Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-04-17
.all FEATHERS AND FLOATING DOWN.
With which an Old Correspondent Piumes the
Readers Of the Eagle.


John futile, of Anthony, Harper county,
says be has sold goods in that county for
four years, and has had accounts out
amounting to as much as 81, 500 at time,
and has not lost as much as 800 in bad ac-
counts. Mr.. Coleman, head engineer on
the Cheney railroad, says he cannot tell
when they will build on TO Kingman. 80.
Col. Taylor has opened an insurance Office
under the Citizens Bank, and is doing
prosperous business Capt. Oklahoma
Dave Payne has returned from Washington
and says the government has agreed to ex-
anime into this whole Oklahoma business,
and that he will not make any more raids
while the matter is under consideration.
He says when it is shown that he and his
people have not the right to settle on those
lands that there will be no further trouble;
that they are law-abiding citizens OF the
United States, and only want their rights.
Some Of the raiders here are little restless,
land, but when Dave says halt there is
quiet in the camp =. 1t is not an uncom-
mon thing at our hotels to see a guest hold
ing a snow-white biscuit aloft while he
discusses the merits OF the Hydraulic Rol-
Ter Mills IL knocking one down in his
own house, and dragging him out and drag
ging him in again, and hopping tie floor
with him, is downing one, it may be truth
fully said that the prohibitionists have
downed the ants in this city. They are in
an excavation, as it were. After crawling
to the mouth of the hole and looking over
this prohibition hemisphere, l would re-
mark, We are in here. The anti-prohibi-
ton hosts fought nobly, and died in the last
ditch--the last ditch was the jail. . If
some of the grain men in st. Louis, who
are reporting fifty million bushels OF corn
in Kansas yet TO be shipped, would come
out here and start a land agency, they |
could make a fortune. People who have |
have wide field in which to exercise d.
Hon. VIM. Ross, the sage OF the Minnesota,
usually puts in an appearance at the opera
house when there is fine drama on the
boards Our farmers all report a good
stand of wheat, but the growth is very
backward -. The Butler county people de-
serve credit for their donation of corn to
the Ohio sufferers, but coming SO closely
upon the heels Of the Sedgwick county
great corn train makes it have a little too
much of the 'me too appearance about it.
1t lessens the grand effects. 0ne-fourth
the number of cars of wheat would have
looked better at this time Since the
drouth Of "suthen to take'' In this city,
saloon-keeper on the outside Of the bar
held his glass of soda water aloft and pro-
posed this toast: "Here is to your ii. c.
Sluss, b. Cd. drinking dirty water and
calling ii setting up the drinks" DIR.
Rhodes was in Niederlander's Office one
day this week tell what a great country
Colorado will be in a very few years. Why,
he says it is no trick at all to raise 60 or 20
bushels of wheat per acre by irrigating the
soil. II any of you fellows want to go up
there and try it you have my consent 81.
Bishee, Keer & Co. have parrot in their
store that keeps up continual racket try
ing to talk The saloons Of this city are
all locked up under the nuisance clause,
and John Fisher, the anti-prohibition sher-
ifi. carries the keys in his pocket. Some OF
the boys are talking Of starting saloons in
tents. and see how John will get along
locking up the tents. Verify. Verify say
unto you, these be dry times. ID.