Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-07-20

More real estate changes hands here in a
day than in indianapolis in month. But
it is healthy kind of speculation. You
remember how il was in our ''kiting" times
in 1928? If you don't. do, TO the tune
of good many thousands Then we paid
| a sixth or a tenth down, and the balance TO
run from six TO ten years. 1t Is still run
ming. Chicago .'options" were very respect
able compared with our methods, in those
| delightful days when one invested as few
/ hundred dollars, and grew fat ON east
wind Jay Cooke stuck his finger into
or bubble. and il vanished into the thin
nest kind of air. Speculation here Is more
nearly on a cash basis. Buyers hardly ever
pay less than one-half down and many
sales are made for all money in hand.
Wont the Wichita bubble burst:' |
think not How can IT, when people from
the east flock this way ls pigeons flock 10 a
roost! Capital is dumped into Wichita
| like Goals from hind end of cart.
Houses are being erected by the hundred.
many OF them massive business blocks.
More than five hundred have been
built this year. at cost OF
nearly million and a half
of dollars New railroads are pointing this
way. Bonds TO aid in the construction of
Il
proposition for fourth will he submitted
in few days Ii will carry without a
doubt. and the time is at hand when our
goodly city of indianapolis will have 10
look 10 her laurels is a railroad CITY In
situations of learning are being located here
Ii has been settled by the Christians that
the Garfield University shall come TO Wich-
tia. The Catholics have made this place a
''see" The Presbyterians have Lewis Col
lege under way, and other denominations
are selecting grounds on which TO build.
So YOU see that the Wichita boom is not all
wind Speaking of wind reminds that |
must say a word in regard to the climate.
The mercury climbs to very giddy heights
in Wichita during the months of July and
August, but the heat is SO tempered by the
constant and gentle zephyrs that when your
trusted thermometer indicates 100 degrees
in the shade, YOU would think it was only
50 or So degrees. The evenings and nights
are perfectly delightful. How | do pity
those poor sweltering specimens OF human
ity. back east. who lie awake of nights
probably spread out over the floor; fight
ing mosquitoes, and tanning themselves with
IA big palm leaf, while am snugly tucked
in, under the beautiful warmth
giving tack" Gentle reader you want
to 90 TO Wichita as a summer resort.
Docs prohibition prohibit Well.
presume it does-in spots. But this doesn't
happen to be one of the spots We are
in Wichita something like the Maine poll
tician-'' in favor of the law, but agin its
enforcement" We have Joints" oil over
the city, believe that's what they are call
ed, and many of our drug stores are like
the fellows gun-more dangerous at the
breecb than at the muzzle The average
drug store shoots both ways at once. We
don't have open saloons They are gener-
ally locked saloons; and VIC carry the keys.
Prohibition, without strong public senti-
ment to enforce the law, simply means
free whisky" There is no grand jury
system in this state, and the execution of
the law depends largely on the whims of
prosecuting attorneys Their whims don't
always lead them in the way of law and
order But taking the state over, the sen
strong, and the party opposing it stands |
health?' Well, | have been here
more than three months. and
have not yet seen funeral procession on
the streets | don't know how they
started their graveyard. About the only
objection can find to the people of Wich |
tia is that there is IA little too much of 1.-THE |
ID take the hindmost' spirit. But this |
viii regulate itself 1t probably grows out !
of the disposition to speculate and get rich |
in few days There is fully as much in
telligence in Kansas, on the average, as any |
other state in the union, and if any one /
goes west with the idea that he is going /
among a set Of ''yahoos, he will find that /
he is barking up the wrong stump.
| advise my friends 10 come and see this /
glorious country for themselves 1t is II /
delightful trip TO come by the "old reliable"
Nandalia the Missouri Pacific and the Fort 4
Scott and Wichita roads, You leave Iudi /
annapolis at IL o'clock, noon, and ar
rive in this wonder of the west
at 6 O'Clock the next evening On this route
you will find everything pleasant aS well as
picturesque. nnd my old friend. Charles
i. Rector. formerly of Bedford, here as di-
vision passenger and freight agent for the
Fort Scott and Wichita road He is a live
Hoosier, and model railroad man In
fact, the country is 50 full OF Indianians that
their feet almost stick out of the windows.
The Journal reaches here every evening,
and find il almost like letter from home.
For me il is THE best paper in the world,
and think that is the general verdict.
JONI Il. GLOVER.