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head; sired by Atlantic No. 1,003; record
2:21, sire of a number of fast youngsters.
being but years old himself; sired by Al
mont. the great sire of trotters. The dam
of Join Steiner is Daisy b., the dam of
Ashland Wilkes by Administrator No. 256.
Another stable companion which has
just arrived from Indian Hill stock farm
near Louisville, KY, is Mount Airy, bay
horse, black points, foaIed IN 81, 153I hands
high, sired by Wslsingham, son of George
Wilkes, dam Belle, by Volunteer, second
dam Flora Belle, record 1929, by Stevens
Uwhirie This colt is sent here to make a
short season and viii be put in training for
campaign this fall. Heis very promising
youngster.
In the list of brood mares Daisy B. BY
Administrator, the dam Of Ashland
Wilkes, John Steiner, Patchen, Wilkes
Maid and L. D. Skinner, heads the list
Her breeding is given in pedigree of Ash
land Wilkes. Daisy 3 has a nice horse
colt by her side named L. d. Skinner.
The next in the list is Silverhair, by Ad-
ministrator, the dam OF Wichita Chief and
Marsh Murdoch. For pedigree of Silver
hair see Wichita Chief as given.
Damewood, by Wedgewood, dam Fancy;
record 2:30, the dam of Myron McHenry.
Orianna-record 2271; sired by Red
Wilkes, No. 1,749, first dam by Burborn
Chief.
Second dam, (the dam of Gus, 4-year-old
record 2:3O1z) by Messenger Chief. She
has a nice FLY by Ashland Wilkes, called
Betsy Toler.
Gone Wilkes-2;;3311z by Red Wilkes, No
1,749; dam by Captain Walker. sire of the
dam of Harry Wilkes, record 2:13H.
Galatta-Sired by Gambetta, son of Vol
unteer; first dam Eyalena, by Ashland,
No. IL.
Second dam, Lady Patriot, dam of Vol
unteer. She has a nice fiIly, called Sallie
Toler.
Annie Burnsides-Sired by Homer, son of
Membrino Patchen; first dam, sire of Mem
brine Hedgeford, son of Membrino
Patchen.
Second dam, Fanna, by Membrino Choir
lister, son of Membrino Chief
Third dam, Old Nelly, by Gray Eagle.
Anna Burnsides has a nice FLY foal by her
side.
Egnora-Sired by Egbert; first dam,
Edna Clay, by Strader's C. NJ. Clay, Jr.
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FINE STOCK BARN.

