The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1881-03-24


Beef is fifteen cents pound at Ellsworth.
The United Presbyterians Of Garrett arc
going TO build new church.
Hydrophobia is feared in Anderson county,
and dogs are ruthessly slaughtered.
II IL claimed that-sa new coal bed, at least
seven feet in thickness, has been found at
Clinton.
Mr.. 4. d. Downs. who has been postmas-
ter ut wysndotte for fourteen years, is sue
cceded by George Reichcnecker.
Stockton Ntws: e. c. Woods has made ar
aangements to SOW one hundred acres Of fax
this spring, on his farm west OF town. and
Judge Denney will sow eighty acres on his
farm on Box Elder creek.
Newton kdnsaa. The new Jail is almost
completed. and the two first criminal occu-
pants were taken In on Tuesday. The jailis
a fine building. and will answer all the needs
of.the county for many years.
A young man by the name OF Irwin had
his hand badly mashed at Irving the other
day by getting il caught in a corn shelter
His thumb aud one or two fingers were so
badl ymashcd that they had to be amputated.
Cottonwood Fails Leader: Lantry Il Burr,
OF Cottonwood, have been awarded con-
tract TO ballast 100 miles of the Santa Fe road
west Of Newton. They will erect two crush
ing machines for the purpose of breaking
the stone.
Newton RepsJiiean Frank W aigden, while
chasing rabbit on his fine black horse. val
ued at 800, ran into corn field. The horses
hind leg ran through the crust and broke of.
and the animal had to be shot.
Hutchison lsrs: Monday night SINE
scamp set fire to the old brewry building on
the north side, and in an hour "a, 500 worth
OF property was wholly destroyed for John
Young. The insurance was not large, so
John will be heavy looser.
Usage City Pres: Hay is now worth sl4 a
ton, delivered baled on the track ut this
place. II people would ever learn the lesson
that it il fully AS profitable to save the hay
after il is cut a. il Is TO cut 1t. 1t would prove
Of great value in the hay business.
Wyandot;e Ga-ette: So eager are some men
now to hurry up their drinks that a few days
ago man in WyandOtte swallowed guam
tity Of aqua ammonia, and recently another
took big swallow Of acOnitc. Both men
were saved by the doctors to try it again.
Troy Chi5: The mails have been dread
fu! annoyance the past six weeks. One day
they are stopped by snow storm the next,
by high waters; the next, by ditched
train and so on. There were no mails on
day morning until "Wednesday.
Winfield Telegram: The wife of maynard
citizen assisted the marseal in trailing her
dutiful q husband to place Of evil repute,
on "Wednesday night, andin accordance with
the eternal fitness Of things, formed part Of
his escort to the cooler. \ go bill satisfied
the outraged law the next morning, but the
terms of capitulation or settlement with the
abused "better half" have not been made
public.
Larncd chro"o.sajas; We hear unfortunate
reports OF the sheet. business in Lane coun-
Is. One flock,nan has harvested 800 pelts
from a flock of 300, and still another with a
band Of ,2)0 has lost every one. We believe
the losses in this country are less than two
per cent. 1t il better 10 feed than to attempt
to winter cattle on an extra abundance OF
win'.
Marys,illc Mrs: A terrible misfortune
overlook load of eight persons Thursday
night, who attempted 10 cross Deer creek, in
the vicinity of what is known as the Deer
creek sai.sol house. about six miles north Of
town. \ fanuily ny the name Of Shaw came
in on the train that esGSi8g tom the east,
either Tor Il visit or to locate with friends in
that ncighborhood, and were on their way
L, their place of destination when the cal IN
its occurred. We lack many OF the partcu-
Lara, but have learned that three of the wo-
men were dr.~p"d. the body o. only one at
this writing having ne.n recovered.
Eureka MtraH: Mr.. Manly Dowell. of OF
ter creek, informs us that he has a dog that
became rabid from a bite inflicted by skunk
several weeks ago. IT, noticed the dog was
bitten about the mouth after Its fight with
the skunk, but thought nothing about il ur-
I'll some days after, when he discovered uE-
mistakable signs OF hydrophobia in the ami
NAL. In one of his its the dog Bit several
hogs which in turn went mad also, acting
very similar to the dog. 1t is said that the
bite Of BLOCK skunk will invariably produce
hydrophobia. Mr.. Dowell says he don't know
what kind OF a skunk this was, but the dog
has often fought these animals before with
out anv bad results. lie also informs us that
several other dogs on Otter creek have been
killed lately because of this disease. Extra
vigilance with reference 10 dogs is recon-
mended at present.