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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-05-15
SIGN PAIL TING IN THE ROUGH.

NO." said an advertising sign painter, lit
doesn't take much money nor much enter
prise to stick few thousand iittle advertis-
ing boards along the railway lines and
wagon roads 1t is oil very cheap. That
board there, FOR instance, six inches by three
feet in size, costs only $50 per 1000. That's
only cents apiece. Very. very
cheap. A couple of cheap boys with
cheap horse and wagon cai, put up 200 Of
'em in day. The lettering is all done by
stencil. You can get 'em four feet long for
$40 thousand, five feet for $50, and so on.
Take that heavy board with the trimming,
a foot vide and six feet long, painted in blue
and white-that's only so cents when ordered
in 500 or 1000 lots. That will wear through
many years There isn't as much OF the sign
advertising business done as there was years
ago. The newspapers are monopolizing
everything. This 'saipe' work along the
railroad fences and country roads hangs out
about as well as anything. or course the
patent medicine firms send out their own
men, who do nothing else but travel and
paint. We have done good deal OF that
work for Caicago merchants
"As a rule 'sniping' is the best, and it
doesn't cost anything We stick them on
anywhere. But whers there is really good
fence or barn it is usually taken up right
quick Fences are sometimes sold, but not
often. Barns usually bring IS. There are
mighty few farmers that won't permit their
barns to bs daubed for Is, though once in a
while we strike crank that you couldn't
buy for love or money. l remember one
case out on the Niles Center gravel road. A
farmer had just put up beautiful barn
with cleatings, cupalo, weather vane, every
thing nice 1t was all ready for the paint
ers. We anne along and found the farmer
gone to T. vn. His wife was at home. Did
they want the barn painted for nothingi
She was undecided. Finally We found cut
she wanted new cloak and we gave her an
order for IS toward the new cloak on the
house We were working for, and told her
we'd paint the barn nicely and the little adj
vertisement would not hurt 1t. The CLOAK
order caught her and we went to work.
When we got through with that barn it was
black from gutter to gable roof and all, ex-
cept where we had put on the white letters.
Just as we had got through the farmer came
home. He hardly knew his own place and
came near driving by. Madi He was the
maddest man ever you saw. He was going
to arrest US, shoot u.s. burn the barn down,
and all such things But his wife got her
cloak and that black and white barn still
stands
Sometimes we work a good fence on thu
sly. Many time have / crawied through
q field on my hands and feet, with my
bucket and brush hung aroung my neck, in
order to get fence and get it painted un-
observed Ipainted splendid fence once,
and WIS nearly all the afternoon at it, when
the owner was planting potatoes right on
the other side OF it Once hs actually sat
down on the top Of the fence. and when he
got up had = streak of paint horizontally
across his pantaloon- But he never dis
covered the Job until after had got away.
When . job like that Is dons there isn't
much nee to kick
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-05-15

W. W. Cook, one of the county commits
sioners Of Barber county, was in the city
yesterday. He came to the metropolis to
see about contracting for galvanized iron
eornice for large brick business block to
be built in Medicine Lodge his summer.
Mr.. c. intended TO try this city for cornice
Winfield for stone and Kansas City for
heavy castings, and viii visit those places as
he intended Still the live builders and
mechanics Of tais city SURPRISED him by en-
tering the lists for the supply of al of the
material mentioned against Winfield and
Kansas City. Mr.. c. found no "pent up
Utica here" 50 il either opponent gets her
work in she will have to come down TO bust
ness when Wichita Is in the field.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-05-15
Do You Want to Make Money?


Invest in town lots at bottom
prices in the new city of Engle-
wood, just started in section SO,
township 50, range rs west,
Clark county, Kansas. 1T WILL
GROW FAST. WHY? Because
it is handsomely located in one
Of the richest regions in wonder
full Kansas, among an intelligent
and enterprising class Of set
tiers. 1t is on the proposed ex-
tension ofthe Kansas, Lawrence
& Southern railroad. It will be
the county seat of Clark county.
NO FANCY PRICES.
Ordinary business lots. s. 90 90
Corner business lots -. 100 90
Ordinary residence lots is 90
Corner residence lots -. 80 90
A discount Of 10 per cent. will
be allowed on cash purchases.
Time purchases one-third in adj
vance balance in g months and
one yesr, with interest. These
liberal terms will be continued
for 6 few weeks.
BUY BEFORE THE AID
VANCE IN PRICES. In 1879
Wichita business lots sold for
$500; now they sell for 5000.
The history of Topeka, Law
renee, Emporia and, other Kan
sas towns, is the same.
BUY AT ONCE OR YOU
WILL REGRET THE LOST OP-
PORTUNITY. FIRST COME
FIRST SERVED. Every day
you hear some one regretting
that he did not buy lots in such
and such towns, when they could
have been purchased at O. frac-
ton of their present value. DE-
LAYS ARE DANGEROUS.
Address M. L. Mum, P. NJ, En-
glewood. Kansas, or 81. F. Friend,
McBee & Co., Wichita Kansas.
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Bulls For Sale,

