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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-04-22

cided to make note of all the improve
ments in residences on four avenues run
ming north from Douglas avenue, i'm
provements made during the last year,
those just completed and those under
way.
The result of this note-making on these
four streets is as follows:
LAWRENCE AVENUE, NORTH.
Between First and Second, four new
houses.
Between Second and Third, three new
houses.
Between Third and Central one new
house, and three painted
Between Central and Elm, one new
house, and two painted.
Between Elm and Pine, one painted.
Between Pine and Murdoch, three new
houses, and five painted.
Between Murodck and Park, three new
houses, and four painted
Between Park and Tenth, three re-
modelled, Crooks, McComb. Naftzer).
Between Tenth and Eleventh three
new parks, lines, Comley), two re-
modelled a. B. Wright, Lehman.
Between Eleventh and Twelfth, one
new porch Chapman, three painted.
Between Twelfth and Thirteenth, two
new Zone brick, one frame).
Between Fourteenth and Fifteenth,
one new house G1ester), three painted
Between Fifteenth and Sixteenth, one
new house.
EMPORIA AVENUE. NORTH.
Between First and Second, three paint
ed.
Between Second and Third, one remod-
eled, three painted
Between Third and Central, four
painted.
Between Central and Elm, none
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Is always uppermost in the public mind
and eye) is now engaged in a war where
in majority of the American people
fondly hope that something will occur
whereby England viii be humbled, and
its enemy will be successful; fondly hope
that some turn will be taken whereby
England will be stripped of every colony
it possesses, and lose its place among
the nations of the earth.
The American has call on his purse
in Cuba and in Porto Rica if newspaper
accounts are true. The American has
a duty in these so called American col
onies, yet there is no concert of action
in Kansas to aid these people.
This is the old old scheme of feeding
a missionary in foreign lands and letting
the local preacher starve at home.
This scheme is not charity 1t is sick
ly sentimentality! A desire to do some
thing, to get in the associated press dis
patches, create a sensation, herald abroad
that Kansas is shipping food to India
Yesterday a Kansas CWichita) merchant
clothed four needy children. There are
others that need clothing, all over
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Between Elm and. Pine, one new house
Between Pine and Murdoch, two
painted.
Between Murdoch and Park, seven
new houses. two remodeled.
Between Park and Tenth, two new
porches, three painted.
Between Tenth and Eleventh. one
painted. a
Between Eleventh and Twelfth, one
new porch, one painted.
Between Twelfth and Thirteenth. one
new porch.
Between Thirdteenth and Fourteenth,
one new roof.
ST. FRANCIS AVENUE, NORTH.
Between, Thirteenth and Fourteenth
houses painted.
Between Twelfth and Eleventh, two
houses painted.
Between Tenth and Eleventh, one new
house (Bob Williams. one painted.
Between Park and Tenth, ore new
porch, and one remodeled.
Between Murdoch and Park, eight
new houses. one remodeled On. n. Muir
dotk).
between flNe anu 4AuIN OCA, OilS 4lS"
house one painted.
Between Elm and Pine, one rernode ed,
one -Ginted.
Betty cen Central and Elm, three paint
ed
Eetween Third and Central, one new
cottage. one painted.
Between Second and Third, two new
houses, one remodeled.
Between First and Second, two new
houses, one painted
Between Douglas and First, one remod-
eled.
MARKET STREET. NORTH.
Between Eighteenth and Ninteenth,
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two new houses (chief Cuban, Mrs
CALDWELL.
Between Seventeenth and Eighteenth,
none
Between Sixteenth and Seventeenth,
none
Between Fifteenth and Sixteenth. three
moved and one new house.
Between Fourteenth and Fifteenth,
none
Between Thirteenth and Fourteenth.
one new brick house, between Market
and Lawrence.
Between Twelfth and Thirteenth. one
remodeled.
Between Eleventh and Twelfth, enc
rev .orch.
Between Ninth and Eleventh. one re-
modelled WaiD, one new porch DIR
Jordan. one painted.
Between Murdoch and Walnut, two
new cottages, three painted (Bretch).
Between Pine and Murdoch, one new
cottage, one painted.
Between Elm and Pine, two new
painted, one new barn (Simmons).
Between Central and Elm, none
Between Third and Central. six re-
modelled, eight painted.
Between Second and Third, five re-
modelled.
Between First and Second, one remod-
eled. two painted
PICKANINNfE.
The etymology of the word 'picka-
minnie" is discussed by a writer in the
current number of the American Anthro-
pologist, who says that its possible de-
rivation was pointed out by Sir Hans
SJane in 1907, in his History Of Janlai-
ca" "Piganinnes,' said Sir Hans. "is a
corruption Of pequenos ninos applied to
the black or slave babies of jamaica"
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Hanlias White Rose Flour highest
grade made. per sack ........-....... r
Second grade Flour. per sack ..-..... 80
Regular INC Rasins lwhiie they Iapt
At, per pound -.-..,..-.....-.-.----. 90
Regular s i-sc fuil 10 eisez Jelly at -
Regular Joe fga d glass Psre Fruit
Jam a.. each .-.---.--.-- ..-.--..--.-. ~
.s 10. Can full weight. best Jelly. per
can -------.---.---- .-..---...-. --- 10
5e Package Oats. while taey iast. for .I1
ID. Can Good 50 m 2. per can ..---. 80
Small Sour Pickles. per gal .-----...--- -
Euckeye Maple syrup. per gal .-... 10
Regular &c Uncc.Gred Japan Tea,
Popular &c Czcaiors1 japan Tea,
1e- 70 ..--.----.---...- --..-..-....--.--. %
Regular 20 BACK Tea. 1er H. ...-.-... -
AL Strictly Pure Spices. regular pr.ce
sc. our price --.-..-.---.- ---,-.--.---- -
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damp and contains less gas and smoke
The climate OF Wichita is In many re-
snects the most perfect that l have ever
found In the first place the sunshine Of
Wichita is more uniformly glorious the
year round than that Of any other place
that I have ever known; and yet do
not say this to the Displacement OF the
cloudless days in the Rockies. where the
sun for months at a time showers down
a light as white as that from an arc
lamp There are climates more even n
temperature than that q Wichita
climates where the Thermometer scarce
Is varies % degrees the year round. ~ut
to my notion a changing tnDeratu-e =
beneficial that is where the change IS
gradual At Wichita one ENJOYS touc
distinct seasons every year The air az
Wichita. 10 me traveller. always seems
good and pure, and 7 drink * IN with rap
ture IN spring it Is aronlsrlc with
sprouting grass, in sumner il Is red0lent
with sunnowers. in autumn IL is sweet
scented from a hur6el prairie fires and
in winter It Is softensd and tresherei
and giorifed by the whItest snow or a.. Il.
7 have some times fauciei that al the
air was created in Kansas snd that The
Kansas WINDS were generated simply as
a means OF conveying 1t abroad that
others may live.
In short Wichita is neither TOO higa nor
too low. too wet nor ZOO dry, too hot
nor too cold I Mt say that the Wioh-
ita climate viii cure tuberculosis in is
last siages-no Climate Viii 60 that
believe however. that tie wlchtta eli
mate Is well s5a9te5 to weak .uags,
and that under oriiasry conditions Il
should prevent consumption where other
climates would fab
Hundreds die of consumption az Las
Vegas. Col0ra6o SpriaEs anE other moan
tain resorts simply because they come tos
late IN such cases one climate righ,
Do equally as well as another to- the
patien: Is beyond recovery But there
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rmpnrvFo 1870
TO SAN ANTONIO VIA SANTA re
pnI-TE

