Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-02-07
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With which an Old Correspondent Piumes the
Readers Of the Eaole

/ ueaoers " tue Eagle.
have seen number of items in newspa.
pers to the effect that there is something
remarkable in the fact that there is no man
In the Republican party looming up promi-
nently for president. The reason is, that
since the party compelled the stalwarts to
take back seats there isn't anybody left able
to loom to any great extent. Hon. Frank
Doflemyre says the Republicans in the 10th
! district cannot avoid the prohibition issue
in the election Of a representative, and that
the party is bound to take a stand for the
enforcement of law. That the party Is 10y
al to the principles of the Republic, and,
hence, for the unfolding of all law =. Pro-
hibition Primar, who is that? That is the
prohibition spy, who standeth against the
back alley fence with bis hands deep in his
pockets, where the loud perfume of out.
houses floateth upon the air. What does he
stand there for! He stands that he may see
business man go into the back door of n
saloon that he may report him for o witness.
Is that all he has to do? He goeth up to
W. c. I. U. rooms and drinketh much cof-
fee and eateth much soup. Our big po-
liceman, Dan Parks, has been visiting his
friends up at Topeka. Dan says Topeka Is
not good prohibition town like Wichita. |
1t is not difficult to get whisky and beer up
there. =. Rev. Father Kelly says they want
to have the new Catholic Church finished |
by the 18th of May 1t was conceded by |
all that George Walter was the proper man
to put forward to beat Howard Sowe for
the office of county treasurer last fall. After
the exciting contest Geo. Walter and How
ard Sowle are warm personal friends. That
simply shows that both parties nominated a
gentleman IN. o. Graham, of Eden town.
ship, Sumner county, says the wheat down
there looks pretty well, but would be the
better of little rain. :. Liquors sold in
Kansas by Wholesale houses in other States
is not an out-lawed claim, but can be COL
lected by law Mr.. Coleman, head engi-
neer on the new railroad, says he has found
out that this country is much better than he
ever supposed .. Mr.. Howard has three
fine Mormon horses . Z. A. Kennedy, of
Gore township, Sumner county, raised this
year 10000 buseels of corn. Mr.. Kennedy
says land in that township is selling $50 per
cent. higher than two years ago. He also
says he lost great many hogs with cholera,
but he made medicine: three pints of wa
ter, four pnts OF coal oil, and half an ounce
Of carbolic acid which he put into a CON-
mon sprinkler and sprinkled the hogs. A
gentleman. the other day, bought farm in
she south part Of this county, and when he /,
went in to have his deed recorded, he
he formation of n new school district. 1t {
lidn't suit him l saw horses being driv- A
IN along the streets in Wichita, when the !
thermometer stood at so degrees that We're I
vet with sweat and white with foam. Gen. !
aemen don't you forget, when those warm .
lays come, that your horses and mules can !
lot pull off their oyercoats. Some few
weeks ago blind man was selling lead
pencils in Wichita for cents n piece. 4
nan bought pencil of him on Douglas
venue, and gave the blind man two cent
'ieee telling him that il was 4 twenty cent
'iece and received Is cents in change. !.
Vow who believes in Uniyersalism :. 1t
mated Funston by voting down the minor
ty resolution on tariff repudiated the posi-
ion occupied by the brave Haskell "A a
Gentleman in this city who is running
arge book store and news depot says, one 1
an not give the faintest idea to which
'olitical party people belong by the papers
hey read. Democrats, many of them, read
be EAGLE and G!o5e-Demoerat and Repubii-
ans read the Beacon and Kansas City 7imes. i
Mi. Hams, the grain man, says the d
uilding of the proposed railroad from
Wichita to the Northwest will be great II
hing for Sedgwick county and Wichita -.
asked j. Il. Mead what he knew, he said
e knew what few people in this county
new, that was how to tan buffalo robe. A
ome time he will tell the readers of the A
AGILE how it is done :. One drug store l,
! Wichita ordered of n wholesale house in r
incinnatti, $4,000 worth of liquors. There C
liable to be much sickness in this county z
| the near future. After enquiries of n n
rmers living in every township in this n
'unty, Kipgman and Harper counties and II
lie north part of Sumner county and west n
n part OF Butler county, 1 am convinced n
lat the winter wheat is yet all right. A NJ
W weeks OF favorable weather and the NJ
heat fields in the territory named will be "
-essed in robes of green The business p,
anager OF the EAGLE got a circular from r.
NJ. Uauser telling him how to get his X
inks without violating the prohibition 8,
W Arthur Carpenter says politics up at St
alley Center is mongrel this year. They 81
e interested in the election of Justice of ~ Il
e Peace q. Dock Edwards, of Gypsum, has "
owed to this city. The land office of N. W
Niederlander in this city, is daily F"
DIVIDED with people who want to buy
rms and town lots Joe Stott bought of A
r. Bertrand last week, COW that weighed Bl
$40 pounds There was erected in Wich- % %
a last year, 513 new buildings, including r,
e street railway, water works and gas b,
orks. The permanent improvements in Is!
'ichita for 1883 was more than 81 900 ,O0O u,
. People who ride over the new railroad b;
Cheney all unite in pronouncing it the CT
st built new railroad they ever saw. -
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