Thirty head high grade short horn, twelve
to fifteen months old, large and good colors.
Were raised on tie range in Harper county,
Kansas; wintered in the stock fields; are full
" acclimated and will be first-class for ranch
purposes, will sell cheap. I also will offer
for sale fifty head of fine select one year old
heifers, of same style and families as the
bulls. Write or call on A. G.. FoRNEY,
Belle Plaine. Kas.
Also four thoroughbred bulls of fashion,
able families. Will sell cheap. A. G. l..
wS-2t
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-05-15

T. J. Fisher, Esq. County attorney Of
Harper county, was in the city yesterday
and made US call. Our friend Fisher be-
longs TO the same household of political
faith with the iron-willed Grover, that is he
is Democrat who thinks it would be hard
to improve on the average Republican when
it comes to holding the offices, but when
Fisher gets ready TO resolve himself into a
grand jury the unfortunate ssloon-keeper of
his bailiwick viii wish they were druggists
with the regular permit.
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LEGAL Notice.

The state Of kanaas, SIS.
Sedgxick County,
In the District Court Of said county
Isaac SomeTs,
vs.
Catherine Somers
Cstharine Somers will take notice that she
has been sued in the above entitled action in
said court, wherein Isaac Somers Is plaintiff
and Catharine somsrs defendant and that she
must answer the plaintiffs petition filed in said
action on or before the S0th day Of June, A ID:
1856, or the petition will be taken as true and
Judgment for decree aud relief prayed rsnd-
following Lands, to- Wit: fhe sw Z of Section
s, Township %, Range &c, in Selgwiek eoun.
ty, Kansas, As his permanent alimony and that
the defendant holds the title thereof in trust
for him and that she be ordered to re-conyey
the same by warranty deed: and In case the
title thereof cannot be so re-conyeyed, then
for a Judgment for IS 900 %, the value OF said
premises. together with Judgment for $500 90
and costs of suit
Notice Ia further given thar said lard has
been attached to satfsfy any order OF court or
Judgment rendered herein end to be held ac-
sS's-' ADY 4 HENRY,
Att'y's for Fl'f.
Nav 18th, 1855 VISIT.
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Girls Growing Bea,thie


A physician, who is an expert "a ,'.'i
subjects, declares that tie wet Ia :. l..
well-to-do young women OF this : ie atom
are fnT healthier than were tLsir "a ), .rr-
and granlmoth.ri This i, due, I j. H. 80 /,
TO Il outdoor gaines, the letter i All
the greater freedom accorded to NsJui n
these days. Athletic exercises nave i:o's
bacome the fashion with young men i e
present race of Americans enj1y !s ~ -
cpen-air exercise than did their father sad
are the better for it Girls have hss:iraliy
initiated their brothers, and their crcquet and
lawn tennis, which are open-air games, have
helped to develop physical strength 10 the
future mothers of the country. There has
been some doubt as to whether ths roller.
skate mania has benefited young women
physically; but even tina. exercise Is prefer
able to dancing at late hours, and it Ger.
tainly develops soma at least of the muscles
Of tho lower part of tAe body. But the fact
remains that our girls are stronger and
healthier than taeir mothers
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-05-15


The mere weight of rails, sleepers and
plates required for the construction of the
Berber-Snakim railway is Al, 900 tons, which
must be conveyed. on an average, 100 miles.
Assuming a camel load to be one-fiftn of a
ton, and a camel TO march ten miles il
would require 7,4o0 camel loads daily to
complete tho carriage within the year.
Moreover. there exists nothing but the
toughest aneroid survey OF the section of thu
country to be traversei. In the iirst sixty
miles there is an ascent of $50 feet, while
in the remaining $50 miles there is descent
of |, $50 feet; but the ascent and descent are
by no means continuous and gradual.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-05-15
Meetinq of the Board of Equalization

