Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-10-30

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PERSONAL AND LOCAL ITEMS OF NEWS
REPUBLICAN MEETINGS.
The following Republican meetings have
been arranged, and viii take place on dates
noted, and will be addressed by prominent
Republicans:
Cheney, Thursday, October 30.
Kichi township, Union school house, FRI
day. Fctober 81.
I. b. WALL, Chairman.
\. b. WRIGHT, Secretary.
Our merchants reported business unusually
dull yesterday.
Innes 4 Ross are making nice display OF
large line of blankets.
The famous clothing store is ornamented
with n very fine walnut desk.
The building boom still continues and
there is no let up on the sale Of city lots
Not day passes that we do not have some
robbery or other act Of villainy to record.
Mr.. Gay was taking his large double boat
out of the river Yesterday in anticipation Of
the near approach of winter.
The BARRIERS do not appear TO entertain
the proposition to keep open Sundays very
favorably. One only is willing to do it.
Three booty individuals were raked in
Yesterday, by the police. They will proba-
bly get an introduction to Judge Glenn to-
day.
Only three plain drunks at the police
court Yesterday, two of whom did not have
the necessary capital, therefore So was the
total receipts.
Mr.. J. II. Turner has gone 10 Geuda
Springs for the benefit OF his health, and
will probably be absent several weeks, till
after the holidays.
Bruce Craddock, who has been laid up a
week with fever, is again attending to busi-
ness though looking decidedly the worse for
his recent experience.
AT the NJ +. parsonage Tuesday evening,
October 2s, Rev. ID. W. Phillips united in
marriage Mr.. Isaac c. Wooten. of this
place. and Martha Millgan, of Fairmont,
Indiana.
We understand that the grand rattle for
the one hundred and fifty dollar music box,
for which number of tickets were sold,
taf,n al. ti,,a lnriy,r tho ('at h.
ollie fair.
There will be meeting of the Woman's
Guild at the residence of Mrs. l.. G. Jocelyn,
Thursday afternoon, October Both.
Bv order Of the President.
A grand public dinner will be given every
day during the fair, TO which the business
men of Wichita are invited. Give house
keepers of Wichita rest for the next three
DAYS and patronize the ladies of the rink.
Joe Hilton began the foundation of ten
cment house just across the track from the
union depot. The demand for such houses
is sa great that this one is already engaged,
although the foundation was begun only
yesterday-such is Wichita.
Dick was taking all the bets he could get
yesterday that Col. Martin would poll 90,
900 more votes than Gov. Click; j. II. Tohl
er and John Fisher took some of the bets.
II was said that $40 was stakcd in Fishers
hardware store on that basis. Walker
wanted TO go them 500 better.
Miss Eva Bates, a graduate of the Cincin;
natl Conservatory of Music. "A recent acqui
stion TO Wichita, will favor the patrons of
the rink Thursday evening with some of her
exquisite solos and duets on that sweetest of
all musical instruments, the violin. Miss
Bates is an accomplished violinist and plan
ist. and il will be rare treat to hear her
We published in yesterdays EAGLE a re-
port current amonst our business men that
the lumber freight rates east of the Missouri
river had decreased DC per hundred, but as
the report cannot be traced to any official
source it proves to be but n wild rumor,
which was probably given rise to by the
present passenger rate war between those
points.
The large plate glass fronts have BEEN re-
ceived and put in place at the store room of
Fuller d Warden. This lass front ard the
iron columns that has recently been placed
nj this room, across Second street from the
Occidental has beautifed and improved ii
very greatly and when the doors of this
new drug store is thrown open, it will be
one of the handsomest business houses in
this city.
Mr.. l.. G.. Scheetz returned from Colorado
Yesterday. He came home To vote and as
he saws he feels AS if he weighed a ton he
will vote n heavy ticket and straight no
doubt. After ordering the Daily left at his
rooms he proceeded 10 tell us that Colorado
was all right as to climate but that business
is greatly Frustrated in that state. The
merchants of Denver, Pueblo and other
points, he believes are not making enough
money to pay their rents.
Died. in this city. Oct. 10Th, at the resi-
dence of T.. L. Frooman, with typhoid fever,
Miss Dora Dean. niece of Mr.. and Mrs. ii.
ii. Peckham, aged twenty-five wears. Miss
Dean was formerly from Warren, H..
where her parents now reside, aud had only
been a resident of our city nine months dur
ing which time she won love and respect
from all who knew her. She was beautiful
and accomplished Young lady and her death
is greatly regretted by her large circle of
friends. Her father and brother were at her
bedside when she passed away. Her parents
rnd relatives have the sincere sympathy of
many friends.
Mr.. Robinson. who recently arrived here
and who is the father of our dry goods men
of the above name, was YESTERDAY taken out
for drive about the city, and expressed
himself as perfectly astouished at the growth
and beauty of the place. Many people
think that the citizens of Wichita are nfatu |
ated with their city and that they are all
personally interested in booming it, but |
when a complete, honorable and impartial
investigation has been made of her size, |
beauty, business power, public spirit, healthy |
climate. etc, every Investigator becomes n |
convert TO the faith in her future greatness |
and Join at once the ranks and cast their |
fortunes in the Forest City Of the Arkansas |
valley.
A white gray hound was Yesterday shipped |
TO Kansas City. by Mr.. w. W. Fgnew, gem
eral agent of the household sewing machine.
Mr.. Egnew says he has been trying TO Sc
cure u white hound for two wears, that he
visited dog fanciers in several of the large
eastern cities and made a special effort TO