The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-06-09
"N0ER" ALLEN, TOO
BETROSPECTI0N WITH q SNIFF OF
MEMORY LOCAL.
Col Fred Close, Running Mate of Wich!ta's
Ono Time Attorney General, in Town
and Nobody Said Even Lo, Here-How
the Aurora Boreaiis Railway Idea Origi-
mated aud How it Died Long Aso-Po-
ntically Speaking, the Daisies are Above
the Formor Giant Pates-Some of the
Things That Time Teaches.

the Formor Giant Pates-Some of the
Things That Time Teaches.
Col Fred Close Of Troy. Kan, giant
Pop il the days OF Governor Lewelling.
Is in town. He was Governor LEVEL
,ng's private secretary, and with ''Noer'
Alien and Buffalo" jones. was the pro-
iector Of the Aurora Borealis and North
Pole railway, which was to extend from
Puget Sound TO the gulf via Wichita.
Nobody said once yesterday, Close is in
Town" Buffalo Jones started out to
blaze the pathway for this lire on an OK
cart harressed 20 a team of young buff
falo bulls. The matter ended in grading
hbout six miles north Of Galveston, and
The sale OF q few town lots. It was quite
a campaign hit while It lasted, and some
people were deiuded enough to imagine
that this proposed line, which was ad-
Socated by the Pop leaders all over Kan
sas, would revolutiorize commerce and
utterly demoralize existing railroad
hates, which everybody admits are too
high. This project was preached from
the rostrum and talked on the street cor
hers, and the groundlirgS listened, and
gaped and wondered, and the Kansas
farmers swallowed the dose down like a
soung robin gulpirg down a fat angle
worm. The Pop orators told them in the
school houses. how the railroads owned
them and how they were burdened with
exOrbitant freight rates, and tod them
Of Wal street and the great Red Dragon
of Lombard street. and all about the AS
tors aEd the Eanderbiits, and gave them
other sweetened wind in abundance.
And the Pop orators painied 10 their fe-
vcced in1aginations how Buffalo Jones,
the friend Of the people, and ''Noer'' A.
len, the general attorney of the dear peo-
PIE, would build the great trunk line
which should bind in bands Of railroad
steel the frozen north and the vernal
south. They tod them how the Ignite
end the anthracite Of the north, and the
wheat from tee Dakotas, and the fat 3
year-olds IF Kansas ard Nebraska, and
the acorn and mutton of this favored re-
gion would flow to the gulf. meeting
there the Argosies from Spain, from the
isles of the seas; meet there and inter-
change with the commerce of the world.
and they drew that other ford picture
of the valiant Buffalo Jones wearing a
SLOUGH hat a buckslSin suit ard mecca
Gins, with a strong cigar at an angle OF
% degrees in his mouth, bestriding his
ox-cart behind his fractions team Of buff
faloes, which ne guided with wire cable
=, l. l. he
falo 10 a windlass on each side of the
ox-cart. Ard they told how Noer Aller
vas working MS young life away in the
irteres; Of the dear people. And the .ow-
er railroad freight rates. The people be-
iieved them and went to the polls and
swallowed the whole dose. And NOer
went to Galveston and ran for congress
Or the Pop ticket. And the people rose
IN t,eir might and they didn't do a thing
10 Noer Allen but tuck him away in his
little political grave, pound the turf down
on him. And, politically speaking, the
daisies are now growing over him. As
70 Buffalo Jones, he is somewhere in Ok
iahoma ir that condition called 'tmoult-
Ing" incubating some other great pro-
5adt to be carried out on some other fei-
lows money. The past project has had
Its Day 1t worked the people, and is
projectors are in the same financial con-
clifton as when they started. They have
added some very valuable experience to
their general store of failures. demon
Btraaed several things among others
the following: 1t takes more than a man
with a paper collar 10 build a railroad.
This trunk line project, which was ex-
plotted over the west has pe.ered out,
and viii take its place among other CHI
merical schemes. L has gone with the
booms and boomerangs and wind
schemes ard paper railroads and town
lot schemes. which so plagued the west
and bled the east. Wild and visionary,
wierl and wrath. like as the .ales of
Barcn Munchaasen. II has gone forever
dov the back alley OF time. In this age
Of he world some fellows are always just
g,ing away or coming back.
Colonel Close has been for mary years
b. resident Of Troy. Doniphan county. He
Is neighbor and political rival of Cyrus
Leland. He says that Kansas has never
since his many years residence in the
state given promise Of more abundan.
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