The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-24
Doctors? Pshaw! Take BEECHAM'S PILLS
BUILDING A TOWN.
TIE Music of he Hammer and Saw
Heard at 0karohe.

Special Correspondence of the Daily Eagle.
OKARCHE, April 22-Okarche is lively
| town of less than a weeks growth. Order
/ and morality prevail, and there is no
| gambling or Objectionable people, men or
women. in the town. The mayor and
councilmen Tor trustees) are men Of the
| highest standing, and they are determined
! to keep all rough characters out of the
! town. The town is surveyed, and the lots
staked out bring from So to $3.50 each, and
are selling quite rapidly. Most of the lot
! jumping difficulties are settled by arbitra-
ton. There are four public wells dug, and
good water was struck at thirty feet. The
! following is a list OF some of the business
men, and what they are doing at the
present time. Mr.. Charles Payne was ap-
pointed by the mayor to circulate among
the business men and get the facts from
! them in person. Appended is the report.
which is as nearly complete list as could
| be obtained at this time, as new business
men are coming in all the time.
Jones g. Bright of Wichita are running
| a wholesale and retail meat market. They
are putting up two-story building, 25x65
! feet. 1t is the only wholesale meat market
/ here, and they are doing large business.
Frank Winants of Wichita is putting up
a frame building, 25x50 feet, and is put
| ting i'll a stock of paints, as agent for
! Wichita house.
| Holland & irwin of Gainesville, Tex,
are putting up building, 20x5O feet, for a
restaurant.
| The H. L. Shober company will put in
| next week a full line of boots, shoes and
! clothing, wholesale and retail. Their
! building is 25x60 feet and two stories in
| height.
The G.. w. Bush Grocery company of
! Wichita is putting iii a wholesale and re
| tail grocery store. The building when
complete will be 20xSO feet and two stories
/ high
| The Rock Island Grocery company of
/ Wichita IS putting up ii building 50xlOO
| feet and two stories high for general lue
| OF groceries, fuel etc, to wholesale TO the
county seat towns Five carloads of goods
have already been unloaded and several
! more loaded cars are on the tracks.
I f. Hendricks of Missouri is putting uD
two-story building 1Sx50 feet for a
! boarding house 1t will be completed and
ready within week
Joseph Bradley of Wichita is building
two story frame building for feed store.
s. NJ. Shaw aud J. W. Morrison of
Gainesville, Tex, are putting up a frame
| building, 25X6O feet, for groceries and no
/ tions
I ID. w. McCalIa of Wichita is setting up
barber shop and bath room.
Michael McCome, from Oklahoma, is
! putting up frame for building l6X4
feet for a grocery store.
John McCome, from Spokane, Wash, is
putting up meat market
w. ;. Rogers of Wichita has set up
branch gallery and is doing all the busi-
ness he can take care OF
The st. Louis Hardware company of St. :
Louis, Mo, is putting up "a building 24x60
feet, for general retail and hardware /
store.
" B. Pechin of Wichita is putting up
two buildings, one 20x75 feet and the other /
1sx50 feet, to be used by him for general I
furniture house and other stocks.
J. B. Stillwell OF Wichita is putting up .
building 20x60 feet, to rent.
r. A. Percell and L. A. Ellis from /
Sioux City. Ia, are building business /
house 20x75 feet They are energetic /
northern men and are pushing right /
along.
Mark Shultz, from Guthrie, o. T., is .
building livery barn 2jX60 feet, and will +
run freight teams for the western part OF !
the territory.
Mrs. O. T. Bugle, from Hennesy, o. T.
is building house % by 80 feet TO put ia .
a stock of general erchandise-grOcer:es,
dry goods, notions, boots, shoes etc.
Mrs. NJ. H. Ellis, from Arkansas City,
is putting up large hotel. Mrs. Ellis
was proprietress of the Logan house ia /
Arkansas City, but says tnaJ Okarche IS
the boomer for her.
Cochran and Seward. hardware men.
from Missouri, are erecting building =
by % feet for general implement aud
hardware store. They expect TO buy their
supplies from Wichita.
J. b. Wood, from Perkins, o. T., is put
ting ia grocery IN building 10 by ~
feet.
A. C. schnell, from Guthrie, is putting
up a building 10 be used for store and
barber shop.
NJ. W. savage probate Judge OF King
fisher Is building large Office to hold
court in.
F. N Sherwood. from Texas, IS bald
ing Il large frame building for hotel pur-
poses. He uow runs n hotel ia large
tent. and has been feeding 500 persons
each day. Mr.. Sherwood IS Il Methodist
minister and will preach next Sunday,
either in his ten; or a some building.
Furtado & Murcia. from Wichita. are
handling cigars. tobacco, canned fruit.
etc. They sag that they are going back to
Kansas 10 vote FOR Governor MUTdCck-
The Cameron Lumber com pAHy = put
ting ia large lumber Yards Ine company
has twenty car .3ads on hand. ard more
on the way. SIR Cameron says Re expects
this 20 he one q t1e best points for the
Iumb-r trade IN ine south Tes,.
4 l. Wallace from Kansas has built
large building for = feed. grocery aud
hardware store on tts railroad grounds.
and n the ia~t foEF days hAs so.d . thC1s-
aud do! lars worth of goDts-
The Ai~xsnde. LEuIber company. which
ha. wards ali over TIE southwest. has large
wards Ee-e The company has shipped
some Eftv 10 -evsuty-five ears in- FOR she
present i has al tae business . car
handle i = certain o. 4. large t141s .-ola
tins posat
:. J. Huls a Wichita Is putting mp q
large binding foE a drag store
7 = DIVER of Nicb..4 Is putting % a
large aa1s and livery 1zEa.
q. T.. Cozl.: - Co, of H.chi-s are car
p .ug on \ wholesale d11v sad :ee1 brsl-
res~ in a iarEs,. tent. AZ sosu g :E-T est
their cars unlosGed they vi. build i4rss
building
". : EorIea. from Wichita has d res
;aarau. lu tent. He viii Du - 80 so8r
- re gets = saliaole lof
There sTe great usaDy othef sr8al.
b1ilJines ard tsats al. over she s9sa- 1Hs
r5eor.s sre 81 bsisy aal are ssrE< 1ooI
Ther- 5sTe been ve-y few cispat9 0v@-
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