Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-08-12

| MI. II. L Dlo"H eApcCo " ica'c Aoi
Lexington, Kentucky, next week. He will
return about the first OF September accom-
led by his family.
! Tony Gallagher the expert telegrapher |
who has been receiving the press reports at
the Western Union telegraph Office, will leave |
for Chicago today
Degree OF honor meeting at A. o. Z. w. |
hall Thursday evening, Augut 18th. A full
attendance is expected.
| Mrs. j. r. DUTToN, Recorder.
The second story Of the elegant brick block |
on Main, south OF the Heller block, was com |
menced yesterday. The work on this build |
ing will now be rapidly pushed TO compile |
| ton. |
At the social to be given this evening at
the residence of Judge Hill, corner of Law
renee and third streets, Prof Wolf will In ad |
dition to the orchestra music. perform sever |
al very fine selections upon the violin.
We wrote an article touching the Biting |
controversy for yesterday mornings paper
which article we had intended should be |
sense, but which a careless compositor butch |
cred and mangled beyond recognition.
| mr. W. II. b. p. Anderson expects TO leave
in few days for Birmingham, Alabama |
He has already commenced bidding his |
friends goodbye He expects to start a
branch Office of the Anglo American Land |
and Loan Company
Peter Getto's new brick at the corner of
Waco and First streets is nearing compile |
tior. 1t is one of the incest buildings in the |
| city. MIR Getto will move his bottlng works |
from the corner of Main and Second streets |
to his new buiding next week.
Mrs. W s. Corbett and children |
are home from Mantou. They left
Mr.. Corbett greatly improved in
health aud his original strength |
| rapidly returning, which his hosts of friends |
in this city were exceedingly glad to hear
-
Yesterday, as a freight train was crossing |
East Douglas avenue, a team of horses hitch |
ed To a wagon-oad of furniture took fright |
and ran up the street The driver, however, |
kept them well under coutrol until they be |
came exhausted and stopped of their own ac- |
cord
The City scales that formerly stood near |
where Capt Carey is erecting his hotel have |
been removed two squares east Of the rail |
road track The old scales, which have been |
used for many years. Mr. Corlton thinks |
have served their time AMI will be re
placed in n few days by new ones
Hon. Oscar Ifabeilen, formerly editor or
the Iaavenworth Free Press and represen-
tativc from that city in the legislature, but
now located in Barber county, writes letter
on the railway situation down there in which
he is pleased to ba very complimentary OF
Wichita and her EAGLE.
Take the party absent in California, the
one in Oregon, the one at Manitou and the
one among the northern lakes, to say nothing
of the hundred or two OF Others who are |
away, and Wichita is not only short on in
habitants but is pretty well represented in a
number of places.
Some of the county officials think the in
mates at the county Jail are always so numer-
Gus that it would be good scheme to give
them an opportunity u pay for their board
They are contemplating applying {" the
county commissioners for an order allowing
the toughs IA chance to job
VIII T.. Reaves, of Ashtabula, Ohio, who
came here in May and invested in real estate,
like everyone who has done likewise. made
money and became stuck on the town. He
has recently opened n cigar store in the Man
haitian block and will soon add n news and |
stationary stand.
l.. \. Rodgers, a wealthy capitalist OF
Perry county, Ohio. was among the recent
arrivals in the city. He is making visit 10
bis son, A. X. Rodgers OF Garden Plainc.
The old gentleman has formed most favor
able opinion Of Wichita and the surrounding
country, and will invest in property before
his return east. {
4. FAIR PROFIT. ii