Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1879-07-26
OUR KANSAS CITY LETTER.
KANSAS CITY. July 81, 1879.

KANSAS CITY. July 81, 1879.
EDITOR INTELLIGENCER TO say
Kansas City Is ilourishing, is feeb'y eX-
pressing it. 1t is growing growing
more rapidly than Ray county straw
bcrries-and they, favorable wealth
er, il planted early in the morning, can
be eaten rs preserved fruit the same
evening. To Il country boy, like your
correspondent, life here is rs mysterious
as were his Oxford school days to Yer
dant Green before his friend Larkyns
showed him behind the scenes. Some
OF these times will try to write some
of these mysteries to you.
Kansas City has recently added to its
facilities for communicating with the
outside world the telephone, and the
wires Of this instrument are to be found
in every quarter OF the city, and in some
portions o. it they are 50 Tricky clus-
tered rs to render it impossible io count
them. Most OF the promncnt business
houses in the city are connected with the
general office of the company, and trans
nit messages to each otter easily, with
out the inconvenience sf walking sew
cral blocks. i wire alsC runs from here
to independence, ten niles distant, and
| am told that one nee! not speak in an
unusually loud tone otvoicc to be heard
from one point to the 'ther.
| Buldings-both business houses and
resdcnces-arc being erected on almost
every street in the city, and even though
there are twenty-five brick yards here,
brick cannot be furnished rafdly enough.
A very handsome structure, now in
course of erection, on the corner OF
Seventh and Main streets, is, when COM
pleted, to be. occupied by tho enterprls-
mg and well-known firm of loll, Ihay-
CT 81 Williams. These gentlmen have
succeeded in building up q arge and
paying trade, and hope it Will not for
sake them in their new quarters.
Kansas City is full of sneai thieves
and pickpockcts, and if you lave any
valuables about you. it is dangerous tC
be safe on some of the side steets. II
YOU arc out late it isn't 4 bad idea &c
carry Il ..gun," with the full deermna,
tion of using it, if you arc haltedand re-
quired to hold up your hands, Some
eight or ten robbcreS of this character
have occurred during the last two weeks
You are halted by two men, one o
whom has 4 pop lcvelcd on yoi,while
the other relieves you. rather ucerc'
moniousiy, too, of whatever jwelry
and loose change you may have upor
your person. After this you are per
mittcd 10 march on, with the injunction
To speak TO nc one, nor TO look bdlnt
You. inside OF Il block.
Mr.. John Forester tells me that Will
he is not connected with any OF tn,
bands by actual membership. he blows
y ith them all. and is one OF the pa:tie
/ who talk of organizing the band slok
tic old Ec;Yenus letter, to be known 4
says their band wagon VIII bo s6Rt 6siRsEGSle G4S.e
shortly, from Lexington. and also tia
Mir Geo. Zeilcr will settle here Cl o
about August first. when definite tcp
; toward the establishment of this gan
IXnfiUD will bo oL-nn
Mr. james I. Clayton is locaed al
52O Delaware street: Ills pracicc i
growing larger, day by day, AMI he
doing very well.
| saw Mrs. Col. Douthitt nd he
daughter, Miss Maggie, both whor
were looking well, last Sa,ur,!a' The
live at 1o5 Fourteenth and Mail streets
Mrs. VIII Jordon and NIiss,s Fannie
Royie and Belle and Lille Intton hav
been visiting here during the past wee
or two, and Tom Chinn am Charli
l;oyle Were here Sunday.
Mr B. S. Cromwell left : day or tw
ago for trip over the G. s A. and No
+. roads, looking after theaprle inter
csts. "Scoit'' is representing one G
the best houses here-Fonta Il Gump
and while he will buy up apples whereve
he can find them, he will sci goods whe
he can, and carries sampls with him O
his trip.
Mr.. Chas. Crary. OF the stavc factor,
at Napoleon, whom | MT at the Nal
row Gauge depot here, asst Saturda
morning, told me he had 10 complaint
to make, but that he thought it no NOR
than right that the miles ut LeNineto
should give him at least Il portion O
their patronage, his beng 4 l.alayett
county enterprise. tn nix he is RICH
He says he will furnish rs good materia
as st. Louis, and at as low rates. If tn
be true, and there is no reason to douE
1t, why don't the Lexington millers Ell
courage Mr.. Crary and enable him to ex
tend and build up an industry which co,
h!in 4 great deal of money? Mr.. Crar
deserves great credit Tor his enterprise
beng quite Il young man. and shoul
the home patronage and support Ii
ought to receive be given him, he ca
increase his facilities, giving employ
1nent TO larger number Of men, whlc
would be of benefit to the entire count,
ours. SAM.
MR.. HAYES SELF CONDEMNED,
Ilrom the New York sun.
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