of the Eagle
Tells of the Failure of Calamity and
How the Dry Goods Box
Statesmen Suffer.
gpecial Cor. Of the Daily Eagle.

SLatesmeQ DUueTs
Epecial Cor. OF the Daily Eagle.
GREAT BEND, Kan, Aug. pa trip
through that portion of the Arkansas val
ley 'ilying and situate" between Garden
City and Great Bend is the best medicine
for calamity blues that could possibly be
prescribed-no cure, no pay. Here the
speculative science of the calamltyltes mas
hroven to be fraud. The hot winds failed
TO arrive on schedule time, and the dry
koods-box statesmen are left to whlttle
and whistle and "fgger" on the probable
profits of the biggest crops ever gathered
In the valley; and the corresponding loss,
In votes, to the party of walls and woes.
Finney county, of which Garden City is
the capital, owing to its splendid system
6f irrigation, was spared the infliction of
a calamity campaign two years ago. The
crops were so good that Jerry Simpson
Thought that it was no use to go there.
The same is true this year. The yield per
acre of small grains is sphenomenal-wheat
averaging from twenty-five to ffty-eight
bushels and oats from forty to seventy
five bushels Rye and barley are also ex-
tellent, the former averaging up with
wheat, while the latter is closely contest
sng for first honors with oats.
An ambitious but misguided young man
has recently started a calamity newspaper
at Garden City. The editor, who Is a
pleasant gentleman, will have to exercise
great care in reporting crops or he will
everlastingly ruin the prospects OF his
party.
Hon, Milton Brown, the Republican
nominee for state senator, lives IN Garden
City and is immensely and deservedly pop
nlar, not only in Finney county but
throughout his district. The scalp of
party by the name of Senter Will dangle at
bis belt after election day.
Ford county presents front similar to
that of Finney, agriculturally and polite
ally. Good crops are working the ruin OF
the Peoples party. The entire Republl-
f. can ticket will carry in Ford.
What has been said of Finney and Ford
Is true of Edwards county. Crops we've
never better, and as result calamity will
fail to ''calam" this fall Just at present
the city authorities OF Kinsley, the coun-
ty seat, are all stirred mp over the liquor
question. The police judge and the city
attorney resigned their respective offices
The council. w. II. Robb, the new at
torney, at once instituted number OF
prosecutions, and Mr. Geer the new judge
promptly. found all the parties guilty and
lined them the limit. 1t is said that he
capped the climax the other day by find
ing a defendant guilty without giving him
b chance to present his side oil the case.
However, with two such able and persis-
tent attorneys as w. II. Robb for the
prosecution and +. d. Smith for the de-
tense, and la disposition on the part OF
bach to fghtit out, if it takes all summer,
the parties at interest may eventually
have their intellects penetrated by the re-
Election that
1.-Two cute lawyers are like two sawyers;
The one doth pull, the 't'Other' thrust;
And, as the objects rent asunder,
Twixt one on top and tother under,
Down comes the dust"
Pawnee county is also strictly in it,
this year. Aside from good crops, which
always grow here, this county has pro
huced more statesmen per acre than any
Dther in the state Of Kansas. This is the
home of the Hon. Tim Mccarthy. the
Hon w. C. Edwards, the Hon. j. w
Rush, the Hon. j. G. Strang, the Hon
Henry Booth, the Hon. Nelson Adams
and score of others of less renown, per
haps, but no less honorable.
w. C. Edwards, or Billy" as be il
Familiarity called by all who know him
Hives here and will be chief in command oi
the Pawnee braves this fall when they
leave their reservation in search CT scalps
A petition is being circulated anC
numerously signed throughout thii
county, asking j. w. Rush to become ;
candidate for the legislature. Mr.. Rusl
IS an able man and tireless worker; anC
having had eight years experience as ;
member of the senate, his fellow citizen!
will make no mistake if they send him t.
the lower house,
The boast of Barton county is that sh
will have 100000 bushels of wheat tni
wear, with no end of corn and other crops
With such showing, the Peoples part.
exhibited more gall than Judgment in en-
tering the field of local politics with
straight ticket. Fusion wouldn't fus
here. The Democrats would, but tn
p. p.'s would not. The result will be tn
election of the entire Republican ticket.