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The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-01-13
1881

1881.
Real estate S4O6, 104, 1926 90
Personal property 1873 .265, 359 90
Railroad companies 30,309.S7S 50
Badges 1885 900 90
Telegraph companies 34S.2l9 80
Total s601, ~, Ss3.D
1882.
Real estate SIZE. S26.742 90
Personal property I70.Sl3.976 90
Railroad companies 33.373,739 46
Telegraph companies 342,7S5 40
Bridges 100000 90
Total s649, 267 ,2242 Sc
Aggregate statement of the assessed val
uation OF property for the taxes of 1888
and 1884:
Assessed valuation
of real estate IA, As 90 sl96, 80 66s %
Assessed valuation
personal property 173.Si5l el 90 lS7Ii5 al 90
Assessed valuation
railroad properly 1851, 9l5 20 SIS $50, 316 sS
Assessed valuation
bridge property. 463,Sl2 30 5ls,52S AZ
Aggregate assessments for
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-01-13
ALA WEEKLY BAZOO TUESDAY, JANUARY Ii. 1855

January l, 1884, balance, sl,0l2.32S 80
Receipts and transfers. 1854. 4.3OO.542 az
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-01-13
RAILROADS.

Missouri Is keeping pace with her sister
States in the construction of railroads.
IL is vet one of the ''new States" which
has offered and is still offering inviting
fields for such enterprises Nothing has
done more towards developing the State
and bringing it into public admiration
than the various lines of railroad pene-
trating the different sections of the
State. Many look upon railroad with
distrast and aversion, almost placing it
in the catalogue of public robbers.
Strange as it may appear, this opinion
is formed after having sought its con-
struction and even after having voted
county subsidies to further the project.
A railroad is built and run for two putr-
poses to make money for its owners and
to accommodate the people. They are
not built as playthings for the boys nor
as subjects of demagOguery for the aver
age politician. 1t has been well said
that in conducting the business of rail-
road it is well nigh impossible to suit
every community and every individual.
The trouble is, each community and in
dividual wants the railroad operated for
his or its special convenience. OF
course it is impossible to do this. Then
what should be done ? How should these
great enterprises be managed? To what
extent should Congress or the States
undertake to govern them? These are no
idle questions. To-day the answer to
them is puzzling professional railroad
men and statesmen of the deepest
thought. 1t Is impossible for the leg
islatOr of one day, Of one session
or even of one year, to compre-
bend these great questions and evolve
from them relief to both the roads and
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lance, january l, 1856, 81. 4l3. S95 81
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-01-13

Having touching upon the Treasury
Department, L now call your attention
to these facts which can only be supplied
from the Auditors office. The following
tables show the increase in valuation in
real and personal property. Since the
10th of January, 1881, to January /, 1884
mo assessment having been made in
1884. Under the law, assessments upon
all taxable property. except merchandise
shall be made between the first DAYS of
June and January, and the valuation is
placed upon it the first day of June. The
taxes upon this assessment are collected
the following fall-over year before the
assessment Is made.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-07-17
A SINGULAR AFFAIR.

Yesterday morning just at the arrival of
the south bound passenger train on the San
ia Fe. woman with two little girls attracted
much attention. She was curious looking
woman and conversed freely with all who
felt inquisitive. She was apparently about
40 and by no means handsome. Both her
hands were so deformed that the fingers
could not be used at all, in short were scat
tered over the hands which were hard
looking sight themselves. In answer to IN
quiries by an EAGLE reporter, she stated that
she was the wife of a man named Joseph
Cherry, who she married about year ago
in Fort Scott. The husband was at that
time employed at nursery in that city. In
September, shortly after the marriage, she
went back to Wabash, Ind, after the two
little girls, who appear to be aged respec-
lively and 8 years. The husband, so she
says, sent her money to como back some
time ago and said she would find him in
Wichita, but she didn't. She has been here
week, first putting up at the Wichita
house and running bill of Sc. She next
applied to the superintendent of the
poor for money but instead he took her into
the poor house, where at first she was I'M
willing to 60 Mr.. Stewart promised to
keep her week until she heard from the
husband or from some one back in Indiana.
Her story is awfully doubtful. No one who
would look at her could possibly believe
that young man "a years of age, good
looking, as she says, would marry such n
looking woman, so old, so poor and with
two children to boot. She asked the report
er if he was the importer, and when he ac-
knowledged his guilt, she said her hands
were burned in maple sugar, in her youth
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-07-17
CATS vs.. DooA
That cats do hold concerts occasionally
and preambulate the back fences and climb
the shed roofs and raise cain generally we

