The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-12-13
City Regulator
Makes Suggestions as to
How to Build a Wichita.
no the Editor Of the Eag,e

TO the Editor Of the Eagle
There are one hundred and sixty thou
sand employees in the postoffice depart
ment. About one dozen of thess have
been implicated in fraud. That is fine
showing. Guess our letters mailed are
still safe.
Squirrels getting so vicious that they
attack the women and children on the
streets? L wonder why they don, b4te
the men. too. 1 recommend as precau-
tionary measure that all hands ill their
pockets with peanuts, walnuts, chestnuts,
Uneeda biscuit, Usage orange apples, and
~hei. they make thsir, fer cious onslaught
feed them. % course there are people SO
nutty that the Squirrels will bite them if
they get a chance.
Now that eminent scientists are Ovid
ed about the sun spots and the cracks in
the moon, what will we do? who is go
Ing to settle it? just as like as not come
scientific man viii up and declare that
the man in The moon is a mistake
would advise that the folks put no ere
dence in the story and continue to pull
down the blinds.
Observant persons have discovered that
the pesky English sparrows are growing
beautifully less in our city each success
siye year for the past three years, while
the other birds are growing more numer-
Gus. The sparrows particular enemy is
the noisy, garrulous blueiay, that VIII
not only rob their nests of the eggs but
feast on their lodgings. So. too. the
4l,r <.T ri.
Wiehita,s benevolent people ought to
keep pace with the outside world by or
ganizing sunshine club.
wonder if this is true. which appear
ed as an Associate Press dispatch. If it
is. Wichita had better buy that road. She
could do it easily with the surplus saved
on the present prices paid for coal:
Enid o. r, Nov. 21-The Denver. Enid
and Gulf railroad. recently completed be-
tween Guthrie and Enid, is proving an
eye-opener to the people of Enid, who
claim they have been paying several
prices for coal on account of excessive
freight rates. The Denver. Enid and
Gulf is now laying down coal in Enid ar
$50 a ION, receiving it in Guthrie from
TIE Fort Smith and Western, which hauls
the coal from the Spiro country in In
dian Territory The Denver, Enid and
Cuff also receives McAlester. coal at
Guthrie from the Fort Smith and Western
and pats it in Enid at s. per ION cheaper
than all competitors.
That was clincher in Attorney Kos
Harris address of welcome to the i'm
p.ement men at their convention recon-
mending their combined efforts to move
the freight basinE line two hundred and
twenty-five miles further west.
What a handsome job of grading has
been done on North Seneca street Please
make the job perfect either by covering
II the balance of the way with crushed
stone or cinders. all the way to Douglas
avenue, and. when The asphalt paving is
completed to the university we will have
beautiful drive through the park down
Seneca to the university. and avoid the
traffic of the avenue and the overcrowded
bridge.
I read aEprescription in the Eagle for
left-handed people. What's The differ
ence? The time was wher the human
race used their left hands as much and
with the Same alacrity as their right So.
too. did they wag their cars backward
and forward to catch sounds, the same as
the animals do. CITY REGULATOR.