The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-11-11


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Residents of Maine who look 70 1ho
New York and Boston papers for ac-
counts of queer people and strange
forms OF government in different parts
OF the world could learn facts worth
studying by going to NorcrossL The
settlements Of Eskimos on The coast
Of Greenland have their old men, the
tribes OF Africa have their chiefs, and
even penal colonies recognize the au-
thority of firearms and the lash. Here
the lsw-abiding people feel but one
Power-the hurrying. unsympathetic
cars. which bring everything that
comes to their homes and take away
everything that goes out
The distance from Milnocket bridge.
which crosses the West branch east
of there, to Perkins Siding. which Is
three miles west, is five miles as the
railroad runs or the crow flies. AT
and between these two points are i've
settlements Of new log and beard
structures, comprising about 10 build
iDgs in all. OF these one is q railroad
station. ono is q small store, two ara
small hotels, one Is q sswmill. six are
good-sized sporting camps, eight are
frame houses with shingles and clap
boards on them, and the rest are prim,
tive log cabins with splits forroodng,
spotted poles for floors and boughs for
bedding. One-half of the male inhab.
'tants are either guides or lumbermen,
partly both. one-quarter Gro mill hands
who saw spool bars and bowels at Per.
kin's Siding, and the remainder arc sec-
ton hands and other employees who
work for the Bangor & Aroostook rail.
road. Though no census was ever
taken Of the place there arc about
zoo people who live there the year
round. Among them are some IS wom-
en- and nearly 40 children. This u
when the population il at low ebh. In
July when the West Branch drive
comes down tho population swellS to
400 OF SEQ, and after open season fol-
big game begins II often reaches 1000
Eouis, besides Indiana.
Having grown without governmental
restraint from one log camp to its
present proportions inside OF three
years, Sorcross has made itself the
most anomalous community on earth,
1t is not a town. II is not even q plantae
ton. On the old survey maps IL 10
named Indian township. No. 3, Sd
called by the surveyors 70 distinguish
it from Indian townships Nos. and
2. The name of Norcross signifies MOTH
ing. II was so called in order TO locate
station for q railroad and a post oficS
for the hunters-
Though property that cost $500 900 10
here and visible, the assessor and tsi
collector never visit the place. The
children gre born and grow up without
seeing the inside or the outside Of q.
schoolhouse. There are not two rods
Of bicycle and not 20 rods Of cart roads
in the whole township. As the nearest
clergyman. lawyer and doctor are from
80 to so miles away the people getalong
very well without them. When .
couple want TO get married they tAks
their bridal tour in hunting up Q min
lister and coming homo sgain. n
person In sick he In sent out TO a doe
tor, because no physiciso can be coaxec
to come and see him; and. In case hs
dies. the body must b transported
more than 30 miles before Il can reef
in q Christian burying ground There
IL no drug store. no dance hall. and ne
bsrroom or other place where Equos
Is sold in the township II two or mon
men bave q dispute which leads TO
free fight, the Don-comhatants stand
by to see fair play, without ottemptins
to interfere. In case the defeated par
~ feels himself wronaed and wants u
take the matter into court. he cAnnoj
afford TO do 90, because he ysonld have
to travel nearly all day By rail before
he could find a masistrate- Even the
game wardcns who arrest men Cor kill
ing deer spend moro money in taking
their prisoners 70 court than the Ansd
smount to wben q conviction 10 So
cured. Once in its hixtory, when
murder wa1 committed near here.
sheriff from Dover spcnt n week reach.
ing here and getting back home. TIE
chances are IL would take something
bigger than a murder 20 take him th>rl
again
The person who reads this dsscrfA
tion Of Norcrc<s and thinks the inhab
:tants are degraded OK imnsossl va
make . great mistakH. a maN fooi
ttmes q day brings lestsrs and pspsrf
from everywh<re. An enterprhkng and
cons;derste rsilfead carries swzy e
the people hsvs 70 seil. and .byfs1s Ii
all they bry. Divine Providence does
the rest The men are industrious and
moral. Ihs women are model wiyeS
anG excellent cooks. The cAiidr.n ard
bright and wen dres.ed II Ssrcros1
were formed into . plAnta,i1a or n
corpcrzted a. . town. the fssdsnc
would have 20 pay municipal county
and state taxez- Vow thry pay nc
taxes. they do not vote. and svery lad
10 AZ GOOD - his neiyhbor. The place
10 fsirer than Utopia. and swestsS thar
The dream Of a nih;fLss- II has no seuD
:erpart on earth~H. 7. Sun
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