The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-01-10
TOPEKA TO TEXAS.
Some Account Of Tho ::Things Seen
and Heard and Done BY q Par.
ty OF Kansas Editors ON
Their Way to and
From.Deep Wa

From.p Wa.
ter.
Then skip for Texas, 1t isn't fa
&c down to where warm Gulf mists through
the orange branches swoop;
Light out to where The sunshine dances OF
Galveston Bay"
is the advice "Ironquill" gives to I
lonely blue bird that he finds shiver
ing disconsolate under the bleak skieI
of Kansas November. Advice which
1t would seem that any creature which
had wings and could fly ought not Il
need. Advice which most other crea
lures that have not wings would b.
glad to heed If theopportunity presen
ted. So in accepting berth in a Pull
man car, attached to Santa Fe trair
headed toward the Gulf, the writer o
these notes doubtless did what grea
many other people, under similar pro
vocation, would have done.
1t was lively party that answered
Here" when the roll was called In
Topeka, at midnight of December 26
A. G. Stacey, the veteran correspond
ent of the X. c. Journal; c. c. Ran
dolph whose resubmission articles fol
the X. c. Times have failed as yet e
convince him that prohibition is bad
thing for Kansas; Geo. NJ. Clark, city
editor of the State Journal; Frank
Webster, of the Lawrence Gazette
who can't help it if people do mistake
him for Senator Ingalls, about half the
time; Ed P. Greer, Of the Winfield
Courier, who stuck the point of his
Faber into the "Vidette" bladder las,
fall and let all the wind out of the
Union Labor party; Dell Valentine
70. b. of the Clay Center Times; J. F.
O'Conner (dittol of the Emporia NeUs
Judge PETER, of the Capital and the
Kansas Fdrmer; w. w. Admire, pri-
vste secretary to the Governor, news
paper man at large, and compiler Of
Wilder's Annals; Marsh Murdoch. the
original inventor of the Great Rebel.
lion, (patent applied for; the editor Of
the REGISTER, and the following
named ladies: Mrs. NJ. NJ. Murdoch
Mrs. A. G. Stacey. Miss Msude Stacy,
Miss Nellie PETER, Miss Helene Smiles,
Mrs. C. G. Randolph and daughter
Leah, Mrs. Geo. M. Clark, Mrs. w. w.
Admire, Mrs. Ed. P. Greer and Mrs,
Frank Webster. Twenty-one people
all told, who We're better pleased with
one another after seven days and
nights of travel than they were in the
beginning-which is q remarkable
record.
A half hours stop at Guthrie, dill.
gently improved in driving about the
city in carriages kindly furnished by
the citizens, was the chief episode OF
the first day out. What a city it is, to
be sure! Eight thousand people, stone
business blocks, splendid churches
water works, electric lights,-wbere
eight months age the wild fox dug his
hole unsecured, and the prairie dog
stood up on his rear limbs and bsyed
the moon and other celestial bodies to
his hearts content.
AS Cor the rest of the Territory, as
much of 1t as was passed over before
the sun went down, it was in the main
like a vision of Kansas twenty-five
years ago, a likeness which was not
made the less striking because Of a
glimpse Of Milt Reynolds as the train
pulled out of Edmunds. Great fires
have swept over the prairies. as they
useG to sweep over the Kansas prair-
les, leaving long stretches of blackness
which would be upspeakably desolate
were it not for the occasional "patch"
of plowed ground surrounding some
settlers cabin or dugout. All this
changes, however, when the Chicka-
saw country, extending from the south
line of Oklahoma to the northern
boundary of Texas, is reached. The
Hat, open prairies disappear and in
stead we look out over a beautiful roll
ing country we'll wooded, well water
I'd and capable certainly of sustaining
4 dense population-altogether the
prettiest and most promising agricul-
.ural region the journey showed US.
When the Indians take their lands in
as they have agreed to do,
and the remainder Of the reservation
Is thrown open to white settlement
there will be another Oklahoma rush.
and they will be fortunate indeed who
succeed in getting homes here.
A man falling asleep in Kansas and
awaking in Texas would not be long
n discovering that he had changed
his location. It is not that the natur-
ii features of the State differ so much
rom those of Kansas, for in the main
hey are very similar. But in the fea-
lures which indicate the character and
habits and pursuits of the people, there
Is an astonishing difference. 1t is a
rare thing to find two farm houses in
Kansas exactly alike in size and archi-
lecture. 1t lie a rare thing, at least in
the older portions of the State, to find
a farm house which has not, at some
lime in its history. received a coat Of
paint, and which is not flanked by a
big barn and surrounded by fruit and
shade trees. There is nothing of this
diversity in the one particular or uni.