The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-17
WATER IS THE QUESTION.
The Eagles Position Touching the Big
Arkansas Universally Endorsed.

| Special Dispatch to the Daily Eagle.
kINGMAN, Kan, June 16.-kingman
county is arrayed In a fine garb of green,
following the heavy rainfall which visited
the county last Saturday night, and ali
manner of men are imbued with fresh
courage, and IN consequences ara wearing
their brightest smiles of hope in anticipa-
ton of the heavy harvest of corn this fall.
BY reports from every direction l feel safe
in saying there Is much larger acreage
planted to corn in Kingman county than
for several years previous.
The EAGLES editorials reciting the cause
for the drouths that have been visiting
this portion of Kansas continuously dur
ing the past five Years, should awaken in-
terest In the matter. Ii cannot help but
be evident to every one who investigates
the subject, that the drainage of the Ar
kansas river west of us for the last five
years has been more directly the cause of
failure in rainfalls in southern Kansas
than any other one thing. While in con-
versation with DR.. Hinton, of this city, a
few days ago, he asserted that during the
seventeen years he has lived in kingman
county, up to about five years ago, he
could very distinctly see that the per cent
of rainfalls increased each year, and that
as the country improved the surety for
crop growing improved Herewith; but
that for the last five years it had been 60
ing the other Way, and he could attribute
it TO no other cause more directly than the
loss of the underfow from the Arkansas
river.
Everyone have conversed with express
es the hope that Murdoch will continue
agitating this subject in the EAGLE until he
gets interest aroused 10 the point where
congress may be asked to devise some
means Gf none exist now whereby Coiora-
do people. as well as all other persons, can
be stopped from drawing the water supply
from this stream" II don't look right
that the welfare, financialiyiand otherwise,
of two or three hundred thousand people
of southwestern Kansas should be thus
sacrificed for the interest of three or four
thousand persons in SONS other locality
and believe the agitation of this subject
is one of the most important the people
could consider Mt this time.
kingman county Republicans are highly
pleased with the work of the state conven-
ton. While great many of them would
have preferred Douglass as the nominee
for cougressman-at-large. still they all say
they have no kicks coming" anu are now
in fighting trim for the whole ticket.
The tracks of all lines of railroads into
kingman were damaged to some exteut by
Saturday nights rain. The Missouri Pa
cific was the heaviest sufferer In this coun-
ty having seven or eight bridges and two
or three miles of grade washed out.
The race through VIII C runs motive
power for kIngman's best nou,Ing mill re-
ceived heavy damages from the rains, the
banks being washed out in several places.
The work of the Populist state conven-
ton in inserting suffrage plank in their
platform. in the language OF one of their
number here, "has, OH myi made a num-
Der OF very ragged crevices in the ranks in
Kingman county" The adoption OF this
plank and tue hard sitting on admins
tered to our own w. L.. Browns aspirs-
lions for chairman of the convention are
two large-sized sour grapes given our Pop
ulist friends 10 this county. They may all
swallow them without masticatiou, but
can never hold them back long enough TO
chew them. Breidenthal does surely
carry majority OF his party in his coat
pocket