heard from many. There was general talk
around town about so much money being
ventured in the business, and while some
were inclined to think Mr. Toler would
make the business a success there were
some who could see the chances against
any efficient hOrseman being able to carry
on a successful business Of that kind in
Kansas. They had not tried it, of course,
and knew nothing about it but went in on
general principles in the direction of intui-
tiOn and conclusion. 1t was of little con-
sequence to Mr.. TOler what anyone thought
of his big venture, he was not in fact
willing that it should be referred to as a
venture" for he was confident the great
Arkansas valley would in due time become
as famous as Kentucky for horses and
ht did not object to being numbered
among the first who would establish the
fact beyond doubt from the oldest of the
Thomas family.
As a result he purchased farm of SIS
acres, costing, with improvements, $4,000,
and ornamented it with stock costing S7O,-
coo as a starter. With this lead off, all
were willing to admit that he certainly
had confidence in his undertaking, as he
alone was interested in the matter fnan
cially. and no stock company to 'freeze
out" or fall back on. The cash was being
provided by himself and no one else was to
have any interest in the failure or success.
The land is choice rolling prairie, nearly
2O0 feet above the bed of the Arkansas
river and the farm, as it is seen today, is
certainly one of the finest anywhere in the
west or east. The blue grass fields of Ken
lucky or Virginia are scarcely more invi-
ting. There are 300 acres under herd fence
and the remainder hay land. Forty acres
are set apart for winter wheat, used by
mares and colts, and makes most excellent
FOR the winter and early spring months.
The pasture land is cut up into 20 and 40
acre fields for the mares and young stock,
while paddocks are provided for the stall
lions. Water is supplied by self regulating
wind mills and the campaigners, most of
the year in the barn, are furnished cistern
water, as it can be secured cheaper and
easier than from wells.
The main barn is 100 long and forty feet
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wide. 1t Is cut up into twenty-tour box
stalls and gives room for $50 tons of hay.
Some of the box stalls are 14Xl6 feet and
others l2x15 feet. each provided with win
dow and door. The grain for feed is placed
in boxes on the floor. while also hay Is put
on the floor which forces the horses to take
the usual exercise in feeding. This hust-
ling for feed is thought 10 be of benefit to
the horses providing natural exercise.
just east of the main barn are two tiers of
single stalls. one building 100 feet long and
the other seventy feet. They are cut up
into stalls 1Ox12 feet The colt barn is two
stories 30x40 feet and in the center of the
lower floor is a long trough which is kept
full of grain. The floor is covered with
hay and water providedin barrels making
the whole very clever home for weanlings.
The race course is within easy reach Of the
barn. Ii Is a half mile track with an up
and down grade To give muscle 10 both
ends. The back stretch is up grade and
the home stretch down, there being about
ten feet drop in quarter mile. The
Judges stand gives good view of the
track and Is provided with the wire and
gong The track is kept in the very best
of condition and it would be needless to
say that it Is used quite often, which
means about every day that the weather
VIII permit.
The farm as it Is seen today cut up into
hay and pasture lands, with high and
strong board fences, barnes and race track
and ali the conveniences known to the best
OF stock farms is certainly one OF the finest
10 be found any where. Many eastern
gentlemen interested in the horse
business have visited the Toler
stock farm and the arrangement
and accommodations and complimented
without reserve by all being by far more
complete than they expected TO find in
Kansas. But all this cost but about half
the amount spent for fine stock as simply
a starter three years ago. At present the
stock consists Of one aged stallion. two 8
year-olds, one 2-year-old. one yearling
twenty-eight brood mares, four 2-year-old
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BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

The advisability of issuing a business
directory of the city is being discussed by
several of the leading merchants and the
idea has already found its way into the
councils of the board of trade 1t is not
20 be published in the interest of any indi-
vidual or line of business but is to repre-
sent every thing that the city contains and
Its object is 10 benefit and advertise the
entire city Every thing viii be classified
and a country merchant may turn to it and
find ont if what he wants is for sale in
Wichita and how many firms handle the
article. 1t VIII contain the name and ad-
dress of every merchant and manufacturer
classified according TO the kinds OF goods
made or sold
Scarcely day passes that some ore does
not remark: why. l did not know that
such and such a thing was made aud sold
i'm Wichita" and through this ignorance
much trade goes TO other cities that natur-
ally belongs here. The different manu-
facturerS alone that are seldom heard of by
the general public may be numbered by
hundreds aud until one begins to make a
list he has very little idea of the amount
of business done here This directory will
be a cheap way 10 advertise costing each
individual mere nominal sum. and will
furnish the information that the buyers
stand in need Of
While SO many new plants are starting
it viii be necessary TO publish & supple
ment at least once a quarter, but this eX-
pense viii be triiing
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WICHITA'S PIONEER BUSINESS
HOUSE
The Points Of Difference Between a Vanished
and an Unvarnishcd Tale.

