Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-05-06

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PERSONAL AND LOCAL ITEMS OF NEWS
Green peas are plentiful in the market at
. bit quart.
There was nothing of interest done in the
justices courts yesterday.
Robert Mack, advance agent for George
S. Knight, called last night. 49,
The repairs at the headquarters Of the
county surveyor have been completed.
There will be a full rehearsal of the |
Amorita at rooms aud in the Noble block |
tonight.
Campbell & Parks shipped five car loads
Of bulls to cattle syndicate in Colorado
yesterday.
The list of candidates for county offices
from the Fourth ward has now reached the |
modest number of seven.
The police docket was q complete blank
yesterday and the judge says be thinks be
ought to have a recreation.
Almost the entire walls of George w.
Knorr's old store is being torn down, and
when rebuilt. will be almost new.
Rev. T. S. Hodgson, has moved from the |
parsonage 10 the Occidental. The parson- |
age is occupied by his son Percy and
daughter Mary.
Mr. and Mrs. G. Z. Miller gave party
last night to few select friends at their
residence. The evening was spent very
pleasantly by all present.
The firm OF Kelly, Alexander & Rain are
still to the front, having consolidated and
withdrawn their dissolution notice they will
continue business as before.
There il well authenticated rumor that
we are to have another Wholesale grocery
house very soon, but the whole thing is not
quite ready to give away yet.
A young man named Simmons completed
q term in jail last Saturday. Getting out,
he went to Salem and stole q colt, for which
he was yesterday sentenced to q term of
sixty days.
Peter Getto returned from Colorado yea
terday after an absence of . week. He was
called there by the death Of his friend, Mr..
S. Griesser. The deceased lost his life in .
silver mine.
Mr.. G. NJ. Boyd has employed As architect
and builder of his new residence on Fairview
avenue, Mr.. +. COIN. Mr.. Cohn will COM
mence work today and complete it as soon
Jas possible.
Talbot, the man who shot Marshal Mike
Maher, is reported TO have been killed in
Texas. He married ranchman's daughter
and ran off lot of cattle; was pursued and
riddlad with bulle,s. Vengeance will over
take the murderer sooner or later.
The horses stolen from Mr.. Roswcg, in
Salem township, few nights ago were
found yesterday. They were about two
miles from home and it is supposed the
thief became afraid he would not be able to
get away with them and let them 60.
Mr.. C. Wood Davis received a letter from
the officials of Mcpherson county yesterday,
announcing that the petitions for the Chica-
20, St. Joe and Fl. Worth road, we're all in
and almost unanimously signed and that
the elections would be called forthwith. .
Geo. S. Knight. who will be remembered
by our theater goers for his excellent i'm
personation of ''Bsron Rudolph" in the play
of that name, will be at the opera house
next Thursday night in his latest success,
"Over the Garden WALL" which is styled
the funny play of all.
Albuquerque Daily Journal: F. Snitzler,
weighing 347 pounds; NJ. Zimmerly, 1872
pounds, C. C. Taylor, 160 pounds, all from
Wichita, Kan, were in the city yesterday.
They stopped over to visit their old friend,
james G. Hope, whom they knew back in
Kansas. The trio went back TO Wichita
last evening.
There is report that Billy Polk Jr. and
John Clayton have bought out DIR. Turner'S
lay out and will do up the west this summer
with certain eminent physician of this
city as a lecturer. and that Uncle Billy Polk
is hunting for an advance agent for them.
They will certainly make big success as
medicine men.
Mr.. Joseph Morse of Meriden, Conn.,, our
way down east Yankee friend whose native
shrewdness led him to make various invest
ments in Wichita which haye proved i'm
mcnsely profitable, left for his Long Island
Sound home last evening, which seems a
long way off, and which he will be longing
to get away from and back west before
three months. Mr.. Morse will soon be q
kansan.
The Kansas Furniture company's new
building will be the finest business building
yet erected in this city, which fact may be
CLEANED from the architects draft. They
are embe!lishing it with many beautiful de-
signs in terra Gotta and mosaic work. The
trimmings, window and door caps, etc, will
be of handsome cut stone. 1t is generally
admitted that Capt Carey's new hotel will
carry of the confectionery when it is built,
and the captain says operations will begin
before long.
Capt +. g. Smyth is going 10 serve m
injunction on the cracker factory today re-
straining them from manufacturing candy
The complaint is that the gas arising from
the works has destroyed the tin root on
Smyth's building, occupied by the European
hotel, which is next door to the cracker fac
tory. This is most serious matter, as il
will no! only throw number OF men ont Of
employment, but will prevent the company
from filing THAR orders proyided tina in