The daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1884, 1884-05-28

9ailY eagle.
NJ n. MURDOCH & BROTHER, Proprietors.
PERSONAL AND LOCAL ITEMS OF NEWS.
Travel on the street railroad continues
good.
Martin Hellar was down to Clearwater
yesterday. Everything is booming.
We learn that the dance at Goddard last
night was well attended, and was very
pleasant affair.
During Judge Glenn's absence at the
State capital his Office will be presided over
by Judge Hobbs.
Z. I. Schattner to-day shipped by express
very fine blooped dog to his brother who
lives in Nebraska.
DIR. Z. +. Martin, book-keeper at Hibar.
ger Bros grocery, is out in Pratt county,
prospecting.
Mr.. Worth's class, of the Baptist Sunday
school, gave festival at Master James
Hobbs last evening
MIR. B. +. Hitchcock and Miss Mary
Ruthgens, Of this city, were married by
Rev. d. w. Phillips on the 25th inst.
A new lamp post was put in yesterday on
the corner by the Douglas hotel, and also
one on the corner by the Kansas State
bank.
The TT. Scott road, in pulling out for
Anthony, crossed the Wichita Il Western
one mile and three-quarters west of the
river yesterday.
large number of transient people are
constantly arriving in and departing from
this city, and as a consequence our hotels
are doing good business.
ID. A. Morrison, of New York, arrived
last night with car load Of fine horses for
the Jewett stock farm iD the western part
of this county.
we are glad to know that the Wichita
Guards came out ahead in the "Union Spy,'
entertainments. The gross receipts were
little over 5000. The Guards Noted
about $500.
There is no city in the State where the
jewelry merchants carry choicer line of
goods than in Wichita. VIM. Kassel has
now on exhibition some OF the purest and
finest diamonds we have ever seen in the
west.
We admit in this issue an article on tenn
perance from the pen of kingman lady
which is in the nature of a reply to some
one, we don't know who /; but. as her Ian.
guage is intelligent, respectful and withal
evidently honest she is accorded a hearing.
The welgh-master, in his report TO the
city council Monday night, reported that
there had been weighed on the city scales
Tor the twenty-four days prior to report
o0i4 loads, an average of 20I loads per day.
The east city scales weighed an average of
% 90 loads per day.
We understand that the Wichita Guards
memorial exercises. Would il not be a
good idea for the G.. A. X. to extend their
invitations SO that the services on this oc-
casion might be as largely participated in
and as imposing as possible.
DIR. NJ. G.. Jones came up from Arkansas
City yesterday and reports that city on a
regular boom. NJ. q. has opened real
estate Office in that city in company with
Mr.. McCarthy-firms name Jones g. Nc
Carthy. We commend them TO the good
citizens of our neighbor city.
Mr.. VIM. A. Daily, of Mt. Hope, was in
the city yesterday on his way to Topeka,
where he goes in the interests of The Mt
Hope town company. This town has re-
Gently been Incorporated. and is growing
very rapidly Mr.. Daily will get town
seal and other needed articles before re-
turning.
Thompson's New York Commercial Re-
porter, OF May 9th, contains the following:
The paid up capital of the Wichita nat
ional bank, Wichita Kansas, has been in-
creased from $4,000 TO $4,000. Where
few years ago was a wide and silent
prairie now stands a thriving city with
five banks. Sl25, 200 is The largest paid up
capital represented by any bank in Kansas.
Mr.. G. Hutchins, of the firm of Hutchins
Il Son, Lebanon, Indiana, arrived in this
city yesterday. lie comes here under the
impression that Wichita offers the best in.
ducements as a wholesaling or iobbing
point of any point west of Kansas City, aud
he is going to visit all the towns tributary
to this city to note the extent and character
of the trade. Their business is the whole
sale tobacco and cigar line exclusively
Cheney Journal: Mr.. Fred W. Bentley.
Miss Hattie Obrlst, Miss May Brooks and
Miss Lucy Lack, represented on the hotel
register by "threc others" were in Cheney
last Monday. Three OF Wichita's most
respected society ladies' would have been
better expression ofthe gender and quail
ty of that portion of the party. but lawyers
always use obscure language.
Mrs. w. n. Walker, wife Of SeIgwick
county's first sheriff, a most excellent and
kind.hearted woman, whom all the early
settlers remember with pleasure, died on
the 9th inst. at her home in Battle River.
Dakota. Mr.. Walker writes to Mrs. n. A.
English brief note in which he says he is
SO grief stricken that he couldn't write par
ticulars. His letter was inclosed in an en-
velope which she had directed with her
own hands to Mrs. English just few days
before her death. Mrs. Walker was forty
seven years, three months and twenty-eight
days old when she closed her eyes upon the