Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-04-24

The II Eagle
NJ. M. MURDOCH. Editor.
SUBSCRIPTION TWO DOLLARS IN ADVANCE
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The county building is booming right
along. The basement arches were being
put in yesterday.
The Wichita Driving Park association
has our thanks for complimentary for
their grand meeting June I'd, Sd and 4th.
Biting Bros. had sand delivered in front
Of their store yesterday to be used under a
new flag sidewalk which they are about to
put down. -
Mr.. John Hale, of Mulvane was in the
city yesterday. He says Mulvane is on
big boom; that number of fine BUILDINGS
are being erected, some Of them brick busi-
ness houses.
Mr.. V. X. Stanley has just completed a
new dwelling house for himself and family,
on Lawrence avenue, Fitzgeralds addition.
He saws that inside of sixty days every acre
lot on the avenue in that addition will have
house on it,
Eight persons from Sharon, Pa, were at
the Douglas Avenue hotel yesterday. Only
one man and his wife appeared to be of the
same family, but all had come to look at the
country with view of settling.
Jerome Turley, prominent and wealthy
farmer and stockmsn, six miles southwest OF
town. is about to build large, two-story
residence. Mr. Ab. Cartwright, another
prominent farmer eight miles southwest of
the city, is already putting up a fine resi-
dence.
A family arrived in this city from Pueblo,
Col, yesterday. They report the Argen-
tiferous state and It's towns as duh beyond
measure. Evidently this section of Uncle
Sans domain is just now in about as thrifty
condition as any Of il, if not more so.
The farmers are so busy turning and pull
verizing the globe Just now that compare
lively few come TO town. Their alb
.ence makes our streets less crowded, yet the
visiting element from the dull region else
where keeps the sidewalks jsmmed as usual.
Mr.. Gosner, of Garden Plain, was in the
city YESTERDAY. lie SAWS he sold his wheat
TO mill in this city. and shipped in here on
the railroad. Mr.. Gosner further says that
his growing wheat looks as well now as 1t
did at this time last wear, and that he cx-
poets 10 harvest a good crop. He thinks
there will be more wheat in his part of the
county than a good many people estimate.
Dan Boon, the old wheel horse of Repub-
ism in Union township, was in the city yes
terdsy. He came down TO take Grandpa
Horace Carpenter up to see his new girl
baby. Dan saws he has few thousand
bushels Of good mill wheat on hand which
he was holding for Is cents, but now there
ia no knowing how much he does want
for it.
Mr.. NJ L. Nun, late Of Wichita, now
postmaster at Englewood, is in the city pre-
psrinr to move his family out west. He
thinks Englewood place of great pros
pects. When he left there were nine houses
constructed and in process of construction
how many have since been put up he cannot
saw without further sdvices, but feels sure
no government custom house has been
started there.
On both ends Of the Arkansas river bridge
rapid encroachmenis are being made by io'
makers upon the natural channel OF the
river. The process consists of r;p-rappng
with brush and trash, and driving piles
Then the lots so s;aked off are filed with
slatle IlHlurE dllu rhilN- ~ soy '-ceA'e
the sanitary feature OF this narrowing of the
channel, there is great danger OF flooding the
city if it is carried much further upon some
great freshet occurring.
The horse of Mr.. Frank A. Cooper, the
druggist, took a sudden notion yesterday &c
run and smash his buggy. Mr.. Cooper had
employed two young men to post somt
printed matter for him and while one Wal
putting bin upon pole the other young
man stood up in the buggy to post up an
other. and while doing so the horse started
on run, frightened AT some object The
young man was thrown out but not injured
and the horse ran up Mair street some dis
lance and then turned east and came to 6
halt on Lawrence avenue. The damage tc
the buggy Is not great and the horse wa
but slightly injured.
Col. Sumner, formerly of Fl Dorado, nov
OF Arkansas City, was in the city yesterday
and called upon Probate Judge Jewett ii
accordance with instructions from the STAT
board Of inspection of drug stores under thu
amended law. The colonel visited severa
places reported as crooked and adulseratorl
Of that peculiar medicine issued TO the I'M
healthy under this peculiar law. His test
glass showed tina; Swentzler, on Main street
dealt in pure medicine. The druggist OF
Douglas avenue. first door east of the New
York store, after rigid test, was found to b
all right, the complaint lodged against hin
having no foundation.
Mr.. G. w Van Awkin, of Phelps. n. Y.
has sent 20 this city three barrels of pepper
mint plants for transportation here ant
Mr. J. Furgerson is now setting them out oil
some land belonging TO Mr.. p. V. Healy. |
this experiment proves that the plant can b
successfully cultivated on our soil and il
our climate, Mr.. Naa Awlin expects to hay
a large area planted with peppermint and Il
erect "a still for the production Of pep pc
mint oil. There Is always a demand for thi
oil, often beyond the supply and its higl
price has led TO constant sophistication AM
adulteration by unplincipled dealers ant
manufacturers. 1t is hoped the experimen
may terminate advantageously.
Wichita has some manufacturing plant
which are entirely creditable TO city of ID,
600 inhabitants, and among these is th'
Wichita Planning MID. This establishment
has 10 It the most modern machinery. equa
in all respects to that Of any establishment
of IFS character in the state or elsewhere
TIE capacity Of the mill is sufficient to meet
all the present requirements in its line. The
EAGLE reporter made call on Mr.. V. T.
Appleby, the proprietor, yesterday ano
was assured that he could do more in the
manufacture Of doors, sash, blinds, mould
ings, etc, than sufficient to meet the local