Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-02-19

Wdo euueu. Wnlte linen, clean rooms
fresh flowers, white dishes, SHINING
silver, pretty s@ift-going waiter girl
oh, all the joyous elements of good
cheer, until you were ready to nomi
nate Harvey for anything he wanted
: his IS no joke. Owen Meredith told
the truth. And an editors bread
basket is little more susceptible
IMAM the average mans. When we
learned that there was no Harvey on
any OF the other routes TO Texas from
Ht. Louis, we sang the doxology in
tnanks that we "got on to" Harvey's
route.
We passed by Fayetteville. Van
Buren, and Fort Smith, Ark. all i'm.
porIant places. At the latter point
we stopped an hour and "took ino the
town, which claims about 10000
people. There was brass band, some
speech making and then a round
of sight seeing.
some OF the party went to the Jail
ana took look at the gallows upon
which lO0 men have been hanged In |
the Jail there are now about 60 offend.
ers, some waiting to be executed and
some to be tried.
From Eft. Smith we passed through
some fine fruit lands.
The very best grain and frn;. l=,ds
at from $500 to $500 per acre, OF, four
years time with equal annual paw
ments at seven per cent interest, not
less than $4,000 as first payment on
time sales, but with the option of
paying the whole amount due. with
interest to the date of such payment.
is what the st. Louis & San Francisco
railroad holds out to purchasers of it's
balance of 10000 acres of land grant
along its line. This inducing policy
is what is making this country bios =
som as the rose, and building up in
dependent homes. This policy is one b
OF the great subjects of interest v
brought to the attention of the think C
ing editors of our party. 1t underlies
the success of the great West. Truly
we get broader as We travel.
Arkansas fruit, and especially Ben a
ton county apples, have taken first :,
premiums at all the great expositions II
including those at st. Louis. The a
prize apples were seedlings, showing t(
hat it is the adaptability of the soil 81
md the favorable climate that pro. p
luce them. j. W. Kimmons, of Rog-
RS, Benton county, states that he
cleared 100 per acre on his ten.year-
ia apple orchard for the year 1896. al
Fruit can be had very cheap at all IL
hese towns and everybody has eniov. h
II the apples especially After pass. r
ng through the Indian Territory from I
The Arkansas River to the Red river u
We made the first stop in Texas at n
Dars, progressive city of 1000 in
labitants, with electric lights, street
'ars, waterworks and other modern
Improvements. This is the town that :.
FAMED some rather unpleasant noto. IL
lety year or two ago by burning Sc
egro alive on the public square. OF
Paris was the home of the late Ex- be
j. ). Senator, Sam Bell Maxey. His in
omestead is maintained by his heirs. M
nd his large and rare library is the bl
ride of a typical Texas city. fai
Paris is the end of the Frisco Road. wi
Lere is where the Gulf Colorado &
anita F'e R'y begins. The two lines
impose the Frisco-Santa Fe Route
ON st. Louis to Fort Worth, Dallas. D.
alVeston and San Antonio, and at 81 ID
@ latter point make connection ~,
rough to the City of Mexico. The ant
ult, Colorado & Santa Fee R'y pene- Br,
ties the heart of the State. 1
'tton and wheat make a great part get
its freight from the country be- cut
cen Paris and Houston; and from on
ere to Galveston the fruit lands. SO 1es'
lch talked of everywhere, furnish 90
lch OF the freight traffic. use
Texas from the windows of our the
I'm is enough evidence to prove that
State is not in some sections of
country properly understood. I
10 high, rolling country presents a ted
me of cultivation and prosperity =
t expected by many of us. The IN
It that Texas produces one-fourth Thi
cotton grown in the United States fron
S now more easily understood. II crea
s also noted that the Santa Fe's Der
in service, track and general APP from
ntments were continuation of from
at we found on its northern con of Il
,tion. The
The Santa Fe furnishes a most i'm ages
ssive idea of the prairies, timber Der
DIS, stock ranges and cotton and cour
Eat fields of the State
'emple, Tex, Feb. Is, p. mat
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