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

The Beloit Gazette says that the
grade of that city is being established
Wamego Blade: There is not a good
dwelling house in town vacant, and
every business place is occupied.
Salina Advocate: Five hundred cords
of wood passed down the Smoky Hill
river last Saturday afternoon and even
ing.
Chanute Times: Parties from the
east who have come to look at our
country, and perhaps buy land, are to
be seen OH our streets daily.
Winfield Courier: Cowley county
has over 400, 900 fruit trees set out into
orchards. Somebody has been busy
during the past five years.
Rice County Gazette: The store
building which Messrs. Clark & Holmes
have removed from Atlanta to Lyon,
is to be temporarily fitted up for a
court room for the June session.
Ottawa Republican: Thos Osborn,
Kanaas' best Governor, was in town
Yesterday. He visited Williamsburg
and Silkville with view of getting
some information in regard TO silk cul-
ture in Kansas.
Lawrence Standard: The Young
Ladies Centennial Association has
concluded to use its accrued moneys in
getting UP fine picture of the State
University, to be hung in the Kansas
Centennial building at Philadelphia.
The Intellectual attempts of beauti-
full girl, about twelve years OF age, to
persuade her drunken father to leave
Choctaw street and go home, yester-
afternoon, were the subject of much
comment by those who were passing
and witnessed the scene.-Learen-
acorM Times.
Some of our Circleyille friends COM
plain that, though they have neither a
saloon or drug store in their village,
the boys manage in some way to get
enough of the inebriating fluid to get
on ga bit of SPREE" occasionally.
The query seems to be, who furnishes
the ardent ?-HoItoD Recorder.
Junction City has a shoe factory, and
the Union has been through it. 1t
SAYS: "Mr. Hill informs us that the
of the factory is thirty-six
cases per day, or eight hundred and
sixty-four single boots every ten hours
with the full force on. The factory is
good run of custom.
AT meeting of the Trustees of
Charitable Institutions, held at the
on Saturday last, the resigna-
ton of Professor jenkins, Superin-
tendent of the Deaf and Dumb Asy-
lum at Olathe, was accepted, to take
effect in June, and Hon. L. G.. Bowles,
of Ottawa, was appointed to fill the
vacancy.-MiGmi Republican.
The Usage correspondent of the
Girard Press has this to say: 'You
don't have anything to say about the
across the south part of the
county, from Cherokee to Parsons.
For the information of those interest
ed in the welfare of all parts of the
county, | will say that Usage town.
ship has just voted $4,000 in bonds.
The intention is to vote bonds along
The line, by townships, and loan the
proceeds to aid in the construction Of
said road. which is intended some day
10 extend from Memphis. Tennessee.
% Ellsworth, OH the Kansas Pacific
The new buildings of the Insane
Asylum are obout completed, aud will
,e occupied as soon as the furnishing
If the same can be accomplished. |
From an inspection of the new struc-
ures your correspondent will express
he following opinion: 1.-The job, |
AIKEN as whole. is good one. Some |
ault may be partly found in some of |
he details. The framework of the |
oof of the main building would seem
0 be deficient in Durability for SO
arge building as this is. And also
he brick work of the walls should
ave been carried higher, as an extra
Import and weight to the roof. Some
f the brick used in the corridors, etc,
we're of an inferior quality, but the
tone and brick work generally is of
and workmanlike kind.
he carpenter work is a good job, and
he material used of the best quality:
nd no better plastering can be found
, the State for a job of that kind.
he Stata of Kansas has value received
II all the money expended in erecting
he Insane Asylum buildings."-Paola
pirit. /