The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-04-03
City Regulator
Makes Suggestions as to
How to Build a Wichita.


The difference between railroads pros
pective, the benefits accruing 10 the city
in their completion is always the para
| mount question. The condition of the
country through which the roads are TO
traverse. what will the country produce
and what are it's possibilities for growth
and development. a railroad built from
Wichita southeast to Fort Smith would
pass through an undeveloped country
that will in the next ten years prove to be
one of the ,narvels of growth and wealth.
1t will produce, corn, wheat, cattle. coal
and timber. II is one OF the opportunities,
If Wichita will secure q road through
this undeveloped country.
/ am wondering the while that congress
or the attorney general of the United
States don't go after the self-confessed
polygamists and bring them onto the
carpet. instead of abusing Reed Smoot.
who is a son of polygamous wife, was
taught to believe in the doctrine in his
religious teaching. and with all these
environments mas not practiced it.
scriber to communication addressed to
the business department of this Office.
who, no doubt, has spelled down every
body in the school district. wants to know
If we don't want TO 'imploy' some one
who can spell"
1 suggest to the score or more OF people
who have addressed the City Regulator
through the mails about dogs that they
talk to their councilman. We know OF no
remedy for preventing your neighbor 5
dog from taking full possession of your
lawns during the night. scratching and
tearing your freshly made and planted
flower beds ali to pieces. in addition to
sitting under your window one-half Of
the night beying at the moon. OF course.
flowers are a nice thing TO have. so is
a good nights sleep; but neither as desir-
able as a yelpng cur. to howl al night.
chase carriages. street cars and squirrels
in the day time.
l reaG in the Eagle that a gentleman
living south of town short distance pro-
poses to bore for oil and gas on his farm
and wants some assistance. 1t would be
an easy matter to make a thorough test.
as one has never been made in this i'm
mediate vicinity yet. a popular sub
scription could be made. asking that each
owner of a home in Wichita give one
dollar There are six thousand homes
In the event that oil or gas. or both, were
found. the value of each one of these
homes would become enhanced twenty
five per cent Immediately. Who would
not give one dollar 20 reach that result
Ind ii would make ready sale for the
property al this increased valuation. The
Eagle will furnish a thirty-five horse
power engine and & fifty horse power
boiler to a properly organized and
equipped company that will secure an ex-
pert man 10 handle the work. 10 give the
matter a thorough test A few days since
parties at Emporia commenced boring
for oil and on reaching a depth Of sec feet
struck vein OF coal three and one-half
feet thick For forty year, the people
Of that town have been living on coal
mine and hauling their fuel In on the rail-
roads ana wagons VIII we do the same
thing or worse. or go out on the bluffs
east or northeast Of the city. in Kechi
township. along the line Of the Rock
IsJaud road between the city and Furley.
and make : find?
New York. ST Louis and Galveston have
repeatedly declared that Wichita Is The
great wheat center q the golden belt
and as such should be recognized. But
the railroads cannot see q. because KAN
sas City won't have it The tine is con-
h.. ha-e han h. rzfi
in Kansas viii wish they never had heard
az Kansas City. Two managers and an
attorney for a railroad. IN a discussion
over rates with grain shippers n Kan
ss< admitted that they could not give a
tust!nable reason for the rates tia; they
made for Kansas On grain. coal and lun-
her but could do II and saw no reason
81 the prsssa; tire why they should
change.
An Usage grange hedge fecee around q
lot IN tovn IS rot Il Eocd form. Eor
viii admit but hedge sence. growing.
sn-arclIrg. Spreading hsif way over tas
Sidewalk + better form THAI Gre CT down
and allowed to lie IT heaps along the
sidewalk
I wonder how many little children sho
are having a Jolly tine over thssr E&sse-
esrs ihfs morning have thought & ths
crowd ~ little orphans 80 thes- home o,
tire hi
= seg years siacs the farmers q Kan
szx es7 tsrss OF tEesr financial ce-ss1isscns
ard the constant. persistent squeeze ~
the railroads On grain. coal AID is-nse'
rates. They sought a remedy through q
political uoaesval wnseh spread through