Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-03-11
THE RAMBLER ON HIS ROUNDS.

/ discover that "No Man Land" fever is
spreading even more rapidly than hydro
phobia. A gentleman from Newton toid
me that crowds are going through that city
on the trains, via Dodge City. to tie neutral
strip every day, and I find that a great
many people are going from our own city BY |
wagon and train for the new FL Dorsdo.
William Kesler, a well known and prosper |
ous Young farmer who resided three miles |
north of this city, has sold his farm, and
shipped his effects yesterday to Dodge City,
and John Sullard departed for the land of
promise with two car loads of stuff. Six
m ore cars belonging to parties whose names
1 did not gather, were loaded yesterday for
the same destination.
1 asked Farmer Doolittle how things stood
in the market yesterday, and he told me
there was q team stuck in the mud with ten
bushels of corn. Farmer is acknowledged
as excellent authority on markets and politi-
cal economy.
was talking with st. Louis man at the
Manhattan, yesterday, and he said he was
afraid there would be trouble before the
great railroad strike is ended, as there are
mysterious movements among the railroad
officials in that city.
On one or two occasions l have raised my
feeble voice to protest against buying goods
in Missouri towns that could be got here as
cheap and Of as good quality. 1 like to
see cur people patronize home when
they don't lose anything by it. l
heard it said yesterday tina. certain
small Iobbing house in this city are buying
foreign crackers, while our cracker factory
turns out superior class Of goods and sells
Just as cheap. / don't call that business.
Our large wholesale grocery company fill
their orders from the home institution and
the goods give perfect satisfaction. When
any concern works against the interest OF
its own city it is not deserving of support.
rambled away down Topeka avenue
yesterday beyond the Wichita and Western
railroad and found many improvements of
substantial character going on. Some new
houses are being built and additions being
made to old houses. New sidewalks
are being laid too all over that sec
ton and petition was signed yesterday
by large number Of residents OF that section
for the extension of the water mains down as
far as the Wichita and Western railway.
| Wichita has frequently been imposed upon
ia consequence of the charitable name of her
people. was told yesterday that there was
q woman around begging in town for means
to run small farm in Marion county. Beg
cling strikes me as being a peculiar manner
of running farm, but perhaps may not be
up with the times in an agricultural sense.
Begging in Sedgwick county and farming in
Marion county may be the proper thing i'm
this great civil service reform period. l
heard also that she told fortunes, but
| don't know these things myself. 1t strikes
me though, that the supply of fortune tellers
in this market is up TO the demand.
made round of our Wholesale houses
yesterday, and obtained favorable reports OF
the condition of trade. They all report
good business, especially the Wichits
Wholesale Grocery company. Mr.. Hess
told me their trade has been fine so far, and
that they were now extending into new teri
tory Dat along the main line of the Santa
Fe and on the Southern Kansas. They re-
port collections rery satisfactory, and trade
generally healthy.
Street Commissioners Stoue has done good
work on street crossings, but there is more
work of the same sort necessary. The cross
ings leading to the opera house are in a
wretched condition, and | 'b-erye that
wherever tho old stone crossings remain,
there might Just as well be none.
l told the county sttcrney that heard it
was so hard TO get a drink in town Iow tha;
the boys had to 20 to Colwich to 'iicker up"
"Well," said he, we are squeezing so tightly
on them that the wors. cnes, at lesst, are
pretty well wiped out. tell you, those low
places where thieves congregate, and where
boys are allowed, must he wiped out any
how. have collected 500 fines, ard there
will be about $780,
OWING 10 tue ext emery pau co'iuitioHs On
the roads, but few farmers come TO town,
and business all around is rather bad in con-
sequence, but there never was buster day
among real estate men than yesterday. All
the real estate offices were full of customers.
l met p. V. Healy, his face all wreathed
with smiles, and he told me he had just
closed sale of twenty-six lots in the juno
ton addition on the west side.