The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-26
WHIM-WHAMS.
A Hodge-Podge of City Talk and
Local Gossip.

Prairie grass, 1t Is said, Will De uiteen
days earlier than usual this spring.
April is Arbor day. As usual the chill
dren of the city schools will plant trees.
| 1t is hard to find coal dealer who won't
claim we are going to have lots more cold
weather.
The railway locomotives that came in
from Western Kansas yesterday were COW
cred with snow.
Mrs. Frank Smith and Mrs. Joe Hous-
ton give big dancing party at Peerless
hall this evening
| A man on North Main street asserts
that the paved streets haven't been cleaned
| but once since fair week last fall.
| The Little Arkansas and Chisolm creek
were full up to the very top of their banks
yesterday. People began to talk food
again
The registration books close tomorrow
night This afternoon the books will be
taken up to the packing houses and Bur
ton to allow the forces up there to register.
1t has been showing all over northern
Kansas within the last day or two. 1t has
been too warm in south Kansas to snow.
but snow would have been preferable TO
the rain.
Mrs Lillian Norris formerly OF this city,
is putting Eileen on the boards at To
peka Eileen is a Topeka production and
will be given under the auspices or the
Modoc club.
The Burton Car works addition is re-
ported to be almost under water, and it Is
thought if the rain don't hold up soon
that lively end of the city will become
veritable Venice.
There is prominent young lawyer in
town who is said to have been subpoenaed
rs witness on the Botkin impeachment
trial next month. When the judge was
in Wichita during the campaign, he and
the young lawyer are said TO have become
Unfortunately convivical.
Colds should be avoided more than ever
just at present The grip is still on the
rampage, new cases being reported every
day. The doctors say that colds just now
} after this damp spell, should be kept off,
!, as they will more than likely lead to
severe attack Of the grip.
The local booksellers say that the two
books most in demand are els This Your
Son. Nv Lord!' and Edwin Arnold's
Light of the World" They say that peo-
pie have quit reading Dickens, Bulwer
and Thackeray to great extent, as q set
of these is rarely sold in town nowadays
Some day soon, probably at the last OF
next week will be Sentence day" in the
! United States district court. There IS al
WAYS great crowd present to see how the
prisoners will take it. If the demand for
a new trial fails, Adams, the murderer of
Captain Couch, will be sentenced to
5 death ''by hanging by the neck until
dead"
Rains in wind from the northeast are
Z Of seldom occurrence in this valley, but
when they do come so ducks do not go a
5 pond hunting The thirty-six hour drizzle
? and splutter that made such dismal
| failure of winding up and quitting yester-
S day has not only set the rlvulets going
but is swelling the volumes of both the
Little and Great Arkansas as also that OF
the Minnesota.
B. D. Allen is able to be out on the
> streets again. 1t is now over ten months
since he jumped from the burning spring
palace at Fort Worth, breaking both
i. ankles He is not yet very strong. One
I of his ankles he never hopes to gain com
r plete use Of again, it having been set
y = wrong and being in a weak condition,
a liable to turn over at any time. The other
e ankle is quite strong.
S 1.-THE heaviest single loads in the west
y are carted right here in Wichita, said
= transfer man yesterday. We have to have
a very big, strong horses and very durable
O wagons to do the hauling that is done
o here The reason for this IS the absence
C of grades and hills. If we once get going
u and the wagon and horses hold out, VIZ
"a speed right along over the level pavement
l. We have hauled nine tons on single
u wagon"
Mrs. Lizzie Ross McFie. daughter O.
William Ross was q resident OF Thu
county for years and now writes TIT
EAGLE letters from Topolobampo, hersel
writes letter about the California Citrus
fair. which will be found elsewhere. Liz
zie. like her father, has a taking way o
re telling things. As young girl sh
g taught in our city schools in an early da.
1t and girls and BOYS who are men ant
l. women now remember Der with love ant
n affection.
l. The Topeka avenue line Of electric rail
le way is getting in bad shape, owing to thu
oi continued rains. Some are footing l
n across to Main street, but those living cas-
r of Emporia for the most part take til
II sidewalk and light out for down town, a
L no one can GUESS when a car will be along
The trouble comes from the fact that tn
q track was laid down in grade of loos
soil which has never solidly settled, an
T. there will be little chance to get 1t IN first
> class shape again until the weather be
comes warm and settled.
:, Old settlers were yesterday indulging i
ever hopeful and never tagging prospect
!. of an unprecedented crop of all kinds Tn
\ fruit trees are untouched, the wheat an
oat crops almost assured, and the promis
of a big corn yield looming up in the di'
:, lance magnifcently. 1t is said by locS
meteorologists and observers that we
. March always means a big crop IN kansa
- and the sign has never, since the days
~ the earliest settlement, failed, it Is asse'
Grated. The argument is made that tn
!, ground itself is not only benefited by sa
uration, but the process of evaporsuo
therefrom increases the humidity an
IN eliminates the dry season.
'n There is party in town who has
81 pump that he claims is constructed upo
y: a new principle and with which il
n claimed stream of water can be throw
TO three hundred feet, by hand. a ten
as porary testing station has been col
We structed between the iron bridge and TT
7n street car bridge across the Big river, tt
"a elevation extending several feet above II
OF upper trusses of the wagon bridge. whei
nc a sample pump will be placed SIS soon {
81 the weather viii admit, and q series
public exhibitions of its workings an