The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-01-03

Who is more worthy Of success in business
than the jolly and happy John Extop, one o
the city coal dealers. He deals in all kinds
Pennsylvania anthracite, Colorado, Texas
and Kansas, also lime. hair, cement, etc
Orders left at almost any store in the city FOL
articles in his lime viii receive prompt atten
lion.
The Custom House has again been burglar
lied and by the same methed employed veal
ago, i. q. entrance effected through pane o
glass situated in back window. This TINT
Mr.. Schattner lost only the change left in th'
drawer and a box OF cigars, while Christ
Pearce counts out OF pocket 50 30 in currency
and two hundred high-priced cigars.
The Wichita post Office paid out for none
orders last week s., 1913, or on an ayerag'
of s409 10 per day. The amount taken il
for orders issued was about half that sum
The money order business is becoming quite
popular. The Wichita office, for 1877, hal
handled of that fund alone over 100000
without so much as the loss OF dollar to any
enc.
We have been furnished with extracts Of
the speeches of w. c. Woodman, Esq, Col.
II. W. Lewis, Capt Balderston and Judge
| W. 2. Campbell, all of which we will lay be.
fore our readers next week. In the mean
| time they will find an article OF our swn aud
one from the pen OF another on the second
page which may prove interesting reading to
such as desire TO know something Of the dit
ierent phases of the money question.
Wichita Chapter No. 80. of Royal Arch
Masons, o; this city, had their annual cleo
ton and installation of officers last Friday
night d. A. Mitchell was eacted Ii. p: j.
c. Redfeld, k ID. Hays. s.; l.. Hays, Treas
urer; Charles Walker. See; W. C. Crawford.
Il. A. C.; I. n Trickey, p. s.; 81. thinner
liz. c. H.; Il. z. Murdoch, j. n. Forey and
Jasper Tricky NJ. of V. s.; J. Rody, Tyler.
"a man named Bacon has examined the
Arkansas river from Little Rock to Newton,
Kansas, and proposes for a bonus of thou
sand dollars TO run steamboat to the latter
place. journal of Commerce.
We would suggest to our friend of the
.Toaa zdl that he post himself in the geography
of Kansas in the contemplation Of trip to
Newton via steamer.
william Il. Il. Book walter, OF RobRoy, In
diana, gentleman of extensive means, is in
our city. He intends or desires to purchase
a large tract of land in the Southwest with s
view of going into stock raising. Mr.. Il. in
forms US that he has leased out for 4 term oil
years remuneralive property in the way OF
mills and agricultural lands that he might
come to Kansas and test thoroughly the en-
terprise alluded to.
The entertainments amateur dramatic-to
DE given tomorrow evening at Eagle Hall for
the benefit the Episcopal society promises
to be very pleasant afIair-real entertaining.
The dramatis prsoaas are well up in their
parasitic muaic will be frst-class and the
acting fine. .'The Last Loaf" standard
performance, is the play. The cause is good
"Now it is Z orter Walton. of Randolph
county, who is in trouble. The lady who
represents hersel f as Mrs. Porter Walton is
from Wichita, and has certificate of mar
rage and other documentary evidence OF her
claim. She demands her hush and's arrest
for bigamy, and produces. sufficient proof to
justify his arrest There was a scene lat
night in a prominent hotel and to-day will
come the sequel. --Farsas City Times.
Our readers will remember the James Num-
case-the man who had married the illegti-
mate daughter of very wealthy Kentucky
gentleman, whose lawyer wrote to the EAGLE
saving that Num- was in this country, and
that the old gentleman was on his last legs,
and that he wanted to find his child to make
her one of the richest wom.n in Kentucky.
Well. Num- and his wife have been found
near Sedalia, Missouri, in very destitute cir
cumstnnces and by the Commonwealth we see
that they baye go ne back TO Kentucky with
their two children TO receive the old mans
biessin 9 and take Possession OF his vast
wealth.
Sol II. Kohn returned from New Mexico
last week not very deeply impressed with the
enterprise Of the country or the intelligence
OF the average inhabitant. Outside of their
respective neighborhoods the Mexican
knows nothing OF the great worlds doings.
not even ought of what transpires in the
next town or county. Newspapers nor tele-
graphs in no way disturb the wonted sereni-
", the dirty doggedness of this descendant
OF the proud Castllian, the indolent negro,
the stoiid Indian, the thrilless, trescherous
native Mexican, mixture of all when the
Greaser is.
e. z. FAIRIES, the results OF whose inventive
genius we have mentioned before. and who
secured letters patent last summer on bug
~ top, sends to the department this week,
model for window cgIrtain-fxture which is
very simple and complete. Mi. FAIRIES is an
engineer on he Atcbison, Topeka & Santa
Fe Railroad and lives here We have anoth
or inventive genius in our town i'll the person
OF Mr.. y. A. Hyde, cashier of the Savings
Bank, who received the patent for a cash
drawer. lie is now engaged on pencil
holder contraption that VIII be the maxim. OF
his fortune.
The Arkansas City Travsler publishes the
following comm uieation from the Indian Ter
Titory. dated December Is. 1871:
"Marshal Mike Meagher arrested two broth
ers, Ed. and Bill Withers, at kiowa, Barber
county, Kansas, on the 10th inst Said gents
are accused Of stealing fifteen or twenty po-
mics from the Cheyennes and Arrapahoes last
June. Meagher was accompanied by small
detachment of troops of the 4th cavalry. The
Withers boys are said to be ''bad ones'' and
that they are wanted in other parts to answer
for violations of the law.
The 4th cavalry at Reno are TO be relieved
by the 10th negro troops. The 4th goes to
the Rio Grande.''
The wheat market for the week has been
very tame indeed, with a tendency to fall of
in price Corn also has been weak-a slight
ly falling of in price. Yet buyers are giving
fine, s1.94 to Sl.47. Corn dull, mixed lots at
643 cents. Baltimore No. 2 wheat, from 81 IA
to S1.47. Corn dull al 63I, cash. The eastern
war has not wrought any change worth not
ing in the prices of grain, and posted writers
on the grain markets of the world think tina:
with the present prospects, viz: the amount
of wheat on hand, and the fattering pros
poets of the new crop, that it will not be any
higher for the next twelve months, or more.
Hon. John A. Halderman, who is spe nding
the winter in Washington, sends US copy Of
the new national Democratic organ the