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WEDNESDAY MORNING. NOV. 24, 18S6.
TRIBUTARY TO US ?
jmsasCity Wistlin to Keep up Iler
Courage!
The Editor of the Kansas City Times Unloads
for tho Delectation of St. Xionls Through
the Post-Dispatch.
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JTrsm tho St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
, .. Dr. Morrison Munford, editor of the Im
i as City Times, talked about that expurgated
edition of Chicago this morning at the
Southern. "When Mr. Gould was in Kansas
City he said to me that in fifty years our
city would be bigger than either St Louis or
Chicago will be then."
"Do you believe thatf
"Most certainly I do. "We will catch up
with St. Louis in ten years. The signs are
all in our favor. The boom in real estate
t continues, the sales amounting to a million a
week. ' Then we are getting three new lines
f railway, the Kansas City, "Wyandotte and
Hbrthwestern, the Chicago, Milwaukee and
St Paul, and the St. Louis, Kansas City and
Colorado. Besides these the St. Louis and
San Francisco is talking of building a branch
i to Kansas City, and the Missouri Pacific is
building a branch from Paola."
"Why should Kansas City continue to
grow and surpass St. Louis?"'
i "Becauso it has all the west tributary to
it"
"It cuts ofE western trade that formerly J
came to St. Louis? '
"Yes."
"Why couldn't some other city tying fur
wr to tho west cut off this trade from Kan
9BB City?'
"None of them can do it. Denver and
Pueblo had their little booms and then re
lapsed. "Wichita has made quite a spurt of
ate, but it cannot become a rival of Kansas
City. The fight was once to establish what
should be the metropolis of the Missouri val
ley, and that having been settled on Kansas
City, trado and railway lines focus at that
K)int.'
"Grotild in a recent interview said tonie
:lhin very favorable to "Wichita."'
" Yes, that was on account of his friend
ship for Marsh Murdock of the Eagle. That
Ims what Senator Plumb told me. Murdock
helped Gould to get terminal and other facil
Ides, and he wants to help "Wichita. But
I'ren with the little help ho will give Wichita
rill never Imj a considerable rival of Kansas
City. It will remain like those other Kansas
tiities. tributary to us."'
Now read this?
For fifteen or twenty years all of the
great trunk lines of railway reaching south
" est from Chicago, and west from St.
Louis, and east from the Rocky moun
tains, save one, have centered and termin
ated at Kausas City. Inevitably the entire
products of Kausas, of Colorado, of New
.Mexico and largely of Nebraska and Mis
Hturi have been poured into the j-ards, in
C the warehouses, the pens; elevators and
iqt mmcrcial institutions located at Kansas
mouth of the Ivaw.
CEty and about the
Tae result was a town which in the magni
tude of its trade, growth and money power
jversliudowcd all of the older towns of
ttmsas which were clustered about within
ttie radius of n hundred miles of that point.
TS lis concentration of railway influences,
M 1 of traffic and consequent life and capi
tal, squeezed the energy and the hope out
eC Kansas .towns which twenty years ago
re big with promise, and, even prostrat
ed to a noticeable degree the richest and
Jin oldest commercial city in the west,
av.ucly, St. Joseph, Missouri. It had
or.ne to that point that the people
ot the old and once flourishing
knrns and cities of Kansas were furnished
wT h everything by and from Kansas City,
k (tiding the local news of their own towns
Ikt Diigh Kausas City's papers. Even St.
Ij lis with her foundation of a hundred
ye. rs and her hundieds of millions of
cat jfully secured and abundantly protcct
i capital, commenced to feel the results
. oft he woudcrful ad vantages held and en
joy, d by the town at the confluence of the
2-w and Missouri Valleys.
5 ow let Dr. Munford and the people of
t Katsas City mark what follows:
The. editor of the Eagle, for one at least,
appreciating the facts above set forth, and
free, them, in his own mind, determining
that the chances of ever building up a com
tc ial center within the bounds of Kan
sas! inged, unquestionably, upon a suc
cca ul effort to break the web w hose con
tiatti d spread was being ever strengthened
: by aowly added victims; that, if Kansas
ever was to enjoy the results of her own
labor; and the products of her own rich and
fcouiilless fields and pastures; that if Kan
sas would ever be permitted to reap a
.rc ;? and gather taxes from cities
' YiiEl ly her own capital and
" "trade, that the combination of fortuitous
advantages which environed the town on
-tke western border of Missouri, must be
broken. To this end the Eaalh for
months, even years, incessantly called the
f attention of the people of the state to the
"facts set forth in the opening of this article,
urging them, and urging the legislature to
: put forth every possible effort to induce the
,o trunk lines terminating on the Missouri
' river and at Kansas City to to come out to
the baso of supplies. We urged that unlets
this was soon done, and succesfully done,
Kansas as a state would not only become
atirelyand forever tributary to Kansas
s City, whose overshadowing importance
would not only sap the life of Lawrence,
'Xcavenworth, Topeka, Atchinson, Ft.
