Wichita daily eagle., 1885-10-13

James A. Ray, of Wellington, was in
town yesterday.
Mr.. ]. W. Allen, of Atchison, was regis
tered at the Occidental yesterday.
Tbos. n. Trickey and j. n. Trickey, of
Mulvane, were at the Occidental hotel yes
terdny.
J. c. Curry and A. 2. johnson, of Win
| field, were guests at the Occidental hotel
yesterday.
John p. Jones, Of Wellington, was in
town on business yesterday and put up at
the Occidental.
George Harrington has gone to New
York for the purpose of making arrange
ments for the manufacture of his type wri-
ter.
Mr.. Hess, of the Manhattan clothing
house, thinks Il cold snap once in while
amt bad thing. They report a good run
on overcoats.
Mr.. VIII Woodman and wife left Hot
springs; hihtheae, ioi honie, sestciu uay
morning. and expect TO arrive home this
evening.
Mr.. II. X. Tuiler, Of the Eastern Buggy
Company, las gone east to purchase a car
load OF buggics, which will defer the draw
ing of the harness until his return.
Jno- d. Fincher, special agent of the
German Insurance Company, is here 10 ad-
just The loss sustained by the burning of
Augustus Hills honse on the I'd inst
1t vas enough to make one tremble at the
thought of what is coming this winter, to
see SO many thinly clad men gathered about
the stoves in public places yesterday.
Mr.. Charley Hatton, assistant United
States district attorney is off for Leaven-
worth TO take charge of the grand jury
there, at the request Of Col. Perry, district
attorney for Kansas.
judging by the talk and appearance of
some fellows on the street yesterday, it would
not require great stretch Of the immagina-
ton TO conclude that there is money being
used in the campaign in this city.
The Wichita Cracker and Confectionery
Co. have torn down all the partitions
inside their establishment and rearranged
everything, making an improvement. The
office especially has been handsomely fitted
up.
Owing to the small quantities of grain in
the market lately and the extreme Irregular
ity of the prices in other products, our mar
ket report has not been regularly revised of
late, but an amendment in that respect will
be made Immediately and kept up.
Byron 5. Hutchings. editor of the King.
man Leader, was in the city yesterday. He
says the injunction against the d., NJ. & A.
didn't cut much of figure with the King
man people, who in Il summary way seem
TO have set down on this movement.
Mr.. g. y Ostergren, the photograph
artist who is doing business for Rodgers, is
the proud father of new girl baby who
filed her appearance on this planet Just be-
fore the storm. Mr.. Ostergren felt unusual
ly happy oyer the event and set up the ci-
gsrs to his friends. Mother aud child doing
well. Father and mother are congratulated.
One thing is especially noticeable about
the city just now: 4 number Of the little
shells of houses that were occupied last year
are now empty and for rent. The reason Of
this is not decrease in the number of ten
ants, but a great number OF comfortable
houses have been built for rent during the
year and the poorer class is therefore de-
serted
1t is wonderful, beyond comprehension 10
see how rapidly all the rooms in the new
blocks just finished, have been occupied. A
month or so age, when these new blocks
were begun, men were heard TO remark
that it wonld be an easy matter TO get up
stairs rooms 10 rent this winter, bu. if they
viii 90 around in search for one now, they
will find it no easy matter to get one.
Now that the leaves are beginning to
wiLher and drop from the trees, all over the
city the light from above will have better
chance TO penetrate between the branches
and light the late traveller on his way home
nights, and there will be less kicking about
more and better lamps, but still, better
lighted streets would be protection against
burglars, and there onght to be some i'm
proyement in that respect.
Railroad laborers who have been having
around in anticipation of work beginning
on the Wichita & Colorado railroad were
gathered around the shady side of buildings
yesterday, discussing the probability of
work during the winter and some allowed
their thoughts to wander back TO the hos
pitable precincts of the old sand house
near the Fort Scott depot where SO many
sought shelter from the cold blasts of last
winter.
The fruit and vegetsble season being now
about over, the Canning Company will do
but little more this year. The proprietors
of the Wichita Canning Factory report that
they did very well for a beginning. and will
be prepared TO enter largely into the busi-
ness next year. They had no difficulty in
disposing of their product and could sell
ten times as many of their canned goods in
Kansas City or St Louis.
Wichita is to be congratulated on having
passed through the warm weather with
scarcely any sickness. There was not ten
per cent of the sickness of any kind that
there was last year, and the man who takes
care of the cemetery says that there have
not been one tenth as many blrials as last
year, notwithstanding the large increase in
our population. The Board of Health are
no doubt entitled TO considerable credit for
this happy result
Mr.. NJ. L. Sherry. editor of the Sharon
News, came up yesterday TO see how Wichi-
Ia looked on cold stormy day with trade
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