The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-12
KIN NGMAN BRIEFS.

kiNGMAN BRIEFS.
KINGMAN, Kan, Aug. 1l.-[Special j
| Kingman post. Grand Army of the Repub
lie, will turn out about 100 strong in at
tendance on the reunion at Wichita next
week. They will leave this city on the
| Tuesday mornings train over the Wichita
| and Western road. At least 200 persons
from Kingman county will be in attend.
ance during the week.
The old soldiers and sailors of Kingman
and adjoining counties will hold two
days reunion in this city this fall. The
days selected are Friday aud Saturday,
October and s. The boys contemplate
making this the most successful affair OF
the kind eyer held in this city, and invite
the old soldiers and their friends from adj
joining counties to meet with them and
help discuss the many virtues of hard tack
aud SOW BOSOM" The department. COM
mander and staff will be present on both
days.
A large number of knights Templars
and others left this city over the Hutchin-
son and Southern and Santa Fe roads on
Sunday for Denver. Enough went from
this city to fill every berth in IA Pullman
coach. Their route carried them over the
Hutchinson and Southern to Hutchinson,
at which point the car was transferred to
the main line of the Santa Fe Among
those boarding the train the writer noticed
Captain d. B. Cook, Drs. Hoskins, Laning
and Hoag; NJ. w. Bell, George Bush and
several other familiar faces.
The warm, dry weather OF the past ten
days has injured the corn to some extent
in the western part of this county. Farm
ers in the eastern part of the county have
Jared better than those in the west, having
been blessed with more numerous rain
falls. From what the writer can learn by
diligent inquiry, the lowlands all over the
county will turn off a good yield of corn.
During the past ten days this city has
been really at the mercy of patent medi
cine vendors. No less than three concert
troupes are running In different paris of
the town on the same evenings. King
man has long been known for its health
full air and surroundings, but it becomes a
very serious question whether these will
be able to hold out against the great mui-
tipiicity of quack nostrums being thrown
on the market.
w. B. Herod, local attorney in this city
for the Missouri Pacific railroad, returned
few days ago from an extended business
trip IN the eastern part of the state.
The Misses Bessie and Lowell Palmer
returned last Saturday from an extended
visit among friends in Medicine Lodge.
Miss Bessie Palmer OF this city received
letter "a few days ago from Mr. Charles
Ellis, manager of "rhe Federal Captain
inviting her 10 take one of the characters
in this play, which is to be produced dur
ing the reunion III Wichita next week,
which invitation she has accepted.
The Harper county board of commits
sioners were in Kingman last Monday in
consultation with the kingman county
commissioners. The attorneys of Harper
county, basing their opinions on the laws
of the session of 1889, in which an act
was passed correcting the boundary line
on the south of this county, without close
conceived the idea tnat in
this work one whole tier of townships was
taken off from Harper on the north and
attached to kingman county. The King
man commissioners, learning that this
view was held 0y our neighbors on the
south, some weeks ago employed Attorney
to look up the matter Carefully,
and lind our true standing. In the inves-
tIgatlon Mr.. Ashbaugh was unable to fiud
on record in this county to salts
factorIly settle the question, but when
he went to the the state records at Topeka
he learned beyond dispute that I\iugmau
WAS established as a county in 1872, aud
with the same boundary lines she now
has, with the exception of one small diver
gence in the southern line, including pos
slbly one section of laud which the act of
1879 referred TO. The formation of this
county i'll 1872 was one year or more be-
fore the reported formation CT Harper
county, aud eighteen months or more be-
fore these railroad bonds were voted, the
payment of which is now creating such a
turore III that county. When Mr.. Ash
baugh made these facts known TO our |
l|.ar $40,
with lar different ideas regarding King |
man county's liability for any portion OF |
these bonds. The taxpayers of Harper |
nave the sympathy OF the hlngman county !
taxpayers, but not in the way the gentle |
men from that county believed up TO Mon |
day evening Had matters been as they
believed them to be when they arrived in
this city Monday morning, this county
would have been Liable for possibly So, 900 !
Of the 500 600 The supreme court of tie |
United STATES says Harper county viii /
have to pay.
Frequent comments have been made re- |
gardlng the number of persons present at |
the Lewelling Harris meeting in this city, |
aud ihe almost universal expression has /
been that the EAGLE correspondents was |
too liberal in his estimate. BE that as il /
may, it would be difficult Tor one to be |
liberal in the good done for the Republican |
party il this county by that meeting. 1t /
was the good fortune of the writer TO con- |
verse with four different persons that day, /
who, tor the past two years, have been
known best TOR their uucompromising /
stand in favor of the Peoples party, who, /
in plain. and very forcible language, ex- /
pressed their disapproval OF The course the |
;alamityites are pursuing in this cam !
paign. One of the gentlemen gave utter |
ance to these words:
Il was not old enough TO go into the |
during the war; out J had a I
father aud two brothers who sacrificed I
their health In defense of the government T.
which Colonel harris sought 10 destroy, /
ana II God permits me to 1--we long enough /
Will be found at the polls uext election l
ia5 helping TO destroy that man Harris /
chances for representing this state IN con
sress And l won't stop for that, but /
VIII also vote against every man on that I
ticket, from Weaver down 10 the bot
.otn
kinsman Republicans hare a right to /
be well pleased VITA that days work Of 4
.he opposition. y few more demonstra- 4
.lons OF the k!u6 aud even Brown and mis- /
Journal would be Ia 1t coudition 10 retire +.
ato lnnocuouS desuetudr. F"