Notice Is hereby given that the Board of
County Commissioners of Sedgwick county
Kansas, will meet as Board of Equalization
and proceed to adjust and egualzs the assess.
ments made in the several townships of said
county on the following named dates:
Park, Union and Sherman, Monday, June
LIST.
Greeley, Esgle and Grant, Tuesday June
End
Lincoln. Payne, Kecbi and Minneha, Wednes-
day. June I'd
Wichita and Delano, Thursday. June 4th.
Attica, Garden PLANE Grand River, Morton,
Erie and Viola Friday, June 9Th.
Alton, Illinois. Minnesota, Ohio and Waco,
Saturday, June 9Th.
Salem, Rockford and Gypsum, Monday,
June Sth.
Wichita City, Tuesday snd Wednesday, June
9Th and 10th.
Parties feeling themselves aggrieyed in their
assessments. or desiring correction of any err
rors, must appear the day designated for
hearing cases in the township in which they re-
side. and in no will any corrections or
equalization of any assess Lent be made by the
Board of County Commissioners after the dates
mentioned in this notice.
By order of the Board,
witt. Z. FORD, County Clerk.
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Notice of Petition for Appropriation.

Hatfield. Union Up, April Esd, 1885. We
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-05-15
Thought lie Was Square.

Chicago Ledgerl
"An 50 your bookkeeper has slid, has her
"Y 5; he's joined the gang
well. that doss get me. l never would
have thought it.
M moro did backed on him big,
AMI never ;or a moment suspected him.
Nor me. I've known him for long time.
and thought he was about "a square as you
could get 'em. Pshaw. Pa a trusted my own
do5 with him FOR a whole wesk, AMI never
fell uneasy a single minute. / actually
xy.nnl1 =
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-05-15
ROAD NOTICE.

STATE OF KANSAS,
County Of Sedgwick,
ONCE of County Clerk, April 9th, 1855,
Notice l. hereby given that on the 18th day Of
April, lss5, a petition signed by Jesse Sence and
ID others, was presented 10 the Board of Coun-
ty Commissioners of the County and State
aforesaid, praying for the location of a certain
road, described as follows, viz: Beginning al
the northwest corner of Section Seventeen and
the southwest corner Of Section tight, Town
ship Twenty-nine. Range One, east; running
east on said line between said sections t. the
southwest corner of Section Nine, and the
northwest corner Of Section Sixteen. Where
upon said Board of County Commissioners ap-
pointed the following named persons, viz. W.
Il. Babb, j. NJ. Ross and Geo. Price rs view
ers, with instructions TO meet, in conjunction
with the County surveyor. at the place of be-
ginning, in salem Township, on Friday, the
18th day of May, A d. ISIS, and proceed 10
lew said road, and give TO all parties hear
ing.
By order OF Board of County Commissioners
wI-2t. E. p. FoRp, County Clerk.
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rns sIoHr KIND OF TALK.

According to the old adage. BLESSINGS
never come singly." In this connection it
seems that every man who ever did any
fruit canning in his life has heard OF Wichi-
tn and Sedgwick county as a section Of
country which presents the promising flu
ture field for that business. An EAGLE re-
porter dropped in quietly on private con-
versation upon this subject yesterday and
by remaining incog heard one party say to
another that this valley was exactly in the
latitude and the altitude for the surest and
finest yields oftemperate climate fruits in the
greatest abundance; that the whole country
about Wichita was susceptible of being con-
verted INTO one vast garden; that it was just
now old enough to prove its capacity for
growing anything wanted. Said the speak
er: This city is in the center of vast re-
gion of fertile country capable of support
ing millions of people which will all be here
in a few more years. These peoples wants
must be supplied from somewhere, and in
natures economy the place of supply viii
be in the center of the demand. / have
found out that the possibilities of this sec
ton for fruit and vegetable are fully equal
to Delaware and New Jersey, with all of
the chances in its favor of growing bet
ter as the wild nature is worked
out Of the land In the east the demand
now nearly equals the supply, whilst the
new and expanding west is making demands
upon us that will soon reverse these condi-
tions. In view of these facts my firm COM
missioned me to proceed to California and
Oregon one year ago to look out a new and
larger field for a general fruit and vegetable
canning factory. | found there that the va
riety and quality of production was ali that
could be desired, but the country is rough,
and the land capable of being planted to
fruit is very limited and widely separated
by large mountain ranges. There is no
place out there that can ever be-
come great center of vast
population like this city, except
San Francisco, and the field there is
fully occupied. What is needed in our bus
mess is to locate first, where the surcst and
most abundant supply Of the raw material
can be had at the lowest cost of production;
and secondly, where the consuming popula-
ton can get the goods with the lowest pos
sible freight costs. think l have found
these conditions here in a superior degrees
with the additional advantage of an almost
open field. l go back to report these facts
to my associates. IL We come we do it
quietly and carefully, asking no extra favors
but depending solely on our own energies
and skill to carry us through"
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The Priesthood In Franco.

