Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-03-13
raIl FEATHERS AND FLOATING Down.
Win which an Old Correspondent PIumes the
Readers Of the EAGLE.

| WeseeU " tne eagle.
Mr.. Mosby, Of Florida, is in this county
looking for profitable investment. He told
the writer that these stories Of the bull
dozers In the South is very much exaggera.
ted and that he has seen as much vicious
ignorance In Kansas as be ever saw in Flor.
ida. Mr.. Mosby says he was raised in Iowa
and 10 not prejudiced In this matter. Mr..
Mcwilliams, of Rockford township, says he
does not think the growing wheat can make
good crop, and that he is going to SOW
some timothy and clover and will report, In
time, what success he has :. The supreme
court Of this Nation has decided that green
back money is constitutional and that con-
gress has right to issue paper money and
make 1t legal tender in payment Of all
debts, In peace as well as In time of war. 1
think the supreme court must be mistaken,
because the Methodist Church of Kansas
accommodated most of their brains, in
the person Of d. P. Mitchell, for lecturing
on greenbackism, and how could they GEN.
sure man for doing what is perfectly right:
II the court is right the men who cen.
sured Mitchell were wrong. II they were
wrong on the money question there is a
possibility that they may be wrong on the
prohibition question. =. Tom Trickey, the
big merchant of Mulvnne, was in the city
last Friday. He says Mulvane is prosper
Gus, her merchants all doing good bust
ness and the town building up rapidly :.
d. II. Brunk, of Seymour, Missouri, is in
the city and says he is going 70 locate at
Cheney, in the ocery business I'D. c.
Mckinnon, Of Beverly, was in town last
Saturday, and said he would have to make
an extra drive Of six miles in order to cross
bridge on the Minnesota. Wichita wants
to look out for the bridges on the road lead
ing to this place MIR. McKim, of the Ire
mont House, is putting in cook stove that
cost $400. 1t was necessary to take out one
end Of the house to get it in. Joel Krei-
Bile, who was adjudged not guilty of murder,
fer the killing of McAlister, on account of
insanity, was radical prohibitionist. 1t is
pretty GENERALLY conceded that the jury
were justifiable in entertaining the insanity
plea. Frank Young is buying grain at
the new town Of Cheney. He says he has
bought some of the finest wheat out there
that be ever saw in any country . About
every reader of the daily Gic5s.Democrat,
whom have heard express his idea, says
that paper is too large-that it needs boil
ing down....I do not profess to know any
thing about managing political campaign
but should like to know by what reason
ing the Kansas City Times supposed it could
accomplish the election of Riggs in a dis
trict largely composed of farmers, by con-
stantly crying Farmer Funston Farmer
Funston!" Above all the din Of battle the
7imes' cry Of Farmer Funston was con-
stantly heard. II there was any surer way
Of securing the farmer vote for Funston,
fail to comprehend it. Friday, February
10Th, the day before the election, the Timss
headed its columns with these startling
words: saturday is the day when Farmer
Funston win be nailed to the cross, and the
people will cry 'crucify him." When one
is informed that these words were the cries |
Of superstition and ignorance, howled at
the Son Of Righteousness, it could only |
mean that Funston was the friend of the |
people and those who were voting against
him were ignorant. ID. z. Alexander is |
going to Illinois just as soon as the floods
IF. d. Whit amore, OF Derby, |
shipped his 9G0 sheep to St. Louis over the
Frisco and got s5 Per hundred for them.
Mr.. Deming, the owner of the fremont ho- |
tel, has sold out his interest at Little Rock |
md is now in this city. Some of the boys
IRE specializing on Chicago grain by buying
md selling at the grain and provision ed
change in this city. The smoke stack at
he Wichita elevator was blown aswn by
he wind storm last Monday -. The new
Hydraulic roller mill or Deffenbaugh, Lew
s 4 Co., was put in motion Tuesday Il
Jaw 16-months old calf weighed on Ratliff
Cones scales last Monday that tipped the
,eam at 972 pounds. 1t was a Hereford
'ull belonging to Garth & Co. q. Howard
sowle was in the city last Saturday. He
ays he is holding corn for fifty cents. He
vas much pleased over the idea of sending
! train load of corn to the Ohio food suf-
erers. He says he is not candidate for
ny office, and is in favor of Col. Russell for
representative. In answer to the question q
s to whether his friends were using his
ame in connection with the State senator
hip by his consent, he said they were not.
IN. +. Niederlander has sold eight farms
ince he went to New York. He went there
DR. rest from his business Mr.. Ander-
on, of Gypsum township, thinks he will
hip his fat cattle over the Fort Scott to st.
'ouis w. A. Richey is in favor of put
ing the liquor men under bond, not to sell
quor but to go to church -. Plenty of land
uyers on the market. ID.