Scott and other older towns, but that no
town in Southwest Kansas wonld ever
reach bevoud the dignity of a county seat.
in which event a great per cent, of all the
wealth produced by our fields, of all the
fatness turned off our pastures, and of all
tic profits of our trade would be poured
-iato the coffers and for the upbuilding of a
dty just over the boarder, a city which we
?ee in no manner control and whose
"'4:ealtli, although produced by us, we could
mot tax. To mis cnu we not oniy wrote
U--d talked, and to Mr. Gould and the Mis-
'"- "aouri Pacific management, to Mr. Edward
jrt""3R- "Winslow, the president of the St. Louis
raad Ban Francisco, but wrote and talked
lC lapon every occasion and opportunity to
KJtke officials and magnates of the great
fctrank lines lending west from Chicago.
-;Other men became interested and went to
j -work, other newspapers commenced to talk
aa endorse, local companies lor construct-,-
-lag railways were organized, the legislature
?' ?Jat only refused to pass a maximum treight
itftariff bill butdid pass enactments to
3 eeurace rauroau uuuuiug, m mc
whole state of Kansas became alive to the
importance of inducing the great trunk
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lines to cross the river which had so long
set the bounds to their progress.
It is unnecessary for the better informa
tion of either Dr. Munford or the St. Louis
Pos to go further into details. Suffice it
to say that in spite of all the Santa Fe and
all its mighty influence to prevent it, the
San Francisco and the Missouri Pacific not
only reached out into Kansas and, inde
pendently of Kansas City, but the Chicago
and Rock Island announced that it would
no longer depend upon the Missouri river
as a base, but invade Kansas for herself.
The first point named for such an exten
sion was "Wichita. Following these the
Chicago and Northwestern, the-C. B. & Q.
and the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul,
all opened negotiations looking to the same
end.
This was the dawning of a new day and
new hone for Kansas: but. when as
another result, the Santa Fe now an
nounces that in self protection her
terminus must be carried or transferred
from Kansas City to Chicago the knell of
Kansas City is not only sounded but the
hopes of a hundred Kansas towns are
brightened and strengthened and a greater
future for them assured.
Denver and Pueblo, as the editor of the
Times asserts, failed as commercial cities.
True. Having nothing from which to
draw commensurate with their ambitions,
nothing beyond a local trade to sustain
them, they, of course, failed; but "Wichi
ta's spurt" has come to plague the aspira
tions of the Missouri town has come to
stay. Kansas will at least have one city of
her own in "Wichita, a city whose property
the state can tax. Surrounded by an em
pire of her own, backed by a region of in
estimable possibilities, and which is already
supporting a hundred nourishing towns,
and all tributary, naturally, to the Arkan
sas valley rather ihan to the Missouri val
ley; situated two hundred miles nearer
the mountain mining regions than even
Kansas City and right on the border of a
new country as large as the state of Minne
sota which but waits a single word to be
occupied by hundreds of thousands of peo
ple, is planted "Wichita, flourishing, grow
ing, and reaching out in power and wealth
far beyond the expectations of many of
even her own most sanguine people.
Pueblo may have flunked and Denver
failed, but fifty great and rich counties must
not only fail, and a hundred flourishing
towns go into bankruptcy before Wichita can
fail. More: Kansas must fail, the Indian
Territory must fail, eastern Colorado and
No Man's Land, and the Pan Handle
country must all fail before "Wichita can
even be put on the down road. Kansas
City may not see and understand this, but
Mr. Jay Gould does, as does the manage
ment of every trunk line now seeking to
build to "Wichita; and not only these
but a number of Kansas City's leading
capitalists who have been investing in
"WichitaJargclv and within a fortnight.
