The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-04-15

n and out or y le0lt1 every CAY
Governor Stanley says that It costs a
man more than his salary TO be gov
ernor
Nearly every hotel in the city has been
crowded for rooms for tr2nsients this
last week
Nero cement sidewalks are being built
this spring than any other year n the
city's history.
The big pump at the water works
pumps 5.90a.190 gallons Of water every
twenty-four hours.
Among the new houses being built for
rent IN Wichita are three which Ike
West is constructing.
One OF the wholesale men has sat az
his desl. ana talked TO customers in If
ty-one different towns.
The asphaItum pavement on North
Main street has been repaired and b.
cycle riders are happy
The Wichita post Office has not yet re-
eeIved the little books OF stamps which
the government IS Issuing
There is q Dawson and a Davidson IN
the city council now and Amos Mccain
IS having all kinds OF trouble
The biggest engine in town IS the four
hundred horse power Hamilton Co-less
az the street railway power house
There are only two years in Wichita
history when the city was growing faster
than II IS this year-in 1SS5 ard 1857
Col Fred vanDuyn is the first hotel
man connected with the city administra-
ton since Jno- B. Carey was mayor.
In the last year there have been FIVE
big business blocks put up IN Wichita
and three ara in course OF construction.
The telephone company has six hun
dred subscribers in Wichita The wires II
takes for these would reach from Wichita
TO Chicago.
The book which is outselIing all others
III Wichita at present is TO Have and
10 Hold" Sales OF Richard Carvel" are
falling off.
Tuesday a three inch snow fell on the
Englewood branch Of the Santa Re out OF
Wichita, from Belvide-e west to the Ok
lahoma line.
There are three elevators in the city
that are run by electricity. three BY
water and one By steam, and many more
BY elbow grease.
Il would surprise even Wichita people
to know that one e the half dozen TouI-
try and produce houses here did $3oQ, 800
Of business last year.
A Wichita physician Is trying an ex-
pertinent along the smoke-cure lines.
He is hypnotizIng his patient into the be-
lief that he can't smoke.
of the week was people IN the hashiest
spring fashions and people in winter
wraps walking side by side
After news leaves the reporters hands
and before it reaches the mind OF The
reader. it is read twice and passes
through four mechanical processes.
Mrs. Fl. ". Gates Of RosedaIe who was
elected treasurer Of the Kansas under
takers association here Thursday. is the.
only woman undertaken in Kansas.
An Old barlow knife apparently twenty
five years old was found in the excava-
ton being made for the new laundry
building being pat up BY Cone i Cornell
The Wichita Indian village which pre-
ceded the present Wichita extended up
Lite River for three or f1ur miles The
Wichita Indians lived in kind Of thasched
huts, not wiswazus.
Or. Wilson. the dentist. has peculiar
looking electric machine by which he gen
crates what IS known as the catapa0setlc
current which is usd on teeth instead II
drugs for an auaesthetic.
There are six thousand volumes in the
city library. There were IN circulation
an average Of about four hundred be-
fore the free plan was inauzurated, and
more than as many since.
Mr. J. R Mead used to have a store
on what is the Davis place On Big Rjv-
er. This was over thirty years ago. bur
he saws that he could 90 up intl Davis
orchard today and plow Up relics.
Dave Leahy says ne never knew Of a.
undertaken dying and that he heard
neIghb0r OF his say that ne had observed
the matter Cor fifty ears and never saw
d mention ct the death Z al undertaken.
A the EaEie Office. il takes one q the
linotype operators one hour 10 set up
one column Of reading matter. i the
work was done by hand r. would take
FIVE men 70 SET up q column in the same
time
\ movers wagon drove into town
wednesday night and seeing the red ian
terms on Douglas where the new street
railway was being SulI, called cut 20
policeman that one u the arc lights had
fallen.
The lights in the clock tisIs at the
court house are rot very Bright At or5i-
nary times bat At four O'Clock IN dark