In France "the nobility and the bour-
geoise,' said Cardinal Pie few years ago,
give fewer and fewer of their offspring to
our holy order, which no longer finds its sus-
tenance save among the children OF the PEG.
pie" While in ireland the fact that the
priests are not Of and from the people has
been a potent source of their influence, it
does not seem in France to conciliate popu-
lar good will. The French proletariat never
seems to have got over the intense hatred
Of the priesthood which showed itself in
1889. They regard it as the friend of the
arist0cracy
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Sick Headache Cured .

Headache is a terrible thing to be subject
to, but Cobb's Little Pills will cure it o,
money refunded. If the liver is torpid and
the bowels constipated, you feel sick "all
over" Your head viii ache and be dizzy,
your appetite will be poor, etc. Ccbb's Lit
tie Podophyllin Pills are the one genuine
remedy now before the public to start the
machine into proper action. Only 25 cents
per bottle. No cure no pay.
d296 ALDRIcu & BRows.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-05-15

The State of Kanaas,
Sedgxick County,
In the District Court Of said county
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british AMERICA
Annexation Considered from Dominioa
Point of yiew-E Extent of Territory.

Annexation Considered from Dominica
Point of yiew-E Extent of Territory.
canadian Cor. Brooklyn Eagle
The possession of Canada would give you
$500 900 square mile Of additional territory
AMI 100000 of people OF course, much of
this territory is worthless, but that Is the
case with every country of large sizs, not
excepting the United States. The area of
agricultural and timbered lands of the
Dominion is estimated at 2,O0o0m square
miles which is more than tie area of all
Europe, exclusive of Russia. OF this up
ward Of 1905, 900, square miles is capable of
the successful cultivation of what, twenty
times the area of tho stats OF Nsw York.
Canada is now divided into seven prov
inces and five territories, and every one of
its divisions would form a state of the Union
in the future Prince Edward island, the
smallest division, is a little larger than the
state Of Delaware and has nearly as many
inhabitants Ii does not contain a single
acre of waste Land and is in the midst OF the
finest fisheries in the world. Nova Scotia
has an area more than uwics the siz, OF
Massachusetts,, but only 4i9,0oo inhabitants,
yet nature has made it another north of
England in respect to mineral wealth. It
has an unlimited wealth of iron and coal,
and nothing can prevent it from becoming
great center Of manufactures. New Bruins.
with population equal TO that of Vermont,
has three times the area Of that state and
far greater resources.
The province of Quebec is larger than any
state in the Union except Texas and has
nearly 100000 people, Like New Bruins
wick, it has magnificent forests and q lar 20
area OF arabic land. Ontario, with its 20oo,-
900 Of inhabitants, would become the sixsh
state of the Union in population and its area.
even without the new territory recently
awarded to it, as large as New York and
Pennsylvania combined Thsrs is not In all
America a finer region than the peninsula
of Ontario, lying between Georgia bay,
Lake Ontario, Lake Huron and Llks Erie.
The climate is mild, the soil fertile, and
everything for the sustenance OF man Is
there in abundance.
Manitoba and the northwest territories
have between them 3)00o0,0N acres OF
prairie land equa; to the best in the north
west Of the United States, and possess also
what is not less valuable. unlimited quanti-
ties of coal. British Columbia has also
splendid coal m;nss, beside gold, silver and
other mineral wealth and a considerable
ares OF good land. As to the Possibilities in
volved in the future development OF that
vast region north of Manitoba no one can
speak with certainty, but in the Peace River
country and the territory along the Macken-
zie river there Is room for a state OF i'm
perial dimensions and the latter river l.
worthy to be the northern gate OF an en-
pire, for it contains water enough t. float
line Of battle ship for distance OF l,2a
miles
@Pah,n asSei young johnnie 'arphiy,
what is aefauiferP
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ROAD NOTICE,
STATE OF KANSAS.

