The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1882-02-16
The best lob Of house naintiny ever done

The best job of house painting ever done
is HAT of Col. Ii. W. Lewis. The colors are
not to our taste, still the harmonies are pre-
served. But the work is honest, painstak-
ing and good We don't know who did the
job, but If all the work of the town was as
good we wouldn't know the place.
The officers Of the st. Louis, Fort Scott &
Wichita road, in company with number OF
invited guests, took an excursion over that
road Friday. The track is completed to To-
ronto, Woodson county, eighty miles west
of Fort Scott, and as some OF the gentlemen
who were backing this enterprise had never
been over the road this excursion was ar
ranged for that purpose.
The Lotus Club has subsidized. Many mar
riages and consequences seems to have
quenched the more gentle ardor that attracts
only for the hour. Connubial felicity, ever
constant and strong, is TOO ardent, and the
too awfully toe concourse becomes insipid
and stale. Ask & Child bought the furniture
and fixtures of the club rooms, which are Of
fered for sale cheap.
The professional men OF This city, few
years since, were largely interested in wheat
growing. A majority of our doctors, law
yers, etc, boosted of their yields of grain.
But of late the tendencies of this same class
seems toward live stock, especially sheep.
Bankers. business men, loan agents, lawyers,
editors and doctors now talk largely of comb.
ing woods. short neeces, high grade bucks,
etc. DIR. Russell received five hundred head
of sheep from Missouri on Friday.
'Was there ever such winter.o is pro-
pounded daily. There has been no winter
in fact. The first two weeks of February
have been remarkable for warmth and sun
shine. Fruit and leaf buds have begun to
swell. The winter of '5.-5s was an exact
counterpart Of the past winter. The writer,
with company. left Topeka on the I'd of
January with yoke OF cattle and wagon to
explore the Nerdigris and Fan River coun-
tries. The cattle kept their flesh all winter
without food except the range. We return
ed to Topeka on The 4th of March, at which
time the prairies were quite green.
Money TO meet the incidental expenses of
the city. or the want of ii, is what's now
worrying the city authorities. Those who
violate'the State law will not pay any city IL
cense and the income for incidentals, street
improvements, etc, grow small and beauti-
fully less each month. The last scheme is an
occupation tax. The idea Of that is to make
every man who does business, or carries on
an industry, or practices 4 profession, pay q
stipulated sum for the privilege. This
scheme has been tried in Atchison with va
rying success. Many resist the payment of
such a tax aud suits and trouble have result
ed. There is no lodging the fact that money
must be raised III some way.
Mr.. Durkee, OF FIT. Scott, paid our city
visit on Tuesday. He is sanguine that the
Fit. SEQ t Il Wichita railroad will be COM
pleted TO this point the present year. The
managers of the enterprise are confident
and hopeful. The early extension Of the
Chicago & Alton 10 Fit. Scott is now conf
IDENTITY expected. With its completion to
that point there would no longer be any
doubt Us to what competing trunk liue will
operate the TT. Scott g. Wichita road. Wich-
ita wants the Fit. Scott road completed at |
the earliest practical moment.