Pullman s,ssgers abd free char cara
zaR rSz ds-.g ~lthCus cAanEs y4A Per;
warth. Nlzz5 azS AzsE.a- Conf ~ sasss
grona sr4gE 81 aa1sa. Trata .eaFss Bscb-
ia saEy 81 g. =. = z DELASET-
PAsae - AEsa.
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are thousands Of recoveries here where
death would have been inevitable in low
~ attitudes At these heath resorts
all consumptives are called "Iungers."
and it is not an uncommon thing 70
meet a 'one lunger' and TO an5 him
able 70 set around almost as If ne did
not miss the luns that is gone.
Here at Pueblo IS a mineral spring
where thousands OF Colorado -heumatlcs
come 10 restore their health. I am sur
prise5 10 lear from those IN charge -
this spring that nine-tcnths Of the rhel-
matte sufferers here ave from the higher
attitudes. such as Leadv1le. Cripple
Greek and Victor.
have just been talking with q rheu-
matte from Altman, Colo. the aigassr
Incorporated town IN the word. ana he
claims that hs rheumatism IS caused
solely 5y the altitude and Jhst he finds
immediate reisf in lower attitudes I was
~ the opinion that the rheumatism was
brought about rom working in the damp
% the mines but il seems that d maj eri-
- OF The patients here have never been
engaged II actual mining pursuits. Hence
& Is evident tha- aisa altitude is en-
dUesve to rheumatism. and tAiz Is g sly
prise 10 NE.
Few people car I've steadily AZ Lad
VILE % Cripple Creek 5r i1daad ans 81.
the cl5g5 cities. without having 20 sees
Iover levels az least once or rwlce
year. one IS kegt under too high a aerv-
GUS tension 70 long ez5ure suea attitudes
There are exceptions 70 this. h9wsTeT.
Former Mayo Lewis x Aazit0u lived
vita no uoticeaa5e II effects almost COR
s,autly sor three ard one-halt years ca
the ve-y summit q Pics Peak. when
{, Is remembered ;hat the top = Pske-s
Peak Is over I4ao feet aiza. o. 2so
fee, higher shan even tEess ear I've
this statement becomes significant aE1
enc more fully realizes that nan & f.
deed master at the eartA-
GRANT JONES
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Wichita. Kan. April 70, 1900.
/ Miss Laura Whitney Of 1ls East Eff
teenth, certify that the above and fol-
lowing cuts were taken from photographs
Of myself, and thai they show true
and perfect likeness OF my eyes before
and after treatment with DR.. II p. Mel
son. MISS LAURA WHITNEY.
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The following cut Sc Il correct picture
OF Mis- Whitney's Eyes AFTER treatment
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Consultation and
Examination Free.
DR.. H. p. NELSON

