The Wichita Beacon from Wichita, Kansas • Page 5

THE WICHITA DAILY BEACON TUfcSM) A 28, 1809. 1 COUNCIL ME it 0 (JeraW Volk TaLos a Miot al ANOTHER HAILED. CLAIMS OF INCREASE OF COLLECTIONS ARE EXPLODED. This campaign is a home peoples' campaign. It ought to be a campaign of facts.

The opposition is "blowing" a great deal about the police collections every month. They are stuffing the returns. TOMORROW SPECIALS yards of that beautiful and most fashionable KRINKONEL, which actually cost 23c to import. We got it at a snap sal and place it on sale to 10c morrow at See it in North Show Window. WATCH THIS SPACli EASTER PREPARATIONS Are now at their height.

But lour more days to collect your -Outfit" for the Easter Dress Parade." We have all the correct shades in 01oves--the new Parasols just in And in fact we are better able than ever to supply your wants. ABOUT YOUR HAT If you want to wear it Easter leave your order now. To avoid disappointment do not wait until the last day before having your order. 119-121 NORTH MAIN. Our Stock I.

WE II WE JUST WHAT YOU WANT IN THE WW OF. neon FACTFI is receivincr daily additions of New in Jewelry. We show very complete assortments of' Cyrano Charms from. to Pelt Ruckles to SjW.OO Nethersole 1 .00 to Heart Lockets 25c toSjW.OO Waist Pins, sets from 25c up Our Sterling Silver line is complete in the very newest patterns of Spoons nnd Forks. We have Souvenir Spoons showing all the important buildings in Wichita: City Hall.

Court House. Masonic Home, Masonic Temple Faii nioiiut College. Edward Vail 1(H) Kast Douglas Avenue. JEWELERS FOR CP CI A SAWS. -I Hanshaw, 255-257 North Hain Str Ens or Eggs, Easter Novelties, Easter Cal es, RED FRONT RACKET TUF rOPVLAU STOh'F AM) rOPUI.Ali PRICES.

Easter Candies? I -am) in i a rnnxa The Old Reliable Of course you weir Shoes, and of course yen want the best styled, best form fitting and hem. wearing Shoes lor the least money. We don't blame you, but we with you. Now, it hi a fact that we have received Four Lines of Sample Shoes. They are manufacturers ramples th at have been taken around by shoe drummers and, of course, have been handled some, hut never hurt a particle.

Recause they have been handled, the iiiauufactui era sell them to the merchant at just One-Half the Regular Wholesale Price. That is- why we can sell these eleu'ent Sample" Shoes at less than wholesale price. RONTON ANDY AKtik'Y ITCH EN 146 North Main Street. Tapp Bros. Phone 257.

Baking Powder Made from pure cream of tartar. Safeguards the food against alum Alum baking; powders arc the greatest menacers to health of the present dayv ROVl IUK1NO POWDER NFW YORK. with all the churches, regardless of denomination. They appreciate it. The business man said: "I don't know much about this man Tapp.

I don't think he is business man enough to conduct the affairs of the city." lie has since found that without the aid of a council and a finance committee, this same Mr. Tapp successfully manages a private business equal to the business of tho city. Experience teaches the business man that it is easier to manage public business of SMO.OOO than a private business of Then at tho club, the business man heard how another business man once loaned James W. Tapp ithout a cent of interest or the scratch of a pen; and how he was paid every cent of It back inside of six weeks. The politicians and ward heelers disgusted the business men by calling the followers of James W.

Tapp the ragtag and bobtail of (he community. Then the business man realized that Ihe legions of men nnd women who are behind Mr. Tapp In this fight are not Ihe paiipeis of Hie town, but the people who cat most of the bread, buy inot of the shoes, wear most of the clolhiiv; an'l use most of the meat of Wichita. Then he realized that they were not the people who go to Kansas City for their dresses, their winter weur and their bonnets'. W.

Tapp has not sai- a word lo them. His friends have not pleaded hard with They have been left free to reason it out for themselves. They have seven days more. James W. Tapp could go before the business of Main street and Douglas avenue today and give Flnlay Ross hot race.

