The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-12-04
MAKING A BIC KICK
People Protesting Against
Action of Orient
IN LOCATING SHOP STE
Outside of the Corporation
Limits of Wichita.

The Peerless Princess is kicking on that
/ Orient shop site. She wants the road and
the shops but she doesn't want 10 en-
creach any farther upon her agricultural
territory 20 get them. She wants shops
at Wichita and not at Haysville or Peck.
That. at least. is the sentiment Of the
the people. The kick is generaI-it is
unanimous.
The kick is this: The city voted 5000
TO have the shops located inside Of the
corporate limits Of Wichita. The Orient
company, in a round about way, has Sc
lected a site outside of the city limits.
That is a violation Of the contract. The
county voted $1,000 10 get the road. Tack
ed onto the county proposition was the
provision that the shops should be within
the corporate limits of Wichita. The clear
expressed understanding and win Of the
entire county and city was that the shops
should be located within the corporate
limits
But" says one, the city viii take in
the site as located. ana then the shops
VIII be within the city limits and the pro-
vision referred to in the proposition will
then be complied with. This does not
satisfy the people and it is useless and
foolish 10 pretend that it does.
oh, SAYS another disguised citizen,
1T doesn't make any difference, the road
isn't going to be built, anyway"
Talk like this is based on an Associated
Press dispatch from South McAlester
saying that the Pierce syndicate which
has large interests ia the Frisco is nego-
tiating with Mr.. Stillwell for the Mexican
end of the Orient with a view TO abandon
ing the American end. 1t is scarcely pos
sible that there is any merit in this dis
patch. The fact that the story comes
from South McAlester is, in itself, sus-
pieious. It is probably a pipe dream
drawn by some romancer for dull day
story.
Every indication points to active work
behind the proposition are said TO have
already spent more than s2o00,oo0 on the
enterprise and to have more than s., 100000
in sight. They should be given a fair
chance and the probability is that every
thing will come out all right.
That Wichita Is, TO some extent, losing
confidence in the building OF the Orient
road there is no doubt and this is prob
ably due to its attitude towards the peo-
pie in the matter of the shop location. It
is probable that If the men behind the
Orient would take the citizens of Wichita
into their confidence more. and try to
please them better that they would be
more friendly towards 1t and more hope
full that it would redeem it's promises. 1t
might at least announce publicly what IS
known privately and that is the location
of the shop site. That il should do so
was clearly contemplated in the PROPOSE
ton submitted to the people and upon
which representation they voted bonds
in aid of the road.
reporter for the Eagle asked a great
many people yesterday what was their
feelings with reference to the shop site
selected and not a single person approved
of it.
Fred Robertson Of the Hartford IN
vestment company. said: 81 want to see
those shors located in Wichita; Sedgwick
county has already got too many things
that Wichita paid money for
Ben Aldrich said: 'All this Orient
is queer. The policy OF the Orient
is pursuing reminds me of that
man Church who proposed TO build
street railway here. lie was doing re-
markable things on paper. but nowhere
else. Those people ought to he showing
up some money and doing little business
in Wichita"
George steele: 1--WE voted bonds for
shops in Wichita and not for shops down
in Delano or Waco township or wherever
that place is that they have selected.
They are monkeying with the people of
Wichita. We don't want to build up any
other towns around here. We voted for
those shops 20 be IN Wichita as il now
exists and not as il may exist in the
future.
George Mathews said: THE whole thing
is a nuisance. I am in favor OF not Civ
them any bonds at all"
Sentiments like the above were express
ed by practically everybody in town