True, Mr. Gould ma' have a friendship
for the editor of the Eagle because he has
found that our rcpicsentations touching the
wealth of this country true, and that con
sequently that the Missouri Pacific's exten
sions are making favorable returns from
"Wichita, but Mr. Gould but expressed his
honest convictions when he told "Gath
that "Wichita would undoubtedly be the
greatest city west of Kansas City. That
Senator Plumb never uttered the words at
tributed to him we have the best of rea
sons for believing. No less impressed is
he than Mr. Gould with the coming impor
tance, the destiny of the metropolis of
Kansas, a state for which he has done so
much and loved so long.
To conclude, a leply which probably is
already too long for the text, the Eagle
has but to say that while "Wichita is too far
removed from Kansas Cit- and too firmly
established in its prosperity to be affected
by a city which has been inevitably shorn
of her locks wherein ny her stcngth, nev
ertheless wc;do not propose that "Wichita
shall be placed at a disadvantage through
any interview by any Kansas City man
however great Avithout our setting forth the
facts on the other side as we know and un
derstand them.
offerings of friendship. Mr. Post spoke in
his usual happj mapner, and was respond
ed to by Mr. Wight in belialf of himself
and wife. The whole number present, in
cluding Mr. and Mrs. Wight and their five
interesting children, was fifty, among
whom there were Miss Mary Brown, Miss
Jennie Spaun, Mr. Lawrence Low, and
Mr, Grant Wight, who presented a fine
silver castor. ,
Mr. and Mrs,' C. E'. Case, silver glas
butter dish. '
J. P.. Gibbon, a silver pickle cafctor.
Mr. and Mrs. John A. Wight, Miss Al
medaandMr, Adis Wight, silver butter
dish.
H. C. Spaun and II. C. Buck and wife,
silver honey dish.
Miss Opha Buck, silver honey spoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Ii. T. Leach, silver nap
kin rings.
C. O. Lee and wife, set of silver fruit
knives.
B. Brown and wife and J. Emenerick,
bilver napkin rings.
Also a silver cake basket, silver pickle
castor and butter dish, with other articles
were presented by Wm. Ransom and wife.
R. Jackson and wife, B. F. Loper and
wife, J. W. Rochelle and wife, J. Caldwell
and wife, II. Kcifer and wife, M. Ritter
and wife, G. Scott and wife. W. Wright
and wife. Mr. Feherinan and wife.
A bountiful dinner was served in fine
style, which was eaten with a relish that
spoke well for the holding on qualities of
the Kansas pioneer. The people adjourn
ed to meet at the golden wedding of Mr.
and Mrs. Wight, all of whom agreed to
hold out for the next twenty-five years to
the best of their ability. Com.
New Republic please copy. Mr. and
Mrs. Wight return their sincere thanks to
their friends who honored them with their
presents and presence.
lyons7kansas.
The Creates
Sensation
OF THE YEAR.
Our Magnificent Stock of IsTew
IIiLUSTRATBD EDITION.
The Anthony Republican reaches us this
week a thing of beauty and gorgeous with
colors, illustrated arid radiant. It sets out
the advantages of Anthony and of Harper
county, and those advantages are not only
numerous but great. The Republican is
congratulated upon its enterprise.
We do not believe that Wichita specula
tors are anticipating a harvest season from
the hanging that is to take place in Sedg
wick county. If there was anything in it
they would" have hangings three times a
week. K. C. Times."
If there is any one thing more than an
other that tickles us it is to see our cotein
porarics properly size up the spirit which
animates Wichita people. The Times gets
just half way up to tile truth. We would
make it six hangings instead of three if
there was anything in it.
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The Santa Fe extension from Arkansas
City through the Indian Territory to Fort
Worth is now completed thirty'miles out
of the former city. Construction is beinc;
pushed rapidly, and by the first of May,
the first of June at the furthermost, the
connection will be completed. El Dorado
Republican.
Which extension . is unfortunate for
Arkansas Citv.
A society has been organized in Connecti
cut called the "Tongue Guard," and is
composed entirely of ladies. One of the
rules is that each member drops a penny in
a box for tbs poor every time she says a
word-against anybody.
To the Editor of the Eagle.
A few brief lines describing this one por
tion of the state may not come amiss to
many of the readers of the Daily.
By a glance at the may it will be seen
that RicS county is not very distant from
that of Secgwick, Reno intervening, and
the county seat thereof is Lyons. And a
fine little enterprising city it is, with a
population of 2,000 or more, situated ex
actly in the center of the county, the
court house site said to be the true center.
