Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-03-03
THE RAMBLER,

THE RAMBLER,
Ga.herer of Street Gossip and Other TrIaes.
Yesterday was quite March-like-cloudy
and chilly. not well adapted for street loung-
ing and gossip.
met Mr.. K. L. Bostick, the importing
tailor in the Noble building. 81 saw your
structures on giving retail orders to foreign
houses" said Mr.. Bostick. sand think
you are about right Surely Wichita ought
to be able to take care OF all such work. 1
have taken in $1,000 worth of work since
came here and will do as good work and
at as reasonable figures as any western
house. 1 have sent east for fifteen men who
will come here with their families. which
will be that much addition to the city. l
expect to work about twenty hands"
found Mr.. Bostick has large and fine
assortment of piece goods.
met man named j. W. Kerr, from OF
tawa, Kansas, in company with Rogers, the
photographer, and policeman Joe Stewart,
examining tin type likeness of man call
ing himself William Jones, and who,
Mr.. Kerr said, stole q team and
rig from him some time ago,
one horse of which team was found in this
city in the possession of Mr.. A. N. Dean,
who bought him from this man Jones some
time since. They went up to Rogers gal
lery to get few of the likenesses struck off
for the purpose Of sending them to officers
of surrounding towns, for the purpose of
getting grip en- the horse thief. followed
them up stairs and obtained the following
particulars of the theft:
This man Jones hired team and rig of
Kerr, who is livery man, ostensibly to
drive to Eureka. 1t appears his wife lived
at Eureka and owned q team. Jones, as
the story goes, traded one of Mr.. Kerr's
| horses for one of his wife's horses, and with
these two Jones and bis wife drove to
Augusta, where Jones got a pair of shafts
and single harness of Ed johnson, livery
man of Augusta. With this rig Jones drove
to this city and sold the whole business to
Mr.. Dean as before stated.
/ met W.D. Murdoch, of the Fort Scott and
Wichita road, who said: 81 wish you bad
been down TO our depot this morning. l
would show you perhaps the finest coach
you ever saw. 1t is combination
sleeper and chair car, and is a perfest beauty.
We will soon make arrangements to run a
night train from here to Kansas City, and
night train will also leave Kansas City for
Wichita"
Said gentleman to me at the postofice
"There is speculation for you:" The Citizens
Land and Improvement company, bought
that old hog lot between the packing house
and the river, of Colonel Stewart, for 81 900.
believe it fronts 275 feet on Douglas ave-
nue., and runs back TO Williams street. l
hear they sold n. A. English the east
one hundred feet for $4,000. Then
they bought a piece of land somewhere
down along the Santa Fe for 800, which
they are stripping and hauling upon the low
| spot near the river at cost of As cents per
yard, and they are raising that low ground
| four feet, which VIII make it high and dry.
The piece they are filling up, is, l think, 175
xli0 feet. | think they will have then
twelve lots left fronting on Douglas avenue
and Williams street, which at low valua-
ton are worth $4,000 each, making 5000,
and for that matter it is hard to tell what
| they may be worth. | think it is safe to say
they will clear $4,000 on the Transaction.
| 1t is a nice piece Of speculation" / met
Col. ID. r. Green. the BIZ, stage proprietor
| OF kingman, who MSS all dressed up in Il
new suit of clothes. Tie Col. told me when
| he WAS last here that &c intended
| to spruce up when he came to the big city
| again. lie is enthusiastic at tie prcsp cts
of Greensburg and says j; is the coming
town west Of Wichita. y group of men
were discussing railroads IL. the county
building and one man sad hc heard q.
Wood Davis intended 10 sahia: p:opo-
| $4,000 for his road. This gentleman, who
has large experience in such matters in the
rural districts, said he didn't think Mr..
Davis, or any one else, could get the neces-
sary petition for such proposition, that is,
as county. 81 think, said another, the only
way i. can be done is TO get the city Of
| Wichita to vote a good sum. which l think
would carry for such road as Sir. Davis
| proposes, then TO submit propos tons for
township aid. 81 tell you," said
| a third. ''the townships will
readily vote aid if the road runs anywhere
near their centre, and they are promised a
depot near the centre of the township, but
townships not thus favored will go dead
against the bonds" Another gentleman
said he understood Mr.. Davis road was in
tended to make several cross cuts and would
probably strike every township in the
county, and if so, he thought there would be
no trouble about getting county petition
signed" This gentleman sand also that
people in the country should bear in mind
that everything that tended to make large
city of Wichita, enhanced the value of their
farms