The Wichita city eagle., 1873-09-18
From the oxford Enterprise

Several prairie fires have been not C.
ed to the north and west during the
week past. Now is the time to guard
against the loss of property bv the
ravages OF the firc-fend.
At school meeting of the citizens
OF Oxford. on Wednesday last. College
hill. in the northeast part of town.
was selected as the best location for
the new $1,000 stone school house.
/ y few evenings since as DR.. Austil.
was returning from a visit II some pa
tients across the river. he was con-
I fronied by catamount in the middle
of the road. The Doctor charged on
I his feline foe. which at first. SCENE dis
posed to contest his right 10 the unb-
/ lie highway. when his catship retreat
ed and was soon lost to sight in the
tall grass and weeds of the valley.
I The manufacture of salt will vet he
come one of the principal industries OF
/ Sumner county. as il has been proven
beyond question. that good article
can be made from the numerous salt
springs OH Slate creek, and at Keenan,
TO. south of Oiord in the Arkansas
valley. The proprietors of the salt
works rely entirely on solar evapoia-
ton. as yet. With proper facilities.
Sumner county can furnish cheap salt
10 III. entire state aud territories of the
west.
On our return from q visit to Wichi-
ia last week. we noticed several fields
OF cosior beans that promise an abun-
dent yield. We also noticed some
fields of cotton that looked well. and
our travelling companion who is fa-
millar with the crop, predicted that
within q few wears cotton raising
would be one of the principal indus
tries of this part of our state.
Col. Knapp has sold his nice resi-
deRce in Oxford to b. F. Smith esq. OF
the dry goods firm OfCCldwcll & Smith.
fer 81, 400. and is moving 10 his farm
three miles south. He has sixty acres
of castor beans, sixty acres of corn be-
sides other crops, and Il fine stool of
superior cattle and hogs. He is SOW
ing eigty acres of fall wheat and in
tends to make a model farm. Success
to good earnest farming.
The stone work on the basement OF
Cmphrie's block is completed and
ready for the brick masons The first
floor is 10 be used or some branch of
business. and the second as Masc C
and Odd Fellows hall. The bui' .ng
will he The best and most suhst. tial
Of ans III Sumner county.
Consiab'a Krell has left ut our office
specimen of corn raised on the sod. he
stalk of which measured fourteen feet.
and the ear ten inches in length. j.
eight inches in circumference. and lH.
fourteen rows of well formed kern"lS.
Mr.. krell says if any one doubts ais
statement we shall send them t. hili
and. he viii show TWENTY-FIVE ARE
field of the same kind.
Three hundred aud seyenty-oac
thousand six hundred Texas catf'e.
have been driven through 81 ner
county this season.
The voice of the sorghum mill Is
again heard in the land. and whole
families go about refusing to be com
Portable with molasses i'll their halr
Mrs. Dillingham;, former citizen of
this place, now Of Chicago. H.. after
spending some days in Oxford. re lrn-
ed to her home by the lake, Tuesday.
B. F. Peacock, of the firm of Peacock
Il Coldwcll. will visit his friends and
relatives III and near Shcibyville. Ten
nessee, during the nexttew weeks. He
left on Monday last.
Several ''rnnners,' representing the
commercial towns of Wichita. Leavcu-
worth, AtchisOn, Kansas City and St
Louis, importuned our business men
during the week, to purchase ''some.
thing in our line"
The Rev. C.. +. Lewis. member of
the Oxford Town Company. now re-
siding al Emporia, is working up a
grand excursion and buffalo hunt. II
is proposed TO 20 to TT. Dodge about
the first Of October. and spend several
days in shooting buffalo. etc.
Rev. J. II. Wilson. Of the Presbyter-
ian church. has been compelled to give
up his missionary work at Oxford and
Wellington. Mr.. Wilson goes to
Springfield, Mo, where he will re-en
gage III pastoral labors. His many
friends here regret the necessity which
has caused the change.
Many farmers in this vicinity ar
making large quantities of hay. with
view of taking cattle TO winter. 1t is
generally believed that thousands Ct
cattle intended for the fall market W. /
be kept over winter in consequence of
present low prices. Ii will be n good
thing for the county if the surplus
grass on our prairies can he made
source of revenue.