The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-10-17

o .. oOQIes INC eQttof 8n0 proprietor o.
that wide-awake local paper. the Anthony
Journal, spent Monday in the city He say
Anthony and Harper county are fourishine
most satisfactorily.
mother Of Jno. A. Wallace, OF the EAGLE, II
visiting her son and his family.
Mr.. J. E. Wick, of Trinidad, who Is large ly
interested in the coal mines OF that place, has
been spending week in this place making
arrangement for the shipment OF coal. 1t i.
proposed to furnish large per cent. OF the
Goa! consumed in this section from Colorado
Mr.. w. is an uncle Of Mrs. Chas. Hatton.
DR.. Harry Martin and his esiimable wife
have removed to Harper Center. We are
sorry TO lose them as citizens, but glad to
know that they will still continue 20 read the
EAGLE as they have ever SINCE it was first es-
tablished.
| Mrs. Morris Kohn has gone to visit her pa
rents in Marytyille, northern Kansas.
Mrs. G. Z. Miller leaves in few days for
visit to friends in Chicago.
Mrs. Stotler. vile OF Hon. Jacob Stotier, of
Emporia, accompanied by two daughters, is
down to Wichita on visit.
Robert Jacks, Of the popular 'Star Clothing
House," went to ST. Louis last week, as we
mentioned before. He witnessed the great
"Veilcd Prophet procession about which so
| much has been said, and sent us a paper con-
tanning illustrations Of each car. The display
was simply magnificent, eclipsing the Mem
phis and New Orleans mardigras
That wondrous kind feeling born of re-
sponslve fellowship finds living Illustrations,
daily, in these times of carpetbaggers, dead
beats, tramps and adyeaturers, even in hon
est Wichita The pulpit, the editorial sane
tum, and the stage are embraced with equal
facility in these 'iat' days by those who
have taken up arms against outrageous for
time determined to make a strike at all haz.
ards. The latest sell to which our people
have been subjected, occurred soon after the
adjournment of the greenback convention
Saturday night, at Eagle Hall. The sad-eyed
peanut vender and middle man who holds
forth on the corner OF Douglas Avenue and
Main street, in connection with "Happy
jack" a peripatetic fiddler known TO the
Of giving a public entertainment at Eagle
Hall. Bills were Issued containing pro-
gramme promising brilliant things by a COM
pany OF stars, the band played, aud The hall
was filed in the usual expe ditious manner by
several hundred well-meaning citizens. Fol-
lowing the usual stamping, viii sting and 9TH
er demonstrations OF impotence, the curtain
failed to rise. BY request Policeman Mohen
stepped back OF the scenes TO enquire into
the cause OF the unseemly delay. He found
that lone individual, Happy Jack, stripped to
his drawers and shirt, and decorated with u
piece OF red flannel about his waist, maudiin
drunk. endeayoring to tune up his old fiddle.
In answer to the question "Where is the
company ~ he said he and the man in the
ticket office was all there was of II, but that
he proposed 10 give The public their moneys
worth. In the mean time the hall rent had
been collected, and the ban money nid been
collected, a!so. We might remlrs, the iniigna-
ton of Tire crowd had been collected, TO seih-
er with basket Of eggs OF uncertain age.
All ladies had left the hall aud the curtain at
last rose and il rose but once No star was ever
greeted more uproariously. nor received with
stronger tes'im ,nais from his admirers. For
a truth, The nighly-scenied souvenirs rained
upon and about hi person thicker than hal.
But for Policeman Thomp>oa and assistants
who took the fools off to the cooler. followed
by two or three hundred of the "sold OUT
crowd. The cheap farce would have ended in
dear tragedy. Happy jack jumped the coun- /
try, while N. V. Edmonson, his capper, Was
given a chance 10 explain before His Honor,
the Police Judge, Monday morning.