The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-09-01
A GOOD WORD FOR MISSOURI.
ELDORADO SPRINGS, \

A GOOD WORD FOR MISSOURI
ELDORADO SPRINGS, Mo.
MIR. Ed TOR If your permission
can be obtained 1 desire, through the
columns of your valuable journal, to
give your numerous readers brief
description of the springs, and of the
doings and happenings of the past
week, during my sojourn here. II
would be entirely superfluOus for
me to give, or even try to give, a full
description thereof in one letter, as
it would be too lengthy and would
doubtless be relegated to the waste
basket.
ElDorado Springs was discovered in
1881, twelve years ago, and is although
there are numerous springs they use
the singular verb here and / shall dc
| likewise. think in Kansas we would
use the plural located in the extreme
northwest corner of the county, some
ten or twelve miles from the NJ. X. &
Il. R. R. There is railroad grade
from Ell Dorado to Walker and road
will be built sometime in the midst
of wooded country with high hills
and deep hollows. The country is
rocky and sandy and evidently fine
tor f,Alit and vegetables, but 1 think
would require more moisture for crops
than our own beautiful and fertile
Neosho valley. The town Quilt as If
upon a rock, need not fear the floods, }
being new and well built, looks neat
and clean, has good business buildings
and churches; fine, large brick public
school building and also college, two
banks and about a dozen hotels, (all
seem to be doing big business, yet
board is cheap, from $3.50 per week to
$500 per day.. There are many good,
cozy. comfortable looking homes, and
withal the city presents a very neat
appearance, looks just like Kansas
town, and have no doubt this is due
mainly to the fact that probably over
nine-tenths of the people have either
lived in Kansas or have visited there
long enough to become imbued with
Kansas ideas or caught the inspira-
tion by association with Kansas peo-
pie here.
Many wonderful cures are said to
have been made by the use of the wa
ter, of which / cannot now speak.
There are certainly many here now
that are not cured-the MANNED, the
halt and the blind-and when / behold
the throng 1 cannot help but offer up
silent petition of sincere gratitude
that 1 can still digest something
thicker than spring water. 1 came
here on business but was compelled
to suspend for few days, as the 10Th
annual celebration of the Springs was
on. The usual firing of cannon, ring
ing of bells, blowing of steam whis-
ties, etc., ushered in the morning of
the first day Q9th,) and then the peo-
pie, in great streams, poured in. The
Herald says there was from twenty
five to thirty thousand people here ON
the Goth. AS it was an editor, / guess
It's so, at least it is no saying of mine.
L didn't count them. Everything,
nearly, on earth, seemed to be here.
The pick-pocket, the two legged calf,
the long bearded man, the steam
swing, the balloon ascension (the lady
and the dog went up and came DOWN
and even the redoubtable Sam Jones
was here, and if it were not for max
ing my letter too long L would just
like to repeat few of his sentences.
He can do more "cussin'" and black
guarding on the rostrum and be ap-
plauded louder and longer, by good
citizens than any other living mortal.
They have largo circus tent, bought
from a stranded show, which they
sacrilegiouslyGn my Opinion) denomi-
e"The Tabernacle" Great crowds
thousands of people-crowded in at
from % to so cents each to hear s. j.
deliver four different lectures. Sam
charged $400 for the four lectures and
L presume that nearly $1,000 was real
lied as gate fees, so you see he is a
winning card. There never was but
one, and never will be another, Sam
Jones. Among other things he called
his audience hipocritical rascals and
said they needed cow-hiding and that
it took eight of the people of this town
to bring as much money as one 200
pound hog. Said he believes i'm WO-
man Suffrage, not only believed in