That cats do hold concerts occasionally
and preambulate the back fences and climb
the shed roofs and raise cain generally we
cheerfully grant not alone from our own
experience but from undoubted newspaper
authority. From earliest tradition hus-
bands have thrown everything throwable
that their wives have laying around loose and
wives have been known TO throw their hus-
bands boots and even their loaded pisto |
loads at the feline serenaders. Some real
old people have had so many cat serenades
that it has become second nature with them
and keep full stock missiles in the house
for noctornal caterwauls. We are not
writing up any new exploits in the cat line,
not we, the whole field has long ago been
covered and the cat orchestra of to-day is
precisely the same that it was in the days of
Lord Worthington when q full mouthed
cat turned him back to the gates of London.
It's ours we're after now, another branch of
household pests that have just been on the
rampage and o. which we have to speak.
Wednesday night there congregated on
Douglas avenue full brigade of dogs from
the woody poodle up through
the 'yellar dog grades to the
erect and stately Newfoundland arestocrat.
They rallied in front of the European hotel
as for dress parade. They howled, snarled
and taught, sometimes all at once and piled
up, mixed valor and cowardice until the
massive brick structures on each side of the
street echoed back again the eternal din of
bow, wow,wow. The children's hair stood
on end and the small boy got up to see if
Towser was holding his own in the fight.
The people along that street spoke words
not laid down in Webster's unabridged or
classified in polite literature with the same
combination they put TO them and still the
dogs held high carnival and made night
spotted with the racket. Several staid citi-
zens Of that locality are perfectly Mortified
at the CANNES and their profane neighbors
for the way they carried on. At what time
the free entertainment ceased we are unable
to state but from the eternal fitness of things
their Threats gave out first and ended the
benefit. Talk about cats, why they are
tame in comparison.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-07-17
AN ANCIENT LITERARY RELIC.

A reporter of the EAGLE was shown 8
book published by johnson in London il
1852 which is in a good state of preserva
ton. 1t is John Bunyon's first work, hav
ing been written by the afterwards grea
author of Pilgrims Progress. In it are al
lusions 10 anticipated books which came
from the greatest of all religions English
authors. The work which we sllude TO j:
the property of Prof S. w. Kirby, Al
Douglas avenue, and the title of which is
The Barren Fig Tree. or the Doom and
Downfall of the Fruitless Professor" II
has all the characteristics of youthful
author and is more of quoted selection
from Divine teaching and clearly shows the
bsnt of the young authors mind at thi:
early age of his life that was destined TO fur
nish posterity with the most vivid illustrs-
ton of Christian character in the English
language. The publicati~n alluded to was
without doubt the first and il appeared long
after Bunyan's other works became famous.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-07-17
PAYING DIRT

Mr.. George F. Morgan, of Waco town
ship, WAS in town yesterday and showed an
EAGLE reporter $40 gold piece thst looked
as if it had been lying out somewhere.
What do you think of land thst will rsise
that sort of a CROP said Mr.. Morgan. In
reply TO an inquiry he said he had found
the money on his farm. II got some trees
from the Lee Summit nursery last spring
and sc; them out While hauling the dir,
thus dug out and putting it abou; the roots
Of the trees, l found a silver half dollar.
Soon after, my father in working among the
dirt found another. and about a week after
found silver dollar. The other dsy in
digging and rsking among that same dirt
found this $40 gold piece. don't know
how TO account for il but have notion 10
dig around there some more when &c:
time cannot conceive how it got there.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-07-17
MILITARY.

As has been stated before in these col
umns, company "a" ofthe Second regiment
of Kansas state militia, which is our COM
psny, has been mustered out of the service
of the state in consequence of having failed
to accept service under chapter 142, of ses-
sion of laws of 1885, within the time pre-
scribed by said act.
The reason our company has been al
lowed to drop through and not comply
with the requirements Of the act, appears to
be that Capt. Ong, has some idea of moving
away from this city, or at any rate he will
not be here regularly, therefore he paid no
attention to the matter, hence the neglect to
comply with the new act.
Col. Woodcock has received applications,
OF letters of inquiry from Hutchinson, Ar
kansas City, and two other towns in this
military district with view TO the organi-
cation of the company in their respective
towns.
Wichita should retain the company by
all means and make it crack company, as
we have the material to do it. Our people
should hold meeting at once, elect a
competant captain and at once reorganize
the company.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-07-17
WOODEN WEDDING.

