The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-07-12

IL is d common sight these days to SCI
the farmers on the r. T. d. routes sit
ting in the shade OF an apple. cherry o.
pear tree reading his morning Eagle o
which there are many hundred. The dal
for the weekly paper has gone glimmer
ing.
1t is a dangerous proceeding 10 sticl
| pins in the ground with wire on them
at the corners of the walks TO keep the
people off the grass. 1 very much doub
the right 10 do such thing. II is &
dangerous proceeding against life and
limb. If you must fence in your corners
build it high and large; make it so that
IT can be seen in the night.
There is a cobbler's shop in this city,
the walls of which are covered with the
most artistic collection of poster pic
lures to be found in the city.
What has become Of that cotton seed,
which you were growing about a week
! ago. Next month. as you stroll along the
streets, under the inviting shade OF these
old trees that arch the streets, l hope
| you will have forgotten the annoyance of
the seed which these trees had dropped in
order to propagate more trees for the
pleasure and use of man. Don't abuse
the cottonwood trees any more.
When l see mothers sittingon the stair
ways and on boxes and standing around
on the streets with their babies. I won
4
a complete rest room, so that these moth
ers with babies, as well as ladies without
children. who come in from other towns
to trade, can have place to rest and wait
in.
l wonder what's the matter with the
editors. Oh, it's awful. The crisis Is
upon usl or its coming. a panic! a crash.
Well, if this southwest country, the great
wheat belt turns off as big a corn crop as
the wheat and oats crop has been, the
crash will be: What shall We do with our
surplus?
The trumpe: creeper grows beautifully
in this climate and blooms all the season
Plant one at the root of your trees ana
train them on them. They make a scrag-
giy cottonwood pretty.
The Eagle Office sent out through the
mail this morning one ton and one-half
Of Eagles-thirty hundred pounds. This IS
Independent Of bundles sent direct to the
trains and by express and the city de-
livery. Tho postage IN the Eagle this
morning lie $50 90. This is the regular Sun
lo,,
eral pounds more a week later.
I see the Colorado surveyor of the Ar
kansas river has, in addition to the in
formation gratuiteusly furnished regard
ing the damage the June rise would do
the city on account of Instructions. also
informed US that no matter what the
court says, shot guns and Winchesters
govern affairs in Colorado. He talks
about farms in Colorado. One has TO |
take a field glass and a guide to find a |
farm in that state. All the land cult |
waited in the whole state of Colorado is |
not as much as one county IN Kansas. |
1t is a barren waste from the state line |
to the mountains. save here and there |
little green spot of alfalfa, a few scrag-
sy cottonwood trees and a little garden |
truck spot. The rest is clay. alkali, |
prairie dogs, ant hills and sage brush.
There is not a farm house and barn
along the Arkansas river worth one
thousand dollars for stretch Of three
hundred miles. The country belongs 10
,attle raisers and should never be used
or anything else.
see a street is to be opened along the
liver from Maple street bridge to Douglas
venue. Why not make Il unanimous by
building it around the bank of the river
o the park?
I don't figure out any very hard times
n this immediate vicinity in the near fu-
ure. Kansas, with her seventy-fve mill
ion bushels of wheat. the greater part
4 it within a radius Of one hundred miles
( Wichita. and an additional forty mil
ION bushels in Oklahoma. within a hun
red and twenty-five miles of Wichita
The completion OF the y. X. G. road.
ompleted with division headquarters.
With the Orient road completed to Kan
as City. and a hundred mills or moro
|
and machine shops. these
wo propositions will add from fifteen
undred to two two thousand population, |
mployes. TO say nothing about the i'm
tense oats and hay crop that we have
lready. Anyone under these circum-
tances. predicting anything but contin-
ed prosperity for the next two or three
ears must have a fat wheel.
II has been three or four days since a
rafter has been 20 town. but the arrival
T one from Des Moines. Iowa. makes up :
,r lost time. \ newspaper with a pos
bile circulation Of 10000 working Wich-
a for a write-up. OF course our city
lckers are hanging around painting for
nance. like fish around an air hole In
le ice. ready 10 be speared: but this Z
roposition is beyond the limit They
.sy be able TO work Missouri and Ar
ansas. but hardly Kansas. and more
articularly Wichita
This town ought 70 have well organ
I'd humane society. During the past
eek. when the Thermometer was stand s
g at IS and 100 in the shade. one could
~ ~ ~ N'N.1 N~it P4loitV anu eis-eAtI
lilwsy pole on Main and Douglas. from
ne 10 two horses refined up and tied
tort most OF them. with no chance 20
eht the flies. sweating. paving and
anting. with the sun beating down on I
lem.
I am glad 70 know that the courts have 7
scided that il the flavor Of the soup Z
ID beefsteak OF the next door neighbor !