The Points Of Difference Between Vanished
and an UnvaInishcd Tale.
There is a different way of doing things
in a newspaper Office, as well as elsewhere,
difference in methods oft times and Of
treatment. knowing that yesterday was
the twentieth anniversary Of the oldest
business establishment in town, reporter
was sent ont to get the facts touching the
successful experience Of one who estab-
Ished himself in Wichita at a time when
less than fifty people composed the entire
population of the city. The reporter Sc
cured the gentleman's picture and told his
gentle story in a tame a fashion as the
facts would permit, and satisfactorily
enough from a literary point. But what
are the raw facts those that the aspiring
and enterprising man looking to the west
desires only to know? They are these
Joseph =. Allen, eX-mayOr, opened out in
Wichita for a starter in life, Just twenty
years ago yesterday, with a little drug
shop away up on the west side of Main
street, in a little frame, with eight foot
ceiling, l2X14, went to Advertising in the
EAGLE as soon as it started; attended
church on Sunday and to his business the
other days Of the week; never sold a drop
Of iilgal jOint-whisky. was elected city
councilman, afterwards mayor, etc. But
where is he, and what is he today? How
did he come out financially, and what do
we find in the way of the practical results
of an honest life and a close attention to
business in Wichita in the way of encour-
agement for others, and Of which our re-
porter failed TO make feature, but of
which everybody is advised? That little
drug shop was long since merged
as it were, dropped out Of
sight, and its modest proprietor
now holds forth in a brick block down on
Douglas avenue his store room running
from the street to the alley; is worth
cool quarter of million of dollars; is
stakeholder and officer in a national bank;
lives in a splendid home surrounded by
ample and delightful grounds: has money
at interest and real estate in abundance
and unincumbered; has happy wife and
is the proud father of two bright children;
drives his own carriage when it is not
driven by a colored brother in livery; has a
good conscience, owes no man any
thing, and keeps his advertisement in
the EAGLE. Romance is all well enough
in its place, but when it comes to Wichita
and to the success Of men who have cast
their fortunes with her, facts are what are
wanted even though they be as unvar-
nished as the one we offer above of the
success of =. p. Allen. We give no por-
trait with our recital, nor illustration Of
the brick block, nor picture of the home,
nor sketch of the liveried driver, bnt truth,
simple truth, in cold, homely chunks that
can be swallowed and assimilated by those
hungering for reliable instances and aver
age examples OF success in the metropolis
of the suufower state.
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PURCHASE OF ELEcrRIc MACHINERY.

