Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-05-04
THE RAmsLER,s RECITATION.

appointed because aid not show up Sun
day morning. They say the HANDLERS
racket has become o feature Of the paper
they are all looking for.
Well since my last the principal topic that
has agitated the public mind in this wonder
full city is real estate and railroads. These
two subjects are always on top. I took
ride on Sunday to see what had been done
in building since my last round of the city.
1 find many new foundations being built and
nearly all for fine houses. There are many
commodious and handsome houses going up
along North Lawrence avenue and the
north part Of town generally.
In almost every important city
there is some fine residence street lead
ing away out into the country. North Law
renee avenue seems to be taking that posi-
ton here. By the way there is to be an
other very beautiful piece Of LAID plated
on: on that street that will no doubt COM
mand immediate attention and become q
popular residence location. This new can
didate for public favor is twenty acres lying
north of Fairview addition on
the very pinnacle of the high ground in the
north part and not more than three minutes
drive from where lots sell for $1,000 on
Lawrence avenue. 1t is a beautiful place
and its lots will front on three Of the best
streets in the city viz: Lawrence. Mar
ket and Fairyiew avenue. Fine
fruit trees are planted upon it
and no finer spot for comfortable home
could be found anywhere. Mr.. Alex
ander Steele and VIM. NJ. Swentzell bought
this fine piece of ground last week for $751;
900 and could sell it today for $4,000. 1t
has the advantage oyer Carey park of the
Lawrence avenue front, and in many other
respects it is more favorably located than
any of the late additions.
Yesterday was live day-lIye in wind
and real estate transactions. l did net hear
of any extraordinary large sale, but all the
real estate men report unusual activity in
of the soil.
The tourists who have returned from Cali
fornia say there is no place like this any
where and guess they are about right.
The Santa Fe depot question
still monopolizes large share of public at
tention, especially among jewellers in the
east part Of town. Some who imagine they
the whole program say the pas
,u 10 10 ln.a.nI h.
where the freight depot now stands and that
the freight depot only is to be located on
Williams street. am willing to wager a
large SHIRE of Jay Gould's hard-earned
that / know the exact location of
these depots. Well, let that be as it may
there is good prospect that everything will
be satisfactorily arranged and that the depot
will be built this summer and viii begin be-
fore the first Of June.
The strikes and the unsettled
condition of labor all over
the country is causing considerable
uneasiness even here and the matter is dis
cussed good deal. l wish to assure the
people here that there is no danger in these
diggins. find the majority here opposed
to the present labor agitation. l was talk
ing with gentleman last Sunday night
who has worked large bodies of men for
many years and he said, "The men who are
The worst off and who are the ones entitled
10 consideration are the common laborers on
railroads and public wcrks-graders, track
layers and section men. Engineers, con-
ductors, tiremen and brakemen are getting
just as good pay as they did right after the
war, when everything was high. AT that
time common laborers were getting $50
per day and now they get only Sl.50, and
section men often get only Sl.l0. These
are the men who do the hardest
work, live in tents and box cars
and general misery, and yet there is no
move OH their account"
Talk about the eight-hour system; the
class OF laborers who are demanding this
are comfortably housed, well clothed and
fed, provided they save their earnings. and
they would not trade places with well-to-do
farmers. They take far more comfort than
The farmers and live better. The farmer is
said TO be the most Independent OF men, but
he generally works from daylight until
dark. Nee hanics and railroad men VINO
are comfortably fixed in the city are the
ones who are Masking all the trouble, and
hey are spurred up to it By loud-mouthed
socialists and blatant denagogues who don't
work ut all. These fellows harrangue the
men about bar rooms and blow in their
earnings with them under the impression
,ha. they are friends, but these
elbows care nothing for the laboring
friends who can tell US of our faults, not for
my qualification it may afford them, nor
to us, but as family physi-
ian would point out some malady which
hreaiened to undermine our health, in or
Ter that efficient means may be taken for its
eradication.
The farmers are crying for rain. The
,ats and corn and everything is suffering
or shower.
| was talking with w. w. Davis. of Val
ey Center, yesterday. and he said they had
nice rain up there last Saturday evening.
Ie also told me than he had it from the |
,est authority that old man Gregory, who |
anne down here a year ago to buy grass
eed and never returned home, is |
low living in Missouri. 1t was the |
REVEALING opinion that he had been fouly |
leali with and robbed here at that time, and |
numerous stories were siost, TO the effect |
hat be had last been seen near certain |
louise near the Lille river and that about |
Midnight cries wore heard at the river. No /
motive being known for his absenting him.
elf, it WAS the general opinion tina; he had
een murdered and robbed. Mr.. Davis re-
stes the following story about the old chap
,hich brands him as an old scoundrel:
His sister in Indiana had in some way be-
ONE possessed of several thousand dollars
nd, for what reason is not stated. she hid it
, her garden. This old sinner knew of
ais and went there and took it. He
OF married 10 bis present wife
nd came to Kansas and bought the farm
ear Valley Center. He Was arrested IN In
lana for stealing the money bu. his sister
stused TO appear against him. HIS wife has
one back 10 live with her folks in the east,
n L L. l. l.. /