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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1889
Page
1
Large eastern import sale advertises 52 inch all wool flannels in new shades at 49 cents per yard with 6 yards making a dress costing 2.94 for the pattern. Also spring Broadcloths at 1.00 per yard and seven yards per pattern. Henrietta serge offered at 50 cents a yard for limited days.
Extensive consignments of linen and edge embroidered handkerchiefs offered at 25 cents each for Indies trade. The sale features a large lot of unlaunched items with handmade initials, plus fancy bordered pieces in colors and white. Also notes strict new credit policy effective February 1st, with accounts due by the tenth and prompt payment required to avoid further credit.
In Torrea Kansas Feb 3 the senate in committee of the whole passed the inspection bill with strong opposition. A lively fight for new judgeships and questions on adjournment and house membership accompanied state news notes. The senate moved to create three commissioners at the supreme court while other measures sought to curb treasury speculation and regulate notes. A Topeka bridge bill sparked a dispute between country and city interests and a reformatory appropriation was approved for Hutchinson. Fremont Miller from Lyon married Laura Patty at Emporia.
An anxious note from Tashandle Texas on February twenty first awaits Oklahoma’s opening. The region anticipates the president’s inauguration and hog law debates, with talk of quick ascent and civic duties. The crop outlook is favorable in Kansas, smallpox fears ease, a drowning fatality occurs in Kassos, and labor strife hits Puddler strikes.
Round 10 report details amendments to the Indian appropriation bill aligned with the Springer plan. House and Senate clash over provisions for Creeks Seminoles and Muskogee nations, land entry rules, homesteads, and commission to treat with tribes. The Senate debates rail construction and other measures as the extra session looms.
The will of the wealthy and eccentric Benjamin Richanison was offered for probate today. The document mentions a celebrated comet observed a century ago and notes George Washington among the individuals connected to the estate in a flurried, obscure fashion.
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