Some time ago the agent Of the Thomp-
son-Houston Electrical supply company, Of
Chicago. was in the city and Submitted
bid on machinery for the central station Of
the electric railway. In response the com
pany made an offer. lie reached the Chi
cage house yesterday morning and last
evening the president Of the company. Mr.
J. O. Davidson, received a message stating
the offer had been accepted. The machin
cry Of that kind costs about 5000. three
motors to be delivered within fifteen days
and all the machinery for the station
within sixty days. This will be az soon as
the building .5r the station wiz be com
plete and the steam power supplied.
II is feared that the company
will be delayed 90 some extent in
getting iron poles Tor Main street
and Douglas avenue, but they viii he on
hand Just a. soon as the 81 Louis foundry
can supply them. The wood poles foI out
side the central part Of the city are being
received and the work d track c0nst rue
ton going ahead on north Maiu and north
Topeka Il iS estimated that With n0 sen
Gus delay from lack ol material TIE track
aud wiring viii be completed north of
Douglas within thirty days
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as was ever brought TO the notice of horse
men Inquiries about his gait are smoothly
evaded, being quite reticent, in fact. 1t is
the general supposition of those who see
him that he can go some," as Toler is
very sweet on him"
The next stallion in Importance is Wich-
tia Chief, 153 hands high. weight about l. 100
pounds; dark mahogany bay, black points
except two hind feet which are white half
way to the hook Foaled in 81, the first
horse colt foal on Toler stock farm; sired
by Judge Salisbury, No. 5,ST2, son Of Nut
wood, No 600 dam Silverhair. dam of Sill
verlake (234}50 by Administrator $50; sec
ond dam. SiIverfoil, dam Of Natal , year
old (record 2:45) by Jackson's Flying
Cloud No. 1874 This is a nice gait, hand
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through the probation period with little
trouble. Twenty or thirty of them are
put together. They have the best of hay.
Fresh water always and variety of grain
always in reach In this way they seem
to spend the days most pleasantly and the
separation from their mothers is made
quite easy. While one colt turned loose
by himself at such a period would kick
the roof off the barn a number Of them
put together seem to console with each
other and get along very nicely. They are
kept together nearly year; never allowed
change and they never complain for any
more variety than they are given The
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of a strange driver and he not being ac-
quainted with him lost the two heats.
The gentleman who lost the heats was &C
custOmed to driving a mare that took
hold of him strong the consequence was,
Ashland being a very easy mOuthed horse,
the two failed to form a good combina-
ton. The driver was changed for man
who fit the horse, and won three straight
heats. Ashland Wilkes is a blood-red bay,
black points, stands Is hands and one
inch high, weighs one thousand and
fifty pounds in stud form. He
is very compact heavy muscIed
large boned big, bodied horse, being
very deceptive in harness as the average
hOrseman would say at a casual glance
that he is 1873 to Is hands high. He was
foaIed in June, 'S2, being years old next
month. He was bred at Lexington, KY,
by II. and Z. Boswell, sired by Red Wilkes,
No. 1749, the great sire of the campaign
ers of the Wilkes family. His DAM
Daisy B. by Administrator, second dam
by the imported Knight of st, George,
third dam by Pilot, Jr., 4, dam Wood
pecker He combines the blood of Ham
bletOnian 10 through his sire Red Wilkes
and Administrator, the blood of Nam
brine Chief through the dam of his sire
and through the dam of his sire's dam
Red Wilkes by George Wilkes, dam Queen
Dido, by Mambrino Chief and Administra-
tor, Hambletonian TO- dam Dolly
Halstead by Mambrino Chief He
thus combines a double infu-
sion of Hambletonian 10 and
Mambrino Chief with thoroughbred.
backed up by Pilot, Jr., the great sire of
extreme speed. Ashland Wilkes is the sire
of President Wilkes, record 2:2711I, made
in a race on a half-mile track at Kansas
City, last October, in his 4-year-old form.
A sire of Carroll Wilkes, 2-year-old rec
ord 1852, made over half-mile track. Sire
Of Bideawee, 2-year-old record 3:01, to road
cart, and a number of other promising
colts. He is regarded as one of the most
prepotant sires that stands on the face of
the globe today. His 2-year-old son, Ny
ron McHenry, n chestnut, dam, Damewood,
by Wedgewood, is being fitted for the cam
paign this fall. He is as grand a 2-year-old
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fillies, four yearling FLIES and thirty-six
brood mare boarders
THE FIELD OF HORSES.
The premier stallion who is monarch Of
all the mares that roam these acres, is the
noted horse Ashland Wilkes, No. 2291;
record 2:22 made at Kansas City last Sep
TENDER in the 2:3O class; beating field of
eleven horses and some good ones in the
lot, over heavy track, considered five
seconds slow by numerous good horse
judges. Time of each heat, 2:231(, 2:23H
and 2:22 Ashland Wilkes started in seven
races in the fall of 1889, trotted twenty
three heats, won first money in the seven
races and twenty-one heats Was beat
two heats at Kansas City in the 2:3O stall
lion class on account of being in the hands
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Oh, my, how cheap! Is what
we repeatedly hear about the
42inch flouncings at IS cents.
Then you can get anything
from IS cents TO 81 with twelve
qualities in between, and forty
different designs; some hem
stitched, some tucked, and some
are a combination of both, all Of
them beautiful.
Our torehcon laces were never
as lovely or as cheap as now, a
new lot just in.
New ribbons, the handsomest
and the best, in wide and mar
row, black and collored, almost
any kind your wants may sug-
geSt.
HUNsoE & MCNAMARA
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NbUdM aAAoa
123 10 127 n. Main Street.

Millinery marvels multiply as
the season slips along. The new
and novel crowding the half
familiar. 8 cases of new millir-
cry goods opened yesterday, on
sale tomorrow, This biz lot
alone would make 4 respectable
millinerS store.
One case of Misses and child
rens nice black flats on sale to-
morrow morning at 81 cents
each.
One case Of ladies fine untrim-
med hats in twelve different
shapes and most popular braids
at - cents each.
200 pieces of black velvet, and
fancy ribbons.
MUNSoN & MCNAMARA
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One-Price Clothiers, Hatters and Furnishers
HIRrHnAY PARTY.