Lyons has over 100 business houses, some
of which carry heavy stocks. Has tele
phone connections, a 25,000 system Of
water works, a 15,000 school house; a
25,000 court house; a $20,000 three story
brick hotel, 25,000 opera house; six
church edifices and four newspapers in
cluding an evening daily. Iler business
men are full of pluck and enterprise.
When the occasion requires extra exertion
on their part, they simply put their shoul
ders to the wheel in one grand concerted
effort, and things do move, as was fully
demonstrated during the past railroad bond
siege, which resulted favorably, whereby
Lyons becomes tho junction of five rail
roads inside of the next twelve months: the
Santa Fe (nowhere) Missouri Pacific (grad
ing now going on), Newton & Northwest
ern, Kansas Midland and the Huntington
system, thereby giving us direct communi
cation with Wichita, St. Louis, Kansas
City, New Orleans, Galveston, Mem
phis, Denver and intermediate points.
The Missouri Pacific expects to have cars
running on this line by the last of next
month, and the Midland asserts that by
May Wichita and Lyons will be joined by
rail.
I lelieve that it would be good policy for
the business (wholesale) men of Wichita to
organize an excursion over the Missouri
Pacific from Lyons and Sterling to Wichita
when this line is in running order, and
thereby acquaint the retail trade by per
sonal inspection with Wichita's facilities in
the wholesale line. ( It would undoubtedly
be the quickest mode of capturing the trade
of this section
The future of Lyons is safe. Real estate
at present is in a very healthy condition
and offers grand bargains to investors. In
tho spriuglhe boom will appear in full
force and the luekjr long-headed fellows who
purchased lots previous thereto wiH realize
handsomely. Some parties from Hutch
inson have lately been investing quite
largely in business lots here, and every dap
new faces are seen on our streets, strangers
from Hutchinson, Newton, and other
points who are after real estate. As Lyons
will soon be a tributary point to Wichita, I
would suggest to those wise heads who
have a little spare change to quietly slip up
heie and try our real estate market now.
The sooner you get here the better targ ain
you can make, for even some of the old
croakers are awakening to the fact that
there is money in lots in Lyons, and even
they are investing. It's the history of
Wichita repeated. "Two of your citizens to
my knowledge arc interested in lots here.
The daily Eagle wings her flight Ly on
ward daily; and 3our correspondent passes
it to his neighbors, intending to rustle for
it when the'Missouri Pacific comes; but at
present it gets here a day or two late.
More anon (?), SxirES.
Dress Goods, Trimmings,
Holiday Goods. Etc., Etc.
Now being received and put on sale at unheard of low prices.
Cue and Participate in tfc Benefits.
LARIMER 4 STINSON,
132 MAIN ST.
100 DOZEN"
Genuine
Seal
Skin
build
$1.00
Kansas Furniture Co
CAEPETS, CAKPETS!
Thd grand" rush of the past two weeks has
left us badly damaged, but still in the ring
with some 20,000 yards of carpet.
No. 1 Goods, First-Class hk and Mom Prices
Are what; we depend on to make us what
we are. trie
Leading Furniture and Carpet Emporium
OK THE WEST.
We are Headquarters for
Oil Cloths, Mattings, Rugs, Etc.
SPECIAL
J.
On Wednesday
sale
Morning we
3,000 yards of
will
1
place on
Manhattan Clothing do,
326 DOUGLAS AVE.
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G-A1STDOLFO CAFE.
Finest : Restaurant : in : Kansas.
AVE MAKE A SPECIALTY OK TROPICA!
AMI) KAHE CONNECTIONS.
cc
aud MAIN" Streets,
GANDOLVO & ItOSSI. Proprietors.
- linuii'ii House, ev Klmvo, Kan. -
Fine Velvet Carpet
At $1.17 a yard on your floor.
Kansas Furniture Co.
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F A M Q-',Wr&
KTN. I?.-Orders for ICE CHKA3I In ntiy Cavor iak
tMl In Mould or Bulk, promptly tilled.
POPULATION OF GREAT CITIES.
OLD SETTLER'S SILVER WEDDING.
To the Editor of the Eagle.
3Ir. Gcorcti 3L "Wislit and Marion, his
wife, canie from Michigan to Kansas in
1S71 and settled in Kcchi township upon
what is now a very line farm. They were
married in Ilaync count', Michigan, twenty-live
years ago. Their old neighbors
from Ivechi with Key. J. C. Post and wife,
with other old friends, met at the residence
of Mr. Wisrht. corner of Main
street, in the city of "Wichita, on the 20th
of November, to do honor to the occasion.
