The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-05-15

Richard E. Bird will leave today for g
business trip in st. Louis and Cincinnati
I Miss Cecilia Whitlock of Denver, Colo
| is visiting friends and relatives in the
city.
Miss Laura Dorsey left yesterday az
| ternoon for a short visit with friends at
lola
Mr.. George I. Strong of Peru. Ind. is
here visiting mis- daughter, Mrs. Geodge
Dennis
Mr.. and Mrs. Rumsey have returned
to st. Louis, accompanied by Mrs Rum
sey's sister, Miss Elizabeth Kendrick
Mr.. NJ. Stuckey has passed his eightieth
birthday and was about the court house
| yesterday as lively as If he was only
forty.
Mr.. James H. Berry left Thursday night
| for St Joseph, No, being called htere
by the death of Mr.. Burgess, Mrs. Berry
father
Charlie Goodyear. Of the district clerk S
office, pines for farm life again. He says
he can't eat since he became a resident
of Wichita
Judge McCanless said yesterday that
the marriage licenses issued since Janu-
airy were 30 per cent in excess of the
same months last year.
Thos. ]. Burgess of st. Joseph, Mo-,
father Of Mrs. James H. Berry of this
city, died Thursday night Mrs Berry
lost her mother just six months ago.
L. R. Delany. agent for the Santa Fe,
and A. c. Jobes, president of the Bank
OF Commerce. went to Newton last night
to attend a banquet which was given
there last night.
Wickersham & Smalley have sold out
their business to Casey & Garst Mr..
Wickersham's health was bad and in
hopes of regaining it he will leave for
Colorado Springs.
The county commissioners have made a
new set of rules for the prisoners In the
county jail. Defacing the walls with OBJ
scene pictures is very properly made a
punishable offense.
Mr.. S. c. Ward, who has been employed
in the street car service for some time
as mOtorman, has resigned his position
nd gone into business for himself on
West Douglas avenue.
In district court yesterday morning the
jury in the case of the state against
Daisy Steel returned a verdict of guilty
as charged in the information and the de-
PENDANT will be sentenced later
D. D. Bailey, superintendent of the Ok
Iahoma division, and Mike Connell, train
master at Arkansas City, took a trip over
the Wichita and Western branch yester-
day and inspected all the bridges on the
line.
Judge Dale won't go to the Democratic
national convention. He hates a crowd,
especially when the weather is hot He
says he is willing to depend on the Eagle
to inform him Of the transactions of that
day.
William Mathewson is rapidly recover
ing from the injuries he received the
night of the Sundower League banquet
10y falling on the water trough on St.
Francis street His nose was seriously
injured.
Miss Mary E. Bosbrick. wife of ]. NJ.
Bosbrick, died early yesterday morning
at the residence. 416 Laura avenue, and
the funeral will be held this morning at
years old.
J. R. H. King, the pension attorney.
was taken suddenly and dangerously i'll
with tonsilits last Friday evening and is
lying very low at his home 229 Ellis
avenue, where ne and his family have re-
Gently moved
II. H. Wells, representing a chewing
gum firm Of Portland, Maine, and also the
Bloomington, III. Caramel company, was
here calling on the trade yesterday. Mr.
Wells has been working this city for a
number of years.
The plat for resolved seats in the High
school class day will be open on Friday
May IS at 9 a, m. at Howard's drug
store. The plat for reserved seats for
High school commencement win be open
at a. m. on Saturday at the same store
Col. Fred Van Duyn, of the Manhat-
tan, who never overlooks a matter for
the comfort of his guests, Is having the
hotel court calsomned and the inner
part overhauIed. The colonel is planning
other improvements for the immediate
future.
Dewitt Simpson is the proUdest man on
Eighteenth street The boy is ten pounds.
William Cassel, one of the old-time
jewelers. Of Wichita, is now a prominent
merchant of lola, Kan. He is visiting
old friends here, all of whom We're glad
to meet him.
Clarence Purcell was yesterday released
from the county jail on a bond of $1,000.
Fred Andrews. the man whom he shot.
is much better and it is row thought that
he VIII revore. PurcelI's preliminary
hearing in city court is set for the nth
Of this month.
Professor Blume, the we'll known must
clan, is hot at the Eagle for saving that
DR. Shuts bicycle is the Oldest wheel in
town. The professor has wheel at
least twice as old, and he doesn't propose
to be sighted in the mannr has been
in favor Of DR.. Shultz.
Paddy Shea caught a five-pound bass
and several channel cat at the dam on
Chisholm creek near the Dold packing
house yesterday. Paddy never lets 4 fish
get away from him when he gets the
hook into him once. He is one Of the
best fishermen in town.
O. c Daisy is a barometer Of prosper
from Market TO connect with Lawrence
avenue was granted by a Q 10 / vote