The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1872-07-12

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WICHITA, FRIDAY. JULY IL, 1872.
CITY AND COUNTY NEWS.
The grading of Main street is progressing
finely.
The heat for the past week has been very
intense.
This valley was again flooded with rain on
night before last.
Green corn made its first appearance in our
market on the 4th of July.
Twenty-Five thousand cattle have been sold
for shipment here up to date.
Aldi-ich's dance house in West Wichita is
being moved to the bank of the river.
Geo. CASTOR, of Kansas City. is trying to
work up building association in Wichita
A soiled dove got away with bridge direct
or and his team the other day. lie is now
threatening TO resign.
CopiOus rains continue TO fall in this valley
All crops are now well nigh assured, and the
yield will be enormous.
During the excursion to Atchison the Rev.
Mr.. Nessley's house was entered and some
things Of value taken therefrom
II is limited that George Salisbury, esq. one
Of Wichita's prominent limbs Of the law, has
gone over to the liberal movement.
Wednesday, at ! O'Clock, the thermometer
stood at 80 fin the shade on the sidewalk and at
30 on the north side of the building
Joseph Mccoy, who has been north looking
after the.cattle trade and Wichita's interest
therein, returned home on Wednesday.
Sharpnack e. Litzenberg, Of III Paso, have
opened land and real estate agency at that
point. These gentlemen are reliable, and no
doubt will do a good business.
w. 7. Rouse returned home yesterday from
trip down to Bloomington. Ill. He is looking
well and feeling well, but as to how Illinois is
going in November he can scarcely tell
BY the proceedings of the board of county
commissioners il will be seen that our county
treasurer, s. G. johnson, has made his annual
settlement and the books are all balanced
The first load of clover hay we have seen i'm
this county passed our Office last week. 1t
was harvested by c. o. Lee on his fine farm
three miles northeast of here, on Chisholm
creek
Col. f. c. Manning, of Winfield, was i'm
town this week on business connected with
the L. S. land Office. He reports Winfield as
one Of the most thrifty and desirable towns i'm
the Southwest
The Metbodists will occupy the school house
the entire day next Sabbath. MIR. Nessley
preaching morning and evening. Hereafter
the Methodists and Episcopals will alternate
each Sabbath.
A picnic and other celebrating demonstra-
tions were had at the school house, in FL Paso.
on the 4th, which are represented as having
been an enjoyable occasion, and i'm every par
ticular a perfect success
John a. McIlyane, deputy clerk of the dis
trict court, stan ted on Tuesday for his old
home in Washington, Pennsylvania. John
will be missed by many in Wichita who wish
him happy and successful trip.
Mr.. Pipher, who has the government con-
tract for furnishing goods for TT. Sill. the
Cheyenne and Wichita agencies, was here
during the week seeing to the loading of a big
train, which starts back in day or two
We acknowledge the receipt of an invitation
TO the state fair, which opens on the 10th of
September at Topeka. A great effort is being
made TO insure a grand success of the annual
agricultural and horticultural exhibition for
1872.
See proc ceilings of the board of county COM
missioners in another column. Sedgwick
county has a set of solid, sensible and expert
enced men in this responsible position, in
whose hands the interests of the county will
not likely suffer.
The Police Gdsate contains heartrending il
lustration of the baby-wagon accident given
by the EAGLE a few weeks since. The street
is not exactly recognizable, neither is the face
of the innocent babe, but the picture of the
mules is very natural.
A Texas man was accidentally shot through
the arm, on Main street, last Tuesday after
noon. lie and companion were examining
a revolver, and in scufflng for its return. in
sport, the weapon was accidentally discharged.
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serious affection.
The horses attached 10 Wells, Fargo 4 Co.'s
last Tuesday night, and treated the express
wagon to lively ride. The team ran some
two miles above town before they stopped.
No damage was done TO anything outside of
the drivers temper.
Strikes are all the rage and popular as
Dolly Vardcns We're a month since. The latest
movement i'm Wichita is a strike among the
BARRIERS. They have struck for twenty-five
cents shave. Ii is amusing, well rs in
structive. the way the fellows are strapping old
neglected rusty razors.
Major Dodge, at Fl Dodge. has the thanks
of our citizens for kindly lending his aid, to-
gethcr with detail of lieutenant and twenty
men, in assisting Capt. Barnes in making an
arrest of parties who had taken horses and
cattle from this vicinity last spring. The
was all recovered, or an equivalent.
On Saturday last, while a company of three
or four hundred Kaw Indians were encampcd
in the vicinity of Newton, on their return from
a buffalo hunt, some of their number became
intoxicated. and az usual they commenced
laostitics anon themselves i'm regular Indian
fashion. One Of them was killed and scalped.
and another was SO badly wounded that he has
since died.
Mr.. Mccoy has returned from a tour into