Newton High School - Railroader Yearbook (Newton, KS)

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EEEEE E EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE E EEEEEEEEEEEE ln early lVlay over 8000 head of cattle bypassed Newton on their way to Abilene. In order to capture a large portion of the cattle trade the Santa Fe raced construction to Newton and on July 17, 1871, the first passenger train steamed into town. Daily runs of a mail and passenger train were made along with a special stock train that left early each morning. Going to Newton became a fad. IVlost of the town was squeezed into the three blocks north of the tracks. This section was mainly businesses. The heaviest residential housing focused three and one-half blocks northeast of the tracks. This was populated by families with children who tried to escape locomotive whistles, smoke and the moral elasticity of Newton's night life. Little construction occured south of the tracks, only a few lumber yards, dance houses, and brothels rose up. Newton glared with freshness, but exuberance and activity were just as strongly sensed by vistors as by residents. What had been survey stakes and imagination in April became by mid-August a bustling market community, an attractive lo- cation in which to spend and make money. Along with exuberance, an undercurrent of potential violence was felt. Nlain street often became a racing lane for yelling cowboys and drunken fools during the peak of New- ton's cattle trade. Townsmen saw transients as the chief cause of violence.ln Newton most transients carried weapons and gunshot accidents were frequent. ln July a man on horseback fired his pistol by accident, the ball passed almost entirely through a bystander. Bill Dow, a gambler and saloon keeper,stopped for a water- melon ,snack and a chat with Lottie Foster, an unfortunate girl. When Dow's friend Little lVlike began throwing water- melon rinds at Lottie, she seized a stick and chased him. Unable to catch him, Lottie turned on Dow, striking 'him with a heavy key. Dow swore and threw her on the ground, where- upon Lottie ran into the brothel, returning with a pistol, with which she promptly shot Dow three times, injuring him. Boisterous transients and an abundance of weapons were not the only reasons for violence in Newton. Cattle town business- men feared rampant violence, but being faced with unruly cattle traders, they were unable to establish an effective police force. To safeguard their investments from riot and arson they sought restrictions on violence. As the cowboy was a substantial part of the town s economic interchange the restrictions were such that a cowboy s spending would not be hampered in any way. The early city council meetings of cattle towns resulted in ordinances which curbed violence and provided for hiring a police force. ln Newton such legal safeguards were impossible, as. the town did not meet the lVlarch 1 deadline for incorpor- ation. With neither a mayor or council to draft ordinances Eor policemen to enforce regulations, Newton was governed Tmetweoktciligvnship constables and two Justices of the Peace. the sitxatimrugt upon these. four mennwas overwhelming. Qf teen hundred inroggespondent wrotei Here is a town of fif- ants, among which are some of the most uncouth and reckless. men in the world, who need the restraints of the law, if any people ever need them, that have 0 V9 Y UPON township organization for its government. continued on page 7 EDITOR'S NOTE: The information to 't ' ' thesis of John o. w I ' -- wr' e ms sfcfry was taken from the doctofa' 3 fnef. titled The Process of Civnlz t . Newton Kansas, 1871-1a73, written in 1968. a lon on the Kansas Fmmm' 33333333333 3 33333333 3 33333333333333 4 INTRODUCTION Q 3

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. ' 2' 'limo 1 ff ' f .97',1 '.f77 ummg EPUOLIH Rhonda Brown -W, ' F' ,.- ,,.-za- T: M ,., I. ,JF-U V. 1 W X.. 1. WORKING ON the senior homecoming mascot is senior class president Rob Barnes. 2. WAITING FOR his cue during the musical Music lVlan is lVlr. Dwight Beckham. 3. STU- DENTS GO through the salad line during their lunch period. 4. WATCHING A pep assembly are Mr. Don Cameron and his young son, Christopher. 5. EACH YEAR the vocational carpentry classes build a house and it sold on the open market. 6. AN INFORIVIAL tea for parents of high school students finds the new vice-principal, Mr. Galen Schmitz, and parents relaxing. 7. THREE HOIVIET STEADS were the first in- habitants of Newton, they may have been very similar to this old farmstead. 8. WRESTLING A man from Concordia during the Newton Tournament of Champions is Newton's Vernon Tolbert. 6 INTRODUCTION 321 Kelly Mathews Rhonda BYOWFI Rhonda Brown slviaqlew Alley '1 sl' 8 ' 3 'I,. D -' i ii., 3: 44 AX ,W 3 Su ' -3 .ffijiiiigz - . 5? 'T' 1 .