Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-06-25
Correspondence St. Paul GIobe.l


until the depot, railroad tracks, wholesale
warehouses, elevators, agricultural works
packing houses and other great institutions
are spread out before US. Very much like st
Paul is this commercial emporium of ives
tern Missouri and the Missouri valley. From
Main street, the center of the business part Of
the city, you have decidedly up grade to
Third street and Dayton avenue to St.
Anthony hill. Kansas City is built almost
entirely OF red brick, and in its churches and
residences exhibits vast degree of Taste and
refinement. Its architecture is of the modern
style and embraces some Of the finest build
| ings have ever seen. There is no such thing
as being outdone for the citizens won't have it
| that way.
| Whatever is desirable for city to have they
at once proceed to possess themselves of, and
anything not strictly first-class meets with nc
favor there. The second city in the country
to-day as a cattle and hog depot, it has also q
large and increasing wholesale business, and
| from its present standpoint of 100000 people,
| (Which has four-ffths of it been acquired the
past five years,)a small idea can be had oil
what another decade will find.
| 1t is truly wonderful city, phenomenal and
unequaled in its growth and development, and
inspires the beholder with both pleasure and
surprise. Our stay, however, is but limited, and
we have only just begun to grow enthusiastic
over it when we are obliged to quit it, for this
is not our Mecca. To Southeast Kansas our
eyes are turned, and, our back to the smoky,
bustling city, we find ourselves whirling along
over the plains of poor bleeding Kansas as it
was called in Sc. We take thelKansas City,
Fort Scott & Gulf road, which after pleas.
ant ride of 1870 miles, brings us to our destina-
| ton. This is an independent company and is
| the great pride and glory of Kansas City. It
| passes through the best part-the garden of
| Kansas-and at Fort Scott divides into two
great lines, one of which has for its
objective point Memphis, Tenn, and is al.
ready in operation as far as Springfield, Mo-,
while the other having for its objective point
Galveston, Texas, is under operation as far as
Joplin in the very southeastern corner of
Missouri, and has connections for the great
Eureka Springs, of late so justly popular
There are also numerous small branches
which cover the great coal dis.
trict below Fl. Scott like q net
and (which furnish an outlet for
this most needful commodity. This is the
road which the great "Gould'' was going to
way station" when he could not buy or
bulldoze it's owners. The policy of the COM
pany is such as to win the regard Of the peo-
pie of the Southwest in contradistinction
from some of the other roads, and when COM
pleted to Memphis will leave st. Louis
out in the cold for travel and traffic
between down river points and the great
Northwest. am very much surprised to see
such large amount of wheat and so fine q
stand as see in Kansas. find it to be per Sc
the great winter wheat district of the country.
There never has been an absolute failure, ex-
cept when the irrepressible grasshoppers made
their raid few years since. Corn is very
backward, but will be good crop
yet. There is one feature peculiar to
this section and that is the Usage hedges.
Scarcely bit of fence can be found but every
farm is surrounded by the neat green hedge
impervious to cattle or hogs even, and with
its bright emerald green forming an attract
ive1 feature to'the landscape. Southeast Kan
sas is wonderfully rich in minerals, especially
coal, which is of very fine quality. It is
found in veins of from one to
four feet thick and is often
discovered cropping out OF the ground. At
the cost of $1.12X per ton it can be taken out
and CARED, and with zinc, lead and iron close
at hand, promises to make this section very
populous and wealthy. Wheat harvest begins
this week and an unusually large crop will be
gathered On the whole my trip has been a
very pleasant one and return home feeling
| much pleased with it.
The whole route from st. Paul to Fort
Scott, Kansas, has but one unpleasant feature,
and that is the eating house at Council Bluffs
uulOu UtpOL. LII ID d SICdt CausC AL lCStCG
that the bullet which paralyzed one Of the en-
ployes of the institution recently had not
paralyzed the entire outfit, owners, managers
and all. 1 suppose, though, the travelling
public can Go as I shall in the future, just
skip it.
Otherwise the entire route is very pleasant.
The road bed of the different lines over which
you pass is in excellent order, and accOmmo-
dations first-class, and one experiences sense
Iof, erfa co. DIR tho enfiro
was particularly struck while at Kansas
| City with the excellence of its newspapers,
the Times and Journal, morning, and the Star,
evening.
The Times in particular is the livest paper
| out. An eight column quarto. It is devoted
| to news and not to advertising. 1t has adaily
circulation of Is 600 and weekly of $4,000,
and is on the increase. Democratic in politics,
it is independent enough to score its own
party when abuses occasion a reprimand,
and is becoming power for good
to its section. Perhaps the greatest
encemium to be pronounced for it lies in the
fact that in eastern Kansas where Republican
ism fourishes like green bay tree the Times
finds its largest and most profitable field. But
| now that we are nearing home again we drop
| all thought of the scenes we have met and are
constrained to admit as every one does that
"there is no place like home" but at the same
time,we can commend the route We
have taken to either pleasure
seekers orbusiness people as one
well calculated to prove satisfactory in every
respect. For comfort and celebrity commend
me to the Kansas City, Omaha and st. Pau
short line, via the Sioux City route. between
the south, southwest and st. Paul. Conn
north byit in summer, and 60 south by it IL
winter you who want to cheat the extremes
of latitude, and don't forget to mention to
your friends that you intend to 60 that way
"PANTHER SAM"
'sPanther Sam" Of Texas, Was typt
of class of men to be found in all com
munities. He laid claim to wonderful
courage in fighting Indians, marvelou'
skill in Workmanship, and unexamplei
fieetness as q runner. Boosting Of these
qualities in bar-room, he was chal
lenged to a foot-race, and was beaten b,
a boy. When it came to shooting b
could not hita hat at thirty PAGES, and