The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-12-01
KANSAS CITY RAILWAY ROW.


Kansas City has got railway hand That
town in attempting down grain situa-
ton declares that elevator people Disseminated
against Kansas City through the connivance of railway
homogeneous and the bias of the Interstate
Commission, has been, for years forcing the bulk of
Kansas and Nebraska grain into through her gates
toilng and other purposes The have been
arranged that wheat grown in southwest Kansas and
destined for Europe via a Galveston consignment sold
to southern milers forced hundred miles north
to Kansas City before being permitted forwarding to des
tination. The decision of the Interstate Commerce Com
mission in the Wichita rendered the other day is in
the interest Of such cheaper long haul against
direct short haul imposed with a higher rate Omaha
has been for years victmzed by the City rail
way, grain and live combine just Wichita has
been Only last week Omaha road attempted stand
by its market in giving Omaha wheat consgnments
shade Minneapolis Kansas City. But
the Omaha road has been called down and forced to
back water
But time circumstances must regulate and adjust
enforced and conditions Wichita instance
is the great wheat of Kansas every sec
ton of which belt reached directly by rail- from this
point AS soon, therefore, Wichita equipped
with the necessary elevator and storage facilities and
the increased milling privileges which her wheat
roundings Wichita will either be accorded an
equitable proporonate with her tonnage or other
wise river railway combine and the Kansas
City, Missouri, navigation spookers will find them
selves in the United States supreme with the fight
Of their lives hand
It poor rule that doesn't work both ways Kansas
City claims and is accorded much lower per
ton mile Indian Territory than is Wichita
other cities of about the distance from said
fields and on the plea showing that City is
situated in coal field of her and therefore the
accord low coal rate otherwise lose tonnage
Wichita wheat producing district which Kansas
City is Why apply the wheat rule to Wichita
along the line for the the rate is ac-
corded Kansas City? Wichita is in the midst a live
stock section country. City is Why un-
der such freight rule should City be accorded
rate advantages over Wichita cattle and hog fields?
Then there is that finding of the Interstate Com,
Commission the southern lumber rate. During
the sittings of that commission in this city while the
lumber rate up for hearing the manager of of
the trunk lines running through Wichita acknowledged
the under OATH Wichita had been and was
still Disseminated against basis of her ton
mage and her shorter distance the southern mills
And yet that commission instead ordering the dscrm
ination wiped adjusted talked of the greater
petition at the favored points knowing the time that
there is lumber being hauled and distributed
from Wichita than at Topeka at Beatrice and Lin
coin Nebraska. combined. which places hundreds of
miles of longer haul have lower rate southern
lumber than Wichita
And yet Notwithstanding all the concessions of ad
vantages accorded Kansas City every distributing
market center, common point in the the
SAINT howl heard up there ever that she is being
eliminated against while every time a train ovheat
destined for gulf ports train live stock going
to Chicago if first consigned to Kansas City her
papers throw several kinds of fits