The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-01-04
SHORT STORIES OF. HOME PEOPLE


how rapidly this country is growing" said
Judge Granger of the National Bank of
Wichita the other day.
Il was thirteen years of age in lsAS
when my parents moved from Ohio 10
McHenry county. Illinois. AT that time
Chicago did not seem to be half as good
a town as Wichita and X did not seem
to have as good as prospect OF making
a large i city as Wichita does now. At
that time Illinois was new country
and this part of Kansas was regarded
as part OF the great American desert
.-All of US old timers IN Illinois and
Kansas might have been rich IL we had
known how the country would grow. To
say that this country will have 15e mil
lion of people by the middle of the CEN
fury. in my opinion. would be e very con-
sentative estimate. The property will be
worth good deal more then than Il is
now. There is just as good an opportun-
ity now TO make money by the growth
of the country as there was nifty years
ago. only il takes more money now to
make it than it did then. People VINO are
Investing in real estate are wise if they
hold onto il. For the fellows who are
selling il Will get left
- have lived a good deaf among the
Indians sail Eli Moore. livestock In
spector for the Texas CattIemen's associ-
alton of Texas. at the Union stock yards
the other day. and l just want to tell
you that they are good deal better peo-
pie than they are given credit for.
Il have bee nmost with the Conan
ches and L can talk with them pretty
We'll The Indians are not treacherous
and / made their friendship by always
telling them the truth. The Indian can
tolerate thief but liar they have
no use for ON earth The Comanches
have no if in their language and that
sometimes caused me TO have i misun-
Outstanding with them
I'VE used TO drive beves into our cattle
camp and butcher them. We would hang
up the carcass and cut off the meat 10
fry and the Indians would always want
the bones To bell and make soup. That
caused me good deal of trouble.
could never make them understand that
they could have the Def bones. but II
some Of the Red Horses band or some
other Indians came first | could not re-
fuse to let them have the bones because
they would not be friends OF mine any
longer if did that. j could never make
them understand that they could have
the carcass if they came first They could
not understand that if.
IF a Comanche tells you he will come
TO your camp next Sunday he means
TO come; there is no doubt about 1t. He
would come if there was a terrific biz
zard at the time and If your promise to
come 10 his camp at some time and say.
il il does not storm, he cannot under
stand that and says, will you come. He
either says yes or no and there are
never any conditions TO his promises.
The Indians. as a rule. are confirmed
gamblers and l never knew but one who
refused TO pay gambling debt l have
seen them lose their fine riding ponies
at cards. They would ask for the pony
TO ride home and would return it TO the
gambler who had won. ] knew one young
Comanche who lost his pony at cards
and borrowed it to ride home and re-
fused to return it. The man who won IL
went to the Indian camp for the pony
a
giving d mare and yearling colt for the
pony. The Indian said it was the only
good riding pony he had and he could
rot let il go. but the mare and colt he
gave was worth more than the pony.
Expert gamblers get big part OF the
money paid TO the Indians b. the gov
ernment.'
If you will spare the time TO visit
the board of trade some day you will
find number Of men seated in big arm
chairs reading the market reports
they are placed ON large blackboard
by the telegraph operators. This IL the
speculative markets of grain. provisions
and stocks. Traders can either buy or
sell and If the market goes their way
they make money and IL il goes against
them their margins are eaten up and
they lose.
The old Spectator in options can al
ways recognize the tenderfoot on the
board of trade. The tenderfoot Is very
positive in his convictions az to the
course the market is going to take He
can give reasons for his faith which
cause the old timers TO smile. Maybe.
he wins for time and then more than
ever he has confidence in his own judg-
n,ent and he trades to the limit OF hts
capital and when his luck fails ne is
a busted community and even after that
he will hang about the market To give
other fellows pointers. He sees chances
to make thousands IL he just had the
money to back his judgment
An old timer who has made "A good
man ythOusand dollars buying and selling
ing Wichita real estate. and who occa-
sionaIly takes a plunge In the option
business said the other day that men
who did not have cent 10 invest we're
always seeing big chances to make some
money and h said they were more often
right than otherwise IN their predictions
about the future OF the markets. lie
could only account for il in the fact that
caution was not one OF their traits be-
cause they had nothing TO lose.
in every form OF speculation he sa;t.
where there is 4 chance 10 make big
prosits, there - also n chance to lose
and FOR that reason the conservative.
sensible man ever invested an amount
Of money ~ speculation thst would ruin
or cripple him II be lost. The farmer
il more 81 sVecuiator than the neT-
chant when he stofss his grain Cor
higher prices ~ j. q Spectator alid when
he buy cattle or hogs 10 eat his corn
he Is srecuiating because he il taking
chances on the future 81 the markets
-.scr1e people imagine that fev large
dealers run the Erain markets Up or
observed that. these large oper@tOrs' sc-
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