The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-07-23
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M. M. MURDOCH, Editor.
wlcHlrA sYMPArHIzEs WITH TopEKA.

WICHITA sYMPATHzEs WITH TOPEKA.
The preserving and picking works of Otto Kuehne
at Topeka is going to Kansas City for one rea
SON. among Others Of more favorable freight rates al
Kansas City The Capital in bewaiIing the loss Of fac
tory not only as factory but as buyer Of home farm
productions and the loss of 100 working people asks
what is Topeka going do about it?" Taking 1t tor
granted that it is directing its question to the Eagle
as the great of supply when it comes to the SOW
ing Of material financial political and religious CUES
tons we answer nothing. Topeka can't do anything
Otto Kuehne is the fellow who is doing the doing as
sisted more probably brbed by Kansas City. That hog
at the mouth Of the and domnator Of railway traf
fc managers stole through bribery yeast factory from
Wichita once At another time tolled of spice ana
coffee mills enterprise Their heightened board OF bum
ers known as the Commercial Club, sent its emssaries
70 Wichita for series of and induced three
wbolesaling outfits to move to Kansas City Thank
heaven. none of them ever did well as in Wichita
two of them busting up later. AS the Capital means
forth this freight rate question is complicated one,
and hard of solution 1t is not one relative tonnage
facilities or competition It's largely ehicanery. big
iron architectural foundry works few years ago was
forced to move from Wichita Cincinnati Ohio. be-
o difference II
of this foundry which was first class freight mar
keted principally in Old Mexico New Mexico Arizona
and South California and the Santa Fe handled practi
cally the entire product yet its management let the
enterprise go away beyond it sreach rather than make
the necessary coal Topeka gets southern lumber
hauled right through Wichita, at cheaper rate than
Wichita This city went before the railway manage
Ients time and again. it brought suits before the state
railway commissioners and appealed then several times
to the Interstate Commerce Commission all TO little
no purpose As for anything else Topeka can be sure
that it has lost pcery good did Wichita her
yeast factory And that great yeast made by the
Wichita yeast factory old cow it is said got into
Wichita kitchen and ate up green silk umbrella, and
at the same time got hold of a cake of that Wichita
yeast and the yeast raised the umbrella and killed the
cow her carcass being sold later to Kansas City
factory But for the of Wichitas distance from
Kansas City together with the advantages of Wichita
environment as a natural center Kansas City WOULD
have stolen our packing and stock yards, and
mills and grain elevators one Of which Wichita stole
from Kansas City originally Dold the biggest sin
gle loss Kansas City suffered Wichita still has
some complaints fled and some suits pending before the
Interstate Commerce Commission but the hands of that
court are so tied up that Wichita depend
upon her own rapidly growing ability fight Ter own
freight battles. OF Wichita is much
Of railway center than Topeka having fur trunk
lines three branches independent lines additional
and ranscontinental Orient Of construc-
ton nevertheless and spite of her superior railway
facilities Wichita sympathzes with Topeka in her pickle
trouble