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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1889
Page
8
In Topeka reports note ground break for a new building at Gilbert and Topeka streets. Contractors plan additions to Union stock yards. Judge Barrett travels to Topeka. Corporal Tanzer cited. Wadsworth, Buckner kin death notices. railway and hotel figures visit. News items cover bids, contracts, and civic industry with scattered personal notes.
The report notes strong wheat and oat crops in southern Kansas and a booming potato harvest near Wichita. It highlights farmers’ efforts around Derby and Wichita, mentions Judge Wall and his Butler county farming, and describes legal and social tensions around prohibition in Wichita amid growing regional trade and forested city concerns.
President Cox of the St Louis Merchant Exchange reports twenty five of St Louis's leading capitalists will travel to Wichita by Frisco line, aiming to inspect the region's wheat fields stock farms factories and growth prospects. The group may arrive by Tuesday evening or the Fourth, depending on dispatches.
Stock yard notes report two thousand eight hundred thirty seven hogs sold this week from various sellers including Leon, Kingman, Wellington, Udall and Mulvane with trades by J H Williams and Campbell Haffman among others. A city meeting of property owners discusses extending electric street railway service toward the packing houses and car works, honoring Judge Read with jurors presenting a gift cane and bouquet to the court stenographer.
A jumble of notices and brief items from Wichita recounts gift sentiment at an office, a quarterly board meeting, a dog pound fire, a fatal death, real estate and building activities, a wedding, street scenes, and various civic notices. Names include Dold, Kassel, Mead, and Cooper. Grounded events range from a cane presentation to a July Fourth business closure and a fire incident.
The cilsana mortimg appointed committees for the Fourth of July demonstration met at the board of trade rooms. They selected marshal and a corps of assistants and outlined duties for parade practice and route, with preparations aimed at a peaceful, well ordered event.
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