Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-01-31
TAIL FEATHERS AND FLOATING DOWN.
With Which an Old Correspondent Piumes the
Readers Of the Eagle.

Oue Vi inc IleH salu tuey uau petu WoThiiii
on the new railroad and they wanted thei
pay. Mr. Colemsn's word that it was al
right and that their money would soon b.
here, seemed to satisfy them. Among tn,
men who work on the railroad MIR. Cole
mans word is as good as law The game
of euchre is played ON scientific principle,
down in Harper county. For further par
ticulars inquire Of Capt. Forbes and Sheriff
Bodley City Marshal Cairns, of this city
drives thoroughbred horse to n new bug
gy.. Mr.. Hensley, of Gypsum township
says the wheat is not looking well and the
prospect for the next crop is not flattering
Col. woodcock paid into the State treas
ury so, 900 as Sedgwick county's part OF
the State tax. 1t would probably be inter.
esting to the taxpayers Of this county to
know how much OF the S2l ,000. was paid on
account Of the bull-headed plan OF assess
ing property in this county higher than in
other counties of the State John MeaGher
was in town last week. 1t does the old
timers good to take him by the hand :. Tell
Walton was at the fremont few days ago.
He wears a broad-brim hat and knows all
about the cattle business in the West. He
is now editor of the Caldwell Journal. Tell
started and run paper at Mulvane when
there was very little town there, as the old
settlers will remember. =. III the Fort Scott
railroad does not 90 to Harper county some
other road will. The boys down there have
too much get up and dust to be left when
they undertake to get railroad John
Herrig says the reduction of tax on cigars
was thirty cents per hundred and the work
men get 20 cents per hundred more for max
ing cigars now than before the reduction
was made. &C. W. Wood, of Minnesota
township, says whert in that township looks
sickly. They still have large quantities Of
corn He says the people are pleased over
the erection of the bridge ON the Mime
scah on the Wichita road j. T. Hamers
is going to be q candidate for trustee in
Minnesota township. ID. Il. Mead, George
Byers and n. A. English were in Nieder-
lander's office the other day discussing the
merits of the Poland China hog. Some re-
markable stories were told in regard to the
weight of pigs at a certain age l.. ID.
Gosner says wheat in Union township does
not look very well, but favorable weather
will make it all right. Mr.. Loudenslager,
Of the same township, thinks wheat is all
right Col. d. II. Anthony has been as
saulted, this time by the mayor Of Leaven-
worth. This thing of matching brains
against muscle and shot-guns and revolyers
will get away with the irrepressible ID. Il.
Anthony, in time Charley Luling, the
clerk at the Diamond Mills, is considered
one of the best book keepers in this city. :.
Ed. Jewett says that what he said about his
being a candidate for probate Judge was not
intended for publication, and he does not
want his name mentioned any more in Eagle
Down in that conn, ction. l told Ed. 10 go
ahead and attend to his probate court bust
ness and not worry himself about Eagle
Down Perry Wilkin says he can account
for the ups and downs Of the Wichita corn
market. he says the buyers are all an ''io-
fernal set of scoundrels." Rev. j. ID.
Hewitt says BURNS, the poet. was great
genius, but that goodness of heart should
stand foremost" Hewitt has the right kind
OF heart for preacher His sympathie-
are all with the poor druDkard, and his de-
sire TO help the drunkard makes him pro-
hibitionist, but when it comes TO prescott
ing the liquor men there is no desire in him
for vengeance WIN. QuinDell, of Rock
ford township, has moved TO town to school
his children, so he says. A writer in the
Manchester (England) Courier writes to
show that England ought to have protect
iya tart 10 tta tai ha
son he gives is that out OF "a 100000 of peo-
Pile only 100000 have an income of $500
and over. This fixed income il just what
is the trouble. OF course, great many of
these incomes are many times $500, but
counting il even that amount and we have
the snug sum $3.50, 0Oo, 900 to be paid by the
labor Of England. And what does labor get
in return! They get an aristocraey who are
in favor of gold basis for all money. |
When it shall come to pass that every one
gets the product of his own labor all who !
are industrious viii be prosperous. All
legislation that puts wealth into the hapds |
Of the few, is deiusion and a snare. 1t is
what L consider not according to Hoyle....
The writer hereof reports the market for
the EAGLE and want it understood that
the corn market is reported on Wednesday |
morning at O'Clock, and that do not pre- |
tend TO say what the market will be in ten |
minutes from that time. One may be able |
TO tell how the birds fly in the air and The |
fishes swim in the sea, bu. the ways OF the |
Wichita corn market are past finding out |
. Il am not inclined to think glass of
good beer is injurious to health. but when |
il comes to stepping up to wheel and not |
know who is on the other side of the wheel |
and put down a dime for glass of beer and I
drink whatever kind of slop comes round,
that il is most too much sweet for the one
hundredth part of a trade dollar. It is
rather strainiDg ones faith in things not /
seen, as it were. Frank Coils, of Salem.
township, says there is not many hogs to be
shipped this spring from the south part of
this county -. Murray Myers is able TO be
out on the street, but has not entirely re-
says the wheat is more thrown out by se-
we're freezing than ever before in this couU-
county The drug trade does not seem to
be overdone in Wichita, as III. G. Boyd is
opening out new stock in Furley's brick
block p. George w. Swink, of Colorado, is
around viewing the land Mrs. John Fos-
ter, of Union, has gone east, to visit her
friends. -. Henry Dugan, of Illinois town.
ship, says the wheat out there looks pretty
badly frosted Mr.. Graham, of Gypsum
township, says the wheat looks badly, but
that he has made a thorough examination,
which satisfies him that the wheat is all
right. ID.