Wichita eagle., 1889-07-07
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A Chicago man stood on Douglas ave-
nue. in this city on July 4th looking at the
great industrial parade. he turned to me
and said: well. well it is the tin bucket
brigade after all that makes cities
A man who has held an official position
| in Kansas for several years told me a few
days ago that the express companies paid
one dollar a barrel royalty on all the beer
shipped into Kansas as guarantee against
| seizure. If that is SO I would like to hear
some other official rise and state VITO gets
/! the dollar.
There is no use fighting against fate If
the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad
had eight years ago conceded that Wich-
| ita would be great commercial center
and built branch roads from Wichita TO
kingman. Harper and Anthony her stock
would not now be selling for IS cents on
| the dollar instead of 100 cents
| Newt. Miller says his wheat is turning
much better than ne expected; that he
threshed the wheat from little piece OF
| ground about the slzs Of potato patch
and it made two hundred and fifty bushels
OF nice number two wheat l told Newt
that was the best yield that | had ever
known since have been in this state.
| Farmers living south of Wichita are in
the habit Of calling attention TO the fact
that they raise more corn than farmers in
the western part of this county and the
counties west Of this. They concede that
the western territory named can excel in
raising wheat. But il now seems that the
Wichita 81 Western road ships more bags
into Wichita than any other road. There
must be some mistake about this unless
farmers west Of Wichita feed their hogs on
something else besides corn.
\ manufacturer in Wichita said to me
yesterday that there was one thing about
Wichita that he did not like, that a good
many people here would rather buy goods
made somewhere else even If they were in
ferior TO the home made article I told
him that the desire to trade with the for
eigner was an mate principal of humanity
put there by the Creator to bring man up
out of barbarism into civilization. 1t is
that desire in the breast of man that
makes commerce and commerce makes
civilization.
The products OF the Wichita packing
houses will in very short time become
famous on account OF their excellent quail
ity. Live stock shipped a long distance in
common stock cars, if they live through
the ordeal, are in fevered condition and
the meat can not be compared TO that
slaughtered in the center of great live
stock district. Two or three purchasing
houses can be supplied in Wichita with
live cattle, hogs and sheep fresh from
green pastures in not to exceed eight hours
run On the cars,
1t is not an uncommon thing to hear
people remark that the colored race in
Kansas are coming TO the front. l circu-
lated petition in Wichita praying our
county commissioners to call an election
to vote bonds tor the new court house. 1t
was signed by great number of colored
men and only two were found unable TO
write their own names. Some OF the col
ored men in Wichita are valuable citizens,
but they labor under the same disadvant-
age here as in all other parts of the United
States. If one of them does low-down
mean act it is charged to the colored race.
There has been great deal of silly talk
about a gravity system of sewerage not be-
ing sufficient for Wichita. There are
some very good people who are afraid the
new sewer will fail to perform
the work for which it IS in
tended. The old Topeka avenue
sewer has less fail than the new one. But
last week the men who ara constructing
the new sewer damaged one of the
man holes in the old sewer and undertook
to dam the water in it by filling the pipes
with bags of sand Mr.. Sullivan says when
the sewer filed with water the large bags
of sand were washed out like pine chips.
4 st. Louis man said the other day that
he can not understand how Kansas got
through IN such good shape when her
farmers have had two short crops. | told
him the reason was that a short crop in
Kansas was equal to a full crop in great
many other states. There was great
kick about our short crop of grain last
year, and yet Kansas shipped millions of
bushels of grain to other states Dold
packed nearly a hundred thousand
hogs since last December all fatteued on
southern Kansas corn, and he did not get
more than one fourth of the hogs
within radius Of fifty miles Of Wichita
Yes we had great failure OF crops last
year.
Since Wichita succeeded in getting rail-
road rates on the same basis a. Missouri
river towns, it seems 10 me that all Kan
sas is beginning TO walk with independent
strides. The state of Kansas has in for
mer times been mere tail TO the Mis-
souri, river kite, but now the tail has dis
covered that it is somewhat of kite itself |
However, we viii continue to send to
Missouri for few copies of
the Kansas City Times. We /
cannot allow our commercial interests TO I
conflict with our religion And now since /
the editor has gone home and Will not /
have the supreme satisfaction Of running 4
his pencil through any part OF this column. /
viii just state that the Kansas City /
Times is one of the favorite papers that al /
ways finds place on the EAGLE editor /
table. Newspaper editors fire some dread 1
full charges at each other, but / long since 1
discovered that they laugh about il when /
they meet, and If anybody's digestion IS |
interfered with by getting mad II IS their |
readers.