The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-01-17

a good way to clean up a COW pasture
Is to set the dead grass on fire and burn
it off-and have bed of black ashes 10
blow all over the neighbOrhood.
l think one of the most forlorn, IN
kennpt places in the city is on the south
east corner of Topeka and Murdoch ave
nues
And now comes q railroad man and
says Wichita is whining about high fuel.
the high price on coal. and all the blame
rests upon the railroad companies on ac-
count Of high rates; and he cited the
fact that in Kansas City the same coal
that sells here for six to seven dollars
is sold there for $425 to $3.50 and the
Wichita haul is only twenty miles fur
Their. and the rate is prcp0rtionately the
same. He suggests that Wichita people
might examine into local conditions of
the trade; that large Consumers who
ship their own coal are not quarreling
with the railroadsc about the price of
fuel.
The place for wee kids, at night es-
pecially is at home tucked in their little
beds. asleep; not in crowded halls or
churches 1t may be doing the father an
injustice to make him stay at home with
the kids but it is not an injustice to the
kid
l wonGe- if anyone with a grain of bus
iness sense supposes he can increase his
business, more than double ii, without
additional expense for material, labor and
room. Is it not the same in adminstra-
ton of state and municipal affairs? Wich-
ita has made a greater growth in the
last two years commercially than in all
the history OF her existence. Can a coun-
ty that is thickly settled be run on the
same basis AS when sparsely settled?
Time was when there was not a bridge
in the county How many have been built
and how many moro must be built and
maintained? What becomes of a very
large per cent of the money paid out is
it is expended in the city.
/ would plant bulbs and vines along
the west side of the stalls at the club
house. which will serve the purpose of
identifying and keep the building cool
as well
would put lights on the road from
the street car line to the club house
take up MIR. Nelson's plan on the fair
grounds proposition-buy the grounds. re
model the amphitheater. stalls and sheds,
build a good club house. Just what the
Regulator proposed more than year ago.
And establish 4 fair. races and stock
sales and get % per cent on money in
vested. If a proposition of that kind is
carried out on a broad, business-iiiSe
scale. in .wo or three years time the
stock viii be worth dollars instead OF
cents.
1t Is wonder to me that in all this
scramble for advance in wages and high
prices for living that congress does not
SHE its castor into the ring and ask for
a raise They don't seem to be able to
cut down the price on porter house steaks
and mutton chops. Why don't they raise
heir salaries?
I came. / saw and was conquered. is
the story OF many people who come TO
Wichita TO make il their home-'Love
at first sight
One of the CRAFTS recently attempted
on this town was by man who repre-
scented himself as belonging to the pest
office department getting zap rural d. /
livery directory He was so smooth |
mat he worked one of our leading hotels /
for first class room with board and an I
advance of money besides. But when
h undertook TO work the merchants he /.
failed. SO he left owing his hotel bill /
and borrowed money Later a pair of
gentlemen came to town this week who 4
- ht,sfi nd
college by issuing trade stamps to the /
merchants. The college builders Were TO /
circulate and solicit trade for the mer-
chants. who in tCrn would issue trade 4
stamps. pay the college builders FIVE per
cent Of their sales. this money to BE- /
used for the building and equiping ard
endowing the college. We need the in
stitution of learning. The only thing
that seems lacking OF making ii q sue
cess is for the merchants to enter into
the scheme. l suggest that the promoters
Buy the Burton Car Works ard start
the school at once.
Inc way TO get natural gaS is 10 set
It. If the consumers of gas in this city
will put UP one-half the amount that they
pay annually for coal. for piping Of gas
TO their plant, and in return get gas for
from fifteen 10 twenty-five cents paid
back to them on their subscription. and
per cent interest on the advanced I
money besides. Wy then take gas. II
that is the scheme. SO said 10 he and the
company which proposes 10 furnish II
win show the proper good faith in their
proposition. 10 put up bonus and allow
the subscription to be placed in escrew
sntii they have expended the amount sub
scribed in actual work. put me down for
six hundred dollars Parties who claim
to know say that the city consumes an
nually six hundred thousand Tor fuel.
The company only saks a two-hundre6
thousand subscription on an outlay that
VIII cost more than n million dollars
Give US the gas by all means and save
to our manufacturers four hundred thou
sand annually
Whole car loads Of fellows go TO the
oil district at a time and each one fat
tiers himself that he win be it-and 50 in
goes his money for stock in seine com
pany that has bought fifty dollars worth
OF stationery in the shape Of stock eartif-
icates and 4 prospectus and capitalized
at-weli. as long they can hold ,hatr
breath and name figures. And II VIII ali
end IN dry holes and a few derricks when
he excitement is all of. You can count