Miss Edna T. Scrviss. daughter ~ Mr.
james l.. Servi-s. 81 the Wichita 4. West
ern. entertained a numfrr 81 young friends
yesterday in ceIebrafion ~ her thirteenth
birthday. Miss Eina made charming
hostess and made lt very pleasant for hrr
guests Dainty refrrshulents were served
during the afternoon and different sruuse-
ment- male up a fine program. Amongst
those present were Misses Cecilia Hannibal
Daisy Lynch, Eta MAnassa. Alta Brasier.
Maggie Shea, and the Mfszes DeminV All
present viii long remember the happy &c
ca<ion. and took their departure wishing
Mis- Edna maay happy returns q the DAY.
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THE TOLER STOCK FARM.
ASHLAND WILKES AND HIS FAM
LILY OF TROTTERS.
Something About Producing Speed il
Horses-How They are Fed and
Trained-The West Soon to be
Known by It's Fast Horses.

1t was three years ago last January that
Mr.. H. G. Toler opened his stock farm
two and half miles northeast of the city
limits, on the Missouri road Some of his
many friends were not free with encourag-
ing advice but the other kind could be
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rEsrnNIs.I0N NEETINGs.

On Saturday evening a Republican re
submission meeting viii ~ held ~ iarned
which viii bs addrss-s1 bY Mess-s II. l.
Arnold and u. = Payne Al Winfield =
meeting vii D. held 81 the same time, al
dressed by Mayor Clement and g. J.
Campbell. Esq-
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some colt and shows nice way Of going
on the track He Is entered IN number
of state races for the campaign this fall
and have here the blood Of Belmont, MT
wood, American Star, Hambletonian,
Membrino Chief. Black Hawk. Morgan
and Bashaul. This blood VIII surely trot
and produce trotters.
Another stable companion Is John
Steiner, No. 7.2l3: foaled in y. he i a
bay horse, black points. star IN the fore
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This VIII give an idea Of the varlety which
i followed al winter The brood mares
are fed through ths winter and a. late as
May Ist when they are turned out on grass
unless they have colts when they are fed
all Summer. Stock not work ing = turned
ont on grass from May until September
In the feeding line i / IN the weaving
harm that the variety = followed
up closely and the manner the colts
are handled enables them TO 80
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s. AND B. oPERETTA.

Several visitors We're permitted 10 be
present last night at the rehearsal of the
operetta TO be given soon at the :. and
3. club hall on College Hill With choice
music. good dialogues and the best talent
in the city in the cast, under the able lead
ership of Mrs L. 3. Even, one can conf
IDENTITY. expect the best amateur perform
ance ever given in Wichita.
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A couple Of colored men broke into
house near the stock yards last night,
with the evident intention Of robbery, but
tie cries of tho inmates frightened them
away. Up TO the present writing no trace
vi them has been discovered.
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probation period is considered very i'm
portant one, and much care is taken to
give the weanlings as good start in life
as possible.
HOW HANDLED.
The weanlings or yearlings are first
broke to halter. The harness is put on
them and they are checked up and left
to stand in the stable. This is repeated
three or four times week for two or three
weeks until they become perfectly familiar
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.

Yesterday a young gentleman giving the
name 81 Byron Williams. II Utica. Kan
was about Interviewing the business men
on general subjects. al calculated - IN
spirs thesu with ara idea ~ bis R9ed Huaa-
cial Standing. During the affsruoou be
Eestlofl a little change ard went 20 Mr
NafiaZer. whom be had met In hls c0nings
and go.ngs. and borrowed SiDJ. giving a.
security a mortgage on -ouss stock %
DERBY which iu reality. only existed in
has fertile iraaE.aatsa. The los.seuees q
iEe bus ncss trausaCfion aas sy1n alaoog-
cred. and Sheriff C0ne invited hr. Viii
Jams 70 pay him a vls.t pending az jnTss-
tjgasi9u. which viii take plAos ~ once.
Williams ssys the deal u al right and
THAI be- will be abls - clear himself q any
irsUd