Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-07-03

IL the market.
Ia Three new cars for the street railway hay
arrived and will be ready to carry sight
seers to Bayley's park and all the othe
o. parks on the Fourth.
W. ii. Smith, of Bloomington, H., a
,s old conductor of the Chicago and Alton
has rented the Santa Fe house and win ope
for business on the Fourth.
". Z. w. Cunningham, Esq, one of En-
n poria's leading attorneys, spent the day j
" the city yesterday. He was in pursuit c
matters of purely legal import.
Of A rank strap, of the G.. A. II. was lost O
nm or about Memorial day. The finder will b
lie suitably rewarded by leaving it at this Of
10 fee or at the county clerks Office.
is Quite a number oflaborers just discharge
after finishing the grade of the FL Dorad
=. and Newton branch of the Sunfower road
90 are in the city and will probably blow il
\ their estimates.
es Mr.. j. E. johnson, Mr. Blacks son-in
lg law, arrived from Kansas City yesterda.
for permanent residence. He says that out
49, side of Wichita Kansas City is the livelies
a town in the world.
ed Owing to the tearing up of the sidewalk
a from Nam street to the rink and the We
a. weather rendering the approaches PRACTICAL.
50 impossible, there will be no play at tn
is Bijou until next week.
We amt going to say anything funn,
TX about the bill fend, who was as numerou
,, as usual yesterday. He is necessary evil
20 although some think he is not an absolute
y necessity in their business.
Farmers and gardeners say the rain o
;, yesterday will have the effect of turning tn,
:, web worm into miller and thus proven
further damage by thae unwelcome visitor
of If such will be the result the rain was
d God-send.
The trouble between J. F. Smith and wife
and their renters, the Fitzgeralds, still con.
tinues and the latter still occupy the prem
:, Uses of the former without the payment o.
= rent, to the great injury and annoyance Of
Smith and family.
l. The merchants who deal in country
produce at Burden and other towns along
the Southern Kansas road east of Winfield
are anxious to trade with some good reliable
dealers in thier line here. Wichita ought
j. to be able t" supply thier wants.
# Mr.. o. A. Evans, of Bradford, Pa, an old
J friend of our old-time reporter, S. S. Miller
3 also of Jabk Thomas, made US call last
II night in company with tho latter gentleman.
S Mr.. Evans is Just in from Dodge and had
been out at the ranch to see Sam Miller,
who he SAYS is happy among the steers.
The marriage mentioned in the Beacon to
): come off at the Manhattan did not come of.
1 Owing to previous complications the groom
a was not at hand and the bride came not.
4 The premature publication of the notice
{ raised sheol in the bosom of the groom's
n boarding house. O, Heimer, why ish dish,
n anyhow.
n The imported Partisan cook at the Man
: haitian house got on his ear yesterday and
T had to be fired bodily from the culinary de-
tention of this house TO employ none but
!, imported cooks but the last importation had
decidedly too much TO to utterly utter paley
a YOU.
: Mr.. A. 5. G. Forbes ana party will 60 of
I TO their cattle ranch in few days. Mr..
: Forbes agrees with us that just now such a
: trip has no particular attractions but their
e interests demand il Their ranch is something
: like hundred miles southeast Of Reno and
' their road lies right through Cantonment.
Tit FOR tat: Fred Holmes, of Goddard,
had little spat with his horse the other
day and losing his temper he kicked the
I quadruped in the rear. At this the horse
: lost his temper at that end and kicked Fred
in front, giving him the worst CT it. No
1 horse that has any respect for himself would
!, stand any such treatment.
Mr.. Benson, the jeweler, who resides north
, of the Union depot, tells of thieving story
that rather captures the confectionery. A
hen aud nineteen chicks were stolen from
his chicken coop. They were white Leg
D horns and the eggs had been sent to Mr..
5 Benson from Illinois. Wonder if they were
a sold at second hand store.
The Knights of St Joseph have every
, thing arranged for their Fourth of July
picnic. The Knights, followed by the
Ladies sodality, headed by Woods band,
will leave the Catholic church at q. m. and
march through the city. The picnic will be
held in Greifenstein's park and a pleasant
time is anticipated.
E A dozen bricks from the various yards in
this city are on exhibition in Niederlander's
, real estate Office Our brick makers are ex-
perimenting with different clays and making
commendable efforts TO improve their brick
and show decided improvement on last
, years work. Among those on exhibition
are some very good brick.
The following Fort Scott gentlemen ar
5 rived in the city last evening via. the Sun
flower road and made the EAGLE pleasant
call: w. NJ. Rice, of the Fort Scott Mont
tor; c. p. Rector and w. p. McNair, of she
5 St Louis, Fort Scott and Wichits railroad,
and Messrs. Mark Walser and A. Popkess,
capitalists of that city. They are guests at
the Manhattan.
at The Bsyley park yesterday creased
pole 10 feet high was erected for the festiv-
tiles of the Fourth day of July. A purse Of
$40 is offered to the man who climbs it and
places spread eagle on its topmost point.
Something has been said about Bayley run
ming water up hill, but if ne gets man 10
run up gseased pole without sliding back
we pass on the water question.
Rev. William Parker, Baptist minister at
5 Clearwater, returned yesterday from visit
TO Elk City, and gives us the following re-
E port of a runaway accident which occurred
Q near that place on Monday night, which
caused the death of two valuable horses
1t was livery team hired by two men, one
of them harness maker in Elk City named
Adams. They were both drunk and soon
lost control of the team, which ran into two
wire fences. They cleared the first one, but
were entangled and so badly cut by the
: second fence that both animals died inside Of
Q half hour afte- they were cut.