The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-05-10

PENDANTS. Rocky Ford IS distanced from
Wichita 407 miles by the Santa Fe rail-
road. while Kansas City is 4 miles far
Their away. yet Wichita pays 52iz cents
per hundred pounds in car load lots, while
Kansas City. gets her sugar for > cents
per hundred pounds Arkansas CITY
which is g miles farther from Rocky
Ford than Wichita. gets sugar for the
same price as Wichita.
The distance from Sugar City TO Wichita
via the Missouri Pacific IS A14 miles, 20
Kansas City 583 miles. TO St louis SO
miles, and to Fort Scott 562 miles. ST
Louis is more than twice the distance
from Sugar City that Wichita IS. yet
St Louis PAWS only 80 cents per hundred
pounds. while Wichita pays SZ1a cents
Kansas City PAYS only 3 cents Fort
Scott pays only 2 cents. In regard 70
this, the complaint says.
That notwithstanding the favorable
situation of Wichita, with reference TO
distance 10 Rocky Ford, and It's relative
81 favorable distance 70 Sugar City, and
although. by the aforesaid routes, ship
ueuts from Rocky Ford via the Atchison
Topeka and Santa Re railway 70 Kansas
City. end although shipments from Sugar
City. Colo via the Missouri Pacific rail-
way 10 Fort Scott pass through Wichita,
defendants published rates are such.
And then:
That IL cases where such traffic from
Rocky Ford TO Kansas City pass through
Hutchinson and Newton, and IN cases
where shipments are made from Sugar
CITY to Fort Scott through Wichita, said
charges constitute greater compensation
IN the aggregate, for the transportation
Of Ike kind Of property, under subsCan-
z.auy similar cireunstsu noes and condl-
tio1s- for the shorter distance from
ROCKY Ford TO Hutchinson and Newton
and from Sugar City 10 Wichita, than
fer the longer distance over the same
mes, in the same direction from Rocky
Ford 10 Kansas City and from Sugar City
10 Fort Scott; the shorter lines being in
Guided within the longer distance, IN vlo-
IaJion Of section 4 of said act.
In the complaint against the discrimina-
ton Of rates On lumber, - railroads are
made the defendants. Wichita rs STU
ated nearer 10 Camden, Ark. than kan
sas City by so miles, get she has 70 pay
2S5s cents per hundred pounds for lumber,
~ hile Kansas City pays 3 cents Omaha
Ne5. is - miles farther away from
Camden than Wichita, yet Omaha pays
only % cents. and Lincoln pays =
cents This is over the Frisco. From
points in Texas, Wichita has 10 pay 81
cents more on the hundred pounds than
Kansas City CT Omaha, yet she IS nearer
these Texas points by q hundred miles
The same IS true from points II Louis
lana.
The last and fourth case IS made
against the Illinois Central. the Kansas
City, Fort Scott and Memphis. the Frisco
the Santa Fe the Gulf, Colorado and
Santa Fe. and the Rock Island 1t IS So
miles from New Orleans 10 Wichita, and
Wichita pays 95 cents per hundred
pounds Tor bananas shipped from tha'
point. while Denver. which is l.530 miles
from that point. pays the same rats
kars2s City IS only 6S miles nearer than
Wichita. yet she pays only b cents The
same discrimination holds true when tne
bananas are routed through Fort Worth
The complaint says here:
THAT Notwithstanding that shipments
Via Fort Worth from New Orleans &c
Kansas City, Omaha and Denver, wher
routed via Fort Worth, pass through
Wichita. the defendants published rate
stated ABOVE apply 70 shipments mac'
via Fort Worth.
That on a mileage basis, Wichita
should pay on bananas from New or
leans: IS compared with Kansas City
81 cents: as compared with Denver, .
cents: as compared with Omaha, 81 cents