STATE OF KANSAS,
County If Sedgwick, !
Office of County Clerk, April q, lssj.
Notice is hereby given that on the 18th day OF
April, lssJ, petition signed by 6 W Flesh
man and 2s others, was presented to the Board
of County Counts toners Of the County and
state aforesaid. praying for the location OF q
certain road, described as follows, viz: Be
ginning at the northeast corner OF Section 3,
Township 20, Range /, east; running thence
Arkansas River. WhereGpon said Board of
County commissioners appointed the following
named persons viz. NJ. ID. wemple. Joseph
tions to meet in conf JUNCTION with the Cou ty
surveyor, at the place of beginning, in salem
Township, on Wednesday, the 9th day OF May,
A. ID. lSs5, and proceed to view said road, and
give 20 all parties hearing.
b order Board of County Commissioners.
WIT f u FORp Comfy CLERK
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4 Chance for Immortality.

The honor OF naming n newly disc ,versd
planet may ROW be bought for $50. Ths
wsil-knowl Viennesa astronomer Mr..
Palisa, who last year discovered six fresh
small planets, offers to name the latest found
after any one who viii give him the above
amount ,wari the expenses OF an expeli-
ton he wants to fit oIt for observing ths
eclipse OF the sun in August, 1856. Hero,
suggests some one, Is an opportunity for
some ievo. ii swain to pay perfectly novel
Compliment to his lady love.
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a Hard Problem.

A Paris medical society, seeking evidence
from many sources concerning the contl-
giousEess o. pulmonary consumption, has
forwarded questions on the subject to every
practicing physician in France Similar in-
luiries in England ana in Germany have not
teen particularly success ful, only l,50) out
Of 1000 English practitioners answering,
and bnt 300 GermanS out Of Ii 900
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-05-15
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

The following are the real estate transfers
recorded in the office of the register Of deeds
Yesterday.
William and Elizabeth Matbewson to
Sarah A Shanks, lots 43 and "A
Mathewson's add ...:...................S 800
Joseph and Lucy Morse to Z. A.
Dorsey, lot 40 on Main st......... $500
Amos L Houck 10 John Kelley, lots
1888, ll35. 1877, 1l39, ll4l, 1l43,
las and ll47 an Waco ST Lew
ellen's add. ............................ 1900
J 7 and Susan King to Joseph Starr,
one acre out Of or 81 and H.. 1000
Rudolph Hatfield to Margaret Straw
lots II, II. 10, IA, Is, l6, IL, Is, 10,
20, u, %, 25, 90. "a, 80, IS, 81, 30,
on Lulu av Hatfeld's add. 49,. 100
Alden and Caroline Speare to Jacob
Wilkas, lot II, blk 9, Goddard. 100
John and Sarah Westfall to Dean d
Bayne, lots Is, IL, 10, 81, %, on
Third st, Valley Center. La
Jacob McAfee TO VIM @ Hobbs, so
feet more or less OF the north side
of block lot No Is on Fifth avenue
in X Meads add .-................... SOC
Alden and Caroline Speare to Mary
Thompson, lot No blk ls, town
OF Goddard ..-....-.................. IS
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Township Officers,

don't send your orders away from home for
your printing or Justice Dockets. Call at
the EAGLE office and select what you want
lower than you can buy from any one who
travels around and solicits orders. WITT
Angus for Sale.
have fifteen choice grade yearling Angus
bulls for sale cheap. j. F. REESE,
wS-tf Wichita, Kas.
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Notice is hereby given that petition will be
pres en.ed to the Board of County commission
vrs. OF Sedywick county, Kansas. at their regu-
lar session to commence on the 9Th day of July,
lsS5. asking for an appropriation of $50 90 10
aid in the construction OF a bridge across the
stream known as North Minnesota where said
stream crosses the section line between sections
seventeen and Eighteen in township No q,
Range 4. west. Estimated cost of bridge is
81 500. Co ID. 4. FOSTER
OLIVER BuDp,
White and others
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-05-15

IBrooklyn Eagle.l

Better pair OF brogans and jean overalls,
my soa, and dump cart of your own to
ooss, than dude pants and tootnpick shoes
md an Office withal whore all - bile can
and will ",as,' you. AMI the civil service
rules will not permit you to jaw back.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-05-15

The committee meets here on the 9th Of
June TO open the bids and make final de-
cision. The beard viii be in this city on the
18th inst as the guests of the friends of col
lege location for the purpose of viewing the
site and hearing representations, and exsm
lining into the advantages offered by
Wichita