The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1876-06-08

Mrs. J. W. Eldridge, wife Of the Cashier o
the First National Bank, left on Tucsda,
Mrs. E. will be absent during the heated term
and will be missed by large circle of friends
and society acquaintanees.
The Kansas City Times speaks of d. z. Al
exander rs the great stock man of Wichita
However that may be, we know that Mr.. A
brought up last week from Missouri the fines
lot Of mules that we have ever seen outside o.
the Kentucky blue grass region. Six or eight
pair Of these animals are hard to beat either
i'm size or build. He has them for sale at the
City Stables.
Mr.. w. I. jew EFT sold one hundred head oil
corn fed Texas steers last Saturday, having
fed them two thousand bushels of sheed
corn, thereby demonstrating that Texas cat
tie can be fattened the first season. The LOT
was about the finest herd of long horns ever
put upon this market, and brought just four
teen dollars per head more than he paid for
them.
nouncement to us, this morning, that the
Presbyterian society determined, last night,
to build a brick church 40x65, en- the corner
OF First street and Lawrence avenue, the cor
ner stone to be laid on the Fourth Of July,
with imposing ceremonies. IL will be me-
mortal church and our people all should lend
it helping hand,
| The County Commissioners, as Board OF
Equalization, have been in session the fore
part of this week. They find many inaccuro-
cies and irregularities in the assessment re-
turns, also that many parties have made no
returns at all while others made ridiculously
snail returns of their personal property. The
Board propose to see justice done and deli n
gents brought to time, which is right.
Dr. Merrill, who has been spending some
| time on the Pacific coast, and who favored
the EAGLE with 4 letter of two, returned to
the Arkansas Valley last Saturday. He
thinks that after a man has once resided in
this valley it is hard to find new location
that will give any satisfaction. The Doctor is
a versatile writer and most entertaining
talker
Mr.. Wedner, whose farm lies in the fork of
the two rivers, will commence his wheat har-
vest tomorrow, following him Perry wilkins
will open on Monday, and before the end of
the week nearly all the machines in the coun-
ty will have been oiled up and ready to start
For the ten days that follow next week an ay-
erage of three thousand acres per day will
have to be cut and cared for.
A new town is to be laid out on Smooch
creek, in Kingman county. Smooch is trib-
utary of the Nlnnescah river and is said to be
a fine little stream bordered by splendid
country. The new city will be near the geo.
graphical center of Kingman county, and as
parties of well known means and energy liv-
ing in this city propose TO take hold of the
enterprise we shouldn't be surprisedif ''go"
was made OF it.
Senator IL. C. St. Clair was up from his
home last Saturday to purchase harvester
and make other preparations for the gather
ing OF his wheat crop. In the wheat field or
upon the Senate floor the Colonel is the same
earnest gentleman and sound citizen, ever on
the alert for the interests of the valley, and
free from all local prejudice or preferences.
His warm, substantial friends, supporters and
admirers can be counted by tie score in this
city. Long may he wave.
We dropped out to see Ii. r. Buffers big
power corn-sheller operate the other day.
Two men show in the corn, while another
shoyeled away the cobs. Eight horses fur
nisbcd the power and one team pulled away
the wagons as fast as loaded with sheed corn
Mr.. b. informed us that he had shelled over
sixty thousand bushels this spring and would
dispose of about twenty thousand more. The
capacity OF the shelter is from fifteen hundred
to two thousand bushels per day.
Two young girls, one about fifteen and the
other sixteen years of age, arrived in town
yesterday, from Iowa, from whence they had
been sent by their father TO Wichita, expect
ing to meet their btother, j. S. Weeks. The
brother left several days ago for Larmie, Wy
oming Territory, at least that is the point to
which he ordered his mail. The girls are in
nocent children in strange land and withou:
friends and we trust they will not be left to
the cold charities of the world and its temp
taiions.
w. l.. Mcclure returned from Colorado last
week. He visited Las Animas, Trinidad and
other points during his absence The narrow
gauge read is nearly completed to Trinidad
and that county had almost unanimously
voted bonds for an extension of the Kansas
Pacific. Billy says the whole of Southern
Colorado is rich in minerals, and that in the
vicinity of Trinidad the coal fields are mex
haustible, and Trinidad must make place of
some importance. The only prolific crop no.
ticed by our friend was that of grasshoppers.
He found his father well and doing smash
ing business.
Some four hundred Texas ponies have been
thrown upon the market for sale. Dagncr Il
Co., are disposing of them at auction. Den
ny shoots of his mouth then his colored band
begins TO play, the crowd rushes up and away
goes mustang for the matter of twenty-five |
or thirty dollars. Every one of these noble |
equnes are warranted to stand-to stand on |
their heads or hind lgs, as the case may be- |
The innocent purchaser but mounts his new
purchase to find his back dusty, his colt stan1- |
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