The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-06-14
CITY IN BRIEF.

short business trip TO Topeka.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Ultch with their
children left yesterday for Lorraine, Kan
Miss Matte Funk left yesterday for the
east where she viii spend the summer.
DR.. H. L. Scales of Mt. Hope is in the
cisy attending a patient at the hospital.
E. E. whiuock and family of this city
have left for a visit with relatives in Yer
mont.
Henry Duggan and son went to Salt
Lake City yesterday over the Missouri
Pacific.
J. H. Mcpherson is building q fine resi-
dence in the second block on North Waco
avenue.
Miss Mary Pope returned yesterday
from FL Dorado. where she sang at a
musicale.
Miss MabeIle Drumon of Valley Center
is visiting with her cousin, w. A AYres.
and wife,
! Mrs. n. J. Brewer if III South Topeka
avenue, is visiting with her mother at
I Augusta, Kan.
Mr. Nose Johnson arrives in this city
today from Ann Arbor, Mich, where he
has been attending school
Mr.. Paul Wall arrived in Wichita yes
terday morning from school at ST. Louis.
TO spend his vacation at home.
Mrs. Sadie Hart was yesterday granted
a divorce from Maynard c. Hart. They
were married just two months.
Mrs James Murphy of Humboldt. Ten
nessee. is the guest Of her sister. Mrs. B.
I II u mn e;
J. a. Ransom, chief clerk in the office
Of r. r Torrington, division freight
agent of the Santa Fe. was sick yester-
day.
J. T. Moore, publisher and business
manager of the Pittsburg Kan) Daily
Headlight, was visitor in the city yes
terday.
Judge David B. Fuller of Eureka was
in town last night on his way to the IN
dian Territory where he is engaged in a
big lawsuit
Miss Lizzie surleck of Cheney, was in
the city yesterday enroute TO Anadarko
to look after the interests of her claim
near that city.
The National Bank of Commerce is i
having a new coat of paint put on the
bank building that adds considerable TO
its appearance.
Mr.. Milton Greenfield of Greenfield Bros.
who now has charge of the clothing ex-
clusively, leaves this evening for the east
to buy their fan goods.
Miss Cora McKibben of Waukomis, o.
T., IS visiting with her sister, Mrs. Earl
Blake, and brother, Burt McKibben. of
the Pacific Express company.
Miss Mary Waggoner accompanied by
Master Lin Waggoner left Thursday af-
ternoon for East Les Vegas, New Mexico,
to spend the summer vacation.
Mrs. Rebecca Frankenfield OF Pawnee
City, Neb., is visiting her son, Mr.. c. A.
Frankenfield, of this city. Mrs. Franken-
field has many friends in Wichita
Dr. Newman has returned from an ex-
tended outing in Oklahoma, where he has
been for the past few months recuperat-
ing and incidentally holding down fine
claim near Hobart.
The case Of Hodges, the Wichita house
movers, against a. J. Blackwell of Okla
homa, has been continued in the city
court until the bill of particulars can be
made more complete.
Silas S. Brown returned yesterday from
a trip to Hutchinson, where he attended /
the musical jubilee and to Lawrence !
where he attended the reception given by |
the alumni of the University of Kansas.
Fred fainter, prominent cattle man
Of Comanche county, was in the city yes
terday and he says the cattle are taking |
on fat very rapidly and that the days of
scarcity of beef cattle will soon be over. |
When asked yesterday Il he had ever
seen any other year in Kansas so favor I
abe for crops as this one. Deacon Smith !
said he had seen plenty Of them. lie said /
Kansas is all right, oftener than the
people.
Mrs. Ella Baker yesterday fled in the
district court a petition for a divorce +
from Alfred Baker. Cruelty and neglect /
of duty are alleged as cause for action. T
They are people Of Andale and were mar
ried in 1885,
w. f. Mowry. formerly of this city. and |
who has just finished a law course at the /
state university. is in the city visiting /
friends. His parents now live in Colorado. /
He graduated from the Wichita high I
school in 1885.
George Clark of this city is making /
arrangements 10 so to New Mexico to
Guy 5000 sheep TO eat some Of the fine /
grass in this valley. lie has bought
great many sheep in this state from the +
west in former years.
judge arnold writes that he and Mrs.
Arnold are having q fine time among the /
mountains OF Ueah and that they viii {
not return 20 Wichita until the fifteenth Of f
July. but bets were offered without takers
yesterday that the judge would not re-
main away until the national holiday.
Miss Nellie N. Patting entertained the
Fairmount Ladies Library club and the .
Haythorn ChautauQua circle Thursday
evening in honor Of Miss Anna Hattie
Ritter and Mrs. March Ritter LOOMS.
Mrs r. ~ Piatt spoke on tie subject II i
ChaUtauqua and Mrs. LOOMS furnished +
the music.
Mr. g. E. Johnson brought to the Eagle .
Office yesterday some hne samples OF
wheat raised near this city. The heads
were iarge and weH filled and the straw
was heavy and he reported that there was
many acres Of wheat in Sedgwick county
that was the equal of the samples he
brought in.
Geo. Gvechbach. formerly Of this city.
hat now of st. Wright. Wash, was
granted a person OF IS per month and
back pay since August = lSg3 Joseph