The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-04-04
HOTELS.

There are five or six hotels, all of
which are doing an excellent business.
The Occidental is the largest hotel
building in the Southwest. 1t is q
three story building and is kept in
first class style by Lyon s. Lamb. Mr..
Lyon is an enterprising young gentle
man recently from the east.
The fremont is good house near
the depot, kept by Deming & Baker.
The Valley House, near the depot,is
an excellent place for immigrants and
excursionists. 1t is kept by a. Ray.
The Douglas Avenue is managed by
j. G. Walter, an old landlord well
known to the travelling public.
The Daily House is in the hands of
J. NJ. Carr, an excellent gentleman and
a good landlord.
DRUG BUSINESS.
There are six or seven excellent
drug stores of which the oldest and
| best are those of Aldrich & Brown,
G. G. Matthews, Chas. Lawrence and
j. p. Allen.
COAL BUSINESS.
This is a very important branch of
trade here. Chas. Marsh is the prin-
cipal dealer. He handles Usage shaft,
Fort Scott aud Colorado.
Hays Bros. are dealers in hides and
shoe findings. This is one of the stron-
gest and best firms in Wichita.
HARNESS.
There is no place in the west where
harness is sold so cheap as here.
There are five or six shops. Virgus
e Allen do a large business, as also
does j. X. Francis.
The lumber business is very heavy.
Shellabarger & Oliver are having a
fine trade.
| QUEENSwARE AND GLASSWARE.
The largest and handsomest and
most complete stock of queensware,
glassware and table furnishing goods
south of our own city, is kept by j. E.
Caldwell.
NEWSPAPERS.
Wichita has three newspapers, viz
! The EAGLE, the oldest in the county
and one of the best in the State, by the
Murdoch Bros. They are printing all
extra edition this week of several
thousand copies, full of Wichita and
| Sedgwick county. The Beacon by
White & Smith, the best Democratic
paper in the Southwest, and the Her
aid, new paper published by Mr.,
Robbins, gentleman who migrated
from Mississippi.
PERSONAL MENTION.
William Griffenstein, known as the
''father of Wichita" is candidate for
Mayor.
Sluss & I1atton, prominent lawyers
have fitted up offices over the Wichita
Savings Bank, in splendid style.
Wichita has Library Association
which has collected very fine selec.
ton of books, which is but the nucle-
us to what will in short time be o
magnificent public library. General
Fitzpatrick lectures here for the bene-
fit of the association on Friday night.
The Murphy movement has been
raging here for the last two or three
weeks, and it is said that over two
thousand names have been added to
drink no moro.
In conclusion, | repeat what | have
often written, that there is no finer
section CT country on the continent
than that embraced in the counties OF
Sedgwick, Butler. Cowley, Sumner
and Harper, and there is no more
prosperous town in Kansas than
Wichita. The people here are max
ing an effort to Inform the immigrants
who are coming to Kansas of the adj
vantages presented to them in this To-
cality, and feel very indignant at the
Santa Fe road for endeayoring to pre-
vent the dissemination of facts calcu-
lated to induce settlement here. 1t
seems to me very short sighted III the
company, as the development of this
country will be adding greatly to the
business of the company, and there is
no danger of the reverses which pos
sibly may follow the settlement of the
distant west. s. NJ. f.