A very large number of friends Of Judge
and Mrs. E. B. Jewett were splendidly en-
tertained at their residence, No. 41s North
Emporia avenue, night before last, the occa-
sion being the fifth anniversary of their we'd
ding. Following are the names of those
present:
Mr.. and Mrs. c. S. Caldwell, Mr.. and Mrs.
T. /. Humble, Mr.. and Mrs R. c. Guthrie,
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. NJ. Balderston, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. B. Mead, Mr.. and Mrs. r. II. Roys,
Mr.. and Mrs. L. b. Bunnell, Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Rogers, Mr.. and Mrs. f. E. Shade,
Mr.. and Mrs. c. w. Graham, Mr.. and
Mrs. John F. Andrews, Mr.. and Mrs. Koss
Harris, Mr.. and Mrs. Vermillion, Mr.. and
Mrs. Leonard jackson, Mr.. and Mrs. Finlay
Ross, Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Lawrence, Mr.. and
Mrs. Rodolph Hatfield, Mr.. and Mrs. Chas'
L. Walker, Mr.. and Mrs. j. NJ. Pollock,
Mr.. and Mrs. N. McClees, Mr.. and Mrs. II.
G. Ruggies, Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Bond, Mr..
and Mrs. F. Walker, Mr.. and Mrs. l. d..
Skinner, Mr.. and Mrs c. A. Van Ness.
MIS-. W. ~. hHh, @AIe. ". Z. huuIrWs, WI ..
Fl. A. Bliss, Mrs. j. d. Hewitt, Mrs. W. r.
Tucker. Messrs. j. N. Allen, Oscar DE
Lond, L. Miner, Chss- Moore
house and Ed. Andrews; Misses
Mary Miller, Emma Hazen, Mary Skinner,
Lizzie Mead, Lizzie Pope, Kate Whey.
Gail Caldwell and Miss Goss. As all
our people know, the company con-
tanned none put ladies and gentlemen
of the highest social standing. The
host and hostess acquitted themselves
in their respective duties towards their guests
in manner commensurate with the 9cca-
sion and the event proved a source of de-
light to the whole company. An elegant
supper was served and highly enjoyed. A
long list Of presents, which is not in our pos
session, many of which were artistic and
beautiful, and all appropriate to the occa-
sion. Altogether it was one of the most
brilliant gatherings ever collected in this
city and the event will long live in the
hearts of the judge and his estimable lady,
nor will it soon be forgotten by their guests
The EAGLE wishes the happy couple
many Joyous returns of their wedding ami
yersary
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-07-17

The writer who was bred in plum coun.
try snd was quite intimate with the cele-
DRAFTED Niagra district in York state, saw q
sight in John Stewards orchard yesterday
in The WAY of plums, that discounted any
thing in his former experience. Two trees
one the egg plum and the other green
gage. were a wonderful sight The frui,
were in clusters as thick as grapes, and
more wonderful still, being just So the whole
length of every branch, and the fruit is
large and luscious. Mr. Stewart will have to
shake of much OF the fruit 10 save the
hrar ehes
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-07-17

The city council are abou; TO pass a va
grant ordinance which is expected to be full
and complete in every particular 1t in
tends the Incarceration of all sble-b odied
Migrants found lettering in or around pub
lie buildings or railroad stations, cars, etc.
Ii will v ork TO charm, for while green
corn, vegetables and berries last and the
Thermometer is below freezing point no pro-
fe>sional tramp will suffer the shsckles of
the law TO clutch him. A general exodus OF
trsmps may soofi be looked for and no man
will know whence they came or where they
goeth.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-07-17