The guests selected Rev. J. C. Past to
speak their good wishes and tender their
The Xew York Journal of Commerce, in
order to furnish, for reference, informa
tion on a subject often inquired about, has
compiled the annexed table of the largest
cities of the world, with their populations
as stated by the latest publications. The
table has a footnote which says:
"Many of the Chinese cities were enor
mously "over-estimated a few years ago.
"We have given the latest estimates by The
best authorities, but in the absence of the
official census the figures may be accepted
only as an approximate calculation. It
will be seen that there are thirtv-five cities
in the world credited with a population of
above 500,000."
Population
Aitchi, Japan l,So2,050
Bangkok, Siam .500,000
Brooklyn, N. Y. 771,000
Berlin, Prussia 1,122,830
Calcutta, India 7M.29S
Canton. China 1.500.000
Chauchoofoo. China 1,000.000
Chicago, 111 715,000
Constantinople. Turkey. 700,000
Foo-choo. China 000,000
Glasgow, Scotland 514,04-S
Haug-ckow-f oo. China GGO.OOO
Haug-tcheon, China SOO.000
Hankau. China 000,000
King-te-chang, China 500,00
Liverpool. England. 573,000
London, England 3,055,519
Madrid. Spain 500,500
Moscow. Russia. 611.971
New York. X. Y 1.450,000
Paris. France 2,209.02:;
Pekalongan, Java 505,204
Pekin. China 00,000
Philadelphia, Pa $50,000
St. Petersburg, Russia 767,963
Sartama, Jauan 062.717
Siam.;China 1.000,000
St. Louis, Mo 500,000
ind Park I Tat-seen-loo, China 500.000
nen-tsm, cuina iw.uw
Tokio, Japan 9S7,S57
Tschiautschau-f u. China 1,000,000
Ttchingtu-fu, China S3Q,000
Vienna. Austria "' 726,105
"Woo-chang, China. ...... S00.a
Great Bargains
150 LOTS FOR SALE IN
MSN & KITS
SECOND ADDfflOiN.
One of the finest laying additions to the city of "Wichita, lying
one and one-half miles South of Douglas avenue and comprising
One Hundred and Ninety-two (192) lots, east and west fronts, on
Mosley avenue, which will he sold at prices so low that any man
can have a home on very easy terms, and great inducements to par
ties who will ouild at once. "We have the building boom and intend
to keep it.
This addition is convenient to school, churches, stores, etc.
Street cars run past the addition, making easy access to the busi
ness portion of the city.
Come at once and secure a choice building site
AT FIRST PRICE.
$700 will buy 100x150 in the first block, east front.
S650 will buy 100x150 ft. in second block, east or west fronts.
$600 will buy 10oxl50 ft in third block, east or west fronts.
S480 will buy 100x150 ft in fourth block, east or west fronts.
We do not sell any corner unless the party agrees to build-a
good house on the lots, thereby obtaining the building boom.
Come everybody and haveahome of your own.
RANSON & KAY,
Office with Farnum & George.
ROOM 1, - HO MAIN ST.
61 doz. all wool shirt waists assorted colors at 50c, actual value SI
34 doz. all wool shirt waists, assorted colors, at 75c. actual value
$1.50.
45 doz. all wool shirt waists assorted
$2.00.
colors, at $1 actual value
S. GOLDSTEIN & CO.
East Douglas
LVenSiM ."li
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American DuffldineCo.
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jGras, Oil, Prospect and Art
W. S. DEAX
A. H. HAXWELL, Xotarj- PnbUc
DEAN I MAXWELL,
Real Estate Dealers.
We have property la erery desirable locality la t!ie dtp-, also a Utrs 11k of Farm Property.
onr oQce poa can jet ow prices and se oar property free of ctarse.
Ojticej-rooji eagle mxnc
First tt&Irway east of Wichita JTatiocal Bank.
By csiXWr.z
DEAN k MAXWELL
ZIMMERLY'S ADDITION.
Now is the time to buy lots in this addition
while they are cheap.
ONE MILE SOUTH ON LAWRENCE AVE.
Street cars and large brick
School house in connection. For further in
formation call at 6n S Market st.
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W. O. HltHIWJ.
COZINH & RIDDELL,
Real Estate Agents,
City Proyerty and Farm for Sale:- -Rets CoHsctsd and Taxes Paid.
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