Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-07-16
OUR ST. LOUIS LETTER.

Proposed Extension of the City Limits-A
Campaign Against Small Dairies-A Mil
lion Dollar Lawsuit.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, July 1.-THE approach of
city campaign has brought about lively
discussion of the financial condition of st.
Louis. Money Is wanted for new public
buildings that are contemplated. The city
cannot run into debt and cannot increase its
taxation without q vote of the people, and
everybody understands that a proposition to
do either of these things would be beaten at
the polls by the taxpayers. So movement
Is on foot now to increase the city limits, and
take in about twenty square miles of rich and
populous suburban settlements to the West.
It is claimed that the taxes from this source
would give the city all the revenue it needs to
carry out its plan of public improvement.
now till the election, and it may be an issue
in the spring campaign for the election of q
Mayor.
The big and little diaries of the city are
fighting over a new milk law, the most thor
ough ever proposed in this city, which is row
pending in the Assembly. The system of in
spection which the bill contemplates is SO
rigid that it will drive out of business the
many little dirty diaries in the city, that
make money by selling impure milk, and
they are moving heaven and earth to kill the
bill. If the bill passes it will put into opera
ton complete system of food inspection
that will include every article of food used on
the table. Milk Inspector James E. Sullivan
makes telling argument for the bill by
drawing from the records of infant mortality
in the health Office. Children fed on impure
milk die of marasmus most often. Inspector
Sullivan shows that since milk inspection was
begun here, five years ago, the deaths from
marasmus have decreased so per cent. He
argues, of course, that the better the inspec-
ZION tho life Of mora chill will ho eovo1
The great diaries of the city, whose reputa-
ton depends on the quality of their milk, are
doing all they can to pass the bill, and rid
themselves of the comparatively irresponsible
competition of the smaller dairymen.
We are going to have very interesting
Smith sold Washington Park to the city years
ago for $25, 900, he stipulated that 1t was to
be used forever for the purposes of public
square. Tho city is now building city hall
on the site of the park having cut down the
trees, and has already spent about quarter
of a million on the structure. Now the heirs
of Mr.. Smith, most of whom live in Texas |
and Kentucky, come to the United States |
court claiming not only large damages be- |
cause the city has diverted the park from the |
use to which it agreed to put it, but also the |
park itself. The park Is now worth million |
dollars. Good lawyers say the heirs have an |
excellent case, but the city lawyers of course
building of the hall will proceed, too. and by |
the time decision is obtained the edifce |
will be finished. Then, if the heirs win the |
suit, the city will simply hand them over the |
money the park is worth.
Experiments in new kind of weather sig
mailing are to be tried soon in the agricul- |
tural country which depends on st. Louis for |
forecasts. Chief Signal Officer, Mark w. |
Harrington, is not at all satisfied with the re-
suits obtained from the system of distrbut- !
ing signals by means of mandatory and
factory whistles. 1t seems that they are con-
founded with the whistles used for other pur-
poses, and often pass unnoticed by the people
for whose benefit they are set out. The
weather officers here have been informed that
Chief Harrington intends to introduce silver
whistles for transmitting the signals. He
links they give out purer, rounder tone,
lust as loud as the sound from the other whis-
les, and easily distinguished from them.
The first experiments In this part of the coun
ny with the silver whistle will be made in
he large farming towns of Missouri and
illinois.