Headache is terrible thing to be subject
TO, but Cobb's Little Pills will cure It Oh
money refunded. If the liver is torpid and
the bowels constipated. you feel sick ''al
over" Your head will ache and be dizzy
your appetite will be poor, etc. Cobb's Lit,
tie Podophyllin Pills are the one genuine
remedy now before the public to start the
machine into proper action. Only % cents
per bottle. No cure no pay.
d296 ALDRICH & Brown.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-07-17

f. A. Kennedy, a prominent and extern
sive farmer of Goar township, Sumner coun-
ty, is in the city. An EAGLE reporter in =
few words conversation with him ascertained
the fact that crops were extra good in his
section excepting wheat which was quite
poor. lie has on his place, so acres in
corn, SO acres in wheat and 80 acres in oats.
He was recently offered $4,000 for one-hali
his farm containing one section, but refused
IL forthwith.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-07-17
POLICE COURT,

One plain drunk showed up in the police
court yesterday. His name was Bsrnhart
and he WAS dead broke and the court COM
mitted him TO the cooler where he had s
chance 10 reflect on the ways of those who
targolong q: the wine.
Two danes du pave were within the arms
of the law this time and the court placed s
fne of - and costs on esch, reversing the
usual order of things.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-07-17

"By the bye" says Geo. A Broadbere,
editor of the Tonganoxie, Kas., Mirror, you
can say that the bottle of Chamberlain
collie, cholera and diarrhoes remedy left me
by your agent two years ago, proved to be
the best remedy / have ever used. / have
no doubt but it saved my Oldest sons life"
The above shows conclusively that there is
nothing like having the great life preserver
ut hand at the right time. 1t is put up in
25 cent, so cent and 81 bottles. Sold by all
druggists d24
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-07-17
Cigars.

Peter Getto, wholesale dealer in fine i'm
ported and domestic cigars, corner of Main
and Second streets, begs 10 inform the
dealers of Wichita and neighboring towns
that he has on hand cigars of superior
quality, and will keep constantly on hand
an extensive stock of the best goods in this
market, and is prepared to fill orders at the
lowest possible prices. Correspondence
solicited. 19d-tf
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-07-17
Lost Cow

A large red Durham mich COW, about 4
yesrs old. rather thin. small bag and :ests,
small horns Information leading TO her re-
covery may be left with the subscriber. or
Kansas National bank and will be suitably
rewarded. Mrs. J. l. Hill. corne. Lawrence
avenue and Third street d454,s
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-07-17
MARRIED.

Mr.. Charles 7. Boyd was married to Miss
Ida Weeks at the residence of the brides
parents. 4l9 Waco street, last night, Rev,
W. F. Harper officiating. No cards The
EAGLE extends congratulations.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-07-17

Eight thousand sig hundred and seventy
pounds of hard tack, and 1000 pounds of
bar lead for the troops in the Territory were
transferred from the Frisco to the Santa Fe
yesterday in this city. II is easy enough to
guess what they intend 10 do with the hard
tack, but what do they want the bar lead
Co..
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-07-17

The great success which has attended the
rise of Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy and the probability of an
epidemic of cholera during the coming
summer, have induced the proprietors to
put up their famous preparation in three
sizes-25 and so cents and 81. Every fami-
ly should keep it on hand. Sold by all
druggists. 3l3
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-07-17

A single trial of the Peerless Worm Spe-
cifc never vet failed to relieve the baby and
overcome the prejudices of the mother. 1t
not only frees the child from worms, but
regulates the stomach and bowels, cures
wind collie, corrects acidity, and cures Dys-
EMERY and Diarrhoea, gives rest and health
to the child and comforts the mother. Try
it. No cure, no pay.
2S9 ALDRICH & BROWN.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-07-17

The driver of baggage express wagon No.
20 attempted to back up his nag at the cor
ner next the State bank yesterday evening,
and in the attempt the rig was upset and the
old nag twisted onto the sidewalk and for a
while il looked as if horse and all would be
in heap in the gutter. The draymen in the
neighborhood tipped the wagon back on its
pins and no serious DAMAGE was done.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-07-17
MAGISTRATES COURT.


