The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-04-15
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Calendars.
Harry Lockwood has the name Of the
Wichita Fail Carnival and Festival copy
righted
Jim steele's aunt who died in Missouri
a few days ago was a cousin Of Mn.
Gladstone
It is said that John Heron wears the
most valuable finger ring OF any man
in Wichita
The smartest thing IN women's hats this
year is sailor built up with gauze and
straw braids
The new car on North Main street runs
50 much faster than the old ones that
people are amazed.
The latest style OF foot wear shows
the exact position Of the toes when
doubled up in the shoes.
City Electrician Mcvay estimates that
there are three thousand incandescent
lamps in use in Wichita
Dr. Pitcher was in town Thursday ard
and men left their Offices on North Main
street TO get a look at him.
The new style hat Is low crown ard
crushed IS low as possible It is an
heir Of The cowboys sombrero.
The Western Union has put on five new
messenger boys since the Introduction Of
the new call boxes and messenger seiT-ce-
1t will be a surprise to many Wichita
people to know that there are only a
scant two hundred type writer's in use
here
Coe Bennett John Clayton, o. c.
Daisy, Col. Toler and B. L. Eaton are
int ri,
at Joplin.
Collecting friendship hearts for trace
lets is the delightful fad among I:5tIe
girls in Wichita now. And some OF them
are not so little
Blue seems to be very unpopular among
the painters Of Wichita. Only four houses
in the city are painted blue. The style
runs to white this year.
The Wichita Musical clum numbers 81
members, and IS more enthusiastic than
ever before in its history. The club meets
in Sedgwick music hall.
Set many people know that the tics
used in the construction CT the new streec
railway cost p cents each. It VII take
S5be00 to build the road.
Sam Hess has an easter egg in his show
window three feet in length and twenty
three inches in diameter. II is the arg
est imitation esq ever seen in Wichita.
Thursday, the day of the cold north
wind, was the best day for fishing up to
date this spring. One party OF men up
the Little Arkansas caught nearly forty
pounds.
Lon Williams. the jeweler at Mackey's
drug store, on East Douglas, has Travelled
all over the south and knows the streets
of Mexico City as well as the average
Wichita man known the streets here.
The Western Union telephone is the
busiest in the city. Miss Fosnot, the clerk,
answers an average Of about twenty
calls an hour, or two hundred and fifty
day. The next busiest are the railroad
freight Offices
When G. B. Hazen, brevet-generaI OF
the United States army. and afterwards
husband of the present Mrs. Dewey,
owned part Of the Wichita townsite, the
town was in Lyon county. Lyon coun-
y then extended this far.
The most picturesque figure among the
workmen on the new street railway is
Henry Harris, a colored man from CIR
cInnatti. a spike driver H sings 4 ten
pound slsdge to drive several thousand
spikes without ever missing one.
A new street viii likely be created when
the Maple street bridge is shortened and
the hanks hlled in. It is the intention TO
range the bank Of the river on a line
with the Douglas avenue bridge which
viii give enough room TO lay out a street.
To show that there is a great scarcity
of houses for rent in Wichita it IS only
necessary to state that Mr.. Knapp is
renting an eight room modern house for
SIS per month Three years ago this
house would not have brought more than
SIS
IN the PopuIist convention, Thursday.
it was noticeable the number Of differ
ent means used u attract the attention
OF the chairRan. Some swung their hats,
others pieces of paper, some used one
hand and others both some used ! lead
pencil and some yelled.
An electric light wire fell across a
telephone wire during the highwind Tues
day. The extra charge of electricity runs
the telephone in the probate court Of
fee Judse NcCanless answered the
phone with his usual dexteri,y and got
made him think that the pops had stolen
the thunder OF the probate court office
SyI Dunkin. deputy sheriff. landed in
Wichita afoot on the fourth day Of
March. ISL. He had walked from En-
poria. and the only place he could ind
70 sleep the night he got here vas under
4 wagon between two desoaradces each
with two large revolvers strapped at
their sides. M. Durkin was 81 tired and
fooJsore that he fell asleep and did not
get scared until the next day
Wichita is becoming manufacturers
headquarters. Chas. Davidson and Geo.
Dickson and J. r. Mead have an i'm
mense brick plant ar Che~ryvale. NJ.
Dickson and Mr.. Allison have the bis
gest cement plant in the country at
Blackwell. O T Ben Mclean and W.
s ThrrcI,mOrton have a sr5G- lumber
plantation and mills in Arkansas New
zinc regions in Arkansas are being de-
veI50ed by Reynolds Bros.
House movers are beginning to figure
thac in the near future their business
Will come to a sJaadstiL There are
but few more houses 10 move IT from
the suburbs. The city is growing CUT in
stead II in and viii now begin TO overlap
its present bounds with each successive
decade. as did Paris in her magic growth
from the eleventh 10 the ftte-nth cen
ta-y. ove-Ieap the several walls that
wers 5uiIt for her enclosure
The county commissioners have in
sti-u-e5 a general cleaning up and house
cleaning at the court house ana county