The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-10

PERRY. o. l., Jan. 9.-[Special. This
city, SO truly marvel of push and enter
prise, with 1000 Inhabitants. fully 200 sub
stantial business houses, ami 600 dwell
iDgs, shacks and tents, israpdly assuming
the artistic garb Of a truly western city
The last coyote within the city limits was
tracked to his lair and promptly dispatch.
ed by hunting party of boys and dogs,
about equally divided, more than a week.
ago. The prairie dog town in the north,
east corner has ceased making improve
ments, and the inhabitants thereof will
soon be compelled to surrenderto the kids
and dogs now besieging them. The
buffalo wallows are nearly all filled, and
the streets around the square are nicely
graded and twelve-foot sidewalks neatly
laid.
Real estate in the city is not changing
hands. as much on account of no one's .
having deeds as anything else. The town.
site board had just closed the time Tor re-
ceivipg applications for Deeds and within
few days will issue deeds 10 applicants
against whose lots there are no contest
ants. Only a few good lots will fail being
contest ed. One lot has twelve applicants
therefor. For some reason the townsioe
board has not yet received the patent from
buc luc pOpuldi iOcSoh Si'Ci
for the delay Is the fact that the Santa Fe
railroad had been, by the original survey,
granted a strip OF land 300 feet wide
through the city and had failed to take
possession thereof within the proper time.
This fact, becoming known to the ANXIOUS
honeseeker, resulted Il III the whole right OF
way, excepting 80 feet on each side of the
track, being jumped and valuable i'm
provements, in some instances amounting
10 thousands of dollars have been made
thereon. The improvements, IN many In
stances. have been made In such way
that the railroad will be compelled 10 de-
stroy them if it should take forcible pos
session. as it did at Guthrie in 1889.
The boom, so-called, is all over. 1t went
with the disappearance of the prairie
grass. Claims are being sold to some eX
tent. but town lots are at a standStlll, and
while the building in the city Is nothing
compared TO the first month, it is notice
able fact that the homeSteaders all over
this section of the strip are improving
their farms in every way, ana SO, for a
time at least, fencing and building and
pioughing, ETC., are being largely monopo-
iIzed by the farmers.
The much-talked-of wagon road to
Pawnee Is being built ana will soon he
completed. 1t is much needed. A large
bridge will be built across Cow creek at
the foot OF & street, which will complete
the good road directly east to Pawnee.
There are "a few suppressed murmurs
heard occasionally about contracts for
such improvements being let with string
to them, and about the county commiss-
toner's, the city officials and some Others
paying themselves little too much for
certain work done. Yet, your correspond
ent rejoices that it is not bad as it
might be. City scrip is being issued, it is
true, and is circulating at only sixty cents
on the dollar liz some instances, and the
poor laborer is paid therein and Is the
loser; but then We must remember that
Democratic money was never very good
ANYWAY, and we grin and bear il.
Fighting and quarreling over lots and
the litigation that has flown therefrom
have cost the county much. Yet it could
not altogether be avoided. The grand jury
must have taken an exceedingly liberal
view of offenSeS of this character, for it
returned comparatively few indictments
against this class of offenders.
II is still told with n laughing chuckle
10y all good Republicans and many good
Democrats how Horace Speed purified the
grand jury selected at the first term of the
district court. When he got through with
them only two of the original panel were
left. and neither Of them was the mayor of
Perry.
The city council is popularity called 'the
Zoo, on account of the way the members
perform when in sc sion. AS the admission
Is Tree aud the performers never seem TO
tire, and the sessions are frequent, other
entertainments, including even the variety
theater here. are but poorly patronixed.
But his is Democracy, and we ought To be
satisfied to only live.