The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-12-27
TIE GARDEN SPOT OF AMERICA.
Sayings and Doings in the Counties and Towns
Of the Happy Valley.
From the Great Bend Register.


From the Great Bend Register.
The new Methodist church building
is rapidly going on TO completion.
Tic weather is extremely mild.
Some nights it is not cold enough
even for any frost. 1t is now really
an Indian summer
L. r.. Kentch has this fall killed 103
wild geese-killing nine at one shot.
Last fall he killed ninety geese. Louis
is goose killer without any discount
that's certain. Who's next?
Mr.. Stilson, of Ness county sold last
week, 100 head OF yearling steers to a
Kansas City firm at 800 head deliv-
cred on day of sale. This is the best
sale of which we have yet heard this
wear. The steers were never fed
grain and were half native and half
Texas breed.
From the Harvey County News
Jerry Barker and JEFF Grant had an
alteration III Rhoadcs' store yester-
dav morning over the serving of legal
papers. Jerry pulled pistol, but the
matter was dropped before any blood
was spilled.
The case of Weber, for shooting
Henry Bruner, camc up for eXamina-
ton in Judge Gathers Court Monday
last. Nobody appeared to prosecute
and the case was dismissed. County
Attorney Reid tried hard to get some
one to prosecute but did not succeed.
Money is at the bottom of the strange
action, and justice has been made a
mockory and farce.
From the Winfield Courier
Mr.. and Mrs. James II, Vance visit
ed Wichita last week. Jim reports
everything .'dead" and duh in that
once lively and thriving little town.
[Jim must have been drunk or
crazy, or both.-ED. EAGLE.l
1t is reported that several persons
of the foot pad variety stopped the
stage between Wellington and Cald-
well, last Thursday, robbing the pas
sengers and cutting open the mail.
Mr.. Peter Walton is sensible ard
substantial farmer Of the Grouse val
ley. He came over to the Winfield
mill the other day dressed suitably
for handling -four bags. One of the
mill boys asked him If he was Wirt's
brother, and was answered i'll the al
firmative. "Well," said the mill boy,
'.you don't put on as much style as
Writ does" NO" SAID Peter. Il
used to be just such id fool as
he is, had q three hundred dollar
horse, and wore brass toed boots, but
have got over that"
From the Arkansas City Traveller.
Old Mr.. LOOMS, a gentleman of
seyenty-tiye years of age, carried
eighty bushels of wheat a distance Of
eighty feet; carrying one and half
bushels at a time, last week, and
claimed he did not feel much fatigued
either. When even old men come to
Kansas they get young and strong
again.
James Bartlett, John Carr, William
Riggs and Drury Logan, OF Sumner
county, went to the Cbicaskia river
last week, with seine 800 feet long
and fifteen feet wide. They set the
seine across the river and drew it up
in an hour or so with good number
of fish in it. They set ii again and
went above some distance and came
down in The water, siashing about
and driving the fish into the net.
When they attempted to raise the
sein again it was so heavy with fish
they could not raise it, and they be-
gan grabbing them and throwing
them out. Whom the seine was pulled
out, they counted one thousand and
sixty-three fish, weighing from two TO
forty pounds and averaging four
pounds each. They seined but short
time, and returned TO the State with
six thousand pounds of fish,
From the sumner County Press.
a petition for dram shop license,
was beaten by rcmonstrance, before
the city council last week.
The late warm weather is causing
fruit buds to swell, aud danger Of the
destruction of the entire crop of
peaches is apprehended by fruit men.
A man calling himself Thomas Nell
son was some weeks since found in
the Indian Territory, in destitute
and starving condition, and with his
extremities badly frozen. lie was
brought into the county, and after
ward to Wellington, and placed in the
care of the overseer of the poor. Up
on examination, DR.. p. a. Wood,
County Physician, deemed it advis-
able TO amputate his feet, and would
have done so, but the poor fellow
begged piteously for their retention.
Under skillful treatment he began to
recover, contrary to the expectations
of the physicians; and on Tuesday he
appeared before Judge Evans and a
jury, charged with insanity. Itseems
that the charge was based on his in
ability or Discrimination TO give any
Ineligible account Of himself, prior
to his discovery as above stated.
While he seems to be able to converse
and answer other questions, he per-
sistently evades or refuses TO tell
where he is from or who are his
friends. After hearing evidence and
carefully investigating the case, the
Jury decided that che man was sane,
and he was remanded to the care of
the overseer of the poor. For several
weeks he has been cared for and treat
ed at the expense of the county, and
he is yet likely to continue public
burden for some time to come. There
is a mystery surrounding this case,
that so far has baffled every effort at