The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-07-25
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KENTUCKY TOLL GATES
What the Free and Independent Corn
Cracker Is Doing for Them.

| what the Free and Independent Corr
| Cracker Is Doing for Them.
Chicago, July PA contributor TO the
| Times-Herald says:
| Kentucky Is having more troubls w,sh
her tGllgG;e raiders. Notwithstanding the
| fact that some time ago Captain Jack
Chinn OF Harrodsburg sent the boys wo.d
that II they did no; behave themselves
he would take hand in the party am
would proceed 10 make things interest
irg. But the reputable colonel seems 70
have lost his strength. Instead Of obey
ing the great race horse starter. the raiders
have simply defied him. They went 10 his
! farm one day last week and when they go;
| through with his barns there WASH;
| wood enough left there TO kindlea FIRE
| with. The raiders then sent word to FOR
| ner Senator J. c. $. Blackburn tina; unless
he kept his mouth shut they would teach
him a lesson or so. There was no reason
for their believing that Blackburn was
going 10 say anything. He has had his
say.
For more than two years the average
entuckian has been doing everything pos
s.ble 10 make the system of collecting tolls
on turnpikes as offensiveas possible. They
do not objec: TO paying a hundred dollars
or so for a fox hound; neither will they
quarrel with saloon keeper II re charges
a quarter for drink of ten-esr-ol3 bour-
bon. But TO pay for the privilege OF riding
through a gate Is something SO Internally
despotic as 10 call for trouble. For the
last twenty years KeHtuck.ans have been
training their horses 10 jump fences. A
genuine Kentucky horse these days can
skim over a tollgate as easily as bird
can fly over sage bush. II has been
said that hurdle racing was conceived by
a resident of Saratoga after he had made
a visit 10 the blue grass region and had
witnessed the remarkable feats Of the thor
ougnbred FLIES When horse trader
goes through that country these days
and attempts TO strike trade with a
farmer for an animal. about the FIRST
point mentioned n behalf of the beast IS
that he can jump a twenty-rall staked
end r.dered fence without having TO take
an extra draw OF breath. The Old horses
those that pull light wagons behind which
children ride-have two ways OF demollsh-
ing tollgates. II their teeth are sound
they PICK the boards into spliDters. Other
wise they are embarrassed and they bonn
bard the trochas with their hoofs. There
isn't anything unless Il be an ironclad or
a rocky mountain that can successfully
resist the Commandments OF Kentucky
hcof, Il matters not whether Il belongs
TO man or beast. Phil Thompson owns
a stallion that can climb tree backward.
and ne .Ghe stsILon) and all OF his colts
can. with one stroke kick fence rat
from one county 70 another without pick
Ing their noses from the clover.
Kentucky pixies are beautiful things 70
look upon. They are built Of concrete and
eva v1f+a The rxsfHFH ~ 70 -. .
nc.ent for two teams 20 90 along abreast,
A wagon never stalls or hogs. for there
is TO mud. The road beds are raised
sb5Yt two fee; from the ear:h. The sur
face Is smooth. Violess and the blossom
ing clover make their homes near nc
wagon tracks. Blue grass grows 70 the
.ght and 20 ;he left. Biliowy feds a
grain make landscapes indescr.babiy beau
Gful. Panied houses with cupolas and
water wheels are here and there. Tns
aroma OF bourbon mingled with The FRA
grant feds Of mint ILLS the lungs. Wind
ing brooks. with craSged rock maks music
which delights Tire ear Songs from he
ellow tLrosts Of the thrush and hooking
bnd thrill the soul. The sky + blue o
the eve and the sun Is soft 70 he skin
Sweet IS the air that comes from the val
,sys-of TIE DIX and Ksatucky rivers
Lovely are the women who walk ankle deep
'n!3s; me pans.es Everthing thar please
the vision and softens The soul : 70 be
ssen on all gs9es-all except tho ;oi,Rs;es
To the kent8cAian they arc Ss a red fag
n me face 81 a bull. ss . zusno bag N
the road OF uoet o. a sound money plat
form % q Popui.st
IL = sail that Ex-Governor Proctor .
Knott first ADVOCATED ard fraI.y adopted +
he system % gathering toll from vav-
slers. He hal conpaE.es oTEsnfzs5 ard
charters granted for them % exist This
vas back "a tie days Vhe1 fhese Eere 70 i
-a.lroads 20 speak CT Kn0:t Aad been a 4
-sn3ltats FOR various Offices lor years I
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rlue % Frankfort n was sure % I'D
Borle one eaeTny-souefirnes more .kan ore /
who had given ban trouble before l..
most cases Trey were yc1nz l1~ysrs Eifh-
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stations and sought % obtain tam b.
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rho followed hin around had 70 nso-sv.
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