Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-11-29
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Pretty cold isn't 1t John Brunton has
determined that he will not build an eleya-
tor at Derby The Reese building on the
avenue Is a daisy 3. TIL. Lynch, the big dry
goods man, thinks the building Of the rail.
road west will injure the trade OF Wichita
next summer. Niederiander says "any one
entertaining any such an idea as that il clear
of his eggs onto the straw. Why, thunder
and blixen there are more big buildings
now under contract for next summer than
was ever built in Wichita in any one year"
Nv. ii. Scott, the gardner, says he left
volunteer beet standing in his onion patch,
and one evening last week one OF his neigh
bors came along and said, Scott, who is that
sitting out there in the onion patch. Scott
says he does not like TO say how large that
beet is, for fear some people might think he
is inclined TO exaggerate ID. L. Hodge is
thinking OF starting a dry goods store at
Cheney -. Wichita has some nice little
the racks which farmers use to haul hogs TO
market in DIR. Furley's brick block on
Douglas evenue is nearly completed. . The
cause Of temperance in Sedgwick county
may lag on account OF the absence OF Mrs.
Lowry, but we are inclined to the notion
that the Republican party will worry along
about as well without her aid George
steenrod is feeding 100 head of hogs. George
is a good farmer, and good county com
missioner, and a good Republican when
things 60 his way -. Some Of the leading
soloon men in:Wichita are of opinion that
unless the saloons are kept orderly, their
days are numbered -. Last Wednesday
night, during the performance at the opera
house, and when the house became warm,
the managers lowered a window on the
north and one on the south side of the house
and let cold north wind pass through that
endangered the life of every one in the
front part Of the house . Shelton is going
TO start a new weekly paper to be anti
monopoly, anti-prohibition and ant-pretec.
ton Mr.. Costly, on the old Brunton farm
is making extensive improvements in build
ing j. i. Nessley, Of Illinois township,
has located in the city Nearly all the
tickets proposed by the slate-makers have
Bob Lincoln for vice president =. Mr.. jew
EFT. the old cattle-feeder,..is not feeding any
this winter. He says he would rather hold
his corn than to pay the price asked for
stock cattle The guns that shot down the
colored men in Virginia, simply because
they were Republicans. sounded through
out the Union and their echo will be drown
ed in the thunders Of Republican victory in
1884 Billy Ashworth. the hotel-keeper,
burned out OF house and home at Mulyane,
had no insurance. . Mort Mckim, OF the
fremont says that when he lived in Missouri
it showed three feet deep and lay on the
ground nearly all the summer until the flies
blowed it In the play at the opera house
last "Wednesday the hero Karl" inherited
his fortune from his mother. II is always
that way in plays and novels. When we
write novel we are going to have our hero
make his own fortune "raisen' potatoes or
mules ... Col. Bayne, Of Harper county, the
energetic railroad man was in the city over
Sunday e. IL is all right to say there is moth
ing in a name, and quote "rose by any
other name is just as sweet" but once
paid $500 for little plum bush called the
"Great Wild Goose Plum" from Utah,
when il II had been properly called little
"yallcr'' plum from the Minnesota, would
not have had it, . In 1850, if black man
or woman, who had toiled for years for a
master and received for that toll, curses
and lashes should run away, the fugitive
slave-law made it the duty Of every good
citizen to capture and return that slave. 1t
was not right to..return him, law or no law.
In 1885, in the State OF Kansas, If a man in
his own door-yard, should raise grapes ana
make wine and drink it in his own house,
the prohibition law says that man is a GRIM
inal. The prohibition law, like the fugi-
tive slave-law, makes thing wrong that is
not wrong In itself Charles Il. Hume, one
OF the old settlers Of McDonough county,
Illinois, was in the city over Sunday. Mr..
Hume says this county compares favorably
with his old county in Illinois. Captain
Payne says his people are going to get into
the courts, into Oklahoma or into Jail, now
shortly %. II. Bentley says, boys stay by
the old Republican party and help put it
through in 1884. d.