The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1874-07-23

Some unconscionable wretch, over the sig
nature of Cyrus Kisses forth poisoned mess
of stuff about Wichita and her people through
the columns Of last weeks Chicago Tines. The
Topeka Commonwealth gave the sneakIng Vi
per good whipping, which we copied last
week. but at which time we had not seen the
calumny. The whole article, copies Of which
have been sent TO several Of our citizens, i 4
tissue of the meanest kind Of falsehoods, all ill.,
tended to injure our town and its business.
and was evidently the result of disappoint-
ment and chagrin. The sneak has been spot
ted. and if our surmise be correct, he is a long
cared, whopper-jaw brainless dead beat.
possessing an amount OF check that would put
a mexican mule TO the blush. A few months
ago he wore out two or three unpaid for suits
in borcing our people tor patronage 10 sustain
an institution, the dcstinies of which he was as
i'll calculated to care for. 10 foster and protect,
as Hottentot would be to teach true chris
tianity. The people Of Wichita withheld their
endorsement, and he rctaliates by sayin, that
wichita is undoubtedly the hardest town in
America, and that a strong guard is stationed
in the principal streets TO preserve order.
strong guard can be raised upon each street
TO tar and feather him should he ever return.
This short-witted tool says, 81 am acquainted
with several young ladies who when they
came here. were respectable, but who are to-
day cropping their way in the lower depths of
degradation" We doubt the respectability
Of any woman who ever had anything to do
with the thing signing himself cyrus His
associations would contaminate purity and
blast reputation itself. Besides how did this
whoobub learn so much of these several
young ladies'" and their nul lber! This botch
says that 1.-THE good people are selling out and
leaving We have heard of nobody leaving,
unless it was him, and the absence of such a sa-
tire on civilization and cultivation. would have
been long since forgotten had lie paid his bills.
II he means by''good people, "himself, then the
devil will find little TO do hereafter upon this
earth. No.Cyrus is smarting and burning over
the want Of appreciation Of his brilliant ac-
quirements. And he will smart and burn
thousand fold unless he repents of his I'M
warranted and unmitigated lie written by him
against this town and its people, simply be-
cause it and they are too good and too inteli-
gent to encourage or harbor such things as he
has proven himself to be.
Chas. W. Hill has moved his large drug es-
Enlistment into his new building on Douglas
avenue, opposite the Eagle block, which leads
us to remember that little over two years
ago we moved the EAGLE establishment on to
the same avenue. at which time there was no
other business represented on the street. il
we except old Jack Peyton's harness shanty.
We felt lonesome enough,but suitable room
was to be found nowhere else. In the short
space Of two years and we find ourselves, not
4 block from the center OF business, and Doug
las avenue business street. To give some
idea of the extent Of the trade that has since
grown up and the amount Of capital represent
ed upon this street we have compiled the fol-
lowing table which will be found very nearly
or quite correct