The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-01-28
WILL FIGHT THE CASE
w. R. Davis SoIicits Aid of
Associate Charities.
TO KEEP HIS ISLAND HOME
Says PiIIing Is to Stop Land
From Washing Away

W. r. Davis, the "squattor" on the
island at the Maple street bridge, yes
terday went TO the secretary of the Asso-
ciated Charities, and asked her to ap
point committee of disinterested men
to investigate the fling in of the Arkan-
sas river at his island and make report
of some kind at the trial which is to
come up Friday. He stated that he had
no money to work up his case and that
it was a case suitable for the Associated
Charities to take notice of. He said yes
terday that if the filling was removed
as the city is now doing, that the island
would wash away in a short time and
also that the city was taking away the
entire north end of the island, and was
depositing the dirt on the river bank.
AIr. Davis claims that the city has no
right to take away his island as it is
government land. and he has settled on
it and intends making a homestead of the
sand bar. He has built UP the banks
higher, he claims, so that the water will
not overflow his land and now the city is
tearing this levee down and it will thus
leave him unprotected from the high
water. In filling in the river he claims
that he did not do this with the inten-
ton of widening the island and making
the channel of the river narrower but
for protection to the island and to keep
it from washing away.
One day last week the street commits
eli of
to clean it up and they were driven away
with pitchforks. Two men were sworn
in as special policemen and they went
to the island the next day and when Mr.
Davis told them they could not work
they told him to go to the city building
and have talk with the mayor and the
street commissioner. He went and while
away the men commenced work and have
since kept it up and when Mr. Davis was
at the court house, he stated that big
force of men were still hauling away the
north half of the sandbar. The case is
to come up Friday and Mr.. Davis wanted
the Associated Charities secretary to ap-
point this committee to look at the is
land and then give their opinion at the
trial. He also wanted the association
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charge of the case and protect his in
terests,
He has not fled a case in the district
court, but the decision viii be made in
the case of the city against Swartz Bros.
Mr.. Diver Mrs. Cora Black and others.
The city has asked for a permanent in
junction against them filing up the
channel of the river and it is alleged that
Mr.. Davis has like interest in the mat
ter and that he has been filling UP the
river as much as he could.
Mrs. Crouch refused to have anything
to do with the matter as she is not to
look after any legal matters that may
come up from the people of this city.
N Jackson. Danville, ILL.,, writes: MY
daughter had a severe attack OF la grippe
and a terrible cough settled on her lungs.
We tried a great many remedies with
out giving relief. She tried FOLEY'S
HONEY AND TAR which cured her.
She has never been troubled with cough
since" C. Gehring. 400 z. Douglas;
Geo. Van Werden, S2S n Main; Wichita
Drug Co, lie e. Douglas.