The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1872-09-13

ofal and pig-stys i'm the rear Of many Of our
Main street buildings is carrying disease and
tribulation into every household. Many months
have been spent in discussing the propriety Of
hook and ladder company. with a few well
appointed pumps to eXtinglish fires. Our
city is purely c0mbustible. No insurance can
be obtained on the business property at any
price. COnfagration and bankruptcy to
Wichita are synonymous. Have We authori-
ties with powcrss Can you arouse them to
their duties, or must we await a municipal
change to spring from the ashes of this PROM
Using citys There is unmitigated culpability
in these long and ill-timed neglects.
We warn the citizens Of Wichita against adj
vertising swindlers and lodges. We want to
see Wichita and the Southwest advertised as
no location ever before printed Of and talked
about, until the name of our place shall become
a household word throughout the land, but
beware Oftransient advertisers. DO not throw
your money away on directories, pamphlets,
registers, etc, which will never have any cir
culation nor command any attention. No more
liberal advertisers can be found anywhere than
the business men of Wichita, and because of
that fact they have been imposed upon in three
or four instances this season. 1t never pays to
give money to that class of fellows who have
no interest in orr country, and who only adj
vertise for what they can make directly out Of
the advertiser. "a word to the WISE" etc.
Contrary to the predictions of many WISE
acres, the business and trade of Wichita has
been steadily upon the increase all summer
and the fall trade is opening up in the most
gratifying proportions. Upon our streets may
daily be met business men. farmers and traders
from all the surrounding counties and towns.
The great bulk Of the traffic is in no.wsy tfesi
pendent upon the cattle trade, but is of local
nature. OF course much Of the stir and life IF
all transient business and amusements is due
directly to the men and money connected
with the cattle trade. but the solid trade
Of the town Is of n lasting character. -ceaa-
ing directly from permanent surroundings.
Wichita moves steadily on in her march of SUI
premacy.
Mr.. Lakin. land commissioner of the A., L.
Il S. +. X. r., having had erected large
building upon the state fair grounds for the
exhibition Of productions Of the Southwest,
and made the announcement that everything
intended for exhibition would have free trans
portation, W. Horner and several of our citi-
zens successfully gathered up, and will ship to-
day, specimens of cereals, grass, building ma
tcrial, etc., TO be put on exhibition. We are
sorry that we had not known thi, week ear
lier, AS we are satisfied that we could have
made the eyes of many visitors stick out in
wonder at the productivcness of the Arkansas
valley and its tributaries. A. il was we done
the best we could.
4 card of the McNIeekin House at Topeka
appears in this issue. This house is the finest
and best furnished. probably, of any hotel
west of st. Louis, and although il is on the
north side of the river, next to the railroad
depot, is nevertheless very popular place and
is continually crowded. A free bus leaves
The house every fifteen minutes for the south
side of the river, SO that its location is rather
IN its favor. Members of conventions and leg
slaturcs, as also visitors to the state fair.
crowd over TO McNleckin's. Go once and YOU
will never fail thereafter.
Mr.. Nercus Baldwin, whose photograph gal
cry is near the corner of Maine and Douglas,
Is the pOSsessOr of very fine telescope,
through which we had the pleasure of COLI
emplating the mountains, shadows and era
crs of the Moon and the rings of Saturn the
'ther evening. The highest power of the in
a l. Inn Ii
possessing an astronomical turn of mind, will
ind Mr. Baldwin very pleasant and agreca-
Die gentleman.
One Of our real estate firms are sending to
VIM. Cole. Of Chicago, copy Of the EAGLE. |
lr. Cole is large landed owner, and was in
Wichita last week. He came into our office
md insisted upon paying 81 additional for his.
opy. He said out ofall the papers and maya
lines taken by him. that his daughter looked
Onward to the coming of the Wichita EAGLE
With the most anxiety. Sensible daughter
md appreciatiye father, if we are married
nan.
The NJ. +. church society have their new
lace Of worship nearly or quite enclosed and
'artIy painted. 1t is a very neat and tasty at- /
air, and somewhat imposing in style. 1t is on
Topeka avenue. near the corner of Second
treet. The general outline of the building is
,othic, with the base of a spire projecting in
ront. Whether the spire will be continued up.
II be made Il simple bclfry, we are not adj
Used.
Immense clouds of hoppcr-grasses haye been
c,n MI, e., lr,.,
'o,ind for the land of the long horns. These
y,yliidG take delight in sticking their orthop-
erous, oriiced prehcnslble oviun-producing
pendages a hands span into the hardest
arth. where they deposit their internal spring
atching eggs by the tens Of billions, and that's
What we know about grasshoppers.
jacob Smith. heavy capitalist of the capt.
al city. spent day or two i'm Wichita this
week. Whether he was looking after an OPEN
ng into which to chuck some of his i'm
ncnse capital i'm the way of "spec,' or only
own to see how il would feel to be in live
ity. he did not inform Us. He fully concurs
n the universal opinion thas this country is
he finest in the state.
I. VI. uaTTlson has uOHc lt--uot ilIHtt uu {
N extra saddle or harness this time. but ''big-
err thing than that, SIR II is an eleven /
ound boy, who. if he don't recognize his papa
eft, is all right nevertheless, and likes his din
Ter. He came along the same day that Maine
vent 10000 for Grant. and Is. of course. politi-
ally sound. He and his mother have the best /,
wishes of the writer.
At the call of the bell our children now daily
h troopng TO school. Where hut three years
ince the grunt of the Wichita Indian, the
qucak Of his papoose, or the howl of the weh. .
lone broke upon the solitude Of these valleys.
&c hear now the hum Of business, The suggc>- !
i've vibration of the school going hell and the /
appy laugh and shout OF school children.
September 4th, 1872. Of typhoid fever. FL I
ert W.. eldest son OF Elmon and Caroline W.