The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1880-03-25
A SHEEP CORPORATION.

enterprise lately inaugurated in this city BY
a stock company which has been duly incor-
porated, whose operations will no doubt in
terest many farmers Of the county 1t Is
company for the purchase Of sheep. to be let
out on shares. II will be remembered that
the Messrs. Hays Bros. two years since
brought into this valley 6ock Of fine wool
thoroughbred sheep, which we're taken on
shares by Mr.. Pink Fouts, who upon two or
three occasions gave his experience m hand
ling them through these columns. The VEN
ture proved so profitable TO both the owners
and sharer that It Il now proposed to 90 Into
the business on a large scale. Mr.. Hays,
claims, and sor that Inatter satisfactorily
shows the immense prohts accruing from
such an investment. Full bloods are found
to be entirely free from all disease in this
valley. and their increase In numbers and
yield Of wool is simply wonderful. He has
interviewed all the prominent sheep grower
OF the southwest, and all agree a. to the
proftsblcness Of such hsndling. The
shares Of the joint stock company will be
placed at one hundred dollars each, and Mr..
Hays says for series of five years forty per
centum per annum is a low figure for the
= few hundred dollars worth, for which be-
must give good security for the keeping and
care, for which he Is to have halt the increase
and half the WELD
On last Saturday night genuine frontier
variety show gave performance in this cit,
at Russell Hall. Your reporter failing to OBJ
serve the editor of the EAGLF present took a
few notes. II was the first OF the kind that
has given an entertainment here since tn.
days when the long-horns grazed in counties.
numbers on all the hills and in all the valleys
around Wichita; since the days when the
festive cowboy, with his broad-brimme,
white hat, blue flannel shirt, and buttcr-nut
velvet pants, was prominent feature Of oui
city; since the days when Blake, John Red
den. and little and big casino entertaineu
admiring audiences with wit, ribaldry ant.
leg at the old Variety" IN Main street
Three blondes constituted the chief attractio,
OF the troupe. The bills represented tina
they would appear in semi-nudc style
which part Of tn programme. however, the.
did not carry out to the extent advertised.
thereby Disappointing many marrieu men
and men whose heads are rs destitute of hair
as canvas-awning, who had paid seventy
five cents Tor front seat and iity cents extra
FOR The use of an opera glass. To say that the
hall was crowded is mild way OF saying i;
was perfect jam. The crowd was good
uatured. and represented every condition
phase and occupation OF life that abOunds il
sssneiropolis. and. with the exception of til.
married men and old men--whO had gone
strictly tor the purpose of seeing the show
the majority seemed to be looking for some
body: in fact, there appeared to be great
number Of men lost that night. and . yer,
great number Of men looking for them, aud
all seemed to think that they could be found
at the hall. And they were right about il
There was mt woman present; and IL the
curtain had raised without notice to til.
crowd. and the wives of the different fellow
who had gone to the lodge that evening hat
been on the stage, there would have been a
very grand exit from that hall. and fine little
teie tetes when the maynard husbands re-
turned home. The composition of the au-
diencc was about as follows: Four lawyers.
dozen doctors. all the real estate and insur-
ancc agents in town, representatives OF all
the newspapers. secular and religious. one
hundred and fifteen OF the toniest part-their-
hair-in-the middle-dry- goods clerks, all the
county officers on the second floor. all the
postofiice aud hotel clerks, with white kids
and jeweled opera glasses. the president
secretary. and leading members OF the old
Qui- FIRE. giving the audience an air that IL
would not have had had they been aoscnt--n
thing not likely to occur. though. wheE
shows of that kind are in town all the drug
clerks that decorate various drug stores OF
the city were present. and appeared fascinat-
ed with the tone of the entertainment; .
prominent educator. whose Jurisdiction j.
co-extcnsive with the county, got ~ far A.
the door. but a sly look at the crowd soon
caused him to discover that It was not q nor
mai institute that was In session. and what.
ever his inclination may have been he grace
fully retired. The city officers were present
in considerable numbers, as guests OF the
proprietor we presume. In fact, as we have
stated. everybody was there. and that the
with the crowd j.. Of course, true. but that
they made y mistake in pat onizing an enter.
tanment of that kind they will all admit, for
II was simply destitute Of any merit whatev-
er. even rs limb entertainments an entire
failure