He could go before the business men and their clerks and boat him. At tho end of seven days more, some parlies will be surprised. CAMPAIGN ECHOES. Doe Kelly is the most eloquent orator of the opposition this campaign. On election day opposition campaign will be "Tapped," and some of the wind let out of It.

The opposition managers secretly concede now that nothing but bad weather on election day will save them from defeat. Vain hope. Heaven will help those who cannot ride in traps thut day. The campaign badge of the people's candidate for mayor Is a tap, nnd 1,800 of them were sold afternoon. The opposition is talking about getting a button with a picture of a street car with the trolley off.

It Is a somewhat remarkable coincidence that the business done by James W. Tapp In was exact by nr. more than the entire business of tho city. It looks aB If Mr. Tapp was exactly fit for the mayoralty.

Fourteen persons have registered from a house on South Fourth avenue In which only a man and his wife and three pmall children live. A few hun dred houses like that would make Wich ita quite a large clly. The Chicago Post, editorially, tiavs a high tribute to the sentiments express ed by James W. Tupp on municipal government. "We are for Tupp," It says, but we do not suppose we can do him uny good so far away from the scene of his clever fight." The morning contemporary has made James W.

Tapp responsible for the "fast mall outrage," in its own mind. Now it ought to proceed farther and Tirnve Hint ho 1h rv.A embalmed beef outrage and the rebellion In the Philippines. Is there a city council In thin clly? Have they done anything? Flouting campaign literature doesn't Indicate It. It might startle a few unthinking people, but tho fact remains that nn actual majority of the legitimate business men on Main street and Douglas avenue are for Jatrtcs W. Tapp.

CHINA UK I) DIN U. AN KNJOYABUO DINNER GIVEN AT DOUGLAS. At the home of Albert Wakefield at Douglaa, last the lot h. a dinner was given In honrr of Mr. and Mrs.

Wakefield's twentieth wedding finnl-versary. The day was too windy to be pleasant, but nevertheless a large crowd gathered aid ehjoyed themselves In social chat until dinner was called. It was 1 o'clock whn the table wan first filled with gueiits, and relief followed relief until o'clock. The table was spread with abundance of the best of the land. Their friends presented them with a large number of beautiful gifts, amonf? them being many fine china pieces.

The riny was upent pleasantly and the crowd dispersed wishing Mr. and Mrs. Wakefield's futures years to be the happieat of th-lr lives. Who ILis Is 11 of Cit.v Lumber Supplies. SWITCH I Ml HOARDS Upon the lily That Are 3huh C'htapcT Thau Those Provided for In the Cou-tracl.

Yhen Mayor lioss called the city rouneil to order last night Couneilmen Volk, Sutton, lieese. Smith, McLean, Cubban. llen and Gribl answered to roll tall. Gerald Volk exploded the fust bomb by enquiring how much ilr. Uold had paid the city for the services of the fire department in extiiiKuishins fires at the l'ohl packing house's.

The pm king" houses are outside of the city limits and more than once it has been staled tli.it the Dold Packing company had agreed to pay $100 for the of the department every time it was called to the packing house. When the matter was brought to a show down, however, it was fuund that a proposition of that kind had been tub-loitltil to (Icufge Dold and he had to take the matter under consideration. -Mr. Wallace, manager of the Whit-luker plant, said the same proposition had been made to him and that when he reported it to headman i ters in St. Louis, they promptly wrote him to accept it, stating (hat they considered it very lair.

He said his people understood at the lime that Mr. Dold had agreed to the twins. In order lo find nut when! they stood, the cuoneil, by unanimous vote, instructed Clerk Kramer to make out an itemized statement nf account mid pii sent it lor payment to the Dold Tacking y. Mr. IVtre, and also the Ifaker Implement company, asked the council lor the privilege of using a portion of West Douglas avenue in which to material while they are erecting brick blocks.

The request was granted. Councilman Volk seemed lo be in a humor lust night lo inquire. The council had scarcely gotten over the Dold matter when VolU threw another boml in the shape of a chiirge that some parties who had taken a contract to furnish white oak lumber to the city for bridges were mixing it with red oak lumber, which was 'i a thousand cheaper than while oak. Then the whole council became indignant and, for lime, it looked as If Councilman McLean would be thrown out of one of the windows, not because he hud thing to do with furnishing the lumber but just because he is a lumber dealer. The proper committee was directed to pay attention to the lumber and nee that nothing but white oak wus furnished.

