The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-07-11
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M. Nj. MURDOCH, Editor
WICHITA As A MUNICIPALITY UP AGAINST 1T.
M. Nj. MURDOCH, (

WICHITA As A MUNICIPALITY UP AGAINST 1T.
Our local readers may have noticed that Wichita has
got the expense another suit for damages.
because. forsooh in providing free attraction for the
public, which attraction in being seQuesered out OF
sight horse went scared jumped into the river and
was drowned. As the years have dragged along and
one administration has succeeded another in directing
the affairs and holding in their fists the destines OF
this city Eagle taken occasion call the atten
ton taxpayer the fact that the building Oh
sidewalks an policy, because some old woman
begging about in the certainly take tumble
whereupcn some asute lawyer getting the fact of
strained ankle would sue the city greater sum
than the lawyer of the strained ankle ever
dreamed Of possessing And SO it become unwise and
dangerous for the city as municipality make i'm
proyements or to afford any comfort, because some
body> in falling all over himself would sraightway sue
the municipality for damages and attorneys fees.
In the last instance it from local report in
The Eagle that somebody's in failing APP
precete free attraction furnished the expense of
the public, all ia a wild frenzy committed suicide by
drowning, whereupon the city is asked by the lawyers
Of the Of the horse put up The city is not
only expected provide attractions cost but TO
pay additional for the privilege Of providing such at
fractions II harse gets scared at the free music, paid
for by The city runs up against tree, planted by
the city for free shelter and smashes vehicle the
city must be sued for damages just the whers
some gawy old ocdger runs his foot into hole in the
sidewalk which was built to keep of the mud. It
Is putatve and exemplary damages and attorneys fees
every time Bridges have built in the park for
the convenience Of the public and add to the attract
iveness Of the resort yet fool horses
in meeting NEEDLE of bridge, should crowd
the other ever into river the city would be called
upon for recompense and an attorneys fee If the
electric light should go unexpectedly in the park and
oafer left in the dark should butt into one of the shade
trees suit for damages and attorneys fees would be
Instituted next day If anybody should attack
of malaria from mosquito bites in the park half the
lawyers in town would holding that there good
grounds for suit against city. The three-leaved
Ivy poisonous to some, is permitted entwine many
trees Of all the parks. Should oafer lettering
pair rub up with the result
of cutaneous eruption, there would remain but
thing to do and that would hunt up a lawyer and
the city.
We protest that nobody with fractions horses or with
any other kind Of horses is compelled to the parks
TO hunt up attractions TO get scared at To hide the
deer they couldn't be would be defeat the
object Of their purchase and maintenance Sidewalks
are walk en- but generally speaking the
expense Of those found falling and then
suing the city for damages. The streets. sidewalks
street cars like utilities traps catch
the pockebook of the taxpayer. the bands will
of children bridges will remain standing the fows
continue be cultivated and the grow and
all free the public though half the skttish horses in
the county should become frightened and jump into the
river and drown The idea notion principle that the
taxpayer through his municipal capacity having gone
the expense and trouble of doing things to make the pub
lie more comfortable and than it otherwise could
be should be sued prosecuted and be made pay for
the caressness of those seeking benefits is mis-
. taken notion ansound principle and
iures ought sit down hard all growing cut Of
the carelessness Of such plaintiffs.