Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-04-19

| Mrs. A. Kramer leaves the city this morn
ing for ST. Louis. via the Sunfower route.
Mr. Dale, p brother Of Dave and Frank
bought fine pair of mules at the horse ant
mule market Yesterday. lie also bought
full outfit to begin farming with.
Look out We needy tramps. Capt. Smytl
says the cainp.ign fund WIS so large thai
there is now a surplus of $500 to be divided
to the needy in the several wards.
Dr.. c. 4. Wilson was called to his Ole
home in Indiana yesterday by telegram
and to the bedside of former patient. II,
hopes to be able tn return within week oil
ten DAYS.
Mr.. o. Brown yesterday bought tn,
Schwerdtfagcr bakery property, on the east
side of Main street between First and Sec.
ond streets, 25-foot front, for $3.50. S14t
per front foot.
| The Wholesale Grocer company have 8
wonderfully heavy stock on hand Just now
The main store room, the new addition In
the rear and the upper story Of Aspey's new
building are chock full.
As the robbery of Jack Thoma.' and
Frank Dale's watches occurred about half
past three in the morning, several of the
boys are wondering what in the world Frank
was doing out until that hour of night.
There will be no meeting of the Woman
Relief corps on Monday. as agreed upon.
The meeting has been postponed.
NEs. N. c. ToDD, Pres.
MEs. 5. T. Mitchell, Scc'v.
Mr.. Barney and family, from northern
Iowa, are in the city visiting friends and are
so favorsbly impressed with kansa. that
the family viii remain here while Mr.. r.
goes back TO sell out and move TO Kansas.
Mrs. VIM. H. Irwin, of Emporia, wife Of
| the conductor who was 50 badly injured
some four or five months ago. is in the city,
stopping at the fremont. Mrs. Irwin re-
ports Mr. Irwin rs confined TO his bed and
without Improvement.
5. +. Putnam, Of New York, popular
secular lecturer and writer, and Charles
Watts, of London, Eng, celebrated lee
turer on seculsrism, were registered at the
Occidental yesterday They will lecture in
Dodge City tonight, and al Wichita next
Wednesday.
The lumber dealers intimate n probable
advance in prices at the yards here before
long-say 81 per Mas the freight charges
were advanced that much on the let inst.
The dealers have made no advance az vet, as
the rise in freight.
Vi. Zimmerly and Chas. Snitzer are off
tomorrow for New Orleans. and will proba-
bly, be absent from twenty to thirty DAYS.
After their return Mr.. Zimmerly expects to
visit his sisters family in San Francisco,
when lie will embrace the opportunity to
view all the places Of interest on that coast.
Dick Buis h,s just returned from a trip to
Missouri. whe g be has been buying a car
load Of work iiulcs and horses for this mar
ket- He says the country there is more
backward thtn here as TO season, but
has been very thoroughly drenched with
rain. and roads were almost impossible in
Henry county.
Mr.. J. l. Hodge, Of this city, has rented
storeroom in Goddard, and will put a
large stock of dry goods, boots and shoes.
bats, caps and clothing into it. 1t will be a
branch of his Wichita house, and will be
supplied with a heavy and complete stock
Mr.. Hodges nephew, j. c. Hodge, will con-
duet the business
a canvass oi-psinting by Miss Lacy Ed
monds, OF Eugene, Ind, is on exhibition at
the Fair on Main street. 1t represents
the ruins of Carthage and is a well executed
work, and 10 doubt true To the scenery of
the decayed city. Miss Edmonds was a
schoolmatc Of Mrs. Nixon Elliott, and the
picture is present and testimonial of ar-
fection 10 Mrs. Elliott.
Yesterday WAS one Of the dullest Satur-
days of the season. Very little grain was in
the market aud business was light all around
News WAS conspicuous by its absence and
reporters looked al broke up. The event of
the day was IN exhibition. In sullivan and
Paddy Ryan, between two chaps OF the AZ
rican persuasion, one of whom caused the
other To sit down rather suddenly several
times.
On both ends Of the Arkansas river bridge
rapid encroachments are being made by lot
makers upon the natural channel of the
river The process consists of rip-rapping
with brush and trash, and driving piles.
Then the lots so staked off are filed with
stable manure and sand. To say nothing of
the sanitary feature al this narrowing of the
channel, there is great danger of flooding the
city if it is carried much further upon some
great freshet occurring.
The all absorbing topic of conversation
amongst each little knot of street takers of
all classes and degrees of thought, is the
war between England and Rus
STA. VIII they fight? is asked and debated
pro and con, as only Americans can and
will. For our part, We have been in several
great battles. We think We know a little
about il, and We earnestly hope they won't
We think that wars are cruel and useless,
and we prefer dull times to human slsugh-
ter, even in Asia and Europe.
4 stranger stepped up TO John Fisher yes
terday and asked if he was not Al Thomas.
The sherlf sized him up in silence, when the
man again asked: "Aint you Al Thomas,
the real estate man" John stepped back,
and with fierce scowl or his innocent phiz, |
exclaimed: What, Al Thomas. why he is
he william who sits rs a model for the jack
If clubs for Hart. the great card maker of
New York" The stranger was bewildered, |
md hardly knew whetheri il was safe 10 hunt
Mr.. Thomas up or not.