Councilman Cubbon restored a good feeding by stating that his committee hud accepted the new city dam at the Sullivan place, nnd that we now have the finest dam in tho state of Kansas. He said that the current of water in the race could now be regulated at the dam. Otto KeUstein appeared before the council last night in the interest of some non-residents whose property had been confiscated for the opening of Indiana avenue from First street to Douglas uvenun. Ho stiid the appraisers bad not allowed the property holders, or his clients, enough. He thought it wus simply a mistake in the report of the reviewers.

The committee on streets and alleys was instructed to Investigate the matter and correct unv mistakes that have been made, An ordinance was passed declaring it necessary to open Wabash avenue from First stnet to Douglas avenue, sixty feet wide, after which the usual appropriations were passed and the council adjourned. SEEING THE LICHT Hl'l CHANGE OF SENTIMENT AMONG THE BUSINESS MEN. A steady current will wear away the rock. A week ago It was said that the business miin's vote was againBt James W. Tapp.

It was. Prejudice Is a peculiar thing. A week ago the politician went around to the business rnati and cracked a Joke about Tapp's Army record. Tho business man laughed. Eight days have gone by and the Jokes about the Salvation Army are out of date.

They are not cracked any because the business man won't laugh at them. The business man has made some Investigations. They have done him good. "Was It right for us to hear religion mocked?" they asked. Then cn of them spoke to the Janitor of the Fletcher block and found thut James Tapp waa the treasurer of the American Volunteers.

Why la he? The constitution of the Volunteeia provides tha.t their treasurer must be (ome trusty business man outside their ranks. The Volunteers knew that James W. Tapp was a good and responsible busi ness man. They asked him to keep their money for them, and he consented. Wouldn't J.

O. Davidson, L. S. Nafts-ger or A. C.

Jobes do the tame The Salvation Army people llk James W. Tapp. Why? They give little suppers occasionally for the benefit of their chnrltable work. He gives them the supplies at cost. It helps them.

He does the same thing They are trying to deceive the people. It is not necessary for them to do it. They ought not to do it for the mere love of deception. Their best policy would bo to state plain facts, because when they do otherwise, they are sure to be caught at it. Now the fact is, the police collections haven't kept on increasing every month as stated.

If they hadn't made these claims, nobody would go to the trouble of looking at the books. It was simply throwing the red rag in the bull's face. A Heacoii reporter went to that ol 1 reliable fountain of information, the back files of the Eagle, this morning for the facts as published in the official reports of the cotineil The report for every month since last September, with the exception of election nionth--Noveniber-list fall were found, and Instead of the police collections showing a "steady increase" they show a steady decrease. They are as follows: September, October, 2.r.l4 (0 December, 1S9S 2,512 45 January, ISM 2.3IH 00 February, 2,226 e0 These are the figures published In tho official published proceedings of the council, and anybody who doubts them can see for themselves. CKOSS DOrCLAS.

MlSSOflU PACIFIC lil'lLDS SOME NEW TRACK. Tho Missouri Pacific has a large force of men at work today building track across Douglas uvenue, east of the Pig river bridge. The llrst thing they did was to cut the strecet car rails and make Ihe con-iiecclion of the sired railway and railroad tracks. The track is luing locat ed oil the east side of Waco. Ihe curve starting short distance from Waco on First street.

The new track will he extended to Ihe point south of Douglas where the new Tnion mill building Is being constructed but it may be built a considerable distance south of that In a slim time. There was a report current on West Dougles today hut Ihe Missouri Pacille was going to secure the grounds on Ihe northwest coiner of Douglas und Wico for a passenger depot, but it could not be traced to any reliable source. This location would give the new depot a south und east front, which would lie desirable. OABTOIIIA. Bears the Kiwi Yoil llai) Boiljjlll nf ANNOUNCEMENT We have opened up with New Store, i New Groceries, Everything bran new.