Suite / Zimmeriy Block
20 z. Douglas ave Wichita. Kan
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Consult a Specialist

Consult a Specialist
Crossed Eyes. Cataract
GRADUATED Lids
Errors Of Refraetion
Catarrh. Hay Fever.
Bronchitis. Asthma
Ringing IN the Ears. and all Infiama-
lions o. Eye Ear. Nose and Throat.
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They Are Troubles of His Own

future as it has done in the past Read these pr
The Marshall republican., 1900-09-07
A Good Man 70 Elect.

w. u. Mullins, Of Miami Township
and the Republican nominee for coun.
~ surveyor was shaking hands with
friends and t%ransacting business in
this city Tuesday. Mr.. Mullins Is
we'll qualified 10 I'LL the office Of !.
veyor and Is q gentlemen that would
MI the office with honor u the county,
but owing To his ticket being hopeless.
~ In the minority In this county, II
II On empty honor to he placed In the
race. Slater Bee.
The Marshall republican., 1900-09-07
Read This Letter.

DEAR ELL.A:-T am ~ glad you
have decided ~ buy q sewing machine,
aud ~ soon rs ! received your letter
started out. determined u take In
the town and lind out just where the
hest serv ice machine could liz found.
and after seeing them all I had no
trouble In deciding that the improved
wheeler Il wilson or the ''Stan.
dard" Sewing Machine. kept only by
II. =. Nichols. were the only machines
Ia buy. They ARE beauties. aud both
run sO lightly that Y child could sew
an them, and such beautiful work ]
have never seen done on u machine
~ II done on the Wheeler 4 Wilson.
besidc-. they nre finished so hand.
-onely ~ Ia liz nm ornament for any
house.
MN sorry that I have an engage
mcnt and cant meet you ut the train
when you reach Marshall. hut you
will have nO trouble In find the place.
Tell Mr.. Hul.e. the bus conductor. to
drive you right Ia II. r. Nichols. OPP
Iosite the county jail, where you u
anus Yourself trying the machine !
selected for you. aud I will meet you
there. N-2w
The Marshall republican., 1900-09-07
A Mountain Tourist

In search of arsnd and beautiful
scenery finds such u ~profusiOn III riches
In Colorado that before planning u
trip It will be we'll for you to gain all
the information possible. The Den
Q and Rio Grande Railroad pub.
fishes u series Of useful illustrated
pamphlets, all Of which may he oh.
tanned by writing $. X. Hooper, gem
The Marshall republican., 1900-09-07

Ed J. Krummell has just received
the most complete assortment Of suit
patterns ever brought u Marshall.
Come early and make your selection
before the choice patterns ore gone.
No. 73 West Side Square. lw
The Marshall republican., 1900-09-07
ersl passenger and ticket agent, Den.
YER, Colo.
Died.

