The Globe-republican., 1894-10-19
Ford County Republican Ticket.
The Republican County Ticket.

The campaign is now so far advanced
that those who have kept posted can
form a pretty reliable conclusion as to
what the result will be. and it is now
known to be reasonably certain that the
republican ticket will be successful.
la view of this fact it will be of inter-
est to our readers to know something
more of the personnel of those men who
constitute that ticket.
w. j. Fitzgerald, the man who will
represent Ford county In the next leg
islature, came to Kansas from Creston.
Iowa, in the spring of 1884, and located
in Meade county. but very soon took a
comprehensive view of Southwestern
Kansas, and made the discovery that
Dodge City was the natural commercial
metropolis of this great country, and
came to Dodge City the same season.
He was soon afterwards called upon to
take charge of our city school system,
and the brief time that he occupied that
responsible position, made one of the
most efficient principals the city ever
had. though only a boy in years.
He resigned the principalship of our
schools and engaged in the real estate bust
ness, which he has followed up to the
present time, investing all that he earned
in farm lands and town property. Re has
been one of the most enthusiastic believers
in the value of our fertile soil, and has
spent large amounts experimenting as to
what are the best methods of working
Western Kansas soil, and the best kind of
seed TO plant in this region. More than
one farm is now being operated at the
present time at his expense.
Mr.. Fitzgerald was always one of the
foremost in every enterprise for the pub
lie good of this part of Kansas. One of
the mos. important acts of the kind, which
came TO our personal knowledge. was re-
lieveing lis all of an incubus, which
would have paralyzed Dodge City.
In 1887. the Lombard Investment Com
pany discovered that A. j. Peacock, who
was one of the locaters of the town site of
Dodge City, was a married man at the
time the transfer was made to the town
company. and that rs his wife. Mrs. Emma
Peacock, never signed the deed, there was
not valid title in the entire city. based
upon town company deeds. The Lombard
Company people notified Mr.. Fitzgerald
rs its agent, that they would loan no more
money, nor make any further investments
in Dodge City. Mr.. Fitzgerald advised
Mayor Webster, Hon. Il. NJ. Wright. r.
W. Evans. Geo. b. Cox and several other
prominent citizens. of this state of affairs.
and urged them to join with him in taking
such steps as might be taken to avert the
calamity of having the further growth of
Dodge City checked by this cloud upon
the title.
They let the matter rest. however. un-
til FitZ realized the woman was likely to
discover the importance of the claim she
had upon Dodge City. and extort a
princely sum for her title, as she was a
nonresident and would feel no further
interest in us than to get the most she
could for her title. So he went across
the mountains to Salt Lake, where he
found Mrs. Peacock and paid for her
signature out of his own private funds.
After his return he urged the citizens
to have the town companv take the hDr
den off his shoulders. In the meantime