We solicit your trade. Our prices are riht. i Staple and Fancy Ciio- cciies and Country Pro- ducc. i EAMF.S GROCER CO. Nin th Main St.

cleplioni! 'I I It Is not necessary to puy big price. We are selling beautiful Hats at small price. Call arid see. We will save you money on M'llinrry. If you will call we will no.

bore you, whether yi buy or not. KOHER MILLINERY 137 Noth Main. pTo Have I a Stylish Hat HOT SPRINGS AT HOME THERMAL GATE! CABINET in Iho greatest blessing bestowodi.On humanity in the Nineteenth "for Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Signature of i i-' Albany, N. March 28.

'J'hr? American' Telephone unci Telegraph company of New York today certified to -in Increase of its capital stuck from $25,. 000,000 to $75,000,000. raffle 1 If yon IVct into will biiii our stoic, wt MfJjj ''lly and Mv sZ'f II lrli shoes you eve; iaw li nii. ii. tin mi nil li WfjJ These arc TAPPAN h.

V'T iiikscs rAW tiiiioroii, ana liiry ml. 7il IIHJIC UHV1, than yor. y--s evcr "au cctore. The prices arc vm: wit wonfier how in iht Ladies' Oxfords XewSpriUtfStvIe, 1.00 and I'p Men's Shoes 1.00 Per Pair. il $3.00 Iii2 tl!" lias No Equal, H.

J. ROY, PARLOR SHOE STORE, WICHITA, no North Hain. Successor to McXaubtcn- mam If cleanses the body better, quicker and more thoroughly than any water bath can; Is easier prepared and does away-' with sewerage connections and gases. Mr. .1.

E. Halstead, general manager of the Thermal Vapor liiilh company, of Kansas City, will exhibit the above cabinets and accessories for two or three days at Ruining Howard's drug North Main street, and earn- cstly solicits Ladles, Physicians, Teachers and All Others interested In Hy-; genie llalhing to call and inspect our goods. Our Face Steamer makes the most lively and Peaullful Complexions. All who suiter with Rheumatism, Kidney Affections, Neuralgia, Lumbago, Grip, Malaria, Constipation, Sleeplessness, Skin Diseases, Sick Headache, pepsla, Female Irregularities, 8uppresf fion, Rearing Down Pains, Paralysis and Nervous Exhaustion, are especially Invited to cull und learn the uses and benefits to be derived from tho use of these Cabinets. We sell Quaker, Mollenkorp McHt f'recry Cabinets at each, Robinson Cabinets nt $7.50 and $12.50.

These' Cabinets are advertised In till of tho leading magazines und journals of the world, and many people from Wichiti have written us for descriptions, catalogues, hence we take this opportunity of showing our goods to all In- tcn-sted. Easter Rabbits WILL CLOSE At p. Every Day Lxccpt Saturday. The llu tellers' Protective, association have decided thai all meat markets will close at 7:30 except Saturday. Those who were not present will please take notice and govern themselves accordingly.

Butcher's Protective Association. Closed WOMAN LOVES Oonii jowolry. No JEWELER but what loves to SKI.L gnia jewelry. Tlirough all tho cut arid yln'Mh -arid (loud of cheap trnsli iu 1. upon th'j market dur ing the- past few years we huve closely to QUALITY.

Now the reaction from cheap beun we see more clearly the wisdom of our course and enjoy more thoroughly the sallsl'icllon of handling only Tl'i: IH-T. Slen of ehc 'l ime, VARNEY, Jeweler, XorlU AIulu St. Guitar-Zithers, $6, five cord, in any quantity at THOS. SHAW, 129 North Main St, Bears tta VtS of r.TJ North V11 Street, Wivnitii, Kansas. Seethe Live ROMIG HOWARD, lplle.il Dl UiiglftS.

134 North Main Street. rrmi AUDiTORiun C. W. mttlnjr, Hanaser. CARNIVAL OF MERCHANTS MUSICAL MUSEUM, Wednesday and Thursday Evenings.

MARCH 19 AND 30. Benefit of tho Christian Church 200 People In the Performance. Admission 25 and Children under 10 years 15c. Seats on sale at Pearce's Jewelry store..