The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1880-05-13

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WICHITA, KANSAS, MAY Is, 1850
CITY A:lDCOUNTY NEWS
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COUNTY CENTRAL COMMITTEE MEETIEG
The sedgwick County Republican Contra
Committee will meet at the EAGLE Office, Sat
urday, May %. 1880, ut 2 O'Clock p. m. A full
attendance is desired as business Of impor
lance must be transacted.
l.. n. WooDcocK, Chairman.
John KELLY, Secretary.
H. W. Lcwss offers Mccormick reaper 70,
sale.
MIR. J. Keller has gone to Colorado-wil
Ice absent few weeks.
Grant township folks arc requested not to
forget the park meeting on Saturday.
Mr.. Fitch, OF Chicago, brother to Mrs. Oak
Davidson, 10 visiting his sister and our city.
So far as time is concerned the new mail
arrangements are not much OF an improve
ment.
Joe Askew's fine buck sheared thirty
pounds Of wool last week, netting some
$1,000
W. II. Pilkenton, Grand Master Of the Odd
Fellows OF this state. will be in the city next
Tuesday
Mr. Casad's eldest boy W i'll be 4 cOmpetit-
or at Newton for the position Of cadet at
West Point.
Under the new mail arrangements the
Daily Commonwealth list will reach one hun
dred or more.
The L.. l.. Il q. have completed arrange
ments and fully determined to extend its line
to Harper City.
Rev. Louis DeLew, DID, LII. D., called
on Monday. lie is divine OF fine culture
and erudition.
Commissioner York is expected home to-
day from the mountains where he has been
for several weeks
W. A. Daley, Of Union, connected with
the Land Department of the A. & S. +. Il. r.,
was in the city Tuesday last.
Ira Trickey, of Mulvane, was in the city
this week Trickcy & co. are in the mer-
chandising business in that city.
The daily mail to Anthony will be discon-
tinued after the first prox., and the mail TO
Harper cut down to tri-weekly.
Dr. &. c. Furley, President OF the State
Medical Association, is absent attending the
annual meeting which this year is at Topeka.
Mrs L. T.. Barbee has gone to Platt county,
Missouri. TO see her mother who was recent
ly thrown from u carriage and dangerously
hurt.
Major John ID. Miles the popular and sue
cesrf,il agent OF the Arapahoe and Cheyenne
Indians. spent sunday and Monday in the
city.
The locomotive will be in Caldwell within
week ami The Trail City is booming. The
Comnerc,al and Post both are bawling like
two wild Texas steers.
The Turner's Of the city and their many
friends are anticipating n very pleasant time
on the 18th next Tuesday evening. Invita-
tions are out for ball on that occasion.
Our friend, J. W. Bell, will accept our
thanks for couple OF bulbs OF the Yucca
Fiismen,osis, the famous Mexican plant,
whose Towering stock often attains a height
of from three TO four feet.
A new settler living about 20 miles west in
This county had both Of his horses killed by
lightning last saturday morning He had
just got into his new house the night before
the calamity. We could not hear his name.
The Women's Christian Aid Society. de-
sire 90 sincerely thank the many who con-
tributed 80 much 10 the success of their fair
and festival. The net receipts OF the enter
tainmcnt exceeded one hundred and twenty
five dollars
For The bench, of the Episcopal church
Mrs. Whites Execution class. assisted by
Others, viii give an entertainment at Che
Opera House tomorrow Friday night. Mrs.
Whites reputation as an elocutionist is
guarantee enough that the evening will be
rendered delightful.
The white sand or chalk formation that we
spoke of few weeks since as existing in the
northwest corner OF the county, we are in
formed by Oliver Budd, is very extensive
deposit. That gentleman brought in several
bushels of the material, but 10 one has yet
been able to tell what il is.
The Southwestern Trotting Circuit opens
out most promisingly. Sixty horses. which
include many of the finest goers of eastern
tracks, repcited at Topeka last week. The
entire number will make the circuit and
Wichita will witness the fastest going ever
seen ives, Of the Mississippi.
Our statement last week that Mr.. Moore
originally paid Capt Tarlton $500 fer Ada
Paul was AN entire msapprehension We
made The statement from recollection. The
sum paid was 81 900, as the bill of sale signed
by the deceased Captains own hand shows.
Ada Paul will be heard from in the next
three years.
A fin, rain tell Saturday. From every Sec
tion of the State heard from the same bless
ing was enjoyed. Mr.. Barnes, who for many
years has carefully kept a record Of all rain
falls. says the guagc showed saturdays fall
10 have been exactly one inch. The rain
last "Wednesday a week was onc-tenth Of an
inch less. Mr.. Barnes has promised to give
as for publication the actual rain fall hcreaf-
ter.
The party OF gentlemen who treated lis and
ours 10 that iinc serenade Saturday midnight
will accept thanks. The music WIS simply
delightful. and the closing "Swsct Bye and
Bye" was sweet indeed The trembling notes
of harp. tu;o and violin aoatcd through our
open window like a concoriant prophcsy Of
some harmonious rest. aud which, eor one
brief moment AT least, quietcd the ycNing and
an xious discords of every day life.
NJ 5. SproNies. T.. NJ Karr and Il. c. Nc
Lean. of Kingman, have been arrested for
obtaining money under false prctences, or
forged abstracts from money loaners. Walker
4 Co., OF Lawrence; and Davidson, OF this
city. are sufferers TO the tune of $500.
Sprowles gave hail in $500 aud jumped the
country and Mclean, failing to indemnify,