Al the home of her parents, Louise
Huston, the twO.year old daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Is. l.. Huston, three
miles north OF Malta Bend, Saturday,
August %, ut 3 o'clock u m.
Funeral services were held at this
The Marshall republican., 1900-09-07
The Latsgt aud Best.

The only sewing machine chat does
not fail In any point Is the Wheeler 4
Wilson. Sold only by II. +. Mich.
OILS. 3l-2t
The Marshall republican., 1900-09-07

place from the residence Of MIR. j. +.
Elsner, Sunday, August ~. Ut 5
o'clock and the remains inferred IT
city cemetery. Sweet Springs Herald.
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Parkhurst Scores Mckinley.
New YORK, May 80.

NEW YORK, May 3O-
Yesterday Dr. Parkhurst gave parting
blast at Tammany and Roosevelt. Today,
before leaving, he scored Mckinley and
praised Bryan Wide apart as Croker and
Parkhurst are on city politics it would seem
as if they were getting close together in
national politics The former has just de-
clared unequivocally for Bryan, while DR..
Parkhurst today, according to the reporters
who interviewed him on the steamer,
though unwilling to commit himself to
Bryan, says that he would like to see many
of the reforms he stands for put in opera
ton. ''No one doubts he says, ''the
ability of Mr.. Bryan, or questions his moral
integrity or honesty and he adds that he
will give Mckinley close rub for the
election. The secret of this declaration is
that DIR. Parkhurst is an anti-expansionist
'.As long" he is quoted as saying, "as the
Republican party under the present Ad-
ministration force goes on in power, the
further it will move to the promotion of
political and monetary combinations, which
will continue to discredit the country, de-
stroy our moral prestige abroad, and work
toward the impairment Of the interests of
the rank and file Of the people. Enough
national harm has already been done BY
the present administrative forces. The
only way that can see out of the national
difficulties is to place In power as the head
of new Administration a man of mature
intellect and judgment, who will not be
swept off his feet as Mckinley has been,
and who will not go back on his publicly
expressed opinions in official acts, as cur
present Administration has repeatedly
done. As country we have lied to Porto
Ricans and deceived the Filipinos. The
Cuban postal scandal is a terrible disgrace
to our country. The reports of thefts there
have been widespread and have lowered the
United States in the eyes of thinking men
all over the world
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THE CUBAN POSTAL ROBBERY.
Further Investigation Shows a Mas
ter Hand

HAVANA, June Acting Director of
Posts Bristow today inquired as to the
amount of postal funds taken by c. F. W.
Nicely in May, 1899, and ascertained that
it was s31, 312.95. Neeiy's monthly
average was about SIT, 900. His system
of bookkeeping was simplicity itself. APP
parently he merely divided the amounts re-
ceived, taking one-balf for himself and ac-
counting for the other.
This morning the examination of Estes
G. Rathbone, former director Of posts, was
continued. 1t lasted more than four hours.
The most startling fact developed was that
on May &c of last year Mr.. Rathbone or
dered Special Agents Leatherer and Sulli-
van to examine the accounts. They found
shortage, but it was not thong bit that
anything had gone wrong They reported,
however, that there was no check upon the
bureau of finance, and they recommended
that certain blank forms be made, which
would answer the purpose, such as all post
masters use when making their reports to
the department monthly. Mr.. Maynard,
then chief agent, endorsed the recommen-
dation and forwarded it to Mr.. Rathbone.
The latter approved it and sent it to Audi
tor Reeves, who initiated and forwarded 1t
to Nicely.
After he had initiated it, instead of put
ting the scheme into operation he quietly
pigeonholed it, and it did not see the light
until May Is of this year, when the plan
was put into effect.
Mr. Bristow says he is almost sure that
the extent of the steal will amount to some
thing between $50, 900 and 500, 900,
but that this will not touch the item of sur
charge stamps, which is SAL, OOO- As
to how many of these were burned and how
many sold it is impossible to obtain definite
information. As many have been traced,
it is known positively that not all were de-
stroyed, but if Nicely sold, say fifty or a
hundred thousand dollars worth, it would
not be surprising, Mr.. Bristow thinks, to
find them scattered all over the world
The postal inspectors say it is astonish-
ing that system so rotten could have been
concealed beyond the first month. Every
day only adds to the surprises.
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The Cause of the Famine.
From the Review OF Reviews for June.

