Las Vegas daily optic., 1906-12-15
LAS VEGAS KICkERS
AIR GRIEVANCES
What q Reporter Hears on His Rounds
About Town, In the Way Of Com
plants, Would Fill Volumes.

II has been said tbat strenuous
kicker In a community Is as good as
a booster The Optic accumulated
quite few kicks today. some are legit-
innate, some are not. but the reader Is
left TO Judge for himself Of the follow
Ing:
One man kicks ON the number Of
elections held. He says: why not
have but one election covering all the
city. town and county Offices
Another man says that the streets
In both town and city are not snfn'
ciently lighted,
Too many trolley. telephone and
telegraph poles are allowed on our
main thoroughfares." says another. III
they continue TO increase al the rate
they have In the last year. they Will
soon shut out the light from the shop
windows he said.
Talking about obstacles on the side
walks" said a man. rubbing his Shins.
did you ever pass by the Baptist
church after dark and try to turn the
corner toward the street? Well. !
did Just now and itli cost me fifty'
cent bottle Of llnlment besides the pain
and maybe several hours loss from
work tomorrow lie said there were
A number Of useless posts stuck
around the edge OF the walk, which
stand about two feet high. and It was
a wonder no one had injured himself
more severely.
Another man made complaint about
the boys at the Douglas avenue school
who were I'm the habit OF playing
crack the whip" In which all the
boys join. with some little fellow on
the end They run and stop with
sudden jerk. and II the boy comes ur
alive and kicking he Is lucky. Most
generally his limbs are twisted or his
head IL cracked. The game Is forbid
den elsewhere.
Then the usual kicks were heard
about the loose boards being thrown
across the streets where there are M
crossings: the streets that still have
board sidewalks with nails protruding
an inch or more. and large holes In the
| rotting timber: the upside down sign
nuisance. the man who fails 10 hitch
his horse, the person who goes TO th"
postoffiCe ten times day for mail
he Is not expecting. the people who
commence to put on their wraps ana
; leave the opera house before the cur
tain is rung down ON the last act, the
man who has no paper retainer and
! kicks because his Optic blows away
or his neighbors help themselves. the
Inconvenience of having two towns
and two postoffices, others who kick
at the telephone service the nuisance
some persons are indulging in In using
| the Hot Springs branch near the
bridge for a dumping ground etc,
etc.
One Of the kicks Is given In full. II
i has to do with the Las Vegas grant. a
subject concerning which about every
one met appears to have a different
idea. One man expressed a view OF
this matter which will probably be
popular. He said: Il talked with
twenty men about the grant today. and
every man of the twenty had some
net theory as to the best method oil
administering. Here Is an estate worth
millions. and I am most heartily glad
that its administration must remain
with the district court. with the peo
ple of the community pulling ana
hauling, what a mess would be maze
of the matter IL it could be taken from
the court.
MinAim's Kick
+ AS one of the members interested
In the Las Vegas grant, cannot subm'
to a r,lie>as adopted by the honorable
hoard Of trustees wherein thes place
the lands of the Las Vegas grant 1T
the hands OF real estate agents te
sell at $500 to $500 per acre, wherein
it was published by the board of a"
tees that the lands would be sold fol
SIPS per acre. Why don't the mem
bers of the Las Vegas grant give title
to people who may take up 160 acres
live on 1t for a prescribed number o.
years, instead of placing these lands
In the hands of real estate agents al
$1.25 per acre and allowing them tt
sell them at $6.0 to $500 per acre?
This land undoubtedly belongs to the
people of Las Vegas. Now who ar
the people of the Las Vegas grant
I consider myself as one. Now, should
these lands be sold at $1.25 per acre
this amount be turned In to the trus
tees of the Las Vegas grant, or II
whom does this money belong" I, al