The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-02-02
City Regulator
Some Further
Suggestions are Made.

Some Further
Suggestions are Made.
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70 the Editor OF the Eagle:
Get your boats ready, for If il is a fact
that there is from four 10 seven inches OF
snow along the Arkansas river all the
way TO Colorado, when the warm end Of
the south wind reaches it some one is
going 10 get wet.
I don't understand why the Western
Union Telegraph company did not put
up their poles on First street, save dis
lance complication with any other lines,
street railway and drilling through side
walks.
ance policies forbidding the sprinkling OF
floors OF business houses with coal oil.
Conundrum-Why is it that whenever
there is a safe or telegraph or telephone
pole raising on the business streets, that
every woman in sight Immediately
crosses over and crawls under the fence
put UP to keep people away, if she pos
sibly can?
Now that the holidays are over, and
the grafters' exchequer is grinding low,
they are beginning TO sniff the air for
victims preparatory to spending the sum-
mer on the northern lakes. You put up
the plunks-they have the fun.
I have quite a curiosity 70 know how
big Spindle Top, in the oil regions Of
Texas, is anyhow. After receiving a hun
bred or more prospectuses Of gushers on
Spindle Top, and the information that
the company proposes to purchase more
land on Spindle Top, I conclude that ii
must embrace about one hundred square
miles.
would select a committee OF ladies and
gentlemen and give them carte bianch
to burn a lot of the books in the City
library. There are books in that library
that no Christian family Cand when 1
say Christian family mean every family
in the city, would allos theIh TO be
brought into their home Yet they are
read, some of them illustrated, these
Illustrations studied in the library rooms
by the children. Rather than that
library stand as Ii is, it were a thousand
times better that the doors be nailed up
II thee mothers OF this city would call
meeting, appoint a committee TO examine
that library. make list OF Objectionable
books. and report them 10 the Board of
Education, there would De no question
about the bonfire. There are good books
enough TO read. heaven knows.
/ heard fellow knocking at a notO-
neer of the street car the other night,
when the thermometer was below zero.
The poor fellow did his best to stop the
ear on the crossing. so that the man
could get OF without tTamping IN the
snow in order TO reach his big, brilliantly
Illuminated and steam-heated residence
that stood close by. L thought that in
stead of knocking, the graceful thing for
him 10 have done would have been 10
have said 10 the motoneer: stop when
you come back. and I VIII be here with
a pot of good. hot coffee and sandwich
for you.
Z would 20 after these grain speecula-
tors thar manage 10 get a five-dollar op-
sage that the crop is a failure or the
ohinch-bug. the weaysl OF Bulgarian
louise has destroyed the crop.
what a funny proposition for those
fellows who own slot machines, that
play for money. 70 express a horror 81
the dishonesty Of the persons who have
been working their machines with pieces (
OF round steel the size q nickel. II
looks Ike the kettle addressing Itself 70
the pot and accusing II Of being black
The Minnesota river can be damned
and utilized for power fer an electric
railway from Wichita 70 Geuda Springs.
centrally located. What more would a
company waute Every town between
here and Geuda Springs wouid ElFe
bonus Every farmer along The Inter
r71,.re would give a right q way. and
mauy of t1em woald grade CT help ID
grade II. The proposition Is good one.
ard capitalists viii take hold = Il Rhea
properly presented 20 them Bat i
franchise is given 70 parties who have
10 money 70 build *. or no Intention -
building the iine-simply - sell out-then
there will lie 10 read 0uilt- Get the men
vho want q franchise put I'D ten
shousau5-6olia- guarantg. Noaey talks
in The business world
If ozuei either one IL ire e.ectric
iIrlt plants i would add hsass-varmlag
plant % IL. Theirs are q hu1drea houses
~ THIS e,tr whose owners Eoala give
aye hundred dollars PER auuun Tor hat
ae
voail plant tres ard n0N Is ere
tize 70 60 II. 81 zhe Frienls University
grounds. ard Would i4vlte tte frienss q
Tie unlsersily soesaties and o-g41izatie1s
80 pilat memorial and representative
trees ~ thei- respective Organize lles-s.
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metal Ias 81 wtch they ~ ie-
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