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INDEPENDENCE No., Oct. IL, 1907
We arrived in this place this evening,
having lcil Salt Lake CITY ON the u IA
Int. nj ESQ y. M, over the Union
Pacific via Denver Colorado. We
encountered slight snow storm,
which covered tho ground up the
Weber canyon. Ga the morning u
the lith the Ice on our sleeper window
aud the mantle Of white which STROUD.
ud the hills and valleys all around re-
minded Va that we had changed
climate In about 3JJ.inllc run dunog
the night.
At llAwlius we found an engine
uilched, caused by a broken rail-. No
one WAS harmed and We sOon sped Un
our way without any accident 10 our
train. We found snow tutiloient for
slelghiug until We passed Laramie.
We PASSED Denver Ia the uignt aud
this morning took breakfast Ia very
pretty little town named Ellie,
Ia Kansas. Our party be-.
held the broad plains Of Kan
Eaa with ndulifa ion, especially those
VINO had bCeu raised among UtRh's
snow-cfcsted mountains. Only eleven
miles from Ellis anu va were In
clofo Proximity 10 Russian town.
Nearly all tue county hofeablut was
co.Oui2Bi by Russians. Ny informant
wasa Mr. Huliuugcr, a German Bip.
tist preacher who lives ut Russell,
Kansas. Thia gentleman stated many
prcullaTlties about those Russian
Catholics AMI thoir mode OF iiv-
ing. The doors OF their houses,
he SAID, front away from the streets OF
the town. Tho people live very eoo-
nomically, are very industrious, keep
out Of dcuf, raise hue class OF horses,
much wheat, and other things adapted
10 the climate. The railroad makes n
good market for their products, which
they teil aud buy more laud with
their profits. IL Ia sail the Russians
OF Kansas afe 20 far n success.
Last night heavy rains In these
parts made the htmers il0ice because
OF their TALL wheat, which already
looks green. Wheat IL thu main crop
hereabouts. The cfoIs the past year
were very light. Wheat now brings
boots. TO 60cts. per bushol here. One
man on the train on his way TO
the Fair told me that lie
hal just completed sowing his
field OF l25 acres, with excellent Pre-
spects for ils future. | asked him how
it was that the people OF Kansas COM
planned OF hard times when they
could got my and sixty cents a bunhrl
ior their wheat Rnd raise thirty 10
forty bushels por acre, We'll, said he,
aometim,s drought brings about short
crops, anu there are other dieapp0int-
menis. Unlike the Russians, we 70
Ia debt, live too fast, buy machinery,
mortgage up and become entAngled in
snarls.
sugar cane Is raised by the acre here
for feed for stock, and hogs live on II
and thrive. nm told that they cut
from Ave 10 eight tons per Acre-Take
IL up IN files from which they ufe II IA
they need 10, "ior,0 said hy inform
ant, at 10 ~ heavy anu cuarfe to stack
that II IL cut as Il heads out when II
becomes sweet.O The iced Ii sown
broadcast, but does BEST drilled In.
AZ We approached the Missouri
river, more rain anu timber, with larger
towns, appeared until We rolled Into
Kansas CITY, where we tuok tue "dum-
my" eleven miles 10 Independence
twenty-five cents for return ticket. Ell
dor Charles Morris, uf salt Lake City,
Elder George Madsen, OF Sprlngville,
Utah county, and Elder Emuel Back.
man, OF ldanO, are hcle at Independ.
enoe, Missouri, ON their way TO West
Virginia on missions. We WeIe all
pleased to meet them ON the train from
Salt Lake AMI 10 accompany each other
10 this place, where tomorrow, the 18Th
inst, viii be spent, and the Elders will
main IA few uays, going 10 Adam.Ondl.
hamn aud the surrounding country,
kind wishes. EDWARD STEVENSON.