Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-10-29
GRAVEL FOR STREETS


The city council appointed q COMMITTEES
with power to place on one of the promi.
nent streets layer OF gravel as an expert.
ment. A prominent business msn stated 10
reporter yesterday that the grsveling OF
the streets Of Wichita would be the very
best and cheapest improvement that could
be suggested, and that in his opinion all re-
pairs on them should be by coating them
with thick layer of gravel.
Mr.. John c. Pacey, who for a long time
clerked in the Wichita postofice, but who
| has gone out to Western Kansas to take
himself 3 homestead, writes from the new
town Of Kendall, in Hamilton county, that
he is thoroughly pleased with his new VEN
ture, but that he must have the DAILY
EAGLE John is a very bright and enger-
etc young men and that he will make q
successful squatter sovereign We have no
doubt
We clip the following item from the
Dubuque Iowa. Times, which speaks for
itself: 1.-The Schubert Quartette, who sang
at the May festival last year, honored Du-
| buque with second visit las: evening, and
were greeted by large and fashionable
audience, who were highly entertained.
Their singing thrilled every heart and the
applause fairly shook the building"
John G. Johnston, Newton; Mel Wilkie,
Douglas; Mira. W. d. Mowery, Arkansas
City; G. w. Brown, Cheney; Robert Clark
and wife, Augusta; Frank Worcester, Fl
Scott; ?. r. Prickett, r. b. Raglan, E. Pleas
ant, Valley Center; E. J. Foster and family,
Cedar Rapids, Ia; Mrs. NJ. II. Delano,
Franklin. Ind; are registered at the Occi-
dental.
The opening of the home lecture course,
which was announced Monday night, is post
poned until one week later, when Rev. T.
5. Hodgson will lecture on, "An evening
with the best autors." Mr.. Hodgson's liter
airy attainments and his fine oratorical abili-
ty lnsures an entertaining lecture and his
subject is an excellent one.
If "A Citizen" will but drop around, We
will be happy 20 write up the aforesaid.
We take pleasure in dong that thing when
invited to do SO, or when we know that it
would prove agreeable. There is nothing
small about the notorious EAGLE" but it
don't like TO stick its nose in where not in
vitcd
T. p. Martin Esq, of Xenie, Ohio, prom
inent lawyer and an old friend Of Squire
Mitchell's, and who has been retained in the
school land contests of Pratt county, made
US a call yesterday. Mr.. Martin has been
taken captive by our county and says he
shall leave his family in this city this win
ter.
y. +. Neiderlander and his old friend, r.
Hoffeld, of Buffalo, \. Y, returned from a
two DAYS hunt near Cheney They were
the guests of Hon. III. C. Jewett, of the
Jewe.t stock farm. Mr.. j. leaves to-day
with his wife for their home in Buffalo
ii. G. Toler is fitting up his office in the
basement of the county building in fine
shape, carpeiing the floors and papering the
walls. He says he will make it equal to the
best real estate office in the city. G. NJ.
Boyd Il Co. and c. Z. Fogg, civil engineer,
have Offices there also.
While going the rounds of the mills and
elevators yesterday, a reporter got the grain
maekcts rs follows: Milling wheat, 75c;
shipping wheat, As to Goc; whitr corn, 81 to
DC; mixed corn, 20 to 2lc; mixed oats, Ice,
and red Texas oats, rust proof, dc.
Geo. E. Rhodes, Anthony; j. W. Lowery,
Sterling; ID. W. Phillips, Eldorado; John W.
Trsmmell, Newton; G. S Lowery, Ameri-
Gus; are register at the Manhattan.
y reporter WAS told last evening that
brakeman named Spencer, was killed on the
Santa Fe at Newton nj ght before last. No
particulars were learned
Since the late rains the growing wheat in
Sedgwick county has made fine progress,
and the present prospect for a good crop
next year il aattering.
Mr.. Thomas Fahey, proprietor of the
Sherman House, near the Santa Fe depot,
has been investing largely in houses and
lots lately.
Mr.. Wootens new residence which
crowns College Hill, is nearly completed.
Mrs. John Kennedy was confined to her
room sick yesterday.