for few days past but gets down to court
for short time each day. He was down
long enough yesterday to issue a warrant
for John Doe, legal crank, who this time
figures as defendant in a case of assault.
In the replevin case of Dawson VS.. Dav-
ison, a suit between man and wife who have
jumped the bonds of matrimony, a compro-
mise of The suit was effected and a division
of property had.
In Justice Thomas court yesterday
case was up for adjudication. The state was
represented by County Attorney Balderston
and Judge Stanley and the defendant by
Judge Milton. A jury of twelve OF his
countrymen was impanneled and the case
went under investigation.
At a late hour last night the jury in the
case of the State VS.. Robt. Shaw charged
with selling intoxicants, returned verdict
of guilty against defendant and affixed the
penalty at 500 and thirty days imprison-
ment in the county Jail.
Mr. +. F. Ford, our county clerk, returned
from his western trip night before last and
said to an EAGLE reporter yesterday that no
place he saw can hold IA candle to Wichita
IN respect of business even in proportion to
size. That's just what everybody says.
Garden City and Larned are usually con-
sidered live towns, but Mr.. Ford says it is
all real estate business. In Larned the
teams at any given time during the day did
buildings were under way. Every traveller,
be he Wichita man or not, tells much the
same story, and Judging from accounts of
the industrial condition of eastern cities,
gathered from reporters search for work
in St Louis and much the same state of
things in all eastern cities. Wichita people
should be content with their lot.
Our readers will remember that about a
north ago John Fisher, our worthy
sheriff, who has frequently been charged
with mercantile designs, had opened pea
nut stand at the corner of the county build
ing, and that in ten days after the thing
busted. Yesterday concern of much more
magnitude with peanuts, peaches and red,
black and white liquid in bottles, all sur
mounted with ship canal sail, was running
in full blast right in front of Hank Heiser-
mans Office, and from the sign on the side
of il We gathered that Fisher had resumed
business. We are glad Mr.. Fisher has got
on his feet again and hope he will make it
stick this time.
Prof. Isaac T. johnson, of Wilmington,
Delaware, who for some years has been
identified prominently with the educational
interests of that city, and J. B. johnson
brother of the professor. an employee Of the
New York & Erie railroad, are visiting at the
residence of their father, Rev. Alfred John
son, Mound nursery east of this city.
and are loud in their praises of its splendid
fruits.
Mr.. F. L. Hovey is very earnest in his
praises of the medicinal and restorative
qualities of the Eureka Springs waters. He
himself comes back almost new man and
he said during his short stay there that
number of paralytics and other cures seemed
almost miraculous. We suspect that the
only trouble is that these springs are too
near home and that it don't cos; enough to
be avaied of their benefits.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-07-17

That son of the Orient and wOrshipper of
Mshomei, whose allegiance is due the sultan,
and is making himself little fresh in his
baggy breechcs and swarthy hide, soaring
women and children should be notified that
while this is free country he had as well so
a liffln slnpr
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-07-17

J. II. Chandler, Cambridge; james Shaw
er, Cloverdule; W. l.. Rcece and wife
Reece; Frank Worcester, Fort Scott; V. NJ
Ayrez, Arkansas City; J. W. Heincs and
sor, Leon; w. A. H"rner Florence; Alber,
Meyers. Great Bend; Mrs. W. ii. McCsrty
and son, AIRLINE, and Miss Pauline Garrison
Garden Plain. are guests at the Occidental.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-07-17

Hon. w. W. Cheshire and wife, of north
ern Indiana, old friends of Judge Walker
are visiting at the Judges residence No. Goa
South Lawrence avenue. Mr.. Cheshire has
held many high positions in Indiana, having
recently been special examiner of the pen
sion bureau.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-07-17

The people along Douglas avenue be
tween Main and the river are kicking On &C
count of those on Main street washing the
cutters in front Of their places, the entire
filth thus washed away lies csmly in the
ditch on the avenue until il il is covered Will
a beautiful green surface, which the peo.
pie calm is not absolutely necessary to the
health ofthat part of town.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-07-17

Mrs. a. Brown arrived in the city yester-
day from Aughway, Allen county, Ohio.
She was expecting TO meet her friends and
Mr.. David Haze. If that gentleman is in
the city, he will confer Il favor by calling at
G. W. Smiths barber shop. AIS Douglas
aYanna
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-07-17

The fire at Mulvane, says +. A. Kennedy,
destroyed the entire stock Of Berry, the fur
niture man, who had just opened business
there. He lost everything and it is stated
the citizens will give him lift in his mis-
fortune
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-07-17

The most desirable property about the
city. Situated at the terminus of the North
Main stree, car line. For sale in large lots
and tracts of two to four acres
Special bargains to persons who will
build at once. Easy terms. Call on the
premises and see.
d45-6u L. +. SHERWOOD.