The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-31
THEY BOTH WANT 1T
ANDALE AND MOUNT HOPE ENGAGE
IN CHURCH ROW.
There is Great Excitement I'm Andale-The
People Will Not Consent to Have Their
Church Moved to . Rival Town-The
Women Take q Hand and Commence
Injunction Proceedings-Judge Reed
Says the Church Must Remain Where it
is ut Present-Win be Trouble IL In
junction is Disregarded.

The lively little town of Andale is all
torn up over a church contest The
matter has now got into court and
Judge Reed has granted temporary
injunction to prevent he Christian
church of Andale being moved to Mt.
Hope.
Kansas has had county seat fights
and county records have been spirited
from one town to another and guarded
with shot guns. This is, however, the
first time that two rival towns have
engaged in contest over a church
building
The women who are always the sup
port of the church are taking a hand
in this town fight and when an attempt
was made to load up the Christian
church of Andale and move it over to
Mt. Hope the women Of Andale showed
fight.
Ella NJ. Anderson and Kate John
son came in to Wichita yesterday and
employed Judge Wall and John Hum
phrey to assist them and injunction
proceedings were hastily instituted
with the above stated result.
The injunction proceedings were
against I. H. Cornwall, William kis-
sick, William Little and Tucker, whose
given name to the plaintiffs is unknown
and the Christian church of Mt. Hope.
The plaintiffs in the petition state
thatthe Christian church Of Andale was
built by themselves and other citizens
Of Andale at cost of 5000. and that
they had bought four lots and that the
church had been erected upon them.
That the defendants are now tearing
down said church building and threat
en- to move it to the town of Mt. Hope.
1t was learned last night from people
who live near Andale that the whole
population of the two towns and sur
rounding country are becoming involv-
ed in the controversy and hard legal
battle is expected before the matter
is settled.
One pious brother said yesterday that
this matter would be settled in the
courts unless Mt. Hope disregarded
the injunction. He said If they did a
fight would certainly be the result and
that a good many people would be come
involved in the difficulty, ''for," said
he, whatever happens that church
is never going to Mt. Hope. The peo-
pie ofAndale built it and they will never
allow it to be moved to a rival town."
Andale and Mt. Hope are both Sedg-
wick county towns on the Wichita and
Colorado railroad. They are both live
ly little towns but are only about six
miles apart They are in the best
farming section not only in this section
but of the state, and hence have n
good country trade.
There has always been a rivalry be-
tween the two towns and some of the
Andale people claim that T. II. Corn
wall, who is one of the trustees of the
Andale Christian church, precipitated
this fight. The membership of the An
dale church was not very strong and
the Mt. Hope congregation conceived
the idea of moving the church over to
their town.
The Andale people claim that Corn
wall fought that idea until very recent
ly he traded his property in Andale for
property in Mt. Hope and he concluded
to move his drug store over to the lat
ter place. And that now he is trying to
send the church over to Mt. Hope
ahead of him.
This causes hard feelings against
Brother Cornwall in Andale. He is at
present in the position of favoring the
Mt Hope crowd while living in An
dale. This is, however, a contest be-
tween Christian people and il is sup
posed that violence will be avoided.