The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-12-20
TIE GARDEN SPOT OF AMERICA.
Sayings and DOiugs in the Counties and Towns
Of tia Happy Valley.
From. the Newton Kansan.

Of tia Happy Valley.
From. the Newton Kansan.
The call for city election to vote
upon the proposition OF issuing $4,000
in bonds TO build city hall, engine
house. Jail, etc, appears III this paper.
The election is to be January 3, 1873.
There was collision on the farm of
one OF our citizens south of town IA
few days ago, aud with satisfactory
results. Two prairie chickens flying
in opposite directions came together
killing both of them; and the afore-
mentioned farmer being q hear wit
ness of the circumstance, gathered
them in and they were properly serv-
ed up.
From the Arkansas City Traveller.
\ crazy man was found in the Ter
ritory last week with his feet badly
frozen and nearly starved TO death.
He was taken TO Wellington, where
some of his friends reside.
ANOTHER FLAT BoAT.-Captain
Peter Myers and j. Reed, Chief Clerk
of the stern oar, started for Pawnee
| Agency last week with cargo OF
corn. When last heard from they
were doing well--on a sand bar.
Oue of the residents of this county
went TO Nebraska with the intention
of locating there. lie came back, say
ing there was not timber enough
there to hide 4 man in, and that be
could step over any hay stack in the
State.
STEAMBoAT.-Mr. Bacon, gentle
man who has been engaged in running
a steamboat on Lake Michigan for the
past four years, is here to make a
proposition to run boat from Little
Rock to this place, for 4 bonus OF one
thousand dollars, 10 be paid when the
boat has made the second trip. lie
has examined the river, and claims q
boat can be run without difficulty il
the power is sufficient. The money
| viii be subscribed and contract en-
tered into fof the boat to be here next
spring.
From the Oxford Independent.
The fine weather for the last ten
chronic grumblers. Each day they
pronounce weather breeder" but
still the sun shines, and the succeed
ing day equally bright and fine.
The Oxford school, under the man
agement of Professor Hamrick, and
his able assistant, Miss Thomas, is
progressing to the entire satisfaction
of both parents and pupils. Oxford,
for small town, in new country,
may well boast of her superior educa-
tional advantages.
From the Winfield Telegram
New houses are sprinsing up con-
tinually III the city. I'VE think we can
truthfully say that some eighty have
been put up during the last two
months.
From the Sumner County Press.
Corn meets with ready sale Oh the
street at twenty-five cents per bushel.
Fat hogs are selling in this market
at $3.50 per hundred pounds, gross
weight.
| William Carter, of Belle Plaine, and
a party of nine neighbors, returned
last Saturday from the buffalo range,
with about eight thousand pounds OF
beef. They killed thirty-three buffalo,
had pleasant hunt, and returned af-
ter an absence of nearly four weeks
healthy and invigorated. They found
their game in the Panhandle of Texas,
two hundred and fifty miles south
west.
From the Hutchinson Interior.
1t was no trouble to vote county
bonds in 1872, but the taxes of the
year 1877 conclusively prove that the
paying of them is not quite SO easy.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it,
and then if you are an old settler think
of what the sore heads told you in the
years 1S72-73.
The Edgworth brothers, two OF
Center townships most successful
farmers, were in town on Monday and
gave the Interior call. They have
200 acres of growing wheat. Last
summer they used ''header" to cut
their crop. 1t gave perfect satisfac-
ton and they consider it vastly supe-
rior TO the Harvester"
From the Harvey County News
Last Monday lad giving his name
as j.. NJ. Roberts, of Sedgwick county.
was detected stealing bunch of spurs
| and bits from Mears & Shields. He
was promptly arrested and placed in
the cooler until Tuesday, when he
was put to carrying coal. Watching
his chanch be made his escape and has
not since been heard from, On his
person was found q small lantern
| l.; bo hoI 81 ~ f,.o /, Lo afol 10 og
Mr.. Lawrence; also g lot of rings
which he had cut out of AL. Moore's
fifty dollar harness. Sedgwick county
ought to keep her boys at home.
From the Kinsley Republican.
The view presented from Kinsley at
sunrise these bright mornings is
grand indeed. Aided by the pure at
mosphere and mirage peculiar to this
country, objects can be distinctly dis
cerned at great distances that are In
visible later in the day. Nineteen
miles southwest the town of Spear
vile and vicinity can be plainly dis
tlnguished, with Oiferle Intervening
and the great river plainly traced far
up the valley. Twenty miles to the
northeast Fort Larned and the beauti-
full hills and valleys surrounding can
be seen distinctly, while Garfield and
| Fitchburg nestle cozily in the vail ey
intervening. No artist can sketch a
lOvelicr landscape than ours even dur
| ing these sombre winter days; then
what must it be in spring time when
nature smiles in her own loneliness.
From the Winfield Court err.
Beautiful sprInglike weather the
fore part OF this week.
On last Tuesday morning Messrs.
l.. j. Webb, Jay Page, Bert Crapster,
and others whose names we have not
learned, started for grand hunt in
the Indian Territory. They will re-
turn next Saturday.
We arc informed that several young
men from the north part of Winfield
township aud the south part of Rock
township started for the Indian Ter
ritory last Tuesday with a view of To-
eating claims. Some "galoot" IN
formed them that the Territory would
soon be admitted as a State. We un-
derstand their intentions are to re-
main and pre-empt quarter section
of land as soon as it is admitted. We
hope they have provisions to last
them.
After an all nights fight over the
matter in the United States Senate, on
the night of November 31st, Kellogg,
OF Louisiana, Republican, and Butler,
of South Carolina, Democrat, were
sworn ill., Wichita Eagle
The above occurred or the 1st of
December. And then we had an idea