From The REVIEW OF Reviews Tor June
India is country not quite half as large
as the United States, with four times its
population. These 800, 600, 600 people
must be fed from their own crops, as there
is, relatively, no manufacturing resource to
buy food with. There are parts of India
with population of 1000 people to the
square mile, and there are millions upon
millions of farm laborers, Migrants. gypsies
and nondescript classes whose means of liv-
ing, even in time of plenty, are inscrutable.
In normal year the country, as whole,
produces little more food than is actually
necessary to support its people. But the
crops are dependent on the monsoons-th
southwest monsoon in the beginning Of
summer and the northeast monsoon in the
winter If these periodic rains are late, or
are insufficient in quantity, trouble comes,
and the spring and winter crops of wheat,
barley and pulses in the north and of rice
and milIets in the south begin to suffer.
When the monsoons fail absolutely there is
destitntion in the affected district, and when
persistent succession of failures and par
tial failures occurs, there comes great and
terrible famine, like that the country is
now groaning under. Since the first great
famine of which there are records devas-
tated the land in l77G, when 10, 900, 900
persisted in Bengal alone, India has scarce
ly passed decade free from scarcity of
grain in one district or another. The
British Government expects drought
about twice in every nine years, famine
once in every eleven or twelve years, aud
great famine like the present about twice
in a century.
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TOPICS OF THE TIMES.
The Scandal of the Presidents Com
missions.

Not the least objection to the policy of
expansion is the increase in the President
patronage which it involves. An over
flowing Treasury, filled by unjust and un-
necessary taxation, stimulates all kinds of
extravaganza. Upon this subject the Phil
adelphia Record says
''Of not less than % separate commits
sions created since the advent of the pres
ent Administration the aggregate cost, at
a conservative estimate, has been more chan
So, 800, 900 up to date. The plea is made
that the emergencies of the wars with Spain
aud in the Philippines made the expendi-
lures for these advisers of the President
absolutely necessary. But is is plain that
some of these commissions have merely
served as excuses for giving jobs to impor-
tunate favorites out of Office. The work
for which these Offices were ostensibly ere
ated, however, could have been better per-
formed by the regular machinery Of the
Government. Nearly all of them have in
volved inordinate cost for salary and per-
quisities- But the people pay for these
Governmental luxuries out of Treasury
surplus gorged with unnecessary taxation,
and what's the odds2
The latest scandal that has cropped
out of this system relates to the American
department of the Paris Exposition. 1t
appears from report submitted by the
President in answer to Senate resolution
that Commissioner Peck and some of his
subordinates have made the most of their
opportunity of farming a liberal appropria-
ton Up to December 81, 1899, the ex-
penditures amounted to nearly $500, 600,
of which 1874, 900 was for the American
building. Nearly all the rest was swallow
ed up in salaries, perquisites, hotel bills,
the pay of servants, the hire of coaches,
etc. OF the expenditures since January
l, 1900, there is no official report, but it
is charged that they have been more ex-
travagant than were the expenses last year
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A Desperate Struggle with a Polite
Thief

HANOVER, Pa, June 4.-John r.
Hoke, bookkeeper for the firm Of NJ. Hoke
& Son, produce dealers and lime burners,
had a thrilling experience with thieves in
his Office on one of the main streets Of this
town Early this afternoon tall, well
dressed, middle aged man entered the Of
fee, and approached the desk behind which
Mr.. Hoke was seated, busily engaged in
counting ont some money preparatory to
depositing it IL the bank. "Will you
kindly oblige me by changing this ten-dol
lar bill % he asked, politely, handing
note Of that denomination to Hoke.
''With pleasure, said that gentleman,
turning slightly to the right, on which side
lay the silver money.
II thank you, replied the stranger,
picking up roll of bills from the desk.
s'This will do, and he darted for the
door
Hoke was too quick for him, however.
and grappled with him. Together they
struggled about the Office, the thief making
a desperate effort to use knife, while
Hoke held him by the throat with one
hand, striking him about the head with
the other. A door leading to the base
ment was open, and suddenly both men
tumbled down the stairs. When they
reached the bottom the thief seemed TO
have the advantage, and endeavored to
also secure wallet of money from Hoke's
clothing, managing to cut that gentleman
several times on the head with his knife.
But Hoke fought desperately until hit a
heavy blow with a sandbag on the back of
the head by confederate, who had rushed
in from the outside, and which knocked
him senseless. When he recovered COLI
sciousness the thieves had gone with the
roll of bills, but he still retained the wallet.
A large dog usually kept about the office
was lying across his breast, and it is
thought the animal arrived just in time to
save his masters life and frightened off
the intruders. The police are on the trail
of the outlaws.